Things That Just Piss Me Off

Those Born 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON’T READ ANYTHING ELSE—VERY WELL STATED

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts, or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes. No video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers! no Internet or chat rooms…….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them… CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

‘With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?’

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us…go ahead and delete this.

For the rest of us…pass this ON!

This post is pretty much for anyone in their 20s or younger but may also apply to you if you are over 30 depending on how you were raised. Our society has gotten so weak. We are becoming pathetic.

Here are a list of things I point to that proves that we are becoming a bunch of pathetic losers instead of the strong nation of people we once were.

1. Political Correctness - Everyone has to watch what they say because they are worried they might offend someone. OMG. Someone could be offended? How will they ever survive that. They will likely need counseling for life is they are offended by what someone said. OMG. We used to be able to handle being offended and we could get over it. How did we ever do that?

2. Winning and Losing - Today there are schools that have sports and other activities where there are no winners or loser. “We are all winners, no reason to keep score.” Because if there are winners, there must be losers and we can’t have anyone thinking they are a loser. OMG. If a child loses at something they will need counseling for life! It used to be we had competition and you lost or you won. It taught you to try to succeed. It taught you to be a winner. It taught you to be competitive, which now they call a bad thing. Our greatest leaders were people who learned to be winners, now we teach our children that there are no winners or losers. This way everyone is equal so no need to strive to be better. No reason to improve yourself because everyone else is just the same as me. Awww, can we just all sing Kum Ba Yah now?

3. Playing with toys - Now parents don’t want their children to play with certain toys. If boys play with toy guns they are bound to turn out to be violent. If girls play with dolls it stereotypes them that women should only be moms and not be independent or equal to men. Parents are being told by psychologists that they can shape their children’s lives by the toys they buy them or by teaching them that there are no winners or losers. But it doesn’t work. We just end up with a whiny crybaby society and just because you buy your girls a doll will not make her believe that she can only be a mom. And when did only being a mom become a bad thing? I think we need a few more “just moms” out there. Our kids need them. If you buy your boys a toy gun, it does not mean they will grow up to be a criminal. Get over it.

4. Work Ethic - Nowadays bosses have to be extremely careful not to yell at anyone or stress anyone out or they might be sued. Bosses who yell are said to create a “hostile working environment”. OMG! We can’t have bosses yelling at people and telling them to get any actual work done! They will need counseling after that! It may scar them for life! Bosses used to get mad and yell at people. If you didn’t like it, get another job. The boss is the boss. Not anymore. The lawyers have become the boss. You can’t say this, you can’t say that. You need to have this policy in place and you can’t make them do any extra work that someone in the next office who is a different gender or race didn’t also have to do or you are sexist or racist and you might be sued!

As a result we are less productive as a society, as a country. We have a workforce of a bunch of whiny crybabies who played sports where there were no winners or losers and where no one says anything that might offend anyone. How nice. How utopian we are becoming.

Meanwhile in places like China, people work hard, they get yelled at by bosses, they have winners and losers, and they are beating the pants off of us economically. But it’s ok. We are all equal. It doesn’t matter anymore that other countries are beating us in education, economics, and other areas because there are no winners and losers and it would be too stressful to compete with these other countries. We would all need counseling.

Please don’t be offended or stressed out by this post. See no words with all caps?. That proves I wasn’t yelling at you while I wrote it. There are no winners and losers on my blog. The lawyers are reading my post now to make sure I didn’t offend anyone that might sue me so there may be revisions made later and it will end up being a kindler, gentler blog post. The kind those of you who are to blame for the whiny crybaby society, those who sue people for stressing them out, those who think having winners and losers harms children, and those of you who believe political correctness is important, can deal with.

Ahhh, screw the lawyers.

I hope you are offended by something in this post.

There are winners and there are losers and only losers want it any other way.

Men are men and women are women. We are not the same no matter how much cross-dressing there is and how many NOW members there are.

Involving our children in non-competitive sports or that there are no winners and losers is creating a loser society.

Teaching people not to ever offend anyone makes them weak and makes those who might be offended even weaker. If you get offended, suck it up. Get over it. You don’t need counseling.

If your boss yells at you or makes you work harder than the next guy, suck it up or get another job.

Go to work on time. Do a good job. Beat the other people who work there and help the company you work for beat their competition.

That is how our society got strong. All of this whiny crybaby crap pisses me off.

A guy named Bob is travelling by Amtrak with two strangers sitting close to him.

He is trying to sleep, but those guys were speaking loudly for a very long time heavily criticizing George Bush, the war in Iraq, corruption, unemployment, etc.

