Friday’s Thoughts of the Day

My daughter has become the target of a local school bully. Crying, she came up to me for advice. Now, I’m a guy and we had our own ways to taking care of bullies at school we were young. After a few months, or even years of being bullied, we’d just walk up the bully and clock him out with an ambush like punch and continue to pummel him until he gave up. There might be a few skirmishes past that point, but usually the end, the bully would move off to softer targets.

My advice, and I’m not sure which is the best, is to just confront the girl and ask her why she said what she did, warn her not to say it again, and the next time there would be no warning. Just a quick ambush punch to the face and a continuation until the bully gives up.

Now, one huge caveat. This will probably take place in school. Now, I wish more than anything to be wrong, but here’s how the school administration will address the incident. The bully will walk free, and my daughter will end up paying a price for taking care of the bully. This is how schools haved addressed bullying. Schools only punish those children who feel they have no choice but to address bullies with violence as a last resort. Teachers will never address the bullies themselves. More than the wrath of the parents of the bullied, they fear the wrath of the parents of the bullies themselves.

I could contact the parents of the bully myself. But, you know how children and their parents are. The bully will say “letting your parents fight your battles?”. Or even worse from the parents themselves “My child would never bully another. He/She’s just a darling, sweet, little angel”. Right…. This actually happened with some white trash parents down the street. My daughter approached the parents of a former bully, and stated her case. To which the parent replied “Oh, just ignore him”. What? Well, my daughter did eventually do the right thing, and picked up a huge rock and chucked it towards his head. It missed, but the point was made. “This target is too tough”.

So, I hope I’m giving the best advice. As I told my daughter “What’s worse, a day’s worth of suspension, or a whole school year of being bullied“. I think the answer is quite easy.

Today on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace and former CIA director Michael Hayden discuss the torture technique memos released by the Obama administration:

WALLACE: But here, I think, is the question that some of the critics, some of the people who don’t like what was done, would say. The international standard is cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

The CIA standard is treatment that would shock the conscience. According to a report that’s out today — and maybe you can confirm this. Is it true that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month?

HAYDEN: The president has made public some aspects of the CIA interrogation program. Other aspects he has not. And these — this is one of the operational details that has not been declassified, so I’m not at liberty to talk about it.

WALLACE: Can you say honestly that waterboarding does not shock the conscience?

HAYDEN: Well, first of all, you said the CIA standard is shock the conscience. Actually, that’s not quite correct. That’s the American standard.

Funny that they worry about “shocking the conscience” in regards to the laws behind the torture of Kalid Sheik Muhammed. You would think that someone who masterminds the murder of 3000+ innocent men, women, and children doesn’t have a “conscience”.

Un-fucking-believable.

I normally start most of my posts with an objective sentence narrating the topic of the post, link an article, post a little bit quote from the article, then my thoughts and comments. This time, I don’t fucking care.

While telling the entire country, not to mention the entire world that the bill had to be passed with urgency, stating “the longer we take to pass the bill, the more there’s a chance we can’t reverse the economy”. The bill’s been passed, but our fucking shithead president has decided taking a three day vacation in Chicago is more important.

After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway.

The president plans to spend the Presidents’ Day weekend in the Windy City, and is not expected to sign the bill until Tuesday, when he travels to Denver to discuss his economic plan.

Both the House and Senate passed the bill Friday night.

The push to get the bill through before the holiday weekend was so frantic, members of Congress didn’t have a chance to read all 1,071 pages of the document before they could vote.

I’m pissed this bill even passed. I hope Specter, Snowe, and Collins quickly lose their jobs and end up as street beggars. This bill does nothing for the economy, minus the actual decent Pell grants included with the bill. All this bill does is give more government power to the democrats and will cause our bond markets to fail as the dollar loses value.

If this was so God Damned important to save the economy Obama’s bitch ass would have been there as soon as possible to sign this crap sandwich. But, the bill was never about the economy and was only about giving more power to democrats. Hence, his Chicago trip.

You know, I want some liberals to comment on my post. Explain to me why President Fuckhead thinks Chicago is more important that the Crap Sandwich bill. Comment, I dare you.

Joe Wurzelbacher, aka, “Joe the Plumber” is heading to Isreal to cover the Iraeli/Gaza conflict. He will be working as part of the PJTV network, an online video news station.

I can see why he is doing this. If you watch the nightly news, as I did yesterday, one can only conclude Israel is wantonly bombing Palestinian civilians, with death counts of up to 800 and growing. This is far from the truth. Of those 800 supposed Palestinians, how many are Hamas members? How many were of other terrorist organizations who decided to join the fight? Who is there to give us these numbers? This is where Joe will come in. He’s gone there to find the truth, and relay that back to America, unfiltered by the editors of the big mainstream medias.

