After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders

I wonder if he going to stop taking campaign contributions from them also?

Are we the next Greek tragedy?

"The research found that 178,000 Minnesotans who are eligible for food stamps aren't getting the $172 million they are entitled to."

http://www.startribune.com/local/94879864.html

I would like to think that something you are entitled to would be something that you earned.

For Timmy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W57aBMYKvU

Maximium of thirty years?

How about a minimum of thirty years with maximum of a bullet in his head?

http://www.startribune.com/local/92117214.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl


Wis. man admits booze-and-sex hookups with girls, 13 and 14, in Minn.
A 28-year-old Wisconsin man admitted Monday that he used the Internet and booze to coerce two northern Minnesota girls, ages 13 and 14, into having sex with him.
Gabriel V. Matthias, of Madison, pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul to traveling out of state with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with the two girls.
Matthias also admitted that he traveled from Madison to Roseville, Mich., seeking to have sex with a girl under age 18.
According to an FBI affidavit:
One of the Minnesota girls told authorities that Matthias, formerly known as Benjamin Wayne Gill, had traveled from California to Minnesota to see her. The girls met Matthias on the Internet in 2008.
On Feb. 16, 2009, Matthias picked up the 13-year-old girl, provided her with alcohol, took her to a Bemidji motel room and had sex with her. The two then left the motel to pick up the 14-year-old girl. Matthias gave both girls alcohol and drove them back to the motel. They attempted to enter through a back entry but were scared off by a security guard.
Matthias took the 13-year-old girl home. Then, while driving the 14-year-old home, he had sex with her. On April 23, 2009, Matthias sent text messages to the 14-year-old girl and again enticed her into having sex.
He was arrested May 1 in Madison and extradited to Minnesota.
Sentencing has yet to be scheduled. The maximum penalty is 30 years in prison.

Budget cuts

Next time you read about government workers bitching about not getting a raise, or budget cuts remember this article.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/26/MNC51CLUBN.DTL&tsp=1&nopu=1

Maybe we should stop governement workers from unionizing, I wish I could effectively get to vote for my raise everyear which is what happens when a large block of voters do when promised something from somone.

Three Things to Ponder

1.Cows

2.The Consitution

3. The Ten Commandments

Cows:Is it just me or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a single cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow..

The Consitution:They keep talking about drafting the Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked over 200 years, and we're obviously not using it anymore..

The Ten Commandments:The real reason that we cant have the Ten commandments posted in a court house is this; You cannot post "thou shalt not steal," 'thou shalt not commit adultery," and "thou shalt not lie," in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicans. It creates hostile work enviroment.

We all get to pay for others vacations oops sorry "learning"

http://www.arts.state.mn.us/grants/2009/09_aa_ai.htm

Thanks to all of you that voted for the legacy amendment now maybe we can expand the vaction packages of "artists and entertainers".

I didn't here the bastards complaining that the 5.8% increase was too generous

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A measure to give some 57 million elderly people, veterans and persons with disabilities a $250 check was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, a setback for the powerful seniors' lobby.
President Barack Obama has called for Congress to approve the payments to make up for their benefits not increasing this year, but the Senate defeated it 50 to 47.
The payments would have added $13 billion to a $108 billion job-creation package pending in the Senate.
Congress approved payments last year as part of the $862 billion stimulus package.
Social Security payments for the elderly and disabled will stay flat this year for the first time since 1975 because they are tied to consumer prices, which decreased amid the worst economic recession in 70 years.
That follows a year in which payments rose by 5.8 percent, largely due to a spike in gasoline prices.
"It is wrong to turn our backs on seniors in this moment of economic difficulty," said Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who sponsored the amendment.
But Republican Senator Judd Gregg pointed out that the bill would defeat the purpose of indexing Social Security payments to inflation.
"The law says it shouldn't be given," Gregg said.
At least 10 Democrats agreed with Gregg and joined 40 Republicans to defeat the proposal.

Nick Gillespie owns blondie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAlUT7vbfmU&feature=player_embedded

Time to pay the Qwest DSL bill

A little backgrond, my dad worked for Qwest for 36 years. I figure his employment put me through college so I have a little loyalty. I even went so far as to have my payment pulled out of my checking account using the account/routing numbers to save them the credit card fee...

Anyhow this month I go to pay my Qwest bill because I like to have control over when I pay that way if there is something I don't like about the bill, it is easier to not pay it than try to get them to credit your accout back. I go to pay my bill the same way I always have and guess what pops up? We are now charging a $1 convenience fee unless you want to setup auto pay or pay by check. Who the hell do these clowns think they are making it convenient for? I gurantee that if everyone started paying by check it would cost Qwest way more than a dollar to process it compared to my electronic payment.

