1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
country, and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but
don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their
statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the
country, if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave
Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country
and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's
running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on
the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the
country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while
intoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but
need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there
is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that
they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are
handicapped, minority, feminist, atheist dwarfs who also happen to be
illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that
they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery
store.
12. The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and
need something to wrap it in.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Ad Hominen Attack
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person", short for arumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out the negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it. Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as a "logical fallacy".
In other words, when I call Debbie Wasserman-Schultz a moron when she claims the Republican's are trying to keep people from the polls by requiring them to provide identification to prove that they are registered to vote, American citizens legally allowed to vote and that they haven't already voted ("Vote early, vote often! It's the Chicago Way!), I mean she really is a moron.
If I call you a moron it's because you've done something moronic. It's not to disprove your point or prove mine. I will disprove your point with facts. I'll point out your fallacy. I'll call you a moron because you've stated something or done something that is, after all, moronic. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a moron. She stated moronic things. Her argument is invalid not because she's a moron but because it's wrong. Patently wrong.
To put it in terms even the Main Stream Media and morons can understand, an ad hominem attack is equivalent to a child on the school playground defending their wrong position by calling the other person a "poop-head".
You're welcome.
Edgy
In other words, when I call Debbie Wasserman-Schultz a moron when she claims the Republican's are trying to keep people from the polls by requiring them to provide identification to prove that they are registered to vote, American citizens legally allowed to vote and that they haven't already voted ("Vote early, vote often! It's the Chicago Way!), I mean she really is a moron.
If I call you a moron it's because you've done something moronic. It's not to disprove your point or prove mine. I will disprove your point with facts. I'll point out your fallacy. I'll call you a moron because you've stated something or done something that is, after all, moronic. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a moron. She stated moronic things. Her argument is invalid not because she's a moron but because it's wrong. Patently wrong.
To put it in terms even the Main Stream Media and morons can understand, an ad hominem attack is equivalent to a child on the school playground defending their wrong position by calling the other person a "poop-head".
You're welcome.
Edgy
Monday, December 5, 2011
"Don't Pepper Spray Me Bro!"
...or, "You don't have to do this!"
Here's 15 minutes of what went down.
In a discussion on BookFace, a libertarian border-line liberal, takes no solid stance, fence-straddling acquaintance of mine basically said the protestors were "peaceful", this is no big deal, the cops used too much force and the OWS people have a legitimate complaint therefore it's the same as the Tea Party.
Hogwash.
This was a pretty good response:
"The protesters want, in part, more and better jobs, more equal distribution of income, bank reform, and a reduction of the influence of corporations on politics." What's been bandied about the most is the "equal distribution of income". In most OWS "manifesto's", they want those who produce to give up what they make and pass it around to the "less fortunate". Not just voluntarily but, if necessary, by gov't edict.
And that flies in the face of what made this country great. Capitalism is not evil in and of itself. It is the proven system of commerce that makes it possible for people from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds to succeed. Like Paul said, don't work, don't eat. Pretty simple. Don't whine about evil corporations whilst using evil corporations said products. That makes you a hypocrite. Oh wait, I forgot, there's an entitlement sentiment running deeply through those who are protesting.
While I agree we need more and better jobs, bank reform and a reduction of influence of corps on politics we also need people to become responsible for not only their actions but call to account the actions of those they elect. If you want more and better jobs...get off your butt and look. If you can't find one, create one. THAT is the American way. Redistribution has never worked. It has led to a lowest common denominator system which is the only way redistribution works. Plus, if you take from those who produce, you eventually run out of other peoples money.
Protest all you want. Do it within the conventions of the law and constitution. Blocking someone's way, defecting on police cars, calling for violence, smashing windows, disrupting the commerce of the very people they want to take from and redistribute is just childish and asinine. Like Mr. Newt said, "go get a job but first take a bath..." Had to laugh at that one."
