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The Death Of Face-To-Face Conversation And The Birth Of The Age Of The Nanoprocessor Brain Chip: Is A Brave New World Coming Where "Thought Transmission" Will Trump Talking To Each Other?

Dear Pals,

Remember the quote about Desktop Publishing from back in the late 70's? "Thanks to this new desktop publishing technology, more people will now be able to create more bad advertising faster than ever before."

Now in the age of the twit, tweet, twat, twot, IM and the text, sext message, I'm afraid we have taken personal and marketing communications to a new low and even higher level of all invasive ubiquitousness, with an accompanying loss of quality in thoughtful ideers and corekt gramur an gud spellink.

Let me axe you a few questions...

1. As you navigate through your world each day, do you ever wonder...who are all of those seemingly robotic people on cell phones talking to?

2. What is so important that it needs to be texted instantly at the speed of thumb while driving, walking or running a mass transit commuter train?

3. Are you ever astounded at who is actually attempting to walk, talk, text and chew gum at the same time?

4. Is all of this social networking communication a PLUS or MINUS - or is it a zero-sum game?

Now I'm no Ludite, I have embraced new technology to some extent and must confess that I particularly enjoy writing my daily blog. It helps keep my mind active and writing skills honed.

It also allows me to have a semi-recreational outlet where I can safely express my arguably quirky-birky Libertarian ideas in some depth without getting knocked off a barstool.

When I commited to doing a daily blog for one year, I wanted to find out about the Internet and how the blogosphere worked firsthand. I was going to let it all "hang out" - figureatively speaking - and be prepared to accept both brickbats and bouquets.

Secretly, I wondered if one ordinary fat man -- alone in his den in the heart of the Midwest, wrapped in his cozy claret-colored Snuggie, slaving over a hot keyboard in the wee hours of the morning -- could make any difference at all by contributing to the national debate and participating in the marketplace of ideas.

This also caused me to think about writers and thinkers that I admire from days of yore.

One can't help but wonder what Thoreau might have written if he had Twitter. "Pond is calm. Lots of flies. Love and Hate it here. Free the slaves."

Or, would Emerson have written even longer and more insightful essays if he had a keyboard instead of a quill?

Would Lincoln have delivered The Emancipation Proclamation via LinkedIn?

Would Churchill have simply texted, "Blood. Toil. Tears. Sweat. Kill Nazis. WC"

Would Roosevelt have posted his exhortations on Facebook instead of chatting by the fireside?

Every age has had its communication breakthroughs.

Printing.

Moveable type.

Quill

Pencil

Telegraph.

Typewriter

Radio

Fountain pen

Television

Ballpoint pen

PCs

PDAs

cellular and digital photo telephony...and who know's what'll come next? 

Maybe future generations will have a Nanoprocessor chip containing all the information accumulated by mankind installed in their brains at the Born On Date. (The chip might even have an "expiration or Die On Date" in it too!)

Perhaps that's why so many depictions of aliens feature such big heads, big eyes and very small mouths. Maybe aliens evolved beyond speech because they had nothing to talk about anymore, since all the knowledge was already stored inside their brain's nanoprocessor chip and it used the brain's naturally occuring electro-magnetic synaptic pulses and thereby enabled them to "read minds" - each others...and ours too!

Now there's something to ponder...

Do you think all of this current infatuation with compulsive interpersonal communication is causing a pandemic of cultural attention deficit disorder?

For instsance, have you ever been talking to someone when their phone's ring tone starts playing Dixie, only to have them instantly divert their attention from you to the incoming call?

Are people actually addicted to cellular calling, texting, facebooking, blogging - and are we all becoming trapped in a wireless web of our own creation as we wander through the day?

Is the art of face-to-face conversation quickly dying - as electronic avoidance through message screening and the illusion of personal contact created by email and texting replaces in-the-flesh human contact? 

Does all of this contribute to better thinking and interpersonal communication? Or is it just more intrusion, static and noise? Or, in some cases, is it non-reponsive silence that simulataneously desensitizes and and depresses us?

How much real productivity in business is lost?

How much needless anxiety is created?

How much anger is instantly vented and transmitted by sending a hot-under-the-collar email or text message?

How many avoidable misunderstandings are created?

And, finally...what are people really interested in?

I must confess that when I view my blog's readership stats, that I am always surprised by which blogs pop up there because people are searching the web using long trail phrases or multiple keywords. 

