Because Women Just Don’t Know Any Better
September 30, 2008
Before I get berated for the title I will apologize to every woman and their vagina because I know many of you do know better. As you may already know I am sick and in an ill humor, but this video made me laugh and I just had to share.
Because Women Just Don’t Know Any Better
September 30, 2008
Before I get berated for the title I will apologize to every woman and their vagina because I know many of you do know better. As you may already know I am sick and in an ill humor, but this video made me laugh and I just had to share.
America Prepares for More Cutbacks
September 30, 2008
With the failure of our economy we are all making cutbacks. There are some things we can’t live without. For me that would be the internet. It is my lifeline to the outside world, I have dumped my local phone service in favor of a prepaid cell since we don’t yack on the phone. While many of my relatives think the internet is something we don’t need, I find myself forced to disagree with that notion. My twenty five dollars a month cuts down on my gas use by probably twice that much. Katy can do ninety-nine percent of her job hunting from home rather than going place to place. They same could be done from the library except there is a limited usage time, long waits, and their old browsers seldom meets the needs of many application sites, not to mention we would be driving there every day to check emails on jobs applied for, and the average time spent job surfing and responding easily takes up more than the the two hours alloted to a person in a day. The money spent on gas going there might not equal the full twenty five I pay for internet a month, but there is a lot said for time spent doing it and convenience. You can apply for jobs online at four in the morning or on Sundays but not from the library. They also frown on me bringing a cup of coffee with you. Read more
Cool Hand Science
September 29, 2008
Word Unscrambler
September 26, 2008
Come on people show some common sense. Today it is being reported on CNN that a Fresno, California Middles School which has twelve through fourteen year old students, handed out a list of what was inappropriate language for the school and taught a lesson on it. I have been as of yet unable to get a hold of the list, but from the sounds of it the worst was Blow Job. One parent informed us her 8th grade boy asked her about this term because he didn’t know what it was. Just because he has never had one, I find it highly unlikely he could have got that far into his teenage years and not know Blow Job and at least a dozen other euphemisms for it.
Do these parents have a right to be angry? Maybe, but what parents wants their kid to hear and what a school decides it needs to teach often don’t go hand in hand. A parent’s job is to teach their kids the values they want them to have. A school’s job is to teach them what is in the best interest of the community for them to know. The school felt it was in their interest for kids to get a lesson, which in this case had a list of terms that should not be used in the school and for that matter in formal conversations. What is the matter with these parents, did they think they could keep their child from knowing these words existed? Come on I am sure even the most upset and outraged republican mother would prefer that their son be told flat out it isn’t alright to call his female classmates fucking cunts, or is that okay by them since John McCain said it of his wife?
Furthermore, I want to know why it is this boy doesn’t know what a blow job is. Are his parents not addressing the issue of sex with their hyper hormonal teenager? Do they just believe he won’t have sex if they don’t tell him about it? Do they believe if oral sex isn’t mentioned he can’t VD from it? Why is the school on trial for teaching kids not to say Fuck or talk about blowjobs in public, when the parents have fail to educate their kids on these subjects?
Sorry, you don’t find blow job as an obscure in the jumble or word unscrambler, they will hear in public, and better these kids hear it and be told it isn’t polite word, much less to ask your teacher for one no matter what their sexual orientation is.
The Road To The White House Runs Through Late Night Television
September 26, 2008
Any politician who is worthy of holding the job of president of the United States has to be able to handle hard situations. Late night television isn’t one of those hard things. Sure you have to humble yourself and accept a few jokes made at the expense of your pride. Of course where does pride fall in the list of virtues good christians like McCain supposedly have? In another post titled Presidential Questions I made the other day Katie Couric asked when is it acceptable for the President to lie to the American people. John McCain says never and that he can’t even imagine a situation except in cases of extreme national emergencies. He talks about maintaining credibility. If it is good enough for the President, why isn’t it good enough for the presidential candidate? Watch the video yourself. Dave says McCain calls him and says sorry I have to get back to Washington. At the same time he said he couldn’t do Dave’s interview because he was headed back to Washington Mutual he is seen in the same studio fielding softball questions from Katie Couric. This Senator McCain was a lie to the American people, or is David Letterman, not American enough for you?
