<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249</id><updated>2012-01-27T16:57:18.513-08:00</updated><category term='Republicans'/><category term='TSA'/><category term='Reality'/><category term='budget'/><category term='Taxes'/><category term='politics'/><category term='ponusjoe'/><category term='economy'/><category term='Bill O&apos;Rielly'/><category term='tax cuts'/><category term='reason'/><category term='Arizonia shooting'/><category term='logivc'/><category term='air travel'/><category term='po'/><title type='text'>I HAVE NO TITLE</title><subtitle type='html'>I going to use this site to criticize and bitch about stuff whenever I get in the mood. No real “theme” other then there’s a lot of stupid shit out there.And one more thing. If you just got here, read all the posts. Just don't read the most recent one. You can do that, can't you?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-2526563261163821287</id><published>2012-01-27T16:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T16:57:18.523-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Republicans'/><title type='text'>NO MORE MR. LOVEABLE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;It's official: The gloves are off. I've reached that limit. I'm really sick of all the lying scum suckers that have made lucrative careers in politics. They are all screwing us and I've been disgusted by them for decades but it's hit a peak for me. They all, with absolutely no exception, stink. Take the current Republican field vying for the opportunity to cash in on the Presidency.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Mitt Romney: He's clearly a dick. He's a multimillionaire whose recent claim to making a fortune was at the helm of an investment group that specializes in taking over companies and making even more money anyway they can. That always includes firing people and cutting benefits. Always. Now he wants to run the country the same way. Here's a guy that earned somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 last year and paid less then 15% in taxes. I'm seeing (and hearing) little motivation for him to review a tax code that obviously benefits him and he's friendly campaign donors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Newt Gingrich: I could classify him as a “dick”, too but calling him a pompous lying asshole is much more accurate. He's made a lucrative career out of lying and what better place then in politics? Just for example, his recent political ads have him claiming full credit for balancing the budget over four years. Quite the accomplishment since the budget has never been balanced since 1957. Mix in the fact that ole Newt was never in a position to ever “balance the budget” and was forced out of his position in Congress and you have a clear picture of a guy who can never be trusted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Ron Paul: He's just fucking crazy. This is a guy who, for all intents and purposes, appears to have recently arrived here from another planet. Some of his ideas are decent but so radical that he'd have an impossible task implementing them if he was King. If we were trying to build a third world country from the ground up he might be a good choice.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;That other guy: There's supposedly another candidate out there but I'll be damned if I can remember who the irrelevant sucker is. I think it's Rick Santorum but I'm not sure so I goggled “Santorum”. All you need to know is right there at the top of the search.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;But it's not just Republicans that are useless assholes. Right now we (and the rest of the world) are still mired in the Bush Depression. Our current President has demonstrated he's totally incapable of handling the mess he bragged about fixing. Has anything really gotten better? It can be argued that he may have stopped Bush's policies from creating even more destruction but it would be more accurate to simply state the obvious fact that things have pretty much bottomed out.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Because they can cash in on human suffering and fear politicians continue to focus on the worst and lie about things. For one thing, the economy can only get worse in a minimal manner. The dollar isn't going to collapse, no one is foreclosing on the US because we can't pay our bills, terrorists are not going to blow up your kids elementary school, the swine flu will not wipe out mankind, and on and on.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The government is not a business. It's not a career. It's supposed to be a group of people leading the nation for the common good. They have all failed and they all need to be called out for being such useless swine. The only way to ever change things (and any change would be for the better) is to never vote for a major party candidate evr again for any office. Never. But you will and it will ultimately be your fault. Thanks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-2526563261163821287?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/2526563261163821287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=2526563261163821287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2526563261163821287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2526563261163821287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-more-mr-loveable.html' title='NO MORE MR. LOVEABLE'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-7616766027016470006</id><published>2011-07-16T13:16:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T13:16:59.466-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taxes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='budget'/><title type='text'>TODAY'S MORONIC JACKASS REPORT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The current view on the debt ceiling is that the Monkey House will eventually vote to raise it $2,400,000,000,000. There will be a lot of talking about spending cuts and revenue enhancements but we all know nothing substantial will happen. The current rate of growth due to idiots exercising absolutely no control or intelligence over the last four years is $3,850,000,000 a day! Now those numbers don't mean a thing to you since you're simply incapable of comprehending them...a fact the Monkey Boys are fully aware of and are counting on. Once they pass that increase, they will have provided themselves with at least 623 days of continued antics and will totally ignore their responsibilities until the next election cycle. By the way, that $3,850,000,000 a day comes out to $12.38 per person. That's $12.38 a day for every man, woman and child in the US. That includes your cute little 7 month old grand kid. But since that number isn't all that big and you really don't care, that means little Sally Sue is on the hook for over $4500 a year before the little darling can even gurgle out “ma-ma”.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Ultimately, that means the Republican Party, the Tea Party, every single person considering themselves Conservatives, want little Sally, you, and Bill Gates to all share exactly the same burden. Bill will write that check right now, you can maybe get another loan and Sally, well, Sally can dip into that college fund you started and maybe come up with a partial payment. I'm not really sure what she'll do next year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Meanwhile, the Democrats just don't care. $ 3,850,000,000 a day buys a lot of votes and, well, why not? They can always blame everyone else for their mis-management. After all, Bill “The Liar” Clinton not only balanced the budget, but had a surplus as well, didn't he? NO!!!! During his 8 years the Debt grew by $1,420,000,000,000 or about 10% of what it is today. I'm not seeing a surplus there.