Archive for March, 2009
De Jesus (Christ AND the AntiChrist) and His Followers Protest Miami…Over a Divorce
Oh boy, it must be my lucky day! Who said Friday the 13th was unlucky? Finding news like this is a pure golden gem that makes me giddy and tickles my fancy!
Religious cults are fun. Especially ones where the leaders have been interviewed by Bill Maher in Religulous. If most religious belief systems didn’t seem schizophrenic and confusing before, our Latin friend De Jesus is BOTH the Second Coming of Christ… AND…. the Anti-Christ.
My Collection of Obama Stimulus Ads From the Internet
In a sense, what is going on in the Global economy is a war of different sorts. As a casual FOREX trader, I keep my eyes on the world’s biggest currencies: The U.S. Dollar, the E.U. Euro, Japanese Yen, and the Great Britain Pound Sterling..and well, they are all in deep doo-doo. We created a bubble on a global scale and now everyone’s gasping at our “Irrational Exuberance”. Cash Interest rates are being slashed and we’re spending more to avoid hard choices, like allowing companies to fail from a hog-wild spree of Free Market capitalism tempered with greed, lies, and stupid decision-making.
So, it leads me to this inevitable point that after all of the mainstream news and excitement of having an ultra-Liberal President, the opportunists of the Internetz have decided that it’s a good time to Stimulate the Web with great portraits of our fearless Capitalist leader, Barack Obama, riding the “Free Money” wave yet another time. I’ve got my eyes open when I’m checking the weather, reading email, scanning the news - and I keep finding all sort of awesomely cheesy banners to get your happy, spend-itching hands on a piece of that tasty Obama pie. Check ‘em out:
Obama….getting a good whiff of those Government dollars.
Yeah, none of these have cool Obama pictures…but still more “$12k grant” stuff invading my favorite news sites.
I suppose the ads for a “Free X-box!” weren’t working anymore - so they upped the ante to $50,000 and threw Obama on there.
Pfft. $2.99? Who’s got $2.99? I’ve got to eat, you know. That’s a meal at Taco Bell. You’re going to have a hard time convincing me to shell out $2.99 when your competitors are offering $12,000 for free, buddy.
OOOO!!! Now this banner looks good. It’s big and bold, it must be serious…now we’re talking! Wait….this check says “tax refund” for $3,172.30. I thought this was for $12,000? I get it…you just want my $2.99, don’t ya? I call bullshit!
Washington D.C. Global Warming Protest In The Snow
Haha. Ironic that the biggest Global Warming protest in Washington D.C. right now goes on after a nice fat March snowstorm.
All of those climatologists doing millions of dollars of climate research couldn’t even predict an abnormally warm day to go holler at politicians about how warm the planet is getting? At least make it sound good…
Next time you should pick a day in the summer. Like, near the equator. And you can all rub each other down with greasy suntan lotion. Just don’t get cancer from all of that radiation, I mean, unless you’re really out to prove a point…up to you. I’d enjoy writing about that protest.
From the article:
In a video on Capitol Climate Action’s web site, NASA scientist James Hansen encourages people to join the protest.
“The only practical way to solve the problem is to phase out the biggest source of carbon and that is coal. The science is very clear on that but yet the decision makers are not taking the actions that we needed to do that,” he says. “We have to send that message to Congress and the president.”
DUDE, you’re with NASA. And you’re a scientist. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved NASA and I love scientists (honest, intelligent ones, anyway). The biggest source of carbon is coal? Um, no. did you forge that every living thing on this planet is made of carbon? The biggest sources of carbon emissions would be dying animals and vegetation, exploding volcanoes, and the ocean.
Who is paying you to promote such Junk Activism?!
Look, like I’ve said before, nobody likes pollution. Pollution comes at a cost for our lifestyle we all enjoy. If you want to make the world a better place for people, of course we should stop burning coal and other pollutants for our power source. We definitely pollute and over-consume, we can all agree to these things.
What we shouldn’t do is religiously link our consumption to the noble idea of saving ourselves from the coming Apocalypse.
