My Side of the Couch: March 2005

Study: Water wet, oh and most college faculties are really liberal. This is such a..

. I don't know, " " thing.

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.

That might be a bit of an exaggeration. The most conspiratorial conservatives are nuts. But other than that, it's all "duh.

" I found this interesting:

Rothman sees the findings as evidence of "possible discrimination" against conservatives in hiring and promotion. Even after factoring in levels of achievement, as measured by published work and organization memberships, "the most likely conclusion" is that "being conservative counts against you," he said. "It doesn't surprise me, because I've observed it happening.

" The study, however, describes this finding as "preliminary."

What, you mean, liberals discriminating? Whodathunkit.

Other than conservatives saying so for years. I always wondered how it felt to be right all the time..

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The liberal label that a majority of the faculty members attached to themselves is reflected on a variety of issues. The professors and instructors surveyed are, strongly or somewhat, in favor of abortion rights (84 percent); believe homosexuality is acceptable (67 percent); and want more environmental protection "even if it raises prices or costs jobs" (88 percent).

What's more, the study found, 65 percent want the government to ensure full employment, a stance to the left of the Democratic Party.

Joy joy. And I'm sure they don't let that, uh, "flavor" their teachings, right?

The study did not attempt to examine whether the political views of faculty members affect the content of their courses.

"We knew better than to ask."
In other words, the story tells us that water is wet, rocks are hard, and sand in your crack is irritating.

Next they'll tell me that most reporters are Democrats and cell phone users piss me off in traffic.

The Supreme Court justices aren't after all!

During a lively argument, justices wondered aloud whether such lawsuits might have discouraged past inventions like copy machines, videocassette recorders and iPod portable music players - all of which can be used to make illegal duplications of copyrighted documents, movies and songs.

Yes, that's the exact problem with this. Sue the people doing illegal trading, not the tools.

Other than the first few paragraphs, this is the exact same story I linked to earlier. I'm glad that the justices are at least considering this from the practical standpoint.

As if I needed another reason to hate these people. over internet file sharing is getting started. I thought this was all settled with the Betamax case, and apparently lower courts thought so as well; they sided with the file-sharers.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a cute list of things that would be should the RIAA/MPAA win.
I do not, personally, share music files. On the rare occasion I've used the internet to download them, it's been either stuff the RIAA doesn't sell and I can't get anywhere else, or songs that aren't being played to death so I can see if I want to buy the album.

Every single CD I've bought in the last four or five years has been because I was able to download the music. I don't watch MTV, I don't watch VH1, and I don't listen to that kind of music.
I hate the following catagories of music: Pop, R B, Rap, Hip Hop.

Those just happen to be what MTV currently shows, to death. The radio stations don't offer much else. There are two local stations that are supposed to play the kind of music I want.

One now plays nothing but Pop, R B, Rap, and Hip Hop, and the other went from playing Nirvana and Metallica to playing pussy bands like Linkin Park. I hate Linkin Park. The only other stations are rap (yes, one station is not enough), country (which I'm not too fond of), Christian (while I consider myself Christian, the music sucks), and oldies.

However, the oldies station plays boybands a lot now. So it's no wonder I retreat to AM and listen to Boortz, Limbaugh, and Hannity.
I have a very limited opportunity to hear the kind of music I like, other than the CDs I own.

However, that does get old and I'm picky so I don't want to buy a new CD that might be what I want, or it might be a Linkin Park shit parade type of CD. That said:

Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians are backing the major recording labels, saying their livelihoods are threatened if millions of people can obtain their songs for nothing.

This is one of the most absurd statements in the world.

These people are richer than rich, CDs are overpriced, and the musicians only get a few cents for every CD sold. If the internet was going to destroy their livelihood, it would have by now. But a lot of people like to buy the CDs, just to own the CD and contribute.

The only thing endangering these people's careers are their big mouths. CD sales dropped only slightly, and only when the economy tanked after the dot-com bubble burst.

About 20 independent recording artists, including musician and producer Brian Eno, rockers Heart and rapper-activist Chuck D, support the file-sharing technology.

