Observational Pissings

Democrat Debate Dinner Theater

2007-11-17T17:58:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Democrats, theater, debate, liberals, Hillary,
fake]

That's right. The latest CNN Democrat debate which occurred Nov. 14th on of course, CNN is getting blamed for "planting questions" in the audience - which leads me to believe two things:

1. CNN is a hypocrites dream
2. The Democrat debates are nothing more than bad dinner theater

I call CNN hypocritical since they jumped all over the planted question Hillary's handlers put out to another young woman at a supposed "Town Hall Meeting", called "Plant-Gate" by the Republicans. Yet, CNN now scripts and plants questions for their own viewers and basically does the same thing they reported Hillary doing. I guess CNN followed the Huffington Post citing "Plant-Gate" as a great idea. Everyday people are apparently way to stupid and lazy to understand actual questions and answers - the Democrat leadership must now hire the striking Hollywood writers on scab wages to script the media debates. The idea that spontaneous interaction of approval or disapproval from the audience and real actual questions thought up by and asked by real people at a political debate now seems preposterous. Maria Luisa, a UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton the now famous "Do you prefer diamonds or pearls" fluff question of the political century had this to say on her Myspace page after receiving tons of email criticizing her question:

"CNN ran out of time and used me to "close" the debate with the pearls/diamonds question. Seconds later this girl comes up to me and says, "you gave our school a bad reputation.' Well, I had to explain to her that every question from the audience was preplanned and censored. That's what the media does. See, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted. That's politics; that's reality. So, if you want to read about real issues important to America--and the whole world, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Economist or the New York Times or some other independent source. If you want me to explain to you how the media works, I am more than happy to do so. But do not judge me or my integrity based on that question."

"...every question from the audience was preplanned and censored."

So what is one to believe... that these debates are actual answers to actual questions that citizens who will be voting in approximately 1 year, believe are important to them? Hell no. This is dinner theater and bad dinner theater at that ... first there's no dinner. Strike one. The dinner theater that I'm familiar with, like a good "murder mystery" dinner theater does not inform the public what they are going to do via a script... that's what makes it a little edgy and fun... the audience member who gets pulled into the murder mystery has no idea what will happen. In the Democrat debate theater, apparently everyone had the script prior to taping. Strike two. Then what seems to have occurred, according to this UNLV student, not only was the audience informed and provided a script, they were also provided questions to ask the "debaters", and asked to make it seem like they are actually asking it for their own personal interest... Strike three. This isn't even "Survivor" type scripted... this is "Seinfeld" scripted but with no punch lines and very bad comedic timing.

So can we expect that all these supposed debates are scripted by the media, controlled by the media, and supported by the media? According to the Republicans - yes. John Gibson, Fox journalist and talking head accused Wolfie Blitzer of having to follow the Clinton script found on Media Matters' website about what to ask and what not to ask. Media Matters is, according to Hillary, her baby and was started by her and is funded by George Soros - billionaire socialist/communist who's prime wants are a changed U.S., repeal of the constitution, socialist/communist America.

George, George, George... money can't buy you love...

It seems like the softballs were flying at the CNN democrat debate and it certainly appears as though Wolfie decided not to get on the bad side of the Clinton's and the body bags that have plagued those who have crossed the Clinton's. Conspiracy... probably. Yet, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence which leads one to believe there's at least some smoke if not absolute fire there. The Clinton's have been in bed with very bad people for many decades and have mastered the art of the non-stick scandal. If the Bush/Rove group is getting away with not being impeached, the Clinton's have gotten away with multiple charges of serial murders in comparison.

So what's a moderate to do when watching "Debate theater"? View it like an episode of "House" or a geriatric "Grey's Anatomy" and realize that it's all a put up job. It's not real. Even if the questions were real, the audience wasn't scripted, the moderators weren't controlled, the answers from politicians certainly would be contrived bullshit 99% of the time. They'll say pretty much anything (in most any language ie. Dodd) to get a vote. Shake hands, kiss babies, knife their own grandmother - whatever. I personally got turned off from the YouTube debate with the hand-puppet and snowman questions... since then, it's all been a cartoon to me. The last thing I want is some hand puppet asking some fluff question and the left-loon pundits orgasming all over themselves for the next two weeks about how "progressive" they are. Gimme a break. The hand puppet isn't paying a pension, isn't fixing the tax code, isn't helping in Iraq... but it sure is a metaphor for politics isn't it? A made up puppet with controlled by someone's hand up it's ass - if that's not a metaphor for politics and the Democrat debates I don't know what is.

Ed. note:

(Yes, I use the word "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" in this piece - the reason is, those who call themselves DEMOCRATS and are running for the Presidency in 2008 are not "Democratic" or "Democrats" by any means, so I feel it's misguiding readers who may stumble upon this blog and actually read it - all 2 of them in the next decade - and I'd hate to have mislead two people out of 300 million by calling a democrat debate democratic.)

A Rose by any other name...

2007-09-14T17:21:00.000-04:00

[Tags: Democrats, neocon, linguistics, liberals, Iraq,
partisan]

As complex and intricate as the English language is, as time passes, it always becomes more so. I am in no stretch of the imagination, a linguist or even a wannabe. I use words to try and express in a hopefully calm and logical way, my thoughts such as the wanted meaning is conveyed successfully. That is to say, I say what I mean and mean what I say so ya'll can understand.. dig? Yet, as time goes by, language changes as do the meanings of words. What was once used in the past to convey an emotion or illicit an emotion is discarded over time such that either it is not used at all, or if the word is used, it's meaning has sometimes drastically changed. For example, the word “swell” in the past (read: 1920's – 1950's) was used to convey the meaning “Great!”. We have since stopped using that word as it has fallen out of favor by the popular culture through the 1960's and to today, and have adopted other words – more words, that convey and illicit the same feeling, without the word “swell” being used. “Awesome” and “Excellent” are two of the most common of my generation.

That brings us back to the politics of the world. Politics has an effect on our language as well. Little known words such as “jingoism”, first coined in 1878 (according to Websters Dictionary) was vastly lost to time until drudged up post in the 21st century post 9/11, and used by the Democratic party as an epithet hurled at those “flag waving” American's who some feel to have too much pride in their country called the United States of America. One can only hope “swell” makes a comeback real real soon.

In fact, the Democratic Party has been very creative in their use of language as I have pointed out in the past few years on this very blog. Intensive use of idiosyncratic words, coupled with adjectives and adverbs meant to degrade, flame and otherwise insult the government, the military, those unfortunate “jingoists”, and anyone else who dared stand opposed to these “New Liberals” way of thinking were fodder for the linguistic grinder of “The Daily Kos”, “Smirking Chimp” as well as the pseudo-pundits calling themselves “political comedians” on television and cable shows nation wide. This isn't to be confused with "neoliberalism" which is very very different (and deserves a post all by itself). Democrats have found that the written word when used as a weapon, and when honed either by adding not-so-well-known adjectives and descriptions as well as long-dead words that have fallen out of favor with the population cause people to “sit up and take notice”. This notice may be in violent agreement, or in violent protest – both of which are irrelevant as the purpose was and is, to illicit a response... ANY response, and they have been very successful at it. Therefore, the 1959 coined word “neoconservative” first used by a journalist to describe a new type of conservative was not that popular at the time. In fact, until the 21st century, very few people even knew such word existed until the media and then the blogs-sphere started using a shortened version of the word neoconservative; neocon. Like jingoism (jingoist), it's new form and new meaning was meant as a slur against conservatives who as Websters defines it as:

2. a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and United States national interest in international affairs including through military means

Primarily, this is used to describe any and all (regardless of actual political leanings or thoughts) who supported the Iraq War and removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Like jingoist, neocon again has a negative use and is used as an accusation or attack. Calling someone a neocon was supposed to illicit the response: “No, I'm not a neocon”. Since no-one liked the word, and the people enmasse did not stand up and start support groups like “I'm a neocon and proud” of “NFWD” (Neocons for World Domination - I totally made those up btw), etc... the word stuck as a slur against Republicans when a Democrat needed a good zinger to throw out there. While very little of America, then or now, would espouse to actually fitting the definition of a neocon, I think it's time an accurate definition of some more colorful of the Democratic party be identified with some new terminology. The New Liberals are not like the old liberals like JFK, Truman, FDR, etc. Those Democrats would, in todays world, be Republicans. While the media and various PolySci organizations and Universities squabble over when and how much the Democratic party slid left, and the Republican Party slid right leaving the moderates alone and naked wondering where their clothes have gone – we're all left in the swamp of words hurled as arrows from one side of the political spectrum to the other by the politicians and the parroting and biased media. Until now, I believe the Democrats have had the upper hand in that, they are much more creative with language and have kept the Republicans either on the defensive or stuck in a library looking up definitions like “jingoism”. Republicans need a word that encompasses the New Liberals... the Code Pinks, the Dennis Kucinich's of the world who's views are, well, far from progressive or contemporary but very much radical and a very effing kooky. How can language possibly define a moderate liberal the same as a kooky liberal? Sure, Republican's have up until this point, been trying to be as creative with words but failing miserably. Moonbat is a favorite, but has little to describe in political terminology what a Moonbat actually stands for. Are there degrees of moon-bat or are they all clumped into one? “Liberal” and “Lefty” are sometimes used – the old standby “Commie-Pinko” doesn't really encompass the correct definition any longer as most of the worlds Communist countries have gone the way of the Dodo. “Socialists”? Meh... it hardly has zing! to it and you can't abbreviate it in a way that's got sting or that could possibly put an elitist Democrat on back on their heels in defense. No, there needs to be another word, a combination of words. Something that has some “POP” to it, something that will illicit a strong opinion one way or another but ultimately, will illicit SOME response. It's got to be catching, have some zing – be easy to say, easy to remember and most of all, based in reality. So far there is no such word and we all know what that means... we have to make up a word that can encompass the meaning.

In the spirit of being bi-partisan and to allow the Republican's the opportunity to think of and perhaps get the creative juices flowing, I created a new word that probably will not stick, that no-one will like or use, but which MAY get the Republican's back in the game here with a word of their own to describe the ever left-leaning rabid and moderate liberals of today and the future. What I call the “New Liberals” are really Zealo-libs. Z-libs for short. What's it mean? Well... let me provide you with a definition or two that may help explain:

Zealolib

Two entries found.
Zealolib

Main Entry:
zee·lo·lib
Pronunciation:
\ˌ'zē-lō-lib\
Function:
noun
Date:
2007
1 : A liberal who expresses and advocates mostly negative and critical extremist positions without need or want of a better suggestion or plan.
2 : To provide an “anti-anything” stance.
3 : Repetition of rhetoric or slander without providing evidence to the contrary.
4 : Denouncement and criticism for criticism's sake or for political aspirations only.
— zealoliberalism \-və-ˌti-zəm\ noun
— zealoliberal adjective
See also Zlib

While one term is fine, there are thresholds of Zeloliberalism that one term simply cannot fully encompass. The diversity of Zelolibs are such that, can one really lump in Richardson with Code Pink? I don't think I could live with myself making that vast of a generalization – and besides – Zelolibs and Moderate Liberals just won't take such a ludicrous comparison seriously and I don't blame them. While I chalk up the “neo-con” as slander BECAUSE it doesn't provide the layers and depth of difference between a Rush Limbaugh and a Ron Paul, that does not mean that I, the creator of the Zelolib term, would want to stoop as low and only create one word to encompass what is ... a vast array of crazies and moderates. Therefore, I must now delve into the picture that hopefully will provide some explaination of it all. To varying degrees, a Zelolib could be a Zelo-Com or a Zelo-Hipster. In order to further define what each of these things are and what they include, it will be necessary (I”m sorry to say) to further refine this at a future date. As I said in the beginning, the terminology changes as do the politics... while we can chalk up little change to “neoconservative” over the past 60 years, Republicans have a need to be accurate and factual – therefore, these definition's may NOT be accurate next year or the year after that.

From bad to better Examples in pictures

Zealocom

Zealosoc

Zealohipster

Zealolib (not the generic kind, but the specific kind)

Zealodem

Now that there is a definition of what a Zealolib is, further layers of detail on the types of definitions to the word, pronunciation, descriptors and variants, as well as MORE depth as to different levels of a Zealolib as well as specific examples of who and what each one would be, I'm hoping this will serve as a starting point for a word easier to use than mine, more specific and one that will rrrrrrroooll off the tongue without hesitation. Republicans are in dire need of this word to accurately and figuratively describe the self loathing, cynicism, hate, rabidness, slander, and utter rubbish some Democrats are spewing each and every day in hopes they can win a political erection... err... election. Democrats have and are now pandering to the lowest denominator with "Petraeus Betray Us" ads by Moveon.org in the NYT, as well as utter denial of the consequences of an Iraq failure not just for America, but for the entire world. While that may be our future given a Democrat in the White House in 2008 - what they are not talking about are the consequences. THAT is why we need a new term for these people - such that blame can be levied on each and every headstone when the terrorist come home to America to roost.

U.S. defeat must happen...

2007-09-11T11:22:00.000-04:00

[Tags: Iraq, politics, war, U.S. Defeat, Terrorism,
September 11]

There's no doubt that the American people do not have the stomach for what is needed in Iraq. Since 2003, the American people have been in tug of war between the far-left rhetoric stating, "Iraq war was not necessary... cannot be won... we must leave." This opinion is shared by America and most all of Western civilized societies in Europe, Asia, Canada, South America, Australia, and other countries that enjoy a non-Caliphate based fanatic-Islamic based cult, such that Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas and some other 100+ Islamic terrorist organizations want. On the other side, the Bush Administration decided to invade and remove Saddam Hussein and after a masterful invasion and removal of Iraq's elite and standard military, failed to listen to his commanders and failed to have a solid plan to quickly stand the country up and pull out. The Bush Administration then failed over years to make progress until lately, when a military surge was identified to stabilize security and remove a branch of Al Qaeda called "Al Qaeda in Iraq", and has used his bully pulpit to also use rhetoric to try and convince the America people that Iraq must be able to stand on it's own and it's in the worlds best interest that Iraq not become another Taliban or Terrorist stronghold, or that Iraq is not the catalyst for a civil war or worse, a larger Regional Sunni vs. Shia conflict which engages Iraq's surrounding country's. That has caused not really a debate, but a digging-in of positions such that, in my view, one side has committed to defeat and another side has perhaps, too late, identified a plan which will move forward and show progress that could identify success in a very difficult situation.

The Republicans in the Administration have made possibly too many mistakes to recover from - not because operationally or diplomatically they are impossible to archive, but because the delays in identifying a clear pathway have turned public opinion and have been "too little too late". This would be due to many factors:

1) The inability to read intelligence
2) The refusal of the Bush Administration to listen to commanders in 2003 and 2004
3) The refusal of the Bush Administration to be able to quickly change direction and reassess and adapt to the Iraqi violence, terrorists, and insurgency
4) The inability of the Administration to understand the complex dynamics of differing religious members, tribal war lords, and impacts of terrorist organizations and it's effect on progress.

In short, the planning was so bad, and the expectations and intelligence was so misread, and the Administration's refusal to change direction caused insurgency and terrorists to take root, make relationships with Iran or with other groups willing to fund these attacks, and allow these insurgents/terrorists to carry out a strategy of attempting to start a civil war. The purpose of this civil war would be to drive out the U.S. forces which have been keeping a civil war from starting. The amount of rhetoric and constant stubborn "stay the course" functions of the Administration, as well as personnel who were both overseeing as well as consulting Bush were the wrong people, at the wrong time. For example, if Colin Powell and Rice were to have not had to traverse Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rove, the outcome may have been different sooner and more progress could have been made, or, the extended occupation of Iraq may not have happened at all.

The Democrats have seized upon every vile slanderous method to discredit and destroy the functions of the Iraq war. They have utilized and adopted an "anti-war" stance for political gain in 2006 in order to make governmental gains in the Congress and are using those same methods in the 2008 Presidential election. NDO's such as moveon.org and other soft-money organizations created by prominent and rich, to raise money and take out attack ads against both political and military personnel not based upon fact, but as a legacy and commitment to defeat of the U.S. in Iraq. Almost all prominent Democrats from Harry Reid, Senate President, Nancy Pelosi, House Chairwoman, Murtha, Durbin, Kerry, Kennedy, Biden, Feinstein, and others all have stated categorically, that the purposes for the Bush administration to stabilize and prop up Iraq to stand on their own as a peaceful nation, has been lost and it is impossible for success to be achieved.

The Democratic party has embraced an extremist viewpoint of far-left Liberal and Socialist methodologies, such that "loons" are used to interrupt House and Senate house meetings. Rabid anti-war groups with members such as Cindy Sheehan who has been arrested over and over are continually allowed to attend meetings where they scream and are re-arrested only to continue again at a future date/time/ meeting. Politicians have embraced the rabid-left and socialist attacks as an alignment to polls in hopes to gain political power - not end the war. Quotes from Presidential candidates such as:

Obama:"We've got to get the job done there [Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Schumer: "And let me be clear, the violence in Anbar (Iraq) has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from Al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight Al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn't that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here. And that is because there was no one else there protecting."

Durbin: If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

Kerry: You know, education --- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't you get stuck in Iraq."

Not only are Democrats willing to slander and attack our military who are being dismembered, getting injured, bleeding and dying on orders of their government, but they are willing to call them murderers as well as stupid. The Democratic party has embraced the defeat in Iraq and will not discuss consequences of that defeat. This reason is that the Democrats will make sure they position themselves to be in governmental power and MUST, MUST show a defeat of both Bush as well as against terrorist. It is important to point out however, that the Democrats do not believe in the defeat of America in Iraq to the point that they will, as they have the majority in both Houses of Congress, to de-fund the Iraq war - effectively stopping U.S. involvement in weeks. That would be political suicide and as such, would validate that the Democrats have moved to a socialist stance and share the "kook" mentality of the rabid.

The consequences to the political fallout from such a defeat are not discussed because it's too horrible to discuss... the "what if" scenario's are dire. The majority of analysts and also my own opinion is that, not only will terrorism grow and establish a new stronghold with Iraq, but a clarion call of rhetoric from terrorists organizations will use the U.S. defeat as a new and worldwide recruitment tool showing such successes as the defeat of the U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan and now the defeat of the lone Super-Power in the United States. Not only will that ensure terrorism will be around for the next millennium both as a political and military strategy, but it will ensure the breakdown of borders and countries themselves - and may issue the start of a worldwide effort of genocide and conversion under threat, to radical Islamic as well as other ideologies. This effectively will put our world wide civilization back 500 years. As the current countries and societies are NOT willing to forcibly remove terrorists and accept collateral damage of dead men, women and children; we will allow it to continue to grow and take root in all countries while making feeble attempts to thwart their attacks.

It therefore becomes necessary for a future generation to be involved in yet another World War. That's right, I'm saying that this current catalyst of Iraq will issue in a future World War, the third repeatable mistake that we as the human race are too stupid to avoid. A World War that has a great possibility to include nuclear weapons and death on scale that can little be imagined. America, Europe and other Western nations will get hit again and again, and are doomed to endure 9/11 squared in multiple countries in multiple cities over the next few decades. America's aversion and "lack of stomach" for a hard fight is not the only fight. It is not this only fact that will ensure our deconstruction of the life we currently enjoy, but is one part of it. The attacks that we will have to endure in the future are therefore necessary to occur until people who are thinking political gains by admitting defeat are proved incorrect and harmful. That political gain is no longer a need - but survival of a society is the need. Until that happens, nothing will change. Make no mistake - I fully believe terrorists and ideologies are the biggest long-term risk to this world. Until the world is ready to provide no-quarter to terrorists and their supporters, we will continue to debate and discuss and fight amongst ourselves, which is exactly what the Bin Ladens are hoping for. They want this issue to eat Western society out from the inside out. Barring that, continued attacks to fuel that infighting and corrosion form the inside will be necessary. I feel that the reason another attack has not occurred since 9/11 is because the amount of corrosion taking place within the United States politically and down to it's individual citizens is such that another attack is not necessary - unless the United States comes together again and are resolute, I feel another MAJOR attack may not be necessary... small attacks showing Al Qaeda is still powerful and still "in charge" certainly will continue.

So both political parties are at fault, one before and one after. The military is the proverbial "monkey in the middle" being held up as a possible savior by the Republicans, and being denounced as a "traitor" by the Democrats. The fallout from such a defeat in Iraq will have dire consequences for Western society in the future as well as influence in the United States as well, it may have economic, financial as well as other possible impacts that have yet to emerge.

So in summary, the Democrats will eventually remove troops from Iraq, will declare defeat in Iraq, will blame the Bush administration, will blame the military and blame everyone and everything other than themselves. They will issue in a new age of attacks, lack of influence and the decline ultimately of the U.S. and most of Western democracy. They will hand Al Qaeda a recruitment tool and power as yet unheard of. In fact, an Iraq in civil war or a regional conflict including Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Syria is actually the BEST CASE SCENARIO.

While the blustering in the Senate and House follow predictable partisan lines, until our way of life is threatened more so than the 20th Century Germany, Japan or possible Cold War enemy could, nothing will change. What is dysfunctional is how the U.S. Political system is more interested in political power - they do not yet understand or realize they are squabbling over the scraps from Bin Ladens table. I would urge those who want defeat to cut across the next 30-50 years of squabbling and embrace radical-Islam and join Al Qaeda as their goals are the same, their rhetoric is the same, and their belief system should now be the same. I'm resigned to the fact that the Democrats have less of a clue than the Republicans; a possibility that heretofore has not been yet realized. Unless extraordinary steps are being taken by extraordinary leaders and people who are yet to be identified (the current politicians and leaders are incapable of successfully wiping their own ass let alone take on a situation with this breadth and width) we our future generations are in major trouble. We're just too stupid to realize it.

Moore BS on Stern

2007-06-18T21:38:00.000-04:00

[Tags: movies, documentary, Sicko, Moore, Howard Stern,
Film]

"Is my brown nose showing? Do you smell the monkey ass like I do?"

So I'm listening to Stern this morning (6/18/07) and he's got Jimmy Fallon and Michael Moore on. I've got Sirius in my car and a 1-2 hour drive in the morning so it's not too surprising eh? Anyway, I tune in just between Fallon and Moore - listen to a few incredibly lame phony phone calls about witches or something, and then Moore comes and and Stern starts giving him oral pleasure right there in the studio. Well, not really... not LITERALLY oral pleasure, but Stern's insanely huge schnoz was brown and smelled like the monkey cage at the zoo so you do the math. Apparently, Moore's next accumulatively creative and fictional take on a non-fiction documentary is soon to come out about America's health care system and also apparently, Moore is simply a misunderstood patriot, regular working stiff trying to do good for the country he loves. If there wasn't so much traffic this morning, I'd have pulled over and hurled my technicolor breakfast all over the Garden State Parkway.

Firstly, Stern who's reputation is as a fairly cutting edge rebel who pulls no punches was, this morning, giving Moore a hot oil massage, wishing for a happy ending and throwing so many watermelon sized softball questions at Moore that it sounded scripted. "I can't understand how people could be against this," cries Stern, when talking about a universal health care system. You see, Moore says this isn't an issue about politics, it's about people in need. Moore explains: ...And shouldn't your son, if he needed a new heart get one? Well, in todays system if you don't have health insurance like millions of people, you're son will die if you don't have health insurance so doesn't it make sense that your son, if he had a need of a new heart, get one for free? First of all... what the hell in life is free again? There ain't nothing free pal. Maybe Moore forgot that being a celebrity and staunchly supported by the elite masses in Europe, he doesn't have to pay. A point that he may have lost sight of his "working stiff" upbringing in Flint Michigan. (Note: That last passage was chock FULL of sarcasm.) Secondly, making the manipulative master of the incongruous "cut and fade" editing room out to be some patriot and saint of the United States who just wants to help people is an out and out lie in itself. Stern can kiss my lily white ass with that garbage - what... lesbian's doing each other with bowling balls while getting spanked by drunk midgets in clown costumes getting old Howie? I guess Stern's followers are so brain dead and burnt out that the obvious push to get supporters for Moore who shares Stern's dislike for the neo-con Bush administration was just too much - therefore, he needs to inject some of his own blatant propaganda and play patty-cake with Moore while making Moore out to be the flag waving Robin Hood of Flint Michigan's working stiffs.

So here's a short synopsis of Moore's work:

*Roger and Me poked some fun and a shitty stick at Corporate American fat cats. Sure... everyone loves to hate the big guys. Right on brotha!

*Stupid White men takes on race, and how the black man is kept down by whitey. Uhh... hey, didn't the Emancipation Proclamation change all that?

*Bowling for Columbine took on the NRA and gun nuts - anyone who has a gun is someone to be feared. Hell, they're probably planning on shooting your stupid ass right now!

*Fahrenheit 9/11 said it was all Bush's fault. Gee, wonder where the Socialist rabid left-wingers got their mantra for the past 7 years?

*"Sicko" will now take on the Health care industry because, well, we should all be socialists and everyone should have free health care dammit. Even those damn soldiers Moore took illegally to Cuba. Yeah, even them.

Is this the same U.S. patriot Michael Moore who said:

''We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing."

"They (Americans) are possibly the dumbest people on the planet."

"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."

Yes, and we watch fictitious manipulated dialog and interviews from dishonest and manipulative people like you Mikey. These quotes have quite a little following and show a little bit of depth into what Moore is really all about. Let's take the first one: "...possibly the dumbest people on the planet." Given that, why else would Mikey make more movies and make millions - where else but the land of the "stupidest people on the planet" who will pay their hard earned flag waving cash to prove their stupidity, one ticket at a time. The irony is thick and drippy. Then we get to the second quote: "We don't know anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing." Again with the stupidity - Moore is banking on people being stupid - how else could he so easily make his money off of interesting editing and manipulation. He's betting his fame and fortune on providing what he believes in his egotistical self-righteous and elitist mind is "dog food for the idiotic masses"; and of course, those "stupid people" just lap it up, Pavlovian style. I have to give Mikey some credit - he knows his audience and plays to it like a master. The third quote is where he lays out some of his own personal agenda - you see Bush muscled in on his territory. No one should be playing to the sheep but him and Moore's making hundreds of millions of what he calls, "fuck you money." Bush? I'm sure Moore would paint his Farenhype 9/11 bullshit with the brush strokes of a master and playing to the conspiracy theory nut-jobs that exist all over the world, paint a dozen or so dots of happenings, a few unexplained issues, a few murders, some shady dealings, oil money and a war and whaaaala! A movie about nothing - Seinfeld would be proud I tell you!

His books and movies aren't about being a patriot - it's about showing what Moore's hate about Capitalism, about Democracy, and about Freedom; in short his utter contempt and dislike of a Nation that provides him the freedom to bash it, and pays him well for doing so. He'd much rather have some Stalin and Mao with a pinch of Chomsky and maybe to turn it up a notch, a BAM! BAM! of Marx. Moore doesn't show the hope, the bright light at the end of the tunnel or the dream of a better world - he bashes in hopes of turning minds to his way of thinking. To detest what this country stands for, what it is, what it was and how to remove it from the earth and change it forever to something, anything else. White people... bad. Wealthy people like a CEO - bad. Guns - bad. Bush - bad. U.S. health care - bad. Yes, playing to Michael's moronic masses takes talent. For people who don't like socialism, who like our Capitalistic methods, who think hard work will equate to a payoff to the American dream and to those who have FOUND that American dream know better. We've been educated right along with the elitist snobs who think they know what's best for you and me while we work and provide for our families and do what we need to do to get by. Are there exception? Do good people get screwed? Sure they do. They get screwed just as often in a Capitalistic Democracy as they do in a Socialistic Democracy or a Communist Dictatorship. Each system may SAY they're better but they're not; all contain the "haves" and the "have nots". I don't like Socialism because I don't want to pay for some lazy shit hole like Moore who's not ambitious and who needs a heart transplant because he wasted 30 years on a couch eating Doritos and yanking his wanker. Nor do I feel the need to pay for some deadbeat dirt bag who beats his kids and his wife after shooting up, but needs to get HIV drugs and the guy hasn't had a job in 12 years. Yeah, he deserves a break by me and a few million other hard working authentic "regular guys" (even some from Moore's cherished but not quite honest home town of Flint Michigan) to pay for that scum. Moore believes we should also be offering free health care to the illegals who walk across our border as well. Well... how about we just invite the whole friggin' world to Mikey's house and he pays for all of us... how about that? He's got the dough. Maybe Mikey wouldn't mind parting with his hundreds of millions in a distribution of wealth a la Chomsky, who owns 2 very very nice homes in a 98% primarily white neighborhood of other wealthy people from Massachusetts. Give me a break.

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."

That's right Mikey - show them how gullible they can be and entice them to yet again go on the magic carpet ride of bullshit and watch another 100 minutes of your kool-aide garbage under the guise of a "documentary". You're scum, you've always been scum and you'll continue to be scum. I'll be glad when you keel over in a bowl of dip or have a coronary on the shitter and they find your fat sweaty carcass take pictures and let the 12 year old Photoshop wizards have at your memory. I'll drink to another rich, dumb elitist's early demise and know that there really is a bit of karma left in the world. Do yourselves a favor people and be a critical of Mr. Moore's bullshit as you are of everything else. Moore lies and manipulates more than most and makes a living on it - as with Bowling for Columbine he misrepresents the truth with lies (seems that's mentioned in the Bible in a few places with some guy named Satan) and then tries to get has-been radio jocks who've gotten his 500 million dollar pay day to take it easy on him because they now share a hate ideology. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend syndrome). Don't believe the hype or the claptrap Moore tries to put out there - he's no patriot. He's no working stiff. He's not from Flint Michigan, and he's not looking out for your welfare or the soldiers welfare - but his own fat, white, elitist ass. Remember that.

Oh and Howard? Yeah - time to hang up the headphones dude. You now suck and stink the place up way too much and way to often. Go out and find a hard drinking midget who doesn't mind playing anal ring toss and can throw luncheon meat. Make the show a little interesting again will ya?

Forget you're on the internet?