I have had searches from Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Australia, India, Japan and South Africa. Trackbacks have shown that some of my blogs were translated into other languages like Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and even Canadian.

When you send out an email to your Pals, you never know who they might forward it too. Ditto on blogging, you never know where it will end up. It's surprising, interesting and sometimes just plain weird.

The old adage, "I shot an arrow into the air and where it lands I do not care, " applies to emails and blogs too!

Here's a little experiment: How many of you will click on the link below to learn about my Capstone Project? www.capstonepyramid.com

Hmmm...I wonder??

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: I hope you do check out The Capstone Project...it's near and dear to my heart.

I'm just tossing a pebble in the Internet Pond...who knows what will happen now?

With Each New Revelation About The Obama-Driven Frenzy For "Healthcare Insurance Reform," My WHealthcare Idea Looks Better And Better.

Prescript: This puppy has sparked a lot of interest and "hits" since the Obama initiative began. And, it's looking better all the time.

Dear Pals,

I'm proposing WHealthcare!

Here's my plan for people of financial wherewithal; who actually worked hard, amassed wealth and don't want to become victims of this new Federal Healthcare ABOMINATION and the "socialized medicine" which is EXACTLY what the new healthcare bill will create.

QUESTION DU JOUR: Are there any Financier Partners, Doctor-Investors, High Net Worth Investor Clients, Private Insurers and Bahamian developers and politicians interested in creating the finest medical center on earth in a tropical paradise adjacent to the nation with the world's largest and most affluent aging population?

What I have in mind is the polar-opposite of Socialized Obamacare. It is nearby, extremely high quality Healthcare, but it's out of the reach of the Obamapus' all invasive tenacles that are in the process of gripping everything to regulatorally crush the best healthcare system in the world.

Think of this WHealthcare concept as "The Mayo Clinic Squared with beautiful tropical beaches and much better looking nurses!"

Here's my admittedly out-of-the-box idea in a nutshell:

1) We organize an opt-in network of top flight, board-certified medical professionals based here in the U.S.A., Canada and in the UK; who all become individual private investor/owners in...

2) The Birk Medical Center Of The Bahamas. ( For a "working name." I named it after myself in an uncharacteristic fit of bravado and immodesty.)

Each Doctor/Investor/Owner can buy a 1% share for $500,000.00. We will sell only 48% of the ownership for $24,000,000 in venture capital. We would ask the Bahamian Government to match that with a $24 million economic development grant and favorable long term tax status.

And, we would sell the naming rights to a high profile corporate bidder OR, better yet, name it after a high prolife equity development partner. IE: The Donald Trump Medical Center Of The Bahamas or The Sir Richard Branson Virgin Group Medical Center Of The Bahamas - both have a nice ring to it.

I'm always open to commercial capitalism, you know.

3) Your everyday and Emergency medical treatment is handled in your hometown via the local medical professional of your choice and local hospital and ERs.

Ideally, we could align you with our owner/investor physicians who are associated with the list of top flight hospitals below:

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100241997

However, your annual week long physical and comprehensive medical checkup is always scheduled at The Bahama Medical Center...and we negotiate very low airfare rates with the carriers out of Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Washington, Atlanta and New York.

4) PLUS! All pre-planned non-emergency health treatments, illness events, cosmetic elective procedures, chronic treatments and preventive healthcare events are scheduled and treated at Trump or Virgin Group Medical Center in The Bahamas, which is also staffed by top flight board-certified medical professionals and visiting investor/owner doctors from the U.S.A., Canada and the UK with reciprocal Bahamian medical practice priviliges at this facility.

These would all be well-vetted, Top Docs, who want to live and work in a fabulous place where they are not taxed to death, frivolously sued into financial oblivion and/or smothered in onerous Federal Government paperwork.

These highly-trained and highly-skilled medical professionals simply want to practice top-flight medicine WITHOUT having a Federal bureaucracy between them and you and their other patients.

In a nutshell, the strategic concept is: To attract as owner/investors, Top Docs with extraordinary medical skills and high level ethics, who just want to practice the best medicine they possibly can according to the highest professional standards in a state-of-the-art facility created to optimize patient care and the efficacy of their professional achievements for a demanding, discerning and appreciative clientele.

5) Consumer clients buy in with a one time $250,000 lifetime membership per person or $400,000 per couple (financing and buy-in payments, life insurance assignments and real estate swaps could also be arranged), 50% of this money is deposited in individual self-directed interest bearing HSA accounts and is drawn down by you to pay for your care as needed. The rest is used for gross revenue income and operations.

