Things I Don't Get or Teh Stoopid, It Burns!!1!!

He probably borrowed this car from a friend.

Another post of head scratching things that just don't make a whole lot of sense to me. I guess this post should be filed under Old Codger not get offa my lawn!

I do not understand.

- Non-millionaires who vote Republican. The GOP has made it clear that they couldn't care less about anyone who's not a millionaire. In fact, some of them actively hope all non-millionaires just drop dead.

- Real, live people voted for Michelle Bachmann? Not brain dead coma patients, people with pulses and everything elected this nincompoop to national office? And they still support her? Yeah, she's from the same state that elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura as governor but still, she's about five beers short of a six pack. How can you tell when she's lying? Easy, her mouth is moving.

Bailouts and Bullets

I haven't posted anything about the proposed Big 3 Automaker bailout yet nor have I said anything about Plaxico Burress' self-inflicted drunken gun shot wound. So I thought I'd kill two birds at once.

The first, I don't support a bailout of Ford, GM and Chrysler. GM and Chrysler make shitty cars, they've always made shitty cars and they've shown no signs of improving their product. Ford is the most viable of the three, they make decent cars and have demonstrated an interest in making better cars. But it isn't even really about the product entirely. Its about allowing a free market to function as a free market, that means profits and losses. What the Big 3 are doing now is attempting to create a win/win situation for themselves, a free market profit system protected by socialized risk.

And, sorry, but that's bogus. Chrysler has been bailed out before, they didn't learn and I strongly believe they should be allowed to wither and die. GM doesn't really do much innovation, they're like an off-kilter copy machine making bad copies of other cars.

Plus, the whole three private jets to Washington thing was ridiculous. And the second round of driving from Detroit to Washington in hybrids is equally stupid. Just fly commercially and quit trying to make a statement about how contrite you are when we all know you very obviously are not.

On to Plaxico Burress.
F*cktard behaviors:
Being fined 40-50 times by your own team.
Taking a gun to a nightclub.
Not having a license to carry said pistol.
Not bothering to secure the gun in a holster.
Owning a gun without a real safety.
Drinking with a gun in your belt.
Trying to give a fake name to the hospital.
Convincing the hospital to not report the gun shot wound.

Did I miss any?
While I don't put Plaxico Burress on anywhere near the same plane as Michael Vick (who should never be allowed on an NFL field for any reason whatsoever), Burress has demonstrated an appalling lack of judgment.

Fashions for the Blind and Mentally Handicapped

I've long held that fashion shows are just a way to ogle pretty people in hideous clothes. And, of course, fawn all over the designer who created those cutting edge experiments in completely useless clothing. Take our handsome boy on the left there in his chest thong. There is no way, no how that ridiculous looking piece of shit outfit is ever going to be adopted as daily wear.

I'm sure there's some message being conveyed by the black stripe descending into the fabric around his crotch but who cares? It looks uncomfortable and, more importantly, stupid.

Make the thong part into a bandoleer filled with shot glasses or slightly angled throwing knives and we'll talk. Not for long but longer than we would if you were trying to sell me on this stupid outfit. The corn rows aren't doing him any favors either.

I wonder if it comes with black socks and sandals too?

The Juice Isn't Loose

O.J. Simpson accused in Las Vegas robbery over sports memorabilia

Boy, talk about living inside a bubble. How could this double murdering moron not know that his every move was going to be scrutinized and that committing (allegedly) a strong arm robbery wouldn't come back to bite him in his double murdering ass?

And then we find out that one of his own goons taped the incident and we might as well skip to the sentencing phase.

OJ now faces up to 30 years in prison for his actions and I'd imagine that a judge would be hard pressed to not bring the heaviest smackdown he could on him. Call it karmic backlash, call it justice, call it whatever you want but it appears that OJ is going to prison.

And that's fine by me and, very likely, the majority of this country that was outraged when he was found not guilty that bloody double murder of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman.

Rabid Accounts Collection

Dear Ebay,

Re-fucking-lax. I really and truly hope that you don't really need my $3.60 account balance to keep the lights on so please don't go sending me urgent payment requests for a lame ass $3.60 invoice.

Which will probably turn out to be spam anyway.

Wowee, my eyelids are heavy this morning. But I've got my coffee lifting cranes in place and expect to be able to keep my eyes open for longer than a minute shortly.

[Update: Ebay sent another email this morning, which looked alot like the spam Ebay email I get all the time, that informed me that my account has now been suspended and the world might come to end unless I pay them their $3.60.

Rick mentions in his comment that he's no longer using Ebay, I'm very open to alternatives that don't suck as hard as Ebay does now. Got one to suggest? Bring it on!]

Super Stupidity for Super Bowl Sunday

NFL Wants To Remind You That Having People Over To Watch The Super Bowl On A Big Screen Is Copyright Infringement

I saw that Rick had written about this and it reminded me that I wanted to pen a quick note.

If you watch the Super Bowl on a 55 inch or larger screen then the NFL says you are infringing on their copyright. Putting aside the utter stupidity of this pronouncement, how in the hell are they going to enforce this? Spies all across the nation? Bounties for evidence of the "infringement"?

The NFL needs to really think about what this says to fans and casual fans who tune in just for the Super Bowl. Just like the incredibly stupid warning not to disseminate broadcasts or accounts of their broadcasts, that means you are, technically, not allowed to even talk about a football game you watched on TV. And that is just incredibly stupid.

Maybe the NFL's taken too many hits upside the head?

[Update: Brian Krebs at Security Fix has just posted an alert about a Trojan horse on the Dolphin Stadium website (where the SuperBowl is being played in two days).]