A Kind Word and a 2x4

Damn...this is good!

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:41:00 +0000

And something that's been being said. The painting is gorgeous...the reason for the painting...is ugly.

And the follow up

Gonna blame video games...AGAIN?

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:23:00 +0000

Oh this ought to be good. A 15yr old kills his adoptive parents. His uncle automatically suspects that Video Games are the culprit?

"But the boy's infatuation with violent video games was starting to give his uncle pause."

Give that broken record a rest. I've been playing video games and some very violent ones for most of my life. Been watching violent movies for ALL my life. I haven't gone out and killed anyone? Neither do 99.9% of people who play games..be they violent or other wise. So please..roll that putrid pile of camel shit by someone else please.

Of course this had nothing at ALL to do with the Violent crowd he was hanging out with..
"Co-workers said Poff and Kamin were having some arguments with their son, some of it having to do with him spending too much time in the Occupy Oakland encampment, but nothing that sounded beyond the scope of typical teenage rebelliousness."

Not at alllll. Again..roll that pile of shit by someone who will buy it.

Good Video..

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Watch it and pass it along..

The State of DISUnion 2012 (Part 2)

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:31:00 +0000

And awaaayyyy we go again my friends.

Jackie Bray is a single mom from North Carolina who was laid off from her job as a mechanic. Then Siemens opened a gas turbine factory in Charlotte, and formed a partnership with Central Piedmont Community College. The company helped the college design courses in laser and robotics training. It paid Jackie’s tuition, then hired her to help operate their plant.

I want every American looking for work to have the same opportunity as Jackie did. Join me in a national commitment to train 2 million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. (Applause.) My administration has already lined up more companies that want to help. Model partnerships between businesses like Siemens and community colleges in places like Charlotte, and Orlando, and Louisville are up and running. Now you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -– places that teach people skills that businesses are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.

Such a thing already exists bucko. They're called VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS!

And I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that from now on, people like Jackie have one program, one website, and one place to go for all the information and help that they need. It is time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work. (Applause.)

It's called learn to use a computer and browse the web...ain't that difficult. The job listings are myriad. As are the various vocational/tech schools that are out there. sorry sell the sob story to someone who's buying.

These reforms will help people get jobs that are open today. But to prepare for the jobs of tomorrow, our commitment to skills and education has to start earlier.

We don't need that kind of reform. Just the shut the hell up, sit down and stay the fuck out of our way.

For less than 1 percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we’ve convinced nearly every state in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning -- the first time that’s happened in a generation.

really? YOU personally made the call on that? Don't think so.

But challenges remain. And we know how to solve them.

At a time when other countries are doubling down on education, tight budgets have forced states to lay off thousands of teachers. We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000. A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond his circumstance. Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies -- just to make a difference.

It doesn't matter how good the teacher is, if the student isn't willing to learn, and the parents don't backstop the teachers. No..wait..The first line of defense is PARENTS, if the parents aren't involved, making sure the kids do their homework, teaching them to love learning, to love to read, to acquire knowledge...then nothing those great teachers can do is going to reach the uncaring kids.

Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. (Applause.) And in return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making. (Applause.)

Oh look he's using a conservative/libertarian talking point. We've been saying that for a lonnng time. The dems because of unions, including teachers unions..turn out to vote for them, well golly gee beaver...the liberals don't want to hear it.

We also know that when students don’t walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. When students are not allowed to drop out, they do better. So tonight, I am proposing that every state -- every state -- requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18. (Applause.)

Once again...government enforcement, and mandated control by the government accomplishes nothing. That's all that Central Planning indoctrination and training Barry had growing up, talking.

When kids do graduate, the most daunting challenge can be the cost of college. At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. (Applause.)

College is not a fucking cookie cutter, one size fits all proposition. Jeebus Jumping H Christ! I know guys that never went to college or tech school who are more knowledgable in their field than people who went to college or tech school. Know guys who went to tech/vocational schools who are better at their jobs than people with 4yr degree. The solution depends entirely on the individual.

Extend the tuition tax credit we started that saves millions of middle-class families thousands of dollars, and give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs in the next five years. (Applause.)

One of my friends is in the field of science and meds. He's got a Masters and is working on his Ph.D, all while going to school full time and holding down a full time job and without ever having taken a dime of government money. You don't need a government grant to go to school or college..just a hell of a work ethic that used to be fairly common place. Now? Not so much.

Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid. We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money. States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down.

No more tenured professors would be a good place for universities to start.

Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who’ve done just that. Some schools redesign courses to help students finish more quickly. Some use better technology. The point is, it’s possible. So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. (Applause.) Higher education can’t be a luxury -– it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.

The education is there and free for the taking. It's called a library and if you have computer access there are so many free college courses out there now it's ridiculous. We won't even discuss all the how to teaching videos out there for free on places like You Tube.

Let’s also remember that hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: the fact that they aren’t yet American citizens. Many were brought here as small children, are American through and through, yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others came more recently, to study business and science and engineering, but as soon as they get their degree, we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else.

That doesn’t make sense.

I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. That’s why my administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. That’s why there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office. The opponents of action are out of excuses. We should be working on comprehensive immigration reform right now. (Applause.)

note...he's lying through his forked tongue again.

But if election-year politics keeps Congress from acting on a comprehensive plan, let’s at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new businesses, defend this country. Send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. I will sign it right away. (Applause.)

You see, an economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work. (Applause.) It means we should support everyone who’s willing to work, and every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs.

After all, innovation is what America has always been about. Most new jobs are created in start-ups and small businesses. So let’s pass an agenda that helps them succeed. Tear down regulations that prevent aspiring entrepreneurs from getting the financing to grow. (Applause.) Expand tax relief to small businesses that are raising wages and creating good jobs. Both parties agree on these ideas. So put them in a bill, and get it on my desk this year. (Applause.)

This from an administration that has enacted more and proposed yet even more regulations than any other administration? yeah float that shit by someone else.

Innovation also demands basic research. Today, the discoveries taking place in our federally financed labs and universities could lead to new treatments that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones untouched. New lightweight vests for cops and soldiers that can stop any bullet. Don’t gut these investments in our budget. Don’t let other countries win the race for the future. Support the same kind of research and innovation that led to the computer chip and the Internet; to new American jobs and new American industries.

yeah yeah same old shit different day, trying to act american as apple pie while trying to turn the country into a gulag.

And nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. (Applause.) Right now -- right now -- American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years. That’s right -- eight years. Not only that -- last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past 16 years. (Applause.)

he's lying again...there's less oil production since he took office, not more.

But with only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, oil isn’t enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. (Applause.) A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

Wrong again boyo...we've got more oil reserves than you can shake a stick at. somewhere around 300yrs worth give or take. And even more 'possible' reserves than you can shake a stick at.

We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years. (Applause.) And my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. (Applause.) Because America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk.

Actually the natural gas reserves will last longer than that.

The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy. (Applause.) And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock –- reminding us that government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. (Applause.)

Wrong.

Now, what’s true for natural gas is just as true for clean energy. In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world’s leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries. Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled, and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.

And everyone of those partnerships has gone bankrupt...because the technologies are not economically feasible..and some like wind..just plain don't work consistently.

When Bryan Ritterby was laid off from his job making furniture, he said he worried that at 55, no one would give him a second chance. But he found work at Energetx, a wind turbine manufacturer in Michigan. Before the recession, the factory only made luxury yachts. Today, it’s hiring workers like Bryan, who said, “I’m proud to be working in the industry of the future.”

Sigh...he's lying again..trying to misdirect with a sob story. There's thousands upon thousands of wind turbines sitting idle, unmaintained and unused. I won't even bother to go into why. Do your own research.

Our experience with shale gas, our experience with natural gas, shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don’t always come right away. Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. I will not walk away from workers like Bryan. (Applause.) I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

Of course he won't because the government has heavily subsidized and loaned metric fuck tons of money to...these 'clean energy' companies. The left has a vested interest in them. Talk to some our friends in England and see just how well thats working for them...they'll tell you...not well at all.

We’ve subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s long enough. (Applause.) It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs. (Applause.)

Vested interest in clean energy, because it's good propaganda.

We can also spur energy innovation with new incentives. The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change. But there’s no reason why Congress shouldn’t at least set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation. So far, you haven’t acted. Well, tonight, I will. I’m directing my administration to allow the development of clean energy on enough public land to power 3 million homes. And I’m proud to announce that the Department of Defense, working with us, the world’s largest consumer of energy, will make one of the largest commitments to clean energy in history -– with the Navy purchasing enough capacity to power a quarter of a million homes a year. (Applause.)

Human caused climate change is a myth. You do realize what the biggest SINGLE contributor to our climate is? It's that big burning ball of fire, that nuclear fusion reactor in the sky.....the single bright light of our existence....THE SUN!

Of course, the easiest way to save money is to waste less energy. So here’s a proposal: Help manufacturers eliminate energy waste in their factories and give businesses incentives to upgrade their buildings. Their energy bills will be $100 billion lower over the next decade, and America will have less pollution, more manufacturing, more jobs for construction workers who need them. Send me a bill that creates these jobs. (Applause.)

