Not only is this guy incrediby sexy (physically and intellectually), he has a great mission. Check him out on Moblogic.tv
Seriously, he is gorgeous and I smell at least a little bit of homo in him hehe. But for reals, visit his initiative, VoteSolar and let’s make some change.
The current state of energy in America and the world is just terrible. There are really easy ways that we can do this and there is really no reason we haven’t already. What happened to Americans leading the way through innovation and showing the rest of the world what we are made of.
It seems like it’s been years since I started noticing that people are stupid. Some are kinda stupid, some are not that stupid and then some are just fucking stupid. It doesn’t bother me too much when a normal person does something stupid. That only affects that one person, however, when someone with actual power does something stupid; that’s when I really get frustrated.
These sorts of things could be anything from the name Kwik Kopy to calling a bill The Defense of Marriage Act.
Quick is spelled with a “Q” and Copy is spelled with a “C”.
The Act was not defending the right for anyone to marry, it was actually attacking the ability of certain people to marry. It’s all a misnomer that in some instances caused people to vote for something they were actually against.
Voters and the state Supreme Court should decide the issue.
Schwarzenegger said it was up to the voters. The voters elected their legislature and effectively voted to recognize gay marriage. Those voters finally got a chance to give their say, a second time, this yes, voting just as their legislature had voted less than a year earlier.
That veto was a waste of money and time. It cost the State of California millions of dollars, money that might have been better spent finding a solution to their failing school system and better equipping their fire departments to battle the annual summer blazes, which this year are at an all time high.
We could go in to how other politicians are stupid but I think we’d never be able to stop as it seems no one is free from making stupid, STUPID mistakes, Democrats included. (Though I do believe Republicans make a few more stupid mistakes)
Here’s another stupid guy. Jim Donald. He managed to take Starbucks grow Starbucks to death and now he’s gone and Howard Schultz is back. While Donald was growing the company, promising 15,000 stores in a matter of years and expanding to markets they were not ready to compete, Schultz was sitting in the background. Unhappy with the massive expansion of Starbucks stores, Schultz finally voiced his opinion in September of 2007. He stated;
Growth is good, but at what expense?!
Good point. Seems Schultz had noticed what all of us Starbucks baristas and loyal customers noticed, that things are Starbucks were starting to really slack. Goodbye Jim Donald and welcome back Howard Schultz, hopefully he can fix that Donald broke; how about fixing the stock which has dropped over 30 points since I was a Starbucks Partner.
Where did Jim Donald go after being pushed out of Starbucks? Another company expanding far faster than it should, Rite Aid. Good luck!
But lets get to the fun stupid people. There are those that videotape themselves committing crimes and posting them onto YouTube.
I wonder who was the first genius to think, “I should provide the proof that I broke a law”.
Here’s another one, Joshua Lipton. He thought it would be funny to go to a Halloween party as an escaped prisoner. Never mind that there was a county prosecutor building a case against him for a DUI just a few weeks earlier. A DUI where he seriously injured another female driver as he crashed into her car, leaving her in the hospital while he continued to drink and party, all while under age.
Sometimes these kinds of people are given a Darwin Award which is published each year. Hilarious.
Another form of stupidity that gets me the majority of the time since I see it everyday is marketing stupidity. Some of my favorite companies make these really stupid mistakes in their advertising campaigns, for instance.
The other night I was with Jeremy browsing Target. Hanging from the ceiling was a calculator, it’s back to school time you know.
On the left you can see what they hung from the ceiling. A magical calculator that spells out words with backwards numbers; on the right, you see what they should have shown, a calculator with the numbers 00734 on the screen. They could have maybe even flipped the calculator to show the joke which really is only funny to little kids and only really funny when you spell out boobless. But whatever.
Panera makes grammatical mistakes all of the time. From missing punctuation marks to made up words. It drives me mad when I see these things. I see them all of the time.
The other day Ryan and I were in the mall when we saw a girl with nickles in her ear. Not in her guaged out ear lobes, no. They were in her ears. Why the hell would you do that? Cause you’re stupid. That’s why.
I’ve thought a few times that I should make a blog with the soul purpose of cataloging these stupid people and stupid things I see everywhere. This day in age it sure isn’t hard to find them.
Our last day in San Francisco was a busy day. Ryan had a lot of paperwork to get processed and needed a few LiveScans for a job application and ambulance license so we marched down Powell to the Bart station.
Wow, I guess I forgot all about the Pride Parade. Thousands of people met us at the Bart station, completely hiding it from our field of vision. We hung out, watched a few floats go by, reveled in the fun, friendly good times and took a few pictures.
As with any gay event, not everyone there was there to celebrate equality. Some religious zealots where protesting the parade, the weekend, the gay marriages in California and just whatever popped into their heads.
They blamed the fires on the gays. They blamed the terrorist attacks in 2001 on the gays. They blamed the salmonella on the gays. They blamed the storms on the gays. Apparently it’s our fault. Sorry guys. Our bad.
The kicker was when he said, “If you guys are such a loving, kind and friendly people, why do you need all of these police officers? It’s because you cause hate and destruction that they are here” and then went onto something about paying good Californian’s tax dollars for us to celebrate our heresy…
I guess what he was missing was this. The police are there not to protect us from ourselves but from people like him. Pride is about as safest I have ever felt in a city, day or night. The only thing one gay guy wants to do to another gay guy is fuck him (excuse my vulgarity and obvious exaggeration).
Well anyway, we finally made it to the UPS Store for Ryan’s LiveScan only to find it had closed for Pride. Haha, a UPS closed for Pride, how awesome. We took a seat at Squat & Gobble for lunch while we figured out a Plan B.
