are you serious

can glenn beck actually be serious. one would think that he is since he's been going at it for several weeks now. he is verbally attacking a 78 year old lady and telling his listeners that her and her late husband are fundamentally responsible for the collapse of not only the the american economic system but the housing market as well.
one has to wonder what in the world these two people could have done to make such an impact on our way of life and why they have not been stopped.
well it turns out the only thing they did was conduct a study on what percentage of the people who were eligible for welfare were actually on welfare. and then "gasp" they wrote an article outlining a way for these people to apply for welfare. it was their belief that if everyone who was eligible for welfare actually applied for it then the government would take notice of how big a problem poverty really is and would do more about it.
and here is the kicker they did all this 45 years ago.
so i'm guessing old glenn beck perceives that this article that noone has ever heard about that was published 45 years ago is the reason for all of the problems we are having today. he has even gone so far as to call them public enemy number one.
now this 78 year old widow who is a professor at a new york college and the author of a conservative blog is receiving several death threats a day from people who feel she is a terrorist and would like to see her fry.
what i want to know is: number one why has nobody called
him out on this yet; and number two why do his
listeners blindly follow what he says and don't even do their home
work before threatening to kill someone.
is this what our society has come to? we will blindly follow what someone says to the
point of going out of our way to threaten someone without ever stopping to question wether or not there is any validity to the claim? are we that willing to pass the blame on to someone else.
shame on you glenn beck and shame on your listeners.
hmmmm i wonder how many shows someone could get on and point the finger right back at him for hate-mongering and fear-mongering?
maybe its just me and my warped since of justice but i think there should be some repercussions for what he has done and i think that his listeners should be told the real story about these two people.
just sayin'

What next

So the U.S. just had one of the biggest winter storms in history, australia just had one of the largest typhoons in its history, that volcano in japan erupted six times in a week and egypt is falling apart.
Where are all the dooms-dayers? I have yet to hear anyone declaring that its the end of the world. You'd think they would be all over this. Are they afraid that it may actually be this time and they've discovered that their not as ready as they thought they were? Hmmmm...... I may have to ponder this one further.

politics as usual

i am so fed up with the republican party.when bush was in office it was oh we need to spend more on the middle east, we can't be expected to balance the budget in a time of war,

the fall in the economy was in no way foreseeable and is sometimes normal during wartime.

8 years we listened to all of these reasons why things weren't as bad as they seemed and why

we needed to give up some of our rights in order to become more safe, and why we needed to

spend trillions of dollars on homeland security and the middle east.

now that a democrat is in the office all of sudden they had nothing to do with

any of it. they blame democrats for the economy not bouncing back yet,

they also are going off on a war path about spending, they are saying that there

needs to be away for them to work together more effectively, never mind that last

year when democrats were in the majority they basically said blow it out your ass

when the democrats tried to do the same thing. they are not shutting up about the health

bill being unconstitutional in their view and are threatening to repeal it, and has

anyone reminded them that not that very long ago they themselves came up with a health plan fairly similar, and were upset when it did not go anywhere.

i am so sick and tired of all the hypocrisy and back stabbing, name calling

and selfish behavior that is displayed by these people in Washington

(our so called leaders) on a daily basis.

and what was up with the whole reading of the constitution, and it wasn't even

the full version, key parts and context was left out.  i remember them having the whole media blitz a few years ago about how parts of it were no longer viable

and that certain rights wee going to have to be alienated in order

to have  a safer environment in our country.

it just really chaps my hide. which is my polite way of saying pisses me off!

i wish someone without an agenda other than doing what is best for

everyone could manage to make a difference. but it

would be near imposable with all of the others who would certainly

shut them down.

shame, shame rio

so here's the deal rio de janero is the site of the next

summer olympics (i don't know whose brilliant idea that

was, but i digress). this new years rio unveiled "their" logo for

these esteemed events. tada here it is.

but, but you say there is nothing wrong with this it looks

just fine some might say (others say its boring anyways).

if only that was all. take a look at this logo:

now you start to see where the problem comes in. not

much is different between these two logos.

