We Lose

A few months back I posted about the de-regulation of the cable industry and, like all Republican ideas about de-regulation, fail miserably. Now I bring to you the latest proof on how consumers lose when industries aren't watched. For those of us forced with monopolized Time Warner (which is always the result of de-regulation, monopolies) we are about to lose all our Fox broadcasts (while I don't mind losing Fox News since I don't watch that garbage I do watch other networks from them) because they are arguing over fees. So as always the consumer is getting screwed cause even when they resolve their differences we will either be without Fox or get higher fees. Republicans de-regulation will never work and I have examples that prove I'm right more then you do.

Year End

I decided to give my year end idiot of the year award. There are so many candidates it's not funny but the winner truly defines the spirit of the award. Runners up include Sarah Palin, John McCain, Rush, Bill O Idiot but the winner is


The Tea Party Movement

Keep in mind they really don't understand what the Boston Tea Party is but I remember attenting a rally (and being escorted out) and just asking simple questions and being able to tell them their placement of anger is completely wrong. For instance

The Deficit. Democrats had a balanced budget REPUBLICANS under George Bush ran it up. Deomcrats when they were in charge of the country had a BUDGET SURPLUS. But that didn't stop them.

Taxes. To this point taxes haven't gone up in fact I'm getting more on my paycheck (not much) and so did everyone I ask. Again misplaced anger

Bank Bailouts. That was BUSH'S IDEA. Not Democrats.

So their main reasons at the first protest are all created by Republicans yet they are blaming Democrats. They are hypocrites and clearly the idiots of the year.

A Tradition

Every Christmas I always find a copy of the yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus letter. Here we go

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and if you celebrate a Happy Kwanzaa

Rating Obama

So I guess this is the time of year where President Obama is going to be rated on his first year. I guess I will do the same.

Where he gets good grades:

International. The nightmare policies that were done by the idiot Bush are a thing of the pass. Thank god. Obama is trying to erase the idiot's crap ideas like torture, holding people without trials for as long as they want and the things that made us the most hated nation in the world. Grade B

Domestic:
Stock Market. Grade: A. He turned around that aspect of the economy. His policies worked it unlike the previous 2 administrations that killed regulation which never works when you de-regulate something cause companies won't police themselves.

Jobs. Grade: C. We are in a crisis. Again due to a major part of the last administration it is still up to Obama to fix the mess he inherited. I won't say he failed but he sure hasn't improved anything.

Gas Prices. Grade: D. I always attacked Bush for hi gas prices and I don't say that enough about Presdient Obama. What happened to that windfall profits tax on the oil companies? Why are we also not hearing from the media about the profits from the oil companies like we did under Bush.

Control over congress and senate. Grade: D. Democrats have the majority but don't act like it. In fact we act like children. As much as Bush is an idiot when he had both the House and the Senate they followed him to the point where we are now. Obama has no control.

Overall my grade for the first year for President Obama would be C+. There is room for improvement but he inherited a huge mess from the previous administration.

Idiot of the week

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/mccain-blames-obama-partisan-climate


You gotta love Republicans. Unlike what Robert claimed about how conservativism is about taking responsibility (which is the biggest bunch of crap I ever heard) they are ONLY about blaming other people. The latest earns our idiot of the week.

Insane John McCain on False News actually blamed President Obama for no bipartisanship in Washington. Even though on many many occasions the Presidient has reached out to Republicans only to have his face spat at. Republicans even voted against the troops recently as a further insult to the President. Yeah who is really not showing any bipartisan? YOU insane John McCain and YOU Republicans. You are the party of NO IDEAS and NO CLUE and YOU are the idiot of the week. You should also have this award in general for torturing us with Sarah Palin!

NBA

Last week I'm gave my list of the best baseball players of this decade now I'm going to give basketball. I'm going to go two teams on this one.

1st team:
PG Steve Nash
SG Kobe Bryant
SF Lebron James
PF Tim Duncan
C Shaquille O'Neal

2nd team
PG Jason Kidd
SG Allan Iverson
SF Carmello Anthony
PF Dirk Nowitzki
C Yao Ming

If you have something to add or agree please let me know

Not a bad choice but

I see Associated Press named Tiger Woods athlete of the decade. You can't deny his dominance on and off the golf course (Wilt Chamberlin would be proud) but I can think of a few athletes more deserving and more dominant and who play tougher sports then Tiger:

Roger Federer
Michael Phelps
Kobe Bryant
Tom Brady

I feel all of them deserve the award more then Tiger Woods.

More the same

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09067/954035-28.stm


I find it funny I've been doing some research and the Republicans have been using the same words to describe President Obama (marxist, facist) as they did against the new deal and FDR. It's really pathetic actually. Just further shows how small they are using the same attacks for 80 years.

Idiot of the week

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/04/tennessee-mayor-accuses-barack-obama-of-hating-on-charlie-brown-peanuts/

This is a pure gem and easy choice for idiot of the week. It shows the ignorance and utter racism against President Obama. I present Mayor Rick Wiseman (R) of Arlington, Tennesse:

"

Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it....w...hen the answer should simply be 'yes'....you obama people need to move to a muslim country...oh wait, that's America....pitiful."

Then it gets even more pathetic:

"you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different"

So 1st even though he's shown he IS NOT A MUSLIM this idiot who represents the REPUBLICAN PARTY is way off. At least in California the Charlie Brown Christmas special was SHOWN LAST WEEK. I realize Tennessee is a backwards state but that's when it was shown here. Second he says what so many Republicans have been saying without being called out on and that's what I really find disgusting. There are no questions where he's from there are no questions that was an important speech ( Yes I would say that if that was Bush too cause I've always supported the war to get Bin Laden) third if the idiot was that concerned about Charlie Brown Christmas it IS on DVD or since again it is Tennesee VCR so it's easily obtainable. So congrats Rick Wiseman you are the idiot of the week.

3 options

I'm going to give Tiger Woods 3 options when he eventually comes back for his apology tour. 3 talk shows that will help for different reasons:

Oprah. She will give a sympothetic ear to him. She will give ratings and the softball questions that will allow him to be sympothetic.

Jay Leno. He has a history with Hugh Grant after his affairs. It will be a huge boost to his show as well which definately needs one

David Letterman. He is currently in the same situation as Tiger. No one currently would know what questions to ask better then him.

Tiger will come back as I said and eventually will have to face the media as much as he doesn't want to. He can't hide forever from this.

Best of

Everyone knows I'm a big sports fan. So I figure with the decade coming to a close I'm going to start with a best of players in each decade. Mind you this is my opinion and I would like to get others of you agree or disagree. I'm going to start with Major League Baseball (and yes there are probably going to be guys accused or suspended of steroids)

C Jorge Posada
1b Albert Pujols
2b Chase Utley
3b Alex Rodriguez
SS Derek Jeter
LF Manny Ramirez
CF Torii Hunter
RF Ichiro
SP Roy Haladay
Rp Trevor Hoffman

I'll do a sport a week

A Great Idea

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protect-marriage-protect-children-prohibit-divorce

I heard about a great idea for those who are against gay marriage who claim it would ruin the "sanctity of marriage". This link goes to a petition that would make divorce illegal. For those who are against gay marriage you should absolutely sign this. But oh yeah you are hypocrites aren't you?

More proof

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/World_s_hottest_decade_adds_to_pres_12082009.html

So this is the official hottest decade on record. I know it's cold here in L.A. but I've always said that if we can do something about this now instead of ignoring global warming isn't it our responsibility to do that instead of dumping it off on future generations or waiting til global warming becomes a major problem?

At Their Best

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1209/Reid_compares_health_care_foes_to_slavery_supporters.html

So we have Harry Reid. He compared those who oppose healthcare reform to those who opposed freeing the slaves. Over the top admittedly but as always it sends the right into a hissy fit as always. Nevermind how many of these hypocrites have said that if healthcare reform happens they will "pull the plug" on grandma and grandpa and "death panels" nevermind how many times the RIGHT has used comparisons to slavery on issues they believe in. You want examples:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200912070036

As always the right wing wants it both ways. They prove yet again they are hypocrites.

Idiot of the week

It was a tough call for idiot of the week. I wanted to give it to Pete Carroll again because he learned a lesson about karma on Saturday but I decided to give to the following:

Michelle Malkin
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/dear-michelle-malkin-here-are-some-o


You see she goes out of her way to blame liberals for the shootings of the police officers in Washington. There is only one person this should fall on and that is Mike Huckabee. Remember the suspect was in jail in Arkansas serving a 95 year sentence when Huckabee commuted his sentence. If he was still in jail where he deserved to be those for police officers would still be alive today. If conservatives are about responsibility as has often been claimed on this site (yes I'm going to use that as often as possible) responsibility should be on Huckabee and him alone. Michelle Malkin you are clearly the idiot of the week!

Tiger

I waited for awhile to speak about Tiger Woods. It's funny he is asking for privacy and to be left alone with his affairs (pun intended). I don't like that fact. He is in the public eye and uses the media whenever it suits his advantage but since he messed up all the sudden he wants to be left alone. He can't have it both ways. He messed up and is now being tried in hte court of public opinion.

If he is worried he should look at Kobe Bryant. He raped someone but still is playing in the NBA and has the best selling jersey in the NBA. So fans will support him no matter what he does as in this case.

The worse part is the other players in the PGA who are going to be hounded with questions regarding this when really unless Tiger confides in them they really won't know or care what happened.

Sorry Tiger you are a public figure and your life will be treated as such.

What I saw

So I got at least to a point what I wanted to hear last night. I heard a plan, and most importantly I heard an exit stragedy. Good now I want to hear how it will all be paid for.

One more thing I would love to see ANY so-called journalist who has Dick Cheney on ask why do you attack President Obama when if you and Bush had a plan we wouldn't be where we are today in this nightmare? Also why would he accuse Obama of wanting to cut and run in Afghanistan when Cheney did it not once but twice? Why isn't the so-called liberal media asking him that.

Huckabee Murders

So the person who killed the four cops in Washington State was fatally wounded this morning. This has a direct relation to former and future Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as he is the person who is responsible for their deaths as the shooter was serving a 95 year sentence in Arkansas but had his sentence commuted by Huckabee. Good job you are responsible for four murders.

Questions

So I will ask what I asked Bush when he escalated the troops in Iraq the same questions to President Obama for Afghanistan

What is the mission
What is the exit stragedy

Bush never gave the answers I hope Obama does.