Numbers pulled out of thin air and someones ass, to sound good.

Building this new energy future should be just one part of a broader agenda to repair America’s infrastructure. So much of America needs to be rebuilt. We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges; a power grid that wastes too much energy; an incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world.

Why is America's infrastructure failing? Why because money that SHOULD have been spent on infrastructure has been spent on touchy feely, feel good, "social programs". Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps...any of these ring a bell? There was a recent study of the numbers done. We spend 3x as much every year on these "social programs" as we do on defense and the various wars we've been fighting. Tell me again how this isn't a problem?

During the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. After World War II, we connected our states with a system of highways. Democratic and Republican administrations invested in great projects that benefited everybody, from the workers who built them to the businesses that still use them today.

In the next few weeks, I will sign an executive order clearing away the red tape that slows down too many construction projects. But you need to fund these projects. Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home. (Applause.)

See my previous statement.

There’s never been a better time to build, especially since the construction industry was one of the hardest hit when the housing bubble burst. Of course, construction workers weren’t the only ones who were hurt. So were millions of innocent Americans who’ve seen their home values decline. And while government can’t fix the problem on its own, responsible homeowners shouldn’t have to sit and wait for the housing market to hit bottom to get some relief.

Again whose fault is the housing bubble burst? The United States Fucking Government.

And that’s why I’m sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low rates. (Applause.) No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the deficit and will give those banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust. (Applause.)

Once again the government sticking it's nose even deeper into the housing market. Someplace it didn't belong in the first place.

Let’s never forget: Millions of Americans who work hard and play by the rules every day deserve a government and a financial system that do the same. It’s time to apply the same rules from top to bottom. No bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts. An America built to last insists on responsibility from everybody.

This from an administration who has probably had more handouts in the last 3 years than the previous 12yrs and 2 adminstrations combined? He's trying to baffle you with bullshit since he can't blind you with brilliance. Wake up and smell what the son of a bitch is shoveling.

Tomorrow..the final 3rd act in our stage play.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity. TANSTAAFL

The State of DISUnion 2012 (Part 1)

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:32:00 +0000

Okay boys and girls...and awaaayyyy we go! I'll have my remarks interspersed in bold..like I normally try and do....oh and since my blog gets a little wonky with fonts for some reason on occasion I may take to pasting the presidents speech in Italics. Okay?

Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought -- and several thousand gave their lives.

Well lets see..considering most everything Obama has done is an INSULT to that flag and our constitution..I find it insulting that he has the gall to salute the colors he spits on.

We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. (Applause.) For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. (Applause.) For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. (Applause.) Most of al Qaeda’s top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home.

Respected? Really? Most of the world holds us in contempt due to Obama's "I hate my country and want to change it so leave me and the country the hell alone while I destroy it" World Apology Tour. The bulk of the inroads against Al Queda was made under Bush while after a while the same Democrats who stood hand to hand with Republicans that the threat must be defeated, turned around and said "why are we doing this? We shouldn't be doing this" within 24mos of operations being launched.

These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces. At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together.

In order..Yes they are a testament to our Armed Forces, a group of selfless men and women which I have always revered and held in the highest respect. Institutions? Try the entirety of the United States Government Bureaucracy!

Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example. (Applause.) Think about the America within our reach: A country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. A future where we’re in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren’t so tied to unstable parts of the world. An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded.

All of which happened on a regular basis and frequently til the government decided it knew best about a great many things, got greedy and power hungry and decided to get involved in things it knows fuck all about. If our government was a private business it would have gone into bankruptcy, been bought up and sold in tiny little pieces and would be no more. Why? because while I haven't tracked back past the Obama administration I can tell you this with clarity. Our government in the last 3 years has CONSISTENTLY spent well over a TRILLION dollars more than it has taken in, in taxes and what not. That means our government under Obama has BORROWED well over 3 TRILLION dollars [have to go back and look but It's closer to 4 or better I believe] from China in the last 3yrs.

We can do this. I know we can, because we’ve done it before. At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known. (Applause.) My grandfather, a veteran of Patton’s Army, got the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of a workforce that turned out the best products on Earth.

Yes we can do it..but everytime we DO our government pisses away all our gains. Through the greed of our supposed representatives. Creating more regulations to make it harder to get a business off the ground and when you DO, you're now penalized and taxed out the ass for being successful.

The two of them shared the optimism of a nation that had triumphed over a depression and fascism. They understood they were part of something larger; that they were contributing to a story of success that every American had a chance to share -- the basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement.

The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive. No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by, or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. (Applause.) What’s at stake aren’t Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. And we have to reclaim them.

No the defining issue of our time is the growing socializing/communizing of our country. The take over of our government by marxist principles. The Marginalizing of all the principles and concepts that have made this country great. Principles like Honor, Self Reliance, Freedom, Integrity and Respect. On and on. Notice how in this section he's talking about haves and have nots..class warefare. Blaming the wealthy for the woes of the world instead of where it squarely lies...power hungry governments and despots. Giving everyone a fair shot? Everyone paying their fare share. Most millionaires, pay more in one YEAR than any of the rest of the "working class" pay in their entire LIVES. Just forex..as much as I detest Mitt Romney's politics he's a wealthy man. He made $20 million last year..he paid $3 million in taxes on it. One of my favorite authors is self employed. He writes AND he has a day job. He had a troll come on his website and try and lay into him and spouting that tired old communist/socialist rhetoric about the "wealthy paying more" and "paying their fair share". His response to the troll? Well the gist of it was this [my words not his] 'hey asshole, I paid enough in the last QUARTER to buy a brand new Hyundai! Don't tell ME I'm not paying my "fair share"! A number of the self employed people have to file every 3 months[every financial quarter] on their earnings. Didn't know that one did ya?

Let’s remember how we got here. Long before the recession, jobs and manufacturing began leaving our shores. Technology made businesses more efficient, but also made some jobs obsolete. Folks at the top saw their incomes rise like never before, but most hardworking Americans struggled with costs that were growing, paychecks that weren’t, and personal debt that kept piling up.

Now why were companies leaving our shores and shipping jobs overseas? Regulations and UNIONS. But you won't hear those words roll off the forked tongue of our Chief Rat. He's bought and paid for by the unions..he's out of the famous..no make that INFAMOUS Chicago Machine political structure. Where greed and graft are the law. I'll get more into growing costs later..but by and large it all goes to my first sentence in this particular paragraph.

In 2008, the house of cards collapsed. We learned that mortgages had been sold to people who couldn’t afford or understand them. Banks had made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money. Regulators had looked the other way, or didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behavior.

Why did the house of cards collapse and why had those mortgages been sold? Why by the order of the GOVERNMENT..the bankers were told to make dangerous loans to try and make money and grow the economy and therefore the government coffers. Forced to make loans to people who couldn't buy the ash droppings off a cigarette let alone a brand new car or home. I know first hand about the former. I worked car sales and you would not believe the number of people who made maybe 12-18,000/year who had ALL their credit cards in collection, and *with no money down*, who expected the banks we dealt with to grant them a loan, so they could buy a $35-40,000 car or truck. Then had the nerve to get pissed at ME when I told them. "Uhmm sorry no, can't do it. Our Financial people MIGHT be able to get the banks to swing the loan for 'this'[this usually being a small compact..like a Cavalier or the Chevy Geo...god how I hated that fucking thing] car here. I'm not being mean mr/mrs customer..just giving you the unvarnished truth because I respect you and myself to think you deserve it and I expect it of the people I deal with" Dear Lord the cussings I used to get hung on me.

It was wrong. It was irresponsible. And it plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hardworking Americans holding the bag. In the six months before I took office, we lost nearly 4 million jobs. And we lost another 4 million before our policies were in full effect.

Why yes it was wrong and irresponsible but those two concepts are words to live by for our government. By hook or by crook..they don't give a flying fuck who they have to screw to get their wealth and power. Obama is a prime example of that.

Those are the facts. But so are these: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. (Applause.)

Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. Together, we’ve agreed to cut the deficit by more than $2 trillion. And we’ve put in place new rules to hold Wall Street accountable, so a crisis like this never happens again. (Applause.)

Facts laced with a lot of inuendo and bullshit about jobs being created but what do you expect from a politician like Barack? The reason the unemployment numbers have dropped is because So many people have gone of unemployment because they ran the full period your allowed to collect it, without finding a job. So they dropped off the rolls. A good many people never went on it and the first place and have just given up and dropped off the official "radar" The true unemployment numbers percentage wise is closer to somewhere between 17-20% but you won't hear that on the big three networks or any of the other Massively Stupid Media. In other words the Main Stream Media. Why won't you hear it from them? Well because they are the bought and paid for propaganda arm of Big Government in general and The Democratic Party in particular

The state of our Union is getting stronger. And we’ve come too far to turn back now. As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. (Applause.)

No the state of the union is getting weaker thanks to your policies Barry you socialist fuckwad. What's growing is our ability to see through the bullshit and our growing opposition to your blatant power grabbing.

No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony financial profits. Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last -– an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values.

No what he wants is total government control of every facet of your life. He's going to sugar coat it in fancy words, but that's what it actually is.

