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Bush offers 800 Bucks to offset slacker Packer fans
This entry was posted on 1/21/2008 5:45 PM and is filed under Crappy Economy Redux,Bad Media Bad Culture,The world has gone insane,Are we really inept,Selfrighteous Sanctimonious Condescending Pricks,Packers,Paper Tiger Elitists,Bowling Ball Economics.
President Bush has offered up a scheme to get us to spend some cash. The word has slipped out he is going to pony up 800 Bucks per person so we will spend it in some manner back in to the economy. Whaa? Sure, give me some cash, what the hell? But, I am figuring the paper-tiger elitists, two-party paradigm hacks, and the self-righteous-sanctimonious-condescending-pricks that have ground us working guys into the dirt (you know who you are) will not find my first instinct appropriate. "I can get about 30 lap dances for 800 Bucks down at the Show Palace."
The odious "they" of "they say," claim the stock market is going to tank on Tuesday. That could cause inflation to lower those lap dances to about 25 in value per my 800 Bucks.
And now, one Dollar is worth 1235 Iraqi Dinars. In October 2006 when I was there in Iraq it was worth 1535 Iraqi Dinars. So a county with no banks - I have been there, you must use mafia store-fronts to exchange money - has significantly improved its monetary unit against ours. Say Whaa?
And then - lame segue here - last week Joel Dresang of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote a story about how unproductive Packer fans will be, most likely leading up to the big game - a game now lost. To Dresang's credit he mentioned the possible revenue a game like this brings in to a state as well as, the positive bonding an event like this also gleans. But none-the-less, my first instinct was - "Work harder you malingering bastards!"
I bring all these things up at once because there is something in the back of my mind that connects them all. I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps, suddenly the play house of the elites, hacks, and just plane idiots, can no longer blatantly pretend the working guy and the economy we must survive in, is solvent. Boom! All at once the talking heads have an epiphany on something we working shlubs have known for a long time - we working guys are having and have been having, our economic brains and hearts fucked out.
Stupid pop culture, media-complex, distraction-from-reality story
I am thinking, each day I should jot down the stupidest news story that is foist upon us by the big-media-complex as a distraction from the reality that has become America. So here we go - welcome to today's "Stupid Pop Culture, Media-complex, Distraction-from-reality Story."
Hey everybody, just look at the bullshit in the first five paragraphs of this blog posting!
Wisconsin military service person of the week
This week's Wisconsin soldier to remember is Army Specialist Charles A. Kaufman, 20. Specialist Kaufman was killed when a car bomb detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, June 26, 2005. Charles was in Company C, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin Army National Guard. His unit was from Arcadia, Wisconsin. Kaufman was from Fairchild, Wisconsin. Fairchild is about 30 miles southeast of Eau Claire and has a population of 511. Charles Kaufman was a Humvee driver with the National Guard. His Charlie Company was stationed in Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Kaufman's cousin, Kelly was also in Charlie Company, and the two went through Osseo-Fairchild High School together and graduated in 2003. They had joined the same National Guard unit. Charles Kaufman was the 41st Wisconsin service member to be killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
3,929 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
474 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
28,938 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1,851 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
85 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
6 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
125 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
14 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; and, icasualties.org.
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