Senator McCain was your lying to David Letterman and ditching him for Katie Couric, the price we paid for her continuing the game of slow pitch with Sarah Palin? Was Katie asking you trivialities that you waffled around how she got the interview in the first place. It is time the both of you cream puffs stop playing like protected little girls and step into the real world, the one you say you not only want to lead, but have the experience to lead.
Will the debate go on? Craig Fergusun, my favorite angry Scotsman, hits the nail right on the head about this situation. As a newly naturalized citizen he gets what this country is supposed to be about. I hope once we stop trying keep people from coming to America we end up with a whole bunch more Craig Fergusuns. I do hope they leave their hagus or other regionally favorite innards stuffed with stuff at home when it comes to community potluck dinners.
In the end John McCain ditching David Letterman for Katie Couric was isn’t about the fact he did it. He could have called and said “I am on my way back to Washington, and have to cut a few interviews out. I’m sorry Dave.” Did he do that? No. John McCain got on the phone and lied, just like he has done through out his campaign. Remember if he is going to lie to the media while he is running his campaign, what can you expect him to do if he is actually elected president?
Palin Couric Interview
September 26, 2008
Yes folks the great Palin Couric Interview has concluded and left most of us with a feeling of “What The Fuck”, much the same way the the folks who support USC had after the USC loss to Oregon State. I am sure Sarah Palin will tell you in no uncertain terms the USC people were either non-christian heathens or simply they didn’t pray hard enough for victory and an oil pipeline through through their campus all the way to the great state of Alaska.
In a 40-minute session with Couric that aired Wednesday and Thursday nights, the Alaska governor defended her puzzling claim that geographic proximity makes her some sort of expert on Russia; went nearly blank when queried about McCain’s achievements as a big-business regulator; agreed America “may find itself” on the road to another Great Depression; and, promoting a troop surge in Afghanistan, casually suggested that it “will lead us to victory there, as it has proven to have done in Iraq.”
The last statement couldn’t help but conjure an image from 2003 — President Bush beaming in that green flight suit before the infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner.
Even in the world of softball journalism that Couric pitches Palin failed to get to first base with the American people. Her grandstanding for the crowd and general incompetence had out before she ever got started. Now that she wants to play with the big boys it is time she get off her ass and play our game the way American wants it. If she gets beamed in the head with a fast ball from a real journalist throwing hardball pitches, it was because she had her mouth running rather than having her eye on the ball.
In the end I am not sure who I am more disappointed with. Sarah Palin and Katie Couric met face to face as challengers for what should have been a brutal match pitting them against each other. After watching it, I felt more like Sarah Palin and Katie Couric were playing simply playing a school spirit lifter game of powder puff football. What happened to the Katie Couric who looked David Duke in the eyes and didn’t back down?
Creation vs Evolution Debate - McCain vs Obama Debate
September 26, 2008
The topic of tonights debate isn’t about religion much to Sarah Palin’s dismay. If it was I am sure her faith in the powers that be would prove the election unnecessary. This debate is about evolution verses creation though.
Surprisingly enough John McCain has been choosing the side of evolution when it comes to his politics. He goes along in his own little world unaware that anything is actually broken and needs fixed. The system will evolve at its own pace and take care of the richest. The weakest, meaning the poorest, will get screwed, simply because they don’t matter to him or his process of governing.
On the side of creationism is Barack Obama. He takes as firm a stand as any creationist that we need change and it is to be started by the guy in charge. Like the biblical God he wishes to smite down the unworthy, take his people out from under the thumb of foreign powers, and empower the lowest of us to be our own messiah.
