American Idol Season Six – Memphis auditions

All of Memphis audtioned for American Idol this year.
I would like to say that I want to see more good auditions, fewer awful ones, and zero instances of Simon saying people look like monkeys.
This first guy’s name is Frank Byers, so he should go to the next round, because my husband’s name is Frank. Scratch that. I am not enjoying this. It is wonky and feels like a Slinky to me. He could sing, but I felt like he was a Slinky. And now two men are lifting Ryan in the air. Hrm.
Timika Sims. That is an unfortunate place for her hoodie string’s knot to be. She’s never sung in front of anyone before. And Randy is off his nut this year. He just laughs at everyone. You’re bad? Randy will laugh at you. You’re awful? It’s a laugh from Randy.
Christopher Rivera. Another joke. Somebody slashed his pants with a machete covered in paint.
Alexis Partee, the stripper with the bangle bracelets that went out in the 1980s. I have nothing to say about that.
This guy’s dad named him Sundance Head. It was hell to grow up with that name, he says. I’m so glad he owns it, because if he makes it through, I will have so much fun with that. The marquee says Jason ‘Sundance’ Head. Ooh, and he’s from Texas. And he starts singing, and can he just sing for the entire hour? Why do they have to show all these other jokers at all? Just let this guy hit those high notes that left me breathless. Ok, enough cliches. (One is enough for me.) And I’m a big Taylor Hicks fan, but I have to agree with Simon. This snicker Sundance guy (it helps me say it if I say the word “guy” after his name) is better at first glance. We’ll see how he stacks up. I hope he’s not one of those that Simon was talking about that made it to Hollywood and then crumbled before the final 24.

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SOTU Live Blog

-A woman and some MEN in black dresses walked out of a hidey hole.
-More people (men and women) more normallly dressed are walking out of some hidey hole.
-No president yet, will he show?
-He made it, people are cheering! Did his approval rating go up? Checking, no not up.
-Everyone wants to shake the POTUS’s hand. Are they trying to give him some biological agent? Time will tell.
Pelosi: Here’s the president! Like you didn’t already know.
W: The Speaker, she’s a woman! And a madam!
Cheney looks like he wants to smack her. With the gavel.
W: Economy is going good, Democrats please don’t muck it up. Balance the budget, YAY! Without raising taxes.
Yay!
W: I’ll make a budget, a good one!
-Shrillery looks like a spooky chinese doll with murder eyes.
W: Pork bad, sneaky bad, dark of night bad. Needs killing.
-Teddy K lookslike he just passed out. Hope he’s not driving.
W: Schools need to be better, we need to make them better, lets spend money!
I think Cheney farted.
W: Insurance needs to be affordable. Government can help.
W: lots of numbers health related numbers.
I think Cheney is eating something. Pelosi keeps scanning the room, looking for John Connor?
W: Patients and Doctors need to make decisions not whomever is making them now.
W: Borders and laws need to be secure. Double the border patrol.
Now Pelosi is eating something too. do they have sunflower seeds?
W: Power, we can burn everything we get our hands on! Except gasoline. Reduce gas usage.
W: Reduce oil consumption by 35 BILLION barrels by 2017.
Some guy got really happy at that, too happy.
W: Terror is scary and bad, remember 9/11, I do. I started some wars over it.
W: We have allies and they help us kill the terrorists. The terrorists suck and it sucks to be them. We caught some being very naughty. Thanks to everybody who has helped.
W: Al Queda are Sunni Extremists, they are not nice. toTAlitarian ideals.
W: There are some Shia Extremists too, also, they are bad. They are Iranians and want to nuke us.
Pelosi eye-strobes are firing rapidly
W: Some good things are happening in the middle east, I will list all I can think of.
W: There’s bad stuff over there too, don’t blame me for all of it, those people hate each other!
W; We need a surge of troops.
Pelosi not smiling. Wonder why. Cheney sees someone he knows. There are soldiers in the audience.
W: Baghdad not secure, we want to secure it, we even talked about it. With some generals.
W: Chaos in Iraq is the terrorist’s best friend.
W: You don’t want us to lose? Then quit acting like losers. We are in it (GWOT) for the long haul.
W: More troops, Bigger Army and Marines. Reserve corps.
– Then my dad called and I quit watching.

Black Caucuses for Black People

Rep. Stephen Cohen – a whitey – tried to get into the Congressional Black Caucus.
That’s crazy. Black Caucuses are for black people. Just look at the name of it: the Black Caucus. See the “black” in there? Kinda hard to mistake it for the Honkey Cracker Whitey Caucus – which is where Rep. Cohen belongs, so says I and the black people of the Black Caucus.
What made whitey white man Rep. Cohen think he could join the blackest caucus around? He represents a district that’s majority black. Well, that just makes him all the more suspicious. You’re telling me that, in a district full of black people, they had to resort to electing some cracker? This is a clear case of the white man keeping the black man down.
I’m glad that the Black Caucus is remaining black, though. We as a country have advanced too far on racial issues to not separate each other by color.

The Sole Job of the Federal Government

President Bush is giving his State of the Union Address tonight. I once again will give some advice to him as, if he’d followed my advice from the beginning, everyone would be dead by now (especially bad people).
Many people, including me, are disappointed in the Bush presidency. He has time to change things, but he has to make sure to focus the rest of his term only on what is important. And what is important for the federal government? Handling foreign people.
There are many foreign people in the world, and they all have wants and desires that I don’t understand nor particularly care about. Many of them want to kill us, and other want to… uh… do other stuff to us (I’m not sure what because they speak in their own made up languages). Now, I don’t have time to try and understand these foreign people, and I especially don’t have time to fly to their foreign lands and handle these foreign people. That’s why I pay taxes to the federal government: to handle the foreign people. The idea is I handle my own crap, and the government takes care of the foreign people.
If President Bush wants to be seen as a great leader, he needs to tell the American people, “I don’t want any of you worrying about foreign people. We, the federal government, have got that handled.” I know I’ll sleep better at night if I know the federal government is taking care of the foreign people by either shooting them in the face, giving them food, yelling at them, or giving them gifts of brand new hats… whatever it is the foreign people need so they won’t bother us. I don’t understand those needs, but, then again, I don’t have the resources of the federal government.
With foreign people, both those overseas and those just across the border that separates American from foreignness, taken care of, Americans can now focus on America and the things we do best like engineering and making new potato chip flavors. With foreign people out of the way, the path to American prosperity will no longer be littered with unshaven people who speak gibberish. Thus, we will be in a golden age.
So, Mr. President, it is your job to usher in this golden age. You tell us tonight that you will handle the foreign people. And then you handle the foreign people.

Thought of the Day

I wish I were a misanthrope and hated people because then life would be so much easier. If I heard of some big problem in the world, I’d just say, “Well, that only affects people, and I don’t like them.” Instead, I care about people, so when something goes wrong that affects people, I exclaim, “Oh no! Not people! I like them!” And, basically, that’s most of my day.