This Just In – Criss Angel Sucks
Published 2011.06.15 | 
Well, I was going to write up a post about Criss Angel and how bad he sucks at magic and even just plain entertaining people. Then I found a nice write up at another blog out there and I really couldn’t see that I would improve upon it so I figured I would link to it instead.
“First of all, Criss, can I call you Chris? If you’re going to take a pseudonym, why don’t you not spell it like a jackass? I mean, I understand if you’re one of those people whose parents thought they were being original and decided to spell your name with all kinds of crazy extra vowels, misplaced consonants and the letter Y. But you, you CHOSE this name and that’s the route you went? Interesting.
Anyway, I don’t know if any of you have ever seen the show “Mindfreak” on A&E – but it’s terrible. It’s got “acting” and a production quality on par with porn and is generally pretty uninspiring. In addition to dressing like a model from the Hot Topic catalog CA’s deep self love and constant chest pounding/finger kissing/pointing at the sky routine wears thin pretty quickly.”
Today’s Words of Wisdom – 2011.06.12
Published 2011.06.12 |
Forgive your enemies – It really messes with their heads!
C, E-flat and G go into a bar …
Published 2011.06.11 | My buddy Steve posted this on his Facebook page and I just had to share it, it’s brilliant really …
“C, E-flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, “sorry, but we don’t serve minors.” So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.
D comes in and heads for the bathroom saying, “Excuse me. I’ll just be a second.” Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, “Get out! You’re the seventh minor I’ve found in this bar tonight.”
E-Flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, “you’re looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development.” Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au natural.
Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he’s under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.”
The Government Interferes with Business and We The People get Screwed!
Published 2011.05.04 | 
Frankly, after reading an article recently, I don’t know which part is worse. The fact that the Government feels like they need to be meddling in the business affairs of banks across the country and the retailers that sell goods and services to the country’s people, or the unfettered power that the banks can wield to make us all feel their wrath.
I know, I know, you are reading this and thinking that I had a double helping of my fanatic-o’s this morning, but that isn’t true. This is a real situation and problem that we are all facing (or soon will be facing) right here and right now. I am talking about the war that is waging between the banks and the Federal Reserve, a war over something as simple sounding as “swipe fees”.
You see, swipe fees are what retailers pay the banks when you and I swipe our debit card as we buy something. To the tune of about $0.44 cents per swipe or purchase on average. This is where it gets interesting, the Federal Reserve has gotten all puffed up and self righteous saying that they need to cut those swipe fees by more than 70%, to about $0.12 cents per swipe. Take that few cents difference and multiply it over a few bazillion times a day that people make purchases and you can see why the banks are pretty peeved over it.
Naturally, the banks reaction is to cut out those rewards programs they have been enticing people with. Not to mention jacking ATM fees up high and faster than gas prices at the pump. In some places, people are seeing $4 and $5 ATM fees for non-customers! Yowza! Another tactic that the banks are proposing, is capping the limit of what you can purchase with your debit card, like making it so that you can’t purchase more than say $50 worth of stuff at a time. This means you’ll have to get more swipes in to ultimately make that purchase, even if you run it as a credit card. On top of all that, if you make a late payment, even a customer in good standing that previously never missed one, they have it worked out so they can hike your APR to as much as 30%! Nice customer loyalty program there, isn’t it?
Sneaky, huh?
Right now, most of this stuff is not in effect yet, but it’s being tested in certain locations and plans are being made while bank lobbyists and Federal Reserve Weenies argue over it. Either way this falls, stay informed and keep an eye out for tricks so you don’t get hammered by one side or the other. Take a look at this article and get some more details too, it’s an eye opener.
Michael Moore is a lying hypocritical bastard
Published 2011.05.01 | Here is a quote from Michael Moore: “8 years ago today, Bush stood on a ship & told a lie. He had told so many on land, he thought he’d see if they’d float better on water.”
That’s really funny to me since I have yet to hear anything out of his pie hole of a mouth that isn’t a lie. From his fake documentaries funded by George Soros that spread misconceptions and half-truths just to stir the political pot and provide fodder for the biased as hell media outlets, to his phony speeches and rigged awards. The guy is a useless factory of misinformation and now it seems, a hypocrite as well. I guess we see why he and our so called President are on the same side, they both lie, cheat and steal better than most of the crooks in prison. They haven’t been caught after all.
I know, I know, you are all thinking that I shouldn’t hide my feelings and I should tell you how I really feel about him! LOL
Government Shutdown Avoided, but at what cost?
Published 2011.04.09 | It appears that politicians from all sides came to enough of a collective bargain as to pass a budget finally. I mean, it’s only seven months late after all. With the president refusing to allow any more extensions, not even a one week extension proposed by one side and then the other, folks were forced to come to common ground or let the whole Federal system grind to a halt.
I am not saying that Hussein Obama was right or wrong in vetoing extensions for more negotiation time, only time will tell on that one, but in all the rush, fuss, mess and turmoil, what got missed or shoved through without enough forethought? The figure has come in at something like $38 billion dollars[1] they cut from the budget, to expand to $500 billion over the next few years. Does anyone outside of those few politicians, who were no doubt serving their own self interest, actually know what all those cuts mean? There is absolutely no way that our so called president could have gotten a handle on what all was in there that fast, no way in hell.
Top that off with Nancy Pelosi, Grand Witch of the Democrats claiming that despite legislation that cuts FCC rules and powers, they will continue to operate in the same way regardless[2]. Tell me, how does that work? Can some people just ignore the law and just do what they want despite it being illegal, just because they are a politician? I know, dumb question. This is ridiculous, and is just another example of how broken and corrupt our government is.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my country and it’s still the best that I have seen compared to most anything else out there, but it is blatantly obvious that it’s not about we the people anymore. Today’s government is about the pockets of the politicians, and how they can get them lined even more than before.
