I Like Viral Videos

If he were my student I would be so proud of him.

"Now I Know Exactly What I Have to do..."

I know its a bit long and I don't know if this is really that funny, but do to my current circumstances I found this quite entertaining.

Why is Glen Beck So Pissed Off About This?

No pun intended...



Is Glen Beck a supporter of wasting water just because Al Gore is against it? I don't understand his position, or others like him who refute global warming only because the party that they don't vote for has openly accepted climate change as part of their platform. I mean it was a cute commercial and funny too, what about this commercial has put Glen in such a sardonic mood? peeing in the shower is not that disgusting. Does Glen not get the joke? Do I not get Glen's jokes? Does he really have to rip on the commercial just because he thinks that Al Gore would enjoy it? because thats what I think.

Shouldn't Beck just come out and say that he is pro-pollution because Al Gore is anti-pollution? Sadly, thats pretty much all political party's do these days is participate in a full fledged unquestioning partisanship dichotomy. I am so sick of this philosophy of politics. The new motto of the American political machine (and mind you this stands true for both sides of the aisles) "If the other side supports. I'm against it. If they say it is black. We say its white. We're always right and they are always wrong, no matter what." In all honesty I feel the extreme partisanship of American politics is one of the main sources of pollution today that is causing this "global warming" and hopefully peeing in the shower can help.

Tangent #1: I'm a flat out independent. I dislike both parties. So, in defense of Mr. Beck and others like him, I do understand why and how you can refute global warming. I am well aware that there has been scores of scientifically documented climate change throughout our planets history caused by various reasons ranging from organic (the arrival of life and mainly plants which created our Atmosphere, Ozone, and the earth as we know it) to cataclysmic events (meteors, volcanoes, etc.) However, just because that the earth has this long history of climate change doesn't give you an excuse to pollute because you feel its not influencing the earth's tempature. Every time I hear someone complain about the arguments and validity of global warming, I ask them, "Well, are you pro-pollution?" and subsequently that individual shuts up. I mean its just logic, a no brainer, no one should be pro-pollution, who cares what side of the aisles you stand on. It's like saying you are pro-forest fires that eventually move into neighborhoods and burn people's houses' down. Pollution should not be a political issue, just common sense.

The Masses Are Asses

New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country

By Bill Maher

New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A few weeks ago I was asked by Wolf Blitzer if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country. It was amazing - in the minute or so between my calling America stupid and the end of the Cialis commercial, CNN was flooded with furious emails and the twits hit the fan. And you could tell that these people were really mad because they wrote entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS!!! It's how they get the blood circulating when the Cialis wears off. Worst of all, Bill O'Reilly refuted my contention that this is a stupid country by calling me a pinhead, which A) proves my point, and B) is really funny coming from a doody-face like him.

Now, the hate mail all seemed to have a running theme: that I may live in a stupid country, but they lived in the greatest country on earth, and that perhaps I should move to another country, like Somalia. Well, the joke's on them because I happen to have a summer home in Somalia... and no I can't show you an original copy of my birth certificate because Woody Harrelson spilled bong water on it.

And before I go about demonstrating how, sadly, easy it is to prove the dumbness dragging down our country, let me just say that ignorance has life and death consequences. On the eve of the Iraq War, 69% of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. Four years later, 34% still did. Or take the health care debate we're presently having: members of Congress have recessed now so they can go home and "listen to their constituents." An urge they should resist because their constituents don't know anything. At a recent town-hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his Congressman to "keep your government hands off my Medicare," which is kind of like driving cross country to protest highways.

I'm the bad guy for saying it's a stupid country, yet polls show that a majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government, or explain what the Bill of Rights is. 24% could not name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. More than two-thirds of Americans don't know what's in Roe v. Wade. Two-thirds don't know what the Food and Drug Administration does. Some of this stuff you should be able to pick up simply by being alive. You know, like the way the Slumdog kid knew about cricket.

Not here. Nearly half of Americans don't know that states have two senators and more than half can't name their congressman. And among Republican governors, only 30% got their wife's name right on the first try.

Sarah Palin says she would never apologize for America. Even though a Gallup poll says 18% of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth. No, they're not stupid. They're interplanetary mavericks. A third of Republicans believe Obama is not a citizen, and a third of Democrats believe that George Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which is an absurd sentence because it contains the words "Bush" and "knowledge."

People bitch and moan about taxes and spending, but they have no idea what their government spends money on. The average voter thinks foreign aid consumes 24% of our federal budget. It's actually less than 1%. And don't even ask about cabinet members: seven in ten think Napolitano is a kind of three-flavored ice cream. And last election, a full one-third of voters forgot why they were in the booth, handed out their pants, and asked, "Do you have these in a relaxed-fit?"

And I haven't even brought up America's religious beliefs. But here's one fun fact you can take away: did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older religion than Christianity? That's right, half of America looks at books called the Old Testament and the New Testament and cannot figure out which one came first.

And these are the idiots we want to weigh in on the minutia of health care policy? Please, this country is like a college chick after two Long Island Iced Teas: we can be talked into anything, like wars, and we can be talked out of anything, like health care. We should forget town halls, and replace them with study halls. There's a lot of populist anger directed towards Washington, but you know who concerned citizens should be most angry at? Their fellow citizens. "Inside the beltway" thinking may be wrong, but at least it's thinking, which is more than you can say for what's going on outside the beltway.

And if you want to call me an elitist for this, I say thank you. Yes, I want decisions made by an elite group of people who know what they're talking about. That means Obama budget director Peter Orszag, not Sarah Palin.

Which is the way our founding fathers wanted it. James Madison wrote that "pure democracy" doesn't work because "there is nothing to check... an obnoxious individual." Then, in the margins, he doodled a picture of Joe the Plumber.

Until we admit there are things we don't know, we can't even start asking the questions to find out. Until we admit that America can make a mistake, we can't stop the next one. A smart guy named Chesterton once said: "My country, right or wrong is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying... It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" To which most Americans would respond: "Are you calling my mother a drunk?"

What does Angelina Jolie Have to do with Oklahoma City?

Andrew Never Ceases to Amaze Me