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- The 6th Annual Inanition Award Winner, March 2010: The clear winner: The 4 major Broadcast Networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox!
...For the scam being perpetrated! It is completely TRANSPARENT that the crappy broadcast seasons of the current and recent years are intentionally geared to reduce audience numbers. Why? So they can complain (sometime soon) about "falling viewership" and plead their case to Congress to elliminate over air (OTA) broadcasts altogether. The reason, of course, is money (the god of this country). The broadcast networks, clearly salivating over the prospects of increased revenues using the cable TV model rather than the broadcast model will do anything in their power to stop "free" OTA broadcasting. But to simply cease, after what, 60 years of free OTA signals, would seem cruel and barbaric. Right? So what better way to claim authority to stop OTA broadcasts than to point to declining viewership. But wait! To claim declining viewership, you need what...numbers indicating declining viewership! So, what better way to obtain declining viewership than to broadcast repeat episodes (even during the "new" season), kill good programming, split seasons (multiple times during "season" - after all who defines the "season" except for the broadcast networks themselves!), and create an atmosphere where viewers simply must turn to other venues. And what research will they point to? The numbers showing declining viewership the past few years! Are you daft? Manufacture declining viewership, then complain about declining viewership, and voila, justification to terminate OTA broadcasts! What could be better! Hello 100% pay-for cable TV for ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox and the joyous increased revenues! You might as well pull down that rooftop antenna, as there will soon be no signal to be received.
Runner-Up: The US Congress: For the "Health Care" scam. How dare them! To BLATANTLY ignore the American people they claim to represent and pass this ridiculous basket of junk is, well, insubordination! It is complete folly and we can only hope that every American has had enough, and will vote the lousy scumbags out of office this coming election. I actually don't hold out too much hope that that will happen since the American voter has not shown too much intellect the past couple of decades. But the TV fiasco - that takes the cake this year.
Written and uploaded 20 Mar 2010.
- The 5th Annual Inanition Award Winner, July 2009: American Society!
Come on why do you put up with this?!!! Every societal norm of decency, honor, integrity, valor, morals, and honesty seem to hold nothing to you Americans! Why, the likes of Michael Vick (unlawful interstate dogfighting ring), Kobe Bryant (sexual assault), Dennis Rodman (misdemeanor spousal battery), Martha Stuart (securities fraud), (the list actually goes on and on), should all DISAPPEAR from the limelight because they are CRIMINALS! What happens instead? They continue to be glorified in the news and media! Why? Well, follow the money!!! Yes, follow the money - find those who are making the big bucks off these criminal miscreants, and you'll see why they 1) get to keep their highly visible, highly lucrative jobs; and 2) why they must continue to have their celebrity forced down our throats (so the vast income potential these societal malcontents bode for their exponents can be realized.) Do these criminals add any moral fiber to society? Does slapping them on their wrist and letting them continue earning thier multi-milion dollar incomes benefit YOU in any way? So why, America, do you put up with this? Why don't you demand the same rigor of justice be doled out to these "criminal celebrities" as would be levied on you or me and demand these people go away never to influence the world again? I'd like to say you don't because you know you don't have a voice. But truth be had, you are too stupid to demand true justice, and so, it continues to happen, again and again and again. Take this headline from MSNBC.COM, 27 July, 2009: "NFL conditionally reinstates Vick". Really? So this sports "hero" who served 18 months in prison for running a dogfighting ring, can now participate in regular season football games as early as Oct 2009, never mind he is a CONVICTED CRIMINAL. Why? Follow the money.
- The 4th Annual Inanition Award Winner, June 2008: The U.S. Democratic Party!
For fawning (actually stumbling all over themselves) after not just one, but two completely unqualified candidates for president. What are they thinking? Democrats, clearly oblivious to the factors which would make a good president rapidly reduced the playing field of all the best qualified leaving only two, junior senators neither of whom have any business running for the nation's highest office. But, then again, democrats have shown over and over they have no clue when it comes to this nation's ills and woes or what could or should be done about them. Well, God help us all if the democrats are successful at giving away the presidency - again.
