Climategate

So, Global Warming is a lie after all.

So far, all I can find on this is blogger rantings. Haven't seen the e-mails, I heard Fox News picked it up, but I haven't seen it on any other news organization. I had been hearing mutterings on forums and mass e-mails a few days ago, and figured that if it was remotely credible, the PR wing of the GOP, Fox News, would be shouting it from the rooftops.

From what I gather, this was one research institute. No one has identified the hackers, and I haven't heard a coherent version of how they allegedly lied.

It's not too crazy to think its for real, but then again, the Internet has done wonders in letting morons spread what other morons want to hear rather than what's true. That said, I wouldn't be shocked to learn that the mainstream media (Which is liberal, I'm sorry to day) is ignoring this just 'cause.

Homeless female vets.

I'm glad to see that female vets get the same level of help as males.

Too bad it's still total crap.

Penis gluing and skin whitener.

This just made me laugh.

Three women, one wife and two girlfriends, captured a guy and glued his penis to his stomach for messing around with the three of them. It's like a sitcom episode. We need more crimes like this.

I was annoyed by this earlier, but after a day of nonsense, unhelpful people, and some personal issues, I care a little less now.

No one was in an uproar when (Still is) tanning was all the rage. That's a process that involves turning white skin brown. Seems like greener pasture syndrome to me. If everyone's one color, it's cool to be another.

Obama heckled by Congressman.

It's like pigs squealing.

Heckling the president? Maybe if you're a kook that's fine, but a Congressman? People kept their mouths shut while that stuttering anti-Christ George W. Bush spewed lie after lie after lie, I should think some respect could go the other way.

They're mad that they lost the election. It's September and the piggies are still squealing over it. The worst part is, their sub-human voting base eats it up.

This entry is a little vitriolic. Politicians are twisted, regardless of affiliation. Maybe they have to be, as people are essentially too stupid to govern themselves.

VA beaurocrats get bonuses while vets suffer.

Not surprising, but still pretty annoying.

It's annoying because these aren't Wall Street types who's only purpose in life is to get rich at the expense of others. These are VA personnel, who's job, theoretically, is to make sure the people who fought out wars (So certain people could remain rich, I suspect) get the health care they deserve.

Had they actually been getting the care, I wouldn't throw a fit over the bonuses. They're not getting the benefits however, because there's too much paperwork.

Maybe if we hired some more people with that bonus money the people who are actually worth something would get their benefits.

The bank mess was bad, but this is the VA. Maybe it's as worthless as some vets say it is. I still remember the Walter Reed reports.

People make a big show about respect for veterans these days, but I guess a lot of it is talk. At least at the higher levels.

Wars are expensive, but then there's the cost of the vets years afterward. Maybe someone should factor that into the math before we go marching off to places.

Cab driver takes blame for forgotten kid.

Don't hear about this sort of blame shifting often.

"We are very happy that the baby was safely returned to mom and dad," said Elaine Driscoll, a police spokeswoman. "That said, it was an important opportunity to remind cab drivers why we have a rule that dictates they must check the back of their cab after every fare."

I can see forgetting your bag, but you're kid? And somehow it's the driver's fault? In what backwards world is the cab driver more responsible for a child than the parent's? Oh wait, this one.

"Police would not release the names of the parents but said they were not being investigated."

At this point, no one should be investigated. It was a doof, no one got hurt, the kid got brought back. But why the cabbie should get so much as a warning is beyond me.

French tourists suck.

Justice is served.

I'll confess, when I read the teaser I thought for sure it would be another America bash. Turns out the French are jerks, just like we've been saying for years since WWII. We took the blame for the Korean War when it was their fault all along, now it's payback.

Celebrity death rumors.

Who needs newspapers?

We'll always have the Internet, which is full of speedy, factual, accurate information.

It's one thing when it's unimportant crap like entertainment news, but should there be something serious and we have to rely on the blogoshphere, I'd be a little worried.

Transformers review.

