Author: Mulder

World Governments Acting Like Teenagers

Mulder

When I was a young man still in University I was offered my first credit card. It was a GM VISA with a $500 spending limit. Considering I didn’t have $500 to my name and summer was coming I was ecstatic that I would be able to load up my tackle box and pick up a carton or two of smokes. Although not necessities to the average person, they seemed like they were necessities to me.

So I cautiously ran up a bit of a tab on the card. Then the inevitable bill came. Sure it showed me a minimum payment which was a bit of reassurance. I wouldn’t have to pay the whole thing off at once. But little did I realize that that small monthly payment was coming right off the top of my income. Why? Because I chose to spend something I didn’t have.

Well governments around the world are doing it now. Forget extreme hyperbole such as “spending like drunken sailors”. Expressions like this make it sound like we are just exaggerating. Well the truth is they are spending like unsure, unaware teenagers with their first credit cards. They don’t realize that pulling more out of the taxpayers is like that teenager trying to find a job in a down economy. The potential to pay back that debt is there, but the economic conditions to allow that to happen are just not there. And the more we run up the debt the harder it will be to dig ourselves out.

That’s it. I don’t have any links on this. Just the anology and the request that everyone out there contact the politicians representing them at all levels of government and simply ask them to spend within their means. Do NOT extend their means to accommodate how much they want to spend.

Ottawa Recreational Soccer League Creates Wimpy Children

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It had to be said after I read this story.

In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.

The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league’s newly implemented edict is intended to dissuade a runaway game in favour of sportsmanship. The rule replaces its five-point mercy regulation, whereby any points scored beyond a five-point differential would not be registered.

If I were a parent of a child in this league, I would move them out. When kids are not allowed to experience the pain of a good ass whooping, they are simply being protected from an experience that will drive them to strive harder. The coddling has to stop or our children will grow up trained to roll over and take it because it can’t get any worse.

These poor kids aren’t even old enough to realize they are getting OfficiallyScrewed.

h/t to my friend Iain for this one.

Sir Paul McCartney Never Learned That People In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones

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Sir Paul McCartney, the man who has more money than brains (just ask his ex-wife Heather Mills), made this remark the other night.

McCartney thanked the audience and noted how nice it was to receive the award from the Library of Congress, and “in fact, after the last eight years it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”

Let’s compare.

Elementary School
George W. Bush – Yes
Paul McCartney – Yes

Secondary School
George W. Bush – Yes
Paul McCartney – Yes

College/University
George W. Bush – Yes (Yale)
Paul McCartney – No

Business School
George W. Bush – Yes (Harvard no less and the ONLY U.S. President to have earned an MBA)
Paul McCartney – No

Marriage classes?
George W. Bush (not sure but he’s still married to his sweetheart and probably treats her like gold)
Paul McCartney – Probably not but he sure knows how to pay through the nose for a divorce.

Sir Paul should be a bit more careful with his wise cracks.

Comparing Bieber Blocker to Hitler is Simply OfficiallyScrewed

Mulder

I fully agree that free speech means Justin Bieber can sing where he wants, have whomever he wants market him, show up on any channel willing to air him and any computer screen that doesn’t break from the screaling teens who sit and drool over this young man.

However, I also think if someone is ingenious enough to figure out how to block something he/she does not want to see, then good on them.  This is exactly what Greg Leuch has done.  His Bieber blocker dubbed Shaved Bieber may be a Godsend to many, but it is also now sparking death threats to the young programmer.

But after Leuch posted the application to a free technology website, word started to get around, and the backlash began. He started getting hate mail from around the world, sent by angry fans of the teen idol from Stratford, Ont.

“I hate you because you invented Shaved Bieber. Justin Bieber is the best,” one wrote.

Another even threatened Leuch’s life: “I know many things about you and I know where you live. Just be aware I might appear behind you and shoot you with a gun.”

Another compared him to Hitler: “What you’re doing is going back to World War II all over again. Hitler wanted to erase Jews from society, you want to erase justin Drew Bieber.”

Leuch is taking it all in stride, and said he is more bemused than worried. He offered a light-hearted response to the backlash:

“Oops,” he said. “Umm, I mean I really did not expect all this fan backlash, so oops.”

Comparing the Bieberblocker to Hitler might be a little OfficiallyScrewed.

Now to find out if I can find a similar program to block Apple I-product commercials!!!

Gleeful Funk

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George Clinton - Woodstock 1999

A few months ago my wife says to me “Dude, you should watch Glee.”

