Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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To EVERYONE who is making fun of the poor people who are homeless, jobless and living in tents. It must be nice up there on your cloud thinking that it CAN"T EVER happen to YOU. I believe in Karma DO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i don't think souls ping-pong back and forth between Heaven and earth.
I don't see anyone here making fun of the truly homeless.
I do see people addressing the statements made by certain homeless folks when they coincide with the OWS mentality.
The homeless have been told in no uncertain terms that they are not welcome at OWS and similar events. The tent crowd all HAVE a home, they choose not to stay there for appearance's sake. Get your facts straight (if we are misinterpreting sarcasm, my apologies.)
It IS pretty nice up here.... OH! You should use some Head and Shoulders, seems like you have a couple flakes :)
Dumbass! These people aren't homeless or jobless, and the only reason they're living in tents is because they won't go home!
Stupid is not deserving of sympathy.
I don't believe in Karma. I believe in Divine Providence but that's another debate. You'll find plenty of compassion here for poor people who have had hard things happen to them in life. But you won't find much sympathy here for spoiled brats with a gimme mentality who don't want to work their way up and want everything handed to them. The entitlement mentality is bringing the entire globe to the point of economic collapse. And you might be surprised by how many of us here HAVE HAD it happen to us at some point.
The man has a dream, he should follow it, but he should not demand the people pay for it. He deserves an asskicking for his troubles. But what amazes me is that The Nation was dumb enough to put this out. They are leftist progressives & even they should know how bad this story will look to America.
Here are a few more stupid college degrees that would appeal to the OWS types. They could waste thousands of dollars to get a useless degree that nobody cares about and continue crying because they cannot find a real job.
Queer Musicology – UCLA
Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington
Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
Art History – most colleges today
American universities are not the only ones offering degrees in stupidity. These come from across the pond and down under.
Surfing Studies – Plymouth / Melbourne (I'm surprised this isn't offered in all California universities.)
The Phallus – Occidental College
Doctorate of Philosophy in Ufology – Melbourne University
David Beckham studies – Staffordshire University, UK
It might sound like a joke, but this British soccer star actually has a degree course dedicated to him. The course, which is technically classed as “Football Culture”, has been defended by its founder, who argues that degree courses must keep with the times. Celeb-style degrees can also be found in our country with Madonna studies injected into the Gender course at Harvard (no less) and Oprah Winfrey studies at Illinois.
The Phallus – Occidental College
Is Olivia going back to school to obtain her degree?
Maybe, she did have a fetish for Sidekicks gravatar.....And she did say she saw a lot of weird penises in her job...So I am think her real job may have been standing at the corner in skimpy clothing waving at passing cars?
Cute video. Though it was a little disturbing when the heads would leavethe bodies and you saw a neck stump @@
Oh dang. I thought he was taking about the cow that stands outside of Chic-Fil-A
careful drb paddy boy will want to immigrate
It's ok he will pass out before he can do anything. ;)
that's what she said. ROFL.
nice set-up!
Snap!
Topics include "the relation between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism."
lesbians have phalluses? phallusai? phallusoi? what is the right plural? Or do they only have one?
You're asking the wrong person.
FINE, just be that way. i'll go look it up myself!
ah ha......... phalluses.
LOL
madonna is a gender?
i thought if anything it'd be something along the lines of pathology and disease.
While the overall U.S. unemployment rate dropped slightly in October, the unemployment rate among college graduates went in the other direction and continues to be a problem under President Barack Obama.
The seasonally adjusted U.S. rate went from 9.1 percent in September to 9 percent in October, but the rate among graduates rose from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent.
In January 2009, when Obama took office, there were about 1.76 million unemployed college graduates in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In October of this year, there were 2.05 million — an increase of about 300,000.
When Obama was inaugurated, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate among graduates was 3.9 percent, but since then it has never dropped below 4.1 percent.
College graduates still have significantly lower unemployment rates than other Americans. Among those without a high school diploma, unemployment now stands at 13.8 percent. For high school graduates without college, the figure was 9.6 percent in October.
Nearly 14 million Americans were unemployed in October, and 42 percent of them had been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
Newsmax
Gawdawmighty,what a ridiculous suck-up story. If he actually is a graduate of that Fellows program, he is, I believe, a NYS licensed teacher and eligible to teach anywhere in the state. If I am wrong -and I may be- he is certainly licensed to teach in NYC. I find it hard to believe that he can't find a job teachign in the entire city of NY or possibly the state.
Also, did he ever consider that for about a tenth of the time and money, he could have gotten a certificate as a database or systems administrator and have been pulling down close to, or in six figures for the last two years?
He should've taken basket weaving or macreme or needle point or pottery spinning. At least he could sell the garbage he made.
I'm sure he would have dazzled them with his awesome degree puppet skills.
wow, that was neat, but i couldn't hear it. I did however find it interesting to see every person interact with the puppets as though they were human beings. even to the point of the old man putting his arm around the "female" reporter.
only the squirrel and the dog were not phased.
amazing.
But the newsbabe has some nice cleavage.
Just for you, Robert:
Male Puppet: We are here at the protest and as you can see things are electrifying.
