The World on Your Screen

Things that make you go Hmmmm.

2009-03-06T10:27:00.000-08:00

OK,
It's been a while, mainly because things are so horrendous now and people are in such denial that I wouldn't even know where to begin. But something happened not too long ago that I feel I must mention. I hadn't heard anybody bring this up until I actually went looking for it so please don't think this is something I am just falling in line with.

I am perplexed at the destruction of the CO2 monitoring satellite Feb 24 2009. I did some checking and found very few instances of failures to launch by the major space nations. I found an Echostar satellite that failed in Mar of '08 and two European sea launched (yes, sea launched) satellites that were NOGOs in Jan of '07 and Mar '00. Bringing the sum total of satellites lost that I could find to three. And, I might add, that the two European ones were launched from converted Norwegian oil drilling rigs and the Echostar launch was from Kazakhstan. Now I'm not saying that the Norwegians and Kazakhstanies aren't some of the foremost thinkers in the world of space exploration, and I have complete confidence in their abilities, but this very important CO2 monitor took off from an Air Force base in California. A place, that I can only surmise, has a pretty good idea of what they are doing.

So "What are you getting at?" you may ask. The answer is, I don't know. It just seems odd to me that the only satellite launch failure I can find in recent American history happened to carry the only proof as to whether or not the religion of environmentalism is telling the truth. You all know I think it's bullshit and this would have proven me wrong once and for all. I actually wish that launch had been successful. But now they are saying we will have to wait another ten years (and four Al Gore books) to get our answers.

2008-11-14T13:57:00.000-08:00

OK, so lot's to talk about.

First off we have

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_us/ike_housing_shortage
No riots, no looting, no bitching, no blaming. Just playing with the hand they are dealt. Ray-Ray Nagin take note please.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97844
The illustrious UN launched its "largest ever aid appeal" of over 7 billion dollars to be spent willy nilly across Africa and, get this, Iraq even after the billions we've dumped into the economy and infrastructure there. The Un (and yes I mean Un not UN because they seem to undo shit that works world wide) is worried that the global economic crisis will stifle "humanitarian funding in 2009" so rather than keeping out own countries afloat we should dump money into warlords and corrupt governments. Got it. Speaking of corruption... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html That there buys a whole lot of bowls of rice.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_obama
Al Qaida's number two honcho called Barrack Hussein a "house negro". Personally I love this story. There were celebrations, as I predicted, in the streets of the major Muslim cities around the world and mainstream Muslims love him but, also as I predicted, the hard line Muslims hate him. Leaving the Islam is punishable by death and I don't care what Hoos says, he was born a Muslim (if nothing else due to the fact his father was Muslim) and that to the Islamists is no good at all. I recall an incident a year or so ago where a guy was beheaded for leaving the faith.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24684272-912,00.html?from=public_rss
And in a final bit of insanity we go to Egypt where 400 teens were arrested for flirting. The report goes on to say that they are cracking down on "sexual harassment" so I'm not exactly sure how flirting applies to that but anyway, there is the story.

Celebrate good times COME ON!

2008-11-11T22:00:00.000-08:00

OK so many people have ragged on me that I was wrong about the riotous celebrations I expected to see when Barack Hussein won. Did we see mass pandemonium like I expected? No. What we did see was the poorest, most dilapidated, and most violent inner cities turn into a free for all of people hooting and hollering, crowding streets, and all in all turning the the most important day in American politics into a world series championship party. I'll take that over riots any day and here it is... I was wrong.
In my search for various "Unity and Change" style... events that took place that night, I really wanted to get to the meat of the experience. Being that I myself did not partake in the revelry I must rely on first hand accounts and video testimony. Therefor, I have compiled a very small selection of celebration footage for you to enjoy. I will bring to your attention any special quotes or events of note... free of charge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4Ddhsx6_k

OK this is in LA on the infamous Crenshaw Blvd.

Q: Do you feel now the change now between the blacks, the whites, the Hispanics, and everyone?"
A: I feel, I feel it's gonna come right. It's gonna come right. We got a black president so it's gonna come right.
Wow, just like that. Racial equality in America and the end to bigotry. Man, Obama is special.

Q: "Why did you vote for Obama? Give me a concise, a lot of people say 'it's because he's black', why did you vote for Obama?"
A: "I voted for Obama because it's time for a change. The Republicans ain't doing nothin' (unintelligible gibberish) time for them to get up in here so, it's time for a change. Barack Obama '08"
Indeed. Change huh? Concise enough for you?

Q: "How do you feel about Obama?"
A: "Oh I love Obama! I love him! (Unintelligible gibberish) He gonna save us he gonna save us that's a(and it sounds here like she says "a black thing") but I wouldn't want to put words into her mouth.

Q: "Now you voted for him... why did you vote?"
A: "I voted for him because, I know it's, I voted for him was so how much the country has matured. It's not even about him just being black, it's just the point that our country has left everything in the past (agreed) all the negativity the whole black thing is out. It's basically change, that's all we need it change. That's what it is."
Again change. Any specifics or... perhaps a plan or some sort of insight as to which of his changed up policies you really liked or was it just sort of change in general?

Now if I'm not mistaken the narrator here calls Michelle Obama the Vice President at 3:33... I could be off.

When speaking to a man who said it was his first time voting the narrator asks;
Q: "What made you vote besides him being a black man?"
A: I'm a black man I think we've been in this economy so long man I think it's time for a change."
Again that word... hell if I had known it would have been so easy to get elected on a word and no plan I would have run for senate by now. Do any one of these people have a clue as to what he wants to do beyond the word "change"?

Here is a very special quote that I feel we all must hear and let soak in for a while to get the full effect...
"As you see Obama has changed a lot for futures. Even, we heard, drug addicts that never voted, voted from rehab. We heard alcoholics that never voted, voted."
Take it in. Allow the words to fill you. I'll give you a second. Breathe in through the nose... out through the mouth. Is it soaked in? Good.

Q: "Ma'am, how do you feel?"
A" "OBAMA!!!!!!!"
Not exactly an answer but OK.

Q: "Obama said that he's having McCain help him get America back together. How do you feel about that?"
A" "I feel that Obama has it all in his orchestra so he don't need McCain because McCain is old and he's sick and he don't need his help. Obama got it. It's all in his plan."
All in his plan? And people get offended when I call him the "Savior" and talk about his election as the second coming. It's all in Obama's plan. He don't need no McCain.

Now if you want people to take your candidate seriously, you need to be interviewing more people like the guy at 13:56.

Q: "Obama won how do you feel?"
A" "Blessed. Blessed. Democracy worked. I made my vote count. God is good."
That pretty much sums up the way America works. One group on election day feels blessed, one feels damned, but we are all proud that we live in a Democracy (A Republic really but I won't split hairs here) and that our votes count. No talk of an ethereal concept of change, just thankfulness for the process that we have in America. The girl on right after at 14:03 has it too.
"I think this is an amazing opportunity... It's not just about (him being black). It's about health care, it's about war in Iraq, it's about all these issues that, he just so happens to be black. That's the icing on the cake if you will." While I think his health care stance and Iraq ideas are devastating to America at least she mentions them. Honestly I doubt she really knows much about them but at least she shows the wherewithal to mention them.

"I feel excellent, I know that this is an achievement not just for Barack Obama but for black people!... Because unless black people struggle we will not have the kind of society he has promised us."
First off so much for this not being a race thing. Nearly everybody interviewed mentioned race but we already knew it was a huge race deal. Secondly, did I miss something? The society he promised us? I'm I guess extrapolating that by "us" she means black people because that is who she was previously talking about but I don't recall Obama saying anything officially about promising "black society" anything.

Now from 14:58 to 17:45 there are some pretty good, solid interviews. Many people with some well thought out ideas. A couple with just "Change" but on the whole that bit is alright. Watch it. You'll like it.

However they end it with

Q: "Why did you personally vote for Obama, besides him being black?" Nice
A: "Because he got a plan and because he's for the youth."
Narrator: "You heard it right here. Obama has a plan and he's here for the youth." Wow, that's overwhelming.

Q: "What made you actually vote?"
A: "'Cuz I wanted change."

Q: "The reason that you voted for Barack Obama was it for a change or was because he's a black man?" Solid journalism there by the way.
A: "It was for a change." Well, you had a 50/50 chance on that one.

WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP! WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!! I mean presidency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JeoTDTD_Y&feature=related

My favorite part of this is the song you hear towards the end. For clarification I have added a link to the lyrics. http://www.metrolyrics.com/my-president-lyrics-young-jeezy.html This, by the way, is being hailed as "The New Nation anthem." Nice.

And here's another song in support of Mr. Obama
http://www.elyricsworld.com/black_president_lyrics_nas.html

And just so you know I'm making a statement about Obama supporters in general, not based on any one color, here is a nice Mardi Gras/ running of the bulls style celebration in Chicago. Not even when Slick Willy was elected did we have stuff like this. The guy filming this was sure to focus in on the one or two American flags seen at this presidential election party. The Star Spangled Banner was a nice touch. I wonder when the last time any of them sang that particular song before this? Nice how patriotism comes out only when they win. And I can't tell for sure but it looks like they put a picture of Barack's face on a statue of Jesus... How appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tQ6NuaVXA&feature=related

I guess all in all I have the sinking feeling that the entire country is going to look like this under him. The same way Bill Clinton turned the White House into a double wide, Barack Obama will turn it into some block party and I think the lemmings that put on these little shows will carry it over into their daily lives. All we can hope for is that the presidential handlers get a hold of him before he can do too much damage. If they do and Mr. Obama acts just like every other president then there are going to be a LOT of pissed off idiots who believed him when he said he was going to do all this amazing stuff. If he does follow through with what he promised then we are pretty much done as a country anyway so all this is academic. Either way he'll get re-elected because even if he fails miserably, which my money says he will, he has already set the stage as to why he will fail miserably and will convince people that even with the house and senate in his pocket, he will require another four years to make America a proper haven for the lazy and the the stupid. God bless America

Executive orders

2008-11-10T13:00:00.000-08:00

Well it seems that our new man in the White House already has a game plan for the first few days he becomes the MFIC. First he is doing something actually good which will stop the ban on stem cell research. 'Bout time. It's ridiculous not to use what we can to make life better. Never agreed with the ban and never will.