Maybe I'll let it stew a little while or maybe I'll bundle and save with Comcast.

Assholes

How dare they invest in business?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100218/pl_bloomberg/ahzu17yy1hva

Almost three-quarters of the highest earners’ income was in capital gains and dividends taxed at a 15 percent rate set as part of Bush-backed tax cuts in 2003, the statistics show. Of the 400 earners, 289 paid a total effective federal tax rate of 20 percent or less in 2007, the last year for which figures were available, the data show.

Lets tax the people that are investing in business in this country. Redistritbute it and piss our future down the drain. I challenge the rich to pull all of their money out of muni bonds, US stock and bonds, and put the money into some type of asset that isn't beneficial to America. Liberals just don't get it, what do they think the rich are doing with the capital gains? A. Putting it under their matress. B. Maybe investing it back into the economy?

Remember kids every government job that is created eliminates a private sector job. The government pays that person around 60k a year with benefits. The taxes to pay for that have to come from somewhere.

Dumbshits

If the governor tells you he is going to veto a bonding bill if it has some expenditure he doesn't like and you tell him he is out of touch your a dumbass. Why not leave the fucking thing out of the bonding bill?

Just like the end of session last year here in Minnesota. He told you no tax increases, what did you dipshits do? You put the tax increases in and he vetoed it.

Unions, Corporations, and free speech

Becker is a National Labor Relations Board nominee who is seen by critics as too pro-labor. His nomination is incredibly important to Democrats' labor union base, which has spent in excess of $300 million to elect Democrats over the past several years.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/brown_surprise_seat_me_now.php

We don't want campaign contributions from special interest groups like unions oops slip of the tongue corporations. There is no difference in the two.

Still, Brown's team insisted that Feb 11. was the target date -- on Tuesday. Democrats said the sudden change of heart had the hallmarks of a Republican plot. But they insisted that there was nothing they could do.

A Republican plot or a Democrat plot? Maybe we can jam more shit down the peoples throats before the Republicans can filibuster.

Joe Klein Time Magazine

And therein lies the crisis of democracy that our country faces: a moderate-liberal President, willing to make judicious compromises, confronted by a Republican Party paralyzed by cynicism and hypocrisy, undergirded by inchoate ideological fervor.

And Pat Robertson is a moderate-conservative.

Since when is a socialism considered moderate?

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
The area this occupies is just shy of 5 acres, with one hundred bills stacked 6 feet in height.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.

Start off new year with some pet peeves

1. People that drive slow/won't get over in the left lane.
2. Assholes at the grocery store who stop their carts parallel to other carts so I can't get my cart by.
3. People that stop and gawk in flowing aisles in stores.
4. People that lick their fingers to get sauces off of them, thanks for spreading your germs to me asshole. Ever heard of a fucking napkin?
5. People that get on a elevator and decide it is a good time to make a phone call.
6. People that talk on their cell phones while checking out/ordering food.
7. Having to pay for other peoples shit through taxes.
8. Automated menus especially when you pick the right path and it still doesn't give you the right God damned destination. When I have to call your company like five-ten times a tax season why don't you give a automated tree to look at so I could just start mashing on numbers on my phone when I call in so I don't have to wait for you to say with help with .... stick your fucking dildo in my ass.

to be continued...

I could have told you it woudn't work

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091016/hl_hsn/sodataxesnotmakingadentinuswaistlines

I would argue that it never really was about the reducing obesity rates. It is just another tax source for these assholes in office. All it does is screw low income people. Just wait for the fast-food/junk food tax that we will all eventually be paying. You can't compel people to lose weight by taxing the food they eat unless you want to raise it high enough that they cannot afford the food and let them starve. You want to see some results give people incentives to get off of their fat asses and get involved some type of physical activity.

So much for campaign promises not to tax middle class

http://www.aei.org/article/101152

I encourage you all who have insurance especially union members to call and complain. Even if your plan isn't currently excise taxable they are only increasing the excise threshold 1% a year with rates going up way over 1% a year it won't be long until you are hit also.

You get what you vote for.

Thought on our latest Nobel Prize winner.

They voted for this on his 11th day in office? For the love of God could this of not of waited three years or is the hardon the rest of the world/media ever going to end?

"He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said. "Some people say, and I understand it, isn't it premature? Too early? Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond — all of us."

So what your saying is that if he does nothing in the next three years that he might not deserve it in three years let alone now?

I fucking quit.

update

Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, who the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former army Medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan — a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress.

All I can say is wow.

You wonder why I have disdain for the government

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/63818682.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

Where does common sense come into the equation? Frickin nanny state/nanny city.