MP: Wester Lester Jr. with the “Daily” here. How are you two this morning?
Girl: I’m doing great.
MP: or this afternoon anyway…it’s afternoon…it’s almost time to rise.
Female puppet: How much money do you think it would cost me to buy one of those hippies down at the protest up the street?
MP: what time exactly does the bus leave for the Fish concert?
MP: I don’t mean to change topics for a second here but didn’t I see you guys at “Burning Man” last year?
Dude on right: NO
Dude on left: Actually you saw me there.
MP: So you would agree that it’s time to bring the Vietnam troops home?
FP: Now, listen…I want to hide $100,000 from the IRS real fast. Where do you suggest I put it?
MP: $1.75 for a New York Hot Dog! That’s ridiculous! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
FP: What’s the best insider tip you can give me today? I won’t tell anybody…the best insider tip.
Man in hard hat: I don’t protest. I don’t even like protesters.
MP: You don’t like protesters. That sounds like something to protest about.
MP: This is completely a side note but we’re getting a hacky sack game together later on…you game?
(drumming)
MP: So who brought who here today? Did you bring the squirrel or did the squirrel bring you?
Girl: I brought the squirrel.
MP: You brought the squirrel.
Girl: We made the decision together.
MP: OK, can you turn your head that way for a second…for a second…just look off for a second. (to squirrel) The rebellion begins at 4 o’clock the password is “glory”
(music) MP: Yeah!
MP: do you know what is in soylent green?
Man: No
MP: I’ve heard it’s people.
(drumming)
(to dog) MP: The password is “glory”…pass it on.
aw thanks much DRB. As my yiddish brothers say, You're a mensch!
Oh great! I use lower case letters to let my horns show and you go and call me the opposite of evil! ;)
yeah, well, your inherent stand-up-guyishness just shines through no matter how hard you try to hide it. :)
Just don't blow my cover with my kids!
your secret is safe with me!
Priceless. Some of the better news coverage I have seen!
They say we achieve what we are capable of.
I guess he's only capable of playing with dolls. At least they won't outsmart him, or will they?
Maybe he can go back to teaching using his puppets as they may have the brains that he seems to lack.
It sounds as if he might have followed the advice of Pelosi when the health care bill was passed. Now he finds out that his dreams won't pay the bills and he wants others to pay them for him.
Perhaps he was under the impression that puppetry is top level government control work, big money type stuff, like soros?
will somebody please tell this idiot how to get to sesame street?
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To EVERYONE who is making fun of the poor people who are homeless, jobless and living in tents. It must be nice up there on your cloud thinking that it CAN"T EVER happen to YOU. I believe in Karma DO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i don't think souls ping-pong back and forth between Heaven and earth.
I don't see anyone here making fun of the truly homeless.
I do see people addressing the statements made by certain homeless folks when they coincide with the OWS mentality.
The homeless have been told in no uncertain terms that they are not welcome at OWS and similar events. The tent crowd all HAVE a home, they choose not to stay there for appearance's sake. Get your facts straight (if we are misinterpreting sarcasm, my apologies.)
It IS pretty nice up here.... OH! You should use some Head and Shoulders, seems like you have a couple flakes :)
Dumbass! These people aren't homeless or jobless, and the only reason they're living in tents is because they won't go home!
Stupid is not deserving of sympathy.
I don't believe in Karma. I believe in Divine Providence but that's another debate. You'll find plenty of compassion here for poor people who have had hard things happen to them in life. But you won't find much sympathy here for spoiled brats with a gimme mentality who don't want to work their way up and want everything handed to them. The entitlement mentality is bringing the entire globe to the point of economic collapse. And you might be surprised by how many of us here HAVE HAD it happen to us at some point.
The man has a dream, he should follow it, but he should not demand the people pay for it. He deserves an asskicking for his troubles. But what amazes me is that The Nation was dumb enough to put this out. They are leftist progressives & even they should know how bad this story will look to America.
Here are a few more stupid college degrees that would appeal to the OWS types. They could waste thousands of dollars to get a useless degree that nobody cares about and continue crying because they cannot find a real job.
Queer Musicology – UCLA
Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington
Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
Art History – most colleges today
American universities are not the only ones offering degrees in stupidity. These come from across the pond and down under.
Surfing Studies – Plymouth / Melbourne (I'm surprised this isn't offered in all California universities.)
The Phallus – Occidental College
Doctorate of Philosophy in Ufology – Melbourne University
David Beckham studies – Staffordshire University, UK
It might sound like a joke, but this British soccer star actually has a degree course dedicated to him. The course, which is technically classed as “Football Culture”, has been defended by its founder, who argues that degree courses must keep with the times. Celeb-style degrees can also be found in our country with Madonna studies injected into the Gender course at Harvard (no less) and Oprah Winfrey studies at Illinois.
The Phallus – Occidental College
Is Olivia going back to school to obtain her degree?
Maybe, she did have a fetish for Sidekicks gravatar.....And she did say she saw a lot of weird penises in her job...So I am think her real job may have been standing at the corner in skimpy clothing waving at passing cars?
