OVER RATED!

While I'm compiling lists, I figured I'd create one that outlines the most over rated things of our time. Here is what I have so far:

1. Faith. TOTALLY over rated. Why is it even a virtue? You mean to tell me that just because you believe in something for no reason whatsoever, you are a better person than I? Let's say you believe in the tooth fairy still, even at 40 years old. THIS makes you a better person? Or you believe a flying pink unicorn fertilizes your garden at night. Don't laugh! It's no more ridiculous than the fairy tales we read our kids or any of the world's religious teachings.

2. A college education. Seriously, save your money. In this day and age, it's not difficult to educate yourself. You don't need to spend $100,000.00 and go 600 miles away from home to "find yourself" or "become more well rounded". GO TO A LIBRARY, or here's an idea STOP AND THINK FOR YOURSELF.

3. Disenfectants. Anti-bacterial soap. Anything "new and improved", or that is "introduced" as the "all new". Save your money, you'll need it for a good shrink who specializes in OCD. You're not going to die without fogging your house over with lysol every 15 minutes. In fact, I like to live by the old addage that, "DIRT DON'T HURT".

4. iPhones. I'm not impressed with your phone just because it doubles as a light sabre. To the contrary, I'm quite happy with my Palm treo (which was found in an archealogical dig and proves I'm at least as old as Moses). This thing has speech recognition (nothing new btw), internet (both PDA and teathering), 40 channels of TV, a still and video camera, mini-SD slot, full color touch screen (imagine that), AND...... AND..... YEP. It can EVEN figure out my tip at dinner. There's an ap for that! IT'S CALLED AN EFFIN CALCULATOR. (which really isn't necessary if you can figure 15% mentally, which is any 7th graded should be able to do).

5. Solar panels and wind turbines. OK ya I really, REALLY want this technology to work. I'd love to be off the grid more than anything in the world. But then there's reality. THE REALITY is that at 6c per kilowatt hour, your windmill will have to run full speed for about 18 years to pay for itself, and you will need to cover your house, front and back yard, driveway, and part of your neighbors house with solar panels to generate enough power to RUN A TOASTER. It's just not there yet people.

6. Baby on board signs in people's windows. What the hell do you think? That just because you have a "Baby on Board" sticker in your window I'm going to not hit you? Are you SERIOUS? I'd hit you just as soon as I'd hit anyone else! Get over yourself. Just because you figured out how to squirt out a puppy doesn't mean you're any better than anyone else. And besides, if you're like most of the rest of the people I see with these stupid signs, you probably drive a 9,000 pound tank anyway, and I'm on a motorcycle. "Cyclist on board"!

Well enough for now. More later. THIS BLOG is probably the MOST over rated thing right now LOL

Everything that's wrong with America

Kids these days!

Yes, it's a cliche. Yes, the fact that I employ this cliche shows my age. But as with all things redundant, there's truth in it.

So what's wrong with America, besides kids these days? I'm working on a list...

1. Obsession with things that don't matter. Case in point: a ridiculous article I ready recently on Yahoo! news (surprise, not). The author was a writer for, of all things, that most erudite bastion of intellectual discourse, COSMO. What was the thorn in her side? Well, it wasn't the $10 trillion in debt that our benevolent government is going to add to our ledger in over the next 10 years. It wasn't the erosion of liberty, the devaluation of the dollar... no, it was text etiquette. This brainless breeder cow was more concerned with whether it's OK for your BFF to text u with abbreviations like cula8er than she was with.... oh, I dunno.... THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Case in point, her use of 2nd person plural pronouns in place of 2nd person singular pronouns in the interest of political correctness. If your friend is a moron, THEY probably read cosmo. No, HE probably reads cosmo. FRIEND=SINGULAR, THEY=PLURAL, match them up you bimbo, just as you would your sun dress with one of your 800 pairs of shoes.

2. The financialization of America. Why is it that there is more money being made re-arranging money than there is actually BUILDING THINGS? Simple: DEBT. We're awash in debt, and someone needs to be paid to shuffle it, primp it, prune it, beautify it, water it and talk to it. America needs debt wisperers. Pssst... there's a fortune to be made playing a shell game. You won't add anything of value to the economy, but who cares, right?

