Well we are half way through the convention season that crashes down on a city, brings four days of political zealots and party loyalists to the city in question. The media drops down from every corner of the country including newspaper, television and radio. The events themselves have been so scripted it is almost become a Broadway production. When you watch the whips running up and down the aisles giving out signs the delegates must wave. Then at the same time taking back the last sign so it is no longer seen in the camera shot. Every camera shot has been manipulated for maximum exposure from a national television aspect. This happens at both Democrat and Republican conventions, one of the biggest surprises in this year coverage so far is well, the lack of coverage. The prime time slots of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joseph Biden, and Barack Obama were all covered by the major nets but nothing else. In fact the slot was used mostly for talking heads to tell you what they think you will see to come. Most of the headline speeches were set to 15 or 30 minutes after the hour to have plenty of lead time. The only place to actually watch gavel to gavel coverage is on CSPAN. The channel is really just for political junkies, but this is where you needed to go if you wanted the real message of what the party was trying to get across. When we ask people if they watch it was always a piece of this, or a piece of that. One person told us, it was just a four day commercial for party view. We suppose the claim is correct but if you are going to have a commercial run for that length of time should it not be something this important. If you watch the DNC in Boston on July 27, 2004 (night two) the keynote speaker was Barack Obama and it was speech that made him a national candidate four years later. Tea512 thinks that it not a lot to ask that every four years American give up eight nights to find out what the leaders of this two party system have got to say.
YEAH, I LET YOU SHAPE ME
BUT I FEEL AS THOUGH YOU RAPED ME
‘CAUSE YOU CLIMBED INSIDE MY WORLD
AND IN MY SONGS
Locomotive / W. Axl Rose (1991)
The bling bandit in New York has allegedly been apprehended. It turns out to be a retired 33 year NYPD detective and Vietnam War veteran, he was suspected of nine bank robberies although at this time only charged with one. They common thread is they were all done while wearing a flashy watch and a shiny ring. He was picked up on Friday for the Queens bank robbery from July 10. Athelson Kelson, is 59 and is living with inoperable liver cancer, he could face up to seven years if convicted. The spree started on June 12 where he sometimes used a handgun and his last heist was Tuesday. The flashy ring that he wore was one you receive when you retire from the detective squad. It is a big gold ring with a replica of a gold shield detective badge; he was presented the ring in 2005. He would rob banks with a note often not having to say a word. It is unclear if Kelson was doing this in aims to get caught, hoping to set off a stand off with police. He did not wear any disguise during the robberies only a hat and sunglasses. The police must have been tipped by the ring but also he would tell the bank personal things about the money he wanted only a bank worker, or a detective would have knowledge of, most of the time the robberies netted less than $1000.
YOU KNOW THAT I NEVER THOUGHT
THAT IT COULD TAKE SO LONG YOU KNOW I NEVER KNEW HOW TO BE STRONG Locomotive / W. Axl Rose (1991)
Did Senator Barack Obama do enough last night? Was it just more of the same talk from a liberal democrat running for president? Did he convince the Hillary supporters to jump on board? Well if you minus all of the questions as far as acceptance speeches go, this was like a halftime super bowl show without a football game. Senator Barack Obama is a great speaker, the speech was a laundry list of things he would like to see happen. They made great cheering points and not a one of them could be denied as the wrong thing to do. Living up to this agenda would be difficult, to say you will give national healthcare, dependence on foreign oil cuts in ten years, affordable college, and long-term care for veterans is one thing. To say that you will do that plus cut taxes for 95% of Americans is another. You will hear the same thing next week from McCain we understand about the show and the high cost of playing this game. So let us not muck ourselves in the details let answer the question we believe Senator Barack Obama did enough last night to get a nice jump in the polls. We believe that it was nice to hear a liberal democrat say he would not raise taxes. We did think he is not as short sighted as Gore or Kerry that makes it a lot harder to handle for the republicans. The Hillary supporters are the big issue and it was not answered last night. If there was a good third party candidate with a female VP choice, he would have to be worried but we think they will come around. Overall, the speech was a problem for McCain as it was not what we think they expected to hear from him. So here we are with three months to go after next week RNC, a few debates, it will be time to vote and see if America is ready for a President with little experience in Washington or a President with too much experience in Washington.
