Everyone that attemps to see Douche Blaine perform his non-magic trick is upset by the fact that Blaine isn’t actually hanging there for 60 straight hours. He takes about 3 breaks per hour. This has to be the worst “trick” of all time.
David Blaine and Criss Angel need to have a douche off. They should make each other disappear, forever. Since neither one of them is an actual a magician, Angel will most likely set his hair on fire and scream into the camera, while Blaine climbs a telephone tower and stands there for 45 minutes.
The only thing these two have successfully made disappear is my love for magic. It’s a shame that Copperfield is busy coercing women to his island and is no longer interested in yearly specials.
So now we are stuck with these two. At least bring back Gob Bluth.
“These aren’t tricks, Michael…they’re ILLUSIONS!”
– The Late George Carlin
And the painted ponies go up and down…
And now they want you and me to pay to fix it. John McCain may be screaming about regulation now, after the fact. But the facts show that 9 years ago, Phil Gramm led the charge repealing the laws in place that prevented these types of subprime loans. The creation of NINJA loans (No Income No Job No Asset) created inflation that filled the proverbial bubble so fast it exploded.
In the Nobama facebook group, the creator/moderator, Brian O’Malley, posted a cartoon insinuating it was the “democrat party’s” regulations that wouldn’t allow the lil free market to reach the homeowner. This created a bubble with a mortgage they couldn’t afford. I emailed Brian O’Malley asking his thoughts on McCain now asking for regulation:
“Very low amount of government checking, is fine.
The government’s job should be to check things, keep things
in balance. Not to meddle with them unless it’s an emergency.”
700 Billion is very low government checking? Usury laws are strict government regulations? How can the government “check things” but not intervene unless it’s an emergency? That doesn’t make any sense. If the government sees the problem, as many did, that’s why regulations were there in the first place, what can they do until it’s too late? This is cry baby capitalism. It benefits the ultra rich. John McCain’s right hand campaign man just cost you a whole lot of money…all because he wanted to make a whole lot of money.
3 years after Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the old regulations, Gramm became Vice chairman of UBS’s new investment firm.
From 2005 - 2006, Gramm lobbied Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages.
For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees. Gramm made a whole of money and just cost you a shit load. This is being a fiscal conservative? This is going to keep my taxes low? I don’t get it. The republicans talk about taxes as if they are the no tax party. I’ll save that rant for a separate post.
These are the “Warshington” fat cats McCain says he is going to “fix?” What?! Fix them more money?
Source: Politico
Oops, I did it again. Besides quoting Britney, I took an entire week off of blogging. It’s not like anything really happened last week. Nothing crazy like Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch. Lehman Brothers didn’t file bankruptcy. AIG, the biggest insurance company in the world, didn’t ask for a government bailout. Nope, it was a pretty boring week.
Although something strange did happen. I take one week off of blogging and the Republicans are now screaming about regulating the free market. WHAAAAAT?!? Isn’t the CORE BELIEF, the STRONGEST REPUBLICAN VALUE, NO REGULATION? Up until last week it was. I take one week off and the Republicans are now more liberal than the liberals. What’s next? George Bush is going to ask take 700 Billion (that’s 80k in extra taxes from every American) from the government. Holy shit! The “Republicats” went so far left they became socialists.
I better stop taking breaks from blogging or the republi-fat-cats might tranform into hippy communists. At least the conservative reformer maverick John McCain believes the fundemantals of our economy are strong in the worst economic meltdown in 75 years. And thank you for inventing the BlackBerry. I don’t know what I did without.
Travis Barker and DJ AM just several hours before their nearly fatal flight.
Why in the world are the Raiders being televised for the 3rd week in a row? The Superbowl Champs are playing Ocho Cinco and at 10am tomorrow and I am stuck with Oakland Buffalo.
So unless I do the most horrible thing and replace Time Warner Cable with Directv, I am stuck in Raider Nation. I don’t know about the rest of you, but in the 30 days I had Directv, it was broken 30 times. The box would have a problem and require me to call them. Every day, I’m not kidding.
So now what? I guess the Raiders need to get a whole of a lot better and Time Warner better make a deal with the NFL and bring me a hell of a lot more games. An NFL league pass…that’s all I am asking for. They could charge a shit load of money for an HD NFL League Pass. A lot!!!
I am thinking of laying $1000 on McCain. If he wins, at least I will make $1100. If he loses, that’s a small price to pay for an Obama victory.
: Damn, if that is Sharae it's a good thing you didn't call her back.....but ...what if that wasn't.....
: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/Code%20Monkey.mp3. There's your theme song, J.
: God made dirt and dirt bust yo' ass!
: Sharae sound like a sexy vixen.... Did you ever call her?
: Yeee-aaaah booo-eee. Go Lakers!
: 3 down, 79 to go
: the most dominate team to ever play in the NBA
: ...Nuts.
: Where's them taggers @?
: "I felt like destroying something beautiful."
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