News Archive - April 2006

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4-29-2006

Oh, FUCK no!

Boycott organizers are demanding amnesty and the chance for the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to earn citizenship. Gutierrez compares their struggle with that of American colonists against British rule more than 200 years ago

"The great slogan of the American Revolution was 'No Taxation Without Representation,'" he said. "Millions of human beings today and for many years are being taxed, and they have absolutely no representation. In fact, they are being bashed every day and humiliated."

I refuse to accept that fucking argument.  The colonists in the US were looking to get away from British rule that was unfairly taxing and oppressing them.  We kicked the Brits out and started our own country and our own government. 

That is NO WAY the same thing as people leaving their country (Mexico in most cases) and are looking to be recognized by another government.  If they were living here and Mexico was treating them unfairly and they were fighting to get away from them I can see, maybe, this argument applying.  In this case they are in this country and want THIS government to recognize them and they're pissed that we aren't doing it.  Well, if you're pissed with the US government then allow me to show your bitch ass out! 

GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY YOU MOTHERFUCKING COCK SUCKERS!!! 

If you don't like it here, don't live here.  We didn't like how we were being treated by the British so we got away from them.  I advise every illegal immigrant in this country to do the same, get away from us.

My answer to the planned protests on Monday is for all employers to fire every last one of the lazy bitches that doesn't show up for work.  I want ICE agents at every one of these rallies checking id's and deporting illegals.

No matter what people try to tell you, this is NOT a civil rights protest.  These people, no matter if they own companies, are working or paying taxes, are here AGAINST THE LAW!  The civil rights movement was for American citizens to become recognized, not for people in the country illegally to gain something they didn't earn.

If 10 million petty thieves pay for the stolen CD's they have, return the pants they ripped off and then protest across the nation will they be forgiven and have their criminal record expunged?  This is no different.  It's a crime and these people should be treated as criminals.

Oh, and while we're on this topic, I have to mention the Spanish version of the National Anthem. 

No. 

This is not Mexico or Spain, we're not in Cuba or Honduras.  This is the United States of America where we speak English and singing OUR anthem in a foreign language is NOT acceptable.

PDF of article available here (98.7KB).

Maybe not the answer

Okay, according to this, ethanol may not be the answer to oil problems.  Well, corn based ethanol anyway.  Still, not an excuse for not finding an alternative fuel source or improving fuel efficiency in cars.

4-28-2006

Warning: Contents may be inflammatory or misogynistic...

In one fell swoop the owner of the indoor football league's Montgomery Maulers fired the entire team yesterday.  Some of the comments the lady made lead me to believe that she has lost all touch with reality.

The players' checks bounced earlier this month, which LaMunyon said was just a mistake in her checking account.

 "I don't know what happened," she said. "But immediately when I found out, I sent $5,000 in to fix it. If there's a player who hasn't been paid, I'm sorry, but that happens everywhere."

Everywhere, huh?  In my 18 years of working I've never missed a paycheck nor have I worked with anyone that did, and I've worked for some shady companies before.

If there is any existing prejudice out there about women not belonging in men's sports I think this lady must be the poster child.

Somebody Call Mulder

California is known to shake, rattle and roll every once in a while (between mudslides and fires anyway) but what shook windows and rattled houses on April 4th still hasn't been identified.

Supposedly it wasn't the military but, seriously, would they have told us if it had been them?  I'm wondering if they're testing some new bomb that'll eventually be used to shatter an underground nuclear bunker in Iran? 

Maybe it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  Who knows

(PS - I made that bit about the bomb up but if nobody hears from me for a couple days, call somebody!)

Crock of shit

This entire oil and gas fiasco is starting to piss me off.  Exxon Mobile just made $8.4 billion dollars in the last three months and all the government wants to do is give us $100?

Listen up;  Suck it!

Here's how you fix this.  Make car emissions federally regulated  instead of a state-by-state thing.  That'll allow the gas companies to cut down on the number of specialty gas blends they need to make which means each refinery can ship it's gas to any state in the country. 

