I have to ask, what the hell is the rush? Why can't we talk about the apportioning of the better part of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS?
If it was really as critical as they all say - don you think they could have found a way to work through Rosh Hashanah? I mean I'm sure a kind and benevolent G-d would not have minded preventing the American Economy from taking.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
I am officially calling bullshit on this one.
The Crazed American is not pleased. I state here for the record - something don't smell right.
I think we're all about to get robbed.
Civil Wars have been started over less...
30 September 2008
27 September 2008
Rest in Peace...
Paul Newman
Age 83
One of the most famous actors of a generation (Business man, gourmand, and race car driver).
One of the coolest people I have ever met. I was only 14, he was on vacation at the same place my family and I were at. He had been fishing. My brother and I got our picture taken with him.
A slogan from here abouts "The biiger the star, the nicer they are."
Paul Newman, big star, class act.
Godspeed, Mr. Newman.
Age 83
One of the most famous actors of a generation (Business man, gourmand, and race car driver).
One of the coolest people I have ever met. I was only 14, he was on vacation at the same place my family and I were at. He had been fishing. My brother and I got our picture taken with him.
A slogan from here abouts "The biiger the star, the nicer they are."
Paul Newman, big star, class act.
Godspeed, Mr. Newman.
23 September 2008
NetFlix
So I signed up - let's see how many movies I can watch while still being a productive member of society, shall we?
Quick Movie Review:
I Am Legend
Will Smith can act, however, so can the dog. Dang. That dog and Will were good. Will may be a Scientologist now, but, I still like his movies... Sue me. Wish it had gone a tad closer to the book, but still a watchable film.
Rating: $4.25 (got my money's worth) (do not need to own)
Transformers
Good flick, entertaining as heck. Michael Bay should really try to let the camera stay stationary once...
Rating: $4.25 (got my money's worth) (do not need to own)
Quick Movie Review:
I Am Legend
Will Smith can act, however, so can the dog. Dang. That dog and Will were good. Will may be a Scientologist now, but, I still like his movies... Sue me. Wish it had gone a tad closer to the book, but still a watchable film.
Rating: $4.25 (got my money's worth) (do not need to own)
Transformers
Good flick, entertaining as heck. Michael Bay should really try to let the camera stay stationary once...
Rating: $4.25 (got my money's worth) (do not need to own)
Joe Biden is an @$$hat.
He is an a$hat. Really.
To illustrate this I present the following:
People's exhibit A:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe--12.html
Direct quote right from the ABCNews.com article:
"There are two people -- you've heard me say it before -- two groups that stand between us and the barbarians at the gate," Biden said. "It's you and organized labor. That's it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I'm not only thanking you for your help. I would think you're all absolutely brain-dead if you didn't help. And I mean it."
Biden said that he's "done more than any other senator combined" for trial lawyers.
And he'll be #2 in the federal gov't! Yeah! 'Cause I want a friend of Trial Lawyers as the President of the Senate. Thanks for the high costs of healtcare guys! What else can you f--k up?
Exhibit B:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/32041
When speaking to an environmentalist yesterday:
“We’re not supporting clean coal.”
He went on to say that China could build them - but we were not going to build coal fired power plants.
Three or four days ago he said (to a group of coal workers):
“You know we have enough coal in the United States of America to meet out needs domestically for the better part of the next hundred to 200 years.”
Where do I have to plug in my electric car again?!?
To reiterate - if we can't build any more coal fired plants - even though clean coal is an abundant and cheap source of power - and the alternative sources of energy are still 5-10 years off - where do we get the power to keep our economy going?
Crickets.
Exhibit #3:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/not-bidens-tuzla-dash-but-getting-closer/
“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”
Counterpoint from Senator John F. Kerry:
Not the Taliban. Unless - the Taliban has the cool COBRA weather weapon from the GI Joe Movie (cartoon from the 1980's)... Get the CIA on it!
This blog entry is objective. Everything in quotes was written or said by the person it was attributed.
Obama erred (big time) in his choice of running mate.
Also, Jumpin' Joe was an author of the original Global Warming protection legislation (we all know how the Crazed American feels about Anthropoegenic Global Warming - so sorry we call it the Climate Crisis now, don't we? What a crock of sh!t). He was also a signatory and co sponsor of the patently ridiculous and ineffective "Firearm Cosmetic Feature Ban" otherwise known as the "1994 Assault Weapons Ban". I state that it was ineffective because when it expired in 2004 the country did not spiral into anarchy and chaos. In fact, crime rate nation wide has gone down. By the way, he has already stated that he'd vote for another one.
Homage to Richard Dawson: "Survey says!: RZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZR!"