They say it allows greater distribution of their music and limits the power of huge record companies.

That's right, and the record companies have a lot of power as it stands now.
A few years ago, the RIAA released a press release saying that they had busted up a piracy ring and the place had over 200 CD burners.

The reality of it was closer to 10, but they counted many of the burners multiple times because they were fast.
Back when the VCR was new, the head of the MPAA, Jack Valenti, said: "The VCR is to the movie industry what the Boston Strangler is to a woman at home alone."
These people have no grasp on reality, and just want to hold on to their power.

I hope the Supreme Court crushes their hopes and tells them to go fuck themselves, especially considering this line:

But a victory for the entertainment companies would allow lawsuits that could drive companies that make file-sharing software out of business. It also would effectively overturn rules that have governed technology companies for more than two decades: Manufacturers can't be sued for copyright violations committed by customers using their products illegally.

There's a link here to guns, if you look at it.

If we can allow them to sue manufacturers for what customers do illegally with the products, it could be used as a stepping stone for a similar rule about guns. It may sound paranoid but look at the anti-gun hoplophobes. They'd use anything they could.

If I were to intentionally run over a "friend" of my ex-girlfriend, should his parents be allowed to sue Dodge? No, and that's a violent crime. If I bash someone over the head with a beer bottle, should he be able to sue Budweiser?

No. If I shoot someone, should he be able to sue Smith and Wesson? No.

So why should billion dollar companies be able to sue other companies because their product is being used for illegal purposes?
Honest admission: 90% of the time I've used P2P software, it's been for porn. Mostly porn made by silly girls with webcams that isn't copyrighted.

(See: ) I could care less about downloading Jessica Simpson's music. But let me know when she does webcam porn.

Hillary Clinton has lost her fucking mind. A bill proposed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.

Y., would enable anyone to register to vote on election day and cast a ballot without a photo ID, proof of citizenship or other personal identification.
Clinton calls the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 "critical to restoring America's faith in our voting system," but critics see it as an open door to fraud.

So does anyone with a freaking brain! No proof of ID at all? No proof of citizenship?

So she wants every one to be able to just walk up and vote and have that vote count? Excuse me, Senator.
Just what kind of a nut are you?

In a column in The Hill newspaper, Byron York called the measure "the most wide-ranging assault ever on the idea that there should be minimum enforceable standards for voters."

I'm with him. This is stupid.

I'm for more stringent standards for voting, not less. Just, what the fuck? Just when the fuck did this become a good idea?

If this passes the country is in trouble. Voter fraud by nuts like those at the Democratic Underground will be rampant.
No one can tell me they won't cheat, because they cheat now.

See "Christine Gregoire." (I'm not saying Democrats are the only ones to cheat, but there's a reason Hillary wants felons to vote, and there's a reason she wants to relax the standards.)

Every time there is a shooting incident, robbery, or whatever, some Deputy Fife moron has a quote in the news story that civillians should go along with the criminal and do what they want so they don't get mad and shoot them. I don't believe this is the answer, ever, and I have experience in the matter to back it up. First it's like telling a potential rape victim to just go ahead and suck the guy off so he doesn't kill her.

What kind of backwards ass logic is that?
I've blogged about this before, but on a different topic. In August of 2001, my father was robbed at gun point.

He'd gotten to work early and was the only person there. He often did that to get all the stuff ready for a day of work. After handing the goblin his wallet, the goblin told him to kneel down.

Father was going to have none of that. He never keeps all of his money in his wallet, and so he tossed the remaining money on the floor. When the goblin bent to pick it up, he ran.

(I will never understand why he keeps a wad of one- and five-dollar bills in his pocket -- maybe to muffle the jingle of all the change or something -- but I'm damn glad he does.)
Goblin pursued and shot him. Bullet went right through, missing anything important.

This is where the adrenaline kicked in and my father chunked a five-gallon water container at the goblin. Apparently the goblin thought he needed to get out of there real fast because someone else threw the container. The point is, my father gave him his money and the guy was still going to kill him.

I will never forget finding out he'd been shot and it seemed like forever before I knew he was okay, even though it was about a second and a half. He went along with it.
In August of last year (August is a bad month, I guess), my cousin was robbed at gun point.