And the response to that was:
"What they ARE protesting is the corruption and greed evidenced by the recent Wall Street scandals. Have you not been paying attention to that? It has nothing to do with taking money away from you and giving to a bunch of lazy, good-for-nothing pot smokers. Geez, I get so sick of hearing such inaccurate character assassinations. I saw the same thing by liberal extremists leveled toward folks in the Tea Party movement. I've attended several of those, and the sentiments proffered - in my estimation - were of a similar caliber. ALL parties care deeply about their country and the state of their fellow man. As long as you folks keep screaming past each other, nothing will change in this country."
Another FB post about the above video went like this:
Here's 15 minutes of what went down.
In a discussion on BookFace, a libertarian border-line liberal, takes no solid stance, fence-straddling acquaintance of mine basically said the protestors were "peaceful", this is no big deal, the cops used too much force and the OWS people have a legitimate complaint therefore it's the same as the Tea Party.
Hogwash.
This was a pretty good response:
"The protesters want, in part, more and better jobs, more equal distribution of income, bank reform, and a reduction of the influence of corporations on politics." What's been bandied about the most is the "equal distribution of income". In most OWS "manifesto's", they want those who produce to give up what they make and pass it around to the "less fortunate". Not just voluntarily but, if necessary, by gov't edict.
And that flies in the face of what made this country great. Capitalism is not evil in and of itself. It is the proven system of commerce that makes it possible for people from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds to succeed. Like Paul said, don't work, don't eat. Pretty simple. Don't whine about evil corporations whilst using evil corporations said products. That makes you a hypocrite. Oh wait, I forgot, there's an entitlement sentiment running deeply through those who are protesting.
While I agree we need more and better jobs, bank reform and a reduction of influence of corps on politics we also need people to become responsible for not only their actions but call to account the actions of those they elect. If you want more and better jobs...get off your butt and look. If you can't find one, create one. THAT is the American way. Redistribution has never worked. It has led to a lowest common denominator system which is the only way redistribution works. Plus, if you take from those who produce, you eventually run out of other peoples money.
Protest all you want. Do it within the conventions of the law and constitution. Blocking someone's way, defecting on police cars, calling for violence, smashing windows, disrupting the commerce of the very people they want to take from and redistribute is just childish and asinine. Like Mr. Newt said, "go get a job but first take a bath..." Had to laugh at that one."
And the response to that was:
"What they ARE protesting is the corruption and greed evidenced by the recent Wall Street scandals. Have you not been paying attention to that? It has nothing to do with taking money away from you and giving to a bunch of lazy, good-for-nothing pot smokers. Geez, I get so sick of hearing such inaccurate character assassinations. I saw the same thing by liberal extremists leveled toward folks in the Tea Party movement. I've attended several of those, and the sentiments proffered - in my estimation - were of a similar caliber. ALL parties care deeply about their country and the state of their fellow man. As long as you folks keep screaming past each other, nothing will change in this country."
Another FB post about the above video went like this:
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Adam Corolla on the OWS Generation NSFW-Language
Adam Corolla, Car Guy, talk show host, puts the OWS Generation in perspective and it all goes back to "Participation Awards" and not offending anyone....
Despite the language, Corolla makes a point...pigeons coming home to roost!
Edgy
Despite the language, Corolla makes a point...pigeons coming home to roost!
Edgy
I hate HR.
Human Resources to the uninitiated. They create stumbling blocks to hiring in order to "thin the heard" so to speak. By creating a list of "minimum requirements" they limit the pool in which they get to choose from. (They may also be doing it so that it applies to only one particular candidate...after all...not everyone has 10 Space Shuttle landings in the last 12 calendar months...)
So the applicant meets and in many cases exceeds all requirements but is short on one, easily remedied item. What do you do? "Thanks for playing...we chose someone else." Or is that just the cut-and-paste standard rejection email?
Let me talk to a living, breathing, UNDERSTANDING human being who has the authority and the ability to make something happen. Not some HR flunky who only knows "Plug slot B into Flap A, rotate 90 degrees and Press 1 for English".