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Prior to that, it's true, Republicans started the ball rolling when Reagan totally mis-handled everything by giving massive tax cuts to his rich pals and we all pretended the country was prospering on the $1,870,000,000,000 he borrowed over eight years. That disaster was fouled up by George “the Feeble” Bush who didn't want to be left out and ran the debt up another $1,480,000,000,000 in half the time. It took Bill twice as long to match that. That wasn't good enough for you since Bill instituted a tax increase which killed all those jobs wealthy Republican donors were creating so America chose the path of quickest destruction and installed George “The Idiot” Bush. In some sort of macho bullshit game, “The Idiot” out did daddy by once again following the Reagan plan of destruction by cutting taxes on his buddies and running up a then record debt of $2,140,000,000,000. He fouled that up by adding another $3,970,000,000,000 to the total. Nobody even blinked.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;In 2009 the American public was so stupid and weary and totally unaware of the National Debt that they finally elected a somewhat sane Democrat who ramped things up another $1,650,000,000,000 in his first year. Shortly after that, the debt became an issue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;You are all fucking lunatics! Get that? Every single one of you useless, pathetic voters are stupid scum. At the end of his term, Jimmy “The Farmer” Carter had only upped the money you owe by $290,000,000,000. A mere fraction of the reckless waste our current politicians laugh about. And an awful lot of people consider him a failure! What's that make his successors? You know, the weasels you voted for. In fact, the really serious increases didn't start until you imbeciles bought in to Reaganomics, the totally proven failed economics that Republicans continue to support for their own selfish reasons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Democrats are just as worthless as the moron currently in office since they actually lowered social security taxes by 32% despite the very public warning that Social Security may currently be in trouble. Yea, that one went right over your head, didn't it. That's why you're a moron. That wasn't just a useless ploy...that was a destructive one. The fool currently in charge gave a totally meaningless tax break at the direct expense of millions of Americans in hopes of generating more tax revenue and that little experiment completely backfired. Now the jackass in charge is contemplating cuts to Social Security to help pass a meaningless budget that will only be a re-election device and not to a thing to help the US economy.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The real (and only) solutions are clear, obvious, and totally indisputable. If even one member of Congress wasn't a total coward the American public would be aware of the easy and painless fixes. But no such person exists:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Restore the current Social  Security tax rate right now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Repeal the Bush Tax Cuts now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;And, as long as your at it,  pretend to make some cuts in spending.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;People are so stupid that they rally around anyone spouting any none sense as long as it sounds complicated. If the solution is too easy they act like they actually can comprehend the idiocy and defend their foolish perspective. Even the highly effective solutions I posted above could use a little more elaboration, but you won't understand it because you can't. Here are the facts not a single person can adequately dispute, yet you'll give it a pathetic try:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Not only was reducing the Social  Security Tax a colossal mistake, but the upper limit should be  increased. Fact is, there should be no upper limit. There's  absolutely no sense in having one. All that does is benefit the  richest Americans and makes us even more reliant on foreign  investors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Even though eliminating the Bush  Tax cuts would in no way harm the economy and in fact greatly  increase revenue, they would still be unfair. The wealthiest people  in this country will continue to pay less in taxes then most  Americans and as has been historically proven, they will in now way  effect the job situation.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Among the actual spending cuts  that should immediately be instituted, Defense spending should  immediately be cut by 10%. That's already a fact. The Pentagon has  already suggested that. Congress should also advocate a 10%  reduction in their personal waste including their salaries,  benefits, and perks. There's so much more that can be done that it  would take a book to list them. And Social Security and Medicare  wouldn't even make the list.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Because you're an idiot none of the above will happen. Your mind is too feeble to grasp that. The fact is, you'll continue to vote for exactly the same guys that got us to where we are today.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;By the way, morons, don't try any of the ridiculous arguments constantly used to dispute all the facts here. Don't try that idiocy about per cent age of GDP. It's stupid and easily destroyed. As I've clearly proved, tax cuts for the rich simply don't work and are an indisputable failure. Social Security and Medicare ARE NOT “entitlements” since they are 100% the only aspect of federal taxation that have been instituted for a very specific purpose. All the other money the government takes is spent at their discretion but, the 6.2% they take for Social Security and the 2.9% they tax for Medicare are there specifically for those purposes. The rest of the money they take from you is strictly for their salaries and benefits, buying votes, and occasionally to serve the public good. If every penny they took from you was allocated to a specific fund you won't waste your vote on any one of them. But, they KNOW you're not that smart. So thanks for doing your part to ruin this country. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-7616766027016470006?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/7616766027016470006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=7616766027016470006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/7616766027016470006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/7616766027016470006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/07/todays-moronic-jackass-report.html' title='TODAY&apos;S MORONIC JACKASS REPORT'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-8965971160907514966</id><published>2011-02-26T18:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T18:38:16.456-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ponusjoe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reason'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='logivc'/><title type='text'>HOW HARD IS THAT TO UNDERSTAND?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;From time to time I post on various sites and blogs and occasionally I punctuate my profound insight by saying “How hard is that to understand?”. Because I can succinctly (more on that some other time) respond to a question in an impeccable manner, I'll occasionally end my impeccable statement with that. I do it because it's pretty catchy. And it sounds pretty condescending, doesn't it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Anyway, it will shortly become a very common response to things and I won't be credited for originating it even though there have been many times unscrupulous individuals have blatantly stolen my ideas and utilized them for their own purpose. I'm ahead of the curve on this one since it's starting to pop-up here and there.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;I'm not sitting still for this one since it is a pretty cool thing to say after making a valid and clear point. Unimaginative and uncreative people will steal it. Fine with me but be warned! When you decide to steal my idea and I catch you at it, I WILL EMBARASS YOU!!!! So, steal away useless scumbag...I'm waiting!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Now, how hard is that to understand?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-8965971160907514966?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/8965971160907514966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=8965971160907514966&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/8965971160907514966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/8965971160907514966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-hard-is-that-to-understand.html' title='HOW HARD IS THAT TO UNDERSTAND?'