This is what Gatz has to say:
Doctors have long extolled the virtues associated with people cleaning out the impurities in their system. Heck, it's a cottage industry in itself with products on every drug store counter. Sometimes people have to clean out the foolishness within them as well. Pride, ego, vanity, anger, depression, and many more bad things are some of the things we could all purge. In a somewhat humorous way I give you 10 famous people that I think need a cleanse.
1. Lindsay Lohan: 90 days of semi solitary should cleanse her of her alcohol fueled self destruction. Did you see her awful performance at her probation violation hearing? That (fake)awful sobbing appeal to the judge all the while sitting there with her hands covering her face and on her hands the letters say F you. When and where did this spunky, cute, fun little girl from the movie Parent Trap go wrong? For that answer look up Macauley Culkin.
2. Mel Gibson: I've had enough of his boorish bad boy behavior. What with his whisky fueled rants about hating everything that is Jewish, black, Hispanic, or is it just women in general he hates so much? The point is I don't care and neither does anyone else. We are just tired of his blathering on and on about it. Doesn't he know what a tape recorder is? So much has been given to this Australian actor that you'd think he would be tremendously grateful and be in a give back mood BUT what he gives back is what you'd hear from drunken hillbillies at a moonshine party. Shut up Mel and take a cleanse.
3. Lebron James: Pride goes before the fall. Edmund Spenser the great English writer wrote about the 7 deadliest sins and the number one sin on the list was pride. There he sat King James (self described) taking up America's time on ESPN with a one hour special all devoted to King James telling us what team he chose to anoint with his presence next fall. Here is a slam dunk idea Lebron: the people that watched that show are morons with no lives. Frankly most of America could care less where you play but there is one thing the rest of us do want from you: take a cleanse and get over yourself.
4. Sarah Palin Lovers: Look she just got 75K for speaking 50 minutes at a college campus recently. The people at that college (professors and students) were outraged that the school would spend that much money to bring her in but the University president was giddy because all of her moronic alumni and private donors (wealthy) couldn't get enough of Sarah. She claims the school made a lot of money. If you think Sarah is the next political savior or the next President please take a cleanse and begin therapy as soon as possible.
5. Simon Cowell: So rich, so smug, and so British! I can't take anymore of him. He knows how to make money (so do many others) and he knows how to promote others but that's it. You have no redeeming value beyond your own self promotion. If you lost all your money you wouldn't have a thing to recommend you. Take a cleanse and start figuring out how to do more for the world than say “Sorry, that's how I feel"
6. Superman: Okay, I get you can do so much more than anybody else thing and your silly attempt to pretend to be Clark Kent is kind of 8th grade cute but you really do have to get a personality. The shy guy thing is annoying, the icy cool hero thing is annoying, let's face it you are just plain annoying. Take a kryptonic cleanse and start over.
7. Sandra Bullock: Every time I go into a grocery story or drug store your face is on a magazine and you have that "someone just ran over my dog" look on your face. Yes, your hubby or boyfriend was a dick. Yes, you got hurt. Yes, you'll have to start over. Hey, join the rest of us who have to do all those things but without every housewife, and teeny bopper from coast to coast weeping over our "tragic" story like they do yours. Take a cleanse, get a good lawyer and stop crying every time you see a camera.
8. The Pope: I'm sorry you were born a Ratzinger. I give you sympathies for that but listen cone head, you and all your Cardinal buddies all need to take a cleanse or two, clear your heads for two minutes and tell everyone of those priests out there working for you that you (The Pope) (since you are on speaking terms with the Deity) will condemn them to hell and turn them over to the authorities if they so much as even think about touching a kid.
9. James Cameron: Yes I know you are a highly successful director and you have made a shit load of money for your studios but talk about being full of yourself. All the people that work directly with you and those behind the scenes describe you as a horror to work for. You are described as being tyrannical, temperamental (emphasis on the "mental") and arrogant to the point of it being painful to be in the same room with you. Stop all ready with the Mr. Otto Preminger, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, and all the other prima donna pain in ass directors. Try making others around you happier and better. Quit making me wish you were on the Titanic.