Dumbasses...no wonder our country's unemployed are so stymied. (Congress, The White House, President Obama and the Liberal idiots notwithstanding...)
Edgy
So the applicant meets and in many cases exceeds all requirements but is short on one, easily remedied item. What do you do? "Thanks for playing...we chose someone else." Or is that just the cut-and-paste standard rejection email?
Let me talk to a living, breathing, UNDERSTANDING human being who has the authority and the ability to make something happen. Not some HR flunky who only knows "Plug slot B into Flap A, rotate 90 degrees and Press 1 for English".
Dumbasses...no wonder our country's unemployed are so stymied. (Congress, The White House, President Obama and the Liberal idiots notwithstanding...)
Edgy
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
What you don't see is the previous minutes, hours and days the cops had to deal with these punks.
YouTube Video
UC Davis Police, IMO, were in a lose-lose situation. BUT...If a cop tells you it's time to disperse, that you've violated the law, and that you will be removed, physically and possibly with pepper spray at a certain time and you continue to sit there, hoping, wishing, praying to whatever deity you believe/don't believe in that he will...
Then you have it coming...don't bitch.
And stop calling them "peaceful protestors". Peaceful protestors don't say, "We'll let the cops go unharmed." Peaceful protestors don't inhibit others from going about their day-to-day life. Peaceful protestors don't shout down their Chancellors.
As for the Photoshop pics. Some of them made me chuckle. Creative, wrong but creative. Unfortunately the MSM and Occupado folks will use this to rally more support while the whole video, the whole truth will go by the wayside.
I'll bet Mommy and Daddy are very proud of how their money is being spent at UC Davis. Oh wait a minute...I'll bet most of those kids have some kind of financial aid, probably tax-payer money too.
Quit sitting on your ass and get back to class.
Edgy
YouTube Video
UC Davis Police, IMO, were in a lose-lose situation. BUT...If a cop tells you it's time to disperse, that you've violated the law, and that you will be removed, physically and possibly with pepper spray at a certain time and you continue to sit there, hoping, wishing, praying to whatever deity you believe/don't believe in that he will...
Then you have it coming...don't bitch.
And stop calling them "peaceful protestors". Peaceful protestors don't say, "We'll let the cops go unharmed." Peaceful protestors don't inhibit others from going about their day-to-day life. Peaceful protestors don't shout down their Chancellors.
As for the Photoshop pics. Some of them made me chuckle. Creative, wrong but creative. Unfortunately the MSM and Occupado folks will use this to rally more support while the whole video, the whole truth will go by the wayside.
I'll bet Mommy and Daddy are very proud of how their money is being spent at UC Davis. Oh wait a minute...I'll bet most of those kids have some kind of financial aid, probably tax-payer money too.
Quit sitting on your ass and get back to class.
Edgy
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Honest Graft? Honestly?
Honest Graft? Really? Talk about your oxymorons. With more on the details I give you the Three Amigos of Satire, The Triple-Headed Right-Wing Monster, the Triple Lutz of Conservatism: Trifecta...
Trifecta via PJTV.Com
If you're not a member, first of all, Shame. On. You. Secondly, you can find it here on YouTube.com:
Just look at the names being bandied about. The biggest one is, of course California's very own Crazed Moonbat, Nancy Pelosi. Does this woman not know Halloween is only once a year? Can she speak without lying? Does she really believe what comes out of her mouth? CBS, 60 Minutes right wing?
Moron...
Edgy
Trifecta via PJTV.Com
If you're not a member, first of all, Shame. On. You. Secondly, you can find it here on YouTube.com:
Just look at the names being bandied about. The biggest one is, of course California's very own Crazed Moonbat, Nancy Pelosi. Does this woman not know Halloween is only once a year? Can she speak without lying? Does she really believe what comes out of her mouth? CBS, 60 Minutes right wing?
Moron...
Edgy
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
For The Occupiers...I Give You...
Faith No More and Epic...
