Politics/war

Why you shouldn’t trust the mainstream media…

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I think it’s safe to say that you can’t trust the mainstream media at all. When it comes to news media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC,etc. you can’t trust any of them. If you look up the approval polls and the ratings for all the news networks, you would see that they aren’t very good. Since the approval ratings have gone way down on most major news networks, it really says something about today’s mainstream news.

You see politics was never supposed to be “right vs. left”. However, the mainstream media is making it “right vs. left” these days. There certainly is a double standard when reporting news. All the media wants to do is feed us a bunch of bullshit. They’ll do whatever it takes to spark some controversy. Start a huge debate between the two parties. That’s what they do in order to get people to watch their networks. They don’t really care for “realistic” journalism anymore. All they care about is people watching their news shows. They’ll do anything they can to get more ratings but they fail every time. The problem is that the mainstream news only focus on “left-wing” politics. The media tries their best to make “liberalism” look good and they make “conservatism” look bad. That’s why liberals have such a strong hatred for “conservatives” ’cause media brainwashed those people pretty good. “Conservatives” aren’t bad people at all, we just have different views and opinions. The media is just trying to make “the right” look bad.

It’s sad, ya know? Whenever you wanna talk about politics and people see that you have “right-wing” views, liberals will be quick to judge and call you a bunch of names such as you’re “crazy”, “dumb” or “Unintelligent”. They’ll also accuse you of watching too much FOX NEWS or listen to too much Rush Limbaugh.

The media will feed us a bunch of bullshit that isn’t true. Most of what you see in the media is all “fictitious”. Most of the recent shootings are hoaxes and didn’t even happen. ISIS isn’t even real and they try their best to make ISIS look evil & dangerous.

The mainstream news media also refuses to be realistic about Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton. Yeah, the media turned their backs on Hillary Clinton but the only reason they’re doing that is they can stop her from running for President and shove Bernie Sanders in our faces. That’s all a political move. Nothing more, nothing less.

You guys really gotta stop believing everything the media tells you and you gotta stop siding with them on everything too. This is why a lot of people still believe there is nothing wrong with Obama ’cause the media refuses to be honest about him. The media doesn’t want to report who Obama really is. He’s not the guy that the media tries to make him out to be at all. When you try your best to tell people who Obama really is: a criminal, a fraud, a Marxist, etc… people will laugh at your face… call you a “conspiracy theorist” and a FOX News junkie.

I really believe Obama is in control of the media. He’s in control of all of it. Even all the celebrity gossip news like TMZ and Obama is in control of Social networking. Have you noticed that all the facebook trends make Obama look too good? That’s because Mark Zuckerberg and Obama are friendly with each other. I think they secretly work behind the scenes together.

All this stuff going on in Charleston should be further proof that the media should not be trusted.

Like most people, I believe the media protects Obama. They agree to help protect Obama ’cause they don’t want their first “black” president to look bad. They’re afraid it could put their careers in jeopardy if they decide to be realistic on him. They won’t report his actions on Benghazi, Operation F&F, IRS, etc. but instead they report good things about Barack… like Climate Change, Net Neutrality, they try to make Obamacare look good, etc. Each time Obama appears on a late night talk show, they’re all over that too.

I try my best to tell people who Obama really is but a lot of people won’t believe me but that’s okay, let ’em. They will only believe what the media tells them. I’m sick of the media trying to make Obama look good. It’s just wrong and unfair. Like I said before… if these news networks wanna be taken seriously then they should be real about Barack and get him held accountable. Once they do that, people will eat this stuff up and the ratings WILL go up, trust me. This is what people wanna see… people being real about Barack Obama. The liberal left refuses to be real about Barack Obama and that’s even worse.

Don’t trust the media. Stop watching the news. Quit reading the papers ’cause it’s all nothing but a bunch of liberal garbage. I don’t pay attention to any of it. Wake up, America!

Kev

Politics/war

Hypocrite Obama who claims to care about “Climate Change” and saving the Earth jets to play a game of golf…

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Last week, Obama said at a speech in San Francisco, “I am committed to taking bold actions at home and abroad to cut carbon pollution.”