Hey you sheep get what you vote for.

Thought on cash for clunkers

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Cash for Clunkers, the very successful federal program that has brought car buyers back to showrooms, is about to reach a very rough end of the road.

1. It is good to see giving away other peoples money is such a success. Where did we get the money from? That's right our friends the Saudis and Chinese.

2. These were perfectly good cars what are low income people supposed to drive now that these vehicles are headed for the heap.

3. Some of these cars only need 2 MPH better gas mileage. How is that considered green? When you figure in the amount of energy it took to mine the ore, transport oil for plastic parts etc... how much do you really think was saved?

4. What are about the muffler shops that put mufflers on these "clunkers"? Is it ok that we maybe putting them out of business?

5. Since these cars are being scrapped without stripping the parts, how is that green? Wouldn't it be better on mother earth if these parts had been recycled?

I guess that it is better to prop up one segment of the auto industry to detriment of the rest of industry including used car lots.

WTF?

“If there’s a problem and it turns out that there’s been a fraud … that someone has changed sex, then obviously it would be much easier to strip results,” Davies added. “However, if it’s a natural thing and the athlete has always thought she’s a woman or been a woman, it’s not exactly cheating.”

I'm with you on point that is she's always been a woman cool. If she thought she's a woman? Huh? Maybe some 75th ranked male golfer should come and say he believes he has always been a woman and dominate the LPGA. The only way I agree with the thought she is a woman situation is if the person was a hermaphrodite.

Howard how could you say this with a straight face?

"Dean urged the Obama administration to stand by statements made early on in the debate in which it steadfastly insisted that such a public option was indispensable to genuine change, saying that Medicare and the Veterans Administration are "two very good programs that have been around for a long time.""

Apparently he has never been treated by the VA I think they kill more people than the war in Iraq. A friend of the family they neglected to tell him to wear compression socks after surgery... oops sorry dead.

I want government telling me how to raise my summer kids

Some maybe here some maybe there. If I had kids. I quit. I am not going to have a dollar left to my name eventually. Thank you Chuck Norris.

http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare?page=full

Isn't paid volunteer a oxymoron

Man these a-holes will do anything to push this piece of crap through.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-healthcare-reform.html

Couldn't of put it any better myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJz81lAwY0M&NR=1

Why?

Why is this piece of shit getting a jail sentence? I wish they would put him in the general population and let the system take care of him. He deserves to be shot.

http://www.startribune.com/local/51024037.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUl

New Insurance Plans

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

I would urge those of us in the middle class that have employer provided insurance to contact their legislator and tell them no to this bill. What we will end up having in this country is a two-tiered system. The really rich(including the politicians) will be able to afford a insurance rider and the rest of us will be stuck letting the government decide how much treatment we are able to receive. You think HMO's are bad wait for this crap.

Income tax hike by a different name

Climate bill to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_bill_cost

is still a income tax increase. Nice thing is they will provide credits to people who are not currently paying into the system. You get what you vote for.

More government giveaways

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203897.html?g=0

FEMA typically provides disaster aid for 18 months. It extended assistance for 45 months since Katrina hit in August 2005.

About 1,150 families in FEMA housing live in units the agency classifies as mobile homes and park models, which will be offered for sale at $5 and $1, respectively. FEMA expects to free up an additional 600 to 700 units from its inventory to donate through state and local governments and nonprofit groups, the administration official said. Individuals who previously bought units will be offered refunds.

A. Sounds like a good way to buy more votes.

B. You've had four fricken years to get off your asses and do for yourself. Teach a man to fish... fuck it just give them the God damned fish.

One giant step closer to socialism.

Sweet now we all own part of a motor company.

I've tried this product and you need to be high to drink it.

FRANKFURT -- Energy-drink maker Red Bull GmbH's push into cola sales is facing its first major setback in Germany, where local lawmakers began pulling Red Bull Simply Cola off shelves after a study found the drink contains trace elements of cocaine.

I prefer to work until I'm dead

to support irresponsible (to say the least) people. I think I've found Octomom's soul mate.

http://wcco.com/video/?id=103746@kcbs.dayport.com

The High Cost of Poverty: Why Poor Pay More

Full Article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html?g=0

"The poor pay more for a gallon of milk; they pay more on a capital basis for inferior housing," says Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
That is assuming they pay for their housing in first place?

"The poor and 100 million who are struggling for the middle class actually end up paying more for transportation, for housing, for health care, for mortgages. They get steered to subprime lending. . . . The poor pay more for things middle-class America takes for granted."
Wow! How about that is what their sorry asses qualified for. Last time I checked home ownership wasn't a right.