3. Using kids to pimp your shit. Stop putting kids on the radio and TV to sell your crap. It's not any more cute than it was when you used them to record your answering machine message. We don't think your kids are cute, get it? In fact we think they're brats. YOU think they're cute. WE don't. Sell your own snake oil, stop using your kids to do it.

4. Vice taxes and laws. You can take these and shove 'em. We don't for a minute think you're more moral than we are, and we damn sure don't think we OWE you ANYTHING just because we drink, smoke, use drugs, hire whores, pay stippers, or rent goats for Roman style orgies. (OK, there should be a tax on goat orgies, because not even I would go that far). We're not going to take it anymore. We're buying tobacco seeds and growing our own, just like we do everything else you outlaw: UNDERGROUND. Nothing changes, but the gummint LOSES revenue, becomes a hypocrite, and fills up prisons.

5. Shopping carts. They're too damned small. This is AMERICA dammit. We like things BIG. I want a shopping cart so big it needs a V-8 diesel engine of its own. I'm tired of trying to crap 3 days worth of groceries into a cart the size of a matchbox.

6. Guys wearing flipper-floppers. Do I need more proof the sperm count has gone through the floor into the basement? Do you NOT own a pair of BOOTS? Or at LEAST some effin A tennis shoes? Seriously sweetie, you're little pedicure may be cute, but save the damned flipper floppers for the beach and the bathroom, even if if they do match your new golf visor. A few of us still have our balls intact, and just because your wife has yours in a jar, it doesn't mean we want to look at your tootsies.

flag THIS

Flag THIS, White House!

That's right, President Obama, you can FLAG my entire blog as "fishy" if you'd like. In fact I hope you do, but I'm not going to waste the keystrokes to report myself to FLAG@WHITEHOUSE.GOV despite your orwellian request for me to do so.

Yet again We the People see you implement another of your communist tactics, taken straight from the playbook of one of your marxist professors most likely, asking people to "report fishy e-mails" about ObamaCare. My friends from former communist countries such as Hungary and Poland recognize this tactic of yours all too well. Turn the people against each other. Distract them. Tell them a lie so many times it becomes the truth.

Well that spitwad don't fly here partner. You and your band of union thugs can't intimidate the entire American population into submission. Your comrades in congress cannot smear us all with the endless stream of lies that flow from their offices. We don't wear swastikas. We're not racists. We're not radicals. We're not paid off, we're not organized, we're not even Republicans, we're AMERICANS. We understand the U.S. Constitution. We understand that you are its enemy. And we're not going to let you and your cronies hijack our liberty and way of life.

You have no right to re-distribute the wealth of all 300 million residents of this land. Robin Hood may be your hero, but he's still a thief. And YOU are a thief when you use the power of the majority to steal from the minority, regardless of how well your intentions may (or may not) be.

So You can FLAG this blog, FLAG ME, and FLAG every libertarian in this country with a backbone, because we are not going to take it anymore.

We aren't going to take your lies, smears, and character defamation. We're better than that. We won against the communists in the cold war, and we'll win against those communists who have infiltrated our government and institutions. Enjoy your honeymoon while it lasts. The backlash is coming.

Hughes Net Sucks

The big news today? I'm dumping Hughes Net. You've probably seen their moderately annoying commercials touting their fast download speed and how much better they are than dial-up. Dial up, maybe. Anything else? HELL NO.

Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy this service unless you have no other choice. The first major problem with it, (and they don't bother to tell you this) is that you have a 24 hour download limit. It's 250mb with their basic service. You can upgrade it to I believe 400, but that's it. You go over that, and they knock you down to turtle shit speed as punishment. That's right, you sit in the cyber dog house for another 24 hours (minimum) at about 56k. Oh, unless you do your downloads between 2:00a and 5:00a. Sorry, but I need my internet all the time.

The second problem is that their service is slow. Slow as in, barely better than dial up. I just now tested it and got, AT MOST 997kbps. DSL and cable run about 5-7mbps. And best of all, THEY'RE BOTH CHEAPER than hughes!

To make matters even worse, you're locked in with a 2 year contract. I hate this lousy service so bad, however, that I'm going to EAT $400.00 to get out of it and switch to DSL (which is half the price for a million x better service).

Yes it was my mistake. I'm doing this to warn you so you can learn from it.

HUGHES SUCKS.