QOTD

"The power of Christ compels you!"
- Max Von Sydow, "The Exorcist"

Well, I'm going to church today. And Gram isn't even here to drag me. He he.
No, I'm just going to see St Eth's choir sing at a church. It burns... it burns!

I bought a new gas can yesterday (nice segue). The thing looked like some Rube Goldberg contraption, so I asked the Ace Hardware guy where the plain, old gas cans are. "We can't sell those any more... EPA rules."

Needless to see the "contraption" was and is just fucking ridiculous. So, here I am. I'll tie this back into religion in a minute... post-rant.

Well, I googled. I can't find a specific rule, but I did find this:


I like this.

QOTD2

“By allowing citizens to trade in old gas cans and in return receive free environmentally friendly cans, we are cleaning up the air throughout Illinois, especially in larger metropolitan areas."
- Renee Cipriano, Illinois EPA schmoe

Isn't that sweet... gas cans... menace to society. Idiots.
Oh, its not even fun ranting on this stuff. You know. I know. Everyone knows we don't need a rule to make gas cans all fucked up, and we don't need to fucking give them away. Jeez.

Here's the tie back to religion. I'm not religious, but there's something going on out there. The world seems built in a nearly perfect balance. Example: You dole out a thimbleful of authority out to some dolt like EPA Renee or Senator XYZ and boom... I don't care how well-intentioned, it get abused in the end. There is no Daddy out there, and if there ever is, he'll screw you in the end.

The point: The balance in our world... why? and where does it come from?
You got me, but I'm suspicious that it didn't just crawl out of the mud, ya know.

This is interesting (more interesting than my shallow theology)... EPA Renee bears a striking resemblance to Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". See?


Quickie...

Movie: "The Exorcist"
Review: 5 bill-stars (out of 5)... on my top ten movie list and absolute no-brainer as the scariest movie ever made. Though still not as scary as EPA Renee.
church me up... yow, bill

QOTD3

"In another University of Chicago survey, this one of married couples, 75 percent of the Americans who pray with their spouses reported that their marriages are 'very happy' (compared to 57 percent of those who don't). Those who pray together are also more likely to say they respect each other and discuss their relationship together."
- from Five Things Super-Happy Couples Do Every Day

PS - That QOTD above is an easy call... you gotta believe. If you don't, life's a rough ride, eh.
PPS - Not believe in God, necessarily... just believe in something like yourself, or humanity or President-Elect Obama (he he he... sorry, couldn't resist) or whatever.

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Jeez, it seems like a crank-a-thon over here.
What to do? Assholes seem to be the rule, not the exception.
It's raining hypocrisy.

Here we have (in no particular order of stupidity): the Pope, Joe Biden, Barry's campaign spokesman, and the SEC.
Go!

QOTD1

"Have not money, the thirst for possessions, for power and even knowledge, diverted man from his true destiny?"
- Pope Benedict Sep 2008 in Paris

"Benedict blasted modern society's thirst for these new 'pagan' idols as a 'scandal, a real plague.' The pope urged the faithful to 'shun the worship of idols. Do not tire of doing good!'"
- AP story on the Pope

Hey PB (Pope Ben)... who's wealthier than the Catholic church Popey? Who's thirstier for possessions and power than the Catholic church? Cha.

And why is the Pope talking back-assward like Yoda? He he.

QOTD2

"That lack of charitable giving at that level of income would definitely be outside the range of what we say is normal"
- Some profossir nabob on Joe Biden's charitable giving, or lack thereof

Joe Biden released his tax returns for the last 10 years. He gave $300-something a year to charity. See some very funny blogs and news stories on this:

• Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden is loose cannon, but tight wad on charity ... nice headline, he he.
  
• Biden Releases 10 Years of Tax Returns
  
• Will Media Report Biden's Miserable Charitable Donations? ... um, no.
  

Please don't ask others to throw more money in the till if you're not. Right Joe?
Oh, speaking of which...

QOTD3

"It's time to be patriotic"
- Joe Biden on raising taxes... because paying more is the "patriotic" thing to do, by his logic

How does a guy say this and not get laughed off the stage?
We have a $3 trillion dollar federal budget.
THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!
And Barry and Biden want more.
What the F?

QOTD4

McCain is "... cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking."
- Barry's campaign spokesman on the McCain campaign

The whole notion of Barry changing things sinks deeper into oblivion every day.
Barry, you're as uncommonly common... extraordinarily ordinary. Good!

QOTD5
"The Securities and Exchange Commission, acting in concert with the U.K. Financial Services Authority, today took temporary emergency action to prohibit short selling in financial companies to protect the integrity and quality of the securities market and strengthen investor confidence."
- SEC halts short-selling, www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-211.htm

Did you catch that... "integrity and quality"... he he. If you're going to lie, make it a whopper. "I did not have sex with that woman..."

So, the SEC changes the rules of the game, right in the middle, in the name of integrity.
I'm not in any hedge funds, but I can't imagine how it feels to be so screwed... oh well. Right?

QOTD6

"Is that guy drunk?"
- Ty

"Did that guy lose a bet"
- Ty

Both these Ty quotes, from separate days, are commenting on guys running outside in the pouring rain.

Ah, I'm not really cranky... and all these cranky quotes are from a bunch of days.
I'll wrap with a Cranky Bluebird for you.


Smile, dammit!
he he... yow, bill

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