You want it all but you can't have it...
Get used to it...
Edgy
You want it all but you can't have it...
Get used to it...
Edgy
Their Park?
Bloomberg Cleans The Park...two months too late. Sorry Mayor Bloomberg, your "two months" statement is two months too late. Epic Fail. No Spine. You are the weakest link, goodbye.
It's not their park. It's everyone's park hence the name "public park". And public parks have rules and one of those rules is "no camping"...meaning...no tents, no sleeping bags, etc. It also means, no drugs, no rape, no public defecation, no public urination, etc.
Where are the parents? Oh yeah, rueing their vote for Obama...
I, personally, would have gotten a bull horn and a water truck with hoses and said, "We're cleaning the park in 5, 4, 3, 2...."
Edgy
It's not their park. It's everyone's park hence the name "public park". And public parks have rules and one of those rules is "no camping"...meaning...no tents, no sleeping bags, etc. It also means, no drugs, no rape, no public defecation, no public urination, etc.
Where are the parents? Oh yeah, rueing their vote for Obama...
I, personally, would have gotten a bull horn and a water truck with hoses and said, "We're cleaning the park in 5, 4, 3, 2...."
Edgy
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Occupier Gets His Comuppance
The http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/take_out_the_trasher_TuMpvuv7PYzeL0vKMOjS4H#ixzz1dj6oJQ5l NY Post has a nice, little article complete with these pictures:
which warms the cockles of my soul.
Dumbass.
I love the look on this protestor's face. "What? Who me? Where's my sign?"
Here's your sign...Learn to read dumbass.
Okay...I feel better. Like the nice gentleman in the blue suit, Former NYPD cop Kevin Hiltunen said, "There is a time and place to exercise your First Amendment rights...This was not the time or the venue.”
I weep for the future of our country if this is what some people truly believe. Don't get me wrong, I think he has every right to protest. Just pick the proper place, have your facts straight, don't repeat tired cliche's and worn out dogma, do your homework, and above all, respect your fellow man.
I'm sure in his dreams it didn't end like this. He probably saw himself as a righteous version of what it means to Occupy. Welcome to the new world hippie doofus.
That has been the rant for the day.
Edgy
which warms the cockles of my soul.
Dumbass.
I love the look on this protestor's face. "What? Who me? Where's my sign?"
Here's your sign...Learn to read dumbass.
Okay...I feel better. Like the nice gentleman in the blue suit, Former NYPD cop Kevin Hiltunen said, "There is a time and place to exercise your First Amendment rights...This was not the time or the venue.”
I weep for the future of our country if this is what some people truly believe. Don't get me wrong, I think he has every right to protest. Just pick the proper place, have your facts straight, don't repeat tired cliche's and worn out dogma, do your homework, and above all, respect your fellow man.
I'm sure in his dreams it didn't end like this. He probably saw himself as a righteous version of what it means to Occupy. Welcome to the new world hippie doofus.
That has been the rant for the day.
Edgy
Free Stuff
The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.
And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!
Now.... The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So.... The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.
We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.
Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason?
The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.
And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!
Now.... The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So.... The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.
We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.
Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason?
The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Just Living w/Speed Tape
So my first rant will be against my current employer and their maintenance practices.
The air vent on the Caravan is actuated with a push/pull button that's attached to a push rod that opens and closes a vent on the side of the aircraft. Back in Mar/Apr of 2011, this push rod bent (it's old like the rest of the plane.) The pilot, in response to maintenance doing nothing about it, removed the interior vent face and stuffed a bunch of old manifests into the opening to reduce the noise and cold air. Maintenance was notified several times over the intervening months and nothing was done to fix the problem.
Flash forward to November of 2012. It's significantly colder. In the Summer, the extra breeze was nice but the underlying problem was still there. Now we have cold air blowing into the cockpit that cannot be stopped even when you've stuffed a couple of shop rags into the hole.
