Time to Blow Up the World and Start Over Again

Lee,

This is the perfect place for my new favorite quote:

“The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?”

I forget who said it.

Jerimy

Amen Lee. Holy Crapola, are these people on the bottom of the food chain?

I say take these “[B]stupid people”[/B] and blow them up in some remote area of the world or Ali and I will take them aboard the boat and dump them in the shark infested waters with pork chops hanging off their necks.

I guess the voters agreed 🙂

Hi,

Who’s the stupid ones now? Thank god we got Venesuala and that solid bunch down there to count the votes from those electonic machines for us. Hate to see a U.S. company have to do it. Might as well sub-out our democracy too.

Oh, Lee, this is not a fair trial!!
We had a Klan problem a few years back…seemed they wanted to march in Cicero which is prodominately a minority town. Since they could not legally be told not to, they were given the okay. A few days before the march was supposed to happen, rival gangs made it clear to the town that they would be present at the march. Needless to say, the Klan decided against it.

I would like to submit the case of Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. She purchased a new Winnebago and took it to a football game. After leaving the game, she merged onto the freeway, set her cruise control at 70 mph and went to the back and made herself a sandwich. She soon crashed and overturned the RV and promptly filed a lawsuit stating that the owner’s manual did not explain that cruise control is not the same as an automatic pilot. The jury awarded her 1.75 million dollars and a new motor home.
I would like to submit not only Mrs. Grazinski but the jury who awarded her this type of settlement as proof of stupidity among the human race.

[QUOTE]”The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?” [/QUOTE]

Jerimy, I love your quote…if only we could…:D

Or….as Frank Loyd Wright said…..”There is nothing more uncommon than common sense”

Its definitely time to Start Peru Over Again!

Alan Garcia was voted the next president of Peru, for a second time, after a DISASTROUS term from 1985 – 1990. He left his previous term with inflation at 7 000% and accusations of corruption, amongs other things. Ollanta Humala, his opponent, apparently has close ties to Hugo Chavez, and it has been said that Ollanta’s loss is huge blow to president Chavez.
I believe Peru had a no win situation. Personally, I would have voted Garcia, maybe the lesser of two evils, ANYTHING to say away from Chavez. OOOOOHH I dont know!!!! Thank goodness it wasnt something I had to decide.

[FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]Is this like our “Conspiracy Theory Tuesday” (Which, a-hemmm, it IS, btw!), only under a different format?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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Hi,

Between those two countries, and everyone heading over to Brazil because of better managed corruption and hourly intrest rates, now I hear Jaun Valdez and his mule retired over there in Columbia. The final straw on the downfall of a continent.

Politics are mirrored all over the world. You should see who IL has as choices for a governor…the only main difference is one is male and one is female (we think that is their sexes anyway- they won’t even give an honest answer to that!)

I have one regarding voter Id’s,
My state issued a large number of voter ID cards(which are not required to vote) because the feds said they were supposed to. They spent over $1,000,000 dollars and they are all having to be redone because the information on them is incorrect. 60,000 were sent to the wrong address and they are asking people to send them back. Which I am certain everyone will. The congress of this country is the biggest bunch of idiots ever assembled in one place in the history of mankind and our state legislature is a close second.
LEA

Hi,

Certainly one area where Europe lags behind the U.S. Remember, they never had a civil rights movement over there. They just do banana searches I guess.

[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon]I just saw a sports headline which said “Goalies fear new World Cup Balls”.

And I thought tennis elbow was bad.[/QUOTE]

😀 😀 😀 😀 You made me spit out my coffee at the computer again Lee.

Actually I did think about it Lee, just being my ladylike self that I am and didn’t want to mention Marc’s banana thingy. I mean Marc’s banana searching sentence. 😀 😀 😀 😀

[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon] Now correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Germany get into a teensy bit of trouble in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s over that whole master race thing?[/QUOTE]
Sure, I was there. I had to march through my hometown as a 10 year old in my brown Hitler Youth shirt singing “The old bones are trembling. Today we own Germany, and tomorrow the whole world.” I hated the whole charade and was relieved I got out when me, my younger brother and my mother were evacuated in 1944 to the countryside to get us away from the constant horrible bombings. When I asked my parents after the war if they knew about what had been going on they said they didn’t have a clue.
[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon] when God floods the Earth again, the nozzle should be aimed at Germany. Maybe thats a bit unfair. Perhaps it isn’t Germans as a whole, but soccer fans in general. Soccer isn’t a sport so much as an excuse to commit a felony.[/QUOTE]
If you base your selection on how [B][COLOR=”red”]some[/COLOR][/B] fans behave, shouldn’t you also include England as a candidate for the next 40 day flood? Remember that riot years ago – was it in the London stadium? – when fans got wild and a few people (I think) got trampled to death.