Mr. Obama will also reverse the decision to drill for oil and gas in some areas, specifically Utah. I'm calling it now... $10.00/ gallon in three years if he goes through with all his plans as he has stated them. If he takes out off-shore drilling, shale drilling, Utah, and ANWR off the table, that pretty much puts us out of the game. Back to the locker room we go.

Now Reid, Pelosi, and other Dems are pushing for a bailout of the automakers as well as banks and insurance companies... Why not? Let's see if we can break the one trillion mark for free shit to companies who can't manage their own finances? Add that to the bailout that they want to give people who can't pay their mortgage, lovingly nursed by Hoos' new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, we should pretty much have government money into everybody's pocket except mine oddly enough. See I'm not behind on my mortgage and I, being self-employed at my whopping 60 grand or so a year won't qualify for much of what he wants to give away. And the FICA tax he loves so much will continue to empty my pockets and go into somebody Else's who doesn't want to work.

And let's talk about Rahm Emanuel for a second. The ballet major turned "tough guy" senator from Chicago is not known for working "across party lines", the regurgitated mantra of The Chosen One for the past two years. He was appointed to the board of currently in the tank Freddie Mac, by Bill Clinton in 2000, where he served with... distinction? Dishonor? And a cute little factoid I didn't know is that Barack Hussein Obama got the second highest campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie out of any senator from 1989-2008. Not bad for only being in the senate for two years. I guess that good enough to get a Chief of Staff position. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/495

Actually, now that I think about it, Emanuel goes great with The honorable Governor Jennifer Granholm of the one state recession that is the great state of Michigan, sitting on his economic advisory team. Crooked board member of a failed multi-billion dollar entity, Crooked governor of a recently failed state... not bad. I can't wait to see who he picks as treasury secretary.

Conngrats Mr. President

2008-11-08T20:18:00.000-08:00

So, the world rejoices at the second coming.

First there is the ever even-keeled Ahmadinejad offering his good wishes to our new (ahem) president,
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/06/ahmadinejad-offers-obama-landmark-congratulations

Now our dear expansionary allies to the West want an "early" meeting with Mr. Obama.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/08/kremlin-medvedev-obama-plan-meet-soon/

Hamas has extended the congratulations to our Commander in Chief
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881108029

A quick little blurb about good ol' Fidel congratulating the big man
http://news-rten.tis-www.com.ua/item-world-state_and_community-x-2345580.html

Here's a little pre-election endorsement I missed. I'm sure a hearty pat on the back would have come from Kim Jong Il if he didn't have one foot in the grave at the moment.
http://ronhebron.com/blog/2008/08/north-korea-endorses-barack-obama.html

Let's see who else... Ah i would be remiss if I didn't mention the distinguished gentleman from Venezuela Senior Hugo Chavez
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/chavez-congratulates-obama-suggests-rebuilding-relations_100115591.html

How about Syria
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_obama

Good job Mr. President. You have ingratiated the United States to pretty much every dictatorship, totalitarian, and terrorist backing government on the planet. That is overwhelming to say the least.

On to other news. It would seem that The Savior will now throw a bone to the extremely important world player of Kenya, his birth... excuse me, ancestral, home.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/488472/-/tlki72/-/index.html

He recently named the esteemed governor of my home state of Michigan to his economic advisory board. I don't even know what to say to this... She has destroyed that state. I mean seriously... I just don't even know what to say. Michigan is so far in the hole right now. I actually can't... yes, yes I can believe he put her on his economic advisory team. Michigan has been known as the "One state recession" for years and he puts her... Jesus, never mind.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6212137&page=1

Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose, two of Obama's biggest choad lickers for the previous two years, started to cover their asses not too long ago, by saying that they really aren't sure what, exactly, they know about Mr. Obama.
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/10/30/1/a-conversation-with-tom-brokaw

I had more but I'm really tired... I leave you with this. How do you think things will pan out in a year when he has both Jewish leaders who supported him, and the Nation of Islam and Hamas, all vying for his attention? How will he keep labor unions in his pocket when the taxes he wants to levy will force companies to fire loads of people? These are all mutually excluding. Hamas and the JDL cannot have the same Patron for long.

Thank God I'm out of the Army... I'd rather go to prison than serve under That One.

Rev 18:10

2008-11-04T23:30:00.000-08:00

The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot

Mistah Kurtz -- he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Big One

2008-10-20T11:52:00.000-07:00

Well, we are two weeks out from our next presidential election and unless something miraculous happens Barack Hussein Obama will be our next commander in chief. There are only two ways that I can see that it won't happen.
1.) The fact that he is not an American citizen is finally accepted. And for you doubters ask yourself why he hasn't given any proof at all of his citizenship.
2.) The leftists think they have the election so in the bag they don't even bother to go out to vote.
I have to give it up to Hoos, he did some amazing shit out on the campaign trail. He is so good at what he does that, and this is a doozy, I read about the oldest American voter overseas who is a hundred-and-something nun living in the Vatican who is voting for him. When a man who supports third trimester abortions gets the nod from a dare I said "old-school" nun in the Vatican... well what can I say about that? You simply can't fight that.
I was listening to local radio guy named Tom Martino who does a consumer advice show here in Denver today. Generally he isn't that political as far as I know and if I had to put money on it I would say he is an Obama supporter. Anyway, he was talking to a lady recently about acne treatments or some such thing and the lady said she wasn't worried about her son's acne because once Obama is elected it will go away.

I suppose the case could be made that the kid is so stressed out about the election that that is the reason for the acne and once it's all over and done it will clear up but I don't think that is where she was going with this. Again, how can you fight a guy who can not only balance the budget, end war, fix health care, "lower" taxes, AND cure acne... Man.

So here are my predictions for the Obama presidency.

1) If there is a clear winner election night there will be "celebrations" involving looting and burning things major cities across the US. If it is drawn out then all will be well due to the attention span of the average American. And, I should add as an aside, if he does loose God have mercy because this entire country will look like L.A. post Rodney King.

2) There will be celebrations in the streets in Damascus, Riyadh, Tehran, "Palestine", Paris, and Pyongyang. Sharia-ville, AKA London may also have some too.

3) As the taxes go up for all those rich $250k/yr people and small businesses, they will start laying off pushing unemployment to new heights. The government will start dumping tons of money into the economy pushing inflation up. The good thing is all those newly unemployed people will have some top notch social programs to fall back on.

4) Once in office he will learn that it is not a simple as invading Pakistan and now that Iraq is relatively calm he will pull troops out of Iraq to try and sure-up Afghanistan, setting us back years in Iraq.

5) Once the tax breaks for the "Exxon/Mobile's" are taken away gas prices will go way up to compensate.

6) He will "look at" things like off-shore drilling but knowing his bread and butter is the far-left eco-nuts he won't do it. He will also shy away from nuclear, rather going for solar, tidal, and wind. Ultimately we will not be able to power the US with the sun or the oceans and we will continue to suck down oil just as much as before but his "attempts" will count for a lot in the minds of the left. After all it isn't easy being green.

7) He will be loved and cherished by other socialist leaders from around the world and America will soon fall to the same fate as most of Western Europe: ridiculous taxes, unchecked immigration, lose of national identity, and weakness (more so than we already are) in the eyes of those countries that would do us harm.

8) he will do his damnedest to take guns away from people. He will start by taking away assault weapons, then semi-autos. He will also try to limit where guns can be carried and stop imports of fire arms. If he can't do it through the front door he will take the California approach where some guns are fine but ammunition is illegal. Worse come to worse he will have the US join the UN's attempt to internationally ban personally owned fire arms. They use terms such as "illicit" but they are so loosely defined. Please read the Nairobi Protocol.

http://www.iss.co.za/dynamic/administration/file_manager/file_links/SAAF12.PDF?link_id=19&slink_id=6546&link_type=12&slink_type=13&tmpl_id=3

Pay special attention to ART 3 (a)(iii) It also requires nations to adopt "necessary legislative or other measures" to conform to UN rules, while of course not infringing on a nation-state's right a sovereignty. Pay very close attention to articles 5 and 7. Basically yeah, they do want to take guns away from people they don't deem necessary to have one. This a how Hoos will do it.

I have plenty of other predictions but I just got slammed and I have to go.

Why I Loath Obama

2008-10-08T14:17:00.000-07:00

Why I loath Obama is a very deep question with an even deeper answer. First and foremost I don't believe he has America's best interest at heart. I think he as his view of how America should be in his mind and he will stop at nothing to make America into the perfect nation in the eyes of Barak Obama, that he believes only he can make it, regardless of how weak and ineffective it makes us.