you might even say the rio one looks

like an updated version of the telluride one.the red person

is missing and they no longer have legs, the rest is

pretty much the same. you would think (hope) that a big design firm

would have caught something like this before going

public with something as big as an olympic logo.

you would think the olympic committee might have had a look

around to see if the logo was an original before declaring

it to the world. the Brazilian government is saying there is no issue,

no surprise there, of course they don't want to have to recant their logo

to the rest of the world and look like idiots. but i think they are looking

like bigger idiots by not doing anything.

so far the telluride foundation (which is based in denver) has

not come out with a statement regarding the

situation. probably having a lengthy discussion

with their lawyer right at this very moment.

someone had the nerve to say that telluride has no cause

for complaint because their logo looks

similar to this matisse painting.

i thinks there is a much bigger difference between telluride and matisse

than there is between rio and telluride. and while we are on the subject

the matisse painting has probably reached the age to

where it is in the public domain, unless someone

has copyrighted it. so even if telluride had copied the

matisse (which i don't think they did) it would not count as

plagiarism do to the fact that the matisse is in the public domain.

 

here we go again

its erin brockovich vs pg&e part two.

they believed the company that the water was safe? are you serious!!! there was a major chemical leak in the ground in your town and many people got very sick from it, the company paid your city money and said they would clean it up so you go back to drinking the water? wtf?  they never thought to get the water tested by an independent source on an semiannual basis to insure that their water was okay to drink? people who don't even live where something like that has happened do that. no their just gonna go by what the company who paid them off says that their personal water is okay. i don't get it...
 if money is the issue which it shouldn't be with the size of the settlement, they can send water samples to their county extension office to get it tested for FREE! you would think someone would have looked into that a bit sooner rather than just relying on the company who poisoned them in the first place to guess whether or not their water was safe. did the company come out and test it?
and i am certainly not saying that the company here is not at fault. they knew the plume had moved further in one direction but thought it was okay because it shrank on a different side. but yet they never told the people in that direction that it had changed. and monitoring it is not anywhere near the same as attempting to clean it up. they are saying now that they are willing to test the water, if anyone solely goes by their findings they are an idiot. number 1- they should have been having every ones water within a 20 mile radius tested by an independent resource this whole time, at least twice a year. number 2- if they were ordered to clean it up, why wasn't anyone monitoring them to make sure that they did.  number three- why wasn't the epa monitoring the situation since they certainly knew there to be a problem. as long as their going for another round of lawsuits they may as well add the epa to their list of negligent companies as well.

"don't tell cause i don't want to know" said the priest

so apparently some of the clergy in the military (60 something at last count) don't agree with the military getting rid of their don't as don't tell policy. mainly the ones of the Evangelical persuasion. because they feel it is morally wrong and goes against their beliefs.
 is anyone else wondering WTH they are doing as clergy then? what happened to love thy neighbor as thy self? does that only apply to those neighbors that they believe are morally straight? 
and if they are offended by gays because it goes against the bibles teachings, what about all the other things that i am sure they participate in that also go against the bibles teachings?
such as touching the skin of a dead pig, does working on the sabbath count for football players? what about wearing clothes made out of two different cloths, there goes some parts of their uniform.
but. but, you might say most of those tenants are found in the old testament. ppffhhtt! is what i have to say about that. are ye now picking and choosing which parts of the bible to adhere to.
just admit that in this day and age some parts of it are no longer relevant, i know it's hard to do.

and another take on it could be okay you don't agree with it, fine then don't do it. judge not lest ye be judged.  

hello

i intend to lay it all out, how i really feel about the issues without worrying about offending anyone. if i offend you that is not my intention, my opinions are my own and i don't expect you to agree.

the world today is a troubling place and i feel like the common everyday people don't usually get a voice and go unheard. i finally decided enough! i will put my voice out there and if no one ever reads it at least i know that i got it out and did not keep silent.

i will post whenever i feel the need, which may be several times a day or once a week, whenever i feel the need to put my 2 cents in.

please feel free to comment even if you do not agree with what i have to say.