As one has sat here listening to the frenzy going on in West Virgina coal country after the current explosion, one has had a thought. It is said that since 1995 Massey Coal, the company that owns the mine in question, has had 3000violations. This causes one to wonder..what other coal mining companies might be out there and how many THEY have had in the same time frame. The last 2 violations of which I can currently recall one of..failure to have updated evac route maps in the mine. We know the chinese mines are about as a safe as bathing in a tub full of gasoline with lit candles on the lip of tub. So that would probably be comparing apples and bananas. I'm talking US companies. Now I confess ignorance in the matter because hey..I live in Texas, what do I know from coal mining. I don't even know how many mines Massey might own. But if they only own 1-3mines like that and even spread out over 15yrs, 3000 safety violations seems like 3000 too much.
That being said the last update I heard was that in a desperate attempt to get down there, they were planning on flooding the mine with nitrogen, because they discovered earlier that the methane levels were still to great. I hope the 4 they can't account for survived, and I hope they get them out, it would be nice to salvage some life out of this disaster.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Free Speech and the Intarwebs...
Okay..once again I've been slapped down on a board by an admin for referring to our current crop of Politicians as retarded or some such word. In other words I used an insulting term or name called. Lets discuss this boys and girls. An insult is a form of Verbal Expression, generally an expression of either, anger, disgust and a feeling of revulsion. So how is referring to our current batch of nitwits as 'socialist retards' name calling? They are working on fundamentally changing the direction of this country against it's peoples wishes? What's worse is I'm told not to call them this because it MIGHT offend someone? *snort*
Got news for that admin..one of my best friends on the web, a man I've never met but consider like a brother has a daughter that literally IS mentally retarded. Somehow I suspect that my use of the word RETARD doesn't offend HIM. He probably considers it a waste and watering down from over use, of a perfectly good insult. But offended by it? Naaah. Hell, one of my own family members has challenges of her own in a slightly different way. Manic Depressive, wouldn't be at all surprised of a diagnosis of bi polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tourettes, Hair Pulling, Numerology[IOW certain numbers are BAD] and...nope don't think I've left anything out. Now in her case she's actually quite intelligent..or she can be when she wants to do anything other than sulk, or isn't in one of her fits. So from a personal standpoint I don't consider RETARD highly offensive against those who truly ARE mentally handicapped when I'm using it to refer to politicians!
Using Insults to refer to politicians is logical and sane, since there are VERY few if any that are actually worthy of our respect. Most, if not all of them, are money grubbing, power hungry, socialist dicatator wannabes. When there are numerous politicians actually WORTHY of my respect, THEN I'll probably stop being so insulting in regards to them. However since that day is probably a long time coming, and I'll likely get slapped down for being insulting again.
Let me leave you with this little thought,
WHAT is the point in HAVING THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH, if you're going to slapped down and told to 'stop it' any time you exercise that right, because they disagree with something you say or the way you say it? It's a highly pertinent question folks. I don't mind being civilized and not cussing on a forum, or in polite..but I Will NOT refrain from throwing around insults and scathing words about people who are richly deserving about it, just because YOU don't like the way I phrased it!
As far as I'm concerned telling me not to use insulting language in reference to politicians or anyone else I consider worthy of insulting, is abrogating my right of Free Speech.
I am at this moment right on the edge of posting a message telling the admin,and anyone that catches the message before it's deleted, all this; and to tell him "fuck you, fine here's what you do..delete my goddamn account you sanctimonious toad, because I will not be told how to exercise my right of free speech and I will NOT be back to this board!"
Got news for that admin..one of my best friends on the web, a man I've never met but consider like a brother has a daughter that literally IS mentally retarded. Somehow I suspect that my use of the word RETARD doesn't offend HIM. He probably considers it a waste and watering down from over use, of a perfectly good insult. But offended by it? Naaah. Hell, one of my own family members has challenges of her own in a slightly different way. Manic Depressive, wouldn't be at all surprised of a diagnosis of bi polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tourettes, Hair Pulling, Numerology[IOW certain numbers are BAD] and...nope don't think I've left anything out. Now in her case she's actually quite intelligent..or she can be when she wants to do anything other than sulk, or isn't in one of her fits. So from a personal standpoint I don't consider RETARD highly offensive against those who truly ARE mentally handicapped when I'm using it to refer to politicians!