Now, this blueprint begins with American manufacturing.

On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world’s number-one automaker. (Applause.) Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories. And together, the entire industry added nearly 160,000 jobs.

Yes they were on the verge of collapse because they were stupid. Then they took billions of dollars from the government, in other words We The People's money, and now the GOVERNMENT owns outright 1/3 of General Motors. Or as some have rechristened it..GOVERNMENT MOTORS. I for one will NEVER buy a brand new GM vehicle again. An old one maybe..a new one? Never. Yep FORD is investing...investing the money of it's stock holders and it's own money. NONE of which was taken from the Government. See..Ford refused to take a dime because they knew what that meant. I still don't think I'd buy a brand new Ford product because modern vehicles have too many computer controls to go wrong in them now..but if I did..it'd be a Ford.

We bet on American workers. We bet on American ingenuity. And tonight, the American auto industry is back. (Applause.)

Sigh...no Barry you were paying back the Unions who got you into office. Let's call a spade a spade shall we?

What’s happening in Detroit can happen in other industries. It can happen in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Raleigh. We can’t bring every job back that’s left our shore. But right now, it’s getting more expensive to do business in places like China. Meanwhile, America is more productive. A few weeks ago, the CEO of Master Lock told me that it now makes business sense for him to bring jobs back home. (Applause.) Today, for the first time in 15 years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity. (Applause.)

Master Lock..a unionized shop. I wonder how much money if any Masterlock got from government subsidies?

So we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it. Tonight, my message to business leaders is simple: Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed. (Applause.)

We should start with our tax code. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and everyone knows it. So let’s change it.

Yes because it cost them less up front, and less in employee wages and less in corporate taxes to do business over seas , than it does to operate in America. Why? Government interference. We have tons more of it now here on our own shores making it more expensive to operate. Businesses exist to make money. Money for their owners who put their own sweat blood and tears into the business. Money for the investors who gave money to the business to get going and expect a return for that investment. Oh and if a company has to pay too much in corporate taxes, has obscenely high worker wages dictated to them by Unions, and has the government watching over their shoulder every second waiting for them to trip up and fall afoul of some obscure 'regulation' the government comes up with willy nilly....then guess what? They can't afford to pay their workers. Can't afford to pay their investors. Can't afford the overhead to keep their doors open locally, soo...they go overseas where the environment is more.....hospitable. Business friendly. DUHHHHH.

First, if you’re a business that wants to outsource jobs, you shouldn’t get a tax deduction for doing it. (Applause.) That money should be used to cover moving expenses for companies like Master Lock that decide to bring jobs home. (Applause.)

This isn't an incentive it's a THREAT.

Second, no American company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas. (Applause.) From now on, every multinational company should have to pay a basic minimum tax. And every penny should go towards lowering taxes for companies that choose to stay here and hire here in America. (Applause.)

See even if you don't operate, or just operate a satellite office on US soil you should be forced to pay taxes to the US government. Even if the bulk of your manufacturing and office force is overseas. This is about domination and control. Again this is a THREAT, not an incentive.

Third, if you’re an American manufacturer, you should get a bigger tax cut. If you’re a high-tech manufacturer, we should double the tax deduction you get for making your products here. And if you want to relocate in a community that was hit hard when a factory left town, you should get help financing a new plant, equipment, or training for new workers. (Applause.)

Oh wow..NOW he wants to say what Conservatives have been SCREAMING since the Democrats took control of the government in 07? Can we say Campaign Speech? Then again not surprising, the motherfucker hasn't LEFT the campaign trail since he started the campaign trail in 07.

So my message is simple. It is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America. Send me these tax reforms, and I will sign them right away. (Applause.)

My message to you is simple. It's not just to you, it's to the entire United States Government. Sit the fuck down. Shut the fuck up. STay the fuck out of our way and let us work and make a living wage without all your regulations and interference. THIS is the only way we can return to prosperity. Oh and NOW you want Tax Reforms? Not buying. *cough* campaign speech! *cough*

We’re also making it easier for American businesses to sell products all over the world. Two years ago, I set a goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years. With the bipartisan trade agreements we signed into law, we’re on track to meet that goal ahead of schedule. (Applause.) And soon, there will be millions of new customers for American goods in Panama, Colombia, and South Korea. Soon, there will be new cars on the streets of Seoul imported from Detroit, and Toledo, and Chicago. (Applause.)

Wanna make a bet?

I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules. We’ve brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration –- and it’s made a difference. (Applause.) Over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires. But we need to do more. It’s not right when another country lets our movies, music, and software be pirated. It’s not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours only because they’re heavily subsidized.

You've ALREADY gone all over the world and prostrated and spread eagled this great country to be screwed by everyone else. I just loooovvved that 'apology' tour you took,after you entered your office. Subsidized? Well gee..who drove all those jobs overseas in the first place junior? 2 points if you said the United States Fucking Government.

Tonight, I’m announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trading practices in countries like China. (Applause.) There will be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders. And this Congress should make sure that no foreign company has an advantage over American manufacturing when it comes to accessing financing or new markets like Russia. Our workers are the most productive on Earth, and if the playing field is level, I promise you -– America will always win. (Applause.)

Oh great he's creating yet ANOTHER faceless government agency? One answerable to no one. Does anyone besides me find this unsurprising? NOTHING is ever solved by committee.

I also hear from many business leaders who want to hire in the United States but can’t find workers with the right skills. Growing industries in science and technology have twice as many openings as we have workers who can do the job. Think about that –- openings at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work. It’s inexcusable. And we know how to fix it.

Yes we can fix it..it's called vocational training and your job centers already do it. Hell there's also "vocational schools" where you can get the training you need and a lot times actually be placed with a company upon graduation. There's no guarantee of course. Nothing in this life is absolutely certain but death and taxes. Oh and government greed and stupidity.

Okay boys and girls...that's it for Part One of the state of disunion. I'll post more tomorrow. Oh just an FYI ...I found Metallica's "And Justice for All" and "Kill 'Em All" albums a highly appropriate soundtrack to do this to. I'm ending this on the song Anesthesia.

Anyway I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity. TANSTAAFL.

The STate of Disunion 2012 update

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:31:00 +0000

I know I promised the 1st half of it to you today, and I'm gonna try to get it up tonight. But I haven't even had time today to go pull the transcript to cut and paste it here, yet. I'm going to TRY about 7pm central or there abouts to start cutting and pasting and shredding, paragraph by paragraph whatever bullshit it was, that was spewed by The One last night. So that I might at least get the 1st part up by late tonight. No promises though. If not..I'll try and get it posted by early/mid AM hours tomorrow. Sorry boys and girls The day has just NOT been a conducive one.

European Bailouts..wow

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:43:00 +0000

* Note- there will be foul and offensive language in this little diatribe. IOW I aim to let the hammer down, so if you're easily offended....I'd suggest vacating the premises.........
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(this one has been sitting in my drafts unfinished for more than a week. something to tide you over..Hmmm..don't think I'm going to do any editing or edition to this one. It's about right as is.)
Warning has been given and I've given you time..if you keep on reading and get offended, on your own head be it.

"- European leaders promised on Saturday to speed up plans to strengthen spending rules and get a permanent bailout fund up and running as soon as possible, a day after U.S. agency S&P cut the ratings of several euro zone countries' creditworthiness."

Like our own leaders they've learned nothing. As soon as you say something is too big to fail and give it 'bail outs'..you are setting it up TO FAIL. By giving Greece money to try and prop it up...the rest of the Euro's are only going to weaken their own goddamn positions...depending on just how much they give. By setting up a "permanent bail out fund", your basically saying you 'expect' people to fail and are giving them a permanent parachute to keep them from hitting the floor. Hell, the only way the people falling are going to learn is to fall flat on their asses..HARD. Then they can take a few minutes to cry like a bitch and then get the fuck up off the floor and reach for the sky again...except this time they can be more intelligent about it. For these governments and their people the lesson SHOULD be painful

http://news.yahoo.com/merkel-vows-faster-eurozone-reform-p-downgrades-152932631.html

Over here in the U.S. we have a similar but different problem. We the people WANT our government to make deep cuts in spending budgets. We WANT our government to be fiscally responsible and stop giving free handouts to everyone and their syhphilitic mother. Yet we have a government that consistently spent Over a Trillion dollars MORE than what was taken in EVERY year for the last 3. A government where they, our supposed representatives SAY they're going to make cuts, on both sides of the political aisle, and then do exactly NOTHING. A government that for the last 3yrs, soon to be 4yrs; couldn't be bothered TO PASS A GODDAMN BUDGET!!

A government that earlier this year raised our debt ceiling a Trillion dollars to keep from going into default and then formed a 'committee' to come up with 'real' budget cuts. A committee that has failed to accomplish a fucking thing I might add; except continue with the same bickering bullshit in MICRO, that they do in MACRO during a full congressional session!! What. The. Fuck?! This helps us how? Newsflash it doesn't. Oh and that same government is now planning on raising the debt ceiling a further Trillion dollars to keep from going into default. Why? Because our goddamn government can't fucking figure out that spending money like a sailor in a whore house on fucking shore leave is a bad motherfucking idea from mother fucking beginning to anal raping end!! Useless, asslicking, lying, fork tongued, power hungry bastards and bitches!

