* Good news. Apparently Obama has no idea what people pay in taxes. He said he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher, which isn’t even close to being true. Of course, as we all know from people like Timothy Geithner, these people don’t even pay taxes — that’s for lesser people. And the exact rate is inconsequential anyway; all they know is it needs to be higher no matter what it is.
Of course, I’m for making sucky politicians pay 100% tax rate. You mess up the country like this, you should beg on the streets for the rest of your life. It’s only fair — and don’t they like “fairness”?
* Rick Perry sorta apologized for calling people “heartless” who oppose subsidizing illegal immigrants going to college. Yeah, we just love that. The country is going bankrupt, but we’re heartless for not wanting to help pay people here illegally to have the huge privilege of going to college. And how many hundreds of thousands am I going to need to save up to send Buttercup to college in eighteen years? How about we have illegal aliens work to pay off our student loans first, and then maybe our hearts will warm to them.
* Most Americans are opposed to giving the Palestinians their own state. I guess we need another terror sponsoring state like we need another hole in a destroyer.
Can’t we compromise and give them their own island somewhere… one they can’t get off of?
* A terrorist was plotting to hit the Pentagon with bomb-laden remote control planes when the FBI got him. I remember after 9/11 how sure we were there would be more terror attacks because it just seemed so easy: Just put a bomb in a shopping mall or even just run into a crowded area and start shooting. But instead the terrorists seem to be focusing on all these convoluted plots they can’t pull off because I guess they think that’s what they’re supposed to do. Finally a benefit of Hollywood misleading people.
* Scientists have found that magnets can make people lie. Well, there’s a great new excuse for someone caught in lie. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to lie to you honey, but… I was near refrigerator magnets.”
Magnets: We don’t know how the @#$% they work, but they’ll help us make up an explanation.
* Amazon has unveiled its own tablet PC, the Kindle Fire
Also, since there is now a full color screen to work with on the Kindle Fire, graphic novels are going to start coming to Kindle. And I was getting so used to reading books without pictures (based on recommendations, I’m currently reading Mistborn
Anyway, make sure you have a nice device for reading my ebook when it comes out in November (though worse comes to worst, Amazon has a in-browser e-reader that can be used by anything that can access a website — so no excuses!).
* Along with DC comics’ big reboot, there’s a new Aquaman series which had its first issue come out yesterday — and IGN gave it a 9.0 (out of 10, not 100 — really). I haven’t read it yet; like all of DC’s new comics, it’s available the same day as print on the iPad, but I’m just pretty averse to paying $3 for a digital comic. You can’t ask print price for digital; just doesn’t work.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Rick Perry supporting in-state tuition for illegals is a lot less ridiculous than Romney’s claim that there’s nothing wrong with SS.” –Keder
* Here’s one of the best examples of real-life imitating the Onion. Here’s one of my favorite Onion videos:
9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says
And now Al Qaeda is chastising Ahmadinejad for implying they weren’t behind the 9/11 attack.
And this is why satire is so hard.
“most americans are opposed to giving the Palistinians their own state.”
doesn’t obama have seven that no one is using?
I assume that the scientists! had to be near magnets to do this study? Then how do we know they’re telling the truth about the results?
“Magnets: We don’t know how the @#$% they work, but they’ll help us make up an explanation.”
I’m shocked, shocked that an electrical engineer would say that.
How about one of those islands that tip over?
Perhaps Buttercup can get a job mowing the lawns of college-educated anchor babies so she can earn the money to go to college, since President Perry forced daddy to pay for DREAM instead of her education.
If the right-wing of this country can’t get behind a better candidate for POTUS than Perry then this country deserves to collapse.
we need another terror sponsoring state like we need another hole in a destroyer.
Beautiful. Keeping that one handy.
The reason Obama is lying about taxes is the magnets attached to the bucket on his head.
How about an underwater island?
I’m telling you — when the ROCKquaman movie has a bigger opening weekend than Spider-Man, Dark Knight, Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern (OK, GL is a gimmie), you’ll all be sorry you were so rough on the man.
Aren’t those SuperMan bracelets that some douchebag (please moderate that comment) announcer sells for $19.95 at 3:00 AM magnatized? Uh Oh!!! Liars!!! They are secretly turning us all into liars!!! I haven’t bought one yet because I’m smarter than the average bear! I didn’t buy the Obama coins and I haven’t bought the 24ct Gold plated Buffalo coin yet either for like $9.95.
Rick Perry is sorry he got caught…he’s not sorry for what he said! If he was sorry for what he said, he wouldn’t have given free tuition to illegals in the first place! What an idiot! The future of the Republican Party is bleak my friends! We are doomed! DOOMED I tell you! Sarah Palin needs to get in this thing and start punchin’ some nads soon!
To me a “lie” is an untruth told consciously with the expectation of benefit to the liar. The benefit may be material or psychological or irrational but, it seems to me, there must be a benefit even if it is no more than amusement for the liar. In this test there was no benefit to being truthful or untrue and, in fact, the subjects told that they were expected to not tell the truth.
I’m not saying that the magnet had no effect – but I question the conclusion that it increased the subjects’ propensity to lie. Perhaps the magnet induces a greater willingness to be random – or desire to be perverse – these are not the same as what we would call “lying”.
EdthePastor – what say you? Is this “lying” in any traditional moral sense.
Yugos and Trabants are very cheap. They are not, however, very shiny.
Wow DamnCat I feel I should write a blog on lying…no not really I was lying. haven’t blogged in months. Seriously and briefly, lying according to the biblical tradition is 1) to give false testimony in court including withholding truth 2) false statements to gain an advantage or 3) someone under control of the Father of Lies.
Democrates are not technically liars, you just have to have them define the terms as they understand them. Most times it is mind boggling what there perception of reality is. Define “is”
What exactly is the point of people being paid by the government paying taxes? Why not just pay them less? Here’s your check, now give us back 25%…wtf?
Boston teachers (worst schools in the state) average $84,894 ($471.63/day) , maybe he meant them.
I am all for a fair and simple tax system; how about $5,000 for everybody over 18 years of age.
It can’t get any simpler than that.
Hey, I recommended Mistborn =)
I’m glad your enjoying it.
It’s not true that Socialism will not give you cheap, shiny new devices to play with. Cuba just released an excellent competitor to the Kindle. They call it the “Etch A Sketch”. Only costs 66 ration stamps!
Mistborn series is quite good; Sanderson is a great author. Definitely up there in the top fantasy books I’ve read. Riftwar reads similar to Mistborn in a lot of ways. I personally like Dresden Files better, though. Ok, that’s enough nerding around now.
Soon Kindles will be in my price range, $19.98!
(They have free books in their on-line library, right?)
If the Palestinians want their own state we should tell them they can have Alaska, then when they show up the people already there will have something besides wolves to shoot at from their helicopters.
Free will — other than the big magnets strapped to their head causing inductive diversion of their neural pulses! Crazy scientists. DamnCat is right as usual.