The Occasional Observer

Courtesy of Beetz:

The $50 Lesson

I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there.

So I asked her, "If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?"

She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.." Her parents beamed.

"Wow....what a worthy goal," I told her.

"But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her parents still aren't speaking to me.

There are plenty of lunatics that still insist 9/11 was an inside job, politically motivated and organized by Bush & Cheney. Where are they now? Isn't it clear that Obama planned the gulf oil spill to halt drilling for oil and pushing his green agenda? After all, he's surrounded himself with members of the Weather Underground who've blown stuff up before. Or is it part of the machines' plan to take over - their first move to destroy life.

The latest fad for celebrity activists seems to be legalizing drugs. Not just, "ok, you can smoke a joint now", but meth, crack, anything goes. This post does a good job of pointing out how riduculous and scary it all is. Here's one of my favorite paragraphs from it:

Please Sting, save us! Unleash the full intellectual firepower you’ve amassed
writing forgettable smooth jazz/rock fusion tunes for people who buy their music
at Starbucks. Just because you’ve been waited on hand and foot for three decades
by a coterie of professional sycophants telling you you’re wiser than Buddha and
smarter than Einstein doesn’t mean it’s true.

if you make a good product, people will buy it.

Boom time, baby.

D.C. stop reading now.

It's risky work, but it does pay off.

Anyway, what annoys me is the hat. You just put that on to piss me off, didn't you?

it works every time.