Now that I got your attention, why the double standard when it comes to sex? You will see the exact same parents be proud of their son being sexually active while denying their daughter has any sexuality whatsoever. Yes, that’s bad for the girls. But it’s also bad for the boys. The girl will start off with a dysfunctional sex life. Nice going, parents.

Boys and girls think about sex. All the time. So do adults. So do old people. So does that receptionist who’s bored out of her mind, that balding guy in his 40s, that homeless guy asking for spare change, and that kind lady in the wheelchair. So do retarded people, people who like to fish, and the guy who’s fixing your bike. Denying people their sexuality is just plain stupid.

Which of course brings me to censorship. For those of you who have read my blog for years, you know that it was Tipper Gore who originally got me into politics. No, not in a good way. I fucking hated her holier than thou ass. I remember her speeches on Dungeons and Dragons being “a pathway to Satanism,” the urban legends about the kids getting killed because they took Dungeons and Dragons too seriously, her trying to ban such songs as Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop.”

Yes, “She Bop.” It’s about female masturbation and we all know that the entire Gore family NEVER masturbated because they don’t do such evil things like that. Yeah, whatever. Fuck you Tipper Gore and that white horse you rode in on. Note that of Tipper’s filthy fifteen list, 2 of them were about female masturbation. Another of the 15 was Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walls” which is a song about female arousal. No wonder we have a generation of kids screwed up about sexuality. Anyone who claims to be a feminist who supported Tipper Gore, do the world a favor and shoot yourself in the head right now. Thanks.

I’ve always wondered why it took Al so long to get divorced. You waited long enough. Now I find it funny that the guy who claimed to have invented the internet can’t find out where to get happy endings.

Movie ratings

America is ass backwards when it comes to sex not only in music censorship but in movie ratings. I remember when my son was a kid, we rented the movie “Mission to Mars” which was rated PG. No, not PG-13, but straight up PG. So thinking it was safe, we watched the movie together. He was excited to see it and said how he wanted to be an astronaut.

Well, the movie had several graphically violent deaths, including one guy spinning around so fast that he blew up into a mass of blood. Yes, in a PG movie.

After the movie was over, my son said “I don’t want to be an astronaut.” Nice going, movie rating dickheads.

I also remember that Indiana Jones 3 movie where the Arab guy got his head cut off and his head rolls by Indiana Jones. Did that movie get an R rating? Of course not. Then again, we all know Hollywood hates Arabs so I’m not surprised.

If Indiana Jones 3 had a pair of bare breasts though, it would have gotten an R rating. Moral - nudity bad, graphic violence ok as long as it’s not too much.

The thing is, breasts aren’t even sexual organs. Well, besides tittie fucking but come on, that’s only common in porn. (Tip to Al Gore - if you ever read the internet that you claimed to invent, you ask if they speak Swedish).

How true that is.  How also true about how the British people are strangely quiet and unapologetic.

BP in its cleanup is also using toxic chemicals banned by the EU.  Of course, that doesn’t matter to BP because it’s not affecting Britain.

I tell people that you can’t fix an alcoholic.  That alone has lost me more than one friend.  I’m not kidding.

The whole train thing may have made me sound like a jerk.  So be it.  If you see a train track and you cross it without seeing if a train is coming, you don’t deserve to live.  Plain and simple.

Don’t over-invest in company stock.  I knew this before Enron.

People on steroids have much higher pain tolerances than people not on steroids.  I’m glad I learned this with headgear and a mouthpiece instead of on the street or else it would have been really ugly (on my end).

There are things that you simply won’t be good at no matter how much effort you make.  We’re all bad at something.  The sooner you realize that, the less time you waste.

You can’t be anything you want to be.  People who say this are not being realistic.  However, you do have natural talents.  Pick your favorite and get really good at it.  If you have two favorites, get good at both of them.

Money doesn’t necessarily buy you happiness.  But being broke will stress you out.

Capitalism isn’t fair.  However, it’s still better than the alternative.  Socialism punishes the thrifty, the focused, the creative, and the hard-working while rewarding the lazy and the people with chronic bad luck.

Some folks do have bad luck.  I feel bad for them.  Seriously, I do.  However, I don’t feel bad for people who do the same stupid shit over and over again.  Big difference.

America needs to treat her veterans better.  Heck, America needs to treat her own citizens better.  This country needs more freedom, not less.

This world already is overpopulated.  Just wait until we get into the resource wars.  The oil wars have already started.  The water wars will come in our lifetime.  And don’t tell me that we have plenty of resources and we just need to redistribute them better.  I already told you how much I hated communism.  What’s mine is mine.  It’s not yours.  And it especially doesn’t belong to someone on the other side of the world I’ll never even meet.  It’s mine.  Sound like a two-year old? Well, sometimes toddlers are wiser than adults.  Maybe when I’m done with it, I’ll let you play with it but for now it’s mine.

Speaking of oil, this is still going on.  Picture from NASA.

And speaking of stupid, if you’re this close to the field, ever think it may be a good idea to pay attention to the game? I hope this hurt. (It’s only 32 seconds long and if you got a sick sense of humor like I do, you might laugh).

Look.  If you get hit by a train, chances are, you’re an idiot and getting killed before you breed is the best thing that can happen to the human race.  In Spain, 12 people were killed crossing a train track on the way to a concert.  I don’t care if they’re following a crowd.  Even more reason to clean up the gene pool.  If you see everyone else doing it, it does NOT mean it’s safe.

Here’s the story.  In Spain, a high speed train hits 26 people, killing 12 of them and injuring the rest, some in critical condition.  There was a concert on the beach going on by a popular singer.

