Leave me alone - All I want is a damn phone

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Yesterday a salesman attempts to push a cell phone plan on me that includes unlimited texting, internet, and a few other bells and whistles.  The problem is that I am really, really old school. I am about as old school as they come.  I don't know how to text, and don't want to learn, and I get pissed off when people keep trying to push all this new crap on me. Yet, at least 2 or 3 times a month, some salesman attempts to sell me shit that I will never use.  They never stop calling me.

So here's the deal. I don't want a phone that I can type on. I don't want a phone that I can browse the internet with. I don't want a phone that I can watch a movie on. I don't want a phone that can massage my balls. All I want is a damn phone. Period. The next salesman who attempts to push a blackberry on me is going to get a raspberry back, and maybe a kick in the nuts to go along with it.  Thank you, fuck you, and no thank you!
 
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Did Donald Trump just royally punk the birthers?

Today, President Obama released the "long form" of his birth certificate, just about a week after Donald Trump rallied the birthers, claiming that Obama couldn't prove his citizenship.  Did Donald Trump stick his foot in his mouth over the birth certificate business, or was their something else at work here?  I say that something else was at work here, namely a masterful plan to make the birthers look like the idiots they are.  Mission accomplished.  Here are the facts, as anybody with the IQ of a bag of hammers would see them:

1) Obama already released his certificate 2 years ago.

2) The certificate he released was the legal one that the state of Hawaii releases.

3) The validity of this certificate was confirmed by a Republican clerk, and also by a Republican governor, Linda Lingle.

4) The birthers, in their batshit insanity, claimed it wasn't enough.  Obama was still a Kenyan, according to them.  They even filed lawsuits, one which was thrown out by the Supreme Court, in a session, during which, I assume, the justices laughed until they puked.

5) Enter Donald Trump, who played the birther card, and demanded Obama's birth certificate.

6) But who is Donald Trump? He claims to be a Republican, but has called George Bush the worst president in history, and in February of this year, made a campaign donation to Rahm Emmanuel, the man who gets most of the credit for getting Obama elected.  Trump is as much of a Republican as Barack Obama is.  A reasonable person can see that Trump was not sincere in asking for Obama's birth certificate. He wanted to punk the birthers. You don't think that Obama's release of the long form, just a week or 2 after Trump demands it, looks at least a little suspicious? If not, then you have absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever.

7) The birthers rally behind The Donald, and ramp up the birther nonsense to an unprecedented level.

8) Bam - At a time that has never been more opportune, Obama suddenly, from nowhere, pulls out the long form of his birth certicate, which makes the same conclusion that his certified copy of birth, ALSO A LEGAL DOCUMENT, makes. Obama also smiles, while calling the birthers silly.

9) The birthers have enough egg on their faces now to cook omelets for every American citizen, not to mention at least half the world.

10) Want to here the most hilarious part of all this?  The birthers claim victory. Sure thing, guys, and Hitler won World War II. And Russia won the space race. And France has never surrendered. LOL.

BONUS TOP 10.....

11) The sky is green, according to the Birther Bible. LOL.

Slavery is Freedom?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a California-based labor contractor, Global Horizons Inc., and farms in Washington and Hawaii, claiming they discriminated against more than 200 Thai workers in what the authorities called the largest human trafficking case in the nation’s agriculture industry. Global Horizons confiscated the workers’ passports and threatened to deport them if they complained about conditions, commission officials said. Named in the suit were the Captain Cook Coffee Company, Del Monte Fresh Produce, the Kauai Coffee Company, Kelena Farms Inc., MacFarms of Hawaii and the Maui Pineapple Company, all in Hawaii, and Valley Fruit Orchards and Green Acre Farms of Washington. The commission also filed a lawsuit in Mississippi against the marine services company Signal International claiming that 500 Indian workers faced discrimination and substandard living conditions in Mississippi and Texas.

For those who say that slavery is a thing of the past, and no longer exists, I submit this entry as exhibit "A".

For those who say that business need not be regulated at all, I submit this entry as exhibit "A".

For those asking why we still need unions, I submit this entry as exhibit "A".

For those who believe that corporations have the right to be considered as "people" under the law, I submit this entry as exhibit "A". There is nothing human in nature about this. It is about as inhuman as it gets.

For those who believe that ONLY market solutions are the correct ones, I submit this entry as exhibit "A". Here is a market solution. Do you like what you see?

For those who believe there need be no laws which cripple corporate productivity, I submit this entry as exhibit "A".

Finally, for those wondering why, from this day on, I will never again buy a Del Monte product, I submit this entry as exhibit "A".

Sarah Palin and Donald Trump - Show us your panties!!

Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are not from Earth, but from a planet called Headbanger, in a galaxy far, far away.  On planet Headbanger, there are no sexes.  So when it comes to underwear, there is no distinction.  In fact, on planet Headbanger, nobody wears panties.