Transformers: Crap in Disguise.

"In the end, none of these lines will matter. The only line Bay, producer Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood execs are paying attention to is, of course, the bottom line."

Truer words were never spoken. Sometimes I agree with movie critics, other times I don't, but one thing is always the same, their opinions mean nothing. No one goes to a movie because of a good review, nor do they avoid it for a bad one. I can't think of a bigger waste of ink (Bandwidth?), aside from maybe everything else that is entertainment "news."

Stars and Stripes.

Shocker.

Stars and Stripes censored? No.

Pfft. It's the army's PR department. Who the hell depends on them for news, really?

Iran gives up on plain old lying.

GTFO

Gee, it's almost like Iran is doing some nasty things that it knows the world would take a dim view of and doesn't want anyone to know about it.

This is tinpot dictator crap. If Iran wants to be taken seriously as a country, they need to learn how to spin the media like a civilized country would. You're supposed to let the cops into your house and lie to them to avoid blame. Baring the door only makes them more suspicious.

Holy Toledo.

Top ten reasons to tar and feather a public official.

Okay, so I only listed one, but I'm sure there are others. For real, how do you stand by something like that?

Republicans bitch, Democrats...twitch?

Gloom and Doom.

While they're right about America being screwed, I haven't heard any solutions from Republicans, only "Obama has failed, will fail, is failing, I hope he fails, we lost the election, boo hoo blah blah."

If China wasn't such an awful county America stepping down wouldn't be so bad. I think the world traded up in terms of rulers when America took over for Britain, but China would definitely be a move backwards.

Iraq kills boars.

This is why we'll be in Iraq forever.

It would seem as though the Iraqi government is completely retarded.

The boars were in a zoo.

They tested negative for swine flu.

They were put to sleep all the same.

The boars were the ones more likely to catch the flu from human visitors, not the other way around. The stupidity here is staggering. People wonder why this country is slow to get back on it's feet. Looks like all the smart people were killed when the U.S. invaded.

I'm not looking at this from an animal lover's point of view either, this is just damned stupid. I bet they shoot at eclipses because they think a snake is eating the sun...

Republican reinvention: inane babbling.

You can't polish a turd.

But they're going to try.

Here's what would would make me vote Republican:

1. Keep out of people's personal lives. What two consenting adults do in a bedroom is none of Uncle Sam's business. Telling people who they can't marry is also an intrusion.

2. Be cheap. As in, stop blowing trillions of dollars on weapons, stop bending common people over in front of big business, and stop allowing American jobs to be shipped overseas or given to Mexicans.

3. Realize that American, as big and tough as it is, can't fight 30 wars at a time.

There was nothing conservative about the last Republican administration, and there's nothing conservative about them now. They wan't a bigger government, no questions asked, to meddle in foreign affairs, and suck up all the natural resources. The only thing they're conservative about is human rights and not giving what's due.

Basically, start being cheap with money and not on common sense and human rights, and we'll talk, Republicans.

They won't, of course. They'll go out into the country shouting "The Muslim Liberals are coming to take your guns, abort your babies, and burn your Bibles! And tax you without representation!"

And people will believe them.

The yellow press strikes again.

You're not really reporting anymore.

I hate this "What would happen," crap. Stick to what is happening, and what's probably going to happen tomorrow, and by that I mean, tomorrow, not 12-14 months.

And then there's this.

"WASHINGTON – Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. We're nowhere close to what government planners say would be a worst-case scenario:"

No, we're nowhere close, but by God, you'll lead with the yellowest information you can think of all the same. Douche.

Swine flu.

Mexico blows.

We're relying on Mexico...MEXICO, to stem a pandemic. We're boned.

Actually, I'm pretty sure this is a media scare-fest. They can't bash Obama and the economy stories aren't selling, so what better to scare and depress people but some flu thing.

Taliban declares victory.

Taliban wins!?

