Weed?

or Drugs?

Corrupt?

I'm hearing more and more how Obama is "corrupt" because of all his associations. Man oh man, if I didn't totally recognize how the people saying need to do it solely to make more money for themselves I might start believe it.

See, that's the thing with talk radio and certain large blogs, etc: if you don't have something, you got nothing, and if you got nothing, you ain't got ratings, which means no money. The profit driven opinion news chamber. Now's the moment when you think to yourself, "Is this guy kidding me? He was one of those talk radio guys..."

True. Except I made no money, and clearly my opinions weren't the same as those who make the most money on political talk radio.

So that's the thing of it, you have opinionators, as I'll call them, who really have nothing right now. If they don't keep blowing the corrupt horn and raising the unethical flag they will go out of business. Fortunately for them this is America, home of the many dumb, and they will soak it all up on a daily basis, providing the 'nators with enough audience to keep churning out the cash.

If you really believe Obama is somehow corrupt more so than any other politician then you keep on keeping on. Power to ya. Truth is, he's not. Did the guy associate himself with 1 or 2 jackass slime balls who are corrupt. Guaranteed. They all do. There's not a politician who can avoid it because corrupt people are usually better than everyone else at making headway. There's a reason they've come as far as they have without anyone noticing. Hello Mr. Madoff, you just duped the nation. But in all likelihood Obama is probably a bit better than the average, and until that is PROVEN differently, like in a way that makes you say, "Man, that's really fuck up..." then I'd suggest shutting the fuck up.

Unless, of course, you want to talk about real corruption, and the current administration. Now, take President Bush and his family. These people have handed out jobs to friends who have failed miserably. These people have placed shills in to positions that have CORRUPTED the government. These people have repeatedly done things like start wars, subvert the constitution, go over and around the legal process time and time again. Oh, and they've also profited handsomely over the years through their business connections and oil contacts around the world by using the government. Now none of this is necessarily corrupt.


AND THAT'S THE FUCKING PROBLEM.


THEY'VE LEGALIZED THEIR CORRUPTION and most of you blowhard complaining assholes don't give two shits about that.


Yeah, go worry about Obama getting a better mortgage by some shady jerkoff, but don't worry about the types of people who have made money hand over first the last 8 years while most other people are eating fucking spam.


Fuck you.

Curious

Has this been big news and I've not noticed it, or is it just not news at all?

An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.

The history, the first official account of its kind, is circulating in draft form here and in Washington among a tight circle of technical reviewers, policy experts and senior officials. It also concludes that when the reconstruction began to lag — particularly in the critical area of rebuilding the Iraqi police and army — the Pentagon simply put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures.

In one passage, for example, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is quoted as saying that in the months after the 2003 invasion, the Defense Department “kept inventing numbers of Iraqi security forces — the number would jump 20,000 a week! ‘We now have 80,000, we now have 100,000, we now have 120,000.’ ”

Read on. There's more.

I guess it just goes to show my belief that most people don't really give a shit what happens in Iraq, or anyone else for that matter, as long as it doesn't directly effect them in a way they can actually notice. Like, you pay taxes, and those taxes go towards the war but you really don't give two shits because you'll always pay taxes, and where it goes is somewhat irrelevant regarding these matters. Military spending is always big, and you always pay for it, so not it's just getting put to use. Maybe?

Unless you know someone there you care about chances are you really don't care. Iraq has just become an issue in the larger pool of issues people use to clobber other people with. Actually, now that I think about it, it's probably the liberals who care more about what's going on in Iraq than the supporting conservatives. For the liberals have been fighting against the idea of the war from the get go, and the supposed "liberal news" seems to find stories like these, ones the government tries to bury. Liberals then say, "Look, we said in the beginning you'd all be wrong, that you lie, that you blow..." and now there's more proof that you do. Not so much because of this story but because conservatives, the ones so concerned about waste, blah, blah, blah, don't seem to give two shits when these stories come out. It's always the ends justify the means, even when there seems to be NO END.

So it's just another story of poor planning, bad ideas, and waste which has made our country a worse off place while tarnishing our image around the world. You will be hard pressed to find a conservative willing to acknowledge this, but that's probably because they don't read "liberal news..."

Just another day in Bush America.

IDK

But it seems a bit odd to me the Governor of Illinois would be fleecing Obama, or those close to him, for money regarding the Senate seat. It's one thing to be taking on small timers, and trying to grind money out of them, but the most powerful man on the planet? Doesn't make much sense.

I heard someone on the radio ask Joe "Genius" Scarborough whether "Obama would have been elected had this come out sooner?"

"No way."

Yeah, which is why it didn't come out sooner because the investigator, Patrick Fitzgerald, knew better. He was aware Obama had nothing to do with it and wasn't willing to tarnish his reputation by associating him with a piece of shit like Blagojevich.

Once again, move on.

There's a Buzz Going Around

"Did you hear the school hired a black guy to be the head coach?"

"No! When did that happen?"

"Over the weekend."

"Is he a good coach?"

"Who cares? He's black. That should be enough, right?"



How in the world does Charles Barkley know whether or not Turner Gill is a good football coach? Is he now an expert on this too? I'd suggest he's an expert on very little when it comes to predicting how well a sports team will/not do considering his gambling losses over the years.

Barkley believed Gill should have been hired over Gene Chizik at Auburn pretty much because he's black, and because it would create a "buzz." Presumably the same buzz caused at Mississippi State when they hired the SEC's first black coach...then sucked under his tutelage.

If Gene Chizik was hired over Gill to coach Texas A & M I'd suggest there's a problem. But he wasn't. He was hired to take over a team he is familiar with, and already had success coaching, albeit as a defensive coordinator. Regardless, the higher ups at Auburn believe he was the reason for their success, and since departing they've been less successful.

Coaching on one hand is about Xs and Os, but on the other hand, and in my view, the BIGGER HAND, recruiting. Yeah, Pete Carroll is a good coach, sure, but is he the best coach? Maybe. If all things were equal would he be the best? Doubt it. But he's a phenomenal recruiter, and that's more important than anything else. Lots of guys can coach great talent. It's no wonder to me the USC offensive coordinators, whether it be Norm Chow, Lane Kiffin, or now Steve Sarkisian are sought after, and then do very little (still waiting on Sark). It's about the talent. And the only way to get talent when you're not a BIG TIME school like USC, Ohio State, Florida, Texas, etc. is to have ties in the state. Turner Gill, as far as I know, has no ties to high school coaches within the state of Alabama. Auburn is in Alabama. Gill played at Nebraska. Coached at Texas. Did a DECENT job at Buffalo.

That's it, Charles. Not because he's black, or because Chizik is white, but because the school was successful while Chizik was there and he probably is much more tied into the high schools within the region. Period.

GK

I support the concept of this website without really knowing the background of the company.

See, in this day and age you have to disclaim everything.

Regardless, I think it's a good idea.