So let us remember 1 thing if we remember nothing else...it's time to put FEAR And ABJECT TERROR into the hearts and minds of our Politicians so they OBEY US...not try to RULE us, like they have been. It's time to put We The People back in the forefront of American Politics...we haven't been there for a long while because we've allowed ourselves to become complacent. Okay some of us. Some of us are also frustrated as hell because we've been screaming about this shit for YEARS.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity. TANSTAAFL

A man whinging about not winning at lotto

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Yes lads and lasses we're going to discuss the depths of human stupidity again, instead of politics.

It starts with a Mr. Ray Otero, an unassuming chap from Puerto Rico who supports 2 kids and a wife on a $40k a year Superintendents job in NYC. Mr Otero is a bit perturbed because a doorman down the street he knows plays the lotto off an on, only spending a couple hundred a year and won on a scratch off called Set For Life, which if it works like the one here in Texas...you get a set amount..say..$150,000 a year for 20yrs.
[there have been tickets with more and tickets that give you MUCH more...just depends on the game and the price of the ticket]

Why is Mr Otero upset about this? Why because last year Mr Otero spent $30,000 of his $40,000/per year salary...on lottery tickets.

I know, I know. You are thinking to yourselves "What the Fuck?!" Wait for it...

"Winning is, of course, the essence of the lottery, though it might be said that losing is its natural state. And Mr. Otero is certainly a natural — at losing. For the last three years, he has utterly failed to recoup a rather staggering investment: $500 to $700 on the lottery a week. "

Yes my friends you have met one of the many people whose picture belongs in the dictionary next to the words Moron, stupid, idiot etc. So lets get this straight. The man makes $40,000 a year, lives in a rent free apartment, has a wife and 2 kids to support and he spends $5-700 a WEEK on lottery tickets? I'd really love to ask this guy ...So what do you feed your kids? The losing lottery tickets? Kids must have a really fiber rich diet then...I wonder if they'll get some sort of poisoning from the ink?

"Mr. Otero, 52, came to New York City from Puerto Rico nearly 30 years ago and worked as a mechanic in the Bronx. He has held his current job for about 10 years and supports his wife and two children on a yearly take-home pay of $40,000, he says, which does not include the free apartment, odd jobs or the typical Christmas tips."

I don't care if you work odd jobs and get huge christmas tips. You've got a family to support. You do not need to be spending $30k a year on lotto tickets and then WHINING like a little bitch when someone else who is not as stupid as you are, and is a little...a little hell, a LOT more frugal with their money; wins.

You know...my parents, more specifically my mom, spends around $1,000/year just on actual lotto tickets, not scratch offs. That's for the state lotto and the multi state Mega Millions. When one or the other lotto pot gets to around $150 million, they have me buy $5 extra in tickets for that particular lotto. Mom treats herself and the rest of the family at christmas with scratch offs for our stockings. She gets the smaller $1-$3 scratch offs. This year she sent me, her dutiful son to do it for her. I spent a whopping $30 to put scratch off tickets into the stockings of 4 people. Mom I think when she does it spends closer to $50. At any rate...yeah my parents want to win, and I've made the picking up of the tickets a bi weekly duty. 1. because my parents are getting on in years and the more I do the less they have to worry about and 2. because mom told me a long time ago..they win..I get half..so there is some self interest involved as well as love. I personally won't bother to play until the pot gets nearer $200 million, then I'll pop in 10-15 bucks.
One of my cousins calls lottery 'a stupidity tax for otherwise supposedly intelligent people' or something to that effect..because people spend all that money for exactly NO or very damned little return. For my mom it's a hobby, not an obsession; it makes her happy, and she's not being stupid about it so I don't care.

Mr. Otero believes working for a living is for suckers.....
"But working is for poor uneducated men — a sucker’s game, he said, where one must run increasingly fast to keep one’s place in line. “You’re making money on the one side and spending it on the other,” he said. “If all you’re doing is working, you’re never going to win.”

Really Mr. Otero? How do you suppose Donald Trump, or the men who created the railroads, or the guy who came up with the Pony Express, or the man who built Kentucky Fried Chicken, or any other number of people and families I could name, got where they are. The originators of those fortunes didn't have that money handed to them for free. They didn't say "work is for suckers". Nope those people worked their asses off, to make that money. Someone needs a cluex4 upside the head.. Hey Ray...look at my thumb...*sound of a thunk as Mr Otero is hit solidly in the back of a head with a cluex4 and then a resounding *thud* as Mr. Otero's unconscious form hits the floor* DAMN your dumb. Note to Mr. Otero...Really? Get some help boy..find a shrink who specializes in addictive behaviors and more specifically gambling

Here's the entire article by the way
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/nyregion/22super.html

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Why is anyone surprised?

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:01:00 +0000

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/white-house-cant-wait-to-help-young-people-get-summer-jobs/

We Can't Wait? You ever notice that whenever the Democrats are pulling something that will damage the country, they always say the same things? We Can't Wait, It's imperative and my personal favorite from nancy pelosi..'You'll find out what's in the bill after we pass it." *headdesk*

Were you silly people NOT paying attention back in 08 during the primaries when I said of Obama "here is the man who would be king"? Oh yeah..I didn't have this blog on blogger yet.

Seriously? Has no one been paying attention for the last 3yrs? if not to me and others, then to obama's doings? WTF. Alright..here's a reading assignment for you. If you choose to except it, go into my archives for last year, click on November, and read all the posts I ported over from my other blog from back in 08.
There's 20 some odd of them.

That is all

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

New Year..same old crap.

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:14:00 +0000

The record stays the same and people have the gall to wonder why I hold them in contempt? *headshake*
Just a sampling

From my friend Robbie at UrbanGrounds

From my friends over at Common Sense

Same rhetoric, lies and bullshit coming from the Whitehouse

Same stupid shit coming from the idiots in the OWS

Yet more Political Correctness crap in the toy industry no less. *headshake*

A very interesting article on parallels and history repeating itself, because we failed fail to learn from it. An article from englands Daily Mail no less.

And Oh, Obama officially signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year's Eve. Something I'm sure most of my fellow citizens missed.

Sigh...nope..nothing going on here. Nothing new and exciting. These aren't the droids your looking for. Move along.

Shit. I give you some thoughts from 2011
http://kindwordand2x4.blogspot.com/2011/04/common-sense-august-3rd-2008.html

2010
http://kindwordand2x4.blogspot.com/2010/08/heavy-thinkin.html

and 2009
http://kindwordand2x4.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-governmentour-problem.html

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Interesting prediction

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Was watching The Five yesterday. Some predictions
Bob Beckel predicted Obama would win re election and that the tea party candidates for congress were gonna get their asses kick.
Kimberly Guilfoyle predicts that the Supreme Court will declare Obama Care unconstitutional
Andrea Tantaros oddly enough thinks Bob is probably right and that Obama will win, but by a razor thin margin. She also thinks most of the conservative/Tea Party candidates for congress will win. Basically a sweep.
Greg Gutfeld also suggests that Obama might win.

I can't remember what Eric Bolling had to say.

Damn I hope the predictions about Obama winning are wrong. 4 more years of that son of a bitch and we're going to end up another Russia...or Brazil

Ahhh gun grabbing control nazi's

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Rusty Brittingham

so as i understand alot of gun ethusiasts are against the limitin of guns and gun laws which is what many activists propose to lower gun violence. thus i would like to ask all gun owners ethusiasts collectors ect how would YOU stop gun violence

· · Yesterday at 3:19pm via mobile ·

- Cushite Minmitar In my opinion things have to get worse, much worse, before it will get any better. I had a conversation with a friend the other day, during the convo we both had an "Aha!" moment. Why not give the crazies exactly what they want "All the guns they could ever want". Scrap every gun law on the books and then sit back and wait about six months. I guarantee that every, and I mean every American would be screaming for gun prohibition. This sounds harsh I know, but it comes to a point that I can't see much other option; no matter how many deaths, nothing changes. Both the BC and VPC and many other groups are losing supporters left and right. Not because these people are suddenly pro gun, but because it come to a point that we are like, "Why bother, nothing is going to change, so to heck with this". Take the original "Gunguys" website for example. They were bloggin and posting for ages, then one day, boom!, Nothing! They closed down. And I believe it was because they are thinking as many of us do now; "Whats the point, no one listens". Sorry for such a downer post...
  10 hours ago ·
- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence You're entitled to your pessimism, but we assure you things WILL change. We do not sense any lack of determination in the gun violence prevention movement. Just the opposite. Mayors Against Illegal Guns has added an invaluable element to the movement, bringing municipal officials and law enforcement leaders to the forefront on this issue, and gun violence survivors are organized like never before. Is it going to be a tough slog? Yep. Just like every other worthwhile cause in this country ever was. But we WILL win.
  10 hours ago · · 1
- Robert A. Bono just enforce all the laws that are on books now no need for new laws
  4 hours ago ·
- John Donnaruma The NRA says that, while trying to prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs enforcing gun control laws and fully funding the ATF.
  about an hour ago ·

and my reply:

For those who think taking the guns out of the hands of citizens is a good idea. I point you at 2 places. Europe, specifically England, where when the guns were taken from the citizens and guns were banned period...the really bad ones still had the guns and those that couldn't get them just switched weapons. If someone is intent on doing CRIME, You can NOT stop them through legislation. They WILL find a way. And now in England they are talking about banning *facepalm* KNIVES, idiots.
On the opposite end of the scale..I point you to a town named Kennesaw, Georgia. Where nigh on about 30yrs ago a law was passed that made it MANDATORY for all heads of household to own, maintain and know how to USE a gun. At the time it was a town of about 5000, now it's 6x that size. At the time...crime period, dropped to almost nothing over night. At the time the law was passed places and organizations similar to CSGV said that neighbor would end up shooting neighbor, kids would be shot for just "bein well....kids" they renamed the place GUNTOWN USA. Guess what boys and girls. In that time not only has the population grown to 6x the size it was when the ordinance was passed but crime is still LESS than half of what it was when the ordinance was passed. Oh and as far as I know[at least the last time I bothered to check a couple years ago] not a single murder. That is all...good day.