"'Our strength is in the hundreds,' said Moulana Mohammad Khalil, as heavily armed men openly patrolled the roads in pickup trucks, singing Islamic anthems."

The hundreds! Dear lord, we'll be overrun! And they have...pickup trucks...

A few questions:

1. Wasn't the Taliban defeated in 03-04? Oh wait, no, they were pushed out of Afghanistan and allowed to fester in Pakistan while we played with ourselves in Iraq.

2. Why hasn't Pakistan been invaded? Their intelligence agencies created the Taliban to begin with, now they harbor them. Oh, I know, Pakistan has a nuke. We don't invade countries with nukes, which why Iran wants one so bad.

Columbine, all wrong.

Truth? Wait for the book.

The mass media has no credibility. They report unconfirmed crap, giving people false impressions that not only hinder people's ability to handle future problems, but create countless other problems through misconception.

Seems like every time I read a news story, I have to ask, is this complete tripe?

Chan tells it like it is.

Does anyone care what Chan thinks?

I know zilch about China, aside from that it's an awful, overpopulated place where life is cheap and individuality is a joke concept, so I won't say much beyond that.

Texas, taxes...same letters, same thing.

It's got my vote.

I've long been an advocate for floating Texas out to sea, but having it secede is just find. I say we beat them to the punch and expel them. We can take bets on how long it takes them to beg the federal government for financial aid, or to request military aid because Mexico would like its land back.

The south never really understood the whole constitution thing anyway.

RetardoMom.

I officially hate this woman.

I'm pretty sure I said that a while ago. I really shouldn't be devoting time, words, or bandwidth to her, but...God.

"but said reports of a signed deal are premature."

Like her children.

"A Texas company not affiliated with her has filed to trademark an Octomom iPhone game.'You press on her belly and she has babies,' the company's CEO said."

I'm glad someone aside from Dr. Phil is making money off her. Maybe there's a game where you're tax dollars go to pay for her children...oh wait, that's not a game, that's really happening.

"'Each baby earns welfare money. Having babies while the Paparazzi is in the room earns a cash bonus! Money is used to buy more fertility shots. Fertility shots let Octomom have more babies! 'It may 'take a village to raise a child' but it only takes Octomom to birth a village of children!'"

She doubles as the village idiot, too.

Power grid compromised.

Is there anything in America the Chinese don't own?

One hopes we have similar nasty things embedded in their power grids.

April 1

April Fools.

The mainstream media's credibility is such that I would question the wisdom of running gag articles. Ever.

It seems regardless of how stupid the fake story is, a few idiots buy into it. Should the media be responsible for stupid people's actions? No. I don't know. It is what it is, I suppose.

Appropriately enough, the deadline for NY's state budget is April 1.

South America sucks.

Gee, I wonder why.

My theory is because the Mexican government and the drug cartels are one and the same organization. Maybe not technically, but they're all on the same payroll. Small wonder they want to cooperate with the U.S. in name only.

"The Mexican president said forces from both sides of the border should share information to try to stem the flow of illegal drugs and tackle the gangs who supply them."

Yes, so when the U.S. sends you some info, you pass it along to your cartel bosses so they can then watch their butts.

People worry about the Middle East...it's retarded when you look at the big picture. South America is pretty much the same sort of place, minus the Muslim crazies. It's got oil, crime, the works. The difference is that drugs from the region have done more damage to this country than any terrorist ever dreamed.

Do we do anything about South America? Nope. We treat it like our dirty little brother that we don't like to talk about. Like a Canada that never quite made it. Too late now, we're stuck in that retarded desert, we don't have the resources to deal with the festering sore directly to the south.

Dumb.

I'm really a Chinese hacker.

It's probably China's fault.

Meaning the Chinese government. We'd all like to think it's Chinese teenagers having fun, but c'mon...Why do I have the nagging suspicion the Chinese government put them up to it, or at the very least contacts them afterward.

I have no proof, of course, but then again I don't need it.

Money: The root of all unhappiness.

