It’s already December 30th and in holiday time, Christmas is long gone. But let’s be honest, nobody ever gets what they want. But its never to late for a belated expression of yule tide spirit. So with that in mind , Republicans in Congress. Please, please run on this idea in 2010.
Thanks
My best regards
Phil
I’m in a bad mood so i’ve decided to liveblog me being an asshole. Yeah, fucking revolutionary huh?
6:31 pm. Changed my facebook status to “Phillip Allen just de-friended Don Bailey on facebook. Only REAL, rappers are allowed to on my wall son
6:41 pm: Vernon Davis has his own diet? Maybe he should come up with his own learn how to catch the fucking football book next?
6:47 pm: Probably the gayest thing I’ve heard all day. SCary’s facebook status: “just has to brag a little bit more. Guess who got a first edition of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child for Christmas? THIS GUY!!”
6:50pm- An Aim Conversation
Mr. Awesome: so when you get pregnant are you going to stop wearing shoes?
Hannah0913: i barely wear shoes as it is. Only when in public
Mr. Awesome: damn right
Hannah0913:shoes are for people who go do things. i stay at home
Mr. Awesome:…that was dare I say facebookable
Hannah0913: whatever
Mr. Awesome: that was a compliment!
Hannah0913: must be a slow week for yo u
Mr. Awesome: you just dont like talking to me unless im putting you down and insulting your boobs
typical woman
Mr. Awesome: IM NOT A PIECE OF MEAT THAT YOU CAN USE FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT
Hannah0913: Now have to go home and ask my husband if my boobs are saggy to help build my self esteem
7:15 pm: Phillip has added “being an asshole on facebook to his interests”
7:55pm: Facebook status- “LS realizes his limitations”- My reply “PA realized your limitations ALONG time ago…”
Bet none of you have ever told a girl that certain types of insects are hotter than she is and got away with it. Coming from most people thats an insult. Coming from me that’s just charm.
IheartJellowjackets: WHAT? You don’t like stepping on bugs and yet you stepped on an entire ant hill to flirt with me?Wtf?
Mr Awesome: No I stepped on the hill because you didn’t want me to.
IheartJellowjackets: So how does that make you feel? That you sacrificed the lives of ants to get a girl to like you?
Mr Awesome: How does it make you feel that it worked?
IheartJellowjackets: Very sad. Oh the lives that were lost. All bc i encouraged it! But also pretty hot at the same time. lol
Mr Awesome: Don’t worry, well make it up to them
IheartJellowjackets: Oh damn. I might’ve just gasped. Good thing i’m alone in my bed so no one heard me. I think it’ll make the ants feel better. From their hill in the after life.
Mr Awesome: And to be fair…I think we have to let them watch
IheartJellowjackets: Hmmmm… I guess it would only be fair. I can make that sacrifice in self esteem for the ants. After all, they are ants. They cant be hotter than i am, right?
Mr Awesome: Well they were fire ants…
IheartJellowjackets: Oh, really? Fire ants are hotter than i am?
Mr Awesome: Are fire ants hotter than you? Hmmm they bite more. And they like to crawl all over me. They might have the edge right now.
IheartJellowjackets: Oh, but you dont know how much i bite. Nor have i had the chance to be all over you. So i’m telling you, they do not have the edge.
Mr Awesome: See you’re a talker. Ants are do-ers. They take the intiative. Plus their work ethic is unmatched
IheartJellowjackets: Sigh. How do you know i’m just a talker? You’re right about their work ethic though. But mine’s pretty good too.
Mr Awesome: Wait…did you just conceede ground in the “fire ants are hotter” than you discussion?
Punningpundit: My dad wants g’babies. My sister jessica stopped the conversation cold with “next time I have unprotected sex, I won’t use plan B”.
World_Dictator: is your sister Jessica seeing anybody?
Punningpundit: she says she’s down– assuming you’re willing to impregnate her.
World_Dictator: Well I am black so its not like I have a choice.