Personal note from the Crazed American to Senator Barack "Angel of Sunshine" Obama.
Jettison Joe. Then we'll talk.
*****MAJOR NEWS ALERT******
DATELINE - XANADU
The Crazed American has decided to not post on any more on politics dealing with the coming election. It's pointless. People who are on one side will sling mud at those heading the ticket for the other side.
I might post on the possibles of the election aftermath.
Let's just say right now I hope for a landslide (one side or the other... really) I have a feeling that if this election is close enough, it will make Florida 2000 look like a picnic in a field of flowers on a mountain side.
I have come to this decision due the fact that it, as of right now really doesn't matter. With the impending / looming financial Sh!t Sandwich that's about to hit us, I have determined that it really doesn't matter who is in charge. Our currency is almost worthless (wait to see if that bailout passes - if it doesn't - we may, in fact, be screwed), our economy is in tatters. We the People have fallen down on the job. We've let the plutocrats in Washington run the whole ship into the ground. Because we all have been too lazy, too complacent in our wealth to stand up and pay attention to the people that we elect to represent us.
Our Problem: WE ELECTED PEOPLE TO TAKE CARE OF US. Not represent us.
We pull the lever on election day and stop thinking about the process. We do not insist on accountability.
I shoulder my part of the blame.
So from now on, I will blog about the sunny things in life: my family, the stripped AR lower I'm going to go out and buy and stick in my sock drawer (worth it's weight in gold when that new AW ban get's passed - yea! me!), and the awesomeness of the upcoming ski season!
I leave you all with the following nugget of wisdom:
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. -- Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy your $700,000,000,000 bailout *(if it happens). Add that to the $9,788,658,389,611.01 that we already have - and you get - - - an even larger number! (thanks to: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/)
Needless to say, I might not be able to sleep very well tonight.
To illustrate this I present the following:
People's exhibit A:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe--12.html
Direct quote right from the ABCNews.com article:
"There are two people -- you've heard me say it before -- two groups that stand between us and the barbarians at the gate," Biden said. "It's you and organized labor. That's it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I'm not only thanking you for your help. I would think you're all absolutely brain-dead if you didn't help. And I mean it."
Biden said that he's "done more than any other senator combined" for trial lawyers.
And he'll be #2 in the federal gov't! Yeah! 'Cause I want a friend of Trial Lawyers as the President of the Senate. Thanks for the high costs of healtcare guys! What else can you f--k up?
Exhibit B:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/32041
When speaking to an environmentalist yesterday:
“We’re not supporting clean coal.”
He went on to say that China could build them - but we were not going to build coal fired power plants.
Three or four days ago he said (to a group of coal workers):
“You know we have enough coal in the United States of America to meet out needs domestically for the better part of the next hundred to 200 years.”
Where do I have to plug in my electric car again?!?
To reiterate - if we can't build any more coal fired plants - even though clean coal is an abundant and cheap source of power - and the alternative sources of energy are still 5-10 years off - where do we get the power to keep our economy going?
Crickets.
Exhibit #3:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/not-bidens-tuzla-dash-but-getting-closer/
“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”
Counterpoint from Senator John F. Kerry:
Joe Biden's helo was forced down by weather.“The weather closed in on us,” Kerry told the AP at the time in a phone interview from Turkey. “It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges. So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed…We sat up there and traded stories.”
Kerry joked, “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn’t have to do it…Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.”
Not the Taliban. Unless - the Taliban has the cool COBRA weather weapon from the GI Joe Movie (cartoon from the 1980's)... Get the CIA on it!
This blog entry is objective. Everything in quotes was written or said by the person it was attributed.
Obama erred (big time) in his choice of running mate.
Also, Jumpin' Joe was an author of the original Global Warming protection legislation (we all know how the Crazed American feels about Anthropoegenic Global Warming - so sorry we call it the Climate Crisis now, don't we? What a crock of sh!t). He was also a signatory and co sponsor of the patently ridiculous and ineffective "Firearm Cosmetic Feature Ban" otherwise known as the "1994 Assault Weapons Ban". I state that it was ineffective because when it expired in 2004 the country did not spiral into anarchy and chaos. In fact, crime rate nation wide has gone down. By the way, he has already stated that he'd vote for another one.
Homage to Richard Dawson: "Survey says!: RZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZRZR!"
Personal note from the Crazed American to Senator Barack "Angel of Sunshine" Obama.
Jettison Joe. Then we'll talk.
*****MAJOR NEWS ALERT******
DATELINE - XANADU
The Crazed American has decided to not post on any more on politics dealing with the coming election. It's pointless. People who are on one side will sling mud at those heading the ticket for the other side.
I might post on the possibles of the election aftermath.