When you go to the polls, you need to ask yourself if you can survive this economy moving along letting the world sort itself out, or do you need someone who can in with the seeds of change already planted.
Presidential Questions
September 24, 2008
I am providing the full transcripts of this as well as the video without commentary, other than to say I think having them as full time movie critics going head to head would be interesting to say the least.
(CBS) In November, Americans decide whether Barack Obama or John McCain becomes the 44th President of the United States. In the series “Presidential Questions,” CBS News anchor Katie Couric asks questions that move the candidates well beyond the usual sound-bites. Some questions concern policy. Others are more personal. All will give you a better sense of who these men are - and what has shaped them. What follows is Couric’s question - and the candidates’ full answers.
Couric: Describe a situation when you think it’s appropriate to lie to the American people.
Obama: I don’t think it’s appropriate to lie to the American people. I mean … you can put together a hypothetical where there is a national security emergency that is imminent. And you don’t want to provide, for example, the location of our troops. You don’t have to lie in those situations. You simply say, “we’re not answering questions.”
I don’t think it’s appropriate to lie. And I think that one of the things I want to change about the culture of Washington is, not just the “big lie,” but also the “soft lie.” The fudging, the manipulation, the spin. If we can restore a sense of trust between the American people and their government, we’re going to go a long way to changing the country for the better.
McCain: I can’t imagine it, to start with, because … I just think that the one thing you have to have, as president, is your credibility. I guess you could draw a scenario where Americans were facing a threat to our very existence and you had to not have them panic or something. I’m thinking out loud here. You know … but frankly … I don’t know of any reasonable or logical scenario where you would feel compelled to lie to the American people.
Couric: What about in a national security situation?
McCain: Yeah. I was trying to imagine that. But if you deceive the American people and you want their support, and you want them to beat back this national security challenge, and you don’t tell them the truth about it then I think they become disillusioned. That’s happened in the past.
Couric: Vietnam, for example
McCain: Yeah. the Vietnam War. “The light is at the end of the tunnel,” and it turned out to be a train. I think one of the reasons why America came out of the Great Depression is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on the radio all the time and had the fireside chats and said “here’s what we’re facing but here’s what we’re going to do.” And every time the great presidents including some I really admire have not told the American people the complete truth, then they’ve paid a price for it.
Senator Mcain Tear Down This Wall
September 24, 2008
Campbell Brown Rips McCain Camp’s “Sexist” Treatment Of Palin
A prominent female news anchor chastised the McCain campaign Tuesday evening for engaging in sexism and insulting behavior in its attempt to shield Gov. Sarah Palin from members of the press.
In a fiery commentary, Campbell Brown laid into John McCain for casting a “chauvinistic chain” that ran over his running mate. Punctuated by a call to “Free Sarah Palin,” the CNN anchor highlighted the attempt Tuesday by the McCain campaign to ban editorial reporters from covering Palin’s visit with world leaders at the UN, as yet another gender-demeaning move in a campaign
Campbell Brown is completely right. If the McCain camp believes she is more than ideological sound bite candy for hard core republicans then they need to let her be a true candidate. Furthermore if she is truly ready to play with the big boys she should be made to. We can not allow her to have a place of safety when no other candidate has one. Unfortunately she still gets to claim she is every bit as good or better than Joe Biden, but when it comes down to the VP debate, she and the campaign refuse to meet him head on and really debate.
Windows Se7en Forcast
September 23, 2008
Windows 7 to Dump E - Webmonkey
Microsoft is planning to remove e-mail, photo editing, movie making and other secondary software offerings from the upcoming Windows 7. Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker were all part of Vista, but, in an effort to cut down on development time of future OS updates, Microsoft plans to give them the heave-ho.
Instead users will be directed to download the Windows Live programs that replace each of those apps. In fact, Microsoft has already been encouraging users to replace the Vista versions with the Windows Live equivalents.
