The Zombieslayer

I love how people love to point out faults in American cars.  Yes, every single car ever made has problems and American cars have their share.  However, right now there’s an American car company that according to Consumer Reports, is at the top or near the top in pretty much every single category - Ford.

That’s right.  Ford makes good cars.  (I can’t say the same about the other two American car companies unfortunately).

On the flip side, I’ve heard horror stories of bad cars.  I’ve read Ralph Nader’s reports of a glove box opening and almost decapitating a little girl during a small crash.  I know all about the memo of the exploding Pintos.

That was then.  This is now.

Toyota and Lexus have a serious problem where the accelerator keeps accelerating no matter what you do.  Watch this video.  It may just save your life.  And if you’re about to buy a car, don’t buy a Toyota or Lexus.  They refuse to acknowledge that it’s a problem, even though a lot of people have died already.

Toyota/Lexus accelerators out of control.

Sexism goes both ways, folks.  I keep hearing over and over about how bad women have it.  I won’t argue that.  There is plenty of misogyny out there.  There are a lot of backwards attitudes that women have to deal with.  I agree.  I’m not arguing that.  Blah blah blah.

But what people don’t realize is that there’s just as much anti-male sexism.  Take Hollywood for example.  Male on female violence is a horrible thing in Hollywood (as it should be).  However, female on male violence is comedy.

Another example - women already live eight years longer than men.  Men know this, and accept it.  It’s part of being a man - you will die before your spouse so you plan accordingly and make sure she’ll be taken care of when you’re dead.  That’s something we accept.

Food companies don’t help.  They fortify food for women.  Like cold cereal - you know how hard it is to find a box of cereal that doesn’t have tons of iron? Geez, iron is bad news for men.  Don’t believe me? Why do you think there is zero iron in Men’s Vitamins?

We already live eight years shorter than women.  Why speed it up?

My two cents on Gaza

You can already guess my two cents on Gaza.  Once again, I bring you the great Zombiesladamus, the one with powers to tell the future.  One hundred years from now, there will be fighting in the Middle East.  Two hundred years from now, there will be fighting in the Middle East.  One thousand years ago, there was fighting in the Middle East.  Two thousand years ago, there was fighting in the Middle East.  There will always be fighting in the Middle East.

Why? Because there are too many people for too few resources.  Ever been there? You will notice people everywhere, no trees, lots of sand, no water.  That’s what the fighting is all about, folks.  Pink Floyd sang “with, without, and after all isn’t that what the fighting’s all about?” for a reason.  They get it.

There was some lady in Gaza telling the reporter that five of her seven daughters were killed by the Israelis.  Now, that sucks big time and I feel bad for her, don’t get me wrong.  But you also have to think “what the heck were you thinking having seven kids?”  There’s your answer to why they’re always fighting.

Religion is just the excuse.  If they were all the same religion, they’ll fight about race.  If they were all the same religion and race, they’d fight about ethnicity, or language, or something else.  Believe me, they’ll find something to fight about.

The US should take no stand one way or another and should send no monetary support to ANY side.  We have enough problems here at home to deal with.

So…

My blogging buddy Badman showed me a news article with Posh Spice saying that Brits are more fashionable than Americans, to which I replied “you can put a $2000 dress on a pig and it’s still a pig.” Not slamming English women of course, but Posh Spice directly. I don’t care what she’s wearing, she and her trash soccer moron hubby are pigs. Yet another reason I can’t wait for the zombie plague to start.

Remember how I was so much against the bank bailouts? I wrote three articles against it. Guess what? Here’s something to make you sick…

An Associated Press study showed that the execs from the bailed out banks got $1.6 billion total of YOUR taxpayer money. That’s just great. Someone please explain to me why these guys aren’t in jail.

In another bout of hypocrisy, the CEO of Bank of America said that the car companies shouldn’t get that $25 billion they asked for. Real nice, considering his company ALONE got $50 billion.

