Gary Graham

Gary Graham

Gary Graham was born in Long Beach, California and grew up in and around Orange County. The son of a medical doctor, he too aspired to a career in medicine. However, despite showing prowess in the medical sciences, Gary left pre-med to study theater arts at the University of California, Irvine, in the early seventies.

His first feature film role opposite George C. Scott in “Hardcore.” Since that time Gary has appeared in numerous feature films such as “Robot Jox,” “The Last Warrior,” “Man Trouble,” and “Hollywood Knights,” many TV movies and series. From 1990 to 1996, he starred as Matt Sikes in FOX TV's “Alien Nation.” More recently he was seen in recurring roles as Capt. Ingles on “J.A.G.” and as Ambassador Soval in “Star Trek: Enterprise."

Still active in the film business, Gary now is a producer for the new reality TV show, “The Ultimate Shooter,” and is working with Jace Hall and HD FILMS at Warner Brothers writing and producing the new internet webseries, “What If..?” He also stars in the popular webseries “Dead End City,” on Strike.TV.

He lives in a small town outside of Los Angeles where he enjoys spending time with his family, working weekends as a volunteer Ski Patroller, golfing, and flying.

State of the Union: Pandering As An Art Form

by Gary Graham

The President is a great orator.  That doesn’t make him a great leader.  I know, I know – give him a chance.  But if you were able to glimpse into the future and could glean important information, vital information that a nation’s leader was actually unknowingly leading his people over a cliff; wouldn’t you…want to tell someone about it?

I am no genius.  I’m a pretty average, normal guy…but a guy who has been paying attention.  I remember the past, as it helps me extrapolate into the future and make better decisions for myself and my family.  Avoid the pitfalls.  Swerve around the danger.  I don’t doubt President Obama is a smart man, loves his family and truly wants what he considers to be the best for America.

But obviously, he hasn’t been paying attention. (more…)

I’m a Racist Coward!

by Gary Graham

I am appalled.  I just found out that I am a racist and a coward and I did not know it.

Eric Holder said yesterday, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

How could I have been so self-deluded?

Wow.  I know, huh?  The things you find out about yourself if you just listen to newly appointed/elected government officials.  (more…)

The New and Improved Deal

by Gary Graham

In my never-ending quest to 1) tell the truth, and 2) amuse myself to distraction by thoroughly pissing off the Left, I’d like to say a few words about the upcoming Signing of the Stimulus Bill.  Considering the expense involved in flying the President’s posse, I mean Executive Entourage and Security Detail, aboard Air Force One, one would have to ponder…why Denver?  Why not some other location for this historic event to occur?   Washington, D.C.?  On the East Coast… or the Left Coast?   No, the President is putting his siggy on the largest spending bill in history…in Denver, Colorado.  Smack dab in the middle of the country.  I mean, how Centrist can the man get?  How symbolically inclusive, how fair and balanced, how non-partisan? 

And you said this guy is all style over substance. (more…)

The Seduction of Insanity

by Gary Graham

I must be stupid. 

I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it.  Clearly, I am just too simple minded to understand the efficacy of the so-called Stimulus Bill. I run the idea past my Common Sense center in my cerebral cortex and all I hear is a dial tone.  And if I get really quiet … I can hear a distant scream. 

I’ve watched President Obama make his case on national television.  I keep waiting for the entire Washington press corps to bust up laughing.  I keep waiting for news anchors to crack up mid-sentence and not be able to continue, doubled over.  I keep waiting for an incensed public to storm Pennsylvania Avenue and demand their money back.

But then … I must be stupid. (more…)

Liberals & Lightbulbs

by Gary Graham

Q: HOW MANY LIBERALS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHTBULB?

A: SEVENTEEN.

TWO, to notice that there is no light by bumping in to each other, debate whether the collision was due to a sudden increase in the amount of prevailing darkness, or rather, an uptrend in the known absence of illumination…and then blame it on George Bush as part of the 9/11 Conspiracy.

ONE, to start a website that links the dead light bulb as further proof of Global Warming.

FOUR, to set up a mobile texting network to demand a United Nations tribunal investigating Bush/Cheney’s collusion with Halliburton, the Trilateral Commision, the Skull and Bones Society, the NRA, the CFR, NASCAR, the Boy Scouts of America, Lyme disease, and Satan.