Cold? No.  You know why I don’t think that’s cold? It’s because my heart is not infinite.  I feel bad for people with bad luck, not people who make stupid decisions.  HUGE difference.

Crossing train tracks without looking is stupid.  ALWAYS assume trains are running.  You don’t fool around with trains.  Trains are bigger than you and they’re made of metal.  They go faster than you too.  If a train hits a human, the train wins.  Always.  No exceptions.  Train beats human flesh and bone.

So now what? Well, there are at least four separate investigations going on about the train.  Yes, the fucking train.  Not the fucking idiots who crossed a track while a train was going 85 mph (which for the record was under the speed limit for that area).  Chances are they’ll find fault in the train company and some poor schmo who was doing their job will be scapegoated and fired.

Then, the other complaint was not enough warning signs.  OK, that one set me off.  How many warning signs to you need? You see a train track.  Before you cross it, you look to see if there’s a train coming.  If someone fails those simple rules, their deaths are probably some of the best things that can happen for the future of the human race.

Now, if this event isn’t a nomination for a Darwin Award, what is?

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OK, now looking back at this, I like this rant as it’s so brutal.  Have I done stupid things? Sure, many times.  But this is equivalent to running across a freeway when everyone is speeding.  I don’t have sympathy.

When I went to college, we lived by the train tracks.  Every few years, some drunk moron would walk on the train tracks and get killed by the train.  Of course, the trains get blamed.  Not the drunk moron.  So they lower the train speed limits (which is bad for capitalism) and require trains to blow their horns.  Well, living by the trains, take a guess how I felt about that, especially 3 o’clock in the morning on a night before Finals.

Since this happened in Europe, the continent that gave us political correctness, I wouldn’t be surprised if this event ends up setting up yet another useless bureaucracy.  Spain is one of the PIIGS*, which in capitalistic terms is one of the countries in the EU that can’t manage their money.  The EU is currently waiting for the straw that broke the camel’s back and the whole thing crumbles down.

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PIIGS = Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.

For the record, that 85% of all youths sitting in prison seems low.  I remember talking to a lot of former prisoners and they tell me one thing everyone has in common is nobody has a father.  I have seen other statistics where the figure is well over 90%, but too busy right now to dig for them.  So for now, we’ll go with the 85% figure.

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Thanks R for pretty much supplying this post

The fines levied against British Petroleum aren’t enough.  Joe and Jane Taxpayer will have to cover the rest, and yes, that means if you live in the United States of America, that means YOU.

I joked about drilling our oil right off the coast of England so if we spill, we ruin THEIR beaches.  Well, I was only half-joking.  Maybe we should.  Let them pay the bill for the next spill, not us.

Two things from this which I think are very obvious:

1) We need to do something serious about our energy policy.  If this isn’t a wake up call, I don’t know what is,

2) Limit campaign contributions to $100.  Any person or corporation can donate to a campaign, but $100 tops.  That immediately limits corporate power and puts the power back in the hands of the PEOPLE, where it needs to be.

#2 fixes a heck of a lot more problems than we realize.  The people have been losing power to corporations for decades now and it’s time we got it back.

I’d love to run for Congress on that platform alone.  I’d never win, but someone needs to do it.

Yes, I’m still here and hopefully this week I should have some time to visit everyone’s blogs.

A lot to say but I’ll keep it all short.  Several things I’ve learned in life.  Probably most importantly, the most important thing you have is your health and the health of your loved ones.  If you have both, be thankful.  Everything else is replaceable.  Yes, that includes your house, your car, all your belongings.  They’re just stuff.  People aren’t replaceable and neither if your health.

Another thing, British Petroleum should get a lifetime ban from anywhere that can affect the US of A.  It’s absolutely sickening to see all those animals coming up dead.  My heart goes out to the families and friends of the people killed in the accident.  And yes, BP hasn’t been doing enough.  I don’t care what the CEO says.  He’s a moron.

In politics, the Republicans are blaming Obama and the Democrats are blaming the Republicans.  Both are wrong.  The blame needs to go to British Petroleum.

The Gulf is already polluted.  It’s just getting worse.  We need to do something about our energy policies.  I’ve written about alternative solutions several times in the past so I’m not just one of those people who bitch but have no answers.

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I’ve been reading fiction books again (besides Harry Potter).  The author I like now is Jim Butcher.  I’m on book 5 of his Harry Dresden series.  Harry Dresden if you’ve never heard of him is a wizard in modern day Chicago.  The books are not easy reads as they will emotionally drain you to the point that I have to take a break between reading each book.

I’m so glad to read fiction again as I realized I must have been turning dry reading nothing but history, politics, and economics.  Those all are good for the mind, don’t get me wrong.  Fiction though is good for the soul.

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And yes, still no TV.  It’s great.  You get so much more done if you don’t watch TV.

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Although we still watch movies at friends’ houses.  The other night, we went over to my real estate agent’s house and watched Taken.  I’ve seen it before and said this before, thank goodness for Liam Neeson as the recent James Bond movies are downright lame.  Nice to have an action hero that’s good.  If you haven’t seen Taken and you like action movies, go out and rent it.

So after the movie, I turned to my real estate agent and said “man, France was probably a pretty nice country before all those fucking Albanians moved in.”

Do you believe that people have the Right to bear arms, even those of that scary race or that religion you don’t like?

Do you think people should be allowed to protest, even if what they believe is stupid?

Do you believe everyone should have the Right to a fair trial, even if the person is most likely a rapist or a murderer?

Do you believe that even who you think are perverts should be allowed to be safe in their homes?

Do you think people who you find strange should be exposed and ridiculed, and watched carefully?

If this offends the higher ups in the Catholic Church, so be it.  It needs to be said.

Warning - lots of obscenities. Don’t play at work.