I loath him because he doesn't hold any of the ideals that made America the greatest and most powerful country in the world in two short centuries: Hard work, pulling one's own weight, being strong in the face of our enemies, driving on through the hard times, and never giving up. He used his life of privilege to gain more power in less time than anybody since the child pharaohs of old, all the while using fear and perceived injustices to garner support and increase his own personal status and wealth.

I loath him because he is friends and business partners with those who both openly and secretly hate America. He is friends with people who blow up government buildings and kill innocent civilians with no remorse while saying they wish they could kill and maim more. He fits in and blends in perfectly amongst the enemies of the United States of America.

I loath him because contrary to what he says openly, I believe that he truly hates America as it is rather than, for instance my case, realizing that America has serious problems but still knowing that it is hands down the greatest country in the world. I don't believe he is willing to die for this amazing country which EVERY American should be willing to do, let alone the President of the United States.

I loath him because he supports a racist cause masquerading as a church and I loath him even more because he lied about his knowledge of it.

I loath him because he wants to take what people have rightfully earned and give it to people who have not earned it, going against everything that this country was founded on.

I loath him because he uses his race as a means to an end.

I loath him because he is too arrogant to admit what he does not know. He tips his proverbial hand when it comes to potential national policy decisions involving sovereign nations, a decision that will get people killed unnecessarily.

I loath him because he does not know the true meaning of sacrifice. In order to know sacrifice you have to hold something more dear than yourself and be willing to put yourself behind the needs of whatever that something may be.

I loath him because he preys on the weak and makes them believe he is their friend when all they are to him is a tool to further himself. His ego and conceit know no match and one cannot be an effective leader with such a high self-opinion.

And lastly I loath him because he is above all repercussions of his own actions. To the best of my knowledge he has never been held accountable for anything he has ever said, done, or attempted, no matter how egregious, illegal, immoral, or sinister.

That pretty much sums it up

Obama-whacked

2008-05-20T12:09:00.000-07:00

OK, it looks like we are going up against Barack Hussein Obama (from here on out reffered to lovingly as "Hoos") and I pray to God and all that is holy that I am right about all presidential elections being decided in advance because if not we are truly fucked if he wins. He is so off the wall crazy that I can't even see how anybody but the most Liberal of Liberals can support him.
I won't get into how he has no experience whatsoever, that he has outlined exactly zero plans as to what he is going to do if he gets elected, or that all we (widely) know he stands for is "change", whatever change may mean. I won't get into the fact that he aligned himself with a church that is about as militant as some of the mosques I dealt with in Iraq, or that his wife, who Hoos has whored out to the media for his benefit but nobody can talk badly about, went on record as saying that she, in her adult life, has never been proud of America until now.
I won't get into any of that. What I will get into is some of what he really believes and some of the incredible tactics he uses to get a leg up.
Never before have we had such a debutant running for office. Hoos has successfully positioned himself that nobody is allowed to question the words and actions of himself, his family, or his friends, without being accused of being a racist or playing dirty politics. Never before have we seen an individual running for public office being "off-limits" to criticism, yet he slings accusations and criticism around like a monkey slings shit. No that wasn't a racial comment but it's the only animal I know of that flings shit around except the two disgusting bitches in the"two girls one cup" video.
Here is just a couple examples of the endless accusations and "butt-hurtery" that Hoos employs.

Just copy and paste the two lines, the address were too long and went off the side

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/
BD5395C4-0AD3-496C-BD1C-94FFFB3950F4.htm
Please note who this is from and the purely unbiased quote from Rob Reynolds of. Also please not how they call Hoos the "US Democratic presidential hopeful" while McCain is "The presumptive Republican candidate." Are they retarded? McCain hasn't been "presumptive" in months and last I heard Hoos still didn't have the nod. Very unbiased and oh so accurate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902005.html
More Vagisil for the distinguished gentleman from Illinois please.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=
D90MRLLG0&show_article=1
I guess when you allude to somebody's actual beliefs they don't like that.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5itzEF
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Calling him a senile old man is how you can read this one. But please don't bring up Hoos' young age or lack of experience because that would be a "deceitful attack, aimed at driving America apart."

I could go on and on but I don't have time on particular subject. Just google "Obama-accuses" and you will get 137,000 matches. GO ahead and put it in for McCain and you will get a whopping 7,740 matches. Even the siren who woos people with false promises and political manipulation the likes of which hadn't been seen out side of her husband, and now far surpassed by Hoos, only had 32,000 matches. A little side note, it seems a lot like Dems really enjoy accusing people and wallowing in how unfair the world is. Makes sense why they have the backers that they do.

On to what Hoos actually believes.

Here is an example of how truly little he knows about the world. Iran and N. Korea are apparently not threats:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6801

And for a bit lest go to Hoos' website under the "Issues" tab.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/homeland/
In homeland security he talks about evacuating special needs people in the case of an attack... aaaaand... he talks about improving security around water facilities. Perhaps some more cameras will help. Aaaaand he talks about tracking spent nuclear fuel. Aaaaaand that's about it. No mention of perhaps taking out terrorists before they actually do anything, no talk of dealing with countries that fund terrorism. But I tell ya what when we get bombed again the rescue vehicles will have a wheel chair ramp.

Hoos' plan on immigration
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/
So here he wants to add more people to the border which doesn't really help when they border patrol is too scared to do anything because the drug runners out gun them and are willing to use the guns, and ummmm, let's see, give lots of money to Mexico to make life less shitty there. Hmm, oh, crack down on employers who hire illegals, which will last until Wal-Mart and all the other huge conglomerates give him a call on the Bat-Phone and say "yeah if you like your job you need to knock that shit off."

Environment
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/
Pay for "every ton of emissions" which we can go ahead and equate to huge price increases on pretty much everything. He wants to give tax payer money to farmers who plant trees. Very nice. Umm, 15 billion a year for 10 years for clean energy type stuff, to include bio-fuels, which, my most green of green friends said is an absolute tub of shit. Double government spending of R&D for renewable resources. See also "raise taxes". Seems to me that the private sector is best suited for that. I have a friend who works at a solar panel plant and you would be shocked at the stuff they have going. He wants to "convert our manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders" Require 25% clean energy by 2025 (please see gargantuan government) yadda yadda, it goes on.

Here is one of my favorites.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/disabilities/
"End discrimination and promote equal opportunity." End discrimination? Is that all? And how exactly do... oh never mind.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/
"Obama will immediately begin to withdraw our troops from Iraq." yeah, umm, that's a really bad idea. Trust me on that one. Read the rest. It's all pretty retarded and won't work.

His whole site is full of stuff that really doesn't say much about how he plans on doing anything. He has an outline but that's about it.

The only good thing about this whole bit is that the Clintons are done in politics. Their "good friends" abandoned them like rats off a sinking ship. Michael Moore, Famed Haliburton investor, calls Hillary "down right disgusting" now where as he and Bill used to chase tail together.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/21/michael-
moore-endorses-obama-chastises-clinton-as-downright-disgusting/all-comments/

And of course the black community who so loved Billy and and dubbed him the "first black president", after all, he did play sax on the Arsenio Hall Show, have taken his brother status away and have actually called the honkies from Arkansas racist. Who would have thunk it?

Anyway, running out of time so let me sum up. He wants dialog with N. Korea and Iran as if he will somehow make them see the error of their ways. He wants to raise taxes, increase the size of our government, and weaken our military, both by finances and tactics, to the point of uselessness. Not once has he actually laid out a plan as to how he plans to actually do this stuff. My guess is because they pretty much all involve raising taxes.

I will leave you with a nice little quote from Hoos yesterday.
"We can't drive our SUVs,and you know, eat as much as we want, and keep our homes on, ya know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or living in the tundra, and then just expect that every other country is just gonna say OK."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMJyFKuKqck

Since when do Cambodians and French people determine what I drive, eat, or keep my home at? Then, by the way, his three SUV motorcade took him off to his next appointment. Will he demand to be driven around in a Prius? This is akin to Al Gore talking about wasteful emissions then taking off in his private jet. It's all a joke people. He's a snake oil salesman who is playing with our money, security, and lives. There will be celebrations in Tehran and Damascus if he wins. That's not a good thing in case you were wondering. At least Hillary knows what is out there. I truly can't find one good thing to say about him. Sorry Yah, I tried.

Truggers are screwing us

2008-04-22T14:15:00.000-07:00

I hate hippies. There... I said it. These damned tree hugger (truggers) have gotten us, America, in such bad shape that we actually IMPORT wheat. Wheat... America now imports wheat. While we once grew enough wheat to feed the world, we now have to import it because we are now growing corn for ethanol, one of the biggest shams of all time.

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=435631
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QQcP_Y1II

In 2005 our president and our congress decided to mandate an increase of production of Ethanol from 4 billion gallons a year to 7.5 billion gallons which means that we will have to hijack even more farm land to grow corn or other Ethanol crops. Combine that with the fact that it isn't even proven that Ethanol is actually more energy efficient due to the high energy costs it takes to make it, we have to wonder what in the hell is going through the little green minds of those in charge. Please note the high tariff on any that is imported, just to make sure we have to make it here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12872060/

Now, for those of you (Peter) who don't believe in my conspiracy type ideas that most everything that happens is all a play by those who pull the strings, ask yourself why a president who is the bane of the existence (in theory) of everything environmental, would push so hard for this? Keep in mind that ADM (Arthur, Daniels, Midland) "The supermarket to the world" is running this little game of charades. One of the biggest underwriters of NPR, who hates the pres, is working hand in hand with both Reps and Dems to be green. Bush, Romney, McCain, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, all back it but they can't come up with any proof of the claims Ethanol makes. What can I say? It brings in the votes from the same people that mindlessly watch the evening news, believe what they see, and consider themselves informed. If ADM couldn't make more money with Ethanol, would they do it? Of course not.