2007-06-08T20:04:00.000-04:00

[Tags: forums, chat, argument, snob, elitist,
idiots]

I'm part of a few different discussion forums. A few of them, for quite a while and I'm always amused when people start trying to boss other people around on the internet. My assumption is that they are either forgetful and have forgotten that they are just another faceless, nameless and powerless doobie with an internet connection trying to tell other people what to do. The second option is, that they are so egotistical and bossy that they truly think others on the internet will have to do what they say because, well, they are BETTER than the other person. That "holier than thou" snobbishness does come through on discussion forums if you hang around long enough - you really do get the feeling that you know exactly how people could be in R/L. I've always known that people are very different on the internet than in R/L because the worst thing that can happen on the internet is your service provider shuts down your connection... that's tantamount to Dad confiscating your car keys before the big date on Saturday night. Mostly what happens on discussion forums is you get suspended for posting on that forum or (*gasp*) banned from posting from that forum. I've been neither suspended or banned (though I'm sure some would like me to be), yet I find that those who wish to impose their will upon another unknown IP address connecting from some router somewhere in the world, hilarious as hell.

What I'd like to ask these people is: Do you REALLY believe anyone will take you seriously? Do you for one moment believe, your rant about "Don't EVER tell me what to do, GOT IT?" is going to stop someone from pushing that button over, and over, and over and over again? Is it that they believe they are so much better? so much more successful than the hapless person they are berating that they feel the other person will be COMPELLED to follow these commands? In truth - just the opposite. What happens is it shows a very interesting chink in the armor doesn't it. The button now pushed got a very interesting reaction - the compunction is to ... push it again. Same or more vehement response? Push it again... and again. Now the threats come which are even more laughable than the commands... what are ya gonna do? Make more of an idiot out of yourself and try to top the last bit? Drive 5,000 miles to my house and berate me? Throw a temper tantrum and thrash around like an irate 3 year old?

Get a grip people - this is the internet okay? We are anonymous for the most part and I could be a 12 year old in Massachusetts's or a 65 year old grandma in South Africa using a Proxy server to connect. You really have no idea and you're going to make a total ass out of yourself by thinking you have any power at all over anyone else. Sure, forum admins and server owners can ban an IP address, an IP range, a MAC address... big deal. If you're not an admin and just another keyboard jockey who's trying to impose your will on another keyboard jockey, jockey #1 is the biggest idiot on the planet. Grow up for crying out loud. You have no power over anyone else - you're easily ignored or harassed until you're made a complete fool and have to move on to pastures where the users don't already know you're an idiot snob with a superiority complex. Play nice - show some respect and stop taking yourself so seriously. Arguing on the internet is stupid if you egotistical Napoleon's didn't already know - you can't win and won't win. All you do is show a weakness by letting someone get under your skin and you trying to boss them around like they are your little brother or sister.

If nothing else, it is amusing so by all means, continue to make an ass out of yourself. I find it very entertaining juxtaposed with sadness and pity. After all, how superior can one be when they cannot and do not realize they are stupid? It's a laugh that keeps on giving.

Here's a little test to see if you're one of those "snobby egotistical snots" who try to boss others on discussion boards or in chat sessions:

Take the Quiz!!

The Inevitable Insanity

2007-04-16T20:26:00.000-04:00

[Tags: Guns, Virginia Tech, shooting, Columbine, gun ban,
massacre]

Today, at Virginia Tech, 32 people were killed by a lone gunman who walked onto the campus and proceeded to shoot students in classrooms and dorms. While the motivations are not yet provided, details are sketchy in the media, the shooter has yet to be identified by name and the campus is reeling in shock - we are left wondering what the hell this was all about, the inevitable knee jerk reaction is ready to jump out.

MORE GUN CONTROL

What's obvious to the knee jerk reactionaries is that at fault here are in-animate objects... tools if you will, hell bent on the destruction of the human race. These molded pieces of steel and wood are obviously possessed as they are blamed for this tragedy not the people weilding these weapons who are sick or possibly suicidal. As Columbine provided the fodder for the Brady Campaign and IANSA to further the anti-gun agenda, so this latest round will again froth up those like Senator Diane Feinstein or Henry Waxman to already be planning a Congressional review and issue legislation to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban. I predict somethings will soon occur:

- Bloomberg & his insane anti-gun Governor posse will use this for their political benefit
- Hillary will use it on the campaign trail as will most of the Democrats running for the Presidency in 2008. Most will make promises to curb guns
- IANSA will use this as a focal point with the U.N., Soros and the Brady Campaign
- Either a TV movie, Lifetime movie or a Michael Moore Columbine Clone movie will be made of this event
- Politics will rule this issue, not calm minds and logic

The effect? All of this only hurts citizens MORE and protects us LESS. Would a few students who had access to firearms been there - they could have prevented some of the 32 from being killed. What the Virginia Tech shooting shows us, is that defenseless people in a large concentration like a University, makes easy targets. Who was supposed to protect these people? The police? The University? The University security? Who?

The police where already THERE and they couldn't prevent the rest from being killed. What needs to happen is NOT a banning of guns, but legislation allowing MORE guns - especially guns on a campus such that students can defend themselves. We already know what happens when they DON'T have guns to protect themselves - how about we try something else instead? The tragedy will inevitably cause the rabid gun haters to come out on the news, become the armchair generals saying "I told you so", when nothing could be further from the truth. We need to stop playing the victims, stop expecting everyone else to protect us from the bad things that go bump in the night. Stop thinking that the police will get there in time and know exactly where to go and what to do. We are responsible for protecting ourselves. I'm not saying anything different would have happened were some students to have access to a firearm while on that campus. But certainly, the possibility exists that the maniac shooter could have been brought down or incapacitated before 32 kids died.

- Banning guns takes guns out of the hands of legal owners - bad guys still get them illegally.
- No amount of cameras or metal detectors or security forces will prevent this from occurring again.
- No University or College can exempt the cost of having all these security precautions as it would make the cost of going to that college too high to continue to exist.
- Only idiots blame inanimate objects for actions of people

The Second Amendment to the Constitution
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Wake the hell up people and use your Constitutional right to self defense! These are YOUR freedoms, use them!

Are we really wimps?

2007-04-14T20:29:00.000-04:00

[Tags: Nazi, Policy, Police, wimp, constitution,
nanny]

I have been on hiatus for a while from blogging, but something that I read recently on another blog When did America become a nation of frightened wimps started me thinking. Steve Olsen makes a damn good argument: Since when did we start accepting this stuff? Did we accept it or are we simply too busy to bother bitching about it? Do we want to bitch but to politically correct to want to rock the boat or are we IN the boat but sinking because we cannot or do not know how to assemble and support each other?

Why it's not the governments fault:

I'm not big on pushing blame or responsibility for my life others - I have that oh so Western mentality that says "You are the master of your own destiny" though I sometimes think the Buddhist view of "You have your own destiny but it has not yet been revealed" is kinda sexy in a way. Yes we're a representative government not a direct Democracy - we the citizens still hire and fire our politicians locally and at the State level... they represent us at the Federal level and if they do a lousy job it's OUR job (yours and mine) to boot them and get someone better. Government my design is NOT supposed to involve themselves in your life directly which is why I tend to like less government. Yet as Steve identifies we really are in a nanny state of being... I think it's fear that got us some of the way, it's socialism that got us the rest of the way. Freedom of Choice and Free Will both are Western values that are highly esteemed. If I want to kill myself on Chocolate shakes and 2lbs. of McDonalds fries eaten every day for 20 years that's my prerogative. If I LIKE lard and want to eat it, no one should tell me I cannot. Yet, the "public good" is the most common reason used to relieve us stupid cattle of citizenry of the "bad" things in life. so what's worse? Democrats creating a socialistic country where every decision is made for the "common good" (read: The BORG), or is it reactionary militarists like the Republicans - who claim strip searching old ladies at air ports and warrantless SWAT team entries in teachers homes is a laughing matter...

Police:
"Oops! Haha! Sorry - didn't know you guys WEREN'T making bathtub X in and selling it to minors! Haha! Wrong address don't you know - Bill there misread that GPS map and thought it was Maple Drive instead of Maple Ave. haha! Would you like to buy some PBA tickets and support our Police Athletic League ball this year?"
Teacher: "Go *bleep* yourself."

Is there a reason ... a REAL reason to have warrantless searches or is it Nazi type stuff? Well look at yourself in the mirror folks - YOU let it happen. That's right - it's YOUR fault - all of you. You can sit there and say "BS pal - I didn't vote for ________". So what. You're responsibility doesn't END with voting, it STARTS with voting. The last thing we need is more partisan misinformation - I don't care what political party or non-political party you aspire to. Republicans have good points and bad as do Democrats. Extremists on either side are the problem not the solution. Pelosi, Waxman, Murtha and the rest of the "leadership" of Congress are no better than Bush, Gonzales, Cheney and the rest. Everyone in between these idiots gets screwed unless we do something about it AFTER the voting is done. The circle jerk of partisan backslapping found on the Internet isn't the solution it's again, part of the problem. We need someone who will do the right thing no matter WHO or WHAT position it supports.

So are we wimps? Cowards? Ambivalent is more like it. I agree that these things in Steve's blog post have to be corrected - they're crap. It reminds me of the Amish shootings last year - I was so pissed and outraged but the Amish who lost their children weren't. They forgave the killer and his family, tore down the school and built a new one and moved on. We need to do the same - we need someone with character to tear down the monstrosity that is currently residing on either side of the political spectrum's... both left and right... and tear it down to what our founders saw was the strength in our system, in our country and in our people. We don't have to ditch the constitution - we need to ditch the people who are failing to follow and lead in the spirit of that constitution. Tear it down, burn it... WE moderates are the majority, not the loud mouths, the cynics and the whiners. It's time we grow a set of balls and start acting like it.

Brainwashing Yourself

2006-04-23T20:51:00.000-04:00

[Tags: partisan, politics, rhetoric, brainwash, idiots,
stupidity]

As a debater, I love to hold peoples feet to the fire when they make irrational or generalized statements. On the opposite side of things, I sometimes make generalizations and am fine with admitting such and usually either have to provide proof that either the generalization is common or that I was wrong. Both have happened in the past.

What I love though is when people explain things, make claims and then provide their own words as proof. Now this would be okay in only a few situations. Maybe when the person is the "head of state" or a dictator of some kind. If they are the identified authority on a subject, such as Stephen William Hawking in physics or maybe Einstein - possibly Sherlock Holmes on investigatory police work... well, you get the idea.

Yet, with the Bush bashers frothing at the mouth and the adrenaline flowing for the mid-term 2006 Congressional elections, they are out in force! I've got nothing about Bush bashers as long as they provide accurate information that can be proven. You know, a little thing called "evidence" which must come from some type of universal authority of the type that is close to "truth" as possible. This evidence should be corroborated somehow with other sources - to lend itself to authenticity. Call me crazy, but living in a society of laws and a country built upon the rule of law which applied to everyone, it takes a little pinch of work to make your point. I shouldn't be able to say Jon Marksfield is green, without actually showing someone the pictures, a letter or two and maybe an eye witness who's seen him green. I also have to make sure it wasn't a bad pork chop or something that turned him green when I make the accusation.

What America is lacking right now, is the ability to provide that proof. Lots of accusations are being made which can be chalked up to rhetoric, and ultimately just partisan garbage. When people start to "quote themselves" as proof though - that's when you know we've hit the twilight zone.

For example - I recently had a debate with a person who I asked to provide some sort of evidence that they base their opinion on, and they provide me their blog links. Huh?

Yeah you heard right - their own blog links. That's their proof. Now I wasn't expecting much from an idiot like this anyway, but I thought I'd at least get a Chomsky or Marx or maybe a Mao... but no, I wasn't that lucky. I got his own blog posts. Well duh - of bloody course you think you're right but why back it up with YOUR OWN BLOG??

This is evidence of people brainwashing themselves. When they are so desperate that they cannot find evidence to back up their opinions, they feel the need to write their own evidence - in a blog. Now, call me crazy, but I never provide my blog as a FACT. What's contained in this blog are observations and my own opinion and NOT IN ANY WAY fact. Mostly, I try to stay tongue and cheek with this stuff since there's just so much partisan tripe and politically vomited hate out there. Why be the same thing as a thousand other blogs?

But these people actually, I think, have brainwashed themselves. They quote conspiracy theory, write a nice long blog page on it, then cite it as fact. Really. I'm not making this up. As pathetic as this may be, they go on forums and QUOTE THEMSELVES! If I thought that I was sometimes pathetic by even doing this type of thing off and on, THAT my friends is about as pathetic as one can get. Of course, I'm usually prevented from saying such a thing either by forum rules or by simply good taste on my part. But really - they quote themselves. How arrogant and tasteless and utterly devoid of reality must one be? Then they believe everything they post - they use conversations and blog posts from a year ago on a non-associated subject as proof of something. I'd provide an example but it's too sorry and pathetic to even show. It would be like GW Bush citing his axis of evil speech as proof that Iran has a nuclear weapon.

The best part of this is when they use quotations to try and bolster their points. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, all the biggies are used to try and make their opinions
more valid. Lots and lots of quotes which have nothing to do with what they say...

This is all the more reason to question everything - in my limited time on the internet, I've found 99% of people make it all up - their posts, their thoughts, their information (wikipedia is included), as well as internet sites and all opinion pieces are based on nothing. It's like a network computer system using the Seinfeld method - it's an internet about... nothing.

As a matter of fact, this opinion post right here is based actually on ... nothing. Though I don't have to necessarily convince anyone of anything other that there are some wacko assed wierdo's out there trying to get you to believe what they believe? I say... believe what YOU want to believe and make up your own minds and question EVERYTHING!

Education - BooHiss! (Part 2)

2006-03-12T10:10:00.000-05:00

[Tags: God, Education, pledge, socialism, tolerance,
spending]

(Continued from BooHiss! (Part 1)

Tenure – this is the worst idea ever. Because a teacher has taught in a school for a certain amount of years, they will continue to do so, whether or not they do good or bad. No other job has this type of benefit. Even in the military or government service, a person can be removed easier than removing a tenured teacher. While teachers should not longer be tenured, nor should their pay be so low. Good teachers should be reviewed twice yearly and be tested for competence in their field of study – after all, they are supposed to know what it is they are teaching! Good performance should benefit a higher pay raise and bonus, bad performance a low raise and no bonus. Every job everywhere has this structure – why not education?

Zero tolerance - Which makes zero sense. This policy is put in place to avoid accountability by administrators and educators from having to make decisions, and to remove liability of the school in situations where they may be held liable. This is the cowards way out. For example, small children (ages between 6 and 10) are being expelled from school because mommy put a plastic butter knife in with the kids lunch. Zero tolerance says that a “knife” of any kind is a weapon and therefore the child must be expelled. That's idiotic. Why are we not holding the schools administrators liable to make decisions based upon findings and facts? Isn't that why they are there? If they are not running the school and making decisions why is there a need for administrators? Zero tolerance also teaches kids the wrong thing – that there is no flexibility in decisions and in effect there is “intolerance”. Not something kids should be learning at school.

The Spending “black hole” - Which has a direct line to your property taxes. Did your taxes go up this year? If they did, be sure that some of that money was earmarked for education, whether or not you still have kids in school or not. Want to home school? Sorry – taxes are the same thank you very much. Want to send your kid to private school because your school system sucks? Taxes still come out. The 'black hole” is nothing more than pocketed spending that is then “creatively” massaged by your local government and spent elsewhere. Someone's getting rich off your taxes and little is being put directly into your schools (though I'm sure there are exceptions to this). Using my state as an example, spending is at an all time high, student's testing results are at an all time low. You figure it out.

Colleges are the indoctrination of Socialism of America - Overall there are any studies that show the overwhelming majority of college administrators and professors are liberals. Many who have made the news of late are ṻber liberals or what I will call, Socialists. These “professors” don't really want to provide a higher caliber of learning and thought processes to your student; they want to provide them a basis of distrust and hate of America's way of life by continually pounding away at them, day after day, with constant dissent and anti-American fervor. Jay Bennish was child's play compared to what kids hear in Colleges and Universities around America. They come out with degrees in all sorts of fields yet don't have a grasp in reality, how those things work. They of course are demanding $50K to $60K a year, but cannot function in a company (who by the way is an evil capitalist junta), but sure as shit know how to plan a rally and knows what card stock to buy for large signs that say “No War for Oil”. That they can do in spades. Then I get to the REASON why corporations are going off shore for their job placement. Could it be that College educated kids just are too stupid with their degree to function in a corporation? Could it be that the demand of $60k a year for incompetence strikes corporations as a bad move, and why not get a smart “hit the ground running” Masters Degree holder in India, who will do a bang up job for $30k, as an alternative? I'm no economics genius, but it doesn't sound like the America-hating brain-washed socialist College grad has a chance. How about Colleges sticking to the curriculum instead of filling kids heads with nonsense?

I've come to ursurp the zionists and have sex with smart white women!

The Yale story with our own Taliban student has been well publicized and covered by the MSM so I won't go all into that, other than to say, it's par for the course in American higher education. This is no surprise, and had Uday and Osay lived and were they not charged with Crimes Against Humanity like their father, they'd be teaching Middle East studies at one of our Ivy League schools today and little silver spoon junior would be eagerly signing up for office time at the bulletin board.

The utterance of “God” in schools - This is NOT a crime folks. People bring in their lives and homes to schools all the time. Your kid doesn't want to say the Pledge of Allegiance – don't stand up and do it. Don't want to say “God” then no ones making you. Your kid feels left out because of it – that's the price you pay for sticking up for your beliefs. Sorry. Nothing in life is free and having convictions your willing to stand by sometimes takes a little courage. Stop whining and pushing your BS on the rest of us. They certainly don't like it when the “bible thumpers” try to convert them, so why are they trying to convert people who actually believe in “God” - isn't that also hypocritical?

The time has come for America's Educational quid pro quo to end. It's time someone stands up and takes on the Unions and sets the stage for future generations of Americans to be fully educated about their history, about Math and Science and Language. This includes prep-test classes and "cheat classes" designed to teach kids how to take exams and NOT how to actually understand the material they SHOULD be being taught in the first place! What we do get are kids who know hot to test well, but ones who really don't understand the material at all. What we are left with is an educational system that drives taxes up and we the taxpayers get nothing in return as a society. Who looses? The citizens and their kids. The winners are the unions and those within the local and state governments who constantly get MORE money and produce LESS results. If ANYTHING in America needs a social run program it's Education. The Dept. of Education is castrated and ineffective as well as lazy. State and local school districts are corrupt and could care less about raising the bar of learning for kids coming through the system. This lackluster dysfunction trickles down into society as a whole where more jobs are outsourced overseas while disenfranchised youth think America sucks because they can't get a job. It's a full vicious circle that needs to be corrected.

So, who wants the job?

Friday Cartoon

2006-03-10T15:11:00.000-05:00

Education - BooHiss! (Part 1)

2006-03-10T13:02:00.000-05:00

[Tags: teaching, Education, corruption, socialist, dysfunction,
kids]

If Education in this country is looked at with a critical eye, one that is as critical as say, the pundits of politics in America, many things come to the surface as dysfunctional and gangrenous. The short list includes:

- The Jay Bennish's of the world with captive audiences (teenagers) who cannot provide resistance to his ideas since they basically know nothing about it.
- The multitude of female teachers who, over the past few years, seem to have a taste for prepubescent boys.
- The absence and resistance to school vouchering, which would identify good and bad schools and actually provide competition between school systems and teachers
- The lackluster High School testing results which place much of the United States youth, who are the riches and fattest youth in the world, behind some 3rd world countries who have little money and stand in line for food at their local shops. (America is below the Top 20 overall in the world, in test scores)
- The inability of schools to remove tenured teachers, due to the inexplicably strong teachers union
- The stupidity of schools applying “zero tolerance” policies which take the responsibility of school administration out of all conflicts and teach children inflexibility
- The “black hole” of education spending and the political spin this always incurs
- The overwhelming liberal slant of America's colleges who employ teachers who would be more at home in a protest line than in a college classroom
- The anti-Americanism of some colleges, such as Yale, who will allow Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Taliban, not just as a student to Yale, but also allows him on campus – while demanding and revoking America's own ROTC from it's campus
- Taking the issue of uttering the name “God”, during the pledge of allegiance in some elementary schools, and taking that issue all the way to the United States Supreme Court

Jay Bennish -
While the blogsphere has certainly split down political party lines on this one, the fact remains that Mr. Bennish is a Geography teacher, not a civics or PolySci teacher in a High School. The 20 minute dissertation he gave on the evils of America and his own spin on the State of the Union address, recently given by Bush, was not only “the wrong place at the wrong time” but inappropriate for his class. Secondly, he's a hypocrite for providing only one side of the story – yet at the end, stating that everyone should make up their own mind. I wonder why he didn't provide another 20 minutes on the “opposite” side of the story? Could it be that he really DOESN'T want his students making up their own minds and simply wants to load them up with one side so they agree with him? He was wrong and the content and delivery of his 20 minute rant was inappropriate and he should be canned. Period.

MJ hates little girls!

Prepubescent boy toys – It's a sickness and I don't know where it comes from, but I guess some of these women teachers just can't handle grown up men in the sack and need to go to hairless boys for their sexual fantasies. I'm sure the 12 year old boys won't whine too much with hot sex from young and alluring Miss Bambie Nympho. This puts a dent into the whole “bigger is better” penis theory though doesn't it.

School vouchers – The reason this issue has so many controversy legs is because allowing vouchering will demand an entire overhaul in our educational system, and the union and people getting rich off the current method just cannot have that occur. Every year, Educational systems get thrown more money, yet the quality of education goes down and down. Kids are stupider now than 20 or 30 years ago and it's not because of a genetic flaw,it's that the system sucks. Here's the solution:

- Remove the Teachers Unions, as they are no longer needed or effective
- Remove the “tenure” issue and put competition back into teaching
- Overhaul the educational system and allow vouchers to separate the good and bad school is increase money to good schools, decrease money on bad schools and run the bad ones out of business.
- Require schools to follow a uniform dress code which will slightly modify the overwhelming individualism at the early grades.
- Ditch all of the “zero tolerance” policies and make the administrators work for their paycheck, know the students and intervene when necessary.
- Incorporate a standardized curriculum which can be added to by school states, but nothing can be removed.
- Remove all “quotas” for entry into colleges – it's stupid and demoralizing
- Fund all students who cannot pay for higher education – no students should be turned away from colleges who meet a minimum GPA just because their parents cannot pay or the student didn't get a scholarship. This could be a government loan or grant, which would need to be expanded with all the money saved from the “black hole” of educational funding.
- Religion, location, race and ethnicity and economic factors no longer play a role.

Testing Results by school should be tied to their funding. If the teachers in that school are not reaching the kids and the kids testing is bad – it's up to the school's individually to rectify the problem, strategize a solution and implement it. After school tutoring, mandatory help, summer school and advanced studies should be offered at all schools. Note: It is a testament to the dysfunction of American Education that our students at the High School level learn much less than poor 3rd world countries. The fallacy of “more money = better education” obviously is false.

Next entry: Part 2 of my ongoing rant against Un-Education

Consquences bitter pill

2006-03-04T15:34:00.000-05:00

[Tags: shooting, IHOP, SUV, pot, WaPo,
teen]

Yes, the associated link to the WaPo editorial is identified as "Senseless Death in Virginia" - yet, it seems it's all the Police/Security Guards fault? It's all very tragic and my thorazine supplies are low (kidding - they're not low at all).

After reading the editorial, it seems these teens thought to pull a fast one after a bender,and skip on a restaurant bill. No biggie right? I mean, it's a common college prank - except that this time, they had an off-duty cop who moolights as an armed guard there. According to that guard, the teens were in an SUV and apparently the SUV was pointed straight at him and closing fast. According to Virginia law, police can in fact fire at a moving vehicle if that police officer feels their life is in danger by said vehicle. So that's exactly what happened.

Duhh...drunk and stoned no good? Duhhh... Me like pancake!

Now the driver of that SUV (see idiot picture above) was:
a.) intoxicated
and
b.) full of weed (the mary-jane buding kind)

And as such, was arrested after the shooting. Now the kid who was with that driver got shot by the cop/guard and was killed. WaPo puts that cop/guard on trial in their little poison editorial asking poignant questions about the bullet holes being in the side of the vehicle.

It is a bitter pill to find out actions have consequences isn't it? Yes a harmless prank on the restaurant turned into a fatal shooting. A gung ho cop/guard felt threatened by a 2-ton SUV barreling down on him (the nerve!) and felt he had to fire at it. Reasonable? Sure it is.

Could it be that the poor victim-teens in this case, shouldn't have been loaded and stoned on grass and probably shouldn't have skipped out on the bill? Ya think? Is it reasonable to think you'll need to pay for a meal if you go to a restaurant? This is no more harsh of a lesson than happens every day to not-so-smart and inexperienced youth, that life has consequences. Making a wrong choices certainly does put a damper on the day - especially when the cop/guard is a good shot.

To quote Chris Rock, "People tell ya life is short. No it's not. Life is long. Especially when you make the wrong decisions." Well, in this case, Chris is wrong. Seems these dorks made the wrong decisions and life still got short on 'em.

Call me callus and mean-spirited, but I'm hoping the judge slaps a very high fine and a 2 or 3 year probation on the driver, and wouldn't it be interesting if a separate jury (post-humus) for the dead kid (Mr. Brown) occurred and the judge fined his parents (of course, after the funeral) for not using very good judgement, being drunk and stoned and then skipping out on the bill. Now that would be a wake up call from hell wouldn't it!

Who would think a kid who by the editorials own account had this kind of past: "Mr. Brown -- a college student, an Eagle Scout, a guitar player -- had no criminal record."

In a separate news article from WaPo, the driver had this to say: "Smith, dressed in jeans, a leather jacket and scruffy white sneakers, said he is overwhelmed at the loss of his friend. "He was a great kid," Smith said. "He will be missed more than anyone who has ever died on me before."

SO THIS ISN'T THE FIRST PERSON WHO DIED ON HIM!?? Something's rotten with that statement right there.

But a GUITAR PLAYER - they NEVER go get drunk, smoke pot and skip out on meals. So I'm not buying it. String that cop up by his short and curlies by gum! Isn't getting drunk and stoned on weed and skipping out on breakfast covered under the 11th Amendment or something? No? Someone alert the ACLU already... jeeze.

Lucy's a Terrorist?

2006-03-02T18:52:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Peanuts, terrorism, PETA, wierdo, ELF,
NJ]

It seems that Pamelyn Ferdin, a cute kid actress from the 1970's (you may remember her from Disney movies and some TV stuff if you're that old) is now heading up a terrorist organization. Yep, that's right, the voice of Lucy from Peanuts... this cute little kid

...is the president of NJ chapter of (SHAC) Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, who had 4 members charged with Animal Enterprise Terrorism (the first enacted since the law became law in 1992) as well as multiple counts of Interstate Stalking and Conspiracy to commit Interstate Stalking as well as Telephone Harassment (and everyone thought the Phone police was another one of those urban myths!)

Apparently, the group, "...used its Web site to incite violence against people and institutions it claimed were affiliated with the animal testing lab."

More from the CNN article: "Ferdin, who also played Felix Unger's daughter Edna on "The Odd Couple" TV comedy series, told jurors, "For the government to say you can't say this and you can't say that is going down a very scary path of going toward fascism."

I love it - people are facists because they are held accountable for harassing, stalking and intimidating others to do their bidding, and when they don't do your bidding, you get arrested and claim your harassment and stalking is covered by the 1st Amendment.

Ferdin took over the (SHAC) group in 2004 when it's prior leader, Kevin Kjonaas, was indicted by another jury. The same Kevin Kjonaas who's quoted saying:

"If a car being blown up in a driveway or animals being liberated from a lab scares them, then I would say that fear pales by comparison to the fear that the animals have every day. The kind of true violence that these animals endure at the hands of people at Huntingdon leaves me with little sympathy."

More about Eco-Terrorism and Eco-Terrorists in the U.S.

Good thing I'm not the judge... I'd put them away for 1 year, hard labor, and only chickenfingers and water. All I really have to say is....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Why America (apparently) Sucks

2006-03-02T14:16:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Teacher, Bennish, education, mp3, pinko,
school]

We fail because our educational system is brain-washing our children. The teachers unions are still the strongest unions in the US - lets face it, getting a bad teacher out of a school or preventing them from providing not only detrimental information, lies, opinions, etc., is next to impossible. In my H.S. a band teacher was caught (on film) fondeling the young girls in the Silks and Color Guard, not once, not twice but three times. He was finally charged criminally and was put "on leave" from the school with full pay and benefits until he was ultimately asked to "retire".

Found on Little Green Footballs - this Geography teacher seem to be teaching civics and the new liberal history. Is Geography the same as History now? Granted it's been a while since I've been in school - but this guy should not only be removed from teaching, he should be banned from teaching anything, anywhere.

Geography Teacher from Overland High School in Colorado, Jay Bennish

Let's summarize - Bush isn't Hitler, but he's close. Israel exists because America needed an ally, Mexico will again go to war with America, Israel are the real terrorists - not the Palestinans, America kills innocent people on purpose, anyone in the CIA who "thinks like that", DOES want to kill innocent people, our flag represents the same thing as the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag depending on your perspective. Thank God for this kid finally having enough and recording the entire tirade for everyone to hear. At least the kid is asking educated questions and hasn't been brainwashed yet - it may however, only be a matter of time.

From the Denver Post:

"In the 20-minute recording, made on an MP3 player, teacher Jay Bennish described capitalism as a system "at odds with human rights." He also said there were "eerie similarities" between what Bush said during his Jan. 28 State of the Union address and "things that Adolf Hitler used to say."

The United States was "probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth," Bennish also said on the tape.

Bennish was placed on leave "to take some of the pressure off of him" during the investigation, which could wrap up in a week, Amole said.

Superintendent Monte Moses, who received a copy of the recording on Monday from 850 KOA-AM radio show host Mike Rosen, said it appears "a breach of district policy" occurred."

And this has what to do with Geography? All the little kool-aide drinkers in training are getting a great education. They can't read, write or add and subtract, but they sure as HELL know that the Republicans and our Government lie and are warmongering killers. Our government makes more weapons, kills more people than any other one! Yay! Let's just invite Castro and dig up the old bones of Lenin and have big 'ol ticker tape parade down through Manhattan, give them the key's to the city, erect a statue in their honor and start calling each other "comrade". Who's bringing the Vodka?

The funny part was when this teacher starts banging on capitalism and how money is the root of all evil. Got news for you ass hat - in every country in the world, money rules. There are have's and have not's everywhere, in every country, in every burgh, in every town and village. What mushroom does this guy live under and how the hell did this guy get to teach children? Search his home - it will be full of kiddie porn he uses when he gets himself in froth about Condi.

