Tuesday, May 26, 2009
That's quite a jump!
Florida dropped from number 26 to number 9 in states with the worst drivers, in the last YEAR! I think that should say enough about what we are dealing with out there. When I say we, I am speaking for all drivers in this state who actually obey traffic laws, yield when we are supposed to, don’t go out of our way to speed up when someone needs to cut in, or cut someone off for driving too slowly. What happened to common courtesy? Oh and by the way, for those who don’t know : When you are faced with a green light, need to turn, and there is on coming traffic, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY! This is happening a lot lately and is the newest in dumb driving.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Cell Phoes and Driving
It seems that no one can drive while talking on their cell phone, but everyone insists on doing it anyway. So I have come up with a solution. From this day forth let’s include it in the driving test. When it’s time to get behind the wheel, someone from the DMV will call you and talk to you during the entire duration of your road exam. And hopefully a few years from now the roads will be a little less dangerous as more and more drivers will know how to do two things at once without impending upon an attempted murder charge around every corner.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Today's Headlines
'Should Casey Anthony face death penalty? ' Yes, of course she should. It's hard to believe that there are people out there who would say no to that. Yeah, everyone deserves the right to a fair trial and by all means give her one, but definitely base it on the fact that if convicted, she gets the death penalty. It's only fair.
'Last of Nadya Suleman's octuplets leaves hospital.' Who gives a shit. She's just in it for the publicity and frankly I wish I could opt out of financially supporting her and the 14 kids that will never get as much parental attention as they deserve. Those kids should be placed in the homes and arms of people who will love, care and provide for them, not the media attention they attract.
'We think: Don't rob the future.' Precisely. Cutting back on school funding, firing teachers and even closing schools, is NOT the right way to handle the situation. The people in this state (and most of the country as well) are retarded. I blame the educational system. No one cares to educate anymore. The school boards seem to be run by a bunch of greedy good for nothings out to cut everything as long as it isn't their own pay. Basically politicians. I’d like to know who decided that providing a strong education for the next generation should be put on the back burner. At this rate, the country as a whole will rot even faster as a result of current practices and proposed implementations.
Something else to ponder on throughout your day: If we are only allowed to water on certain days of the week to save on water consumption, why aren't those philosophies the same for printing money? Why are we not conserving the value of the American dollar? We print and print and print till our hearts content, which by the way is never enough, and our monetary value is fading fast as a result. Printing trillions of dollars to bail out the economy is only contributing to the problem. Why do we need to save companies who weren’t smart enough to survive on their own? Why not let them fail and make room for the ones who were prepared? There are already a billion insurance companies, banks and retail chains out there. Personally, when this is all said and done, I'd rather be banking with a company that had no problem surviving the recession. Reason being: I know that if they can take care of themselves, without asking for handouts, the people running the show are doing a damn good job and my money is safe there.
On a totally unrelated note (that I thought you should also think about): It is my belief that the people out there creating computer viruses and worms are just as malicious as the ones who contract AIDS, find out about it, and decide to sleep with everyone they possibly can just out of spite.
'Last of Nadya Suleman's octuplets leaves hospital.' Who gives a shit. She's just in it for the publicity and frankly I wish I could opt out of financially supporting her and the 14 kids that will never get as much parental attention as they deserve. Those kids should be placed in the homes and arms of people who will love, care and provide for them, not the media attention they attract.
'We think: Don't rob the future.' Precisely. Cutting back on school funding, firing teachers and even closing schools, is NOT the right way to handle the situation. The people in this state (and most of the country as well) are retarded. I blame the educational system. No one cares to educate anymore. The school boards seem to be run by a bunch of greedy good for nothings out to cut everything as long as it isn't their own pay. Basically politicians. I’d like to know who decided that providing a strong education for the next generation should be put on the back burner. At this rate, the country as a whole will rot even faster as a result of current practices and proposed implementations.
