Hollywood Reporter:
Oscars TV Review: Ellen Flops in Long, Boring, Self-Involved Show
As a television event, this year’s Oscars was more like an endurance test — turgid, badly directed, poorly produced and featuring an endless string of tired or wince-inducing moments from host Ellen DeGeneres.Since this year everybody seemed to predict the exact same Oscar winners, ruining office pools and Oscar parties across the country, you might think there would be no surprises at the 86th annual Academy Awards. But you would be wrong. Who would have predicted that it would have been so boring, so long, so self-involved and driven sideways into a ditch by, of all people, the beloved Ellen DeGeneres as host?
As a television event, this year’s Oscars was more like an endurance test. It was a turgid affair, badly directed, poorly produced and featuring an endless string of either tired or wince-inducing moments by DeGeneres, who, by the last 30 or so minutes, seemed to have given up entirely.
Hey, it happens. Even the best comedians have off nights. Even paragons of happiness and good cheer come out and tank — as DeGeneres did with her opening jokes that seemed oddly mean spirited for her (poor Liza Minnelli) and set a flat tone that the telecast could never overcome.
Sure, she hit on a few, documenting Jennifer Lawrence’s fall at last year’s Oscars and another fall this year before the ceremony: “If you win tonight, I think we should bring you the Oscar”; her nod to Jonah Hill’s penis scene in The Wolf of Wall Street worked: “You showed me something in that film I haven’t seen in a very, very long time”; and she closed with a joke about the odds of 12 Years a Slave taking home the ultimate prize: “Possibility No. 1 — 12 Years a Slave wins best picture. Possibility No. 2 — you’re all racists.”
But that was really the end of the highlights for Ellen. She was spotty and flat in those early comments and then tried to spice things up by appearing in the audience not just once, not just twice but — did anyone count? — what felt like 47 times. In any case, it was too much even if she did set a Twitter record by getting a gaggle of Hollywood’s most famous together for a quick cellphone selfie. It still felt like a Samsung ad that was tricked up to feel spontaneous.
There is a bunch more and if you’re interested in knowing what THR’s Oscars gripes were go over there and read it. This is MY post about MY Oscars gripes. In my not-so humble opinion that was the worst Academy Awards show ever.
After checking out some of the comments in the last thread I realize that I may be in the minority here but I hated it. I would have hated it even if I didn’t lose the pool (Lyn won, edging out Angie on the last award) and I am not complaining about the fact that the Oscars pool website crashed for the first couple hours of the telecast. I’m not even pissed about who the winners were, although there were some egregious injustices.
The 85th annual Academy Awards show just plain sucked.
I like Ellen Degeneres, even though I don’t usually watch her show. She is usually low-key, laid back, kinda kooky but not mean. That is a great format for daytime television, but not so much for a three hour prime time event. I could have done without the audience participation skits. They were painfully inane and tedious.
I would have dumped the musical numbers too. We have award shows for music, the Oscars is about movies. Bette Midler’s performance was especially bad. Pink did a good job, but I’m not really sure why she was performing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” For the record, U2 is not the biggest band in the world.
Easily the worst part of the evening were the celebrity presenters. Almost every one of them stumbled on their lines, especially John Travolta. Do we really need one celebrity to walk out on stage just to introduce another celebrity?
Whoever wrote the (half) witty lines the celebrities were supposed to deliver should be shot, along with whoever thought it would be a good idea to put who’s who in Hollywood senility on stage.
Which brings me to my final point – Just say No! to Botox. Some of those aging stars looked hideous with frozen masks for faces, especially the ones with the overinflated lips. It wasn’t just the women either.
So, what did you think? Did you even bother to watch? Last but not least, who the hell is Benedict Cumberbatch?
Jennifer Lawrence’s younger brother
The Crawdad Hole 
“boring, so long, so self-involved and driven sideways into a ditch….”
The description of this age. I like Ellen too but everyone and everything is now gagged and handcuffed into dullness with political correctness and assimilation . Making a wrong step can be career ending. Nothing is fun anymore because someone who is deranged may take offense and cause a stink. The contrarians, free thinkers, rebels and artists have been silenced.
