...Which says a lot, folks.
Kinky Friedman Says: More Dope, More Lockup Space
Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman called Wednesday for the decriminalization of marijuana to avoid further clogging state prisons with nonviolent offenders.So, basically what he's saying is that despite the violent approval he got from voters for his comments about the Katrina refugees in Houston, he really doesn't want to be governor of Texas, after all.
Just when you thought your "keyless entry" car was safe from thieves, there's a sequence of numbers that, while long, will unlock every single keyless-entry car in the entire world. Gotta love car hackers.
Amnesty International seems to have gotten confused into thinking they're still relevant, or that anyone cares what they think. Sadly, this time they're actually right, but the fact that they are will no doubt be lost in the enormous outpouring of apathy that inevitably greets one of their pronouncements. Anyway, they now say that Hezbollah committed war crimes while fighting with Israel.
Ben Affleck, finally realizing the extent and magnitude of how very, very much he sucks, has vowed to quit acting because we don't buy tickets to his movies. And after that pronouncement, I'm going to keep right on; it seems my campaign is working.
Nintendo has decided they would like to dominate the console market this time around, thank you. Releasing November 20th, the "Wii," Nintendo's new system, will be able to play every single game ever made by Nintendo, or licensed for a Nintendo console, uses a new (and oddly, despite my initial scepticism, kinda cool,) motion-sensing controller, and will retail for approximately half the price of a XBOX360 Premium. That's $250 for you non-division-enhanced types. Looks like there's a winner for my household - 1080P is just not compelling enough to make me shell out $600 for a PS3, regardless of how cool it might be. $250 might actually be possible sometime this decade.
Universal, seemingly misunderstanding the notion that the purpose of music videos is to advertise for their bands, is suing YouTube for allowing users to post music videos online. Despite the really, really stupid nature of this decision, Universal seems pretty upbeat, and confident they will be able to strongarm the world's largest online video archive into losing thousands and thousands of customers. Let me be the first to say: IT'S FREE ADVERTISING FOR YOUR PRODUCT, YOU STUPID, STUPID ASSCLOWNS!*ahem.*
You may not know about the imbeciles on the Chicago city council passing an ordinance requiring big retailers to pay astronomical "minimum" wages. They did. Mayor Daley, rightfully, vetoed it, and they were unable to override his veto. Now, with infinite genius and profound contempt for those they profess to serve, the unions are trying to force the city to adopt a higher-than-state-or-federal minimum wage for any business with more than 1,000 employees. Way to chase those jobs out to the suburbs, there, guys. I'm sure that will go a loooooong way towards helping those poor folks in desperate need of jobs in their search. Yep, sure does the inner-city poor good to drive big employers out of the metropolitan area. WTG.
In conclusion, I'd like to say thank you to all the above organizations, people, and anyone or any institution like them. As long as you stay stupid, I will have blogging material.
1 Comment:
You know what's funny?
The way everyone loves to jump on anyone who says that maybe a particular group is responsible for a problem.
Maybe they are.
Facts are facts, people. They are not open to "discussion," because they are not matters of opinion. They exist regardless of what you think about them.
For example, the crime rate in Houston has jumped by 20%. Fact. Not opinion.
Of 262 murders in Houston to date this year, 59 involved Katrina refugees. Fact. Not opinion.
Of the refugess from Katrina who were relocated to Houston and REMAIN there - the overwhelming majority are black. Fact, not opinion.
Does this mean "all black people are crackheads and thugs," as the two of you seem to feel? No, it does not.
It means that the particular group of people who remain in Houston after Katrina are by and large crackheads and thugs, and lest we forget, black. However, their skin color has nothing whatsoever to do with it; anyone of any age, race, creed, religion, height, weight, diet, or economic circumstance, can choose to be a criminal - or not.
The fact that this group of people, many of whom have chosen to be criminals, is largely black, means diddly.
What it implys is not a comment about black people; it simply implys that the people who were decent citizens have by and large gotten their shit together and gone back to their lives, while the collection of crooks, thugs, crackheads, and vandals that came with them chose to stay.
The fact that they're black is only logical; after all, in any group of people, there are a certain percentage of crooks, and when you bring a group of people to town who are overwhelmingly of one ethnic group, it follows that the crooks that come with them belong to that ethnic group as well.
The fact that you think this is somehow racist only indicates that the two of you don't understand what racism is, or how it works, and instead knee-jerk in reaction to anything that mentions race, as though the simple fact that someone is of a particular group must in itself be a racist imputation of some kind.
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