The so called ‘Reality Shows’

You’ve seen them. I know you have. I’ve watched a few myself. What a crock of shit.

American Idol

America’s Top Model

Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader

Big Brother

Biggest Loser

Celebrity Apprentice

Celebrity Fit Club

Dancing With the Stars

Deal or No Deal

Don’t Forget The Lyrics

Extreme Makeover

Hell’s Kitchens

Housewives of Orange County

Make Me A Supermodel

Making The Band

Moment of Truth

My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad

Paradise Hotel

Primetime: What Would You Do

Randy Jackson Presents

Real Housewives of New York City

Super Nanny

Survivor

The Great Race

The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom

Top Chef

Trading Spaces

Ultimate Recipe Showdown

Unhitched

Wife Swap

Your Momma Don’t Dance

Jerry Springer

Maury Povich

Judge Judy and about 4-5 more Judge-type Shows.

These shows have nothing to do with reality. Reality is what’s real and believe me, these shows aren’t real.

So, if you watched all of these insipid shows, you’d spend around 52 hours a week ‘entertaining yourself’. What a waste of time. Read a book, play with the kids, do a project, volunteer for some worthy cause.

Even if you only watch half of them – that’s 26 hours – more than there are hours in one day. One day a week for 52 weeks. That adds up to two days and four hours lost on what? And don’t you TiVo users say “Hey, man. It’s not that long ‘cause I can skip through the commercials.” Shut your pie-hole – you’re still wasting time, you moron.

Life is real.

Why don’t we take these people and have them live in a cardboard box, begging for food, eating at soup kitchens. Or how about the people who are still homeless down in New Orleans. Let’s send a bunch of people down there. Better yet, let’s send some folks over to Tibet, Darfur, Nigeria. That would be reality.

Adults, mostly young ones, have no idea of what it’s like to go without. I’m talking about the fortunate ones. Just imagine if they had to sleep in the park, use newspapers to cover themselves at night and then put those same newspapers in their shoes because the soles have worn out.

Imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t brush your teeth because you didn’t have a brush or paste, imagine not being able to take a shower, not being able to wash what little clothing you own. All your possessions in a shopping cart, or even worse, in a paper sack – maybe not even that.

Not knowing when you’re next meal will be. Having to dumpster dive for food, not caring how long it’s been in there or what kind of germs you might ingest.

Not being able to have your health problems attended to – not having the simplest items such as band-aids, Neosporin, a tissue to blow your nose on.

Being ignored, pushed around, beaten-up, scorned, hated, spit on, detested, invisible, unwanted. That’s an ego booster for you.

No friends, no family, no love. Nothing but the same old crap day in and day out. How desperate must you feel. How sad you must be. How hopeless and alone you are.

I could go on – but you get the point.

So the next time you spend hours watching these un-reality shows, just think of the less fortunate, think of what you can do to help those that are truly living in the reality of this messed-up world.

The Best Deal Hillary Can Hope For

Despite their apostasy in holding early primaries in defiance of the powers that be in the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Michigan and Florida both deserve to have do-over primaries. It is ludicrous to suggest that their current delegations should be seated and equally inappropriate to disenfranchise the nation’s fourth and eighth largest states. The obvious and only fair solution is to hold do-over primaries.

In Michigan, Sen. Barack Obama’s name did not even appear on the primary ballot. He obeyed the national rules and pulled out of the contests, while Sen. Hillary Clinton chose to keep her name on the ballot. It is obviously unfair to take the results of a contest between Hillary and “uncommitted’ as a fair measure of the relative strengths of the two candidates. In Florida, both did appear on the ballot, but the talk surrounding the primary emphasized how it would not count. The result was that the Democratic primary turnout was about the same size as that for the Republican primary, though Florida tradition has the Democratic primary drawing substantially more votes.

Clearly, large numbers of Floridians took the party at its word and did not vote.

To deny these states’ representation would also be totally unacceptable. What was their sin? The national committee was craven in bowing down to the pressure from the tiny and unrepresentative states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, which sought to prolong their time in the sun by monopolizing the early-primary selection process. They did so on the urging of the presidential candidates who were outdoing one another in currying favor with the voters of these states by ostentatiously backing their pretensions. But since when did the need to cotton to the desires of four states with a combined population of 10.6 million outrank the rights of two states with 27 million residents – 10 percent of America – to be represented in choosing their president?

Under the proportional representation system, which has made it almost impossible for any primary to be decisive, neither do-over will likely to affect the final result in any major way. One candidate or the other will win by a few points – a big margin is unlikely – and the lead that will accrue in delegates is not likely to be decisive.

It is worth noting that the additional delegates Hillary won in the Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island primaries on March 4 have been totally offset by Obama’s victories in the Texas and Wyoming caucuses and the Vermont and Mississippi primaries. When all the votes in all the contests are finally counted, Obama can expect to maintain his lead in elected delegates between 100 and 200 votes.

The super-delegates, honorifics who represent only themselves, do not dare defy the will of the electorate and deliver the nomination to Mrs. Clinton. If they do so, the will provoke exactly the same kind of reaction that destroyed the Democratic Party’s chances in the streets of Chicago in 1968. It took the party two and a half decades to recover its popularity among the baby boomer generation. If Hillary steals the nomination by manipulating the super-delegates, the party will alienate blacks and young people for decades. No super-delegate can permit this to happen.

But neither can the party sanction the violation of the process, which seating the rump delegations from Florida and Michigan would entail, nor can it deny representation to two such large states.

The Credentials Committee, composed of three members from each state and 25 named by the DNC Chairman Howard Dean, will be pro-Obama. With Obama carrying about two-thirds of the states – and with Dean at odds with the Clintons – the committee cannot be expected to look favorably on Hillary’s efforts to steal the nomination. Without Florida or Michigan seated, the convention floor will doubtless sustain the committee. A new election might be the best deal Hillary can realistically hope for.

Source Dick Morris.