10. Anybody who Quotes Forrest Gump: I hate to tell you this Mr. and Mrs. America but Forrest Gump had an IQ of 70. He's legally an idiot but you still think he's Yoda in a short sleeve sport shirt. He sat on a bench for 2+ hours because he didn't know when the bus came! He volunteered for Vietnam! He ran through the tunnel after scoring a touchdown because he didn't know he could stop running. He's a fricking moron and still you quote his box of chocolates line and every other stupid utterance. Look do this...take a cleanse and when you are thinking straight take your Forrest Gump hats, tee shirts, DVD's and throw them in the trash. You'll feel better and instantly gain 40 IQ points.
That's my list and I feel cleansed just listing them (kidding). Did I leave someone out?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Guest Writer / Mike Moldeven
I want others to write on this blog and I have my first guest column. Mike is a friend of mine, a former employee of the Government and the U.S. Air Force. He served in WWII and after the war served as quality control for the Air Force. It was his job to file "Unsatisfactory Reports" on equipment and so forth when he found deficiences. Here is one of his Post WWII accounts: THANKS MIKE
Unsatisfactory Reports
I was a U. S. Govt 'war worker' at the Air Force logistics depot on
Hickam Field/AFB, Hawaii during and, for a few more years, after WW2.
When hostilities ended I was reassigned from aircrew parachute and
emergency survival gear maintenance to the depot Maintenance
Division's staff office that investigated, documented and processed
'inspection' reports. My assignment included reports initiated by
operators, technicians, engineers, etc., on aircraft and support
systems and related equipment failures, erroneous tech data,
manufacturers' production defects, services errors, and materiel
management and support practices generally by contractors and other
government entities. The governing directive for my specialty was / is
the USAF Unsatisfactory Reports (UR) Program Tech Order 00-35D-54.
My duties included familiarizing shop technicians, crew chiefs and
first and second level supervisors with the processes of the UR
reporting system such as keeping tech notes, recording and protecting
evidence and exhibits to meet the Tech Order's requirements. I
occasionally used informal group brainstorming to draw out context,
'probable cause' and 'fix' ideas from crew chief expertise and others
that were knowledgeable and added pertinent info in the UR. Failures
and defects reports often called for physical evidence/exhibits. In
those days URs were air mailed from Hickam to Wright Patterson AFB,
the focal point for management of USAF logistics functions.
[Vignette: An unusual UR, as I remember: When: Late '40s. The
Maintenance Division's 'Big Hangar' has a line of C-54s down the
middle undergoing scheduled extensive repairs. I get a call from the
Aircraft Repair chief inspector. Problem: A forward upper inboard
corner of the spar in the port wing's integral fuel tank in a C-54
undergoing depot-level inspection shows clear evidence of corrosion.
Potential impact: Fleets of C-54s working worldwide; is the problem
unique to this one airplane or extensive. Get a UR out ASAP.
I'm off to the hangar up at the aircraft maintenance stand. The integral fuel
tank's panel is off. I maneuver my right arm, head and a bit of my
shoulder up into the tank. Lights. There it is, within arm reach.
Scratch at the corrosion; rough, pitted surface: the evidence /
exhibit; photos. Back to the office. UR prepared, signed by authority
and on its way, very likely preceeded by an electronic priority TWX
[currently email].
Next day; from my supervisor: "Mike, Tech Services at Wright-Pat
wants the wing section. Right now. Base Commander authorizes use of a
C-82 Boxcar. 'Aircraft Repair' gets the exhibit wing section off and
on a truck trailer, braced and ready for [rear] loading on the C-82.
Wing section delivered to Base Ops and loaded. I stand by as the UR
project officer. I observe the C-82 liftoff and return to the office.
```
My experiences in implementing and using the U R system during and
after WW2 resulted, post-retirement, in authoring and updating my
blog;
'Fixing and Preventing Mistakes and Deficiencies in the Workplace' online at:
http://mistakesdeficienciesworkplace.blogspot.com/
Moldeven
Unsatisfactory Reports
I was a U. S. Govt 'war worker' at the Air Force logistics depot on
Hickam Field/AFB, Hawaii during and, for a few more years, after WW2.
