If you want to see something truly astounding, just check out the US Debt Clock. It constantly ticks up a number of vitals and variables, most notably our debt and the amount of it which is shared on a per capita basis. I note though that the per citizen amount is based on the total population of the country. In my opinion it should be based on only the working population. So instead of using a denominator of about 300 million people, it should really be divided by about 200 million people. That would mean that we each owe about $50,000.00. Pretty terrible huh? I know I didn’t ask to be that far in debt.
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Because people liked the Bumper Sticker so much we thought, why not make a Right Wing Extremist T Shirt to go along with it.
So get one for yourself, and show the world what a true “Right Wing Radical” Looks like.
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Apparently a study suggested that we ban all tobacco usage by anyone in a U.S. military uniform.
This is completly rediculous. Anyone who supports this is simply out of their minds. Of course, one arguement in favor indicates the health care costs associated. I don’t give a shit about health care costs. If you are going to ask someone to fight under a government flag, then I think that they can smoke a cigarette.
The study also has some blah blah blah about military readiness in the short term. Well I don’t think it affected those soldiers in WWII to negatively. This is just extreme crap. If your life is on egde daily, smoke if you want to.
I swear. It won’t ever end. And you know what is even worse about this. The extreme liberals support this, and the extreme conservatives (Christian Conservatives) support it as well. It’s total crap. Neither party recognizes the baby steps to lost freedoms. Lost individuality. Lost right-to-do-whatever-the-hell-I-want-while-being-shot-at-in-a-combat-zone.
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Obama is ordering a National Security team to investigate the slayings of thousands of taliban fighters. The murders came at the hands of an exceptionally accomplished Afghan Warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. General Dostum has been allied with the U.S. for some time. I recall that when Obama was in congress General Dostum was the first person in line to meet with the Illinois Senator, before he even met with President Karzai.
We have been so chummed up with this warlord for so long, and now Obama acts like he didn’t know anything about it. Who cares if he killed a few thousand Taliban. We kill them every day. And they kill our guys every day. What good is his investigation going to do? Is he going to file charges against an Afghan warlord (actually we did take one into custody after we invited him to NY for a visit). But come on, this is bullshit. It’s just media crap that gives good headlines that look like he’s somehow investigating some Bush crime. So he can feed the far left a scrap.
In the real world people die. Sometimes a lot of them. And this particular warlord is noted for ruling with an iron fist, and fighting the Taliban since the Ruskies left.
Current Crap, Society
You know what’s funny. I bet that Sunday night mark’s peak traffic for netflix almost everyweek. But all of the sudden today their site goes down. Very strange indeed. I wonder if it’s due to the server burden from a heavy Sunday, or maybe those dang North Korean hackers.
You never know.
But I’ll tell you what I do know. If it is those dang North Korean Hackers I bet people will pay attention now. No one really minds much when our CIA, NSA, pentagon, and White House sites are being attacked. I think that cyber attacks can now basically be considered an act of war. Perhaps we should go after those bastards. No. Not Perhpas. We should. It’s an act of war in my mind. I say send a cruise missle to the heart of their electrical grid. That’d show em how much we like our Netflix.
Business, Society
It seems as though the H1N1 isn’t quite as bad as we thought it was going to be. Mexico clearly just did not have sufficient capabilities for dealing with it. In the US, however, it seems that we are functioning just fine with the Pig Influenza. Thus the Swine Flu TShirts Abound.
Some would even say that the Swine 09 pandemic is quite a bit overblown. The media sure ratcheted up quickly on this one. And while it does go to show that we can dessiminate information very quickly, it also show medias ability to alarm en masse. I will say that if the growth of the flu outpaces our medical inventories it could potentially be a very serious problem. However, for the time being the infection rates do not seem to be growing by significant exponential factors. For now, at least, I know that I feel safe. I also have full confidence in our medical system to deal with the issue.
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There was a time where I had this bumper sticker on the back of my car. That was during the Bush administration, and I felt the same way. It doesn’t matter to me who is in office, I feel the same way about this. I suppose if some game changer like Ron Paul were in office, it might be different, but I haven’t seen any reason not to feel this way regardless of who the president is.
The sticker, Don’t steal, the government hates competition, rings true for many as we begin to work more and more for the government. Unfortunately, I fear that we are creating a society which is so dependent upon government that we will really have no choice but to continue the socialist model. It is sad, but we have seen periods of time like this before. Under Roosevelt I think many Americans saw similar changes taking place. We managed to come out OK, but there has been a feeling of “creeping socialism” for almost 100 years now.
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