The Government has created a site dedicated to dealing with the mental stresses of hard economic times.
Maybe they should make one for dealing with the strains of watching the circus act of the Obama administration. I think I need prozac everytime I hear Tim Geithner speak.
Geithner is radical. He is calling for governmental power to seize private and public corporations. This is radical, and it treads on extremely dangerous ground.
The EU is warning us. The UK demands a stop to spending. Investors are warning us. Economists are warning us. PUTIN IS WARNING US. I mean what does anyone expect. We all knew that Obama was a socialist. They are running us into unbelievable debt. They will completely devalue our currency. It is absolutely unbelievable. It pains me. I have no tears left. It is just a shame.
If I ever were to meet Tim Geithner I can’t say that I would be very nice to him. He is nothing but an east coast pretty boy in a suit. A wimp. A wimp with indirect answers, and non answers. Hiding out in governmental service. The fact that this tax evader is allowed to continue his career blows my mind. How much more blatant can it get. Liberals would have hounded over something like this in the Bush administration. There would have been documentaries painting him as an evil good ole boy above reproach. It is blatant, and he is apparently accountable to no one. Fradulent. Fraud. Tax evading FRAUD.
A 14 year old girl was arrested for posting nude pictures of herself on MySpace. Keep in mind that these pictures are available for all of her friends to see. Here’s the crazy part. If she is convicted, she will have to be registered as a sex offender under “Megan’s Law”.
This is exactly what I was talking about when I addressed the distressed mother calling for more laws. She was so upset about her daughters suicide after ridicule resulting from nude photos surfacing, that she is calling for more legal protection. I hope that mother learns her lesson. I hope she stops blaming everyone else, and starts to be a little introspective. I am sure that the her daughter (who was 18 by the way) wouldn’t have wanted her devastation to be only compounded by conviction. It’s insane, and I am tired of these news stories which serve only to scare stay-at-home white middle class moms. Old Fuddy Duddy news stories for those that are to naive.
NY is really getting uncontrollable with taxes, but Illinois isn’t far behind. Even though parking meters in Chicago are not city property anymore, the tickets which arise from them are. A New York company paid Chicago $1.2 billion for a 75 year lease on there city parking meters. That company recently increased their rates, and one hour of parking now costs about 3 dollars.
That’s 12 quarters for one hour of parking. Who carries 12 quarters? Apparently most in Chicago don’t, because people are becoming so angry that they are breaking, jamming, and vandalizing the meters. It’s basically a Tea Party of sorts, and it’s a beautiful thing. My hope would be that damages done bite in to revenues created. It is good that people can stand up and say when they have had enough.
These parking meters are a municipal item by extension only, but they are utilized by folks that pay taxes for these streets and the police that ticket them. They pay sales taxes, and income taxes. They are facing tax hikes. Taxed to death.
Our government is becoming a burden. An overbearing tax happy circus of a burden to its citizens.
Get our your lexicon books, your gonna need to enter a new word. Blackberry Shuffle. If you have one, you know what I am talking about. Showing someone a message on your crackberry the old fashioned way; handing it to them.
Other than that, this video is pretty pointless.
Have you heard about this family campaigning against “sexting”. It’s about one of the most asinine news stories of 2009. The family was motivated after their daughter commited suicide because of ridicule she faced from having sent out nude photographs on her phone.
I will say now, that this is a tragedy. I feel for the mother and father, and wish they did not have to deal with terrible loss.
Now on to the absurd.
After her daughter had been called a slut and a whore, etc., the mother said she was just “devastated by these parents that allow their children to do and say anything they want”. This is coming from a mother whose daughter sent nude photos of herself to a short term boyfriend. A critical factor here is that her daughter was 18 years old. She was legally an adult. So now the parents want some sort of laws in place? What kind of laws? How will they be enforced? Would their daughter have been the person to violate such a law. Certainly the liability lies with the person who sends, and not the one who simply receives.
But I digress. So in lieu of lawmaking they’ll probably start a few non-profits, and give talks at High Shools nationwide about the dangers of “sexting”. DANGERS of SEXTING, give me a break. Everything is dangerous then; kissing, screwing, getting caught cheating. EVERYTHING. Teen hoopla will never end.
They will call this “sexting” a national epidemic, and wait for their Barbara Walters interview. It is not an epidemic. That is bullshit. I am not very far removed from the young community, and I know it is not a epidemic. What is an epidemic is you not teaching your daughter some self respecting and the high degree probability that she is a slut.
This is what I would call BMM. That’s a bored mom magnet. The media picks up on a story of a pretty white girl tragically dying. It conveniently has a titilating word in the title: “sexting”. So the story runs and all the bored white, middle class, moms feel threatened by the “epidemic”. After all, they saw it on Good Morning America.
Here are some general rules of thumb:
