My Very Own Tea Party

As you might have heard there have been numerous tea parties that have swept our nation today! Being the young conservative that I am I just had to take part in it so I decided to have my own tea party. I decided to have it in my room. The turn out wasn't that great but it is probably because the weather is really bad. Here are some pictures from my killer tea party! It was awesome as you can tell! It got so hot I had to take my shirt off!




In all seriousness these tea parties are really fucking stupid. Relax if you went to one of these tea parties. I am not calling you stupid. I think I would call you idiotic, or a tool, or a loser. But certainly not stupid.

Seriously on Fox News right now Glen Beck and Ted Nugent are going crazy and all the people in the crowd are saying they don't want to pass on these deficits to their children. Its looking like a pretty white affair. I know they are in Texas but couldn't a couple of minorities have showed up?

My question is what is the point and why is this happening? Let's first dismiss the fact that the people behind the scenes who are promoting these tea parties are conservative think tanks run by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Grovier Norquist and their tax cuts without reducing spending is one of the reasons we have one of these huge debts in the first place. If the point of these parties is fiscal responsibility then this is a massive fail.

But where were these parties for the last eight years when the Bush administration racked up these huge deficits? Nobody was crying about passing the bucks to our kids and their kids.

And wasn't the original Boston Tea Party all about taxation without representation? If this is true I could understand why maybe you could realistically have one of these tea parties in D.C. since they don't have any representation but in Texas?

I've heard that a lot of people are showing up at these things because of Obama raising the tax rates. Realistically 95% of the American People will see a tax relief under Obma so all these protestors are mad that extremely rich fucks are going to get taxed at the same levels they did under the Clinton administration (which was less than the Reagon administration). I can understand why people would protest this because if I remember correctly the economy had a massive expansion under Clinton and he left ofice with a surplus.

I think the biggest complaint from these Fox News watching talk radio listening cretins is the all the bitching about how government getting to big. If you ask me people are noticing this not a minute too soon. I mean look at the things the Bush administration did: eavsdropping, secret energy commisions, rendition, The Patriot Act, the expansion of the executive branch, the politicalization of the judicial branch, and their lack of transparenty just to name a few things. Where were these tea parties then. Oh yeah they were non-existant.

Maybe I'm just bitter no one showed up at my tea party. Next time I'll buy snacks.

(And please I know some of you people who did go to these tea parties have been complaining about this stuff for years but it doesn't count if you are someone who believes some sort of New World Order is going to be implemented. You people are what experts called delusional)

A random thought about bad movies

I was thinking the other day about the movie Stomp The Yard. Full disclosure I saw that movie in the theater and that day I knew it I knew it was a terrible movie. It was on the other day. Probably TNT I can't remember these things anymore. What I do remember was that that I thought it was still a bad movie.

But you know what I enjoy watching it and I can't explain why. It is one of these cookie cutter movies that does nothing new or exciting and pretty much rips off all the movies that proceeded it that have the same production values or effort put into it that is trying to entice a certain niche market. I guess the word I am looking for is formulaic.

And there are many movies like this one. She's All That. Bring It On. You Got Served. The list goes on. These are all horrible movies and are a total waste of time. But you know what I discovered yesterday?

I like and enjoy these movies more than I do movies like Braveheart. I am not saying Braveheart is a bad movie. Actually I commend the artistic value behind this movie because it is obvious a lot of effort went into every scene that was filmed. It was more ambitious. It told an important story. I know it was a good movie. But it was not a movie that I enjoyed. The crappy movies I listed earlier are all movies I liked more even thought they were not as ambitious or as technically proficient.

Take a movie I enjoy about fifty times more than Braveheart called The Patriot. The script is lame and the movie looks cheap. The acting and plot are tepid at best. This movie is Braveheart light but I enjoy it so much more. Things like this baffle me.

Why do I like these movies more. IS it because I can turn my brain off and don't have to worry about thinking? Maybe I find comfort on things I find familiar. Could it be that maybe I don't like challenging myself too much while watching a movie. Maybe it is the simplicity and the formula that draws me in.

I don't know why I just found this particular aspect of myself particularly intriguing right now and decided to write about it.

I will not have sex with this post until I marry it!

For some reason today my coworker was on the website www.gotquestions.org. Apparently this is a website that is set up in case you have any questions about god, Jesus, the bible, or theology.

For some reason my co-worker printed me out a sheet with this question answered on it: What does the bible say about sex before marriage / premarital sex? I think premarital sex is probably a fun thing to do and I hope some day god willing I can have it. What I found interesting was the answer this website gave.