Well, here he goes jetting off in Air Force One to play a game of golf in Palm Springs. Polluting the air even more.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/21/obama-jets-to-california-desert-for-fathers-day-golf/

Um, yeah, he’s such a hero at saving the planet when he wastes a lot of jet fuel going to golf courses, fund raisers, vacations, speeches, etc.

We also have all kinds of things going on in America like the Charleston shootings. He also can’t come up with a strategy to defeat ISIS and he goes golfing. Instead of spending Father’s Day with his so-called daughters, Sasha and Malia, he goes golfing in California.

Yet, those dumb liberals aren’t outraged at him. Instead, they’ll be like, “Oh yay, there’s my President Obama. Go Obama GO!”.

Kev

movies

Scott Eastwood tried to get roles in his father’s directed films but was turned down…

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Scott Eastwood who is the son of legendary actor/director, Clint Eastwood tried to get roles for his father’s films but he was turned down. Yes, turned down by his own father. Scott auditioned for a role in “American Sniper” and badly wanted to be a part of that film but Clint said no. There were also other films that Scott wanted to be a part of too but Clint also said no. The reason? Clint gave him advice that if he wants to become an actor then he must earn it. Scott also said that Clint is old-school and there are no “hand outs”. Meaning just because you have a parent in the movie business doesn’t mean he/she will give you free hand-outs and free opportunities, you have to earn your way into the business yourself. Clint is trying to keep it real.

However, Clint didn’t turn down his son in all of his movies. Scott was in a few of Clint’s directed films such as “Flags of Our Fathers”, “Gran Torino” and “Invictus” probably because Clint had something that Scott could fit in.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/349144-clint-eastwoods-son-didnt-get-free-ride-stardom-hes-thankful/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Owned&utm_term=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Celebrity

I thought this was a pretty cool story so I thought I would share it.

Kev

Politics/war

Was the Charleston shooting motivated by racism or was it an attack against Christianity? I’d say a little bit of both…

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When it comes to the Charleston shooting, both sides Conservatives and Liberals wanna play the blame game and point fingers. I’ve heard both sides of the arguments. The left wants to believe that the attack was motivated by racism and the right wants to believe that the attack was an attack against Christianity. Sure enough, liberals wanna blame Conservatives/Republicans on this shooting. Hillary unfairly blamed Donald Trump and Bill Maher unfairly blamed the Conservative media. My question is, when will the liberal community ever take the blame for something? With the left’s constant dividing of the country and their anti-gun activism — of course, liberals has a huge hand in continuing to make these shootings happen. Don’t keep blaming conservatives when liberals should take some of the blame as well. Yeah, conservatives should take the blame for these shooting to keep happening but liberals should be responsible as well. We all should take the blame for these shootings to keep happening.

So do I think the shooting was racism motivated or was it an attack on Christianity? Definitely a little bit of both, ya think?

The thing is, everybody wants to blame the left and blame the right like usual but when will Obama ever take the blame? He’s the one dividing the country. When someone wants to blame Obama, sure enough, people will give us shit about it. I’m sick of people thinking that Obama never had a huge hand in any of this when he’s doing all the race baiting. Both sides are to blame, the right and the left.

Now the left wants to blame the Confederate flag? Wow.

All this finger pointing is becoming a huge joke. Grow the fuck up, people.

Kev

music

The Grateful Dead, Phish and the Allman Brothers are three of the greatest jam bands…

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On Spotify, I’ve been listening to quite a lot of Grateful Dead. So far, I’ve listened to 5 albums by them. They are: The Grateful Dead (Self titled), Aoxomoxoa, Workingman’s Dead, Blues For Allah and Go To Heaven.

I’m trying to listen to all of the Dead’s studio albums. I’ve always been a Dead fan for years. In the past though, I wasn’t much of a Deadhead. I didn’t buy much of their albums. I just listened to the dead when friends & family members listened to them. I think I wanna start buying some Grateful Dead music myself and soon I’ll start collecting all of their studio albums from Itunes.

I wanna start listening to Phish a lot more too ’cause I’ve been listening to Phish for a long time and even saw them in concert a couple of times. I really like PHish a lot.