The wrong way to think?

"Money is always necessary for your life."

True, to a point, but I think it's quite apparent where this thought process leads.

Why is Cheney still talking?

He's still alive?

You'd think this guy would climb back into his tomb for another 1,000 years, but no, he's still saying stuff.

Some highlights:

"'President Obama campaigned against it all across the country, and now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack,' Cheney said"

Someone should tell him he's not in charge anymore, he doesn't have to scream terrorist every five seconds to distract people from his administrations rape of the economy/environment/constitution.

"'Stuff happens, and an administration has to be able to respond to that and we did,' Cheney told CNN's State of the Union."

Right, like sending troops to a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and sitting around for a week while New Orleans was wiped off the map. That's about as responsive as a mentally challenged lump of coal.

Criticizing The Bush administration is like kicking a dead dog, but I hope people continue to do it. None of this "Oh, it's over now, lets move on." People need to held accountable. We didn't have the hair to impeach these losers after they lied to us about the war and left New Orleans to rot, we can at least make damn sure their names are what they deserve to be; mud.

Bush museum.

In case we needed further proof he's a loser.

The economy is going belly-up and he wants a $300 million museum dedicated to himself. I guess the only way history will vindicate him is if he's the one writing it.

Hell, why don't we just find the biggest pile of rubble we can attribute to him and slap a dedication on it? It'd be cheaper, I think.

How about $300 million to poor people?

Recession benifits.

Good.

These belt tightening stories are getting funnier. Maybe no this one, per se, but I've read a few about millionaires having to buy silver houses instead of gold as though we're all supposed to care.

I don't think it's to illicit pity from us poor types. The media knows damn well we like to watch rich people suffer; entertainment news has long thrived on this principal.

To the point:

"The recession is radically changing behavior among many different types of people, from the Wall Street bankers who are now waltzing into Wal-Mart for the first time to buy their groceries to teens who are now thumbing through the piles of status jeans at secondhand shops to save money. And experts say that such behavior could linger long after the economy recovers."

Let it linger, I say. The "old American lifestyle" wasn't sustainable at all. Constant growth? Credit-based society? People seriously believed this crap worked. I'm no economist, but even before this economic mess I was a little skeptical of the nation's business model. I assumed I was the dumb one and there was something I didn't get about the system that made it work just fine.

The funniest part is that my own lifestyle hasn't changed. I was always pretty cheap. A few weeks ago on the news some loser was saying something like "People are going to have to rent apartments instead of buying houses, drive cheaper cars, and maybe go to a state college."

Beat you to it, losers. My car is cheap, my apartment is cheap, and so was my education (Although I would have liked it cheaper...).

Republican Leadership.

It's like watching pigs trying to hump a stump.

Yes, stem cell research is a "distraction." Is Alzheimer's Disease a distraction, asshole? You're entire party is a distraction at this point. Watching these losers say the first stupid thing that comes to their mind in an effort to be seen as the party's leader is rather amusing, I'll admit.

What was the name of that ass that didn't think volcano study was important? Jindal?

Octo-Mom, Octopussy.

I'm watching Dr. Phil.

I think I know why they don't have freak shows anymore. They do, but they're not as popular as they once were.

Competition drove them out. If you want to see someone that makes you feel good about being yourself, just turn on the TV and you'll see some loser who's more hopeless than you ever thought of being.

This is why people don't read anymore. People read all the time when books were the be all and the end all of the media, but now it can be divided up between radio, TV, and the Internet. I'd like to read something intelligent on the effects of mass media.

Back to Dr. Phil. He's interviewing America's latest freak, the Octo-Mom. The woman had eight babies, on top of the six she was already feeding with food stamps.

People hate this woman. She's the poster child for people who are putting a drain on the system.

I'm an idiot. I fell into the trap everyone else fell into. Okay, so the woman has popped out 16 kids who are going to have to fed and clothed by the state, sure. It's going to cost money. A lot of money.