Most of the cultural elites in this country remind me of teenagers – they are all rebelling against authority and they all so alike. The are conforming nonconformists.
They don’t seem to realize that you can’t be a wealthy Obama supporter and “fight the man” at the same time.
I turned off the tv after the selfie thing; I was bored.
I find it funny that I got points in the pool just randomly picking.
Congrats to Lyn & angie!
We had a huge lightning storm about 30 minutes into it so the signal would freeze. Turned it off because their faces were grotesque and the sound was on and off. My husband put on a DVD and I read Rembrandt’s Eyes. There is art (Academy Awards) and then there is art.
Out of all of the movies nominated for anything, I had only seen “The Great Gatsby”, and I only went to see that for the costumes and set design.
Looks like you picked a winner to go see for that award 🙂 The only two I saw that were in the tech awards were Iron Man and Lone Ranger, they lost 😦
Don’t watch the Academy Awards or go to too many Hollywood films any more but was delighted to see this morning that 20 Steps From Stardom won Best Documentary Feature. My favorite from the films I saw last year!!! If you didn’t see it and are a music fan, he might like it.
Thank you, just added it to Netflix queue.
Last but not least, who the hell is Benedict Cumberbatch?
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He plays Sherlock Holmes on BBC. He was also Khan in the 2nd Trek reboot.
WTF?
I just woke up and discovered that my Twitter account is suspended again! It was working when I went to sleep!
WTF???
Wow did you even tweet anything last night?
I don’t know anything about twitter but is it like email or facebook? Can you just create a new one?
Sounds like it’s because you’re smarter than the vile progs you challenge 🙂 They don’t like that so you probably got gang reported ? They like doing that too, it happens to a lot of conservative smarty snarkers, especially if they make Twitchy and embarrass the special snowflakes even further. I’d protest if I were you.
You probably pissed off someone with a blog, and they told their followers to report you . I re-read those rules, and you haven’t violated any of them.
I did the same (read the rules) and couldn’t figure out what you might have done, either.
😦
Didn’t Angie just nake a new account?
Sign up for a free gmail account (different user name) & create a new account.
the real real myiq2xu. Or, real I really mean it this time myiq2xu. Etc. Also, no @’s as first characters. Makes it much harder to get spam reported.
even a “dot” . works as the first character. I learned that here @TCH
Congrats to the winners of the TCH pool last night ! There are no losers in TCH-Land 😀
I saw another pool that had Which Deceased Celebrity Will Anchor The In Memoriam segment, which is supposedly the greatest last honor. PSHoffman got the coveted position. I think I would have put someone who didn’t O.D., like Shirley Temple or Harold Ramis who I think made more contributions in their lifetime than PSH. We shouldn’t celebrate addiction 😦
It was a boring broadcast but hung in there hoping to see a train wreck I guess. Ellen in the audience was my least favorite part. Of course she predicted at the opening, 12 Years would win because RACIST if you didn’t vote for it. That got a laugh 😉
They do need a new category : Best Movie that People Actually Saw would be nice 😀
I didn’t see any of the nominated films so this is a real question and not snarky at all. Was Twelve Years a Slave” worthy of an Oscar or was it an affirmative action award? Did it win because the members of the Academy were afraid they really would be labeled racist? IOW, was Ellen being truthful as well as funny? One of the sad realities of affirmative action is true excellence is sometimes tainted by the affirmative action brush. When I went to engineering school, the women entering the program were mostly in the top 5% of the freshman class based on grades, class standing, and SAT scores. It shouldn’t be surprising that on average we would be among the most successful students, but the guys were all sure we were given special treatment. So I’m sensitive to this. I’d like to think the movie deserved the honor as Best Picture, but doesn’t the winner of Best Picture usually get a lot more wins?