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-4385536502923312405</id><published>2011-02-04T22:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-04T22:44:32.743-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>YOU DO DESERVE IT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;It bugs me that even though the proof is always out there, most people are too stupid to understand anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;It's about a week since Egypt became unstable and the stock market was poised for another collapse and the price of oil was about to skyrocket to $2,000,000 a barrel. Just didn't happen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Thanks to the total ignorance of all you people less then 1% of the population will be living the life thanks to the 99% too stupid to think for yourselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;As I clearly pointed out in my last post the stock market is clearly manipulated to enrich a few who we don't dare tax too much because they are creating so many jobs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Clearly, you are an idiot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Please, please, please...refrain from voting. You're an idiot. You'll once again vote for another moron who won't care a bit about you. You'll buy all their lies, you'll demonize the other party as corrupt as the one you're stupid enough to support, and everything will continue tyo go down hill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Thanks again, you idiot!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-4385536502923312405?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/4385536502923312405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=4385536502923312405&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/4385536502923312405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/4385536502923312405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/02/you-do-deserve-it.html' title='YOU DO DESERVE IT'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-2578837672931026287</id><published>2011-01-28T11:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-28T11:34:41.637-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>WHY WE'RE IN AN ECONOMIC MESS</title><content type='html'>The current state of the world economy is very, very, very easy to explain. I can easily best any economist in a discussion of current world events. Never mind the fact I can best any economist concerning any issue...I'm just talking about the current situation. So here's the explanation: People are really stupid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the very slight and not unexpected drop in the Dow-Jones Average (DJA) of about 150 points is being linked to the current Egyptian situation. It also is providing an excuse for a rise in oil prices. Really? Is everybody really that stupid? Just when, exactly, did Egypt become a dominate world economic power? Hell, cheap, greedy corporations don't even contract out their customer service lines to Egyptians. When's the last time you called Sprint customer service and spoke with an Egyptian? Their total imports are around six bucks, American. Their exports are about twice as much. Just what sector of our economy is being so strongly influenced by unrest in a country whose major export is digital pictures of pyramids? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day a spike in unemployment was announced and the DJA rose!!! Good news...more people then expected filed for unemployment?!?! The interplay between the Market and world events is so complex, isn't it? And the people making the calls are so...so...so intuitive? Is that why there's usually a drop in the DJA every Friday? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certainly unrest in parts of the world can influence where the big money goes but the guys that make the really big bucks off all the suckers investing in the stock market tend to wait until the end of the week to do some selling and skim off a few bucks to make their condo payment. Come Monday/Tuesday the exact same guys will be snatching up those “under-valued” stocks and will sit on them for a couple of days while everybody else realizes they may be missing out on a good thing and will also start to buy in pumping up the price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's EXACTLY like this: Buy 10,000 shares of Widget at $54 and sell it three days later at $55, guess how much you made? Sound simple? Too simple?? But that's the way it is. That's the way it's always been. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attributing a drop in the Market to some world event may be valid from time to time, but just how, exactly does the current situations in Iraq and Afghanistan figure in? At one time the “escalated” activity resulted in a Dow drop and higher oil prices but all that “stabilized” and things were normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You sweat or get giddy when you're 401K moves up or down a few percentage points every couple of months. Meanwhile the guys on Wall Street are churning your portfolio and eating up whatever meager profit you may be making or taking a bigger bit out of your loses. They can do whatever they want since the Federal Government has absolutely guaranteed that you will bail them out no matter what happens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In effect, you buying all the bullshit some moron spouts about the stock market directly contributes to gross manipulation of the price of everything and the wealth of a select few. Unrest in Egypt? Really? It just happened today? None of the geniuses in the world saw this coming? The guys whose very wealth depends on monitoring such events were caught completely off guard? Now they're in some sort of panic? Clearly and indisputably, these guys are really bad at their job if anything like this ever comes as a surprise. I admit, I had no idea what was going in Egypt because I didn't care and it doesn't matter. It puts no money in my pocket...and that's what it's all about.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-2578837672931026287?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/2578837672931026287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=2578837672931026287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2578837672931026287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2578837672931026287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-were-in-economic-mess.html' title='WHY WE&apos;RE IN AN ECONOMIC MESS'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-4379425977209803334</id><published>2011-01-23T15:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T15:23:52.070-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SO, THIS IS NEWS!?</title><content type='html'>The Teabaggers are open to cuts in the Defense Budget! Aren't we the lucky ones!! The very same people who wholeheartedly supported government handouts to the largest corporations in the world and objected to government help for the average citizen aren't opposed to cutting the spending of one of the primary agencies responsible for our massive deficit! If only they weren't lying scum and meant it...then it may mean something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110123/ap_on_re_us/us_tea_party_defense_cuts"&gt;Here's the idiot article I'm referring to.&lt;/a&gt; Anybody, giving any kind of credence to the meaningless, useless Tea Party is truly doing a major disservice to the US...much like like the Republican Party itself that licks the boots of psychotic Teabaggers just to keep their job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly the continued support of the ever increasing military budget over the decades has been a major contribution to our debt and they never once did a single thing to reduce those costs. Now they say they want to, but of course, that is a lie. THERE WILL BE NO CUTS IN MILITARY SPENDING!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that lie is beside the point. Soon enough the Teabaggers will be rallying for cuts in Social Security and Medicare. After all, it would be incredibly stupid to cut military spending since we are currently involved in two wars. Besides a Teabagger who'd be dumb enough to advocate such cuts now?  