When you here that phrase, ummm … Run.
(Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvsADU2OOWM)
Is it any wonder I voted for Mickey Mouse?
Southern California never gets much in the way of rain. At least, not in the way that the rest of the country gets it. For the most part, “rain” to SoCal is pretty much considered “heavy fog,” or “drizzle” in an extreme case. But over the last few days, they’ve experienced a normal, every-day, East Coast sort of rain which has caused numerous traffic accidents, evacuation planning and mass hysteria.
I remember a particular rain back in the early 90’s which would have been considered a “light shower” to Knoxville. However, the occurrence in SoCal was so foreign that it prompted numerous news reports.
A local radio show — the station and location escapes me at the present — did a spoof news report about the incident.
“Sir, can you tell me what happened here?” asked the fake reported.
“Yeah, man, like… There was all this water in the air?”
“Yes?”
“Then it landed…”
The specific storm included up to an inch of accumulation, thunder, lightning, and winds in excess of five miles per hour. A woman on Rodeo Drive experienced water so deep that it reached nearly half way up her stiletto heel. The State of California was immediately contacted to compensate her for the trauma.
But the devastation of nearly twenty years ago was not restricted simply to California. Thousand of activists flooded then-President George H.W. Bush’s office with demands that he take control of the disaster, which left Southern California’s homeless population demoralized and wet.
Much like Hurricane Katrina, which left nearly one million homeless without homes, nearby Nevada was subsequently inundated with an influx of storm survivors trying to find their beloved boxes.
I only hope that the events of past are not repeated during this crippling catastrophe, and that FEMA will respond accordingly in their attempts to offer shelter to the millions affected by this light rain.
I overheard a convenience store employee say that “now that President Obama is in office, he was going to finally get an “opportunity”. So I asked how long he has worked at the store and it turns out he was one of the assistant managers and has been for like 5 years.
In any event, I have to just ask this very simple question. Why would an individual waste 5 years of their life waiting for someone to give them something? (Especially a president of a country) I would have thought that after 2 or maybe 3 days would have been long enough to figure out that nobody is going to give us things in our result orientated economy and society. At what point did we just start sitting around with a fucking hand out waiting for shit to drop in our laps? What ever happened to personal responsibility and accountability?
Yea, the bastard was clueless when I uttered the famous quote “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thank you Thomas Edison!
I think Nintendo, X-box and Pong has fried our youths brains and made them lazy slack asses. If they are waiting for me to give them a handout, I have a backyard that needs mowing. Feel free to swing by. No, you only get paid when the job is done well. I won’t pay you just because you showed the fuck up.
God I am tired of supporting underachievers of our society. I really, really am.
At the beginning of last year, Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress stated that the takeover of MySQL by Sun Microsystems was, “a good thing.” Being that MySQL is the world’s most popular “free” Database solution, I immediately registered my concern, based on the twenty years of experience working with Sun’s products, vendors and support staff, and the general malaise that has existed at the company since 2002.
A software developer, working on a for-profit website, contacted me today, more than a little worried over something Sun had told them…
“Since you’re running your application on top of MySQL, you are required to purchase an enterprise license for MySQL.”
So it seems that Sun wants to change the terms of the Free, Open Source version of the MySQL product such that any software developer who allows the use of their Free, Open Source backend has to pay Sun a small fortune for an Enterprise MySQL License. Not only is it complete and utter bullshit, this is typical of Sun’s usual strong-arm tactics which nearly every commenter on Matt’s article warned about.
In nearly all instances of PHP software development, MySQL is merely being used a storage backend. No part of MySQL is being reproduced or packaged with any PHP software that I can think of, whether said software is Open Source, GPL, Freeware, or a Commercial Product.
And if they are willing to lie and attempt to cheat software developers out of their meager savings, then how well does this bode for future software development using MySQL as a backend?
Will Sun attempt to go after for-profit Internet Service Providers who provide users with the ability to devlop their own Database applications, or use MySQL as a backend to other web-based applications? Will Sun attempt to go after Hosting providers who do the same?
You can expect as much from a company who was a proven track-record of being one of the most greedy corporations on the planet. If it weren’t for their benefactors in the US Government, who heavily utilized their overpriced hardware and ridiculously priced “Platinum” support packages, Sun would have gone bust a long time ago. But, with your tax dollars footing their equity, Sun even managed to send their multi-million dollar Platinum Support customers to deal with ill-trained, rural support staff based in India… So much for Platinum, eh?
