Sweet politics

Hoss told me about Victor and his organization's little predicament, and I, being the outrageous troublemaker that I am, would love to help out in whatever way I can (mostly, in an editorial to your school paper). With my extensive knowledge in politics and my ability to rile up the people, I'm certain I can be a really good asset to your campaign, Vicky Boy. In fact, why not just come down here and take me up there? I'll run as the third party candidate. I'll drain the votes from that dance-marathon loving loser and I'll punch his dick after election day (implied homosexual abuse).

That and many more things I can do - for no charge at all! I only want you to write up some information about this - what are your fears? Your hopes? Your backup plans? I want the scoop and I want it hard (more implied homosexual abuse).

Get writing, life saver.

Canto-ness, etc

In the spirit of anti-essay sentiment, I post!

This video is by no means new. In fact, I believe it's several years old. I just wanted to highlight how this lady is not Chinese, but can speak Cantonese fluently.





Take a look.

I read Vic's blog and feel similarly. Who's up for some b-ball, or just anything?

In the spirit of nerdiness and personal failure, here's a link to a lecture on physics. It's also inspired in part by Hoss, who watches lectures of Fourier something on youtube.























Lastly, a famous face.

Hey Surfmonkeys!

Another video links update fresh from cyberspace!


-At Coachella, a man dressed as a wizard removed his robes, telling officers that there is "No problem" with what he's doing. Officers tried to coerce the wizard to put his clothes back on to no avail. Eventually, they tasered him down as the surrounding group of silly hipsters cried "The whole world is watching!" and "Freedom of speech, man!"

These young, fresh dudes and dudettes have got disposable cash and stuff lying around. They must be in school or something. Why are they so stupid? It's like they have no concept of the law. Freedom of speech doesn't extend to crazy nudists, ya silly kids.



-You mighta heard Texas wants to secede from the union, and this video more than backs up their wishes - and ours!

But what the Texas secessionists don't quite understand was that during the Civil War Lincoln went out of his way to save the union in a federalist beatdown on state sovereignty in order to save it from being conquered by European powers. If Texas were to secede, who would believe that they would remain an independent country for very long? I sure don't. The minute Mexico or Spain or China start kicking their asses and America comes to fend them off, why, Texas will be back to the Union before they know it. But America's not dumb enough to let that happen - it's bad PR - and so something that these crazy Texans never thought of is: hey, maybe the minute you secede the Union will come and MAKE you stay. They've done it before, they sure as heck can do it again.





Alright that's all from me today. Keep on banging.

Movie Extravaganza!

We're likely never going to see something as silly as this in a theater. Anywhere. That is why I invite you all to take the time out of your busy lives and indulge in some zombie Nazi fun! Look it up at your local pirated movie streamer today!

Stay sexy, gangbangers!

A-Men Recession?

Just a thought...
Is it me or has the A-men family fallen off a bit?

Almost forgot
Taylor is still number one

Assmann Electronics

Guys, check out what I found

http://www.assmannusa.com/

An actual company named Assmann Electronics.

Goddamned it

This is one adorable robot. Just lookit.

From the experimenter's thesis:
"I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots."







You can visit the experiment website here.

Look at this NONSENSE

Lookit this nonsense right here. It's like, "Oh dear the gays are a-coming like an unstoppable storm and they're gonna take over everything." I also like how vague everything is. Especially that little girl. "I will have no choice...but to be gay." Brilliant.

It's like once the Supreme Court passes its decision and gay marriage becomes federal, everyone in this commercial will burst in flames, or bugs will just crawl out of their orificies and consume them whole. It's gonna be a fun day.

Victory Bell Challenge

If any one of you guys can get me the mp3 of the following song LEGALLY before I have to buy it on iTunes, you get the victory bell...at least until the NBA Finals bet kicks in.

More Tax Ranting!

http://www.insidesocal.com/electioncountdown/2008/11/el-monte-sales-tax-passes.html

So this article tells us what the increased sales tax money goes towards... city infrastructure, police/fire, and emergency reserves.


http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_11927413

And here's an update on El Monte's tax front. Notice how it says, "Since [the increase in tax], plunging sales tax revenues and the increasing cost of employee benefits have produced the large deficit [of over $5 million]." The people in our city council obviously didn't take basic economics. The city wants to raise property tax too to save one of our fire stations. Higher sales tax and higher property tax is seriously going to push people (residents and shoppers alike) out of El Monte, which in turn, means less revenue! But what really irks me is...


http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvgov/2009/03/woes-in-el-monte.html