Another Opinion

And another

And yet another

Here, in my own state (not suprising, BTW) in Parsippany, NJ they are having a mock trial putting our President on trial. Here's a quote from dailyrecord.com from Morris County NJ:

"President Bush is being tried for "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners" at Parsippany High School, with students arguing both sides before a five-teacher "international court of justice." The panel's verdict could come as soon as Friday."

And then like, I said Bush like, you know, sucks

While not a very objectionable thing to have - mock trials have been going on in school rooms for a long time, and usually do represent the "hot button" issues in society - but what makes this very interesting when coupled with Mr. Communist PBS boy from Overland H.S., is that THIS, is exactly why people want to home school their kids. Children aren't learning what they need in their lives any longer - they are getting brainwashing sessions from either left OR right wing fanatics, and it just shouldn't be there. They are getting this type of learning from grade school with the ultimate "cherry" on the sundae being Liberal Colleges all across America.

The question, "Why are all of our soldiers under-educated?" The answer is argueably because the educated people are not very educated, but they are brain-washed. Fostering the distrust and negativity from a young age through high school and then topping it off in College - gee... I wonder why in 50 years, America will be invaded by Jamaica - the reason is, no one will be willing to defend what they have, nor their rights. This is typical of what children are learning in schools, and this dork of a teacher, who I hope is at least removed from ever teaching again, would be HAILED as a GENIUS at any Ivy League schools or State Universities. I wouldn't be suprised if Overland H.S. makes a class called "How to hate your country and Government" and gives him a raise!

Top 10 things Islamic countries need

2006-02-25T20:57:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Top 10, Islam, Muslim, protests

Yes, it's been a few weeks since I've posted. In between fighting with my ISP and trying to digest all the happenings going on, as well as moving my office, I just haven't had much time to post something coherent. However, now that (I hope) my ISP issues are cleared up - here's what I've been thinking about: A Top Ten list of needs for these poor bastards living in the Middle East. Without much ado... let's get right to the list shall we?

(Please note, most of these items do not apply to the following countries, as I've been there and they're not that bad)
Turkey
Israel

Number 10: GUN CONTROL

I'm a big Second Amendment fanatic here in the U.S., but if anyone needs a George Soros or an IANSA involvement it's Iraq, Iran, et.al. It seems like you can buy RPG's at the local Swami-Mart for a few sheckles and while sipping tea and getting a hummus facial, learn the fine art of Semtex and electric fuses. These people having automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades is like giving the good 'ol boys two cases of warm Genesee and a box of outlawed firecrackers.

Number 9: Toilets

I shouldn't have to explain this one - however it seems like these folks simply don't have indoor plumbing and still rely on a goat and some dried bladders to pail out water. Squatting in a dirt hole during a camping excursion is one thing, pinching a loaf in a hole on your nice new dirt floor and dirt house seems a little, well, uncivilized. Let's face it, the ROMANS had indoor plumbing over 3000 years ago, as they had BATHS, and were great at putting together stone roads (not just dirt ones), they also were instrumental in irrigation and aquaducts. Someone really should tell these folks that...

Number 8: Toilet Paper

Yes, with toilets, you get bio-degradable toilet paper. Say "so long" to the days of wiping your arse with your right hand and not washing it - and then snickering when shaking hands with those "stupid Americans". Yes, your poopy handshake is just a riot. I think the Western Europeans stopped doing that around the 1600's, the Far East even before that.

Number 7: Education

Contrary to what many Imam's and Mosques think, the following are NOT skills you can easily transition into outside of Jihad:

Flag Burning 101
Shoe Smacking 103
Chanting and Jumping (Lab)
AK-47 Firing 101
SemTex and C-4 201 (Chanting and Jumping Lab Pre-requisite)
Small Arms and RPG (Lab)
IED building (Field Study)
Allah Akbar Yelling (Small Arms and RPG Pre-Requisite)
Cell phone fuses and switches (IED Building Pre-Requisite)

You get the idea. Instead of learning about the "Infidels" and hating everyone and everything for simply being there - how about doing what people did in the Middle East oh say, 2000 years ago? Study of philosphy, mathamatics, culture. The tolerance 2000 years ago was much broader and well accepted in the Islamic world than today. It'll be a difficult thing to get a job with GE when you keep blowing up your cubicle with that mercury switch and blast caps.

Number 6: Jobs

The reason there so much shooting and protesting is because these people have no jobs. If they were busy making a living, they wouldn't have time to get so darned excited about everything and anything. No time to dust off the PKM and shoot in the air and be outraged at cartoons they haven't actually seen. Hell, American's don't have time to pee at work let alone take time off to pull the "zelots" from their cars and murder them on video tape. I can hear the talk around the huka now:

Ali Abi: Allah be praised! I wish I had time to cut some throats of some infidels but I'm swamped! Ali Muduba's got me swamped with Koran propaganda slogans until Thursday!
Muhamid: I know, I just told Buji the same thing. I wanted to jump and yell Allah Akbar (PBUH) in front of the infidel news camera's and scare some westerners. No luck.
Ali Abi: Let's shoot Ali Muduba and go get some!

Number 5: Soap

Why is it that these people don't wash? I mean, soap has now been around the world in one form or another since 1500 B.C., in more or less the modern version, since the 17th century by Ernest Solvay by using soda ash to make inexpensive soap. Now the Middle East may have many deserts and it may be an arid region, that doesn't excuse it from smelling like arse, nor for it's people to have B.O. beyond belief. One thing that would help that country immensely is the import of all sorts of soap, buckets and brushes and some instructions on it's use. I think one of the reasons they are so angry all the time is because they are mad at each other for smelling so bad and must take that anger out on the West for not teaching them the secret of soap. Using soap will also help with the poopy hands, as well, would assist in cleaning bodies, clothes, surfaces, etc. Here's a solution: America exports AMWAY, in which case the Middle East gets enough soap to choke themselves for decades, learns about pyramid schemes and capitalism all in one shot!

Number 4: Deodorant

Arid X-tra Dry, BAN, Speedstick, etc. Both Anti-Perspirant and Deodorant models are needed (See #5 above). Once they clean themselves they can deodorize their pits. This will help those brown stains under their burkas and white man-dresses. This will also take some of their anger away since they won't have to smell each others B.O. all the time.

Number 3: A Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is a happy place - the Middle East needs some happy injections and Wal-Mart is just the ones to do it. How mad can Abu Muhammad Barin Al Killalot be when he greets the family from across the mosque into an air-conditioned and heated Wal-Mart with a "Hello and Welcome to Wal-Mart!" in arabic? Here's where you can get the designer burka's for prices not seen since 1994, and inexpensive dates and figs by the pound!

Number 2: A Sense of Humor

Here's where Hollywierd can play a part. America exports some of our tried and true sit-coms and provides every family free cable service. America doesn't have to pipe in pro-Western propoganda, we just need the Islamic versions of:

Cheers - called "Houka's Place"
A bunch of lazy men sit around the tent and smoke houka's while their wives work their fingers to the bone in the fields planting poppy for the heroine blackmarket, all the while getting into all sorts of hijinx!

Friends - called "Oh those Infidels"

A group of young jihadists are rooming in the same dirt dwelling, while watching the "ugly western guy" from their 3rd story wall-hole, and trying to live out the liberal fanatic life while hanging out at the tea shop. Sui plays the Oud and has some very funny songs she plays at the tea house like "I killed your pagan mother" and "Cut your throat". What a laff!

Really, these folks need to laugh a little bit, maybe even some of the game shows, or even translated cartoons for the kids. It seems a drag to keep your nose in the Koran and learning why American's are the devil incarnate all the time!

And the Number 1 thing Islamic Countries need: Liberals

Yes, we need to start exporting some liberalism over to these countries. Get them to stop with the "blowing themselves up" so they can get some from the 72 virgins already. Here, have a Playboy already! I think these folks are so sexually frustrated, they go absolutely insane and just want to get laid! Who better to show them the ways of the liberal world than... a liberal?! If we can get these fanatics to just loosen up a little bit, they may just have a chance! Let's face it they could use some fashion sense (the black full-body covering in the summer must be murder), the moral police with the whipping of women who are walking around without a man, women's driving and voting rights and maybe even a little touchy feely behind the minaret before noon prayers by the youngsters could be a good thing! Liberals would be seen more as "heathen" than actual enemies, and therefor would probably be more accepted and killed later than conservatives who may try to convert these folks to Christianity.

While I've taken a very tongue and cheek view at this top ten list - ultimately the point is these people need to lighten up for crying out loud. My prediction is they will ultimately take this too far, uniting the West against the Middle East. It's fine right now with all the rioting and burning taking place in relatively out of the way areas and countries. See what happens when London is nuked, or Paris burns for 6 months, Hamburg kidnappings and killings rise 500% or New York is bombed again. All I can say is these people will feel a huge hurt - I love it when the weaklings in the West get all scared about these riots. It's frankly very amusing to read and watch. Let's not forget that in a knock down and drag out fight - the only thing keeping these rioters alive is the moral fiber of the West and our sense of "civility". Were it the other way around and these radical islamists were in power and the Europeans and America were rioting under their rule - we'd be well on our way to being exterminated, making the holocaust look like a small barbacue. There's no doubt in my mind they would pay little mind. There's nothing for us to be scared of from these dirt dwelling, poopy handed and smelly people. Where it to come to another World War - it would be over before it started.

Missed Top 10 items:

- Fashion Sense
- Asphalt
- Non-dirt floors
- A New Religion
- Something other than Oil and heroin exports

Got more - post 'em up!

Sunday Cartoon

2006-01-29T15:31:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Hamas, terrorism, Palestine, Hillary, Nagin,
politics]

Cindy Sheehan's Disgrace

2006-01-29T15:20:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Sheehan, Feinstein, socialism, protest, Chavez,
Democrat]

Cindy Sheehan will soon be an afterthought, sorta like that really spicy Thai food - yes it was quite spicy going down, certainly did cause some gas, and then burned when expelled, but it's over now. Cindy had much more than her fair 15 minutes and by using her son's name and his death, she's stretched it out for over a year. All that is about to crash around her ankles like a prom dress in the back of Daddy's Chevy. Part of me can't wait to see her cry her crocodile tears, another part wants her to suffer like her son would be suffering from her insane behavior since his death, and another part of me pity's her entire existence. She certainly would be better off jumping off a pier, but hey, she should know what's she's doing right?

I've composed my letter to Cindy in a thoughtful way - no name calling, no outrage. I think she certainly can turn herself around if she catches herself in time - I think the time she has left is short. She should start living her life for herself again and honor her sons memory and stop being a tool for fringe left politics. Any time you have Michael Moore on your side, it's time to pack it in and go home.

I certainly like A Western Heart's view of this. Political Yen/Yang has a different take on it, as does Liberal Republican and Conservative Democrat.

What most seem to agree on is that Cindy's about to explode and it's going to be all over the place, in a messy nasty gross vomitus sort of way. It's all too easy really. I've got my popcorn all ready. Screw sweeps week, this is gonna be good.

A letter to Cindy Sheehan

Dear Cindy,

For over a year now I've watched, read and listened to the media coverage you have been garnering with much interest. The latest of which has been your trip to Venezuela and your meeting with Hugo Chavez. The Democratic Party and your supporters have supported you and your cause since your sons unfortunate death fighting in the United States military.

This letter is probably letter number 1,000,000,000 or some such non-sense, and I'm sure you won't even read it personally, but it may sit and never be opened, or if I'm fortunate, it will be opened and read by one of your supporters who's job it is to do such a task.

The pictures of Hugo Chavez and you that were published in the media were very disturbing to say the least. You're wearing your sons picture around your neck at some demonstrations - yet your son is no longer the focus of your position. You claim to work to bring the U.S. military home from an illegal war where the soldiers have no voice of opposition - yet when asked, these troops do not share your view. I might point out neither did your son when he was alive.

I must point out that the actions you are taking only drag your son's memory in the mud of your far left views. You must understand that everything your son stood for and believed in is now overshadowed by your fanaticism. You're being used by the far left to further their own goals. You're hatred for Bush and the current Republican government as well as some of the Democratic representatives that currently serve in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may or may not be founded yet your actions only further separate you from the people of America.

To be perfectly blunt, I do wish you much success in your future endeavors as it will further define your fringe position from the mainstream of America. While you will always have supporters and believers in your constant rhetoric and accusations and there will always be more targets of your supposed outrage and ire, many American's see you for what you are: A pawn. You're son no longer matters no matter what your crying face may show and what your words may be in the rally's and protests you attend as a speaker. Your success will ultimately identify your lack of common sense and socialistic views. I truly do feel sorry for your loss, yet your outlet of blame and playing the victim of your sons death is unforgivable. You've lost your marriage, your family support, your son and you fill it with people who say they care for you but do not. You're life has become a circus and the public are the patrons in the stands watching and eating popcorn.

Honor your son, honor his memory and stop erasing him from America's memory by your constant protests - by not doing so you further your own selfish goals and serve only yourself. At the very least stop carrying your sons picture like a badge of truth - he has and had nothing to do with who and what you are now. You push his picture in front of you for the cameras like a shield - a testament to your actions. Can you look yourself in the mirror and say you are really doing this for him? Isn't it all about you and the campaign against what you believe are "criminals" in the White House? I urge you to soul search again and re-evaluate your current path before you are made out as a mockery and slowly fade into obscurity. Don't be the butt of comedian jokes and don't let that happen to your son's memory.

I will leave you with the words of your own family:

Being a jackass is an emotional thing

A Sheehan Family letter to Cindy August 2005:

"The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins."

Where am I politically

2006-01-28T21:09:00.000-05:00

I've done my share of on-line political tests - I really like this one. To say I'm suprised is overstated. I know who I am, I know what I believe. But what I also do is question and require facts and evidence. This test says I'm a Centrist. I've also taken tests that show I'm a "Populist", others show me leaning on the Social Liberal side, yet have a foot on the Republican side as well.

A confirmation if nothing else.

You are a
Social Liberal
(60% permissive)

and an...
Economic Moderate
(55% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Centrist

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Jill Carroll: Update #1

2006-01-28T16:23:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Iraq, Abduction, kidnapped, terrorist, News,
Jill Carroll]

Well, it's now been 21 days since the abduction of Jill Carroll by the Revenge Brigade in Iraq. Nothing has been heard from the group and they have made no new demands. However, UPI wrote a piece (I won't say of what) which can be found at this link

Something interesting is the inference (no proof mind you) that the U.S. troops, while looking for terrorists and insurgents, commonly take women from these homes, jail them and abuse them, in hopes to flush out the insurgent men. The Bush haters would believe that in a New York second and nod like a Mets bobble-head in July. I digress...

Thomas Houlahan from UPI states:

" If Jill Carroll is still alive, her captors would do well to assess the situation objectively.

Obviously, killing this reporter -- especially this reporter -- would make no sense from the standpoint of either principle or practicality."

Since when have terrorists assessed killing innocent people objectively? Terrorists make sense? They're PRACTICAL?? In what friggin' way? I guess if you count that they calmly assess how to slit a throat, or practically think about the angle at which they will hold the gun and blow the brains out of another person - I guess Tommy-Boy is correct...

"Right now, the Revenge Brigade, or the Vengeance Brigade, has made its point. Let's face it, the world knows a lot more about the treatment of suspected insurgents, especially female insurgents, than it did last month."

Now we're learning a valuable lesson from the Vengeance Brigade apparently. Terrorists have taught us a very good moral it seems. See, us dumb Westerners obviously know NOTHING about female prisoners (it's because the West apparently doesn't have females you see) prior to them abducting Jill Carroll. Shall we send them a thank you card with some candy maybe? Maybe Tom Houlahan will invite some of them over to a family barbacue and have a good conversation of some grilled peppers and hummus on the value of disembowling innocent people on video tape, and how it teaches the world a lesson.

"If Jill Carroll is killed, it goes without saying that they will lose any hope of ever gaining sympathy for their cause from Americans. They will also be denounced by Muslims worldwide for killing an innocent woman. In short, they will have handed their enemies a huge propaganda victory."

What kind of masochistic garbage is this? They wish to gain sympathy for their cause by killing a defenseless girl. They will be denounced by Muslims for killing an innocent woman - I don't think that's the case at all. The Muslim world didn't denounce anyone when 3000+ innocent women and men were killed on 9/11. As a matter of fact, Muslims around the world danced in the streets, children were given sweets and adults laughed and drank tea while happily grinning about the mass killing.

Actual pictures of Palestinian children during 9/11 attacks

Palestinian woman recieves free sweets and praises Allah during 9/11 attacks

See the difference between the Middle East and the United States?

Really? Muslims will denounce it? And is that all they will be handing over to their enemies - is a propaganda victory? I guess one life in the world really doesn't matter anymore, especially to Thomas Houlahan - she's not a thinking breathing soul who feels and loves and has emotions - no no. She's a "propaganda victory". I'm sure if Jill is still alive and one can only hope one day reads Tom's little turd of an op-ed piece here, she'll thank him for NOT just being a propaganda pawn, but an actual person.

I wish that I could celebrate the death of thousands of Palestinians and laugh, eat and do the jig while their people die horrible deaths - but I can't because my belief isn't to celebrate the death of anyone. These are the people we're fighting. These are the people who hate in the name of Allah. My anger on this blog would jeopardize my soul, so I will stop right here with more on these pictures.

On a suprising note, the Muslim News out of the UK has a piece on Jill Carroll that's much better written and has a much more insightful view of Jill as actually being a flesh and blood person and not just a political pawn. I would urge anyone interested to read this article - it's good.

The Muslim News: Jill Carroll and Arab hypocrisy

Friday Cartoon(s)

2006-01-27T20:52:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Abrahmoff, corruption, cartoon, politics, democrat,
republican]

Oprah vs. Mexico

2006-01-27T09:28:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Oprah, books, fraud, Mexico, alien,
illegal]

It's pretty funny when the media is covering Oprah like it was breaking news and yet most morning shows this AM only had blips on the issues with Mexico and border security. Security will most likely be a hot button in the 2006 and 2008 elections, yet the fake Doubleday published author and Oprah's admonishment of him on televison seems to be the bigger story.

Oprah's getting just as much press as Hamas creating the new Palestine government, which, (to go on a tangent) is akin to John Wayne Gacy being the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Get Cronkite back on TV and have him do some fluff pieces like "How to accentuate the female buttocks" with interviews from the garment district.

Six habits of un... wha?

2006-01-26T21:36:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Weblog, blog, Right Wing News, Snob, Politics,
crap]

I've just had an interesting read over at the Right Wing News Blog. It contains a touch of elitism, a pinch of snobbery and a big who cares from moi.

Can you say "dork"? Good!

The post in question, other than being annoying has a big assumption - that everyone with a blog wants to be "big". I couldn't care less if I "never take off". What if I don't want to be different? Not enough content? Sorry dude - I have a life and some of that life is away from the computer. When I pimp myself out and start trying to be like the "big blogs" with tons of content, please, put a .45 to my head and squeeze the trigger? My little blog here won't ever threaten RWN, or KoS of Malkin and you know what - no one really cares. I don't really care much about the RWN either - they have some good posts once in a while but I don't click on their stupid advertisements, I rarely post a comment and I really don't give a squat about getting big in the blogsphere. I don't want mail, (or hate mail) I don't like over the top comments dripping with rhetoric - patooie! Here's a tip for RWN: Get out of the house and do something with your life, loosers. Turn off the monitor and step away from the computer - stop wanking off, get a girlfriend or a second job for crying out loud. Like sucessful blogging is some "superior task"...I'll post what I want, when I want, and as much or little as I want Mr. John Hawkins (whoever the hell you are. What a pompus ass!). I blog for myself - if other people want to read it great - if not, just as great. Geeze, now I have to get lectured about why I suck... nice.

Sucessful bloggers on a rare day out

***UPDATE****

RWN has updated their post with the following:

"*** Update #1 *** Just to clear something up.

A few bloggers in the comments section seemed to be a bit offended by this piece, mainly because they say their goal really isn't to get traffic. Well, they shouldn't be offended, because this is a post aimed at the vast majority of bloggers who want to build an audience. If you're one of the rare breed of bloggers who couldn't care less whether 5 or 5000 people read your blog, then don't sweat it, because this piece isn't meant for you. If you enjoy blogging for therapeutic reasons, to pass the time, for a close circle of friends, etc, etc, have a good time and feel free to completely ignore this post."

This self-effacing blogger wishes to thank RWN for the update. No hard feelings.
Read more at www.rightwingnews.com/a...

Chris Penn: About Karma

2006-01-26T19:51:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Chris Penn, Obit, Hollywood, Actor, Dead,
Dead]

Good Karma:

Would have been that Sean Penn would have kicked off instead of brother Chris Penn. Ahh but that dream must stay unanswered.

Tragedy:

Chris Penn died at the age of 40, while his Asshole brother is still sucking down coffin nails because of President Bush.

Though I'm not a believer in Karma, maybe Sean could learn a lifes lesson from this, though I'd doubt it. By all accounts Chris seems to have been the good guy, the nice guy. What a shame.

Chris - we hardly knew ye...

Howard Dean: How lucky are we?

2006-01-26T19:18:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Howard Dean, Couric, ABC, DNC, Democrat,
Lie]

Good Morning and Eff you America!

You know, I watched Howard Dean this morning speak briefly with Katie Couric on Good Morning America (Not that I bother usually) but in between my coffee and my morning constitutional I was flipping through the channels and happened hear Katie say Dean was coming on. So I endure some comercials for the interest in hearing if Dean will say something interesting and poignant or something stupid.

While the interview was going on, I had to admit, his words were doing what they were supposed to - tow the party line. He carefully skirted the question about Hillary's use of "Plantation" with the House of Representatives by saying Newt Gingrich said it first (though admittedly, not on MLK day... in Harlem... in a Black Church... on Camera) then made sure he mentioned how if the Dem's got back into power how everyone and everything would be much better. He then mentioned that the Democrats were very strong on Security and Border Control, as well as a national Health Care system (i.e. Social medicine), the War on Terror etc... basically he stole the cheat sheet from Karl Rove and put the left spin on it. He again carefully skirted the poll that showed a majority of the people who were polled and voted would NOT vote for Hillary for President, which he quipped Hillary was more worried about her Senate seat in NY than the Presidency. Then it happened. Dean outright lied.

Jack Nicholson's got nothing on you Howie

It's relatively easy to read Dean's face... he's like an intense horse. Lips quiverying, nervous ticks, droning voice. It's unmistakable. Just looking at him right as he's formulating the outburst to come, anticipating, urgent look on his face, cheeks getting read, eyes widening. I was so flippin' glad he didn't win the Democratic primary in 2004. This guy would have been a disaster of proportions unknown in modern political history. Firstly, I would doubt he'd make it through his first term let alone get in for a second. I can say, Thank God Kerry won the primary and Dean let out that awful "yeaaaaaahhhhhh!" that sunk him quicker than a sponge.

Dean said no Democrat took "one cent from Abrahmoff... not one cent" was the quote, and you know, technically he right. While Abrahmoff didn't directly give the Democrats the money, it went through a third party or into a PAC or other funding organization before it got to the Democrats in question. So, technically Dean is correct - Abrahmoff didn't physically hand them the money in a small manilla envelope while wearing a fedora and trench coat -- however, the source was Abrahmoff.

Using that logic - a TV I buy on 73rd and Lexington off the back of a panel truck from a guy named Mickey, isn't REALLY recieving stolen goods because Mickey didn't steal it... his BROTHER Joey stole it, so ipso-facto, I'm innocent and should be free as a boid. Were it only that simple.

Howz I suppost to know TV's don't cost $10?

Yet, Democrats, Blogs, even the politically savvy little dudette at work tows that mantra - NO DEMOCRAT TOOK ONE CENT FROM ABRAHMOFF! Suddenly everyone's an expert in the law right? Nah, nothing that dramatic - they are just parroting what they hear like a good doobie. The truth is much harder to face, and the true blue Democrats won't give an inch and cannot even admit their shoes are untied if the Republicans can say anything about it. How truly insane. Did Bush divide the country? No, though he was blamed for it. As a matter of fact, Bush is akin to Santa Claus in this country. He's everywhere, all the time, doing bad things every hour of the day, every week of every year since 2000. He knows everything (like that the hijackers of the planes that hit the WTC on 9/11 weren't after him at the Florida grade school). He knew it... dunno how but he did. He knew before he took office that he was going to invade Iraq - he knew that the U.N. and all the Senators and Representatives would back him - he knew how to manipulate documents, secret information, even intelligence from OTHER COUNTRIES. He had an elaborate scheme to pay off informants in Austrialia and England about the infamous Niger "Yellow Cake". He very schrewdly put together Iraq with the terrorists. During the re-election he had a square box on his back where supposedly he was getting direction on what to do during the debates.

Then we understand that it's Cheney, Rumsfeld and Kove who are actually running the White House. Bush is just a pawn for the real evil - which is running this country into Iraq to get the oil, to richen themselves on Halliburton stock, to get kickbacks from defense contractors. To right the wrong that Saddam did to Daddy!

Those believers are very interesting in their contradictions. Bush is stupid - but he's blamed for everything. Cheney and Kove are pulling Bush's strings - yet all indications are Bush makes his own decisions.

So what's the alternative... all I can say is still... thank God it wasn't Dean.

Chavez ruse outed?

2006-01-23T09:49:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Chavez, Columbia, dictator, Qaddafi, kidnapping,
politician]

Gateway Pundit has an interesting take on the plee for Chavez to help free Columbian politicans from their Marxist rebel kidnappers.

Sunday Cartoon

2006-01-22T17:20:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Political, Cartoon, Iran, Middle East, Nukes,
Israel]

Jill Carroll Iraq Abduction

2006-01-19T13:14:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Iraq, Abduction, kidnapped, terrorist, News,
Jill Carroll]

There's a few things with this story that are both disturbing and interesting at the same time. We need not be reminded (I hope) that Daniel Pearl was also a journalist in Iraq, who was also abducted and eventually had his throat cut on tape, which made it's way through the internet and on Al-Jazeera.

Now, we have the lead story on CNN this morning (1/19/2006) which had an exclusive interview with Jill's mother Mary Beth Carroll in which she smiles and very calmly reads a prepared statement, presumably and possibly to the abductors of her daughter in which she states Jill was an "invited and welcome guest" of Iraqi's and who has "worked hard in showing the suffering of the Iraqi's to the world".

Never a lip quiver, not a tear, not a stutter or quaking voice. It was calm, collected and cool as a cucumber. Mary Beth Carroll also asks the abductors to "work with my daughter" on communication on her release. As a matter of fact Mary smiled and laughed about her daughter learning Arabic in Iraq. Mary attests that she is in shock and that falling apart will not help anyone right now, which is a very strong position to take. That "mom" didn't fall apart was surprising. It definitely supports her own admission that she may in fact be in shock.

This was the most serious "mom" looked during this interview.

That she and her mother also spoke about the eventuality of her being kidnapped in Iraq. And also that she "knew what the risks were and knew what she was getting into..." was also interesting.

When asked what Mary would like her captors should know, Mary replied: "That they've picked the wrong person and that her Iraqi friends can attest to that..."

Ok so I'm very sympathetic here, but a few things just make me question, just a little bit, what is happening. I know I have no knowledge or information other than what is currently out in the MSM. I have nothing to base this on at all... other than interpreting what I'm seeing.

Mararet Hassan reacts to being kidnapped.

Typical demand video from Iraq.

Observations:

- Jill is very calm in the 20 second released video.
- Mom is very calm and collected in the CNN exclusive interview
- Very convenient things occurred during this abduction
- Mom admits Jill is very "passionate" about bringing the story of the Iraqi's plight to the world

This is interesting since the current story is, she was kidnapped (probably a stressful situation), her interpreter was killed assumably during the abduction from a "non-descript car" (again a tense situation when seeing someone you know get killed in front of you), while the supposed driver of the car got away and brought the background story to the press. When I compare the other abductions of journalists like Daniel Pearl, there was much more information initially available.

Pearl was arguably a Jew and therefore an enemy of Pakistan. Multiple demands were made for the release of prisoners and the halt of F16's being sold to Israel. Pearl was called a spy.

The only demand associated with Jill Carrolls abduction so far is the release of female prisoners from Guantanamo. This is VERY interesting as both culturally and religiously, Iraqi's care little about their women. Why would they make such a
demand? Women are less valuable then cattle in Iraq - especially to Sunni's. Culturally, women are only important for making babies and doing work. Other than that, little is thought of women in most Muslim countries. Why on earth would these abductors make such a request? Wouldn't they demand other things like America to leave Iraq, or maybe some of their brothers who are jailed, or in retribution for their killed comrades? Even if they were hard up for demands, they could go

back and look up some of Bin Ladens and restate some of them - or maybe something about the voting or new government. But releasing women from Gitmo??

You'd think that all this would make someone just a little upset and tense - yet Jill is one cool cucumber. No furrowed brows, tense lips, wide eyes or usually in these cases we see the captives looking down and away from the camera. Jill's looking straight into it and speaking. She's very comfortable even with armed and face-covered kidnapper’s right next to her during those 20 seconds. While we don't know what she was saying since there was no sound on the video - it doesn't seem to be forced words.

That the Sunni politician Jill was on her way to interview did not show up either lends to some of the credibility of the story - yet something is just a bit fishy in this abduction. Is it possible? Absolutely. Is it plausible? Absolutely. Is it true? I'm sure it happened, I'm just not so sure it happened the way it's being told right now. Is it a hoax? I have nothing to support that stance at this time, yet I'm a little suspicious. Why? Well, all the things I've so far identified - Mom & Jill are very calm and confident. The story is very convenient, and Jill has, by her mother’s words, tried to support and report the plight of the Iraqi people. What better way to show that plight than by getting abducted and getting world wide coverage? Yes, I'm in the "dark side" right now, thinking dark thoughts and looking aimlessly for something other than what we're being shown in the media - is it a stretch? Sure is. But it disturbs me that the usual human condition of being kidnapped, seeing a murder and being held by gun-toting terrorists fazes the captive very little. You've heard the term "people are people no matter where they're from"? Well, Jill seems to be from Mars.

Now I'm the first one to say I'm reaching big time on this - it's just odd. I'm not making an accusation at all - I'm simply observing and interpreting what I've seen today. I am sure I'm wrong - yet were I with the CIA, I would bring up the possibility of this being "staged". If she's killed, as I believe will happen, I will feel bad that I wrote this piece and would even toy with the idea of deleting it - yet, if the Friday 1/20 deadline is extended and she's freed... I will be all the more suspicious and would urge the MSM to investigate further.

