No, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t kill people, but people will die for a Wii… This story [<---- that's a link, by the way] is ridiculous… A woman drinks nearly two gallons of water and dies from water intoxication, well, that’s what happens.
Here was the situation for those that don’t want to read the three paragraph article. A radio station was holding a contest for a Nintendo Wii. The object was to drink as much water as possible without going to the bathroom. The last one to go to the bathroom wins the Nintendo Wii. Well, one contestant (she finished second, by the way, didn’t even win =/ ) died after drinking nearly two gallons of water. She left work with a headache and people later found her at home, dead. Yes, you can die from water intoxication (it’s actually called hyponatremia, it’s from a mass dilution of sodium in the body or something like that - We had to learn about it in BASIC).
The Radio Station holding the contest fired the whole cast of the show that held the contest and is investigating it, although the police are not. All contestants signed waivers releasing the station from any legal responsibility for injury or death…
This brings me to my gripe. Why have a waiver that waives you from a liability of legal responsibilities (including death) if when someone actually dies you’re going to flip out and fire people? Why not just have the waiver, that way maybe they won’t hold the contests? Seems like if you have the waiver, don’t fire people that do what they’re supposed to do and use them.
Going on The O’Reilly Factor and claiming the it’s America’s fault that illegal immigrants have poor family values is ridiculous. To say they (illegal immigrants) are law abiding citizens should not be a statement you make when you have to go on to qualify it with, “Yes, it’s true they break the law crossing the border.” If you are a law abiding citizen, you’re a law abiding citizen, no qualifying statements needed.
I’ll say this for both you and Bill O’Reilly: Rap music doesn’t make people “bad people.” You know what it makes them? It makes them people who listen to rap music. Sorry to break it to you, but that’s all it does. So to blame America and rap music for bad behavior from illegal immigrants (and the rest of the hispanic community) is just idiotic.
No rap music in Mexico City was your claim (of course, without saying you hadn’t been there yourself, you said you hadn’t been there yourself). That again, is an idiotic claim. Latin Rap is big in Mexico and Mexico City… How do I know? Why I searched on google. Latin Rap is quite big, a lot of it actually comes up here to Phoenix, AZ and plays on some radio stations.
Gee, imagine that, the nonexistant rap from Mexico City is played on the radio.
Coming to America illegally for the “American Dream” is not an admirable thing anymore. Sure, 200 years ago, hell 100 years ago it was. Not anymore. Why? Because there are immigration laws that need to be followed. Rules, laws, etc, etc… You can’t just go where you choose anymore, it’s not that simple.
Don’t like your life? Don’t like your government? Well don’t try to change it;
Go to America and blame them for all your problems!
House won a Golden Globe for “Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.” Damn straight he’s the best actor in a dramatic series! Name one better, I dare you!
Heh… He’s an asshole, no one likes an asshole, but everyone likes House. That’s some good acting!
That’s probably the best show on TV right now, or at least tied with 24… But I don’t know, it’s a close one! Fox rules the evenings… Especially when you include news channels. Then the Fox Network takes another huge leap ahead of the rest of them.
But seriously, who doesn’t like House?
Yeah, yeah, I know the playoff’s started last week, but really, last week was the garbage week of the playoffs. They had games, sure, but who really cared about those games unless you were a die hard fan of a team that was playing?
This weekend was the really exciting weekend in the NFL… Especially in the AFC (Patriots @ Charges, Colts @ Ravens). I’m just going to comment on the Patriots @ Chargers and say, holy shit. What a game it was. Brady drove down the field in the last 2 minutes of the first half to score a touchdown and the end of the 4th quarter to score the go ahead field goal…
Marty, poor old Marty… He wasted a timeout on the useless challenge… Come on, a blind guy could’ve seen that he fumbled the ball! You better handle those guys in the booth that told you to challenge that play, Marty… Either that or start wearing your headset!
It was a great game, and if you missed it… Wow, sucks to be you.
I read this story and all I could think was that it sounded extremely odd…
Amber Violette told police Friday evening she had found her daughter, Katlin, with her head severed from her body, police said.
First off, I don’t understand how anyone can seriously injur their children, forget about killing them. But decapitating? Wow is about all I can say to that.
“Very private, but normal… They went to church every Sunday. They just seemed like a very happy, normal couple.”
Didn’t Dennis Rader go to church every week, too? In fact, wasn’t he an active member (not just “Church-goer") of that particular Church? Maybe we should stop saying to ourselves, “Well, they go to Church, they’re nice people.”
I grew up with plenty of people who went to Church. Now, none of them are killers (that I know of) most of them weren’t/aren’t Saints, either. Hell, one of my best friends went to Church every Sunday when he was growing up, his Parents made him. He misbehaved more than any of my other friends did…
So let’s stop using the “Church goers are good people,” line from now on, ok?
This was a nice little article from BlogsForBush.com
Today, raising the federal minimum wage is a bad idea whose time has come, for two reasons, the first of which is that some Democrats have New Deal Nostalgia. Witness Nancy Pelosi’s “100 hours” agenda, a genuflection to FDR’s 100 Days. Perhaps this nostalgia resonates with the 5 percent of Americans who remember the 1930s.
Most of the working poor earn more than the minimum wage, and most of the 0.6 percent (479,000 in 2005) of wage workers earning the minimum wage are not poor. Only one in five workers earning the federal minimum live in families with earnings below the poverty line.
Forty percent of American workers are salaried. Of the 75.6 million paid by the hour, 1.9 million earn the federal minimum or less, and of these, more than half are under 25 and more than a quarter are between 16 and 19. Many are students or other part-time workers. Sixty percent of those earning the federal minimum or less work in restaurants and bars and are earning tips - often untaxed, perhaps - in addition to their wages. Two-thirds of those earning the federal minimum today will, a year from now, be earning 10 percent more. Raising the minimum wage makes work more attractive relative to school for some teenagers, and raises the dropout rate.
But the minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities’ prices. Washington, which has its hands full delivering the mail and defending the shores, should let the market do well what Washington does poorly. But that is a good idea whose time will never come again.
Gas prices are at their lowest since May of 2005 ($52.99 a barrel according to Bloomberg.com). So why is it that since election season ended, while prices per barrel have been dropping, prices have been creeping back up?
During the height of election season the gas prices dropped as low as $2.12 in our area (from what I recall), but since then they’ve gone back up to $2.26-$2.38 depending on which station you stop at (it’s more expensive closer to base). Why is this? What is the cause of this phenemenon?
Consumer Conditioned Spending is how I like to refer to it. What does this mean?
Well if a gas station had put their prices up to $2.26 from the get go, no one would shop there, ever. Why? Because that gas station would be labeled “The gas station that charges way too much!” But since they all gradually raised prices and blamed the “rapidly increasing oil per barrel prices” (I just through those quotes in for good measure, by the way) the general leftist went, “Man, that Bush guy, he went to war and now look what happened!” (Yet again, quotes for good measure). The general rightest went, “Damn oil prices!”
So we all put up with the high prices and paid… They went up in some states over $4 I believe… Here they barely broke $3, if they actually broke it, I don’t recall. But now they’re $2.26 and what are we saying? “Well, at least they’re not $3+!” Why? We’ve been conditioned. As long as they don’t go up as high as they were, the general public will keep paying and won’t bother checking why they’re that high.