Roots will be forever my high bar for slavery history. It was a terrible thing we did in that era, but it was so much more than the gratuitous beatings and rapes. We did terrible things to the Native Americans too 😦
12 Years a Slave wasn’t a *bad* movie — but it wasn’t “Oscar great” — and it is especially no where near as good as people are saying — wanting it mandatory high school viewing, give me a fucking break.
The mini-series Roots did a much better job at telling the story of the slave experience in America.
OTOH, other than Gravity (sci-fi, which *never* wins) all the other movies weren’t really “Oscar great” either. It’s why I went with Gravity in my Oscar picks — I thought the Academy can’t actually give it to any of the others when they have one that is so far superior even if it is sci-fi. {shrug} I was wrong. I will say that if I knew Will Smith had been chosen to present the Best Picture award I would have 100% picked Slave in my Oscar pool.
I picked 12 years for best pic just by asking myself “how would an obot who’s not seen any of these movies vote?”
In retrospect, I think “12 Yrs” was a good movie. But when I saw it, I was continually reminding myself that as horrid as slavery was, none of this was my doing and I’d be d*mned if I’d be held financially responsible for it. I loved “American Hustle” and “Dallas Buyers Club” (DBC) which I thought had a point to make about how we treat any people who are different from the norm, and how we punish the ill and treat their illness no matter what it is. (So that is why I thought it was an important movie.) My favorite was “Her” but I wanted DBC to win.
I didn’t see Her, but Dallas Buyers Club was much better than 12 Years a Slave (IMO).
If the Academy wasn’t going to pick a sci-fi film, I wish DBC had been the one to win.
I liked it. Ellen is funny, IMO. I could have done without all the musical numbers, and why a tribute to the Wizard of Oz? I could have seen a75th anniversary tribute to 1939 – arguably one of the best years of Hollywood film production ever, but why single out the Wizard of Oz? I must have missed something.
Anyhooo I watched until they announced best Oscar and then turned off the TV (didn’t need to listen to the speeches when I know I will never see the movie). The only thing I saw last year that won an award was Frozen (and I didn’t particularly care for it). But, I was engaged enough watching the show without knowing any of the movies or back-stories.
Gone with the Wind came out in ’39. I guess they picked Judy’s movie to celebrate because her kids were in the audience? Surprised they didn’t ask Liza to sing Over the Rainbow 🙂
I thought the same thing, but I’m guessing she doesn’t have the voice for it anymore.
After seeing the photo of her as she walked the carpet, I’m relieved for her that she didn’t have to appear on stage. She looked terrible and it would have been embarrassing for her.
Here we go again, are there no other barbers in Toronto ?
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/16/gay-activists-have-met-their-match-with-muslim-barbers
My husband goes to an elderly Filipino barber, he doesn’t cut women’s hair. Maybe I should go stir up some sh*t 😉 There are a lot of unisex hair salons in our area too.
I have a couple of Lesbian buddies. We’re really good friends, and I support them. They live 5 miles from the MA border, and one of them works down the street from me. They could have moved to MA and got married years ago, but they preferred to picket the RI state house. I went to their RI wedding last weekend. Vendors fell all over themselves trying to get their wedding business. The person who officiated refused to take any money from them, the wedding cake was a gift from a local baker, and the DJ gave them a discount. The wedding was lovely, and I am very happy for them, but a lot of what was said there was pure unadulterated bullshit. I’m not sure why two very strong, highly successful women want to wallow in a constant state of victimhood. I was hoping when the wedding thing was over, they’d move on, but no, they are still “oppressed”. I still love them and value their friendship, but I want to give them a Cher slap. “Snap out of it!”
If I were the gay activists I’d be real careful demanding any services from muslims. Barbers use straight razors for shaving, just saying!
It would be more interesting if it were a barber here in the US. I’d be real curious to see how the whole issue is handled when the business owner is muslim.
I liked Ellen’s opening monologue — all good comedy is based in truth (and yes, the only reason 12 Years a Slave won is for just the reason Ellen said — Hollywood didn’t want people saying possibility #2 — especially after Gravity swept all the technical awards & best director) but I agree the audience participation stuff got old and dragged on.