He was in his car, but stopped. Broad daylight. He handed the guy over $200.

The guy then shot into the car, once. Through the door, into his right leg and through to his left. It pierced his femoral artery.

He died. He went along with the goblin.
I will never go along with a goblin.

They will kill you anyway. So I'm going to try my damnedest to kill them first. I will not be a victim or a statistic.

I will not be the one in the paper, "Man Shot, Killed, in Robbery." Because everyone I know who did what the criminal wanted got shot. It is my goal to make it through life without getting shot.

I will shoot first, and I will shoot often. I will never live in a state where I would be in trouble for blowing some stupid asshole away who wanted to kill me, rob me, or rape my girlfriend/wife/mother/sister/daughter. Some people deserve to get shot.

Again, thanks for making my argument for me. Oh yes, .

I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, "I wouldn't have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.

"

Was she fired? Yes. Was she fired for her political views?

Yes. Is she Republican? Yes.

Political bigotry from the left...

again.
I would sue that magazine for everything it is worth. With money in hand, I'd make a blog and all the dirty little secrets of everyone in that company would be all over the internet.

Someone that high of a position in the company has to know something about someone. I wouldn't use it as blackmail, I'd just spew it allll out. I would have my revenge.

"I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views."

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Thanks for making my argument for me. Every once in a while I'll argue with a liberal who keeps talking about how bad conservatives make liberals out to be, usually spurred by Bill "We're Cowards" Maher's rant about how we've made liberal a dirty word.

It doesn't matter that the former Vice President has called Republican bloggers "digital brownshirts", a reference to the Nazi SS. It doesn't matter that conservatives are portrayed as bigots, idiots, racists, and sexists. It doesn't matter that it was Democrats, not Republicans, who started the Vietnam-era background checks during the last election cycle.

No, we're the badguys. We're mean. It doesn't matter that a Democrat Senator once said during Social Security debate that GOP stood for "Get Old People.

" Guys like Ted Rall are given a free pass to say Ronald Reagan is a "cripsy brown" and call fallen soldiers idiots (or stupid, or whatever he said) and make blatantly racist cartoons about Condaleeza Rice. It's okay for Senator Robert Byrd to say the word "nigger" on national television, and we're supposed to forgive him for filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and being in the KKK. All because of the "D" after their names.

But Trent Lott lost his job as leader of the Republicans in the Senate because he made a vague statement complimenting a dying old man. A statement that race-baiters twisted into something racist. Yet Byrd is given a pass.

Hillary Clinton gets away with making a joke about Gandhi working at a gas station. An AP reporter gets away with saying Bush supporters booed when Bush wished Clinton well before his heart surgery, despite the fact that audio from the event has no sign of booing and the reporter admitted to having earplugs in during the event.
CBS's Dan Rather gets by with using falsified documents to attack George W.

Bush two months before the election, but over two-hundred Vietnam Veterans who served honorably are investigated, called drunks and Republican hacks, and dismissed by the media without any investigation into their claims.
We catch Saddam, and Howard Dean says we're no better off. Then Kerry says that anyone who feels that way isn't fit to be President.

Then Kerry says that catching Saddam didn't make us any better off. But saying that Kerry is a flip-flopper is deemed as "questioning his patriotism" or some other bull.
Then the Democrats make Howard Dean their leader, and within a few weeks, he calls Republicans "evil.

" Now, he's called us " "
Yes, we're the ones who are mean. We're the ones who are reactionary, close-minded, and callous. Right.

One of the many reasons I oppose abortion.

Doctors and health officials will consider whether more guidance on abortions is needed following the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute two doctors who authorised a late abortion on a foetus with a cleft lip and palate.

As far as I am aware, that is a fixable problem -- at least to some extent.

A lot of conservatives and pro-lifers have predicted that as genetics and technology go further, "designer babies" will become the new stupid parent trick. This is an early example of that.
Well, what's to stop parents from using genetics to make sure they have a tall baby with good skin?

