Tuesday - June 21, 2011

MISS CALIF IS NOW MISS AMERICA AND SHE’S A RED HEAD. HOME RUN!

I’m having some serious back problems again and promised myself I wasn’t gonna boot this machine today.  Not too bad if I stand up, and I can walk pretty much okay albeit with a bit of a limp. It’s worse though if after sitting for only a short while, I then stand. Damn. Stiff and need to hold on to something to get up.
Hobble to the bathroom and hobble back to a good easy chair. 

So anyway, something caught my eye in the morning paper.  What a surprise. The Telegraph sees fit to run a photo and story on Miss America, and happily Miss America also happens to be Miss California. Woo-hoo. AND …. she is a GLORIOUS REDHEAD! Double woo-hoo.  Yes ok. CA. Land of and all the other jokes and missives directed at my home state. And yeah, I’ve been guilty of tossing more then a few brick bats myself.
And look who was elected gov. in the last election.  So Calif. (parts of which can be so nice) brings on itself a lot derisive commentary. And usually funny commentary at that. 

Here’s the article that prompted today’s bit of peiper peak.

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles

Organisers had been criticised for including “polarising and intimidating” questions such as whether evolution should be taught in schools, and whether the American Constitution should protect burning of religious books.
Hopefuls were also asked if internet bullies should be prosecuted, and their opinion on posing naked for photographs.
Alyssa Campanella, 21, who described herself as a “huge history geek,” topped the field of 51 beauty queens at the contest in Las Vegas.
In 2009 Carrie Prejean, who was representing California that year, caused a highly-publicised controversy when she answered categorically that she was opposed to same-sex marriage.
This year’s questions were designed to be “news topical” but on the eve of the contest Keith Lewis, state pageant director for California, New York and New Hampshire, said: “The girls are scared to death. They witnessed with Carrie Prejean how a firestorm can create a road kill.”

My newest Goddess. Miss America.

ALYSSA CAMPANELLA

On a very personal note. I sympathize with these young ladies. Contest questions are so artificial and hypocritical. Does anyone doubt it’s actually all about looks? Why should there be anything wrong with that?  What? They want brain surgeons? Not saying these young women are dumb at all. But this pc world sometimes gets me down.  Which brings me to the personal part of things.

Years and years and years ago I won a major award in the industry I worked in.
If I were in the running these days, I would not stand a chance in hell of getting past the many pc idiot questions that are being asked of nominees. I had to submit an air check of my program which was listened to by people I never knew or met and to this day don’t know who my judges were. That’s it. Period.  I wasn’t asked about how much time I gave to my community or any of the other suck up questions that appeal to the left.  I was judged solely on the merit of what I did on air. Not how much time I gave to local charity or social groups etc.
So I sympathize with the ladies who in their quest for a beauty title, and you know damn well it is, they have to appear to be deep thinkers searching for the meaning of the universe.
Can’t anything be simple and easy anymore?  Why can’t they ask important questions that I might be interested in?

Like, What’s your favorite color?

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