Detroit = Fail

Detroit has lost 25% of its population in the last decade.

The focus on this article seems to be how this will impact the federal funding the city receives to keep the residents suckling off the government teet. 

What the focus SHOULD be is where did 25% of a city full of angry douchebags go?

I stand by the comment.  These people have had to...

- watch jobs dry up with no end to that in sight
- biggest names are Eminem and Robocop
- root for the Lions and Pistons

I'd be the angriest douchebaggiest person alive if I had been subjected to all that for a YEAR much less 10.

Anyways, unless the city started a silent campaign of mercy smothering, those angry people moved SOMEWHERE.  My money is that it was the people who could afford to move and who had marketable skills or educations to do so.  Which means that the city is now filled with

- Arabs.  The largest concentration of Arabic population in the US
- Poor, out of work ex auto workers
- All the people Eminem raps about
- The Detroit Lions
- The Detroit Pistons

Help me out here, what exactly is Detroit's selling point on attracting people to come?  Lemme help, you can start by finding the chick with the awesome ass at the strip club Ryan and I hit there to pose for billboards everywhere.  Seriously, this was an AMAZING ass.  I'm not just saying that just she rubbed it in my lap and shook it in my face.  Then you advertise like bloody hell you have gambling.  Then you actually build Robocop and unleash him to start killing scumbags.

Epic fail story

a light-hearted story of a total non-abuse of power by right-wing police against a minority male clearly violating the law.

 

no wait.... take everything i said and reverse it.

 

http://www.longislandlawyerblog.com/mother-of-3-arrested-for-taking-pictures-of-tourist-attraction-at-airport

 

 

During the remainder of the six hours that Nancy Genovese was forcibly detained on the side of the road, she was taunted, verbally harangued, threatened, belittled, abused, humiliated and harassed by members of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office. For example, Deputy Carlock repeatedly referred to Nancy as “a right winger” and “tea bagger”, and threatened that they were going to arrest her for terrorism to make an example of her to other “tea baggers” and “right wingers”.

 

 

yeah, but it's the tea party who we need to be concerned over.  sure.

 

bets on this making national news?  i got a billion dollars saying this won't crack national news.  i got a trillion that says if it was a minority and it was right-wing cops doing the arresting it WOULD.

American women.... STFU

So I was reading an article talking about basically how Tunisia is facing some hard choices now and one of them is what and how big a role religion will/should play in the political landscape of the future.

Worth a read.

Anyways, the reason i'm posting is to point out a part of the article i read that made me say "god damn, the chicks in this country really don't know just how good they got it.  I swear the next girl I hear complain about how OPPRESSED women are here i think i might have to slap her."  Here's the part.....

She shared in the joy of the overthrow of what she described as Mr. Ben Ali’s kleptocratic government. But she also says she believes that the government’s crackdown on any Muslim groups it considered extremist, a draconian police program that included monitoring those who prayed regularly, helped protect the rights of women.

OK, so to summarize.... if she were talking about here she's basically saying that the only way she'd feel safe is if the government were allowed to and frequently did, watch and occasionally kick the shit out of the Westboro Baptist Church and the Mormons.  That's how fucking bad it is.  The chicks in that country WELCOME a government that engages in religious oppression of sorts. 

I also had to stop and wonder "how the fuck is it that they get it over there we still can't get our leaders or the people who elect them to get it over here?"  when i read this.

Protesters held up signs saying, “Politics ruins religion and religion ruins politics.”

I know we like to PRETEND there's a separation of church and state in this country, but until i start seeing some open Atheists elected to high government positions, I call bullshit.

College pricks

Note to self:  go to Columbia University and just kick everyone in sight's ass.  They've earned it.

Fuck you Iraq

I don't think i could possibly tell them to go fuck themselves any harder after reading this.

Ungrateful assholes doesn't even scratch the surface.

Rail to the future

So about Biden's $53 BILLION rail project.....

- it'll never actually get built.  Between the logistics, the hassle of unions, the environmental groups that will be bitching up a storm, the different states and their laws and whatever.... it's never going to happen.
- if by some miracle they hurdle all that and actually DO build it.  there's DEFINATELY no fucking way it gets done for the price he's quoting.  If my years in government contracting taught me ANYTHING, it's that the first price agreed on is never the full cost.
- This isn't to say that this isn't something that SHOULD be done.  America always needed a European-style rail system.  The problem is, we're way more spread out than they are and we value using our cars more.
- With our airlines unwilling/unable to reduce cost or reduce the pain-in-the-fucking-ass factor of using them being able to jump on a quick and reliable train might be nice.
- Reality is, there going to be too many hurdles for this to ever see light of day.  Too many hands looking to dip into the honey pot.  Too many groups wanting a say in how this gets done.  It just won't happen.

