They're not "illegal guns." They're "undocumented firearms."
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Whew!
First, let me say this. If any of you have sent me e-mail over the past week or so, and I haven’t gotten back to you, it’s because I never got it. Verizon (my former ISP) had made some changes to their mail systems, and all I noticed is that I could no longer use my mail client to get mail from the server for the primary e-mail account. I had to log onto their webmail page (which was not fun, because I couldn’t remember my password). We got the password changed, and I logged on.
It said that I had several unread e-mails, but when I click on the inbox folder to read that mail, the folder was empty. Tech support was no help, and I just chalked it up to utter incompetence on Verizon’s part, and it made me even happier when I could finally get an alternate Broadband connection through the local cable service (who had been busily installing the fiber-optic cables throughout the area over the last few months), and so yesterday I switched over to the new ISP.
There are a few issues to be ironed out (as it seems that they might have misrepresented some issues to get my business - we shall see), but I can still receive mail through the domain (the drmwstr-AT-drumwaster-DOT-com address), so if you need to get in touch, please use that e-mail address until I get it finalized.
In other news…
It seems that Rosie O’Donnell is trying to get her name in the news again, by getting married to her lesbian partner in San Francisco this morning.
Hey, Rosie! That ringing sound you hear? That’s the alarm going off, marking the end of your “fifteen minutes”. Time to take your “in your face” attitude, and realize that your action will be invalidated as soon as a sane judge decides to take the case. (That qualifier automatically excludes almost any judge within 50 miles of the Golden Gate Bridge.)
I am extraordinarily impressed by the talent shown by some actors and actresses who are gay, but what impresses me more is the fact that they managed to do all of those performances without ever having to shove their sexual orientation in America’s collective face.
America wants to be entertained, not lectured to. And let’s get real… Most actors and actresses, as a group, are just two steps up from the organ-grinders monkey. And their private lives never enter into it. They get all that money because they entertain us, and we have shown out appreciation by throwing large quantities of little green pieces of paper at them.
But for some reason, many of them have confused “fame” with “wisdom”, and are under the impression that because we spend a lot of time listening to them perform their art, we would be just as willing to listen to their opinions on issues for which they have absolutely no training whatsoever.
I remember a few months ago, I ran across a listing of the most politically active celebrities and athletes, and the level of education and training they have received in school. Most of them are no more advanced than high school. Michael “4F” Moore, just as an example, dropped out of college after just a single semester, but he suddenly feels qualified to dictate his opinion to and about a man who holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale, an MBA from Harvard, and a former fighter pilot.
If I could find that list, I would post it every time something like this happened. Whenever an athlete, actor or actress, or musician speaks out about political issues, they should be reminded that they are not only not qualified, their opinions are usually based on wrong information, the “fictitions” of those who are no more qualified than they are.
Truly a case of “the blind leading the blind”. But entire news programs - and careers - have been built around telling these entertainers how wonderful they are. A few months of that, and pretty soon you have Paris Hilton telling people why she thinks Candidate ‘A’ would make a great President....
What a shame…
Less...
Can I opt out now?
Considering I will probably not see a single penny from social security, can’t I just fill out a form and say No Thanks?
I’m just your average guy, well a little taller than the average guy, but I don’t believe in social security. It’s a ponzi scheme and if you or I setup a system like this, we would’ve been busted by now.
At this rate, you will get people taking their money off-shore in droves in the coming decades. However, Greenspan has an easy idea:
To curtail future spending, Greenspan urged Congress, as he has in the past, to consider cutting promised Social Security benefits to future retirees.
Whenever talk of government spending comes up, why do you not hear about social security? Why does a depression-era program, which was never intended to be a retirement program, STILL have this hold on us? I could give two craps what AARP thinks, I do NOT wish to prop up this miserable program and if I had my way right now, I would kindly ask the feds to let ME invest my social security funds.
I think I can do better than a measly 2% return every year.
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