And yet another reason this economy’s been shaky that almost no one is bringing up - outsourcing. You simply cannot outsource more jobs than you create and expect everything to be rosy. The center of ANY economy are jobs. Unemployment is high because of outsourcing.

Since I started blogging in 2005, I was going off on this globalist mentality. It’s a bad idea. No, you can’t stop globalism, but greedy execs used it as an excuse to cut costs by cutting jobs. Guess what? When all the jobs are gone, there’s nobody left to buy your products. Seems simple, right? Apparently not.

It may be a long recession, folks. Make sure you save as much as you can from each paycheck and continue paying down your debts. Obama talks about creating news jobs. That’s nice, but how about save the jobs that already exist? I don’t think too many folks here are confident in their job security right now.

The Supreme Court today did the right thing and reaffirmed that the Right to Bear Arms is a personal Right, not some collectivist group think crap that certain folks on the Left think it is. Finally. Now, let’s roll back some of these anti-gun laws.

Like always, uber-hypocrite Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the country will be less safe. Keep in mind Feinstein has a California Concealed Weapons Permit, yes, a gun, that she keeps on her at all times because she said that if someone wanted to take her out, she’d take “that bastard” out with her.

Now, doesn’t that sound like something that I would say? Sure does. Amazing how someone could be that hypocritical. Well, what do you expect from the anti-gun crowd? They have no respect for our Constitution.

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We have a serious energy crisis, my friends. Now is not the time to point fingers but the time to take action. It’s time we started taking Solar Energy seriously. Get the ball rolling. Start putting out massive Solar Power projects.

It’s not just about the environment any more. It’s about slavery. Do we want to be slaves to foreign oil? No. $400 billion over 40 years is chump change. It’s less than we spend on farm subsidies and much less than we’d spend on foreign wars because of oil. If I had my fingers on the budget, I guarantee you I could cut $10 billion a year in pork, easily.

If you want to hear more about what I’m talking about, read the January 2008 issue of Scientific American. It has all the details, and shows that your energy bill will actually go down, not up. Plus, we won’t have to worry about foreign oil at all.

Imagine, telling the Middle East where they can stick their oil. Following the plan detailed in Scientific American, we can ditch foreign oil altogether.

Did you see the market today? The Dow dropped around 350 points. Why? Because of the price of oil. We need to kick this crack habit.

As for extra drilling here, no. Why not? Because there really isn’t that much. Certain lobbies would like you to believe it’s the greenie meanies who are holding us back but in reality, it’s the scientists. They know it’s not enough to be even worthwhile.

Solar on the other hand is limitless. Twenty years ago, I would have dismissed this concept as a bad joke but technology changes. Solar has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has become not only a lot more efficient, but much cheaper, and will continue to be more efficient and cheaper. Unlike oil, there’s an unlimited supply. Well, I take that back. We only have five billion years left of it.

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I’m proud of this last shot. No, I do not have a telephoto lens. I was really this close to the squirrel. By request, I’m going to start posting more pictures that I took.

This morning, Benazar Bhutto from Pakistan was assassinated.  She had been in exile and recently returned to Pakistan to run against President Musharraf.

I’m deeply saddened to hear about her death.  The 54-year-old former Prime Minister had twice the brains and ten times the charisma of Musharraf and I was really hoping she’d win in the elections.

This sets Pakistan back.  The Pakistani people are an intelligent lot of people, and this is a country I’ve been following for years now.

For those of you who don’t know who she was, Benazar Bhutto was the former Prime Minister of Pakistan.  Her father was Prime Minister but he was assassinated.  Educated in Harvard and Oxford, Bhutto was a good friend of America and the West.  She was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice between 1988 and 1996.

Musharraf warned her about returning to Pakistan for he said he was worried for her safety.  He said he couldn’t guarantee her security.  I’m not at all implying Musharraf had a hand in the attack.  I don’t know if he was genuinely concerned or not, but for right now, I’m mourning her death.  I think it’s more likely that he had no hand in her attack and actually was worried because the country’s stability had been deteriorating in recent months.

She was a good woman and could have taken Pakistan far into the future.