Hosting the Oscars has to be the suckiest job in Hollywood — no one is ever happy with it. Hollywood can’t face the real truth though — they *are* boring; so instead, they blame the host.
Highlights for me were Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, and the lady who sung His Eye is on the Sparrow (best documentary 20 Feet from Stardom) acceptance speeches. I thought they were all very sincere and moving. The realness of those 3 was a pleasant respite from the plasticity of the rest of them.
Low light was Cate Blanchett going out of her way to thank Woody Allen for casting her. I like Cate as an actress and I can’t say she doesn’t deserve the award (I haven’t seen a Woody Allen movie since the whole Soon Yi scandal) and I know she can’t go back in time & *not* do the movie after the recent public statements from Dylan Farrow, but she didn’t have to make such a public showing of solidarity with Woody Allen — it really was like a slap in the face to Dylan. And it was especially ridiculous given her other comments “championing” women. Only in Hollywood can you publicly support a guy who — in his 50s — took naked pictures of his 16 year old stepdaughter (fact), married her at 18 (fact) and is accused of molesting his 6 year old (believable but not proven) and call yourself a “champion of women.” I lost a lot of respect for her.
Her performance in Blue Jasmine was brilliant. It was the reason I saw that movie. I think it was my first woody movie since Soon Yi. Cate was much more “gushy” r/t woody at the Golden Globes (I am shameless when it comes to watching the movie awards shows). Many others were unbelievable in their attempts to malign Dylan at the GGs. I felt Cate tempered her comments last night and I appreciated that. She remains an amazing actor.
Didn’t the Dylan thing come out after the GGs ? It was the over-the-top tribute to Woody from Diane Keaton that pushed Dylan over the edge to pen a letter to the NYT.
I don’t think so. but I could be wrong. I do remember thinking (that night) that I wouldn’t have said what Cate said given the timing.
I got Ellen’s Liza joke “thank you sir”, I think it bombed because it’s an inside NYC joke. Liza has a huge gay following, especially with the cross-dressers who LOVE impersonating her (and Cher, but she wasn’t there). As bad as Liza looked last night maybe Ellen should have held her fire because it came across more mean-spirited than a poke at Liza’s fan base.
New twitter account:
https://twitter.com/myiq2xu2
Yup. EVERYTHING with your original account has disappeared. Please go back and retweet my (lateblum) comment about drone killing. It was an honor having you retweeting anything from me. 🙂
Followed!
Klown, stop leaving account names at the start of a tweet when you reply to someone. Put it at the end of your tweet instead.
That’s how the obots got you shut down.
Oh, and I changed the blog settings so your new acct gets included in the tweet settings.
Hopefully that helps rebuild your following.
It was an odd show, but my expectations for the Oscars is so unbelievably low that I can’t say I was any more disappointed than in previous years. I love Ellen, but they are right that it was a surprisingly flat performance. For a big production like that, something has to be bigger than just one-liners – and many of those were off too. Billy Crystal did a good job of mixing up unusual bits with straight comedy. At least she tried different things with the audience gags, but they didn’t work and went on too long. I agree with many of the other comments: I like Pink, but why was she chosen to sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and why did they pay homage to Judy Garland/Oz again? I must have missed that too. Seeing Sydney Poitier struggle to reach his lines was just sad and they have to stop bringing celebrities that are too old to see, hear or read on to the stage – it’s demeaning. I had the whole thing on in the background while I was doing my bills so it doesn’t really matter to me. Celebrity culture bores me to no end, having reached it absurd zenith with our ineffectual celebrity president.
OT: My son and dil are at the hospital. The baby’s due date is tomorrow. Maybe it’ll be today. I have by adorable (3 yr old) big sister and my older daughter here today waiting to know whether it will be today. 🙂
MY adorable grand daughter, the (3 yr old) big sister-to-be.
I can’t type at all any more.
Oh yay ! Hope the delivery is quick & easy.
If this works, you’ll see the “big sister” (from christmas time) and I hope she’ll be as happy this afternoon as she is this morning
She’s a cutie!
