This video is from LisaNova (You Tube goddess). Her video is about the Michael J. Fox-Rush Limbaugh incidents.
Friday, November 03, 2006
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LeesaI started blogging to improve my writing; I really did. Painters don't start with masterpieces – they start on scraps of paper, and even when planning a great work, they do many other drawings in preparation. I think writing is the same. You just don't start and finish a novel by merrily typing into the computer; you experiment. Blogging is sort of like a writer's doodling. So this is my scratch pad of sorts. This is less than scraps of paper actually, just 1s and 0s on your computer screen.
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Some random notes about this blog:
1. Schedule. I started writing this blog in 1995, and over the past few years, I have tried to write every workday. Then in the summer of 2008, I quit writing for a month or so. Now I try writing three times per week. The quality waxes and wanes. Sorry about that.
2. Leesa's Mailbag. I am trying a new weekly/monthly/semi-annual blog entry called "Leesa's Mailbag". Over the last few years, people have emailed me with questions, and I have answered them on an individual basis. Now, I think I will answer them on a blog entry. Perhaps Friday. Not sure I will get enough questions to do this often, but I will try to answer questions. Sort of an Ann Landers with attitude. Just write to the email address below.
3. My Stories. Yeah, I have a few erotic stories here. I know, they are not all that good, but they were fun to write. Don't read them if this offends you (and they represent less than 1% of the content here). These stories have elements of truth and fantasy, some more true than others. Complain about something that is a bit more substantive if you must complain. I have lots of faults.
4. Layout. My layout is clean and simple. You can tell me it is boring, and you would be right. I just don't want pink flowers and weird colors to get in the way of my words. I have customized my drop-down menus under "Quick Links" and "Blog Roll" so I had to use a little HTML.
Finally, there are loads of better bloggers here. If you like what you read, thanks. If you don't, thanks for dropping by (and I mean this). A few people who comment on my work add immensely to the experience.
1. Schedule. I started writing this blog in 1995, and over the past few years, I have tried to write every workday. Then in the summer of 2008, I quit writing for a month or so. Now I try writing three times per week. The quality waxes and wanes. Sorry about that.
2. Leesa's Mailbag. I am trying a new weekly/monthly/semi-annual blog entry called "Leesa's Mailbag". Over the last few years, people have emailed me with questions, and I have answered them on an individual basis. Now, I think I will answer them on a blog entry. Perhaps Friday. Not sure I will get enough questions to do this often, but I will try to answer questions. Sort of an Ann Landers with attitude. Just write to the email address below.
3. My Stories. Yeah, I have a few erotic stories here. I know, they are not all that good, but they were fun to write. Don't read them if this offends you (and they represent less than 1% of the content here). These stories have elements of truth and fantasy, some more true than others. Complain about something that is a bit more substantive if you must complain. I have lots of faults.4. Layout. My layout is clean and simple. You can tell me it is boring, and you would be right. I just don't want pink flowers and weird colors to get in the way of my words. I have customized my drop-down menus under "Quick Links" and "Blog Roll" so I had to use a little HTML.
Finally, there are loads of better bloggers here. If you like what you read, thanks. If you don't, thanks for dropping by (and I mean this). A few people who comment on my work add immensely to the experience.
Counter and Links
So I can keep track of the wonderful people who link to my humble site:
This site has been viewed about this many times (see below). If you divide this number by π (pi), you get the number of times I have entertained people.
This site has been viewed about this many times (see below). If you divide this number by π (pi), you get the number of times I have entertained people.
6 comments:
Well done. It's people like Limbaugh that give humanity a bad name.
That video is so fake. Rush doesn't act like. He really is like that. Fakers.
While it's always fun to make fun of Rush, the fact remains that Michael J. Fox has admitted, on camera, that he stops taking his medicine before making public appearances in order to demonstrate the impact of the illness. (I'll try and find the quotes from a couple of years back)
Parkinson's is a horrible illness and it's impacting my family right now, so I fully support MJF's attempts to get more funding for stem cell and other research tools.
BUT, he should be honest about how he is approaching his public perceptions.
And, Rush has never been a Holocaust denier and to imply that he is goes too far.
bruce: amen.
tony: sometimes I think Rush always fakes.
advizer: but Michael J Fox is not faking his symptoms.
I never said that Michael J. Fox was faking his symptoms, I was only commenting that he uses his symptoms, which according to him can be controlled, to elicit sympathy for his position.
And as I said, I have a lot of empathy for Mr. Fox, because Parkinson's is in my family right now, and taking a terrible toll. I just don't think it's very fair that people criticize Rush for stating something that is admittedly true, that Fox's manipulating his symptoms in order to gain sympathy.
Now perhaps I would do the same thing if I was in his place. In my daily life I want the symptoms to go away as much as possible so that I can get on with things. But when I am trying to raise money for my cause, I would probably want people to see the full extent of the situation, and while I don't think that is dishonest, I think we should agree that it is manipulative in the sense that he is changing his condition based on his goals. Literally, manipulating his disease to benefit his cause.
I know this is making me sound like a really insensitive jerk, and I don't mean to be, I really am a nice guy, but I'm getting really tired of the mainstream media's attack on the people who are just stating the truth.
another part of my frustration is that while Rush is a jerk sometimes, the media only attacks right wing jerks. The people who rant and rave against Bush and the government, the religious right, and anyone who claims to have a moral position, those people get a free pass to attack at will. No one ever calls the left wing pundits on their facts, no one makes them backup their accusations with details, they were allowed free reign to rape and pillage others in the public marketplace, without anyone holding them to a standard of journalistic integrity.
But that is a rant for another day.
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