Ethanol can't be shipped in pipes like oil can because it's too corrosive.  Solution, build some refineries that aren't on the coast and pipe the oil to them.  Brew up the gas, mix in the ethanol and deliver to the distributors.  It cuts down on transportation costs and allows the switch to ethanol blends  to go smoother.  It would also take some refinery operations out hurricane zones.

Fix the auto industry.  If the car emissions are federally regulated that means that all cars have standard equipment which means cars headed to all states have the same components.  That streamlines production costs.  Then offer them incentives to build cars that get better gas mileage or that run on alternative fuels like biodiesel.  You can't make me believe that we can put a solar powered rover on Mars and make it run for years beyond its expected life but we can't build a combustion engine that gets 50 mpg?  Oh, and don't make these vehicles look like ass.  Seriously, I love the idea of the Prius but that thing's fugly! 

Here's a novel idea; we don't need foreign oil.  If Brazil can become independent of foreign oil by building flex-fuel cars that run on alcohol why can't we?  They refine sugar cane into alcohol which is cheaper than refining corn, but still, you can't tell me we can't put Iowa and Indiana to good use for this project.  What else have they got going on anyway?

One final thing we can do; stop buying vehicles that get shitty gas mileage.  Serioulsy, do you really need a 14mpg Escalade when you could get a Dodge Caravan and eek out 20mpg city for the same room?  I think if you own a vehicle that costs over $38,000 and is rated for less than 25mpg city you should have to pay extra income taxes.  Exceptions granted for farm, landscaping, construction and similar businesses.

You can keep my $100 check if it'll actually get a legislator to work on any of this!

4-27-2006

A special, new, amazing update.

Like I didn't already know this

Keira Knightly is the sexiest woman in the world according to British FHM readers.

Unfortunately "People" voted for Angelina Jolie as the sexiest woman in the world.  Sorry, but, no.  Thanks for playing.

Followup

IMDB reports that Michelle Rodriguez is going to do 5 days in jail over the drunk driving charges she has in Hawaii

Rodriguez Blames Steroids for Bad Behavior


Lost star Michelle Rodriguez has blamed her drink driving and subsequent bad behavior on her use of steroids. The star was sentenced to serve five days in a Hawaiian jail Tuesday, after pleading guilty to a drink driving charge. The actress insisted in court the steroid injections she had been taking twice monthly to treat allergies to "dust and cockroach resin" made her "manic." She developed the allergies upon arriving in Hawaii last year, where she films her hit TV show. During her December arrest for drink driving in Hawaii, she screamed and yelled at officers, at one point daring them to "put a gun to my head and shoot me." She had to be carried into the police station because she sat down in the station garage and refused to stand up, according to a police source. She said in court, "I wasn't right in my head. None of that verbal behavior was directed towards them. It was directed towards myself." About her arrest, she said, "I personally am thankful that I was stopped because of the fact that I didn't acknowledge my own behavior and how sporadic it was until all hell broke loose in my life." While in court, Rodriguez also asked the judge to take into consideration that she only got her driver's license seven years ago, so she could do a "car racing movie" and that "all of my driving experience started and was acquired from a car racing school." The actress claims she's "lost everything" because of her drunken driving arrest and had to sell her house and car to help pay for legal costs. When asked why she chose jail time over 240 hours of community service, she said, "I kind of have to go back to my life, go back to making some money. This sort of gave me a hard hit."

Loopy broad...

4-26-2006

Do you have any idea how much therapy you people need?

Forgotten Anniversary

Even though I don't really mentioned it, every year on April 18th I crack a beer and curse the three years I spent working at CTI in York, PA.  This year I totally forgot about it.  Last Tuesday was the 5th anniversary of me quitting that God-forsaken company. 

Good riddance you fucking bastards!

No Respect for Star Wars

"Now as for the face paint, apparently the 6' 4" Williams was going for a devil/"Revenge of the Sith" look, surmised one law enforcement official. So what kind of guy parades around in the middle of the day with red and black paint on his face a la Darth Maul?"