We would limit our initial patient membership-offering to 1000 couples @ $400,000 per couple to raise $400 million in gross revenue. $200 million would be used as operating capital. The remaining $200 million would be deposited in individual interest bearing accounts solely in the names of the member couples. (Once we have an actual utilization experience and occupancy model, we can broaden the enrollment and expand as demand dictates.)

Each member couple would pay a nominal annual consultation and medical evaluation fee, and a private major medical insurance premium in our risk pool at favorable rates negotitated on their behalf through a variety of UK risk carriers.

We would also offer additional personal HSA-CD options, wherein clients can deposit additional funds in their own self-directed individual HSA-CDs at Barclay's Bank - the accounts would pay competitive interest.

6) When you need treatment, you would be quickly scheduled into the Bahamas facility. We would arrange rapid transportation there and medical reciprocity as part of the commercial contract with the Bahamian government, so your local doctor can travel along and perform or assist in the needed care, or you can opt for a hospital staff physician that is board-certified and vetted for you by your own doctor.

We would also have condos on or adjacent to the Medical Center property for family members and visiting doctors. These would also be available for vacation rentals at very favorable rates to lifetime members and to their extended family.

7) Post care convalescence can be in the Bahamas at a nearby condo re-hab complex or on board a Convalescent Cruise in the Carribean where you recover in specially equipped medical staterooms subcontracred from the big cruise ship lines and staffed by our own resident level physicians and nurses.

8) When you leave the planet - which we all will inevitably do - you can also opt in for our romantic Sunset Sayonora Of The Seven Seas Ceremony wherein your ashes or earthly remains are assigned to the briny mer.

My friend George asked if he could have a Viking Funeral? I thought...why not?  There's a lot of Atlantic out there...it's something to ask the Bahamians about. ( I briefly considered the name Club Ded for our funeral subsidiary, but thought it sounded "too playful" and might even invite litigation.)

I call this plan WHealthcare ( it's a combination of financial Wherewithal and Healthcare...pronounced wealth-care) ...it is a way for you and other people of significant net worth to have guaranteed access to top-flight board-certified U.S.A. platinum-standard medical care, the kind that you deserve to have and are willing to pay for.

You can choose to use some of the wealth you created through a lifetime of hard work to create a bank account for WHealthcare, to insure for major medical coverage and to pay for it as you use it.

The creation of The Trump Medical Center Of The Bahamas or The Branson Virgin Medical Center Of St. Thomas in the British V.I.s, would provide an huge influx of high quality medical professionals and well-educated high tech support personnel, that in turn would have a big economic and societal benefit on either island paradise.

Naturally as part of our societal commitment, our resident doctors and staff would donate 5% of their annual practice time to local citizen healthcare through new or existing community clinics. Our physician investor/owners may also contribute pro bono services as they wish. Naturally, no condo charges or on-site living expenses would accrue during these pro bono doctor visits.

REPEATING THE QUESTION DU JOUR: Are there any Financier Partners, Doctor-Investors, High Net Worth Investor Clients, Private Insurers and Bahamian developers and politicians interested in creating the finest medical center on earth in a tropical paradise adjacent to the nation with the world's largest and most affluent aging population?

Envision a panoramic concept with a state-of-the-art Medical Center, gated-retirement community, condo-rehab facilities, visitor/vacation condos and independent and assisted care and hospice care centers all created and professionally-managed with a single mission of delivering superlative medical care at predictable costs in a seamlessly integrated family-friendly service setting located near the USA in a beautiful tropical paradise.

Call Birk, The Admittedly Out-Of-The-Box Idea Man at...314-918-7500

Feel free to forward this to Donald Trump and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group. Please let them know I'm sitting by my phone awaiting a call.

Birk, Commonsenstarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: If the Bahamaian government isn't interested, there is always Jamaica, St. Thomas, The Dominican Republic, Belize or Costa Rica!! All just a hop, skip and a jump away via VirginMedair.

But I must confess, I love the idea of a location in the Bahamas, imagine a trip from Miami, via a private Virgin Medair jet or Trump-amamran tri-hulled high-speed aerfoil shuttle craft. Wheeeee!

There is a market for this...a worldwide one.

If we build it they will come.