Something else to ponder on throughout your day: If we are only allowed to water on certain days of the week to save on water consumption, why aren't those philosophies the same for printing money? Why are we not conserving the value of the American dollar? We print and print and print till our hearts content, which by the way is never enough, and our monetary value is fading fast as a result. Printing trillions of dollars to bail out the economy is only contributing to the problem. Why do we need to save companies who weren’t smart enough to survive on their own? Why not let them fail and make room for the ones who were prepared? There are already a billion insurance companies, banks and retail chains out there. Personally, when this is all said and done, I'd rather be banking with a company that had no problem surviving the recession. Reason being: I know that if they can take care of themselves, without asking for handouts, the people running the show are doing a damn good job and my money is safe there.
On a totally unrelated note (that I thought you should also think about): It is my belief that the people out there creating computer viruses and worms are just as malicious as the ones who contract AIDS, find out about it, and decide to sleep with everyone they possibly can just out of spite.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Mic Check 1 2
If I started a podcast or even compiled a magazine/booklet of questions and possible answers/outcomes worthy of hearing by the ears of those who make all the decisions that have so far doomed this country, WOULD THEY LISTEN?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
From the Weekly:
4:34 p.m.: The cops busted a man with crack.
And now, allow me to climb back atop my soapbox. Last week – the day after the Obama administration pledged money, technology and manpower to secure the border and help Mexico battle its drug cartels – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this: “I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility. Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said.
“Insatiable.” America’s demand for drugs cannot be satiated. Forty years of a war on drugs hasn’t stopped people from consuming drugs, and no increase in anti-narcotics funding or DEA agents is going to change the human desire to get twisted now and again. So long as there’s a demand for something, there will be a supplier. Prohibition can’t stop demand, so prohibition will fail.
So yeah, there’s American culpability in the unrest that could topple the Mexican government. But it doesn’t lie with the pot-smoking frat boy, or even the crack-addled prostitute. It’s all about policy – and if Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration followed their own logic to its zenith, that reality would be staring them in the face.
You can’t stop the demand, but you can regulate supply (see alcohol). You can limit to whom it is sold, and in what quality and quantity. You can more effectively deal with addictions and obliterate the black market both here and in Mexico. But you can only do that if the products are legal.
The truth is that black markets cause many of the problems we associate with drugs. Its purveyors are, by definition, criminals who operate in a system without rules, which leads to chaos (see Wall Street). The prohibition of liquor gave us Al Capone, after all.
Taking drugs off the black market means they’ll be regulated and taxed, which would come in handy right about now, considering how this state and others are closing schools and laying off teachers to close giant deficits. The state would license dealers, who would have to conform to government regulations lest their licenses (and livelihoods) be revoked. Sales to minors would be prohibited, as they are with alcohol and cigarettes now. We could focus our money and energy on treating addicts, rather than busting two-bit stoners with a hookah in their living rooms. The black market would fold like a Murphy bed.
Is legalization a panacea? Of course not. There would still be overdoses and traffic accidents and enough drug-related horror stories to fill your evening newscasts. There would, especially with marijuana, be people who simply grew their own, thus depriving the state of any additional tax revenue. Some people would get hooked that otherwise wouldn’t. And the notion of readily available, store-bought heroin is more than a little disconcerting.
So maybe there shouldn’t be a blanket legalization of all drugs. I don’t presume to know which drugs should be decriminalized and which shouldn’t. But when it’s abundantly clear that the war on drugs is a failure of epic proportions, maybe it’s time to at least start rethinking our approach, before we dump billions more dollars into a war we’re losing. You know: “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Our demand is, as Clinton described it, “insatiable.”
Unfortunately, that’s not the direction we’re headed. At a recent online town hall, President Obama simply laughed off a question about legalizing pot, as if the subject weren’t even worthy of discussion.
All I have to say is : Right on!
To whom do I pass this on to so that it's read by the right persons? How do you get this message into Washington? With all the people "running things", with all the hands in the pot (no pun intended), how is there not someone who can come up with this theory on their own? Why are all the thinkers working outside of the white house/rule making bubble?
