Random thoughts while channel surfing

I felt terrible last night. I've had a head cold for a few days and rather than seeing the doctor, I decided I would just tough this one out. I guess I'm coming to the realization that if you see the doctor, you're out about $150 for the office call and drugs and the cold still lasts for about three or four days. So if you tough it out and take over the counter medicine to feel a little better and eat lots of chicken soup, the cold lasts about a half a week.

So I had no energy. However, Grandpa had lots of energy. We went for a walk and we read and we cut his toenails. Eventually, he decided it was time for him and the kitty to go to bed. At last, I thought, I can grease up with Vicks and watch the news channels -- CNN, Fox News and...if things get slow...I'll skip over to MSNBC and watch Olbermann's three worse people in the world schtick which is always the same, Bill O'Rielly, Sean Hannity and some Republican lawmaker who had the guts to stand up to the Obama "dream" machine.

CNN was focused on the President's trip to London, but most of the coverage seemed to be centered on the President's wife. No news there, just empty, mindless drivel about how Michelle has risen like a Phoenix from a working class family, attended the best schools in America and appears at ease among the world's leaders and England's royal family. My only question is, "what did they expect?" That she would spill soup on her clothes and show up for her visit with the queen with a red stain on her yellow blouse?

Then it was on to Sean Hannity who had some wierd trio of "experts" trying to decipher the meaning of the President's first 70 days in office and how our kids will never live in a world that is free of paying off the national debt. As I got to thinking about this, I'm pretty sure that I've never lived in the United States when it didn't have a national debt. As far as I know, we're still paying for the Vietnam War, which was fought on credit.

So at the appropriate time, I changed to MSNBC and Olbermann's nightly attack on Fox News. As I listened, it occurred to me that Olbermann is actually promoting Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly as he tries to skewer them Monday through Friday. I mean, wouldn't you like to find out for yourself if these two guys are really as "over the top" as Olbermann's portrays them to be?

And the worst person in world was the House minority leader who had the guts to say that cap and trade would cost the average American household about $3,100 more a year. Not so, Olberman said, the actual price is $31 a year.

Yeah, right....he seems to forget that coal is where Americans get their electricity, natural gas is how we heat our homes and gasoline is how we fuel our cars. So if he thinks $31 a year is the right number, turns out Olbermann is the worst person in the world. There's a term called "pipe dream" which comes from people who smoke hallucinigenics in pipes. Seems Olbermann has had a pipedream....though it's hard to tell through his skowl. My guess is that he's one of those who people who turns meaner when he's under the influence.

Anyone buying the prattle of MSNBC's Olbermann deserves what they get.

But there was still more to come. Starting next Monday, MSNBC will debut the "Ed Show" featuring another former sports commentator turned liberal lackie -- Olbermann also is a former host of Sports Center for those with alzheimer's.

Ed Schultz has hit the big time. The bombastic one will now be one of MSNBC's left swingers -- although Ed used to swing from the right. I heard on his regional radio talk show a couple of weeks ago a spot-on imitation of Barney Frank's lisp. I'm wondering if he'll do that on MSNBC.

With that...it was time to go to bed. But I'm feeling better today. The cold seems to be going away...along with my memories of last night's "news."