IT’S THESE PREJUDICED ILLUSIONS THAT PUMP THE BLOOD
TO THE HEART OF THE BIZ
These pay per megabyte Internet providers are not going away. Welcome to the fray Comcast, On Oct. 1, the cable company will allow 250 gigabytes of traffic per month. Customers who go over the limit will be contacted by the company. They have also mentioned in the past, that it might charge users $15 for every 10 gigabytes they go over. Comcast said the average usage of its customers, which is 2 to 3 gigabytes. This is now becoming real as we reported repeatedly on this blog. So welcome Comcast to the other providers who claim there is a broadband usage problem. The other whining ISP’s are Cox Communications, Time Warner, and Frontier Communications. The second largest provider has kicked open the door and thrown down the gauntlet, where all others will follow.
Well could it be anymore evident that Joe Biden was the wrong choice for Vice President. His speech was all right, but appeared to be plain as there were times when the crowd was sitting with their head resting on the hands. This election could have been won if Obama was not afraid of the Clinton dynasty and for that reason, he could be throwing it all away. If Obama cannot handle the pressure applied by the Clintons how in the world is he ever going to handle Putin or Ahmadinejad. The speech was good, the message was strong, he is just not a thrilling speaker. There was an energy when both Bill and Hillary Clinton gave their speeches that charged the hall as everyone hinged on every word. Joe Biden does not give you that, his son Beau was very electric and as an attorney general is someone to keep an eye on. We were surprised the campaign picked Biden to be the one to hammer McCain a colleague and friend for over thirty years. We thought this was going to be one of the Clintons job, guess no one can tell them what to say or do. After watching the speech Biden gave there was nothing to jump up and down about, give the handlers credit the idea to bring Obama out after the speech was genuios, as that brought the crowd up to a frenzy and sent them home buzzing. If it was Joe Biden, good night, house lights there might be a different feeling about the way the night had gone, and if he was the right choice. They are building a Greek temple for Obama; he will give a speech from at the fifty-yard line tonight. The place will be not in the hall but at Invesco Field at Mile High. There will be 80,000 people attending the acceptance speech. The phrase republicans have been throwing around “the speech from mile high that is an inch thick.” So tonight, is the night for Obama to turn 18 million Hillary voters to back him, and reach out to those 5% that have actually decided the last two elections and turn them blue from red. It is going to be good, stay tuned.
BUT OH THE TASTE IS NEVER SO SWEET
AS WHAT YOU’D BELIEVE IT IS… WELL I GUESS IT NEVER IS
Tea512 has mentioned on numerous times in many posts about the media bias. They talking heads so caught up in it refuse to believe it is true. Last night was a perfect example. Hillary Clinton come out and gave the best speech of her life, one might even consider a presidential speech. So we sat around, we watched, we discussed, the first thing we noticed was she only said Obama’s by name a few times (ten), we noticed she never said he would be a great president although she said Michelle Obama would be a great first lady. She never said anything about why we should vote for Obama only the reason is that a republican will lead the country into more of the same abyss. Returning home the TV told a different story, Oberman the sports guy and Matthews a Obama ball washer were gushing about how great the speech was as a glowing endorsement of Obama. On CNN it was more of the same, one of the talking heads did say there was plenty for the right to have to say about the speech, but he never elaborated. Our take on the speech is she said what she had to say and in true Clinton fashion the appearance is a 100% support, but if he wins, she is done. There are 18 million people out there who supported her and they will still be there in 2012 unless this guy is still in the way. Hillary was a soldier but let us not kid ourselves the Clinton mafia is all about them and she knew what to say and she said what she had to, but nothing more as it was very mild endorsement at best.