You never know what science will be able to do in ten years. If a doctor can get away with aborting a baby with a cleft lip and palate then hey, slippery slope. Who knows where this will end up?

Liberals will, of course, say that this is a ridiculous fear, that this is a ridiculous idea, and that this is neo-con nonsense. Why? This is the kind of thing conservatives have predicted.

This is evidence of it. The idea of "abortion on demand, no reason needed" is more barbaric than "rape, incest, mother's life."
Feminists are all, "choice, my body.

.." Well choose not to get pregnant.

Choose to keep your legs closed. Because when you have consentual sex you've made a choice. How many methods of birth control are there?

Don't want to get pregnant, take the pill, use a condom with spermicide, chart your cycle AND use the withdrawel method. There are so many couples who spend years trying to get pregnant and have to resort to all sorts of medical things to get pregnant that I just can't believe in an accidental pregnancy. You can't get pregnant by accident in this day in age unless you're a complete moron or you're raped.

What about the choice of the baby? Even if you don't believe in God and souls and all that, the nervous system is one of the first things to develop. When do we draw the line?

A month? Two? I hear feminists say "there is no such thing as partial birth abortion" but they oppose a ban on it.

If it doesn't exist, why do you care if it gets banned?
Then there's the stupid argument about the death penalty. It seems contradictory that people who oppose abortion are often for the death penalty and vice versa.

Well, okay. Let's submit every woman who wants an abortion to a trial where she has to get twelve people to agree she can have an abortion, and then let the baby have appeal after appeal for his/her life. How does that sound?

Something I noticed about me that relates to politics. I am fiercely loyal, and stubborn. I will side with my friends, even if they're wrong, because they're my friends.

I take my loyalty very seriously and I can't stand the idea of backstabbing someone. It takes a lot for me to cut people out. I also expect loyalty and betrayel isn't something I treat lightly.

In a normal life, these issues don't come up often. It doesn't really apply because outside of teenager drama it's just not an issue in my experience.
Mostly it comes about when two people have a fight.

Guy has a fight with his girlfriend, as his friend I am obligated to hate her until things are made right. It's just the way it is. If someone offends your wife it is your duty to hate said person, and in earlier days, challenge the punk to a duel and kill him.

Men like that sort of thing. Most men, anyway.
Even if a friend is wrong, I will side with them.

Unless two friends are fighting, then I have to side with the one who is right in the argument. Mostly these disputes are silly and melodramatic, and they don't actually have a lasting affect on anyone's friendship.
I also have a very, very long memory.

I remember it when someone does something hurtful or helpful. This doesn't just apply to friends. I remember all the stupid things famous people say about this country, and I remember it when I'm thinking about seeing a movie.

That's just one example. Along with the loyalty is the stubbornness: I don't forgive easily.
This applies to politics.

I love this country and I don't care what our position is we have a right to be wrong. Our allies damn sure better stand with us regardless because we stand with them all the time. So I don't forget.

Ever. Every single little shot at the country I love, every single stupid comment. Everything.

Michael Moore saying we're the stupidest people? I'll never forget that.
I'll never forget who went into Iraq, and who didn't.

I'll never forget any of it. All of this adds to why I take politics seriously. I love this nation and it is important to me.

God help the French if I ever become President.
Domestic issues, too. I love guns, I love the constitution, I love free speech.

Those things are part of the country I love. So it's all connected. I will never forget DiFi saying she would take every gun if she could.

I will never forget which Supreme Court Justices think foreign law overrides the constitution, and I certainly won't forget the names of McCain and Feingold.
My vote may not make a difference. But I won't forget in two years, or four, or six, or whenever politicians are up for re-election.

I won't forget when I vote. It won't make much of a difference. But I'm going to spout my anger about these people on this blog.

My mission with this blog, other than blowing off steam about politics, is to get current politicians out of office. My dream in life is to get people like DiFi, McCain, Feingold, etc, retired. Some of them are closer to actually quitting than others.

How many more years are we going to put up with this? We need politicians who stand for us. We need to get rid of the ones who work for corporations, the movie industry (like that troll Fritz Hollings, thank God he's gone), and the ones who lie to us.