Apparently one that doesn't know his Star Wars movies.  Darth Maul was in The Phantom Menace which, really, is more appropriate given the "phantom" nature of his handgun.

Wait, it gets worse

Pretty soon the penalty for just possessing the software to pirate a copyrighted CD or other piece of work could land you in jail for 10 years.  It would be less of a crime to just jack a CD from Target.

According to another web site I read, downloading child porn will only get you 7 years. 

Hmm...you pirated Kevin Federline's new CD: 10 years in PMITA prison. 

Downloaded pictures of three guys running a train on a 5-year-old: 7 years.

Tell me again why the Bush government's approval rating is still at a lofty 32%?

4-25-2006

There was math, I got confused.

Cool Technology

Pictures of the cockpit of the new A380-841 are on-line.  Looks cool but remember, your watch now has more technology in it than the ship we sent to the moon the first time. 

And I hope those Windows computers don't crash.

Say Goodbye...

To your equal Internet access.  Sounds like it's pretty much a done deal now but if you want an idea of what type of abuse we could see in the future, check out this site.

4-24-2006

He's insane and, apparently, roaming free...

This just in; Charlie Sheen is a gay/underage porn addicted gambler with a hooker problem.  Still, he managed to score Denise Richards.  How's your love life?

Sweet!

These are the coolest tattoos you've ever seen.

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Ben and Jerry's new "Black and Tan" has been called out for being insensitive.  Surprisingly, blacks and Hispanics not involved in the uproar.

4-22-2006

The word "unstable" comes to mind.

Proving that no matter how hot a chick is, someone is tired of her shit, May Andersen is in jail after getting rowdy on a flight from Amsterdam to Miami.

News You Won't See on TV

When insurgents in Iraq call you up to see what you're doing later on, do you:

  1. Tell them you're kickin' it in the palace pool.
  2. Mention you just stole all their weapons and tell them to give up.
  3. Invite them over for some killin'?

If you answered "3," congratulations, you're a member of 1st Battalion, 68th Armor.

4-19-2006

Can you think of any scenario where that's a good thing?

Sellout

America has sold out.  Captain America, that is.  Product placement, although prevalent in movies and TV, is taking it up a notch and encroaching on comic books now.

I never really cared when shit popped up in movies, half the time I don't even notice it anymore.  But it's so blatant in some TV shows now they actually stop the plot to mention product now.  Terrible.

Crazy is as crazy does

The president of Iran is a raving lunatic.

Yesterday he marched out his military to show them off.  I guess he needed to stroke the ego a little more after announcing they had some nuclear material.

The quotes in that article are kind of funny.

The "power of our army will be no threat to any country. Our army carries the message of peace and security. . . . It is humble toward friends and a shooting star toward enemies."

I guess they don't realize that a "shooting star" is actually a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.  You know, shining brightly for a brief second then, poof.

Equality is a figment of your imagination

Everyone wants to be equal.  Gay and lesbian parents want equal rights to marry and have kids, minorities want equal job opportunities and pay, women want equal pay, blah, blah, blah...

That is until a law against bullying in schools isn't specific enough.  Apparently "all students" doesn't include:

"race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical ability or appearance"

Fair play surrenders.

Taking bets

Oil, yesterday, was trading at $71 a barrel.  I'm taking bets now on $5 per gallon of gas sometime before Labor Day.

4-17-2006

Please, nobody died last time.

Huh?

It's been a few years since I watched professional wrestling but I was pretty big into it for a couple years, even attending a live pay-per-view event in Philly when I still lived in PA.  But, not having followed it, I had no idea how desperate they were for storylines.  That is till I read that Vince McMahon would wrestle God during this month's Backlash PPV event. 

I shit you not. 

It's still not as weird as the Mark Henry/Moolah rubber hand pregnancy thing.  I still shudder at that memory.