BUT HOW CAN I PROTECT YOU OR TRY NOT TO NEGLECT YOU
WHEN YOU WON’T TAKE THE LOVE I HAVE TO GIVE
We told you before about this new trend we are starting to see which scares us a little bit. Internet providers making you pay for usage as opposed to a flat fee. These reports say that a phone company is trying to do the same. Frontier Communications Corp. is the newest Internet service providers that are moving to make the subscribers who download the most pay more. Up until this point is was the cable companies have been talking of imposing usage caps. Frontier’s is going to allow just five gigabytes per month as a basic service. This right now is a problem for Frontier’s customers in New York. The problem will be if this catches on as the new revenue stream for the Internet providers charging heavy users more money, it will become the norm through out the industry. This would not be much different then cell phone usage minutes and getting unlimited texting, and an Internet plan. The question becomes is this happening because of a bandwidth issue, or is it a “hey we can charge more” issue so let us just do it. Frontier plans to start enforcing the five GB cap next year. Customers will get report up until then showing what their monthly usage has been. Then they will be provided information on the new premium plans with higher caps to those who use more data. Frontier has an estimated 559,300 broadband subscribers. This is another service that once you are locked into a contract you are going to be pretty much at the provider’s mercy. Here at Tea512, we hate nothing more than that.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has approached Rupert Murdoch, (News Corporation), Arthur Sulzberger Jr (The New York Times) and Mortimer B. Zuckerman (Daily News) the most powerful media figures in the city. To find out if their publications would endorse the overturn of New York City’s term limits, so he could run for re-election next year. As without an overturn he will be forced to leave office in January 2010. In another case of what sounds good before the lection and applies to someone else is not good when it come to me. Where have we heard all this before? It was not long ago, he was opposed to making any changes to the term limits law, which grants elected officials only two consecutive terms in office. This was passed by New York voters in 1993, and polls show they remain in favor of them. The biggest supporter is cosmetics heir billionaire Ronald S. Lauder spent four million of his own money in 1993 to get the term limits passed. Mayor Bloomberg as recent as December of 07 said the city council should be removed of the ability to change term limits. The biggest supporter is Governor David A Paterson saying the Mayor has done a fine job and should get to finish what he started. The reason is because if Mayor Bloomberg is running for mayor he would not be running against Paterson for governor in 2010. The backroom deal between the Mayor and City Council President Christine Quinn is looking to make term limits three terms instead of two. She has been opposed to term limits since the jump and this is the perfect avenue to get it. We have seen this before in Massachusetts were a candidate ran saying he was for term limits, then he said he would only stay two terms he won election in 1992 and retired 2007 after 8 elections his idea of term limits is 16 years. That candidate was Marty Meehan the Michael R. Bloomberg of Massachusetts.
I OPENED UP THE DOORS WHEN IT WAS COLD OUTSIDEHOPIN’ THAT YOU’D FIND YOUR OWN WAY IN
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born September 4th 1981 in Houston, Texas. She was part of the best-selling girl group of all time Destiny’s Child for whom she recorded four smash albums. In 2003 she released her first solo album Dangerously in Love which received five Grammy nominations. Her second solo album B’Day was released in 2006 in total she has sold over 20 million sales in albums. She has been part of four major movie releases including Dreamgirls which she earned a golden Globe nomination. Beyoncé has started working on her third studio album, produced by Timbaland with a rumored title of Virtuoso Intellect. The record company hopes to drop the CD on November 18, 2008. She is also about to be seen in the upcoming film, Cadillac Records in which she has been cast to play singer Etta James, the movie is in post production and will be in theaters soon. Beyoncé is also shooting a movie titled Obsessed which is a thriller film to be released in 2009. Tea512 recognizes Beyoncé for her triple threat talent adding a number four talent as one of the most beautiful women in the world.
