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June 29, 2005
"Called" Offensive?
This shows why Mexico is so bass-ackwards that little baby children have to beg for handouts and scraps from US tourists at the Tijuana border. This demonstrates that Mexico is so stuck in the quagmire of a previous century that their citizens must escape from the awful-ness of it all by crawling across the border like desperate rats. This explains how Mexico, a nation as rich in natual resources as any nation on the planet, is still so poor it does not have even a 2nd World designation.
What is interesting is how much of a pass the liberal media has given Mexico and its leaders over these recent flaps. If anyone in the United States associated with any non-uber-liberal cadre of boobs had said or done anything as stupid as this, they would have been skewered and grilled, shishkabob style.
Posted by Michela at 07:34 PM | Comments (6)
Dance like a white guy
I'd love to know who made this spoof, they are comedic geniuses.
Note: Sound required and not exactly PC
Posted by Michela at 07:21 PM | Comments (0)
June 28, 2005
Dr. Laura Will Invest in Hotel!
Dr. Laura announced to the world on her international "Dr. Laura" radio program--a radio show with a listenership comparable to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern--that she will personally invest her fortunes in the hotel project proposed to be built on (what is only temporarily) Supreme Court David Souter's home.
Posted by Michela at 07:38 PM | Comments (0)
Liberal media is silent
Since the liberal judges have ruled that your property rights are meaningless and the position is indefensible, the liberal media (meaning CNN, MSNBC, ABCNews, et al) are conspicuously missing any meaningful articles on the topic. However a headline pronouncing the fact that the Supreme Court took the case of anti-abortion protests holds a prominent spot on CNN.com. The case won't be heard for about a year.
This, however, is BEAU-tee-full:
Supreme Court justice faces boot from home?
Developer wants 'Lost Liberty Hotel' built upon property of David Souter
Read all about it
And on non-Communist FoxNews, the story of a little old lady now defenseless against corporate pig developers. Hear that Libbies? Your libbie judges have totally empowered Corporate Pig Big Developer, the ones that chop up the giant redwoods for notebook paper and strip malls. Congrats; taste the bitter pill of your own philosophy.
Read all about it
Posted by Michela at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)
Hand Ikea the Keys to Your House
One of the most sacred and wonderful things in the United States of America has been the dedicated preservation of your private property rights.
A constitutional right designed in the shadow of medieval feudalism where lords dictated when you had land and when you did not, the now-infamous decision by the Supreme Court has reversed a 200+ year history and certainly unraveled the threads of liberty our forefathers wove together.
Now, as long as cities need your property and can make more money on it, they can take it. And so just like that, this decision has paved the way for your property to be seized at any time, and your intent, your future, your plans for it, are meaningless. Completely meaningless.
It also renders laughable the myth that liberals, liberal judges, or liberal politicians have any concern whatsoever for the "little guy" as they claim, and every concern in the world for government expansion and government power.
I knew an elderly old woman who lived in a run-down city in the eastern region of San Diego County. Her family purchased several acres about 110 years ago to farm, and of course San Diego exploded around this old farm and its farmhouse. The house itself is about 105 years old, an ancient historical landmark in California where most structures of its day were made of clay and are long dissolved. Some land was sold by previous family members. But 15 acres around the old farmhouse remain, and it stands out like a beautiful sore thumb amidst the decrepit strip malls and cheap apartments over-built around it.
As the last survivor in the family besides her children, this woman repeatedly turned down offers by developers and the city, a city whose own poor planning caused the area to become "blighted." She knew the pennies they offered in the 70's and 80's were nothing compared to the potential in the years to come. What a smart woman she was; land there is now so prized, it makes the previous offers and "fair market values" comparable to the nickel sale of Manhattan. Her perseverance paid off. Her children, to whom she was so devoted she lived in a house where you could see the ground through the rotting floors, became rich.
If the city, who you recall caused its own demise by over-building low income apartments and trashy strip malls, if this same city had the power of this Supreme Court ruling behind it, it would have declared her house “blighted” (it was rundown, she was an 80 year old woman caring for a large farmhouse on a Social Security pension). The historic house would have been razed and the last acres of an entire family's history sold off and forgotten, forever. Her children would have split just thousands between them instead of the millions realized, thanks to their tough old broad of a mother. Because she was willing live and work hard to create a good future for her children, that dream--a dream every American ought to be able to pursue--was realized, tenfold.