So Bob, in an attempt to force the guys to stop talking and let him sleep, tells them as a joke, that there is a new total control system developed by the FBI that spies upon all citizens, and there are lots of listening devices everywhere, so that anyone criticizing the government would be severely punished.

This didn’t have any effect on those guys, moreover they just laughed at Bob, and carried on and on, saying even more rude jokes about George Bush and the government.

Finally, close to 3:00 am, Bob goes to the restroom, and runs into the train conductor.

Bob asks the conductor to bring him some water and sleeping pills at exactly 3:00 a.m.

He goes back to his place and says loudly into the base of his seat, so that talkative guys could hear him:

“If the FBI director can hear me: could you please bring me a glass of water and some sleeping pills at 3:00 a.m., because there are some idiots here who are speaking too loudly about some political issues and won’t let me sleep.”

The guys continue talking.

Exactly at 3:00 am, the door opens and the conductor comes out, and gives Bob the water and some sleeping pills.

The guys are shocked and finally stop talking. Bob is happy and manages to fall asleep.

When he wakes in the morning, the talkative guys are nowhere to be found.

Out of curiosity he asks the conductor about them, (also remembering that there shouldn’t have been any stops at night).

The conductor replies that some people in black suits stopped the train and arrested those guys.

Bob is completely shocked and surprised and asks about why he was not arrested.

The conductor answers that he doesn’t have a clue but one of the guys in black suits said that the director of the FBI liked Bob’s joke about the water and pills.

There is no nice way to say it. GoDaddy hosting is not worth spending 5 cents per month on. Honestly, if you are going to worry so much about getting cheap hosting, you will end up with cheap hosting.

If you are running a business and you are worried whether or not your hosting will cost an extra $100 somewhere else, then you should stop right now and not open your business because you will not ever make money on the web.

Seriously, if you think that extra money you might pay a better hosting company is going to make or break your business, get a day job and forget about it. It takes money to make money.

GoDaddy hosting can’t even get a wordpress installation right. This is something almost anyone can do in 7 minutes. I run a lot of blogs for clients and some of them have been on GoDaddy Hosting. Not one time has GoDaddy ever gotten it done correctly.

If you have cpanel at your hosting company, you can even install wordpress in about 3 minutes with fantastico. But with the GoDaddy hosting control panel you click to install wordpress and it just means they will do it for you.

I’ve had them install it into a folder after clearly telling them to install it into the root of the domain name. So now more time has to be spent to explain it to them again, have them uninstall it then reinstall it where I told them to do it in the first place.

Half the time they don’t even install the latest version of wordpress anyway. Then you have to manually update it to the newest version. An update is not as good as a clean install of the version you want.

You can’t use custom permalink structure for the blog. Godaddy hosting either does not have mod rewrite or they have screwed it up or they purposely don’t allow it. Either way a blog is much better off with good permalink structure for seo purposes. Since you can’t do that at godaddy hosting, then I would never use them.

GoDaddy is well known so people think they must be good. Anyone who has money can advertise and be well known. It does not mean they are good at anything.

Godaddy uses floating servers and floating MySQL. You do not know who else is on your IP Block. There are spammers, porn websites, warez websites, and other types of websites you do not want on your IP Block or “neighborhood”.

Would you open your clothing store in a neighborhood next to a massage parlor, a topless bar, a crack house, a bookie, etc.

If the answer is no quit signing up with cheap hosting. Spammers use cheap hosting. If you are in that same IP Block or neighborhood, your domain name can be punished along with them.

Suffice it to say, my company now turns away all seo business, blog management business, or any other business where we might have anything to do with GoDaddy Hosting.

Your mileage may vary. I’m sure some people will run in and defend GoDaddy Hosting. Go for it. My experience with GoDaddy hosting precludes me from ever doing business with them again.

I blog about political correctness all the time because it really does piss me off. It’s ok to try not to be outright offensive to people. Using racial slurs and such is wrong. We all agree on that.

However, people have gotten so sensitive or fearful that they might offend someone they are afraid to state facts or they put their facts into some kind of politically correct statement that fails to get the truth across.

Examples;

If I use the phrase “Illegal Aliens” some people will say that is racist. They want to call them “Undocumented Workers”.

Undocumented workers suggests that all illegal aliens in this country work and that their status is practically legal. A fact not in evidence.

Then we are supposed to believe that they only take jobs Americans will not do. Again not a factual statement. Americans will take $10 per hour construction jobs and recently a guy was found out as an illegal alien and was working as a police officer, another job American workers will do.