Let's just say right now I hope for a landslide (one side or the other... really) I have a feeling that if this election is close enough, it will make Florida 2000 look like a picnic in a field of flowers on a mountain side.
I have come to this decision due the fact that it, as of right now really doesn't matter. With the impending / looming financial Sh!t Sandwich that's about to hit us, I have determined that it really doesn't matter who is in charge. Our currency is almost worthless (wait to see if that bailout passes - if it doesn't - we may, in fact, be screwed), our economy is in tatters. We the People have fallen down on the job. We've let the plutocrats in Washington run the whole ship into the ground. Because we all have been too lazy, too complacent in our wealth to stand up and pay attention to the people that we elect to represent us.
Our Problem: WE ELECTED PEOPLE TO TAKE CARE OF US. Not represent us.
We pull the lever on election day and stop thinking about the process. We do not insist on accountability.
I shoulder my part of the blame.
So from now on, I will blog about the sunny things in life: my family, the stripped AR lower I'm going to go out and buy and stick in my sock drawer (worth it's weight in gold when that new AW ban get's passed - yea! me!), and the awesomeness of the upcoming ski season!
I leave you all with the following nugget of wisdom:
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. -- Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy your $700,000,000,000 bailout *(if it happens). Add that to the $9,788,658,389,611.01 that we already have - and you get - - - an even larger number! (thanks to: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/)
Needless to say, I might not be able to sleep very well tonight.
19 September 2008
Fascinating
Fascinating times in which we live.
Two unimpressive candidates running for President.
The war in Iraq is winding down. If all goes as it looks like it might the US can probably claim a victory. Afghanistan is still a work in progress.
Stock markets are all over the place.
Global economy seems to be teetering on the edge of something.
Bailouts might double the size of the Federal Debt.
So the important question I have to put to the assembled legion of loyal reader(s):
Do I sign up for NetFlix?
...and what appetizer goes best with Mojitos?
Hmmm...
Two unimpressive candidates running for President.
The war in Iraq is winding down. If all goes as it looks like it might the US can probably claim a victory. Afghanistan is still a work in progress.
Stock markets are all over the place.
Global economy seems to be teetering on the edge of something.
Bailouts might double the size of the Federal Debt.
So the important question I have to put to the assembled legion of loyal reader(s):
Do I sign up for NetFlix?
...and what appetizer goes best with Mojitos?
Hmmm...
03 September 2008
Sarah Palin
OK,
Haven't been commenting on the conventions. Sorry about that.
I don't like Joe Biden - I have to admit that when he talks I get a bout of "sudden onset Colitis" - needless to say, I didn't watch his speech.
Did watch (and listen to) Senator Obama speak. Well done piece of rhetoric. Nice Greek columns.
Did watch Michael Steele, Romney, Huckabee, Guiliani, the Governor of Hawai'i and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska speak this evening.
Durn good speech.
The libertarian (small L) Crazed American likes all of the talk of lower taxes and less government. Can I just vote for her?
(Before I get any comments about some form of contrived hypocrisy that some might try to find with the whole abstinence only education that Governor Palin put into effect and the pregnancy of her 17 year old daughter, I would say "Teenagers have been having sex for the longest time" and I don't have to agree with every position to elect someone to be my voice in a future government - I only need to have someone who shares a good portion of my views)
So I put forth to you items that the Crazed American Holds dear - my checklist, if you will:
1) Freedom - Small (tiny really: Interstate Highways, Courts, National Defense, FAA, FDA - you can shove the balance of it to the states - who should be handling those things anyway) Gov't - The Crazed American Votes for who will decrease the size and scope and power of the American Government - McCain's McCain/ Feingold Campaign Finance Reform act stifles the 1st Amendment and protects entrenched incumbents. Obama Talks a good game but has nothing by which to judge. Biden is a j@ck@$$. Advantage: McCain/Palin
2) Lower Taxes - Who ever will keep my taxes lower, I will support. It is a proven effect. When you lower taxes, the economy grows, and the government gets more dough. Advantage: McCain/Palin
3) Abortion - the Crazed American has to take a - SHOCK - Hillary! position - I think it should be safe, legal and above all: rare. It should be left up to the states to decide. I do not find any mention of it in the Constitution, therefore according to the letter of the law, it is not an issue that the Federal Gov't should be concerned with. Don't Care - not an issue for me, 'cause I realize that President's don't get to make laws - they enforce them. Advantage: DRAW
4) Drugs - The War on Drugs is a massive waste of money. Increase funding into addiction research, legalize certain things, but otherwise treat it as the medical problem that it is. Advantage : DRAW
5) 2nd Amendment: Obama and Biden are both stridently for taking way the right to bear arms from Americans. McCain has stated that me might vote for another inappropriately named "Assault Weapons Ban". The Right Honorable Madame Governor has been hunting Moose, Elk, Bear, and assorted other mega fauna, has been an outspoken proponent for American to keep and bear arms. Advantage: McCain/Palin.