NINE, to establish an emergency bi-partisan Congressional Committee to Study the Crisis, spend seventy-five billion dollars as quickly as humanly possible, and eventually arrive at the conclusion that the only thing the government does that’s worth a damn is found in the U.S Military. So they send in…

ONE brave serviceman to enter the darkness and climb up and screw in a new light bulb.

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Your turn, top that!

Flashpoint! A Woman’s Right To Choose

by Gary Graham

I’m not a person filled with hate. I don’t brew strong stomach acids when I hear/see things I think horrendously idiotic or unjust in the news or on the street. Initially, my reaction is to laugh. The irony is simply too much, and I crack up. Generally, it’s either laugh…or cry. And who wants to spend the day in tears? For I would, were I to give in to that option of dealing with the utter, naked insanity in our midst on a daily basis. I’m not just talking about something that ‘isn’t quite right’ or… ‘is just a tad out of whack’…I’m talking about the United States of America in this year of 2009 being completely off its moorings and slipping into the abyss.

“What the hell is Graham on about now?? What momentous, screeching rant is he conjuring up now; can somebody put him on a stupid TV show so he’d shut up already??” – Your name here.

No. I’m going to say it. I’m going to say what millions know in the front of their brains, and many, many more millions know in the depths of their hearts…but won’t allow themselves to think it, much less feel it. And believe me, I know I’ll be hated for saying it, I’ll be hated by people who don’t know me, have never worked with me, have never golfed with me, had a drink with me, shot the shit with me. They’ve never met me, don’t want to meet me…but they will hate me. I’m going to say it anyway: Abortion is murder. (more…)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Close Gitmo, I’ll Take ‘em!

by Gary Graham

THIS JUST IN: In a surprise move today, the outspoken and controversial Sheriff of Maricopa County,  Arizona, stated that he’d be happy to take the inmates of Gitmo and provide for them “appropriate and hospitable accommodations.” When questioned in a press conference what those ‘appropriate’ accommodations would entail, the spirited Sheriff was quoted as saying, “Oh, you’ll find out. Our recidivism rate here is nearly zero. For some reason inmates, when released, are not too keen on coming back.”

Asked if the detainees would receive just and humane treatment, the Sheriff smiled and said, “Certainly. They are ‘humans’ and will be treated as such…and that’s ‘just’ the way it is.” (more…)

The Audacity of Ho-Ho-Hope

by Gary Graham

THIS JUST IN: January 20, 2008 — On this historic occasion in American history, President Barack Obama, in addition to becoming the First Black President of the United States, has been declared the First Black Santa Claus. He will now be referred to as President St. Barackas. Attendant to that decree was a declaration that Christmas, more officially known as American Winter Barackas Solstice Earth Rejuvenation Day, (or A.W.B.S.E.R.D.), would now be a daily event rather than coming just once a year. (In a brief press conference following the Inauguration/Canonization, White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, when asked how every day could be a ‘winter’ holiday all year long, Mr. Emanuel stated simply, “Global warming.”)

The new President-Santa-Elect said in his rousing, yet tenderly touching inauguration speech that “Hope is alive in America”, this is the “change we need”, and also “Yes I can!” — which was met with a stirring and tearful ovation.  The always effusive and emotional Oprah Winfrey was quoted as saying to the huge crowd afterward, “I…I’ve never been so filled with joy in my entire life.  I’m going to give everyone here a new car.  From… the national treasury!” (more…)

STIMULATE THIS!

by Gary Graham

STIMULATE THIS!

So now it’s time for another bailout.  The one last month didn’t do the trick, apparently.  800 billion wasn’t quiiiiite enough.   We’re gonna have to try harder.

Hey I got an idea for stimulating the economy.  Everybody who reads this, go to www.garygraham.com and buy my damn book!  (ACTING & Other Flying Lessons)  Yeah, it’s a little cheaper on Amazon, but get it from my site and I’ll even personalize it for you.  (WOW!!!!  I know, huh?)   But really…I need the money, now that I’ve self-immolated my acting career by coming out Conservative.  Baby’s horse needs two new pair of shoes.  And what better way to engage in pure unapologetic Capitalism, than to shoot me a twenty-spot for a cool book.  Money-back guarantee.  Did I mention garygraham.com?

