May 2, 2010
You know what I want for my birthday? I want to be able to call myself a liberal. I don’t like the word libertarian. It just confuses most people, they have no clue what it means. It means that I believe in the absolute sovereignty of the individual and the sole purpose of government is to protect the rights of the individual. It means I believe in the writings of John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Adam Smith and FA Hayek. However the word liberal which used to describe these ideas has been hijacked by the Democratic party. People who reject the ideas of these men and instead believe the rights of the group, or the collective, outweighs the rights of the individual and the role of government is to protect and provide for the group at the expense of the individual. These are NOT liberal ideas. So I wish they would just call themselves the Left-Leaning Statist Party (as opposed to the the Right-Leaning Statist Party, aka the GOP) and let true liberals like me call themselves liberals.
Thats what I want for my birthday… but I’ll settle for a beer.
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March 23, 2009
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!
We all know things are bad — worse than bad – they’re crazy.
It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”
Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.
You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
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March 21, 2009
First they pass a stimulous package that has an ammendment to allow bonus to be paid to AIG executives. Then they feign outrage about it only after a public outcry, and try to blame everyone else for the ammendment that allowed it. And now they pass an unconstitutional bill to punish the reciepients of the bonus to try to collect. So either the president and congress has no idea what is in the constitution or they simply don’t care.
Article 1, Section 9:
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
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January 24, 2009
Just had a business lunch at Harmon.
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August 28, 2008
How did we get from “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” to “Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us?”
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August 6, 2008
mmmm… hungarian hotdogs.
Ok, pretty lame blog I know, but I wanted to test the blogging feature from flickr and who besides me reads my blog anyway. No one, thats who!
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July 25, 2008
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day so let the appreciating begin. I’m registered at Best Buy, but cash is always accepted. Get the full scoop here: http://www.sysadminday.com/
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April 2, 2008
by: Jess Giessel
- Moses: Go South Boy… there’s good land and water in Uganda!
- Jesus: Go Away Son, Ya Bother Me!
- Mohammed: Have a Drink.. You’ll Feel Better… then we can go catch the show at Deja Vu!
- Abe Lincoln: You’re right about Slavery, but wrong about everything else.
- Jeff Davis: You’re wrong about Slavery, but right about everything else.
- Woodrow Wilson: Hell No… I Won’t Go!
- Franklin Roosevelt: Are you kidding? You’re far more dangerous than General MacArthur and Huey P. Long combined!
- Winston Churchill: It is not wise to make a pact with Beezelbub just to fight Satan!
- Adolf Hitler: CHILL OUT, DUDE!
- Dick Nixon: Just come clean and tell the truth… even Al Capone would have an easy time beating McGovern!
- George W. Bush: THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO LBJ!!!!!
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September 22, 2006
Does anyone hate the myspace bulletins besides me? I guess they are ok (but just barely) if you are planning a party and want to quickly send out the when and where or some other sort of information you need to get to a bunch of people quickly. (Because the phone or email is just too time consuming in this crazy age we live in.) But this is not, I repeat NOT, the place to post your thoughts on love or relationships or sappy inspirational drivel. That’s what blogs are for. Like this! If I want to get on my soap box, I post it to a blog, and if someone has nothing better to do than to read my random brain drippings, they can click on the link and read it. But I wouldn’t presume to think that my rants are going to be of interest to anyone else in cyberspace. So I don’t try to force feed them to everyone in my friends list by posting a bulletin. But even if I did, at least it would be an original thought. Not something that has been forwarded around the net 70 million times. It’s bad enough that I have the same list of “10 things I should think about the next time I see a homeless person” in my bulletins six times, but it’s even worse that the person who actually took the time to compose this list is someone I’ve never met. I might actually read it and give the message some thought if it came from someone I know and care about. Or maybe, and this is just a maybe, I would respond to and forward one of those surveys if the questions actually gave some insight into the person answering them. But all I get are “what was the last thing you ate?” and “what was the last song you heard?” I don’t give a crap what’s the last thing someone ate and I doubt anyone cares that I had nachos and an IPA a few hours ago. Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
P.S. Forward this to 10 people you know and fortune will smile on you tomorrow.
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September 19, 2006
The other day I was thinking about what a totally useless letter “q” is. Put it at the beginning of a word and it makes a “kw” sound. In the middle or at the end, a “k” sound. So why not just use “kw” or “k”. Like “kween” or “Irak“. If it wasn’t for the “ch” sound we could do away with “c” as well, replacing it with “s” or “k” as needed. Like “kat” or “senter“. That way there would be no need to remember if it’s a hard or soft “c” and the stupid rule “i” before “e” wouldn’t need an except clause. The “x” is also totally useless. It can be replaced by a “z” or “ks” as needed, as in “zylophone” or a “kardboard boks“.
i don’t get capital letters either. they really don’t serve much purpose. the period designates the end of a sentence so what’s the point of the capital at the beginning? and as far as proper names, that’s just ego boosting if you ask me.
And as long as were house cleaning, here are a few other things that would be on the chopping block if I were Grand Poobah of the universe:
- 4am – 7am
- Tuesdays
- All works by Danielle Steele
- Lite Beer
- The month of March
- Democrats
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