I don't know how much money, exactly, but lets say for the sake of argument her children cost taxpayers somewhere between $5 million and $10 million from the time they are born until they're 18.

There's no way in Hell the cost of these children will ever approach the amount of money Bernie Madoff stole ($50 billion, that's billion with a B) or the deficit our leaders have racked up (Trillions, with a T).

And SHE'S the one people are pissed at? She's the freak?

The problem with country is that we get outraged over minor losers of no consequence, but all we do when a Grade A King Rat comes along is shake our heads, shrug out shoulders, say "Ho hum" and accept it. Ad bending over to that list, and it's done.

Actually, after listening to that idiot woman prattle her story, I can see why there's outrage.

Operation: Rushbo.

Forget what I said yesterday.

Maybe they do know how to fight dirty. Still know, I should say. I've been reading "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson, and God damn, they all fight dirty. Hopefully not as dirty as they used to, but after Blagojevich, I suspect it's much the same (Spell checker thinks I wanted to spell archipelago when I wrote Blagojevich).

"'The Administration is enabling me,' he wrote in an email to POLITICO. 'They are expanding my profile, expanding my audience and expanding my influence. An ever larger number of people are now being exposed to the antidote to Obamaism: conservatism, as articulated by me. An ever larger number of people are now exposed to substantive warnings, analysis and criticism of Obama's policies and intentions, a ‘story’ I own because the [mainstream media] is largely the Obama Press Office.'"

The sad part is that a large chunk of that is correct.

Yes, they are enabling him. To who's gain, we'll have to see. Obviously, he benefits which is entirely of no consequence. If I were a Democratic strategist, making one twisted Republican ideologue rich at the expense of the others losing power would be a fine trade indeed.

As for him being the antidote to Obamism, I'd like to wait and see if Obamism is even a disease before I set out to cure it. But of course, when you're batting for the Red Team, you have to go against everything the Blue Team says (It's actually quite sickening what partisanship does to America, but that's another post).

As for the media being the Obama Press Office, he's bang on correct.

"Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope."

The lead to Gibbs's article, at least the tone, isn't that unique. And while I don't really expect anything but a liberal bias from TIME, to me that article was the pinacle of Obamism. Not even sworn in, and already we're likening him to Jesus Christ.

I didn't know Obama smoked until after the election, but I knew McCain couldn't recall the amount of houses he owns. I also stopped hearing about McCain when he trotted out that thing he found in Alaska. The media knew she made him look stupid, and she was all anyone ever heard about. She was more like Bush than McCain. Girl Bush if you will.

It's things like the Gibbs article that make us deserve Fox News. I hate Fox "News" for the record, but like the plagues in Egypt, we asked for it.

I could go on for a long time about what bias is. For the record, it's not when one party looks to be clearly in the wrong. Beleive it or not, sometimes certain people are right, and others are not, but we need to criticise the government, whoever it happens to be. The last time we didn't, we got the Iraq war as a reward for our complacency.

Republican or Democrat, we need to make the president sorry he ever ran for office by asking him questions that make him lose half a pound in sweat and six months off his lifespan.

Rush says stupid things.

It must be rough having to deal with the team idiot.

Why Steele feels the need to back-pedal for saying what's essentially true is beyond me. Oh wait, it isn't. He must have forgotten that the base he and his party pander to are ignorant hicks and he has to be nice to them.

I'm not going to make fun of Republicans here because I think this situation really illustrates what's wrong with Democrats. Rush Limbaugh has said he wants Obama, the president, to fail.

For the record, the president is the leader of America. Generally speaking, what's bad for him is by extension, bad for America.

Had a liberal said the same of Bush during his presidency, he would have been branded a traitor and forced to apologize. Now that some Republican lunatic has said the same, why isn't he being pounced on?

Some might say Democrats are above such simple-minded political games, but I say it's because they're wimps. They don't know how to fight dirty, plain and simple, and it's why we can't seem to elect two Democrat's in a row.