I will never vote for a politician who serves someone other than the people of the United States. I will never vote for a politician who wants bigger government or tax hikes. I will never vote for a politician who supports eminent domain, any form of gun control or registration (or, obviously, confiscation), and I will never vote for a politician who in any way wants to infringe on the rights in the Bill of Rights.

Those politicians in D.C. are not the boss.

We are. Of the people, for the people. They are accountable to us, not the other way around.

They only get away with things because the public lets them. While in office they are to do what we want them to do, what we think is best, not what they want to do and what they think is best.
We pay their salaries.

We pay for their healthcare. We pay for their transportation. In between now and January 20th, 2009, George W.

Bush belongs to us (for example). One of the things about the blogosphere is that, in the political section, there are people who care. People who are interested.

People with long memories. People who have the knowledge of the issues and people who will vote. Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, Green, whatever -- there are people who care about this stuff in the blogosphere, and the numbers are growing.

So hopefully in 2006 at least a few of these assholes will be sent packing. Tom Daschle got his pink slip in 2004, after all. That was an amazing victory for Republicans, because the leader of a party in the Senate rarely gets defeated.

But it was an even bigger victory for Americans because the people decided that Daschle didn't represent them, and they sent him home.
I hope that similar success happens in 2006. Let's send a few more of them home.

Been meaning to do this. Midterms got in the way of any real posting, and I kept forgetting:
Everyone should participate in the .

The very idea of regulating blogs is absolutely ridiculous and I stand by my statement that McCain, Feingold and the FEC can all blow me.

DU: Crazier than a whole herd of shithouse rats.

I just had to know how the Democratic Underground was responding to the report on media coverage. I just had to. And so I went, and I found something even crazier than their reactions to that.

A thread called .

What a friggin stroke of god's work, eh? She's pretty, charming, photogenic, she brought out her bible, she pulled a Tony Robbins on him, .

..Damn!

that's one lucky dude. Sometimes you just have to thank god for the way he makes these miracles happen. Hallelujah.

.

Sarcasm, right? Then the first reply is titled "Actually, I find it a heroic and compelling story" and the author replies "you're supposed to find it heroic and compelling, Walt" and "my tinfoil hat is permanently soldered onto my skull"
I'm not sure, but either the author or the original post is a plant, or he's seriously one of the craziest motherfuckers on the planet.

But then...

more stories appearing of the power of God and belief in Jesus lately? Brainwash people into believing in the 'power of God' - they're easier to control..

.especially if they see the government as a tool of that god.

This is such a no brainer.

They had to have a study? How much money was wasted on that? You just had to look at the coverage of the National Guard story versus the coverage of the Swift Boat Veterans.

Someone produces fake documents about Bush and they're accepted as the Gospel Truth -- a position CBS still holds -- but somewhere around 200 people who were there talk about the bad things Kerry did and every one of them is investigated.
It wasn't even fair from the start. Bush was assumed to be an asshole and everyone accusing him was assumed to be an angel who told no lies.

Kerry is assumed to be a war hero who is being attacked by drunkard Republican plants. The media only covered the Swifties to bash them. They were never given a chance to tell their story in a real way by anyone other than Fox News.

Even Democrats now admit that Kerry was a crappy candidate. His flip-flopping, his history and asshole attitude, and his nearly retarded wife all hurt his chances. But the media covered that with a slant, too.

He wasn't flip flopping, he was just clarifying. He wasn't really an asshole anti-war protestor, he just threw someone else's medals. His wife isn't really that retarded, she just misspoke.

But see, the rabid anti-Bush hatred didn't help in the end because people don't trust the media as much as they once did. Ratings are down for everyone but Fox News, and the implosion of Dan Rather made it worse. People don't trust someone who looks French to handle the war on terror.

So the media can flail helplessly all they want about how evil Bush and Republicans are and how we want to starve old people and opress minorities. People aren't buying it; Bush increased his vote with minorities. Despite how irritating Bill O'Reilly is, thank God for Fox News.

This is going to be a bloodthirsty post. When I turned on the television during breakfast this morning, I saw the news. Judge killed, suspect at large.

