Political Stupidity

The idiots in Washington are really starting to piss me off!  They refuse to do what works.

Why do you people keep voting for those guys?  I can’t figure it out.  Washington consistently does exactly the wrong thing for our economy time after time and yet you people keep sending ‘em back to do it again!

We know what works to revitalize and boost our economy!  It’s worked every time it’s been done.  Just ask Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton!

CUT TAXES!!! 

To save our economy, the government needs to eliminate corporate income taxes.  Corporations don’t pay them anyway; their customers do.  Imagine how business would take off here if business taxes were done away with!  All those ‘global’ companies who are ‘global’ only to avoid the highest business taxes in the world would come home!  All that money currently funding boondoggles in Washington would be used to buy new equipment and hire new employees. 

And all these people who are currently on unemployment would begin paying taxes. 

If the government wants more money to waste, it needs to lower personal taxes.  Look up ‘Laffer Curve’ on the ‘net.  At the present time, we’re way over on the right side of the curve. 

If Congress and Obama were serious about helping our economy, they would cut all these taxes.  But, since they don’t, they obviously have another agenda!  Socialism, here we come!

Muslims at the Airport

Muslims are feeling harassed at airports.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/04/authorities_listen_to_arab-ame.html

Wah, wah, wah.

Maybe if they would control their more volatile members, none of us would have to feel harassed at airports! They are only reaping the benefits of what they have sown.

We Americans all remember the celebrations and dancing in the streets that accompanied 911 in much of the Muslim world. Are they ever going to denounce terrorism? Will there ever be a stigma attached instead of a reward to the families of people who blow themselves and innocents up? Will Muslims ever act in a civilized manner?

Probably not. Too many people are willing to make apologies and excuses for their behavior. Their overly arrogant despot governments are swimming in petro-dollars thanks to this country’s inability to drill for its own oil. We have enough oil reserves that we could put them out of business tomorrow but none of our political leaders except for a select, often mocked few, have the nerve to allow our oil companies to drill for the oil that we know is there. And we’re finding more all the time.

And why should they have to act civilized when the civilized world bends over backwards to make sure they’re not ‘offended’ by the security now required for the rest of us to travel by airplane? Way too many people are willing to listen to their complaints without reminding them that they are the causes of this problem. A little profiling should be the least of the burdens they should have to bear for the insane inconvenience they have caused the rest of us! Just accept it without all the whining, please. We have to accept far worse because of your countrymen!

Weinergate

I have one question: how many crotch shots has he taken of himself that he wouldn’t necessarily recognize this one as his?

Here’s the picture that’s causing all the hullabaloo:

My first reaction to seeing this was a great big ‘Meh’. Sorry. Not that impressive nor that interesting. Grey under panties with a slight bulge in them.


All the jokes have been said by now. I’m not going to try and come up with a new one. I just don’t get why these people think they can do these things and not implode their careers! Haven’t we had enough of these events? Is no one capable of learning from others’ mistakes? Don’t put naughty pictures of yourself on the ‘net!!! It never ends well.

Craig's List

The hubby and I are Judge Judy fans. I DVR her show and we watch them in batches when we have the time, usually in the evening after dinner. If you pay attention to the Judge and follow her advice, you will never get screwed out of your money or your time.

Craig's List is mentioned, a lot! It seems to be where people meet people to make mistakes with. So, being naturally curious, I decided to check it out.

I started with the personals. That seemed a great place to find something funny and I found something pretty quickly. The following are presented exactly as they were posted.  The spelling and grammar are those of the original authors.  Get this:

"I'm a mature, decent looking, hard working, white collar gentleman looking for an attractive, intelligent older woman (40+) for occasional nights of submission to my sexual demands. I won't hurt you, but I'll have you submit to all of my sexual needs for a lengthy period of time, until we are exhausted. If interested, please respond with age, hgt, wgt, location, and a photo. No games, please."

I highlighted the last sentence as it is just hilarious! No games?!? I thought that was what he was advertising for, someone to play a game with!!