This was an interesting article to read early Christmas Eve morning:
The Rev. Tim Jones caused an uproar by telling his congregation that it is sometimes acceptable for desperate people to shoplift — as long as they do it at large national chain stores, rather than small, family businesses.
Jones’ Robin Hood-like sermon drew rebukes Tuesday from fellow clergy, shop owners and police.
From his pulpit at the Church of St. Lawrence in York, about 220 miles (355 kilometers) north of London, Jones said in his sermon Sunday that shoplifting can be justified if a person in real need is not greedy and does not take more than he or she really needs to get by.
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The point I’m making is that when we shut down every socially acceptable avenue for people in need, then the only avenue left is the socially unacceptable one,” he said, adding that people are often released from prison without any means of support, leading them back into crime.
“What I’m against is the way society has become ever more comfortable with the people at the very bottom, and blinded to their needs,” he said.
Good for Rev. Jones.
Regardless of how you feel about the moral permissibility of shoplifting at least he’s doing something about it by getting the poverty conversation started.
Silence is consent, silence is consent.
The most awesome book tour in the universe* by the writer of the (second) most awesome page in the universe. Maddox hasn’t written a lot of in the past few years, instead choosing to focus on his lucrative book contract that…you know pays him millions of dollars and such, but his picture oriented recollection of his book tour is pretty fucking ninja. Check it out or he’ll bang your girlfriend.
The Best Book Tour In The Universe
Cunt.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been waiting for the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick Ass for a longtime. After all, Mark Millar + gratuitous violence…What’s not to like? But after seeing this Red Band trailer of Kick Ass that highlightsa few scenes with Hit Girl, one of the supporting characters in the comic, I’m going solely and purely so I can watch a 12 year old girl say the word cunt.
Hollywood, just when I’ve given up hope you always renew my faith. God bless you and God bless America. I love this country.
You know I’ve used an HP or two in my time. And I had always suspected that there was something …something not quite right about them. And now I know why:
HP Face-Tracking Webcams Don’t Recognize Black People
This is awkward. It appears that HP’s new webcams, which have facial-tracking software, can’t recognize black faces, as evidenced in the above video. HP has responded:
We are working with our partners to learn more. The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek and nose. We believe that the camera might have difficulty “seeing” contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting.
It adds a whole new meaning to the idea of making someone invisible.
PS. By the way…HOW DO YOU NOT CATCH THIS DURING TESTING? I mean, really?
Senate Majority Leader Reid provides example 1,352:
“You see, one of the largest private insurance companies in America made a lot of money last year — more than a billion dollars, in fact. Its chairman and CEO took home at least $100 million of that money himself.
“This health care company is going to make a healthy profit again this year. But its executives decided the profit they’re making isn’t quite big enough. So this multibillion-dollar company found a clever way to make sure next year’s bottom line is even bigger: it’s raising its rates.
“As you might expect, those higher premiums are going to be too expensive for many. How many? It could be as many as 650,000 people.
“That’s more than the entire populations of North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. It’s more than the entire populations of Baltimore and Boston and Denver and Seattle. How many people is this one company willing to drop? You could count every man, woman and child in Las Vegas and still have almost 100,000 people left over.
“But here’s the worst part: That shocking estimate comes directly from the president of the company himself. The means the company devised this strategy, crunched the numbers and saw how many American families it was going to hurt. Then the bosses shrugged their shoulders and decided to go ahead with it anyway.”
And it’s not the first time:
American Medical News, which first reported the story, noted that this is not the first time the insurance giant has cut the rolls in an effort to boost profit margins. “As chronicled in a 2004 article in Health Affairs by health economist James C. Robinson, MD, PhD, Aetna completely overhauled its business between 2000 and 2003, going from 21 million members in 1999 down to 13 million in 2003, but boosting its profit margin from about 4% to higher than 7%.
Just a little food for thought to chew on the next time you ask yourself if, the very popular, public option is a necessary part of health care reform.
