The Noble Prize for Stupidity

The award for Barack Obama may be the most stunningly undeserved use of the Nobel Peace Prize. When you add it up, the Nobel Prize Committee is giving Obama an “A” for effort, and even that’s not deserved when the President of France is calling you naive and making fun of you.

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Kevin Skinner Wins America’s Got Talent

The Winner of AGT, Season Four is Kevin Skinner, the former Chicken Catcher from Kentucky.  Skinner’s win was unsurprising based on how much he’d been hyped by judges. He also has a very modest attitude that in the era of Kanye West was quite appealing.

As the judges stated in the finals, Kevin didn’t have the greatest voice in the competition. Lawrence Beaman took that honor, but didn’t connect with Americans. And yes, Barbara Padilla, who finished second had a better voice, but America just chose an Opera skinner.  Skinner might need vocal coaching, or perhaps he might need to get his nerves in check. His peak performance really was his audition without all the lights and magic of a big Hollywood performance. Write good songs for him in the Garth Brooks-style he’s most comfortable in and he can get a string of Gold Records.

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Bieter’s Biggest Blunder Yet

Boise Mayor Chris Bieter’s health care resolution may be the most politically stupid and inappropriate action of his entire Mayoral reign. I’ve been a critic of the Mayor since the Ten Commandments, but looking at this Health care resolution, it may take the cake in several categories of poor management.

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Twittering Away Our Past Lives

Want to take a course on how to use Twitter or Facebook or learn about your reincarnated past as Marie Antoinette’s cousin. Then Boise Community Education might be for you.

I just received the catalog in the mail from the Boise School District. I don’t mean to trivialize the program. In fact, there are some facinating courses out there that teach useful skills. Others provide fairly low cost physical fitness courses.

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Final AGT Semi-Final and Predictions

Tonight was the last America’s Got Talent Semi-finals. However, thanks to last week’s cop outby the judges, all the drama was manufactured. There was no judge’s choice after the judges abdicated last week by sending both the 4th and 5th place acts through. Thus, AGT had to build drama by having Nick Cannon have two acts step forward and saying, “America has spoken, one of you will go home…And we’ll find out who right after this.”

Cannon did this twice. The most interesting part of the results show was when they showed a behind the scenes look about the Judges’ decision (or should I say indecision) the week before.  At one point, Piers Morgan said, “We’re the judges, we can do whatever we want.”

With an attitude like that, you know that it’s only his British citizenship that has stopped Morgan from getting on the Supreme Court. 

Thoughts on the five who made it, the five who didn’t, and how the final shakes up.

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