[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon] Now correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Germany get into a teensy bit of trouble in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s over that whole master race thing?[/QUOTE]
Sure, I was there. I had to march through my hometown as a 10 year old in my brown Hitler Youth shirt singing “The old bones are trembling. Today we own Germany, and tomorrow the whole world.” I hated the whole charade and was relieved I got out when me, my younger brother and my mother were evacuated in 1944 to the countryside. When I asked my parents after the war if they knew about what was going on they said they didn’t have a clue.
[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon] when God floods the Earth again, the nozzle should be aimed at Germany. Maybe thats a bit unfair. Perhaps it isn’t Germans as a whole, but soccer fans in general. Soccer isn’t a sport so much as an excuse to commit a felony.[/QUOTE]
If you base your selection on how [B][COLOR=”red”]some[/COLOR][/B] fans behave, shouldn’t you also include England as a candidate for the next 40 day flood? Remember that riot years ago – was it in the London stadium? – when fans got wild and a few people (I think) got trampled to death.

You didn’t offend me at all, Lee. I just thought I get in on the discussion and offer my 5 cents worth. I agree that acts of racism or other excesses don’t occur in a vaccuum. We often allow it by keeping quiet, sometimes out of fear or other times because of indifference.

When groups get out of control there is another factor that comes into play, that is group think. Individuals feel less responsible for their actions, the anonymous group takes over responsibility. The individual would never perform the act were he or she alone. By the same token, group think can also apply to opposite situations when people do not take action perhaps in cases similar to your example of the “stupid cowboy” had he not retreated.

You are perhaps familiar with this:

Here another aspect that can apply to atrocities based on racism that have been committed in Nazi Germany: obeying m authority performing actions against one’s own moral values. A guy by the name of Stanley Milgram performed now famous experiments at Yale in 1974 which exposed a darker side of human nature. Objects were told to train people in the next room by administering light electric shocks whenever a mistake was made. They could only communicate via microphone and loudspeaker. They were told by an authoritarian acting experimenter in a white coat to keep increasing intensity of the shock. Most obeyed when ordered to do so even though they could hear the moans(fake) from next door. Many times they continued turning the dial to the point where it said “Danger”. What’s scary about this is the fact that these experiments were done with Americans, people like you and me.

Milgram wrote this:

[I]”The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous import, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects’ [participants’] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects’ [participants’] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.”
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I don’t have any reason today, but I want to Blow Up The World and start from scratch, just my mood and I’m not on Prednisone this week. Imagine what I would do if I were still on the dreaded Prednisone.:eek: 😮

sorry you are having a bad time. Here is the best I can do for you: it’s set to go off at 4 a.m. You won’t feel a thing when the world goes poof. Tomorrow when you come to it will be a new world … except some of the old features will still be there so you won’t feel too disoriented. Hope I will be part of [b]your new world[/b]. If not I’d miss your posts terribly. 🙂

Norb,

Is it possible just to blow up a certain portion of New Jersey instead of the whole world? That would be better I think. I wouldn’t want to harm my friends and family. I’m in a better mood now. Thanks for coming to my assistance.:) 🙂

Hmmmm, if only it were that simple!:p

[QUOTE=Brandy]Norb, Is it possible just to blow up a certain portion of New Jersey instead of the whole world? That would be better I think. I wouldn’t want to harm my friends [/QUOTE]
Brandy, Do you mean “Northern New Jersey right across from New York City”. That sounds like singling you out. That would be a very bad idea. Your family would never really get over that. Believe me, we know from our own painful experience.

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Maybe next time it would be better to talk about what’s going on because I can’t guarantee the accuracy of my destructive devices.;)

Glad you are feeling better.

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I am absolutely flabbergasted! How on earth could they vote Yea?

Hi Dave,

You’re right on the money. Not only did my senator(Cantwell) vote for it, but she was the sponcer for a majority of the bill. She heard from me on that one a few weeks ago, and I got a long personal form statement back saying all the good that it will do. Told her she lost many a disabled vote giving away SS to felons, and that she just doesn’t get it. It failed though, but somebody will get it threw down the line.