Ew, looks like I've become bogged into the Republican/Democrat mind trap. That's the kind of mindset that leads to Limbaugh statements. These people don't see politics as a process which governs the lives of people, they see it as some stupid game, like checkers.

Hell, maybe it is a stupid checkers game.

Keepthefuckout.

What the hell is this?

You can't make this crap up. Good God in heaven. Skull and Bones? SKULL and BONES!? Geronimo's remains? Christ on his cross, what in the name of the Holy Gods of War is all this babble now?

Something's wrong, and it has nothing to do with dead Indians. Or maybe it has everything to do with dead Indians and we just don't know it anymore.

Did you know the Indian's sense of time is different than ours? To them, Little Big Horn is still happening and they won't go there because the place is evil. I can think of a few tourist attractions in Germany that are evil and should be fenced off forever. Hell, a few places in America. Andersonville! Cannibalism! Bastard Confederates.

Just imagine, a place so evil it's still happening and no one can go there. Hell, you'd run out of space on the Earth after too long. Too much evil, not enough space to put it all. You'd have to shovel all that shit into a hole somewhere and build a big God damned sign that said "Keepthefuckout."

We don't have enough keepthefuckout signs for that kind of thinking.

How about some useful B.S. for once?

Do you know what would be very un-dramatic?

If we did in fact find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, only it was just as intelligent as we were. We could look at them through telescopes, perhaps send probes or radio signals, but that would be it. They could send the same back to use, only they'd get out message in a few millions years, and we theirs.

Telephone conversations with one-second delays are bad enough. Imagine having to deal with the possibility of extinction in between messages.

Try making a movie out of that, see what you get. I would imagine we'd forget about those aliens after some time had passed, or until we made a vehicle that could take us there in a reasonable amount of time.

This is why I'm more excited to hear about new developments in space travel than I am place to go. Seems to me, a place to go is just maddening with no way to get there.

However, a vehicle is a little boring an pointless without someplace for it to take you to, so I can see the other side of it. I might be the only one who worries about this sort of thing, but when you think about it, the odds of us finding an alien civilization at the same time we invent a space ship that could travel to it are a little slim.

My opinion, the odds of either happening are nil. I think science fiction should turn its imagination to stories about humans finding a way to live on this planet without using up all the resources. If Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov can spur scientist to create space ships and robots, I think we need some fiction books about crap that matters, i.e. sustainable energy.

I wonder how this would work with child molesters?

Forget "Texas Justice."

Give me the Iranian stuff.

I'm a little torn here. I the one hand, civilized countries don't do cruel and unusual punishments, but in a case like this, damn would it be nice to see the criminal get his eyes burned out with acid.

Of course, this would be under the same code of laws that lets old men marry prepubescent girls to settle debts, so I wouldn't be too quick to shout "Hell yeah, an eye for an eye!"

The problem with the world's justice systems is that they only kick in once the damage has been done. Very little is done to prevent these things.

Al Sharpton is Crazy.

These people are always good for a laugh.


Of course, you're free to ask "What the hell do you mean 'these people?'"

I think Sharpton and some other modern civil rights leaders are now doing a disservice to the movement. Getting bent out of shape over silly things where the supposed racial overtones are at best debatable, it makes something of a joke out the whole thing.

It gets harder to take real racial offenses seriously when the last thing to complain about was a cartoon in a newspaper. Come to think of it, the last people to whine and moan about an editorial cartoon that got national headlines were Muslim crazies.


"'The Post should at least clarify what point they were trying to make in this cartoon, and reprimand their cartoonist for making inferences that are offensive and divisive at a time the nation struggles to come together to stabilize the economy if, in fact, this was yet another racially charged cartoon,' he said."

Yes, apologize for daring to criticize the government. I thought we had enough of this Bill O'Reily neo-fascism crap.

Of course, they're also complaining about the Resident Evil 5 video game coming out. The main character is white, and the "zombies" which are common to all the RE games are black.

