Child Wears Klan Robe (Aryan Outfitters)
Trippy! A whole different culture to growing up in Portland, Oregon.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Obama-nation or Obam-ination
It's funny when you can hear your local Mexican taxi drivers chanting, "Obama Obama!"
When I came home today I was just slightly apprehensive when I saw that McCain was leading on TV. I momentarily thought, "they're stealing it again." But then I saw that it was 7 to 3 electoral votes. Then I got online and say that Bushie henchman Karl Rove expects Obama to win by a large margin. Hey if Rove says it is then it is.
I do hope that Obama reaches out to the conservatives when he begins his presidency. Nothing pissed me off more when Bush squeaked by with a 1% margin and Cheney claimed that he had been given a "mandate." A mandate to fuck 49% of us over? In the end I think we all are surprised at how his "go it alone, free market capitalism" mentality allowed us to fuck ourselves over. Or you can blame the wealthy and the banking system.
It comes down to this, most people are idiots, most people are greedy. The government puts laws in place to protect us from ourselves. I'm doing fine, I hope you are too but there are plenty of people out there losing their jobs and if not finding it hard to make ends meet. Prevententive medical care is the first thing to go, old people spacing out their medication so they have money for their food and housing. That's really messed up. Back to work! Younger and middle-aged people with no or low paying jobs trapped where ever they are unable to seek or worse find better pay.
(Nearly) Everyone was living high on the housing hog and now the chickens have come home to roost. Trapped in a home that's lost value. And what really pisses me off is the talk that the bailed out banks are using that money for mergers and acquisitions. Greedy fucks! That's not going to get anything going. They'll ride it out and have more power while all the majority of people are strapped for credit even though they still have jobs that will provide the payments.
An acquaintance of mine is a Libertarian. When he ran for his local office ages ago, one of his things was to sell the city parks. Why? His mentality was, would you have problem going into a city park at night? Probably yes. Do you have a problem going to a amusement park like Disneyland? No. It's very black and white for him. Little or no taxes. No welfare or assistance of any sort. Back in the day he had bought two homes for $14,000 which at the time had grown to a value of $17,000 apiece. His local real estate agent called him and told him that a new Federal act allowed single mothers up to $22,000 in financing. He sold both for $22,000. Do you too see the hypocrisy? Is his taking the additional $10,000 in profit wrong? Did he take welfare?
My only statement to him is that we have to take care of the idiots. Think if Social Security had be privatized to something like a stock account and everyone had jumped on the bandwagon like they had the housing boom. No more money. A lot of people cant take care of themselves. Some people will always rent. Maybe they could afford a house but they spend their money too foolishly to make the payments. A lot of that just happened when the ARMs went up. So I figure this, let the government take care of the basics. Basic social security and basic health care that will take care of you on a basic level for your whole life. If you want more then you'll naturally be smart enough to set aside more for your future and work for a good company that gives you good to great health care so you don't have to use the basic version.
Take care of the idiots, they are the people who enable the rest of us to well off or rich. Being selfish is only going to bit you in the ass. It says so in the Bible.
And apropos (speaking of which) of social conservative thinking. No one is pro-abortion. But if someone wants to make another choice, that's their right. Let their God judge them. Not you or yours. If you don't want your kids to learn sex-ed at school. Opt out. That's your right. But don't forget to respect everyone else's.
When I came home today I was just slightly apprehensive when I saw that McCain was leading on TV. I momentarily thought, "they're stealing it again." But then I saw that it was 7 to 3 electoral votes. Then I got online and say that Bushie henchman Karl Rove expects Obama to win by a large margin. Hey if Rove says it is then it is.
I do hope that Obama reaches out to the conservatives when he begins his presidency. Nothing pissed me off more when Bush squeaked by with a 1% margin and Cheney claimed that he had been given a "mandate." A mandate to fuck 49% of us over? In the end I think we all are surprised at how his "go it alone, free market capitalism" mentality allowed us to fuck ourselves over. Or you can blame the wealthy and the banking system.
It comes down to this, most people are idiots, most people are greedy. The government puts laws in place to protect us from ourselves. I'm doing fine, I hope you are too but there are plenty of people out there losing their jobs and if not finding it hard to make ends meet. Prevententive medical care is the first thing to go, old people spacing out their medication so they have money for their food and housing. That's really messed up. Back to work! Younger and middle-aged people with no or low paying jobs trapped where ever they are unable to seek or worse find better pay.
(Nearly) Everyone was living high on the housing hog and now the chickens have come home to roost. Trapped in a home that's lost value. And what really pisses me off is the talk that the bailed out banks are using that money for mergers and acquisitions. Greedy fucks! That's not going to get anything going. They'll ride it out and have more power while all the majority of people are strapped for credit even though they still have jobs that will provide the payments.
