Newsbusted

[gregc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzaLd95NBE

[GTIKyle]

Jesus christ...should we rename this site "spokanepolitics.net"?

[Gsolo]

Jesus christ...should we rename this site "spokanepolitics.net"?

well...I think "thetruth.org" is already taken


Thanks Greg! that was a good laugh

[gregc]

Jesus christ...should we rename this site "spokanepolitics.net"?

Two posts and your panties are in a twist? Good thing you weren't around 5-6 years ago.

[GTIKyle]

No, but it's just funny how some people just have to be so damn negative about everything. Watch this:
YouTube - Everything's amazing, nobody's happy

Nothing to do with politics, but i think there's an underlying message. Plus it's just funny.
We have things DAMN good in this country, and yet, people STILL bitch about how shitty it is. Appreciate what a great country this is. Realize no single person is going to swoop in and have a magical cure for every ailment. Give the people that are actually DOING something for our government a break.

[gregc]

Put yourself into a position where you are the one who employs people and puts food on the plates for their families. Then watch how the policies being enacted will cause you to have to cut jobs because you are a "rich" business and then come back and tell me how good it is.

You could be right, time will tell. History tells us we are in for a shit storm though.

[Gsolo]

Give the people that are actually DOING something for our government a break.

And thats EXACTLY what the problem is...they are doing something for our government, making it bigger and more controling under the pretense of taking care of the people.

I bet you praise the legislators who can pass a bill they never read because they were told to...thats not government.

[Gsolo]

You could be right, time will tell. History tells us we are in for a shit storm though.

History usually isn't wrong though...sad that we can repeat the same problems within 100 years

[jrhaile]

Jesus christ...should we rename this site "spokanepolitics.net"?

Ah come on Kyle, you know if it was Jon Stewart you'd be all over this :D

[GTIKyle]

I bet you praise the legislators who can pass a bill they never read because they were told to...thats not government.

No, because that would be thanking someone for not doing their job. I'm not saying EVERY aspect of our government is flawless, and unfaliable.

Ah come on Kyle, you know if it was Jon Stewart you'd be all over this :D

Calling me a stereotypical college liberal?
Take that back.

[jrhaile]

No, because that would be thanking someone for not doing their job. I'm not saying EVERY aspect of our government is flawless, and unfaliable.



Calling me a stereotypical college liberal?
Take that back.

LOL I take it back, I take it back!

[Jetblack]

Man, I agree with both videos. I am constantly amazed at the technology that kids have nothing but contempt for.

I had a rotary phone. It was rented from the phone company. Yeah, I hated people with nines and zeros. It took *forever*.

No microwaves. At first, we called them "Radar Ranges".

No CD players.

No personal tape players, even.

AM radios were "stock".

8-tracks were the upgrade.

Bias ply tires (no radials for you!).

No video games, arcade only.

No internet.

No color TV.

Fotomat is where you got your pictures developed and it took a whole day... if you paid extra.

Cell phones were on Star Trek.

If you needed copies, you went to the local library.

You tuned your car with actual tools. Changing timing required a wrench, not a laptop. You loosened the nut locking down your distrubutor and turned it slightly, to add or remove degrees. You used a timing light (a kind of strobe light that flashed everytime your #1 spark plug fired) to see where the crank pulley was, in relation to the piston being at "top-dead center".

You had to tune your car about every six months.

My old boss and I had a list, two pages long, of stuff we have now that did not exist, when he and I were kids. My grandmother remembered times before there were roads! There were no roads because there were no cars! No airplanes. There were trains and horses and if you got strep throat, you died. If you broke your leg, you died. If you got food poisoning, you died.

My Dad went to the school bus stop, when he was a kid, and Jimmy and Sarah weren't there.

They died of Polio.

I have a scar on my left arm from my smallpox vaccination. Probably none of you have one, because smallpox does not exist, in the wild anymore. My brother is 36. 35 year olds don't have smallpox scars. In about ten years, an entire disease had been completely wiped off the face of the Earth.

I feel guilty when I feel bored. How the hell can anyone get bored now?!?!

[Greycobra_03]

I have a smallpox vaccine scar... because I was in the military and it is a potential weapon. Other than that, you are over the hill.

[Danimal]

And you are a young Whipper snapper!!!! Respect your elders before I put you over my knee and use my belt!!!!!

[AWD_Launch]

Calling me a stereotypical college liberal?


Do you fit the description?

HistorySimplified with Actual Material
World History 101 (Crash course)

For those that don't know about history ... Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Qs and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.

Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern Liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard Liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are Liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasnt fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military,airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other Conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when Conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing..

Here ends today's lesson in world history:
It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more Liberals just to tick them off.

[Greycobra_03]

That's a bit too kinky for my taste, Dan. You just keep those thoughts to yourself, in the closet where they belong... :D