Time to screw the average American to “make a point”. After all, didn't the current administration just cut social security taxes 2% despite the FACT that everybody sees the social security fund in trouble? Why on earth would anyone cut contributions to the fund? That 2% will make absolutely no difference to anyone's income yet will have a decided impact on the future of millions of Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tea Party has already stamped itself as one of the most detrimental factions in American politics and will continue to pressure self-serving Republicans to achieve their own selfish goals. If nothing else, the Tea Party epitomizes the “selling out” of America. Sure, it's been done before but never this shamelessly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is currently a total disregard for the well-being of the general population and the pathetic minions of the Tea Party are spearheading the attack. The GOP aided by a very vocal minority are collaborating to fatten their own wallets at the direct expense of the masses and not a single person (besides myself) is even aware of it or will do anything about it. Thanks again for voting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-4379425977209803334?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/4379425977209803334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=4379425977209803334&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/4379425977209803334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/4379425977209803334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/01/so-this-is-news.html' title='SO, THIS IS NEWS!?'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-8031057050505192602</id><published>2011-01-12T01:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T01:42:35.955-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arizonia shooting'/><title type='text'>CIVIL DISCOURSE</title><content type='html'>FUCK YOU!!! FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm supposed to be anguishing over the mass murder in Arizona because a Congresswoman was severally injured and six people, including a sweet and innocent 9 year-old girl were killed. And I should just ignore the other 24 plus people that were murdered that day. After all, they were nobody special.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While every single news outlet and pundit scurry to make this a political issue they blatantly ignore the 15,000 killings that will occur this year because most of those people won't be important.  But since the woman laying in a hospital bed was some one important, this one means something. We should all be in mourning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say, “Fuck you!”. None of these people gave a shit about all the lives lost last year. Not a single one of them cared about the thousands gunned down the year before, but NOW we're all supposed to be in mourning. Screw that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gun violence has been an epidemic in this country since anybody cared to keep track but nobody actually cared about it. The United States is the murder capital of the world, but that's okay until a member of Congress is attacked. Did you know in Arizona it's okay to carry a gun in public? It's perfectly acceptable to walk around “strapped” unless your within a certain distance of a state or federal building, or a school. Of course, it's just fine and dandy to be welding a firearm in a public place as long as you're not violating some law that restricts your weapon being in the proximity of one of the people that actually approved your “right” to carry it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well look what happened! Golly gee, the “accused” murder didn't violate any of those laws, did he? Yet here we all are, moaning about the carnage. Are people really that stupid? Since it's a crime to walk in to a elementary school with a loaded weapon everything's okay, isn't it? That little girl doesn't ever actually go any where else, does she?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can “Google” all the aspects of gun murders involving children, members of Congress, federal employees and the like and I'll be more disgusted then I am now. All I needed was to look up the CDC's page for murders involving firearms to learn that over 15,000 people were killed in a single year. Over 30 people a day were shot. But this one is special. Personally, I don't see it. I did a quick search to see how many children died as a result of guns and came up with only 2200 or only 42 a week in 2006. maybe it was better in 2010...I didn't bother to check. Neither did you. Neither did the person you voted for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really don't think about it much...gun deaths in the United States. Why would I? Nobody I know has been killed by a bullet (or even wounded). And, frankly, it didn't occur to me until everybody started wailing about this last incident. Holy Shit! A member of Congress was assailed. If it was your wife, son or daughter, no big deal. But this...this is something tragic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tempted to cite the specific assholes that may have contributed to the event but any case would be a stretch and would involve 100% rhetoric. In doing so I would clearly stamp myself as an idiot. Crazy people do crazy things nothing will ever change that. But ignoring the reality here is obviously absurd. A nut had very easy access to a weapon and used it. What sane person is surprised?  What intelligent person can make it something political? I have nothing but disdain for any moron attempting to paint this situation otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know any number of political hacks monitor my posts and steal the ideas here in order to make themselves look good, but in this case all of them lose. I have plainly and succulently demonstrated that all of them are fools. Nobody will touch this one since every single one of them have now been exposed for the scum they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shootings mean nothing in the “big” political picture. No one is to blame. That's because every single one of them shoulders the responsibility.  This was just too fucking easy. It'll happen again. It's already been done before but you didn't care. You won't care tomorrow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to vote!!!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-8031057050505192602?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/8031057050505192602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=8031057050505192602&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/8031057050505192602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/8031057050505192602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/01/civil-discourse.html' title='CIVIL DISCOURSE'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-9148907574549107886</id><published>2011-01-09T19:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T19:57:03.815-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arizonia shooting'/><title type='text'>THE SHOOTING</title><content type='html'>The other day a Congresswoman and some people were gunned down in Arizona. She is so far surviving but six others are dead. There's a lot of wailing about guns and the political implications of a nut job committing mass murder. A lot of people are upset in one way or another. But that was yesterday. Nobody's that concerned over the other 28 people that were killed that day, just like they didn't care too much about the 34 homicides that occurred the day before, or the 34 that happened today, or the 34 that will happen tomorrow. In 2007 there were 12,636 homicides related to firearms. I don't imagine that rate has changed much between then and now (since nobody has done a single thing about it) so I'm more then pretty confident that the 34 murders a day average holds up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not being callous when I say I really don't care that this incident happened. By “care” I mean it's just another day as far as I'm concerned. The attack on a member of government doesn't matter all that much to me. After all, aren't they the very people who sought and accepted a high profile, well-paying and powerful position that's supposed to prevent this kind of thing? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After any high profile mass murder lots of people rally around and condemn our violent society. And absolutely nothing changes. Some 34 people that you don't know will die today. So you won't care. In fact, people being shot to death has become so insignificant that you won't even hear about it unless it happens in your community. A few weeks ago, six people were gunned down outside a restaurant in the city near me and that's all we heard about for a while. Of course, nobody talks about it now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me, I really don't care. According to the CDC 4.2 people out of 100,000 are killed by guns every year. I like my odds. On the other hand, the odds are a whole shorter for Congressmen! Something like 1 in 500 now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much to my surprise, the incident isn't being depicted as much for it's violence but political scumbags are grabbing on to it for political gain. Worthless human beings from both sides of the political spectrum are trying to  frame the killer as the result of the ravings of one political party or another. And, it has worked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Any person attempting to connect the psychotic mass murderer to any political thinking is truly an evil SOB. Only the lowest form of scum would twist this action in to some sort of political leverage. Scumbags like that can be safely ignored since anything they have to say is pure stupidity.&lt;br /&gt;2)Even attempting to defend or deflect ties between your political beliefs and the actions of a lone lunatic makes you an idiot. If you're not smart enough to defend falling in to that trap, your not smart enough to listen to. Anyone without the functioning neurons to simply dismiss any asshole attempting to connect them to the actions of this killer is an idiot. &lt;br /&gt;3)Clearly and unquestionably the media in all it's forms has influenced countless people to pursue acts of violence. Hell, Mark David Chapman, the man that murdered John Lennon was influenced by “Catcher In Rye”.  John Hinckley, Jr. tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster after watching the movie “Taxi Driver” one time too many. We still got books, we still got movies and no writer, publisher, producer or director went to jail for being a contributing factor.&lt;br /&gt;4)There's no doubt among thoughtful people that all the rhetoric of the various political idiots is encouraging violence. They all thrive on violence. It's a good attention grabber. Hell, we're being manipulated in all kinds of crazy ways because we're all supposed to be scared to death of terrorists blowing us up any second now.&lt;br /&gt;Some guy got a gun and murdered a bunch of people. Happens every single day. Let's face it...the American public ain't all that bright. The dumbest are among the most active in politics. Okay, maybe they're not so dumb since they take tragedies like this and warp them in to political hay. After all, these guys are rich (and enjoying massive tax breaks). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no hope for American society since the very people who want to improve things haven't a clue. I supported the current administration and all I got was business as usual. Not a thing changed. Republican or Democrat, they're all either totally incompetent or totally self-serving. Not a single one has done anything to serve the people that support and pay them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one thing the shootings has clearly demonstrated is that Congress and our political leaders simply don't care. Even though one of their own has been victimized, they will take advantage of the horror for their own gain. They will not do a single thing to prevent it from happening to you, but you can bet they will take steps to insure it won't happen to them. And you'll support that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is, the attempted murder of a Congressperson only insures increased protection for Congresspeople. You'll get nothing. And that's 100% your fault. You support the scumbags. Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-9148907574549107886?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/9148907574549107886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=9148907574549107886&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/9148907574549107886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/9148907574549107886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2011/01/shooting.html' title='THE SHOOTING'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-5523540308084627978</id><published>2010-12-11T02:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T02:55:28.660-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tax cuts'/><title type='text'>SORRY, BUT....</title><content type='html'>Since I commented on the total stupidity of the looming extension of the Bush Tax Cuts, there has been a firestorm of reason. Unfortunately, it's all for show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I recently pointed out the tax cuts are stupid and may actually be counter-productive. Having been so clear and rational quite a few people have latched on to the obvious but they are peeing in to the wind. The already proven harmful cuts will be extended and the economy will continue to get worse. Here are the facts EVERYONE will continue to avoid:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Tax cuts for the rich do not create jobs. Simple fact. We currently have record unemployment while the very same cuts are already in place. Bill Gates, the CEO of Exxon, your boss don't actually hire anybody out of their pocket. No competent businessman hires anybody just because he has a few extra bucks. Okay, they may hire another illegal nanny or landscaper because they can, but what they make and save has absolutely nothing to do with creating more jobs. Any one who claims otherwise is a liar, pure and simple.&lt;br /&gt;2)The recent “Recession” has totally convinced major employers that they can produce bigger profits by holding the fear of even more downsizing over the heads of their employees. Why would any savvy business person hire more people when they can accomplish just as much by threatening the livelihood of their current employees? Nobody hires anybody unless the addition assures them a return on their investment. And they'd do that regardless of the personal “tax advantage”.&lt;br /&gt;3)Many of the people enjoying the tax relief are the very same people totally responsible for the state of the current economy The major players at the auto companies, banks, and stock funds that enjoyed a bailout at America's expense are the exact same people who will have the most to gain from the tax cuts.&lt;br /&gt;4)Honest, wealthy people are NOT in favor of the cuts. They realize they not only can afford to pay more in taxes but realize that it's an economic stimulus and they will benefit from that. Congress is an amateur in that department yet they act like they know something. It's absurd. The very people advocating cuts for the rich are people that are paid 100% by taxes. Not a single one of them is advocating a pay cut for themselves. &lt;br /&gt;5)One of the current lies being circulated is that the tax cuts increased revenue to the treasury. That simply isn't true. If that were the case, every single member of Congress would totally advocate continued cuts until they observed a balance. NOT A SINGLE member of Congress has been stupid enough to even suggest that. Pretty much PROVES it's simply not true.&lt;br /&gt;The biggest question is: Since so many people are blatantly stealing my ideas, why aren't they stealing the entire concept? Because it won't benefit them. The people you put in office won't take the next step since they may lose their job and, obviously, beyond any doubt, it will hurt their chances of continued employment at your expense. But you'll vote for them anyway, so why rock the boat?