- The 3rd Annual Inanition Award Winner, March 2007: American Drivers!
Pathetic! The greatest percentage of American Drivers simply don't know what an impediment to traffic they are! Let's face it, all American drivers know how to do is simply point the car in the direction they want to go! They are too busy talking on their phone, or primping in the mirror to know or care where they are going or what impact they have on traffic. Have you noticed the left lane of our Interstate Highways lately? It's the new "slow lane". Forget the fact that you are not supposed to be in the left lane unless passing or preparing to turn left, American's today simply drive in the lane they happen to be in, and at whatever speed they want never mind the speed limit. Need to turn right ahead 10 miles? Who cares! You'll simply continue in the left lane till you need to turn. Never mind you are single-handedly holding up traffic which is SUPPOSED to be traveling at high speed in the left lane.
And turn signals, what the heck are those? Why expend the energy to flip that little lever to indicate a turn when you didn't even think of turning till you started turning anyway! You need to turn left ahead to enter the Mall, but you're in the far right lane. What do you do? Who cares! When you get close, you'll just turn left across 3 lanes of traffic rather than turn right ahead, so you can safely double back. You are in a left-hand turn with two turn lanes. Which lane do you turn into? Who cares! You don't know there are two turn lanes anyway because you are a complete idiot! You are all idiots!
It's the single most important thing you do EVERY DAY, where not only YOUR LIFE is in YOUR hands, but the lives of many other people are in your hands as well! And you are too stupid to care to actually learn how to drive properly! You deserve the INANITION award!
- The Second Inanition Award Winner, March 2006: Weight Loss Books!
Any of them. No need for a link to another page here - Weight loss books are a disgrace. You want to lose weight? DON'T EAT SO DARN MUCH! And DO SOMETHING besides sitting in front of that TV wasting both your body and your mind! And if you must be sitting in front of the TV, DON'T BE EATING! This is not rocket science people! Except for those truly rare cases where there is a documented medical condition, you are fat because you EAT TOO MUCH! Let your stomach growl once in a while! Cut that portion in half - and then half again! You'll survive, and you'll lose weight. No "weight loss book" needed. Step on a scale, daily, at the same time of day to monitor your progress. Park that behemoth SUV you drive farther out in the parking lot and walk a ways instead of idling near the entrance waiting for someone to pull out so you can park in that close-in spot!
Do you even know how many calories are in that Big Mac? In those fries? In those 4 slices of pizza you had for lunch? In that full dinner at Olive Garden? In that COCA COLA? Who cares? Just don't eat (or drink) all of it! And have a salad for lunch several times a week instead of that burrito at Chipotles. And drink water or unsweetened tea instead of soda. (Take a look sometime at how many calories are in a can of soda! It's printed there on the side of the can.) And don't eat between meals! It's amazing how well you can get along without all those empty calories. Eat less! (Don't blame me if you eat too little or not enough variety and make yourself sick. Your problem now is you eat too much. The key to weight loss is balance - eating enough of the right kind of foods with the proper balance of nutrients and vitamins for you and not sitting around on your derrière.)
Is it going to be hard? YOU BET! This takes will power. You don't need to blame anyone or see a shrink. You have will power. USE IT. You'll hate the feeling of an empty stomach. You'll hate seeing food commercials on TV. You'll miss those candy bars. You'll salivate for that donut! But don't give in! And when you can finally button that collar around your neck, or you notice you have to tighten that belt an extra notch to keep your pants from being LOOSE, you'll grin in delight! And it will be worth it. Don't buy a weight loss book. They don't care if you lose weight or not. They just want your money. Keep your money. You can do this without the book.
- The First Inanition Award Winner, August 2005: Fox Television!
For "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"- On Feb 15, 2001, Fox television reached into the deep, stenching gutters, where Fox dredges up their programming and aired a program called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" This particularly stupid broadcast, even for Fox, claimed the Apollo moon landings were faked. Pu-lease!
Click here for a complete blog of a dialog I had with readers on a CNN discussion about the program. The topic? The shear idiocy of the claim. Enjoy! It's not too long.
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