Just a Guy in Connecticut

What did Napoleon Dynamite say?

GuyInCT — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0000

Oh yeah, now I remember – “Freakin’ Idiots!”

I have a great idea: lets buy them all one way tickets back to Somalia.

Somali community hard hit by Minneapolis bridge disaster

ummm… aren’t we supposed to cut down?

GuyInCT — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:38:25 +0000

I thought the gubmint and pharmaceutical companies were encouraging us to cut down on the use of antibiotics. If this is not encouraging the overuse of antibiotics, I don’t know what is. Well, I guess where marketing and money are involved, public health has to take a back seat.

News: Publix to offer 7 popular prescription antibiotics for free

Ron Paul: We can dream can’t we?

GuyInCT — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:49:46 +0000

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and displace the mono-party shell game of the Republicrats (or if you prefer, Demicans) that has come to dominate Washington. I have a dream today.

That is why the buzz about Ron Paul is so exciting. Like the guy crawling through the desert almost expired, looking up at the oasis in the distance, hardly daring to hope that it might be real.

The thought of a never ending Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton dynasty is too depressing for words. I think we should all put our efforts behind him because it hardly matters at all who wins otherwise. Democrat or Republican, it will the same old same old. The fact that both the Democrat and Republican apparatchiks are against him should tell you something.

So donate and support Ron Paul today. Yes, it is an incredibly long shot, but considering that our government increasingly ignores the Constitution, 2008 may be the last presidential election you have any say in.

Why bother fighting them over there?

GuyInCT — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:07:52 +0000

Bush says that “we are fighting the Jihadists over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” or words to that effect. I wonder why we even bother since Bush and Cheney have the red carpet out for CAIR and the Saudis. Over the past few years, the Saudis have poured enormous amounts of money to prop up CAIR, who are established terrorist apologists.

Did you know that membership in CAIR has plunged among American Muslims? Yet, Bush still treats them as their primary representative.

Unfortunately, Bush is letting his friendship with the Saudi royal family cloud his judgement. Apparently they are all charming coves, however they share almost none of the values that are important to a pluralistic, democratic society. Considering Bush’s abysmal judgment in all aspects of the Iraq War – except possibly the most recent phase – should we be should be trusting his judgment concerning CAIR and the Saudis?

Look, however you feel about Newt Gingrich, the man is no idiot. Anything he says about policy and politics should be considered carefully.

Ahhh… west and wewaxation!

GuyInCT — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:39:39 +0000

Ok, this technically isn’t a religious article. Although rest and relaxation is definitely a gift from God. If you need a quick break during the day, find a quiet place, dim the lights, put on the headphones (preferably) and spend ten minutes with this meditation flash presentation. This lady has a relaxing voice, unlike some of the chalk-board scratchers I’ve heard.

And for the religiously squeamish among you, even though it begins with an image of the Buddha, the program is pure relaxation, completely devoid of any theology or philosophy.

The Iraq War destroyed the Conservative Party in the United States

GuyInCT — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:39:10 +0000

The NeoCons, almost as if by design, have destroyed the last remaining vestiges of Conservatism in the US. By Conservatism I mean the idea of limited government; the concept that government is supposed to be responsible to the hard working taxpayers. What I think hammered in the final nail was the Iraq war.

Can someone please explain to me how invading a country that did not threaten us, nor posed any danger to us is somehow a “conservative value”? And if liberating a country from a malevolent dictator is the goal, then boy or boy, do we have our work cut out for us. There are at least another dozen countries that fit that bill. Isn’t it hypocritical of us to think that the Iraqis are the only ones who deserve to be “liberated”?

The conservative poseur-in-chief, Rush Limbaugh is still beating the drum: Why Dick Cheney Is Our Hero.

Don’t forget, the NeoCons almost all started out as Leftists. Which meant that they thought that big government was the answer to all problems. Well guess what? The NeoCons never changed! They still believe in big government. Just with different programs.

How Attorney General Gonzales can truly serve his country

GuyInCT — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:47:02 +0000

I really have no strong feelings for or against Alberto Gonzales. Although I do think that it is pretty racist that the Lefties – who accuse everyone and his uncle of being a racist – are pile driving on the first Hispanic Attorney General, and on the first Black female Secretary of State. And I do think it is quite hysterical to hear Charles Schumer lecturing anyone about the constitution and patriotism.

However, I do have a wonderful suggestion on how Gonzales can truly serve his country. He should offer to resign if Chuck Schumer does too! America would owe Gonzales a tremendous debt of gratitude for just getting that tiresome, socialist scold out of our faces.

Ok, thats it! I’m only buying American food products!

GuyInCT — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:27:10 +0000

It is becoming clearer every day that food and produce imported from China, Mexico, and Central and South America are simply not up to standards of that produced in the USA. Fortunately, our Congress is working hard to put into place standards that foreign food growers and producers must adhere to.

Just kidding!

No, Congress is working hard to make it harder to determine what country your food was produced in so you have to eat whatever crap is served to you. I will guarantee that the congressional cafeterias will only have US produced food.

What can you do?

Contact your senator and representative and tell them you do not want any changes to the the COOL (Country Of Origin Labeling) and you want to continue to have labeling on what countries foods are produced in.

Is Nurse Ratched Running Our Schools?

GuyInCT — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:14:33 +0000

Did you read this one about how a couple of teenage kids are arrested and charged with felony sexual assault for whacking some girls on the butt? I don’t want to underplay their offense. They should be taught in no uncertain terms that they need to keep their f-ing hands to themselves.

However, one of the first things that came to mind is what kind of repressed pervert turns a teenage prankster whack on the butt into a sex crime? Are these the people who should be running our schools and be around children? I think the administrators of the school should be brought up on child abuse charges.

On the other hand, I do understand that their hands are tied somewhat by trial lawyers. I imagine even now the parents of many of the whacked girls are planning multi-million dollar law suits against the school district.

Definitely way too many lawyers looking for ways to make money. Our society does not have enough legitimate work for so many lawyers, so they have to make up ways to get money.

Welcome to Fathead World

GuyInCT — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:34 +0000

I laughed when I read the the review of FatWorld in Wired Magazine. It opens with this paragraph:

“Ian Bogost likes to play with failure. The 30-year-old Georgia Tech professor designs popular Web games powered by sarcasm and social commentary.”

You mean, as opposed to the other ninety percent of popular culture aimed at teens and Generation Y, also powered by hip sarcasm, irony and “social commentary”? Bogost goes on to defend his purely commercial venture (nothing wrong with that!) by adding this self-serving nonsense:

“Bogost describes how games can engage us through irony, luring us into a pattern of actions that we recognize as reprehensible,…”

No, all it does is create depressed, disaffected, apathetic people. The subtle message is “Why do anything? The fix is in, everyone is corrupt.” Well, if the fix is in and everyone is corrupt, why shouldn’t that also apply to Bogost? How about something engaging, hip and uplifting? Now that would be truly unique.