If you are a Republican…you have a problem. And that problem is President Obama. He’s too popular. I was watching the Presidential Address to Congress on MSNBC. There they had one of those audience tracker dials that they had during the debate. McCain voters were rating President higher than his own voters were sometimes. At certain points of the speech, the lines for both sets of voters literally went so high they were off the chart. I know what the problem is. President Obama’s style is throwing the Republicans off their game. He’s not cut from the same mold most Democrats are cut from. Typical Democrats either respond to attacks emotionally, appearing frantic and defensive, or weakly, appearing soft or scared of the political fallout. President Obama’s style is to wait of his political opponents to have their say, pick through their points one by one and then respond thoughtfully, forcefully and finally. He might not start the fight but he sure does finish it. Take the recently passed stimulus bill. For a week republicans went on a tear about how wasteful it was and that it was typical Democrat spending. After that week, Obama then came out and in essence roasted Republicans in 2 days. First was his speech at the DOE where he reminded the PEOPLE that he inherited this debt from the same Republicans talking about wasteful spending and then he held a Town Hall forum to take questions directly from the people in a struggling city. Seems like the President has figured out that if he bypasses the politicians and takes his plans straight to the American people…he wins. And right now, the Republicans don’t know how to go up against that strategy (And no, Michael Steele isn’t the answer…that’s actually pretty laughable)…WTF
Speaking of Republicans…how bad was Governor Bobby Jindal’s response yesterday? Geez, that joint was horrible. Even Republican/Conservative pundits said it was bad. He came out sounding like he was substituting for Mr. Rogers on Mr. Rogers neighborhood. I was watching MSNBC when his response ended and it amused me to no end when Rachael Maddow was speechless in trying to describe how stupid it was for a republican to bring up the Federal Government’s slow response to hurricane Katrina (since republicans at the time had complete control over the Government). She was finally able to spit out “I’m incapable of doing what I’m paid to do right now” over the laughs of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Honestly, I almost felt bad for the Governor. President Obama pulled a Rabbit to Jindal’s Papa Doc last night in that he knew what the Governor’s typical republican response would be and he made sure he addressed those points in his speech. That left Jindal giving a typical Republican red meat response that had already been dismantled by the President. I’m pretty sure Jindal wanted to “Cheddar Bob” himself right before he went out to give that response. (Three 8-Mile references in one post, sweet). It makes me cringe to say this but if that’s what I have to look forward to in 4 years, I actually long for the days of Sarah Palin. At least she could read the teleprompter with some sort of emotion and not coming off as some kind of robotic alien (I swear I was waiting for Jindal to say “Take me to your leader…”). Palin was at least “folksy” and while I don’t know what the fuck that means, I know I could at least pass the time while she rambled on about shit she really didn’t know by picturing her naked. Couldn’t do that with “Bobby”. As Jaxx said last night…Jindal should give up his aspirations for President for Lent…WTF
Grand View Topless Coffee Shop
I don’t drink coffee a whole lot. I don’t think caffeine helps keep me away. That said, if Star Bucks started having their workers (female workers) serve coffee topless, I just might have to start drinking a cup of Joe every morning. Of course eventually someone will mess this good deal up. Some of the townspeople already are complaining but I can’t figure out why. If you don’t want to see titties don’t go to get your coffee from that shop. Go to Dunkin Doughnuts and get your caffeine fix from the fat sloppy cashier named Helga.
