AWARD SHOWS FOR ART FARE A POINTLESS CONCEPT
by tjandthetux
Shock and Awesome, East Village Radio
As we suffered through the Grammys last Sunday, and are preparing to suffer through the another Oscars in the coming weeks we ask ourselves; why are there awards shows for subjective art forms? The question is simple but the answer seems to [...]
The State of the Union was on Wednesday. Obama told us “we don’t quit, I don’t quit”. A very ungrammatical Obama is determined to focus on jobs and he is not letting go of healthcare. Obama told the GOP that “no” was not the only option while bitch slapping the Supreme Court for their campaign finance reform ruling.
What the stations covering the address really needed was the FOX Sports inside the huddle camera and a different seating arrangement. One that would stagger the Dems and GOP one by one across every row. This formation could help hide the times when one side doesn’t clap.
Chemical Ali? Saddam’s henchman, named after My Chemical Romance and Muhammad Ali was hung on monday after surviving three other death by hanging convictions by authorities. Swift justice? It ’s better than the Tim Mcveigh case. The Oklahoma City bomber got to throw feces at guards for six years while on death row. Ali’s hanging didn’t trump the story of Nicolai Ceceascu however. The Pro-Romanian dictator turned nut job psycho was shot by a firing squad with AK-47s on X-mas day in 1989 with his wife after a two hour televised “kangaroo court” trial. Why not make the executions more of a spectacle in the US? Bring in Elvis Costello to commentate, have an undercard of waterboarding, and have illiterate children finally pull the trigger at the stroke of midnight… now that is a late show we can believe in. Think of the advertising revenue!
Bob Mcdonnell had a farm ee yi ee yi o. This and the boys sing Iron Maiden’s “Run To The Hills” while covering Obama’s plea to Washington to
“stop running for the hills” with regard to tough decisions. A-cappella karaoke in it’s highest form. Plus TJ spilling coffee in the booth, Greg Oden posting his shlong on the internet, and John Edwards dissing fat rednecks at state fairs. TUX, who’s new name is TEX, traded JD Salinger for John Lennon straight up while riffing “Give Peace A Chance” to modern day lyrics and rhymes. Get the picture? Mind boggling stuff. Hey the boys don’t make the news, they just mess up reporting it.
TJ and The Tux
Shock and Awesome
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As America listens to another State of the Union address from another President, maybe it’s time to ask ourselves, is the real problem us? What can the President really do for a nation of fickle mush heads? The Washington Post previewed Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address by stating, “All the passion in American politics is oppositional. The American people know what they don’t like, which is: everything.” It sure seems that way. Obama was voted in on the premise of change, as most presidents are; yet once again it looks as if a politician will over promise and under deliver. What really should be expected from the President after this speech?
Hopefully over the last year Mr. Obama has learned that partisan politics won’t change. With the election of Scott Brown to Teddy Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts the best chance to pass legislation has passed. Instead of playing the hand he was dealt one piece at a time, Obama tried to change fifty years of government in twelve months. In failing to focus solely on strengthening the economy Obama now has to begin to regain the trust of the nation, a trust that he has lost for the first time since his entrance into national politics.
The tragedy of this presidency so far is that Obama was elected to become the most progressive president in our country’s history at a time when stabilizing the economy is most essential. In his State of the Union address the President may want to declare that the laundry list of changes he hoped to implement is taking a back seat to a single-minded narrow focus of solidifying the economy. Leave the multi tasking aside. Downsize the list of goals to achieving one. Jobs. When a person doesn’t have one, conventions in places like Davos and Copenhagen just don’t matter. In the future a vibrant economy will provide Americans the confidence that progressive chances taken will provide solutions to age-old problems.
The U.S News and World Report shows that 85,000 more jobs were lost in December as the national unemployment rate stayed at 10 percent. A rate that the news source claims would be higher if those who gave up looking for work were counted among the unemployed. The country’s faith in Obama has subsided in part because people are simply angry. Broke. They have no money coming in… can’t pay bills. Rasmussen reports today in it’s daily presidential tracking poll that 27 percent of those polled strongly approve of the job Obama is doing, down from the 43 percent level he enjoyed at the start of his first term.
The “One Termer” tag has become a real threat for Barry the Cigarette. Teddy Kennedy alluded to Obama on the presidential campaign trail as the carrier of the torch of hope and social change yet Obama refuses to get off the sidelines and assert himself. He has taken no hard line stances on policies he wants implemented. From here on in Obama has to take the lead on the message. The heath care debate that got away from him during the town hall summer did so because the Commander in Chief allowed Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) to sit in private Senate Finance Committee meetings and play paper football instead of getting a deal done. This while a growing public anger of inaction began to build. On the other hand maybe it’s not about Obama’s lack of focus. There is the possibility that Obama didn’t go after pharma or the banks as hard as he should have because he is not the progressive poster boy many thought he was one year ago.
Since Brown’s upset in Massachusetts, Obama has taken a more populist stance. Tonight he’ll undoubtedly discuss his reasoning as to why he chose January 2010 as the time to freeze discretionary spending. A decision we disagree with for many reasons. One being that discretionary spending is the smallest piece of the government spending pie. If he really wanted to put a dent in federal spending he would attack the defense budget, social security, or medicare/medicaid. Instead he is going to freeze spending on things like education and infrastructure at the time when bankrupt states, excluding Texas, need it most. Attacking discretionary spending in no way makes you a deficit hawk.
As for the people, we’re frantic. Walking on eggshells. Confused. In debt. Willing to grab onto anything for relief and comfort. Our advice for tonight: Go in there Mr. President and pull a page from Hillary’s playbook; reset the tone… to a harsher tone… a “with me or against me” tone. Get tough with banking regulation, “too big to fail,” and the mortgage crisis. You won a presidential election now enforce your will, and stop worrying about ratings and making friends. The People trusted you… believed in you, and now that trust is beginning to wane. It’s not too late but it’s getting late early.
Ideological differences aside, a political line has been drawn in the sand by a Republican party that has done everything in its power to bring down your popularity. The time for shaking hands and trying to win them over has passed. Make it be known tonight not by words, but by your emphatic tone, that you are up for this. It’s not going to be easy but support will be there for you if you exude leadership that people feel they can get behind.
Rifles with biblical references are the new fashion for soldiers who rock out with i pods as IEDS go off around them. How bout the Snow Leopard, the skier who has defied Olympic odds hailing from Ghana, having only tried the sport out four years ago? Maybe the duo have yet to explore THEIR calling. That’s why TJ and the TUX are getting out the garbage can to replace the elephant puck. They’re buying a broom at K Mart. Taking their act down to happy hour and sliding the can down the bar entrance, sweeping it while it skids. The 2014 U.S Curling team kids, get ready for the next Miracle on Ice.
What about the London Olympic stadium being made out of melted guns? If the U.S could implement THOSE raw materials, the whole country would turn into a stadium. The new All White basketball league being started down South will field an all star team to take on the CYO ALl Stars at Don Hills in March. Tickets are ten bucks and it’s 21 and up to get in. Two for one Vodka shots before eleven. Shock and Awesome on www.eastvillageradio.com Fridays 10am-12 Re airing Saturdays 8am-10 and streaming all week on East Village Radio.