THAT, my friends, is what the Supreme Court decision means to the average American. You no longer have the right to hold onto your own property for the future. If your family was lucky or smart enough to have bought property years ago, and some wealthy neighborhood has been built around it, kiss your dreams good-bye. "Fair compensation" is a vacuous platitude in the context of 200-300% property value increases in high demand communities (California in particular). A $300,000 fair market payout for a landgrab today is a lost opportunity to hold onto what will be a $1,000,000 property in just a few short years.
So stay tuned, everyone; MediaWatchblog has been never been as motivated to galvanize. And we are galvanizing. Watch out Ikea, we've found you are a culprit in a similar city landgrab, and we're ready to take you out, right at one of your busiest and largest stores, the one right up the street from me in THE OC. You, and anyone like you.
Posted by Michela at 07:00 AM | Comments (0)
June 27, 2005
11 Billion Bucks can't buy you a plane in which you can survive a plane crash?
Then what's the point? Stay poor, drive your cheap car.
I suppose that's just sour grapes now isn't it...
Posted by Michela at 06:09 PM | Comments (15)
If a pill could stop these people, "Scien"tology whackos still wouldn't approve
The soul-less BTK killer, the ice species in a container resembling that of homo sapien appeared in court today. He testified that he decided to put the people he murdered "down", as though discussing a rabid bat. I have a rabid bat for it (a him in physiology, but bearing no resemblance to any man I've ever known in any other respect), and all those like it.
It gets to decide when to kill, torture, rape. It had all the power, until it just couldn't stand the lack of publicity, and it decided to send information to newspapers. Thank god its ilk has such a craving, a craving as powerful as its desire to murder. If it had not started these media blitzes, it would have never been caught.
I would really love to know how we can identify these its and stop them. It is too late when they have already caused such harm, such intense grief. Isn't there a way to brain scan these monsters? Why not? I hate to mention Movie Star P-Fer Tom Cruise (aaggg...that's me choking on his idiocy) twice in one week, but there are days when shades of Minority Report sound like a good idea.
Posted by Michela at 05:59 PM | Comments (1)
The 10 Commandments Libs Approve
You may not have any god at all, just as Stalin and Lenin have showed us before.
You must bow to godless beliefs
You may not take any liberal cause in vain, or you will offend someone. While they may offend you you may not offend them.
You must toil for six days to pay the state for all the liberal causes they desire. On the seventh day you may rest so that you are fresh to work again the next six days for free.
Honor your mother and father unless they're not allowing you to bang your boyfriend when you're fifteen.
You may not kill anyone unless they are cutting down a nice tree. Then, you may kill them.
You may not screw around in marriage, unless you are unhappy.
You may not steal, unless it is something you want.
You cannot lie about a crime, unless you are a liberal college student trying to make a political statement.
You must covet everything, and anything you want and do not have is a justification for anger and taxes.
Posted by Michela at 08:00 AM | Comments (3)
June 24, 2005
Congrats Tom Cruise! He wins MWB Movie-Star P-Fer award #2
Watching Cruise lead a very impressionable, maleable, and rather dumb female down the dark path of Scientology makes me kinda queasy. That he is walking around telling everyone he knows--in absolutes--what's right and wrong and that we're all just living in a delusional fog, well, by golly, that earns Mr. Cruise a place on MediaWatchblog’s Movie Star Pig Fucker Hall of Lame.
Tom Cruise "tangles" with Matt Lauer on the Today show, if you call Lauer's pansy responses entangling or tough. While we give Lauer credit for even hitting on the Brooke Shields / Cruise pissing fight (instigated by Cruise), but he didn't nail him to the wall in spite of the heroic headlines Lauer is getting today. Check out Lauer’s gag-me-with-a-pitchfork gush after Cruise basically called Lauer a fool:
At one point Cruise told Lauer, “You’re glib” and said Lauer didn’t know what he was talking about. The star launched into a detailed discussion of the use of the prescription drug Ritalin....“It's very impressive to listen to you,” Lauer replied, “because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject.”
Where are the hip waders dude! It's crotch deep in here!
Here’s what the Today interview looks like with MWB on the job:
"So, you say you know the history of psychiatry, and that is why you call into question the entire field today. Do you understand the history of surgery, when they were using leeches and hot jars to cure people? If so, how do you reconcile visiting a doctor with a broken arm but not a broken spirit?"