I can hear many of you groaning. “But Mulder, it’s on when Primetime Politics is on!”.  Well man cannot live on meat alone.  Sometimes some candy is good.  So I start watching it at week 2 and I am completely and utterly hooked.  Every week is full of music I know, songs and artists I grew up listening to and even some really rare gems that just make me reminisce.  Last night was no exception.

The finale of last night’s show was We Want The Funk, originally performed by George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic.  People might think I am a bit young to remember George but I actually got down and boogied to his music in 1999 at the Woodstock 30th Anniversary concert in Rome, NY.  See photo I took of George on that night 11 years ago.

I know I probably sound like a bunch of people around the water cooler but seriously.  Go back and watch the season via On Demand.  You will likely be pleasantly surprised at the show.  And if you find yourself singing to the music and tapping your feet week after week, you can thank me later.

Happy Victoria Day and Happy 69th Birthday to Bob Dylan

Mulder

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Victoria Day holiday.  

I also want to let you listen to one of my favourite songs by a man most consider one of the best song writers in history.

He has been covered by countless bands and so many of his songs were more famous when sung by others.  He has been covered in folk by Peter, Paul and Mary singing Blowin’ In The Wind in 1963 to one of metal’s founding fathers Jimi Hendrix performing All Along The Watchtower to more modern metal with Rage Against the Machine covering Maggie’s Farm and in a more mellow stream Norah Jones now covers “I’ll be your baby tonight”.  

Then we have Clapton and GnR each doing there own rendition of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door and the White Stripes covering “One More Cup of Coffee” on their `1999 self titled album. Don’t even start me on how many Dylan tunes the Grateful Dead cover.

That, my friends, is widespread admiration.

Bob Dylan. Happy Birthday…Tangled Up In Blue

Liberal Leader Michael Zsohar Loves US Eh? (or is that U.S.A.)

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Iggy Loves US eh

When I was a boy, I used to love “make-believe” and “pretend”. I would run around the house with a towel waving behind me pretending I was Superman or Batman, or I would paint a broken broomstick handle blue and have lightsaber battles with my friends. But the reality always came back to me when my mom would yell “Dinner!!”.

Liberal Leader Michael Zsohar hasn’t heard the dinner bell and continues on with his “make-believe” and “pretend”. I can see him day dreaming about meeting heads of state  or attending the G8 or G20 summits. I bet he even has furniture picked out for 24 Sussex. It’s really quite amusing for him and for Canadian voters.

From the CPC website:

On Monday evening, Michael Ignatieff told an elite group of Liberals that his 34 years away from Canada made him “more of a Canadian.” (National Post. May 18, 2010)

Are we talking about the same Michael Ignatieff who praised the United States, going so far as to call himself an American?

“You have to decide what kind of America you want…It’s your country just as much as it is mine.” (C-SPAN, June 17, 2004)
“I want to make it clear; there isn’t an anti-American bone in my body. I love the republic I live in.” (Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, CBC Radio, Sept. 16, 2001.
“I think that one of the ‐–‐ that almost the nemesis of American power is that we are deeply hated and simultaneously supposed to have magical powers.” (Charlie Rose Show, April 28, 2004)
Are we talking about the same Michael Ignatieff who repeatedly bashed Canada, its flag and its people?

Ignatieff told an interviewer that “the only thing he missed about Canada was Algonquin Park”. (Maclean’s, November 20, 2006)
Ignatieff described the Canadian flag as “a passing imitation of a beer label” (The Observer, July 8, 1990), and
Ignatieff said, “Quebeckers walk around with this fantasy of how different they are, but they are just North Americans who speak French…They take the minor difference and magnify it.” (Globe and Mail. April 2, 1998)

Fox News Legal Eagle Megyn Kelly Smarter Than Every Democrat, Obama, Mexican President Calderon, And 90% of Hollywood

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Megyn KellyFox News Channel anchor and regular guest on the O’Reilly factor, Megyn Kelly, exposes those who oppose the Arizona immigration law. How so? She actually read the new law and compared it to the federal law. So what did she come up with?

Well in a 2005 Supreme Court ruling in Muehler vs. Mena, the highest court in the land ruled (in section 14 of the judgment):

.. the officers did not need reasonable suspicion to ask Mena for her name, date and place of birth, or immigration status.

The actual Arizona law states that someone cannot be questioned without reasonable cause so it doesn’t even go as far as the most recent law of the land. So to all the celebrities, moonbats, NBC guests, lefties, Democrats, and yes, even the POTUS Barack Obama, who have teased, joked, implied you could be out with your family for ice cream and this law lets them search you, well….You are ALL wrong.

The Federal Law is far tougher than the new Arizona law.

Nice Job Megyn Kelly.