Fat Obamo… What?
BY bavalova
So I guess now is as good a time as any to test my iphone wordpress application. This is the scene at a local denny’s urinal; what it means I don’t know… Truly odd.
Let Them Fall
BY bavalova
The big debate right now is about the auto industry and whether Congress should approve a $25 billion bailout for the big 3 automakers. I’m watching the news and so many people are saying that what would happen if these companies fell? We’d have no auto industry and we’d have no one to make cars, etc, etc. My question to all of you “pundits” is “Really? We’d have no auto industry? None at all?” If the big three fall, and I hope they do (temporarily), do you think that all the capital investments and all the plants will *poof* disappear?” Come on, these are simply scare tactics by politicians who are in bed with the United Auto Workers union. This is an obvious ploy to get federal money so that the UAW doesn’t have to renegotiate contracts.
Wake up America, the big 3 will not fall; not entirely. If we allow them to fall temporarily, we won’t loose millions upon millions of jobs; sure, people may become unemployed for a little while as the whole thing gets settled but no one in the right mind would let billions of dollars of capital investments in those plants go to waste. They’ll be back up and running in no time and all those people who lost their jobs will get them back probably under a new contract.
Oh, but dear Jesus, God forbid they have to renegotiate their contracts to about $10-$15 an hour lower. They make so little for how hard they work. Come on, it’s a factory job! If unions weren’t involved, you could easily find replacements for all of those workers at far less than $10-$15 an hour less than they currently get. Face it UAW, in spite of the fact that you are a socialist organization, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are capitalist companies and they need to turn a profit. Stop demanding things the companies can’t provide and you won’t ever be in a mess like this again.
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And We’re Back
BY bavalova
My account was linked to an old credit card so it did not autorenew. Then I had all sorts of issues with the Domain registry site and the hosting site. It’s all resolved and you can all continue to rejoice in my rubbish.
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New Poll: Is This The Funniest Video Ever Taken By Man?
BY bavalova
You decide… and tell it to the trees.
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Thanks Jawa, you made my day today, tomorrow, and for the foreseeable future.
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Sarah Palin: The Right Choice; The Wrong Time
BY bavalova
Since the announcement of her selection as the Republican Vice Presidential hopeful, I have been uneasy. When the news came out that not only did she have five children, but one of them has Down’s Syndrome, I became even more uneasy. Though I watched her acceptance speech and cheered her on with the rest of you; though I agree that a woman on the Republican ticket is a good choice; I have to agree with Dr. Laura Schlessinger when she says:
I’m stunned - couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisers probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?
I watched the Fox News special on her tonight and saw a lot of women who came out and asked “How dare you ask how she can be Vice President and take care of her children at the same time?” I also heard Rudy ask the same thing when he gave his keynote speech, concluding that they would never ask a man that question.
No offense to Sarah Palin, who I think is a brilliant woman, but your children should take priority. And although you stand behind a banner that reads “Country First,” you should recall that one of the principals of this party is that you put your Country First by putting your family first. Dr. Laura says it well when she says:
Tags: Dr. Laura, Elections, Elections 2008, John McCain, Laura Schslessinger, Palin, President, Presidential, Sarah, Sarah Palin, Vice President, VPCertainly, if a child becomes ill and is rushed to the hospital, and you’re on the hotline with both Israel and Iran as nuclear tempers are flaring, where’s your attention going to be? Where should your attention be? Well, once you put your hand on the Bible and make that oath, your attention has to be with the government of the United States of America.
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Google Changed EULA for Chrome: Now You Own Rights To Your Content
BY bavalova
As many people have noted, Google’s new browser’s EULA basically had you sign you life away in Section 11. Well, it’s now been fixed:
11. Content license from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
Thank you, Google.