"You say you don't talk about things you don't understand. Then can you explain how serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, which prevent re-uptake of serotonin and thus increase the concentration of serotonin at the neural synapse, is not an effective method of increasing or stabilizing serotonin levels (a crucial component of one's overall mood) but paying Scientology a bunch of money does? What is that mechanism on the neural pathways, exactly?"
I'd also ask Mr. Cruise, Knower of All things, doesn't Scientology demand that women not utter a single sound during childbirth even without pain medication, and that should they fail to do so, they have destroyed their children forever? Isn't this a bit medieval and cruel, and isn't this another sexist pig way for men to blame all the shortcomings of the children on the mother?
I’d ask him, do you remember Andrea Yates? Not only did her cessation of medication cause her to plummet into a darkness and pit of mental hell Cruise could never understand, she was being given videos of a Christian freakshow dressed in a Satan outfit telling mothers they can irreparably serve their children up to the devil if they are "Bad." Funny how freakshow MEN hiding behind the cloak of rightousnous and religion always get to determine just what "Bad" women are. Isn't it, Mr. Cruise? Don't you find that an odd coincidence, Mr. Cruise? From the Christians to the Taliban to the Scientologists and back, the men get to decide what bad women are, get to take the self-righteous moral high ground, and women, at least those who can think straight, can thank jesus for giving them freedom in these United States. And for that, we give the big fat bird to movie star p-fers and everyone like them.
Posted by Michela at 11:44 AM | Comments (1)
June 23, 2005
MWB Picks Vacuums
Big BIG kiss to Oreck Vacuums
It's a sad state of affairs, but even the MWB team's fabulous city flats and palatial moutain hideaways get a little dusty hither and thither. Fortunately, our servants can get it all cleaned up with this fabulous, powerful, and lightweight Oreck vacuum.
If you visit the Oreck site, the deals are fabulous; you can buy the vacuum and bill it in super-cheap monthly installments to your own credit card. Honey, this is free money. Your maid gets the place uber-shipshape, and you don't even have to pay for it up front, and no interest (we know $40 is a rounding error in your checkbook so you won't even miss it). You also get to pick a really nice freebie, which MWB also loves.
And Marla says, god forbid, if the maid doesn't show and you're forced to do the vacuuming yourself, it's not that bad with the Oreck. You won't hurt the mani, pedi, or paraffin wax softness.
Posted by Michela at 07:59 AM | Comments (3)
June 22, 2005
What is with the Utah Spawn?
With all the jubilation over the rescued Utah boy scout, his bizarre behavior and actions during the rescue are being gloseed over.
His mother says:
He had two thoughts going through his head all the time... Toby [his father] always told him that 'If you get lost, stay on the trail.' So he stayed on the trail. We've also told him don't talk to strangers ... when an ATV or horse came by he got off the trail ... when they left, he got back on the trail.
Lost for four days, desperately in need of help, he doesn't have the sense to reach out to the rescuers he encounters on the trail. Worse, he is consciously hiding from them, having been taught not to talk to strangers. That he doesn't have enough sense to distinguish between a rescuer who is looking for him in the wilderness and a stranger who will snatch him from the streets of Provo forever, at 11 years old, is totally perplexing.
Rewind a few years to another triumphant return, that of Elizabeth Smart. Her reticence to flee her kidnappers, even where it appears she had opportunity to do so, was ascribed to Stockholm Syndrome.
Maybe it's whacko Utah kid syndrome... there must be some sort of brainwashing, or Mormon lock-step groupthink, that made these kids completely incapable of dealing with grave circumstances. Neither child showed one scintilla of common sense during their ordeals, which were horrifying.
God rest her blessed soul...5 year-old Samantha Runion spoke clearly to her friend "go get my nana!" when grabbed by the monster would kill her; that clear instruction (which her friend followed) resulted in the capture of the vile creature. She kicked, screamed, and fought to the end. Perhaps it's my bias, but to have two kids from Utah who simply melted into their truly dire predicaments with nary a peep is more than coincidence.
Posted by Michela at 01:48 PM | Comments (0)
June 18, 2005
Random Rant: Floridians can't tell the difference between an O and a D....
Or between a vote for Bush and Gag me with a Gore-bee. How can you possibly expect those yet-to-be-identified Martians could discern the difference between pro and amateur photography?
The funniest business travel stories I have are all my interactions with retarded Floridians. Funny now, that is; not funny at 12 a.m. when trying to get a rental car and sleep before an 8 a.m. meeting, which is 5 a.m. on the California clock. It was those trips that made me fully understand the voting "controversy" and why they felt so justified in defending their inability to distinguish one hole from another (that's another post entirely...squeal little piggie, squeal!).