PS 2: I'll bet a lot of U.S. Senators, Congressmen and lobbyists will sign up. Plus Wall Street moguls and Hollywood Stars, who won't want to settle for the Federal Healthcare Plan that is currently being cooked up in DeeCee for the rest of us poor schmoos.

PS 3: West Coast Clientele can be served by our 2nd Facility in beautiful western-Pacific-side Costa Rica on the Papaguaya Penisula, in the Switzerland of the Carribbean.

PS 4: Naturally I'm in the deal for a very reasonable ownership percentage and of course, ORCA will handle the marketing for the venture.

Please feel free to report me to Comrade Linda Douglass, the Czarina in charge of the The Ministry Of Political Thought Management and Opinion Control that is headquartered in the LEFT WING of The White House.

www.flag@whitehouse.gov

If You Think President Barack Obama Is Eloquent, Inspiring And Enlightening, Please Listen To Ted Nugent. The Man Has A Way With Words.

Dear Pals,

http://biggeekdaddy.com/miscvideos/TedNugent.html

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of What's Left Of The Republic

PS: Please feel free to share this wonderful and heartwarming interview with all your Pals.

Goodbye "Mr. Cadillac." George Maty, The Grand Gentleman Of Lindburg Cadillac And Plaza Motors Will Be Missed.

Dear Pals,

My longtime friend and former client George Maty died this week. His wake was last evening and his funeral mass is this morning. He was a real gentleman, a staunch Roman Catholic, a star-spangled Navy veteran and a man of abiding personal integrity and upright character. 

He loved his customers and his craft, which was "personal service selling."  He was the consummate gentleman, a real Cadillac man.

Although he was born in very midwesten Belleville, Illinois, Mr. Maty had the bearing, poise and style of a well-bred gentleman, and one might even say, aristocrat. Yet, he was not a snob. He was just very refined and polished. Gentlemanly, in the old world sense of the word.

I met Mr. Maty when he was the Vice President and Sales Manager of the old Lindburg Cadillac Company located at Jefferson and Market in downtown St. Louis. Lindburg was St. Louis' premier Cadillac dealer - it even had a mint-condition 1903 Cadillac in the corner of its jewel box, state-of-the-art showroom.

I wrote hundreds of ads for Lindburg in those days and they all appeared in the Lindburg Cadillac "franchise position" in the lower corner of the front page of the Sports Section of the late St. Louis Globe Democrat.

I can still see them there along with the news about the Baseball and Football Cardinals, The Hawks and later the new Blues hockey team. The Lindburg ads were 2 columns by 105 lines in size and we had a new ad almost every day, if not for the Cadillac dealership, they were created for Lindburg's "kissin' cousin" company, Executive Leasing ( which is now known as Enterprise Rent-A-Car).

After a few months of working with Mr. Maty, he said, "Please call me George." I knew I had now earned my stripes. And, we were friends ever since.

George ran Lindburg Cadillac for another real nice fellow named, Earl Lindburg and they had quite a colorful cast of characters too...Jay Reeg, Chester O'Brien, John Burns, Bob Mohan, George Piskulic, Howard Kalina and of course the irrepressible "Gundy" - aka Bob Gundlefinger.

I loved working with George and all the "car guys" at Lindburg. 

Together they sold a ton of Vogue Tyres and new and pre-owned Cadillacs; including Lindburg's own custom built Chateau de Ville with its distinctive padded vinyl top and iconic landau bars. What a chariot that was!

Lindburg's famous Annual Countdown Sale came every year at model year end and it was a much anticipated event. George loved transforming the showroom's windows in to huge graphic posters that featured numbers that changed every day as he counted down the number of remaining Cadillacs.

In all my dealings with George, I found him to be very proper, professional and quite business like. I used to sit in his office and listen to him on the phone dutifully serving the needs of Lindburg's wealthy clientele. George's demeanor was always focused on doing the right thing for the customer and the dealership.

When the Lindburg family sold the dealership to Plaza Motors, George Maty moved to "John Capps' luxury car center of the universe" and most of his Cadillac crew made the star trek west with him.

At one point in my life when I was struggling with some serious personal issues after a divorce, he took me to a quiet mano-y-mano lunch and gave me some excellent counselling and fatherly advice. It helped a lot and he was right. I was forever grateful to him for his personal expression of understanding, compassion and kindness.

Thank you George!

When I saw his obituary, a flood of fond memories came back to me. I will miss George. He was a man of integrity and faith and a friend to many, many people, high and low...and in between.

