Whoopi came to town. She breezed in with the microphone crackling like thunder and gave up the head hooked one for a huge hand-held one quipping about how she had never held such a big one for long time!! With the normal pride of all citizens she started her routine with President Obama’s Nobel win and weighed in on the “Why”, "What has he done?” Talking of race relations she said she welcomed it and is a perfect way to get to know people.
Her take on the relentless advance of age was hilarious! When the age goes up the breasts go down and the hips moves sideways and strange smells emanate which necessitates getting a dog to cover up! And the wax flows out of the ear like a river! Which led to healthcare …“Give us the same healthcare as the senators”, she said but it might be too expensive.Why did we have the money to bomb the moon but not for healthcare? If you crash into the moon does the moon move? Does it F*** up the trajectory were her two major concerns. She sadly did not believe in robots helping humans because of her having seen “Battlestar Gallectica” and I thought back to my excited post about Adam and Eve.

Whoopi battling tech-microphone .....
She loved the way young people are so unafraid and do things so constantly in the time space continuum such that EVERYone knows where they are at all times in three dimension. This spoke eloquently to my personal opinion that most of the new generation have greater than 500 friends on the facebook and don’t feel afraid of saying it like it is. It is as if they live in a parallel world where they feel nothing bad can happen. And we, the older generation are so afraid because we have been so badly burned. Then all these magazines have reports on how so ′n so did not get a job because of that and one wonders …. Really??? Companies would not give a job to someone who is talented and competent because they have a silly picture on their Face-page? No wonder the economy is down the tubes because the jobs are obviously going to the nincompoop incompetents who are carefully covering up their follies. Its incredible how the world get us to fear so much that we hide and feel ashamed for our mistakes instead of learning from them, talking about it so that others can learn from them (just in case they are not lucky enough to go through the same fire) and move on. The talk about picking yourself up seem loud enough but if you speak about problems or mistakes ...Whoa!!!! cant handle that… too much information!
The most heartening motivation she gave was to young men and women who were obsessed about the way they look and loved it that the African American women who stood up in the audience all had their own hair. Promoting Chris Rock’s movie “Good Hair” she said it spoke volumes about the culture of false identity and feeling good. She has been sexy for so long she should know!
The editing of liberal thoughts from Bible in Florida she likened to the “old” and “new” Testament where people took out things and put in things and called the religion something else thenceforth.
In the midst of this all she suddenly discovered the gold Buffalo on the stage and asked…”Was it here all the time?” ................ “Gelded” she affirmed after checking things out.
I left wondering whether that could be the word I would use for a few other things.

The stage with the gold buffalo


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"Jumpin' Jack Flash" was one of my favorite movies ever, just because it confirmed that we don't have to be anorexic or blond to be heroes.
You nailed it! Zumapick!
Thanks for this!
JB Yup!
RW: Ditto
oh btw as a side note---this line--No wonder the economy is down the tubes because the jobs are obviously going to the nincompoop incompetents who are carefully covering up their follies.
There is actually DATA that makes a case for that (although her case is enough for me)
Good choice.
Rated.
Thoth.... treasure your opinion...
as I do everyone who visited. Thank you much!
Then there are times like this morning when I pick up the county wide daily paper and see a scant 2" by 1 column pic of Obama with a note saying "Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize" and referring the reader to page "D-2". For the uninitiated that is the gutter page on the inside of the last section of the paper, that is a 1/3 page filler before the Classifieds. And, in that 1/3 page was a 6" AP report on the Nobel, a much larger article on a 4-H pig project and some filler about how to choose kitchen flooring, complete with a lovely pic of linoleum.
So, this is NOT "almost heaven" when it comes to politics. No. This is still redneck heaven, and always has been.
Monte
Like it wasn't rape-rape.
Thanks for sharing.
Tetrazole
Thanks for sharing with us. It's a Nobel Peace Prize, people need to be hopeful, not hateful.
R
Thank you for sharing. I love Whoopi too. Written so well, my friend. I hope you can write someday a book about your life.
Bakhyt