She’s adorable Leslie! My grand daughter is always super happy in the morning too. It’s a wonderful way to start your day isn’t it?
I hope everything goes well with the delivery. Do they know if the new baby is a boy or girl? I know you’ll be sitting by your phone all day today waiting for news.
BTW we found out a couple of weeks ago we’re expecting grandchild number 3. I’m very concerned as the last one was born so premature and she’s pregnant again so quickly. They’re still dealing with issues with the preemie. However, I’m not in charge. I’m just along for the ride.
My first born was always a grump in the morning. (still is. lol) It is great to have a happy little one. The coming babe is a girl as well. Good times. Thanks for the well wishes.
I hope your #3 goes better than #2. It’s hard not to voice your thoughts, though, isn’t it? Fingers crossed for your family.
Congrats leslie! What a cutie!
Awwww, bless!
Congrats on the new grandbaby ! My youngest grand daughter turned 3 yesterday. As I like to say, grandchildren are God’s reward for surviving their parents 😀
tell the little one Happy Birthday. Do I have a boy for her.
good luck to both. Hope it is a speedy and not very painful delivery. Please make announcement when baby arrives. being a grandmom is a lot of fun.
I enjoyed Ellen’s monologue , and a few other moments , but between those moments I was flipping channels to see what the weather was doing . I was excited at first , to hear that Kim Novak was there ,until I saw her face , and Goldie Hawn , whom I just adore , was a frightening sight as well . I thought announcing which presenter had won Oscars or had been nominated was weird . Kind of saying, well ,this guy lost a couple times .
I usually just watch to see the fashions anyway, and I was definitely not disappointed in that regard . Some gorgeous gowns were worn last night. I LOVED Ellen dressed as Glinda , for me that was hilarious , on several levels .
I knew who Benedict Cumberpatch was. he is absolutely beyond brilliant as Sherlock Holmes . I have watched that since the first episode . He was also Scarlett Johansson’s first husband in “The Other Boleyn Girl .He is amazing .
The outcomes were predictable , so that was ho hum , but I have some movies on my must see list now .
Loved seeing Goldie too ! A fan since Laugh-In days ……
We love Sherlock Holmes. A friend recommended that we watch it, and now we’re hooked. What fun. I have to find Season 1 & 2 and watch them, and I agree, Benedict Cumberpatch is brilliant!
Speaking of the Liberal Hollywood Elite 1%ers ……
I finished watching House of Cards last night and did not watch the oscars. Did not see any of the movies, so I could not judge good from bad.
How was House of Cards??? was it the new season?
very good and yes it was the new season
I have season one but haven’t watched it yet. I think I’d enjoy the show though based on what people say about it. I just don’t watch much TV at all. Anytime I sit down in front of the TV all I can think of is I need to do this or that. I do watch a movie here or there, but I always end up pausing them to get a load of laundry or what have you……..drives my husband nuts!
I ALMOST DIED LAUGHING:
We’re watching “Nebraska” today. I don’t know what it is about Montanans and Nebraska. A childhood friend’s parents died in Montana, and they were buried in Nebraska.
Check the nipples:
Some of the #putinmemes have me rofl
This is fun:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/the-best-moments-from-2014-academy-awards
Have to hand to buzzfeed for putting these on one page and not into a dumb slide show. Some of the “vines” didn’t work for me though.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/03/03/street-art-critical-of-obama-steals-show-at-academy-awards-104249
I’ll bet this went over like a lead balloon with lib hollywood
off topic
http://weaselzippers.us/177996-breaking-russia-orders-ukranian-forces-to-surrender-or-face-a-military-storm/
Russia orders Ukrainian forces to surrender of face a military storm
looks like the shit is going to hit the fan
http://weaselzippers.us/177980-mooch-to-go-on-taxpayer-funded-sightseeing-tour-of-china/
isn’t nice to know that when a world problem erupts the president goes to a fundraiser and the first lady goes on vacation
Was wondering what they were doing during the girls’ spring break. Too bad BO didn’t schedule his Asian trip at the same time.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-schedules-4-country-trip-asia-april-201108352–politics.html
I thought she and the girls were skiing and he was golfing. or was that a different break?
