If You Disagree With Me, You're WRONG

Invasion courses through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants...

I don't really have anything to post about tonight.  It's been a long day.  I had to get one of my infusions, which always pretty much wipes me out.  And despite the 3 hour nap during it, I'm still pretty tired.  So I figured that I should post *something* so that I don't go forever in between.

I will say that i find that having an argument just isn't the same anymore.  Used to be, I made my point, the other person made (or at least tried to make) their points.  Now I find that my opponents make MY points for me!  If I say someone is paranoid and they post a 7 paragraph rant about how someone is out to get them... well, what do you say to that other than "thanks"?

Okay.  That is all.  Good night.

So I'm getting a rather strange following...

There's apparently a Yahoo Group that is following my blog.  Interesting...  and my URL is being mailed around to members....  Interesting.  I'm curious about this, but not enough to really make an effort to find out who these people are.

Either way, all it does is boost my readership!  Hey, Noobs, feel free to post comments.  I'd love to hear what's going on.  What brought you over here?  Are you guys finding anything interesting to chat about in your group?  Given the name of your group, I'm assuming one of your members directed you here.  Interesting...

Be sure to say hello when you stop by!

The Egg Lady is boosting my readership...

<<I may be an anonymous coward, but you're still a stupid bitch. Have a nice weekend !!
Posted by: Miquintal Dehuevos | 04/24/2009 at 07:05 AM>>

This was written by my Egg Lady in the post about the bed, of all things.  Isn't she lovely?  I think it's great that she's boosting my readership and making me more popular by following my blog.

Also, let's be honest, I am many things -- a bitch being just one of them -- but I'm not stupid.  I may not hold popular opinions, but I'm literate and I can form coherent sentences.  These are things that stupid people generally cannot do.  So...  Would I rather be a bitch than a coward?  Absolutely!

Holding an unpopular opinion requires courage.  Being willing to confront someone directly requires courage.  And sometimes, not always but sometimes, being courageous requires being a bitch.  I'm okay with that.

Egg Lady, should you ever wish to come out from your veil of cowardice and address me directly, to carry on a debate or even just a conversation, I am MORE than willing to indulge you there.  I won't delete or edit your comments, no matter how idiotic they are.  I give you free rein to air your
"grievances", whatever those may be.  You have no reason to hide.  If you continue to hide behind your anonymity, all you will succeed in doing is making yourself appear worse and worse.  Don't you feel that you deserve better than that?  Perhaps not, but I give you the option nonetheless.

Thus the gauntlet has been thrown, the challenge issued.  Come out from behind your rock -- sunlight may highlight your flaws, but it also may help you to see more clearly.  If it doesn't blind you after cowering in the dark for so long.

This is MY side of the bed! Mine!

We have a king size bed.  A king size SLEEP NUMBER bed, so it very easily allows us each to have our own sides.  WHY do I then have exactly two square feet of space?  Why must my darling husband sleep DIAGONALLY across the entire freaking bed?  No joke, I wind up with my head on a pillow, one butt cheek on the bed, and the rest of me dangling off in various ways.  Then I have to shove him back on his side.  Then he rolls over again.  Then he's back on my side.  If he'd snuggle it wouldn't be so bad.  But noooo, he just wants all the space for himself, and I should get the hell out of his way!  Man!  No wonder I can't sleep!

Don't you just love how people put a "subtle" spin to their racism?

Don't you love how people try to cover their racism/bigotry with the claim that they're merely speaking about their "observations".  Hmmm...  you find someone to be "cold" and "anti-social"?  Maybe, just maybe, your constant disparaging remarks about her culture, her heritage, her nationality, and her personality make her HATE you?  But it's all her fault, right?  So instead of just saying that you don't care for this person in particular, or that you find some of her personality traits bothersome, you then take that thought process and stretch it to cover an entire culture, nation, civilization of people.  AMAZING.  But no, you don't have any *problem* with the group, just that you don't like how they act, think, or behave.  'Cause when YOU were there they didn't seem to like you... Well... Hm...  I suspect that they didn't like you because you're not a very nice or good person.  And they were/are "anti-social" because (get this!) THEY DON'T WANT TO SOCIALIZE WITH YOU!!! 

Oh how tempted I was to just rip this person a new asshole when I read some of this absolute bullshit that she was spouting.  But remember that post I made about people too damn stupid to know when they don't have a position to debate?  Well, say hi to one of those particular brick walls.  Rather than see her behavior for the bigotry it is, she will deny, until her dying breath, that she is a racist.  And when someone is that far in denial, you're better off using your time on things like this:  Showing others that this behavior should not be tolerated. It's NOT okay to talk about people that way (and a severe fault in the speaker to even feel that way in the first place).  If you were to substitute these exact statements about this poor girl's nationality and replace skin color where nationality, culture, or ancestry is being criticized, it would be more than obvious to anyone.