Godspeed Mr. Cadillac!

Birk, Commonsenstarian and Citizen of the Republic

The Birk One-Step Healthcare Insurance Reform Solution: It's Easy And It's Already Been Tested And Approved By The U. S. Congress. Send This On To Your Elected Representative And Say "This I What I Want, Nothing More And Nothing Less!"

Dear Pals,

Just give as ALL the same Healthcare Coverage that Senators and Congressmen have at the very same price they pay out of their pocket. Theirs is a great plan...our Inspiring new President came out and said so in his last Press Lecture.

Well, if it's good enough for the President and Congress, then, it's good enough for me.

There that wasn't so hard.

After all since they are "public servants" and "work for us" doing the "people's business" and using the "taxpayers money," why should we have anything less than the very same insurance coverage that these DEE CEE PECers have?

(NOTE: PECer is a member of the Political Elite Class)

Let's hear the Ogenius and Nutzi Nancy and Smilin' Chuck Schumer, Chris "Countryside" Dodd and B..b...b...Bwarney Fwank 'splain why that's not a good idea.

If their insurance is too expensive for the "ordinary citizen," then they should scale their current coverage back to the Democrat proposed "Public Plan" level. Seems like the obviously right thing to do at least to me.

How about you?

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of What's Left Of The Republic

 

PS: At the risk of utter overkill, may I suggest: Let's give 'em at least a prime time hour for an educated debate to give all of us schmoos pluses and minuses on the details.

Let's spend at least as much time on covering the details of this scheme as the media did on the death of the self-proclaimed "King of Pop."

Is Chicagoland A Hit Show On The Earth Channel In An Alien Network In The Star System Alpha Centurii? Is Barack Obama The Star Of The Top Rated Comedy-Tragedy-Drama-Reality-Farce Called Chicagoland?

Dear Pals,

Remember Mork and Alf...or even Klaatu? They were just a few of the aliens who visited earth and found our species to be weird, comical and even dangerous.

Well, I'm beginning to think that the entire planet Earth is a just a channel on an alien network. And, that its hit show - Chicagoland - has created a new genre that goes fifty steps beyond Sci-fi's vintage One Step Beyond.

Otherwise how do you explain stuff like this?

Here's the curious case of:

Mel Reynolds

Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat

Congressman Mel to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. 

Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused

in President Clinton's

last-minute forgiveness spree... 

Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year

federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud,

and lies to the Federal Election Commission. 

He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving

five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics:  An ex-congressman who had

Sex with a subordinate...won clemency from a president who had

Sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had

Sex with a subordinate!

His job?

 

***** YOUTH COUNSELOR *****

What is the Mission here?

CONFIRMED BY: http ://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/reynolds.asp

 

Oh wait a minute...I forgot we're all in Chicagoland, that marvelously mystical and magical place where up is down and down is up. Where right is politically-incorrect and left is political correct. Where the dead are registered and then vote twice. Where affirmative action and hiring the "best" all go hand-in-glove with ACORN, community organizing and a sermonizing socialist who preaches, "God damn America" from his pulpit to an applauding audience.

Do you get that? Frankly, I don't. I think it's outrageous.

Yes, dear Pals, Chicagoland is a bubbling cesspool of political  shenanighans filled with many secret ingredients like: Obama-Emmanuel-Burris-Ayers-Reverend J. Jackson 1-Congressman J. Jackson Jr-Reverend J. Jackson 2-Farrakhan and lots of Blagovichtables.

All fried up in liberal dollops of political palm-grease for good measure.

None of this happened last night.

But here is the TRULY AMAZING THING!!!

Chicagoland is the very same world from which our inspiring new President Barack H. Obama miraculously emerged as an unsullied and unblemished paragon of virtue, eloquence and enlightment.

Are we lucky or what?

Personally, I'm voting for "What" as in WTF?

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

PS: Perhaps a wise Latina judge could explain all this to a simple white male from the Midwest.

President Obama Stupidly Said What He Really Thought About The Police And The Professor. What People Say In Unguarded Moments Is Often What They Truly Believe. Now, I Have One Question For Him, About Hillary!

Dear Pals,

There was a fissure in the poise and polish of our inspiring new President at his Press Lecture when he characterized the police as acting "stupidly" in the case of Harvard Professor Gates.