PostGreSQL is looking better and better…
Prior to their bombing run in Gaza on New Years Day, Israeli miltary telephoned many residents warning of the impending attacks. Leaflets dropped in eastern Gaza, sonic missles used as auditory warnings, and soldiers mounting at the borders should have made the attack no surprise. However, in typical fashion, these warnings were paid no mind, and the resulting devastation has led to a hornet’s nest of anti-Israeli and anti-US sentiment.
“When you stand in front of a moving train where the conductors are continuously flashing the lights and blowing their steam horns, whose fault is it, really, when you get run over?” asked Sam Kelter, legal and political correspondent at blogitude.com.
The surgical strike by Israel was largely successful in Gaza, where a militant mosque and more than twenty homes were leveled. homes which reportedly housed Hamas leaders, militants and weapons. In addition, Hamas militant leader Nizar Rayan, his four wives, and ten of his twelve children were killed, dealing a significant blow to the Hamas power structure in the region.
Gaza health officials claim more than seventeen hundred are wounded at present. The United Nations claims that up to twenty-five percent of the dead may be civilians, while Hamas actually verifies that around fifty-percent of its security forces are deceased, along with as many as twenty-five children. Whether or not these children were in Hamas homes is still unknown.
The present death toll includes around four hundred people, four thousand sheep, seventy five dogs, twelve monkeys, six geese a-laying, and an unidentified meat puppet which may have been used in a Quiznos commercial. No cats were injured during the bombing.
Asked to comment on the situation, upcoming President Barack Obama replied, “Umm, yes, and, umm, I plan, umm, to address, umm, this situation, ummm, when we, ummm, you know, umm, January, ummm, by the end of the, ummm, by tax season.”
It seems that our only hope of a diplomatic resolution to the situation may be in the verbal skills of future Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose previous statements regarding the War on Terrorism were, “I will not rule out the nuclear option.”
Lest we forget as we enter the fray of our Brave New World:
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
— Charles Baudelaire, “The Generous Gambler”
Sometimes, you read something that slants reality ever-so-slightly.
It’s a well-laid-out Conspiracy which didn’t do a damn thing for me. It’s a theme we’re all to familiar with, anyway:
Liberals accuse Conservatives of “One World Government” while surreptitiously kicking the legs out from under their own argument with their own objectives. Republicans then attempt to “fix” the situation, all the why claiming that it happened due to a lack of foresight, while kicking the legs out from under their own argument by passing the first proposal to come along.
They all come together in the middle, and we get screwed in the process. No big friggin’ news there.
Actually, the blog did get me thinking.
But it wasn’t the Conspiracy theory…
Instead, it was this statement by Dwight Eisenhower that struck me:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
“Knowlegeable citizenry,” schmitizenry…
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America.
— George Wald
For years, we’ve observed that peoples’ attentions spans are short, and their memories even shorter. A perfect example of this is in the Obama campaign’s vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, inciting mass hysteria over Sexism, and yet, when she dropped from the race, people forgot… and began blaming Republicans for said sexism, despite the confessions of so many prominent Democrats that it was them all along.
The afforementioned blog was also haven to a quote suitable for a “Duh of the Day” award. In reference to Obama making promises he has no intention of keeping, and in stark contrast to “knowlegeable citizenry,” someone replied:
No way he’ll bite the hand that feeds.
I would counter with this, further showing that our memory has been disrupted for a good century and a half:
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
“Honest Abe” fooled a Hell of a lot of people, promising during his campaign and subsequent inauguration that it wasn’t his job to outlaw slavery, nor would he, as it was the right of each and free man to draw their own conclusions. It was those statements that got him elected, but what did he do afterwards?
Yes… He bit that hand pretty hard.
Regardless of The Emancipation Proclamation’s forward-thinking and status as a defining document in our Nation’s history, the very nature of its passage is still a matter of great debate and conjecture. There are many people, both black and white, who consider that our History books are incorrect, claiming that the Proclamation was nothing more than a political ploy designed to disable the ability of the Confederacy to operate autonomously.
To a very large degree, it worked. However, it was also the reason for Lincoln’s untimely demise, thus proving his own theory to be correct… You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Back to the point, please show me a Politician who doesn’t bite the hand that feeds…
Everyone knows that you can tell when Politicians are lying because their lips are moving.
I almost said, “his lips,” but I didn’t want to come off as “sexist.” *smirk*
Remember what I said:
If you don’t vote, you have no right to bitch.
’nuff said.
This stuff is still going through the Supreme Court, being re-filed October 30th, 2008.
I actually took up for the Obama bastard the other day, saying, “Look, there’s enough crap to go off on without making shit up. He has a Hawaiian birth certificate, born to American mother, so he’s obviously an American Citizen.”
