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I learned a long time ago that I really don’t care for bay leaf. Our school cafeteria used to put it in stuffing, soup, gravy and whatever else they could dream up. Before long I could taste bay leaf in everything that came out of that kitchen.

I have also found that I have little if any respect for many that walk down the red carpet during award shows in Hollywood.

So how on earth does Hollywood relate to a bay leaf?

Just like eating the food prepared by the bay leaf lovin’ cooks in the school cafeteria, you can taste Hollywood’s overpowering agenda in just about every creative they touch.

Television series, news, movies, theater and song are where the liberals do church. That’s where they do their preaching. Going to the theater is like sitting in a pew at the First Liberal Church of the Humanist.

I have to practically plug my nose to get through their views on war, sex, cow fart emissions, baby sea turtles and what we, the evil Columbus spawn, did to the Indians…oops…excuse me Native Americans. I picked up on the Columbus thing while watching ‘Blind Side’ with Sandra Bullock.

Watching the Red Carpet has become a game to review how many unique and often humorous ways celebrities have found to completely bork up their lives. Normally I don’t mock the borked (OK, I do). But for some reason, when it comes to writers and actors and singers, the more dysfunctional they are, the more qualified they are to spew their genius little “life lessons” on society.

I can’t wait to see how many agendas the upcoming AVATAR can pack in as a military mission seeks to remove an indigenous (humanlike) population on their planet who are in the way of mining a precious mineral.

And then enters Adam Lambert to the party.

He so eloquently explains how he should be able to show-n-tell his sexual fantasies to the unsuspecting home viewing audience, because female singers do it all the time. It’s a double standard. So HIS logical life lesson here, is that…wait…let me stop laughing.

OK…so Adam’s life lesson here is that instead of advocating NOBODY performing sex acts while singing to audiences of all ages, his logic is that the girl singers get to do it, so the boys should be able to contribute to the cheap random slut agenda too.

We at home should captively and with great artistic interest watch him get a simulated BJ, passively finger some girl without getting smacked and give a strangely awkward face-slammed kiss to one of his bandies. Meanwhile just sit back and enjoy his lyrics…”Let me Entertain You”. AND according to Perez Hilton (Adam’s new spokesperson), if you didn’t enjoy their bay leaf being crammed down your throat, then you are a homophobe, intolerant and everything wrong with these here United States of America.

Oh what I wouldn’t give to gather as many life living strategies from Adam Lambert and Perez Hilton. It’s about as logical as asking Kanye for tips on social grace or Martin Sheen for parenting tips. Yet these and swarms of other celebs are the geniuses that we turn to for advice on how to live, how to vote, what to wear, who to love, who to hate, who’s good, who’s evil, what is true, what is false and generally what is acceptable in society.

In case you needed to jog your memory, here are many pictures (mugshots) of several of the people telling us what to think.

Do I smell bay leaf?

We have entered an interesting time as “science” is being challenged publicly for adjusting numbers to meet with their political agendas (example here). Agendas? Uh huh.

If you consider yourself a Christian, you, your God and your Faith are being mocked by Richard Dawkins and his followers. If you think Science is unbiased and friendly, think again (Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work).

Beyond Creation vs. Evolution, this video is a perfect example of why Christians need to de-politicize the Gospel. The points that Richard Dawkins brings up to mock believers are repeatedly glued to the Republican Party, the War, the Bush Dynasty and many other untruths.

Are they wrong? NO! That IS the world’s view of God that Over-Politicized Right Wing Christian activists have given them! That is unfortunately the material they have to work with…a “gospel” filled with tainted Right-Wing propaganda!

But God did not register Republican nor has He aligned Himself with those things. We are not entitled to land, laws or freedoms. We have no “inalienable rights”. Instead we are to have nothing and store nothing here at all. Everything we are here to do is summed up in one word…LOVE.

Seek first the Kingdom and His Righteousness. Not seek first to protect yourself from socialism. In fact we as Christians were TOLD to act in a form of socialism. Sell everything and give the proceeds to the poor so that no one among you is in need. HUH?!

Think how many people we alienate by protecting our views, our rights and our stuff. Once the world despises you for sacrificially LOVING them…only then can you die victoriously in Jesus’ Name.

Now watch this video, cry for the distorted view of God the world has been given and prepare for an uprising that will most undoubtedly remove your freedoms.

Blogging for yourself is hard. Especially when part of your job is blogging for everybody else. So I have all but ignored my personal blog for several months now. And if you check that falls right in line with blogging statistics overall. Start out gangbusters then slowly peter out until your online presence becomes a ghost town.

So why is it so hard?

For some it’s just a matter of not being passionate enough about a topic to blog about it. For others, it’s a confidence issue…”Who is going to want to read my take on the world?” …or “What if somebody doesn’t agree with me and rips me a new one?”

I’m more of the latter.

I am opinionated and passionate…to the point of angering folks and even being labeled obsessive. But, what I’ve found is that many of my critics (and yours too) have major issues themselves. Instead of blazing trails they get more mileage out of crapping on yours.

Some among you just won’t get it.

You will get criticized for what you say…and even for blogging, vlogging, Tweeting, Facebooking at all. But as one of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes says – “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

So here I go again. A renewed motivation to just get out there and BLOG!

