Hey - look at the moron in the middle of this ...

... literally!

Read here for more about what stupidity he's trying to push the United States into this time -

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/24/a-dangerous-resolution/

The audio is apparently even worse. He reminds me or more than one type of person I've encountered a number of times in my career in IT - Loud, stupid, and drunk on one own's authority.

P.S. I sincerely hope that's not Patty Murray to the right of the moron whose to the right of the moron at the podium.



Overheard on a bus - 02-27-2012.

Armed forces guy (or so he claims) from Salt Lake City stands at the front of the bus when I got on (it was full).

As bus went onto I-5, we could see Mount Rainier in the distance.

Guy asks bus driver if that's the mountain that blew back in the 80's. Driver (female) says it's not.

At first I thought that'd be the end of it, given there are signs that say not to interfere with the bus driver while they are driving.

Boy was I wrong.

No, instead she says she's never seen it so bright like it was today, but not as pleasant as the mountains in ... guess where?

No really ... guess where?

Why, Salt Lake City of fucking course!

Well this starts Armed Forces guy and Bus Driver gal in a long and drawn-out conversation on a number of topics which they relate to the whole bus for the duration of I-5 -

• It's just not as beautfiul here as it is in Utah
• They each are the rocks of their families
• Snow is just crummy here
• Both can't wait to get back to Utah, but their spouses won't let them because they are each from the areas (oh what assholes)

Fortunately for the rest of the passengers, this guy got off on the 2nd stop after the bus got off I-5. Unfortunately for the readers of this blog, this conversation will for ever be remembered, as part of this series - yay all of you.

Close to 1 trillion dollars USD spent on our military.

The official 2012 Defense budget of $530 billion, and just a shade under that for 2013, leaves out an enormous amount of defense-related government spending. According to a recent piece in The Atlantic, when you add in, oh, the cost of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, our spending on nuclear weapons development (relegated to the Department of Energy budget), Homeland Security, veterans' medical care (inadequate as it is, but rising), military aid to allies ($3 billion to Israel, for instance), and interest on the military's portion of the debt (projected to be $63.7 billion in 2013), our defense spending almost doubles, to $986.1 billion in 2012 and $994.3 billion in 2013.

In the last 13 years, according to Business Insider, U.S. military spending has increased 113 percent. We spend more on the military than the next 15 biggest military spenders combined - and more than all 50 states spend, in total, on health, education, welfare and safety. In 2007, some $11 billion was simply written off as "lost" in Iraq, the Business Insider story notes.

Read about it here - http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13342

Wow this really makes me sad - RIP Gary Carter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Carter

I had no idea he was ill. This is what happens when you lose sight of things on the Internet.

Thank you for providing many hours of enjoyment in watching you hit home runs, throw people out at 2nd (and 1st and 3rd base) and be the positive spark the Montreal Expos had during their best times.

You will be missed.

Why do I get the feeling ...

... this isn't going to end well for us?

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2012-02-22/news/hanford-s-toxic-avengers/

Read the first part here -

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-10-19/news/hanford-s-nuclear-option/

This is the price we all will pay for America's race to become the first nuclear power.

Gee you think this guy's a fucking idiot?

Proof that the oilsands in Alberta, Canada will only fuck up the planet permanently AND make people say stupid things in of all places, a climate summit forum -

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/17/428375/canadian-minister-promotes-tar-sands-at-climate-summit/?mobile=nc

Canadian Minister Promotes Tar Sands At Climate Summit


" Kent also pushed Clinton to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which alone would add five billion tons of greenhouse pollution to the atmosphere over its lifetime" 

I wish this were an Onion article ...

... kind of like this one ... http://www.theonion.com/articles/michael-bay-signs-50m-deal-to-fuck-up-thundercats,2702/.

Sadly, it's not - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-wrath-titans-director-290554.

Yes. That Michael Bay.

Another element of my younger years is going to be destroyed.