As for the Allman Brothers, I’m a huge fan of that band and have most of their albums.

I like jam band and hippie music, sure. It’s just that I would listen to the Dead, Phish and the Allman Bros. ’cause those three bands are my favorite. I don’t have to be a stoner or a drug addict to listen to that music. I listen to it ’cause I enjoy it. I just think that kind of music is fun to listen to. I don’t have to be a hippie to enjoy it which I’m not a hippie at all. I listen to these bands ’cause I just love the improvisational jams which is what I listen to them for. I know jam band music isn’t for everybody but I happen to enjoy this stuff.

I don’t know why the jam band industry gets so much hatred and disrespect. I understand that the drugs is part of the problem but I just love ’em for the music, ya know? That’s what it should have been about. It’s just fun music to listen to. I just love to listen to that kind of guitar playing. Plus the songwriting can get really good and some of these bands can come up with very good vocal melodies.

All three of these bands are inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame except for Phish, though. Phish absolutely deserves an induction in the Hall of Fame. Love Phish or hate ’em, they accomplished a lot in the industry and that band continues to be very successful. Phish should be respected. I like improv jams and I listen to this stuff for my own inspiration of guitar playing.

Kev

music

Sammy Hagar calls out Eddie Van Halen on “Showing Michael Anthony what to play” comments…

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What’s with Eddie Van Halen trash talking his former and current band members of Van Halen? Is Eddie back on the booze again? Eddie did an interview with Billboard magazine and in it he said some pretty hateful things about David Lee Roth, Gary Cherone and Michael Anthony. In this interview… Eddie claims that he and DLR aren’t friends and sounds like he was criticizing David’s hairstyle and his taste in music.

Then he goes on to say some harsh things about their former bassist, Michael Anthony… claiming that he had to teach him how to play all the bass parts for the Van Halen songs. Eddie also went on to claim that all the back up vocals in Van Halen around the time Anthony was in the band weren’t his vocals, they were actually Eddie’s. Is Eddie trying to make Michael Anthony look like an amatuer and trying to take credit for the backup vocals? That’s what it’s looking like to me.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6605492/eddie-van-halen-michael-anthony-david-lee-roth-feud-gary-cherone

Anyway, Sammy Hagar here read the Billboard interview and he isn’t happy about it. Sammy made a video here, calling Eddie out. Sammy says Eddie is a liar and tries to explain that Michael Anthony is actually a pro! Sammy knows from experience ’cause he used to be a member of Van Halen!

Wow! So Eddie is willing to trash talk all of his members of Van Halen except for Alex and Wolfgang. Why won’t he talk shit about Alex and Wolfgang? Well, obviously because they are Eddie’s family. Alex is Eddie’s brother and Wolfgang is Eddie’s son.

After reading Eddie’s comments about his past and current bandmates, I am now starting to see why Van Halen had too many problems over the years. Maybe it’s because Eddie is an asshole?

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Video: How to stop caring what other people think of you…

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This isn’t a dating advice video but this is a good advice video on life. There’s some good points in this video on “How to Stop Caring What Other People Think Of You”.

Ya know, getting haters and getting people criticizing you all the time isn’t a bad thing at all. As some of you know, I’ve always had a problem with negative people getting all over me for years and I can’t figure out why that is. After watching this video, I kind of figured it out now. Maybe it’s because I’m getting so much negative criticism toward me is ’cause people know I’m living my life big? I agree with this guy that if you’re not getting enough people criticizing you, then you’re not living big enough at all. If you’re not getting haters, then there is something wrong there.

Sometimes I ask myself, what do people get so mad at me for? Maybe it’s because of my music, bodybuilding physique, my blog… maybe a combination of all three? If you’re pissing people off, then there’s gotta be something good about you that they don’t have. They shit on you out of jealousy and envy, ya know?

I used to be upset at people criticizing me and hating on me but it don’t bother me anymore. I just ignore it all and don’t care what people have to say about me anymore. Just live your life the way you want to. Do whatever makes you happy. I not only get critics just on the internet… I get people criticizing me to my face in person as well but… I don’t care. I am who I am. Fuck everyone and just be you. That’s all there is to it.