I have been looking forward to them doing this for some time now. I simply hate vista and its bloated suckware. it is simply time that they did this but there are noticeably bad things with this concept. They admit to not wanting to take the time to fully develop the system and get it out as soon as possible, which simply could make this another Windows Vista or worse another Windows ME. It is good that lazy consumers who just assumed what came with windows was good enough, will be forced to actually use better programs and just maybe produce less crappy content for the web.
The one program I am sure they won’t touch though will be notepad. That is simplicity at its best. The one program I am almost completely sure will go will be wordpad. This is a shame in many ways since it is all the word processing power most people will ever need, I have long been advocating that to my friends and family.
In the end I am hoping for a good release of Windows Se7en (windows seven). The crap I have seen with vista has caused me to convert much of my PC use to Linux, but despite what many Linux users will have you believe, it can’t do everything just as well. It will do it far more cheaply which often makes up the difference, but there is something to be said for having an OS on at least one machine that I can play all the latest games on.
The True Cost of Bailout
September 22, 2008
These people just don’t get it that if we fail to act, we screw everyone long term not just a bunch of rich investors.
Mad as hell - taxpayers lash out - Sep. 21, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — “NO NO NO. Not just no, but HELL NO,” writes Richard, a reader from Anchorage, Alaska.
“This is robbery pure and simple,” Anna from Denver posted on CNNMoney.com’s TalkBack blog this weekend.
“It’s our money! Let these companies die,” added Claudio from Plainville, Conn.
After President Bush petitioned Congress Saturday for the authority to spend up to $700 billion to to bail out a financial industry on the verge of collapse, he said the high price tag was not only justified, but essential.
“It is a big package because it’s a big problem,” Bush told reporters at a news conference. “The risk of doing nothing far outweighs the risk of the package.”
As I said yesterday, Bush is right, this bailout must be done. No one, including myself, wants to reward these people for bad management much less GREED, but this is no longer about the people at the top. I strongly support the notion if they are even the slightest bit outside of the law that we prosecute them and send them to federal pound me in the ass prison. Tax payers have a right to be angry over this, but now is the time for being rational.
Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers have primary or secondary financial ties to almost every retailer in this country. Failures at these houses would be disastrous for most of these businesses. For those tax payers who say let them fail, lets take a look at how this will affect your average Joe.
Most retailers operate in the red until just after Thanksgiving. For those that don’t understand let me put it simply for you, until you do your day after Thanksgiving shopping most retail stores are losing money. They stay open because investment banks keep them afloat with available credit. If those companies fail and that credit disappears many retailers will simply be forced to close their doors and others will take drastic measures to try and stay in business.
I don’t need to tell you about all retailers, just one, since most of the others aren’t going to be in business long enough to matter if we didn’t bailout these companies. I am just going to talk about one, Walmart. I have no love for this company and want to see many of their practices changed, I however do not want to see them fail, too many people depend on this store for good or ill. They are the worlds largest private employer, and the largest US user of commercial services. They account for 20% of all US grocery sales and are the single largest retailer of toys, clothes, and housewares in the world. They are also the largest or sole local provider of those services for many communities. Like it or not this means a lot to the average tax payers.
Here are the effects on Walmart you can expect should we allow these greedy investment banks to fail the way many taxpayers suggest. A third of Walmart stores operate at a loss all year and only stay afloat because forty percent of the products Walmart sells are cheap private brand items where 90% o f the price is profit for Walmart Inc. This is enough under most circumstances to justify keeping a store open. Failure of these banks will cause Walmart to reevaluate the store profitability and will likely close a sizable number of those stores. If Walmart is your only big local store and it closes do to being unprofitable don’t expect someone to move in to take its place. You will simply have to go further out, and with gas likely to $5.00 soon ask yourself how much more it is going to cost you just in travel to do your shopping.
Fine you say, it won’t affect me I live in a big town with lots of Walmarts around me that I drive by to and from work. You will feel it if not immediately when those that depended on those stores start filing for unemployment, welfare and are forced to move to bigger cities to find work putting them in direct competition with you for everything from housing and parking when you go some place to the availability of consumer goods.