For a man who parses words with the precision of a board-certified laser neuro-surgeon, this was highly uncharacteristic.

Which is precisely why it was so profound.

Now, it wasn't a 9.5 on the Biden Scale. But, I'd say it was a 7.2.

Ever since the Press Lecture, our Iconic Image Of Post-Racial America In Chief has been backpeddling at a speed that would make Lance Armstrong jealous.

On Friday he paid a surprise visit to the White House Press room. There he gurgled forth his own words of a semi-quasi-half-hearted-near-but-not-quite apology. In this setting, and after time to develop a "damage-control strategy," his well-chosen words now had the usual expected ring of calculating and disingenous political doublespeak. 

Our Artful Dodger, could use a few lessons in contrition.

But, in fact, President Obama isn't contrite. I believe that he really believes his own BS.

His "common guy" ploy of inviting both the policeman and the professor over to the White House for a beer...is so contrived and so condescending that it made me want to barf.

Doesn't the President of the United States Of America have better things to do than arbitrate a dispute between the local police and a citizen???

Or is this just another crisis that should not be wasted?

The Ogenius is an educated left wing academic eliteist, if ever there was one. His assumption that cops drink beer is at best socioeconomic or occupational stereotyping and perhaps even ethnic racism in reverse.

And he even got that wrong! Look, if he'd have asked a Boston cop over for a Jameson's with a beer chaser...he'd have exhibited more sensitivity.

Even good old Hillary knew how to do a shot and a beer, which was actually one of her finer campaign moments.

The Ogenius is, as the saying goes, "A man intoxicated by the exhuberance of his own verbosity."

After his 40-minute rambling and convoluted explanation of why the Republicans were at fault for blocking his genius plan to seize control of Healthcare - which is hard to explain, since his Democrat party controls BOTH houses of Congress and the Republicans can't really stop a spitball - I think the question about his old Pal Professor Gates caught him in an unguarded moment...and his true feelings about police and black men just gurgled out.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle...maybe Joe The Plumber could come over and fix his leaky lips.

It isn't often that we get to hear "Mr. Have-It-Both-Ways" speak the unfiltered truth about his real beliefs. I found it both refreshing and appalling.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: The more Obama talks...the more we learn about who he really is and what he really believes. All things that should have been fully explored by the media during the last Presidential campaign.

Maybe even the comatose media is slowly waking up from its tingly-legged enchantment with our wonderful worldwide wonderkind.

Here's a zinger I'd love to ask him: "Mr. President, did you think that it was mean, funny or accurate when Kim Jong Il said that Secretary of State Clinton, "Looked like a pensioner on a shopping trip?" Or was it just that crazy old Kim acting stupidly?"

I can't wait for the next Press Lecture!

Takin' A Few Days Off...Home Alone Without Adult Supervision.

Dear Pals,

I'm kinda worn out, so I think I'll take a few days off to do absolutely nothing and to de-media-ize and de-blog and de-fog  de brain.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Loring's off to Connecticut to celebrate her sister's 50th. birthday, so I'm Home Alone without adult supervision. I may not even move for 3-days...except to feed the cats.

How'dja Like The Obama Press Lecture On Healthcare Last Night?

Dear Pals,

Here are the highlights in case you missed it.

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Blah blah blah it's Bush's fault blah blah blah we must act now blah blah blah blah blar reform blah blah

Trust me, we'll take really really really really good care of you.

______________________________________

That's pretty much it.

We can all go back to sleep now...the great one has spoken.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citzen of the Republic

DEATH AT A FUNERAL: Five Stars For Hysterically FUNNY!

Don't forget! Our inspiring new President will address the nation tonight to explain to all of us schmoos why we need to have Congress pass a "Healthcare reform" bill in a BIG FAT URGENT HURRY BEFORE ANYONE HAS TIME TO READ IT OR THINK ABOUT IT.

I don't know about you but, I'll be on the edge of my seat with a Coke Zero and a bowl of Orville Reddenbacker's popcorn.

-------------------------- and now for something more fun...

Dear Pals,

Every once in awhile you see a movie that is creatively fresh and well-written, whimiscal, unpredictable and simultaneously heart-warming and hysterical.

DEATH AT A FUNERAL...is one such movie.

Get it.

See it.

Laugh out loud.

It's brilliant British satire and farce at it's zenith!

I'll say no more.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: These people did things on film that I have only dreamed of doing...and some things I wish I had thought of too! Bravo!!