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite all the nonsensical ranting among the obviously hypocritical politicians, the tax cuts will pass. For absolutely no reason the cuts in taxes are directly linked to the unemployment benefits for the people they didn't create jobs for. Yet, the person you put in to office to make that decision will make the wrong one, and you'll probably vote for them again. Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-5523540308084627978?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/5523540308084627978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=5523540308084627978&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/5523540308084627978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/5523540308084627978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/12/sorry-but.html' title='SORRY, BUT....'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-6735742084615707947</id><published>2010-12-06T21:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T21:23:19.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A CHANGE OF PACE</title><content type='html'>I just endured watching the New England Patriots stomp the hapless New York Jets on Monday Night Football and I seriously can't believe how totally useless the ESPN crew supposedly broadcasting the game are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I watched the game I seriously could not believe how stupid and inept the commentary was. While there was action on the field the morons supposedly providing play-by-play yapped about totally insignificant things. Frankly, I can't even remember what none sense they were talking about. All I know is they had no interest in what was going on. Instead, they were more concerned with the sound of their own voice and spouting totally useless garbage that in no way enhanced the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ESPN will, undoubtedly, fire the entire crew next season since every one of the nameless bunch is useless. No reason to have them on air since they overtly don't have any idea what their job is. Hell, I watched the game expecting the Patriots to stomp the Jets, and I enjoyed the massacre, but the commentary by Curly, Larry and Moe almost made me turn the channel or at least mute the sound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do idiots like this even get a chance at ruining football games? These morons were so annoying that by half-time I, along with just about everybody else viewing the game, was ready to change channels since the outcome was obvious and the pain associated with watching the second half was almost unbearable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know these guys used to play professional ball, but, since they can't do anything else, why do I have to be subjected to their stupidity?  Is being a moron a qualification valued by ESPN? Listen...I am more then willing to take their place along with any two random individuals and I can absolutely guarantee a superior broadcast! And at half the price!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listen: if ESPN is out to completely destroy the event known as MNF so be it. If they want to make it at least viewable, get rid of the three idiots you have currently wrecking the event and put anybody else in their place. Seriously, I'll do it and I have two friends who won't be any where near as annoying as the useless losers you currently have. Fans every where will appreciate it. And I'm sure we'll be much cheaper then the over-priced schmucks now destroying a football tradition.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-6735742084615707947?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/6735742084615707947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=6735742084615707947&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6735742084615707947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6735742084615707947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/12/change-of-pace.html' title='A CHANGE OF PACE'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-6969192471317263590</id><published>2010-12-06T17:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T17:42:50.442-08:00</updated><title type='text'>REPUBLICANS ARE SCUM, DEMOCRATS ARE STUPID</title><content type='html'>The only issue anybody cares about lately is if the Bush tax cuts for the rich will be extended. AS can clearly and indisputably be seen the Republicans are totally supportive of giving a break to the exact same people totally responsible for our current economic conditions (including the new record unemployment) and there seems to be some question as to what the right thing is. In order to make perfectly clear how stupid the whole situation is, I will make it so easy to understand that even a Teabagger can get it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Whatever their purpose, the Bush tax cuts did not work. It's perfectly clear since we are currently experiencing the worst economy since the Great Depression. Whatever anybody had thought would happen I'm pretty sure no sane person figured on our economy collapsing. More then ever, we need more revenue going to our government. Plain and simple fact. You may not like some of the policies in place (i.e. health care), you may not agree with the massive additional debt we've incurred (i.e. the war in Iraq), but facts are facts. All that money has to come from somebody. Why not the wealthiest that pay less in taxes then you do?&lt;br /&gt;2)The Republicans have offered a compromise. They are willing to extend unemployment benefits to the people who lost their jobs in return for tax cuts for the people directly responsible for the job losses in the hopes of creating new jobs despite the fact that hasn't happened while the proposed tax cuts have been in place. &lt;br /&gt;3)The Democrats, of course, could simply do the right thing and allow the tax cuts to lapse. But then taxes would go up for every one and the Republicans would characterize that as a tax increase on everybody, regardless of how slight that would be for 98% of the population. The fact is, if the current tax cuts lapsed the average person still working would hardly notice a difference. In fact, when the laughable cuts were instituted for the average citizen there was collective laughter at how insignificant they were. &lt;br /&gt;4)Instead, there will be a compromise. The Republicans will get a tax cut for their friends and primary donors and unemployment benefits will be extended to those who are out of work because of the previous policies of the last Republican administration. So, despite their objection of refusing to extend unemployment benefits unless there was a way to pay for them, Republicans will allow the extension while eliminating the most obvious way to pay for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bush tax cuts have clearly been demonstrated to be a very bad idea. Now I'll be the first to admit there is no definitive correlation between the Bush tax cuts and the current economy that's worse then anything since the Great Depression. On the other hand, they plainly didn't help. Absolutely no one can point to the cuts and in any way show that any benefit has been derived from them. The only thing any one can say to defend the cuts is the tired old excuse that things would be worse if they weren't in place. In that case, the economic stimulus plan is a raging success! You can't have it both ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Undoubtedly the Republicans are lying scum. All their claims about “fiscal responsibility” are now totally proven to be lies. They really don't care. They have proclaimed, with no doubt about it, that they would rather cater to their supporters then look out for the best interests of the country. Essentially, if they ever meant a word they said, they have completely and 100% sold out. There is no doubt about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other side, the Democrats have perfectly defined themselves as totally inept at handling the responsibilities they were given. They are, quite clearly, simply scrambling to keep their jobs. They are pathetic. And stupid. By agreeing to extend the tax cuts and giving control to the minority Republicans they have forever stamped themselves as cowards. Why vote for some one who doesn't have the brains or integrity to do the right thing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for the most decisive proof anyone (I'm looking at you Teabaggers) could ever want:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The numbers here are estimates. However, they are not based on lies and are more accurate then anything any so-called expert could ever come up with).