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Bloggers Take note: You have a narrow audience
BY bavalova
I think that bloggers like Kos don’t realize that they have a narrow audience and that often their egregious attacks work against them. Bloggers look at the blogosphere through bloggers’ eyes; a majority of voters don’t. When I read something at the Daily Kos, I might “lol” or “wtf” at it. But Kos, your message and the way it is perceived is twisted when it hits other mediums like, say, TV. When you make stupid accusations that turn out to be false, it doesn’t matter that you were only speculating. People are going to be outraged. Think about elder people (who vote more consistently than your young audience) watching CNN or Fox News on a regular basis and find out that you smeared Palin and basically made these things up. Do you think that they will just “lol” or “wtf” at it? Probably not; they will find out that you support Obama and tie this smear campaign directly to him.
Careful, careful out there in the blogosphere. We should all take note.
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Medvedev: A Page Out of 1984
BY bavalova
Russia’s President Demitri Medvedev apparently thinks that people outside of his country are deaf to doublegoodspeak. World to Russia: You can’t play to the beat of two drums. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Just like you can’t say you don’t want hostility but refuse to back down from a hostility you practically initiated. Also, you are not the arbiter of national independence. We here in the West find it really cute that you think you can proclaim regions independent on your own accord.
MOSCOW - Russia’s president said Sunday his country will give military aid to the two separatist regions at the center of the war with Georgia — signaling Moscow has no intention of backing down in the face of Western pressure.
Dmitry Medvedev also warned that American domination of world affairs is unacceptable, though he insisted that Russia did not want hostile relations with the United States and other Western nations.
Medvedev’s decision Tuesday to recognize the Georgian breakaway provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent drew condemnation from the West. Though no other countries have followed Russia’s lead, Medvedev reaffirmed the decision on Sunday.
“We have made our decision, and it’s irreversible,” he said in a speech broadcast on Russian television.
Translation: Russia wants to be hostile without being hostile.
How can you say you don’t want hostile relations with us yet provide military support against our allies? Perhaps we should send in a little more than just the USCG Cutter Dallas with humanitarian to remind Russia that it was their iron curtain- and not ours- that fell.
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Barackopolis 2008; Why not Bushopolis 2004?
BY bavalova
I’ll be the first to admit that I think these lavish conventions are a ridiculous waste of time, resources, and money. Many people, mostly Republicans, are criticizing Barack’s stage for being so lavish and what not. But to be fair, Bush also had a lavish Greek/Roman inspired stage back in 2004 at Madison Square Gardens in NYC. All I’m saying is don’t be so quick to judge the situation so fast because both parties are guilty of spending loads of money on these lavish events.
I’ll also be the first to criticize Obama, but not when he’s doing something that Republicans and Democrats have normalized.
Obama Stage 2008
Bush Stage 2004
All I’m saying is that if you’re going to judge one side, judge the other.
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Palestians lock up disabled child for 38 years behind bars; Israel Blamed (incognito)
BY bavalova
Not many things really touch me; in fact, I often hear people become very, very emotional over certain things and I don’t understand it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a sociopath or something; I do feel things. I just don’t get moved so easily. Nevertheless, I am moved by this story that recently came out from the AP.
BEIT AWWA, West Bank - A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.
The case highlights the shame felt by families who have children with disabilities in Palestinian society — made worse because of poor services and the practice of marriages between first cousins.
It hurts me to think that people could do something like this. I’m not outraged by Gitmo or secret CIA interrogation camps or the prospect of torture or the death penalty because sympathy is something I reserve for the innocent. This man kept here for decades. DECADES! He’s not a murderer! He’s not a rapist! He’s not a criminal! He’s an innocent, disabled person. Guilty is the society he lives in that encourages intra family marriage; guilty are the Palestinian people who look down upon him. Finally, guilty is the AP writer who would indirectly criticize Israel by saying the problem is made worse because of “poor services.”