The truly sad thing is that when someone DID attempt to call her on the behavior, in a subtle and polite way, she immediately back-pedaled.  That meant that by the time I came to observe the truly awful display, it was really too late to get involved without appearing to be "picking" a fight.  That won't make people feel comfortable listening to my point of view.  I shall have to time my ass-reaming better when next this moron spouts her racist beliefs.  This won't be the last time, I'm sure, since she seems to feel that she is entitled to subject us all to the garbage that she calls thoughts and ideas.

Why does the US not have professional jurors?

So I was called in for jury duty today.  As I waited there for my number to be called, I looked around at those who had been called to serve with me.  It was quite clear that at least half of the people actively did NOT want to be there, that about 1/4 of the people were bored with the whole process, and only about 1/4 of us were really interested in serving.  Of course, who DOESN'T get chosen?  The people who WANT to do it.  It's not that we're not selected as a good choice of juror -- they just didn't need us.

Right now, juror selection is done through culling DMV records and randomly choosing people to sit on whatever cases happen to come up on the day they're chosen.  This seems a particularly poor way to decide someone's fate.

Why do we not have professional jurors?  We could give people some basic legal knowledge to allow them to understand a bit more about cases.  They would STILL be our "peers" -- they're jobs would just be to make decisions.  Much like a judge, only without the legal background.  They would be paid as any government employee would, but they wouldn't be biased toward either side because of that -- obviously public defenders, who are on the government's books, aren't rooting for the prosecutor's case.

Jurors could have specialties within their profession.  Some could be "experts" in deciding personal injury cases, some could be more learned in business disputes.  Because they aren't legally trained, they're still peers, and because of that they can still relate to the people who are litigating.

Why would we do this?  ah, that's the real question.  We would do this because our current system ensures that our jury pools are filled with people who resent being there and, by sheer numbers, are likely to be morons.  We've all seen instances where juries were too stupid to understand the evidence.  And since the majority of people in the world ARE stupid, we have a greater likelihood of being subjected to the whims of morons.  Professional jurors would protect us from stupidity.  Perhaps there should be a minimum IQ for any sitting juror.  I am scared of having someone who qualifies for a talking role in the movie Idiocracy being responsible for deciding whether someone I care about may be guilty of a crime.

Wonder why people are exonerated for crimes, or why guilty people go free?  Most frequently it happens because the stupid people on the jury are too easily swayed by the pretty words that the lawyers say.  And when that happens, there can be no justice.  To ensure justice, we should give the judicial system the best shot we can -- we should fill it with people capable of understanding even the most basic aspects of science, law, justice and equality.

I miss Pushing Daisies...

What a fantastic show that was!  Premise:  Boy has ability to bring the dead back to life, but only for a very short period of time or else someone else in the vicinity will die.  If he touches them again, they're dead for good.  So, boy grows up into a pie maker, set in a very bright, colorful, 50's style pie shop, cleverly titled "The Pie Hole".  The acting was great, the shows were laugh-out-loud funny, and the premise was cleverly amusing (imagine trying to be intimate on a bear-skin rug, only to have the rug "reanimate" at a very awkward time!).  I am saddened that this show was so under-appreciated.  But perhaps it's only funny to psuedo-intellectual bitches like myself.  ;)

Some cool new shows out...

There are two new shows out that I'm enjoying so far.

First, from a "fluff" standpoint, is "Pitchmen" on Discovery Channel.  According to DC, this is what the show's about:

Pitchmen follows the adventures of Billy Mays and Anthony "Sully" Sullivan, two of the most famous and successful pitchmen in history, as they search the world for inventions they believe they can take all the way to the big time. In each episode, this odd couple of pitchmen partners become potential dream merchants for the inventors they discover; most of whom have staked everything they own, and then some, on their inventions. For these lucky individuals, Billy and Sully falling in love with their products and deciding to pitch them to the masses could be the turning point that changes their lives forever. Most of the eccentric characters the pitchmen shepherd are all-in, risking absolutely everything in the biggest gamble of their lives. Will they fall short or, with Billy and Sully's backing, run their gadgets all the way to glory?