Immediately a thought came to mind: I hope he's shot instead of arrested. He shot four people, possibly five, was the story. He killed a great judge.

He's going to get the death penalty if he is arrested and tried, because this happened in Georgia.
But that will cost money and there is a small chance he will get life in prison. He killed at least two people, one a cop and one a judge.

Upstanding citizens. Innocents. People just doing their jobs.

Then he pistol-whipped a reporter and has stolen cars in his getaway.
I hope he tries to steal a car from a man carrying a gun, and gets blasted in the fucking face. Or I hope the cop who catches up to him is trigger happy.

Because he deserves to die. Before this, he committed an aggravated rape. He is the scum of society.

It would be justice for him to have a .45 bullet in between his eyes.

You'd think I would lose some of my optimism. Despite everything bad the media can point to, things are going great right now for the United States. Democracy is coming to the mid-east slowly but it is coming.

That's an improvement over three years ago. The budget is in limbo but things take time. People hate us but they can't really do without us.

Without the United States to stand in the way, Saddam would probably be sitting in Paris right now and planning the next country he wants to invade.
So things are looking up now on a governmental front. I'm optimistic.

But during the last few years, I've been blasted with how bad things are. Unemployment is high (despite being the same % it was during the Clinton years, when we were told it never could get so low before Bubba). The war is costing too much money, and making our allies hate us (despite the fact that now, after the election, they've given up and are snuggling up tight with the Bush Doctrine).

The war on terrorism can't be won, Iraq is a quagmire, and what we're doing is causing terrorists to hate us more.
Well, unemployment and the economy are doing just fine in my personal opinion. Maybe it's the fact I didn't go to government school and actually had high-school level economics, maybe it's my optimism, or maybe I just don't buy the bullshit the media pumps out, but I think we're okay.

Could be better, but there's not much that couldn't be better on this world of imperfect humans.
Our "allies" are sort of like little brothers. They want their way and Chirac held his breath and it didn't do any good.

Then they realized big brother Sam was protecting them from the real bullies (Kim Jong and the Wierd Beards) and decided they better kiss up to big brother a little. Look at how warm the reception has been in Europe for the President and Sec. Rice.

Things are getting better there. Other nations were with us all along, like England and Australia.
The war on terrorism can be won and we're winning it.

On September 11th, 2001, bin Laden's al-Qaeda network brought down the World Trade Center buildings in New York. Before the election of 2004, all he could do was release a video. That's a stark contrast.

The pro-terror Taliban is no longer around. My World Civ Instructor put it thus: "One day your grandkids will ask you who the Taliban was, and you can say 'They're the people who decided to play football with the United States and lost. They're not there anymore.

'" They're gone. Finished. Women got to vote in Afghanistan.

Women got to vote in Iraq.
Oh, yeah, Iraq is a quagmire. If you're Saddam Hussein.

Then you're kind of screwed. We've lost less soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan than we lost civillians on September 11th, and that's pretty damn good. Imagine if in World War 2 we lost fewer soldiers than people who died in Pearl Harbor.

That's a damn good track record considering this is an unwinnable war.
Terrorists hate us more. So since September 11th, they want to kill us more dead than they killed those three thousand civillians.

Yeah, I don't care how much someone wants me dead. The fact that they want me dead is pretty good motivation to defend myself and plant them in the ground. Terrorists intentionally target women and children.

Terrorists cut the heads off of captured soldiers and release video of it.
I'd say them hating us is a sign we're doing something right. There was a time when the Democrats thought Reagan would start World War 3 with his attitude and approach to the Soviet Union.

They were wrong. The Soviet Union is gone now. Communism has been relegated to a few nations and only one is a real threat.

One of his last public appearances was the Republican National Convention in 1992, and he said, "They're over at the other convention saying 'We ended the Cold War.' I wonder who they mean when they say we?" In twenty years, terrorism will be a memory and Bush will be at the RNC saying something similar.

So I'm eternally optimistic. More often than not, I'm right in my optimism.

The FEC can blow me. The FEC has sort of hinted, stupidly, that they will be attempting to regulate blogs. I don't have as angry a response as Kim du Toit, but I do have one:
McCain, Feingold, and the FEC can all apply suction to my male organ.

