http://www.kctv5.com/news/15996710/detail.html

Regarding a 13-year-old:

Something is very wrong with a society who thinks it's too late for a 13-year-old to be rehabilitated. The only time I would accept this is if there was a severe mental instability involved. The article at least doesn't mention this.

So a kid who was raised with violence acts violent and is therefore lost forever?

Bullshit. Calvinists should rot at the bottom of a dank sewer.

You know those 13 year old girls who would give their left breast to be Kagome from Inuyasha? Those people who are so completely obsessed with the dubbed, cartoon network version that they write extensive fanfics when there are oodles of better storylines/animes out there?

Noggin stays up until 5am every morning to watch Inuyasha. If he can't stay up, he sets his alarm. Also, emotional.

<3 (Please help.)

I'm not bitching because I got boned by a hard test, or because some tester gave me a bullshit minus point for something that didn't matter, and I failed. No. None of that. I aced my permit test (100%) and I don't intend to fail either my written nor practical test. I am pissed because I was denied the opportunity to take my written test because of 3 minutes, which caused me to waste 2 and a half hours of my time.

We got there at around 3:55, and the sign said, "If your number isn't called by 4:00 PM, you cannot take the test." I was angry to begin with, seeing as my mom took a half hour to get up from her nap in the first place, but we decided to see if our number would get called in the next 5 minutes, since the place was nearly EMPTY.

Our number gets called at 4:03. We go up to the counter and my mom asks if we can take the test still, since it's pretty much 4:00. The guy looks at his computer clock and says, "No ma'am, it's 4:03, you can't take the test today, you'll have to come back another time." The ensuing argument is, from my perspective, both annoying and incredibly hilarious. The guy basically makes himself out to be the ultimate bureaucrat, with arguments such as "If it was 4:01, he wouldn't be able to take the test" and "Yes, it is PHYSICALLY possible for him to take it, but our rules state that if your number isn't called before 4:00 PM, you WILL not take the test."

I can understand their rules and that they have to enforce them, but the way the guy was talking to us just pissed me off. He never once [sincerely] apologized to us, and had a smile on his face like we were complete idiots, when we probably both have a higher IQ count than him. Not to mention that I only had to take the written test, which all in all would have taken me 30 minutes, TOPS, and the place closes at 5:30. I can understand the rule when you have a crowded lobby and can't possibly serve everyone, but the place was literally a GHOST town. My mom got so pissed off, for the first time ever she swore (loudly) in public (in front of me, at least). For pretty much an hour drive both ways due to traffic, I just wasted my fucking time.

Oh, and if any of you frequent the WoW forums, lolcats =P.

Seriously. The vast majority of my day-time entertainment comes from reading the 120+ RSS feeds I subscribe to.

One day a year this all gets fucked. Nobody posts real stories; everyone's having too much fun posting retarded April Fool's jokes. Joy.

Bleh.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/perso...ily/index.html

Wait. She was making $70k / year and spending all of it?? Not saving a dime? Now she's getting unemployment checks and doesn't have enough money for food? Does this sound fishy to anyone else?

Fucking. Retard.

I don't understand it. I really don't. Why do people think they are not responsible in any way for themselves or for planning their own future? There is no possible way, even in a city like NY or SanFran, that you couldn't save a little out of a $70k salary. FFS, learn to live below your means.

And I'm supposed to feel pity for people like this? I'm supposed to feel good about my tax money going to people like this? I hate it.

Why are our programs to help people find work so ineffective? Where is the government spending on jobs instead of handouts? Why are we so concerned about people who took out stupid loans when a giant portion of our population is ignored in slums and prisons?

And I'm supposed to feel bad about a middle-class white woman who couldn't manage her finances? She doesn't need money--she needs a fucking education.

Why isn't our tax money being spent on that?

Taxes take almost half of every paycheck I get. It feels like the government is grasping my earlobes and dragging me to a store I hate to buy crap I despise.

Argh.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1799

Look, it doesn't matter if government or private industry makes these decisions. The only difference is a for-profit organization has a strong incentive (money) to be as effective as possible (to be better than their competition).