Sorry - odd things just don't sit well with me, kinda like eating an entire pepperoni pizza at 1 am - I'll need some tums to get through the night. I'm hoping and praying for Jill and also hoping I won't need tums. If she's really that brave under these circumstances, I'm smitten with admiration.

iAlbumArt 1.5 = No Fun

2006-01-15T18:07:00.000-05:00

[Tags: iPod, Apple, iTunes, iAlbumArt, Music,
Art]

Like about a billion other people - this Christmas I recieved an iPod Nano, which I'm enjoying very much. Now that I'm getting my music under control, I decided to utilize the iPods picture functionality and did some searching on some tools that automatically download the pictures in my playlist or Library.

I came across iAlbumArt 1.5 (mailto:iAlbumArt@ipod-sync.com) and am sadly disappointed. It was $11.95 to get the full license and it did integrate very well, installation was fine on Windows XP, and all seemed smooth - until I had a song that wasn't on the Top 100 of All-Time Rock & Roll charts. Actually iAlbumArt 1.5 got confused easily and over 60% of the time, (when using it to automatically search and insert the album art) it put the wrong album art in.

How it works:
iAlbumArt 1.5 works by using the ID3 tag on the song to look for the Artist Name / Album Name and then does a search into Amazon.com for the album. The obvious problem is that when Amazon.com doesn't have the picture, you're out of luck. But I could have lived with just that being the problem.

Here's an example:

Song 1: The Pretenders / Singles
Song 2: The Fix / Ultimate collection
Song 3: Blake Babies / Rosy Jack World

I search under Song 1; my result: Sound Track to Godzilla

Ok - so I do a multiple search which will pull up just the Artist name, and I get lots of Pretenders albums, but not "Singles". So I pick a generic picture.

I search for Song 2: The initial search came up with Duran Duran / Live from London. Don't even ask me how it came up with this. So I do a multiple search - nothing. It's as if the Fixx (an 80's band) didn't exist.

So I do the last one Song 3: This search provided me with the Soundtrack to the movie Perdition. Perdition was set in the 30's and starred Tom Hanks - the Blake Babies (an 80's Indie band with Juliana Hatfield) WOULDN'T be on that movie soundtrack in a thousand years. So I do a multiple search - It only provides me with Juliana Hatfield CD's - no Blake Babies at all. What DID show up in this search was one picture of "The Pretenders: Singles" (Song 1). So, stupidly, I went back to Song 1 and did another multiple search - nope. The Pretenders: Singles didn't show up... again.

So out of about 250 songs, I have approximately 80 that have the correct album art. The rest I had to MANUALLY go in a delete from iAlbumArt 1.5 and then do a second search for each album, which yielded the 80 correct pictures.

THE PROOF

Here's my search for The Fixx

The initial result of "Duran Duran", how it got that from "The Fix" I don't know

Now I do the multiple search looking for any Album Art - with bad results

I search in Google and find the Album Art immediately. *sigh*

Final Thoughts:

iAlbumArt 1.5 is fine if you only listen to popular music of the past 15 to 20 years. If it's the top albums, top songs, the iAlbumArt will probably work fine 80% of the time and you'll have to search around for the other 20%. If you listen to stuff that's outside of the mainstream or wasn't really that popular - don't even waste your time and money. iAlbumArt will not find the covers of your tunes - not only that, it'll find and insert the WRONG album art, making you waste even more time removing the incorrect pictures.

iAlbumArt (it seems) uses 15 year old technology of "boolean" search through Amazon.com. It's high failure rate shows it's not a very good application. While it did install relatively well with no errors, running it while it searches bogs down my computer (An AMD 64-FX with 2GB RAM, WinXP PRO, Ultra 150 SCSI-3 RAID Array HD's, 6MB Cable connection and an ATI 9800 256MB Vid Card). I exceed the requirements of this program by probably 10x yet is sluggishly moves and when automatically searching for a large amount of music art - it can take up to 2 hours or more to find the WRONG stuff. As I mentioned before, it's $11.95, however, my council is to SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM.

Follow the iTunes directions and do a Google search for your images. Save them into your "My Pictures" folder or make a folder specificially for your iTunes. The pictures you save should be no bigger than 200x200. Assign the pictures in your iTunes and set your iPod to show the pictures when the songs are played. The pictures will take up some space, so keep that in mind.

I wrote Mike Matheson (the copyright owner on iAlbumArt 1.5) with my findings and disappointment. Hopefully, reading this will save you some time and money and hopefully the Mike or whomever will work on the next iteration will solve the many problems of this software.

Overall iAlbumArt 1.5 gets a:

Sunday Cartoon

2006-01-15T16:26:00.000-05:00

How to write a Liberal blog

2006-01-15T14:15:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Weblog, blog, blogging, how to, Liberal,
Politics]]

Today's observation instructs those who wish to start a Liberal Blog. It's actually easier than you may think.

Easy Steps to start a Liberal Blog:
1.) Find a free blog site (don't want to pay for this do you?)
2.) Pick a target
3.) Bone up on your vocabulary
4.) Email other Liberal blogs with your blog (links are important!)
5.) Recruit others who are extreme about your opinion
6.) Start writing

Let's take these one by one so I can add some detail.

1.) Find a free blog site
Easy enough - there's many out there. You're on one now, "Blogspot" sponsored by Google. Create an account, pick a format, follow directions. A 12 year old can do this it's so easy.

2.) Pick a target
You'll need something to rail against. Liberal blogs are usually political in scope so the obvious target will be the Republicans. However, you may want to specialize with things like "Congressional Republicans" or maybe "That moron Bush", or maybe even Rove or Cheney. You may also want to consider subjects like "Idiotic Red States", or "The Pentagon" or maybe "Baby Killers - the Military", "Jingoism", "Hypocrisy" etc. You get the idea. By having a broad brush with which to generalize and spread the kool-aide, this will allow you to touch on any and all subjects. A requirement here is to have a picture of a "foil hat", use many different funny quotes or pictures of a distored G.W. Bush, and link to others like Smirking Chimp or Americablog.

3.) Vocabulary is very important - but not the normal vocabulary that one may find in highschool spelling B's. Oh no. We need the Liberal vocabulary. This is key to a successful Liberal blog. Here's a short list sample of words that must be used in each and every article on your blog.

Wingnut
Neo-Con
Enablers (Ex. the enablers in the wingnut Bush administration...)
ignorant (ingnorance)
mumbo-jumbo (Ex. keep them ignorant with that mumbo-jumbo religion...)
King George (referencing G.W. Bush)
Imperialism
cabal (Ex. ...the existing Bush cabal/Administration)
supplication
dramedy (a combination of "drama" and "comedy" used to describe Conservatives)
Orwell (or "Orwellian" - describing Orwells novel "1984" and comparing it to the Bush Administration)
tyranny
harrass (harassment)
warmongers
shoeshine brigade (a descriptor for the G.W. Bush Administration used to demean. You can make up your own "bunny bumpers" "baby killers" etc.)
lies (or any derivative - used at LEAST 5 times in any article regarding Bush, his administration, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Delay, Republican, etc.)
murderers (again, a descriptor for Bush, any Republican administration or any branch of the military or a specific soldier)
moron (any derivative - moronic, morons)
uninformed
civilian clones
propoganda
jingoism (jingoist)
Halliburton
barbaric (descriptor for the military)
jet-jocks (descriptor for the air force)
fascism (or use of facist to describe any Republican or military personnel)
nazi (same as above)
Any of the 7 dirty words (must be used multiple times to show outrage)
bigot (description of any Republican in Washington or conservative Judges)
Der Fuhrer (see King George)
Jesus W. (describing G.W. Bush when he mentions God publically)
monkeyboy (describing G.W. Bush)
henchmen (describing the U.S. military)
Puppet Government (describing the current Iraqi government)
Bu$hCo (describing G.W. Bush & Administration)
Impeachment
torture (or tortured)
Abu Grabe
hubris
This is a short list, many many more are available.

Example of the type of sentences these vocabulary words can make:

It is as if these innocent murdered Afghans had never existed. They matter not a bit in the Greater Empire, just as the dozen people killed in a Yippee Shoot by the F-14 fly-boys in Iraq on January 3 are now consigned to the shadowy hell of non-history.

And this is a short list of descriptors to use when railing against those... Right Wing Bastards.

4.) Email other Liberal blogs

It's important to get linked through other blogs with technocrati or other similiar service so the same stories can be propogated and the sharing of far left principles are conveyed to as large of an audience as possible. It's not necessary that there is accuracy here - let's face it, this isn't journalism. Blogs of this type (both Rightwing and Leftwing) are meant to pull together those of similiar thoughts and to confirm that belief by use "creative descriptors" such as the vocabulary above.

5.) Recruit others...

It's difficult to spread dissent, hate and negative stereotypes multiple times per day - that's why you'll need help! Authorize others to write on your blog so they can help you spread the negative words to those who are also negative. Whatever you do, don't offer original thought or ideas into the mix. The purpose of this blog is to rail against something you hate, in this example, the Conservatives. Introducing new thoughts and ideas show optimisim and that's a no-no. Only negative attacks and criticism should be published to stay within the mainstream Liberal blogging. It's okay to criticize other liberals when they too are showing optimisim or, when you can link them to Republicans.

6.) Start writing

Self explainatory.

So there you have it. By following these simple 6 steps, you too can be one of the rabble of pathetic Liberal blogs that spout the same hate, thoughts and talking points by using the same words and vocabulary. In this way, consistency is held and facts are creatively side-stepped for the sake of removing Republicans from running the government of the United States. That IS the goal after all isn't it? Damn the results of such acts - because after all, the biggest enemy of the Liberal is the educated non kool-aide drinker Moderate. Damn those jingoistic moderates - they spout lies from the Nazi neocons and their facist propoganda from the trough of Monkeyboy and his imperialistic henchmen only further supplicant the lies of lies of lies of warmongering civillian clones! Ignorant Wingnut Bitches!

(wow, I'm getting good at this!)

Friday Cartoon

2006-01-13T15:32:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Kennedy, Alito, Cartoon, Hearings]

I can't say more than's already been said about the Alito hearings. Ted that fat puke and Biden/Schumer should try getting some relations at home or write a book together - their pontifications put me to sleep faster than a bad "Phantom of the Opera" rendition. At least seeing Teddy get his ass spanked was almost worth it.

Old Fashioned?

2006-01-06T12:00:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Hollywood, Spielberg, Movies, Syriana, Brokeback,
MTV]]

Fuddy-duddy. Old Man. Over the hill.

Not really - I'm only in the mid-30's and I don't think I've reached "old fart status". Yet, I find myself understanding more and rejecting more of "Pop Culture" instead of saying "Yeah, hey that's great!"

Hi - We french kiss each other on film!

For instance, I really have NO want or need to see Brokeback Mountain. Now I like westerns - but the westerns I like have strong characters that either struggle between good and evil or struggle against death (or for life, whichever you like better). I don't want to see gay men in the west with spurs - it's a little to 70's Village People for me. Don't care if DiNiro, Paccino and Nicholson is in it and they ravage Clint Eastwoods rear end - it's not something I want to see no matter how good the acting is or how progressive the story. If I want to watch a western, how about a John Wayne, John Ford or Spagetti western with Eastwood? Or even a modern western like "Young Guns" or "Pale Rider". This poofter western is like watching a D-Day movie with 2 GI's making out on Omaha beach.

Then we get into the sympathetic Muslim movies like Syriana or Munich. We feel the need to have sympathetic enemies in Hollywierd - and we're supposed to swallow this crap? Granted, Spielberg does make some good movies, however no matter how you spin the deaths of innocent people in 1973 and explain the reasons with "tortured souls" such as the terrorists who carried out these killings, doesn't do it. How about a nice sympathetic movie about the Oklahoma Bombings or maybe a "tortured" Unibomber movie?

Help! Muslim terrorist save me from the corrupt oil hungry Americans!

Syriana I will not see unless it's free on television. Movies.com writes:

"What's the Deal? This multiple-plot mosaic is about corruption in the oil industry, right-wing think-tanks that want to squeeze the Middle East into an America-friendly mold, CIA operatives betrayed by their own country, the nurturing of fundamentalist Muslim suicide bombers and a young energy analyst and family man cashing in on the death of his own child. And it feels like someone just dropped a 100-gallon barrel of oil in your lap."

In other words, more liberal propoganda being passed off as "art". While I guess it is freedom of expression it doesn't mean its good. You can only polish a turd so much until it falls apart right? So needless to say, I'll be skipping Clooney's latest piece of garbage. Hey George, how about making another insipid "Oceans 25" movie, this time with Bo Derek as an aged naked wrinkled grandmother who hides the hope diamond in her belly folds? (Oops... I'm sorry, was that a little harsh?)

As I've posted before, I don't get MTV's sweet 16 stuff, the million dollars being spent on decadent spoiled teenagers who have no responsibilities or cares in the world. There's some great lessons there huh? Get your 15 minutes of spoiled freedom - while, who cares if they don't know who General Grant was, or how to solve for X. Partayyy! I think business is outsourcing to other countries for one simple reason - the college gratuate Americans are too stupid to do the jobs. Businesses may feel like they need to get the work into competent hands and today's youth just doesn't seem to cover it. The Leno "Man on the Street" segments just make me cringe.

Say dear... wanna go kill some Jew atheletes?

So does that make me old fashioned? I like strong characters in my movies not limp wristed ones (not that there's anything wrong with that - I just don't necessarily want to watch it). While I sometimes do like "Will and Grace", I find some of the material outside of good taste and the content at times just a little much. A wee bit too "East Village NYC" bohemian open lifestyle. Art is useful, necessary. The creative folks always are a little "weird" and that's usually what makes them good at what they do. But that doesn't mean that I agree or like anything else that they do other than their art. Now, when it comes to Clooney & the Hollyweird ilk, I usually DON'T agree with ANYTHING they have to say, do, like or have opinions on. Some of their movies are ok - but that's about it. These are NOT the people who are models for our children or to young people in any way - they are the direct opposite of what young people should model themselves after. If anything - Old Fashioned, while full of problems and issues in itself, is at least familiar rather than "alien".

Monday Cartoon

2006-01-02T21:23:00.000-05:00

Ok - so I'm 5 days early. This one was too good to pass up.

The Problem with Fame

2006-01-02T15:50:00.000-05:00

What is it that people need the be famous - even for the "infamous" 15 seconds Warhol was so quoted about? For example, my least favorite Newspaper(the NYT) had an Op-Ed piece today covering something that's so obvious to non-CEO's and nop-executives in business today: They are under paid and over worked when compared to their CEO's and Executive types. CEO's are paid 431:1 a regular worker is paid.

What does a CEO do to get 20 million a year, other than be a mouthpiece for the company, and hire very smart people to guide and strategize. It's difficult for me to be "compassionate and understanding" of someone who makes 20 million and who also, by the way, has an air-tight contract with a golden parachute attached to it; so if they happen to get fired by their board or gets indicted for mis-deeds, these CEO's get millions more, and don't leave out the bonus of a few more million.

Whereas, the workers get a couple hundred bucks and a few days off during the holidays. Yippee. Not only am I in favor of capping these overpaid goons who seem to put more time in at home and the golf course than at the office and who have no appreciable skills other than being born into wealthy families who send them to Ivy League schools, and who are part of that ipso-facto good 'ol CEO network - which is how they got the job in the first place. I digress... yes yes, I remember, the NYT... (sigh)...

They happen to do a little piece on David Brooks, DHB's CEO who is overpaid just like the rest of the CEO's, but who had to flaunt it in front of everyone. Brooks has a birthday with 50 Cent and Aerosmith in attendence, where giftbags had a value of $1,000 each stocked with "digital cameras and video iPods". Brooks can certainly afford it after making 70 million (yes, Seventy Million) in 2004 while only making 525 thousand in 2001 (The Iraq war was good to him since his company DHB makes the bullet proof vests you see).

Anyhoo - Brooks just had to call attention to himself and this shindig that he threw for his daughter that cost millions, instead of flying under the radar and having something nice and expensive, but not over the top and not so in the public eye. This is what is called "stupidity". While not stupid in the "book" sense, Brooks probably is a very intelligent man who knows a lot of, well, something that at least got him a 70 million paycheck - (we'll leave out that it's his family's company and all that for right now).

So he calls attention to himself and the vultures swoop in. The SEC starts investigating him, the newspapers start poking around, and the outcry from the public about such excess for his little tart daughter and the millions he pissed away in debauchery and decadence when he could have done something nice for his daughter and put that money to good use for his fellow man (or at least put it in the bank for the little tarts wedding). Stupid. Book smart but not the common sense God gave a cricket. You see a cricket chirps and calls attention to himself in attracting a mate, but he does so by hiding under rocks and leaves so as not to call attention to himself from other predators. Mr. Brooks needs to take a lesson from the cricket - but he thought his 70 million would automatically be a shield, and it's nothing of the sort. It's actually the smell of blood in the water and the sharks are patrolling.

We see this happen over and over again - excesses because CEO's (Like Enron's who we all know is going to the big-house after he called attention to himself by spending millions on a cocktail party) who just can't seem to keep their heads about them. Most lottery winners are the same way - they blow through their millions in a scant 10 years or less because they have no common sense. Why do the rich go poor? Because they SPEND their money. Why do the wealthy stay wealthy? Because they hide their money and don't spend it. Wealthy people have their money in trusts and NOT in their own names. The richest people in the world have little or no assetts applied to them - why? Because they are huge targets. Let's face it, they have money and everyone wants a piece of them - however - if they have no assetts or money in their name, how do you get to their money? Good question. Especially when it's overseas in accounts only their lawyers and accounts have access to check, but not to withdraw. As long as those lawyers and accountants get their steady paychecks (off the interest no doubt) they will keep their mouths closed. Mr. Brooks should be stripped of all of his money to teach him a lesson - that excess and flaunting his riches will only attract wolves to the party - now what do you think the wolves want for dinner?

He's not as you're drunk as I think you are...

The last part of it is, why we the viewing public, give one squirt about what these idiots do. I'm not just talking about asshats like David H. Brooks of DHB Industries, I'm talking about ALL famous people. What is it about them that we find facinating? I can think of nothing - I really don't care about anyone famous other than maybe people of history who actually DID something. Do I know who was the most famous bar room dancer in the 1800's - nope. How about a famous writer of American poems in the 20th century - not a clue. But everyone sure knows about trailer trash Britiny Spears and her groady bare feet and pregnancy with... that guy, what's his name. E! television exists because people care about these famous people - what they ate, what they said, when they pee and how small of a bowel movement J-Lo had yesterday! Front page news there I'll tell ya. I must say, I do like some of the actors and actressess work in movies and stage - otherwise, I could care less about them personally, their family, their friends, what they ate for dinner and who they dissed in Vogue last month. Who cares? Isn't that their problem? Do they care whether or not I'm going to work today or how teriffic my meal out with my girlfriend was last weekend - then why would I care about them? Yes, the likes of MTV are creating a whole new generation of idiots just like Brooks, who glamorize the decadence and stupidity that is excess by sponsoring and getting ratings for things like "My Super Sweet 16"

The lower under the radar people are, the better - the less I hear about J-Lo the better and if they make millions, fine, I couldn't care less if they ate it and shat it out on their beds and rolled in it (which I'm sure someone has done already, but I don't want to know). We should have a "don't ask don't tell" policy on Hollywood and non-famous people who are famous for some reason (Nicole Ritchie is one that comes to mind. What did she do other than get hooked on drugs and get on a TV show because she's Lionel's daughter - that's a rhetorical question).

So as it goes with Brooks - the sharks are circling and the buzzards are waiting for the leftovers. The SEC is investigating. I'm just all giddy with excitement and waiting for the 70 million to go to the lawyers fees when he get's indicted (hopefully) and learns what the cricket already knows.

I love happy endings... *sniff*

What 2006 brings...

2005-12-31T22:54:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Bloom County, Berkeley, Breathed, Opus, Comic]

What we don't have is Bloom County any longer. Yes Opus is nice and all, but I want the General and Steve Dallas and the sharp political whit and a poem with Caspar Weinberger in it. Hunting liberals, Portnoy and the closet of anxieties.

You just can't get this kind of stuff today - too un-politically correct. Besides it's too smart to be wasted on today's youth.

I know what 2006 won't bring - Bloom County back. Berkeley, we hardly knew ye.

Have a night cap and Happy New Year!

Exxon: "No Soup for You!"

2005-12-31T17:28:00.000-05:00

[Tags: Chavez, Exxon, International, News, Oil]

Peekaboo! Where did Exxon go?"

Yes, it was quite a nice little racket Baby Huey (Hugo Chavez) had going - strong arm U.S. oil companies (a la Castro) into paying more for Venezuala oil by ultimatum: Pay me more so I can get rich or we will forfeit your claim. So Exxon (one of the only oil company's who had the guts) decided to not play with Hugo Chavez any longer. Exxon sold their 25% and took their marbles home, leave Chavez to ink deals with other companies, where logically, he will need to make much longer and expensive trips to the market. I see this as a win-win. No more having to listen to the rantings of a maniac dictator like Chavez holding cude oil over the heads of Americans and Hugo can take his attitude to the Brits, French and Italians and try out his strong arm tactics on Europe.

Why the Dems will loose in 2006

2005-12-31T14:01:00.000-05:00

[Tags: democrat, liberal, politics, 2006, hate]

If nothing else, I enjoy watching the human condition. The easiest thing to do is identify "what's wrong" in a civilization - even children when asked about hitting their fingers with a hammer will know that it's not a good thing.

The Democrats however, seem to lack this basic function. I haven't pinpointed why yet - but it's not obvious as far as I can tell.

To get on topic, the Democrats will loose not due to a "lack" of anything, other than understanding that human condition. Let me take you on a short journey (short being the operative word) which the left is blind to: The real issues facing the United States.

The Democrats in the Congress continue to hammer on Iraq - in my estimation a futile and hazerdous thing. The more they point out "King George-isms" that GW says is protecting Americans, the higher his polls rise, leaving the Democrat strategists scratching their heads and fumbling for their abbacus's. Why is this a mistake you may ask? Because GW's achilles heal isn't Iraq, it's his domestic failures. Sure they're not as sexy and enticing as "Impeachment", "Lies" and "Imperialism" but they have teeth.

Here's my thinking: Moderate and Conservative politicians won't come out and challenge the saftey of America by jumping on the "Impeach Bush" bandwagon. Lieberman showed this and has dropped to the cellar with Green Party and the DNC and characterized in the far left blogsphere as having his nose up GW's hoo-hoo. Most sane and moderate Democrats and Republicans understand that cutting and running from Iraq will disbowel the U.S., as will laxing policy (secret as it may be) on the NSA tapping issue. The more Democrats rail against it, the better GW likes it.

Here's a free tip to the Democrats: Drop the Iraq issue and kick GW where it hurts, namely:

1) Border security
2) Social Security
3) FEMA and Emergency Services
4) FCC and communications
5) Soft-target vulnerabilities
6) Fiscal responsibility
7) Tax cuts and balancing the deficit
8) Trade issues

GW has failed MISERABLY in all 8 of those areas, has provided a feeble if any strategy in 6 years and hasn't been able to force it through Congress, even with a majority in BOTH houses! Now if that doesn't suck, nothing does.

Why then won't the Dems start pounding on these issues? Why can't they start putting together briefs that show Mr. and Mrs. Joe American will be broke with GW's plan by year 20xx. Show things that affect the average American, their childrens future, etc? Granted, those 8 things aren't sexy like a Senate Commission investigating "WMD's", but those 8 things are what the Democrats are GOOD at - they actually have (some) good ideas and a plan that may actually help and that also put the Republicans in the backseat muttering to themselves.

So why don't the Democrats do that?

The answer is because the Democrats are like an Uncle that's addicted to CRACK. They're blinded to these other things, they don't know what's going on around them or what's important. All they know is where's their next crack fix coming from and anything they can do to get that fix is what they focus on. If they have to rob their own mothers to get the money for that fix, it's fine with them. The Democrat hate is now so deep seeded that they would gladly demolish forever anything that got in their way of that hate and it's intended target. The fanatical fringe left would have no problem destroying Democracy in the U.S. if it meant taking GW with them.

I will use another analogy of Golem and his Precious from "Lord of the Rings" - in my analogy, the Democrats represent Golem and GW is Frodo. GW has the Precious (the Presidency) and Golem wants it bad enough to do simply anything to get it. GW is doing all sorts of things with the Precious that just infuriates Golem and the biggest thing: Frodo (GW) is going to Mount Doom to destroy the one-ring (the Precious). Golem bides his time, attacks and then helps Frodo through the entire journey to Mount Doom and at the end, Golem snatches the Precious happily only to slip and fall into the Volcano thusly destroying themselves and the Precious. Ironic actually.

Democrats will continue to fail even after 2006; until they can release their hate and recognize their blindness and start doing their jobs, such as supporting their constituants, recognizing doing what's right is more noble than railing and whining about the past. Democrats need to rebuild their party and stop caring so much about what the Republicans are doing and more about what the Democrats can do to help the country, the people and themselves. However, the far-left fanatics have fully integrated themselves with the Goldwater Democrats and are running the show - blind. They cannot get past their hate and their wounds and are unable to move on - thus, they continue to bring no plan on moving upward and onward, only doom and gloom. While this type of railing is effective to their kool-aid drinker believers, they are alternatively alienating the moderates of both parties and are Satan to the far-right Conservatives. The sweet spot won't be the fringes of either the left or right, but the moderates.

The Democrats in their current form will not convince me ANYTHING the Bush Administration did in Iraq will be worth leaving abruptly. Nothing. It's a dead issue to me - we're there, the run up to invasion was done with the U.N., intelligence for good or ill, was gained and acted upon. We don't leave till the jobs done. If we roast anyone once the jobs done, then great.

What I will support are my 8 things identified above coming from either Dems or Reps. The Dems want suppor that Bush failed on all 8 of those things, I'm in TOTAL agreement. He's been a mess domestically and a total failure with the Republican controlled Congress. Will he be remembered by history about his dismal domestic record and pathetic domestic policies - certainly not. He'll be remember for Iraq and that just has the Left seeing Red. They cannot and will not stand by and let GW get away with what they feel is the biggest heist of America in history.

And that... is why they fail.

Brain Sex

2005-12-30T21:49:00.000-05:00

I'm a sucker for internet polls and tests. For some reason I just can't get enough of them - not that I take them very seriously either. Imagine my suprise when I used Firefox Stumble - and found this little test. It takes about 10 minutes, but that's not the suprise.

Well - it seems the women in my life have rubbed off on me to the point this test tells me I think like the average women who take the test. Poop.

Wanna see if you think like a girl too?

Take the BrainSex Test

Friday Political Cartoon

2005-12-30T21:02:00.000-05:00

Read more: Daryl Cagles Professional....

Fake? torture blog docs

2005-12-30T10:20:00.000-05:00

Blairwatch supposedly has copies of documents showing US and UK authorization of torture. Blairwatch is a blog.

Loaded Mouth Another blog, links to Blairwatch and calls upon all bloggers to copy these "documents" and post them in case Big Brother shuts them down.

The story is carried (originally I would assume?) on another blog called Raw Story.

(It's a slow day today, what can I tell ya...)

So what do all of these sites have in common:
a.) They are all blogs
b.) They are all liberal blogs
c.) They are all carrying these same documents

So let's talk about the documents, and just to be fair, I'll even provide the links to them, since they were most likely created with a few spare minutes during the Christmas holiday on a 12 year olds PC using Adobe Acrobat Pro. These are .pdf documents, not scans, not originals, nothing to prove these documents have either come from, been created by, or had anything to do with the Ukraine, the U.K. or anyone else. I myself, could have created these documents and shipped them off to all sorts of people passing them off as "proof that torture was indeed authorized and the UK and US knew about it" to once again give creedance to the clarion call of "BUSH LIED!" or maybe "TONY KNEW!"

Telegrams
Fax

Even the liberal MSM will not pick this story up (and this has been circulating around the blogsphere for almost 3 days now) and won't touch it with a 10 foot poll without cooberating evidence. Why? Because there's too high of a probablity that this is fake, and was made up for political gain by persons unknown.

I dismiss this until there's some copies with fingerprints, a signature, a linkage back into the government or a copy that was pulled from Condi or Tony's email where she comments on it (for example) before I'll even consider this anything other than misinformation of the "creative" kind. You may ask how could the fax be fake? It certainly looks real enough with the little scribbles on it and such.

Ten short steps to fake a fax
1. Type up a letter on a PC
2. Make sure to use REAL names (back date the document as necessary)
3. Make sure to follow proper formatting for your letter
4. Use the correct titles, phone numbers and addresses
5. Print it using standard fonts
6. Make a few scribbles, a note or number in the margin for authenticity
7. Copy the print out (copy of a copy of a copy) at least 7 times for an "older" look, only a few times for a newer fax look
8. Go to the fax machine (not electronic fax or bed scanner) and set the date of the fax machine as necessary (i.e. Feb 12, 2003)
9. Change the sending fax machines "Name" or "Organization" to whatever is needed as it will usually print this at the top of the fax.
10. Do the same to the recieving fax machines name and date

Note: If you can find an old thermal paper fax machine - this will add even more authenticity to the look!

Raw Story, Loaded Mouth, BlairWatch) at least should provide something OTHER than blog sites to support the documents. If this were from the Conservatives it would be trounced out on it's ear for pure political nonsense the moment the binary code hit the webpage. While Blairwatch claims the media have picked up on it - the "media" is Britains "Independent", which has the same agenda and overt liberal slant as the three blogs I've mentioned.

Smirking Chimp: Paranoid Schizophrenia

2005-12-29T11:25:00.000-05:00

THE BUSHIES ARE COMING!!

I've really gotten into Firefox and all the little extensions it provides. It really assists in reading all sorts of news, opinions and blogs as well as finding information through the net quickly. I use Wizz RSS 2.0.4 to link into RSS and XML feeds of news and blogs from both the left and the right. While my personal views are usually predictable in the "moderate" side, I tend to read as much opinion from all angles and make up my own mind about things. It's the Zen or KISS method using Ocums Razor methodology - the simpler way is usually the right way, just as the common sense is a very lacking trait in the American society. (But that's another story... ).

To provide a short list, I usually browse:

Instapundit
Hugh Hewitt
RealClear
BlogLoaded Mouth
Polipundit
Daily Kos
Michelle Malkin
Little Green Footballs
Eschaton
Wonkette
and...
Smirking Chimp

All of these with one exception has little queues and nuggets of goodness wrapped in lots of partisan wrapping.