The following link brings up a good point: If Ethanol is so great why does it need so many government subsidies and a stiff arm from all the political high-ups to force people to grow crops for it? If it really worked wouldn't the market naturally gravitate towards it? By the way, more crops growing means more water, land, and fertilizer is spent on them.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/the_many_myths_of_ethanol.html

Now you have all read, I hope, my blogs on environmentalism in the past and you know I think it is nothing but a way to get money from people with soft hearts. It would seem that in this case this Ethanol stuff is a way to get tax dollars stuffed into the pockets of those producing it without the nasty little thorn in the side of a free market economy or, in fact, even having a product that works.

Another nice little side effect of the Ethanol craze is increased corn prices and hunger in places like Mexico where corn is their main staple. Increased corn prices pretty much increases the price on anything associated with corn, from milk to Pepsi. The CNN article that follows admits to all this but says we shouldn't worry. After all, it will calm down in the future. With government mandated increases for ethanol the only way to lower corn prices would be to increase the supply which would, if I'm not mistaking, would require growing more corn and less other stuff. No matter what we do prices will go up across the board. It's pure supply and demand.

And finally, guess how Ethanol is transported... By truck. And my guess is that that truck burns dinosaur bones, not corn. So I wonder what the "carbon footprint" is for
a gallon of Ethanol between the immense amount of energy it takes to make it and the incredible energy cost of transportation.

http://www.agmrc.org/NR/rdonlyres/4EE0E81C-C607-4C3F-BBCF-B75B7395C881/0/ksupipelineethl.pdf

So what do I say to the truggers who buy into this? Shame on you. Do some homework. What do I say to the Ethanol CEOs who I'm sure don't really give a shit about the environment? Good on ya. You have a great scam going and if I could have gotten in on it I most certainly would have.

Your parents hate each other

2008-03-08T00:43:00.000-08:00

Yup, I said it... Your parents hate each other. Don't deny it. You know it's true. If not hate, then at least can't stand. It was just today that I came to the following realization:
I know zero happily married couples. None, nada, zilch.

My favorite line of all unhappily married couples is "No marriage is perfect but ours is pretty good." Bull shit. That's like telling me getting kicked in the balls is never great but if you do it this way it isn't so bad.
I wish I could read minds. Not only would I make a killing at the poker tables but I would love to see all the nasty little secrets all the marriages have around me. I live in Ward and June Cleaver-Ville where everybody (except me) has 2.5 kids, a dog, and a beige house. Well, the beige house I have but not the kids or the dog, and everybody puts on this great facade but then forget that our houses are only millimeters apart and everyone can hear when they fight about him going out drinking with his buddies (which I whole heartedly support) and her banging the tennis pro. What in the hell is the point?
What are they trying to prove here?
We all know that marriage ends up with everybody involved miserable yet we always think we will be the ones to break the cycle. Are we that retarded. Thankfully I have never been sucked into the black hole of eternal monogamy, though it was a close call, and even though I always wanted a wife and 2.5 kids, recently I've really begun to question that. Think about it this way:

Scenario one is that you get married, you have kids (optional), get divorced, die

Scenario two is you get married, have kids (once again optional) stay married and be miserable, die.

Scenario three, the "best case scenario" get married, kids yadda yadda yadda, you live happily ever after, watch the love of your life die (or visa versa).

Or scenario four, stay single, fuck like a bunny, drink with your buddies, pray to God in heaven you don't add any more kids to this already overpopulated and pussified world, die happily, being shot to death at the age of 102 by a jealous husband.

I'll take scenario four thank you very much. I just don't think it's worth it anymore. Not that I can see anyway. To all of my married friends... best of luck on your journey, you'll need it. And don't raise you kids to be pussies or ass holes or I will be royally pissed. To all my buddies so wrapped up in vagina they have to sit down to piss, and plan on getting married, good luck to you too. I'm sure you will be the one to break the cycle and show the rest of us how the marriage game is played.
And oh yeah, if any of you can refute this, and say that marriage is a great thing and that it works, please, by all means try. But I will defend it with all the knowledge I have of your mom in the donkey show in Tijuana and your dad's cub scout fetish. Bring it on, Mr. Cleaver.

The Holy Catholic Church and Self Love

2008-02-16T22:53:00.000-08:00

OK people. Most of you know me and know that I am a student of religion. I study as much as I can about as many religions as I can in order to understand the whole deal better.
Now, that being said, I have hit upon some hard times lately and I don't have cable. In fact I have rabbit ears, which many of you born in the late '80's would have no idea about. Anyway, I only get a like 7 stations and one of those is EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) a product of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
To give you some back ground, I was born and raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school from 6th to 8th grade and, for the most part, I love the Church for it's history, tradition, and pageantry. Yes I know that it is propagating a fallacy, but you know what, that's OK by me. Most people blow them off when they get really out of line.
Anyway, I was watching this priest tonight who sounded a lot like Sean Connery. This guy went through the ten commandments (fifteen commandments if you have seen History of the World) and sure enough he got to the 6th commandment... Thou shall not commit adultery. And in true off the wall fashion, he included "impure thoughts" masturbation, and of course pre-marital sex as adultery. Guilty, guilty, and guilty. Now, my flock, these are "MORTAL SINS" which pretty much means if you ever saw a hot chick and said "Wow she's hot." or ever beat you meat, or ever shtoinked some chica you are pretty much going to hell unless you go and tell some 40year old virgin about it, ask for forgiveness, and say 30 Hail Mary's.
I can't even imagine that this ideology is still around. I mean, how ridiculous. To think that a natural human characteristic is a sin is baffling to me. This is the kind of shit that pisses me off. Granted, Catholics never tried to blow me up with an IED but this is still some shit I don't need. I've done enough bad stuff in my life (thank you Kirk and 7-11) that I don't need some jerk telling me I'm going to hell for slapping my salami.
I thought this shit was over, man. But to give the audience credit, when this priest was going off about this, they were pretty much frozen in their seats, not knowing how to react to such nonsense. Yet the "beat" goes on. And I assure you, having once gone over 30 days without any... outlet, for my sinful ways, you don't want a world full of pissed off and horny guys roaming the streets, 'cuz somebody is getting their ass kicked... people get shot like that. Am I off on this or what?

The Hollow Man

Proudly defiling himself since 1989

Two in the pink...

2008-02-01T13:25:00.001-08:00

Well I have said it before and I will say it again, America is slowly but surely making our way towards oblivion. I have spoken about illegals, terrorists and Islamists and it always seems to fall on deaf ears. People blow me off when I say that I'm not convinced about global warming, they brush me off when I say our legal system is self destructing and they don't believe me when I say there are, no matter how loving and caring you are, there are some people in this world that would just as soon kill you as have dialog with you, even if you are out there supporting their "cause". Please see the Christian peace activists who went to Iraq when I was there who were subsequently captured and either tortured and held captive or tortured and found face down in the Tigris . By the terrorists, not by us thank you very much.

I recently heard of a group that for some reason has flown under my radar as of late. Shame on me for not paying more attention but now that they are in my sights I will be sure to keep up on them. Code Pink is the name of the grou. This group actually gets city funding and spends their time protesting and defacing Marine recruitment centers and the other morning on Fox News said they advocate the assassination of US Marines on sight. On their website Code Pink says "We reject the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead call for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence"

With an emphasis on joy and humor... I have no words. International relations with an emphasis on joy and humor. They say the Bush administration has fear based politics and let me tell you, if they had seen some of the things I and others who have served have seen, they would be hiding in a closet in the fetal position rocking back and forth saying "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." They don't know what fear is. They don't know what is out there. In fact they are so insane, they actually protested in front of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home because the blood of innocents were on her hands and it was "her war". My God... Pelosi just said "You're not my constituents." and walked on. When Nancy Pelosi denounces you for being a Liberal douche you have to be in another realm of being.

The Berkeley City Council this week voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests," according to The Associated Press.

Are they retarded? Since when does some backwards city council have the right to tell a branch of the federal government they are not welcomed? If indeed they are not welcome then no federal money should be welcomed and to that end, no state funding either since the state also gets federal funding.

I actually find it humorous that this group of insane women (more insane than the rest of them anyway) doesn't support us going over there to help these people out. Let me tell you a little bit about how women are treated in Iraq. In 130 plus degree heat, you will find a man driving a pickup truck with his 5 and 10 year old sons (and oddly enough a dog once), comfortably in the cab with the AC on and his wife, three daughters, and a grandma in a black, head-to-toe burka, in the bed of the truck, bouncing along a bumpy dirt canal road. When I was in the Kuwaiti airport the women, with eyes only exposed, with all seven kids in tow, walked 5 steps behind the men. Women are in fact possessions over there and I would truly enjoy seeing the Code Pink chicks become the property of men. Hell I would have three or four just to do it. I might even convert just so I could.

And now we find out Al Qaida has been using retarded women as suicide bombers (well, more retarded than the rest of them anyway). And I'm not using the word retarded off the cuff, I mean they are literally using women that are mentally retarded as "suicide bombers." "There has to be a limit to the depravity!" You say. NO! you soft, lazy, egocentric American! There isn't! This is even worse then when we saw "suicide bombers" handcuffed to steering wheels, just to find out their families were being held until after they detonated the car bombs. You have no idea what is out there. And as soon as we all recognize the fact that we cannot deal with these people as humans, the sooner we can be safe and get our guys out of there.