Government agency? Not so much.

Plus, people who are willing to spend more on their health care can get extravagant care that's simply not available otherwise.

Making it easier for poor people to get quality health care? Awesome idea. It's even worth subsidizing via taxes to some extent.

Putting government in charge? Fuck off.

Get it? Helpful People? ha ha ha!

Each of those 2-3 minute waits were 9-12 minutes.

Regarding the "stimulus" package that apparently is gonna go through:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2008012401981

I fucking HATE so-called progressive tax systems. They make absolutely no rational sense.

I don't get it. Because I didn't make a stupid decision and buy a house I couldn't afford and am successful enough to make over $87k a year I don't deserve a tax refund? Yet people who paid far less taxes than me (both percentage and total) do? Oh, and heterosexuals. Can't have a decent rant without bitching about them.

What kind of fucked up system is this? Why do we reward people for not succeeding? Gah. It's such fucking bullshit.

So. Yeah. This is actually one of the main reasons I don't donate to charity. If Government wants to get their nose involved in it then I figure they can do it all on their own. They tax me enough to, anyway.

My god sucked. And not the good kind of suck. The painful kind of suck. We're not talking a

Dracula 3000

level of horribleness, but it was pretty god damn fucking bad.

And I watched it. All if it. Even when it threatened to give me an anurism I kept on watching it. While sitting in my couch I felt like I was playing a Japanese punishment game.

The acting was terrible--worse than High School play terrible. The alien spaceship was rendered without any textures at all. A giant banana smoothie floating in space. The laser bolts flew out of characters hands rather than their guns.

And the one-liners. Oh my god, the one liners.

What was that?
Your tax dollars at work.

So these aliens have this disease that apparently glues strands of undeveloped film to their chests. It's killing them. So, like any sufficiently advanced species, they take the only course of action open to them:

Find a one-way wormhole to earth so their species can bathe in the blood of nine million humans.

Click here to read the rest of this review!

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*3 have done time for assault

Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet?
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Fuck. You.

http://www.triggerstreet.com/gyrobas...st?oid=1237593

Yeah, I know why you're doing it, and it's for none of the reasons you lay out in that article. It's for one amazingly simple reason:

You don't like change.

Nobody likes change. I know. But fuck you if you think you deserve to be the exception. The world changes. The economy changes. Adapt or die. Your employers don't want to pay you the same way they did in the past? That's an issue between you and them. If you don't like it, quit. I suppose you can even, you know, strike if you think you're incompetent enough to get what you want on your own.

But don't fucking expect anyone to care about you. Or support you. Or do anything but mock you, really.

You think you're entitled to an exemption from change. You think you should be compensated in the same way forever. You're selfish enough to believe you should continue to be paid in the present for work you did in the past.

Fuck. You.

I'm getting kind of sick of reading these. The bastards.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...y-sex-scandal/

I really hate our two-party political system. OK, I hate a lot more about it than that, but the two-party system probably irks me more than most things. Why must the party that wants to expand civil rights and liberty insist on socialized medicine? Why must the party that supposedly supports a conservative financial policy insist on war-mongering--and why are they infested with right-wing Christians?

It's insane. It's like any choice you want to make is burdened with a suitcase of garbage.

It's a system that let's disgusting people like this guy thrive.

I've often expressed my distaste toward people who pretend to care about the suffering of those halfway around the world--it's silly transparent phony sadness. You don't care about people you don't know.

This is the opposite side of the coin. The people we do care about are those who share our circumstances. We feel a natural empathy for those who've faced the same hardships we have.

That a gay man would use his political power to repress other gay people frustrates the hell out of me.

http://www.careonecredit.com/Knowled...ard_traps.aspx


It's all a big conspiracy! Oh noes!

Er. OK. I still feel bad about being an asshole--I doubt it will last for long, so I'll post this now. Instead of just ripping into how stupid something is, I'll try to provide a constructive suggestion.

Instead of lobbying to put strict regulations on credit card companies, how about you spend that money on educating people about personal finance? (Must resist snide comments about personal responsibility. Must resist snide comments about personal responsibility.)