Next:

"Nice looking married white male in his mid 50s seeking an attractive, educated, stylish woman of any marital status, preferably between the ages of 30-55, height to weight proportionate, for a long term "friends with benefits" relationship. Seeking a woman who for whatever reason does not want the trappings of a 24/7 relationship but misses the enjoyment of a SAFE, available and satisfying sex partner. You might be a busy career woman, an unhappily married soccer mom or someone with a lot of day-to-day commitments that make it difficult to sustain a conventional relationship, but miss an occasional evening of "rock my world" lovemaking with no regrets and no other expectations. Please respond with basic details and a photo. Thanks. Serious replies only. "

Do women really respond to these ads? I found my hubby online 12 years ago. Whilst I had my profile up, I was contacted by several men who just wanted a 'fuck buddy'. As far as I know, this is a male concept. Women may fool around but they usually want some sort of emotional attachment to the people they are fucking. "Men need a place, women need a reason" to have sex. There are lots of these ads on CL.

I had to click through to find out what this meant:

"Fake men got it good what I mean by that Is
All these fake men got a real woman while a real man gotta struggle to get one
I'm looking for somebody I can watch lifetime with help her wash dishes make her breakfast In bed
You know real gentlemen type If you wanna be treated like a queen with all loyalty and respect
Get back at this real man right here”

Um, what do any of these activities have to do with being a man? Guess good grammar and spelling have nothing to do with being 'real'.

From someone selling jewelry:


"1 carot marquie solitair engagement ring with 1 1/2 carot wrap has baggets and round diamonds. very nice set. asking 3000.00 obo."

As far as I know, you need a computer to put an ad on Craig's List. Every computer I know of has some sort of spell checker on it. There is simply no excuse for the travesty above. For three grand, you could at least spell 'carat' correctly!!

The replies I received to my online profile ran the gambit from totally illiterate to college-grade grammar, spelling, vocabulary and punctuation. I married one in the latter category.

My advise to people advertising anything online, whether to sell or buy, is to be as honest as you can and try to sound as educated as you can. Remember, what you post creates the only first impression you get.

President Obama hates white people.

That’s what they said of George Bush after the epic flooding in New Orleans and the south from Hurricane Katrina. About black people, of course. Bush supposedly didn't do enough to help the 'victims' of Katrina and now Obama isn't doing a damned thing to help Ohio with it's floods.  Everything must be viewed through the lens of racism. Especially when race has nothing to do with it!

Most of Ohio is currently undergoing sever flooding due to heavy snow fall followed by heavy rains. We even had a dam break on the Chagrin River that flooded more people downstream. Quite a mess.

What I think happened is that Obama got the keys to the machine that Bush used to flood New Orleans and turned it onto Ohio since it went so red in the last election. The floods are his revenge.

Obama hasn’t even been here to survey the damage! He doesn’t care about the poor, working stiffs of Ohio.

And, as far as I know, FEMA hasn’t offered a bit of help to the flooding victims. Not one bit. Obama hasn’t sent them to help anybody with their flooded basements and ruined furniture, lined up on the tree lawns all over my neighborhood awaiting tomorrow’s trash pickup.

I, myself, have some men coming tomorrow to lift my boxes and bins of stuff from my still damp basement. All loses to be recorded in film for the insurance adjusters, whenever they finally get here. Tomorrow, I will find out how many of my memories will join my neighbors’ on the tree lawn for the garbage trucks to take them away. I hope all my neighbors were insured! No one seems to have been spared.

Criss Angel

Criss Angel has some new TV programs out soon. I’m here to tell you not to bother with them.
While my SO and I were in Vegas getting married last November, a total stranger came up to him and gave him 2 tickets to the Criss Angel, Mindfreak show at our hotel. Just gave them to him. We decided to see the show since it didn’t cost us anything. And it was worth every penny!
This guy is supposedly a magician. In the 90-minute show, he did 5 tricks. Entirely predictable, you-gotta-be-kidding-me easy ‘tricks’. One involved supposedly electrocuting himself with 100 million volts or some such. Lots of sparks and screaming and bright lights. From my third row seat, I really wanted to shout, “How many amps you pushing there, Criss?” but I resisted heckling him.
Most of the show consisted of a bunch of people wandering around in rabbit costumes. Never made much sense to me. Not very entertaining, either. More magic might have been but there was very, very little of that.
I don’t know what he does for his TV extravaganzas but it can’t be any better than his live show and will prolly be worse.