I just started blogging, and a lot of the time I get political. I was very political and very anti-Kerry in the months leading up to the election, without a blog. I'm going to say what I want about politicians when I want and how I want and I'll link to any political site I damn well please.

I'm not "contributing" to a campaign in any way. I'm not paid by a campaign. I won't take money from a politcian unless there are a lot of zeroes on the check, and even then I wouldn't take money from a politician I didn't like.

I am who I am, I'll write how I write, and there's nothing the FEC can do about it.
If I get any sort of letter or e-mail, or phone call, or any contact from them, my official response is in the title. "Blow me.

"

Martha Stewart gets out of jail sometime around midnight tonight, apparently.
Wait, Martha Stewart went to jail?

I'd forgotten. The media didn't BEAT THE STORY INTO THE GROUND enough. I don't give a shit about Martha Stewart.

I just don't care. It's not my kind of news. I don't know why everyone cares so damn much.

She wasn't even really in jail. She was in a nice, happy place. I don't care.

I'm sick of hearing about it. I got sick of hearing about Chandra Levy. I got sick of hearing about the Scott Peterson trial.

Those three people are not that important. (But I'm damn glad Scott got his in the end. I just got tired of it.

)

It finally happened.
An ugly teacher was having sex with her students.

The pervasiveness of nuts. I used to visit slashdot very often. I am a geek to the core, and I liked the page.

It was slow and the site has needed an overhaul for about five years now, and often they published duplications and made mistakes. It was like a real news organization; outdated and ran by people who didn't even pay attention to their own stories.
However, the stupidity of the visitors eventually pushed me away.

There are a ton of people who post just to be assholes and take advantage of anonymous posting. 90% of the posters to the site are far-left and, well, out of their minds. People who hate Bush so much they can't see the forest for the trees.

One of their favorite issues to hammer on was censorship.
Now, I don't want the government to censor cable, satellite, or satellite radio. That's too damn much and not their business.

I don't want the government dicking with the internet. This came to mind because Michael Powell, Slashdot's third-most-hated person (first is Bill Gates, second is Bush), was just on Cavuto's show on Fox News, and I listened to him talking in the back ground.
He agrees with me; he doesn't want government censorship of cable, satellite, satellite radio, or the internet.

Oh my! He's not this evil pornography hating neo-con! But the posters at Slashdot can't accept that.

They get an idea in their heads and nothing will ever convince them otherwise. Two slashdot drones arguing will never stop. It defies the laws of physics.

These people also tend to crap all over Republicans, without looking at their own faults. They bitch about Bush and then bring up the draft, and ignore that only Democrats have proposed a draft lately. They complain about government siding with the RIAA and MPAA (both of which can suck my cock), but ignore that former Senator Fritz Hollings was the main supporter and fellatio-provider for Jack Valenti.

Jack Valenti was the head of the MPAA for a very long time, and is the moron who once said "The VCR is to the movie industry what the Boston Strangler is to a woman at home alone." But he's not a slashdot poster, so that's another blog post.
Basically, 90% of slashdot posters are Democrats who worked Tech support and are pissed that their jobs got sent to India by Dell.

They all hate Bill Gates, but without him and his company Slashdot itself wouldn't exist and I don't care what they think, the internet wouldn't be where it is today. I'm not a fan of Bill Gates, myself, but I'm not just DU-crazy hatred about him.
The posters are also constantly anti-US.

Any issue they can find an anti-US angle to, they find. They complain that the internet is too US-Centric. They complain that the US has too much control on domain names.

Blah blah blah, you know why? Because we're responsible for most of it. Our country doesn't sue eBay for allowing people to sell relics from Nazi germany.

Our country doesn't sue Google to make it block certain search results.
And to a man, they're all anti-gun, which makes them complete idiots. None of them understand the realities of gun control and the problems and history behind it.

Slashdot is a hive of "me-too"ers of a magnitude note seen since AOL allowed its users access to usenet.
As time goes on, the site begins to resemble the Democratic Underground more and more. I wish them the best.