Whenever I went to the hotel, the car rental counter, or the airline counter, it was always the same... "Last name please." My name is one of those Irish deals with an O and an apostrophe; the next letter is a D, as in "O'Dxxx"
10 times out of 11; "O- whut?" I spell it. "We dont' have no D's... here. D whut?" I spell it again. "Is it D somthin, or O somthin'? " I always asked said counter person, "Did I land in Jacksonville, Florida or is this Mobile, Alabama? Juss checkin'..."
Therefore my MWB friends, it's no surprise the example of the retarded Martian photo lab employee who cannot tell the difference between a pro photog and an amateur is, frankly, no shock.
Posted by Michela at 08:09 PM | Comments (0)
How we know Playgirl is for Playgays
Every single one of these guys is hot hot hot, but more in the way a cast iron skillet on a hot stove is hot; all on the surface but eew! Don't wanna touch it! As good as all these guys look on the surface, they all have that certain je ne sais quoi... that I'm-a-slimy-gay-pornstar look.
Posted by Michela at 08:02 PM | Comments (0)
Big Daddy Geldof wants Big Daddy Guv
This story was written to talk about how eBay had to end the auctions of Live 8 tickets--given away originally for free--due to hoax bids of up to 10 million pounds. What it's really about is a man, Bob Geldof, who's family has been totally destroyed by family courts. Courts where the government all the cards and you are but a recipient of the slap of its heavy hand, should it so decide... But he is more than willing to keep a strong government presence in the lives of everyone else, as long as that big government is run liberally, as he has so decided.
What a fool you are Geldof, what a fool you are.
Posted by Michela at 05:46 PM | Comments (0)
June 17, 2005
The most stupid and obscure feature of software EVER
This was never meant to be a techie forum, this is a bitch session that happens to offer some techie advice... FREE!
Whenever I adjusted the volume in my Windows Volume Control, it made this obnoxious beep. It made this beep even if the sound on Volume Control was muted, and even when my sound schemes were set to "No Sounds" ... I destroyed my computer, literally, by disabling something that referred to "Volume" but was really to manage the storage volume... you know, the hard drive? OOPS.
I forget if it was a deleted registry entry or a disabled service (gobbledeygook, I know), but regardless, it said "Volume" and I got rid of it after hours of trying to eliminate whatever was causing that really annoying and really LOUD beep, and my computer choked up its left lung and died. Thank you jesus for my obsessive habit of backing up my PC; rebuilt and restored data within 2 hours, no headaches, but the BEEP was back! I started feel like the beep was a little chucky doll I could not kill...
I finally found some uber obscure reference to the beep posted a forum over 2 years ago, and it turns out it is a Non Plug-n-Play device driver and I won't go on. Here's a link to the forum if you need help getting rid of Chucky Beep...
>Go to Forum<
You gotta love geeks; they talk about this stuff for fun, and the rest of us get to have the answers by default. And I love what the poster on the forum says: "The MS tech support flunky who said it was a motherboard problem should be boiled in oil for such a blatant lie." And whoever built this "feature" in the first place deserves an equally horrid fate.
Why is disabling this beep buried three layers deep in system configurations and who would ever want it in the first place? Does NO SOUNDS mean NO SOUNDS EXCEPT THE LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS BEEP WHEN YOU AJDUST THE VOLUME to Microsoft bitheads?
Apple whackjobs need not post comments, we won't go to your grasseating ways no matter what you say.
Posted by Michela at 04:34 PM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2005
Watch out for virus laden poo and the headlines that talk about it
I don't often excerpt the articles but I'm thinking some CNN editor is going to peel his lips off the crack pipe and remove the lead in to this story...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -- Mountaineers who ascend North America's loftiest peak are often brought down to earth by "virus-laden poo" left behind by previous climbers, a medical report says.
Another reason not to go anywhere; forget the grand canyon. Forget Indonesia. Just stay the f home.
Posted by Michela at 10:09 AM | Comments (0)
June 15, 2005
Be afraid, be very afraid
Yahoo and Google are both racing to provide password protected content to users as long as they're a subscriber (for now, right?). These sights start with the nice Consumer Reports magazine online, but soon to include sites such as Lexus Nexus.