Using Insults to refer to politicians is logical and sane, since there are VERY few if any that are actually worthy of our respect. Most, if not all of them, are money grubbing, power hungry, socialist dicatator wannabes. When there are numerous politicians actually WORTHY of my respect, THEN I'll probably stop being so insulting in regards to them. However since that day is probably a long time coming, and I'll likely get slapped down for being insulting again.
Let me leave you with this little thought,
WHAT is the point in HAVING THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH, if you're going to slapped down and told to 'stop it' any time you exercise that right, because they disagree with something you say or the way you say it? It's a highly pertinent question folks. I don't mind being civilized and not cussing on a forum, or in polite..but I Will NOT refrain from throwing around insults and scathing words about people who are richly deserving about it, just because YOU don't like the way I phrased it!
As far as I'm concerned telling me not to use insulting language in reference to politicians or anyone else I consider worthy of insulting, is abrogating my right of Free Speech.
I am at this moment right on the edge of posting a message telling the admin,and anyone that catches the message before it's deleted, all this; and to tell him "fuck you, fine here's what you do..delete my goddamn account you sanctimonious toad, because I will not be told how to exercise my right of free speech and I will NOT be back to this board!"
Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Ahh Disaster Movies
To tell you the truth I'm getting more than a little bored and annoyed with Hollyweirds whole 'oh my god! oh my god! we're gonna be hit by that astroid/comet!, Volcanoes are gonna erupt, earthquakes are gonna happen and cause tsunami's, etc, etc ad nausem, We're all gonna diiieee!' schtick. It's gotten really old. Don't get me wrong..It's not that I hate disaster movies.some of them I thoroughly enjoy but we're getting a resurgence of that type of crap. One of my all time fave's is Meteor starring Sean Connery, among others. They did a made for tv miniseries remake of it on NBC. After seeing some of the previews I said..uh uh..not on the coldest day am I gonna watch this piece of dung. Well..I did catch a little bit of it. The little 50second bit of film I caught? Oh you know how in all those astroid/comet movies the big one is preceded by splinters and fragments? Well the little bit I caught showed a national guardsman heroically taking out a splinter traveling at god knows what speed,[but I guarantee it's faster than anything we've yet built can fly] by firing a Stinger shoulder launched, heat seeking, anti aircraft missle at it. A stinger? Really? Are you serious? the scriptwriter should be dragged across a field of broken glass naked for that one.
Another recent example is the end of the world mania, due to the Mayan Calender ending in the year 2012. And here we go again..there's gonna be a cataclysm that destroys the earth and everything on it; or at the very least wipes out humanity.
Seriously? Stop popping acid and shooting heroin people. After chiseling out a calender, into stone, 2000 YEARS in advance mind you. Don't you think that instead of it being a prophecy the world is ending, that it's a sign that someone got tired of hitting stone tablet with a stone mallet and chisel for a likely 12hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year? Personally I think one of the mayans finally said "fuck it, our ancestors can take this shit up again in the future..lets go get high and get laid!" at which point; all the other stone hammer and chisel wielding Mayans said "Fuck YEah!", "Right on Bro!", "Weed and lovin'!" dropped their hammers and chisels and walked away?
Seriously? Get a freaking grip. Hollywood..stop making this crap into movies..it's annoying. Try growing an imagination, and make some good movies would you?
Another recent example is the end of the world mania, due to the Mayan Calender ending in the year 2012. And here we go again..there's gonna be a cataclysm that destroys the earth and everything on it; or at the very least wipes out humanity.
Seriously? Stop popping acid and shooting heroin people. After chiseling out a calender, into stone, 2000 YEARS in advance mind you. Don't you think that instead of it being a prophecy the world is ending, that it's a sign that someone got tired of hitting stone tablet with a stone mallet and chisel for a likely 12hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year? Personally I think one of the mayans finally said "fuck it, our ancestors can take this shit up again in the future..lets go get high and get laid!" at which point; all the other stone hammer and chisel wielding Mayans said "Fuck YEah!", "Right on Bro!", "Weed and lovin'!" dropped their hammers and chisels and walked away?
Seriously? Get a freaking grip. Hollywood..stop making this crap into movies..it's annoying. Try growing an imagination, and make some good movies would you?
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Doctors and Health Care
This is beautiful. I'd like to thank my friend JC for posting this:
"“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
-- Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957
Does anyone want to bet some of our doctors, don't take this attitude and quit? I know my own GP said while the bill was being argued over for the last 6mos that he'd quit if it passed. He's almost 80yrs old and was planning on retiring in 3 more years anyway. Now that it is passed...I do believe I'm gonna lose my GP. This..is TRULY gonna suck. Because now I'll get to pay $100 a pop just for a GP office visit, when I find a new one.
