OK. Who is Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg? Why, she is everybody's favorite - Jane Seymour. She is just a tiny lady and she had quite a physical time carrying and delivering twins a while back, so much of her life these days is dedicated to those new humans. She has her priorities straight.
For the next mystery celebrity, I've picked someone a little off the wall: Cassandra Peterson. She's an
actress who has never appeared in a notable film or play. She's known for a single character who appears nationally about once a year these days. I'm in love with that character and I wish she were real. How could a man not like a character who (in one of her really bad movies) is arrested, placed in a jail cell, and then declares, "I know my rights. I'm entitled to a telephone call and a strip search!" Her character went from a single Los Angeles TV station personality to nationwide fame and spawned a video game, custom make-up for women, and a special Universal Studios, Florida, attraction. Here's her picture. Who's her character?The rural areas of Nebraska took a hit last week when the largest paper in the state, the Omaha World Herald, discontinued delivery to the western half of Nebraska. The economy is not good and Newspapers everywhere have seen their circulation numbers plummet. The World Herald said it simply costs more to deliver the papers to that part of the state than it is making in subscriptions. Omaha, of course, sits on the Missouri river in the easternmost part of Nebraska, and to have trucks drive 200 to 350 miles each way to make deliveries to distribution centers is simply no longer affordable.
The economy hurts, but internet news hurts papers all over the nation, if not the world, and was doing so long before the economy went south. Several years ago, while still living in the L.A. area, I discontinued home delivery of the Times and started reading it on-line. Now, I still read it on-line as well as the Omaha World Herald and the Kearney Hub. Advertising works on the internet, so some money is being made there. Does it produce more profit than printed editions? I don't know, but the internet is slowly but surely taking over news dissemination world wide. That can create problems.
Nothing requires a news website to be impartial or non-partisan. Like Newspapers, many websites are created because someone has a news slant to present. It behooves the careful person to check various news sources on important stories. In addition to the newpapers mentioned above, I read the BBC news world headlines, a site called Journalism In The Public Interest, and two specialty news sites: Politifact.com and Factcheck.org. The latter two sites are in the business of checking the accuracy of what our politicians and political pundits are saying. Both sites are non-partisan, and after spending years debunking many of the Bush administration statements , they are now doing the same for the Obama regime. They play no favorites. I believe that if I read only the news sources I know will agree with and support my outlook on life and politics, I am not going to learn anything new. I read news sources from the left and from the right. As a result, I am registered as a non-partisan voter because I find that both the Republican and Democratic parties tend to irritate me no end.
If they would just let me run things, everything would be fine. Right?
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