If you want to punish credit companies for anything punish them for giving cards to illegal aliens. Don't punish them for giving cards to people who think it's their right to have a revolving credit loan that doesn't penalize them for not paying. Pro tip: If you pay your balance off in full and on time you don't get charged interest or fees! I mean, unless your credit is so horrible that you need to pay an annual fee.

Dammit, it's too hot down here in trying-not-to-be-smug land. And I'm failing at it anyway. I'm getting back up on my pedestal where the air is thinner.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8640

This is a great article. I'll do my best not be redundant here.


Look, it's not the government's job to preserve jobs. That's bullshit. Yeah, yeah--everyone feels sorry for that sad unshaven family man that loses his job and can't make ends meet. Poor little man.

Seeing him unable to acquire any new skills almost lets you forget we live in an era of insanely low unemployment. Opportunities abound. Why would anyone think we need to preserve skill-less textile work?

It's the same argument the RIAA is using--save our jobs! Save our business model! Bullshit.

By that logic motor vehicles should have never been created since they put everyone in the horse and carriage industry out of business.

Oh noes! The manure cleaners lost their jobs!

http://digg.com/business_finance/The...conomy_is_Over

Yeah, I'm linking to the Digg article instead of the Washington Post one. Fucking hell Digg is a bunch of Chicken Little idiots. I mean, listen to some of these posts.

Noooo! It's the end of the world! The United States is dooooooooomed!

Read the full rant here.

Art sucks. It does. Worse than pit bull feces spread over a decaying human corpse atop a pyre of burning hair. Not the thing, mind you--the word. It needs to die. The word's been keel-hauled so many times it's basically just a bloated bag of flesh now.

Under the retarded notion that everyone's opinion is equal everything is art. It's not about hard work and endless practice to better yourself--it's just about expressing your feelings. Even those feelings you don't know how to express.

Your stick figures are art.
Your starch-ridden spaghetti is art.
The sauce stain left over is art.
Every black and white photo you take is art.
So is anything you apply the sepia filter to.
Or make a photoshop frame effect.

It's all art. Pointless art. Retarded art. Crappy art. It's art because you say it is.

Bullshit.

It's not art. It's bullshit.


Just because you took the photo in black and white doesn't make it art.
Just because you framed it doesn't make it art.

It's a picture of a girl's face for fuck's sake. There's nothing interesting or insightful about it. You shouldn't get warm fucking feelings from taking a fucking picture of someone's face. It. Is. Not. Art.


God fucking dammit. This is also not art. From the wanker's website: This is a study in self, a self portrait in blue, black and white.

OK. Seriously. self-portrait? Really? For fuck's sake.

And no, Mr. Stupid-serious-expression-trying-to-look-cool: de-saturating everything but your eyes doesn't fucking make it art. Or interesting. Or good.

Even good things aren't necessarily art. It's a retarded modern notion that only art has beauty. Because of this, we label everything beautiful as art.

Science is not art. It's science. Yell at the next person who calls a science experiment artistic. It's not bloody art.

Computer programmers are not artists no matter how much they insist they are. C++ code is generally not art. (And when it is art, it's typically not good code)

Not even all drawings or paintings are art. Unless you're going to suggest that every fire exit sign is art. Or every bathroom sign.

Medium does not define art.
Beauty does not define art.

This isn't a pointless argument about semantics. It's an argument of intent. Art is art when it's made with intent and successfully conveys that intent. Intent and success are, of course, subjective. Still, at least it rules out the spaghetti stains on your plate.

Painting your wall gray ain't art. Graffiti-tagging it with your gang's name ain't art. Graffiti-tagging it with a picture of a police officer beating your brother is. See the difference?

You devalue all art when you take a black and white photo of your desk and call it art.

For those who do create actual art: Get the fuck over yourselves. Especially so-called abstract artists. Look, I don't care if certain famous men in the past drew crap and called it cubism. That doesn't mean you can. It doesn't mean you can puke on a towel and call it great. Not unless you had a really good intent and reason. It might be art, but it certainly isn't good. If your audience doesn't "get" your art it's not their fault. It's yours.

