Archive for Common Sense
Hey, Man! What Cell Phone Do You Have?
· CommentsI’ve been asked this dozens of times over the last few years by pushy mall cell phone kiosk salesmen. My usual response is to either ignore them or come up with something equally annoying since I’m usually in the middle of a sentence with Gorgeous when they interrupt us.
This time, though, I figured the best answer was to say, “an iPhone.” End of discussion, right? The first generation iPhone is only a year old and required a two-year agreement. If I waited until the 3G version, then I just got it and would be a pretty big moron for 1) ditching it so fast when it’s one of the most advanced phones available and 2) paying to cancel the service after having it for just a couple of months. No, not the end of his discussion. He said something about T-Mobile but we were already 20 feet away.
My question is this: Is there anyone who has EVER bought a cell phone from a mall kiosk?
Did you just say, “yes.” Alright, I’ll forgive you for being weird, but was it because a salesperson approached you in any manner?
I didn’t think so.
Warsaw (Poland), February 13, 2005, taken by Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
I’ll just come out and say it: politics suck. Too bad there is no way around either that fact or the existence of politics. Millions of people were shocked, mad, flabbergasted, confused, etc. by Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination AND victory last year. My only solice was assuming that there had been no real contenders last year, because the media sure didn’t talk about anyone but Gore, did they?
There was a true hero of humanity up for the prize, but no one has heard of Irena Sendler.
Back in WWII, Irena got a job as a plumber in the Warsaw Ghetto in an effort to smuggle children and babies out because she knew what their fate was going to be. She had enough room in the bottom of her toolbox to carry out infants and would sneak out small children in a burlap sack.
We all know children and babies don’t stay quiet for very long periods of time, so she kept a dog in the back of her truck to keep the guards away and to drown out any commotion her catch would make.
2,500 kids later, she was caught and had all four limbs broken and was nearly beaten to death, but she still had the names of the children she rescued buried under a tree in her back yard so she could notify their parents when the war was over. Of course, most of the adults had been gassed by that time, and the children were placed in foster care or were adopted, but they alive, nonetheless.
She ran up against Mr. Global Warming, which is still a hotly debated topic over cause, solutions, motivations, effects, and more. What about her life and accomplishments can possibly be debated regarding the prize? Check out her organization’s website at http://irenasendler.org/ for more information on her and what is still going on.
I guess people wanted a middle-aged, angry millionaire to win rather than a righteous, elderly woman.
Debt Free at Last
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Gorgeous and I finally paid off the last of our debt, this one was originally mine from before we got married. She has done an amazing job dumping money from our accounts whenever we had a surplus into paying down our debt.
She has sacrificed shopping trips and vacation weekends for two years to get us to this point, not to mention telling me, “no!” almost every time I wanted to get something we didn’t really need. We’ve stopped using our credit cards just because we didn’t have much in our checking or savings. Credit cards are for needs only when the accounts are insufficient, and that’s it. The amazing thing is that they keep raising our limits and I keep insisting on them lowering our APR.
Here is what you have to do: Read More→
Barack Obama, I Call Thee Nicolae Carpathia
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I’ve been holding my tongue for months, but the media just keeps drawing too much attention to intangibles that he has yet to deserve as a junior member of the Senate with a piss-poor hardline liberal/socialist voting record, unethical real-estate deals, and a 20-year relationship with his Farrakhan-worshipping pastor. He has outlined how many taxes he wants to raise, programs that need to be funded with taxpayer money, and said that he both wants to socialize healthcare and will dismantle the entire nuclear program.
Think I’m pulling this out of my butt?
Check out how closely this egotism and propaganda mirrors that of Nicolae Carpathia from the Left Behind series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Carpathia.
As for the media support, I can’t do much better than let you see all of the depictions of Obama with a halo-like appearance: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums.
Oh, and you do realize that he doesn’t write those speeches that everyone (read stupid people, celebrities, and straight-line liberal/marxist/socialist whackjobs, and naive/historically uneducated young people) is so moved by? Those are created by people called “speechwriters,” who are professionally trained and tested political writers of moving prose. Barack does not have the command of history of global politics to attempt to pull off his speeches’ content himself, that much you can be guaranteed.
Jon Voight wrote one of the best historical/social pieces I’ve seen thus far in today’s Washington Post.
It’s time the world stops thinking he is the answer to all the world’s problems, too. Seriously, 250,000 Germans chanting for change when a JUNIOR senator from the U S of A comes to give a speech!? They can’t change a darn thing unless they all become American citizens in time to vote. Get a grip people and think.
His “World Tour” is nothing more than a public display that is will not be satisfied to be ruler of the US, but his need to rule the world. US presidents aren’t supposed to give a darn about the world community’s public opinion about our national security policies, social programs (remind me how many BILLIONS of dollars we’ve sent to Africa for Aids because they won’t stop boinking everyone’s wives when the men are at the diamond mines… right, we’re so selfish here). And how many social programs are we still supporting for beggars wanting more in our country? How about we take care of ourselves if you are such a bleeding-heart liberal and can see poverty in your own capitol cities a mile from state representatives?
When was the last time the world community came to our aid!? The Iowa floods? Katrina? The Florida hurricanes of 2 years ago? No? Screw them. We are the USA, and we don’t need them, so get your butt back over here and convince ME that you are a man. We send reporters over to talk to Iran, senators to talk to Libya, and have a rampant ex-president with his head so far up his rear he doesn’t know he’s washed up. Remember the inflation rates and terrorism issues in the 70s? I don’t, but I can read history books.
I digress…
Now, I won’t quite go as far as to say Barack Obama the anti-christ, but if he’s elected, dies, and is resurrected, then I guess we have more things to be concerned with than high gas prices.