Don’t waste your time!!

Gushers

Well, it looks like they might have finally capped the oil gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.  After 84 days of fumbling around, they might have finally made some progress.

Now, imagine that W. is still president.  Can you hear the LSM screeching?  There would be new programs devoted to counting the number of days of the crisis and lambasting the tepid response from the Fed.  Imagine W. taking 3 vacations and playing 12 rounds of golf during the crisis!  That's what Obambi has done and the only place I've heard about it is on Hannity.  Thanks, Sean, for keeping us informed!!

The media giving Obambi the pass it has given him is simply a disgrace.  None of them are worth listening to.  I haven't watched a major network news broadcast in decades.  The ONLY reason my TV is ever tuned to CNN is because my daughter, the Obambi voter, tunes in to catch her daily dose of liberal spin and misinformation.  I don't know where I went wrong with her.  I consider myself a total failure as a parent. 

Now that we've got the gusher in the Gulf capped, think we can cap the one spewing taxpayers' money in Washington???

LOL For the Day

In reference to a black man at a TEA party rally via Jin Treacher at DC Trawler:

John Hinderaker at Powerline to ask, “The real question is not, of course, whether this gentleman ever feels uncomfortable. The real question is, don’t liberal reporters ever feel stupid?”

Which is kind of like asking if fish ever feel wet. They have no frame of reference.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/dc-trawler#ixzz0m4ETyKIg

Obama Health Care Bill

Every time I think of this, I grin:

The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.

But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.

The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible “drafting error,” the report says, Congress did not specify an effective date for the section excluding lawmakers from the existing program.

Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said, “a law takes effect on the date of its enactment” unless Congress clearly specifies otherwise. And Congress did not specify any other effective date for this part of the health care law. The law was enacted when President Obama signed it three weeks ago.

They couldn’t take the time to actually READ the bill and now it’s gonna come back on ‘em and bite ‘em on the ass.

At least, I hope it does.
My SO doesn’t think that they will allow this to happen to themselves. They will find some weasel way out of it.
He’s probably correct but it is a delightful prospect in the meantime.



(Quote from the New Yolk Slimes, to which I will not link.)

Earth Hour

Did you participate in Earth Hour last night? I did.

I turned on every light in the house for at least an hour. Many of my neighbors were totally dark, including the guy behind me who illuminates his American flag 24/7. He turned off that light, too. My house shone like a beacon of sanity in a sea of stupidity.

Personally, I refuse to cooperate in anything that perpetuates a hoax. Anthropogenic Global Warming had been proved to be a hoax months ago. That anyone would still think they needed to go along with anything to do with it astounds me.

I hate to think of my fellow Americans as gullible boobs but there's just so much evidence that they are, beyond AGW. They elected Bill Clinton twice and then fell for the sham that is Barack Obama.

I really hate the idea that people are that stupid but they apparently are.

Snow

In my opinion, Washington D.C. getting 2 FEET of snow recently is God's way of telling Congress that Globull Warming is a hoax.

Think they're listening??

Probably not. Throw more snow on 'em!!!

:-)

Anthropomorphic Global Warming is a HOAX

Don’t fall for it. I make it a policy not to do business, if I can help it, with companies that tout how ‘green’ they are. They are only contributing to the scare-mongering and I won’t abet this behavior.

Lord Monckton’s letter to the PM of Australia is particularly illuminating. Read the whole thing:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/03/climate-change-proposed-personal-briefing/#more-14778

Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a peer-reviewed paper that, if anyone was paying attention to science, would end the entire debate.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/co2_report_july_09.pdf

Takes a bit to load but it is devastating to the ‘settled science’ of AGW. Guaranteed to make Algore cry! :-)

In addition, food prices have doubled in the past 2 years, according to Lord Monckton. Poor people in the third world are dying so that rich people in first world countries can feel better about themselves because they drive cars with ethanol in the tank. I’m sure they don’t mind dying so some do-gooders can feel better about their life-styles. It’s for a good cause, after all!