Below are two abstract paintings by some no-name painter being sold on a no-name site. Care to wager how much he's charging for them?


$4,500 for the first one and $16,000 for the second. Yeah. That's worth it.

Get the fuck over yourself you motherfucking douche. Very little art should be valued that high, especially when it has so little reproductive value. It's pleasing to the eyes, yes. It's art, yes.

But it ain't worth 16 grand. Christ.

http://www.bgay.com/bnews/news70707_...op_gay_sex.htm

Wait, what?

So his answer is to automatically open the doors of the bathroom in hopes that you can prevent people from seeing gay sex. Brilliant! (Or if not gay sex, at least some sick guy having the worst bowel movement of his life).

The sad thing is this will probably successfully avert the attention of the public away from any actual problems. "Well, at least the mayor is doing something about all that filthy gay sex that's happening in toilets!"

http://www.truthera.com/2007/04/28/k...-surveillance/

This goes back to my post yesterday about parents being entirely too overbearing. Kids cannot become fully-functioning adults without at least a minimal right to privacy.

The Digg article suggests the dean and parent in question went to the same church.

Gasp! My daughter might be an evil, filthy lesbian!

I mentioned that when I went to HS in the late 90s I was a completely different person at school vs. at home. I wore freedom rings, painted my fingernails a bright blue, and otherwise didn't exactly make who I liked ambiguous. At the end of the school day a bit of nail polish remover set me back to my conservative, obedient alternate self.

Although I sometimes feared someone who knew my parents would see me outside, I never once considered that my teachers would tell them. And the thought of security cameras tattling on me never even crossed my mind.

Despite this I was still paranoid. It was stressful, constantly switching between the person I wanted to be and the person my parents wanted me to be.

If I knew my every move would be recorded and analyzed by over-zealous video surveillance I probably would have gone insane :/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/06....ap/index.html

To the point that even a high-five is against the rules?

Jesus fucking Christ. Why don't we just wrap them in giant condoms to keep them safe?

Or, better yet, burqas.

and wine into blood with my miracle Jewish foreskin! Watch as I razzle and dazzle my urine like a spigot down your fucking goblet, that shit they just don't market as any Robitussin. Ahh, now I remember why I am here, grotesque grammar and pedantic, poorly written prose is my middle name!

98% of people are either sheeple as DranoK (inventor of the jiggovirus) kindly puts it and the other unscrupulous manipulators who will devour you as soon as they can without any remorse. What these other 2% are I do not know, they seem to be getting out of jail free cards though. Life is a poor player, no dice is all too common an occurrence. From ingratitude, to usurpers, to envy, people are out there to make you their corpse in the FRIENDLIEST WAYS as possible. The only satisfaction an honest man can take from being tormented by such typical vultures is that you can do it too and the realization of just how lonely (and devoid of true friends) these people are. Think family is any better? I hope you think again, they're far worse and play the blood relative card too often(thanks to LiquidX for clarifying my mistake). Ultimately, you need to grab your balls back from who you are being hoodwinked by and take life by the horns and maximize your potential.


As for organizing the masses? DranoK alerted me to the idea of mandatory vote tests to determine competency (how can competency be defined, if by realizing, just how little you really know compared to the internet 10 years ago. What a shitty sentence...) This is just the tip of iceberg as far as I am concerned. Democracy is PC correct language for being raped by government. I do not know the ideal form of government, but what I do know is that as long as people cede any form of liberty you are going to reap what you have sewn. Capitalism is great, and so is Communism; however, both systems have NEVER EXISTED anywhere. It is always watered down and controlled by a select elite few who send people off to war for "GOD and COUNTRY" and beguile the rest (~98%~~ ) into some make believe cause or kind of ridiculousness. What is the answer? Only thing I have ever found to help is to acquire knowledge with an avaricious appetite to squander and starve would be leeches.

Do you want to be one of "those" who die forever friendless? Or would you rather be one of the select few who actually uses their power for not always the *most* selfish reasons? There is nothing wrong with swaying people in your favor; but, the question you have got to ask is when are you going to get burned by someone in return? When will you reach your tipping point? What will you do in order to quell your urge to create malice?