IF I SAID THAT YOU’RE MY FRIEND
AND OUR LOVE WOULD NEVER END
HOW LONG BEFORE I HAD YOUR TRUST AGAIN Locomotive / W. Axl Rose (1991)
Tea512 has mentioned in the past the distain for Hanna Montana and Miley Cyrus circus, which we have never been able to tap into why. This has never happened before as Hillary Duff was never any great talent but it did not bother us. Raven Simone and the Cheetah Girls never had this kind of pure reaction grab the remote and get it off quality. We started to break it down, maybe it is that her dad might have had something with getting her foot in the door. After all he did get himself a spot on the show. Then we thought maybe when she sings, she sounds like a boy, but it could not be that for we have never listened to more than two notes of any song. It must just be her being obnoxious and talentless. That might be the reason because when you think of Jimmy Dodd (original lead mouseketeer), Annette Funicello, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Hillary Duff, Shia LaBeouf, Raven Simone, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, and Corbin Blue (all worked for Disney) it seems to us all these people have much more talent then Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter. The other thing is the cash machine angle, have you been in a store lately that was not plastered with H. Montana items? That is the reason we are here today, Disney announced yesterday that there are throwing Miley a 16th birthday party at Disneyland. The 5,000 guests can get in to the party by invitation only. How do you get an invitation, sweepstakes, fan club members, all you have to do is be one of the first 5,000 people to plunk down $250. Is there nothing not for sale with this girl? So the 16th birthday party that will be about a month before her real birthday will gross $1.25 million. We have devoted way to much thought to this subject and must close this post.
GONNA FIND A WAY TO CURE THIS LONELINESS
YEAH I’LL TO CURE THIS PAIN
Locomotive / W. Axl Rose (1991)
A 22-year-old man from Cloverdale,Indiana named Darren E. Roberts was released from the Sullivan County Jail Tuesday afternoon after doing his time for a bid on auto theft. Twelve hours after he was released he stole a 2004 red Ford Mustang. Then he drove the stolen car to a gas station where he allegedly stole some beer and fled. The police where notified and pursued the red Mustang at speeds of up to 105 mph on Interstate 70, until the car spun out of control and Roberts was forced to surrender. He is accused of stealing a car and beer and leading police on a high-speed chase. He is now being held in the Putnam County Jail. Is it true that once you are a con you can no longer hack it on the outside? Maybe after being cooped up you just want to drive and drink beer so without money the only way is to steal. This person snapped just twelve hours after they were released and they had to know the consequences of getting caught would be an automatic return to the penitentiary.
In 2002 the Doors drummer John Densmore was asked by the other two remaining members of the band Ray Manzerek and Robby Krieger to reunite. The plan was to tour with Ian Astbury as The Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore declined saying the Doors were Jim Morrison and without him it would be diminished and wrong, do not use the name or the logo. So they did it anyway as the posters for the tour said the Doors in big letters and of the 21st century in tiny letters. The tour went off and grossed around $8 million with a net of over $3 million. They kept all the money as they did not cut in Densmore or the Morrison estate. The California Supreme court has finally five years later made a ruling. They refused to over turn the lower court ruling which found they improperly invoked the Doors name and images and ruled in the favor of Densmore or the Morrison estate for $5 million in damages. The coolest thing about this is the Doors in 1970 signed an agreement that everything band related would have to be a unanimous decision. This happened because the band without Jim Morrison’s OK sold the rights to Light My Fire to a car commercial which Morrison rejected. In a sidebar to this story the Morrison estate money goes to Jim Morrison’s parents and Pam Courson’s parents. There is a perception which I am not sure but both Jim and Pam runaway from home to get away from these parents and today they are bankrolling them. The one thing the court made clear beside a signed document is a signed document, the Doors are Jim Morrison and that will definitely get your mojo rising
You want to step into my world
It’s a sociopsychotic state of bliss
Jerry Seinfeld has signed on for a new contest in a $300 million fall advertising campaign for the software giant, Microsoft. The ads will feature both Seinfeld and Bill Gates (how is that retirement going). This is another attempt by Microsoft to be fun and hip, remember when they used the Rolling Stones for the start me up campaign. That might have been the last time Microsoft was cool. Apple always has cool and refreshing ads for about the last decade and MS probably was a little sick of seeing them. The commercials are being produced by Crispin Porter and Bogusky famous for the Burger King ads. The problem could be reaching young people with a guy that started on the Seinfeld show over 19 years ago and has not been on TV for ten years. There is not a market in America where you cannot see a rerun of a Seinfeld show sometime during the day, so it not like they will not know who he is. The one ad I would like to see them do is of the old Seinfeld set in the apartment. They could have Jerry throw his MAC out the window in favor of a PC. The apartment always had a old MAC in it though nobody ever used it. It would even be better if Kramer could pick up the mangled MAC in the street and try to fix as the next scene in his apartment. We are sure he is available.