Lexus Nexus is a ginormous databank with highly confidential data on every single person born in a hospital in the 2nd and 1st worlds. If you think I'm kidding, read this:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7913667/
Posted by Michela at 12:29 AM | Comments (3)
June 14, 2005
Interrupted by the Whackoff Jackoff verdict...
I have been unable to finish my earnest effort to convince you the Patriot Act should not be accepted blindly in its entirety. In the interim, Marla asks you to ponder which period in antiquity this prehistoric freakshow came from and should be sent back to.
Thank god he's no genius...
Posted by Michela at 07:49 AM | Comments (2)
June 12, 2005
The Patriot Act Unveiled: One non-Liberal's Take, Part I
The Patriot Act is, as the name suggests, a measure which patriotic citizens should adore and whose only opponents can be the unpatriotic, the communists, and the socialists. Anyone who disagrees with the Act is just some fruit-looped, Birkenstocked, Greenpeace employed whackjob and there is no in-between... “with us or against us,” right? Yet I’ve been in-between, and until today, I pah-pahed the vociferous concerns of those who oppose the Act and discounted its scope and by virtue of silence endorsed its existence.
I believed the Act would only present a problem to someone who already presented a problem, and that common citizens would not be within its reach. So yah, I might not agree with it in theory, but I didn’t worry about what new permissions its sprawling 800 pages gave the government, the FBI, the CIA. Guffaw, who’s it really going to impact; some long-bearded future terrorists living in San Diego? Who cares about their civil rights? I don’t have to worry about the books I check out of the library, for Christ’s sake.
And so I am quite sad to have been edified, to have been lifted out of my comfortable Patriot Act fog to learn that indeed, normal, everyday citizens like us have already suffered the consequences of the civil liberties the Act stole away so loudly (it was not quietly at all). So many of us were so earnest and pure in our desires to ensure there was never, ever, another 9/11 ever, never, ever again that we’d have agreed to the passage of a law that adopted a mandatory Nazi solute to police or the construction of a Reichstag at Ground Zero. And so we got our Reichstag, and it is the Patriot Act.
I truly hate to echo along with the idiot U of Colorado professor who called the 9/11 victims “Little Eichmanns." Nazi references are used so flippantly these days that using it as an analogy at all just makes people (rightfully) dismiss you as though you are a Holocaust-denying moron. But allow me to draw this parallel just for a second, before you hit the back button on your browser and go Googling or checking email.
The Reichstag had been the seat of German politics as its Parliament for decades prior to its rise as the face and symbol of Nazi power. On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire by arson; the fire was set in multiple places and an explosion followed which completely destroyed the building. A very likely mentally ill Communist party member from Holland was found behind the building during the blaze. Hitler used the fire to rouse anti-Communist sympathies. As Chancellor of Germany, he convinced the president to sign something called the Reichstag Fire Decree which effectively erased the human rights provisions of the Weimar Constitution written after World War I. He further convinced the president to activate the Enabling Act which enabled the government to pass laws by decree rather than by democratic process.
I do not find it much of a stretch between how Hitler came to have so much power over Germany so quickly in those early days by virtue of the Reichstag fire and how we may have granted the FBI, the CIA, and Homeland Security (another innocuous-sounding but potentially malevolent government behemoth) powers that may endanger democracy in the long term by virtue of 9/11.
I have often accused liberals of never thinking of the past or the future; Ann Coulter sums it up quite nicely with “For liberals, history began yesterday.” Yet it seems that Conservatives may be thinking in the same way, and with similar short-sightedness. Today, the US government and civil liberties will not vaporize with the Patriot Act--erode, but not vaporize.
What about 100 years from now? Where will our liberties be if 800 pages more are added to this Act, and opponents are mocked by conservatives who firmly believe that we are not “safe” without it? How will Freedom of Speech, Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, Freedom of the Press survive 1600, 2000, 2500 pages of “Patriot” Acts? I believe that they would not survive and I believe it is possible. Our tax code that would circle this planet 29 times if it were printed out in its entirety. That’s proof enough that bloated bureaucrats are more than capable of quickly writing a ton of laws in a short amount of time--the tax code is only about 100 years old.
Conservatives are more than willing to point the Nazi finger when it suits them; the Nazis took away everyone’s guns before they rounded them up and murdered them, by Golly. Well now we find the conservatives are taking away our civil liberties and then rounding us up, by golly.