I understand the Obama administration's desire to do this, and I applaud them for thinking big I truly do.  The problem is, he wants to do some grand public works projects like they did back in the old days.  Like building Hoover Dam or something.  It's ambitious but this isn't the old days.  Regulations are different.  We don't get things done like we used to.  Back in the day if we were trying to get a road built and a bunch of hippie fags came along and said we can't do it because we might harm mother earth, well we'd just kick those pussies in their fucking heads and build the fucking road.  Now?  We actually listen to these pricks.

oh and another reason this won't happen.  money.  The GOP will never give him that kind of money to burn.  KIND of rightly so.  Right for the reason of, they know damn well it's going to go up in smoke and we can't afford to burn money.  Wrong for the reason of being vendictive assholes (which they've been doing with increasing frequency). 

Obamacare

Obamacare is awesome.  It's so damn awesome that Obama thinks they're going to run out of it when it launches and being the great unselfish humanitarian that he is, he's going to make sure that you and I get plenty of it.  He's even managed to convinced his good friends and massive campaign donors to be selfless and let us have their Obamacare.

Oh wait.....

No that's not it.  Obamacare is a big piece of shit and he's making sure his buddies are shielded from it.  I mean seriously, do you really need any more proof?  I mean if i walked into a bar and announced that i've come up with a drink that puts every other alcohol to shame.... oh but me and my buddies won't be having any.  Anyone else going to be a little bit "wait if it's so fucking great...."????

Prison security

So, to hell with shanks and smuggling drugs in your ass.  The newest threat to prison security.... drum roll please....

Dungeons and Dragons

I wish I were kidding. 

There, an expert on prison gangs argued not only that having a Dungeon Master issue direction to other players “mimics the organization of a gang”, but that the game encourages players to become obsessed with mentally escaping the restrictions of prison life, which could threaten “the safety and security of the institution.”

Funny, that guy just described my JOB.  Only I didn't have to stab someone to get here and the anal rapings are a little less frequent.

Border fun

Another example of the Border Patrol harassing a poor mexican just trying for a better life.

NOT

it's a radical Islam cleric trying to get into our country to wreck shit.  Attention all advocates for open borders... go fuck yourself.

Doc talks

Doctor has his say

I think it's interesting that this issue has gone completely untouched. The left screams about how unfair it is the poor aren't getting free shit. The right screams that the Nazis are coming to take away their freedom. NOBODY is talking about how the medical community is overworked, underpaid, unappreciated, and the ones who are going to have to bear the REAL brunt of this all, no matter who wins.

American retreats

A great look on where we are in the world and where we're going.

It isn't pretty

Killer mad

New report showing anger kills.

[Irish Accent] I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert!!

Cat-vertising

The video game F.E.A.R. 2 is to be advertised.... on cats.

Combining black cats (the best kind) + little suits displaying the game title + showing them on Friday the 13th * the game being a FPS thriller = marketing creativity.

If had Kitty, Jack, or Serenity still i'd totally be down for this. I'm generally against any kind of pet clothing but advertising? hells yeah. i'm a capitalist pig baby.

China

Badeaux does it again.

Another great article. This one is on China and how our foreign policy is taking us to a place we won't wanna be soon.

Good reading

My best friend Chris Badeaux started a website with some friends and he's writing articles for it. The website is

newledger.com

here's a great example of his writing. This is an article on the foreign powers and the kind of danger we face now.

Chris is a masterful writer. I highly recommend it.

So now where are they

So Kentucky is getting frozen over with people dying.

Where's FEMA?

Where's Obama?

Where's the press crucifying Obama for the slow response while people are dying?

Where's Kanye telling us Obama doesn't care about white people? (is there a "white" version of Kanye?)

Oh that's right, since it's a Demmy-crat in office it must be the people's fault this time. Not the government's. duh. stupid me.

look dumber

I get media clips from my company in the email. this is one that i got.

i think the only way Robert Wood could come away from this looking dumber, was if he had a dunce cap on and his pants on backwards.




Excerpt From State Department Daily Press Briefing

Robert Wood/Acting Spokesman

January 29, 2009



QUESTION: About a month or two ago, there was an IG report that warned that Blackwater was likely going to lose its license to operate in Iraq. That has now happened. Considering that you guys have been aware of this impending decision for some time, I presume that contingency plans have been made. What are those? What are you going to do to protect your people?