[COLOR=red]My Senator, L. Graham, lost my vote too[/COLOR]

I’m from Massachusetts. What can I say???We have worked too hard all of our lives to let the politicians give our”sweat equity” away to everyone. I say we vote everyone of them out of office and have on person appointed by lottery from each state to hold office for only 2 years.
connie

[COLOR=red]I am appalled that an illegal immigrant can get basically any help they need, but I (a US citizen)have to beg, borrow, and bitch, to even get ignored by Medicare/Medicaid! I’ll be writing my senator.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=red]I hope I didn’t offend anyone by my post, but it’s how I feel. This tread got awfully quiet. 🙁 [/COLOR]

I am not offended by your thread Dave. You are totally correct when you say that an American has to beg, borrow and bitch and still get ignored. It’s appalling to think that all of us who have worked so hard and put money into the system for ourselves will probably not get any of it back at retirement age because the Government gives it away to the undeserving.

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Dave,

Your post is a topic of conversation that comes up regularly in our circle of friends, and its quite a diverse section on people. Every single one of them have the same sentiments as you, and my husband and I feel the same way. We have been in the US just short of 10 years now, and would like to become citizens once we are ‘allowed’ to do so. My son is American, and my daughter can’t remember anything else, so I like to consider her American to.

I need to explain something before I carry on. We had tons of people from overseas come and live in South Africa because it was such a beautiful place, the weather is fantastic, economy was great (before the mid 90’s) and until recently, most of the people were friendly, warm and generous. Tons of them would critisize and say things like … “Well, back home we did …..” or “We NEVER did that, back home we…” I wanted to shout …. “Well, why dont you just go back to where you come from and leave us alone”. Now, I am so aware that I am not American, and my accent just sticks out like a sore thumb, and I can imagine how some people feel about me cause I am not from here. I FEEL like this is my country now. I love it, I have adopted everything American (except the accent, some of the words are there, but I just cant change it, and the my family say I sound American to them). I believe if you live and make a country your home, you have to abide by their rules, adopt their traditions, live LIKE THEY DO,…..AND, SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE…..Our family is very defensive of America, and believe me, America comes under attack from many European people we know. Go fly your own flag in your own coutry people!! Ok, so the story carries on.

To come to this country to work, to get the visa’s we needed, my husband had to prove, through the company that was employing him, that he had a college degree (or equivalent), that pertained to the job he was doing. The company had to prove that he wasnt taking another citizens job, and that another person in America couldnt do the job he was comming into. Needless to say it took us a while to get here. The visa’s we got allowed only him to work, and only for the company he was employed by, he couldnt move jobs without TONS of approval and paperwork (still the case). I was not allowed to work, (until just over a year ago, got to a point in the green card process that allows me to) and if I did earn any dollars, coffee, chips, tuition or whatever for payment if I did do something, and they found out, we would be told to leave, and not allowed to return for 10 years up to a lifetime. We started our green card process just after arriving, AND WE STILL DONT HAVE IT. My husband earns a good salary and for almost 10 years we have paid SOC. SECURITY, medicaid and everything we need to, BUT, we cannot claim if we need it cause we are still on visa’s. Once we get our green card (we will be so happy) we will apply immediately for our citizenship, which apparently we will get after 5 years of green card living. We have found out that its kind of ‘the luck of the draw’ in the green card game. 9/11 also had an impact and slowed it down. WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING LEGALLY, we are not a burden to the society. My husband pays all taxes, volunteers with teenagers, and I have worked doing a lot of volunteer work for the United Way and the Medical Free Clinic (full of illegals who cant speak English) in our town. It is HIGHLY unlikely we will have to leave at this point, but we are not “safe” yet. [B]I am INCENSED[/B] at what is going on with illegal immigrants. I SEE how people on this forum are suffering, as you said Dave, to beg, borrow and bitch for something from the government! I see how money (services) seems to be dished out left right and centre to illegal’s, and I just DONT get it. We have had to work so very hard to stay in a country that we dont want to change (to another language, or set of values), but yet certain people are allowed in, given things, even though they are breaking the law, and then given amnesty! 😮 What a crock! And what about Americans, afterall this is YOUR country.

If any of you read through my ramble, thanx for sticking with it! 😀

Maybe he should become a Michael Jordan impersonator and quit wasting the time and resources of our courts etc

Yes, and I am sure the guy just shaves his head for comfort…………….not so he would look like Michael Jordan, and probably got his ear pierced for the same reason…………….unbelievable.

He is 6 inches shorter than jordan, so I guess he can sue somebody because he stopped growing before he matched Jordan’s height too.

Hey Lee,

The first thing I thought of was not the guy, but the lawyer that got a case like this to court. Now, just maybe, if a guy named Vito came up to me and said “I’d like this gambling debt paid in full tommorrow, or else, Mr. Jordan”, then maybe I should get a lawyer and be concerned about being mistaken for Jordan, or, go audition for that look a-like show on cable, make some money and get out of dodge. Who would want to see this case won by this guy? Plastic surgens.