Smirking Chimp stands out as a paranoid's delight with sprinkles of misinformation, skewed facts and contrived conspiracy theory which makes quite a powerful concoction of kool aid as ever I've read. Consistantly (at least they are that), they provide anarchist paranoid skitzo reporting at the highest level. I will illustrate this by summarizing the RSS titles for today, 12/30:

"The Beginning of the end of the Bush administration"
quote:"The scaremongering by the Bush administration for Social Security was approching bankruptcywas seen as being as trustworthy as the myriad of lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq."

"Doomsday for the greenback"
quote: A preemptive attack on Iran would "provoke other industrial nations to strategically abandon the dollar en masse"... "in an effort to thwart the neoconservatives from pursuing their desperate strategy of dominating the world's hydrocarbon energy supply." William R. Clark "Petrodollar Warfare; Dollars, Euros and the upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse"

"Fear and loathing in the USA"
quote: I am sick to death of hearing, "the world is a different place since 9/11". This simple little phrase is bandied about as a reason to support every un-American piece of legislation pushed by BushCo and as justification for their illegal activity.

"The coming year"
quote: Only fortunetellers, the simple minded and the politically naïve brave predictions on our political future. Nevertheless, the nation's newspapers and magazines will fill with predictions about politics: the coming elections, U.S. success at bringing capitalism to Iraq, the progress of the so-called war on terror, the effort of a Christian minority to usurp the nation's agenda, and measurements of President Bush's increasing or declining popularity.

"The Republican crack-up"

"Impeachment is now real"

"It has happened here"
quote: It has happened here, "it" being fascism, American-style.

"The return of Total Information Awareness: Bush asserts dictatorial 'inherent' powers"

"Anti-imperialists beware — Bush is reading again"

"Big Brother Bush"

Now I have no doubt that this group of bloggers really believes what they write. It does have passion and some intelligence behind it. However the conspiracy theories abound while the mish mash of facist finger pointing and epithets detract from the overall story: Bush and anyone who knows of, went to school with, has met, shook hands, peed next to, supports, or believes 0.00001% of any incoherent jingoism that comes out of his mouth MUST be a nazi facist warmongering baby killing Jesus freak. Let's take a moment to not hate the person, but hate the disease:

Schizophrenia (SKITS-oh-FREEN-ee-uh)---one of the most damaging of all mental disorders---causes its victims to lose touch with reality. They often begin to hear, see, or feel things that aren't really there (hallucinations) or become convinced of things that simply aren't true (delusions). In the paranoid form of this disorder, they develop delusions of persecution or personal grandeur. The first signs of paranoid schizophrenia usually surface between the ages of 15 and 34. There is no cure, but the disorder can be controlled with medications. Severe attacks may require hospitalization.

Now of course, I do run the risk of criticism for being a Republican Android, facist pig, and any other name that can be hurled through the internet - but I'm just making a simple observation: Smirking Chimp authors MAY have a psychological problem. I can only read their posts in small quantities as reading it projects me into the twilight zone of bodies hanging from bridges, rubble and devastation in the streets, mass graves, disease and concentration camps for Democrats with ash snow falling down all around, which, no doubt they truely believe is the case. I have on occasion posted on forums where some have written saying "Yes, well that (SC's opinion) is absolutely accurate. There's nothing wrong with what they post."

I don't have a serial number tatoo. No one's crashed into my house to confiscate my books and movies. I can still go between states without showing my "papers". I am not forced to listen to propaganda from any one group against my will. My family hasn't been shot in front of my eyes on the street. I'm not part of a pseudo military group nor have I been forced to join one. I'm not in fear of my life or the life of my family. The media (argueably) isn't run by the Government. I'm not starving. I can write this information without fear of reprisal (except from Smirking Chimp). Not only this - I know of NO ONE who is forced to do or be part of anything they don't willingly want to be a participant. To a non-paranoid person reading SC, it's difficult to understand. I ask myself questions like "Where do they get this stuff?" and "How did _____ come to this conclusion?" What must the thought process be to connect the dots in such a way to see "facism"? I relate the non psycosematic diseased reader to simple overload of paranoid information. Given, if you hear things enough, you will start to believe them. While my blog is no where near the readership of any of the one's I've listed, I have to ask the question - why do so many buy into the group psycosis of SC? The only reason I can come up with is desperation - I think that all the pundits, great and small, have underestimated the physical and emotional anguish the far left has had to endure the past 6 years. Denial and abandonment as well as the rejection of two elections of what the far left claims is an "idiot President" has left them flabberghasted and lashing out. No I'm not asking for a "pity party", but it sure is the only answer I can come up with.

While their normal political and philisophical arguments didn't gain steam for them, now outright wild antics and venomistic claims DO gain them attention, at least on the internet. (This goes back to the PR proverb "Any PR is good PR." So while I still can enjoy my reading, I must admit, Smirking Chimp can only be had in small doses. The negativity abounds through evil icons, graphics and mental imagery that will simply overwhelm the senses. I would suggest taking an asprin or similiar before delving into it too deeply.

IRAQ: Clinton would have done the same...

2005-12-28T18:31:00.000-05:00

I couldn't let this go... This transcript from Meet the Press interviews Brokaw and Koppel and their opinion on 9/11 - they ask some interesting questions about how and what the media should do...The interesting part? They say: Clinton would have done the same with regards to Iraq.

This will get some libby's panties in a ruffle... I'm waiting for the new "hate" list from the Left with targets drawn on Brokaw and Koppels faces. I certainly didn't expect it...

One Dem admits: We're losers.

2005-12-27T15:30:00.000-05:00

Finally something worth commenting on from the HuffPo site - other than the usual trash and whining, we have a semi-intelligent piece from RJ Eskow about how the libby's love to be the victim. While not completely without the whine of a true blueblood (2000 was still a stolen Presidency apparently - and he hasn't quite gotten over that yet.) he at least isn't buying into the whole victimization trail and doom/gloom. Lefties don't have the good ideas or the backbone to start leading and RJ exposes that and rightly so. When will a strong Moderate Liberal make himself known? (Notice I didn't include herself - cuz Hillary isn't it).Finally something worth reading at HuffPo. I didn't think I'd live to see it.

Feeding hate and calling it God

2005-12-27T14:57:00.000-05:00

This is what gives Christianity a black eye. This isn't a church, it's a white supremists group. It doesn't teach love - it shows (actively) hate. It hides behind scripture and uses the bible as a shield while proclaiming faith. You don't need to be a Christian to know these people are cowards. THIS is what the left wingers really think the Conservatives are really.This is what Conservatives call Extremists. They should be kept on a short leash and watched carefully. Waco and Jonestown, just wait, here comes Westboro, KS.

It’s Big-Issue Time - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com

2005-12-27T14:32:00.000-05:00

Socialized medicine for KidsAmerica won't buy Socialized medicine and the increase in taxes associated with covering every person (legally there or illegally there) with health care, but maybe they'll do it for kids.Liberal whelp Eleanor Clift cites (D) Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to do just that. Maybe we can just try a little of the liberal-stew and see if we like it first. Sure it costs $1,000 a sip, but at least you get a sip and won't it be wonderful when 100,000 new government jobs will be created because of it!Hooray for Karl Marx! Mao Tse-Tung here we come!

LoanMax Proudly Makes Consumer Credit Available to Borrowers Abandoned by Banks

2005-12-27T13:38:00.000-05:00

From the Campaign trail to Loan Sharking

Yes folks, really, if you need to get money and no one, I mean NO ONE will lend you some (because your not white), go to LoanMax and tell 'em Al Sharpton sent you! (Then notify the ACLU).

Tsunami and 13 Billion

2005-12-26T11:52:00.000-05:00

Ok so where did it go? It's now 1 year after the Tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean and wrecked most of the Northern Indonesian coast with a 10 meter wall of water from a 9.0 earthquake NW of Banda Aceh. The water travelled on a parallel course to the Indonesian coast (not a perpendicular 90 degree angle) which hit the coastline and travelled slightly inland.

So CNN this morning has a nice touching 1 year follow up with a 9 year old who had his family killed by the tsunami with exception to his mother. A year ago, the reported chronicled the life this poor boy needed to live to stay alive. Now, 1 year later, he's in a different camp, but no better off.

The government of Indonesia, while having the 15th highest in GDP (that's 827 billion) in the world required world wide donations, which people gave willingly, and those donations were the highest amount given ever for a disaster event.

So let's do a little math - $13,000,000,000 (est.) was issued for Tsunami relief world wide for affected areas, of which, Indonesia was the worst hit. So let's just say that 75% of that 13 billion was used for Indonesia (that's 9.75 billion left). NPR estimated 400,000 people were displaced, lost their homes, etc. If in fact, the remainder of money went to the 400,000 people who were displaced, that would provide each displaced person $24,375 U.S. Yet, according to UNICEF a lot more needs to be done, and funding for the reconstruction has only started.

So okay, where's the money gone? Who's got it and why can't the money be distributed to the people who need it to build new homes and get them back on their feet? We also have to realize that the people of Indonesia who were displaced weren't living in mansions - prior to the tsunami they had meger incomes and meger lives. While the Indonesian government estimates $4.5 to $5 billion dollars in damages occured during the tsunami, why hasn't the 15th most powerful GDP in the world helped their people - and, where is the $13 billion dollars going?

Is it as CNN says, that the money is not getting to the people and the children (who must wash their clothes in public bathroom areas) are suffering?

The World Factbook identifies Indonesia:

Indonesia, a vast polyglot nation, has restored financial stability and pursued sober fiscal policies since the Asian financial crisis, but many economic development problems remain, including high unemployment, a fragile banking sector, endemic corruption, inadequate infrastructure, a poor investment climate, and unequal resource distribution among regions.

Their finances seem a little high in the corruption area and the "unequal resource distribution" sounds like most of the 9.75 billion may be going to fix the hotels and not to the people who need it. A caption from the NPR story identifies:

"Workers at one of 16 factories the International Organization for Migration has commissioned to build houses for people displaced by the tsunami. IOM has built 900 houses so far, with funding for 11,000 more."

900 homes in 1 year. Given a 100% growth rate for 2006, that means 1,800 homes will be built - how will they get to 11,000? Will the money just sit there for the next 8 years while the 11,000 homes are built? What about the other 300,000 people who are still supposedly displaced?

None of this adds up. The money doesn't, the displaced people don't and I don't know where the money that was so generously donated is being spent. My cynical side says it's in someone's pocket - or the money will be diverted to drug lords, politicans or maybe even terrorists. (Think the terrorists aren't looking at trying to get their mits on 1% of 9.75 billion?). I think the entire thing was probably a farce. The Indonesian government isn't making too much of a PR splash with all the help their providing to their own people.

Where's the money guys?

Related Link:
UPI Overhead takes up 1/3 of Tsunami relief funds

I guess I have my answer.

Liberal Groups Gear Up to Oppose Confirmation of Alito

2005-12-24T21:43:00.000-05:00

Liberals apparently getting ready to oppose the Alito confirmation. Nothing better to do obviously. I hope he gets in and pukes all over Roe... lol!

U.S. Monitored Muslim Sites Across Nation for Radiation

2005-12-24T21:41:00.000-05:00

The U.S. Monitored Muslim web sites? Ya think? Especially when the Jihadists and Al Queda use the internet regularly to announce responsibility to bombings and beheadings. I love the quote from Mukit Hossain who says "I don't understand what good this sort of surveillance is doing." He MUST be living in a hole.

Professors' Politics Draw Lawmakers Into the Fray - New York Times

2005-12-24T21:30:00.000-05:00

Professors laying down some lip smack on politics and belittling those who don't share the same opinion. There's a word for that the left loves to call the right in politics - Discrimination.

All I want for Christmas

2005-12-22T18:29:00.000-05:00

Guess the Political Party

2005-12-22T17:57:00.000-05:00

I know, you're thinking why the heck would I want to take a test. Well, it should be easy and sorta fun. It's called "Guess the Party" game - I give you a list of quotes from two of the biggest blogs out there in Internet land, and you guess which one is which. You're choices are:

Liberal - (Cynical)
Republican - (Positive)

If you don't know why the liberals are cynical, you just need to go to any south paw blog to find the f-bombs and the President of the United States being called every name in the book.

At the end you can score yourself and see how you did. No peeking - read them all okay? Ready?

"For 2005, my annual task of reviewing the past year has been complicated by an old adage: oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
Liberal or Republican

"California Republican congressman Duke Cunningham had a narrow window of opportunity...The aging Navy fighter-jock did not miss his chance. At an impromptu press conference, Cunningham announced both his resignation from Congress and his guilty plea to several corruption charges...the Dukester secured his place in history -- as a simpering, blubbering jellyfish."
Liberal or Republican

"Which is where we entered 2005: believe it or not, Bush and Cheney's second inaugural was a scant 11 months ago. Feels more like 11 years, doesn't it?"
Liberal or Republican

"Cheney, a man who makes Donald Trump look like a hands-off guy, would have us believe that he was shocked to learn that his top aide had become a rogue operative in this criminal conspiracy."
Liberal or Republican

"The Republican Congress was a disgrace throughout the year. Low points included the ethics scandals that embroiled both the House and Senate majority leaders."
Liberal or Republican

"By July, polls showed 51 percent of the country felt it had been misled into war. The slide has continued. Dick Cheney is now trailing cholera in opinion surveys."
Liberal or Republican

Hanging in there? It's going to get even better!

"Camp Casey was so traumatic for W that he was probably relieved when Hurricane Katrina's epic storm surge washed Cindy Sheehan out of the headlines. As ever, Bush was careless about what he wished for, and soon the world was looking at shocking aerial views of a country run by dim frat boys."
Liberal or Republican

"After Katrina, it began to seem that Bush's actions and policies were nothing more than the result of drunken bar bets. In fact, the very reputable National Enquirer posited that W was back on the bottle."
Liberal or Republican

"It's become clear that one of the reasons they wanted Iraqi oil was so they could boil it for use in interrogations. It used to be that an "extraordinary rendition" involved William Shatner singing "Mr. Bojangles"; now it has to do with re-opening Eastern European gulags."
Liberal or Republican

"Bush picked a fight he didn't need to pick. And lost. In doing so he weakened our nation and allies, and strengthened our enemies. And he did one more thing: he secured his place in history as a dangerous and soulless lunatic. It would require serious generosity to simply label him as pathetic."
Liberal or Republican

"Curly or Larry would have thrown in the towel by now. Unfortunately, Moe's our president."
Liberal or Republican

"O'Reilly saw through this Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, pagan, Wicca, agnostic, atheist plot and spearheaded a drive to forcibly put the phrase "Merry Christmas" back in the mouths of those who during the rest of the year sincerely urge us to "have a good one."
Liberal or Republican

"By way of thanks, I'd like to send along this special holiday greeting to Mr. O'Reilly: Go fuck yourself ... you have the technology."
Liberal or Republican

"Anyone who thinks Islam is congenitally hostile to democracy, however, will have to explain Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim-dominated nation, which is now categorized as free...Over the past six years, Indonesia has undergone a remarkable transformation from near-dictator."
Liberal or Republican

Okay so how did you do? Did you pick up on the "subtleness" of the quotes? If you think you've got it down, then lets go to the scoring shall we?

Liberal quotes: All except the last quote.
Republican quote: None - the last quote was simply a fact

And there you have it! I'll give the author(s) credit for one thing - they sure are stupid - but words fail to show the utter dismay and vile hatred that this site brings to the blogsphere. From the posts you can tell they're not happy. Aww... Next time, we're going to have a "Pity Party" for the poor Commies who use big words they heard on the news like "Gulag", "Reich" and "the". They sound spineless and weak - too preoccupied by complaining. Where the roles reversed, they'd call the Republicans "whiners" and "sore loosers". All I have to say is right here...

DrudgeReportArchives.com © 2005

2005-12-22T12:25:00.000-05:00

Couldn't agree more with this Drudge Report. The Dems are going down the wrong path with this one. If we were in say 1980 and all this happened it may have legs - but this dog won't hunt.

Iraq's Election Result

2005-12-22T12:11:00.000-05:00

Sunni's: We'll partake in your election, but if we don't win (even though were a minority) we'll quit and continue killing.

How's that for democracy in action!

The 'I Word' - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com

2005-12-22T12:01:00.000-05:00

Since the WMD issue didn't really pan out and the latest polls are showing Bush's approval rating going UP instead of DOWN, this will be the new clarion call of the Left.  Ultimately what will be done (I expect and predict) will be a large amount of committees, hearings on C-SPAN all through next year and a new 900 page publication for us to read for the Christmas 2006 season.

If nothing else it keeps our legislators busy investigating party politic issues instead of working to improve their constituants lives.  Our tax dollars at work.

Fearful Design

2005-12-21T10:39:00.000-05:00

"Hippies in favor of getting hit by bolts of lightning"

God must really have these folks in PA scared. They've scared even the judge in the 3rd circuit court, John E. Jones (Appointed by George Walker Bush no less) into making it a crime for any teacher to even say the word God – unless I would suppose in the context of an epithet.

Most people understand that this school district wanted to teach “Intelligent Design” with the core studies of Darwinism and Science – which teaches we all evolved out of single cells billions of years ago. But, unfortunately that's incorrect. What the school wanted to do was simply read a few paragraphs at the beginning of these biology classes – one time in the school year (when the classes started) that there was this “thing” called Intelligent Design – and here's what it is and here's where to find out more about it – then move on for the rest of the entire school year, teaching science biology and Darwinism. Seems simple enough right? However, the people of Dover Pennsylvania seem to not like God very much and are threatened by even a few paragraphs being mentioned once (yes, that's one time in the school year) an alternative to Darwinism. I read the paragraphs and the mention of “God” isn't in those paragraphs.

An editorial from Dec. 21st in the Detroit Free Press states:

“Jones went even further, castigating members of the school board in Dover, Pa., who tried to make “intelligent design” a required part of science classes. It was nothing but a pretext, he said, “to promote religion in the public school classroom” in plain violation of the separation of church and state that was a purposeful inclusion in the Constitution of the United States and has served this nation well.”

That the Judge (who doesn't need a layman like me telling him his business) doesn't know there is no strict interpretation of “Church and State” in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights is fairly amazing. This proposed separation doesn't exist. All Senators, Governors and Representatives of the Congress including Judges to the Supreme Court as well as State Representatives take an oath of office with their hand on a Bible – the oath also mentions God. What about this “separation between church and state” issue? It was written in letters by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison years later as a policy that “should” be upheld – there's no Article or Amendment stating such – even though some will argue it's part of the 1st amendment. If it is, this separation is a HUNDRED times more difficult to interpret than the 2nd amendment which allows firearms for it's citizens – and yet – the gun haters are very quick to point out the 2nd amendment doesn't really mean what is says and it need to be interpreted.

What is it that threatens people when others use the word “intelligent design”? The Boston Globe Op-Ed says:

“Believing in something doesn't make it so -- or make it science. And it's about time somebody called the religious right on this simple truth.”

So why not change the Evolutionary Theory into Evolutionary Fact. Heck, it's been a theory all my life so when will someone going to come along and prove it out? I wouldn't be hard pressed to shoot back::

“A theory doesn't make it so – or make it truth. And it's about time somebody called the radical left on this simple fact.”

Bruce Feiler from my least liked periodical newspaper the NYT says:

“At a time when religion dominates the headlines - from Iraq to terrorism to stem cells - finding a way to educate young people about faith should become a national imperative. Achieving this goal in a legal, nonsectarian manner requires Americans to get over the kitchen-table bromide, "Don't talk about politics and religion in public."

Brap! Wrong. We most certainly SHOULD talk about it in public. What, now I have to be a closet Christian? Put it in the back room as the religious haters can start persecuting Christians again like in the Dark and Middle Ages? Isn't this the 21st century where almost anything goes... but just not God. (Note: NYT Op-Ed piece totally being out of touch with the rest of non-New York society – who would have guessed!)

And all this happening so close to the major Western religious holiday, Christmas. When groups are boycotting Target and WalMart for using “Holiday” instead of “Christmas”, when local governments are legally required to ask private citizens to remove “the manger scene” from front lawns because someone has been offended, when supreme court cases are pending to remove the word “God” from the pledge of allegiance.

What I see is the far left hacking at the far rights jugular. By killing God in the public eye, the left will remove the major obstacle in their way of uniting moderates and secularists. To the atheists and those who renounce religion of any kind, the removal of ALL religion is the goal to unite all people as different religions have different beliefs which put all those not in the same religion at odds with each other. I do see this even within the Christian belief – the Catholics say the Baptists are going to hell, and the Mormons thing everyone but them are going to hell, etc. This for the anti-religious is a divider so why not remove God all together?

This is the same bunch who want to disarm Americans totally – making guns illegal to own or buy. The same who want the word God stricken from every piece of paper having to do with any local, state or federal government as well as all procedures in schools. They want less freedoms for our citizens for the “greater good of all people”, which means that since citizens cannot possibly do things themselves, Government must then do it for them.

Analogy time: In a bugs bunny cartoon from the 40's, an Indian is chasing Bugs, when he hits the Indian in face with a snow ball. The following dialog ensues:

Indian: (after just being hit with the snow ball) Snow? In summer time?
(Indian walks over to Bugs who's packing another snow ball in his hands)
Indian: Hey, how come you can makeum snowball in summer time?
Bugs: Well you see Hiawatha, it's too cold to make them in the winter.
Indian: Oh. Me say snow balls too cold to make in winter time.

In this analogy Bugs = “the Liberals” and the stupid Indian = “you and me”. (Unless “you” are part of the Liberals, in which case you're then Bugs). Got it?

These are the same types of things that happened during the 1920's and 1930's in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution when Communism started to come in power. The American left wing loved Russia and their new method of Government and wanted America to do the same. Everything was done for the “good of the people” which is a watered down Communist method called “Socialism”. Heard the term “It takes a village”? Well, our Hillary Rodham Clinton said that little ditty and it's right out of the Marx manifesto. Journalists and liberals in America during the 1930's fell in love with Russia – so people like Walter Duranty who worked for (how did you guess???) the New York Times, was a full on supporter and history tells us he covered up his knowledge of the atrocities that were occurring in Russia during the times so as not to disparage Communism. Thousands of supporters were ready to embrace Communism at the time.

“Stalin wanted control of the food supply to feed the battalion of workers that would carry out his “Five Year Plan” of rapid industrialization. Communist ideology also had to be enforced, which meant private land ownership had to be abolished. In order to collectivize agriculture, Stalin herded private farmers onto large, state-owned farms where they would supposedly word for the common good instead of private gain.”

“Even though the collectivization process was largely complete, Stalin's battle against the wicked Kulak (the large landowning peasant and “class enemy” of the countryside) was not yet over. They were “defeated” but not “exterminated”.

“Stalin began issuing delivery quotas for grain that the Ukrainians could not meet without themselves dying of starvation. Failure to meet the requirement was chalked up as deliberate sabotage.”

Sound familiar? One of the first things to go in Communist Russia was banning religion. If the people had hope through religious belief, it would hamper the states needs and provide a basis of revolt, so it had to go. Get rid of religion, disarm the public, put business and trade under government control, socialize medicine, the food and water supply, remove the wealth from the wealthy and give it to the government.

Fascism isn't the way, nor is it removing God from our language. Take a look at some of the Socialist Democracies in existence today. England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand. Very secular and God is a little private “joke” that only comes about once or twice a year.

This country was built by Quakers and Puritans – both super religious. The founders were all religious men, as was and is every President after them. Ripping God out of America simply won't happen – God's on our money, in our schools and sorry, you pass churches on your way to anywhere in this country, reminding you asshat atheists that people don't believe you because you want them to, but they believe in God because He exists. The more it's in the media, the more children and non-believers will ask “What's God all about?” And that's just fine with me.

Recommended reading: Thomas E. Woods, Jr., “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”. I highly recommend it as he points out where history revisionism is taking place in education – literally: History is being re-written to support certain points of view, or things are being omitted. For example: FDR – not a very good president, though most people today believe he was one of the best. (Read the book).

Far Left Fictional Writing 101

2005-12-20T21:24:00.000-05:00

It continues to amaze me how deeply and resolute the hatred goes for politics and specifically some politicians. The hatred for Bush, as an example, is so deep and seeded in politics and the media that even THEY have stooped to a new low.

Now I know why they do this – it’s because the Democrats MUST win the next Presidential election. Let’s face it, the GOP runs both houses of Congress and the Presidency – Bush and his cronies must go, “by any means necessary”. Who gets in isn’t as important as that they are NOT Republicans. What price that must be paid is also secondary – you, the reader and the people that our politicians are said to represent and work for are secondary to making sure that 2008 is a Democratic year. The Democratic party has a “must win” situation in 2008 and it will sacrifice our troops in foreign countries, the U.S. credibility, the Constitution or anything else that stands in their way. That’s a big threat and one we should take seriously.

Not convinced? Well, let’s take a look at some things that have occurred and are occurring now which will segue to the fictional writing course that I’ve titled this little ditty.

The 2000 Presidential election was a severe blow to the Democrats. That Bush won in 2000 is still hurtful and a sore spot with the Green Party and Democrats. That the election was supposedly “rigged” or that Democrat votes weren’t counted, voter fraud, the Florida issue etc., was blamed all the way up until the 2004 election. In 2004, John Kerry was supposed to win. The Dems put everything they had into that election, pulled out all the stops, fund raised their little butts off to get Kerry into the White House and turn around the course of G.W.’s horror story. Bush was supposedly involved in everything from your ingrown toenail problem to the largest deficit, oil and land grabs in the Middle East, conspiracies, torture, imperialism, murder, you name it – Bush did it. And if he didn’t then Cheney, Rumsfeld or his other cronies / toadies did it for him.

Well, guess what, 2004 Bush was re-elected. *GASP* This put über-liberals into a tail spin. That’s when the America hating really began as did the self loathing. America MUST be stupid to re-elect such a dumbass – to the liberal mind, there is no other explanation. Michael Moore said it best as to say “They (American Citizens) are possibly the dumbest people on the planet,” and “We don’t know anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.” To the liberal way of thinking – the rest of America (the Red States, Conservatives, Moderates, etc.) must just be too ignorant to understand what we (the much more intelligent and open minded) were trying to say. To the liberal who believes his/her thoughts and ideas are far superior to those of the simple blue collar worker or middle American NOT on the East or West coast. To the liberal – American’s are cattle who must be herded and lead towards what they cannot possibly understand. They (Conservatives) are far to simple, with their belief in this magical being called “GOD” and their simple lives and thoughts – the conservative simpleton. That liberal superiority complex is what drives them to always attempt to convince the Republicans that their ways are simple and much to quaint to fully grasp the concepts of politics. The Liberal amount of sophistication, level of higher learning and knowledge etc. shows that they must be right. When the conservative doesn’t listen or rejects their ideas – they are insulted. Why aren’t the ignorant simpletons convinced? Why can’t they see what we (liberals) are saying is true?

The reason is that these “simpletons” that the liberals see as cattle really aren’t simple at all. They have ingrown beliefs and thoughts that they were taught as they grew up. Good things like honor, trust, belief in God and doing things the right way, following up, being true to your word, helping others, being kind, having noble thoughts, finishing what they start – you know, stupid “quaint” ideas like that. They are also very well educated but actually have values and traditions they want to keep and pass on to their children. They may or may not agree with others – but what they will most likely reject instantly is this “higher than thou” attitude the liberal brings to the table and the outrage the liberal exudes when the conservative isn’t convinced or swayed.

What I’ve noticed are a few things:
- Liberals will do ANYTHING to get a liberal into the Whitehouse
- Liberals HATE America for not seeing things their way

The “anything” portion includes making things up to continue to try and convince non-liberals that things are bad, corrupt, non-genuine. This is done via conspiracy theories. Now me personally, I like these conspiracy theories because they are very entertaining. While fictional (though they are delivered as “fact”), it’s like watching another Oliver Stone movie every time. What happens is when the second point above, (the HATE for America) enters into the picture and added to the doing anything to get a Democrat into the Whitehouse – everyone and anything will be sacrificed.

To this end, the New York Times and Rolling Stone – probably both are viewed by the general public as “left leaning” if not full out Liberal periodicals, have put out the Rendon Group theory.

NYT Article

Rather than recapping the entire article, I’ll just direct my reader to the link above, we see that there’s this elaborate conspiracy started by Bush through the Dept. of Justice and Pentagon, to the Rendon Group, involving the CIA and then a paid journalist in Australia, which is then picked up by the NYT then published as an elaborate plot to support Bush’s argument for invading Iraq.

Now to listen to the left – Bush can’t ties his shoe laces, and it’s obvious that the Republicans in the White House aren’t that swift – so how did they mastermind this entire psy-ops disinformation on the American public without shooting themselves in the foot?

Haven’t heard of this article? I’m not surprised – it’s right up there with the former Canadian Prime Minister who believes in UFO’s and that they are landing here for 60 years already and it’s a cover up. Yeah, okay pal. Show me the little green men and I’ll listen – otherwise your just as bad as those kooks living in boxes and screaming at themselves on 73rd and Columbus Ave. I’m not saying it’s not possible; it’s just that Oakum’s Razor is usually true – the simplest explanation is most likely the case. The more complicated things are the less likely they are true or likely to work. That the hatred by the liberals has reached such a low as to try and pass this fiction off as hard news is a new low – almost as low as the accusations they levy at the Republicans for “lying about the war”.

Just to keep things into perspective – we’re all talking about politicians. Liberal or Conservative makes little difference. They will do whatever they need to do (dirty or not) to get elected. It’s how they make money. Distrust of politicians is a good thing – distrust of Government is a good thing. What I find myself doing more than ever is: Distrusting the Democratic Party and their supporters. Their motivations and “means to an end” are rooted in hate of Bush and hate of themselves (the self loathing part). All the more reason to not elect someone who buys into their hatred.