At least out of the Democrats Hillary understands what is out there. She may spout bull-shit to appease the Boulder types but when push comes to shove she knows. Obama just frightens me.

So, Code Pink, you call Bush and Rice "war criminals", I say take your plight to Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm sure you will find many sympathetic ears there. Hell I'll even pitch in for your airfare.

It's not easy being green

2007-12-18T11:23:00.000-08:00

OK, so I had a very interesting conversation the other night with some friends of mine and it revolved around politics in general, with an emphasis on the environment. This is how it broke down; One of the people I was talking to cared more about how we were destroying our planet than anything else in the world, and I wasn't convinced. Being that I can't really speak for them in total, I will try my best to give you their side.
Our planet is in dire peril, we are running out of fossil fuels, the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate, there is an alarming amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, our ozone layer in depleted, the "hockey stick" theory of earth's temperature (which is debunked in one of the links at the end of this blog), and we are killing off species left and right. I was also informed that a recent study came out in which 100% (that's right, 100%) of scientists agree that global warming is real.

That's not exactly what I found.

My side is as follows. Humans are incapable, outside of detonating multiple, high-yield nuclear warheads, of messing out our planet in such a short amount of time. The Earth is not some fragile little glass ball floating through the comfort of a nice, soft, downy, space blanket. We have lived through ice ages and thaws, massive catastrophic meteor hits, super-volcano eruptions nearly destroying all life on Earth (please check out the Yellowstone Caldera for more info), earthquakes, tsunamis, and all sorts of mean nasty, and might I add, natural, stuff.

I further assert that in fact the "Green" movement is nothing more than a ploy to gain power and money. Al Gore was a mediocre politician until he furthered the religion of environmentalism and picked himself up a Nobel Prize. On my way to work today I heard yet another in the series of Alstate insurance ads urging us to go with Alstate because of how "Green" they are, books are sold by the millions about the environment, auto-makers make "green cars" that really aren't nearly as green as they would have you believe (Prius ), "not-for-profit" organizations bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to save the One-Legged Tazmanian Digging Squirrel, all the while actually stopping us from making the world a better place. Let me explain.

The worse off people can make the environment sound the more money they make. Pure and simple. Greenpeace, one of the most destructive organizations towards the environment known to man, and exists solely by scaring people into giving money to their cause. They do everything they can to stop new nuclear power plants or anything else that would actually help the environment. They claim that they want to end our reliance on oil but in actuality they are trying to stop us from doing anything about it.

Case in point: They claim that nuclear power is dangerous and dirty. They lobby to stop the new construction of nuclear power plants, they send frogmen to disable nuke ships, and they continue with the rhetoric of Nuclear power is the worst form of energy. They also don't want us to use oil based fuels so pretty much they want us to ship our good over seas by wind and sail. In fact nuclear energy is the one of the cleanest forms of energy there is. It's not dangerous either, despite what the environmentalists tell you. They love to bring up Three Mile Island as a great tragedy and failure of nuclear power when in fact not one person died from it. Chernobyl is an example of what happens when a Communist country that can't afford to feed it's people puts Homer Simpson in charge of a reactor. That indeed is the only real example of any major problem in the history of nuclear power.

Much of Europe is indeed powered by nuclear energy yet in America we are continually told it is a bad thing and are prohibited from exploring it as a way to get safe and clean energy. There is another group that benefits from Greenpeace's war against nuke power and that is the oil industry. In fact when you boil it right down, almost everything Greenpeace and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) do jives very well with the oil companies and it would not surprise me if there was money being funneled in from the oil companies to the green groups through back channels. If you drill in ANWAR all of a sudden there is more oil and the price drops. Open a nuke plant and all of a sudden the price of oil drops. Convenient eh?

My friend is convinced that if we stop using oil all will be well. In fact the economic repercussions globally would be devastating. Millions of people from oil execs, tanker sailors, truck drivers, refinery workers, and gas station attendants would be out of the job. My friend brought up a town in Vermont or someplace that started making shoes then the shoe company closed so they started making something else and were successful. To them that meant that the impact of them losing their jobs would be minimal because they would all find something else to do. This is not a town of 5000, this is a global industry of millions where many people spent years in school learning about nothing but oil. The world economy would tumble if you all of a sudden stopped using oil.

Believe me I want nothing more than to not have to use oil anymore but I don't see it happening any time soon. I have never been one to just jump willy-nilly into anything. I love protection of species and the beautiful lands we have here in America. I would love it if people would stop clear cutting the rain forests. But, trying to guilt millions of people into believing some half cocked science is not my style. Here are some resources if you are interested in learning about something other than an "inconvenient truth".

For a brief explanation of the Yellowstone Caldera and what it has done and will do again please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

Take a real look at the Prius
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cars/what-car-nuts-really-think-of-the-prius-hybrid-electric-322186.php?autoplay=true

For a realistic view of the greenhouse effect and global warming please see
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={D7A01AEE-CECF-48F9-A7B3-A675E9C8F39B}

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/moregw.htm

http://www.look-to-the-skies.com/global_warming.htm

An interesting set of resources
http://sermons.trbc.org/20070225_11AM.html

Find out why the "hockey stick" is broken
http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm

Rock Pile Smock Pile...

2007-10-17T06:48:00.000-07:00

Ok, so here's the deal... the Rockies are going to the World Series and they are THE hottest tickets in town. That being said most of the people fighting it out to be one of the elect to see them play have not been to a Rockies game in the recent past, nor did they know the names of more than one or two players before this fiasco started.
Don't get me wrong. I am very excited for the rockies. I actually have gone to a few games in the past and have enjoyed myself every time (almost). I myself could only name two players before all this too. But I'm not out in LoDo hootin' and hollerin' about how much I love the Rockies and how they are "my boys... WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Now I don't care that this sudden Rockies mania has hit Denver like a ton of bricks, but I have seen this before.
When the Avs came to town they were winning Stanley Cups left and right and Denver, which had only seen the minor-league Grizzlies many many years ago, all of a sudden became this amazing hockey town. Games were sold out, everybody was an expert (Even though I had to explain what a two-line pass was to the idiot next to me at the game who was screaming about how the refs sucked), and the jerseys could be seen on the street from infants to elderly.
Then they started to suck and there went the Jerseys. Now as most of you know I can't stand the Avs so that is all fine and dandy with me but I happen to like the Rockies and I don't want to see the same thing happen although I know it will. If the Rockies don't do well next year people will be like "Torrial-who?" and "Kaz Mats-whaty?"
But whatever. While everybody is busy wearing Rockies shirts (newly bought I might add) to work and school, I will continue to wear my normal clothes, listen to the games on the radio, and avoid LoDo at all costs on game days. And as for the day when the Rockies win the pennant will be safe in my, middle-class, white bread neighborhood while the looters, vandals, and pyromaniacs destroy downtown. It's a Colorado thing... When one of our teams wins a championship we must show our zeal by fucking up our city. What can I say?

the smart gun

2007-10-04T14:48:00.000-07:00

Well, apparently I missed an amazing technological advancement. Apparently not only do we have smart bombs but smart guns. Let me tell you about them.
This morning a man in Philly carried a smart gun up to two armored car guards and the gun stuck itself up underneath the guard's vest and pulled it's trigger. It then shot the other guard point blank range and a third guard who was in the truck. The guy who was with the gun then took all the money and escaped. I'll be damned. Who knew guns were so smart?
So the chief of police of course comes out and says guns are the problem. We have way too many of these guns on the street, rabble rousing and drinking gun oil by the gallon.

YOU FUCKING IDIOT!

I've got a dick and it doesn't make me a rapist. I've got a gun too and I've never killed anybody with it. It is apparently the gun's fault that his shitty city is falling apart and crime is rampant. Who do you blame for the burglaries, rapes, and assaults? Who's fault is that Chief? You piece of shit! Just like Ray Ray Nagin blaming everybody else for his failures. I guarantee there are more guns per capita in any random Wyoming city than Philly and you don't see that kind of shit going on.
It's not the guns people. I can take a loaded gun, set it on the table pointed center mass in my chest, insult it, make fun of its mother, spit on it and that fucking thing will not shoot me. I promise. It doesn't take a gun to commit murder people, it takes a murderer. I have yet to have anybody give me a legitimate argument for gun control. You think you got one... try me.

hugging, titties, and taxes

2007-10-02T06:52:00.000-07:00

Well as if further evidence was needed that our society sucks, a middle school in Illinois has now banned hugging. According to the principal, Victoria Sharts (Insert Gloria Ironbox), "Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls."
Gloria, excuse me, Victoria further went on to say that another pitfall of hugging is when "The hug is either unwanted or becomes inappropriate as judged by one of the students involved." So as opposed to teaching kids how to deal with uncomfortable situations and teaching them how to get themselves out of it, enter the school (insert government) to bail them out and shelter them from all evil. Don't worry sir, we only want to put cameras everywhere to keep you safe.
So now along with tobacco, guns, and drugs, we have "hug free" school zones. By God, excuse me... By the deity of your choice if you choose, there will be no hugging.
I think I have the real reason though. When one participates in the barbaric and often uncomfortable act of hugging, one must put their arms out to wrap around the other person. By doing that, even ever so briefly, their arms are out in a T-shape, thereby making a cross, so we can then postulate that hugging is a Christian thing (That we do at airports and family reunions) and being that this is a public school, we can have no mix of church and state. Make sense? Good.

