Divemedic

For the second time in three months, a person has hit a multi-million dollar jackpot at the slot machines, and the casino involved has refused to pay, claiming that the machine malfunctioned. I say too bad. That is why it is called gambling. Isn’t it funny how malfuinctions always benefit the casino and not the player…

A few years ago I saw the band “Live” play for the Mardi Gras event at Universal Studios in Orlando and it almost got me in a fight. They played a song or two, and then the band stopped playing and began to talk about “George Bush’s illegal war.” This really ticked me off, as I had paid to hear the music, not the bands opinions on politics. I yelled out, “Shut up and play the fucking music.” Several fans nearby got very irate, and I thought I was about to get my ass kicked.

The reason this comes up is because of Paul McCartney’s comments about GW not knowing what a library was. As Breda points out, GW was married to a librarian. He also graduated from Yale AND Harvard. He is no dummy, but that isn’t the point.

The point here is this: YOU ARE A MUSICIAN, YOU BRAIN DEAD ASSHOLES. We pay you to play music, not to hear your opinions on politics. You are no more qualified to comment on political matters than the cab driver that took me to the airport. Shut up and do your jobs.

That is according to his report I found on the BBC web page:

The money quote is here:

It’s not size, it’s what you do with it that matters

with an author name of Damian Grammaticus, I thought this was a joke, but it certainly appears to be a real story.

The question was: How can broke economies lend money to other broke economies who haven’t got any money because they can’t pay back the money the broke economy lent to the other broke economy and shouldn’t have lent it to them in the first place because the broke economy can’t pay back?

Indeed.

Bill Clinton was rear ended yesterday. Usually when you see a headline with “Bill Clinton” and “rear end” in it, the story isn’t about a car accident.

In case you haven’t gotten this: I think illegal immigration is a REAL problem.Anyone who thinks otherwise is either being deliberately dishonest, or has no idea how bad things are.

Here in Central Florida, hardly a week goes by where I do not respond to a car accident where the at fault driver has no identification beyond a Mexican passport, if they even have that. No insurance, no driver’s license, no valid vehicle registration. They are ticketed, and simply are never heard from again. The victim is forced to pay for the damage to his property, the illegal walks away.

Then there is this: One illegal has previously been deported 9 times and is now the man accused of raping a woman in Edmonds, WA. Here is how the witness described the scene:

“I could see the back of his head. I could see his pants were down. I could see her lying on the ground. I could hear her crying, but I couldn’t really see her face,” said Klein.

I would add that if this had been me as the witness, I would also have seen my sight picture. Rape is a forcible felony in the state of Florida, and deadly force is authorized to prevent the commission of a forcible felony in Florida.

This scumbag had a long record:

Madrigal’s arrest and immigration record includes a staggering number of contacts with law enforcement since 1989. That’s the year he was convicted of theft using a firearm in California. 

He was deported a couple of times after that. Then in 1999, he was arrested for drug sales in both San Diego and San Francisco. Records show that he was deported three times that year between April and August.

He was arrested for drugs again in Stockton, Calif. in 2000. In 2002, he pleaded to third degree sexual assault in Denver. Later that year, he was deported again. And in 2003, records show he was deported three more times.

Illegal immigrants only get here because they are breaking the law. That makes them criminals by definition. Criminals do not respect the law. Want to know what happens when you stand by and allow illegal immigration? You get to run Casinos and sell Cigarettes. Instead of the Redskins, perhaps they will name a soccer team the “San Antonio Gringos”

Arizona has come under fire because of the new law that does nothing but give state authorities the same power to enforce Federal law that Federal authorities have. The Second Amendment has come under fire from certain people who claim that it only applies to the militia. I say we perform a test. The Governors of the southern tier of states should activate the National Guard and deploy them along the border with orders to repel the armed invaders from the south. How can people be opposed to repelling an invasion?

I am taking a class on Critical thinking, as it is a required course for the degree I am seeking. (It seems like I am always in school at least part time.) The class has a web page, and the home page has this on it:

A scholarly study finds it was the 43rd president’s personality, not brain capacity, that limited his functional abilities. This is an important distinction. It is not that the former chief executive was incapable of learning (the “Bush is dumb” meme), but that he did not want to learn, and did not believe it was something he needed to do.

That isn’t even what the study says. Looking at the study that the Professor claims shows that the former President refused to learn, it actually said this:

[The] best studies, in which raters evaluate statements without being aware of their source, suggest that Bush lacks integrative complexity and thus views issues without nuance. The leading personality theory (the “5-Factor Model”), as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory, suggests that Bush is highly extraverted but not very agreeable or conscientious. He also rates low on “Openness to Experience.” Similarly Immelman (2002) had expert raters judge Bush’s personality using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria. Raters identified Bush as fitting the “Outgoing,” “Dominant (Controlling),” and “Dauntless” personality patterns, which together constitute a style given to lack of reflection, superficiality, and impulsivity.

You would expect a leader of a large nation to be Dominant. You don’t choose a sniveling Beta male to lead a nation. Also, who are the “raters” that rated him? This is not a study, it is an opinion poll. The very title of the paper shows that the “study” was biased: Bush’s Brain (No, Not Karl Rove): How Bush’s Psyche Shaped His Decision Making.

Why do Liberals insist on continuing to attack George W Bush? Is that all they bring to the table? What does this have to do with a class on critical thinking?

As a side note, the number of Che shirts on campus astounds me. The fact that I saw several shirts with a hammer and sickle printed on them made me realize how Communism has died everywhere in the world, except the College Campuses of the USA.