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Sarah Palin, Bikinis and what is Not an Ak-47

That's a Vice President worth fighting for!Now, I will confess that I have never been a fan of CNN. Lord knows I have already given their icon Ten Turner the coveted ‘BIG WEENIE AWARD’ at least once. This week was a big one for all the unbelievably stupid comments out there… but CNN falling for the old ‘photoshop’ ploy was probably in a league of their own. They so obviously wanted it to be true!

Now, their stupidity would be bad but it doesn’t stop there! Here’s how the story was covered by others on the net:

“But Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment reporter for CNN’s American Morning, seems to believe the image is authentic. Yesterday she told Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz that Palin should maybe avoid posing with guns like this, because it might come back to bite her in the ass: I mean, McCain has been really good about painting Obama as this lightweight, using the word “celebrity” as a pejorative. They don’t want to have a boomerang effect. They don’t want that to come back on Sarah Palin, and people say, yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an  AK-47, but is she equipped to run the country?”

Is this the same gun? Nah!

Do you see what I saw? There is a problem with this. Read what CNN allegedly said and look at the picture again.

I have been told this is Joe Biden in a swimsuit!Holy NRA!  That’s not an AK-47 ( a famous Russian ‘assault rife’… whatever that is supposed to mean). So it appears… at least – according to this popularized snippet – that CNN doesn’t really look very hard at their pictures. Just when you thought they couldn’t be dumber.

As for me… call me ‘old fashioned’, but  IF  this was Sarah Palin… I’d be i-m-p-r-e-s-s-e-d NOT offended. On the other hand, I don’t think I’d want to see Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton in a swimsuit…  not a pretty site.

BTW, Isn’t that Joe Biden?

CNN thought they’d offend folks… funny how out of touch they are.

Roger Freberg

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Sarah Palin is Real

Pistol packin Ma MaOnetime speech writer for Ronald Reagan and syndicated columnist Peggy Noonan had an interesting quote in  today’s column  that seems to encapsulate the media’s frustration with their irrelevance:

“The mainstream media, which has been holding endless symposia here on the future of media in the 21st century, is in danger of missing a central fact of that future: If they appear, once again, as they have in the past, to be people not reporting the battle but engaged in the battle, if they allow themselves to be tagged by that old tag, which so tarnished them in the past, they will do more to imperil their own future than the Internet has.” 

Once again the clerics of the media like to snipe at a candidate for Vice President that offends their senses. I was asked once by someone in the media if I thought they were ‘biased’? I simply said, “How would you know you were not?” FDR, knowing that he lived in a world unconnected with the rest of America, would travel up to northern New York to meet an old friend who would give it to him straight. I suspect that Governor Palin’s appeal is certainly broader than the media’s worst fears… but time will tell.

Governor Sarah Palin represents the emergence of a once forgotten woman: mother, professional, married and holding many conservative values. I say ‘holding conservative values’ because although not all mothers are conservative, they all share certain common desires, wishes and dreams for their lives and for the lives of their children…. which almost by definition put them on the side with so-called ‘conservatives’ on issues described as ‘family values.’ Nothing makes a woman think about the future and experience a personal change in her perspectives than becoming an involved mother. Motherhood seems to make all the difference.

Gloria Steinem  ( not to be confused with being a ‘mutha’) recently was quoted as saying that all Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Hillary Clinton shared was an ‘X Chromosome.” The truth is that Sarah and Hillary just represent different point of view, one perpetuates the battle of the sexes, the other will work with anyone…. even men.

Yes, as a man, I prefer to ‘hang with’ women like Sarah Palin. They just seem more ‘real’ to me. Ask any man if they prefer a professional woman who likes sports, technology, real friendship, commitment and children… and few thinking men would walk away from that. Sarah Palin is real.

So, again, congratulations to  Governor Sarah Palin and especially to Senator John McCain  for the willingness to protect what is good about our country and yet have the courage to make those decisions for positive change and inclusion.

Roger Freberg

Laura Freberg, Ph.D. aka

‘nothin finer than a fine lady with a gun!’ — adapted from the Bruce Willis movie “The Whole 9 yards”

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Wall-E says ‘You’re Fat’… get over it

Wall-E features loads... and I mean wide loads of fat people!

Yesterday, Laura and I went to see the new hit movie ‘Wall-E’. It was a relaxing diversion with a sweet — and some might say – romantic ending.

However, there was quite a bit of distress in the audience causing squirming in the seats and a virtual ending of the frequent sounds of the spilling of popcorn, munching of goodies and sloshing of drinks. What was so shocking that all activity stopped? It was the representation of the ‘human space travelers’ that had over the course of a 700 year evolution ‘evolved’ into reclining ‘lardos’… watching t.v. , eating junk food and ‘living’ 24-7 from their traveling recliners! It was not a pretty site … and for those in the theater who felt ‘fat’ … it stopped them cold. This was good, it made them think!

However, the ‘fatties’ and the ‘codependents’ on the internet have launched a huge ruckus about the allegedly anti-fat people bias of the movie. Frankly, I think it is a public service. The message is simple… lose weight and become more active.

Try and find a picture of the ‘fat astronauts’ of Wall-E on the internet… I found the one above and that’s it! Sounds like the ‘fat is ok’ groups have exerted some pressure. You’ll just have to go to the movie.

Hey, I’ve been there. Being fat may not be a choice, but staying fat is.
However, no ‘self help’ group is going to get some gargantuan human to shed a few pounds without a little pain… sometimes all it takes is for us to look into a mirror or watch a movie of what can logically happen if you allow weight gain to get outta hand! By the way, those who know me, know that I am from the old school that reminds folks where ‘sympathy’ is in the dictionary… between “sh*t and syphilis”… so — a while back — when a good like minded friend of mine told me I was ‘fat’… I shrugged which said to him that I ‘needed a second opinion’…. so, he quickly added ‘and you’re ugly ,too!’ ouch!

I can live with the ‘ugly’ part, but the fat is gone thanks to Jenny Craig… and it can happen to you too!

Roger Freberg

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America without Oil Dependency

winning the oil endgame is possible!

The future of America has always represented great technological breakthroughs. As the speaker above points out, whales were saved by the replacement of whale oil with petroleum and petroleum can be reduced and replaced in turn.

One of the fascinating lectures appearing regularly on TED, features a discussion on how we can ‘win the oil endgame’ easily and profitably. One solution presented is carbon fiber cars that are remarkably easy to build ( some with only 14 sections in the exterior body) that are much tougher in collisions that current vehicles

As demonstrated above… the typical today’s car on the left was totaled and the high carbon car on the right needed only a panel replaced. The only question I have is: why aren’t we doing this?

VIEW His Lecture here.

Creative solutions to our oil addiction are here… just do it.
Roger Freberg

DOWNLOAD his paper from his site here, too!

DOWNLOAD pdf Slide Presentation

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The First Woman to become a Four Star General?

will she be the first women who becomes a four star general?

Lt. General Anne E. Dunwoody of the Army has been nominated to become the first female four star general. General Dunwoody has 33 years of service ( 1975) and has had a number of command positions.

If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the first woman to gain a fourth star ( the first female 3 star general was in 1970). In the armed forces of the United States there are currently 57 active duty female general officers.

Good Luck and hopefully congratulations to General Dunwoody.

Roger Freberg