Speaking His Mind

Longtime CBS news correspondent and editorialist Andy Rooney just died at the age of 92.

This dude was at CBS for 60 years and most notably was the guy who closed out editions of the TV show “60 Minutes.” His essays at the end of each show were what he was known for writing and broadcasting.

I was never a Rooney fan but I respect someone who is courageous enough to say what he believes he needs to say in front of millions of people regardless of the consequences. Rooney, during his tenure in this spot, angered Blacks, Indians (oh crap, I just said Blacks and Indians…forgive me…African-Americans and Native-Americans,) Gays, Christians, and even fans of OJ Simpson and Nirvana.

He even called out CBS executives, on the air, to fire him over the responses he would get to some of his work.

So in his honor, I’ll proceed. Read on with caution.

Andy Rooney 1919-2011

I’m staring at my hypnosis show schedule for December and I am still stuck on ONE.
The Holiday season is one for Holiday parties, mostly Christmas parties of course, but some places have become freaked out enough that the parties are simply named Holiday parties so as not to offend any other group that doesn’t celebrate Christmas. You know, that 15% of people living here legally and not in a sleeper cell.

So why only one show? Well, it could be because my show sucks, but with plenty of other places bringing me back to do shows during my other normally busier times of year, that might not be it.

I have spoken with one particular person who had me scheduled for a show but now the company doesn’t have enough money for entertainment.

But why is that? I thought this country was on the road to “recovery!”

Hogeffingwash, that is.

I watch and follow the news and see people in the streets protesting in front of big businesses telling these businesses that they “aren’t paying their fair share,” and other sorts of commie nonsense.

These “unfair” companies are the ones who hire someone like me at Christmas parties where they spend thousands of dollars to celebrate the season with their employees. Not a single one of these companies is obliged to do this, but lots do. Many more are beginning not to do so. They are cutting back because times are tough and because they are told that these types of expenditures are frivolous and wasteful. They are told that they don’t have the right to celebrate like this because other people are out of work and that such a celebration spits in the eye of those who don’t have jobs.

So what happens? I teeter on the brink of bankruptcy by the end of the year if this doesn’t change, or if I don’t find an alternate plan for myself.

So, it’s cool and all that people want to go out and protest and speak their minds. We all have that right. But these particular demonstrators are calling themselves “occupiers.”
Now, I would imagine that since most of these demonstrators are leftists, and we know this is the case since both the Communist and National Socialist (NAZI) parties are in solidarity with them, that they were, and are, against the so-called “occupation” of countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course I speak of our own military operations over there where our own soldiers are called “war criminals” and other such names by the people protesting in America.

So if our military is “occupying” a country waging a war, aren’t demonstrators who are “occupying” a city such as…let’s say…Oakland, where there is now violence in the streets, waging and committing acts of war?

I would say that those revolutionaries are doing just that…waging Civil War in our country…and we should take tanks and machine guns and go to war with them.

Oh, but wait! President Obama used to be a lawyer with the community organizing group ACORN which, I suppose just coincidentally, is at least one of the groups that has organized these demonstrations. So I guess it’s ok then for these revolutionaries to revolt like this, right? Because Obama is the President of the US!

But isn’t the Presidents #1 priority to safeguard the people of the United States? I see that in the Constitution, at least. Are big businesses doing business in the US not eligible for protection from violent mobs?

I’m confused. I have heard Mr. Obama rage against banks and other big businesses that aren’t spending enough money supporting his campaign (like General Electric, Solyndra, etc.) so is then this his Army of people rioting now in the streets? Are we supposed to be at war with banks and businesses in this country?

Help me out here, please! Banks loaned me money to get my house. Businesses hire me and pay me to do work so I can eat and buy clothes and all of that happy stuff. They both give money to charitable causes and generate tax revenue for local governments. WHY ARE WE AT WAR WITH THEM?

The banking regulations slapped on banks in the last couple of years by the Obama administration and the leftist controlled congress from 2009-2010 have made it extremely difficult for some people…oh, I don’t know…maybe LIKE ME…to get a business loan. So coupled with a poor economy (oh wait, I’m sorry…VP Joe Biden and head of the DNC Deborah Wasserman-Schultz say that everything is just fine) increased regulations, and the increased demonization of any big business that isn’t trying to build solar panels and wind mills that aren’t keeping my energy bill lower, I, and many others like me, face…let’s say…an uncertain future.

So if war is being waged against banks and businesses then people, praised by none other than our own President and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are effectively waging war on ME, because I am directly affected by these regulations, restrictions and demonstrations.

So against whom do I fight back? No one, that’s right, because I simply don’t have the money or power to do it. And that’s by design, make no mistake about it.  

I can speak about it and write about it, for now. How long will that last though? Hopefully we can all make it until 1-20-13 where we change things back to a time where we weren’t on a road to Greece and we can call Christmas, Christmas, call Halloween, Halloween, call Easter, Easter, have hypnosis shows at celebrations of all of those types of events and parties, and we can all have fun and make money and grow and prosper together…all of us, not just one or two select groups, but all of us. As long as we have a President who stands in front of our people and actively chastises and pits one group against another…for example, the rich against the poor…this will not happen.

Three guys who I had hoped would join the race for President are not going to do so. I currently like Herman Cain, who is running. I mentioned him some time ago in this dumb-assed blog. I’ll be happy with any of the above right now, even Ron Paul. I just want to work at helping make people laugh at parties. This President has done nothing to help facilitate that…AT ALL.

I take a big risk writing down this stuff here. I don’t have the resources to fight off being placed on some black list by people who might hire me but don’t agree with what I just said and decide not to do so. I might even have an agent or two who disagrees with me. I know I have at least one who says her corporate business is down 80% though, so I’m betting she is with me.

She probably wouldn’t say it like I just did, but I am writing to speak my mind just like Andy Rooney did for all of those years. He got paid a lot of money to do it though, so he took a lot less risk than I did. But I’d be a coward if I didn’t stand up for and speak of the things in which I believe, regardless of the consequences.

And to think when I started this that I didn’t really have anything to say. RIP Andy Rooney, and thank you for doing what you did.

Done.