Pelosi For Deregulation?

I guess so.

Oh wait, only in the case of being able to prop up her mouth pieces at the daily newspapers. Otherwise, this is her stated opinion on deregulation. All so delicious when you consider she’d love to drive a stake into the heart of free speech when it concerns talk radio.

Lost in all the fine print, Pelosi also called for bail outs of such vital life-blood industries as the 8-track industry, the typewriter industry, and DIVX.

Newspapers are croaking for a reason. Get over it.

Scary

Olbermann Destroyed Again

Aside from having a serious man crush on Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann is making a daily habit of making an ass out of himself in other ways. Red Eye has made a habit of calling him out.

You can check out more from the king of hypocrisy here, here, and here.

How about this one? Not a real big fan of John Gibson, but he makes an interesting point – especially since Keith Olbermann allegedly abstains from voting so he can remain a neutral observer.

If you want more, check this guy’s insecurity when being called out about his misleading collegiate accomplishments.

Corruption

Full video here.

This is a bit of a conversation I had with qzyrp about the video:

Me (6:42:20 PM): by the way that Dodd video was UNREAL. So he changed the bonus clause at the behest of someone at the treasury department – he doesn’t even know the person’s name though. But he didn’t even know he did this until going back and looking at the clause closer yesterday. But good thing he had changed the clause (unknowingly) because if he hadn’t, things could have been even worse. Do I have all that right?

qzyrp (6:46:56 PM): yes, you have that exactly correct

qzyrp (6:47:07 PM): congratulations, you win a new ipod!

qzyrp (6:49:19 PM): Yes, he effectively passes blame but to no one in particular, was tough on bonuses while also being the hero for having written the tough amendment in the first place, yet also  for saving the amendment and the country from peril by making the requested change to exempt the bonuses all while making the honest mistake of forgetting he ever did any of that.

qzyrp (6:49:55 PM): it is a masterful display of political triple speak

Murdered Words

I’ve noticed a lot of words have pretty much lost all meaning lately and a couple of them are driving me up the wall. One in particular has gotten so out of control that I’m not sure it’s fixable.

Amazing.

Or, now often pronounced amaaaaazing.

This seems to be an epidemic among female speakers especially.

“This coffee is amazing.”

“Wow, your painting is amazing.”

“This new toothpaste is amazing.”

“The way you blink is amazing.”

“These birds singing in the morning are amaaaaaaazing.”

No they aren’t. Not only is the word used incorrectly, but in gross repetition. You can’t avoid it.

I think this and other word fads seem to stem from Hollywood actress types who find pet terms and it trickles down from there.

Other words on my list:

Empowered – You are not empowered by learning to knit.

Organic – Try listening to a DVD commentary sometime. You’d think this word had 30 different uses.

Journey – Going to the local Radio Shack is not a journey.

Surreal – Whatever you’re thinking, it probably isn’t surreal.

Genius – Ugh. Is everyone a genius now?

Not to say men aren’t guilty of this. The sports world alone has probably killed hundreds of words alone. That is a whole different amaaaazing post though.