Twas the Night Before Christmas[UN-PC version]

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:24:00 +0000

Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house,
Everyone felt shitty.
Even the Mouse.

With Mom at the whorehouse
And Dad smoking grass
I'd just settled down
For a nice piece of ass.

When out on the lawn
I heard such a clatter.
I sprang from my piece
To see what was the matter.

Then up on the roof
Came the smell of deer shit
I knew in a heart beat
It must be Saint Nick.

He dropped down the chimney
like a bat out of hell.
I knew by the cussing
that the fucker had fell.

He stuffed all our stockings
With pretzels and beer
And a big rubber dick
For my brother the queer.

He shot up the chimney
With a thunderous fart.
The son of a bitch
Blew the chimney apart!

He swore and he cursed
as he rode out of site
"Piss on you all!
It's been a hell of a night!"

Ahh politics

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:49:00 +0000

Reading various posts in the last hour or so, while sitting here listening to The Zac Brown Band..
I've come to a conclusion. As much as it annoys the hell out of me to say it..whoever manages to get the GOP nod after the Republican convention will get my vote. GOD it makes me highly nauseous to speak those words. I'll have to choke back the bile though and do it..because as some have said, at this point ANYONE of them is a better option than 4 more years of Obama. Frankly I've got no use for any of them at this point.
Perry? Perry needs to get his ass back here to Texas and do the goddamn job we elected him for.
Bachmann-she's the only one at this point remotely palatable to me, even if she doesn't 'have experience".
Newt? Newt is a long time career politician whose held his seat for decades. He's a part of the fucking problem.
Ron Paul? Same problem as Newt. Plus his ideas on the military and foreign policy front will get us into another war. Isolationism is not gonna make things better boys and girls. It only invites the barbarians to come knocking at the front door of our house instead of the tent we're camping in elsewhere. That falls under the heading of "bad things" Although I like a lot of what he intends/espouses domestically. Not all mind you but quite a bit of it.
Romney? Romney is fucking Obama Lite. I don't like Obama. So pray tell, what the fuck makes you think I'd find Romney any more palatable?
Hunstman? As I've said elsewhere and said repeatedly; the second that far left, hissy fit throwing left loon fucktard Chris Matthews calls you the "sanest candidate in the room", YOU SIR cease to be a viable fucking candidate.
Santorum? Honestly I haven't payed much attention to him, maybe I should for the next couple of debates. However, don't hold your breath til you turn blue in the face, expecting me to come back with a nice opinion of him.

That is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity

Lets talk edumacation.[that's EDUCATION]

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:53:00 +0000

Our school system is...how to put this delicately....nah, screw delicate! Our skewl system is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Fucked up by liberal feel good policies, and the[I believe] deep dark progressive agenda of the progressives to turn our school into factories that are good for but one thing. Churning out masses of mindless automatons who can't think critically, and don't question authority.See if they can't think they can't get the higher paying jobs..therefore they get the low end ones and end up on welfare. Dependent on the government on survival and therefore obedient to that government's demands, proclamations and rules. Here is yet another glaring example of the idiots teaching today's youth and their entitlement mentality.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/2011/12/05/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html

Now I'm going to say something I've said repeatedly in the past. The tests are a crock. Why? Because the kids are being taught TO the test. IOW what they need for the test and not a hell of a lot else. Rote memorization, not learning to learn and think critically. Is that really teaching kids to learn? Or just teaching them to parrot what they've been told?

“I have a wide circle of friends in various professions. Since taking the test, I’ve detailed its contents as best I can to many of them, particularly the math section, which does more than its share of shoving students in our system out of school and on to the street. Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession"

Yes dude but how many of them are scientists in the fields of physics, geometrics etc etc where those maths are fundamental to what they do? You do realize that back in the pioneer days that by the time Kids got finished with what we'd call "intermediate" or middle school now, could read well, understand what they were reading, argue critically about it, and on the math side had studied up to Trigonometry and understood it because they used it in every day life?

“It might be argued that I’ve been out of school too long, that if I’d actually been in the 10th grade prior to taking the test, the material would have been fresh. But doesn’t that miss the point? A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took."

Okay I actually kind of agree with this point. That being said..I also hated math, and still do..with a purple passion. Flunked PRE Algebra for christs sake. On the flip side I did very well with Geometry. Go figure. Yes kids have to be taught stuff that's practical..but that doesn't do a hell of a lot of good in my own not so humble opinion if they're not taught a love of learning. To WANT to expand their minds...not just because they should to get ahead in life but because it's FUN! I didn't get that in school..I got it at home. My parents weren't too hard on me about my math skills..my mom sucked at it too. so she didn't push me so hard there. What they taught me though was to love to read. Read ANYTHING. From the time I COULD read, I read everything I could get my hands on..whether the liberal progressive retarded bureaucrats that run our schools would have considered it "age appropriate" or not.. I devoured books. I started reading and comprehending fully Tom Clancy novels by the time I was 12. I consumed any history book I got my grubby little paws on. Which leads me to an amusing tale.
In high school, Junior year...I got so BORED with most of my classes that I used to sleep through my history class part of the time and the teacher allowed it. WHY? He knew , that I knew the material in the book forwards and backwards.. Because by the time the first couple of weeks of class were past..I'd read the ENTIRE textbook! and grokked it. Don't get me wrong..I would always go back and skim what we were reading at that point just to keep it fresh in my mind. But the teacher didn't object to my napping either . You know where I spent most of my lunch breaks of my high school career? In one of the 2 main libraries on either side of the building..reading. I'd learned my lesson well...I loved and still do love to read. But I digress....

“If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had. "

Hence proving my point for me about the standardized tests.

Winerip writes: “As of last night, 658 principals around the state (New York) had signed a letter — 488 of them from Long Island, where the insurrection began — protesting the use of students’ test scores to evaluate teachers’ and principals’ performance"

Uhmm...if the students aren't actually learning and understanding the material, thereby allowing them to advance on merit..instead of just passing the buck like the school systems seem to do..then what earthly fucking good are the teachers failing to get the kids doing what I stated in bold? Seriously?

"One of those school principals, Winerip says, is Bernard Kaplan. Kaplan runs one of the highest-achieving schools in the state, but is required to attend 10 training sessions.

“It’s education by humiliation,” Kaplan said. “I’ve never seen teachers and principals so degraded.”

Carol Burris, named the 2010 Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State, has to attend those 10 training sessions."

Good, now go back to your schools and hand your teachers their heads if they fail to teach the kids to actually learn and to think.

"A fourth principal, Mario Fernandez, called the evaluation process a product of “ludicrous, shallow thinking. They’re expecting a tornado to go through a junkyard and have a brand new Mercedes pop up.”

Uhmmm...NO lady. We're EXPECTING YOU TO DO YOUR GODDAMN JOB! If you can't do it...learn to. If you won't do it..walk and don't ever come back.

Oh by the way if you read the whole thing..only a DC paper could take a piece on the education system and turn it into an anti corporate rant...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity; and remember...TANSTAAFL.

Dumb? Evil? REALLY?

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:45:00 +0000

Lord gimme strength. Wait..don't watch the video yet. skip the link for now and read what she's saying and my responses to some of it. really entertainly..MIND NUMBINGLY brain damaged shit she's saying.

http://youtu.be/Yd-nnmvr7Dc

"No I DON'T support the current administration,. I don't support the wars, but I also don't support the troops. Uhmmm I reject nationalism. I reject blind patriotism; and uhmm I reject everything that the phrase 'support the troops' in 2011...stands for."

Wow! Okay she does realize that the military doesn't JUST break shit and kill people. Our military also help the countries we end up invading REBUILD. Rebuild their infrastructure...and on OUR dime. Also when a natural disaster hits anywhere it's generally a US military ship or group of ships, or airlift, that's first or among the first to show the fuck up and render aid? No somehow I think that fact has alluded her.
Wait..it gets better.