Duke Follow-up

Apparently the alleged rape victim from NCCU actually picked Duke lacrosse players out from a photo spread.  The article doesn't specifically say if those were the players that raped her or if they were simply at the party.

If she picked them as the perps then I'm wondering why no arrests and the blanket DNA testing?  If she just picked them as being at the party then they still don't have any proof that's been made public.

4-15-2006

I should have waited to use my "Asian porn" tag line till today.

Free speech has suffered yet another setback in the form of Bill Postmus.  Apparently a teenager checked a book on Japanese manga out of his local library and the kid's mother freaked when she found some R rated content.

Because she complained about it, and that her kid had been allowed to check the book out, Bill had it pulled from all the libraries in San Bernadino county. 

I wonder if I called up and complained that my 16 y/o kid had checked out a copy of the Bible and I objected to the sex and violence if they'd pull it?

Bill Postmus, you win today's sopping wet douchebag award.

Proof

That cat people are fucking nuts.  They should have left the cat in the wall and put up some air fresheners till the smell went away.

I Feel Safer Already

I feel very safe knowing that FBI agents in this country have been found in their burning vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .306. 

Fucker.

Here's another example of how law enforcement gets special treatment.  If I'd left a loaded pistol magazine at a hotel after brandishing a gun would I be in jail?  Probably.  How about after driving drunk?  Sure.

This guy?  Nope.  Not only that, but he has the balls to sue Chevy because his truck caught fire?  Gimme a break. 

I'm so happy that the FBI has agents that are bigger criminals than I am.

4-12-2006

Why don't you use the Internet for what it was intended for...looking at Asian porn.

Holy crap!

Remember how it looked like AT&T, Verizon and other companies were going to get the chance to throttle bandwidth to high traffic sites?  Well Google, eBay and Amazon may be teaming up to bring us a national high speed wireless network.

Hot damn!  Wouldn't it be great if companies that actually understood the tech and network business actually had the chance to build a network that didn't suck?  This could freakin' rock!

Capital Punishment

Texas has a guy on death row that is mentally unfit to be executed so the judge wants to put him on anti-psychotic medication so that they can kill him.  Ah, Texas finally gets something right.

It reminds me of that great quote by Ron White:  "Some states are trying to abolish the death penalty...my state's puttin' in an express lane."

4-12-2006

Holy fucking income tax!

I have to get my taxes done.  Every year I say that I'm going to fly through them as soon as I get all the paperwork in January and every year, here I am, looking at the deadline from 3 days away. 

Crap in a hat.

Moron of the Week

I thought that I'd posted this video way back when it hit the Internet but I can't seem to find a post on it.  Anyway, this chucklehead DEA agent went into a school to do a talk to kids about the dangers of drugs and whatnot.

He pulls his Glock and after saying that he's the only person that can carry it he promptly shoots himself in the foot.

Flash forward to today, agent Lee Paige is now suing the government because he says they leaked the footage and it's caused him to suffer "derision, ridicule and disparaging comments."

Well, yeah. Dumbass.

Lee Paige, you are the Moron of the Week.

Guilty Till Proven Innocent?

I'm gonna wade in on this Duke University lacrosse rape thing.

Here's the basic facts;

Nobody is disputing those things.  Here are a couple more basic facts:

She claims that lacrosse players raped her at the party and that she was injured due to that rape.   Although she can't identify the guys that did it she says they are white.  There are 47 players on the team, 46 are white.

Rape hasn't been proven yet but not really denying those other facts.

The entire lacrosse team says they are innocent, nobody is arrested or charged.

Here's where it starts to get shitty.  The locals yell hate crime because it's supposedly a white on black crime.  First of all, just because of the color of the victim's skin it doesn't automatically mean a hate crime.  If that were the case then why is it not a hate crime when a black person murders, rapes or beats a white person?  Talk about double standards.  When someone gets their ass beat it's possible that the person was just a dick.