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Hi,

When facing a child sex charge in Thialand, then being detained in their jails, it’s amazing what people will own up to. Sure didn’t take that guy long to confess and scream for extradition, did it? Maybe we could rent out their jails and send our murders over there first to be arraigned, then see how silent they want to be. That guy would have confessed to the Lindburg kidnapping just to get out of there.

Regarding the pervert in the Ramsey Case,
When I read that he had been arrested in Thailand and confessed, I figured that he was more than happy to tell them his whole live story in order to get back to the US. I bet he didn’t have a lawyer present (no Miranda warning there). The Thais have ways to make him talk. We should send more of them overseas for interrogation.
The Boulder police look pretty bad in that they focused on her and didn’t even look elsewhere. Its hard to believe that a city that large would have a police department that is that incompetent.
Lea

[COLOR=”Blue”]Amen Lee! I could right a book but won’t. Actually in the future I might. I believe you reap what you sow. Bring that cowardly bastard back here and send him to the worst prison on the planet. Even criminals don’t like predators. Put him in with the general population and we won’t have to pay for his keep very long. I’d tell you what my husband say’s about sexual predators but it’s kind of gross. It’s taken years of therapy but I am a survivor. Probably a coincidence(?), But when I was 8 I wished my grandfather would die. One week later he dropped dead of a heart attack. As a child I felt guilty, but today NO WAY! Many more children were saved from his abuse and for that I am grateful. There is no punishment strong enough.[/COLOR]

Lee, I agree with your sentiments exactly.

Personally, I have always thought there should be 3 possible verdicts for crimes like murder, rape, child molestation, treason, etc.:

1. Not guilty- the guy walks. Fair enough.
2. Guilty- the guy gets to appeal, pretty much as things are today.
3. Guilty, caught red-handed- No doubt the perp did it. In this case, he gets one final meal, and gets to choose the method of his execution, either lethal injection or firing squad, to be carried out within 2 DAYS. I’m talking cases where the guy has confessed or where he has been caught undeniably 100%on tape or by dozens of witnesses and DNA evidence. Why waste taxpayer dollars with scumbags like that? I can understand giving a guy due process where there is some possible question of hs guilt, but 20 years on death row is absurd. If we know with certainty a convict did the crime, let’s get on with it. Five .30 rounds cost what, $1? Rant over.

Dick

I would have a very painful punishment for any sexual predators.

Please don’t be offended by what I am going to write.

1. Disrobe the fiend

2.Take a razor blade and make nice deep slices on the fiend’s sex organ

3.Take acid and pour it all over the deep cuts of the fiend’s sex organ

4.Then turn him over to the victims and their families

It’s that simple and I would gladly volunteer to do the nasty job, I have no qualms about doing it, since I have seen the pain both physically and emotionally they have caused to the victims while I worked for the OB/GYN.

Hey Dick,

You mean for those crimes, maybe a little old Arab world justice might be in order? Those guys know how to hold a trial and despence punishment. I’ve heard some of their trails last as long as a week in some cases.:D

Pedophiles usually end up as the prison block’s bride while everyone in the prison looks the other way. I prefer castration and death by the slowest, ugliest method.

Dressing a child as an adult and forcing her to cavort as an adult in beauty contests is inappropriate at best. It sets up the child as the perfect prey for a pedophile. What in the hell were Jonbonet’s parents thinking? They set the poor kid up and, to my mind, were accessories to the murder.

Regards.
Marge

[COLOR=red]My question is why all the attention about this case!? What about the other kids that have been hurt since then? The world doesn’t revolve around one very unfortunate rich kid. 😡 [/COLOR]

Very true Dave, but it’s the news media that made it headlines and still is. I guess it’s because it’s a bizzare case where the parents were considered suspects and that the cops in Boulder, Co. made way to many mistakes and compromised the crime scene.

I am glad they have this guy in custody and if he is the real killer, at least he won’t hurt anymore children. Also if he is the true killer, my wish would be to torture this deviant.

It is a shame that more news coverage is not given to other victims.

Hi,

Gee, Dave, they just can’t find a cute blonde one yet. What about the ugly school teachers who had sex with a student. Plenty of those cases floating around too.

Lee,

Aaaaggggghhhh!