I only wished I had the time and finances to do the same. The failure of the large news networks in giving us unbiased news does leave us with questions, and some of these can only be answered by going there ourselves. This is precisely why Joe has gone there. He, like many other Americans, only wants the truth. He will be blogging about this, through written and video, and will be posting these at PJTV for the world to see.

This, of course, will anger liberals and their mainstream media outlets.

Up until 1990 or so, the newspapers and nightly news sources had a monopoly on the distribution of the news. They could edit it in any fashion they chose to sway public opinion. More often than not, they would edit it to give the liberal side of the it. With the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh could finally give the other side of the news. Other conservative radio hosts soon followed. The monopoly the mainstream had was now busted as others, such as myself, tuned to radio to get a fuller picture of what was really happening out there.

With the rise of the internet, blogs started to appears. Many of these were conservative, such as Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, and they could deliver even more news that TV, newspapers, and radio could. This lead to a backlash by the mainstream networks. They knew they were threatened by this. They started to run stories denouncing bloggers as “people working in pajamas”. I even remember a news segment where a blogger was interviewed on a show such as Dateline. This blogger, I don’t remember who, ran stories about UFO’s and conspiracy theories. The mainstream attempted to frame all bloggers by this single blogger as lunatic conspiracy theorists. Thankfully, many Americans were smarter than this.

As alternative medias sources started to grow, the mainstream media sources also started to transform. The mainstream medias started taking even more liberal, leftist postions. To me, it all came to their demise on July 18th, 2008, when the “Breaking News!” was when Obama left his house to go to the airport and fly to the Middle East. Nearly every show, be it a soap opera, a day time talk show, or kids cartoon was preempted for this coverage. And coverage did not stop until he got on the plane. It was true fawning over a democrat like none had existed before. It truly exposed the mainstream medias for who they truly were.

But up until now, with the exception of Fox News, the TV market has generally not been penetrated by conservatives. Joe the Plumber has entered this realm, and this scares the mainstream medias who considered this as their territory. Instantly, the smears against him has started. Of course they’ll start. This is the first time their jobs are threatened. Here comes someone, without the “elite” training from schools like Spec Howards, whose decided to do a job that, apparently, the mainstream outlets will not do.

Happy New Years!

Cynthia McKinney ought to be glad just to be alive. The Israelis could have sunk the boat she was on, but they were gracious enough to let what they perceived as an enemy ship kept alive.

Blagoviech will nominate the next senator. Dirty Harry Reid cannot and probably will not stop this nomination. But, one must wonder what Burris paid Hot Rod Blago for this. If Reid attempts to block Burris’s nomination, this can be perceived as racist on the part of the Democrats. Link

What if Israel retaliated by sending medium sized rockets randomly into villages inside Gaza. Hamas is doing this now to Israel. Will the press call this “nagging its neighbors too?” Idiot press.

Obama is remaining very quiet about the current Gaza conflict. Is this a sign of how he’ll treat future issues against us?

I’m beat. Gotta long day ahead tomorrow of driving to New York to climb a hill. Nighty Night.

I would like to invite environmentally conscious liberals from Ann Arbor to help clear out the twelve inches of global warming that is covering my driveway and my car. They will be required to purchase their own shovels and they specifically must be made out of recycled materials. There will be no payment in money form as I will be giving them, based on their ability, substances to satisfy their needs, such as water and food.

I’m starting to get up there in terms of age. If I cannot get enough substantial volunteers, I will be forced to use my carbon spewing, gasoline guzzling snowblower.

Edit: Since I have not received any responses, I was forced to use my gas guzzling snowblower, and I loved every minute of it. I was done quickly, and was able to complete clear my street, allowing my neighbors easy access to their driveways. Sorry libs, you had your chance.

Recently, a video has surfaced where Sarah Palin was granting a pardon to a turkey while other turkeys were being processed for the market.

WASILLA, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional U.S. Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey.

But as she spoke Thursday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla, news cameras caught a worker slaughtering turkeys in the background.

There has been outcry from the mainstream media about the location and setting of where Sarah conducted her interview. Even mainstream news outlets, such as MSNBC, ran some of the most ridiculous coverage to include tickers that read “BREAKING NEWS!: TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA”. One wonders who the real turkeys are. Everyone knows that a live turkey has to go through something horrific to end up in the ovens during the holidays. And acting like this was something new and tragic by the media shows childish coverage of the governor of the great state of Alaska.

