Money to the blind and the racist

Two quick hits today

A federal district judge ruled that our paper money discriminates against the blind because they are all the same shape. He ordered the Treasury to look at ways to distinguish the bills. I’m all for making it easier, but we don’t have a good history for doing so. How may times have we tried to introduce the dollar coin only to fail because the people don’t want change (pun intended). But if the TD can figure out a way to distinguish the bills while making them harder to counterfeit but not costing a fortune to do so, I’m all in favor. While their at it they need to see if they can embed a chip that will make stupid people not spend money on stupid things. Now that would be great!

The other quick hit was that Michael Irvin apologized for joking that Tony Romo’s grandmother must have got it on with a black man for him to be that good athletically. I agree that he should apologize and I’m glad he did but then I listen to The Ticket (all “sports” stations here in DFW) and the afternoon boys go off on the world saying he shouldn’t have to apologize because he is black and can say what he wants. They recognize that this is a double standard (as if doing so takes that problem off the table) but say that it should be. I believe that is exactly what racism is, when one thing is ok or expected of one race but not another. Like it is ok for white people to drink from a water fountain but it is not ok for black people. It is NEVER ok to be racist, regardless of who is the racist. It is not ok for Irvin to be a racist any more than it is ok for Michael Richards. Now before you go off saying it was just a joke, imagine if I said in an interview on Sunday morning “Barack Obama’s granddad must have snuck into Hyde Park and got it on with a white woman because he is just too smart to be a black man.” I doubt those on the set with me would be laughing.

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Back to my ranting roots

Greetings from 32,000 feet over Indiana, on my way to Chicago. It’s been a while since I have been off on a rant and since the name of the blog is Delusional Rants from Inside the Beautiful Tornado (which I still need to explain) I guess it is that time to rant, delusional or not. (That was a really long sentence… I’m sure my professors would not have approved, but since they are most likely members of those in which I am about to rant, screw ‘em.)

It has been a full week since elections and we now know that the Democrats now have control of Congress. I have been wrestling with the decision if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Now before you go off thinking I have abandoned my conservative roots hear me out, or in this case read me out.

I was asked last night by a friend what I thought the voters wanted. This was a good question because for the most part I don’t believe half the idiots that have the birth right of voting in this country deserve it. It is only by the graciousness of Darwinism that most of them have no clue that there was even an election and the less than 30% turn out proves that. So those that did have a clue or was brainwashed into voting one way verses the other wanted something. Most of the talking heads on the tube that think we are too stupid to think for ourselves (and for at least 70% of us they are right) think it was a referendum on the war. Paluse (I need to check the spelling of her name, but I’m not sure she is worth it) (OK, that was a shot, but it felt good) (OK, she will be the Speaker and deserves the respect of the peoples and I should at least give her the courtesy that she does not give the President) (But I won’t ) and her gang seem to think that way too and will end up doing something stupid that will just end up loosing all the progress we have made over there and get even more of our men and women killed before we get them out. I need to go more into the war in another rant, but for now I don’t really think that is what motivated most voters. Don’t send me emails and tell me that is what motivated you, I said MOST voters, I know there are plenty of liberals out there that can only consider one issue at a time and that was the one that decided their vote.

On the other side of the dial the talking heads of the conservative radio seem to think it was a message to the Republican party saying they are too liberal right now and that the conservative base either stayed home (doubtful) or that the actual smart folks out there that vote what the believe and don’t worry about parties or labels voted for the conservative democrats. They point out that most of the freshman dems just elected are of the right side of the left. This seems plausible, but I don’t think it is a message that the Pubs are too liberal. If this were the case why on earth would they vote for anyone left of center, even if they are just barely left?

There is another friend of mine that thinks he liberal (he really isn’t, and he hates when I tell him that) that says it was a vote against incumbents. He is not the only one I have heard that from, but I don’t really think that is what it is either. As I said I think that the majority of the people that actually vote have enough intelligence to see through the argument that we should just vote people out just to freshen up the place. If you actually vote for people to represent your area and therefore your interest you want them in power as long as possible so that they gain more power in Congress, sitting or chairing the important committees, and give more stuff to your area which in turns improves your life. The only reason you would vote them out is if they stop representing your interest…

Holy crap Mr. Smith, did you catch that. People would actually vote someone out not because they are conservative or liberal, for or against one single issue, or just because they are there, but because they actually stopped or never did the things that they said they would. This is not my original idea, if it were it would not be the reason most of the smart people voted out the folks in Washington. It is however common sense and I wonder why I don’t hear many of the talking heads saying it. OK, I don’t really wonder that, they are idiots. But it is really that simple and I hope the newly elected folks realize this. You will be fired if you are hired to do a job and don’t do it. Strange… that is exactly the way it is supposed to work. Amazing.

Dog days of Business in Portland

Live from McMenamins’ Tavern in Portland Oregon it Terrill’s blog. Ok, the only reason I’m doing this is because we are at a really cool pub in Portland with wifi and Kyle, whom I just hired, was reading a blog from his wife in which she took a picture of her dogs saying they missed him. So I took a picture of him looking at his dogs missing them and I’m here to say that he too misses them. So without further adieu…