No, they were praying for him. They were clear about that. I can’t possibly imagine why a church would do such a thing for any president, let alone that clown, but there it is.
Would you like me to 'splain it to you, luci?
Jeez, Starkers, I haven’t heard that Ricky Retardo joke about my name all week! Been a pretty good week…
Sorry, I’ve always been a sucker for the obvious joke and this just cried out for it.
Now, as to my question…?
The angel on my shoulder says “Don’t do it, 'luci!..”
…Actually, the angel doesn’t call me that, he calls me by all three names like my Mamma used to do when she was mad at me…
“…don’t do it, because you know he’ll just step on his dick again in public, and its not nice to tempt him into making a public fool of himself just for the malicious kick you get out of it! That’s not very nice, and it makes the baby Obama cry…”
From the left shoulder comes “Fuck that shit! Whats wrong with a bit of fun, now and again! Remember when you tripped the kid in the Special Olympics, five feet from the finish line? Laughed your ass off, didn’t you? Sure, you’re going to Hell, but then so’s all your friends! They’ll both be there! You think they play poker and drink bourbon in Heaven? Get real!”
Well, Mamma, you won this one, be sure and tell Jesus about it, next chance you get, I was raised right, goin’ wrong was my idea…
Nope. No thanks, Starv. I’m sure you got something more important to do.
That’s what I thought.
Still, thanks for the laugh. Too bad you’re such a hippie. If you’d had any drive you’d be as rich and famous as Bill Cosby and living in Bel Air…and people would love you!
Oh, well…
So here it is, a holiday weekend, and I’ll be working long days andnights through it to launch a project. It’s been exhausting just getting to this point, and I’ll likely be wrestling with it until two or three each night, thick coffee barely holding my eyelids open. It’s for an apolitical cause, but a cause nonetheless (most of our clients work in the developing world…butchery, slavery, and starvation aren’t right/left issues).
Some days I want to cash this whole non-profit focus, go hit the commercial world, and start charging three to four time our billable rates.
But then something wonderful happens. Some pretty people show up in a studio for a half hour or so and pledge to keep what they know in their heads in their hearts while not flipping off their neighbor as they say hello. Wow, am I moved. I can go on now. The night won’t be so dark after all. The pretty people care. Thanks for the link.
BTW; who was the dude in the red shirt quoting P-Funk? He shows up at 1:20 (I guess the video was too short for him to show up three minutes later).
If it means anything, I’m very anti-hippie (votes conservative, member of army reserve) and I think you’re a jerk.
Okay, I swallowed my fear and loathing of Ashton and Demi and watched the thing. Wow. What a load of glurge.
Some of the items mentioned are praiseworthy aspirations.
Some of them might even be good coming from someone other than the person in the video - does anyone really expect Cameron Diaz to go around to her (probably also fabulously wealthy) neighbours and ask if she can be of service?
Some were patently ludicrous - “I pledge to find a cure for Alzheimers.” Really? All by yourself? And did anyone else look at the person saying “I pledge to reduce my use of plastic” and think “What - surgery?”
I appreciate the intentions behind the video, I really do. But I’d rather see these people out actually doing these things (and I recognize that some of them do) than standing in front of a camera going on about it.
And Ashton and Demi can kindly fuck off.
ETA: Someone remind me why we’re now picking on Bill Cosby? Did I miss a memo?
Sappy Hollywood video. They’d like to buy the world a coke. Or some coke. Whatever.
I pledge to never watch that thing again.
Thank you. Now maybe people will realize we don’t all march in lockstep, after all. 
That only works for very vague and generalized definitions of “we”.
I pledge to never again tell the lawyer joke: What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start!
I pledge to change that joke to: What do you call 5000 dead actor/celebrities at the bottom of the ocean?
You’re the one who waved his conservative credentials in order to lend greater credence to your dislike of me. (After all, if even a fellow conservative “hippie-hater” dislikes me, I must be really out there, huh?)
You can’t have it both ways, schmuck. If you want to group yourself with me in order to try to make your disdain appear all the more significant, you can’t then deny it so as to facilitate some lame secondary insult.
But getting back to your original question, I think our posting history shows we pretty much think of each other as jerks anyway – so no, I can’t say that it (your opinion) matters much.
I like the idea these people turned up at a studio in LA, did their thing and went away content with their contribution to ‘good’: Hey, look at my life, look at this great face, listen to how I care, how I want to help, you can’t be me but you can share some of the good I have inside by doing this with me, me from my mortgage- free Hollywood mansion and bomb-proof healthcare, you from, well, it doesn’t matter, you can still share a little of what I have, my goodness.
No, just to undercut the implication that only hippies dislike you.
Oh, I wouldn’t dream of grouping myself in with you.
I might nightmare it, though.
Well, fine! OK! Just remember, when you’re desperate for a tie-dye shirt, just don’t come crying to me!
“We are all individuals”
“I’m not!”
Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis.
What a bunch of feel-good, leftist bullshit.
I find it interesting that they left the ONE thing out that has helped more people than anything else: capitalism. One day of capitalism helps more people than an entire year of volunteerism.
But this is the Age of Obama. Capitalism is baaaaaaad. Statism is gooooood…