"...many of the people in the military don't actually know what they're doing. They THINK that they're helping..uh..us. They think that they're protecting their country. Well uhm..I really don't think that's a valid 'excuse' anymore. They should know what they're fighting for, they should know what they're doing. And you know ignorance isn't going to bring someones family member back. Ignorance isn't going to change the fact that since WW2, 90% of the casualties..uhm..in..you know, in U.S. warfare has been unarmed civilians. It's not going to change that. It's not going to change the fact we've killed over a million Iraqi people..."

Sigh..REALLY liberty chick? Do tell. Look at her SOURCES on her video, she lists them below the vid.
Now lets look at a site that repudiates that crap.
Just a quote from that one.
"Glen Reinsford attacks the moral corruption of Iraq Body Count:

"These ordinary Iraqis were victims of senseless violence. Were they killed by an American bomb or a Saudi suicide bomber? Hint: IraqBodyCount doesn't want you to know."
"enter IraqBodyCount.net, an anti-war organization that was envisioned even before the Iraq War began, with the heady ambition of documenting each and every victim of American aggression in order to turn public opinion against the action to remove Saddam ... Somewhere along the way, however, the harsh reality began to sink in that America was acting as no other country in history has ever acted to prevent civilian casualties in warfare. As a matter of fact, more American troops have been killed in the conflict than have civilians been killed by Americans. Americans are literally taking casualties to prevent casualties on the part of Iraqi civilians. Though mere mortals might be prompted to reconsider their prejudices at this point, the folks at IraqBodyCount reacted by quietly changing their mission to include the victims of terrorists - the very people that the Americans are trying to stop. Their dubious body-count even includes members of the Iraqi security forces, who are part of the coalition. ... Another big problem with IraqBodyCount's statistics is that it even includes the terrorists themselves. ... In fact, if you .. browse their database, you'll notice that the tables are conspicuously missing a column - the party responsible for each attack. There's a reason for this, as we discovered when we analyzed each incident to answer this question. It turns out that the vast majority of civilian deaths are caused by Islamic terrorists, and that very few are from American bombs and bullets. This is because (unlike the terrorists) the Americans aren't in Iraq to kill civilians. ... In 2006, the number of civilians who died in encounters between the Americans and the terrorists was about four times lower than the number of U.S. troops killed. In short, civilians in Iraq aren't dying from the war. They are being murdered by Islamic terrorists."

"And I believe that, you know, people in the military they either fall under 1 of 3 categories. Either they're DUMB...and they would have to be really dumb, because we live in a time when information is at our fingertips. There's no excuse anymore for them to not know what we're fighting for..."

Okay there's more to this but let me just interrupt this diatribe to say..what WE'RE fighting for? Honey I don't see YOUR bony ass out on the front lines defending our country. Or "killing unarmed civilians". What's this "we" shit white woman....now I return to the diatribe

"There's no excuse for them to think that they're fighting for our freedoms when the truth is they're fighting for Exxon Mobil and British Petroleum, and Haliburton, and [something] and root, that there's no excuse. they don't have that excuse anymore."

Wow she really is a darling far left moonbat liberal isn't she? there's a little more to this part of it but I'll skip ahead to her second category that people who join the military fall under.

"They're evil. Uhh.that's a large possibility. I mean uhm if you were a serial killer, what better job to have than a job where you chop someones head off and get paid for it. To have a job where you're given a badge of honor..uhm,mm this is true..where you're given a badge of honor..uhm..for uhm..stabbing someone to death. Uhh who did nothing. Uhm..that would be a perfect job. if you were a serial killer, if you loved violence, the perfect place for you to find employment would be the U.S. military. So you're either dumb, you couldn't get a real job, you were backed in a corner, you had to pay child support, you had to join the military to get money. Uhmm..or you're evil., and you realize what you are doing and you like it. "

Holy SHIT! Nope..this bitch doesn't have a superiority complex...NOT AT ALL. Wow! Do any of my many military friends with degrees and MULTIPLE degrees/Ph. D's, in hard sciences, CPA's mathematics and other useful fields of endeavor want to go disabuse her of that notion? No? Don't want to waste your time verbally banging your head against a brick wall? Hmmm................can't say as I blame you my friends. I love the fact she says it's a large "possibility" that some of you are serial killers. Anyone want to raise their hands and admit to killing lots of people for the FUN of it and the power rush involved? No? *sarcasm ON* Come on boys..I know many of you love to kill people for shits and giggles. Admit it! Oh and next time..send me high end electronics as friendship tokens...not body parts and womens/ childrens clothing and jewelry. Okay? Thanks. Doofuses. *sarcasm OFF*
She thinks people join the military to MAKE money? Does she have any concept of how much our lads and lasses in uniform MAKE? Or how they live? Or just how highly educated most of our military is? I doubt it myself.
*chinscratch* Or for that matter..WHY most of you boys and girls join? No...she said at the beginning of this little font of stupidity that she doesn't believe in nationalism or patriotism...so that answers THAT question.

"Or that you realize that what you're doing is wrong and that you're morally compromised. Uh, that's the 3rd option. I believe that a lot of people fall under that option, but you know that's not an excuse either. I'm not going to support your position of being 'morally compromised'...."

*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

"I don't like living in a culture where we basically...kiss these peoples asses for joining an organization that has killed over a million innocent people. Uh it doesn't make any sense. To me that's disgusting. And I don't care if you think if this video is offensive I think the fact that someone would join an organization that has killed over a million innocent people simply because they want money, or they want the..the..the glory of having their ass kissed and everyone telling them 'oh thank you so much your a hero'..I think THAT'S offensive. I think that that's wrong. I think thats morally repugnant."

Well at least she's consistent, no?

Sigh..you know what? I love you guys I REALLY do. However I can't sit through and listen to/watch this fecal matter yet again. I feel my IQ dropping rapidly as I sit here and listen to it , so I'm going to stop. You can watch the rest of it on your own. Me? I'm going to shut this dumb shit off and salvage what's left of my higher brain functions, and critical thinking ability.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Kiss your civil rights goodbye.

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:47:00 +0000

Something that hasn't been getting much talk that I'm aware of outside of Foxnews is the voting on the newest Defense Spending Authorization bill and what was BURIED in the legislation.
What Rand Paul said BEFORE the vote on the Udall Webb Amendment to the DSA.
http://youtu.be/LwKxZfcEj-U

WHY he said it.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c112SiFSRu:e462417:

and if you read further down the bill it gets BAD.

Ladies and Gentlemen. Habeus Corpus and Posse Comitatus..just got led like lambs to a slaughter.

Obama told us HIMSELF he intended this TWO YEARS ago...
http://youtu.be/_msTII61hWY
Holy shit I agree with something Rachel Maddow says. Then of course
It's a really bad day when I agree with some thing like the Democratic Underground.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2399243

Well THAT settles it..I AM in hell.

I want you to think about this...I'm praising 35 DEMOCRATS for realizing what an insanely bad fucking idea those provisions in the Defense Spending Authorization bill were. Something that 60 others..including the rest of the republicans..FAILED to grasp.
I mean really...I'm praising 35 Liberal Dems..some of whom I personally hate with a purple passion and whose future graves I'd cheerfully offer to dance upon, for standing up where the republican party failed to. I'm...I'm...feeling totally mindfucked right now.

I honestly don't think that a very large chunk of my fellow American citizens groks just how bad this is. "Well the Republicans can just vote to rescind that portion
" If they were gonna do THAT they could have done it with the Udall Webb Amendment to remove that section entirely from the DSA! The Udall Webb Amendment was defeated 61-37. 47 of those NAY votes to deny this amendment were REPUBLICANS! Think about that..out of 61 who voted AGAINST this amendment. 47 were republicans. Of the 37 who voted FOR this amendment..only TWO were republicans...the other 35 were DEMOCRATS.

I think it's safe to say that this is the day that the America of our forefathers...the land most of us love...was murdered in cold blood for the sake of power.

You think we can get it back? Then remember this..those who take and wield power very rarely give it up willingly. It has to be taken from them, in turn.

For those of you who are like me..Babylon 5 fans..we the citizens are now the Narn..just before the Narn Centauri war. Lets hope we're luckier than the Narn were at the "end" of that conflict.

Instead of presents under the tree this year...

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:38:00 +0000

you might want to consider stocking up on Incandescent bulbs. Stock up meaning buy all the incandescent bulbs you can get your greedy little paws on. I say this because there was a little provision passed by congress under of all people...Preside George W. Bush. I have no idea what GW was smoking when he signed this fucker into law.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/11/news/economy/light_bulb_ban/index.htm

"Because of those higher standards, traditional bulbs will probably be phased out, to be replaced with more efficient incandescent bulbs, compact fluorescents and LEDs."

Yes you idiots essentially killing an industry. Effectively banning them. Stifling choice.

"The government has taken upon itself to decide what people should buy," said Myron Ebell, head of Freedom Action, an activist group he described as "hardcore free market."

Exactly It is like Obamacare FORCING the choice upon the people. That is NOT the governments goddamn job.

"Even though fluorescent light bulbs cost about five times more than incandescents, Americans would save a total of $12 billion a year by 2020 if the standards are left in place due to lower electricity bills, said the Natural Resources Defense Council."

