I Mistakenly Watched the News (OOPS)!

Our hotel (just staying here Paris Hilton owns it)

It's early Saturday morning (4AM) and I am wide awake. I always would be wide awake at this time because generally I am usually at work but today I am out of town with my family. Both parents and both kids. We haven't all been together since Christmas so this is really nice. Last night we had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe and that really isn't a place to go to talk much; very loud. It is right next to our hotel so it was convenient. I am starting to sound my age. Our hotel room (a suite) is almost as big as our home. It must be off-season because we are near a lot of really cool things and are right downtown and it isn't that expensive.

I am not sure what we are doing today but there are a lot of really great choices on the table. I really don't care what we do I just love to do stuff and I know I have mentioned it here before but, I love hotels. I used to travel quite a bit and I loved them then too. I love having someone making my room look brand new while I am out doing stuff. I love that I can order movies on the television that are still in the theaters. I love that we have an entire shopping mall downstairs, seriously a real shopping mall. I don't know why I love that one but it seems cool to me. These are probably quite a few of the same reasons that I love Las Vegas. I do hate that I am always awake about four or five hours before everybody else. That is my issue not theirs'. I slept like a rock but a rock that only sleeps for four hours. Ate at Hard Rock and slept like a rock - is there a theme beginning here?

I am really getting worried about all of the anguish over guns in America. That's a problem with staying at a hotel and being an early riser. I would go out and check things out down in the mall or outside but it's too early and all there is to do is blog and watch television. When I am done here maybe I will go down and window shop at the mall; nothing is open but I have a Golden Ticket to Willie Wonka's Shopping Mall. I wonder what time Einstein's Brothers Bagels opens down there? I could go for a spot of tea. Anyway, I am watching a news show (usually a mistake) called RT. The best that I can figure RT stands for Russian Television. I don't know much about RT and it may actually be the Fox News of Russia but it is interesting to hear what other parts of the world think about our lunacy.  It's surprising to hear members of British Parliament ripping the U.S. government and calling us a "two party dictatorship." That is a fair description I am afraid.

The new look of models in the United Kingdom

The report now is about how Iceland may be the first country to outlaw internet pornography. Just like the people in this country are saying "once they take our guns what is next?" the people of Iceland are saying "once you take away our on-line porn what is the next thing you will take away from our freedom of speech (internet)?" This whole thing is a slippery slope. You know me, always trying to stay in the MIDDLE of most issues until I feel I have heard enough from both sides but, since my background educationally and professionally off-and-on throughout the years has been in media, I feel a bit more strongly on freedom of speech (mainly because I am more educated on this topic than I am on most others). Taking away this freedom, once given, is always gonna have huge ramifications.

I really like this news show. They talk about countries I rarely hear about on our American news shows: Iceland, France, Syria, Germany, Israel, UK (1/4 of all women there are now obese). I am sure they have their agenda but I am well aware of the American media agenda and I am tired of it. I sense maybe there is propaganda going on here too but I am not sure if it is geared toward me but maybe that's how it begins? Bottom line for all mainstream media, I am certain. is money.

Fashion advertising in the UK is changing now to make their models look like real people (fat and ugly). Heavy people and ugly people are now becoming the new models across the pond. I predict this trend coming over here very soon. Maybe I should start a plus-size/ugly people modelling agency. Do most ugly people know that they're ugly? I don't. Actually maybe I do since I just said I didn't know I am ugly. I know I'm fat but I am fairly certain I could be my own poster-child for my business (fat and ugly). Matt and Ugly's Modelling Agency? I think I like that.

They spelled my name wrong!

I am gonna grab a shower and head down to my own personal shopping mall and just walk around. Never hurts to get an early morning walk in and how AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) of me is it to walk around a mall before they are open? This is the year I get to join the AARP. I am pretty sure I am going to join. I wonder how much of a price break I would have gotten on this hotel as a card-carrying geriatric? Even though few Americans get to retire anymore I may as well at least get some kind of benefit for being screwed by my country for the past 35 years since entering the American dream work-force. When they said "The American Dream" I didn't realize it was actually "America's Dream." It was the country's dream that we all work and give them most of our money through all of the various taxes and programs that we had to fund while they convinced us that socialism and communism were evil. I am sure our country wouldn't lie to us about things like that. 

Have a great day. Thanks for stopping by. I am sorry that the blog turned a little on the darker side toward the end - this is why I don't usually watch news programs. I am not mature enough to handle them. And to think I worked in that business for awhile. If you haven't listened yet check out our 100th episode of Dirty Laundry Podcast. TTTT (probably tomorrow while I am up hours before everybody else again)...MITM (out for my early morning mall walk). TA!