So the plane goes in for maintenance (taking over 2 weeks to do Phase Inspection) and the solution is to put some silver speed tape over the opening in the cockpit. Okay. Unfortunately they had to leave a tiny gap on each side of the vent so as to have the tape not blow off due to ram air coming in from the partially open vent on outside of the plane.
New solution: Remove the outside vent flap and apply several layers of speed tape over the now 3"X4" opening. Problem solved.
But was it?
No. It's a temporary solution to carry the plane through the winter. Next summer we'll be told to "live with it".
Like the intermittent, inaccurate fuel gauge in the other Caravan. Our Caravan's are notorious for not using fuel equally between wing tanks. So during flight we are constantly having to shut off one or the other fuel selector to maintain the required minimum fuel imbalance of 200 pounds of fuel. But now, one cannot tell because the gauge drops 200 pounds then fluctuates between 100 pounds low and 500 pounds low.
Maintenance response to the complaint?
"You'll have to live with it."
*facepalm*
*headdesk*
Now I have a small laundry list of intermittent and annoying little squawks that will turn into airplane grounding issues should they not be taken care of. Certainly the VP of the company and the CP would have some pull to get the plane back to home base for some overdue TLC?
Nope.
Not even with the plane being "in the window" for a Phase and being due for an Annual in this month. This will, historically, be attended to with 2 to 3 days left in the month and us being notified that "on paper, it's done but we'll be working on it for a few more days" (read: weeks).
I will ground this plane in the most inopportune place should the need arise to get attention to maintenance issues. Or, most likely, the plane will, itself, decide that somewhere between Mather and Modesto it's going to give up the ghost.
That's been the rant for today.
Edgy
The air vent on the Caravan is actuated with a push/pull button that's attached to a push rod that opens and closes a vent on the side of the aircraft. Back in Mar/Apr of 2011, this push rod bent (it's old like the rest of the plane.) The pilot, in response to maintenance doing nothing about it, removed the interior vent face and stuffed a bunch of old manifests into the opening to reduce the noise and cold air. Maintenance was notified several times over the intervening months and nothing was done to fix the problem.
Flash forward to November of 2012. It's significantly colder. In the Summer, the extra breeze was nice but the underlying problem was still there. Now we have cold air blowing into the cockpit that cannot be stopped even when you've stuffed a couple of shop rags into the hole.
So the plane goes in for maintenance (taking over 2 weeks to do Phase Inspection) and the solution is to put some silver speed tape over the opening in the cockpit. Okay. Unfortunately they had to leave a tiny gap on each side of the vent so as to have the tape not blow off due to ram air coming in from the partially open vent on outside of the plane.
New solution: Remove the outside vent flap and apply several layers of speed tape over the now 3"X4" opening. Problem solved.
But was it?
No. It's a temporary solution to carry the plane through the winter. Next summer we'll be told to "live with it".
Like the intermittent, inaccurate fuel gauge in the other Caravan. Our Caravan's are notorious for not using fuel equally between wing tanks. So during flight we are constantly having to shut off one or the other fuel selector to maintain the required minimum fuel imbalance of 200 pounds of fuel. But now, one cannot tell because the gauge drops 200 pounds then fluctuates between 100 pounds low and 500 pounds low.
Maintenance response to the complaint?
"You'll have to live with it."
*facepalm*
*headdesk*
Now I have a small laundry list of intermittent and annoying little squawks that will turn into airplane grounding issues should they not be taken care of. Certainly the VP of the company and the CP would have some pull to get the plane back to home base for some overdue TLC?
Nope.
Not even with the plane being "in the window" for a Phase and being due for an Annual in this month. This will, historically, be attended to with 2 to 3 days left in the month and us being notified that "on paper, it's done but we'll be working on it for a few more days" (read: weeks).
I will ground this plane in the most inopportune place should the need arise to get attention to maintenance issues. Or, most likely, the plane will, itself, decide that somewhere between Mather and Modesto it's going to give up the ghost.
That's been the rant for today.
Edgy
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