You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar.
Food stamps? - once again they aren't paying a extra dollar, the taxpayers are.

"When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine and then taking your morning jog while it cycles. You wait until Monday afternoon, when the laundromat is most likely to be empty, and you put all of that laundry from four kids into four heaps, bundle it in sheets, load a cart and drag it to the corner. "
If you are so poor, why are they having a kid let alone four? No self responsibility.

"If I had my choice, I would have a washer and a dryer," says Nya Oti, 37, a food-service worker who lives in Brightwood.
Again, what choices in your life led you to a career in food-service? If the work is temporary(such as layoff) I feel sorry for her, if not it is a choice she made.

She(Oti) buys bags of oranges or apples, but not the organic kind. "Organic is too much," she says.
I don't buy organic either, the crap is overpriced and the way I see it we are all going to die of something. I get a bad feeling that soon organic food will also be "right" in this country.

Randy Albelda, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "You have to work a lot of hours and still not make a lot of money. You get squeezed, and your money is squeezed."
There is a reason people are working a lot of hours for low pay. I think I touched on it in reference to the job skills required to work food service.

The poor pay more in hassle: the calls from the bill collectors, the landlord, the utility company. So they spend money to avoid the hassle. The poor pay for caller identification because it gives them peace of mind to weed out calls from bill collectors.
Newsflash if you actually paid you bills you probably wouldn't be getting collection calls. I bet they can still afford their cigarettes though.

The rich have direct deposit for their paychecks. The poor have check-cashing and payday loan joints, which cost time and money. Payday advance companies say they are providing an essential service to people who most need them. Their critics say they are preying on people who are the most "economically vulnerable." In simple terms, the company is charging a $15.50 fee for every $100 that you borrow. On your $300 payday loan -- borrowed for a term of seven days -- the effective annual percentage rate is 806 percent.
I don't get it. Is someone putting a gun to their heads and making them cash the checks or get a loan at these places?

"As you've seen with the financial services industry, if people can cut a profit, they do it," Blumenauer says. "The poor pay more for financial services. A lot of people who are 'unbanked' pay $3 for a money order to pay their electric bill. They pay a 2 percent check-cashing fee because they don't have bank services. The reasons? Part of it is lack of education.
Whose is at fault for their lack of education? In my book you've got no one to look at but yourself.

All these costs can lead the poor to a collective depression.
Kind of sounds like an excuse to me.

"The cheaper housing is in more-dangerous areas," says Reed,
So is the cheaper housing causing the area to be dangerous, or is it the residents of said area what is making it dangerous?

"People working who don't make a lot of money go to the system for help, and they deny them," Nicholas says. "They say I make too much. It almost helps if you don't work."
Maybe our country should put a limit on the time people allowed to be on system so we don't give them a incentive to not work.

What could you accomplish with the lost 20 minutes standing there in the rain? Waiting. That's another cost of poverty. You wait in lines. You wait at bus stops. You wait on the bus as it makes it way up Georgia Avenue, hitting every stop. No sense in trying to hurry when you are poor
Again maybe people need to be made aware about the choices they make in life and how it affects them.

Deserving of a slow painful death

Blind 4-year-old tells police: 'Daddy ate my eyes'

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_12403346

I don't know what you do to this asshole. I say get him good and high, so he doesn't know where he is going then take him to death valley, tie him to some rocks, place steaks all over his body, and let the fucking buzzards eat him. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read.

We can't afford the shit we currently fund so lets start another

http://www.startribune.com/nation/44847797.html?elr=KArksUUUU
The report, issued Tuesday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms for help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul

Obama's plan to provide coverage to some 50 million uninsured Americans is the cornerstone of his promise to enact a larger overhaul of the health care system. Independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

Seriously how are we going to pay for this shit? Let's just tax the rich, those fuckers can afford it. Wait even if we tax them 100% we aren't going to be able to pay for all of this. No tax raises on people earning less than $250,000 my ass.

Government Waste

I ordered a item from a store in Minesota to be delivered to me in Minnesota. Here is the USPS tracking for my package thus far.

Associated Label/Receipt: Detailed Results:
Processed, May 07, 2009, 4:42 pm, WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95799
Processed, May 05, 2009, 5:42 pm, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401
Electronic Shipping Info Received, May 05, 2009

Maybe they ought to next route it through the US geological base station on Antartica. WTF?

Natural selection at its best

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/44568447.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

So when the Vitamin C and Ginseng doesn't work, please don't even think about coming back to chemo and radiation. He's a medicine man maybe he can smoke some peyote and run with the coyote. I am all for the parents choosing the course they want for their son. Once it is made by golly they need to have the courage to stick with their convictions.