LESSONS: Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush, Celebrities, Fame
This is one of the reasons why it's nice to be anonymous. People don't give a Rat's Ass whether you attend major events or not. It's not considered a Political Statement. What if you just don't feel like going or are lazy?
Sometimes you get cornered into going to things. For example, what if you were told that you were to show up at an Event where they said it's non-Political. However, when you show up, there are a whole bunch of political banners and they make it look like you're in support of a particular political party?
As I said, I don't particularly subscribe to either the Democratic or Republican Platforms. The business side of me appreciates the Laiisez-Faire stance of the Republican Party and where there should be less Government and more focus on the Military to keep us safe. However, I also believe in Social Programs (when the funding isn't being abused).
George Washington specifically warned about this and said "Don't form Political Parties." You get pigeon-hole politicians into taking stands for things that may not necessarily be in the best interest of the Demographic of People that they represent.
The way it was supposed to work is where congressmen and politicians vote on what they think is in the best interest of what they represent. That's the Idealistic Perspective. It just doesn't work that way.
You can expect the same kind of crap that's going to happen when more people start developing their Psychic Abilities and riding on Technicalities flouting the Spirit of the Law. I do it. If I do it, you can bet people with lesser morals will do it as well.
Personally, I sympathize with Jessica Simpson. If she doesn't want to go, she doesn't want to go. Look what happened to Oprah Winfrey when she didn't show up at some Black Guy's Funeral. The Black Community was badtalking her.
She said in a statement that she'd sent her condolences or called them and that there were some prior engagments she couldn't get out of. Personally, I don't think Oprah Winfrey needed a reason. Maybe it's true that Oprah represents the African-American Community, but they don't own Oprah. She's not a piece of meat or property.
If she didn't want to flat out attend because she had a headache or didn't feel like it, it shouldn't reflect badly on her. Status and fame are built up by the people, but Celebrities do have some say to their own personal lives.
I say this now because I know that when people finally come around to acknowledging my Title or Rank, they'll be taking the same attitude with me:
What if I get invited to a Presidential Banquet and suffer a stomach ache after eating some bad shrimp? I say I can't attend. Everyone's going to read into it and think I'm snubbing the President.
During this time where nobody knows who I am, people could care less if I at shit and died.
So why would it matter when I'm famous and well-known now that whatever I do speaks for everyone? Nothing has changed. I'm still the same Rod. It's only people's attitudes and perceptions.
People tend to be the ones that cause stress and anxiety in their lives.
As I said, I've got to see intimately how you can be on the receiving end of hatred and discrimination from people when they don't know your identity. When they think they're better than you or that you're a lazy bum, they treat you like dirt.
However, when you finally have something they want, then they're all swarming around you kissing your ass.
That's why I'm not impressed. The Planet set it up where you get a whole bunch of people behaving just as they would if they didn't know they were being graded and where you see their REAL personalities.
Also, whatever happened to "Do unto others as you would have done unto you?" How would you like it if you had al lthat pressure dumped on your head where if you sneeze the wrong way, people think it's a political statement?
No one likes to have their every move scrutinized, analyzed, and put under a microscope. That's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm anti-social.
Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush
Singer-Actress Fears Visit Would Hurt Her Favorite Charity
By Steve Gorman, Reuters
LOS ANGELES (March 16) - Concerned about politicizing her favorite charity, singer-actress Jessica Simpson on Wednesday turned down a invitation to meet with President Bush, a snub that left Republicans dismayed.
The apparent final word that Simpson would be a no-show at a major Republican fund-raiser with Bush and congressional leaders on Thursday night came after a day of conflicting reports from her camp and organizers of the event.
The blond star of the film "The Dukes of Hazzard" still plans to visit Washington on Thursday to lobby members of Congress on behalf of Operation Smile, a non-profit venture offering free plastic surgery for disadvantaged children overseas with facial deformities.
People close to Simpson said she declined a request to appear that same evening at the gala fund-raiser of the National Republican Congressional Committee -- even after she was offered some private face time with Bush -- because Operation Smile is a non-partisan group.
"It just feels wrong," one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. "She would love to meet the president and talk about Operation Smile ... but she can't do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party."
NRCC spokesman Carl Forti said he was surprised at Simpson's position.
"It's never been a problem for Bono," he said, referring to the U2 rock star who has met regularly with political leaders of all stripes to promote various causes, including Third World debt relief. "I find it hard to believe she would pass up an opportunity to lobby the president on behalf of Operation Smile."
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Jessica flirted with meeting President Bush, but in the end, decided she didn't want to tarnish her charity's image.
Although Simpson's publicists insisted she never had planned to attend the fund-raiser, Forti said the actress initially accepted the NRCC invitation when it was extended on Tuesday night, only to change her mind the next evening.
Forti said the Republican group had even arranged for Simpson to dine at one of the head tables with U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. The NRCC hopes the $2,500-per-plate dinner event will raise $7.5 million for Republican candidates in the congressional midterm elections in November.
Simpson, 25, a Texas native who started out singing in her church choir, became a star on the Christian music circuit as a teenager and crossed over to the pop mainstream with her major-label debut album "Sweet Kisses" in 1999.
She became an overnight MTV sensation in 2003 as co-star of a reality show chronicling her first year of wedlock with fellow pop vocalist Nick Lachey, but she filed for divorce in December after three stormy years of marriage. Simpson is currently featured wearing cowboy boots and hot pants in a TV pizza ad.