Some Supporting Links:

1. The Center for Media and Democracy (a very liberal / Socialist publication)
2. Corps Watch (Another group with liberal background)
3. < a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1134664106695&has-player=false> The Rolling Stone Version of the Story

A Post Script:

What is preventing the Democrats from taking over you may ask. It’s the Democrats themselves. The GOP has some creative folks as well and using the Democrats own speeches, appearances on talk shows, C-SPAN time in the House or Senate they have dug their own hole and have the likes of Kerry, Dean and Pelosi continuing to dig. I’m firmly convinced that Dean is secretly on the GOP payroll, for every time he opens his mouth, the Republicans get a surge in poll numbers. The latest craze has been that Bush and the NSA have been spying on Americans. Liberals are connecting the dots and saying this is how and why Nixon was impeached and resigned. I’ll hold off on THAT until more information is available – however, I take the 4th and 13th amendments very seriously. I am not amused that these things have been going on without oversight and this should be looked into very closely. What I will say is, this isn’t 1974 and legislation WAS put into effect by the Clinton administration which provided for these “roving wire taps”. While I also want to find out what is happening and what this government is doing – I also will not be amused if/when Democrats use this as a party platform for electing Hillary or some other wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Where’s the leaders from the Democratic Party we can look up to, no matter what political party we’re part of? If they only would provide someone credible to run who has morals and leadership – I’d probably vote for them.

Video: Wild Thing Video

Whaddya Expect?

2005-12-11T21:48:00.000-05:00

Seems there's a bit of posturing going on down under. The Aussies are getting a bit too drunk and saying some mean 'ol things about our Middle Eastern friends, while draping themselves into the Aussie flag.

So what do people expect? The tolerance thing is wearing thin, myself included. Every day new innocent people are blown up, throats cut, or terrorized and threatened in these muslim countries. When is enough enough? How much can people take before the backlash starts taking an ugly turn? Well, we may have our answer.

While moderate Aussies are not feeling too good about the protesting and beligerant stance the boozed up in the street types are spouting - this isn't new.

LINK

I'll leave this one for future posts while I follow the press...

A torturous situation

2005-11-17T01:24:00.000-05:00

Sit Ubu sit... good dog! WOOF!

Abu Grabe, Nam, Laos, KGB, CIA, Air America...

What do all these things have in common? They're all "torturous" in nature - and have some connection to torture. (Yes a cheap show to Air America... but I couldn't resist - sue me.) The big debate and polls show that torture is not the American way. In fact, the segment of women polled showed a 74% against torturing insurgents or terrorists, even if it could lead to information about a pending terrorist attack. Obviously these polled people haven't been personnaly affected by terrorism.

Let's get something straight before we start discussing torture. Torture can be described as listening to your boss ramble on about TPS reports or torture can ibe described as electrodes hooked to the testical and tooth fillings while 2,000 volts are issued. While I've never been tortured, I can see where pain could be so great, that the person being tortured would say anything to make it stop (a la McCain's arguement). However, I also believe there's a point where a good torture could reveal important information, and the lies and truth need to be sifted by good questioning and investigation.

What is torture - bamboo up the fingernails, painful foreign objects being applied to the body, starvation maybe to a point... but that's it. Stripping a prisioner naked for embarassment isn't torture, covering them in sheets isn't torture. Making them stand for long periods or kneel for long period to make them uncomfortable isn't torture. Yelling, threats, sounds, sights etc... are not torture. However, listeneing to a million different peoples position on what is and is not torture IS torture. Defining torture is like defining pornography. Other than a general statement - pornography definitation are left up to authorities of each community. Defining torture is probably the same - everyone has their own thoughts and it cannot be completely agreed upon. What can be agreed upon is if it (whatever IT is) should/would be applied under certain circumstances.

It seems like we Americans just haven't yet learned our lesson. Sept. 11th just wasn't enough - we'll need to get hit at least 5 or 10 more times with possibly hundreds of thousands of dead, injured or permenantly wounded for us to really get the message. For some reason we have such high tolerance, slow wit and short memories regarding people who want to kill us. Unless our mother, father, child, or spouse is killed by these terrorists, we really are ready to forgive - even if we have an opportunity to save someone elses mother, father, child, or spouse from getting killed.

Oh well... right? We're so numb that we just shrug it off... say something like... "Oh, wasn't that horrible, I feel sorry for them...... Hey anyone want a beer? Let's shoot some hoops!" and we go on our merry way, barely thinking of the horror, loss and implications these acts really have on us. Maybe Michael Moore is right - we really are the most stupid idiots alive! Cattle more like it. It took a strike in Peal Harbor to rally the U.S. to get involved in the biggest World War known to man and it took the greatest generation of Americans to save the world. Everyone's freedom today from the pigmies in Borneo to the pompous French artist to the fat-mouth Chavez in South America owes the U.S. an unimaginable debt that can never be repayed - their continued freedom. What will it take this generation? Ten Peal Harbors? A hundred? A thousand? How many deaths then... 10K? 50K? Maybe it'll take a million innocent people to be horribly purged from this life prematurely to get our ire up and take control.

Until then, we'll get to armchair debate on every 24 hour news channel, how low or high the presidents approval level is and poll people on issues like - "Would you support torture if the information taken would avoid another terrorist attack?"

What killed me is the women's view... 74% said no torture even if it did lead to averting another attack. Well then, I hope that some of that 74% of women have their family affected by the next one which inevitably will occur. Horrible huh? Insensitive prick! This jerk who blogs hopes that some of this 74% who were polled have their family killed! My GOD how un-Christian! How un-American! FOUL! FOUL!

Hey - sometimes you have to hit people over the head to get it - literally. Once their affected personally they may change their minds. Then again, they may not - which is sad. I'm afraid that before we as a nation finally understand what we're up against, and realized what it will take to control it - it'll be too late. We may be dragged into further wars, further separation before we get it. In the mean time - we'll continue to poll segments of the population. Referee the news magazine programs. Discuss it around the water cooler. Too bad. That's the way I feel about it - and I hope you idiots (yea them's fightin' words) one day get it - but until then here's how I really feel about that 74%.... gimme a beer would you?

Complication Overload

2005-11-01T21:41:00.000-05:00

I just bought a new car recently, and it dawned on me that there are so many complications with the new technology. So I thought back to when I was a kid and asked myself - how many passwords did I have? My technology was the little football game that ran on 4 AA batteries - you know the one with the little dots? Otherwise I was outside playing.

So now I look at kids and they are totally dependent upon all technology. How many passwords do they need to keep straight? I myself have at least 12 separate passwords - don't forget the keywords, number combinations, addresses, etc.

So this new car has sattelite everything, wireless everything, enhanced everything. When is it that things were so complicated? We have to literally be technologists about everything - network engineers, electronic engineers, software engineers... then there so much more information on these little gadgets - we can get Al Jazeera and the BBC on sattelite TV, listen to Mongolian fire dancers on Sattelite radio, find out how to get to the friggin store by sattelite GPS. We've got the latest formulated and over-produced songs downloaded from the internet, every fart and whistle of all the Presidents men, overanalyzed and arm-chair quarterbacked by every 24 hour cable station, every minute of every day. American's on average are over-medicated (on average, each American takes 2 perscription drugs on a regular basis - we'll leave the illegal drugs out of the conversation for another time), we eat genetically engineered vegetables from genetically engineered seeds, hormone injected chickens and cows produce super-eggs and super-steaks and super-milk. We walk around like robots with iPods stuck in our ears and it seems we'll now be able to watch our favorite Tivo'd television program on our cell phones. How much more crap do we need for crying out loud?

So I hear myself say - well dude, what do you expect? You can't stop progress! I'm sure our parents of the 40's and 50's thought the same thing.

What I'm starting to gravitate to, however, are the simpler things and the simpler times. I think I'd like an iPod, but I'll probably forget it in a shirt pocket and put it through the washer (kinda like I did with my bluetooth headset that now turns on, but won't work with my phone any longer!) If I DID get an iPod, I'd probably only put my Old Time Radio programs on it. You know... Gracie & Allen, The Jack Benny Show, The Shadow... I'm yearning for the simpler times, the simpler life. I work too much and too long, have too much stuff, get too much information and I'm tired of it. I want LESS work, LESS information and I want to stop getting THINGS. I recently spent lots of money to have an 80 year old radio, I've started to listen to those golden era shows from the 1940's and have admittedly, been listening to some... Frank Sinatra from time to time. That DOESN'T mean that I'm not listening to good pop, heavy junk... I am, but it's just too much.

I've also been getting too much analysis, too much information, too much - I don't want to know some of the things on the news. I'm better off NOT knowing the inner workings of the White House, Capital Hill, my local Mayor or the inner workings of the Military. I guess I'm just ready to simplify and not looking forward to the next best and greatest gadget that needs yet another password and if stolen, could put me in the poor house.

I guess I'm just ready to switch off once in a whi..............

A Different CNN

2005-10-27T08:38:00.000-04:00

et tu liberale?

Being a News junky (at least before 8 am) I'm usually drawn to CNN and FNC and like to compare the two shows, styles and the deliveries of the same story. There is definately a difference between the two politically though up until now it hasn't been that obvious unless the person watching was a raving Liberal or raving Conservative.

What I did notice was the supposed "Chemestry" of O'Brien and O'Brien on CNN leaves me flat - like mashed potato without the salt or butter. First, Miles O'Brien is MUCH more liberal politically than the person he replaced. Both O'Briens inject much of their own (maybe their editors/producers?) viewpoints, comments, remarks, etc. in the story. This usually isn't that bad of a deal unless it gets in the way of actually delivering the copy.

First lets get something straight. Watching news is watching a trained monkey read copy from a teleprompter - that's it. While it may be a skill that takes time and effort to do well, the monkey needs to also be good looking (as who wants to see an ugly monkey read copy?) as well as read good copy. It's like anything else, either you are really good at it and you are one of the "beautiful" people or your not. If your not, you get to be a field reporter or an editor - if you are, you get camera time and the big bucks for looking good.

My beef isn't so much about the looking good but the injection of politics in the "news". Now we really haven't had hard news on television for a while. 60 minutes masquerades as a hard news program, but their editors and monkeys are so blindly liberal it's difficult to get facts on certain subjects. I would say it's like watching the 700 club for the left - you ever think Pat Robertson will come out and say "Gee - maybe abortion isn't so bad after all!" - Not. Nor should we expect a 60 minutes to report the facts on say, guns in America without getting a huge bug up their butts.

Back to O'Brien - he bugs me. He and one of his toady not-good-looking field reporters in Florida were camped outside of a Citgo gas station in Florida this morning kabitzing and complaining like two old jewish women. The setting is, there's a line 5 miles around the block waiting to get into the gas station - it's one of the few stations that has power and can pump gas - so naturally it's popular right now since Hurricane Wilma knocked out the power in southern Florida. So O'Brien and said field reporter camped in front of the gas station comment how absurd and unfathomable it is this guy gets to the station fills up his car and actually gets 20 gallons of additional gas (Hoarding O'Brien and toady say) in containers. "Absurd!" They say. "Unconcionable!". "This guy paid over a hundred dollars for gas this morning!" the toady squawks with this unbelieving face.

Uhh... what's so absurd? 20 extra gallons is one more fill-up of your car (approximately). Now if he came in and filled up four 20 gallon containers, or went out and bought one of those tanks you can attach to your pick-up that holds like 60 gallons - yeah, that'd be a little much and he should be slapped around. But 20 extra gallons? Let's see how long that would last in a generator? Ever think he was also getting this gas for his neighbors or is sharing his generator's power with neighbors? Why is this guy the bad guy?

The socialist twist that everyone should provide for everyone and that an extra 20 gallons in this case should be punished is scary. I think Miles needs to be slapped around - report the news bozo! Read the copy and go home you trained baboon. I'll make up my own mind if I think it's "not in good taste" for the guy to get an extra 20 gallons. All those bozo's in line should have stocked up on gas BEFORE the stupid hurricane hit - it's not like it didn't spin over Cancun for 3 friggin days before it hit. It's not like every weather station in the country kept saying "Wilma will eventually move towards Florida" for 3 friggin days. Not enough time for these people to go get a few jerry cans of their own and get some extra gas? Too busy curing cancer were they?

I say good for the guy who brought his cans and filled them up. He was probably in line very early and decided he wants the insurance of a few extra gallons of gas. Shame on them all for not planning ahead. If it were up to me I'd put them out of gas for a week just because they were stupid and didn't plan very well. Serves them right for waiting.

A message for CNN - FNC and their insipid morning show Fox and Friends is still beating the hell out of CNN in the ratings. If FNC decided to actually put some actual news people in front of the camera CNN would be gone in week. As bad as Fox is, more people still prefer it over CNN. So you have to ask youself, why? CNN has better monkey readers, better sets, better backgrounds, prettier people, better music (the list goes on) so why is Fox kicking their keester? It's the slanted comments, injected conversational bits and marked "left" slanted stories that just bug people.

Here's a novel idea. Report the facts, who, what, when and where. Leave the "why" to the magazine and opinion shows. At least you know what you're getting with those. While those lost souls and oblivious people who think CNN is non-biased, you really need to look again and not even closely. EVERY news outlet is biased, NPR, CNN, FNC, BBC (hugely BBC) they are all spewing out their take on what the news story is and not the facts. HINT: Skim out the biased crap and make up your own mind.

Here's some other examples from other blogs and sources:
Newsbusters
This one's good - a game development forum talking about CNN
Gamedev
Arse Poetica

Why does anyone care?

2005-10-12T19:08:00.000-04:00

I'm so very tired of watching specials on Mohammad Atta on A&E. I should stop complaining and just turn the channel. I particularly like A&E and especially the Crime & Punishment series, but both this morning and this evening we have the Mohammad Atta specials.

Sure, I watched a while, but these idiots that are making all these comments, like the BBC's German Reporter going into the apartment that Atta stayed at, listening to how difficult Atta had it at home, that he didn't have an easy time finding work, blah blah blah. Who the freak cares? He was a LOOSER and couldn't find work so he became a terrorist who killed 3,000+ innocent people. Why would anyone care what he thought about, or how he felt?

Do you sit and think seriously about how Jeffry Dahmer was feeling when he ate part of the arm of his third victim? Why he would do such a thing and what a great life he had? No, he was a rabid dog that needed to be shot - end of story. Atta is the same or even worse. The A&E show started to then re-trace every step they made, where they went, what they ate, how they acted. *sigh*

Why not have some shows about honorable people? Atta should be stricken from the populations memory with one of those little red light pen thingies from Men in Black. That they're all murderous bastard fanatics isn't enough - the panty wastes have to document every time Atta farted and how he felt about it and how it was all because he had such a tough life... awww... pity party for poor little Atta.

I'm not interested in why they feel they needed to do it, what they felt like when they did it, or when they were leading up to it, or what they ate before they did it. The only thing I wanna see is them suffering the way those people did in the twin towers.

"But dude", you say, "that's so uncivilized and you're putting yourself on their level! You must rise above them and seek to understand why they feel they must kill themselves. We have to seek to understand". Pardon my french but Bullshit. It may be wrong, but if death is what they want, I say we give it to them. After all, America makes deams come true - and we should probably give them the paradise they so richly deserve. What we NEED to do is get medieval on their asses. I wish to quote Pulp Fiction here:

"What now? Let me tell you what now. I'm gonna call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."

Bird Flu Review Pooh

2005-10-09T12:02:00.000-04:00

It used to be that some thought there was an elite group of people who run the entire world economy, politics and power like the Illuminati, Skull & Bones, The Bilderberg Group or even the Masons. These secret organizations had their own designs on how things should be run, and have infiltrated not only world governments but were the Presidents, Prime Ministers, Corporation CEO's and could have even been your plumber or electrician.

They have their own designs and agendas apart from what you and I see, hear and live in our own little worlds.

So you think I've finally gone off the deep end then. I've read the Da Vinci Code one too many times and have popped a gasket and have bought into the whole conspiracy belief system and soon I'll be living in a box in St. Louis eating old out of garbage cans with my pet rat "skippy" because the "MAN" is after me. Not really.

What I am confused about is all the flap we hear every hear about "FLU". Last year it was the media, newspapers, radio and television. "Worst Flu Season Ever" the headlines screamed! "Epidemic Imminent!" the television said. All of the arm-chair quarterback and wannabe news magazine shows shoved it down our throats every hour on the hour for a month - "Where's the vaccine? Why don't we have enough? Why was the batch in Britain last year thrown out? Will it happen again? Who's overseeing this? We're all going to DIE!!!

I don't know about your areas, but here in the North East we're getting pummeled by the "Bird Flu". Everyone's getting all whipped into a frenzy about a possible Pandemic (that's an Epidemic of infectious disease on a Global scale - usually killing millions. Such was the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 which killed an estimated 25 million world wide and 500,000 in the U.S.

"Here chicky chicky, I've got a nice flamethrower for you"

Remember SARS? While it made a splash in the media as the next killer of every baby in North America, it fizzled and went away. The bottom line is, every few years a new superbug comes out that threatens to kill everyone on earth - it's been that way since life began and it's the same way now. Getting whipped into a froth about what "might" happen is the biggest waste of time I've ever heard of and the media should be ashamed at shoving this down our throats?

Do they get their jolly's watching people squirm and get panic sweats by broadcasting this "fantasy" 24 hours a day? And let's be honest here - at this moment in time, it's a fantasy.

"There is also a historical record of Influenza pandemics of varying severity at 20-40 year intervals. In February 2004, avian influenza virus was detected in pigs in Vietnam, increasing fears of the emergence of new variant strains. It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift with a human influenza virus, the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic, similar to the Spanish Flu, or the lower mortality pandemics the Asian Flue and the Hong Kong Flu. In November 2004 the director for the western region of the World Health Organization said that an influenza pandemic was inevitable and called for urgent plans to combat the virus."

"...urgent plans to combat the virus." that doesn't even exist. So tell me my readers, who are much smarter than I... how do you combat a virus that doesn't exist? Should we purposely combine the two viruses and man-make the superbug which will kill us all so we can create a vaccine? The reason these people are all freaked out is (they reason) if Pigs can get the virus than so can humans. Swine Flu (for everyone who's old enough to remember THAT one) was a scare back in the 1970's that also fizzled after a brief appearance. It was that swine flu was given to humans and bridged the DNA gap similar to the Avian Flu. I'm sure there has been or soon will be, Monkey Flu, Puppy Flu, Ewe Flu, Duck Flu, Honk Flu (given by Geese or stepping in Geese poo), and any other type of animal flu you could think of.

Right now the Bird Flu or "Avian" Flu is controlled by killing and burning the infected birds (usually Ducks and Chickens) and most of the infected species has been in Asia.

Side Bar: Ok, so why do all these nasty diseases come out of Asia? China, Taiwan, Indonesia? What the hell are they doing over there that's so conducive to these new strains of flu? Sick bastards.

So the WHO (World Health Organization) is having a meeting in Switzerland Nov 7-9 2005 on what to do about the human pandemic of Avian flu, which doesn't yet exist. While planning is nice - the bottom line is if there wasn't a new flu or naughty bug every once in a while, the WHO and other organizations like them would be playing checkers or computer solitaire, wishing and hoping for the salad days of Mad Cow Disease and Bubonic Plague.

"You see Jane, you put the lime WITH the coconut..."

My other thought here is the the North American Media is in kahoots with the drug companies! (Canada is already estimating 2 million dead in America by Avian Flu - mighty nice of them eh?) Let's look at some facts - the average American (average is the key word) takes 2 prescription drugs either weekly or daily on a regular basis. Who need coke and heroine when you can get your fix at CVS Pharmacy? Now, what happens when people either get better or stop taking their drugs? What's new on the market what can the advertising and marketing people at Squibb or other mega drug companies do to keep up the sales? BANG! Avian Flu baby! Whip up some frenzy with the media, get some lobbyists into the UN and WHO and let's have a summit on the "IMPENDING PANDEMIC OF AVIAN FLU". So the nervous nelly's get more nervous, the media arm-chair wannabe newscasters ask all the same old insipid questions like:

- Do we have a vaccine?
- Who is working on this?
- When can we expect the pandemic to occur?
- Let's talk to our expert Dr. Stupid

Jane: Thank you Dr. Stupid for helping us understand this disease
Dr. Stupid: No problem Jane after all I AM a real doctor
Jane: Yes of course you are. So what is Avian Flu and how does it affect our viewers?
Dr. Stupid: We're all going to die Jane
Jane: But WHEN are we all going to die Dr. Stupid?
Dr. Stupid: Well, someday in the future by either the Avian Flu or something else
Jane: Thank you for that report Dr. Stupid
Dr. Stupid: My pleasure

Folks - don't buy into this hype. It's another bug. Yes there are many more of us to get it, yes it can spread quicker than ever before and yes it may be more deadly than the plague. But lets not forget we are living longer (chemically enhanced) lives, we have better germ and virus control, better medicines and HUGE corporate pharmaceutical companies who could make BILLIONS on getting a vaccine out just in the nick of time to avert a world wide death knell.

And critics say Capitalism doesn't work. Pa-shaw.

"Aww man, if I don't get my Ambien fix soon dude, I'm gonna flip out!"

Home Improvement Beware!

2005-07-23T15:18:00.000-04:00

This is what you should see in a valid ad!

As usual, I have to take a few minutes and get my frustration out. Recently, I've been pondering some home improvements on the exterior of my home. Nothing too radical mind you, just a few necessary things like:

New roof shingles
Siding Repairs
2 replacement windows

So happily I went through my local yellow pages and picked out the biggest ads, wanting to get some reference estimates before I go after my referrals. A few things things I wouldn't budge on were:

- Licensed & Insured businesses
- Clean Consumer Affairs record

The first company I called was backed up, and said they could come out on July 30th. Okay - it is the busy season in the NE anyway. The second one I called said they would call me in a few days. Great. The third one had a fairly elaborate website with a referral form, so I filled that out hoping they would still call me the same week.

The 1st one is still scheduled for July 30th
The 2nd one (M.A.K. Construction who I would NEVER recommend - see below) showed today
The 3rd one I haven't hear hide nor hair...

Hello? Who? BOB? He's not here. He's out loosing our company some more money. Yes he is isn't he! ha ha!

Getting to the M.A.K. Construction for a second. So we exchanged back and forth different times to come to the house for an estimate for a week. The representative, "BOB" (a fictional name) first called on Wednesday then called back and cancelled. He called on Thursday for a Friday estimate and called Friday morning to cancel and reschedule on Sat. He calls Saturday morning and confirms (finally).

Something about "BOB" - he's quite an excitable chap, always seeming out of breath and annoyed, which to me was also annoying. Anyway... back to the story...

So I make a list to help things along to best describe what I want done.

The actual list:

Roof:

- Remove & dispose of roofing shingles, felt & liner
- Inspect ply board and replace as needed
- Install 15# felt (no ice dam needed)
- Install 3-tab shingles & Ridge cap
Owens Corning or CertainTeed in Grey
- Replace Flashing around chimney and attic fans
- Encase rake board with aluminum

Siding:

- Replace North side of house with grooved Cedar shakes
- 2 Replacement windows (4 over 4 Pella or Andersen replacement windows)
- Inspect window framing and replace as needed
- Inspect, mark and replace other loose/curling shingles

Estimate:

- Itemized pricing
- Separate time and materials cost
- Walk-through clean-up and magnetic nail pick-up

ETA on job site
ETA on job start (date)

So you'd think this would easily and quickly lay out exactly what I want done for an quick estimate to be completed. Heck, I bet I could fax this to most contractors with the dimensions of the house and roof and get an estimate faxed back to me.

Well, "BOB" seemed annoyed even more, and said everything must be spelled out exactly oh and by the way, it's company policy not to separate the time and materials.

"Huh?" (that's me saying Huh?)

BOB: "Yes, sorry. It's against our company policy to separate out the labor costs and materials costs, so thanks anyway." He walks off.

Now M.A.K. Construction, Roofing and Siding has a half-page ad in the yellow pages. This is very expensive by the way (look up the rates sometime). They also do a whole host of other things as well, including framing, windows, cement, porches, decks, etc. They have an impressive resume by being part of a large company with both business and consumer divisions.

BOB just didn't want the business. Either I scared him off with my impressive list, or he saw the opportunity to "pad" the cost fly out the proverbial window when I asked for the costs to be itemized and separated. Aww... no 20% gouging for you! I was even going to offer to buy the materials myself if we had any further conversation, but I have the feeling that would have gone over like a turd in the punch bowl. And just think! I was going to ask him to provide proof of his business license, bonding and insurance! By his reaction and utter dismay at me asking for the T&M, he probably would have keeled over with a coronary had I gone down that path!

I mention turd and Michael Moore shows up. Hmm...

I should have seen it coming - BOB wasn't very personable and really couldn't have cared less. When I walked up to his truck, he made me wait a good 2 minutes before coming out (I was standing by the drivers side door watching him scribble), when he did come out he quickly handed me his card, never shook my hand, never looked me in the eye, and first things out of his mouth were, "So what do you need done?". Not good.

BOB get's an big fat "F" for loosing business for his company. He also gets very low marks for being quite standoff-ish and a little rude. He gets an acceptable mark for communication skills, since he did call me 4 times in a week period to cancel 3 of his appointments with me. BOB gets another huge "F" and a "ZERO" for not being able to manage his time and for canceling 3 times. I guess it was BOB's subtle hint (wasted on me apparently) in the 3 canceled appointments, that his company M.A.K. Construction doesn't want my $4k or $5k measly dollars and to go "piss up a rope".

Having not experienced M.A.K. Construction's work first hand, I would be remiss to provide any feedback on their abilities. With that said however, if BOB reflects anything about M.A.K. Construction's abilities, skip them and tell everyone you meet to skip them. I know I will. What M.A.K. Construction doesn't know or realize is I'm going to tell all of my 30-something homeowner friends about this little incident in a very negative light. I wouldn't wipe my keester with M.A.K. Construction anything at this point, (now where did I put BOB's card...) nor would I wish "BOB" upon my enemies. (Well... maybe I would)

Some little factoids to keep in mind:

- Bad experiences will be told first hand to 18 to 25 people
- Good experiences will be told first hand to only 5 to 7 people
- A contractor who won't provide separate time & materials or at least provide a labor estimate, should be AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.
- Reputable contractors will work with you on either a fixed contract or Time & Materials contract - if they don't you're being hosed. Don't use them.
- Always verify a contractors a.) Business License with the State, b.) Their insurance license is up to date

The last one is very important. For example, if you hire a contractor without verifying they have these things and say, one of the crew falls off your roof and breaks a leg, AND it turns out the business didn't have insurance after all.... guess who gets sued? That's right, very good! You do. And guess who also pays the hospital bills? Right again! You do! And guess who's fault it is? That's right (man you are a sharp little dude!) You're at fault! A court of law will always find in favor of the business, since it's the hiring parties responsibility to verify the validity of the hire-e.

Can't wait until the next company comes out! Woohoo! Should be fun!

It's the IPOD's fault

2005-07-14T07:56:00.000-04:00

Yes it's been a while, and a lot has gone on. Complacency is a bad thing but this morning my ire was woken with a jolt at a CNN interview this morning.

A tragedy befell a family from Pennsylvania, who's son was killed in Brooklyn NY after he wouldn't hand over his friends IPOD (he was holding it) to some street thugs who demanded it. The 15 year old boy was stabbed and later died.

Full Story:IPOD FULL STORY FROM CNN

This in itself is enough to get anyone's hackles up, however that was nothing compared to the epiphany of insight into our swirling American culture as the next question, which came from CNN Reporter Kelly Wallace was simply insane. Reporter kelly Wallace asks the grieving parents the following question:

"Do you blame the IPOD for you son's death?"

So let me get this straight... Wallace who has worked for CNN since 1990 and who has a bachelor of science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and who graduated magna cum laude with 15 years of reporting experience just asked grieving parents if their son's death was the fault OF AN IN-ANIMATE OBJECT!

Yes folks, it's the IPODS fault. Given this interesting concept, Observational Pissings decided to do an interview with the IPOD and get it's reaction to this appalling situation.

OP: Thank you for agreeing to this interview IPOD and let me get right down to it. Do you at all feel Kelly Wallace's question was appropriate given the circumstances of their son's death?
IPOD: ....
OP: I know this is difficult, but what is your reaction to the inferance that you may have caused the death of a 15 year old in Brooklyn?
IPOD: .........
OP: Is it not true that you were at the scene when this death occurred?
IPOD: .............
OP: Do you have any comment whatsoever that would refute your involvement and the accusation that by just being present at the scene, caused these events to occur? Do you feel you have any accountability in this case?
IPOD: ......................

The IPOD isn't talking and you know why?

BECAUSE IT'S AN IN-ANIMATE OBJECT!

I loved the question which seemed to provide no responsibility to the participants in the crime, nor the gang of youths who killed this 15 year old boy, nor the boy himself who, could have run but chose to fight. It's obviously none of their faults. Surely it's the in-animate objects fault - I mean come on. What was it doing there in the first place! It's so blatent that the IPOD, an object which is man made, is not "alive" by any known scientific criteria, which is purchased as entertainment, must have been the problem here! Is there a conspiracy going on here? Could it be that Kelly Wallace is working for the Bar association of NY and just launched a big fat softball into the feeding frenzy of litigation sharks? This story was as effective as dumping a 55 gallon drum of "chum" around Apple with a big sign saying "FREE EATS!"

So, next time you're in a car accident, it's the car's fault - Sue the manufacturer. When you stub your toe on the table, it's the tables fault - Sue the manufacturer. When you cut your finger slicing a bagel, it's the knife AND the bagel's fault - sue both the bastards right?

Let's face it, if the bagel wasn't so rubbery and was easier to cut, not as much pressure would have been needed therefore not increasing the likelihood of the knife cutting your finger.

I think the knife has a good case against the bagel in this case. Call Thomas Mesereau! The knife is suing for 10 million!

It's all a conspiracy

2005-04-30T12:48:00.000-04:00

The idea that 9/11 was an inside job isn't a new one. Since the occurrence, many "intellectuals" or so called “academics” associated with Universities, NGO's (Non Government Organizations) or “think-tanks” have jumped on the band wagon of the conspiracy theorists that the U.S. Government planned and executed the 9/11 attacks in order to further a “Imperialistic Governmental Order”. Again, not a new concept, as imperialism and the struggle against oppression has been a staple of American culture, since our country was founded on escape of tyranny and the blood of those who fought against such oppression.

I would not dare to call myself an academic nor would I call myself a conspiracy theorists, but the recent movement of Universities hosting seemingly profound authors such as David Ray Griffin pang to the 1960's. My thousand mile view of these authors like Falk, Chomsky and Griffin are they are aging hippies and activists who are very intelligent but only know how to be an activist. The cause isn't very important as long as the agenda of “Anti-Government” is achieved. The ends are less important than the means. The journey is hopefully better than arriving, right?