I rarely admit I’m wrong; I rarely change my mind. But I never stop pursuing truth, logic, and liberty the way I believe it is defined not only by the US Constitution, but by the ideal we represent. We fall short of this ideal since we are human beings, and human beings can’t perfectly implement any social or democratic system; we’re too subject to those things that make us human—greed, passion, desires, jealousy—to make anything work perfectly. But as long as your eye is on the ideal, you can stay as close as humanly possible to the goal. If you turn away from the ideal as long as you think you have mitigating circumstances, anything goes.
Such is the Patriot Act; an anything goes law created in shadow of the extraordinary events of 9/11, our mitigating circumstances. It has allowed the conservatives to let history begin on September 11, 2001. It allows us to think someone is insane at the suggestion that Bush has waylaid power and human rights like Hitler in 1933. But just as the Reichstag Fire Decree snowballed into the full blown Third Reich, the Patriot Act and its add-ons enables our government an excessive amount of power which will be the death of our Ideal; the United States, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
Part II to follow tomorrow
Posted by Michela at 05:45 PM | Comments (2)
June 11, 2005
Random Rants, Vol. II
-Why do people exit elevators, escalators, stairwells, planes--and all other places where human throughput is critical--stop 4 millimeters over the threshold while everyone behind them piles up while they gaze around like a stoner waking up from a long sleep?
-When will restaurants realize those cool lights they hang low over the tables are a visual obstacle worthy of my darkest sunglasses?
-Why do women with a huge belly wear pants that stop below the belly button and tops that start at the rib cage, subjecting the rest of us to a dollop of blubber only a 3 month old baby should have?
-How is it we can create freeways where people can drive 80 miles an hour safely (don't tell me it's not) but we can't figure out a way to control traffic and speed in parking lots without large concrete obstacles that do not slow down SUVs at all and damage everyone else's car outright?
Posted by Michela at 10:00 AM | Comments (2)
June 10, 2005
Another reason to see the Grand Canyon
A young Australian woman was convicted of drug traffiking in Indonesia and sentenced to decades in Indonesian prison. I'd tender a bet that her chances for justice in Indonesia were worse than my chances in California family court as an employed person against a troll who lives under a bridge (oh, wait, that's uh, a different post).
Usually you hear these stories and you slough it off a bit and say, jeezus, what were they thinking trying to bring porn into Saudi Arabia; of course they were going to get their hands chopped off! But I believe this woman was framed by the baggage handlers, and it makes my stomach turn to think of being in prison under these circumstances. I realize this was front page news 2 weeks ago but I would like everyone not to forget the plight of this woman.
And big cheers to the Australians who rightly questioned why they were ever so charitable to those ungrateful psychos after the Tsunami. Not a one of them changed their opinion of the mighty United States in spite of the billions we contributed.
You can keep updated on her status by going to the following web page:
www.freeschapelle.com
Posted by Michela at 04:00 PM | Comments (0)
Justice, Planet Earth Style
I find it interesting that a liberal news outlet such as ABC News would point such a level finger at another country's justice system, even if that other country is China.
I'm sure China's injustices are numerous, but the example in this story is hardly more egregious than anything the US has ever done. The US has convicted and jailed for decades hundreds of people based on flimsy eyewitness testimony, faulty evidence, and a myriad of other injustices.
China's civil rights violations go far beyond the wrongfully convicted; they are sweeps of protesters exerting what we would call 1st Amendment rights; they are imprisonments of journalists and other free thinkers who dare to challenge the Chines Communist Manifesto, the forced abortions on women to meet a one-child limit. That is what ABC News should highlight. There's little difference between the US and the story in this article, and a huge difference between the US and China's civil rights violations.
Any time you must place your life in the hands of the government, it's flip of a coin on whether or not you will receive fair justice.
Posted by Michela at 02:05 PM | Comments (0)
MWB Picks Make-up
A new Eye Shadow: Kiss to Revlon
The MWB team has found an absolutely fabulous new (and cheap) eye shadow; Revlon's EyeGlide Shimmer Shadow. It can be used as lipstick or eyeshadow, which is handy for your tiny beaded evening bag. As eyeshadow, it has the very nice effect of making your eyes look a little sparkly. On lips, lipliner is a must. It goes on easily in a rear view mirror while driving, but Team MWB recommends you wait for the red light in spite of this convenience.
Posted by Michela at 07:00 AM | Comments (0)
June 09, 2005
Breaking news--AGAIN--men/women are different!