Second, the locals are screaming because nobody has been arrested yet and they say that if it was  North Carolina Central University (NCCU is where the victim attends school) students that had raped a Duke student someone would be in jail.  Well, hold up.  The victim couldn't/didn't identify any specific person.  So, you want the police to throw all 46 white players in jail?  Talk about guilty till proven innocent.  I'd call that a hate crime right there.  Is anyone positive that all 46 guys were there?  If not, how can you even begin to ask for them all to be tossed in jail?  And if they were there, along with the black player, shouldn't he also be tossed in jail for letting it happen?  Talk about racial discrimination.

Now, so far the DNA tests that they have run show that there was no DNA on the victim that matched ANY of the 46 white players on the Duke lacrosse team.  Hmm.

Today the prosecutor in the case went in front of the NCCU school and local residents and said that the case is not over and that he's still investigating.  He also said that not all of the DNA evidence has been processed yet.  Okay, that's fine.  Do what you gotta do.  But when someone stands up during the Q&A and asks if the FBI has been called because it's a hate crime I have to stop again and ask, WTF?

Like I said, just because someone is a dick and gets his ass beat doesn't mean that it's a hate crime even when it's a white dude beating up a black guy.  Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, everyone wants equality and fair treatment.  Yet when something like this goes down the first thing that happens, people yell hate crime. 

Then it starts, "well, if these guys had been black and the girl was white they'd be in jail already." Oh, really?  So you WANT us to discriminate?  What if it was a black on white rape or attack and it had been the football team (just throwing this out)? If there were 47 guys on the team and 30 were black what would the reaction have been if all 30 of them were hauled in for DNA while the white players weren't?  Oh, now the ACLU would be on the story like stink on shit.  It's racist.  It's profiling, blah, blah, blah.  Don't think so?  It's happened this way before in other cases and we got demonstrations and protests and all the stuff that goes along with it.

If people want equality then they need to stop asking for double standards.  They also need to let the investigation play out in this case.  Honestly, when I first heard the story I thought "yep, fuckers raped her."  Now, not so much.  I'll be watching to see how this one turns out.

Big Red

Cornell University is going to be holding a class on intelligent design this coming summer.

Look for the bodies to start showing up in Seneca Falls by about July 20th. 

Protests to begin  in 5...4...3....

Bad Rap

Proof is dead, long live Oil Can Harry.

Not So Active

Remember ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer that used to automatically launch ads and videos on web pages?  Kiss those goodbye.  But don't worry, the annoying ads have been replaced by annoying pop-up dialog boxes asking if you want to run the now disabled video. 

Good times.

4-11-2006

Salga de mi país.

I wrote a whole long rant on this immigration topic and then bagged it all.  Fuckit.  I was just too pissed off.  Instead, let me break it down this way;

Every single person that is in this country illegally is breaking the law.  There's no gray area there.  It's illegal to be in this country without documentation or a visa of some sort.

I don't care what people are doing here whether they're working, paying taxes, sponging off our system...IDM.  It's still illegal to be here.  So to all those people;

Get out.

Wait till we figure out how we're going to handle work visas, wait till we change our immigration laws and wait till we secure our borders.  Then come back legally and there's no problem.

Oh, and one more thing, if you're going to protest/demonstrate in the US at least do it in English.  Even the Iraqi's use it on their banners when they demonstrate.

Interesting Technology

A company called Webaroo is looking to put the Internet on your hard drive so you can search and do research when you're not connected.  I'm sure somebody has thought of that before, I just doubt it worked out.

Since companies and individuals are in full freak-out mode over Google image searches I wonder how long it takes for the first lawsuit when people realize millions of users could be walking around with that info already on their hard drive?  It's interesting but I'd rather have ubiquitous WiFi access.

Cheap.

4-7-2006

There's always an explanation...It's called lying.

This new immigration thing is absolutely ridiculous!