when you’re in need of someone
My heart won’t deny you, So many seem so lonely
With no one left to cry to
A story reported today is one of those that make you so angry on multiple levels, when you do not even know where to start. In Alabama, the state that was just been raised to third in national obesity rankings. A knee jerk reaction as an ultimatum was sent to over 37,000 state workers. They must either get in shape in one year or face a $25 a month increase for insurance. Remember when we first heard they were trying to ban smoking indoors, people said that if the government was allowed to stop things in the name of your own best interest it would not stop at cigarettes. At the time we thought that was crazy, they even used McDonalds French Fries saying they were not good for you and could be banned. It seemed at the time it was just on lobby group trying to protect their turf. Eventually there became more non smokers than smokers and smokers were moved outside. This makes me feel that argument was right all along. When we hear that if you allow gay marriage, next their will be people asking for incest, animals and even rocks, where will it end. We all brush that off as you are out of your mind it will never happen as well as having nothing to do with gay marriage. But let us move away from that, here is the part of the story that will anger all hard working people that pay for insurance. The cost of health insurance for state workers in Alabama is nothing. Everybody in America is paying through the nose for healthcare; the government is doing nothing about the rising costs. The people they employee pay nothing. Wait a minute somebody must be paying, it is not free, oh we get it, you are not only paying for your family, you are paying for state workers families as well. Just when you think you have a solid footing in the world another gross oversight spoils all hope of a fair system.
We have seen the decline of newspaper and then a decline in network news. Therefore, with more people turning to the Internet for their news the Neilson rating system is tracking who is read the most. The good news for newspapers is as the circulation drops they can sell ad space on line as in July 2008 ten of the top thirty sites were newspapers. The number one site with a 150% lead over number two is the Drudge Report. Fox New Channel was second followed by CNN. Most people believe the Drudge report and Fox are right wing based media outlets, which is a fair assumption. This also confirms that right wing people need to go to these places to get the news they want to hear about. The proof that the lame stream media is a shell for the left is that the only left wing site in the top ten is the dailykos at number five. The drudge report has been revamped as of let concentrating on more news that is international and moving away from general celebrity watching. The Drudge report does not get the credit it deserves we believe, as it has been a force to be reckoned with since he said Monica Lewinsky had that dress. The hard numbers for Drudge are Sessions per Person 20.5 compared to 8.2 for Fox.
In Geneva Switzerland an American artist, Paul McCarthy has an exhibition outside in the garden of the Paul Klee Centre Museum the artwork is titled “Complex Shi?” which is about the size of a small house. The exhibit, which no one had heard about, is a giant inflatable dog turd. You know the story what is art to one person is just crap to another. This would not even be mentioned at all except due to high winds the questionable taste art was carried some 200 yards away. The flying excrement brought down a power line and then breaking a greenhouse window. It finally came to rest on the grounds of a children’s home. McCarthy did have a system where the supposed artwork would deflate during storms or high wind but the device malfunction sending the poop a flying.
