I’m Not The Only One

By now everyone must be aware of the recent editorial cartoon which ran in the New York Post.  In the cartoon a chimpanzee has been shot dead by police officers who say to each other, “Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.”

Is the cartoon inherently racist?  Not really, if you consider the New York Post is a publication with a conservative slant and highly critical of any Democrat, especially our new Democrat President.  The cartoon was drawn as a reference to the recent shooting by police of a chimpanzee who mauled a woman in Connecticut.  But the cartoon’s message (my interpretation of it) was that the stimulus bill was so stupid, a primate could have written it.

In all fairness, liberals have repeatedly and viciously compared former President George W. Bush to a monkey for the last eight years when they weren’t comparing him to Adolf Hitler.  Obviously there are some people who think Obama is as big an idiot as some people regard his predecessor, as demonstrated in the recent HBO documentary “Right America Feeling Wronged.” Perhaps liberals have set a dangerous precedent in comparing a President to a monkey over and over.  But President Obama’s partial black ancestry makes the comparison extremely taboo as black people have historically been compared to monkeys, ape and other primates, especially in the U.S. (more…)

I was recently made aware of Right.org, a website opposed to the bailout addiction currently going on in our country.

I never thought bailing out any corporation was a good idea for the federal government to do.  Someone who truly believes in the free market would never support such an initiative.  Unfortunately, the heads of these corporations which are “too big to fail” (a real joke because in capitalism, no business is too big to fail) see all those years of giving bribes to Congressmembers as unofficials premium payments for some sort of funky “bailout insurance” in the case that their fiscal irresponsibility may actually cause the company to fall flat on its face.  Now, our six-figure collecting representatives in Capitol Hill are coming to the rescue, determined to save every one of their campaign donors even if it takes every one of our tax dollars and dollar of Chinese credit to accomplish their twisted goal.

Well, Right.org illustrates my frustration perfectly.  They have a debt calculator for you to use to figure out how your family’s share of the cost of bailout funding so far.  There’s even a great news  section to help visitors get more familiar with the issue and why a government bailout truly is corporate welfare at its absolute worst. There’s a video section full of informative commentary and hilarious spoofs for those who aren’t that into reading.  And speaking of videos, Right.org is holding a contest for the best 30-second video opposing government bailouts with the winner receiving $28,130, the cost of the bailout for the average taxpayer.

In short, Right.org is furiously waging a multimedia campaign to keep the American public aware of the disastrous nature of government bailouts, and I hope it fulfills its goal. Check out the site, and send a link to everyone you know-especially anyone who says the bailouts are a good thing (like your Congressmember).

I’m actually quite amused to hear the latest about Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez.  I’m amused because I’m sick of hearing about these people and how popular they are and how wonderful they are from the media and from friends and associate who are obsessed with these two athletes.

First, Phelps was caught in a photograph smoking marijuana, and now A-Rod, or as I always called him, A-Tard, has been caught with steroids in his body in a drug screening from several years ago.

Personally, I think marijuana is is no more a drug than caffeine, aspirin, sugar or tobacco.  I would go as far as to suggest that more people have probably developed health problems and/or have died from using caffeine, aspirin, sugar or tobacco than from using marijuana.  I don’t think it was right for Kelloggs to cancel the endorsement deal they had with Phelps, and NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws) wants potheads worldwide to boycott the company.  That will be a mighty financial blow to Kelloggs, considering how many stoners probably dig their hands into a box of Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes and shove handfuls of dry cereal into their mouths after getting the munchies.

Some commentators are even going so far in their vilification of Phelps as to suggest that his Olympic medals be taken back because he cheated.  This is a ridiculous argument, because unlike steroids, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug unless you’re in the entertainment or music business.  In fact, I think if Michael Phelps was smoking marijuana when he was competing last year in Beijing, he should receive twice as many gold medals.

I’m glad he got caught, because he really deserved to be taken down a notch or two.  His skyrocketing stardom seemed endless for a while there, and I’m so sick of seeing him in commercials and in print advertising.

I’m even happier to see A-Tard come crashing down. I’m a New Yorker, and the local media practically worships the Yankees and of course their golden child A-Tard. New York City is also home to the New York Mets but if you only knew New York by what you read and hear in the media, you’d only think there was one team.  What’s more, I have to share the same town with thousands of grown (supposedly) heterosexual men who worship the Yankees and have an unsettling adoration for A-Tard that borders on a same-sex crush. Then there are the women in this town who get all hot and bothered for A-Tard; for them, he’s like the Dominican JFK, Jr. In New York, you see A-Tard in all kinds of TV commercials and print advertising, and his fans are semi-cultish with a very low tolerance for anyone who speaks ill of their messiah.

So yeah, he totally deserves all this negative publicity and public scorning, but because he’s a douche, not because he took steroids.

Like marijuana, I also think steroids should be legal.  The only one A-Tard hurt by taking them was himself.  He’s shortening his own life by doing so, probably duct tapes his perky man-breasts flat and the ladies won’t be too happy to find out his penis has most likely shrunk to the size of a cashew.  There should be a separate baseball hall of fame for athletes on steroids, maybe even a steroids league within Major League Baseball.  After all, fans mostly want to see a great performance on the field more than they want to see a drug-free athlete with mediocre stats.  But punishing athletes for doing whatever they could to improve their game (aside from sabotaging their competition) sounds dumb, and it translates into a huge waste of our tax dollars to put these players through a trial.

Legalize steroids, create a steroid baseball hall of fame, and the inductees can have their genitals photographed to show all those young kids out there why they should be natural athletes instead of pumped-up hermaphrodites.