We Have Found Our Savior!

Recently, Jimme Bise mentioned that everything Obama seems to try to help turns out to get worse after he touches it: Afghanistan, The Economy, The Democrat Party, you name it. In fact, things are so fucked up, it appears as though Mr. Bean is running the country.

So, when the world needs help and rescuing, we all turn to one man:

OBAMABEAN! Saving The World, One Misstep At A Time!

Thanks to Alice H for the photo. That is kickass!

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At the risk of being impolitic

So I'm reading this blah-blah about abortion coverage, and here's what strikes me: buying abortion insurance sounds like a scam.

I mean, really, how many abortions is the average woman gonna have?  It's $400-800 for a first-trimester abortion (according to the story).  Considering there are all kinds of ways to avoid getting pregnant (pill, condoms, pill+condom, being a lesbian, etc) you'd think that most women are never going to need one.

The scary NARAL woman (who, sadly, I thought was a Narwhal until I read the story more closely) makes it sound like this could strike a woman at any time, but I find this hard to believe.

To listen to talk shows, most women can't even find a good man, much less get pregnant so often that they need abortion insurance.

It reminds me of the life insurance they try to sell you for your kids.  This is also a scam; your kids are probably not going to die, so the money is a waste.

Or the long-term-care insurance they want to sell to you when you're 20.  The chance you're going to get vegetablized is pretty low, so that money is a waste.

What's abortion insurnace cost as a rider, something like 10 bucks a month?  Then in four or five years, you could have saved the money for an abortion .  If you didn't get one, then you pocketed the money.  Good for you!

The only women who would get any use out of this would be women who use abortion as their primary birth control.  And I don't think there are a lot of women who do that.  I mean, there might be, but serial abortions have their own health toll, don't they?

As for abortions when the health of the mother is at risk: I think these are probably covered by every single insurance plan ever considered, aren't they?  I mean, nobody's talking about not covering that, are they?  That's just no in the argument right now.

The reason I care is that I have to pay for this under a public option, and I don't want to.  Not 'cause I've got some hard-on against abortion, but because I don't want the free health insurance to have all sorts of great add-ons and riders that nobody needs, like massage insurance or "aura therapy" or any of that crap. 

And abortion insurance sounds like one of those things.

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Modern travel or FML

So. I'm traveling for work because they hate me and it's leave today, do a thing tomorrow, fly back home Saturday deal. So far, my noon flight on the one airline is now leaving at 2:45 which means there's no way in hell I am making my connecting flight. The good people at airline A got me onto a flight on airline B so that I don't end up getting in at 10:00 tonight. That flight? Just got delayed.  I am never leaving this airport.  And I swear I just saw a Langolier.

The following video represents my response to all of this as well as my response to the post below.

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Alex! Just For You!

You're welcome.

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And Up Next, I Will Provide A Lecture On Dieting, Temperance, And Refraining From Profanity

Take a look at who Harvard wants to come and lecture people about ethics.

Hooker-loving ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to deliver a lecture Thursday at - of all places - a center for ethics at Harvard University.

And the Madam who supplied Eliot with high-priced escorts said she can't imagine a less qualified lecturer.

"I am greatly intrigued as to what Mr. Spitzer could contribute to an ethical discussion when as Chief Executive Law Enforcement Officer of NY he broke numerous laws for which he has yet to be punished," Kristin Davis wrote in a protest letter to Professor Lawrence Lessig at The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

"As Attorney General he went around arresting and making examples out of the same escort agencies he was frequenting."

Yeah, this should end well.

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We're gonna need a bigger banhammer

Microsoft is swinging the banhammer on close to one million, yes, million XBox Live users for modifying their console or using pirated software, both violations of XBox Live terms of use.  I'll be curious where these people go, if Sony will turn a blind eye to piracy and mods in order to exploit Microsoft cracking down on piracy.  I'm leaning toward no, because the games are where they all make their money, people that use pirated software are only going to bring so much profit.

Obligatory,

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Wingnuts Only!

HuffPoster asks:  Hey, maybe the NYT and other bestseller lists should make a separate list for these book-buyin' wingnuts, since they're taking up so many bestseller spots.

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Fuck you, History Channel

So, on Veterans' Day, the motherfucking History Channel is running everything but programming about our veterans.  "MysteryQuest"?  "Nostradamus Effect"?  Really, you couldn't dedicate any of your primetime shows to the sacrifices of our vets?

Fuck you sideways with a satellite dish that's been marinated overnight in the fridge in a container of Gorilla AIDS.

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Looks like South Park is going after Glenn Beck

I don't really watch his show or follow him in any way so I'm not sure if its funny or way off base as relates to reality so I'm going to try and just enjoy what there is to enjoy from a position of total ignorance.

You can set me and South Park straight in the comments if you feel the need.

Update:  Apparently, it was about Sarah Palin?  Or Olbermann?  Or all of them?  Plus a jab at Avatar?

Looks like it was one of those South Parks without any single coherent point.

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Did You Miss Me?

Well, I missed you.  In fact, I'm going to sum up my love for you and my opinion of the last few weeks with one gesture.

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Message Not Received

I am seriously starting to get the vibe that our Congressbetters really do not give a shit what we have to say or thing about them, and really do not want to hear from us either. Just a hunch.

And when I see shit like this, I feel like unleashing a profane tirade for once in my life, but I am too tired, and am so angry, I have lost the ability to speak, other than to just scream "FUCK YOU!" a lot, so I will take my leave and let Congress know that they are cordially invited to rape themselves with a blender.

 

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Wonder why he skipped one?

Two of my favorite things are conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions.  So I read this list of 10 failed doomsday predictions eagerly.  Rightly, it's got lots of erronious religious doomsday predictions in there.  Though to be fair, several are obscure.