The one thing welfare people are good at is buying up all the cheap products while the working folk are stuck at work. You can also expect that with the closure of so many retail locations the prices at the remaining stores to rise sharply. The immediate rise will likely be between 20% and 30% across the board. Over the longer term of one to two years you can expect a rise of 100% to 200%. With the average grocery bill of $288 a week for a family of four now (includes essential household goods such as toothpaste, laundry detergent, dish soap), you must ask yourself how much more can you afford to spend.
So you say you’ll cut back or buy only generics. That is all well and good, but those price increases are across the board and the variety of generic store branded products will start to be limited by profitability too. Cutting back on other goods or entertainment will simply put more people out of work, and into competition with you. Even if you can keep your grocery bill under control, you then need to move back to your other spending.
All those prices are directly tied to availability of commercial credit. If Walmart has to pay Hanes or Proctor and Gamble upfront for everything you can expect less will be stocked and their increased cost passed on to the consumer. Walmart is probably not your first choice of clothing for many items, but the reduction of so many other retailers will leave many people shopping here whether you like it or not. If you have growing kids just the essentials of socks and underwear are going to squeeze into your budget. Clothing prices will be up for many reasons. Adults might be able to say no one will see our underwear so we don’t need new ones. Kids on the other, while still not showing off their underwear, do grow out of them rather quickly. Where a six pack of them costs around $8.00 now and require you to buy news ones once or twice a year. When they start costing $12, $15, or $20 for each kid the prices really start to hit your budget. Furthermore do you really want be forced into deciding whether or not to get your kid a toy for their birthday or a package of underwear? Those will be the choices we will be forced into should retail fail.
Let us move on. The cost of this bailout will likely be closer to a trillion dollars rather than the estimated $700 billion we are being told about. The plan doesn’t include an increase in taxes which may or may not be necessary later on depending on how future military spending is dealt with. I want a final plan that addresses that issue. once these houses are put back in order, which I believe will be possible under proper over site the government will be reaping the benefits of the institutions. Not counting for that less than a hundred dollars of the average Joe’s tax monthly tax burden will be spent on this. Could that money be better spent on other programs? Sure, it could. On the other hand ask yourself if over then next year you can afford a fifty to hundred percent price rise on everything you buy. While that increase might not mean anything to the McCain’s Palin’s, or CEO’s of major financial institutions it will hit Joe and Jane American where it hurts regardless of political or religious affiliation.
Bush Wants Bailout McCain Says Screw Them
September 21, 2008
Bush wants OK to spend $700B - Sep. 20, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for the authority to spend as much as $700 billion to purchase troubled mortgage assets and contain the financial crisis.
McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts - Yahoo! News
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Republican John McCain said Friday the Federal Reserve needs to stop bailing out failed financial institutions. The Republican presidential hopeful said the Fed should get back to “its core business of responsibly managing our money supply and inflation” and he laid out several recommendations for stabilizing markets in the financial crisis that has rocked Wall Street and commanded the dialogue in the presidential campaign.
For the first time, I might actually be agreeing with W. Bailing out these companies is a must. Left to their own devices they will fail. That wouldn’t be a bad thing until you look at the assets they do have and will leverage to stay afloat as long as possible. As this won’t have a direct affect on McCain and most of his cronies, they don’t understand or care just how bad it will hurt everyone else immediately. They don’t even seem to understand or believe the long term consequences will affect them and their ability to live with their heads in the clouds, such in the state of neoconservative elitism.
