Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.
Kim’s death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.
It is going to be a very Merry Christmas, isn’t it? Obama will take credit for the death of this tyrant in 3….2….1….
Now, in an homage to the hit movie, Team America World Police, here’s a palate cleanser for today’s news:
From a recent interview during an appearance on the “On In Depth With Graham Bensinger Show,” player and current manager of the Chicago White Sox, Venezuelan-American Ozzie Guillen, was asked how he felt about Sean Penn. Guillen pulled no punches: “He’s a loser.”
Ozzie Guillen on being offended actor Sean Penn made a trip to Venezuela, visited with President Hugo Chavez and returned to the U.S. stating Venezuela was in good shape: “He is a loser…When you say our country is in good shape when it’s not. He should stay in Venezuela for two years, live when I grow up, to see, first of all how much you survive, because he will be shot…”
This segment was just the first portion of this video, but it is worth watching. I hear Ozzie even took to Twitter to double-down on Penn.
Today’s Glenn Beck show was a very somber yet thought-provoking one. Living, breathing, sentient beings are turning against one another, and for stupid, idiotic reasons. Since when did we think it was good for the Republic that we be fighting amongst ourselves, instead of uniting together again like we did on 9/11 & 9/12/01?
Unfortunately, our priorities are all fouled up. The man-on-the-street interviews done by many TV hosts show the sad state of intellect and knowledge that is going to be the death of this country if we don’t wise up.
Glenn makes a great point about this very subject. Why is it that “The Jersey Shore” has record-breaking ratings for MTV, yet most of the viewers of these shows cannot name many elected officials when shown their photos? Why do we ALLOW ourselves to become so focused on the “Entertainment Tonight” shows of the world, yet refuse to pull our heads out of our asses long enough to at least pay attention to some of what’s going on in the real world?
I mean, I understand the need to escape every now and then, and then there’s the Schadenfreude of watching fools like Snooki, Paris, and the Bachelor, but sooner or later these same folks are going to wake up and be shocked into reality, asking “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY COUNTRY?” Dude…you might not have been so surprised if you had been paying attention all along, and perhaps becoming involved to whatever extent for which you can find the time.
After all, if we have men and women in uniform fighting and dying on battlefields around the globe for your very FREEDOM to be so ignorant about current events, the least you can do is make yourself aware of what’s going on in the world…outside of reality TV, that is.
As I told a friend once, “You say that you are not into politics, but whether you like it or not, sooner or later politics gets into you.” It’s attitudes like these that make most Americans believe Sarah Palin said “I can see Russia from my house,” yet have never even ONCE heard/saw the video of Pelosi saying “We have to pass the bill so we can find out what’s in it” referring to Obamacare.
It is a truly sad state of affairs, and I’m afraid society will fall if we don’t get our acts together… like YESTERDAY!
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