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Ground Zero Idiocy.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

The whole ground zero mosque thing is very frustrating and disappointing for a number of reasons.

1. It’s not at Ground Zero. It’s like 6 blocks away or something. So the name is completely wrong. When I first heard of it, i was wondering why they were putting a Mosque on Ground Zero. But as it turned it out, no mosque on ground zero. Strike One.

2. I heard on MSNBC it’s not just a mosque, but a community center that happens to have a mosque in it. Kind of like how Wall Drug has a Travelers Chapel in it. Wall Drug isn’t a church, it’s a shopping center with a chapel in it. This specific place will have a basketball court and kitchen in it. Holy crap, they might beat us at basketball. That’s just wrong….

3. It’s private property. No matter where the property is, people have a right to do what ever they want on, with it, etc. Conservatives worried about big government are being a bunch of moronic hypocrites by saying that they want the government to interfere with the development of private property. As long as my tax dollars aren’t funding it, I don’t really care what they do with it.

4. Jon Stewart ran a clip of the Fox Newsies saying it’s not about intolerance, it’s about sensitivity. I can kind of understand that, but 9/11 was almost 10 years ago. If this was October 2001, I would completely understand that call to be more sensitive. I just wonder how much time is really needed to mourn the death of people? My grandmother died in 2003 (about a year and a half after 9/11) and we all had our mourning period, but at some point you really have to move on with your life and not dwell on something terrible that happened. Yeah, we still miss grandma, but we’ve accepted it and have moved on. I would think that most of the people who had friends and family killed on 9/11 have finished mourning and have moved on with their lives. Of course, I could be completely wrong here….

5. There was a protest in NYC at the so called Mosque. Who are these people that are protesting anyways? I just wonder where do they come from. It seems like hundreds or thousands of people get together to protests such silly stuff. I wonder who is herding these people around like cattle or sheep and telling them when and where to protest. I just don’t believe that it would be spontaneous, especially not that big of a group, so somebody has to be running this thing. I just wonder if it’s the Tea Party organizers, since that had attempted to give the appearance of being spontaneous, but when someone investigated it, well not so much.

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Rush to idiocy…

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said:

In the old days the definition of winning a war was killing people and breaking things. In the old days, there was no such thing a “surgical strike.” In the old days, you purposely killed innocent civilians. That’s what war was all about.

Wow. Really? So maybe, since Al Quada and the Taliban started the war on 9/11, that we shouldn’t feel so bad about 9/11. I mean, killing innocent civilians is what war is all about. We should just accept it and move on with our lives because everyone who died on 9/11, it was just what happens in war and that’s the whole point. To kill as many innocent civilians as you can. So, good job on 9/11 guys. You really got us there. You all are doing a great job on your side of the war and stuff. And really, we’re not doing too badly either. In fact, we are totally winning because there are some reports out there saying that over half a million people have died in Iraq alone.

Not sure how Rush Limbaugh would know anyways. Wasn’t he a draft dodger?

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Government getting in the way of oil spill cleanup?

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Unbelieveable…

Foreign companies possessing some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships say they are being kept out of efforts to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf because of a 1920’s law known as the Jones Act — a protectionist law that requires vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers.

So much for doing everything they can to clean up the mess. Sure they are, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of arcane and stupid laws from a century ago that protects unions and corporations from competition.

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The No Brains List.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

From a CNN article about the alleged terrorist who reportedly put a non-functional bomb in a vehicle in New York City:

He was able to board Emirates Flight 202 late Monday despite being put on a no-fly list earlier in the day, leading some to question whether the no-fly list worked.

Typical No-Fly List bullshit. It lets people who are terrorist board planes while preventing people who are not terrorist from boarding planes. I don’t feel any safer with a so called No Fly List. Time to scrap the whole thing since the stupid thing doesn’t work at all.

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Random Oil Spill Expert.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Typical CNN poll:

Do you approve of the way President Obama has handled the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?

And you can answer either Yes or No. How about “I don’t know anything about oil spill cleanups and you should go ask experts to grade him instead of asking any asshole with a computer/internet connection who happens to stop by CNN.com what he thinks.”

Also, CNN.com readers aren’t experts. It’s basically right down the middle 52-48 right now. Really, I would say people have no idea if he’s doing a good job and all these polls that CNN has had lately seem to split right down the middle.

I bet it’s a lot like that Simpsons episode where they save the cute animals for celebrities/politicians and make the regular people showing up to clean lots and lots of rocks.

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Government gonna fix what now?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I find this CNN article pretty funny. Basically it’s a piece about how the government is going to get broadband internet to everyone out in the middle of no where, like me. Well it sounds great in all, but aren’t there people already doing this? I have high speed internet through a Wireless Internet Service Provider called YouSquared. Sure they aren’t everywhere, but they provide decent service at a reasonable price. Sure if the government was able to wire the house up with a true broadband service, it’d be better than what I have now, but in all honesty I don’t need it.

