large corporations

What's the point?  Seems like an endless merry-go-round of aquistions for only that sake while the actual products are usually quite mediocre (Think McDonalds vs a local single-owner restaurant)

People just please stop supporting these megalithic conglomerates and try to support smaller business -or better yet, just strive for the highest quality -it usually leads to smaller businesses that care about their product and not just their shareholders (who generally give a rats ass about their customers and the country that allows them to grow that big in the first place!)

Duck Dynasty

happy that people who "believe" that way are taken down a peg

I wont be supporting them or their business or other businesses with a tie to theirs

Its not a first amendment issue (thats about government suppression of free speech) this is private business and you still have the right to dissassociate yourself with people you dont agree with -and without any other reason than that.

It's not a constitutional right to be a reality show TV star.

Now if only we could get them to tone down their relentless blasting away at the national duck population too!

Gun Laws

The cat's out of the bag on this one and long gone.

The people who commit gun crimes don't give a rat's ass about the laws they are breaking.  Most of them have broken so many of them before they even commit the "massacre" (or whatever word the press assigns to the event)

Obviously adding more laws won't slow people down the slightest bit.

However removing the guns from easy availability would be the only way.

It's a big unfortunate that there's well over 300 million of them in this one country alone so the collecting and destruction of that many items is a staggering proposition!  

For starters you would need to get every gun, even hidden and illegally possessed ones, and all at the same time (the moment when most guns are gone but few still remain would give their possessors a huge advantage when committing crimes.

(And by all I mean ALL -that includes the law and the military -because the "arms escalation" between the civilians and law enforcement is a big part of the reason we have so many guns in America.)

Overall it doesnt sound even possible. just the labor costs alone would be staggering, not to mention trucking and energy costs to do the actual destruction part.  who would pay for the whole process?

Then how would you handle the thousands of gun-related businesses nationwide?  realistic expectations of them all being able to find something else to do and survive off-of is a pipe-dream.  Everyone from the metal suppliers, foundrys, factorys, distributors, retailers would all be affected -if too-big-to-fail was the reason for saving a dead horse like GM then the entire nationwide firearms industry is probably a bigger situation

(Should that industry been allowed to get that big in the first place is a whole 'nother problem in itself!)

Justice

Until the corporations that screwed up this country at our expense are punished, I feel there is no justice for the little guy who's not just punished but utterly annihilated for victimless "crimes" against those corporations by the government we support with our hard-earned tax dollars

For example:

Handing down fines so astronomically huge that a family or individual could never pay back even with every dollar they could ever possibly earn the rest of their life.

Dear IRS. Thank you for proving to me I do not belong in business.

Instead I will resume the regularly scheduled program for Americans and join the flock of sheep like everybody else who barely makes enough to even pay taxes of any consequence.

Instead of being an employer and generating a part of our nation's economy I will now join the ranks on the receiving-end of things. (Please say thanks to your partner, the state of California, for helping with the process of squishing my business like a bug on the sidewalk.)

Instead of doing the one or two things I was actually any good at I had to subcontract others to do that so I could have the time to do all the work that I should be on your payroll for.

Yet again you taught me that it is in fact normal for a Plumber to do drywall or an Electrician to do roofing as you obviously insisted a Sound Engineer needs to do tax accounting.

Nobody should be allowed to make money doing what we are blessed to be good at because according to you we all need to log 40-hours a week doing reams of paperwork to determine exactly just what we need to pay you and all your state cohorts!

Did you enjoy that hilarious video presentation at your training conference in 2010? That's the kind of thing I was good at doing. (I probably could have done it for a lot less than $60,000 though.)

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-mistake-have-filmed-star-trek-parody

Unfortunately I was too busy doing my tax accounting to lend a hand! Tax accounting that says I owe you far less than that yet will take me years in my current situation to pay off. How many of us in this situation are contributing to fine productions for your six-minutes of enjoyment?
I think my obligation only covers about a minute of it though, so sorry I couldn't screw-up even more and pay for it outright!

I'm so glad I can be a part of the our fine nation's tax collection and spending process!

Thank You.

A long time ago

I started this blog with high-hopes. It wasn't until I saw an article today about most blogs becoming abandoned that I figured I had better look this up and see if it still exists.
Of course, thanks to the Google Juggernaut, nothing on the web ever truly goes away.

We'll see If I can keep it up better this time

Immigration

We are all immigrants to the united states. Immigrants are always welcome to the united states.

Just at least try not to be "illegal"

Also "immigrants" doesn't always just refer to "Mexican" there are lots of other countries on this planet.

Whatever we grant the Mexican immigration-lobby, we in all fairness need to grant to all other immigrants.

There's worry we couldn't afford that, simply not enough jobs of any quality  (Why would anyone strive to come here then just work at McDonalds forever?)

Perhaps we should set a tentative limit of what we think we can manage and then open the gates?

Go until that limit is met then stop and re-evaluate?  Quite possibly the limit might not be met after the initial backlog of entrances is handled.

America is also not that attractive to everybody!  There's probably Americans that would head elsewhere if other countries would open up like we want to.  Canadians and europeans aren't beating down the fence to come here either, perhaps they are already in a better place than us?

Possibly if the US opened up our immigration, other countries would follow too.  I'm thinking far less restrictions on international movement would only benefit in the long run.  Might get rid of much of that "us vs them" mentality the world seems to be stuck in.

It would probably be a troublesome transition period though before we lost that method of thought.

islamic cartoons

Okay, I'm going crazy, this is too much for me to comprehend.

we see cartoons, shows, comedians and writings that bash or mock every race, religion or lifestyle regularily.

Get over it you idiots!!

Your religion is stupid bullshit, lighten up and just live your lives -who cares what anyone else thinks.

(it's okay to chop heads off of real living people but cartoons cause riots and mob violence ?!!??)

Update april 12/06

South park last night really sums this up, you can make fun of Jesus, Bush and America in a crude way, but hardly any backlash?!