If you, Nasser the AP reporter, were on Jeopardy and chose Palestinian Issues for 200 and Alex said “This is what made this poor, Palestinian man disabled at birth” and you answered “poor [health] services” you would lose. If you’d lose in Jeopardy, why don’t you lose at the AP?
Moreover, the Josef Fritzl story made national headlines for a couple days when it was found out that he kept his daughter locked in the basement for 24 years as a sex slave. He’s now facing 3,000 rape charges:
Senior legal sources have revealed that he has admitted to sleeping with his daughter Elisabeth “two or three times a week” during the 24 years he kept her locked in a basement prison.
Let’s see how quietly this will go down. What? With the mainstream media’s love for the Palestinians and all.
No tags for this post.Palestinian Basam Musalmeh, 38, stands behind a locked metal door leading to the room where he was locked up since he was a child, during a police raid in the West Bank village of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Police discovered a mentally disabled brother and sister in the rooms they were stashed away in for some forty years, during a raid in their southern West Bank town overnight Tuesday. The case has dramatically highlighted the shame thrown upon families who have children with disabilities in Palestinian society, made worse because of poor services and the practice of first-cousin marriages in Palestinian communities.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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Hillary Gone for good: Good Riddance!
BY bavalova
Hillary Clinton: I bid you adieu. By my estimation, the one good thing that could come out of Barack Obama winning the White House is that we’ll never have to see Hillary Clinton again. However, if he loses, she’ll have a strong platform to run on in 2012.
On a final note, I always thought she looked like a hyena from the Lion King. Here, have a look:
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Children in S. Ossetia Playing with AK-47 toys
BY bavalova
Nice. Most of you know I’m no hippy or overprotective idiot that thinks if you let a child play with a toy gun he’s going to grow up and shoot up the local elementary school or something. However, in the wake of this war between South Ossetia (via Russia) and Georgia, I think children wielding lifelike toy replicas of AK-47s is a bit frightening.
Oh and check out the AP’s lovely caption:
Children play in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. On Tuesday Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recognized two Georgian rebel territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, prompting harsh criticism from Western nations.
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
I guess they’re just playing; Thanks AP, you really know what calms me down.
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Petty US Involvement in Russia-Georgia Conflict
BY bavalova
You might be interested in knowing that what the media has reported as a “military ship” is one of the retiring cutters of the US Coast Guard according to this report on Military.com back in 2003 as part of this National Fleet Concept.
The National Fleet concept, signed in 1998 and revalidated in 2001, speaks directly to Coast Guard-Navy integration. It is a cornerstone document that reaffirms the service’s expeditionary capability and the immediate need for a modernized fleet to replace ships such as the Dallas, commissioned in 1967.
Moreover, according to numerous reports on the Navy’s News site, the cutter Dallas has been running training operations in Africa! Russia sent a missile cruiser and two other ships in response to aid arriving on an outdated ship whose biggest action was capturing Saddam’s fugitives in the early days of the Iraq war.
All I gotta say is really Russia? A missile cruiser? Come on Putin & Co, what’s all this saber rattling really about? I mean, if this was the USS Dallas rather than the CG Cutter Dallas, maybe I’d understand.
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Clinton: Obama has a “queer” grasp?
BY bavalova
I’m listening to Bill’s speech right now. I think he just said Obama has a queer grasp on foreign policy. Freudian slip?
UPDATE: Ah. It seems he was trying to say clear grasp. I was only half listening and heard “queer” and “firm” in the same sentence and thought that Slick Willy was bringing new talking points to light. Here’s the video (My PVR is working now.. Yay!):
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Hillary “gag-inducing” Clinton’s DNC Speech
BY bavalova
There I was minding my own business, doing homework and watching CNN in the background, and I noticed Hillary pop up in my peripheral. Fortunately, I missed her speech earlier in the day but as fate would have it, I am seeing it now. I must say, she’s holding it together quite well.
“Whether you voted for me or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose,” said Clinton in a speech Democrats hope will end a lingering party rift left over from their bitter nominating fight.