I just wish there was a middle-of-the-road geeky site out there. By middle-of-the-road I mean no shithouse rat crazy political extremists. So if anyone finds one, let me know.

Blogging and Such. Often, bloggers say they don't care about hits or popularity.

Sometimes I think this might be true. Kim du Toit, for example, doesn't have to worry about hits and he isn't changing his blog to get more. But when someone who does things that are known to increase hits says "I don't care about traffic" my bullshit detector goes off.

I don't have much traffic. I don't care that I don't, because I've only just started in January and I'm not posting as often as the big hitters with as many big time posts. I don't have the energy or skill for that.

If I posted as much as Acidman or Kim and got my kind of traffic, I'd be pissed.
I like to check sitemeter. Mine and others.

I don't care for the number so much, but the higher it is the better because of the thing I REALLY like: visitor's browsers. I'm a dedicated fan of Firefox and I've been using it since before it was called Firefox. I used plain Mozilla since around 0.

9.4, then switched to Phoenix around the last release under that name. I like to see how other browsers are fairing against the 800lbs gorilla, Internet Explorer.

People with closed off Sitemeter stats piss me off.
That said, I also have the ecosystem link because it's fun, and Technocrati so I can locate people who link to me. Not many have; but again, I just started.

I check my sitemeter referrals about once a day, too. This is a hobby, and I dedicate time to it. I enjoy it.

I also enjoy reading what I call "new (to me) blogs." These are blogs that have been around more than a few months that I haven't previously come across. (And some of them have HUGE traffic.

That's how massive the blogosphere is.) I can't read every blog there is, but I can try and read the ones that interest me. Most of the blogs I visit are somehow gun related, a few are news related, and a few are just people who talk about whatever is on their mind, so there's no method to the madness that interests me.

In the last few days, someone else has added me to their blogroll. , a blog that falls under the "new (to me)" blog. I look around at the posts and whoa hey, he's a gun blogger, and a good one.

So now he's on the blogroll and daily read list.

I forgot my title.

The Supreme Court justices are idiots. I'd understand if they'd said "13 or under" or something, but a 16 year old knows damn well what they're doing. They're morons.

Robert Byrd is an asshole. He's also a hypocrite. The old fart once argued for eliminating the filibuster.

How's this for a freak coincidence: A man whose party filibustered the Civil Rights movement (while he was in the Senate, I'm not sure if he took part in it) is calling Republicans Nazi's for wanting to eliminate the filibuster, which he once argued for.
The Domino Effect in the mid-east is going to destroy the Democratic party. I figure at the DNC in 2012 they'll be claiming "we brought Democracy to the mid-east.

" Then Bush'll be at the RNC saying, "Who do they mean when they say 'we'?"
Also on the Domino Effect, is it not awesome as hell that not only is Lebanon going to be free, but there are people in Syria who want to be free, too? The legacy grows.

"Live free or die, death is not the worst of evils."
Howard Dean is a useful idiot. So is Chris Rock.

Ten bucks says Dean makes an ass of himself before the end of the month.
More later when I can remember exactly what I had in mind to post about.

Okay I have to admit. Ann Coulter is a bit skinny for me. But my God she's hot.

She's a mean uberconservative woman with writing talent. We could use more of those in the world.
This is what crosses my mind when deflating and reading blogs and columns.

Goodbye to Elizabeth. I have now finished all my research and the actual paper itself.

I've done all the little extra parts so that I only have two things to do before I can turn it in: print it with the nice school laser printers (the quality difference is amazing, and I'm going all out), and get all my sources aligned. I ended up with six book sources, and they were all very, very long. The paper itself is six pages in length, not counting title and reference pages ("works cited" in MLA).

Eight pages in all.
I have went through nine very long books on the time period (okay I skimmed a bit), watched the movie Elizabeth, wrote a six page paper (and it's about one line away from starting a seventh page), and learned to use the APA Style Sheet for documenting sources. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, Mary of Guise, Walsingham (my favorite), etc etc I could do without hearing anything else about them ever.

Blogging will probably pick up. (Mid term grades are due Friday; three perfect 100s!)