A Government conspiracy is also nothing new – my God, what's more American than being Anti-Government? What Griffin is promoting in his new book, “New Pearl Harbor – Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11” promotes the idea that specifically the Bush Administration planned and executed 9/11 to promote American Imperialism – which to me (and yes I'll state it right here) is pure hogwash and promotes nothing except activism and furthering Griffin's own agenda, which is “NWO” (New World Order) or a World Government in which we're all equal, everyone makes the same, does the same, has the same. While the wet dream of the Chomsky's and Griffin's, the Star Trek reality won't happen in my or my grand children's lifetime if ever. The Bush group couldn't even get around the WMD's in Iraq, how can anyone seriously believe the Bush White House is intelligent enough to pull off something like 9/11??

Griffin's writings are to preach to that portion of the American public who are grappling with living in the real world – a world where you live, reproduce, provide for your family, help others, worship (if you believe in such a thing) and leave the world a better place. Griffin would have you believe that his activism and thoughts are doing just that – to make the world a better place. What I believe it does is create angst, cause hatred and brain-wash a guilt riddled public that already cannot handle they have what the rest of the world wants – Freedom and Prosperity.

A very good reading point is located at the following URL reference where Mr. Griffin responds and is responded to regarding his writings and associations.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id25.html

Griffin thoughts do a bunch of things:
They identify you can be anti-government while still being patriotic
They address the American guilt of having everything and apologizing for it
They promote anti-Bush AND anti-Government in one agenda
They further the “NWO” agenda of a world wide Socialist Democracy
Centering religious leaders and “moral standards” in the “NWO”

What I always find interesting is the concept that “Truth” is sought. On my short time on earth I've found that “Truth” is never an absolute, nor is it a concept that can be identified. In the political arena, “Truth” varies by degrees and is identified by the agenda being pushed or by the PAC's or lobbyist's who have the money. Griffin's concept of pursuing truth must be held in the context of his agenda.

While my opinion is the Chomsky's and Griffins are needed in a free society, their ability to mold insipid idealists into their way of thinking only promotes the next generation of activists. Let's face it, the hippies are getting old and will soon be passing on with the rest of the baby boomer generation – who will take up the cause in the 21st century?

My other thoughts aren't surrounding the finer points of Griffin's outline of how the Government covered up 9/11 because their agenda is American Imperialism – in fact I find that rather absurd. As another intellectual named Stephen Hawking in “The Universe in a Nut Shell” identified the Government's past history of keeping a cover up secret is less than sterling. J.F.K., Area 51, UFO conspiracies (you know, that little spacemen are actually in cahoots with the U.S. Government and have actually taken the form of humans to help their dying race reproduce... that sort of thing) are just fanatics with a very active imagination. What I find rather frightening in general is that a proportion of American's just cannot handle their guilt that they have so much and others have so little so they vie to topple the entire system. They say they search for “Truth” which is the biggest red herring ever but a good propaganda technique (it's been used for thousands of years). That young Americans don't know their own history, their heritage, the good, bad and ugly so to speak without having someone's agenda in that history being shoved down their throat, puts people like Griffin in a seat of authority. History IS being rewritten – (See author Dick Morris “Rewriting History”) where maybe Appamattox Courthouse didn't actually happen. The Civil war was made up and a ruse to get the South to give up their independence and to control the agriculture industry in the 19th century South. You didn't know that huh? Well, by the time my kids have kids, that's what history MAY say, which is a frightening thing; frankly something I'd rather not be alive to see.

A subject for another blog: How the overwhelming amount of information from biased media, and biased groups are affecting our reality. We're fighting ourselves. No matter what your belief system, a media outlet exists for your thinking, which causes none of us to think at all. We're all drinking our own kool-aide, and everyone has their own flavor. Young people also are a concern; they're more educated without knowing more. A college graduate can probably tell you the last Jay-Z CD title and the technology behind it but doesn't know their own history or the Capital of New York or California. The lack of basic knowledge is astounding. (I digress...) We're being forced to pick a side and yet are in conflict with those sides internally. Griffin for example allies himself with the religious right by saying 3,000+ innocent people were killed by the hand of our own government who has the overwhelming support of the religious right, and a president who is and has been re-elected, arguably, on the “religion” ticket. (You know all that hubbub about the red states versus the blue states).

Here's the only truth's: In this America I know, a few things occur without exception:

1. Money talks
2. Taxes are inevitable like the sun rising
3. I can call anyone a moron without being jailed, tortured or killed by my government
4. The Constitution of the United States prevents idiots from ruling or destroying this country (Thank you Founding Fathers!! You were SO wise!)

I don't trust the Government, I don't trust activists, nor do I trust the media; I trust myself.

I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me, Yoko and me and that's reality

- John Lennon

I Refuse

2005-03-11T15:13:00.000-05:00

Yep, not going to do it. "I Refuse" is just like our right to claim the 5th Amendment so we don't incriminate ourselves by being an idiot. I will refuse today to speak of a certain MORON who's up on charges for child molestation, happens to be eccentric and a talented musician, and has a removable nose. I will say however a certain "stunt" pulled yesterday by showing up in court in his "jammies" was over the top. Can't we save taxpayer money and just shoot him?

Tell me he doesn't resemble the JOKER from Batman!

I Refuse to talk about the "Condom and the Cucumber" issue where educators and school boards using property tax money insist on teaching kids about sexual mechanics because Trevor Bothwell has already done such a great job already.

I won't comment on the sorry state of our education - that most kids know less about America; some actually dislike America because they're told to by idiots like this Colorado Professor Ward Churchill who lied on his application to be hired by identifying himself as an American Indian (which he's not) in order to be tenured.
Then spouts his hate for this country (and 911 victims) that allows him the freedom to hate it publicly AND allows his to speak out about his hate and draw others to his cause. He has his opinion and the freedom to be an ass hat under the 1st Amendment but I still want to deport him and have him try his crap in South America, Cuba, Russia, Taiwan, China or some other non-Democracy to see how long it takes for him to be hauled into jail or shot on site.

HI, MY NAME IS ASSHAT

Instead of hating America why doesn't he teach everyone how to pronounce 50 Cents? Apparently CNN Morning Anchors Bill Hemmer and Soledad O'Brien are THUGS and know STREET since they pronounce it FIDDY CENT. Correct me if I'm wrong but both of them are so white bread that it makes my European descendants to shame. I think I'd also like to see the CNN crew go back to school, especially Soledad - since she's apparently a Harvard Graduate, I would assume in Journalism (?) I don't care enough to look it up. Here...

CNN Anchors - write on a white board or chalk board the following sentence as punishment for trying to get street cred:

"I AM WHITE, A MORON AND SHOULD NEVER PRONOUNCE 50 CENTS AS FIDDY CENT TO GAIN STREET CRED"

I Refuse... err... whatever.

Teacher Sex

2005-02-19T12:47:00.000-05:00

Tell you the truth, when I was in school, it never occurred to me that my teachers would be having sex... with anyone. Ever. Maybe it was just my school but we just didn't have the hottie female teachers. All of our teachers were 40+ and there just weren't any lookers. I was much more enticed with girls my own age or a little older (ahh, there was this one girl, Bambi - well let's just say her name matched her looks and for a 14 year old, it didn't take much).

Erhemm...

So when these news stories of young 20ish to 30ish teachers getting it on multiple times with 12-15 year old boys I'm taken a little aback. The first question is obvious:

WHY?

I didn't know the 20ish to 30ish ladies are so hard up, to start preying on little boys who just found out they HAD a "winkie", let alone what to do with it. All I can say is that the "extra-curricular activities" are getting a little extreme don't you think?

So I decided to do a little research (and on the internet it's not difficult to do). Maybe this whole thing is just getting a lot of press and almost NEVER happens and is getting all blown out of proportion.

Findings:
2003 in NJ
2004 in PA
Vavoom!
2004 in TX
2005 in CA
2005 in CA

And who can forget the Mary Kay Laternau case that started the public awareness?

See there's a thing about education for BOYS specifically (and since I'm not female I wouldn't even ATTEMPT to take a shot at that point of view, lest the hate mail from empowered women start again - *sigh*)

Good Teacher

Not sexually attractive. Stern demeanor. Can focus young adolecent boys to Readin' Writin' and Rithmetic.

Bad Teacher

Very attractive. Giggly and sweet nature. Adolecent boys focus on her rump roast and stare blankly. Extremely low class participation as boys refuse to leave their seats.

As such, I've come to the realization that teachers need to be viewed not as sex objects but as sexless and faceless entities. All teachers need to dress, act and look like PAT:

That way, we nip this little issue in the bud and frankly it's giving us 30 somethings a black eye when these little dweebs are getting more from their teachers than we are from our wives! You know who you are!

Do's and Don'ts

2005-01-24T18:50:00.000-05:00

At risk of sounding like Andy Rooney (of 60 minutes... it's a news magazine program... started in the 70's... oh never mind), did you ever notice that everything "they" say is good for you a few months later, they say is bad for you? For example, take alcohol. The Europeans have been living on the stuff for thousands of years and in mass quantities I might add.

Some Dr's and Scientists have said in the past decade, that for non-pregnant females and healthy males of legal age, one drink a day is probably good for your health. They have cited numerous benefits ranging from heart benefits, lowered LDL cholesterol and better circulation. More than 2 drinks per day seem to lower the benefit and then getting hammered every day is probably bad for your health in hundred ways.

Then we hear Wine (Red specifically) has some miracle ingredient that has kept the French from keeling over from a heart attack! Drink Red Wine!

Then the hammer drops - alcohol in ANY amount increases cancer, could increase certain types of neurological diseases, etc. So it WAS good, now not good.

How about Yogurt?? Those little dudes in Tibet or something like that live to 140 years and they eat yogurt every day!! It must be the yogurt! Then we hear dairy isn't good... no, no good. Bad Dairy. No Yogurt.

Not this one - the other one

How about Orange Juice! Yeah - it cures friggin cancer! It'll give you a boner that lasts three days!! DRINK ORANGE JUICE!!! Who needs Levitra anyway! Ooops... it doesn't do all those things.

What your being is manipulated. Bamboozled. Snookered. When the dairy people need a lift - they give a few fat grants to some scientists who (we'll marginally call them scientists) work for and are paid by the Dairy people to issue a press release that Milk cures the common cold! Result: There's a rush on milk and lactose intolerant people are crying in their perverbial Soy. Then someone (a legitimate someone) checks the story out and refutes the findings saying the results weren't as claimed! SHOCK! BETRAYAL!

Consumers in this country are willing to bounce from one thing to the next. I was recently listening to a guy on an Ohio AM station that said his little product did everything from prevent cancer, help reverse heart disease, makes you loose weight, grows hair and will help you perform sexually like you were 18 again (in a womens view - 30 again).

This is what was called a "SNAKE OIL SALESMAN" in the old West. If you watch some of those old western movies, you'll see these guys riding around selling al sorts of junk they claim to do everything and anything. People buy it because they want to believe it. When it doesn't work, they move on to the next product, hoping against hope.

If you buy this, I have an almost new bridge for sale!

So what's the point of this... what the hell are you going on about snake oil salesmen for? Did you finally loose it?

No no no - silly reader. This is why the U.S. is so damn strong in the world. Why Chirac and Schroeder detest the americans - why we're stupid, insipid, uncouthe, un-educated, primative and just dirt. We spend and spend. When it doesn't work we move on to the next thing and spend more. The American consumer spends more on crap they use once and throw away or use all the time that doesn't do a damn thing than any other human that ever existed!! Other country's wouldn't put up with that rubbish! They'd come and burn your store down and rightfully so - selling snake oil that didn't make some guys wee-wee perform for the missus. Fer shame - so now we burn your house down.

Americans only smile - shrug their shoulders and spend more on the next pretty bottle of dreams. Bin Laden, Terrorists, Evil doers everywhere... you are put on notice:

The American Consumer this way comes.

Spreading Disease for the Holidays

2005-01-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

Well a New Year eh? Holidays are over, and I'm back to blogging again and of course after my observing over the last 3 weeks has given me a lot of material.

Can someone explain to me what the deal is with going to relatives houses when people are on their death bed? Seriously. Don't. If you're coughing up a lung from the flu, stay the hell home already and don't spread it to the rest of your family. Why would you want to go to a New Year's party with your kids who are hurling all over the place? The last thing I want is someone sneezing and coughing all over the ham during dinner or ralphing in the bathroom because you haven't been able to keep anything down for a few days because of some bad seafood.

Here's a news flash - STAY HOME. Yes, it's a sacrifice and the holidays only come around once a year. I'm sympathetic... really. But don't put the rest of your family and friends at risk of catching you or your kids infections. Especially since Grandma and Grandpa will be there and catching a nasty little virus that you may not think is a big deal may be the Grandparents last holiday in this world - thanks to your selfishness.

Prime example - I'm at a friends house over the past few weeks and they get some visitors early for the New Years party. The entire group of them look like their going to fall over. Come to find out little Billy's been to the Dr. three times for a 103.5 temperature. Mom and Dad have been living in their bathrooms with all sorts of interesting things pouring out of all their orifices and after a whole 3 minutes in the house little Courtney looses her dinner on the floor. This opens up an opportunity for the dog who starts lapping up the up-chuck then starts licking my friends kids and playing. Well - I know another family who's going to be praying in the bathroom this week. I promptly left and scrubbed with every known antiseptic.

This is the same INSANITY that prompts family members to call and say something like the following:

"Good morning! Are you going to be home today on vacation? Can you do me a favor? Jimmy's been throwing up and I have to go to work - could he come and stay with you today. I have some medicine for him and he'll just sleep all day - thanks!"

Ah... no he/she can't come here. YOU should stay home because he's YOUR kid and YOUR responsibility. And THANK YOU for being so STUPID and INCONSIDERATE as to bring over a sick child to a healthy household - so we can ALSO get sick. No really, thank you.

How about next time I get the splatters I invite myself over and poop all over your house. That sound like a good idea?? No? Then why the hell would you bring over a barfing kid to my house - do I have sign on my house that says, "Viruses and Bacteria laden children welcome!" It's too politically correct to refuse, except by me. I usually say something like, "That probably won't be a good idea. I don't want to get sick." This doesn't usually go over too well, but that's just the way it is. I don't go places, party's or dinner when I'm sick and I wouldn't want that done to me either. Family or not. If it's non-contagious that's a different story - but if it's the flu, colds, food poisioning or something like that - stay the hell away.

It's a New Year and it's a new set of anti-Politically Correct standards that need to be set. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Vacation, Armor & 2nd Amendment

2004-12-12T18:06:00.000-05:00

After a much needed hiatus from the blog world, I'm back, refreshed and pissy as hell. Sure it's the time of year for joy and peace and whatnot; so why do I feel like ripping someones head off and feeding it to their teary eyed family??

Firstly I'm sick and tired of all the hype about the military's armor issue. News flash for the non-military or "never served our country" crowd - there NEVER was armor on UN-ARMORED vehicles. Let's take a look back in history shall we?

Linn and Ford 2.5T (T=ton) and half-tracks of the 1930's through WWII were ALL un-armored and in fact, most of the names of these vehicles and un-armored in them.

Example: Linn T6 half-track

Jeeps from WWII until the early 1980's - all unarmored. Most of the light infantry and transport vehicles up until after Desert Storm - all un-armored. Even Humvee's, either straight transport, hospital or combat versions - all un-armored.

Look Ma... no armor!!!

The only versions of hummers that had light armor plating (usually on the underside only) was for higher ranking officers transport vehicles. This was to minimize death if running over AP land-mines (similar to the IED's being used in Iraq by the insurgents). No bullet proof glass, are you frigging kidding me? Even Bradley's have light to medium armor and can be disabled by an RPG or well placed IED. Remember, throwing a track off of a tank disables it for further pounding.

What kills me (pardon the pun) about all the hype of armor and bullet proof glass is ludicrous! Idiots who have no idea what is going on are commenting, frankly, out of school. Reality is soldiers die, get wounded, hurt, traumatized etc. Bullet proof glass won't save a vehicle from an RPG. Armor on a HMV will only give a false sense of security to soldiers - it wasn't MADE to be RPG or IED proof. That's what M1A1's are for - and that's why you are trained to do the things you need to do to survive. Stop the sillyness about armor - please. Better intel, more scouting, better CIA spooks and special ops in and around Bagdad will minimize the injured and dead. A better policy of killing anything that moves and kicking some ass instead of playing the political pussy-foot game would be better.

And lastly of course I just read a little piece from A la Gauche that really burned my patootie. Supposedly in this article entitled "Actually, Guns DO kill people" which states some diatribe and vomited nonsense from the CDC (uhh... the Center for Disease Control, so we're saying Guns are a disease? Can I have some antibiotics for that puhleez?) that our precious children under 14 are 12 times more likely to shoot themselves or others... What a load of steamy fecal goodness THAT is. I'm suprised the CDC didn't say that guns are actually possessed by evil spirits and jump out of their cases at night, load themselves and cause mayhem in Washington D.C. Look, we can haggle about the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and what the founders were trying to say until the cows come home and not get any further than we are today. The fact is, today, U.S. citizens have the RIGHT to own and in some places Conceal Carry a weapon for self protection. Why anyone would GO somewhere where they'd need a .45 is beyond me but that's another topic. That asshats like the CDC or the Brady Campaign which want to disarm every American and make it illegal to own ANY firearm (don't laugh, look at Canada, Britain, Austrailia for starters) is like telling Americans to bend over for a fourty five caliber hycolonic. If guns DO kill people, then I guess Cars also kill people and butter knives also kill people and so does Clorox Bleach, Drano, letter openers, pencils and pens, pins, hair clips, rope and string, wire... I can go on for days. Don't baseball bats kill people too? Fact is, I can bludgeon someone over the head with a laptop and the killing weapon would be a Dell. So Dell is responsible and laptops need to be regulated.

Cut me a break. Get over it - it's not going away and I WILL say it - Thank GOD for the NRA for protecting my right to own a gun - the same way I might say that GOD for the ACLU or the NAACP or any other organization that is a watchdog over our rights. Good or bad - I should be able to tell the President to go F himself (free speach - you may not like it, but I have that right!) and I should be able to own a gun (2nd amendment - like it or not I DO have that right whether or not you agree about the wording or not). That DOESN'T mean that I agree with the NRA on all things - especially when a guy walks into a sporting goods store and asks "Can I see a revolver", then asks, "Is this a good one?" and starts pointing it at other customers (it was unloaded and checked by the clerk before handing it over to the idiot). Yes it's his right to have one but it should be my right to kick his butt for pointing ANY weapon at me for no cause. His ignorance should be commented on and before being allowed to purchase that weapon he should have to take a short 6 hour course on how to properly handle, operate, clean and fire his weapon. In fact the NRA has just such a course - Firearms Basic Training. When the dork was asked what he was buying the weapon for he said, "Home security". First off - you don't buy a handgun for home security; it's too difficult to use under pressure by a novice (let alone an experienced shooter). Anyone serious about home security should spend $250 on a 12 ga. shot gun and a box of shells. Save the other $300 (since a decent handgun is about $500) and take a course on how to not shoot yourself.

Just as a refresher and since the 1st and 2nd Amendments get so much press - the other Amendments should be mentioned and maybe you might learn something.

The First 10 Amendments (Bill of Rights)

1st - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
2nd - Right to bear arms
3rd - Quartering of soldiers
4th - Search and Siezure
5th - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for takings
6th - Right to a speedy trial, confrontation of witnesses
7th - Trial by jury
8th - Cruel and Unusual punishment
9th - Construction of Constitution
10th - Powers of the States and People
11th - Judicial limits
12th - Choosing the President, Vice President
13th - Slavery Abolished
14th - Citizenship's rights
15th - Race no bar to vote
16th - Income tax authorization (REPEAL IT!!!!!)
17th - Senators elected by popular vote
18th - Liquor Abolished
19th - Women's suffrage
20th - Presidential, Congressional terms
21st - Amendment 18 Repealed
22nd - Presidential Term limits
23rd - Presidential vote for District of Columbia
24th - Poll taxes barred
25th - Presidential disability and succession
26th - Voting age set to 18 years
27th - Cngressional pay increases

Read them all at The US Constitution.net

Cartoons at 30

2004-12-02T22:04:00.000-05:00

I'm not gay - I'm just READY!

What does it mean when men, grown men continue watching cartoons? I remember when I was little my brother-in-law (who was 30ish then) liked to watch cartoons still. I mean there's 100 channels of crap on and none of it's decent, so I find myself chuckling at "The Fairly Odd Parents" or "Spongebob".

THEN I see this little article from the BBC (leave it to our brothers across the pond to find this conjecture):

IS SPONGEBOB GAY?

Now clearly the little yellow guys' got a thing for the Squirrel right? I mean, they're different species so it'll never work out, but he's trying right? Plus, with Gary playing the straight part and Patrick the dumb neighbor - it's almost pure sit-com formula marketed straight at 5-10 year olds.

Next thing we'll find out is that the Adult Swim cartoons are all gay as well. The Family Guy is having an affair with The Monarch and the entire clan from Sealab 2021 are marching in the Gay Pride parade in 2005 right?

I actually find some of the sophisticated humor in the some of the kids shows quite amusing and the potty humor in the late night toons appeals to my immature side.

What's a guy to do? When the History channel is re-running the Middle Ages, Animal Planet has the Aussies on ALL the time chasing snakes, and ABC, NBC and CBS all have "reality" barf-a-rama's going - everything else is in re-runs (CSI, Law & Order, PBS is showing the life and times of Jazz again) what else is there? I mean even Southpark is good once in a while for a change of pace - but the wittyness has left the building there - it's just written now for shock value and pushing the envelope.

Fat or big boned?

Not going to Wal-Mart

2004-11-28T20:31:00.000-05:00

I wish I could say I'm not going to Wal-Mart because of a higher sense of purpose. That there's some deep personal or political mantra which decended upon my soul and is keeping me from buying the 48 oz. Coco-Puffs for $3.98. Maybe a moral sense of right and wrong? Nah.

How about sympathy for unions or overseas sweatshop workers. Not really. Maybe it's the way their employees get stomped on? Nope.

So what's the REAL reason I don't want to go to Wal-Mart for my Coco-Puffs. Well, there's actually two reasons - maybe three if I can squeak it out.

First, if life were the movie "Demolition Man", Wal-Mart would be Taco-Bell. Yes yes, a very confusing analogy if you've never seen the movie - so go watch it. It's go Wesley Snipes, Stallone and the cutesy Sandra Bullock (her first real Hollywood movie by the way).

Silly Stallone - ALL restaurants are TACO BELL!

In the movie, there was a civil war and the only restaurant left standing was Taco Bell - hence every restaurant is now called Taco Bell. Will every store, no matter what type now be called Wal-Mart? Of course there's SUPER Wal-Mart now. You can get gas, groceries, clothes, have your car tuned up and new tires put on, have your optomotrist appointment, get new glasses and get your perscription filled. They also have a restaurant (NO - not Taco Bell) and cafe. You can get the lawn tractor, bug spray, new shoes and a partridge in a pear tree!

No thanks. Too big, too much. Keep going like this and we'll HAVE to shop at Wal-Mart because that's all that will be left. I like the assortment of stores and the option of buying different types of product. If I like Nike I get Nike, if I like Toro I get Toro. If Wal-Mart has it's way - you'll buy Wal-Mart cuz that's all the choice you'll have.

Second, I hate giganto corporations. Starbucks is getting up there with that crowd. Microsoft is already there and Wal-Mart is ready to take over the entire heap of garbage. The larger corporations get the greedier and stupider they get. After a while they can't remember what they did to get where they are in the first place and wonder why it falls apart. Wal-Mart has the best prices, but I'll pass. I'd rather spend another .25 cents or a dollar or two to have a choice.

Third, I still feel like they have second rate items. I'd rather go to Sears or JCPenny or Strawbridges (here on the East Coast) to get things. I like them better. I'll go to A&P or ACME for groceries, I'll get my autoparts at an autoparts store. I'll get my tires changed at my local tire business. What happens to all those small businesses that my neighbors, family and friends have worked day and night building once Wal-Mart comes to town? Sorry! You owned (past tense) your own business before but now you smile and greet the snotty kids as they come through the door okayyyy?

Sure I can save money - but so what. I can't take it with me. I'll use it any damn way I see fit. I see fit to patronize my local businesses and pay a little more. Wal-Mart can kiss my tuckus. I ain't selling out to those bastards and I'm not buying their products even if their products are the same ones that I pay more for at my buddy's business. Wholesale or not.

HEY WAL-MART...

Monkey Poo Coffee

2004-11-26T17:12:00.000-05:00

A recent trip into NY found me in a very nice posh Hilton hotel right down the street from Radio City Music Hall and Rockerfeller Center. While in the restaurant and me being a little bit of a coffee buff, I looked over a short list of refreshing beverages when I spied with my little eye a cup of coffee with a price tag of $12.95. Now, this isn't "jaw dropping" as this IS NYC. I've had $5 coffee before (which was no better than convenience store coffee by the way) at restaurants and supposed "fine dining" establishments - but $12.95??? It was a typo - and obvious typo.

When the waiter got to me I asked for a plain coffee and matter of factly mentioned there was a small typo on the coffee. The waiter - not missing a beat said that the coffee I referred to was Kopi Luwak, and Indonesian coffee. I believe my exact words were: "Really..." He nodded very smugly, while next to me a friend urged me to "do it man".

Fine. By all accounts it was a pretty damn good cup of coffee - a little spicy with full body. Being curious, I went to the friendly neighborhood internet and looked up Kopi Luwak. To my dismay I then remembered this coffee - it's commonly called Crappicino, since it is eaten by a small monkey, pooped out, collected, de-hulled, dried and sold at premium prices.

The little bugger responsible for $100 a pound of coffee

Rather than bore everyone who's not very hip on coffee - the digestive juices (urp) of the little primate is supposed to give it that "spice" I mentioned before. While I'm an open minded person, I will not usually spend $12.95 on a CUP of coffee but will spend that on a POUND of coffee.

Feeling adventurous?

Get some CRAPPICINO (otherwise known as (Kopi Luwak) and other mamal touched products.

Get some NON primate pooped on coffee that damn good (Baby's Coffee)

Read all about Kopi Luwak.

Only Indonesians would attempt to save pooped out coffee and then convince Westerners it's the best on earth and charge outrageous prices. If they aren't capitalists I don't know who is.

It's only entertainment

2004-11-22T14:13:00.000-05:00

Something smells... and it's YOU DUDE!

I want to go to a basketball game! I haven't changed my dislike of the game itself, but now I'm seeing a monetary benefit - even with the hefty ticket prices of today’s games. I can throw a cup of ice on a player, get slugged in the face, then sue the crap out of him and get a couple hundred grand settlements! YEAH BABY!! That'll put the kiddies through college or buy me that mid-life crisis corvette!

And it's not just basketball, it's all sports. What the jocks don't understand (probably because they went through college without going to class) is they are bought and paid for entertainers. Sure it's competitive sports, but their fans are the lifeline and let's face it - these (mostly) less than sharp athletes are getting paid millions and millions to entertain us. If it's not competitive and/or not entertaining we don't go, watch or buy their stupid team logo'd crap and therefore the team gets sold to another city.

The white man giveth and the white man taketh away

That's right Spreewell and Artest (73 game suspension! YEAH!) you are performers for the WHITE MAN baby! When was the last time the actor playing Horatio in Hamlet jumped over the pit orchestra to clock the guy in the third row who's making fun of the actor’s tights? Same thing. Here's my talk with Artest: You don't deserve to make your money. You're an idiot. This ain't the 'hood mofo - this is your career. You were bought and paid for by the white man owners who pay you millions to perform on the basketball court. Keep hitting the fans and we don't have a team and you don't have your millions. You'll end up overseas playing for Croatia and living in a cellar apartment wishing for your bling bling and honeys. This isn't Brooklyn, you ain't no gangster and your dumb ass RAP album isn't going to buy you any street ‘cred bro! Grow up and stop acting like an 8 year old. Most animals have more sense than to sh*t where they eat - and you're meal tickets come from those fans. Get over yourself, do your job and shut up.

I loved the interview with CNN this morning with Charles Barkley who said basically: If someone hits you, you have the right to beat their ass. Interviewer: But the fan didn't touch Artest I thought a cup of soda with ice was thrown. Barkley: Same thing.

Charles Barkley was a joke when he was playing and now is even funnier. He should take that on the road, really. He can go to a comedy club and beat the snot out of hecklers. It was also mentioned Barkley's incident in 1991 where he went to spit on a heckler and hit an 8 year old little girl instead. It's such a PROUD sport huh? Spitting on little girls.

Here's my solution. Both Indiana and Detroit’s players were suspended but I think it should go further. Attacks on fans of any sort gets you permanently ejected out of the sport altogether. No appeal - nothing. Just gone. Contract's should be written with those provisions - the athlete’s contract is null and void. These athlete's are paid more in one year that I probably will get paid my entire working life. They have the parties, the women, drugs, more parties, the material wealth and fame and are exalted as "heros" and "role models" for children and aspiring college players. We're rewarding the entirely wrong things. Throw these bums out. I can swallow a helluva lot of pride for the money they are getting paid - wanna call me every name in the book and throw soda on me? I don't care cuz I'm still getting paid.

Artest! Here boy. Roll over. Now now, roll over or no money. Here's a bling bling treat for you... roll over. ROLL OVER! Good boy!!

Tolerance

2004-11-20T18:53:00.000-05:00

A wonderful thing happened today. I heard on CNN Headline news the following:

"The Netherlands spokesman said that we (the Dutch) have been tolerant of intolerant people for too long..."

This was in response to the November 2nd 2004 killing of Theo Van Gogh. His documentary film titled "Submission" which depicted the violence against Islamic women, was shown on Dutch TV. In response to that showing Van Gogh (who is related to the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh) received death threats. He was shot by a 26 year old Dutch-Moroccan man and subsequently died.

The BBC Van Gogh Article

In response Dutch immigration seems to have no problem expelling fundementalist Muslims from the country. There is also a call country wide, to bounce these hateful people out of the Netherlands. Muslim Threats

As an off-shoot story, the EU minister also said that immigrants should be learning to speak the local languages of Europe and to adopt "European values".
*Shock* ... *Dismay* ... *Outrage*

Oh my. Did you just read that correctly? I almost fell out of my chair after reading that little tidbit. MORE HERE I actually couldn't believe those words came from the Europeans. Are they finally seeing the light here? Can it be that they are finally seeing the threat of these radicals? Those quotes were very un-PC by the way. I'd probably have a coranary if I heard a U.S. politician say something like that. Good lord man! These are the Dutch we're talking about! They've been the easy going surfer dudes of Europe for decades! If THEY'RE getting fed up with them, it must be bad.