The article states this:

"There is no Hebrew or Greek word used in the Bible that is precisely defined to refer to sex before marriage. The Bible undeniably condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but the question arises, is sex before marriage considered sexually immoral? According to 1 Corinthians 7:2, “yes” is the clear answer, “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.” In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the “cure” for sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7:2 is essentially saying because people cannot control themselves and so many people are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married, so they can fulfill their passions in a moral way."

And for reference here is what Corinthians 7:2 says: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

IT seems like the bible was way ahead of the curve in understanding people who are married do not have want to have sex. So kudos to them for that. Seriously though this line from the bible does not really make a clear case for sex before marriage being immoral but rather sex in general being immoral.

What notion I find rather absurd was how this statement goes on to conclude in the first paragraph that "people cannot control themselves and so many people are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married, so they can fulfill their passions in a moral way."

I know it is not a popular principle to actually do any critical thinking of issues like these when they come from a large institution you have been told not to question and place your absolute faith in but come on this makes no sense. How can an act that has the same intent whether it is in a marriage or outside any more immoral either way.

So if I have sex with someone thirty seconds before I get married to them (which would double the amount of actual time I can have sex) it is immoral but if I start fucking the bride instead of kissing her after we are pronounced man and wife that is somehow different?

I guess marriage is one of those institutions where there are exceptions to some rules like if you are in the army you can kill people or if you are a famous person who directed the movie Passion of the Christ you can blame every war on the Jews.

If you don't know what you are talking about shut up

I read a lot of shit online mostly by conservative bloggers that that falls over itself in contradictions and rank stupidity. This one is in relation to a post I read about current aspects of the economy and the way the author has no clue about anything except their conclusions which will be reached no matter what the facts are.

An author of this particular post came to the conclusion that deregulation is no way responsible for anything in regards to the current economic fiscal crisis and there was too much government intervention. I will lucidly agree with him that certain agencies were set up to unrealistically create some sort of property value inflation bonanza that couldn't last and that some people over extended in regards to their credit. Ok sure. That sort of happened. (though he neglects to mention people were getting adjustable rate mortgages which didn't help matters. On top of that these banks were gambling these people would pay off their houses with unregulated swaps. Many times over. All do to deregulation).

But I can't really fault this person for his lack of insight when it comes to economic markets this fucking complex. I don't fully understand them. But there is a difference of not understanding the market and then saying something so contradictory on its face to adhere to some outdated form of ideology just so your brittle little world doesn't crumble down.

He goes on the write "That this bubble would eventually burst because of the over-extension of credit could have been predicted by anyone and this wasn't due to deregulation at all. Quite the contrary, this is a problem of too much government interference into the market, namely by central bankers who manipulated the money supply for their own interests. In other words, this economic crisis would have happened regardless of how many regulations we had in place."

First off I don't know how these bankers manipulated to money supply. Is he saying the Fed has printed off more or less money than they said they have. Have the bankers, in some secret cabal that meets at some secret Jew conference on George Soros's marching orders decide that dollar bills are now worth twenty two cents? No this is just a stupid thought that makes no sense when you sit down and actually analyze it. Sort of like System of a Down Lyrics.

Let's say the above was true though. Would this be able to happen because of deregulation? It's contradictory. It would be like me saying all those Woody Allen movies would be excellent if only Woody Allen wasn't in them. But the fact of the matter is that Woody Allen movies suck no matter which neurotic jew is in them and deregulation was responsible for the various loans (both predatory and subprime not to mention the transfer of these bad loans to other entities which meant even if these people were getting screwed they couldn't be held responsible) and the unregulated swapping of these derivatives all lead to the current state of our economy. Should it come as no surprise that this author is an idiot?

He quotes some author who probably writes whatever Jesus tells him (From Gods Lips to Peter Schiff's Pen) that says "Washington is telling us that our problems result from a lack of consumer spending. Therefore, the solution is for government spending to pick up the slack. However, if Americans are too broke to spend, then how can our government spend for us? The only money they have is taken from us through taxation. To postpone immediate tax hikes (adding interest for good measure), Washington plans to borrow more from abroad. However, if our foreign creditors refuse to pony up, much of the money will simply be printed instead."

You can make an argument against the stimulus as it was presented that would be respectable if you said something like "I'm worried about the debt." Sure it is short sided because the point is to stimulate the economy but I can see that as a viable concern. But this Schiff guy doesn't understand or maybe understands to well that his intended audience won't bother to critically analyze what he is saying. The government is putting money into the economy either by giving it right to the consumer (mostly through tax cuts which I find not as stimulative as other measures that could have been enacted) or to infrastructure or other projects that will create jobs. And isn't Obama planning on raising taxes on rich fucks? What is Schiff talking about here.