But they aren’t going to do it tomorrow or any time in the next couple of years. The truth is that as the internet becomes more important, the availability will go up. It’s gone up significantly just in the last decade. At one point in time, cable internet was a toy for the rich, but now pretty much everybody with cable service can get it. The market will find ways to make it more readily available to everyone. 10 years ago, the people in the country, out in the middle of nowhere had to rely on dial-up only. But thanks to the market, WISP and Satellite are available for those living in the country. Neither of them are incredibly fast especially when it comes to downloading and satellite is horribly expensive, but both of them are there for people if they want them.

“Nonadoption [of broadband] is not the kind of problem that lends itself to overnight solutions,” he said, “because you’re trying to train people. You’re trying to get them to change their behavior.”

Yikes. Is it really the job of our government to be training people to change their behavior? If high speed internet is so great, then people will want it on their own and find ways to get it without the government, like I did. There’s a financial incentive for companies like Wild Blue and YouSquared to provide internet to people in the country, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

And a 2009 survey, from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found the majority of Americans who don’t have broadband at home don’t want it.

So yeah, the government wants to give people something that they don’t even want and then hand the bill over to the taxpayers. Very nice…

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Stuff going on out there.

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

So there was some sort of shooting at the Pentagon last week, I think. Throw in the whole IRS plane crash and that guy in Pittsburgh last year who shot three cops and it would seem the US government is very good at cultivating home grown terrorists to go with those international ones the government has been creating since the late 70′s.

Of course it really doesn’t occur to the government or their mouth pieces in the press that the government throwing it’s weight around and telling everyone what to do and how to live and how much money they can have and all that would piss some people off. And some of those people would go crazy and respond violently. Considering what’s happened in the Middle-East since the 70′s, these so called “attacks” shouldn’t surprise anyone.

I just wonder what the long term response will be. Their idiotic reaction to 9/11 was go over and bomb the parts of the Middle East that isn’t Israel even though probably nobody who’s died there since 9/11 had anything to do with 9/11. So it would seem their idiotic reaction now would be to crack down on the remaining liberties of everybody who had nothing to do with any of these “attacks”. The guys who committed the violence are gonna end up dead or in jail, so any sort of crack down won’t effect them.

And yet, a bunch of cops nearly beating to death an 18 year old honor student isn’t terrorism according to the government and state run media.

Also, why is the State of New York banning the use of salt in food preparation in restaurants? I can imagine 20 or 30 years from now, the State of New York will be the first to ban meat, milk, cheese, sugar, alcohol, bread and any cooked foods in restaurants. All their restaurants will be organic raw food only. Of course by then the state and local income taxes will probably be about 95% in New York so only idiots will be left there.

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Apology time.

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Tiger Woods apologized in a press conference this morning. It reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Marge tells Bart he has to apologize in front of everyone and mean it. It’s hard to believe that this taking up the majority of the front page over at CNN.com. Personally, I think it would have been best if he just never said anything and just showed up and started golfing again. If asked about it, just say “I don’t talk about my personal life.”

With that being said I’d like to apologize in my own press conference some day. I think it’d be fun. I wanna get famous, get married, cheat on her and then leave the press hanging for about two or three months while I go through “therapy” (or as it’s called around here, beer) and then have a big apology press conference. Then when it’s over go back and say “Oh, one more thing. I never cheated and my wife and I aren’t really married. You’ve just been had!” Then take the ring off my hand and tell the “wife” she should take that back to Wal-Mart and see if you can get my $90 back. I wonder sometimes if I am a bad person.

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Tiger Woods: The smartest man in America?

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Tiger Woods had a car accident on private property. Because of that, everyone feels the need to know what happened. I don’t. It’s really none of my business. But the Florida Highway Patrol are investigating the incident because the words “none of your damn business” doesn’t really register with them, like most government agencies. They’re trying to get a search warrant to spy on his medical records. Medical privacy means nothing when the government wants to know what you’re up to. Tiger isn’t talking to anyone, not even the police. He’s a smart guy. He probably knows that the cops only want to talk to him to find a reason to arrest him or his spouse. If this incident happened on a government road, then they’d at least have a reason to talk to him. But since it didn’t, it’s none of the governments business. Leave Tiger the hell alone. Here’s the reason Tiger’s smart not to talk to the police:

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This is the funniest story. Ever.

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

I love party crashers. At the White House. At a state dinner.

I love this:

The couple is well-known in “wine country and polo circles” in Fauquier County, Virginia, west of Washington, the Post reported. Their presence at the White House caught the immediate attention of Roxanne Roberts, one of two Post columnists who writes the newspaper’s gossip column.

“When I saw them come in, I went ‘What on Earth are they doing here?’ ” Roberts said.

That’s funny. We need more stories like this.

UPDATE 6:45 PM: This story just keeps getting better.

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