Suzanne

With my health problems always “in my face”, I love your sarcastic humor, that has me rolling on the floor many times.
Lee-please keep it up, as it gets my mind off “me”…ROFLMAO !
Ken

Good morning all,

I can’t remember the details – I say that alot – but I recall something about a soccer game in South America where an official/goalie had made a call/missed a goal – and after that, they were hunted down and killed by the local townspeople. 😮

Second, I sat in Court yesterday (working) and watched an elderly man have to be instructed he was not allowed to smoke in the Courthouse. He argued that he would do anything he wanted to do – “cause he was short on time, due to his emphysema and lung cancer” Meanwhile the bailiff escorted him out.

While ALL of this was happening, he was wearing a nasal cannula carrying a small bottle of oxygen that pumped oxygen in small consistant puffs, with a lighted “smokie treat” hanging out of his mouth, coughing up (and spitting) phlegm all over the Courtroom. 😡

I remained at my seat, quietly recording every word on my transcriber..thinking – Are you kidding me? :confused:

[FONT=”Comic Sans MS”][SIZE=”2″]Sheesh!
Pass the duct tape Lee, hope it’s a big roll.
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[B]I really never thought about this Lee. I do have new inhalers and now I know why I have to use them more often then I did before with the older inhalers. Put duct tape on my mouth so I don’t curse the government.[/B]

Keep the duct tape moving this way!!!;) Am I wrong or do you not inhale the cfcs into the body when one uses the inhaler?! It goes into my lungs, not into the air/ozone. I was just put on a new asthma inhaler last week, I can’t tell if I’m inhaling anything or not. I don’t breathe any better after I use it either, but the number does go down.:confused: That really does suck!! And I noticed there are more warnings and serious side effects with this new inhaler vs the old one–imagine that!:mad:

[B]The cost of the new inhalers in my prescription plan have gone up from $1.95 for generic to $7.95 now. Oh I’m beginning to see the pharma companies also have a hand in this, what do you think?

Let me also add, that back in the beginning of February I had to call 911 because my asthma was very bad and now I can link this to the new inhaler.

Why can’t this government leave things alone, if it broke, don’t fix it.[/B]

[QUOTE=Lee Spurgeon]This is just astonishing. Over 300,000 Americans have applied to be Paris Hilton’s BFF (best friend forever) for a new reality television show. That’s right, over a quarter million Americans want to be best friends to the human equivalent of a Porta-Potty.

Dear Terrorists:

Perhaps you were right all along.

Warmest regards,

Lee[/QUOTE]

Lee,

Just goes to show you how many brainless twits there are.

I got a good laugh when I read this post.

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]:D Donna I think it’s more like brain dead ![/FONT]

News reports this last weekend said a man and his former wife were killed over an argument about the Alabama vs. LSU football game and that alcohol may have been a factor.

I saw that Gary! What really shocked me was seeing religious monk in Isreal getting into a brawl inside a Church! Did you see that one? Ohh my gosh! They were in a fist fight inside the Church fighting right in front of a Cross with Jesus in front of them. That was a shocker!

Good one Lee. The image of clowns piling out of a car somehow seems relevant considering some of Britney’s outfits .

How about … Executive Bonuses.

“Under fire for paying out huge bonuses as much of America reels from the aftermath of the recession, Goldman Sachs said Thursday its top executives won’t receive a cash bonus for 2009.

The banking titan said its entire 30-person management committee will receive 100% of its discretionary compensation in the form of shares at risk, which cannot be sold for five years.”

Hmmm…They’re still getting 100% of their bonuses only it’s restricted stock. [B][U]That[/U][/B] hits them where it hurts alright … I can’t imagine having to get by on a $15,000,000/yr salary alone whilst waiting on $50,000,000 in stock to be unrestricted.

The house next door to mine has been vacant for two years now. The folks who lived there moved out and took all of their stuff. I cut the grass for two summers so the neighborhood would not look so bad, and to keep the rats and snakes further from my house.

While cutting the grass in October of this year there was a FedEx Envelope on the porch. I Looked at it. It was from BankAmerica. The house had been vacant for a year and 10 months. It had rained on the FedEx, and I waited a couple of weeks. My curiosity bested me. I opened it.

It read… We have noticed that you have been having difficulty with your payments (No kidding). If there is any way we can work out an agreement please contact us…blah..blah…blah..blah…

Bottom line. The major banks still hold these bad loans on their balance sheet. They took the federal bailout money to increase their cash position, to raise fees, to increase their reserves to defend against the losses. But they did not do anything to correct the losses. They are still carrying them, hoping that things will work out.

Well, those folks are long gone, never coming back. Just like the jobs gone over-seas. Gone and never coming back. All of these foreclosures have got to be realized and accounted for on the banking balance sheets. we are in big poop coming down the road because they took all of our money and did absolutely nothing except cash in and cash us out.

Personally I am pissed on.