And why would anyone write that "Borrowing and spending too much got us into this problem, yet Obama's plan is to borrow and spend even more to get us out of this mess. Makes perfect sense from the Keynesian point of view. Too bad it doesn't work in reality." Whoa I thought the problem was government interference in the market Stay on fucking point. And what point of view is he coming from where this makes perfect sense?

For some reason Schiff gets quoted again " Many people assume that if government provides the funds we can spend our way back to prosperity. However, it's not money we lack but production. If the government simply prints money and doles it out, we will not be able to buy more stuff; we will simply pay higher prices. The only way to buy more is to produce more. It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!"

I think I know a little bit about purchasing power since I took Econ 101 twice! There was a notion called supply and demand and it must have been important when it comes to the market since we had to learn how to graph it. Supply is dictated by demand and (according to wikipedia, I am cribbing here because remember I did take econ 101 twice) the main determinants of individual demand are: the price of the good, level of income, personal tastes, the population (number of people), the government policies, the price of substitute goods, and the price of complementary goods.

Maybe I am reading too much into what Schiff is saying. Maybe he does understand supply and demand and is stating that printing money will not actually stimulate demand. But again this Schiff loves to contradict himself.

"If the government simply prints money and doles it out, we will not be able to buy more stuff; we will simply pay higher prices. The only way to buy more is to produce more. It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!"

I read this over and over and am baffled. You could almost say Schiff argues covertly for the need for a stimulus. You use the printing press to put money into circulation so there can be more production. That's the whole fucking point. Even if you don't give the money to companies for production you can give money to an individual in the form of unemployment checks. This person goes out and buys a Mrs Pac-Man machine. This brings money into Namco and they can maybe produce more Mrs. Pac-Man machines which gives people more jobs. These people then go buy stuff. This is how this shit works. Are people like Schiff are either naive or just fucking idiots.

It wouldn't be so infuriating if it wasn't so contradictory. I think that is what gets me more than the general stupidity behind the whole thing.

The Death of Classic Rock

It came to my attention yesterday that the classic rock station in the DC area has packed it in and has been replaced with top 40 pop hits or whatever over saturated, safe corporate pop music is currently big with the kiddies right now. Believe me I am not too sad to see the classic rock station go even though now there is one less radio station in my market that will not be playing Freebird at least once every hour.

So let the kids have their billboard top 40. I understand how the market forces work. The only people who listen to to classic rock (without any hint of irony) are old people and we all know that advertisers could care less about putting out material that old people care about.

So yeah, the only reason I write this post is because of a commercial I heard on this new pop hits station. It started out with that one asshole who sounds like he is constipated say something like "only the best music here baby." They then play some shitty soft ass eagles song for a couple seconds before cutting it off. Then that guy with the backed up voice comes back on and says "just kidding we play nothing but the newest, hottest hits."

Guess what the next song is that comes on. Lenny "fucking" Kravitz. Not even a new Lenny song. It was Are you Gonna Go My Way. I got news for you replacement radio station. Not only does that song suck now, if I remember correctly, and I think I do, that song sucked ten years ago when it first came out.

The Credit Crisis Explained

I found this to be an interesting video since it breaks down the credit crisis. Worth the eleven or so minutes it takes to watch it.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Send Me An Angel

Someone who is in somehow related to someone who is somehow employed in some capacity with the company I am employed with died so I got an email about it on my work email. This sentence was found within the body of the email which got me thinking:

"Early this morning, God’s Angels came to escort (person's name) to her new home."

This got me thinking about all sort of things in relation to life and death matters. For instance what time do the Angels have to leave heaven to be able to pick up this person on time. I am sure there are a lot of angels who have to make the trip down here every day so do you think there is a lot of traffic. Do you think if someone has a sudden and violent death that is unexpected that the angels who are picking them up get to take some sort of HOV lane or something like that. I would think something like HIV the angels could plan well in advance in order to get down in time to escort these people to their new home but something unexpected like a heart giving out might catch them by surprise. And do you think these angels get pissed off when someone dies during rush hour because they'll have to fight all that traffic?

Do you think in some sort of cataclysmic event like when the World Trade Center was bombed and there are a lot of people who have to be picked up at the same time that the angels will either car pool or take a Greyhound down to pick up a lot of people at the same time. I mean I can't be sure what the distance these angels have to travel is but I'm sure it would probably be cumbersome to take two trips.

I don't know but if you ask me all these people who created these the aspects of various religions such as heaven, hell, Noah's Ark, and whatever the other things Indiana Jones was searching for in those movies would be able to come up with an answer for these questions for me.