The mainstream media are really burying themselves with this type of biased coverage, and many are no longer watching them. I’ve spoke to many who say that can’t stand to watch the news anymore. The news isn’t news anymore. Just childish hit pieces against republicans and fawning coverage of Obama.

This whole incident reminds me of something that happened to me while shopping in Whole Foods. Whole Foods caters to the crowd that favors all natural, organic, non-preservative foods. You can find many liberals here. Well, I saw a few frozen dungeness crabs and made a comment that for a dollar less, I can buy live ones down the street at a local Chinese grocery store. A young girl replied that the policy of the store does sell live food as it forces the customers to become killers. It was quite laughable, seeing as how I fish quite often, and have boiled many a live crab, lobster, or crayfish. It makes me wonder if liberals are just squeamish.

Ever since the election of 2000, we’ve heard Democrats and their allies make the false claim that Bush had stole the election, despite 8 different news organizations confirming that Bush won.

Fast forward to the elections of 2008, we’re actually seeing in progress a group that is attempting to steal the elections a month before they’ve even started. This group is called ACORN, meaning, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. In the past, Obama has been supportive of their group, to include suing Citibank to force them to issue bad loans to those who just could not afford them, using the race card as their main tactic.

In the past, they have been convicted of voter fraud, and today, they are at it again.

First, they were caught in Ohio:

A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.
“You can tell them you’re registered as many times as you want - they do not care,” said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed.
“They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter,” she told The Post.

Then Texas, with 4000 fraudulent Votes:

Texas Watchdog compared Harris County’s voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches — registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.
Some of them, like Henderson Hill’s late wife Linda, voted postmortem.
“I would like to know who did it, myself,” Hill told Davis.
We don’t know who used Linda Hill’s or Gloria Guidry’s IDs to vote, but we do know if their names had been purged from voter rolls after they died, using their IDs wouldn’t have worked.
“This is a red flag. No matter where you are, this should set off alarm bells,” Seibert said. “Someone needs to take a look at this.”

And now Indiana, with the first 2100 out of 5000 submitted, all completely fraudulent:

This is Lake County, Indiana, but ACORN’s in trouble all across the country with it’s a huge voter-registration drive. Actually, 1.3 million new voters registered according to ACORN. The problem is, are they really voters? Up in Lake County, Indiana, they’re finding out they are not. Some 5,000 applications came in, all filled out by ACORN, and there they are. They went through the first 2,100 of them, every single one of them, fraudulent.

This is a travesty upon one of the most basic rights we as American cherish. The right to vote. Many men have fought and died for this, and we as American should be thankful for it. If this right to vote becomes corrupted or tainted, then as a country, we will cease to exist as we know it now.

I found this gem of a post from someone there that used to be a pollster, and is quite revealing…

I have some pretty good personal experience with polling. I worked for a polling firm in the late 80s for about a year when I was in high school.

What I consistently found was that Democrats were DYING for everyone to know what THEY thought. Republicans were by far more conservative in nature, not as willing to spew their personal beliefs and choices to a total stranger.

As a result, naturally, Democratic views showed themselves in the polls. Conversely, Republican views showed up in the voting booths. In the past 20 years I’ve seen a lot of shocked Dems after election day, from a local to a national level.

I’ve always believe that polls were always inaccurate. In 2004, polls all across the USA showed that Kerry was in the lead and was a sure shot to be the president. Then, the election actually happened. Bush won. Another tidbit from this post

Bottom line. Polls mean nothing. +/- 4% margin of error? That’s a joke. By the time you factor in everything I mentioned above, you can generally give an extra ~10ish% toward Republican, with a +/- 10% margin of error.

With most national polls showing Obama with 3-6 points ahead of McCain, using the logic above, McCain is clearly ahead. We’ll see come election day if this holds true. Tonight is the second debate, and this could sway voters, and polls in any direction.

According to an article from  The Tech Herald, scientists have created an atmosphere-saving CO2 scrubbing machine.

The proposed air capture system differs from existing carbon capture and storage technology … while CCS involves installing equipment at, say, a coal-fired power plant to capture CO2 produced during the coal-burning process, … air capture machines will be able to literally remove the CO2 present in ambient air everywhere. [The team used] … a custom-built tower to capture CO2 directly from the air while requiring less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide

I created something very similar that has proven to be highly efficient, does not create any side emissions, is very quiet in use, and hardly needed any new innovation, other than a shovel and some occasional watering. I planted a tree.