Well, I’ll be honest. I happily thought American Idol contestant Danny Gokey would make it all the way to the end. But now after having some time to think, maybe it was very predictable after all. So here is my Monday morning quaterbacking.

You can never fault Danny for his singing. He is awesome! And compared to others on the show, except Adam, he has performed flawlessly. Well, except for one unfortunate…scream…or screech more like. But I don’t think that hurt him much. He was able to laugh about it, and his fans had a forgive and forget attitude.

If I could talk to Danny during the competition I would have told him to show more teeth. It seems on television that a normal gentle grin, such as Danny’s, doesn’t come off nearly as genuine as a full face-distorting, open-mouthed smile. Adam Lambert is a smiler…and we have for sure seen way too much of the inside of his mouth.

The other thing that may have hurt Danny is that he’s never been in the bottom three. Without a scare there was never a call to rally the troops to save him. My wife and I thought he was a ‘fer sure’ deal, but of course we were still dialing like maniacs Tuesday night.

There might be more clues found in who had left prior to Danny. The votes of Matt Giraud may have fallen over to Kris Allen, and those of Allison Iraheta may have gone to fellow rocker Adam.

Danny has also been the target of some ridicule and myths during his Idol presence. One of which was using the unfortunate loss of his wife Sophia in July 2008 to pull at the heart strings of the voters. Another was for making a heart shape gesture with his hands. This normally wouldn’t have been a problem except that with Danny’s many pairs of stylish glasses, it was pretty coincidental that it matched the timing and gesture of an advertising campaign launched by Lens Crafters.

The truth however, may lie in the fact that his wife died from heart complications and his gesture may have been in reference to her, his fans and his foundation, Sophia’s Heart.

I have no doubt that Danny will be picked up by a label soon after the Idol tour. It’s probably best that he is allowed to use the momentum from his Idol experience without being tied into a compromising contract.

My fear though, is that he will be lured in by the 800 million dollar Contemporary Christian Music niche and will become another “Insider Christian Club Sell-Out” pimpin’ the Gospel to “Insider Christian Club Members” in Christian CD’s, Christian Concerts, Christian Motivational Seminars and annual Christian Christmas albums.

I am hoping he will instead go the way of singer artist that happens to be a Born Again Christian refusing to compromise thus reaching out way past “The Club Snobs” all the way to the masses.

Be careful though, Danny. The Club already thinks they own you. They will eat you alive and spit you out if you don’t say, do, eat and wear what they wish. Run! Go Ye Therefore! Save Yourself! Save the World!

It was clear from the beginning that Joan and Melissa Rivers were brought in purely for a ratings ploy. Joan’s ideas throughout the competition were questionable at best, lacking decency, professionalism and any hint of humor. Remember “cluck cluck cluck”?

Donald Trump basically handed control of the board room over to Joan and Melissa’s tirades as they blasted anybody who happened to flip their bitch switch.

Annie, although totally self centered with her “look what I can do” approach to the game, was a much better project manager and fund raiser in every one of her tasks. In the real world Annie’s results and hard driven style to winning and fund raising would have catapulted her to victory.

Perhaps, though, one of Annie Duke’s biggest mistakes through the entire season of Celebrity Apprentice was not realizing that the Trump deck had already been stacked. And it wasn’t in her favor. Donald or the producers were in love with Joan from the beginning and it had nothing to do with her intelligence. They let her explosions walk away with the boardrooms and ultimately the entire show.

Both Joan and Melissa walked out on the show, dis’ing Donald and promising not to return. Joan even abandonded her team in the process. All of these actions would have resulted in immediate and permanent dismissal on any real Business Reality show. But both were allowed to come back, along with Dennis Rodman as though nothing had happened.

I have lost respect for the show itself as far as “business reality”. Donald appears to have sold out to the pressures of being accepted by Hollywood D-listers, lusting after his own status. With his kissing up and compromising he has lowered himself to just short of groveling. From a business perspective, any real owner would have surely picked Annie Duke’s track record over Joan Rivers’ emototional flamboyance.

Maybe there is more to this story than we know. Are there puppet masters behind the curtain pulling the strings? As they say, follow the money. Do the clues lie in who was involved and which charity won? Perez Hilton, Joan Rivers, Joan’s Charity, Kathy Griffin, Cross Dressers at the final event?

Sometimes things don’t make any logical sense because YOU might be the one getting played.

Gary is Online. Now what?

Well, you have to start somewhere. And I’ve decided to start here, today.

A Brief Introduction

I will be brief here but I will give you a much more in-depth intro on my ‘About Gary’ page.

At the time of this writing, I am 42 years old, a married father of two grown boys, one 21 (in three days) and the other 18 and graduating from high school in just over a week. Oh where did the time go?

I am a Pastor’s kid and was raised in the church (Baptist) pretty much all of my life. Even though I am a born again Christian I am now very far removed from the Americanized business model fraud that some people call “the church”. You’ll hear more about that at random.

My interests are, well, the Internet and business. I am a geek to the core. I love to dip my toe into just about anything technical or entrepreneurial that I can.

I am a very passionate, opinionated and frequently sarcastic person and that is why it’s time that I use my personal online spaces as a release. And because my friends and family are tired of hearing it.

So, if you can tolerate me long enough or just have a curiosity into who this nut case is, there will be plenty of material. At the same time I hope to get to know you as well.

For now, thanks for checking out my site and I hope to see you around.