Yep and I have serious doubts about these espoused numbers. Just like with Climate change..I'm inclined to believe they're falsifyng the numbers to push their GREEN agenda.

"But what really motivated the higher standards to begin with was a desire to save energy and cut pollution. NRDC estimates the standards would eliminate the need to build 33 coal-fired power plants by 2020, when the standards are fully in effect."

How the fuck do they figure that? It's not a matter of efficiency it's a matter of USAGE and growing population that's driving the need to build more plants to keep the grid up and running and to supply the needed power to prevent black and brown outs. Idiots.

"But for critics it's all about choice. If people want to save money over the long run by buying a fluorescent light bulb, that's fine -- they just don't want the government to force people to do it."

Exactly I believe I already said that but..it bears repeating. It is NOT the governments job to effectively FORCE a choice upon people by effectively eliminating through asinine regulations one of the choices. That's not freedom of choice, that's dictatorial enforcement of unneeded laws by fiat.

"When it comes to reducing pollution, critics say cutting down on pollutants like sulfur dioxide that cause acid rain or asthma is a worthy cause. But they argue that going after carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that scientists believe causes global warming, is a waste of time.

Most of those who want to overturn the ban do not believe in global warming, despite the consensus among the scientific community."

WHAT CONSENSUS! Oh perhaps you missed this fucking memo that says the numbers were being finagled and flat out falsified

link 1. link 2. link 3. and on and on...IGNORING the fact that the planet is ALWAYS warming or cooling. It's cyclical and has FUCK ALL to do with humanity. To presume [1&3 are the most apt in this instance] that humanity can have THAT big an effect on the planet wide climate..in the microscopic amount of time we've been around on the grand geologic time scale is the very height of arrogance. Personally they make me exceedingly irritable with this shit. What has the single biggest effect on our climate? The Sun. You know, that big ball of flaming gases that lights and warms our planet on a daily, monthly, yearly, millenial and ad infinitum basis? At least until it goes out and then explodes. By which time Humanity will merely be a microscopic blip on the universal scale of time and life. A memory.

Fortunately for us Texans....
Rick Perry in his wisdom earlier over the summer signed THIS little beauty..telling the feds that they could kiss the ass of my Great State.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-incandescent-light-bulb-bill-becomes-law-185800535.html

Now when, boys and girls, are we going to stop listening to the "sky is falling" idiots of the green movement and realize that yeah...we can go green for definitions of green but by and large what I consider green is just common sense. Where as what THEY consider green is the death of civilization as we know it. Meaning my children the deaths of a good many of the people that live on this 3rd rock from the sun. However you'll never hear THEM say that because they don't intend to follow their own rules...these egotistical self masturbators rarely do. What do I consider 'common sense'? recycling and reusing plastic water bottles. Recycling aluminum and other metals, including things like copper wire. Reusing containers if at all possible. [for example rather than being stupid and pouring grease down a kitchen sink..pour them into empty peanut butter jars.] Using filtered water out of a sink instead of buying water bottles. IOW..install a filter on your sink. $30 for the system, $25-30 every 4-6 months for a fresh box of filter replacements..*shrug* One filter will fill the equivalent of 1500 water bottles. Use stainless steel bottles, or thermos's.[yes I've actually got some] But trying to force us into electric cars, into using lightbulbs that aren't as "efficient" as others but give off sufficient light AND heat; and yes the heat is a bonus in the winter time; is WRONG. Wake up people and smell what these people and our government are cooking.

Black Friday.

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:38:00 +0000

Why don't they just call it the day of the lemmings? Seriously?

Hard Times, but thankful

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:57:00 +0000

Times are hard..no doubt about it. Still got things to be thankful for even if I rarely say it. Still got my parents. still got a roof overhead. food in the pantry/fridge. my dog..who makes me laugh, and loves me unconditionally..no matter how cranky I am. Got a computer that works and an internet connection that allows me to vent, and keep in contact with people. Both vehicles are bought and paid for. Going to be having dinner with my family tomorrow.
I'm alive and relatively healthy, my family is intact.*shrug* everything else is negotiable.

Happy Thanksgiving lads and lasses

Your FIRED! facepalm

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:54:00 +0000

Those should have been the very next words spoken after this school administrator pulled this stupid shit. REally? FIRST calling the Florida Dept of Children and Families[In other words Child Protective Services] and THEN calling the cops, after being told that wasn't a DCF matter and that maybe they should call local PD. Over two kids kissing? This person is entirely too stupid to be in a position of authority. Let me grab my 2x4..it's time to go apply it to this idiots skull.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpps/news/florida-school-calls-cops-after-12-year-olds-kiss-on-playground-dpgonc-20111121-bb_16057202

The Super Committee Failure

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:47:00 +0000

Wow. The Super Committee failed. Big. Fucking. Shock. If you were surprised by this then I submit that YOU are a FOOL!
This Committee was doomed from the beginning. Why? Because nothing ever gets accomplished by committee without strong leadership. Committees are debate societies..nothing else. You put two diametrically opposed philosophies into a committee and what you get is indecision and failure. Why did we get this committee? Well because President Obama is a socialistic, dogmatic dick.
He took office in 09, with a completely democratically Senate and House, they passed spending bill after spending bill. Executive order after executive order, and FAILED to pass a budget for 2yrs. THINK about that. With complete and utter control they couldn't be bothered to pass a BUDGET? All they did was pass continuing resolutions to keep spending at the same levels, so that they didn't have to pass a budget. Now that the Republicans control the house we still can't get a budget passed. Why? Well because we need some real spending cuts and the democrats and the white house don't want to be common sensical and logical about this.

Look at just 2 of the names that the Democrats put on that committee. John Kerry and Max Baucus. That right there should have been your 2nd clue that this was doomed to failure from the start. So what was the first and basically only proposal from the democrats? Raise Taxes? Good guess. Let me explain what raising taxes gets you, raising taxes means people have less money. Which in turn means they have to be tighter with their budget because..............?
They have less money, going not nearly as far, to pay their bills, keep a roof over their heads and to feed their families! This is not rocket science you stupid shits. It's simple mathematics.

For starters we need reform of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid systems. The fraud in the systems need to be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They all need a rewrite so that they work differently for the next 40 years and then are completely phased out. When you make a bunch of people completely dependent of the government for handouts you create a permanent underclass of people. Beholden to that government, who will do whatever, say whatever, and vote whichever way that government wants to keep their freebies coming. That's wrong on both, financial, ethical, moral, and spiritual standards. See at that point..you're not a person. Just a soulless automaton, who does exactly what it's told. You're dead inside.
We also need a freeze on the current tax code. All rates will be frozen in place. A new flat income tax code of 10% will be written, put into place and enforced. Everyone pays the same..no one gets a break. What could be more fair than that? After all as a favorite character of mine says to an IRS gestapo assbag " 10% is good enough for the lord, it should be good enough for the GODDAMN Government."

Then we need some major cuts. Since we are replacing the current tax code the IRS is the 1st to go. Cut down to say..25% of what it is now. Maybe 10% Since we've simplified the tax code we don't need all those faceless bureaucrats, bean counters, secretaries and TAX LAWYERS anymore now do we? Didn't think so.

Next we move on to Defense. Yes we need SOME cuts. Not drastic ones though. Especially not with us still in theatre, involved in a "low grade" guerilla war in the Middle East. We also need to look at the way the appropriations and contract awards system works. I have no doubt theres some fraud going on in there..otherwise there wouldn't be such MASSIVE cost over runs in time and materials, in what our new planes, and other equipment cost us. Frankly We're getting too...focused on one plane that can do all things. That is one area where following the KISS principle would benefit us. They're phasing out the A10. Why? It's the perfect armor killing and troop support machine. Leave it the fuck alone..leave it in service. Yes it's old..but just because it's old does not make it worthless. I could go on..but that's not my intention.

The BATFE. Or as I not so affectionately refer to them..The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fuckups Extraordinaire.. They have gotten way to out of control. We have a 2nd amentment for a reason. Their budget gets cut by 50% Their base job is to investigate Tobacco and Alcohol regulations as it regards age and distribution.

The EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency has been running roughshod over the people and fucking things up royally for the last 10-20yrs. Primarily because the "lets be eco friendly", "we have to save the earth", green movement*puke* Sorry but that's all a crock of shit. This one I'd say cut the budget by 80% and tell them to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.. Because outside of investigating the occasional toxic waste spill and sporadic monitoring of air and water quality..they're a drain on resources and materials that we don't need.

The Department of Agriculture. Ahhh that one just eliminate altogether. Why the fuck do we have a department whose sole job is to tell farmers, most of whom are family owned by people who've been doing nothing BUT farming for generations, how to do their jobs, anyway? Seriously? Someone want to explain that one to me? No, you know what? Never mind I'm not in the mood to hear it.

The Department of Homeland Security. Ahhh..another drain on resources. We already HAVE a dept of homeland security. It's called THE U.S. MILITARY!! Therefore..this one can be completely eliminated.