And now, allow me to climb back atop my soapbox. Last week – the day after the Obama administration pledged money, technology and manpower to secure the border and help Mexico battle its drug cartels – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this: “I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility. Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said.
“Insatiable.” America’s demand for drugs cannot be satiated. Forty years of a war on drugs hasn’t stopped people from consuming drugs, and no increase in anti-narcotics funding or DEA agents is going to change the human desire to get twisted now and again. So long as there’s a demand for something, there will be a supplier. Prohibition can’t stop demand, so prohibition will fail.
So yeah, there’s American culpability in the unrest that could topple the Mexican government. But it doesn’t lie with the pot-smoking frat boy, or even the crack-addled prostitute. It’s all about policy – and if Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration followed their own logic to its zenith, that reality would be staring them in the face.
You can’t stop the demand, but you can regulate supply (see alcohol). You can limit to whom it is sold, and in what quality and quantity. You can more effectively deal with addictions and obliterate the black market both here and in Mexico. But you can only do that if the products are legal.
The truth is that black markets cause many of the problems we associate with drugs. Its purveyors are, by definition, criminals who operate in a system without rules, which leads to chaos (see Wall Street). The prohibition of liquor gave us Al Capone, after all.
Taking drugs off the black market means they’ll be regulated and taxed, which would come in handy right about now, considering how this state and others are closing schools and laying off teachers to close giant deficits. The state would license dealers, who would have to conform to government regulations lest their licenses (and livelihoods) be revoked. Sales to minors would be prohibited, as they are with alcohol and cigarettes now. We could focus our money and energy on treating addicts, rather than busting two-bit stoners with a hookah in their living rooms. The black market would fold like a Murphy bed.
Is legalization a panacea? Of course not. There would still be overdoses and traffic accidents and enough drug-related horror stories to fill your evening newscasts. There would, especially with marijuana, be people who simply grew their own, thus depriving the state of any additional tax revenue. Some people would get hooked that otherwise wouldn’t. And the notion of readily available, store-bought heroin is more than a little disconcerting.
So maybe there shouldn’t be a blanket legalization of all drugs. I don’t presume to know which drugs should be decriminalized and which shouldn’t. But when it’s abundantly clear that the war on drugs is a failure of epic proportions, maybe it’s time to at least start rethinking our approach, before we dump billions more dollars into a war we’re losing. You know: “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Our demand is, as Clinton described it, “insatiable.”
Unfortunately, that’s not the direction we’re headed. At a recent online town hall, President Obama simply laughed off a question about legalizing pot, as if the subject weren’t even worthy of discussion.
All I have to say is : Right on!
To whom do I pass this on to so that it's read by the right persons? How do you get this message into Washington? With all the people "running things", with all the hands in the pot (no pun intended), how is there not someone who can come up with this theory on their own? Why are all the thinkers working outside of the white house/rule making bubble?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Idling Forever...
To Orange County Traffic Engineering and the personnel responsible for the signal at the intersection of S. OBT and Consulate Dr:
Since you’ve opened up two highway exits into the already claustrophobic traffic, containing all the area’s “nine to fivers” and the jerk offs at MMI, could you at least make the light a little longer. Six cars at a time is a little ridiculous!
Since you’ve opened up two highway exits into the already claustrophobic traffic, containing all the area’s “nine to fivers” and the jerk offs at MMI, could you at least make the light a little longer. Six cars at a time is a little ridiculous!
Can we get any dumber?
A woman called Kissimmee police to say she was locked inside her car at the Walgreen's on John Young Parkway near Poinciana.
"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said."Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well."
The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door.The woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open."
This is from today's Orlando Sentinel...and they want to cut even more of the educational budget!
"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said."Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well."
The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door.The woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open."
This is from today's Orlando Sentinel...and they want to cut even more of the educational budget!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Today's Ticked...A Bushel of Fun
“We need to teach our women today that the back-talking they do to men is wrong.”
