An Unexpectedly Sudden Ending

Well the thing that stood out on this year’s 82^nd annual academy awards is the abrupt ending. He was talking about now we are going to do the ten top movies and the last time they had ten movies nominated “Casablanca” won. By the way they went back to “and the winner is” instead of “and the Oscar goes to - - “. Oscars weigh eight pounds. Did you know that? But instead of honoring all ten nominees they just announced the winner, “The Hurt Locker”. They did not name any of the other nine movies or show excerpts from them as they most always do. Before this they consumed an awful lot of time on the Actor and Actress nominations. The Oscars ended at 9:03 our time, but on the east coast, of course, that would be just after midnight. Sandra Bullock won for best actress in “The Blind Side” beating out the “Precious” nominee. Both of those movies were really hyped in the past few days and I was getting sick of that actress in Precious and hoped she wouldn’t win. If I ever see either of those movies again it will be too soon. Jeff Bridges won as a washed up country music star. He had received numerous nominations in the past and they figured it was time they honored him. If course that ex wife won as director of “The Hurt Locker” and that is the first time a woman has ever won for best director. However the movie languished at the box office so if they used the same standards Republicans used for health care, you’d have to conclude that the American Public preferred “Avatar”. But in this political climate, an anti imperialist war movie is going to lose out to a pro war movie. Though I don’t doubt that “The Hurt Locker” is a good movie- - and brilliantly conveyed its message. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosted the show. That had to be the worse monolog or whatever in the history of the academy. The show got off to a really weak start in my opinion, and the presentation was utter humorless. Absolutely none of the jokes were funny. “Avatar” won for visual effects and other related categories, and “Star Trek” won for make-up. “Up” is another movies that I have had quite enough of, if you know what I mean.

It could be sudden death for the President Obama administration. The President had imposed a deadline on himself of March 18^th for getting his health bill passed, before the President goes off on a trip, and congress goes on their Easter recess. Have you noticed that Congressional “recesses” seem to take up at least half of the time? Of course March 18^th is when that “Flash Forward” program on ABC resumes showing new episodes. They’ve already let it slip that there is going to be another black-out. You know the first any of us heard the name Berock Obama was at the 2004 Democratic Convention when the man was given a big build-up. Of course everyone that year knew John Kerry would lose, despite how promising the polls looked. Back then I was for President Bush’s completing his job as I saw it. The elections in Iraq had to be held, and new conservative judges had to be appointed to overturn Roe verses Wade, and also it was my hope that they would privatize Social Security because I felt that that was the only way it could be economically solvent. We all thought that the 2008 race would be between Guiliani and Hillary. And it was inconceivable that if Hillary had a majority of her own party in congress she would not steam roller a massive amount of legislation through. Some people are born losers, like Marsha Clark. Everything about her, everything she said in court screamed “loser”. It would simply be out of character for this President to actually win anything as important on health care because he’s backed off on every other issue important to liberals. The American people don’t want this legislation and the President’s cause is losing votes in the House of all places. Now there are major doubts whether the House could even pass this health care bill by a simple majority vote. At this point I would bet against its happening. So what do you do when the thing you care about most is suddenly gone? The President needs to find some other focus for his administration and get behind something the American people care about.