Donald Trump and Sarah Palin need to prove that they are natural born humans by showing us their panties, but as of now, they have not done so.  Yea, Sarah Palin has shown us pictures of her in bathing suits, but that's not panties.  Bathing suits are panty forgeries.  And Donald Trump?  He has never had any comment on the issue, and has never in his life been able to document that he has EVER worn panties (although I suspect that he has, on occasion).  That makes him an alien, and illegal, therefore an illegal alien.

So to Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, I say this - Unless you show us your panties, you will never be qualified to be president.  After all, who wants aliens from outer space at the helm of our government?  Besides, that's unconstitutional.  And unless you two show us your panties, we will have to do what we do to all aliens who come here without showing their panties - Send you back to Mexico.

Yea, I know, I know, this post is batshit insane, but so are Trump and Palin.  Like they say, if the panties fit......

Referendum in Ohio - America At the Crossroad

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Opponents of an Ohio law to limit public workers'  collective bargaining rights have started gathering signatures to get a  referendum on the measure.

In Wisconsin they have recalls, and in Ohio they have referendums.  In both cases, the result is a poison pill for the Republican party, which is going to suffer for it's slap in the face of the will of the American people.

I was pretty excited when the Democrats were thrown from power.  Like Bush, they were continuing to spend America off a cliff.  Republicans came in, promising to restore America's spending habits, and end the fiscal insanity that had rocked the nation for the last 10 years.  What did they do instead?  They went after unions. 

At the national level, the GOP is making a pretense of trying to balance the budget, but their attempt to bust the CWA, by (get this) passing a law in the House which says anyone that doesn't vote in a union election is actually voting NO (George Orwell anybody?), created a backlash among the majority of Americans who support unions.

At the state level, the GOP launched coordinated attacks at the same time in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada, and other states, in an attempt to bust unions.  Why?  Because unions traditionally support Democrats.  Their cynical and psychopathic use of political power against American citizens has resulted in Cheesehead Armageddon, as Wisconsinites have mobilized resources to "throw the bums out".  And yet, the GOP has the audacity to call Americans exercising their Constitutional rights to a democratic process "thuggery".  Who are the thugs?  The unions?  How about the Koch Brothers, and other corporate interests, along with their Republican lackeys, who are attempting to subvert the will of the people, under the guise of balancing the budget?  In Wisconsin this lie has been exposed by their own actions.  What of the budgetary items in Walker's plan?  They have still yet to be passed, and are languishing in Congress, while the union busting provisions were ruthlessly shoved down the throats of Wisconsinites.  There is your smoking gun, folks.

Is it any wonder that Americans have buyers' remorse when it comes to the 2010 elections?  The GOP has lost Wisconsin, as total recall is in full swing.  In Ohio, a referendum is going to make it onto the ballot, and people are pissed at Republicans there too.  The first shots of slash and burn class warfare have been fired by the GOP, and the people are responding.  Right now, it sucks to be a Republican.

The first Republican presidential debate, scheduled for this May, has been rescheduled, due to lack of interest.  Only ONE potential candidate pledged to show up.  Do you think the rest of them know something he doesn't?  After all, who in their right mind wants to run on the platform that has exposed itself in America?  At this juncture, I would have to say to Republicans "Congratulations.  You have just handed the White House to Obama and the Democrats in 2012, and on a silver platter too".  Americans might want balanced budgets, but they don't want "batshit crazy".

Gutting Medicaid to Balance the Budget

From Politico:

House Republicans are planning to cut roughly $1 trillion over 10 years  from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and  disabled, as part of their fiscal 2012 budget, which they will unveil  early next month, according to several GOP sources.

A trillion bucks over the next 10 years is quite a bit, but it won't work, and will actually end up being more expensive than what is now in place.

1) The poor will simply get treated at emergency rooms instead of seeing their doctor.

2) The poor will wait until their conditions deteriorate before seeking treatment, which will then become much more expensive than it otherwise would.

3) With no more preventive medicine for the poor, they will be going to emergency rooms in droves, when they develop serious conditions that could have been prevented by treatment in a clinic.

In my opinion, this is a dumb move.  Even if you view poor people as leeches on society, gutting Medicaid is going to result in bigger expenditures in the long run.  Now there is ONE way to reduce the expenses that poor people cost the rest of us.  Just set an earnings limit of, say, 10,000 bucks a year, and everybody under that income gets taken to a field where they are all shot and then dumped into a mass grave.  You know, that would work for the disabled too.  I know, I know, this sounds cold as hell, but since we are talking about reducing the budget so that banksters can feel comfortable with all those bailout bonuses we are giving them, we are going to have to balance the budget someplace.  Since we are choosing to balance it on the backs of the poor and disabled,  let's just kill them all so they will no longer be a problem.  We can then, in church, raise our hands to the Lord, in front of the entire world, and let Jesus know that we did care enough about the poor to do something about them.  Hallelujah!