Is this guy fucking serious?

George W. Bush: ‘You have to earn your way into politics,’ nothing ‘is ever given to you’


Said the man who has never earned a goddamm thing in his life. The man who only ever got anywhere in life because of who his father was. And whose father only acheived the heights he did because of who his father was. That guy says "You have to EARN your way?" "Nothing is ever given to you? EVERYHTING YOU'VE EVER HAD HAS BEEN HANDED TO YOU ON A SILVER PLATTER!!!

How does this guy get the balls to say something like that?

Or this?

George W Bush: ‘No Regrets’ over Decision to Invade Iraq

How? How can you have no regrets? How many thousands of deaths would it take for you to have at least some regret? Are you just a total sociopath?  How does seeing something like this

not fill you with regret, remorse,  sorrow, guilt, something? Anything?

How is it possible that, to put the best construction on it, a "mistake" you made led to thousands of deaths, thousands of maimings, created thousands of widows and orphans and you have zero regrets? Even if you're actually stupid enough to have thought you were making the right dsecision, how do you not regret having been wrong? 

“I think it was the right decision,” Bush said. “My regret is that a violent group of people has risen up again. This is al Qaeda plus. I put in the book that they need to be defeated. And I hope they are. I hope the strategy works.”

But, but, but. . . but clearly it was NOT the right decision. How are you the only person who doesn't see this? Iraq went form having zero al Quedas to having "al Queda-plus" and you still can sit there saying you think it was the right decision?

This guy just has no conscience.

Flashback Friday - The Untouchables

Remember the Untouchables?

Or were they only popular in L.A.?

Probably best remembered as the scooter gang in the movie "Repo Man,"  but they had a string of pretty good songs in the early 80's.
 
Please enjoy.

Election WTF's

Gawd, this fucking election!

 

 I really don't even want to think about it, but what the hell else am I gonna write about?

Here's a few WTF's from the 2014 midterms.

 First of all, WTF, Arkansas?

You vote to raise the minimum wage. Okay, that's good. but you raise it to $7.50 an hour? You know the current federal minimum wage is $7.25, right? I mean, I know your state minimum wage was $6.25/hr, so it probably seems like you're getting a $1.00 per hour raise, but you aren't because the Federal wage supercedes your state wage, so you went through all the time and trouble of gettingthis initiative onto the ballot and passed for a lousy 25 cents an hour? WTF?

Also, you vote to increase the minimum wage, then elect a Senator who opposes raising it? How does that logic work? How is it that you can step into the polling booth, say "YES" to an increase in the minimum wage and then think "I'm gonna vote for this fucking teebagger scumbag who will make sure that people in other states don't get any increase?"




And WTF, Iowa?

Joni Ernst? Are you fucking serious with this shit? We always thought of you as a sort of moderate-conservative-not-insane kind of a state, but when you elect the next Michele Bachmann, I guess we have to reassess your standing. I mean,you want to elect a far-right Republican? That's your business, but my God, this woman is a lunatic!



This is a woman who thinks that global warming is fake and Agenda 21 is real.

This is a woman who thinks that not only can states 'nullify" and Federal laws they don't like, but that local police can arrest anyone who does try to enforce Federal law.

This is a woman who thinks that she might have to defend herself against the United States government with a gun she keeps in her fucking purse!

 

 What ya got there, lady, a .38? Good luck with that!

 Seriously, Iowa. WTF?

Also, WTF, Wisconsin?

Thousands of you will show up at the capitol to protest Scott Walker, but you won't show up at the polls to vote him out?

 

You hate this smug son of a bitch, remember?  I mean, we all hate him, but you actually had the chance to do something about him. Remember this?
 

What happened to this? Where did all these people go? Not to the polls, apparently.

WTF, Wisconsin?



And WTF, MSNBC?

I managed to watch about 10 minutes of your election night coverage before Chris Matthews made my head explode. First, he said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that both candidates in North Carolina had some negatives. Hagan was seen as being too close to Barack Obama and Tillis "destroyed their education system." WTF?!?! How do you drop those two facts next to each other as though they were anywhere close to equivalent?

 

Dude, that's like, my bit!

Then he took a little jab at FOX, which was totally appropriate, but immediately backpedaled saying "no, they're a great network." No, Chris, they are not. You were right the first time, don't apologize. 

Then he said that right-wing nutjob governor John Kasich was a great guy and a good friend. 

 

How does being good friends with John Kasich not disqualify you at least from covering Ohio? How are you not required, whenever the Ohio governor's race comes up, to recuse yourself and leave the room? 

How does MSNBC continue to employ this twit? 

WTF?

 

Bad Ads - Cell Phones

Who is the target market for this ad?





These are a bunch of grown-ass women screaming like teenyboppers who just saw the Beatles, and they're screaming about a phone that literally anyone can obtain? Nobody got this excited when the first mobile phone was invented, and that was a way bigger deal than a new, slightly different version of an existing phone.

How do they expect anyone to sit through this ad to the end?  It's ear-shattering. It actually hurts to watch this ad. I have no idea what the deal is being offered because I've never seen the entire thing. How can this possibly be an effective ad?

Although at least it isn't as depressing as this one:






I don't get how this is supposed to encourage anyone to trade in their old phone. Because , is it just me, or do you feel really sorry for the old phone? My God, the desperation in that phone's mechanical voice is just palpable. The poor thing just seems terrified at the prospect of being deserted, yet the desertion process just grinds steadily along. This is more heartbreaking than the end of Shane.

  

How could anyone watch this ad and not pick up their phone, cradle it to their bosom and gently whisper, "don't worry Siri, I'd never trade you in?"

Millenials: Cheap or just not stupid?

So I saw this headline the other day:

September 2012

The Cheapest Generation

Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy

Are they, though? Are the really cheap? Or are they just not blind? They can see the world we've left them. They can see that the odds are stacked against them.

First of all, who can afford to buy a house anymore? Let alone anyone under 30?

 

Exception noted. 

 

Prices of houses and cars have both outpaced inflation by a wide margin. And wages have absolutely not kept up. And that's if these young people can find jobs at all.

And even those young people who do have decent jobs are saddled with student loans that they may never pay off. How could we expect them to save up to buy a house under that onus?

And all they have to do is look around at what working in America has become. If you work for any decent-sized company, there is, right now, as we speak, someone in the home office getting paid to figure out ways to eliminate your job.

Have you considered enslaving children?

You have a job in a factory? They'll shut it down and move it to China or someplace with even worse labor laws like Mississippi.  You have a tech job? They'll send it to India. You work with numbers? It's only a matter of time until they get a computer program that does what you do.

Why would you buy a house under those conditions? Why would you make that kind of investment knowing that the whole concept of a life-long job is obsolete. You may be doing well today, tomorrow you might be moving out-of-state to find work. And when you do find it, that job will likely disappear at some point and the whole cycle starts again.


The millenials are not stupid, even though they were raised on the Disney Channel believing that the Jonas Brothers were a rock and roll band and that High School Musical was a legitimate form of entertainment. They know perfectly well what happened to the last generation when they invested in houses.



Let's see. . .  people did what they thought was the prudent thing and invested their money in houses. Then the banks fucked up the economy, those people lost their houses, the bank took them back and auctioned them off, leaving the previous owners with nothing to show for all the hard-earned money they'd sunk into these homes. And we wonder why their kids aren't anxious to follow that same path?