As some of you may have heard, Elton john is in some hot water over a photo he owns by the famous photographer Nan Goldin that was being shown in an art gallery in England. It has two girls in it who are nude and apparently, this photo that has been published around the world, was deemed pornographic by some government peon or another, and was confiscated to see just how pornographic it is.
So as I was reading about this I found sites where people could chime in and give their thoughts. Almost 100% of the time when it was somebody from Europe posting a comment they said, "So what's the big deal" and if they were from America, land of the hug-free school zone, they said, in a nutshell, "get a rope". I have been to 14 countries now in my short life and I have seen a lot of people and cultures, and none is more repressed and sexually frustrated than the US., minus publicly in the Middle East of course but let me tell you, some of the raunchiest porn I ever saw was Iraqi porn.
Even there however you would see kids running naked in the streets, not because they didn't have clothes but because it was 135 friggen degrees. But it was no big deal there. When I was a little kid we could run naked in our yard and nobody would care. Now the SS, also known as child protective services, would throw me in a home and arrest my parents.
I think however I have the reason for that as well. America is the absolute fattest country in the world so I suppose it makes sense to start teaching our kids very young that nudity is bad and that we should all hide behind moo-moos and XXXL sweatshirts. And why hug anyway when it takes actual effort to raise those ham hock arms and most likely you wont be able to fit the arms around the other person anyway. Maybe that was it. Perhaps they did want the obese kids' feelings to be hurt by only a half hug from a friend who arms couldn't quite make it.
I don't know, but what I do know is that our country won't allow hugs in school, titties hanging out in public, raising your kid as how you see fit (no spanking please), and we have to pay taxes several times over on everything we make, buy, sell, and earn in order to live here. God bless America!

so much to talk about...

2007-08-31T12:19:00.000-07:00

Well, there is a ton I could talk about today. Really, I have no time to write this but I feel compelled to. I am going to skip the obvious: The US Senator trying to get/give head in an air port toilet, the never ending bitching about how it everybody else's fault that Katrina wiped them out and are intentionally keeping them down, how this presidential candidate is making stuff up about that presidential candidate... No no. I will keep it to just three issues. More than my normal, true, but not as many as I could go after today.
First, Bush wants to bail out the mortgage companies who made horrible decisions and lost a ton of money. Those are big boys and girls in charge of those banks. They knew the risks. Yet like everything else, e.g. airlines, Amtrak, certain other industries who make retarded choices, we the tax payers are forced to foot the bill, this time for predatory lenders, before for airlines who treat their customers like shit and charge for a disgusting sandwich. Tell ya what airlines people, you want us to fly more, try being on time, giving us a modicum of leg room, and don't let fuckers with box cutters on.
So once again we bail out stupid corporations who lent 115% of an appraised value to somebody with a 500 credit score who works at Winchell's. Of course those who took the aforementioned loan or some some reverse-am mortgage, blame the company. Please people... You just make my job harder.
Second, I want to talk about WMDs. A man I know met a Brit the other day who was in the British Navy a while back before we invaded. The Brit told him that they had continually stopped boat loads of chemical and biological weapons headed to sea from Iraq as well as nuke parts. Of course we never heard about it. While I was there I heard several first hand accounts both from Iraqis and Americans who were there before of similar stories. Tie this in with the bottle of Phosgene gas found in some drawer next to the Malox and Advil in a UN building in downtown New York City. Picked up in '96 in Iraq and kinda just stuffed aside, it is a very good thing Saddam didn't have any WMDs. I mean he destroyed them all of course. Some time between '96 and '03, he apparently was able to destroy all his WMDs, all the while hiding them from spy satellites and people on the ground. Oh, yeah, and all the documents related to it were destroyed too. That must be why he didn't let the inspectors in after UN resolution 1441. He didn't want them to see the paper work scattered all over the place.
And finally, the Weekly World News closed its doors. Yes, no more reading about BatBoy in the grocery lines. No more Elvis mating with an alien. Not even bigfoot sightings at Wal Mart. No, that is over. And what is worse, I saw an interview with three formers writers for the WWN and they came out and said the stories were made up. I was crushed. I felt like I did when I was a kids and for the first time, caught two wrestlers talking to each other during the match, discussing the next move while one was in a head lock. It's like finding out finally there is no Santa. You kinda knew, but you never wanted the proof. So long WWN. You will be missed.

Salt 'N' Peppa's here

2007-08-16T15:25:00.000-07:00

In a break from my typically serious and often time angry blogs, I want to take a quick diversion and talk about something fun.

I want to talk about sex. Let's face it, we all want it, we need it, we spend a hell of a lot of time thinking about it and how to get it... yet pound for pound it creates more problems in our life than just about anything else. From one buddy who just "couldn't get off" when he wore a condom so didn't, who subsequently had to have a long Q-tip shoved up his pee hole, to the numerous rug rats I know that, for lack of a better term were "oopses", sex just seems to have a never ending sequence of bad side effects that smack us in the face.

There is the awkward silence at the water cooler the next morning.
Painful urination.
Infidelity, leading to divorce, leading to "HALF!"
Disappointed families.
The waking up next to somebody you generally would not wake up next to. (Please the the often forwarded picture of the two passed out frat guys, half naked in bed, one with his hand down the other's boxers)
Arrests in prostitution stings.
Oh yeah and death.

All of these things we willingly endure for the half hour or so of fun and a few seconds of toe-curling Oh My GOD!

I realized however, at least for guys, that it starts at a young age. If you had an Italian grandmother you know that a penis was meant for peeing, not touching. If you were say, oh I dunno, five and in the tub, and you touched it (your own mind you), you would most likely be greeted with a loud and thunderous "DON'T TOUCH THAT!"

Then as we get to middle school, touching it took on a whole new meaning. Which of course led to a cloak and dagger style, top secret mission of finding the time, place, and appropriate cover up technique. And while generally parents don't resort to bells on the hands the way they did in the Renaissance, you still had to be careful because there is nothing worse than having some quality man to hand time and having your mom walk in on you. Now while I never really had a bad experience like that, one buddy of mine... busted 4 times... poor bastard. And to top it all off, you had to deny it to your buddies 'cuz man, you were gay if you jerked off in middle school. Gay I say. All of that for something that made your arm tired and really is more of a pain in the ass than anything. Except of course for the last few seconds at the end. But some how those few seconds made it worth it. And don't even get me started on what I saw at summer camp.

Enter high school, when those lucky enough to get laid did so with great clumsiness and much bragging. Nobody denied slapping the salami any more but still you had to resort to the same 007 skills you learned in middle school. We did what we could to get laid, often with the help of alcohol. But if you did, then you had the rumor mill. There was one kid, whose name will not be mentioned here, who had a tiny dick and the whole school knew. I mean tiny the way some small woodland animals have tiny dicks. He slept with one girl and the rumor began. Slept with a second girl and rumor became high-school lore. And while he probably makes more money than I do, I can go to sleep at night knowing that my schlong dwarfs his, and therefor, I am more of a man. Make sense? Good.

We didn't have the problem of teenage pregnancy in my high school at least not publicly. In my high school if a girl had gotten knocked up it would have been taken care of very quietly. That was the way of the world for the kids I went to school with. Money fixes everything. But elsewhere you run that risk all the time, without the nice quiet answer. High school, college, and beyond. Everybody knows the risks and for a roll in the hay, is willing to take them. It can't be the natural drive to procreate, like some would have you believe all sex is for, because that wouldn't explain why gays would have the drive. Rather I think it's far more base. It feels good. Simple as that. Some people like it for the simple physical feeling and that is all there is to it. I on the other hand, find the psychological aspect just as attractive. Either way, psychologically or physically, it feels good.

And we, on the whole, get totally blinded by whatever it is that drives us to it. How many buddies have I warned not to mess around with a particular girl? Countless. Did they listen? Nope. Was I right? Yep. In the words of the great poet, Anthony Ray, "Don't pet the cat, if you just met the cat. But if you're already sprung on the cat, well then you might as well eat the cat." Some sage advice, Mix-A-Lot, however the final line of the shows our weakness as guys. Follow your hose... it always knows.

So there is no answer. We will always do what we can to get sex, consequences be damned. Some of us are more careful than others but we all make mistakes on behalf of our cocks. From cradle to grave, there is a reason our dicks stand out in front of us. They are there to lead the way. To be the beacon on the hill. Such as it was, so it is now, and so shall it always be. Forever and ever. Amen

enough

2007-08-10T14:40:00.000-07:00

Screw the offense rating. read it anyway, pussy!
Dateline: New Jersey
An illegal Peruvian man, Jose Carranza, along with two Hispanic teens, lined 4 college students up against a wall, made them kneel, and killed three of them execution style. The fourth was shot in the head but lived. He pleaded not guilty. He was previously arrested for assault in a bar fight. He was arrested recently for raping a 5 year old girl and was let out on bond. He then threatened to kill the girl and her family if they testified, he was again arrested and let out on bond. Now, three are dead and one has a bullet in her skull. His illegal status has been known and we did nothing about it. Further more, only one major news channel carried the story this morning as it broke. Are the Liberals that interested in the illegal vote? This goes past just regular Democrats who believe in hard work and fairness. This is that special blend of Liberal who thinks that illegals should have endangered species status and have their own sanctuaries in our streets. A game preserve if you will. Enter Geraldo Rivera, who blames America for "luring" illegals here with prosperity. Recently it has been found that Al-Qaida has been tagging along with human and drug traffickers, changing their names to Gonzalez, and slipping into the country with the "not-dangerous" illegals bringing drugs and gang members. And the spineless Dub-ya, who says we can't deport 12 million illegals, can't get his shit together enough to deport the ones accused of raping 5 year olds. Then again, New Jersey is pretty much a Liberal Democrat state and one would think they would be more complicit in this than the Feds. After all he was a guest in the penal system several times. If you want to close the borders, give our guys on the border a shoot to kill order for anybody who tries to get in illegally. Put up all the "Peligro" signs you need. Have hippies out there with bottled water to help the illegals to turn around and get back home... do all that stuff, and then kill the ones who continue to try to get in. No more. Our streets are turning to war zones, much of our gun and drug problem is a direct result of the trafficking coming in from Mexico. Gang bangers using full autos didn't pick them up at the local sporting goods store. Cars are stolen here and taken down there. People are kidnapped here and sold there. These are not the immigrants who built America, came here legally, paid taxes, FORCED their kids to learn English and adapt to the American way of life. This is absurd. Cub Scouts could defend our border better than what we have now. And I'm tired of hearing that fucking oompa music blaring from some '78 Pinto every time I go east of Sheridan...