It's basically giving anyone that's been in this country for more than 5 years a free pass to become legal.  The people that have hidden in our country, illegally, for more than 5 years are the WORST offenders and have flaunted their lack of respect for our laws in our face.  These are the people that demand recognition, drivers licenses, fair wages, health care and that we learn THEIR language (bi-lingual school tests in Florida anyone?).  These people shouldn't get a pass, they should get tossed out on their ass.

Not only that, but anyone that actually believes that even the slightest majority of illegals that have been here less than 5 years will obey the new rules is a fucking moron!

There is going to be huge fraud in this entire thing.  Disagree with me?  Our own government has committed fraud (where's the WMD?), big business commits fraud (ask Martha Stewart, Ken Lay and Bernie Ebbers!) and there's been fraud in the recovery in New Orleans (Even the Red Cross has been accused of it).  How can anyone believe that people breaking the law daily just by being in this country are NOT going to commit fraud to stay here?  They've already shown a complete and utter disregard for our laws and rules, what's going to change with this proposition?

Every last person in this country illegally should be thrown out.  Gone.  Let them apply for work visas, student visas, political asylum...whatever.  Just do it legally.

Fuck Verizon

And all the rest of the telecom companies.  Looks like they may get their way and will be able to throttle bandwidth on the Internet if companies don't pony up the blood money.  Alternatively, Internet providers will now be able to give preferential treatment to their own content, something that wouldn't be allowed in a net neutrality environment.

Of course they say they won't do that...but we all know how promises like that usually work.

Update: I read an interesting blog this morning by a guy named Ben Worthen.  Seems he worked with some other people to map the North American Internet to see who "owns" it.  Not surprisingly AT&T and Verizon own huge chunks of it.  His blog doesn't draw any conclusions on whether or not their ownership and potential throttling of bandwidth is a good or bad thing.  However, he points out that they are the people that own the wires into your house. 

The speed and amount of data flowing through your connection to the Internet is already controlled by your ISP as part of the service plan that you are signed up for.  The bill making it's way through the government doesn't really impact that but it will, potentially, impact how fast the data makes it from your destination site (Google, Microsoft, etc...) down to that last stretch from you to your ISP.  If it's slowed enough it won't matter if you upgrade your plan to faster service, you still won't be able to access data faster unless the web site owners pay more.  That's the problem with the bill and it's lack of "net neutrality" language.

HBYNHO

I figured we needed something positive and what could be more positive than introducing you to a Hot Broad You've Never Heard Of?

Nicki Aycox is a chick you've probably seen on countless shows over the last several years but never knew who she was.  She's done stints on "Providence," "CSI," and most recently, "Cold Case," "Over There" and "Supernatural."  She also made it to the silver screen in Jeepers Creepers II. 

Nicki | Nicki | Nicki | Nicki  

4-6-2006

Wardrobe still Malfunctioning

Lindsay Lohan can't seem to keep her private parts covered these days.  First the nipple slip at a car show and now her ass peaked out at the Kids Choice awards.

Why doesn't she just call Playboy and get it over with?

4-5-2006

Anger Management School Dropout.

2006 NC TandA Tournament

And the 2006 champion is....Stacy Keibler!  Hauling in 51.88% of the vote.  That's about 1 percentage point for every inch of those luscious legs!

Today in That's Obvious

Microsoft admits that "nuking" your computer is the best fix when you're infected with malware.

No shit.  You don't say?  Like this is some earth shattering realization.  It's ALWAYS been that way.  It's almost always advisable to format and start over if you've got spyware or ad-ware in your system.  Run Ad-Aware and Spybot all you want, it's not going to help.

B4ILUVU4U18?

Apparently working for the Department of Homeland Security doesn't mean you can proposition a  14 year-old girl on-line and get away with it.

Video Game Drive By

A World of Warcraft guild was having an on-line funeral for one of their friends who died in real life when another guild showed up and slaughtered everyone there. 

I didn't realize WoW had a South Side.

Border Crossing

Sneaking across the Mexico/US border on foot?  Meh, amateurs.

If you want hard core, try sneaking across the US/Russian border on foot!