Having Ruppert Murdoch apologize for the NY Post cartoon is like having David Duke apologize because a KKK member defaced a church. In the history of all the egregious things media publications and outlets own by Murdoch have done, the NY Post incident isn’t even in the Top 50…probably not even in the Top 100. So you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t fall over myself to accept the apology. Now CPR made some good points in regards to this incident and I for one have said that I think people are giving the NY Post way too much exposure for this crap. That said, the NY Post was wrong…probably not racist…but definitely wrong. The cartoonist might have had the best intentions when he drew that cartoon and there’s a chance President Obama didn’t even pop into his head when he drew that monkey. However, I refuse to believe that not a single editor or employee who saw that cartoon before it went to print didn’t throw up a red flag. There’s a history of black people being called monkeys by whites (which makes CPR’s point about GW Bush being depicted as a monkey not in the same ballpark) and therefore the NY Post should have been aware of that. End of story…WTF
Government workers just might be some of the dumbest people on the planet. If some of my readers are government workers, then I’m probably not talking about you…but your fellow co-workers. And since I’ve talked to some of you about your dumbass co-workers, I know you’ll agree. It’s like they don’t require any sort of intelligence or education check when you get a government job. I think the only true requirement is can your read and write and even then I think they make exceptions. I’ve had to deal with a client who used to pull out her calculator to calculate the cells in Excel instead of using the “Sum” function. They teach that in Middle School. Then there was the time when I get a call from the Help Desk at one Lab and I told them to open up a config file using Notepad and they asked me “How do we do that?” Even sending them instructions with the part they need to change in red leaves them asking “What do I need to change again?” I say all this to point out that when Michael Steele’s dumbass said that creating Government Jobs doesn’t create real jobs, he didn’t know what he was talking about. Working for a Government Consulting firm, we can’t find enough people to fill the jobs. See, the more Government employees you have, the more idiots you have mucking stuff up, therefore more work for us in the private sector. It’s a vicious cycle but right now it’s giving me job security…WTF
Octuplets Mom argues with her Mom
In a sane world, we’d take Nadya Suleman’s 14 kids from her and lock her up in a padded room with a jacket that allows her to hug herself for 24 hours a day. I’m sorry, but to those crying about how it’s racist the way she’s being treated, step down off your soap box for 5 minutes and think about it. She’s loony. We know this. Not only did she purposely try to have this many children but then she’s obviously on some Angelina Jolie “Super Fan” shit with those fake ass lips of hers. I’d be uncomfortable with a crazy person raising 2 kids and this bitch has an army right now. She was barely able to take care of the 6 she had before and now she has 8. Come on. Common sense tells us that something needs to be done about her. When her own mother is willing to come out and speak against her, I think it’s time for us to sit down and really think about what steps should be next. Sadly, putting the children in the system isn’t a great solution so the only thing I can hope for is that this bitch is committed and her family steps in to try to raise these kids right. Cause I deal with enough crazy/stupid mofos as it is now…the last thing I need is dumb bitches lining up to create their own “Super race” of stupidity…WTF
So it’s Ash Wednesday and it’s looking like I’ll be giving up alcohol for 40 days (If you haven’t voted yet, you still can. Voting ends at midnight). I decided to end this WTF Wednesday with a funny Ash Wednesday story. I’m a Christian but I’m not Catholic. I also can admit that when it comes to the Bible, I don’t have the most trustworthy memory of everything (So sue me, I missed a couple of days of Bible Study.) So sometimes I’m a little taken aback by the normal (well, they say they are normal) traditions people do on certain important Christian dates. So a few years back on Ash Wednesday I’m at work and the white lady from work comes into my office. I’m talking to her and I notice she has some black stuff on her forehead. Normally, I would be an asshole and just ignore it but she was actually cool peeps so I said “Hey, you have some stuff smeared on your forehead.” That’s when she tells me “Oh no, I’m Catholic, it’s ash for Ash Wednesday.” Now when I went to tell my other coworker how stupid I felt she laughed at me and called me a heathen for not knowing that. Let me say this now…I think it’s fucking stupid. I’m supposed to walk around all day with dirt (let’s be real, that’s what ash is) smeared on my forehead, just to symbolize my repentance? You know, sometimes I think God is sitting up there beside Jesus saying:
“Geez, I don’t know what I was thinking when I made these humans. They do some of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve told them I know what’s in their hearts…so why do they feel the need to smear dirt on their foreheads and look like Pigpen from Peanuts?”
And then Jesus looks at him and says
“It’s not that bad Pops. I turned water into wine for them and still crucified me.”
And God nods his head and says:
“Touché. I’ll guess I’ll just have to punish them for their stupidity with another season of For the Love of Ray J”
WTF