An Inconvenient Al

Well, after seeing it parodied for years, I finally watched Algore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

My first question is “What was this movie about?” The ‘inconvenient truth’ seems to be Al himself! Most of the movie is spent showing him either giving his slide show to adoring audiences or backstage before and after a showing, including the applause. Or it tells some tale of his childhood or some personal tragedy. Throughout most of the film, the personal reminiscences seem like nonsequitors, spliced in for emotional impact only, not moving his ‘scientific’ narrative forward to any conclusion other than that he’s had some bad luck. How is that the fault of Global Warming?

He reaches lots and lots of conclusions without ever explaining exactly how he got there. Bold-faced assertions that some dire consequence will happen in the future without the back-up of real data makes them totally meaningless.

He several times throughout the film says that some friend of his gave him pictures or evidence that supports his conclusions but never shares who these people are. Are we just supposed to trust him that he knows important people who are ‘in the know’?

There are lots and lots of ‘maybe’s in this as well. Well, maybe I’ll win the lottery, too, but I’m not making major financial decisions based on any future lottery winnings. Making decisions that undermine our economy based on a series of improvable ‘maybe’s is just as foolish.

The film’s director, Davis Guggenheim said of the film, “Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message.” All of this is complete nonsense. The film is completely political with Al bring up his lost election over and over. In his first appearance, his makes a joke at the expense of the Bush administration.

Siteing a sampling of ‘peer reviewed’ articles as evidence of the ‘settled science’ is also quite spurious. For decades, it was almost impossible to get published in the ‘peer reviewed’ publications if you disagreed with the Global Warming hysterics. Since the release of the emails from England, we now know why. Anyone who was foolish enough to actually publish anything that challenged the orthodoxy was run out of their job. ‘Peer review’ is meaningless if you can only get published if you agree with the party line.

Gore might be more believable if he didn’t live such an extravagant lifestyle. He jets all over the world telling people that they need to cut back on their carbon emissions that then goes home to a huge mansion that uses more electricity in one month than the average home uses in an entire year. You first, Al!!

And he really does make that joke that he ‘used to be the next president of the United States’! I thought Rush’s parody made that up! He also apparently doesn’t find the joke all that funny. I guess I wouldn’t either. Who likes to be reminded of what a loser they are?

My Definition of a Moron

An Obama voter:



(stolen from Denny Wilson at http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/)

Clevelanders are Such Morons!

I knew I lived with idiots.

These are the same people who return Dennis Kucinich to Washington year after year so I really wasn't expecting any intellegent behavior.

It was over 60 degrees in Cleveland today.

I needed to go to Wally-World for prescription refills. (Yay, drugs!) There, I observed several people also out and about. And WEARING PARKAS!!!

It's 60 degrees out. What are they going to wear when it's -30 degrees??

Not only wearing parkas but also hats and gloves.

I was in a short-sleeved t-shirt. And perfectly comfortable.

When I got home, I sat out on the patio and read for a while. Sunny, beautiful day.

Definitely no need for PARKAS!!

Idiots.

Peace, Yeah Right!

So, the Empty Suit wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

I knew it wasn’t all that much when they gave it to Jimmah, Algore and Arafat. Let’s see: a racist anti-Semite, a world-wide hoax perpetrator, and the guy who used the plite of the Palestinians to enrich himself and his family.

Apparently, they decided that he deserved nomination for this after 11 days in office. 11 days. What was the biggest thing going on at that time?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html

Rush Limbaugh saying he hoped Obama fails. Personally, I also hope he is a miserable failure. I hope every policy he tries to enact fails disastrously.

But that’s what we were talking about back then. Rush Limbaugh, not anything splendiferous that Obambi did.

And SNL got it exactly correct. He still hasn’t done anything. Not that I’m complaining, mind you, but there are things he could be doing that would be of great help to this country.

What I don’t understand about the current economic crisis is why they are not doing what has been proven time and time again to help.

Cut taxes. Eliminate regulations. Unleash the American business marketplace.

Works every time it’s tried.

Worked for Kennedy

Worked for Reagan.

