Politicians: just follow the money
I am not surprised that no one in Hollister is surprised about
San Benito County Supervisor Jaime De La Cruz. I’m no political
genius like Obama’s non-tax-paying cabinet picks but I warned you
years ago the first time Jaime ran for the board and you listened
to me, and he lost
– thank God. Then I move and he wins. Oy vey.
Politicians: just follow the money
I am not surprised that no one in Hollister is surprised about San Benito County Supervisor Jaime De La Cruz. I’m no political genius like Obama’s non-tax-paying cabinet picks but I warned you years ago the first time Jaime ran for the board and you listened to me, and he lost – thank God. Then I move and he wins. Oy vey.
Hopefully he won’t use the race card or those tearful stories of growing up poor working in the fields this time but I bet my last peso he will try. Aye chee waa waa.
None of my five favorite films of the last year were named for Best Movie at this year’s Academy Awards. “Gran Torino,” “The Appaloosa,” “Burn Before Reading,” “The Visitor,” “Frozen River” or the Jaime De La Cruz story “I’m the Only Mexican to Ever Grow Up Poor and Work in the Fields.” Boo hoo. Mucho mas next week.
Let me save you a video rental. Avoid “Bottle Shock” with Alan Rickman and promoted on the cover as another “Little Miss Sunshine.” The only truth to that is that it is not a little miss but a big, big miss.
But at least all “Bottle Shock” will do is bore you to drink while “Blindness” with Julianne Moore will have you calling the suicide hotline. The film which figuratively and literally wallows in human excrement is based on a Nobel Prize-winner-Jose Saramago novel. This Nobel is not noble. But then even Jimmy (I never saw a fight I couldn’t run away from) Carter won. This Nobel is not noble?
So one of Obama’s appointees says he didn’t forget to pay those taxes. It is just that he used Turbo Tax to do his taxes. That’s like a pregnant prostitute driving a Pinto with a John Kerry for President bumper sticker saying she doesn’t know how she got knocked up. She buys rubbers at the 99 cent store.
Remember Rona Barrett? Well, she’s back on talk shows promoting her great DVD of when she was the pioneer television gossip columnist when she was a regular feature on the Today Show. She even featured my mug and my storefront in San Francisco on the Today Show. When the 1981 film “Mommie Dearest” about Joan Crawford came out I took everything out of the storefront window except for a few wire hangers and a huge sign: “Joan Crawford Day Care Center.”
Hate to say it but for the past 30 years I can’t wait for the Sunday morning “CBS Sunday Morning” show. My only regret is that it has kept me from attending church. Last week they did a great job on the birth of rock ‘n’ roll and teen rebellion of course using a clip from the film that put Hollister on the international map. Marlon Brando in “The Wild One” saying, “I don’t like cops.” Wow! Did it remind me of the first time I saw it at the State Theater in Hollister in 1954 where everyone clapped, hooted and whistled at the line. Fifty-five years later I still clap, hoot and – after putting my teeth back in – whistle at the line.
If cops and deputies don’t want to be distrusted, then the good cops have to have the canacas to turn the bad ones in immediately. Here in Los Angeles and Hollywood we are paying $12 million for cops beating up really, really innocent folks at our favorite park. And we taxpayers here in Hollywood are still paying off the Rampart police station’s scandal to the tune of $90 million. The tune? Dumb de dumb dumb.
Loved Denny’s free breakfast offer last week. But I did think the $10 for a cup of coffee was a bit much.
Glad that Kelloggs, the cereal giant and moral authority for our children, fires Michael Phelps, the all-time Olympic hero, for (unlike President Clinton) inhaling a little weed. How many children’s lives has Kelloggs shortened with all the sugar advertised on the cartoon channels as seeming healthy? Phelps makes one mistake and apologizes. Kelloggs knows they are poisoning our children every day much more than week smoked by consenting adults. I quit buying Kelloggs cereal and switched to Weedies long ago. Aye chee waa waa.
I remember when most Super Bowl games were boring and one-sided. So why did this year’s with the little-known small-town Cardinals draw the biggest rating ever for a Super Bowl? Not because of the Bruce Springleak but because it was a great game. Even on some channels where someone patched in some porn the guys booed.
This leads me to believe instead of trying to ban porn, just legalize its showing only during sports events. Guys will definitely be conflicted. Tight ends or semi-tight ends?