Notso, do you mean a car-wash attendant???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzW6WanV-K4&feature=fvst
Cute video. Though it was a little disturbing when the heads would leavethe bodies and you saw a neck stump @@
Oh dang. I thought he was taking about the cow that stands outside of Chic-Fil-A
careful drb paddy boy will want to immigrate
It's ok he will pass out before he can do anything. ;)
that's what she said. ROFL.
nice set-up!
Snap!
Topics include "the relation between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism."
lesbians have phalluses? phallusai? phallusoi? what is the right plural? Or do they only have one?
You're asking the wrong person.
FINE, just be that way. i'll go look it up myself!
ah ha......... phalluses.
LOL
madonna is a gender?
i thought if anything it'd be something along the lines of pathology and disease.
While the overall U.S. unemployment rate dropped slightly in October, the unemployment rate among college graduates went in the other direction and continues to be a problem under President Barack Obama.
The seasonally adjusted U.S. rate went from 9.1 percent in September to 9 percent in October, but the rate among graduates rose from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent.
In January 2009, when Obama took office, there were about 1.76 million unemployed college graduates in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In October of this year, there were 2.05 million — an increase of about 300,000.
When Obama was inaugurated, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate among graduates was 3.9 percent, but since then it has never dropped below 4.1 percent.
College graduates still have significantly lower unemployment rates than other Americans. Among those without a high school diploma, unemployment now stands at 13.8 percent. For high school graduates without college, the figure was 9.6 percent in October.
Nearly 14 million Americans were unemployed in October, and 42 percent of them had been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
Newsmax
Gawdawmighty,what a ridiculous suck-up story. If he actually is a graduate of that Fellows program, he is, I believe, a NYS licensed teacher and eligible to teach anywhere in the state. If I am wrong -and I may be- he is certainly licensed to teach in NYC. I find it hard to believe that he can't find a job teachign in the entire city of NY or possibly the state.
Also, did he ever consider that for about a tenth of the time and money, he could have gotten a certificate as a database or systems administrator and have been pulling down close to, or in six figures for the last two years?
He should've taken basket weaving or macreme or needle point or pottery spinning. At least he could sell the garbage he made.
Aww, I guess this guy should have applied for work with the Puppet News Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6MNTJbgsgXM
I'm sure he would have dazzled them with his awesome degree puppet skills.
wow, that was neat, but i couldn't hear it. I did however find it interesting to see every person interact with the puppets as though they were human beings. even to the point of the old man putting his arm around the "female" reporter.
only the squirrel and the dog were not phased.
amazing.
But the newsbabe has some nice cleavage.
Just for you, Robert:
Male Puppet: We are here at the protest and as you can see things are electrifying.
MP: Wester Lester Jr. with the “Daily” here. How are you two this morning?
Girl: I’m doing great.
MP: or this afternoon anyway…it’s afternoon…it’s almost time to rise.
Female puppet: How much money do you think it would cost me to buy one of those hippies down at the protest up the street?
MP: what time exactly does the bus leave for the Fish concert?
MP: I don’t mean to change topics for a second here but didn’t I see you guys at “Burning Man” last year?
Dude on right: NO
Dude on left: Actually you saw me there.
MP: So you would agree that it’s time to bring the Vietnam troops home?
FP: Now, listen…I want to hide $100,000 from the IRS real fast. Where do you suggest I put it?
MP: $1.75 for a New York Hot Dog! That’s ridiculous! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
FP: What’s the best insider tip you can give me today? I won’t tell anybody…the best insider tip.
Man in hard hat: I don’t protest. I don’t even like protesters.
MP: You don’t like protesters. That sounds like something to protest about.
MP: This is completely a side note but we’re getting a hacky sack game together later on…you game?
(drumming)
MP: So who brought who here today? Did you bring the squirrel or did the squirrel bring you?
Girl: I brought the squirrel.
MP: You brought the squirrel.
Girl: We made the decision together.
MP: OK, can you turn your head that way for a second…for a second…just look off for a second. (to squirrel) The rebellion begins at 4 o’clock the password is “glory”
(music) MP: Yeah!
MP: do you know what is in soylent green?
Man: No
MP: I’ve heard it’s people.
(drumming)
(to dog) MP: The password is “glory”…pass it on.
aw thanks much DRB. As my yiddish brothers say, You're a mensch!
Oh great! I use lower case letters to let my horns show and you go and call me the opposite of evil! ;)
yeah, well, your inherent stand-up-guyishness just shines through no matter how hard you try to hide it. :)
Just don't blow my cover with my kids!
your secret is safe with me!
Priceless. Some of the better news coverage I have seen!
They say we achieve what we are capable of.
I guess he's only capable of playing with dolls. At least they won't outsmart him, or will they?
Maybe he can go back to teaching using his puppets as they may have the brains that he seems to lack.
It sounds as if he might have followed the advice of Pelosi when the health care bill was passed. Now he finds out that his dreams won't pay the bills and he wants others to pay them for him.
Perhaps he was under the impression that puppetry is top level government control work, big money type stuff, like soros?
will somebody please tell this idiot how to get to sesame street?