How Does This Woman Live With Herself?

How Do These People Live With Themselves?Posted by Arizona Mildman on December 4, 2009 at 6:30am
It just makes me want to ask, "Are all Republicans idiots?" Can anyone in their right mind NOT be embarrassed by this idiotic statement. The Republican party has become like the drunk kid who came to your party and started trying to tell everyone how much he loved them and making such an ass of himself that when someone told him how he acted last night he is afraid to face anyone. But they don't seem to have any shame. They say something ridiculous and just don't know how to admit it was a stupid thing to say. They will say almost anything. It would be like me, after deciding I didn't like the local newspaper, going on television and telling the news reporters on national television that I actually caught Bubonic Plague from reading it. And then smiling at the camera and calling them "My friends" again for the three hundredth time. Are they so afraid to let anything decent for the America Public pass in congress that they have to lie about it, using fairy tales and complete fabrication? I am beginning to realise that they really do hate poor people. Republicans are not all rich, but they all think that somehow passing laws that benefit only rich people are somehow going to wash back on them. They keep trying to hope for the rich guys of this nation to become total philanthropists and start giving away money. That is what trickle down stood for, by the way. Like some rich person is carrying two arm loads of money in a manner that is going to allow some of it to trickle out of his arms so we can all share it.
The point they don't understand is unlimited greed. People like John McCain have more money than he or his family could ever spend and it isn't enough. He worries about paying his fair share of taxes so badly that he is ready to lie and completely lose the trust of the whole American Public to do it. After they screwed him over in the 2000 presidential campaign, he still sucks up to them as if he has no pride. He isn't a maverick, he is a Rebootlick.
Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina said that health care reform is more dangerous than any terrorist in the United States today. Will someone send a real terrorist to this woman's house, please? This was probably the stupidest statement I have heard since Jerry Falwell made his comment about why God made 9-11 happen. How much money are the insurance lobbies paying this woman? Is she just on a straight salary or does she get a commission check like most actors?
Actually the most dangerous thing is this woman making statements like this on National Television. The idea that someone can say something like this and not have to retract their statement shows how tabloids like the National Enquirer are still in business. I am proud to say that I am not from North Carolina. Also, let me restate that all of the members of congress WANTED THIS PLAN for themselves, just not for everyone else. They think healthcare is a privelege. I would hope the next time her house catches on fire that someone from her local fire department would ask her to first look up the deductable on her home owners' insurance before they continue with her reporting the fire since it might not really be worth their while.
Has anyone seen this woman's picture? She looks like a drunken school teacher. She is obviously either on the trough of the health care insurance lobbies or lost her mind, so the picture of her grinning like an idiot on http://www.foxx.house.gov/index.html" target="_blank">her web page after saying some idiotic thing like that only worsens my impression of her.
The thing that really scares me is that anyone might hear her and think since they heard it on television and since she has a job in congress that she actually believes that and knows what she is talking about. Either I hear a retraction from this woman or I am going to start a campaign to get some lawyers to send a team to investigate and put her under observation to see if she is crazy or just greedy and taking money from the insurance companies. Some people will listen to anything a member of their party says. Those same kind of people are the type who believe Professional Wrestling is real, also.
I was going to say we should send her an oscar award, but then I realised, she isn't that good of an actor. She didn't even for a second make me think she might have a point. She over exagerated whatever she was trying to say and in my opinion, should come on TV and apologise or expect everyone in the public, from now on, to question everything she says. The people of her state, especially the Republicans should demand that she apologise. If she lies about something this important that isn't any of her business, how many thousands of other things is she corrupt about? If I was from North Carolina, I would be embarrassed to admit that I voted for her.

My Reply to NBC NEWS

I am going to post this on my blog entitled, "Being Allergic to Stupid" for obvious reasons. The president of the United States was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for opening the door to peace and open negotiations rather than cold war politics and anti-diplomatic policies like some of the past presidents of the U.S. have done. I am living in a world where the very thing some people have for years praised as an honorable achievement, and instead our news media, all of them, have chosen to be "STUPID". I am not saying this lightly.
When President Obama said that the Massachusettes Police arrested Professor Gates for something "...stupid", he was forced to apologise. I am not going to apologise to anyone. I wish I had the money to get T-Shirts printed up that say, "The American News Media Is Stupid". To say that the president is getting an award for nothing is to say that he didn't take any action. I guess being diplomatic and reaching out to other countries to talk and open a discourse that could keep us from facing another war is not an action to them either. This is the problem with the way some people see things in this country. The fact that they can't see that someone containing themselves, holding their tongue, being polite, and not getting angry and rude is not doing anything. I guess the only thing some people see as an action is by doing something outlandish. Should we give a prize to Kayne West for what he did at the awards show? He did something. It was wrong, but it was something. They insinuate that since he didn't do anything like start a war, that his contribution is worthless. I guess by not throwing our trash in the street and instead keeping it collected and in a place where it isn't a health hazzard or an eyesore is worthless also, since we aren't really doing anything but being a good citizen and following our desire to keep things more neat and orderly, which, I guess isn't worth much. The kind of people who think being purposely offensive and politically incorrect is fashionable died with the George Bush "beer bash/barbecues". Okay, let's compare his actions with the same administration. Yes, I can see, after what they are used to seeing from the White House, this seems like nothing. Not going on TV and telling the whole world we want to stand alone in a war we shouldn't have been involved in without the cooperation and approval of the United Nations, or sending troops to a place that DIDN'T ATTACK US, based on fictional information is not doing anything.
I am involved with an organisation that I am proud to say is conciously trying to promote peace and world interaction between the whole planet instead of selfishly trying to be involved in the day to day self-centered behavior most people engage in. The fact that we had a president that offended the whole United Nations, that also talked tough on the news but didn't do anything himself except "act tough" and become offensive to all of Europe, Asia, and everyone besides the Arabs seems to have hurt us politically. If undoing the ignorance and rude offensiveness isn't respected as doing something, then I give up on this country's news media. The peacock channel tonight was talking about nonsense and then mentioned this story with the comment that the president was receiving an award that he didn't do anything for and instead it was for what he hadn't done. If not doing something offensive and stupid doesn't count, then I guess all of the courts, hospitals, police agencies, and local governments trying to maintain good health and sanity isn't worth anything either.
Recently, I heard that some of the news media is complaining that they are losing business. If this is an example of how they plan to maintain a relationship with the public, then, I will welcome their departure. The only thing most of them have been actively doing lately is spreading fear, anger, and politically incorrect, unpopular sentiments from all the people that they report. We have congressmen shouting accusations at the president on national television and instead of showing that they care about right and wrong, they act like this is up to him to decide what is rude. They, in my opinion, are supposed to tell us what is wrong, and also report things that are right. They are human also, but they don't need to keep their stories resigned to the bottom of the barrel. I don't buy newspapers, since they now sell their opinions or "versions of what really happened" to the highest bidder. Most cable news is run by corporations that only allow news casters to let you hear the version that is the latest proganda story. The amount of lies and misinformation that is spread through the supposed news is now at an all time high. If we can't trust what they say, what good are they? They are selling reported stories that are news, they are selling opinions and editorialism that is worthless to the average person. I think I will email the white house and thank the president for not doing anything STUPID long enough to get an award. In a way, I can see how some people might feel we deserve that, after seeing how we were acting for the eight years previous.