03/16/06 08:54 ET
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Sometimes you get cornered into going to things. For example, what if you were told that you were to show up at an Event where they said it's non-Political. However, when you show up, there are a whole bunch of political banners and they make it look like you're in support of a particular political party?
As I said, I don't particularly subscribe to either the Democratic or Republican Platforms. The business side of me appreciates the Laiisez-Faire stance of the Republican Party and where there should be less Government and more focus on the Military to keep us safe. However, I also believe in Social Programs (when the funding isn't being abused).
George Washington specifically warned about this and said "Don't form Political Parties." You get pigeon-hole politicians into taking stands for things that may not necessarily be in the best interest of the Demographic of People that they represent.
The way it was supposed to work is where congressmen and politicians vote on what they think is in the best interest of what they represent. That's the Idealistic Perspective. It just doesn't work that way.
You can expect the same kind of crap that's going to happen when more people start developing their Psychic Abilities and riding on Technicalities flouting the Spirit of the Law. I do it. If I do it, you can bet people with lesser morals will do it as well.
Personally, I sympathize with Jessica Simpson. If she doesn't want to go, she doesn't want to go. Look what happened to Oprah Winfrey when she didn't show up at some Black Guy's Funeral. The Black Community was badtalking her.
She said in a statement that she'd sent her condolences or called them and that there were some prior engagments she couldn't get out of. Personally, I don't think Oprah Winfrey needed a reason. Maybe it's true that Oprah represents the African-American Community, but they don't own Oprah. She's not a piece of meat or property.
If she didn't want to flat out attend because she had a headache or didn't feel like it, it shouldn't reflect badly on her. Status and fame are built up by the people, but Celebrities do have some say to their own personal lives.
I say this now because I know that when people finally come around to acknowledging my Title or Rank, they'll be taking the same attitude with me:
- "Well, you're God. God wouldn't do that."
- "If you were really Jesus Christ, you'd be sympathetic and attend this fundrasier for homeless children. Are you saying you don't care about homeless children?"
- "If you're really Superman, you wouldn't turn your back on ____________."
What if I get invited to a Presidential Banquet and suffer a stomach ache after eating some bad shrimp? I say I can't attend. Everyone's going to read into it and think I'm snubbing the President.
During this time where nobody knows who I am, people could care less if I at shit and died.
So why would it matter when I'm famous and well-known now that whatever I do speaks for everyone? Nothing has changed. I'm still the same Rod. It's only people's attitudes and perceptions.
People tend to be the ones that cause stress and anxiety in their lives.
As I said, I've got to see intimately how you can be on the receiving end of hatred and discrimination from people when they don't know your identity. When they think they're better than you or that you're a lazy bum, they treat you like dirt.
However, when you finally have something they want, then they're all swarming around you kissing your ass.
That's why I'm not impressed. The Planet set it up where you get a whole bunch of people behaving just as they would if they didn't know they were being graded and where you see their REAL personalities.
Also, whatever happened to "Do unto others as you would have done unto you?" How would you like it if you had al lthat pressure dumped on your head where if you sneeze the wrong way, people think it's a political statement?
No one likes to have their every move scrutinized, analyzed, and put under a microscope. That's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm anti-social.
Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush
Singer-Actress Fears Visit Would Hurt Her Favorite Charity
By Steve Gorman, Reuters
LOS ANGELES (March 16) - Concerned about politicizing her favorite charity, singer-actress Jessica Simpson on Wednesday turned down a invitation to meet with President Bush, a snub that left Republicans dismayed.
The apparent final word that Simpson would be a no-show at a major Republican fund-raiser with Bush and congressional leaders on Thursday night came after a day of conflicting reports from her camp and organizers of the event.
The blond star of the film "The Dukes of Hazzard" still plans to visit Washington on Thursday to lobby members of Congress on behalf of Operation Smile, a non-profit venture offering free plastic surgery for disadvantaged children overseas with facial deformities.
People close to Simpson said she declined a request to appear that same evening at the gala fund-raiser of the National Republican Congressional Committee -- even after she was offered some private face time with Bush -- because Operation Smile is a non-partisan group.
"It just feels wrong," one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. "She would love to meet the president and talk about Operation Smile ... but she can't do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party."
NRCC spokesman Carl Forti said he was surprised at Simpson's position.
"It's never been a problem for Bono," he said, referring to the U2 rock star who has met regularly with political leaders of all stripes to promote various causes, including Third World debt relief. "I find it hard to believe she would pass up an opportunity to lobby the president on behalf of Operation Smile."
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Jessica flirted with meeting President Bush, but in the end, decided she didn't want to tarnish her charity's image.
Although Simpson's publicists insisted she never had planned to attend the fund-raiser, Forti said the actress initially accepted the NRCC invitation when it was extended on Tuesday night, only to change her mind the next evening.
Forti said the Republican group had even arranged for Simpson to dine at one of the head tables with U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. The NRCC hopes the $2,500-per-plate dinner event will raise $7.5 million for Republican candidates in the congressional midterm elections in November.
Simpson, 25, a Texas native who started out singing in her church choir, became a star on the Christian music circuit as a teenager and crossed over to the pop mainstream with her major-label debut album "Sweet Kisses" in 1999.
She became an overnight MTV sensation in 2003 as co-star of a reality show chronicling her first year of wedlock with fellow pop vocalist Nick Lachey, but she filed for divorce in December after three stormy years of marriage. Simpson is currently featured wearing cowboy boots and hot pants in a TV pizza ad.
03/16/06 08:54 ET
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