The game is set in African, what color are they supposed to be? And how much do you want to bet the villain behind it all is a white guy?

Congress sucks.

Thank God for politicians.

If we didn't have them around, we might actually something done. Then we'd really be in trouble. Luckily we have the Red Team in there to thwart everything the Blue Team tries to do simply because they're the Blue Team. And kudos to the Blue Team for doing the same to the Red Team just because.

"Obama’s campaign was lauded for its visionary use of modern tools for old-fashioned politics. Through the Internet, it recruited supporters, collected dollars, rallied supporters and organized get-out-the vote operations.

But when these modern heroes arrived at the White House, it was like the lights all went out.
Their contact with their millions-fold supporters was cut off, literally, as e-mail systems broke down and ‘The List’ of political supporters was blocked at the iron gate."

Makes you wonder just what the hell good the White House is if you can't do jack squat from it. Technically, you can do a lot from it, you just need to wipe your butt with the Constitution.

I think we've been side-tracked in America. All of our focus goes into "who's in the White House, who's in the White House, president, president, president, blah, blah, blah."

Congress is the problem. The Senate and House of Representitives, with their powers combined, ruin America at every turn. No one gives a crap about these losers, so no one ever bother to vote their lame asses out of office in their home states. The result is group of Red Team/Blue Team ninnies who either make poor decisions or none at all.

What's the opposite of pro? Con. What's the opposite of progress? Congress.

Oh, and "The Message War?" Does every damn thing in this country have to be a war? War on drugs, war on terror, war on childhood obesity. How about a war on stupidity?

The Chinese are a species of rice. Look it up.

Genetic engineering put to good for once.

I say for once, because the same technology is also responsible for terminator seeds. I'll explain: Corn seed companies engineer their plants to not reproduce after a generation, that way farmers have to come back each year and buy seeds instead of allowing pollination and nature do its work.

And, in case you thought this was just ranting off something I heard in a college class once...

I was just ranting until I Googled the "proof," but still.

They could have been working on a way to make the corn grow faster or yield more, but did they?

What they should be doing is trying to crossbreed corn with some type of mammal or higher primate. That way, once it's old enough, it can basically farm itself. Or at least scare off/eat crows. With some luck, instead of corn, it would grow steak or something.

A plant that produces a meat fruit...what would PETA say to that? I'm sure like most people they would decry the blatant affront to God, but beyond that, would it be a plant or an animal?

It's getting stupid in here, so that's enough for now.

Fo' rizzle?

You've got to be kidding me.

You spend $700 billion on something, and you don't know if it had the effect you wanted? Do I even need to point out how absurd this is? When are they going to just come out and admit that the economy is about as mysterious as the sea to them, and nothing they do is ever going to change it?

Is there some reason the market needs to be this occult, arcane thing?

Let the casinos take over the banks.

You know your money is bad when the bank won't take it.

I remarked once before that the entire bailout action was plain, red, communism. The same losers who squeal about socialism voted for it, which mystified me, because that would make them hypocrites.

Socialism, communism...there's a difference. I don't know what that difference is, but I'm sure it's there. The two words get used interchangeably. From what little I've read, socialism seems to be the most realistic of the two, and is basically what we've got now. If you don't think we're in at least a partially socialist state, I'll point you towards commercial zoning, consumer goods safety regulations, and welfare.

I don't see why we can't make enough rules to keep greedy pigs from running the country into the ground, but not so many that Uncle Sam is our boss.

Actually, I do know why. Politicians will say and do whatever it takes to get themselves elected. They will create arguments where there don't need to be any, and will distort facts and tell outright lies to keep themselves in office. They spew crap about taxpayers and socialism, and don't actually do anything.

Anyway, back to the nationalization of banks. Isn't it the idiot government printing the money to begin with? From what I gather, government losers print money and send it to banks for loaning (Putting people into debt to make a profit for themselves) and then bank losers lend that money to stupid people.