An acquaintance of mine is a Libertarian. When he ran for his local office ages ago, one of his things was to sell the city parks. Why? His mentality was, would you have problem going into a city park at night? Probably yes. Do you have a problem going to a amusement park like Disneyland? No. It's very black and white for him. Little or no taxes. No welfare or assistance of any sort. Back in the day he had bought two homes for $14,000 which at the time had grown to a value of $17,000 apiece. His local real estate agent called him and told him that a new Federal act allowed single mothers up to $22,000 in financing. He sold both for $22,000. Do you too see the hypocrisy? Is his taking the additional $10,000 in profit wrong? Did he take welfare?
My only statement to him is that we have to take care of the idiots. Think if Social Security had be privatized to something like a stock account and everyone had jumped on the bandwagon like they had the housing boom. No more money. A lot of people cant take care of themselves. Some people will always rent. Maybe they could afford a house but they spend their money too foolishly to make the payments. A lot of that just happened when the ARMs went up. So I figure this, let the government take care of the basics. Basic social security and basic health care that will take care of you on a basic level for your whole life. If you want more then you'll naturally be smart enough to set aside more for your future and work for a good company that gives you good to great health care so you don't have to use the basic version.
Take care of the idiots, they are the people who enable the rest of us to well off or rich. Being selfish is only going to bit you in the ass. It says so in the Bible.
And apropos (speaking of which) of social conservative thinking. No one is pro-abortion. But if someone wants to make another choice, that's their right. Let their God judge them. Not you or yours. If you don't want your kids to learn sex-ed at school. Opt out. That's your right. But don't forget to respect everyone else's.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Schadenfreude- My favorite German word!
Schadenfreude- "joy at the expense of others." Or so that's how I understand it. It's a great word and in my opinion typically a great feeling. Let me warm you up before I give you an extreme example.
Everyone watches America's Funniest Home Videos or something of the like. What are they all about? People getting hurt for the most part and the audience laughing about it.
Notice how it's titled "Funny Accident Compilation." But they are...
Funny how you just can't stop watching can you?
So in my expertly twisted mind I found this article about a 12 year old boy's trick or treat killing funny. Macabre? Yes but read the article. A 22 year old guy thinks someone is trying break in to his house and unleashes 29 shots from an AK-47 through the front door. Obviously a dude with problems but the humor for me is that the greedy little boy took the majority of the bullets because the he "was determined to get candy first, so he was in front when the shots were fired." Also the slain boy's mother reminisced that he "liked to bake cakes, in part because he relished licking the batter." I see it as one of God's strange punishments for our greediness.
Pretty sick huh? Sorry. It happened in South Carolina. The dad wants the bullet happy dude to suffer life in jail. I'm sure the dude was on drugs or all paranoid. I mean you have to have some insecurities if you have a machine gun. The kid probably pounded on the door all excited for candy. We know what happened next. I wonder if the dad supported hard core gun rights? I wonder if he changed his mind? So a somber introspective mood approaches. Do you think the guy should get life? His first words when he opened the door were, "Oh no!" I think an incident like that screws you up for life but might open your eyes with some additional therapy.
"Turn the other cheek," as the famous dude says.
Go ahead and comment on any moments of personal observations of Schadenfreude to lighten the mood please. I'm going to watch kats do silly things.
Everyone watches America's Funniest Home Videos or something of the like. What are they all about? People getting hurt for the most part and the audience laughing about it.
Notice how it's titled "Funny Accident Compilation." But they are...
Funny how you just can't stop watching can you?
So in my expertly twisted mind I found this article about a 12 year old boy's trick or treat killing funny. Macabre? Yes but read the article. A 22 year old guy thinks someone is trying break in to his house and unleashes 29 shots from an AK-47 through the front door. Obviously a dude with problems but the humor for me is that the greedy little boy took the majority of the bullets because the he "was determined to get candy first, so he was in front when the shots were fired." Also the slain boy's mother reminisced that he "liked to bake cakes, in part because he relished licking the batter." I see it as one of God's strange punishments for our greediness.
Pretty sick huh? Sorry. It happened in South Carolina. The dad wants the bullet happy dude to suffer life in jail. I'm sure the dude was on drugs or all paranoid. I mean you have to have some insecurities if you have a machine gun. The kid probably pounded on the door all excited for candy. We know what happened next. I wonder if the dad supported hard core gun rights? I wonder if he changed his mind? So a somber introspective mood approaches. Do you think the guy should get life? His first words when he opened the door were, "Oh no!" I think an incident like that screws you up for life but might open your eyes with some additional therapy.
"Turn the other cheek," as the famous dude says.
Go ahead and comment on any moments of personal observations of Schadenfreude to lighten the mood please. I'm going to watch kats do silly things.
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