Aye yay yay Lucy, you'f bin teengkeeng ah-gen! These words ring more true every day; the way Lucy walked through life and thought about things was a lot different than Ricky. What a shock. SHOCK!
As far as I'm concerned the women who attended the conference where Harvard President Dr. Sumners dared to even mention these diferences should have slapped that bitch who walked out on him im a big huff.
As a woman, that's how I think.
Posted by Michela at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)
Gimme a nanny-state since I have no brains
A mother's son is killed on an ATV, and she is demanding all these government interferences? How about we demand that you have a triple digit IQ before you have kids? Get real; how could you look at your 10 year-old child on a full-size ATV and think, ya, that's safe. These people, people who cannot think for themselves, create a landmine of laws and regulations which ultimately don't save anyone from themselves. This lady was just as likely to have let her kid jump off a two-story building into a pool, then sued the pool builder and demanded tougher regulations.
Gimme a nanny-break!
Posted by Michela at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2005
Sweden Sweet Sweden
This is a long article, and I'll nutshell it for you because we know you're busy. Actually, the first line of this article nutshells this for us better than MWB can, and as our fans, you know we give you some good nutshells:
If the European Union were a state in the USA it would belong to the poorest group of states.
How about that. The Krauts, the Frogs, the Boots, and the Brits are church mice compared to the US as a whole, and can only measure up to the banjo players in Mississippi and West Virginia in GDP (if you don't know what gross domestic product is, you're not smart enough to read MWB).
It doesn't stop there, my village-loving little liberal monkeys.
Swedes, and others living in Scandinavian hovels which thus far were believed to be the models of pure Socialist paradise, live miserly little lives compared to the lap of luxury where most Americans reside. Except, of course, for the banjo players who haven't found a way to make their riches in banjo radio (MWB isn't even sure they have radios in West Virginia...).
Ah my little monkeys in their socialist cages are already squawking, I can hear them now..."Have you seen the beggars in San Francisco? Los Angeles? Sweden doesn't have that!" Ah but my little monkeys, if you get your bananas out of your ears for a moment, you'll hear that Sweden does have these parasitic street people, and that they suck the lifeblood of the Swedish economy right out. You'll also hear that we're talking most Americans live better; I wouldn't call homeless beggars in the two most communist cities in America any fraction of the US as a whole.
You'd hear, my little monkeys, that teachers in Scandanavian countries will teach you "sack lunch" as one of your first words, since most of them, yes, most these weathly white Socialist saviors up north cannot afford to go out to lunch and nearly everyone packs their lunches. Most teachers can't even afford the rare treat, a pizza, on their salaries of 55,000 US a year (since they end up with 1/2 of that and a pizza is a whopping 60-80, after taxes).
Even the common plebes in handout central, France, enjoy a lifestyle not to be seen in Sweet Sweden; cafes, bistros, nice carafes of wine on a Saturday afternoon shopping trip.
Our Saab-building Socialist friends drive rent-a-wrecks as well. They can scarecely afford more than one car in a family and they keep it for 15 years. Nobody does that in the US. Yes, we need cars because our decentralized society hasn't connected with public transportaion yet, but also because we don't have to.
It is my belief that the socialist ways of life in these countries is at great peril; they must compete with us and our brains powered by a vast educational system and the influx of their commrades who have fled their stifling economies so they can start business (hello, Germany, Sun Microsystems was a big loss, wasn't it). They must also compete with third worlds, who don't have to pay fat cat welfare benefits. Their populations are also dwindling. They only have 1 kid per family, and between that and their emigration, they will collapse under the weight of their own elderly burdens. So much for the savior of socialism; and it proves one thing to us. That whenever you put the welfare of yourself and your future into the hands of the government, it's a toss of the dice whether or not you'll be cared for and have a good life. Better to make the best one you can for yourself, without interference.
Posted by Michela at 02:40 PM | Comments (6)
June 07, 2005
MWB Picks Chocolate
Big Big Thumbs Up for Lindt Wafer Bar
German chocolatier Lindt makes a fine chocolate, and their Wafer Bar is the best bar ever, bar none. It has unassuming, almost unappetizing name reminisent of mass, doesn't it. Those krazy krauts are meticulous down to their marketing, arent' they. Can't you hear them in the Lindt boardroom; "Eets ah schokolate bahr, und eets got a vafah in zee meedle, vee must kall it a Vafah Bahr.") doesn't begin to describe the heaven-in-a-foil-rectangle that it is.