FBI- cut it back ohhh..30%. Yes I just randomly pulled that figure out of my ass. What of it. Cut the budget and reign in their investigative scope and powers. They too have gotten a little big in the britches department.

The various intelligence agencies. Now there I'm in a bit of a quandry. See most of the world and it's governments don't like us very much, therefore we need the intelligence agencies. My gripe is that we've become waay too dependent on Elint[Electronic Intelligence] gathering means; and gotten away from eyes and ears on the ground, HUMINT. So we need to do some juggling there I think. If anything I might increase that budget a little bit.

There are various other agencies, authorities, and laws that we don't need anymore even if they served a purpose once in the past; and agencies, authorities and laws that just never made sense in the first place. You prune all that shit out, and people..this country can turn itself around. We'll be self sufficient and prosperous again. Put the government on a leash, and a strict budget.
We as a people need to take responsibility for ourselves again instead of giving up, or having those choice taken from us by a government that's become like the mythical hydra. Cut off one head and the bastard grows another. We need to kill the hydra people. Then and only then will we bring ourselves out of the dark times we find ourselves in.

11yr old being racist? NOT!

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:54:00 +0000

I have to wonder where school administrators and teachers brains are in all this. Because those brains certainly aren't currently residing in their empty skulls.

"The boy saw local CBS affiliate KTLA NEWS Anchor Chris Schauble in the school cafeteria, dressed in a suit and tie, walking around and shaking hands with teachers and students. Mr. Schauble was visiting the school to have lunch with his daughter, who also attends the school. Upon first glance, the 11 year old believed the man might be Obama then quickly realized he was not. However, thinking the resemblance was worth sharing he told his friend that “Obama is attending our school.” Soon, his friend told another friend, who passed it along and eventually word got back to the daughter of Schauble who took it to be a “racist” comment. When the girl reported to her teacher that that Grayson was telling people her father looked like Obama, and that it made her feel uncomfortable, the teacher passed the news to the principal who told the school superintendent, Dr. Winger."

Okay...failure point ONE. The teacher in this case could have done one of 3 things:
A." Okay child, you've told me, I'll handle it" and then never done anything about it
B. What's wrong with you child? Someone thinks that your father looks like the President and you're getting bent out of shape and having a snit? It's not an insult little one. It's a COMPLIMENT. Now go bring me the dictionary from the shelf and lets look up those two words shall we? It COULD have been a teachable moment. For which I give the teacher a big red F. Now if the child was still being obdurately well...childish. The next step should have been
C. To send a note home with the child, requesting and immediate meeting with both parents. To explain the situation to the parents who then..if THEY have any brains would have gone home and explained things to the child and made it a teachable moment.

So what did the teacher do? Passed the Buck. Dropped it in someone else's lap. In other words they FAILED to deal with the situation and it started to sno ball.

Okay it's gone to the PRINCIPAL. So what should the principal have done?
Any ONE of the previous 3 suggestions. My own personal preference would be choice B. followed immediately thereafter by C. Alas..again the PRINCIPAL...chose to pass the buck, instead of dealing with the situation..which IS HIS GODDAMN JOB!

And so now we come to the Superindendent who did what? Oh he did THIS

"It was at this point, things took a strange turn. Grayson was attending the school on a waiver (due to a recent move) and the superintendent decided the appropriate action was to “recall the waiver” and send Grayson to another school. He called the parents of the boy and explained the severity of the situation and that Grayson would no longer be allowed to attend school starting on Monday. When questioned why he would not be allowed to attend school, they claimed it was because Grayson was making “racist” comments. When pressed for the details of the racist comments, Mr. Winger replied, “It was racist because Grayson was saying that all black men look alike.” But when questioned further by the parents if indeed Grayson had said that all all blacks look alike Winger’s response was, “No, he only said that the man in question looks like Obama.”"

*TRIPLE FACEPALM* Yep he flat out told the parents of the Boy, Thomas Grayson that he was being expelled for saying that the girls father looked like President Obama! *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk!!* ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!! I ask again..WHERE ARE YOUR BRAINS! Because they're certainly not residing in this stupid motherfuckers empty skull! So now we have the child being expelled, his waiver revoked at THAT school and the boy being sent to a different school. Alas we ALSO have this:

"Since that time, Grayson has been being bullied via texts by friends of Schauble’s daughter who have taken the “racist” label placed on the boy by the school administration to an entirely new level, calling him a “f***ing racist liar” and a “stalker” among other things. Word of this has also spread to Grayson’s older sister’s school where she is also being taunted about her brother. The bullying texts have yet to be addressed by the school administration."

Here's the rest of the blog article I got this from:

http://themillerbrothers.com/2011/11/words-have-meaning-and-why-im-not-a-racist/#comment-219

In conclusion...what we have here is a failure to use common sense, as well as a failure to communicate. This should NEVER have gotten as far as it has.

Me? Anyone remember that scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where Ferris slaps the crap out of Cameron and asks him "where are your brains"?

You do? good because I'd like to put all 3 of these idiots on their knees and apply the Cluebat of Sanity Restoring to the backs of their thick skulls. Now assuming they're still conscious I'll follow that up with "Where's your brains?!"

That is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled insanity and inanity.

Idle thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:42:00 +0000

Hmmm..nothing really interesting to see here. move a long. move along. OTOH if you really want to stick around I won't object.
Questions, thoughts, stupidity bouncing around my brain
What's for dinner tonight? Good question. I know what I'm fixing for others but what the hell do I want for myself? That is the burning question in my mind now that I've just finished scarfing down lunch.
What was lunch you ask? Okay I'll tell you. Scrambled some eggs and fluffed them out a little with some milk, then dumped into a skillet with some diced ham, onions, bacon bits[the fake stuff..not real bacon..*shrug*] and some red pepper flake. Salted and peppered then cooked. melt some cheese, toss in some ranch dressing and VOILA! lunch of kings.

What's for thanksgiving dinner? okay that one isn't really a question...the family and I decided that last night. Turkey, rolls, stuffing[real home made stuffing..not the in the box stuff..though I like that too]mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes[not sure whether those are going to be mashed or baked] olives[for mom] and gravy. Oh and probably the cranberry stuff. Don't really need anything other than that. I believe in the KISS principle.

I'm reading Titanicus by Dan Abnett right now. Will probably jump off the web in a little bit and attempt to mostly finish it before dinner. I think I've mentioned before how much I REALLY love the Warhammer 40000 universe since I discovered it. I want the new video game for the computer for it. Need a video card for the computer first. Need money for that first. Sadly there are many other things that NEED to be dealt with before I can play that way. Danggit. I could probably get away with playing Unreal Tournament...the on board graphics of the mobo should handle that I think. Card would be better though. Meh

I find myself wondering why my computer is running a tad slower. Well ..probably should have dl'd all that porn. oh well. porn deleted. probably ought to download, install and run malware bytes just to make sure..nothing slipped through. Plus I'm ripping all my CD's into the computer..not half done yet. Then got to go through and rip the cd's that I like that are in the stacks of the rest of the famn damily. Meh. Went to run a deep scan last night to discover..oooh software update for my AV. Okay I don't DISlike the interface. However I do have 2 minor problems with it.
1. The interface window only comes in one size...SMALL you can't expand it..THAT I find annoying.
2. What happened to the threat meter..I LIKED having that. It was probably a useless little widget but it made me feel better and it LOOKED cool.. *shrug* yeah I know that gripe was a little childish and stupid.

Still contemplating installing my several year old version of MS Reader. in my new Win7 computer. I freakin love that program and if it will work on my new Win7 system without any software hiccups..it also means I don't have to download calibre and convert all those files to Kindle. Not having to do that would make me very happy., not to mention save me time.

I probably should have shaved last night when I showered...my several day shadow of a beard is driving me NUTS with itching.

Just a few of the random thoughts bouncing around inside my head.

Busy Day on America's Death Row's

noreply@blogger.com (Da Curly Wolf) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:58:00 +0000

Busy
Busy day on Death Row.
Piece of Shit #1 Reginald Brooks. Murdered his 3 sons [11,15,17] after his wife filed for divorce.
He was executed in Ohio at 2:04 pm while flipping the witnesses a double bird. No last words. His ex wife isn't going to miss him that's for sure
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-set-execute-man-killed-sleeping-sons-14953579#.TsLg6fKiW1M

So scratch dirtbag number one.

Piece of Shit #2 Oba Chandler-put to death an hour ago in Florida for the brutal 1989 triple rape and murder of Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters Michelle and Christie. Real charming soul this one. He raped them, then tied them to concrete blocks and dropped them over the side of his boat...ALIVE.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/oba-chandler-executed-for-murdering-ohio-mom-two-daughters/1201783

The picture above is of the mother and 2 daughters.

Only one more left to die at 6pm today..here in Texas. a little less than 2hrs from now.
Guadalupe Esparza.[34 at the time of his crime] Convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 7yr old Alyssa Marie Vasquez

Make no mistake. I feel no pity for these pieces of human shit. I personally think for their crimes their deaths are way to swift and merciful. Way, Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy to swift and merciful.

Update re Esparza HE'S A GONER! goodbye douchebag. have fun roasting in hell.