think that was last month. they take so many breaks it is hard to keep track of them
Yes, that was a 3-day weekend they enjoyed Colorado and California. You know, just like the rest of us head across country for three days 😀
Oh, I must’ve missed it. I was in Paris that weekend. 😉
Good article on how comedy and entertainment died. They refuse to mock the powerful. And almost all good comedy and good performance *must* at least tweak the powerful. The Left has painted themselves into a cultural corner. In order to remain culturally relevant, they will have to mock the powerful. But in order to remain in power, they cannot admit they are the ones in power, because their entire ideology is built on underdog-ism and victimhood. Completely. Leftism itself has ZERO meaning if the Left is, in fact, in power.
They cannot mock themselves and remain in power, as to do so is an admission of their power exists. But the more they refuse to mock the powerful (themselves) the more culturally irrelevant they will become. They have catch-22’ed themselves.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/01/wheres-their-nerve-todays-comics-mock-poop-not-the-powerful/
They won, have been exposed as stupid and incompetent, thus they lost. The dog caught the car.
Carson’s legacy was every politician was fair game for his barbs and he didn’t wear his politics on his sleeve. It’s why when Stewart, Colbert, or heaven forbid, SNL mocks Obama, it makes headlines. So despite what NBC says, Fallon will not be the next Carson. Leno enjoyed high ratings at the end because he was funny and Obama 🙂
I didn’t intend to watch or like the Oscars but I liked it. For once there was an awards show that featured some women in clothes, who weren’t sticking their ass or boobs in the camera and grinding. I also like that Ellen and some other women wore pants. Also the gowns didn’t seem so outlandish this year. However I have always loved the dead swan gown worn by Bjork. For many years it seemed like they should just suspend the categories for women and give them statues for best gratuitous nude frolic, best lingerie prance and best audience flash as their roles and acting were jokes. They seemed to have better roles this year.
Ruh-Roh, China just joined Team Putin …
http://news.sky.com/story/1219922/russia-and-china-in-agreement-over-ukraine
😦
If Russia & China ever decide to team up as the new Axis we are all skarood.
Right now all that prevents that is a deep animosity between the two, as well as all the money China has already poured into the USA.
Yep. If they join forces, the West is toast.
This spin is all over the press today. Putin is just crazypants, so no way to predict or contain him, because, well, totes irrational and unpredictable.
They’re the ones living in a fantasy world, but everyone else is crazypants…
I thought they would come up with some way that he is “racist”. Crazy is almost as bad. Notice no one says he is stupid.
Give them time , they will work in the racist angle too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572149/Stunning-images-huge-abandoned-tank-graveyard-Ukraine-machines-come-retirement-tensions-Russia-continue-escalate.html
think Ukraine will have a problem fighting with these against the Russians
btw isn’t that what the backtrack bunch want to do to our military?
Russian Black Sea fleet has blocked Ukrainian navy vessels in Sevastopol Bay, Ukraine’s acting president says – @Reuters
One thing that the press NEVER talks about re: China and Russia is how badly the USA and European banks have screwed over Russia and others.
With the reserve currency status that the USA enjoys comes responsibility. That is a responsibility to keep a sound currency. Six years of trillions in Quantitative Easing has not only screwed over Americans, it has stuck a shiv in other economies worldwide. Because they HAVE TO buy their oil in American dollars – they get no choice in the matter.
You know what happens when you exercise a privelege while ignoring the attendant responsibilities of that privilege? Eventually a bunch of people rise up, say FUCK YOU, and take your privilege away. No one really minds the nobles existing, so long as they take good, responsible care of their lands and their peasants. If not? You’re toast.
If China, Russia, and the ME together ever make a concerted effort, they can take reserve currency status away from us. And our economy will collapse overnight.
That, BTW, is IMO the main reason we invaded Iraq. They were seriously contemplating selling oil in something other than dollars. If that snowballed, it would destroy the US overnight.
do you mind if I steal this?