When I come home late at night
Don’t ask me where I’ve been
Just count your stars I’m home again
Republican John McCain has a five point lead on Democrat Barack Obama presidential race according to a poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent, which is a huge turnaround from the July poll which had Obama with a 7-point advantage in July. McCain, spent last month hammering Obama’s experience, criticized his opposition to offshore oil drilling and his celebrity status. Obama is on a weeklong vacation in Hawaii, while the conflict in Georgia once again highlighted McCain’s strengths in foreign policy. The top concern in the November 4 presidential election listed in the poll was the best manager of the economy. Partisan support remains high for each candidate as among Democrats, Obama has 74 percent, while McCain has the backing of 81 percent of Republicans. The surprising number was the drop in Obama support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, that fell by 12 points to 52 percent. This segmemt does not matter anyway as most these people discuss politics like they are in the game, wear the rock the vote shirt, scream loud at the Pearl Jam concert when Eddie Vedder tells them to vote, then election day, somewhere between a bong and an xbox competition they forget to show up. It happens every year and 2008 will be no different. This poll is amazing, we thought in 2004 between the war, the economy, and how the US looked around the world, George Bush was toast. We have always felt that McCain was not a sexy enough candidate to keep the white house for another four years. Usually after eight years the country is ready for a party change. As the election draws closer the McCain camp has to be thinking if we can stay close we have chance. Then the woke up this morning on top, we can expect the next weeks to be filled with more hammering from McCain as it looks like it is working.
Well I jumped into the river too many times
to make it home I’m out here on my own, and drifting all alone
Reports are starting to swell that Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is going to speak at the Republicans convention on September 1 in St. Paul, as they begin the process to nominate John McCain for president. This is not a surprise based on his strong support for the Iraq war and backing John McCain through out the campaign. There have been some quiet rumors that he is even being considered a potential McCain running mate. The only problem is a ticket of a 70 and 66 year old does not appeal to a younger generation. This would be away to have an appeal to the Clinton supportors who seem to be unable to accept she is not the nominee. There was a poll over the weekend that 28% of the democrats want her to be the running mate with Barak Obama with only single digits for all others. There has been no formal announcement that Lieberman will speak as the four terms Senator seems destine to play the role Zell Miller played in 2004. This is quite a ledge Lieberman seems to stepping out on as the last time he spoke at a convention was 2000, it was for the democratic side and he was the nominee for vice president, we are not sure but this must be the first time in history something like this has happened. He adds to quite a line up for the first night of the convention as President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have already been set in the lineup. Lieberman is out of the country as he is on a trip to the Republic of Georgia, Poland and the Ukraine. He should be back in Washington by Friday and she some light on what his plans are.
It’s a story of a man Who works as hard as he can
Just to be a man who stands on his own
So today we hear that Rosanne Barr wrote some information that is stupid and even more obnoxious then her tired act. Do you need to be reminded of who Rosanne Barr is, as she has become about as irrelevant as you can possibly be. She blasted Jon Voight for going on the Glen Beck Show and telling the truth about Barak Obama’s lack of experience, lack of a definitive plan, and pie in the sky world he believes he can deliver. Everyone is entitled to an opinion even from someone who has had three husbands in twelve years, butchered the national anthem, and changes religion like moo moos. She jumped ugly on Jon Vioght, which is fine, but then she jumped on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. She said they make so much money from their violent blockbuster movies they are corrupted, to bad they could not get roles in the Rosanne blockbusters She Devil and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. She said they need to find homes for the children of the third world to make themselves sleep well at night because of the ridiculous amount of money they make. This is where we have the problem did she really just dump on those two people for actually doing good things, did they support John McCain? There can be a lot said about that couple, but the good things they do with the money they have earned is not one of them. She is way out of line, out of her mind and on the way back to obscurity based on these stupid remarks. Rosanne we hardly missed you and now we know why you have been forgotten.
We at tea512 are turning a corner we have been making posts, but not allowing comments. This maybe considered one-sided thinking (guess that is the definition). The reason for this was we never thought anyone was going to read what we had to say except for our small group. So as of today with this post the comments sign is always open. The other thing we have a backlog of photos that we have been saving so this is a new Monday feature we are going to feature a new pretty (celebrity) girl photo every week. We want to thank everyone that has read something we hope we are here to tell you something you did not hear, open your mind to agree or disagree, voice our opinion on a matter, lash out at what we feel is wrong, and applaud for those who fight the good fight. This is post # 176 we have enjoyed the friends we have made, there are some alliances we are proud to have made, and there are other things that makes this experience more than we had ever anticipated. Thanks and welcome to the new era in tea512. Today’s photo is of Charlize Theron