Terrence Aeriel Dead
Dashon Harvey Dead
Iofemi Hightower Dead
Natasha Aeriel Shot in the head but alive

Priorities

2007-03-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

I don't understand it. I've been trying to put my finger on it but I just can't. When and where was the fatal shift in America from seeing what was important to creating importance in order to further our own personal beliefs? I think I have it to within a decade, 1946-1956.
America is still such a young country in the scheme of things and we have come a long way in such a short amount of time. We are still the world's super power although China is right behind us. I mean hell, they only have 5 times our population and are thousands of years older than us... It's about damn time they got their proverbial shit together.
But we are regressing, not progressing. And indeed it did start after WWII. What we had was a bunch of men coming back and saying "I don't ever want my kids to go through the hardships I did." I mean they went right from the Great Depression to the front lines. Who would want their kids to go through that?
Along with the technological advances that gave people easier lives with "AUTOMATIC!" dishwashers, and "AUTOMATIC!" appliances throughout the house, it allowed people to ease off the gas for a while. And with that shift came a shift in the paradigm of the nation. Parents, while making life easy for their kids, still ruled with an iron fist. Those who were born to the hard working Ward Cleavers decided that mom and dad, who had given them a much easier life and didn't spare the rod, didn't know what they were talking about.
Enter now Communists. Yes yes, the Communists. They were here in the 40's and before but didn't dare say anything. With the big counter-culture revolution in the 60's they found their platform after McCarthyism died off. They came with the idea that all people could simply work together and all would be equal. Not a bad idea for a bunch of kids who were given everything and didn't know war or intense poverty. After all, they didn't have to do anything for what they had so it made perfect sense. And the outside influence of this was of course from Communist countries that despised the fact the capitalism actually works better and faster than anything else in the history of the world.
Throw in a request from some country called France and we have Vietnam. Now, exit France post haste as soon as we get there (to fight the communists by the way), and we are left in a war where we dribble troops in bit by bit, and they die as fast as we can put them on the ground. Give us a media that is anti-government, anti-war at all costs, anti-everything and you have a new way of thinking.
When we finally pull out we have a country who hates the very military that gives them the freedom to hate the military. We bring in the environment, animal rights, abortion, unending money to the poor... lots of things to take our minds off the big picture, which is the protection and strength building of our nation. We have allowed ourselves to be blinded and we are paying a grave price.
I listen to Michael Savage from time to time and for the most part I like what he says. The other day, however, he goes off on gays. I mean the whole, "two fags doing unspeakable things to each other" rant. He mentions that every major religion in the world is against it and it's so horrible that this general in Iraq is being drug through the mud because he spoke out against gays.
Dude, who cares? It is yet another side show to get our minds off of what is truly important. Honestly we are so far gone as a society that what is truly important will never beat out how Anna Nichole died, so it's almost a moot point. But why is a guy who does see the big picture (or at least I thought he did) allowing himself to be so distracted? Oh yeah, by the way, infidelity is also against every major religion in the world but I don't see people going ape shit over that.
This is what I see is killing America and needs to be addressed, though never really will be:

1) Radicalism. From Imams who live here that have publicly said they were against terrorism, have been caught funneling money to terrorists, to the unending religious right BS. My experience in Iraq showed me that most Muslims have no tolerance for non-Muslims and my experience in America tells me that most hardcore Bible thumpers don't have a tolerance for anybody outside of their faith (Please see the Phelps family from the Westboro Baptist Church for more information. The big difference in my eyes is the whole killing people thing. Generally, and there are exceptions to the rule, the far right don't kill people willy-nilly.

2) Never ending taxes. The government's constant search for more money. In 1950 the GDP was 1,777,300,000 in year 2000 US dollars. Population was 151,235,000. In 2004 GDP was 10,703,500,000 in year 2000 USD and the populations was 293,655,000. http://eh.net/hmit/gdp/
That's 6 times the GDP with only 1.9 time the people. Stunning. Yet we have shitty roads, shitty schools, a military that is too small and underfunded, rampant poverty, jobs flying out of our country... Yet what do the politicians (mostly Dems though not always) want to do? Raise taxes. I understand why the wealthy send the jobs over seas. Taxes here are debilitating. I myself pay 15% of everything I make just in FICA that I will never see again.
3) Unions. Yes they had a purpose in the start of our nation but now they simply tear us apart. GM is the largest auto maker in the world yet they can't turn a profit. They are in business to pay out on all the pensions their retirees have, while at the same time paying some Joe 6-pack with at the most a trade school education, 40 bucks an hour to watch a machine put a widget together.
4) Illegal Immigration) Just ask the Native Americans what happens when immigration goes unchecked. Jorge from Tijuana should not get a new heart on the American tax payer dollars when he hasn't put shit into the system. Anchor babies are your golden ticket if you are illiterate and broke from another country. And no Geraldo, we did not "lure them here". We made a nice life for ourselves and have always allowed people to come in legally. It's not our fault their countries suck.
5) The push by Uncle Scam to make the US population completely dependant on the government. We need the Gov. to tell us how to live our lives. No spanking your kids, no paying for sex, though if you film it you just call it a porn movie and you are OK. We have to label all "offensive" music, Thank you Tipper Gore. And oh, by the way, don't you find it odd that so many Libby rock stars all supported Gore even though his haus frau was responsible for the parental advisory labels we have all over the place? It truly goes to show you that the Libs will back anybody Liberal no matter if they are diametrically opposed to their beliefs.
6) Last but certainly not least, our new found belief that every opinion matters. It used to be if you were a moron you were ignored and that was just fine. Now, even the most irrelevant and ridiculous ideas have backing of one organization or another. The most useless and irrelevant organization in the world, the UN, is also the most dangerous. Though totally opposed to the war in Iraq, even after UN resolution 1441 was passed, they have no problem having 17 current UN "Peacekeeping" operations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_UN_peacekeepers_are_currently_deployed
Seven in Africa alone, where none of the help actually gets to the people who need it. I'm willing to bet there were just as many government sponsored tortures and executions per capita in Iraq as most of those places yet Coffe Cup Annan had a shit fit over Iraq but not The Ivory Coast or Liberia. Always trying to keep the brown man down I suppose.

So that is that. Come on America, let's get our act together. Spank your kids if they need it and don't keep telling them that they are doing great if they aren't. Not everybody should make the team and not everybody should get a trophy at the end of the year. You are doing them a disservice by cushioning life for them like that. Tell the guy who says that the National Endowment for the Arts should pay some hippy 5 grand for a misspelled one word poem to go to hell and shut up, and tell the people who get bent out of shape about a naked chocolate Jesus (thanks Yah) to relax, smoke a bowl, and shut the fuck up. Yes people, Jesus had a schlong and I'm sure at some point in his life he used it for one action or another. Let people smoke in smoking sections, but tell them the rest of us don't want to pay for their stupidity with higher insurance rates because of it. Make it so that if you smoke you don't get covered for smoking related illnesses. Focus on the real problems. Don't keep voting for people who want to raise your taxes because it won't help. Don't think you are helpless. If somebody breaks into your house, don't try to talk your way out of it and call the cops so we can pay for the trial and the 10 years he'll do in prison, as well as the next trial and the next prison term. Instead blow him away. End it all right then and there and don't even think of allowing the family of the afore mentioned ass hole to sue the home owner.
Maybe, just maybe, we can pull this out.

You are stupid...