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1 CommentPresident Obama and his Un-Wavering Decisions
Published 2011.03.24 | Just a couple new stories that I found and thus found interesting about the War in Libya … I mean the “KINETIC MILITARY ACTION” which is what we have been told to call it instead of a war. *Sheesh* Is Charlie Sheen writing for the Whitehouse Staff now??
Anyway, that’s for a different post maybe, the articles I specifically wanted to share with you are more edicts or decisions that have come forth from the Almighty Obama, and then what looks like reality stepping in to do its thang.
First we have President Obama stating firmly that as far as the KINETIC MILITARY ACTION in Libya is concerned, the United States would send “No ground troops, no matter what happens “. Seems like a pretty final statement to me except that second, we have another news report shows us that there are “about 2,200 Marines off the shore of Libya right now.” Let me see now, if my math isn’t too rusty that about 4,400 boots on the ground. How’s all that working out for ya Mr. Pres?
Stop Hijacking My System Tray
Published 2011.03.08 | You want to know one of the things that really draws my ire? I mean really makes me want to uninstall your pathetic excuse for a piece of software, remove any remnants or traces of it having ever been near my machine in the first place, destroy the CD it came on with fire called down from the heavens and send ravenous zombie hordes to your home office? It’s when some developer douche bag decides that he knows what I want more than I do.
I don’t mind if you ask me, give me a choice, but not every damn program out there needs to put one or more items into my system tray to load there every time the computer starts and slow down my startup time, eating away at memory and CPU power. Normally this is under the guise of “speeding up the application”. Well, I say that if you need all of those pre-loaders to make your application function acceptably, maybe you should go back to Fortran 101 and learn to write good code in the first place!
What’s worse, are the damn services that get installed and started that we don’t even know about. Why does a simple media player need a web server? Why does my GPS management app want or need to check out my hard drive at night? Have all developers taken refuge at the throne of Bill Gates and Lenovo or something?
“We have a right to look at the user’s private information because they bought our crap.” or “We don’t need to worry about writing tight, efficient bug free code, we’ll just tell the customer to by a new computer and get more kick backs from Intel.”
Not to mention the shift away from ownership to leasing. Now when you “buy” software, you really are only “buying” a license that allows you to use it for a period of time. Screw that noise, man. If I am interested in a certain product and see that kind of license, ffft it’s gone and I am looking at something else.
This is just one reason why Open Source software is so damn good and popular. Microsoft and the other behemoths of the commercial software industry want to come out and tell everyone that free software isn’t really free, it costs you more than the expensive slop that they sell. The thing is, they don’t get it. We don’t mean free as in dollars, we mean free as in spirit and ethics. You get some open source code and you may spend a few bucks to implement it or get some support, or you may not, either way it is completely open. All of the source code is there so you can make damn sure no one is spying on you or stealing information from you. You can make a change to the app if you feel like it so that it fits better to your needs, instead of only getting “good enough”. It’s free like the wind and water cascading down the mountain, and brothers and sisters, that’s a great place to be.
RANGO
Published 2011.03.07 | 
As in, the name is …
Went to see the latest animated monster box office explosion Saturday with my family, and I have to tell you that it was awesome. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed Despicable Me and after that Mega Mind. However, Rango was written on a much higher level while also on the lower kid level. This was much like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where kids and adults both loved them and thought they were funny, but for two very different reasons!
So, I say all of this to say, go see Rango if you have the opportunity, it’s a blast, I am sure you won’t regret it. The whole theater was packed and everyone, even the kids, where belly laughing all over the place.
Radical Islam … I mean Jewish Rabbis?
Published 2011.02.28 | This is kind of funny, whether you like Glenn Beck or not this should be a wake up call for where our country is headed. It seems that Radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck made a comment comparing Reform Judaism to Radical Islam, and the comparison made a bunch of Jewish leaders mad. Now, I read over what he said and I don’t get the big deal. He basically compared the two and made an observation that Radical Islam and Reform Judaism were more about politics that religion. That’s the man’s opinion, he wasn’t saying that one was bad or better than the other, just offering an observation.
So, naturally Glenn Beck apologized, and appeared to be every bit sincere and remorseful that he made a comparison that upset folk. I mean, the guy expresses his opinion (which, last time I check, we were free to do in this country), people complain about it because basically they are going to complain about anything that isn’t glowing praise about their agenda they are pushing, and Beck basically comes back to say he was sorry, he didn’t mean to offend anyone. Seems like a pretty normal exchange, I think we have all had something similar happen. You say something and someone gets pissed, and you put your hands up like “Hey, didn’t mean anything man, sorry about what I said about your sister, my bad”. After that you have another couple beers and all is good.
Not so with these guys, they came back from Beck’s apology and have said that “Anything short” of ending “Mr. Beck’s tenure at Fox News” by Rupert Murdoch “reflects an unwillingness to take seriously the harm Mr. Beck causes to many in our community and beyond”.
Wow.
No, really. Wow.
These guys need some Prozac in a bad way. Nice turning of the other cheek there. Way to get along with your fellow man and all that. The guy apologizes for not really doing anything wrong from what I can tell, and you want to pull an Imus on him. Get a life and get a grip on reality you moonbat. The folks ultimately behind all of this the “Jewish Funds for Justice” league need to re-evaluate the word justice. You can read the whole article here if you like, it’s just as ludicrous.
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