Squat & Gobble is the perfect little brunch place. I always think of Landon when I go there. I’m pretty sure you would love it Landon, reminds me of The Café in Washington DC only… better. It was delicious. While there we found another LiveScan place, hopped on a bus and back to the Mission we go.
LiveScan went easy enough, then back to the hotel. I’m leaving Ryan here to go to Pride for a bit. Catch you guys later!
WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain has called off a fundraiser at the home of a Texas oilman who joked about rape during a 1990 gubernatorial run in the state. The Texan, Republican Clayton Williams, made the joke during his failed campaign against Democrat Ann Richards. Williams compared rape to the weather, saying, “As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
He also compared Richards to the cattle on his ranch, saying he would “head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt.” Williams’ comments made national news at the time and remain easy to find on the Internet.
Even so, McCain’s campaign said it hadn’t known about the remarks.
I absolutely hate spam. Luckily Google catches most of it, almost all of it. But what to do when the mail isn’t unsolicited? Those annoying forwards from family members, for instance. Or in my case, emails from the Democratic National Committee.
I get these emails from them at least once a week at most once a day and nearly every one of these messages start with “RE:” in the subject line.
“RE” technically means, “In regards to” but has come to mean, “In reply to”. Slightly different wording meaning totally different things. When you get an email which has “RE” in the subject line, you immediately demise that the email is a response to something you sent earlier.
Not when it’s from the DNC and they way they do this is deceitful and, well done pretty stupidly.
If you are going to fake something, at least do it right. I finally got fed up with them and sent the email to the left.
Maybe I’m just bitchy but this kind of stuff really bothers me.
I’m sure you’ve been screwed over by outsourcing… bad technical support is probably the number one. Dell has recognized this and moved their customer service back to America. I’m not sure, but at first you had to pay extra to have America based tech support trough Dell, wow.
But this outsourcing is far far worse. Wow. Check out the Moblogic.tv video below. They do a hell of a job bringing the news to the Web2.0 masses, one article a day.
I got my Economic Stimulus Payment Notice in the mail the other days. It says I should get $300-600 from the IRS this May because I make over $3,000. Wow, that’s all you need to make?
First off, I am totally against the this “stimulus”. The people that are making $3,000 probably aren’t saving their money. They are spending it. Yeah, I know that’s the point of this thing, for Americans to go out and shop.
However, it’s not the lower class people that need to go out and spend money, it’s the top 20% and greater. The more you ear, the more you spend. But it is relative and obvious. When you make $12,000 a year and get a check for $600, that’s 5% of your income for the year as a bonus. That is only 1% above inflation!
The bottom 80% of Americans will use this stimulus payment to go shopping, not to pay off debts or to put into a high yeld savings account. The only people who will benefit from this stimulus are the rich.
The money is basically going from our government to the rich elite of America via the person who makes $3,000-75,000 a year. This money will be spent paying for the outrageous gas prices (it will fill your car ten times), it will be spent buying iPods and video games. It will be spent on vacations to Disney World. It will be spent going out to eat. It will be spent going to see movies.
This money will be put back into the hands of who had it first, the rich.
Basically, they now own you. For more proof, just scroll down, and down, and down and down and down until you see how much the Iraq War has cost compared to the government actually trying to fix our economic/energy crisis.
I’m clearly in a mood…
Oh, and I will probably spend my $600 check on a new lens, because I don’t want to disappoint the American People.
I met Beau and Chadd at the Hillary Clinton rally yesterday here at Mizzou. Hill’s wasn’t there but Bill went in her place. He gave a fantastic speech and just really sold Hillary. She’s got my vote come Super Tuesday!
It was is crazy to think that this guy lead us to America’s strongest years since I have been alive and that afterwards working for so many philanthropic groups.
I bumped into several friends at the even, Geoff, John, Chad… and I even saw Mark and his beau Sam.
After his wonderful speech, Bill greeted the crowd signing books and fliers and, well anything people could get autographed.
I actually got to shake his hand a few times and even got a hug! Yes, I got to hug Bill Clinton.
I can die happy now. ;-)
As we were leaving the event, KOMU took time to interview Chadd and Beau.
The full photostream is available here and a slide show with two hundred shots (I was fighting 1256 people and about 40 press…) can be viewed over here.
In a speach before an Interfait forum in Des Moins Iowa, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois contended that the idea of seperation of church and state should not force American voters to “leave [their] religion at the door before entering the public square” arguing that “faith informs our values, and I think we’d all agree that our values inform our politics more than they have over the last six years”.
Obama pointed out the damages caused by religio-political machines such as Jerry Falwell “exploit what divides us” with agendas based soley on time socially divided issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
Jumping onto the recent Nobel Prize shared by Al Gore and UN Scientists, Obama pushed the bibically faithful to examine their doctrine’s regard to the earth, climate and our role in protecting what God gave us.
“The bible tells us that when God created the earth, he entrusted us with the responsibility to take care of that earth,” he said. “It is a responsibility to ensure that this planet remains clean and safe and livable for our children, and for all of God’s children.”
“Science has made it undeniably clear that our generation is not living up to this responsibility.”
An as an omage to the former vice president, Obama gave credit where it was due, “I think all of us give great thanks to him [Al Gore] for his extraordinary dedication, his extraordinary service, [and] his grace after a bitter defeat to rise up and actually transcend and do even more than one could have ever imagined to help highlight this issue.”
Well done. Absolutely the best mixing of religion in a political speach that didn’t austrosize anyone. Well, not me at anyways.
times), it will be spent buying iPods and video games. It will be spent on vacations to Disney World. It will be spent going out to eat. It will be spent going to see movies.
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