Kev

movies, music

Courtney Love fails to shut down release of “Soaked in Bleach”, movie theaters continues release as planned…

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It’s a good thing that movie theaters across the country just gave Courtney Love the middle finger and said, “We’re releasing ‘Soaked In Bleach’ anyways”. Courtney’s attorneys sent cease & desist letters to movie theaters across the country hoping to stop the release of “Soaked In Bleach” but they failed. Movie theaters just ignored her and released the movie as planned. How did this happen? Well, the Supreme Court had a ruling that gave them free speech rights to release the film…

CRACKED DOLL: Courtney Love Fails to Stop Doc ‘Soaked In Bleach’ with Cease and Desist Letter

I don’t know about you but I think the Kurt Cobain death case should be reopened. We gotta somehow convince Frances Bean to make that happen. I mean… doesn’t she want the real truth of what really happened to her father? Even she still believes that her father committed suicide. Hopefully Frances Bean herself sees this film and maybe it’ll help open her eyes more.

I’ve had a feeling that Kurt was actually murdered for a pretty long time. I still stand by that today.

Why would Courtney kill her own husband? Well for one to take his fame and his money. Remember now, her album with Hole “Live Through This” was released shortly after his death. She did it to boost her career and to own the rights to Nirvana’s music so she can get profits from it.

Kev

Local music

Do cover bands steal the spotlight from all original bands? I’d say yes absolutely!!!

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This has always been a long running debate in the musicians community. Do cover bands steal the spotlight from original bands? I would say yes, absolutely! This is just the sad truth and all you musicians out there gotta admit that this is true.

I have noticed that cover bands and even tribute bands have taken over the Capital Region music scene. There are some original bands that establish themselves pretty good and some get a huge fanbase going but not enough of them. There are tons of original talent around here that are begging to get heard but it’s really is hard for an original band or solo artist to establish themselves. Why? Because the cover band and tribute band scene is so huge here. The cover bands & tribute bands get more successes than the original bands. Cover bands also get paid more than original bands too. Cover bands get paid a lot more.

Why are cover bands more successful than original bands in this area? It’s because the answer is really quite simple. Cover bands help make the bars & club a lot of money. They pull in a lot of people. As long as customers are coming in to buy the admission tickets and buy a lot of drinks… that shit makes the bars & clubs happy. That’s why cover bands get more successes than the originals. It has always been like that.

There are other promoters in the area who try to promote nothing but original music only which is what CRUMBS is all about. They do a good job of promoting local original music only. Original music continues to get lesser success ’cause not many people around here like original music. A lot of people would rather have a good time by dancing to the same songs you hear on the radio. They would rather dance to top 40 stuff.

It really is hard to get people to listen to your original music. Have you noticed that each time I put out a cover song of mine, those videos get more views than my originals? That just proves my point. I think it’s safe to say that people would rather hear cover songs than original music.

Which gets me thinking that I might stop doing cover songs for good if I want people to respect my originals more. I’ll probably just focus on originals only. I’ll start writing new songs again soon.

It is pretty sad that the cover band scene is bigger than the original band scene, though. It’s always been like that all over the United States so it’s nothing new. We do need a new revolution. Original bands need to take over somehow. To be honest with ya, I’m not a big fan of the cover band scene myself. I’m also not a big fan of tribute bands. I have noticed that tribute bands have been on the rise a lot lately. Tribute bands is when a band pretends to be your favorite band and you play songs by nobody else but that band you like for example there are too many Led Zeppelin tribute bands around here. There are also too many Ac/Dc tributes, a lot of Black Sabbath tributes, Pearl Jam tributes, etc. I can think of a certain somebody who pushed the tribute band scene out there more but I don’t wanna name names. I can’t stand tribute bands. I just don’t see the point in them.

I like to support original bands & artists mostly ’cause some of those guys do write really good songs. It’s just sad that they don’t get heard much. We really gotta do something about the original music scene.

I know many would find it offensive of my opinion that cover bands steal the spotlight from original bands but you gotta learn to accept that truth and embrace it. It is what it is.

Kev

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