Herbert Hoover ran in 1928 on the slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage". Here's one some of the right wingers can glom onto:

"A bullet in every radical muslim and 'NO NUKES FOR YOU'"

It was all I could come up with on short notice...

You're killing baby Jesus

2004-11-18T13:34:00.000-05:00

I'm so proud to live in NJ. Only here where a mix of NY attitude and Massachusetts Politics could ban instrumental holiday songs. Yes, you heard right, INSTRUMENTAL holiday songs. It seems the simple melody and counter-melodies which have no conceptual context, offends.

NJ School Bans Songs

While on the other side of the coin, we have the banning of Halloween costumes and some parents fear crime or the snatching of their children by masked marauders posing as candy seekers! Oh goodness! .

Halloween banned in CT!

I'm offended that these idiots are breathing MY air. I'm offended that they have wasted some of my time in my life, which I cannot get back, by making me read, get outraged and now write about absolute stupidity. What I also find a little ironic is that retarded people are usually identified as being "not too smart" due to a physical problem. What are these NJ and CT people's excuse? What planet are they from? (This lends itself to the alien theory). I'm convinced these people have either mental disabilities, are just attention starved, on drugs or are aliens from another planet.

LOOK!! AN IDIOT!! GET HIM!!

While I feel it is my job to point out idiots who have no common sense, I'd also like to point out something positive today. Yes, this is a first I know and hopefully I can find more things that actually have a POSITIVE outcome, outlook or something like that... there..

Oh yes. Positive. I'd like to point out that while these two schools are run and populated by absolute morons, this attitude and or belief system is NOT very wide spread. I can only say that common sense is not dead (as I may or may not have previously reported) and even during the holidays - people (in general) are not as stupid as I may portray them.

I'd like to also point out that I'm not perfect (no, really) and I make stupid mistakes (like staying at my job way longer than I should) and sometimes drinking strong coffee before going to bed or eating kolbasa & beans before going to the movies. Which is a segway to: "Everything I need to know I learned from Forrest Gump" - which is to say, I could have cut down my typing for this segment and simply given the links with the following quote:

"Stupid is as stupid does."

Young Apathy

2004-11-17T10:28:00.000-05:00

It kills me. How boring life must be.

From Dictionary.com \Ap"a*thy\, n.; pl. Apathies. [L. apathia, Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ?, fr. ?, ?, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See Pathos.] Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

The young 'uns just don't care about anything. They aren't interested in anything, don't want to do anything, has no interest in hobbies, sports, acedemics, outdoors, politics, the planet, indoor activities, outdoor activities, health, family or anything of the like. They don't want to work but want to get paid - and paid a LOT of money. They don't want to go to school and work for a degree yet they want a $100k job. They want to hang out, they want to drink and get stoned, but they also want lots of stuff - which costs money which they have to earn yet don't want to work for.

The issue here is all the parents of the 80's gave their kids all the things they didn't have - and now these kids are spoiled beyond belief. Why should they move out? Why do they need a job when Mom and Dad give them everything and more!

This isn't new - it's always existed, but at least earlier generations at least were involved. They liked cars, were involved with their school sports or after school functions. When I was going to school in the 80's and 90's kids were still involved - they liked to do things. They saw value in being involved. Not so any more. They sit around the house, get in trouble, complain and whine constantly about how they wants stuff but want someone to give it to them.

Wake up. Real life isn't Mom and Dad giving you everything. No one will pay you $100k to do nothing. Face it, your a lazy putz. Get off your ass and get to work. Don't like ANYTHING and don't want to DO ANYTHING? You're going to have a hard life pal.

Morons among us

2004-11-11T16:50:00.000-05:00

Want to know why there are Unions? Because most mid-level managers are absolute door-knobs. The good middle managers (there are no good VP's or higher in Corporations since they hold the same position as blood sucking lawyers) are usually fired for fear of actually moving a product or company ahead or, God forbid, showing leadership.

Unions were needed a long time ago because these door-knobs took it upon themselves to actually threaten and sometimes, even cause the death or dismemberment of their employees. Today, the door-knobs don't have that power. They're basically mousey, not to bright individuals who steal catch phrases from their underlings to make themselves sound pithy. They learn the "lingo" like "P&L Statement" or "EBITDA", and throw it around until someone accepts them for possibly knowing what they're talking about. But the jokes on you - they haven't a clue.

By not having a clue, they are usually promoted for their pithy comments and "play it safe" methods. They rarely make a mistake because they rarely do anything at all! Golf and business travel are NOT work. Meetings are a necessity but those meetings are usually a swirling mish-mash of tangents that produce a lot of talking, very little listening and NO common sense. The result is a comment like "This was a very good meeting! I feel like we accomplished a lot!" Check that one for the next promotion meeting!

These blood suckers are demanding self centered ass-hats that can't think themselves out of a peanut butter sandwich, but who make >$100k at the low to mid level, and above the $200k in higher level. VP's make much more and do oh so much less. They're existance is delegating work to others and then making them change it 100 times because they're not sure if the heading should be in Times New Roman 16 or Arial bold 14.

The other shocker is you can't talk to them. If you don't spoon feed them information over a period of a week or two prior to really getting into the details, they have the "deer in the headlights" look and then they freak out, get confused, look for their crib notes of pithy come backs or just start yelling to cover up their lack of IQ. Remember, these are the people who will determine YOUR bonus and raise at the end of the year! YAY! Sometimes they're loud and obnoxious and just roll over you with their volume. Sometimes they're the tall "Woody Allen" types who stammer and sweat and confuse easily. Most times they interject absurd ideas that make normal people roll their eyes. The kiss asses who pander to these door-knobs are probably the worst people on the planet.

I can't blame some though. These are the people who are getting paid a fair wage and simply can't afford to loose their job by blurting out, "BWAHAHAHA. You really think THAT idea will generate more money! Wait wait! Would you like to buy a bridge!!" followed by more snickering and a walk out of the office by security.

I'm having these fantasy's recently that involve a room packed full of these middle managers and VP's discussing the finer points of how not to get a damn thing done. I stand up and pace the floor and start off telling them they're spinless morons who need to go back to business 101. How they can't focus, can't execute a plan and talk too much. They should be listening first. They should be throwing away useless idiotic processes that cause problems and they should stop firing the people who actually know that they heck is going on and how to get things done! That they don't only identifies them as ass-hats who deserve nothing less than jail time, since they're defrauding their own company by posing as an employee. I then take off my stupid access badge and toss it on the table and announce "I'm on vacation for the next two weeks", hand over my PC and have a little talk with Darby our security guard on the way out.

While others have shared a more personal fantasy:
- Calling their boss a #&%&@!@#)!! over and over for 5 minutes during their exit interview
- Taking a dump on the bosses desk (kinda gross if you ask me)
- Mooning their boss during a meeting
- Playing fart sounds on a phone conference call whenever the boss speaks (I like that one!)
- Calling the boss from Jamaica and telling him what he can do with his job while snuggling to a very attractive young lady (yes I cleaned that one up).

Here's a resignation letter I'm thinking of modifying to accurately get my point across.

Dear [Recipient's name]:

Yesterday I woke up and realized that this is the worst career experience for anyone, even a eunich. Therefore, I'm officially notifying you of my resignation from [company name]. My last day will be today.

This company has a littany of problems. [insert littany here]

On top of that, I can't stand to work for you any longer. You, alone, have been a constant source of pain and suffering for me ever since I started this job. Your walk and parts of speech are sheer agony. I can't understand how you made it this far in the professional community, let along get up on the morning and even function on a basic human level.

Today is a great day for me. I will never have to see, hear or listen to you ever again. If we do happen to run into each other I will make sure to treat you like a mouldy piece of trash being used as toilet paper by a bum.

Warmest Regards,

[Your Signature]

While all these are very nice, I prefer my fantasy. It gets rid of any loyalty that may still be clinging on. It provides lots of witnessess which will be good water cooler talk for at least a day or two. It puts my leaving in the "lore" of the company - so many years later the last two employees will reminisce about the time "so and so" left and they laugh and wish they did it too. Ahhh... yes. The good old days.

Thinking of telling your boss where to put it??

I recommend the following reading: Bad Bossology

Men are LOOSERS!!

2004-11-09T10:36:00.000-05:00

At least that's what advertising exec's want you to believe. We're obviously stupid, insipid and the duller of the tools in the shed - or at least, that's the way advertising companies use the male figure. What used to be "bimbo's and rambo's" is now "bimbo's and Jethro" (a Beverly Hillbilly's reference there).

How about the Verizon commerical that is widely played now in the North East U.S. It shows a relatively overweight dad giving the gift of Verizon phones to his daughters (with Mom in the background) and the daughters (& Mom) take the phones which supposedly saves the family money. Quickly they exit dismissing dad like he's a leper, leaving the curly hair male figure puzzled with a stupid look on his face.

My next one is again in the North East, which is for Patriot Cable - where a tight shot of Mom & Dad watching their childs birthday party of kids. Mom says, "So when's the Clown going to be here?" Dad suddenly gets scared as he OBVIOUSLY forgot about the clown - and he uses the quick cable web access to order a clown for the party. Then the horse was OBVIOUSLY forgotten as well... and again, Dad insipidly forgot to order the horse for horsey rides...

While women have their own beefs with advertising (scantily clad women, using them as sex objects to hawk beer, sports, whatever) I'm not making a comparison. And if I WERE to make a comparison, I'd say I'd much rather be a sex object used to sell beer than a fat idiot who can barely dress himself.

Is it funny? The dumb dad like Ray Romano? Kinda dim witted, not too bright and doesn't have a very good job but good hearted in a stupid kinda way. Women obviously are the direct opposite. Smart, quick witted and remembering everything. Good with money, handles the kids, job and cooks, cleans, wipes up the kids puke, runs them to sports events, is involved in the school board AND runs the church finances while dad is lucky to remember where the car keys are and may STILL get lost going to work. The problem is everyone, including men have accepted this portrayal. It's considered politically correct according to this article.

These stereotypes are just as bad as the female stereotypes and much less accurate. A somewhat outdated article can be found here regarding these roles. But I'd propose men's roles as the "DUFUS" has expanded since then and are now bleeding into sit coms, reality TV shows, plays and movies. This isn't new - stereotypes are probably the easiest things to cling to for unimaginative ad exec's who need put something out for a customer.

Is it that men want to be misunderstood and underestimated? We don't mind being a jackass; the butt of jokes so to speak? Is it simply a revolt against the "MAN"; white middle aged executives who are paunchy and poxed with rich model wives sitting around the pool on a cell phone with Wall Street yelling "SELL TEN THOUSAND OF MICROSOFT!!!".

If represented that executive in a commercial would be pictured sitting behind his desk, bored, playing with a pencil. He's 30ish, a little frumpy with a blank pasty face, a little jumpy and definately a dull "tool". This isn't simply a U.S. issue either. Another article from the U.K. also shows men are none too swift.

So, given the choice would you rather be:

A: Handsome/Beautiful and thought of only for your body

OR

B: An insipid idiot, frumpy, jumpy and dull

I'm still thinking women who are thought of as a "piece of meat" in advertising are getting the better deal here.

Democrat Flop Cake

2004-11-05T19:21:00.000-05:00

When you think of Democrat what do you think of? Open mindedness? Live and let live? Pro-choice? Right now it makes me think of "whoop ass", or maybe flop cake.

You know what flop cake is right? It's a new recipe for cake cut out of the paper, a magazine or from a new cookbook - you are careful to measure and follow everything to a "T", and expectatly take it out of the over only to find out it's flopped and looks like your uncle Eddie sat on it. It may still taste okay, but looks like... well... flop.

I can only say the U.S. of A is ready to re-elect what the Dems have called an absolute MORON (among other things) rather than elect a Dem like Kerry. Amazing. The left portrayed Bush as probably every derogatory animal, adjective or adverb and I think even made up words. Wrote tons of anti-Bush books, started at least 2 radio stations dedicated to kicking Bush out of the White House, tapped into the ACLU, Moveon.org, anti-gun lobby's, George Soros, Hollywood (too many to list here), Unions, MTV, and on and on and on. Still, Kerry get's his ass handed to him on a silver platter.

But wait... it get's better. Dems are still pissed off, even more than before. They still can't believe it. Some want a recount, some want to leave the country, some want to just curl up in a fetal position and suck their thumbs until aunti Hillary comes to the rescue in 2008.

Here's what I say. Get off your butts and stop blaming everything and everone else for the failure. Instead of leaving (cowardly) or continuing to blather the political spin - figure out what is really going on in the Democratic party! As much as you may not want to admit it - the Republicans are right, you have to look inwardly into your own party to find out why a sitting President who supposedly has the IQ of Forrest Gump kicked your butts.

Could it be because Kerry was not moderate enough? Did kinda waffle a bit in the beginning? Had John Edwards as a veep (I really don't like that guy). I think it's time to stop blaming and to start restructuring - to find out what happened to the Democratic party that produced FDR or J.F. Kennedy. The Dem's don't have any of the gumption that those past Democrats had. Dems do whine too much. They want to blame everything on everyone else except themselves. Well it's time to stop. Get back on the horse, restructure and get more moderate. Get some moderate race horses in 2008 (and hate to tell ya Hillary aint it), stop being so damnned concieted and get real. Stand for something and don't be opportunistic. Don't spout Socialist mantra - "It takes a village to raise a child" crap. It takes hard work and common sense.

I don't agree with many things Bush says, does and or acts upon. He uses the word "believe" way too much. But he's predictable, stable and christian. That resonates with the common man.

What resonated with Kerry was his throwing his medals on the White House lawn (or didn't he?), his bad mouthing Vietnam (probably not a good thing in retrospect), he didn't get off Vietnam during the beginning of the race (definately still a sore spot), only developed a real plan for his presidency in September.

Granted, this is nothing compared to some of the blunders and missteps Bush has made but this is post 911. If 911 didn't happen, Kerry would have won in a landslide but that's not the case. Get over it and move on.

George Soros has apparently left the country. Good. Robert Redford is planning to move to Ireland - good riddance. Hits to Canada's immegration website is apparently UP by 6x - good! If you wanna leave - leave. Move out Sally! It's probably best for you to see how other country's do things anyway - it'll be a great experience for you.

I can only say that Hillary isn't the answer, neither is Michael Moore, Redford, Asner, Springsteen, Daschel (hate that guy too) or any other bleeding edge liberal. If you leave you can't get involved, and if you're not involved you can't change things and if you can't change things you must be secretly satisifed with how things are now. Shut your cake holes and get on your horses and make the Democratic party a great party again not this far left socialist breeding ground of venom and hate.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction John F. Kennedy

Stop your complaining and get into action.

Bin-Laughable

2004-11-02T13:53:00.000-05:00

I got to hand it to Bin Laden - he's one twisted freak. For a western educated and modern cave/dirt dweller he sure can lay on the brain-washed rhetoric. According to CNN in this article, Bin Laden is claiming ownership of the U.S. Federal debt! Wow. His little dirt dwellers did all that. What a (pardon my french) ass-hat.

He is so blind he doesn't realize he's not screwing with the Russians, his own feeble and weak minded country men, he's messing with the big boys. His money and funding was siezed so now it's underground. He can't poke his nose outside lest it get bombed. His little followers are now concentrated in Iraq reduced to cowering behind buildings and setting off car bombs - hardly the honorable way to go.

His latest little video shows pure despare in pleading with the American public to vote Bush out. Notice, no little AK behind him this time. IT was truly pathetic and shows that not only are we kicking his Al-Killer but - he's pleading with the same people he chuckled about killing, to please vote Bush out of office so he can get a little breathing room.

Poor poor little terrorist. He needs to go to finance school. The GDP of the United States isn't the GDP of a Cold War Russia. Not only will we pull out of debt, but we'll continue to pummel the underwear stains like Bin-Laughable and his cronies all over the world. Welcome to hell you little freak! Enjoy living a long life looking over your shoulder, living in dirt caves and making videos in your pathetic life. I can only hope that a Hell of unimaginable horrors awaits you in eternity.

Kiss kiss!

Hockey You Hoser!!

2004-10-31T21:10:00.000-05:00

If you're too young to remember where that comes from, you're probably not too young to realize - there's NO HOCKEY going on puck-face!

That's right, there's a hockey lockout. Didn't notice? Well, it's probably because all American eyes have been turned to Boston (winning the World Series - even though it's not literally a "WORLD" series... anyway...)and also to the New England Patriots football team - who are unbeaten err, scratch that. Pittsburgh handed the Patriots their lunch this afternoon. Boo hoo.

But who friggin cares about football! I mean, it only gets interesting near super bowl time anyway. And when was the last time a linebacker had a stick horked up his crotch or a puck blasted in his knee cap? Ever see a bench clearing brawl in football, golf, tennis or soccer? (Non-European Soccer). Never. Baseball yeah, but that's over my friends. Our rockem-sockem fast paced slap-shot o' rama will not be seen this YEAR because:

1 - Hockey is NOT the lowest paid sport, actually pay is higher than most sports and the owners don't know how to pay for their salary's other than capping them
2 - The players union is adamat about not being capped

The average hockey player was 1.79 Million in the 2002-2003 season. This would be a player like Nylander from the Rangers. Compared to average salary's of other sports:

Baseball: Median salary is around 2 Million. It depends on how rich your team is.
Football: Median salary is around 1 Million. The "stars" make the big bucks - but football has a salary cap.
Basketball: Median salary is around 3.5 - 4 Million. Way over paid and over rated squeeking. Remember our "dream team" in the Olympics? They're drinking too much Crystal and getting down with hoes in their hotel cribs. Nuff said.

I'm not seeing how the Hockey players are starving here. Try surviving on 45k a year and driving a 6 year old Volkswagen, dealing with a jerk boss and shuttling 2 kids around to school events. No hoes. No Porche for gettin in the playoffs. No hoes (did I mention that one already?). No bonuses. Hell, you'd be lucky to keep that 45k job in the first place.

When I see Nylander, Purinton, Matvichuk or Kapanen on 42nd living in a card board box and holding a sign saying "will shoot pucks for food", I'll give in. And waaa... I'm supposed to feel sorry for the poor guy who's only making 3.5 million as a staring defenseman or center? He's having mortgage problems on the multi-million dollar house he bought? Or he's not getting any from the model wife at home because the seasons too long? I reiterate: Waaa.

Never being one to just rant without offering a possible solution:

- Cut the teams down to 18 (there's some bucks right there baby!)
- Cut the rosters for each team down as well
- Cap those team salary's, but increase the current money for each team
- Owners cut a deal with Cable for exclusivity and get more money
- Cut the season down to 60 games (instead of 82)
- Take some of the cost savings and invest it into school programs for the next generation

Better yet, move the entire thing over to European Union. Get those countries to support professional sports. 3/4 of the NHL players are from across the Atlantic anyway.

I refuse to watch basketball, as I believe it's probably the stupidest, over-hyped, over-paid garbage ever. After following a little of the 2004 Olympics in Athens, I felt embarassed FOR the U.S. Mens basketball team. I mean, this team probably makes collectively more money than the some of the COUNTRY's that BEAT the siznizzle out of them. I'd rather watch professional bowling, tennis or golf than basketball. It has no soul. Where's Jordan when you need him. Isn't it time he comes out of retirement again? How about Dr. J... is he busy? The overpaid bling bling boneheads playing the game today are just pathetic, when they're not in court. I almost wish the Kobe Bryant case went to court - it would have been at least the most enjoyable entertainment from a basketball player I'd have seen in years!

It's a bad, expensive dream (team). And it keeps getting worse, and worse.

Socialism = Scary

2004-10-25T18:36:00.000-04:00

I'm a moderate. I don't like (generally) ideology, politics, or philosophies that are extreme in nature. Live and let live – sure.

So a few things have been linked together lately that disturb me:

1. No Tolerance Policy
This is teaching our children at a young age a few things – not necessarily socialistic. It teaches that common, every day actions cause grown-ups to freak out and get mad at you. Things such as a 8 year old little boy sticking his tongue out (as children do when they tease each other) at an 8 year old little girl, then getting suspended from school for “sexual harassment”. Or even better, playing “cops and robbers” with again, the same overreaction all due to zero tolerance insanity.

2. Media Garbage
In either sense, young people today are being bombarded with immediate information – much of it both inaccurate and untrue. While the Democrats claim the media is Republican biased, and vise-versa, the truth is few and far between in any case. If you’re relying on CBS news to give you the “truth”, change the station. If CNN is supposed to provide “fair and balanced”, don’t bother. Oh and Fox is no better. Somewhere in the middle of all the little jibs and jabs from all broadcasting of news, the biased magazines (Time/Newsweek), the ACLU, the NRA, the NAACP and Moveon dot org lies the “truth”. Some of us, no matter if we see the murder happen, take a picture of the murderer, find the gun, and hear the action, we still don’t believe. A favorite quote of mine from a political cartoon says, “Don’t bother me with the truth, my minds made up!”

3. College Nonsense
Colleges are the hot bed for extremist views and have been probably since the early 50’s. Some of these controversies come from professors of Middle Eastern Studies (un-like Sami Al-Arian who was a computer engineering professor. For more Al-Arian info check out the PRO and CON). Also review: Academic Free Speech
Most colleges (yes I know a generalization) are hot beds for these issues. Chomsky and Marx are probably more discussed now than ever before in history – partly because there’s a higher educated (but not necessarily smarter) population in the world and increasingly young people want answers and are not happy with the ones they are hearing.

4. Hollywood Hypocricy
Hollywood is very “left” politically. Yet Hollywood embraces violence as big bucks at the box-office. They can’t have an action film without guns. Violence and killing and the spilling of blood in general must be there for an action film to be successful. Yet more actors speak out against gun ownership, war etc. than anything else! They believe in it so strongly that at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, many rally’s were held by the likes of Martin Sheen (star of "The West Wing" where every week it seems he’s conferring with the Joint Chiefs and thoughtfully considers bomb the bejesus out of some other country). Not to say that Republicans/Libertarians don’t also have Hollywood support. Drew Carey, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Adam Sandler, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Leary, Kurt Russell and Heather Locklear will not be rallying with Jane Fonda anytime soon.

So, all this writing has WHAT to do with Socialism? I’ve been blathering on now and haven’t tied a thing together so what gives?

I’m suggesting that this country is already starting down a Socialist path. I would urge the reading of the following by Russell: "Proposed Roads to Freedom" which outlines Socialism.

Here’s how I think it’s going to happen still in my lifetime.

1. Our children are being taught inexplicable behavioral lessons as contained in Zero Tolerance – which uses no common sense.
2. Many of these same children are being raised by babysitters, pre-school and after school programs funded by the State, which are “social programs” paid for through taxes.
3. These children grow up and most likely go to a college where ideas and thoughts of a Socialist nature are exchanged. I am reminded of the rally’s and “teach ins” that occurred post-911, where many of the extremists gathered in colleges around the U.S. praising Al-Quaeda for their “fight for freedom” against evil America. Example
4. Once these kids graduate college (hopefully) they have now had 22 years of indoctrination into Socialist thought and practice.

This is why the use of “common sense” is vastly diminishing and why game shows have popped up where two contestants bet on whether or not a young American can get the following question right: “Who was the first President of the United States?” Surprise, they got it wrong with the answer, “Lincoln?” Why self-hating our own country is now “En-Vogue”. To quote Michael Moore regarding Americans: “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks.” While I would admit that some graduates of colleges are far from smart, it may be that they’re watching too many Moore movies and not going to class.

The second is that people don’t want to take responsibility for themselves anymore. Everyone wants to ditch the responsibility on everyone else – work, play, school, parenting or whatever. Especially around education and parenting – people want the government to take the responsibility of raising their kids. How many times have I heard, “Well it’s the schools responsibility. I mean, what do I pay taxes for?” Before school programs, after school programs, the television, the babysitter, a nanny or a tutor. Anything or anyone but not the parent because they can’t be bothered.

My parents sat down with me and helped with homework, talked about issues, and passed on their beliefs – not always appreciated by me but they did it anyway. Today’s parents don’t want kids to be kids – if they run around or are hyper – they must have A.D.D. so give them Riddlin. Do you know how many of America’s kids are basically drug addicts? Last time I checked kids were supposed to run around and be inattentive. Want to know the ADD criteria?

• Walking around during class
• Sharpening his pencil often
• Looking out the window, at the other kids, at the floor
• Losing his supplies
• Not handing in homework you know he has done

More info: What to do if your child has ADD

Are you kidding me? Every kid in my classes as a kid did all these things! Holy cow!

People today want to blame someone; anyone but themselves! Some Americans want the government to run our lives so we don’t have to be responsible for it. That way anything that goes wrong it’s not your fault or your kids fault or anyone’s fault. The Presidential candidates say it every day on TV – and Kerry is in the forefront. Did you know it was Bush’s fault that the Flu vaccine wasn’t delivered? See, it’s the government’s fault you’re going to get the flu and DIE this year. It’s the government’s fault that gas prices are so high. It’s the government’s fault that your kid has A.D.D. It’s the government’s fault that we’re going to have a cold winter this year and it’s the government’s fault Florida was pummeled this year with hurricanes. Feel better? You’re off the hook.

Government breeds more government. Giving them control of even a few things means they need more things to control; your land, your work, your money. The government will tell you where to live, what your job will be and how much you will make. This all equates to Socialism; common land, common money all controlled by a government. Worried about big brother tapping your phone and reading your mail? Socialism did that as did Fascism and Dictatorships. Democracies do it too. They just don’t take you out back and shoot you in the head when they hear something they don’t like. Socialist governments also have an unarmed populace. This way the only threat that government has is by the military which is controlled by, um, er, the socialist government. Crushed it's not really because our politicans have a heartfelt need to protect us? If they really were heartfelt they'd improve the things they already control: highways safety, food saftey, drug safety. Besides gun are some of the most regulated items in the country; ever wonder what would happen to thousands of government jobs if the guns suddenly disappeared? Hmm...

I also hear the political spin talk about our children’s future. Unless things change all of our futures will soon look like this:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Deer Dept. of Transportation

2004-10-23T20:22:00.000-04:00

Winner of the "It's not my job" award!

On my daily travels across my wonderful state, I have occasion to view dead animals on the side of the road. These occasions have been quite frequent lately, and in the past month I have viewed nine (yes nine) smushed deer on a 12 mile stretch of highway. They have all been in various states of decomposition and were well strewn about over the 12 miles. Upon passing, I thought "I feel sorry for the poor jerk that has to ride up to all these rotting carcasses and has to haul them away. What a lousy job".

Bambi escapes getting squashed during rush hour

Well, the sympathy was wasted, since no one has picked them up. As of this past Friday, all of the dead deer are still there, though a little less obvious since there are now flat crumpled deer skins with various bones and ribs being bleached by the sun now on that same 12 mile stretch.

Here's the part where I start soundling like an old fart:

Of all the money that goes into the Department of Transportation, you'd think that they'd want to give passers through our Garden State a better impression than seeing maggots falling out the ass of dead deer for 12 miles on Rt. 287. Sorry to be so indelicate but it's the truth. What the heck!?

So with the plastic bottles, paper, shoes and other garbage that lies along Interstate 287, we now have full rotted deer carcasses, skulls and ribs for the visitors to oggle at.

Gee I wonder why the rest of the country thinks NJ is an armpit. Maybe we should ask this little weasle (NJ DOT Commissioner who by the way makes $157,000 a year):

And if my Governer wasn't so busy spending this states taxes on person functions like:

- Taking his entire extended family to Ireland for a family reunion in 2003
- Taking a trip to Israel to see his GAY LOVER
- Appointing his GAY LOVER as the Homeland Security Commissioner and paying him over $110,000 a year

I can certainly see why the bloated maggot filled deer on our roads is such a low priority.

James E. McGreevy's lover Golan Cipel. If he would just leave the Governor alone, McGreevy may have noticed there are ROTTING CORPSES ON NJ's HIGHWAYS!!!

Where PETA when you need them? Hey, PETA, stop throwing blood on women with furs and get the dead deer off the streets.

A short TEST

2004-10-21T11:54:00.000-04:00

Hate tests? Dispair not! This one's kinda fun, a nice little 10 minute time waster and you might even learn something about yourself!

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Feel free to post your URL at the end!

Here's my results:

Check out my Morality! 41% liberal, 59% conservative

Middle East Anger Management

2004-10-21T10:37:00.000-04:00

Had a pretty strong epiphany this morning on the way to work and listening to a radio story describing this event in Iran. For a guy to get so upset at a parking ticket to douse his car with gas and set it on fire shows some serious issues here. I'm thinking he's not the exception but the rule. Everything with the Middle Eastern peoples have something to do with flailing, amputating, shooting, or some other sort of violence. They jump around in the streets in an emotional crisis almost all the time (at least that's what we see on the news) instead of being at work! I find myself wondering out loud (usually to myself which is also a bit creepy) how do these people have enough time to jump in the streets? Shouldn't they be at work?

Grandma was right - Idle hands are the devils business.

We don't need to send more weapons, soldiers, diplomats or have more meetings with terrorists. They need Anger Management courses.

We should be gathering some of our psychological counselors through rudimentary boot camp and send them over to ask why these people are so pissed off all the time? Is it because they're out of work? Are they sexually repressed? Are they conflicted about oil which everyone in the world wants but they can't keep?

All these are I think valid questions and I'd be willing to start a petition to have the government assign crisis counselors to fly over to Iraq, have these terrorists put down their RPG's for an hour a week and do some Rorschach tests and tell their new doctor how they feel.

My Public Service Announcement

Are you a terrorist? Do you feel like you want to commit mass murder by blowing yourself up using high explosives in a crowd of westerners OR have you attended a military type training camp(s) in the Syria, Jordan, Afghanistan or Pakistan? If you nodded or shouted "INFIDEL!!!" at your computer screen, you're probably a terrorst and are mentally conflicted about life and reality and are probably repressed and brain washed.

BUT DON'T DISPAIR!

You can sit down with one of our couselors to find the root of your dispair and repression! Donate one hour of your (short) life to working out your problems with the West, your religion and your inability to provide for your family. Let go of your hate for Capitalist Zionists and provide constructive criticism to the Palistinian conflict!

Perscription plans available. We take RPG's, IED's and AK's as payment!!!
Don't delay stop by today!

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