It goes to prove that she’s nothing but a shrewed politician. I wonder how Obama got her to agree to give such a compelling speech. I guess Bill isn’t too happy about it though: he’s not showing up to Obama’s speech.
By the way, watch about 0:27 into the video below. Is it just me or did she really have to force out that whole bit about Michelle Obama? Anyone else sense a bit of that intra-woman superficiality? Could just be me. I’m just saying.
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VerbalCaricature.com Gets a Facelift
BY bavalova
Alright ladies and gentlemen. It’s 3AM and I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s about time I went to bed. I’ve done just about all I can do for VC’s new facelift. As some of you know, when Wordpress updated to 2.5, my old theme was left in the dark so for a while I’ve been dealing with the default theme.
This new theme is mostly courtesy of Derek Punsalan from 5ThrityOne with a few of my own tweaks. I think that this new theme really forecasts my direction for the site. I want to focus more on reading between the lines and dispelling some of the idiocy that is out there.
I’ve neglected my midterms for long enough; I’ll have to finish the job at another time but I think this is a logical stopping point.
Cheers!
Bava
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Global Warming Scientists Have Nothing to Lose
BY bavalova
It has become almost a fashion trend in the Western World to be of the opinion that Global Warming is a man made phenomenon and needs to be stopped. Those who snicker and sneer at the idea are in turn snickered and sneered at by these nose up environmental whack jobs. Just today, NASA scientist James Hansen told us:
“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. “This is the last chance.“
This is such a spineless position. It’s easy to see why the opposing position is harder to stand up and proliferate. If you’re a scientist on the Global Warming side, you can keep spewing your “research” and scarring people on to your side. When governments around the world join to spend billions, if not trillions, on research and development in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, you can sit there and baste in your glory. If everything goes well, as it likely would have even without any intervention, everyone will sing your praises. If not, you can sit there and tell everyone they didn’t act fast enough. Either way, when it comes to government contracts you win.
If you’re on the other side, what incentives do you have to speak out? You’re vastly criticized despite your research and specialization; despite your dedication and hard work. Your opinion is not profitable. This is why your arguments will never gain any traction.
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Blog Test UPDATE: Theme Problem
BY bavalova
Sorry folks, regular maintenance, I suppose.
UPDATE:
It seems there is a problem with my existing Wordpress Theme that is preventing the new version of Wordpress (2.5) from showing more than just the latest entry. I’ll try to get the problem fixed but may end up creating a whole new look. I guess it’s long overdue, anyway.
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Hillary/Obama: Two Voices, Same Dismal Story
BY bavalova
As everyone knows, the Clinton campaign has been harping on Obama because of his lack of foreign policy experience but this week CBS released a report showing that Mrs. Clinton isn’t quite Mrs. Foreign Policy either. Of course, the Obama campaign jumped all over the story:
The Obama campaign seized on the story when it was splashed across the CBS website Monday, with spokesman Tommy Vietor saying it is “part of a troubling pattern of Sen. Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience.â€
I think it says a lot about the Democratic Party if the point of contention between the two Democratic candidates is who has less foreign policy experience. They’re like a couple of five year olds pointing fingers at one another. “She has less experience!” “No he has less experience, na na na na na na!” It’s just sad… all around.
Moreover, the Media’s love affair with Obama is just sad. Now, I’m not standing up for Hillary or in any way suggesting she has any meaningful foreign policy experience. But on a serious analysis, does the media really think Americans are stupid enough to think that a trip to Bosnia to meet and greet the troops is resume building foreign policy experience? If so, then heck, Sinbad and Cher should have made an ‘08 ticket, too! Are we as Americans really that petty? I mean, if anything, the Clinton story just reinforced something we already know to be true: Politicians lie. It goes hand in hand with their job titles.
It’s all superficial, they’re both saying the same thing and neither of them really have any experience to back up their trash talking.
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