It turns out El Monte has the highest annual pension cost out of the 25 cities in the San Gabriel Valley with $12 million for 2007-2008! The next highest is West Covina with $9 million. Now, I'm not the most well-educated in how pensions and the like work, but I believe they have to do with retirement. Hm... it could just be me, but it seems like the fat cats in city hall are trying to stuff themselves! Even is our failing economy! They have already laidoff several police officers and our deficit is already growing larger and larger due to the "plunging sales tax revenues." What El Monte really needs is to cut superfluous spending! (i.e., The city council needs to stop being selfish pigs and start helping the people who voted them into office!). Or better yet! We need to give the council members the boot and bring in fresh faces who can actually fix this mess!

Traffic Ticket

I am extremely angry at law enforcement just minutes ago, I was just cited for riding my bike in the opposite direction of traffic. The policeman sounded like a nice guy and asked me politely to go on the side walk and show him my i.d. The part that makes me furious is that he said that he’s not trying to make trouble, but he’s just acting on the recent car accident that resulted in the death of a student. He explained to me the traffic rule, which I didn’t even care about at that point. He said that he’s only interested in ticketing people for this one reason, and “could” ticket me for other things, which I asked him about. I said that ticketing people for one and only one law doesn’t make sense. He then offhandedly said that I need a light to ride at night and asked me rhetorically if I only ride my bike during the day. Then he said that regardless, he won’t ticket me for anything else because that’s not what “they told him to do.” He was given one job, and that job was to ticket people riding in the direction opposite to traffic. What happened is the school complained to the police department about the death and now the police showed up several days later to ticket every violator of one specific law, with no regard for any other laws. He added that if I wanted to be in full compliance of the law, I could walk my bike across the sidewalk, but he admitted he doesn’t care about that.

What is the point of a policeman who only tickets you for one law? What if I were to shoot someone and not get ticketed for that, but for riding my bike in the wrong direction? He did say he’s not here to cause trouble and make people unhappy, but that’s a stupid statement because that’s exactly what he’s doing. I acknowledge that he’s under pressure from the police department, who’s under pressure from the school to enforce this law that is almost never enforced unless there is an accident. But when there’s an accident, then the police show up to enforce the one law that might have “prevented” the accident. It is without doubt sad and regretful that any life is lost, which did happen several days ago. But it is beyond stupidity to ticket others for a mistake that is isolated. That idiot who killed the girl is probably gone somewhere and fearing for his life, because he has no money to pay for an accident. That doesn’t mean that students minding their own business should be ticketed for one and only one law. It is like those ticketed are being punished for someone else’s death, and that to me, is so stupid it’s undeniable. This incident gives me another reason to hate law enforcement that performs citations. I’ve been ticketed wrongly for a green light and this time, because this cop is “just doing what they told him.” It is like stupidity in one area, probably the school, leads to stupidity in another, the police department, and finally to the cop who “doesn’t want to make people unhappy.” That’s a load of bs, because I’m plenty unhappy.

What would be more helpful is if they put up a sign about the law and traffic rules and gave people warnings. He refused to give me warning and said ignorance is not an excuse. My response is that being a jerk without “meaning to be one” sounds more stupid than any mistake I’ve made out of ignorance. So in the end, there goes more money. My mom will rant at me and I’ll explain, but she probably won’t get it. At least I know that this situation comes out of bad luck for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. What makes me more angry is in the process of ticketing me, 3 other people made the same mistake. He said that he’s being fair and that he’s only one person. Wtf does that mean? My dislike for citation enforcement officers has again skyrocketed. I’m so angry that I even have a distaste for public service and government, load of idiots.

Dang Hard to Follow

Chrissy's post was full of indignation and politics and it was fantastic. This entry hardly compares. I just wanted to throw some more Springsteen at ya'll in Sesame Street form.




Even as a muppet he's awesome.

El Monte's Sales Tax > Beverly Hills' Sales Tax!?

So... we all knew the California's sales tax was gonna go up, right? BUT did any of you guys know that El Monte's sales tax is actually higher than Arcadia's?? It's even higher than Beverly Hills' or Bel Air's! WTH! We all know that El Monte is pretty ghetto and has been trying to lure businesses to come, but with higher taxes and all, it really makes me wonder how the city council is going to manage to do that. Honestly, I already do a lot of my shopping in other cities. Sorry to say, this just motivates me to do it more.

Check it out for yourselves: http://www.boe.ca.gov/cgi-bin/rates.cgi?LETTER=E&LIST=CITY