When hostilities ended I was reassigned from aircrew parachute and
emergency survival gear maintenance to the depot Maintenance
Division's staff office that investigated, documented and processed
'inspection' reports. My assignment included reports initiated by
operators, technicians, engineers, etc., on aircraft and support
systems and related equipment failures, erroneous tech data,
manufacturers' production defects, services errors, and materiel
management and support practices generally by contractors and other
government entities. The governing directive for my specialty was / is
the USAF Unsatisfactory Reports (UR) Program Tech Order 00-35D-54.
My duties included familiarizing shop technicians, crew chiefs and
first and second level supervisors with the processes of the UR
reporting system such as keeping tech notes, recording and protecting
evidence and exhibits to meet the Tech Order's requirements. I
occasionally used informal group brainstorming to draw out context,
'probable cause' and 'fix' ideas from crew chief expertise and others
that were knowledgeable and added pertinent info in the UR. Failures
and defects reports often called for physical evidence/exhibits. In
those days URs were air mailed from Hickam to Wright Patterson AFB,
the focal point for management of USAF logistics functions.
[Vignette: An unusual UR, as I remember: When: Late '40s. The
Maintenance Division's 'Big Hangar' has a line of C-54s down the
middle undergoing scheduled extensive repairs. I get a call from the
Aircraft Repair chief inspector. Problem: A forward upper inboard
corner of the spar in the port wing's integral fuel tank in a C-54
undergoing depot-level inspection shows clear evidence of corrosion.
Potential impact: Fleets of C-54s working worldwide; is the problem
unique to this one airplane or extensive. Get a UR out ASAP.
I'm off to the hangar up at the aircraft maintenance stand. The integral fuel
tank's panel is off. I maneuver my right arm, head and a bit of my
shoulder up into the tank. Lights. There it is, within arm reach.
Scratch at the corrosion; rough, pitted surface: the evidence /
exhibit; photos. Back to the office. UR prepared, signed by authority
and on its way, very likely preceeded by an electronic priority TWX
[currently email].
Next day; from my supervisor: "Mike, Tech Services at Wright-Pat
wants the wing section. Right now. Base Commander authorizes use of a
C-82 Boxcar. 'Aircraft Repair' gets the exhibit wing section off and
on a truck trailer, braced and ready for [rear] loading on the C-82.
Wing section delivered to Base Ops and loaded. I stand by as the UR
project officer. I observe the C-82 liftoff and return to the office.
```
My experiences in implementing and using the U R system during and
after WW2 resulted, post-retirement, in authoring and updating my
blog;
'Fixing and Preventing Mistakes and Deficiencies in the Workplace' online at:
http://mistakesdeficienciesworkplace.blogspot.com/
Moldeven
Saturday, July 10, 2010
"MEN get the Madison Avenue Shaft"
This is what Gatz has to say:
Most of you don't pay all that much attention to TV commercials but I do. I suppose it's because I once taught a course in Mass Media or maybe it's because they reflect where America's mind set is at at any given time. Of course, in general commercials are : stupid, misleading, fantasy fulfillment oriented, or they appeal to fear and guilt. Only on a rare occasion will the commercial appeal to the viewer's intelligence and rational thinking. The company Ameritrade does this with Sam Waterston, the quintessential successful looking businessman, as their spokesperson. He speaks in a calm, measured voice, appealing to a man's desire to have a place where he can trust his money will make money. He appeals to educated men that work, make a good income and prefer a smart approach to things. Nevertheless, most commercials are dumb in the first degree. What I want to focus on here is how badly men are portrayed in most commercials.
Take a good look at how many times men are portrayed as idiots, immature kids and / or helpless. Usually this is done in commercials that portray a family. Mom is in charge, the kids are smart ass whipper snappers usually smarter than either of their parents. Mom puts up with the bumbling, clueless husband and in many of these commercials after dad has done or said something stupid she looks at the kids and they smile at each other or roll their eyes in a mutual acknowledgement that Dad is a complete moron. What do the dads or married but with no children men do that makes them "suspect"? They can't find places, they are slobs (dripping soda, beer and pizza on their clothes) they get their buddies over and act like 10 year olds they look sheepish when caught ordering 10 pizzas for 3 guys. My point is this: in these commercials men can make money (breadwinners) but outside of work they are like fish out of water, unable to do even the simplest things.