The first things these financial giants will do to stay afloat left to their own devices is raise the rates on every adjustable rate product they have just as quickly as they can, including the ones issued to good paying middle income people. They know they are already going down, so they will have no compunction about raising rates above where people can pay their bills, so long as they pay their mortgages. They are right too, most people people will do their best, possibly defaulting on other debt, to save their homes. If the feds fail to help these mortgage giants, they will bankrupt the middle class as well. Read more
Questions That Need Answers
September 20, 2008
With the presidential debates quick at hand I find myself with questions I need to know the answers too. The first of many and maybe the most important of all is how will the next president deal with all the allegations of war crimes the current president has been accused of. Will the next president direct his attorney general to investigate those claims. Will he ignore them? Will he in Gerald Ford style simply pardon President Bush and his cronies in the name of healing? We claim to want this war to come to an end, but so long as these questions go unanswered this war will remain an ongoing event.
Matt Makes Sense
September 20, 2008
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Fixing The Housing Market.
September 19, 2008
I am getting tired of hearing about the sub-prime crisis. It is over. The trend pretty well came to a close by first quarter of 2006. These buyers either managed to convert their sub-prime to a standard mortgage or they collapsed when the standard six or seven percent rate they got for the first year or two ballooned to nine, ten, and even twelve percent more than a year ago. The few that still exist started at eight percent or more and a lot has already been done to help these people. Too little too late in my opinion, being one of those who was in the process of converting their mortgage when the local prices dropped like a rock and my wife got hurt at work.
This isn’t to say we aren’t still feeling the kick in the balls we got from sub-primes, we are, but sub-primes are our housing crisis of the moment. What we are feeling now is many of the well qualified buyers losing their homes, because of other financial factors. Then it is followed up by a surplus of homes on the market and no easy credit even for those who are still doing well and could afford them. it is more than time that the regulatory process begin in earnest.
The first solution from the regulatory standpoint is to force a longer period of lenders holding the loans they make. If A lender wants to offer a risky 3-5-7 adjustable rate mortgage, then they should be required to keep it for at least 66 months. To many lenders make high risk loans and often telling the buyers just to sign here we will work the numbers for you. This isn’t the brightest thing for anyone to do, but when a lender says we can get you this house on these payments and in two years of making these payments you can afford right now, you will be able to convert it, it sounds like a good deal and one you should let them work their magic for you. Lenders who are forced to hang on to loans are less likely to take advantage of people who may or may not be able to pay that higher amount.
The second regulatory approach needs to look at appraisals. We need to quit taking the top three comp home values for comparative purposes. At least one on the bottom end and the median price all need to be figured in to the formula. There is simply too many ways to screw the system and the buyers right now.
The last legislative action we can take is instead of providing a bail out to the lenders, they should require a certain percentage of new loans be made to lower income higher risk buyers on the glut of properties currently in default. I went to a local sherrif’s sale a while back where investors were scooping up properties fairly valued at $100k to $150k for $30k to $50k to use as rental properties. Banks under no circumstances make mortgages for that little without a hefty down payment to individuals buyers, even those with great credit. The same people who will end up renting these for $1000 a month or more, could have easily afford the $400 payments over 10 or 15 years. Since we are already bailing out the lenders whose greed forced a large part of this situation, we should be looking at helping the buyers who got screwed simply trying to live up to the dream of home ownership.
Hitler and McCain: A Fair Comparison
September 16, 2008
Over and over we keep here about John McCain’s integrity and honesty, but only from those so deluded that can’t see the lies through the rhetoric. The fact is John McCain wants to win, and win at all cost. There seems to be no stopping him when it comes to dishonest sleazy attacks. These aren’t little white lies either, the more bold and ostentatious the lie, the better he seems to like telling it. It sort of reminds of this quote:
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Even Karl Rove, the head of the previously held title of sleaziest campaigner says McCain has gone to far.
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A World Without Water
September 16, 2008
This isn’t only a problem in the US. While Los Angeles may not go into civil war and try and kill the people of San Diego or Las Vegas over the water, other parts of the world are not so inclined to be peaceful with the their water using neighbors. I have said it before and I will say it again, the next round of wars fought will not be the ones for oil or ideology, they will be the ones we fought over water and the food it helps grow.
The McCain Police State
September 15, 2008
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