Feel free. I never mind, and I never worry about attribution either. Not my thing.
The USA earned their reserve currency status back in the day. But like many things, succeeding generations of pols came to see that as just the natural order of things, not a responsibility to be lived up to.
That may be next. Russia may demand payment from Europe in something other than dollars or even Euros. Putin wrote his dissertation on energy geopolitics which of course includes currency manipulation. If Russia wants it we cannot stop them.
Yep. Putin is playing an energy game here, and he’s deadly serious. All the rest is just hoopla and spin.
If you want to understand foreign policy, most “foreign policy studies” and theories are fucking useless.
Want to understand foreign policy? Study economics. Study history. And be a keen observer of basic, unchanging human nature and human cultures.
And Obama has been trying to gut our energy sector so it is not competitive globally with the likes of Russia. That Bronco is a real genius! /S/ Russia used to buy drilling equipment and pumpjacks made in Texas.
I’ve read that Gaddafi was pushing for that as well and had convinced many OPEC countries. Then we backed the rebels based in Benghazi who toppled him, then they killed our ambassador.
Gaddafi and others including Chavez wanted gold for oil. When I hear about China buying up a lot of gold it makes me go hmmmm.
off topic because I need to brag
last week my great grandson did a weather report segment on a Philadelphia radio station. Well it was a contest and he won over the other kids that reported each day that week. He won $100. I see a future in the broadcast business for this kid
Congrats!!!!
So cool !!!
Yeah! What an accomplishment. Does he want to be a meteorologist?
not sure yet. he is only in 1st grade
Start ’em early I say. Before you know it he will have a podcast.
I’d trust him more than our local guys who managed to disrupt the Oscars with weather alerts like “… it’s starting to rain but not hitting the ground yet”. True story.
Congrats to your great-grand-mini-Jim-Cantore !!!
Congrats!
Congrats to you and your great grandson! I know you’re very proud.
There is something very scary with this administration that is beyond their misreading the signs. It’s almost as if it is intentional so that we have to align ourselves with former enemies. I don’t like this at all. Cause even my poor inner city clients aren’t as stupid as those guys in DC.
They “wish” things. It has no grounding in reality. So they plan and fantasize around what is not real. Their foreign policy is like their health care policy. It is based on fantasy and a lot of corruption. It we don’t have any wars the money can be spent on their friends in green tech, teacher union scams, bank bailouts, etc. They want the money to use it for something they think they will benefit from and rationalize it with a fantasy on why it can be diverted. The consequences never enter their heads. They are like a six year old in this way.
true.
^^Nailed it^^
A while ago I looked up old Glenn Beck broadcasts and chalkboards which seemed to predict your concerns Lulu. It’s all about the grand payouts which has the Obamas in line to become billionaires when he leaves office. Beck started getting hammered about that by the left, then he publically invited Soros to debate him to refute Beck’s concerns about this giant scheme.
Too bad Beck’s given up.
What would a President who was intentionally trying to destroy America do differently from Obama?
Case in point:
I don’t think a military base is appropriate for this type of thing. I don’t care if gays want to serve in the military, that’s not my issue. I just think this is an inappropriate image to project from our men and women in uniform.
Ditto. Being gay does not give you an automatic “out” from any standard of behavior whatsoever.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2014/03/03/why-is-the-daily-presidential-safey-and-security-briefing-being-cancelled-must-read/
today’s presidential safety and security briefing cancelled
unbelievable
Meanwhile, the Smartest Kids in the Room continue with their delusion that nothing in the world existed before they did: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/440556904368988161
That is the latest excuse. No one had to deal with the likes of Putin before. So can we extrapolate that Obama is no longer the smartest man in the world but that Putin is and now poor Bronco is outdone by a KGB colonel? Poor Bronco the dummy? Really? Ok. I agree. When is Bronco leaving since he can’t cut the mustard?
Bay of Pigs and JFK ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Lil Bub photo-bombed the ellen’s selfie with friends.