Little Stories

Have I ever mentioned how little respect I have for the Congressional delegation from Alaska? Actually, I have, especially about Senator Ted Stevens. It just boggles my mind the gall that delegation has when it comes to federal appropriations. That state is basically a federal welfare leech that sucks more money per person from the federal dole than any other state. Yet, it doesn't even have a state income tax, and citizens there get a dividend check from oil production. That still doesn't stop those sons of bitches from trying to freeload some extra money. Before they had the "bridges to nowhere". Now, they have the "ferry to nowhere" which is a federally funded ferry where the bridges would have gone. Hey, if they want a ferry, fine. Just pay for it yourself.

Speaking of people on the federal dole, the Katrina victim society is still in action. You would think that no other state had ever been hit by such a large hurricane. Well, Katrina was a category 3 when it hit land in the U.S.. Hurricane Andrew made land as a category 5. I saw the damage that Andrew made. Homestead was flattened. Yet, its citizenry picked themselves up and rebuilt. What happens in New Orleans? First, they riot over the tearing down of some old public housing to redevelop which might be inconvenient for freeloaders. Then I see where one of the biggest activists/freeloaders lived in a "free" (to her) apartment with a 60 inch television. Have they ever thought of a means test for free housing? Things like if you have a new 60 inch TV, you have the means to pay your own damn rent. Now, we're finding where such "victims" are filing huge claims from the government, including several for billions of dollars. A spokeswoman said "we're taking every claim seriously". Well, first thing to do is fire her ass for stupidity if she thinks a billion dollar claim should be taken seriously, let alone a $3 quadrillion one. The second thing to do is start charging people with fraud. A government compensation claim is not a wishlist. If there isn't a valid reason for that amount, the person filing the claim lied on a federal form. Taking every claim seriously my ass.

I'm watching the Florida/Kentucky basketball game, and it looks like the upper deck in Florida's arena is mostly empty. Gee, I thought this was a basketball school now. I guess their fans are front-runners.

Also listening to UL vomit up a loss to Seton Hall. Every time I begin to expect good things from this team, they really blow one.

We recently had the anniversary of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky presidential hummer story on the Drudge Report. Interesting timing since Chris Matthews felt the need to apologize to for basically saying that Hillary Clinton's political career was built on her husband's adultery building sympathy for her. Didn't make much sense to me. I think her political career has been built because she was married to Bill Clinton who has a core following and already established political organization. That's why she would never think of divorcing him at this point. Although in fairness to her, I think Hillary has managed to build her own following (mainly women). Still, I don't want to talk about the bizarre Clinton marriage/partnership. I want to talk about how I was personally affected by the story breaking. At that time, the internet was a new toy. The breaking of the story on Drudge showed me that the internet could be more than just sports scores and pornography. It could be about important news stories. With pornographic slants.

There are certain stories that make you think "only in Sweden". This is one of them. The bomb squad was called to disarm a vibrating package. That package turned out to be a sex toy. Let this be a lesson to all of you. When you send a vibrator, take the batteries out. Batteries are expensive. Don't take the chance of them wearing down.

A transgendered womanthing is suing a hospital for not giving her a boob job. To be honest, I am in favor of boob jobs if that's what a woman wants. However, I am opposed to sex change operations. The reason for sex change operations is because the person "suffers" from Gender Identity Disorder or what I call by the acronym B.S.. I'm not going to say these people aren't suffering some kind of psychological problem. If they want to slice off junior, they are suffering a psychological problem. My beef (heh, heh, I said beef) is the question of what other psychological problem is solved by mutilating (and that is what is being done) the person? How about curing Narcissism by beating the patient until they are ugly? It's mental. Work on the brain. Studies are now showing that the mutilation isn't really working. But I don't want to talk about sex changes in general or religious affiliated hospitals' right to refuse to do elective surgery. I want to talk about this particular case. It is claiming that it wanted a boob job because "it will make her more feminine". I saw the picture. A boob job wouldn't be enough.

Larry Craig just won't go away. I've mentioned before my biggest problem with Craig isn't the gay thing (oh, wait, he says he isn't gay). It's the fact that he wants to have sex in a public toilet. Well, now he has the ACLU saying he has the right to have sex in a public toilet. I guess on one hand I should be happy that the ACLU is claiming a right to privacy in a public can since I've done some pretty bad things there. But they were dietary related. Public toilets are not private enough that anyone should be having sex there. Now, on the other point, I do agree with the ACLU. No one should be arrested for trying to pick up a date in the bathroom as long as the sex act is to take place elsewhere. While I think it's a pretty sick pickup joint, technically the behavior is no different than doing it at a bar or restaurant (or my favorite place, high school). Unless a person is insistent after being told no, asking someone for sex isn't really a crime. Tying them up and keeping them locked in a closet for several months is a crime. But damn it's fun.

If you're riding a bus in Fort Worth, you can feel free that you won't have to worry about someone reading the Bible out loud when you're on the bus. To be honest, I probably would have ignored this story except a quote from the bus lines spokeswoman that cracking down on noise from passengers "is a standard policy across country in the transit industry". Do bureaucracies always look for stupid people to speak for them? Have you ridden a city bus in a major city? You're lucky if you can hear the person next to you. Granted in the land of my high school graduation, they'll revoke your bus pass if you get a bunch of helpers to beat the Hell out of a fellow passenger.

Speaking of assault, George Clooney pissed off Fabio to the point that Fabio wants to kick his ass. Now that would have been a story. Fabio may have made his name as a romance novel cover boy, but he's a big guy. Clooney is shorter than me. I think Clooney would have gotten his ass kicked.

Reason #1,329,054 why a fence should also be built on the northern border. A Canadian woman sued her drug dealer because the crystal meth she used gave her a heart attack. I'm not real sure what the rationale was. To be begin with, the story said she didn't ask for change because she was already suffering the effects of a heart attack. So, I'm not real sure the crystal meth can be blamed for the heart attack. It's never happened to me. Plus, I think there is an expectation here. Did she really think crystal meth was good for her?

A man was sentenced to community service and probation for sending the guy who was cuckolding him a cow's head. The important line is that he "understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow's head to anybody." Wanna bet? I can think of a lot of reasons why I should be able to mail a severed head to somebody. Boinking my wife would probably be on it.