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are approximately 130,000,000 working Americans, though that number will most likely continue to drop over the coming months. Approximately 98% of them make less then $250,000 a year. That means 127,400,000 make less then that. So, since I own the marvelous tool known as a calculator that no member of Congress seems to own or knows how to operate, that means 2,600,000 Americans fall in to the $250,000 category. Instead of making convoluted changes in the taxes laws let's keep everything the same as it is now. Yeah, the Republicans win. Now let's add a flat $2 a week tax to everybody earning less then $250,000/year. That would generate an annual $13,249,600,000. Now let's charge everybody earning over $250,000 an extra 10 bucks a week. That comes out to $1,352,000,000 a year. Add 'em up. That's over $14,000,000,000 a year in additional revenue that none of the effected would actually notice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that's a very clear, very reasonable way to increase much needed revenue with very little thought (Hey!!! I may have a career in politics forming!). By designing a graduated method of charging that flat rate, it would be an easy and painless way to more then double the generated revenue I've proposed here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, that was the whole idea when the current tax system was first implemented. Eliminate deductions, charge flat rates based on income, and the government will be flush with money. I can't take credit for this insight-fullness that borders on pure genius since it has been proposed a number of times by some of the wealthiest people in the country (and the world). Why anybody would be stupid enough to ignore them is beyond me. Not subscribing to that notion is so idiotic that I simply can't shut my brain down enough to even begin the thinking of anybody opposed to the idea. I can certainly grasp why the majority of corrupt and irresponsible politicians don't pursue the idea, but I really can't begin to understand why 99% of the population isn't clamoring for that change. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm the last guy to say the government doesn't waste money. I'm the last guy to say that any member of Congress isn't more interested in retaining their job then do the best thing for America. I'm the last guy to say Congress will ever do the right thing. But I'm the very first guy to say that every responsible American needs to support massive tax reform and needs to stop blindly following some “pundit” on TV or the radio who is exclusively looking out for their own best interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, I welcome any one to try and dispute the overwhelming facts I've presented here. Feel free to embarrass yourself by attempting to dispute the logic and reason here. I'm actually looking forward to humiliating you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-6969192471317263590?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/6969192471317263590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=6969192471317263590&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6969192471317263590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6969192471317263590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/12/republicans-are-scum-democrats-are.html' title='REPUBLICANS ARE SCUM, DEMOCRATS ARE STUPID'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-2760604796685681757</id><published>2010-11-25T23:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-25T23:56:24.197-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='po'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reality'/><title type='text'>REALLY? WHAT'S THE QUESTION?</title><content type='html'>North Korea attacked South Korea in an indisputable act of war and nobody is doing anything about it. There is no doubt, no dispute that North Korea totally violated every aspect of international law in their blatant murder of at least four totally innocent citizens of South Korea.  Yet, not a single country in the world is doing a thing about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By totally ignoring this barbaric act every single nation in the world is stating their desire to encourage yet another war. It really wouldn't be all that hard for the REST OF THE WORLD to do exactly what they purport to do and retaliate against an aggressor. A massive retaliation against the useless nation is undoubtedly in order. Yet it will never happen and the murdering will continue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is completely and totally obvious that the “leaders of the civilized world”are pawns in the hands of arms dealers and special interests. A massive retaliation against the aggressor would stamp an indisputable statement against military states. But the entire world sees too much profit for too few people in propagating such despicable behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try and imagine this (if you're not a total idiot): North Korea tries to start a war by murdering innocent people.  The entire world is so offended by their barbarous act that the nations unite and reign holy hell on them. The capital of North Korea is reduced to rubble. NO MORE PROBLEM. But, of course, that's too easy and nobody can make a buck off that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certainly a lot of innocent people will be killed. Among them will be a lot of people totally supporting the current government that is seeking to murder as many innocent people as they can. Just because they were so naive that they supported such behavior does not excuse what should be the inevitable result of the behavior of the leader. It's really time the world begins to assert their influence on the scum that seeks to create havoc among the rest of world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look, I'm NOT a war monger. I despise war. It's totally futile. That's why I support, 100%, eliminating the beginnings of any such aggression. There is absolutely no doubt that North Korea has started a war. They should be squelched right now, and every single country in the world should be behind a total effort to depose and eliminate the current regime. But they won't do anything like that. What does that tell you? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of  course the rest of the world will run away from the situation and leave it up to the US to handle things. That's obvious enough. But every single nation in the world should now keep their their mouth shut if they even think about criticizing the way we proceed. Obviously the US will be totally inept at handling the problem but since no one has done a thing about it all they can do is sit down and shut-up. I'm once again totally disappointed in our government. Innocent people have been murdered, the US has the superior opportunity to make things right, and nothing of significance will happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is, and always has been, a Tea Party world. The most successful people have rallied to  take care of themselves and have encouraged the rest of the world to allow the planet to sink to the lowest possible depths. This is ONLY the beginning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-2760604796685681757?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/2760604796685681757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=2760604796685681757&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2760604796685681757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/2760604796685681757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/11/really-whats-question.html' title='REALLY? WHAT&apos;S THE QUESTION?'