Is there something inherently wrong with cutting out one layer of stupidity, or at least sandwiching the two together so the distance between morons isn't so great?

"For Fidelity, taking the money would mean the government would have owned about 25 percent of the company's outstanding stock."

Whatever the hell that means. Outstanding stock? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but as a voter, shouldn't the mechanisms that run this country at least be in terms I only need about a semester in college to comprehend?

"'These are the guys who brought you Hurricane Katrina. These are the guys who were supposed to be watching Fannie and Freddie,' Ross said. 'I've not seen anything like this, where they really are talking about nationalizing banks.'"

I agree with him. He's from a bank that didn't have a lot to do with the credit crisis, so for him to call the government out on being criminally stupid is valid.

I guess my theory is this: For the government to control the banks, we'd be combining two groups of corrupt, incompetent, losers. Two negatives make a positive, right? Perhaps by letting these two negatives come together, they'll magically become positive. Two stupids make a smart.

More likely, they'll find new and interesting ways to ruin everything.

He does look a bit like your wife's ex-husband.

Saw this one coming.

I'm not sure if I admire this guy, or fear for him. I mean, there's some more-than-damning evidence against him, yet he still maintains his innocence. He's either completely insane or has huge balls.

Some highlights:

"After a four-day trial, the Illinois Senate voted 59-0 to convict him of abuse of power, automatically ousting the second-term Democrat."

No partisan lines there.

"In a second, identical vote, lawmakers further barred Blagojevich from ever holding public office in the state again."

That's the best part. Not only are you fired, don't ever come back. As if he could get elected in Illinois, or any other state. Maybe he could, wasn't the mayor of D.C. a crack addict.

So, the business world is corrupt, politicians are corrupt...nothing new, I'm sure, but with the economy tanking, I have to wonder if corruption isn't part of the root cause.

What did annoy me when the Blagojevich thing broke was that no one in the media could pronounce his name. Granted, it's hard, but about five minutes tops of research and you'd have it. Once you hear it, it's easy, and I'm sure the people in Illinois could tell you easily enough.

To cap the stupidity, they turned to calling him Hot Rod or my personal favorite, Bloggo. Or Blog-O, like Jack-O, back when Micheal Jackson was in the news. I say, drop the nicknames and act like a professional. Losers.

Money, meet hole. Hole, meet money.

This is why we're in the shape we're in.

What's important to note here is that these people aren't the same class of loser that sends you e-mails rambling in broken English about Nigerian princes and offshore accounts (Or maybe they are) but "respected" Wall Street types.

It's like cockroaches. If you see one, there's more. I wonder how much of the current economic situation is due to corruption and not stupidity as we've been led to believe. I swear, you'd think we were living in China with the way these people act.

What I fail to see is how certain politicians can still blubber about there being too many regulations on the financial sector. It's not like they follow the rules anyway.

The really awful part is that I highly doubt anyone even understands how the economy really works. To hear the idiots talk about it, one would think they're discussing dam construction or something.

It seems to me that the economy is based on two things:

1. Owing other people money. The problem comes, of course, when you have to pay it back or can't collect a debt. The very concept of charging interest means that someone is going to the poor house or the Government is going to have to print more money (To ship overseas where all of our goods are made). It seems like a faulty system.

2. People need to believe the economy is goof for it to be good. It's based on wishes and kitten farts essentially. Nothing is more fickle and stupid that the opinion of a group, so why are our finances based on it? Seems a bit like trusting a baby to a herd of nervous cattle.

I've been reading up on the history of a nearby Vermont town, and from what I've read in regards to a situation regarding land grants, the greedy losers who run things have never known what they were doing and in an effort to make themselves come out on top, screwed everything up.

Now and again it seems I read something written by a person who seems to hold the believe that this is all fine and dandy. It's how the world works and people who don't like it or want to change it need to grow up, or some such nonsense. I say they either made a lot of money in some shady fashion, or they're economic Uncle Toms.