Dunkin' Malkin over Rachael Ray Ad

Politically Uncorrect Donuts and Stupid Rightwing Blog Postings

BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints
that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity
chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support
for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

OH SURE, that's what it is... oOo oOo

In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.

oOo It's shocking that she's ALSO being so insensitive to the Japanese with such cherry-blossom trees in the ad. oOo And what's that in the background - some wierd flying saucer?!

oOo Now Asians, Americans, Muslims AND Martians are offeended... oOo oOo

I had something to say to Ms. Malkin over here and since before this I never knew she and her ilk were clogging the blogs with such nonsense, I still remain among "the clueless" as to why? anyone else pays them any attention. oOo oOo

Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan Murdered

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I'm really ANGRY about the Bhutto killing. These things effect us all, just like evil acts close at home. Just when there seemed some hope about good coming out of the gov't turmoil in Pakistan...

I don't even follow the daily sludge of the news anymore.
The local news and too many "sensationews" outlets like to rub it
in yur face. But I can't keep silent about big events like these in
the world's "boiling points". oOo oOo


oOo But here's my question(s), my dialogue, with myself: oOo

IF people are mostly "good / in good condition" - whole - complete
- then what's broken, corrupt, killed, evil, horrible etc. is
considered the exception and news-worthy... oOo but it doesn't help much,
its overwhelming and depressing, so "knowing about it" tends to make
us worse off.

IF people are mostly "bad / in awful situations" - hurting and
hateful, broken, destructive, maimed, etc. - then the good that
happens is *neglected* as being trivial, irrelevant. Or, is it so
routine, normal and uninteresting? oOo So we only get reports of the bad,
which reinforces our perceptions of horribleness. Thanks again, news
guys.

oOo And, I try to answer myself: oOo

I disagree on both counts: the world around us is basically good, even if WE are messed up and bad-off, and we should have reminders to see and celebrate the way things ARE - the good around us - IN SPITE of ourselves and what other messed up people do/ don't do! WE humans are the ones out of sync with reality: the way life IS!

Instead of wallowing in how bad things are - oOo [ which, as a side
note, is what most media, movies, music, art, literature, self-expression,
entertainment, gaming, etc. does. Or, artists and entertainers try to create
diversions for us, so we can ignore and avoid confronting how bad things are- ] oOo

WE should *conform ourselves* to the way the world is to be, and
stop listening to how bad things are. oOo oOo


That said, we should remain OUTRAGED when evil-- like any of these
killings, hateful, hurtful acts-- is done.

Can we pray- and not seek revenge- but seek to do "something" to
overcome these ways people behave and act, which *ruins* the world
for the rest of us?!

-- -- - - - - - - - - - - -

oOo So from first being angry, now I feel numb, and I grieve. oOo

And I haven't even begun to talk about ours/ yours and my own complicity
with how screwed up life is; or how I, in my own messed-up state,
contributes to the brokenness of the world. oOo oOo

Lord have mercy-- Christmas and it's peace didn't last very long, did it?

Welcome, "Happy New Year"!

Kasparov, chess champion, shows up again

Kasparov freed after anti-Putin rally

Wow, after all these years, the former world chess champion has emerged as the most prominent leader of the Russian opposition alliance. He was the arch-rival of Bobbie Fischer, strange American chessplayer of ancient times (1970's). oOo

MOSCOW - Hundreds of demonstrators defied authorities Saturday by trying to stage an anti-government rally banned from a landmark downtown square, setting off sporadic clashes with police across Moscow and bringing a wave of arrests.

A coalition of opposition groups organized the "Dissenters March" to protest the economic and social policies of President Vladimir Putin as well as a series of Kremlin actions that critics say has stripped Russians of many political rights. oOo

"It is no longer a country [Russia]... where the government tries to pretend it is playing by the letter and spirit of the law," Kasparov said outside the court building, appearing unfazed by his detention.

"We now stand somewhere between Belarus and Zimbabwe," two dictatorships that have cracked down on opposition, he said. oOo oOo

But some protesters said they were not discouraged by the small turnout or intimidated by the overwhelming force marshaled to block the rally. oOo

Andrei Illarionov, a former Putin economics adviser who has become a Kremlin critic, pointed out that in 1968 only six people appeared in Red Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Ouch!! Progress! oOo oOo

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