WikiPedia

Someone recently reminded me of something I already knew, which is that WikiPedia is a collaborative Open Source Project for information. I wish to be the first to say that I was skeptical about them from the beginning. Wikipedia is the first place I go for facts because of one principle. They do have people who volunteer information but all of the information is reviewed both by the site administrators and the authors. One can be a WikiPedia Author just for signing up, but their Terms of Service are really strict and if you are caught providing false information or opinions that are nonresearchable, they will remove your content and send you an email explaining why they deleted your content and gently reminding you if you do this a few times instead of this once, they are ready to revoke your authority to be an author with no way to sign in. I watch when a NEWS story comes on the regular news and can pretty much figure after all the editing is over, which it really never is, that they have more of an accurate story than most mainstream media. But usually within two days to a week they have an article that can be relied on and if anyone thinks it is incorrect, erroneous, or slighted they can vote to have it removed.

There whole list of what WikiPedia is and is not is here:
Wikipedia policy
Global principles
What Wikipedia is not
Ignore all rules
Content standards
Neutral point of view
Verifiability
No original research
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1 Style and format
1.1 Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
2 Content
2.1 Wikipedia is not a dictionary
2.2 Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought
2.3 Wikipedia is not a soapbox
2.4 Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files
2.5 Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site
2.6 Wikipedia is not a directory
2.7 Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal
2.8 Wikipedia is not a crystal ball
2.9 Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
2.10 Wikipedia is not censored
3 Community
3.1 Wikipedia is not a democracy
3.2 Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
3.3 Wikipedia is not a battleground
3.4 Wikipedia is not an anarchy
3.5 Wikipedia is not your web host
4 And finally...
5 When you wonder what to do
6 See also
7 Notes
8 Similar official policies on sister projects

Biographies of living persons
Naming conventions
Working with others
Civility
No personal attacks
Harassment
No legal threats
Consensus
Dispute resolution
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List of policies
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Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, an online community of people interested in building a high-quality encyclopedia in a spirit of mutual respect. Therefore, there are certain things that Wikipedia is not.

I love Streaming Video

I watch a lot of streaming video on Hulu and the other video websites. It is easier than TV since I can stop it and come back at any time. Good selection of movies out there and a lot of TV shows that I wouldn't have had a chance to see at all if it weren't for this new feature.
Here is an example of one of my favorites, from the series Royal Pains:

Being Allergic To Stupid

I think if you are one of those people who grew up questioning everything you were told that didn't make sense, then, you are what I recently heard David Letterman call "thoughtful". When I can't imagine something being considered correct and someone tells me, "Well, that's just how it is", I feel even more indignant. It is like they farted and then said, "Well, I think maybe it is the air quality in the room which can be adjusted through filtration if you ...", and I want to say, "Asshole, go in the bathroom to shit your pants, I don't want to be involved, thanks." Why is it that some people somehow think their presence or opinion is always necessary if it isn't something that should be shared with everyone else. There are radio talk show hosts that make a living out of being the farter in the room and some idiot out there makes it possible by supporting their position. Today I heard one that inspired me to say something. I was looking at Google on the competition for the young people from grades K-3rd, on up to 12th grade. One of the drawings, of course from someone with a Mexican last name is about street art. That is what he called it was Public Art. It is also called grafiti. It is vandalism and is not considered an art form. I hope some of the local artists in his neighborhood grace his family's home with some public art and maybe all over their car, as well. Then, perhaps his parents will teach him the difference between art and vandalism as his parents are having the local artists in the area arrested for defacing HIS family's property.
I know that some people have given the grafiti artists a couple of areas in town to do with as they wish and I can tell you one of the places in California where you can see the best "public art" is the prisons there. Some of the local artists in the prison who are the kind of people who started that kind of art are living there and the prison authorities and the California Department of Corrections, being the most progressive in the country, let some of them have a couple of walls facing the athletic field to display their talents. Might mean something, huh? Ya' think?