"“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
-- Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957
Does anyone want to bet some of our doctors, don't take this attitude and quit? I know my own GP said while the bill was being argued over for the last 6mos that he'd quit if it passed. He's almost 80yrs old and was planning on retiring in 3 more years anyway. Now that it is passed...I do believe I'm gonna lose my GP. This..is TRULY gonna suck. Because now I'll get to pay $100 a pop just for a GP office visit, when I find a new one.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
States start lining up to fight health care..
bigtime..
http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?category=TopStories&id=20100317/66f53f9d-4e11-4734-b19c-0b5e361b1918
We keep telling those assholes in congress they don't have the consent of the governed, that what they are trying to do with healthcare and epa regs etc..are unconstitutional and to fucking stop it already. Maybe this will wake them up. I doubt it though..the fuckers are too power hungry to care.
http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?category=TopStories&id=20100317/66f53f9d-4e11-4734-b19c-0b5e361b1918
We keep telling those assholes in congress they don't have the consent of the governed, that what they are trying to do with healthcare and epa regs etc..are unconstitutional and to fucking stop it already. Maybe this will wake them up. I doubt it though..the fuckers are too power hungry to care.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Women wants to be worlds largest
She want's in the record books. Hell she just had a child in 2007!
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1027360/woman-aims-to-become-worlds-fattest
So she's risking her life and risks making her child motherless, so she can go in the record books? WTF? I personally think she's got a death wish. There are faster ways than making your body and internal organs Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Eat A Bullet! stupid bitch.
I REALLY wish stupid people would stop breeding.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1027360/woman-aims-to-become-worlds-fattest
So she's risking her life and risks making her child motherless, so she can go in the record books? WTF? I personally think she's got a death wish. There are faster ways than making your body and internal organs Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Eat A Bullet! stupid bitch.
I REALLY wish stupid people would stop breeding.
Friday, March 12, 2010
NY legistlature tries to ban SALT
I shit you not. Dimwitocrat Felix Ortiz of Brooklyn proposes a bill that says
"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_york_state/chefs-call-proposed-new-york-salt-ban-absurd-20100310-akd
May the NY state legislature be destroyed by God and may Ortiz be as stupid as Lot's wife and look back to be turned into a pillar of salt. Then we can use the fucktard to cook with and eat in peace.
Because frankly..I feel more and more like I'm living in a movie. The movie? Demolition Man starring Sly Stallone and Wesley Snipes
If more laws like this are proposed..AND passed then you can, to paraphrase Sly just put me back in the motherfucking fridge.
"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_york_state/chefs-call-proposed-new-york-salt-ban-absurd-20100310-akd
May the NY state legislature be destroyed by God and may Ortiz be as stupid as Lot's wife and look back to be turned into a pillar of salt. Then we can use the fucktard to cook with and eat in peace.
Because frankly..I feel more and more like I'm living in a movie. The movie? Demolition Man starring Sly Stallone and Wesley Snipes
If more laws like this are proposed..AND passed then you can, to paraphrase Sly just put me back in the motherfucking fridge.
Insulting politicians and political correctness..
I belong to a webboard. Well, actually I belong to a couple...but the one I'm referring to I just joined in the last couple months. We have several threads going in which I've referred to politicians in general and some of the bills some of them attempt to pass are..retarded. Now the board admin has gone thru,,deleted 2 of the threads I've started and edited several of my posts in which I am admittedly ..highly insulting. And call our politicians retards. This ANNOYS me. If you're going to go thru life afraid to speak your mind or allow OTHERS to speak their minds on/in a public or even NON public forum; because something they said MIGHT be found offensive by someone, then...... WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF HAVING FREE SPEECH YOU FUCKING RETARDS?!
After I post this I will do another post that tells the story of the story that set me off to calling yet MORE politicians RETARDS.
After I post this I will do another post that tells the story of the story that set me off to calling yet MORE politicians RETARDS.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Mich\ael Vick wins Courage Award
http://www.pressboxonline.com/blog.cfm?ID=2084
Wouldn't that be like some women's rights group giving Tiger a 'Love and Fidelity' Award?
Wouldn't that be like some women's rights group giving Tiger a 'Love and Fidelity' Award?
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