However, there is no Ceritificate of Live Birth from the State of Hawaii. There are documents provided once he and his mother returned to Hawaii from Kenya, documents which clearly state that he was born in Mombassa, Kenya.
Not a good thing… And WTF?
Point: Yes, his mother was American.
Counterpoint: His mother would have had to transfer Citizenship to him, therefore making him a Naturalized citizen — not a natural born citizen, and therefore, he is inelligible to be President of the United States of America.
Furtherpoint: He was never naturalized, and provides no proof whatsoever that he is an American Citizen at all.
Due to a preponderance of evidence, I would further suggest that not only Barack Hussein Obama, but the Democratic National Election Committee, should be held on charges of Immigration Fraud and Election Fraud.
Now, can we deport his ass, please?
Thank you, drive through…
While all these rumors are circulating, I’m gonna stick with facts, not spin.
No bullshit. No rumors. Just facts.
While half the country complains about religious, racial and sectarian violence — and even genocide — in Africa and wonders why we don’t do something about it, another part ignores it and says, “That’s just the way things are.”
But when a formerly peaceful tourist destination — so close to one of our own battlefields — destabilizes and a taliban-style Shariah is signed to force Islam upon its Christian members of the population, enforce dress codes against all woman (including tourists, and not just Muslim women like it was in Afghanistan), and then goes the extra step to kick out international peace keepers and refuse the extradition of terrorists, how would you feel?
Starts to make one feel a little antsy, doesn’t it?
And how would you feel about one of our own Presidential candidates having repeatedly endorsed the person — even spoken on his behalf to that country’s masses — who is directly responsible for those actions?
Does it really depend on your political affiliation as to whether or not you ask this man to address that?
And hey, this is only one thing… How is there possibly any defense for this?
(Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0)
Now I know that this video doesn’t show it (those keep being removed), but if, “It’s common for American politicians to be seen with foreign dignitaries!” then why are there plenty of sources, including sources actually in Kenya, who show and tell all about Obama campaigning with Odinga? Campaigning together for “Change?” Fully endorsing Odinga to his own people, telling them it’s time for “Change?”
That’s exactly what an endorsement is…
And if, “Odinga is not Muslim! He’s Anglican!” then why is his signature at the bottom of a three page Memorandum which states that he “recognizes that Islam as the only true religion?”
My biggest problem with this is the constant spin by Liberals and the Obama Campaign itself — deny, deny, deny, deny — “That rumor was debunked!” — when the evidence and truth are right there that these events did occur, and Odinga’s signature is right there on page three.
(Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P_P8lBCsE)
Before you throw out the whole video because Odinga and Obama are not blood relatives (they call everyone “cousin” there), keep in mind that Kenya has issues. Obama still supported and endorsed the very man who led a failed coup attempt against his own government, the man who headed a violent opposition political party. This same man promised and proposed Taliban-style Shariah, and signed documents to that effect.
You can say, “Obama isn’t Muslim!” all you want, and that may well be true. Nor was his father an Arab, as more recent rumors claim… he was an ethnic Lou from Kenya. (Actually, to me, both of those things are irrelevant. For the most part, as I don’t feel that Islam is inherently wrong. Most of these countries problems are cause by a lack of Seperation of Church and State, and Islam is allowed to be the “supreme law,” and leaders are able to use the religion to control their populations.)
The bigger point here is that having one of our own political candidates directly involved with in a foreign country’s election process is as inflammatory as it is reprehensible. You do not see our people hanging around with opposition candidates. It is not the job of a U.S. Senator to go on the campaign trail with a foreign opposition leader, because that in itself constitutes an American endorsement.
The questions you have to ask yourself are simple… how can you slam an opposition party for opportunisticly aligning themselves for personal and political gain when your own candidate does the same damn thing? And how can a U.S. Senator violate the trust of his office by endorsing an opposition candidate, regardless of their political motivations?
And why does everyone else in the world see that but us?
Note: Memorandum of Understanding provided by the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya.
Barack Obama thinks we’re all idiots, and if we believe his bullshit, then we are.
This morning, to the applause of his supporters, I heard both him and Al Gore go on about how he “voted against the war Iraq.”
How the Hell could Obama have voted against the war in Iraq when he only came into office in 2005?
And surely Paul Street and I are not the only people who remember that not only did Barack Obama support the war in Iraq, he wasn’t “ruling out the nuclear option” even though we have to “pull out now.” Pull out now, give up, and nuke the place, huh?
There’s some great foreign policy…
And right now, with the WORLD economy in upheaval, foreign policy is just a little more important than our current problems, because a bit of diplomacy and trade might be a damn good way to pull us out of recession and restore the American people’s faith in our dollar…
