Category — Politics

Okay, so, what’s up with prisons these days? Not that I’ve been in one lately, but after reading a story about how a “Godfather” was operating his crime syndicate from inside a prison in the United Kingdom via Facebook leaves me wondering… Why do prisoners get the internet? And more so, how does the prison not have a firewall or any other sort of program/application that tracks that kind of behavior?

Really?

The prison “allowed” Godfather Colin Gunn to have Facebook account access because it was his “legal right”. Uh, excuse me, but since when did those that perform ILLEGAL ACTS have any LEGAL RIGHTS in jail? Oh wait, are we talking about one of them fancy upstate, upscale rehab centers for celebrities? My bad.

Or are we too lenient on criminals? I mean, this “Godfather” wasn’t in jail for tax evasion or even jaywalking, but was in on a conspiracy to murder charge! So yes, by all means, allow him to post updates to his status for his 500+ “friends” to see, such as:

“I will be home one day and I can’t wait to look into certain people’s eyes and see the fear of me being there.”

and

“It’s good to have an outlet to let you know how I am, some of you will be in for a good slagging, some have let me down badly, and will be named and shamed, f****** rats.”

He sounds like quite the boss to me. Almost makes you want to rethink that benefit package for mobsters these days. But at least if you get caught, you can keep everybody up to date via Facebook and probably Twitter. And just when you really didn’t want to know what somebody was doing every second of their life. Can you say, watch for dropped soap?

FULL ARTICLE HERE

“Frankenstorm”. No, it’s not a new movie and no it does not involve Frankenstein or Mary Shelley. In other words, it sounds lame since it doesn’t sound like something cool.

“Frankenstorm” (unless you want to refer to it as Al Franken winning a senate seat) is some “chaos theory” (Thanks Dr. Malcolm from Jurassic Park!) of the worst possible scenario for a END ALL of END ALLS of storms hitting the West Coast. Yeah. Can someone say WHY DO PEOPLE GET PAID TO SIT AROUND AND THINK THIS CRAP UP?!?!? *and if you know someone, let me know, as I wouldn’t mind getting paid to think things up… My phone number is…*

So… let me tell you the gist of this “Frankenstorm” that someone on too much Redbull thought up.

3 STRAIGHT weeks of storms (1 week of really, really bad storms non-stop) followed by a stalled out 2 week system that just dumps and dumps and dumps until it finally drains itself of all of its precipitation. Roughly, 8 feet of rain during this period. 8 FEET! 96 INCHES!! 96 MILLION MICRO-INCHES!!! (okay, I have no idea what a micro-inch is, but it sounded large)

Remember when “The Big One” was supposed to hit and California was supposed to break off into an island, form into a prison penal colony, and Snake Plissken (aka Kurt Russell) was supposed to swoop in and recover a doomsday device? Oh wait…

What about California turning in to San Angeles (San Diego to Santa Barbara) where it would be illegal to swear, eat salt, and all restaurants are Taco Bells? Oh wait…

It seems I’m on a “not-quite-reality” kick. “Frankenstorm”… Product of Climate Change… no… Global Warming… wait… What is our boy Al calling it these days? Polar Bears or something?

Anyways, once again… *if you know someone who funds these things, besides Hollywood, let me know, as I wouldn’t mind getting paid to think things up… My phone number is…*

On this episode of ManVBlog “What Were They THINKING Thursday”, we examine a more crappier aspect of my blogging job.

No. Really crappy.

So crappy, you might classify it as Craptastic.

How many of you know of California? I presume just about everyone. How many of you know that it is WAY in debt? In fact, come March, it will have $0 in the bank. It will actually have a $1 BILLION shortfall come March. And this from a state that is #1) the most populous, #2) has “The Terminator” as its govenor (I mean, it can’t fail then, right?), and #3) has a city now paying for MANDATORY COMPOSTING!

Yes folks, you read that right. MANDATORY COMPOSTING. Not only recycling of paper, plastic, aluminum, and of plastic surgery (see Nancy Pelosi)…

But now, you have to mandatorily compost ANYTHING organic in the city of San Francisco.

The week of Oct 21, 2009, they started issuing out “composting containers” for every residence in San Francisco. “Eh” for the single family homes, but can you imagine what it must be like for the apartment complexes and so forth? Having to walk your freshly filled stuff down 3 sets of stairs (since elevators don’t work, since that costs money to fix) and go into a RANK trash room to dump off your formerly good smelling scraps? I’m sure if I wanted to dig around a bit that hospitals in the good ole city of San Franny would have seen a spike in falls and passing out/cracked head open cases from the pure stench that has to be emanating from that hell-hole of a trash room. I can’t even imagine the smell of the city now with all of that composting piling up somewhere. Forget SMOG, how about a grey cloud of vomiting inducing COMPOSTY-FOG (COMPFOG) coming at you? Wouldn”t that be a great way to start your day?

So, forget about leaving my heart in San Francisco. Leave your CRAP there and move out before you gain a stench that you can never wash off. And you can thank Mayor Newsom for that.

Ok, I saw this, and I paused and laughed.

This quote from THIS ARTICLE is just too priceless.

McCain as the fighting was raging announced that “today, we are all Georgians.”

Uh, yeah. That is “Georgians” as in the country. You know, the one that got invaded by Russia for not being Russian enough. Or Putin-y. Those bad Georgians.

But, McCain is now a national hero of everyday Georgians (evidently). Sort of like those honorary degrees handed out by universities to politicians and the rest of the ilk just because. They’re meaningless. But, make for good wallpaper.

McCain probably forgot to mention where Georgia is for most people. I bet if you asked 10 people, 9 would say that the capital is Atlanta, 5 would not know it was a country, and 1 may even say, “That’s where Deliverance was filmed, right?”

View the video, then click the link to find out the details of what exactly this INAUGURAL video-cast of Man V Blog references.

As always, comments are welcome, as are ideas for future stories, such as this one that you are about to watch.

ENJOY!