All right, enough shameless self-promotion!  Back to the Stimulus Package our new leader proposes.

“We will create jobs.” — Pres-elect B.H. Obama

Huh??   Sounds like one big ‘make-work’ scheme to me.   Just coming up with erroneous projects, simply to have people occupied with a lot of activity merely to draw a paycheck seems a fool’s errand.   Like, “Move that rock pile over there.  And when you finished, move it back over here.”   (Okay, maybe not moving a rock pile… but do we need another railroad museum?  I didn’t realize there was a shortage.)   Oh, but we’ve got to rebuild out infrastructure, you say.  We need to do these projects.

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I’m on radio Mon, Jan 12, 1:00pm (pst) — AND I am posting a new ’salvo’ tomorrow a.m. (Jan 13)

by Gary Graham
 
I’m on the radio MONDAY  at 1:00pm (pst) on this channel
 

The Jaz McKay Show

The Uncommon Voice for the Common Man, weekdays noon til 3p, only on 1560 KNZR!
 
Hope to see you there!
 
Gary

5:15pm PST IT’S 1360 FOX TALK RADIO KXDJ

by Gary Graham

I’m being interevied by John Gibson TODAY at 5:15pm PST on 1360 Fox Talk Radio KWDJ

I’m ready to go, all comfy in my SpongeBobSquarePants pajamas and Bullwinkle fuzzy slippers.  Bring it on, John!!!  Hope I don’t stutter, hope I don’t drool.  Live radio, AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

I’m being INTERVIEWED TODAY on the JOHN GIBSON SHOW, 5:10PM (pst) on KXDJ Fox Radio

by Gary Graham

Good Afternoon!  I received a call this morning – from the Republican Party.  A very lovely sounding woman came on the line and thanked me for my support during the past election, that enabled such a good showing battling the Democrats, and would I care to renew my support with a check for $600 today in order to… “oh wow, something’s burning on the stove, I’m sorry I can’t talk right now” CLICK.

I hung up. Shaking my head I resumed reading my email.  Then I stopped, reached for the phone, hit star-69.  The connection did not go through, but I wanted to tell that kind woman what I really thought about ‘the good showing’ the Republican party did that past election!    Yeah, I voted for McCain…but I’m one of those who felt like Ann Coulter – “On November 4, let’s all get drunk and vote for John McCain!”  This was the best candidate our party could field to take on the Liberal onslaught?  Has George Bush so mangled the GOP in 7 yrs that we should be enthusiastic about pushing a pseudo-Conservative, a ‘moderate’, a let’s-all-get-along- with-Marxists, water-it-down, closet Lefty?

Say it ain’t so!

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One Pissed-Off Dude

by Gary Graham

I’m an American. This has always been my favorite label, but of late even that has seemed to mean less and less. Being called an American used to carry with it a certain pride and esprit de corps that now apparently is dated and passe. How else can one explain the rash of America-haters in our midst who only claim pride in America if a Leftist resides in the White House, and can only back a war effort if the decision to go to war was that of a Democrat.

I’m a Conservative. And I am also an actor who lives and works in Hollywood. Many of my friends advise me to keep that on the down-low, advise me to not speak up lest I scuttle any future employment prospects, so predominantly liberal is the entertainment biz. And yet I persist.

You see, I’m one pissed-off dude.

I’m told I’ll hurt my career if I continually spout off about Liberalism — which I see as a growing cancer in our society. Worldwide, I’ve seen Liberalism metastasize into virulent incarnations of Socialism, and, left unchecked, even into its malignant cousin, Communism. Only the arrogant or the somnambulist would think such a thing could never happen here. It’s a matter of increment. Once a group organizes into a coalition, it’s a short step to claiming the right to the property of another group. All that is necessary is for an individual’s right to personal property to become a secondary concern. The ‘needs’ of the group must supercede, dontcha know. It’s a vicious cycle – wants become needs become rights. The fact that the thievery is done at the behest of a ‘civilized’ government does not sanitize the crime.

“At least the highwayman has the decency to wear a mask.” – Author unknown.

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