seriously

So beginith the rant:
Last Friday marked a close call (according to which media outlet you feed from). As a shock to no one really our government could not settle over a budget. One side wants to keep throwing money down the black hole of entitlement programs, screaming that those who disagree with them hate (insert you class of protected people here) and want to see them starve, homeless, dead, or... Well you get the idea. The other wants to funnel monies to the gears of the machine allowing constitutes companies the contracts and feeding the industrial machine, and anyone who disagrees with them is guilty of hating jobs and money... The nauseating thing about this is they both plan to do this with tax payer money... But I am not going to touch this debate, no, what I want to look at in our nation's bloated budget was brought to my attention by this headline, "Budget standoff could result in government shutdown." We all know that the whole government would noy shut down, but the "non essential" programs would stop until funding was secured. I read on in the article which listed the agencies that would stop working... It was a long list from contractors to recruiters. The article said for me not to panic because most everyone will go about life noticing no change...
This made me think, and todays continuing argument about the budget cuts being too extreme... Why do we have all these "non essential" programs at all? Why not just cut away some layers of fat and see what happens? To me the term non essential means they probably... Aren't that friggn important... I mean essential to me means you need it like air, water, and innernets the crap that you need to survive...
So why not start by knifing that crap first? Then move to entitlement programs? Then stop writing contracts? I mean when things get tough for me I don't start with the debate of which I need more food or shelter while playing WOW and talking on a smartphone... I guess we have managed to elect a group of representatives who have never had to budget to live... What does that say about our political machine? But what do I know I'm always broke...

So endith the rant.

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that'll learn em

So beginith the rant,

This bit of news has kind of slipped by as less important than Libya, or Japan having a meltdown. It is a small story that often finds its way to the ticker at the bottom of the screen or maybe even a short mention between coverage of the major stories, or at least it had to the point of me writing this little rant.

What story? you ask. Apparently Islamic people are taking to the streets in Afghanistan, Iraq, and I assume other Islamic countries and rioting and killing people... Normally one would just call this a Monday because of the frequent nature of their outbursts of violence over any thing... "What?!? Someone 3 thousand miles away mentioned something about Mohammad's momma... Better kill some people and destroy some more property..." What stirred up the hornets nest of mouth breathing radicals? None other than the pastor here in FL who burned the Koran... The same guy who was asked nicely not to by the frigg'n pentagon. I cannot even begin to speculate how that jackhole thought burning a Koran would be a good idea? (I wrote about it a few rants back if you want to revisit it) I am not going to continue to blast that idiot, we can all agree that upper brain function is a hit miss thing for him... No what I want to do today is ask a question... 

And here it is, "Why, when outraged at the west, do the Islamic people of these middle eastern countries go to their streets and cause mayhem?" Seriously... Why are they punishing their own country, their neighbors, their infrastructure, to protest us? It would be like me being outraged about something happening in the middle east and driving down the road to McDonald's and burning it down, yeah that'll learn em. I could understand a cry for Islamic people in the US to march in the streets, but to going around killing and breaking stuff in your own country over something some idiot pastor who no one even really cares about over here just doesn't make sense... But who am I to judge a people's actions? I heard GE marked a couple billion dollars  in profit last year and has to pay zero taxes... I am going to go out and sledge hammer some stop signs.

So endith the Rant: