Spending money like crazy…

Celebrity-turned-President Barrack Obama just spent more money to lower the interest rates (slightly) for people who were dumb enough to get a mortguage they could never pay back then we spent on World War One. Twice as much money in fact.
And 40% of those it is trying to help would still not be able to afford their house if their interest rate was 2%… so how much you think this will help? And how much is it a token attempt to look like he cares?

Hero Update: Jose Torres

So I told you about Jose F. Torres, the Mexican-American soccer player who plays professionally in Mexico but decided to represent the US nationally.  Well tonight’s the big US-Mexico game and JFT will be wearing the USA colors.  If you don’t know, in international soccer you can only ever play for one country, so if you’re from a mixed heritage like JFT that means making a big decision.  JFT plays for one of the poudest and most successful Mexican teams, so chosing to represent Mexico’s biggest rival is a big deal.  Basically, it took balls to do this.  He may well be hated by his home fans.  I would make a comparison with some other sport but honestly, there just isn’t another sport where this matters this much.  Perhaps, I could point out that weak-ass steroid user A-Rod was such a big pansy and didn’t want to offend Yankee fans (or his corperate sponsors/owners) that he didn’t represent his native nation (which he claimed to love but then again he claimed not to use steroids or sleep with Madonna also so who knows?) and instead represented the US in the World Baseball Classic.  Of course unlike the WBC, people actually care about international soccer so that’s a lame comparison.

In the end, JFT is one courageous guy.  A guy willing to risk his career to represent his country.

StudentLoanJusticeExposed closed?

 Damn, looks like two of my favorite webpages are gone!  First I find out t-shirt hell is going out of business and now I’m getting posts that studentloanjusticeexposed.com is gone. 

 For all of you writing/posting/emailing me about that page, I don’t know anything about why it’s gone.  I only know the creator from that page from her posts on here about a year ago.  She used to post under the name Gradgirl here (or was there a number behind “gradgirl”?) and we exchanged emails maybe twice after she created the page and asked me if she could reprint what I wrote on it… which of course I did.

If I had to guess, I’d say she basically got tired of the concept.  See, Alan hasn’t really put anything new out there so once you’ve responded to his general mindset it’s pretty much over.  I know the student loan justice types were threatening her with slander and libel charges (only one of which could possibly apply to the written word–I’ll let you figure that out), but as I told her, Alan’s fair game as he is a public figure (by his own making of course but that doesn’t matter). So I doubt she got sued or anything. It’s a free country (still, barely) so Alan can say what he wants and raise money as the special interest group he fronts to try to change policy just as gradgirl and I are free to belittle his ideas.  I wouldn’t want it any other way.  At least Alan took the time to organize something to spread his ideas and gradgirl took the time to point out the errors in his beliefs.  I’m not as impressed with the people who made comments like “you suck and I bet you’re rich and/or you work for the student loan companies” but at least they shared their opinion. In the end,  I bet she (gradgirl/studentloanjusticeexposed.org) just felt she had said all it really takes to respond to Alan and his work.  And really, once the arguement has been had it’s probably best to just let it be done.  Now don’t get me wrong, if I see Alan with some new ideas I disagree with I’ll respond, but for now it’s all been said.  We argue, you decide.

T-shirt Hell Going out of business…

T-shirt hell.com is going out of business. This is a shame. However, a disgruntled soon to be former employee wrote the following which is classic. I love how he roasts the liberal-elitist feel-good crowd who think Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert are somehow funny and godlike:

(In response to a select group of assholes and their self righteous reaction to us going out of business)

I would like to say something to all the idiots who think we’ve poisoned society. And I’m not talking about the religious nuts or the militant [whining minority here]. I’m talking about this new wave of douches comprised primarily of twenty- and thirty- something white people who feel like they have to defend the little guy, despite the fact that in 2009 the little guy no longer exists, and if he does he isn’t even aware there’s a fight going on.

The obvious response to these people would be to say they have no sense of humor, basically because it’s the truth. But too many people think sense of humor means what you do and don’t laugh at. If you look up the definition that may be what it is. But to me sense of humor means you don’t take things so seriously. It doesn’t mean you laugh at what’s funny and don’t laugh at what isn’t. It means you don’t get pissed about what is clearly a joke.

All these damn hip people pretend to love satire as long as said satire is in agreement with views they already hold. “Yay! They’re subtly pointing out problems with government and corporations. That is brilliant satire.” But if someone delivers a bit of satire that attacks instead of defends their beliefs, well that’s just pandering and juvenile.

If I write something pointing out the positives of corporations, (and they do have a LOT of positives) it would be dismissed immediately as the work of an immature douchebag. It wouldn’t matter how logical and well-presented it was. Because it doesn’t agree with their already held belief of “corporations bad” it would just be wrong.

It’s all well and good to laugh at Stephen Colbert because he winks at the camera. “You see, it’s okay that he made a racist joke because he gave me a sly smirk and let me know he was kidding.” I like him and appreciate his work, but I say fuck that.

I will look you in the eye and use “Nigger” as a punchline because anyone with a goddamn brain should know I’m kidding. I’m not going to be a pussy and end every sentence with “j/k” or allude to the fact that I’m the asshole in a scenario just because modern comedy has been neutered. I have no desire to cater to the techno-savvy, utterly useless generation currently drowning in irony.

“Irony” has come to define comedy for this group of cubicle-dwelling slackers who think the only valid form of comedy must be slathered in snarkiness and must point out that rich white people are assholes. Powerful insight, hipster. You’re so goddamn busy being original you failed to notice you’re about the least original thing left on the planet.

I’m also not going to censor myself just because a lot of people in this world are ignorant assholes who miss the point. There’s no shortage of racists and/or wife-beaters in the world. You really think some retarded gag I thought of in a pot-fueled stupor is “empowering” these dicks? Rick from Meineke was going to hit Sheila tonight because he’s a miserable sack of shit, not because we make a reference to a fat bitch on some strands of cotton. He’s not going to look at T-Shirt Hell and go “The shirt makes a good point. Here comes the thunder, Sheila!”

A joke, on a shirt or otherwise, has never hurt anyone. You can call that an old argument and you’d be right, but the only reason that argument has gotten old is because you emotionally coddled cunts keep presenting it. The rest of us are content to just laugh at shit and keep to ourselves.

In fact, if a joke has ever gotten anyone hurt, it would be the person delivering the joke. As in, the guy wearing one of these “abhorrent” shirts might possibly get his ass kicked as a result. If that’s the case, the guy you call the narrow-minded piece of trash is the one having harm inflicted upon him, and probably at the hands of the guy you felt needed defending in the first place.

I suppose it doesn’t really matter what I say, because the people I’m talking about here will not give my side of the argument any regard. Kind of ironic, considering many of them present themselves as pillars of open-mindedness. They can use illogical thinking to make any argument they want. In this instance they chose to complain about T-shirts, but they could just as easily have written to General Mills and complained that the goddamn Cocoa Puffs bird reinforces stereotypes.

I’m talking about the kind of people who will no doubt find contradictions in this very article, because they don’t listen to people they disagree with so they can learn from or hear the other side. They only listen to people they disagree with waiting for an opportunity to prove them wrong. The same kind of people who watch FOX News ironically.

I hate Bill O’Reilly as much as anyone who doesn’t eat paste, but if and when I watch his show (when my remote and legs are broken) I will attempt to get his point of view. I’m not going to watch it just so I can roll my eyes and feel smarter than a windbag with millions of dollars. “O’Reilly is such a tool. I’m gonna go listen to the Decemberists now.”

These dicks call us racist, sexist and homophobic at the drop of a hat, all in an effort to convince themselves and others they are enlightened, but the truth is that they are, at best, oversensitive, or, at worst, insincere tools who just want to make others feel bad for enjoying something.

To me at least, racism, sexism and all the other -isms are defined by actions, not by thoughts or jokes. If I put some joke on a shirt about hunting Jews with a crossbow, it’s not the new Holocaust. It’s a fucking joke. Maybe it’s funny and maybe it’s not, but beyond that it’s nothing.

You think there are one million potential Nazis out there just waiting for one retarded pun to pull the whole thing together? “We have so much hate for Jews, but we’re so disorganized. If we only had one funny shirt to get us really organiz- Well well well… What’s this? A rabbi getting shoved in a meat grinder on a T-shirt? Let’s go get ‘em, boys!”

Forgive the analogy, but the twats who label you as uneducated or misogynistic because you had the audacity to chuckle at a retarded joke are basically the adult version of the emo kid who tries to make well-adjusted kids feel inferior because they play football instead of brooding. Fortunately emos and fags who complain about shirts have the internet to convene and strengthen each other’s douchiness.

Aside from the people who deride us as a cancer on society, there are also the people who simply refer to us as immature and lowest common denominator. To those people I would just like to say: No fucking shit. You call what we do juvenile? The company that makes shirts about midgets and shaving your balls is childish? As long as you’re tossing out these keen observations, why don’t you point out that Fat Albert is fat and black and Albert? Hey, there’s two guys 69ing each other with vibrators shoved in their asses. Could you tell me if they’re gay? I just can’t fucking tell.

Anyone who complains about any business is just deluding themselves that they’re affecting or influencing a company’s product or business practices. You’re pathetic. You’re not an agent of change. You’re just another prick wasting your life, only you don’t even have the good sense to do it with drugs, alcohol and anonymous sex. You choose to do it with your cuntish whining and morally superior brow beating.

You people are nothing more than your very own grandparents complaining about Elvis Presley’s shaking hips. He was supposed to end society, but society went on. Then came your parents, and David Bowie and Martin Scorsese were supposed to ruin society. Society went on. Well now it’s your turn, and what are you people complaining about? Cartoons and T-shirts.

You convince yourselves the type of entertainment we provide can undo social progress because you want to believe entertainment can provide social progress. The truth is it can’t do either. Minorities gained rights because a bunch of politicians passed laws, not because Bob Dylan wrote some pretty songs.

But this is all just a lot of bluster once you realize I’m talking about fucking entertainment. You can take all the references to social commentary, satire and irony and shove them up your ass. This is all just something to be either enjoyed or glanced at and forgotten. We’re not making the world a worse place and Jon Stewart isn’t making the world a better place. We’re all just a bunch of people saying stuff and either you like it or you don’t.

Feel free to say we suck, but you don’t need to quote civil rights leaders and hypothesize for ten paragraphs to justify your opinion of some fucking shirts. Just say “Fucking lame” and move on. When you go on a 500-word diatribe about the social relevance of our shirts you are doing two things.

1) Placing way too much importance on a bunch of shirts that, despite the handful of shirts people single out as “over the line,” are essentially a lot of jokes about fucking and drinking.

And 2) You are discussing the importance of that shirt, thus validating the existence of that shirt as a source of social debate, indirectly giving merit to us keeping that shirt on the site.

So, again, to all you douches who want to do away with everything “poisoning” society, your best bet is to greet it with indifference. When you conjure up this phony passion in defense of the beleaguered and put upon, over a bunch of JOKES, you’re just being the douche the rest of us enjoy laughing at.

Oh, you can tell yourself you’re different than the crazy religious lady or the angry black lady because you’re more educated or intellectual, but just like them, you are complaining about a bunch of shirts. But at least those aforementioned crazy people are sincere. You people, on the other hand, are so insincere you don’t even qualify as the twats you strive to be.

But despite all of your faults, I’m glad you people are out there complaining. Because long after I’ve killed the creative part of my brain with drugs and alcohol and we stop producing funny shirts, at least our fans will always have you people to laugh at. Tirade over. Go eat a rotting snatch.

Dems faked “Kill Him” story with Media’s Help

  It’s official, the “kill him” chants at a Palin rally were lies.  http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

Here’s the story, some columnist claimed that a man in the crowd yelled “kill him” about Obama at a Palin rally last Tuesday.  Media sources reported this Wednesday but there was no audio of it (despite the whole rally being videotaped).  That didn’t stop the press from running with the story.   But last Thursday some internet and Republican sources started questioning the truthfullness of this account.  So what happened?  By Friday a man at a McCain rally yelled “kill him” and “terrorist” after a line about Obama and Ayers…

The Dems had a plant in the crowd so they could get the audio they wanted… then they ran wild with it, and had hack politicians and pundits claim that McCain and Palin were stoking racism someone by pointing out that Obama was friends with a terrorist and they didn’t even mention the terrorist was white–

Two major points…

ONE: The Dems took the fake story and made it real to score points.

Two: Notice how the Dems are so used to claiming any link to a bad person is racism (see the connection between Obama and his advisor/money launderer Harold Raines who ran Fannie Mae into the ground with the help of the Congressional Black Caucus) that they didnt’ even bother to change their story when it involved a white terrorist!!!

New Hero: Jose Torres

American born soccer player Jose Torres has announced he will honor his birthcountry by playing international soccer for the United States.  Torres’ father is from Mexico, and Torres has played professionally in Mexico for years.  He was able to play for either nation, and he decided to go with the USA.  As opposed to players like Rossi who spurned their homeland to play for their father’s homeland… Torres has reminded us that while America is a nation of immigrants, it is a nation worth representing with your life.

Thank you Mr. Torres.  Unlike most on the national team, you had a tough choice to make… and it shows a strong character to make such a tough choice. You are my new favorite national team player.

For more, read this…

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2008/10/breaking_news_torres_commits_t.html

Old, tired, worn out show: SNL

  Imagine that… SNL is back… and it’s still really, really, not funny.  Of course SNL is still very very liberal (since the purge of Conservatives like Norm MacDonald, Adam Sandler, and the head writer fired so Tina Fey could run the show into the ground).  Of course in their first episode of the season they had one skit trashing Palin, then four anti-McCain jokes in the “news” section.  Not one single Obama joke.  Not one.  Sure they had an Anti-Clinton joke or two (and how timely, since she’s OUT OF THE RACE).  Don’t even act like there hasn’t been anything to make fun of (how about Biden’s “Barack America” or his asking a parapalegic to stand up last week).

It’s sad that SNL has to compete with the talentless Daily show in a race to see who can be more unfair, even s

Dems Playing Politics

Ever notice what a two-faced a-hole Harry Reid is?  He claims that McCain is playing politics by coming to Washington to get House Republicans onboard with the plan.  Then Dem leadership turns around and says things like this:

 “an economic recovery package that will help middle-class families struggling in the weakening Bush-McCain economy,”  and former Klan member Byrd said:

Byrd said the plan compensates for “failing to invest in America … the Bush administration has fiddled while Rome has burned.”

Idiot: WSD’s Stephen Cohen

World Soccer Daily’s Steven Cohen continued to show his stupidity this week.  First, a caller on 9/25 called in from Ohio and Cohen asked who he was voting for, when the kid said he was voting for and volunteering for Obama, Cohen decided to reward him.

Cohen gave the kid a Jersey that had already been promised to go to hurricaine relief in Houstan.  Seriously… he took a jersey they had already declared they (WSD) would donate to hurricaine victims and rewarded an Obama volunteer.

The next day Cohen read an email that criticized him… but of course he doesn’t read a good one (like the one I sent him), he reads one from some jackass racist from Boston.  But not to be outdone, Cohen then said “I’d expect this racism from the South.  Okay, so Cohen’s bigotry is based on Geography instead of race.