Can only be found consistently at Cost Plus. Thank you Cost Plus; Trader Joe's introduced this slice of chocolate heaven to me then took it away from me. After ordering a pack of them from Lindt themselves, I found it at Cost Plus.
Posted by Michela at 11:53 PM | Comments (1)
June 06, 2005
The ultimate consequences of do-gooding
At great risk of sounding like a heartless scab, even more than when I call the inhabitants of Mississippi banjo playing rednecks, I'm going to make a commentary on the aid to Tsunami victims. I know this is just one article about one place in the Tsunammi stricken areas, and some good that all that aid provided must exist.
But here it is; the unintended consequences of well-intentioned billions of dollars is not serving to educate these ladies, it is funding the incentives to marry them off as very young brides. When there is payment to destitute families for marriage of young girls, what else could possibly be the outcome?
Posted by Michela at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)
June 05, 2005
MWB Picks Hair Dryers
A Cold Cheek to Conair
The Conair Ion Shine hair dryer's flip switch is too easily turned off while you try to hold the dryer; it's right where you need to hold the dryer. Very annoying. Costs MWB team at LEAST 2-3 extra minutes each morning and probably endangers our coiffs.
Posted by Michela at 08:00 AM | Comments (0)
June 04, 2005
New! MWB Picks
If you're looking to do real research on something you want to buy, this isn't the place. Consumer Reports has the lock on that one... however, if you want a quick and dirty a few things the MWB team really likes or hates, you're home.
Other efforts at this sort of thing are sites such as ePinions.com, where allegedly random consumers post their opinions of products they have purchased. I'm convinced ePinions is monitored, and actively seeded, by companies and retailers. When something negative is posted about a product, someone posts a drippy Danielle Steele novella response which is obviously utter BS: "After having been quite disappointed in my Verizon phone and unsympathetic customer service, I was desolate; how to find a wireless service who could meet my physical needs for high quality technology, but also bring me the sense of safety and self completely lacking thus far in the unfeeling wireless industry. Alas, I was taking a stroll one Saturday afternoon and I happened upon a Cingular store. Fate? I think not..."
With claptrap like that, how can you possibly trust any of the posts on those sites. I've bought a few things based on positive reviews at ePinions, only to find that either my luck was very bad or the ePinion posts were fake bullshit. Since I'm the luckiest person in the world, I'm voting for the latter...
Alas, here we are. What has the MWB team of Marla and Michela found to be the best or worst of something. We'll post these occasionally and you can see the complete list by selecting the category, MWB Picks. Tell your friends!
Posted by Michela at 08:00 AM | Comments (1)
MWB Picks Computers
Big Kiss to Gateway for Profile series
Small, powerful, it fits nicely on any small desk--as well as any laptop but more powerful. Until Gateway gave us this PC, you had to be an Apple Macintosh Grasseater to get something this small, cool, and powerful in a non-laptop computing machine. The monitor is built-in and high quality. Naysayers... "what if the monitor dies before the computer..." Trust me, you'll want a new PC long before the monitor dies. Besides, MWB is a blog for the party of Rich White Men (so sayeth that genius CHER) so when the monitor dies, just throw it away and buy another one, because you can.
Final words: Michela has had a Gateway Profile for 2 years and its performance is still perfect, it's quiet enough to sleep next to it (which we do frequently when having to research liberals), it has tons of USB ports right there at your fingertips (no more getting a thong up the butt trying to plug in a USB stick or camera...!), it's just the best.
Posted by Michela at 07:59 AM | Comments (1)
June 03, 2005
Those crazy Floridians are at it again
"Tampla, Fla.--" When Forida is the location of the news story's subject, you can bet it's a grisly event. MWB could create a whole category of "Grisly Florida News" and fill it every single month. Is it the heat? The humidity? Or is it just that it's such a miserable place only the lunatics either go or stay there? But so many of these horrifying, shocking events occur there it might be worthy of a) determining its root causes and b) convincing people Florida should just be formally named the violent fruitloop penal colony it already seems to be.
Posted by Michela at 08:00 AM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2005
MWB Might help with her defense
While this crime, killing one's husband, then trisecting him and putting him in three suitcases to be tossed into the Chesapeake Bay on the surface seems like a horrendous crime, the MWB team completely sympathizes. Note to self: the suitcases and body bags always wash ashore. You gotta convince him to take a trip where there are piranhas. oops... Did I write that out loud?
Posted by Michela at 09:45 AM | Comments (5)