Sure! Let’s just go back 100 years or so and erase the whole Women’s Rights thing. Let’s just scratch that right on out of existence. Then we’ll move to improve business for Scotch and buy every woman a roll of tape so that she can just keep her mouth shut! That way there’s no question about whether or not what she says is pleasing to your ears. - You’ve got to be kidding me.
“When did it become OK to go out in your pajamas? It's bad enough they started pajama pants. Now they're wearing pajama tops and even wearing fuzzy slippers to go shopping.”
It never became OK to go out in your pajamas. Everyone just became too lazy to actually get dressed.
“In response to women buying bras that fit properly: This was called in by a man or a flat-chested broad. I'm an extremely big-busted woman; not fat. Bras are designed by men who don't know how to fit women. The cost of a bra for someone my size starts at $40.”
First off I don’t think you can really “call in” to ticked off. Secondly, it doesn’t matter who complained about the bra fat. Truth is not ALL bras are designed by men and I’m SURE you can find one for less than $40. So in conclusion: Get smarter and look harder.
“Our education system doesn't teach our children how to buy a car or home.”
It’s bad enough that we’ve pushed the educational system to teach our children about sex (they obviously aren’t doing a good job) but now you want them to also teach our kids how to buy a house and car? Let me guess, it would be great if the system could start teaching them how to dress and feed themselves too? What exactly do you consider your roll as a parent to be?
Sure! Let’s just go back 100 years or so and erase the whole Women’s Rights thing. Let’s just scratch that right on out of existence. Then we’ll move to improve business for Scotch and buy every woman a roll of tape so that she can just keep her mouth shut! That way there’s no question about whether or not what she says is pleasing to your ears. - You’ve got to be kidding me.
“When did it become OK to go out in your pajamas? It's bad enough they started pajama pants. Now they're wearing pajama tops and even wearing fuzzy slippers to go shopping.”
It never became OK to go out in your pajamas. Everyone just became too lazy to actually get dressed.
“In response to women buying bras that fit properly: This was called in by a man or a flat-chested broad. I'm an extremely big-busted woman; not fat. Bras are designed by men who don't know how to fit women. The cost of a bra for someone my size starts at $40.”
First off I don’t think you can really “call in” to ticked off. Secondly, it doesn’t matter who complained about the bra fat. Truth is not ALL bras are designed by men and I’m SURE you can find one for less than $40. So in conclusion: Get smarter and look harder.
“Our education system doesn't teach our children how to buy a car or home.”
It’s bad enough that we’ve pushed the educational system to teach our children about sex (they obviously aren’t doing a good job) but now you want them to also teach our kids how to buy a house and car? Let me guess, it would be great if the system could start teaching them how to dress and feed themselves too? What exactly do you consider your roll as a parent to be?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Was Cartman Right All Along?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/24/chinese.drywall/index.html
"TIME.com: Is drywall the next Chinese Import Scandal?"
This is more of a reason to stop importing and start making things "at home."
Not to mention helping the unemployment rate by doing so.
"TIME.com: Is drywall the next Chinese Import Scandal?"
This is more of a reason to stop importing and start making things "at home."
Not to mention helping the unemployment rate by doing so.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Yet Another One
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (March 3) - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of McNuggets.
When are they going to start handing out serious fines for this? How dumb can Florida get? It's like every couple of weeks someone calls 911 because the fast food chain they happened to stop at didn't have what they wanted.
I bet if you just drove another block to a different location (of the same chain restaurant) they would've had your nuggets or your lemonade.
SHOCKER I KNOW.
When are they going to start handing out serious fines for this? How dumb can Florida get? It's like every couple of weeks someone calls 911 because the fast food chain they happened to stop at didn't have what they wanted.
I bet if you just drove another block to a different location (of the same chain restaurant) they would've had your nuggets or your lemonade.
SHOCKER I KNOW.
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