I used to tell my friends to watch TV for a couple of nights and count the number of times men are portrayed as being dumb-asses. They were appalled as well. As for single men well, they are horn dogs scamming women in bars doing double entrende jokes and yucking it up like they are in Jr. High. Of course they fantasize they are cool but usually they are the one guy in the group that isn't. Often they are inept, unable to be cool or pick up a woman or they are fools because they try to pick them up but they soon become the laughingstock of the bar. The really cool guys (the ones Madison Avenue deem cool)always laugh at them or make them the butt of jokes and the cute girls will make eye contact with the cool guys in a mutual "he's not cool is he, at least not like us." look. Why have this long running relentless portrayal of stupid men in commercials? Because Madison Avenue knows the husbands in many households are whipped. The wives, or girl friends make the decisions especially about money. The only one more in control of the pocketbook that the women are the kids. Since kids are the center of the family universe in commercaials they are cute, 15 years too hip and smart for their age, and capable of manipulating their parents. Kids you see have helicopter mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and getting them to buy them something isn't that hard to do. Men do make most of the family money so they aren't cut out altogether but in these commercials they are hanging on by their fingernails to a family that laughs behind their backs. Wives and kids tolerate him but don't respect him.
Like I said, if the commercial is about money - making or spending money on things like a Mercedes or a Jaguar, men are portrayed as smart, in control, and they don't like being talked down to.. Those commercials show a man that wouldn't put up with smart ass, know it all kids or manipulating, sneaky wives. Sadly the vast majority of TV commercials continue to portray men as goof balls, nerds, effeminate, candy ass losers. Don't believe me? Just watch nighttime TV for about a week and notice commercials with men in them. I'm not saying every last one is distorted but look how many are.
That's my opinion....what's yours?
Most of you don't pay all that much attention to TV commercials but I do. I suppose it's because I once taught a course in Mass Media or maybe it's because they reflect where America's mind set is at at any given time. Of course, in general commercials are : stupid, misleading, fantasy fulfillment oriented, or they appeal to fear and guilt. Only on a rare occasion will the commercial appeal to the viewer's intelligence and rational thinking. The company Ameritrade does this with Sam Waterston, the quintessential successful looking businessman, as their spokesperson. He speaks in a calm, measured voice, appealing to a man's desire to have a place where he can trust his money will make money. He appeals to educated men that work, make a good income and prefer a smart approach to things. Nevertheless, most commercials are dumb in the first degree. What I want to focus on here is how badly men are portrayed in most commercials.
Take a good look at how many times men are portrayed as idiots, immature kids and / or helpless. Usually this is done in commercials that portray a family. Mom is in charge, the kids are smart ass whipper snappers usually smarter than either of their parents. Mom puts up with the bumbling, clueless husband and in many of these commercials after dad has done or said something stupid she looks at the kids and they smile at each other or roll their eyes in a mutual acknowledgement that Dad is a complete moron. What do the dads or married but with no children men do that makes them "suspect"? They can't find places, they are slobs (dripping soda, beer and pizza on their clothes) they get their buddies over and act like 10 year olds they look sheepish when caught ordering 10 pizzas for 3 guys. My point is this: in these commercials men can make money (breadwinners) but outside of work they are like fish out of water, unable to do even the simplest things.
I used to tell my friends to watch TV for a couple of nights and count the number of times men are portrayed as being dumb-asses. They were appalled as well. As for single men well, they are horn dogs scamming women in bars doing double entrende jokes and yucking it up like they are in Jr. High. Of course they fantasize they are cool but usually they are the one guy in the group that isn't. Often they are inept, unable to be cool or pick up a woman or they are fools because they try to pick them up but they soon become the laughingstock of the bar. The really cool guys (the ones Madison Avenue deem cool)always laugh at them or make them the butt of jokes and the cute girls will make eye contact with the cool guys in a mutual "he's not cool is he, at least not like us." look. Why have this long running relentless portrayal of stupid men in commercials? Because Madison Avenue knows the husbands in many households are whipped. The wives, or girl friends make the decisions especially about money. The only one more in control of the pocketbook that the women are the kids. Since kids are the center of the family universe in commercaials they are cute, 15 years too hip and smart for their age, and capable of manipulating their parents. Kids you see have helicopter mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and getting them to buy them something isn't that hard to do. Men do make most of the family money so they aren't cut out altogether but in these commercials they are hanging on by their fingernails to a family that laughs behind their backs. Wives and kids tolerate him but don't respect him.