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-3868943524697413869</id><published>2010-11-25T15:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-25T15:47:40.475-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bill O&apos;Rielly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>LAUGHING ALL THE WAY</title><content type='html'>Just for fun (and because I was really bored) I watched a clip from Bill “The Idiot” O'Reilly on Hulu. I didn't anticipate such stupidity but, as always, Bill delivered. The particular clip I viewed concerned the  enhanced security procedures instituted at airports and, as usual, Bill blew things all out of proportion. The idiot even directly blamed President Obama (or, as he likes to say, “The Black Guy”) for all the minor and totally irrelevant inconveniences being instituted. As the stanch conservative he is, undeniably in favor of such procedures, yet the liar couldn't help himself when blaming “The Black Guy” for the very minor inconveniences. He actually was stupid enough to show a clip of a three year old being checked out. Of course, there's no way in hell a terrorists/murderer would enlist the “aid” of a child in order to secure their position (By the way,in the interest of being perfectly being responsible, the clip he showed was from 2007). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill has, yet again, proven himself to be an idiot. The pathetic moron posted the FACT that 64% of the public is in favor of body scans. And, he added, only 50% wanted the alternative...a “pat down”. Well, Bill you complete idiot, “pat downs” are the alternative to body scans. So as Bill has stated, body scans are perfectly acceptable and only morons would opt for the alternative. Bill is, absolutely and totally with no doubt, advocating we respect the opinions of morons. Of course he does since idiots have made him rich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watching the rest of the clip it was OBVIOUS he was instituting a lie in order to make some kind of point. God only knows what the point was. In the meantime he was strongly advocating the current administrations support of airport security while trying to sound like a conservative that hates “The Black Guy”. He totally flushed himself down the toilet in which he belongs.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Bill has proven beyond any doubt, conservatives have absolutely no basis to attack the current administration.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-3868943524697413869?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/3868943524697413869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=3868943524697413869&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/3868943524697413869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/3868943524697413869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/11/laughing-all-way.html' title='LAUGHING ALL THE WAY'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21000249.post-6918048682163526122</id><published>2010-11-25T14:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-25T14:54:57.769-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TSA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='air travel'/><title type='text'>HOW WAS YOUR TRIP?</title><content type='html'>A couple of days ago some attention whore protested being screened at an airport. The moron staged a one man protest against making air travel as secure as possible. It is obvious that this particular mental defective didn't know about the nefarious “underwear bomber” who attempted to murder a plane load of passengers about this time last year. Since he wasn't on that particular aircraft he really didn't care. Some how his ranting became a national event and everybody who travels by air and never heard about 9/11 were supposed to stage some kind of protest during the busiest travel day of the year. Surprisingly, not that many people were stupid enough to join in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indisputable fact is that the current installation of full body scans is the most effective and efficient method of searching air travelers and securing all flights. It's quick, easy, and 100% unobtrusive. It's real hard (“hard”, as in totally impossible) to find a reason not to implement such scans on every single passenger boarding an aircraft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now before you start branding me as some sort of neo-nazi  let me make a whole bunch of things abundantly clear:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Airlines are private businesses. They can pretty much do whatever they please. They can charge as much as they want, they can reject whoever they want (within certain restrictions) and they can make whatever policies they want. In the case of protecting their passengers (and themselves) from terrorists and all the related litigation, they have gladly handed over that responsibility to the federal government. Because over the past decade Americans have been conditioned to fear absolutely everything and pass the responsibility on to the government they voted for, we all now have to deal with the results we were all willing to abdicate to them.&lt;br /&gt;2)The “terrorist” threat is a joke. Are you kidding me? Nothing has happened since the “We Don't Care” days of 9/11, but now security has proven, beyond any doubt, that they are more then capable of eliminating any threats. I for one, have absolutely no fear when boarding an airplane. I've been singled out for a thorough screening and had absolutely no problem with it. In fact, it was kind of fun and I boarded ahead of almost everyone else. Screen me all you want.&lt;br /&gt;3)Sure, it has all the 'earmarks' of a “big brother” government but be real. If you somehow think this is some kind of first-step, you haven't been paying attention. It's a necessity.&lt;br /&gt;4)Yeah, sure, all those people that are responsible for screening passengers are consummate professionals. Get real! They're no better at their job then you are...and that should make you quake in your boots. These people are trained by the exact same people that trained you. In other words, the training sucks. I'd much rather rely on technology then some guy barely making a couple bucks over minimum wage who got his job because he had an uncle or cousin in the business. &lt;br /&gt;5)The simple, plain fact is, there's nothing to be worried about. We caught the last couple of fools attempting to do nothing and we're pretty damn good at it. Things are working quit well already.&lt;br /&gt;6)Nobody wants to feel your 'junk” or see a vague representation of what you might look like naked. Give it up. Nobody cares. In fact, I feel a bit sorry for the poor guy (or gal) that has to suffer through a “Pat-down” of you.  Face it: if you thought some anonymous picture of the outline of your body would excite anyone, you'd be first in line. &lt;br /&gt;The current practice is effective and better then anything we've seen before. It's exactly what all of you have been looking for. It's faster, easier, and more effective then anything else. And the most important aspect of it is that almost everyone is in favor of it. If you want to get from point “A” to point “B” quickly, swallow what little pride you have and agree to insure the safety of yourself and everybody else. Stop being a selfish moron. EVERBODY will benefit. Even you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FACTS ARE (and any member of the “Tea Party” movement may leave the room) our methods of insuring safe air travel are working. And most people are fully supportive of it. When you make a fuss and cry and whine like a little baby, most people laugh at you. Mommy may sympathize, but a vast majority of the public considers you an idiot. Just go away. I plan on taking a trip in a couple of months and I don't want to have any concerns because you got upset when mom stopped breast-feeding you. It's called “reality”. Get used to it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21000249-6918048682163526122?l=mostlybitching.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/feeds/6918048682163526122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21000249&amp;postID=6918048682163526122&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6918048682163526122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21000249/posts/default/6918048682163526122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mostlybitching.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-was-your-trip.html' title='HOW WAS YOUR TRIP?'/><author><name>PONUSJOE</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