MR. WOOD: Well, let me just say, first off, you know, contingency plans are obviously being looked at, but I think it was on January 23rd when the Ministry of Interior informed the Embassy in Baghdad that Blackwater’s applications for an operating license was not going to be approved. And so we’re going to encourage, of course, contractors working for us to comply with Iraqi law. We’re right now looking at the implications of this decision by the Iraqis for us. But let me just make clear that we will do everything necessary to make sure that our personnel have the security that they need.

QUESTION: Well, what do you mean you’re looking at the implications? Isn’t the implication that they can’t work there anymore and that you’re going to lose your main contractor?

MR. WOOD: Well, again, we’re looking at, you know, the decision and we’re going to study and see what the implications will be, and then we’ll go forward.

QUESTION: I’m sorry, maybe I’m being dense here, but it seems to me that the obvious implication that you should already be aware of is that Blackwater can’t work in Iraq anymore.

MR. WOOD: I understand the decision. They were not granted an operating license

QUESTION: What more is there to look at?

MR. WOOD: Well, we have to study and see what we’re going to do next.

QUESTION: Right. Well, but you’ve been – this building has known for some time that this decision is coming down the pike, so –

MR. WOOD: Right, right, but we don’t have a decision ready to announce. We have to –

QUESTION: So Robert, who is protecting them today?

MR. WOOD: I’ll have to take a look at that. I’m not certain. I haven’t had a chance to look into that, but I’ll get the – we’ll get you something on that. I have to see who’s actually on the ground doing it. I’m just not sure at this point.

QUESTION: Do you intend to comply or do you intend to tell Blackwater to – if you’re going to – if you – you said you’re --

MR. WOOD: We have to comply with Iraqi law, period.

QUESTION: Exactly. So that means that you can’t – that your guys cannot use Blackwater as – for security guards, so -

MR. WOOD: Well, again, we’re going to comply with the Iraqi decision. We have no choice but to do that. So we’re just right now trying to formulate how we’re going to go forward. But I just wanted to make clear that we’re going to do everything, you know, to make sure that our Embassy employees have the security they need.

QUESTION: How long do you have to comply? I mean, when does this take effect?

MR. WOOD: I don’t know, haven’t seen the details on that yet.

QUESTION: Wouldn’t you have decided how to go forward already since you knew it was coming?

MR. WOOD: Well, it’s not a question of knowing that it was coming. We wanted to make sure that we had a clear-cut response from the Iraqis, an official response. We have now – you know, we received that on January 23rd, as I said, and we’re looking at next steps. That’s about as much as I can give you at this point.

QUESTION: Would next steps be just, what, another contractor?

MR. WOOD: We’re looking at a variety of possibilities, but I’m not here to outline those possibilities at this point.

QUESTION: While you’re not here to outline the possibilities, wasn’t this contract part of the global contract where there were three that – companies that bid on the security? So couldn’t one of the other ones step in?

MR. WOOD: Well --

QUESTION: I mean, isn’t that the whole idea of having these massive contracts?

MR. WOOD: That’s a possibility, but we haven’t made a decision on how we’re going to go forward yet.

QUESTION: But you have two other contractors that are working in Iraq, DynCorp and Triple Canopy, right?

MR. WOOD: Right. That’s right.

QUESTION: So you could ostensibly just move Triple Canopy or DynCorp over, because you’ve done all the RFP work and other stuff, right?

MR. WOOD: Well, we haven’t made a decision as to how we’re going to go forward yet, as I said. So I really don’t have any more to give you on that.

QUESTION: Is there a temporary security in place? I mean --

MR. WOOD: Like I said, I’m going to find out and get an answer to that question, because I’m not sure at this point.

QUESTION: It seems to be a bit irresponsible for the State Department not to have a backup plan and especially since you knew this was coming.

MR. WOOD: I did not say the State Department didn’t have a backup plan, but I said we’re looking at options and we haven’t made a decision as to how we’re going to go forward.

QUESTION: Well, doesn’t it seem to be – I mean, wouldn’t it be appropriate to have had an idea in place so --

MR. WOOD: I’m not saying we don’t have ideas, you know.

QUESTION: Well, one that you were – had been approved and you were ready to go ahead with?

MR. WOOD: Matt, as I said, when we have something in terms of a way forward, we’ll certainly be happy to let you know. But at this point, we’re looking at our options, and that’s the prudent thing to do.

goodbye Circuit City

Looks like 2009 will be a VERY good year for Best Buy.

Circuit City is closing shop.

Super squadrons

A Louisiana-based assault helicopter squadron took their call signs from comic heroes. freakin awesome.

check it out via Times Online.

Question

What are you doing here?

clearly there are trust issues within THAT marriage.