Wikipedia: Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Under this definition, an illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has illegally crossed an international political border, be it by land, sea, or air, or a foreigner who has entered a country legally but then overstays his/her Visa in order to live and/or work there.

If you fit into that sentence above, you are an ILLEGAL ALIEN. That is not a racial slur.

Yet, just discussing these facts by many people’s standards is racist. Truth doesn’t matter to the PC crowd.

If you live in a city where neighborhoods are still pretty much divided among racial lines and a report comes out that says crime is higher in a specific ethnic neighborhood, then there are those that will say you are a racist and you are purposely demeaning the people of a particular race.

It doesn’t matter that the report was absolutely factual. You just can’t say it because some group or another will call the report racist.

It’s no longer politically correct to tell the truth or put out any report, no matter if it is factual or not if it sheds a bad light on any particular group of people.

Like this story in the NYTimes

After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify
By JESSE McKINLEY

On Monday, a team of researchers led by doctors from the University of California at San Francisco announced that gay men were “many times more likely than others” to acquire a new strain of drug-resistant staphylococcus, a nasty, fast-spreading and potential lethal bacteria known as MRSA USA300. And sure enough, the study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was quickly picked up by reporters round the world and across the Internet, including a London tabloid which dubbed the disease “the new H.I.V.”

But for gay men in the Castro neighborhood here, which was an early epicenter for the AIDS epidemic and a current hot spot for MRSA, the report also seemed to cast an unfair, and all too familiar, stigma on their sexuality.

“The way they keep targeting gays as if gays alone are responsible for it, its like H.I.V./AIDS all over again,” said Colin Thurlow, 60, who is gay and lives in San Francisco. “And we’re sick and tired of it.”

It doesn’t matter that the University was trying to warn gay men about the disease. It doesn’t matter that the report might be factual. it only matters that it might shed a bad light on gays. We can’t have that.

On Friday, it issued an apology, saying their release had “contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading.” “I think we were looking at this from a scientific point of view and not projecting any political impact,” he said. “We were focusing on the data.

Worse than the politically correct crowd are the apologists. If the report was not factual, apologize. But if the report was factual, then there is no need for an apology.

The report looked at nine San Francisco hospitals in 2004 and 2005. A separate part of the study, conducted at an AIDS clinic in the city from 2004 to 2006, found that gay men were 13 times more likely to be infected with MRSA USA300.

The report did not say, “only gays get this disease.” The report did not say “this disease started in the gay community.” The report did not say, “Gays are responsible for the spread of the disease”.

The report said that THEIR STUDY showed that gay men were more at risk from the disease. The report also said their study was limited in scope as far as the areas the study was conducted in. No one there meant to harm the gay community. They simply stated facts and should be able to do so without risking the anger of the politically correct crowd.

This pisses me off. Bush and congress have approved billions of dollars for homeland security and supposedly to secure our borders. Bush wants to give amnesty to illegal immigrants or give them some other type of legal jargon bs that lets them stay here illegally.

I believe if you want to live in this country, you do it legally. You apply for citizenship. Many have and they get all the rights accorded to them as US Citizens.

But in order for the system to work, you have to put some of those billions of dollars to work on processing applications from those who do wish to apply for citizenship legally. By not doing so, you perpetuate the problem of illegal immigration.

Legal Immigrants Facing a Longer Wait
By JULIA PRESTON of the NYTimes

Because of an unprecedented surge in immigration applications last summer, legal immigrants will have to wait much longer during the next two years to receive visas or naturalization papers, the top official of the federal agency that issues those documents said Thursday.

Under questioning from subcommittee members, Mr. Gonzalez said he could not guarantee that immigrants who applied to become citizens last summer would be naturalized in time to vote in the November elections.

Hmm. I wonder, if the hispanic vote commits to one party or the other, will this change so these new citizens will be able to vote?

Put some of that money being used for everything from fences to new vests for dope sniffing dogs into processing these applications. I am against people coming into this country illegally. I am all for those applying for legal citizenship. Fix the system!

Nationalism is the belief that as a citizen it is your duty to back your government in the decisions that they make for you. That for better or worse these are our representatives, our President, and as long as they are in office we should back them. It is the belief that because we love America, we have to believe that America is right and just and that whatever we are doing is for the good of all.

Patriotism is the love of your country America. A love so deep that you will not allow governments including our own to damage this great country or it’s citizens. A Patriot questions EVERY step our elected government takes to make sure they do not infringe upon our rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution. Thomas Jefferswon said, “It is not your right to question your government, it is your duty to do so.”