Worked for Clinton.

Would work for Obambi, if he would only try it.

I guess he’s not serious about helping this country out of its economic crisis.

I really like to know why!!

Freethinkers, Again

Strike Two!

I subjected myself to the Freethinkers again tonight. Why I did this I am not sure.

Most of the evening was fairly enjoyable until someone I did not know joined a discussion I was having about abortion.

Everyone in this group seems to think that reductio ad absurdum is way to prove every point. At least, everyone I’ve had a pointless discussion with does. The abortion discussion was going well until some guy felt he could butt in and make absurd statements like, “every sperm has the same potential as a fertilized egg.” It clearly doesn’t. Once egg meets sperm and development starts, that’s when it acquires its potential.

And pigs do not have the same potential as a newborn human baby. I don’t care about what tricks they can be taught to perform. A pig will never understand why he’s doing what he’s doing nor do any of the tricks mean anything to the pig.

No, I do not believe that irresponsible people should breed irresponsibly. That does NOT make a eugenicist!! It makes me an advocate of personal responsibility. Coming up with a logically absurd scenario and then calling me names for expressing my opinion about your absurdity is not debate!

The same thing happened to me last time I went to one of these things. I think maybe I’m done with the “Freethinkers”. The one person I wanted to talk to wasn’t there. She maybe the only reason I would ever consider going to another of these functions.

At least the food was good. The last place only had weird sandwiches. I don’t like sandwiches for dinner.

Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is an argument against a proposition to disprove it by following the implications of a related proposition to a logical but absurd consequence.
--Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Unemployment

I just wanted to thank all you 52-ers out there for our wonderful president and the wonderful job he is doing helping our economy to recover.

The unemployment rate for June, 2009 is now 9.5% and 15 states have an unemployment rate over 10%, including Ohio!! Michigan’s unemployment rate is over 15%.

These are the worst unemployment figures seen since 1984.

So, thanks, again, 52-ers. He’s doing a bang-up job!

Keep up the good work!!

UPDATE:

It's 15 states. DC is NOT a state. Never trust an AP story to get it right! Always count for yourself! :-)

"Free Thinkers"

I went to a Free Thinkers Meetup last night hoping for some conversation and maybe an argument or two. Some how I figured I would meet a few people who could think! What I found instead was that I walked into a den of fascist, arrogant, unrepentant lock-step thinking Liberals!!

I got brow beat about global warming for about 2 or so hours by a young man barely out of diapers who kept exclaiming “But, there’s a consensus!” and “But, they have PhDs! Don’t you respect that?”

I could barely get a word in edgewise.

It was not a discussion. I was hammered at by a True Believer who adamantly refused to admit that there’s any proof on the other side.

I finally had to declare that I simply was tired of talking about it just to shut him up.

I don’t think he heard a word I said all night.

The other young man I met, again, barely out of diapers and still living with his parents, was probably the worst fascist I’ve ever met. He thinks that because he shares the planet with other people, they need to kowtow to his opinions of what kind of car they should drive, how much energy they can use and where they can live! And he sees nothing wrong with this. Wonder what he would say if the shoe was on the other foot? If people he disagreed with tried to tell him how to live his life? I wasn’t rude. I didn’t point out what a fascist he was.

At one point, the coordinator of the group came over to challenge me to reconcile being a conservative and not a religionist. Apparently, at least to him, the two are not severable. I pointed out that there’s many ways to the same destination. I don’t know which bothered him the most, that I wouldn’t condemn religious conservatives or that I professed to be a Conservative in the first place. Again, more lock-step Liberalism from supposed “Free Thinkers”.

Oh, and, apparently, being an atheist is required for membership, too!

“Free Thinkers”

Yeah, right.

Enough already!!

Breaking news from Fox News:

Michael Jackson is still dead!!

Sheesh! Nobody protesting anything in Iran at the moment?? Nothing else happened in the past 24 hours?

I feel sorry for Farrah and her family. Talk about getting lost in a media feeding frenzy! No body even remembers her at this point.

And, let me point out the obvious: Farrah was never accused of molesting anyone. True or not, the accusation was still made.