To all of you late-night St. Paddy’s Day revelers. This is one of my favorite comedy bits done by ’50s stand-up comic, Shelley Berman. My folks had a album of his which I played incessantly when I was a kid. Given that this is the morning after St. Pat’s I feel that it is appropriate.
The Perfessor
I fear for the youth of America.
The Perfessor
As you know we love Jon Stewart. If there ever was a reason, the two clips on this page from his show last week are the reason why.
He seems to be the only person on TV who is tagging politicians for their dickish ways.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t care if people don’t want anything to do with politics. Either we get involved or our nation is dead. Here’s a new idea being passed around as we speak…
The 26th amendment (granting 18 year-olds the right to vote) took only 3 months and 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971… before computers, e-mail, cell phones and tweets.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven took one year or less to become the law of the land… all due to public pressure. This is another idea that deserves to be passed around:
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Terms in office will be limited to 12 years, as specified here:
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressmember will collect a salary while in office. This salary will expires at the end of his/her term. There will be no pensions.
3. Congressmembers (past, present & future) are to participate in the Social Security system.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund will move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds will be added into the Social Security system as a matter of course.
4. Congressmembers are to purchase their own retirement plans, just as all Americans do.
5. Congressmembers will no longer vote themselves pay raises. Congressional pay will henceforth rise in accord with the CPI, or by 3%, whichever is lower.
6. Congressmembers will lose their current health care system, and instead participate in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congressmembers must abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmembers will be void, effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make the current contracts with Congressmembers. Congressmembers made all these contracts for themselves.
To serve in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators. At the end of the proscribed term(s), Congressmenbers should go home, and back to work.
So, with all of the negative press that the TSA has been getting these days, we can only suppose that a little laughter can’t hurt.
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A couple of years ago, when Marvel Comics‘ fictional character, Captain America (Steve Rogers) was killed during a year-long storyline entitled Civil War, virtually every news media outlet on the planet carried the story (completely ignoring the fact that a) he was a fiction character, b) he was a corporate icon and without “Captain America” there could be no Cap tie-ins, and c) HE IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER!)
Well, as those of us who are smarter than the rest of you knew better, sure enough, he got better, and Steve Rogers returned to the land of the living just a couple of years later. Even though he didn’t immediately take back the uniform of Cap (now inhabited by Bucky Barnes, his WW sidekick (who had also returned from the dead), he became Super Soldier, and took over the helm of the international spy organization, SHIELD from Nick Fury (who was also dead and now alive again (starting to sense a theme here?).
Yet, even that moratorium on him was was short-lived as word has just come down that Steve will once again pick up his shield and become Captain America (in fact, just prior to the release of the Captain America movie — anyone want to take bets on when the “now dead” Johnny Storm (the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch) will return from the dead? When did you say that the FF film reboot is going to happen?).
Yes, yes, I realize that all of this is old news, but it is relevant only in the following light. In the recently-released Action Comics #900, Superman renounced his American Citizenship. Yep, you read that right, declaring himself to be a citizen of the universe, he rejected his american citizenship. Guess what the right-wing, conservative Republican-leaning Fox and other media did with this…Yes again, they went right ’round the twist.
Once again because I’m smarter than you I know better, I feel it necessary to point out a few things. 1) Henry Cavill, the actor picked to portray Superman in the next film is, well, British, 2) Joe Shuster (co-creator of Superman) was a Canadian , 3) Kal-El (Superman) isn’t from Earth, he’s an alien, born on the planet Krypton, and 4) HE’S A FICTIONAL CHARACTER!!! You effin morons!
Oh yeah, back to Cap for a minute. The week he died, and everyone was yapping about his death, and what it all meant, eight (real life) U.S. servicemen died In Iraq & Afghanistan, and no one mentioned them.
OK, having said all of that, I’m going back to drinking heavy and reading my comics.
The Perfessor
