Well, I might be a different duck in this world. But I got tired about fifteen minutes into the debate hearing the same political slapstick being uttered by "both" sides of the presidential coin. It sounded like both sides couldn't come up with a decent, cognitive argument that wasn't prepared like an iron on T-shirt. Kind of like snake oil salesman selling a product to the masses.
I even have had to turn off twitter and facebook tonight, because all of my friends and family are tweeting or facebooking this crap up to the highest hilt. I might go back tomorrow, when social media finally gets muttered down to a reasonable number of comments, because people are going to sleep. I also don't appreciate the filter and file b$ from the cable news outlets telling how from their own political perspective some thing looks. I don't know if anyone else thinks like I do, but I simply will not turn on these people during the last two presidential political debates rounds because all I heard was these fools in the background barely muted tell us their perspective when someone was talking.
Every person has the right to their first amendment spoken privilege, but I should have also the privilege to tone down or tune out the drivel. This is what I had to do with social media tonight. What I want from social media is quality content about a subject, not 100GB per second flood or higher of social media fire hose flooding me with crap!
Look, I have my bent on the presidential election, but I am right now remaining independent to near the utter end. I want to see how these guys handle themselves, as well as the vice presidential debate coming up within the next two weeks I believe from Danville, Kentucky.
I want to hear decent discussion. Decent thoughts. Decent options and perspectives. But with social media, I get flooded with the drivel up on high. You know, I think this might be a great saturday night live skit! Or a youtube video?
In other words, I don't want someone who blathers - yawn for hours telling me of "their perspective" on a very old medium like cable television... What I want to hear is a control, filtered experience of differing opinions. Very much like a good Opinion - Editorial page might form up. It is probably why I turned off the radio, the television and any online media systems tonight.
It probably is a great time to just get some rest and near the first week of November, vote for the best candidate I feel will do the right thing for America....
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Columbia River Crossing a UP, WOW?
Jeff Mapes writes that this group wants to put this bridge on a plan of "common sense" cuts because they feel it may be like a "bridge to nowhere." There is more you can read from his short piece, you can find here: Link
And you can find the report (Courtesy of Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian) from Taxpayers for Common Sense... Link
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