2007-02-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

Offensive rating: 10/10

Chances are that you, mister John Q. or Jane Q. public, are deaf, dumb, and blind in all matters which actually count. Yes you may have a degree. You may have a genius IQ. You may even be an esteemed professor but you still are most likely a moron.
I hate to think that the populous of the world is so inept and downright retarded but the fact is that on a daily basis I see evidence of such an affliction. Nowhere in the world is this more blazing orange than in the political world.
Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi is demanding of the US government an Air Force equivalent of a 757 with a crew of 14 to take her from Washington to California whenever she wants. Cost of the trip is $300,000 each way. Rep John Murtha (D-PA), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense "urged administration officials to give her what she wanted. He also happened to mention that she was in charge approving budgets so it would behoove them to comply. Previously House speakers took commercial airlines to travel.
The honorable Ms. Pelosi was also involved with getting American Samoa exempted from the minimum wage hike. Oh, by the way, Star Kist Tuna, who's parent company is Del Monte, is a major employer in American Samoa. Where is Del Monte head quartered you ask? In Nancy Pelosi's district.
Intelligent people understand why the minimum wage is a bad thing to begin with. If you don't understand I'll give you a crash course. If everybody has more money, money is worth less. If companies have to pay more for their work force, they pass the increase on to the consumer and therefor prices go up and your buying power goes down. That's pretty much it down and dirty. However minimum wage hikes appeal to the lowest common denominator of people and they are a great thing to campaign on when you have a lot of poor people in your voting pool. The more you give them for free, the more they vote for you.
So Pelosi says to the populace, "I will raise the minimum wage because I care about you." But she is smart and knows where her money comes from so doesn't do it in a place that messes with her money supply and that quite honestly most people in America have never heard of, let alone know it is subject to American policy.
What an arrogant bitch. Will she get re-elected again? I'd put my house on it. $600,000 a week buys a lot of WIC food for the poor, starving children of America. It sure as hell builds one amazing levee to protect the people of New Orleans next time they ignore a hurricane. Maybe she hates blacks... $600,000 helps an Iraq vet with no legs get his life back. It pays for a lot of heart transplants for illegals. It covers a lot of welfare checks. But instead she would prefer to use it as her personal taxi service. Friend of the poor and down trodden indeed.
We have seen this before from her ilk. King Bill and Queen Hillary have a beautiful home with a guest house for the secret service to live in. Coincidentally they charge the secret service rent in the exact amount of their mortgage each month.
And YOU, people of the world, are to blame. Because it is not just American politicians that do it. Friend of the world and ex-head of the U.N., Coffee Cup Anan, the great peace maker and embezzler of billions, was chilling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming when the tsunami hit a few years ago. Then he stood by and allowed 100% taxes from the governments on all aid that went into those backwards ass countries. He also watched as UN aid workers traded food for sex with young girls all over Africa. He was against going into Iraq, even though a UN resolution said we could, but he sent troops from all over the world into Africa to fight there. Ah yes.
I had a person tell me they voted for Kerry because he understood the poor better. When you say "Pass the Ketchup" and your wife's name is on it, you don't know shit about being poor.
People please stop fooling yourself. You don't know what is going on in the world. You don't even know most of what goes on in your own back yard. Pay attention! Look down the rabbit hole, Unplug from the Matrix and see what is going down.

The Tax Man Cometh

2007-01-19T14:31:00.000-08:00

Offensive rating: 3/10
Well it is a new year and I am already thinking about taxes. Ah yes, taxes. We pay them all day, every day. We pay gas tax and sales tax on cars in order to keep our roads pot hole free (and a marvelous job we are doing too), we pay income tax, bot state and federal, we pay tax at the grocery store on the food we eat, our phones are taxed, our gadgets and gizmos are taxed, our medicine and beer are taxed, and the final kick in the nuts, we are taxed on the money we have already been taxed on when we die.
Yes we pay taxes and then more taxes. We pay taxes when most don't even realize we are paying them. Yet we still have chasm like pot-holes, sub-standard schools, mediocre police protection, politicians with expense accounts at the Bellagio, crappy cell coverage, and an all intrusive government that would rather try to catch you not paying your taxes than catch a terrorist. I know I know, all those cameras on the streets are to catch red light runners and all the phone taps are to catch "terrorists". We would never use them against Americans just trying to make their way in the world.
So now there is a man and woman in New Hampshire who have holed themselves up in their home in New Hampshire because the Man in is their front yard waiting to arrest them for not paying taxes. "Live free or die!" the man keeps yelling. His gripe, and it's a good one, is that he pays more taxes than the president of the United States and makes less money, because he doesn't know all the write offs like the pres does. Yes, indeed that does suck. However any decent accountant can get the same write offs for you and all the info is available on the net or in books. So that I think should fall on him. LLCs, S-Corps, and other things are set up to allow people who work for their money to keep it. A friend of mine made almost 2 million last year and shelled out around $875,000 to Uncle Scam. To what end? His roads are not better, he has no kids but the kids around him aren't doing any better in school, the cops still take forever to get to a problem... where is his money going?
Many say that we need higher taxes, that more money will allow us to do more things... Poppy-cock I say. Every year more and more money goes into the black hole we call the US treasury never to be seen again. If we were to raise taxes another 10% on the top earners in America would that help? DO you think our daily lives would be greatly or even marginally enhanced? Highly doubtful. In fact I would put money on it.
Here is a little of my own private tax paying history. In 2004, my first full year in real estate I made give or take $32,000. I worked 6 days a week, nights, weekends, early mornings... the whole bit. My expenses? Give or take $40,000. I had more write offs than earnings so I didn't have to pay income tax because I didn't really make anything. And on top of that I was paying interest on the loans I had to take out. I did however have to pay FICA to the tune of 15%. Yes that's a little perk of being self-employed, I don't get to split my FICA with my employer and only pay 7.5%. Nope I paid 15% on the full $32,000. I will never see that money again. Ever.
And when the option came up to the powers that be to even allow me to take a portion of it to invest for myself I was told that the American people weren't capable enough to invest that money. That we NEEDED the government to do it for us. Well let's see, when I turn 65 I will have approximately $0 from social security. Even if I took $1000 of my FICA taxes every year and stuck it in a simple savings account I would have... let's see... carry the 5... a lot more than $0.
So I continue to pay my taxes and my hero in New Hampshire will be arrested and imprissioned when the Waco-ites on his lawn finally get to him. I won't get into the frivolous things our tax money is going to, that's a blog for another time, but I will say congrats to the man who says, "To what end do I pay my taxes?"
Here is a little info courtesy of http://www.taxhistory.org/

In 2003 the Pres "made" $822,126. Riiiiiight. $727,083 of that was taxable. He paid $227,494 in taxes putting him in the 31% bracket. He had $115,661 withheld and had a $173,280 carry over from 2002. So that means he gets back (carries over) $61,451 to 2004. Not bad for making over $800,000
Now the venerable John Kerry, champion of the poor and impoverished "made" $395,338 (riiiiiiiiiiiiight) in 2003, $346,664 taxable. He had $27,277 withheld. He ended up paying a total of $90,575 meaning he paid a whopping 26% in taxes.
Now we all know they made tons more than that but they are smart and know where to put it. They understand that it's not what you make but what you keep and that any money they out into the system is lost. The great part about it is that it is legal. It is available for anybody to do. So I say get educated people. Don't be guilted into betting on a losing horse. Own don't rent, write off things for your works... do what the people in Washington do. Do what they do but make sure you pay what you owe because the IRS can just go into your bank account and take what they want. Not to mention charge "fees and interest" that would make any loan shark in Little Italy giddy. And if you don't think that your favorite political figure from either side cares more about the money than they do about you, remember this. Michael Moore owns or has owned large quantities of Halliburton and Fox news has changed content because the Saudi "royal" family owns stock.

"Live free or die!"

Clarification

2007-01-17T12:38:00.000-08:00

I have heard from some people that they thought I was saying Barrack Hussein Obama was Muslim. As I recal I never said that. I was simply worried about his "leanings" and the possible perception of safe haven for terrorists of a certain vein.

I'm Back

2007-01-16T09:21:00.000-08:00

Well I'm back at it. I had to create a new page because for some reason I couldn't get into the old one. Let the offending begin...
Offensive rating: 10/10

Obama... you have to be shitting me. You cannot tell me that that is a good idea. He says he is not a Muslim... but he has, from much of what I have read, definite Muslim leanings. Let me ask you, would it be beyond the realm of possibility for him to be a "Manchurian candidate" for Islam? Can we take that risk with our nation? I mean granted, it is falling apart around us anyway but if you think Bush has heavy ties to Saudi and Kuwait, wait until what happens if this Obama guy gets in.
There are way too many questions. One of the biggest criticisms of Bush I hear is that he is a Bible thumper. Is Obama secretly a Qu'ran thumper? If he is this country is in for a whole new level of religious oppression. Church and state will become one. All these loud mouth feminists out there will be in a Burka walking five steps behind, belonging to to the men they hate so much and the rule of thumb will be back in place.
I say this partially tongue in cheek but I am not wrong by saying we will see a huge shift in this country if he gets elected (though I wouldn't mind the feminists being put in their place). There will be a huge influx of Muslims into this country due to the fact that the NAME runs the most powerful nation on the planet. More than ever those who say anything against Islam will be called "racist" and deemed hate-mongers while Christians and Jews continue to put up with the banning of anything remotely religious (Religious items on walls in public places, Easter-bunny decorations at the DMV which a lady got in trouble for, and the latest lefty ploy, the ceasing of church bells tolling). And in the case of the Jews, the anti-Semitic actions that take place all over the country on a daily basis. Where as if he is elected, I wouldn't be surprised to see many more mosques pop up with the newly immigrated population and the screeching out of the loud speaker five times a day. Hey, I lived with it for a year... don't say "How could you say such a thing?!" if you haven't had to put up with it. Not to mention the fact that more than ever anybody who rolled their eyes at a Muslim would be in hot watter. Already you risk judgment. Simply by doing this I'm sure I'll get a ton of back lash.
And I should also add that this doesn't have anything to do with Obama himself. He may be completely moderate (though I doubt it) but it will be the world wide perception that will change. We will get the influx of new Muslims simply because of the name of the president. It has nothing to do with the man himself. The rest will happen on its own. He is after all, a civil rights lawyer, which, I can't imagine a worse title for a president. He needs to run some non-profit, not the USA. Presidents need to think rationally and do what is best for the nation, not worry if people's feelings get hurt. I just have a feeling that the most important things to me, security, 2nd amendment, and freedom from government oppression will be destroyed under this Obama guy... Though come to think of it, I'd probably rather have him than Hillary.