But I notice that our "Skeptical Inquirer" somehow manages to miss two quite recent doomsday predictions:  the Coming Ice Age and Ehrlich's famously wrong Population Bomb.

The Coming Ice age I can see: it wasn't ever really big in popular imagination or in science (thought it was big enough that I remember seeing it on the cover of Newsweek back in the day).

But how can you miss the Population Bomb?  It was a huge hit, capturing popular imagination and leading to a wealth of "disaster" films that used it as a centerpoint (like Soylent Green). 

Could it be, perhaps, that it's because a lot of the pushers of Population Bomb hysteria just happen to have moved into Climate Change, and our brave Skeptic prefers to attack cults that died out a hundred and fifty years ago than challenge today's wild-eyed doomsayers?

Naah, it couldn't be.  I've gotta stop being so skeptical.

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Jack Reed Opens His Mouth To Predictably Laughable Results

Recently, Sen. Jack Reed (Dipshit-RI) tried to justify the Obamacare Provision that requires enrollment or jailtime. I wish I had more time and energy to devote to this mindles drivel, but just savor this stupidity.

When asked where specifically the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.) said that he “would have to check the specific sections” but said that it was like making people “sign up for the draft.”
 
“Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance?” CNSNews.com asked Reed.
 
“Let me see,” said Reed. “I would have to check the specific sections, so I’ll have to get back to you on the specific section. But it is not unusual that the Congress has required individuals to do things, like sign up for the draft and do many other things too, which I don’t think are explicitly contained [in the Constitution].  It gives Congress a right to raise an army, but it doesn’t say you can take people and draft them. But since that was something necessary for the functioning of the government over the past several years, the practice on the books, it’s been recognized, the authority to do that.”

Sooo....Reed is equating Healthcare Conscription with the Draft? Wow. Wrap yourself around that one.

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Dumb liberal CEO tricks

Citadel (formerly ABC Radio) took two major hits, the first being the passing of Paul Harvey, and the second being their hostile behavior to Hannity, which drove him to rival network Clear Channel.  The CEO of Citadel is a lefty who appears to be driving out conservative broadcasters in the network, while taking on Imus and replacing successful conservative talk radio shows with unsuccessful no-name liberals and old windbags. 

The executive board made it very clear to Hannity that they didn't like him, one of the execs even went so far as to refuse to board a plane with him.  So, how are they doing?  Well, they're now looking at Chapter 11.  Yeah, liberals are so fucking stupid they'll bankrupt their own large corporations before having to tolerate hearing a conservative viewpoint.

I'm not a big Hannity fan, the guy is far, far too willing to fellate anything with an -R next to it, and is not much of a thinker or debater, but it's still amazing that he'd be treated like that by the executive board for his political views, particularly when he's raking in millions, probably tens of millions for them.

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Tru.Fax.

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Interesting survey released for Veterans Day

Over at This Ain't Hell, two articles highlighting a recent survey of US vets, how returning/retiring veterans are viewed in the community, and how they'd like to be viewed.  Many veterans feel their communities think of them as broken victims, or that vets have done their service, so they should be free to kick back and relax.  Most veterans however want to more actively serve their communities, but aren't being called upon to do so.  So if you're active with a church group, charity or club, maybe offer a vet a chance to get involved, it might be the best way to honor them and their service.

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NY-23 dodged a bullet

Yeah, even though they elected the Dem, they avoided putting Dede in office...

The conservative movement's third-party candidate, Doug Hoffman, expected her support but, she said, the newcomer accountant "had no integrity." Plus, the Democrats were so nice! They called. They sympathized. They made her feel good about tossing her support to Bill Owens, who -- with her help -- became the area's first Democratic representative in more than a century.

"Oh, someone left chocolates for me!" she said, picking up a present from her aunt and uncle. Her GOP family has been less supportive. And she warns that what happened to her will happen to candidates like her.

Oh, that's nice. Someone was nice to her. They sent her some fucking chocolates. $900,000 worth of chocolates. Yeah.

I would say more about this, but there's a chance that I might still have a fucking job when I awaken from this motherfucking rage-induced fugue state that I'm currently in.

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Mine may have been missing, too

Um, I know that Alanis Morissette has kind of fucked up the concept of irony, but...

"The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing."

And though I think Glenn Beck--who is an effective broadcaster--is kind of a weirdo, well...


...um, where was Beck wrong?

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Tinpot Soviet Dictator Richard Daley blames American gun culture for jihadi attack

Says Comrade Daley,

“Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.”

Video is here. 

Now, what I find amusing about this is that we have our little Commie dictator Daley bitching about American gun culture, yet this is the same guy who last year advocated for a brief amnesty period for people who forgot to register their long guns in the Soviet of Chicago.  Of course, he only did this once he found out that powerful city Alderman Richard Mell forgot to register his collection of firearms (who of course blamed his staffers for failing to register his personal firearm collection). 

In Chicago, if you forget or otherwise fail to register your guns yearly with the police, your guns are unregistered, illegal to own, and can be confiscated, and you can be charged with illegal possession.  Mell actually helped write this legislature and pass it, oddly enough.  They apparently only granted amnesty to about 25 people, according to Wiki.  Bet they all were big donors to Daley or Mell or somehow connected to power players in Chicago.

Remember kids, if you're liberal enough, powerful enough, and have enough connections, you too can have constitutional rights in Chicago!

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well hello there

So. I cannot even begin to bear thinking about Real Life and Worthy News Events without stompying everything. I'm sure I'm not the only one (really FBI, it's okay to just kinda sorta get in contact with Al Queda really?). So as a public service I give you some Sam Worthington goodness. This doesn't actually look half bad.

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