So, already shaping up that I cannot support Obama/Biden (Biden's a tool - I really am not big on Senator Obama's running mate choice). Someone said the Obama's written two autobiographies, but has yet to write or sponsor a single piece of legislation. McCain and Palin have at the least, done something concrete that people can point.
I would like to say that I respect Gov. Palin.
Palin '12? Too early?
Joe Biden is a blowhard that likes to hear himself talk.
***NEXT TOPIC***
(Still Political, though)
I have a feeling that the long knives in the good ol' Democrat Party are about to come out. Were on the verge of a little internecine warfare. Hillary! will not want to run for President when she's 72... If she wants to be President, then Obama can't win (or if he does - he'll be a single term president). Make no mistake, the Clintonites are still out there and still a viable force. Legion are those who have underestimated the Clintons and suffered for it.
I wouldn't be surprised if just before election day Hillary and Bill pull the rug out from Obama/Biden...
This is going to be a d-mn interesting race...
Haven't been commenting on the conventions. Sorry about that.
I don't like Joe Biden - I have to admit that when he talks I get a bout of "sudden onset Colitis" - needless to say, I didn't watch his speech.
Did watch (and listen to) Senator Obama speak. Well done piece of rhetoric. Nice Greek columns.
Did watch Michael Steele, Romney, Huckabee, Guiliani, the Governor of Hawai'i and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska speak this evening.
Durn good speech.
The libertarian (small L) Crazed American likes all of the talk of lower taxes and less government. Can I just vote for her?
(Before I get any comments about some form of contrived hypocrisy that some might try to find with the whole abstinence only education that Governor Palin put into effect and the pregnancy of her 17 year old daughter, I would say "Teenagers have been having sex for the longest time" and I don't have to agree with every position to elect someone to be my voice in a future government - I only need to have someone who shares a good portion of my views)
So I put forth to you items that the Crazed American Holds dear - my checklist, if you will:
1) Freedom - Small (tiny really: Interstate Highways, Courts, National Defense, FAA, FDA - you can shove the balance of it to the states - who should be handling those things anyway) Gov't - The Crazed American Votes for who will decrease the size and scope and power of the American Government - McCain's McCain/ Feingold Campaign Finance Reform act stifles the 1st Amendment and protects entrenched incumbents. Obama Talks a good game but has nothing by which to judge. Biden is a j@ck@$$. Advantage: McCain/Palin
2) Lower Taxes - Who ever will keep my taxes lower, I will support. It is a proven effect. When you lower taxes, the economy grows, and the government gets more dough. Advantage: McCain/Palin
3) Abortion - the Crazed American has to take a - SHOCK - Hillary! position - I think it should be safe, legal and above all: rare. It should be left up to the states to decide. I do not find any mention of it in the Constitution, therefore according to the letter of the law, it is not an issue that the Federal Gov't should be concerned with. Don't Care - not an issue for me, 'cause I realize that President's don't get to make laws - they enforce them. Advantage: DRAW
4) Drugs - The War on Drugs is a massive waste of money. Increase funding into addiction research, legalize certain things, but otherwise treat it as the medical problem that it is. Advantage : DRAW
5) 2nd Amendment: Obama and Biden are both stridently for taking way the right to bear arms from Americans. McCain has stated that me might vote for another inappropriately named "Assault Weapons Ban". The Right Honorable Madame Governor has been hunting Moose, Elk, Bear, and assorted other mega fauna, has been an outspoken proponent for American to keep and bear arms. Advantage: McCain/Palin.
So, already shaping up that I cannot support Obama/Biden (Biden's a tool - I really am not big on Senator Obama's running mate choice). Someone said the Obama's written two autobiographies, but has yet to write or sponsor a single piece of legislation. McCain and Palin have at the least, done something concrete that people can point.
I would like to say that I respect Gov. Palin.
Palin '12? Too early?
Joe Biden is a blowhard that likes to hear himself talk.
***NEXT TOPIC***
(Still Political, though)
I have a feeling that the long knives in the good ol' Democrat Party are about to come out. Were on the verge of a little internecine warfare. Hillary! will not want to run for President when she's 72... If she wants to be President, then Obama can't win (or if he does - he'll be a single term president). Make no mistake, the Clintonites are still out there and still a viable force. Legion are those who have underestimated the Clintons and suffered for it.
I wouldn't be surprised if just before election day Hillary and Bill pull the rug out from Obama/Biden...
This is going to be a d-mn interesting race...
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