Random notes from the past couple of days

Someone needs to add this to the guy's version that never was written of that book:

When the girlfriend you bought a car for, whose rent you've paid, who you bought a giant-ass fancy Bernina sewing machine for so that she could stop working at the gentleman's club and who you subsequently got a hernia for because she wanted the giant-ass fancy Bernina sewing machine moved, can't be bothered to show up to hang out with you before or after your hernia repair surgery, she's just not that into you. 

And your best friend who does show up and sticks around through the entire surgery and spends the night at your place to make sure you're OK and takes you back to the hospital in the morning because your catheter is blocked and is spending another night at your place to make sure everything is OK?  We've come so far with acceptance of gays that every doctor and nurse is going to automatically assume that he's your significant other and start asking him to make medical decisions for you and they're going to try to get him to learn to flush out your Foley and learn wound care for your testicle that's black and swollen to the size of a grapefruit.

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BBF at the Hostages

Yep, did this week's BBF.

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And this is supposed to be the Master Race

Those idjits who named their son Adolf Hitler, Joycelynn Aryan Nation, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie have finally lost custody of what I'm sure will grow up to be happy contributing members of society.  And the state didn't even have to include the children's names in the court documents to make it happen. 

Heath Campbell, 37, cannot read and Deborah Campbell dropped out of high school before finishing the 10th grade, according to court records.

In its ruling, the panel found the parents "recklessly created a risk of serious injury to their children by failing to protect the children from harm and failing to acknowledge and treat their disabilities."

The judges considered a typo-riddled note signed by Deborah Campbell and given to a neighbor. In it, Campbell says that if she were found dead, her husband was to blame.

"Hes thrend to have me killed or kill me himself hes alread tried it a few times. Im afread that he might hurt my children if they are keeped in his care. He teaches my son how to kill someone at the age of 3," the letter read in part.

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Yes I'm lame

But I'm really excited about this.



Yes, I bought a PS3 to play Little Big Planet. Shut. Up.

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Vacation(s) All I Ever Wanted

Remember how our lefty friends used to bitch about how much time Chimpy McBu$hitler spent on "vacation" (the scare quotes are because of the fact that he had cabinet members and phones and computers with secure internet connections and everything) at his ranch in Crawford? Well, at least he had a fucking job...

First ladies often go on vacations, with and without the president. An issue for Mrs. Obama may be how many: New York in March; Chicago, over Memorial Day; Los Angeles in June; Camp David -- sort of an extension of the White House -- in July; Maine in July, to highlight Acadia National Park, and now Spain. Mrs. Obama is glamorizing Spain's coastal resorts before her Aug. 14 first family weekend visit to Florida's Gulf Coast, to encourage tourists scared away by the oil spill. Starting Aug. 19, the Obamas will spend 10 days in Martha's Vineyard.

To be fair, I guess hectoring people about how fat their kids are is pretty stressful, but this just looks fucking terrible. A lot of us don't have the kind of money that folds these days, much less enough to go on eight fucking vacations over the course of one goddamn summer.

Seriously, did someone like David Axelrod, supposedly a political genius, not look at this and take Barry and Michelle aside and mention that having Her Highness jet off to Spain for one of (I reiterate) eight fucking summer vacations—for which the taxpayers pick up the tab for transportation, security, and God knows what else—might seem like a thumb in the eye to the average guy who can't afford to take the missus to the local Indian Casino for the weekend? Did their political team not realize that this would generate angry run-on sentences like that?

But the GOP spending money on Sarah Palin's new wardrobe during the 2008 campaign? Well, that right there was a fucking scandal.

P.S. Way to stimulate our economy by jetting off to Europe. Yeah.

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Dear Sharron Angle...

Dear Sharron,

Stop saying dumb shit. We need a win.

Sincerely,

ME. 

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Everybody Knows

The song's stuck in my head thanks to this Lifehacker post, and now it shall be stuck in yours too.

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Can I get a "What the fuck took you so long to realize this?"?!

I'm so glad to know that the Lockerbie bomber was released based on a week of faking sick.  Bite me, Scotland.

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Those Zany Japanese: Part 1,390,203

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Retirement Age

People have been talking about retirement at work a lot lately and somebody objected to increasing the retirement age and I though, "what a stupid fucking position."

Look at it this way, when Social Security was enacted in 1935 the life expectancy at birth was 61.7 years.  That means that more than 50% of people didn't live to be of retirement age in the first place back then.  Now, more than 50% of people will be expected to draw from Social Security for at least 15 YEARS EACH!

Now, if everyone retires at 65 and works approximately 45 years in that time, that means they will spend 35 years not contributing work but still consuming resources.  When the life expectancy gets to 90, we're talking about people spending fully half of their lives developing or in retirement. 

That's just crazy talk.  We just have to move the retirement age back as people live longer and longer.  After all, the idea of a retirement age was to give those no longer to work because of age the ability to survive, not to give everybody a 20 year vacation*. 