Like I said, if the commercial is about money - making or spending money on things like a Mercedes or a Jaguar, men are portrayed as smart, in control, and they don't like being talked down to.. Those commercials show a man that wouldn't put up with smart ass, know it all kids or manipulating, sneaky wives. Sadly the vast majority of TV commercials continue to portray men as goof balls, nerds, effeminate, candy ass losers. Don't believe me? Just watch nighttime TV for about a week and notice commercials with men in them. I'm not saying every last one is distorted but look how many are.
That's my opinion....what's yours?
Friday, July 2, 2010
"My Friend Mike"
I want to tell you about my friend Mike. I met Mike about 1 1/2 years ago at a dinner party. When I talked with Mike, that night, I noticed a New York accent, just a litle bit of one but I notice voices; I pay attention to voices and so I asked him if he was from New York and he said he grew up in Brooklyn. (83 years ago) Then he leaned in a bit and with his fun smile he said, "I miss the action". It cracked me up so much. At age 93 he misses the "action". I knew right away that I liked Mike.
Mike and I get together every couple of weeks and have right from the beginning. We are good friends. Mike was at Pearl Harbor about 2 weeks after Dec. 7th. He's told me a lot about his life then. He was a parachute rigger for a long time in the Air Force. Then he got involved in suicide prevention for the military and finally worked for the Government as a trouble shooter on a variety of projects. He also was involved in some highly secret cold war project in North Africa that involved him reporting to the Joint Chiefs. He still isn't at liberty to say what was going on. I personally saw photos of him getting one commendation after another so I know he was really good at his job. Mike also was actively a counselor on a suicide prevention hot line.
Mike continued to write and speak about suicide prevention long after his official retirement. He still writes today on his own blog site and he monitors other information and stays up to date on efforts to get people to stop killing themselves. In addition, along the way Mike published a novel that could be described as science fiction, it is still listed with Amazon.com. Mike wrote a group of stories called "Grandpa Stories" about the kind of stories one would tell to their grandkids. He still writes everyday, reads from his kindle and shows me how to work the computer.
Mike and I discuss the universe, philosophy, religion, and so much more. He has such wonderful insights and he is amazingly modern in many of his views. He is a good friend, always asking about me and my son. We go to the Beach Grass Cafe or IHOP or sometimes we sit around his computer at his house. I love my friend Mike and I respect him highly.
Alot of older folks (Mike is not old) have so much to offer, but our society dismisses older folks and prefers they go off to some retirement community. That is wrong, because friends like Mike should be listened to and cherished. I hope I make it to 93 and I can say, "I miss the action".
Mike and I get together every couple of weeks and have right from the beginning. We are good friends. Mike was at Pearl Harbor about 2 weeks after Dec. 7th. He's told me a lot about his life then. He was a parachute rigger for a long time in the Air Force. Then he got involved in suicide prevention for the military and finally worked for the Government as a trouble shooter on a variety of projects. He also was involved in some highly secret cold war project in North Africa that involved him reporting to the Joint Chiefs. He still isn't at liberty to say what was going on. I personally saw photos of him getting one commendation after another so I know he was really good at his job. Mike also was actively a counselor on a suicide prevention hot line.
Mike continued to write and speak about suicide prevention long after his official retirement. He still writes today on his own blog site and he monitors other information and stays up to date on efforts to get people to stop killing themselves. In addition, along the way Mike published a novel that could be described as science fiction, it is still listed with Amazon.com. Mike wrote a group of stories called "Grandpa Stories" about the kind of stories one would tell to their grandkids. He still writes everyday, reads from his kindle and shows me how to work the computer.
Mike and I discuss the universe, philosophy, religion, and so much more. He has such wonderful insights and he is amazingly modern in many of his views. He is a good friend, always asking about me and my son. We go to the Beach Grass Cafe or IHOP or sometimes we sit around his computer at his house. I love my friend Mike and I respect him highly.
Alot of older folks (Mike is not old) have so much to offer, but our society dismisses older folks and prefers they go off to some retirement community. That is wrong, because friends like Mike should be listened to and cherished. I hope I make it to 93 and I can say, "I miss the action".
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