To finish up the day, Cohen hoped some idiot in Miami was taken to jail and “sorted out by some Cubans.”

So I guess Miami jails are full of Cubans in Cohen’s mind.  I guess he is a racist afterall.

Cost of the bailout–an Obama Presidency?

 Ugh… I hate this bailout, but I know we have to have it.  And before you repeat the liberal media’s mantra that John McCain is playing politics with it, you should know that only 4 House Republicans plan on voting for it.  As the leader of the Republican Party (and soon the nation) he has to get those guys on-board or this is going to look real messed up. To be honest, Obama doesn’t need to be there (the Dems are already on-board and Reid/Pelosi don’t like to share leadership with anyone anyway)… so I don’t fault his resistence (although I think Reid’s telling him to stay away was a bad move for Dems).  But only McCain can keep those House Republicans in line… Bush can’t do it anymore, truth be told, pre-primaries McCain couldn’t either (House Rep’s are much more conservative and don’t like moderate McCain).  But as the leader of the Party now, McCain is the one they ultimately have to answer to.

As for how we got in this mess it’s simple:  we tried to manipulate capitalism out of the goodness of our heart.  We created the phony populist mantra that every American deserved to own a house. That is a socialist idea. Fannie Mae (which is the largest supporter of the Congressional Black Caucus and the largest non-racial interest group that gets votes in return) wrote lots of large checks mainly to Dems (Harry Reid got the most money, then Obama got the second most which is odd since he’s been there only 2 years and racked in $105,000 before he announced his run for the presidency) was told by lawmakers to ignore their own formulas and ignore their normal proceedures in the name of ”fairness.” “But Americans forgot that historically nearly four in 10 of us aren’t ever ready, or able, to sacrifice for a down payment, monthly mortgage bills, home maintenance and yearly taxes — and so should stick to renting.”  But no, the government said give more loans to minorities, to women, and to single people.  People who by the banks own formula could not pay it back.  However, Fannie and Freddy (with AIG’s financial standing tied so deeply to theirs) knew, absolutely knew, they could take stupid risks because the government had put them up to it and they knew they’d get bailed out… afterall, it was the government’s idea to make loans availible to people who couldn’t pay them back in the name of “fairness.”

You know what’s not fair, the fact that you and I are going to be on the line for ten grand each because that first year teacher in the room next to me (who’s married to a lawschool graduate with $200,000 in student loans and a $50,000 a year job) bought a damn $200,000 house they couldn’t afford, got a shakey loan the bank knew they couldn’t afford, then the local bank sold the loan to a nationwide bank who packaged it with 300 other bad loans and sold it to Fannie Mae.  Then all of a sudden the value of homes dropped once people realized that you can’t keep making a fortune buying a house, putting in new closet doors and a new kitchen then selling it for twice what you paid, and then Fannie knew they’d never get back what they were owed… so they come running to the people who encouraged banks to loan more money to people who can’t afford the loan… the Government.

And now the only cure to the problem with messing with the economy is to mess with it even greater.  Ugh…

Meanwhile the media tells us this is John McCain’s fault.  The fact that three years ago he co-sponsored a bill to oversee Fannie and Freddy is meaningless to them.  The fact that that bill died because every single Democrat in the committee voted against it and promised a bitter partisan floor fight where Republicans would be labeled racists for opposing an institution that gives special loans to minorities and the fact that the Dems promised retribution against funding for the Iraq war if they took this reform to the floor will never be mentioned by the press.  I partially blame Republicans for not willing to  fight the good fight (specifically Mitch McConnell as leader of the Senate Republicans)… because afterall, that was an election year when Republicans were running scared.  Because they tried to watch their back at the polls by bending over at the demand of the Dems, they have given the media a free press to tell the biggest lie of all:  This whole mess is John McCain’s fault.