I propose we lock the retirement age to our best estimate of life expectancy or perhaps a bit lower than that.  After all, due to the way that is calculated, most people that make it past 25 also make it past the average life expectancy due to the diminishing effect of people dying at an extremely young age. 

Look, Social Security is the red right now and this is just the tip of the iceburg.  Either we raise the retirement age soon to something we can live with or, due to societal bankruptcy, it will be raised FOR us to a billionty. 

Fin.

* - Great if you can afford one but certainly not a government responsibility.

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Democrats buying up major airtime in liberal strongholds

November is going to be a rough month for the left.  First thing that comes to mind,

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As the blog's resident Californian...

...I guess I ought to weigh in on the whole Prop 8 thing.

Let's get a few things out of the way.

First of all, I'm not a law-talkin'-guy, so I'm not really qualified to opine on the merits of the judge's legal reasoning.

Secondly, I voted yes on Prop 8. I'll tell you why in a minute.

Third, I'm a straight guy, but I'm not married, and it's unlikely that I will be anytime in the near future, if ever.

This is gonna be kind of long, so I tucked the rest below the fold...
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Rate our president!

I'm sure that no one is going to try to skew this CBS poll.

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He's on a Morgan

I will turn this into an Isaiah Mustafa loveblog, yes I will.



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Finger puppies! Times Two!!!!!1!!1!eleventyone@!!!!

(from the WOW report)

And, FINGER PUPPY! 

OK, yeah, he's not a finger puppy, he's a fucking TOE PUPPY!, but it was just too perfect that both of these came up in such a short period of time.  Blame Chad980whateverthehellhisblognumberis.

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Those damned photoshoppers

Ruining everything.  Can't we just have realistic models with all their flaws and body parts intact for a change?  They've already 'fixed' this picture on the original site.

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I have no comment on this

Yeah, it's kind of a crappy thing to do, but such is business.  And there's no reason to keep your sales staff if you have nothing to sell.

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Warcraft Geeks Meet Bollywood

Disclaimer: if you watch this video no refunds of the 3:50 minutes of your life will be forthcoming.




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Thanks for a. the lawlessness and b. getting me beaten Your Honor!

No, I haven't read the Prop. 8 decision.  No, I don't intend to do so.  That's not going to stop me from giving my thoughts. Uninformed opinion, it's what's for dinner!

Marriage is a religious matter, not a civil matter.  If the State is going to inject itself into recognition of marriage, then the State can define the terms of what will and will not be recognized on a civil basis.  If the citizens of the State cannot make their voices heard, then there will be, and should be, utter contempt for the judiciary.  If judges are determined to overrule any and all attempts by the citizenry to state what the laws of that state will be, then this is judicial tyranny.  Nothing more, nothing less. 

Attempts to equate sexuality with race are repugnant.  I'm not going to get into whether sexuality is innate or learned (no freaking clue I think it's some of both).  However, the expression of sexuality is within the individual's control.  Sexuality is not race.  Race is not sexuality.  Treating different groups of people differently may be discriminatory in the sense of treating things differently.  That does not mean that it is discriminatory in the sense of prejudice against that group.  There is nothing wrong with treating different groups differently.  There is nothing unconstitutional about that.  It is far past time that any attempts to differentiate between groups are thrown out as "discriminatory". 

I cannot see any logical rationale against polygamy or first cousin marriage now.  Seriously, I can't.  Child marriage and beastiality are covered by the lack of capacity of the other party to provide consent.  Sibling marriage can be covered by concerns about genetic anomalies.  Of course, what about my situation where my brother and I are adopted and have different biological parents?  Someone explain to me the logical reasons, upon the terms of this ruling, as to why we can't marry.  Good luck with that.

I know the shrieking will begin that those examples are taking this decision to the extreme but here's the thing.  Precedents expand.  It is very rare that precedents contract.  There will be challenges to laws against polygamy and cousin marriage.  Those challenges will cite this decision.  If the traditional reasons for restricting marriage to man and woman are rejected, then there are no grounds for those restrictions either.  This opens the floodgates and anyone who claims otherwise is stunningly naive. 

No wonder people freaking hate me.  Hell, I'd hate me too if I didn't know that I don't agree with those who claim to speak for me.  How am I supposed to claim there's not some type of gay conspiracy against traditional values when all the evidence points otherwise. 

Look, I do not care about gay marriage.  I don't care about marriage at all.  I believe that the State should only recognize marriage on a contract basis.  If a group of 12 male first cousins want to get married for a three year period?  Mazel tov but I'm only buying one collective gift.  But I do believe, strongly, that such a change must through legislative means.  Doing otherwise solidifies the belief that the average citizen has no voice in the rule of this country.

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Yeah, about those body scans the Feds said they weren't saving...

Are you surprised?  I'm sure as hell not.  The only question is, are they saving the 38-24-36 scans or the 52-72-64 scans?

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