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Obama to invite retards to White House for bowling

Annoyances, Current Events, Politics, Satire No Responses »

Mar 212009

Initially apologetic after comparing his poor bowling performance to the Special Olympics on The Tonight Show, President Obama quickly turned defiant when again questioned about it at this afternoon’s press conference.

“OK, shit, we can’t even pick on the ‘tards anymore? What the hell kind of country is this? It’s not like they even understand the…oh, all right, hell, of course we’ll have a bunch of ‘em over to the White House for bowling. I’ll make sure we have plenty of paper plates and plastic cups. We’ll have a pinata party too. That ought to be entertaining.”

Obama then rolled his eyes and stepped away from the podium, muttering something about having another look at his tournmanent bracket.

Netflix and the Friday of Bo

Consumption, Family, Leisure 4 Responses »

Mar 202009

All right, I bit.

I had designated today the Friday of Bo, a la the Summer of George, so it was nothing but decomposing decompressing today. I joined Netflix on the $9.99 monthly plan ($8.99 for one title at a time, plus $1.00 for Blu-ray access). Along with that comes unlimited streaming of all titles available for such, assuming you have a compatible device. Just happen to have one already ready to go.

The instant streaming is cool, but it’s definitely limited. Netflix boasts 12,000 titles available for streaming, but unless you’re into gems like the third season of Dr. Who or Battlefield Earth, you can cross off about 11,900 of them out of the gate. (Actually I do welcome the opportunity to see Battlefield Earth for “free.” I’m curious whether it’s as bad as I’ve heard. Plus, I’ve always wanted to see if it turns me into a Scientologist. Heh.) We did enjoy The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Movie and The NeverEnding Story today.

We also rented Journey to the Center of the Earth in HD from Xbox Live. That’s enjoyable and family-friendly.

I wasn’t quite totally worthless today. I did do some dishes and fold some towels.

Thursday miscellanea #31

Menagerie 10 Responses »

Mar 192009

Remember the video game Burgertime?
‘Seester mentioned it a couple of posts ago, and today the House passed it. Are you ready for micro-targeted punitive taxation? They’re just thinking up all kinds of crazy shit up there right now, and then doing it! Bang! Change you can believe in, baby!
Nathan’s fever was hanging on this morning, so we’re 0 for 2 on the week (Tuesday, tomorrow) trying to get out of town for the day with BamaDan and his family. Kid’s getting ripped off, being sick during spring break. Next we’re going to try to hike with Saintseester and her seester this weekend. Cross your fingers.
I got a wheresgeorge.com dollar bill today. I don’t see them often, but I always enter them when I do. The reports for the bills I enter never get any longer, though. Not enough people play.
Freedom of movement is no more in Great Britain. Every time you leave the country is recorded. Twenty-four hours before departure, you must provide addresses, credit card numbers, and exact itineraries—information which is kept by the government for ten years. This is to “catch terrorists.” As big a woody as Obama apparently has for transforming us into nanny-state Europe, how long before we’re doing the same thing on this side of the pond?
My traffic’s up about 30% today because of hits on the Ravelry.com nonsense.
Nothing quite like a forever swastika, is there?

The dishonest dictators of Ravelry.com

Annoyances 4 Responses »

Mar 182009

Want to hear a lovely story of guilt by association, followed by a conviction with no appeal?

Saintseester has told the tale well (go read it), so no need for me to repeat it here, but the bottom line is that Saintseester’s sister was banned from the popular knitting and crocheting site Ravelry.com not for any questionable behavior on that site, but for being a member of a different site. Moreover, she was directly accused of disruptive and abusive behavior, none of which ever occurred. Her complete posting record shows nothing of the sort.

This smells a lot like small-minded people getting their mitts on a little power, then wielding it gleefully and indiscriminately. I’m sure they’re gems in their homeowner’s associations, too.

Keep bailing; I think it’s working!

Annoyances, Current Events, Liberty, Politics 6 Responses »

Mar 182009

Well, AIG CEO Edward Liddy is up for his Congressional beatdown as I write. I’m sure he’ll find palatable things to say to his fully engorged interrogators.

The outrage is badly out of whack. Pissing and moaning about a measly $165 million in this context is like leaving the onions off a footlong chili cheese dog because you’re watching your weight. Nevertheless, it funnels nicely into that whole rich-get-richer-on-the-backs-of-the-unfairly-exploited-poor gestalt, so its popular appeal, however illogical, is easily understood.

The outrage is also good. I’m reaching for anything right now that looks like a brake on the federal government’s orgy, and this flavor of resonating popular disapproval could be it. Mind, I expect the first reaction of the government to be to continue bailing out anyone “too big to fail,” only with much more restrictive language. The gambit there for the hopeful amongst us is that such will be too difficult, i.e. any bill with teeth will be sufficiently controversial (or unconstitutional, for whatever that’s worth anymore) to fail.

Perhaps then the government will stop keeping zombies “alive” with Monopoly money, and the natural business cycle (that, necessarily and healthily, includes failure) will return.

Yes, it’s probably too much to hope for.

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