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We’ve been hearing all this bìŧçhìņg about how we should build walls so that Mexicans couldn’t come flooding into our country and take all the jobs. The left wing counter to this philosophy has always been that the only jobs they’re taking are the ones that Americans didn’t want in the first place.

But now it’s been reported that Iranians wanted to hire assassins to take out the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US. And who did they endeavor to hire?

Mexicans.

Goddammit, what’s wrong with good old American assassins? Don’t Iranians watch television? Don’t they have the slightest idea of the high caliber (no pun intended) of contract killers we have here in the states? We’ve got wise guys, we’ve got Yakuza. We’ve got street gangs, for crying out loud. We’ve got more bullets flying than JFK has airplanes. And they’re reaching out to a Mexican drug cartel? Really?

That’s just insulting.

PAD

Disputes over salaries for the actors (with Fox wanting to cut their per episode salary from $400,000 to $250,000 per episode) nearly resulted in the series being axed by Fox.

Candidly, I wasn’t concerned about the fates of the actors. All I could think was that the writers who have kept the series alive for 23 years and put the words into the actors’ mouths get a hëll of a lot less than that, and it would have sucked to see the writers out of work because the actors couldn’t make ends meet on a quarter mill per show. My guess is that even with a pay cut, they make more per single episode than the writers make for entire seasons.

PAD

Love him or hate him, I think there’s no denying the impact he had on the world in which we live.

PAD

Sarah Palin has just made news in announcing that she’s not running for President. This is not to be confused with Chris Christie getting tons of news coverage over insisting that HE isn’t running for President.

I just don’t understand all this news coverage for people who aren’t doing something. Even more bewildering is the CONTINUED coverage by reporters who keep asking, “Are you SURE you’re doing nothing?” Perhaps Sarah Palin, seeing all the coverage that Christie is getting for not doing something, decided–in her media-obsessed way–that she wanted a piece of that action and announced that she was doing nothing so reporters would start asking her if she was sure she was doing nothing.

Shouldn’t headlines be reserved for when people are announcing they ARE doing something?

Oh, and just for the record: I’m not running for President, either. And this just in: A man didn’t bite a dog today.

PAD

Considering the current controversy surrounding Rick Perry, if I ever run for public office, I’d better remove the stone from outside my house that reads “Kike’s Peak.”

PAD

So I kind of slapped around “Doctor Who” a few weeks ago. Let’s see how it turned out. In the words of River Song: Spoilers.

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The following is a letter from my daughter, Shana, that just went out. I reprint it here and urge you to support her project if you haven’t already. If you’re one of the thousands of people who read this blog and have just kind of shrugged or said, “Maybe later,” there is no more later. This would mean a lot to her and a lot to me. Please help make this happen:

Happy Friday!

If you’re reading this email it’s because you have kindly allowed yourself to be hassled about a project that is much needed in Riverside, the takeover, rebranding, and renovation of the 5 Points Theatre. Through your support and that of other residents and businesses Tim and I have raised over $46,000 on our crowdsourcing site at ulule. That’s pretty impressive, except that our goal is more than twice that and we only have a week to pull this off. As of this writing we have 142 “supporters,” and I know at least one of those is my grandma. Consider that Riverside and Avondale have what, 25,000 people and when you add Downtown, Springfield, West Jax, and Ortega you’re at 250,000. Dangit, I just don’t think that Jacksonville’s representing the way it oughta.

For the sake of our hood, please spread the word far and wide. Remind people this restoration likely will not happen if we can’t raise the funds. Let them know this ain’t a donation, you can buy two tickets and a tub of popcorn for only $25, lifetime movies or a year’s worth of onscreen ads for $1000, or have the best company Christmas party ever for a cool $10k, with lots of great incentives in between.

To break it down:

If 2000 people drop that 25 bucks we’re set. 500 people could buy a card that gets them into 10 movies and we’d be there. Or 50 people at $1000. We don’t have a second shot at this. The kind folks at Ulule gave us this rare opportunity to extend our campaign so let’s all get on the Facebook, the Tweeting, and the guilt tripping because next Friday it’s all over.

Power to the people!

Shana