It's fun to watch and I have to say that I've been amazed with some of the products.  I've truly been debating whether or not to buy the "Impact Gel" shoe inserts.  And the GPS Pal, despite not hitting it big in that format, is still a great product that I think is very useful.  I hope it continues to sell the way it is.  Anyway, it's a funny show, you get to see how the "magic" of advertising is made, and if they'd only take out the "drama" and "conflict" that is always forced on a reality show, it would be even better.

The second show, "Deadliest Warrior" on Spike is described thusly:

Each week on Deadliest Warrior, a new episode will pit two of the most feared warriors civilization has ever known against each other. Along with the use of 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific world-class fighters and experts to provide insight into what makes these combatants tick, analyzing every facet of their unique skills of destruction, culminating in a head-to-head final fight between two legends of the battlefield that will produce the deadliest warrior. Other highly-anticipated showdowns this season include: Pirate vs. Knight, Taliban vs. IRA, Yakuza vs. Mafia, Viking vs. Samurai, Green Beret vs. Spetznaz, Maori vs. Shaolin Monks, William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu and Ninja vs. Spartan.

I missed the first episode, but did find out how it ended.  I watched the Viking vs. Samurai and accurately predicted the winner, and why.  But it's awesome to see how each warrior compares to the other, and how the odds play out.  Sometimes, like with the vikings and samurai, the two sides are so equally balanced that it's a very close call as to whom would be better.

If you ever get a chance, these are 2 shows worth seeing at least once.

Okay, so I'll jump on the bandwagon, too...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-susan-boyle17-2009apr17,0,2767635.story

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=susan+boyle&aq=f

Susan Boyle is an amazing singer.  I actually got goosebumps listening to her.  There are many talented people in this world, and they come in all shapes, sizes, and forms.  This woman may not be the stereotypical ideal of "beautiful", but she's not ugly.  She looks like what I would imagine a sweet Scottish grandmother would.  She's not hard and bony, she's soft and warm looking, and probably gives fantastic hugs.

Hey, Susan, you're cute, you've got a great sense of humor, and if you ever want to "correct" that virginity problem, head on over to this side of the ocean and I'll have Uncle Walter take care of it for you.  :)

Ah, the cowards have come out to play! Goodie!

Remember how I posted about cowards?  I never expected to have such an obvious example handed to me on a silver platter!  Someone named Miquintal Dehuevos was so kind to do the honors of putting him/herself up for examination in such a delectable way!

This is the lovely comment left by this coward:

Wow.....you are a pseudo-intellectual, arrogant bitch. I'm sure no one likes you. Do the world a favor and put a bullet in your head. Please.

Posted by: Miquintal Dehuevos | 04/06/2009 at 06:27 PM

Firstly, I'm not an expert on spanish, so I could be wrong as to what the name means.  I *think* that it has something to do with eggs.

Secondly, as you can tell, cowards are pretty much always cut from the same cloth.  They cannot hold their tongues, because there's not enough intelligence in their brains to control it.  Their mouths (or, in this case, fingers) move without the brains behind them that the rest of us tend to have.  They're always as anonymous as possible.  Me?  It's not that hard to figure out who I am, and most of my readers (even those who just stop by) have figured it out within merely a few moments and a slight exercise of the brain cells available to them.  Of course, cowards have so few brain cells to begin with that if they were to try to deduce who I was, it might take those cells away from some vital function, like breathing.  Of course, given that a person like that is a waste of air, that might not be a BAD thing.

Thirdly, doesn't the reaction seem just a *tad* disproportionate to the post I made?  Gee, they REALLY wish death, nay suicide upon me?  Hm... that doesn't seem a little... oh, I don't know... EXCESSIVE??  Maybe this person really does believe that if someone has a differing opinion they are deserving of death...  I dunno.  I'm pretty strongly opinionated as you know, but *I'm* not Hitler.

Fourthly and finally, given the rather narrow range that this particular topic covered, that anyone who knew what I was talking about (generalizing on a specific occurrence)  would know WHO I was talking about, I think we can fairly safely say that the morons I got into the "debate" with have found my blog, eh?  :D

I think I really AM too easily amused.

Edited to add:

I have been advised, by my crack team of researchers, that this "person's" name means "My100 kg Of eggs".  Wow.  Those are some big, fat eggs!  Does that mean that the woman writer is bottom heavy 'cause she's got some giganto reproductive organs??  Too bad he/she HAS to have reproductive organs.  I hate it when stupidity is able to reproduce.  Maybe, since they're so freaking big, she won't be able to?  That would be nice.  No little kids subject to the guidance of a moron.  Ah, we can but dream.

Thanks, Gissel, for the translation!