Chillin' at Work...

(I really like that ice cube from unkymoods. Its coolness (heh, coolness) is enough to motivate me to remain calm and composed such that I might legitimately justify selecting it as my current mood. Yes, I could lie about it, but that would defeat the purpose of those self-descriptive blog-widgets.)

It's kinda funny that the day I feel energetic and productive here at work is the one day that there isn't enough work to last me the 8 hours. I already have lunch w/my sister and grandparents slated for 12 followed by finding a Sears to remit a payment on a credit card.

so other than that, so far today I've prepared a letter transmitting certified payroll to the client (we're prevailing wage), took out the trash, and got my shit ready to fill in the equipment report. Oh, I also signed the official company write-up that will go in my personnel file for this incident. Yay.

And now, I have time to post! I'll fill in the equipment report later...

I read this post last week courtesy Mark Nicodemo. Very interesting article for those of us who had never really looked into the detail of Kwanzaa. I remember hearing a short blurb about this last year around Christmas time, as me and a friend started to create the Seven Principles of Kwan-Jimmy. These are, unfortunately, lost due to less-than-stellar oral tradition and the fact that we were probably distracted by strippers. Considering the timeframe, Grace (Ret., UE - James) and Scarlett (U - Petros) were the entertainers of choice. A bit of Isis Love and Utah too, I'd imagine.

So at the bottom of the Nicodemo post, there are some other articles-- my favorite of which was the Mona Charen column.

"It is reasonable to ask why American blacks, who have been Christian longer than the Mormons or the Christian Scientists, should need an alternative to Christmas."

Very good column. I wonder why I had never read any of her before. More than likely I was busy reading George Will (TJ: looks like you may need to set up a login at washingtonpost.com. Also, looking at his column list, looks like global warming is making a comeback in the pundit circuits! This is always fun... Nothing takes the wind out of hippies' sails like having a Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineer take a huge ideological shit on one of your core, leftist beliefs.) who, tell you truth is a better columnist. But don't discount Mona, as all of her columns which I read (links to the other three below) were well constructed and succinct. Also, some of them rekindled some anti-Clinton republicanism, which was always fun.

Welcome to the Judgeocracy
I like how the Jewish date is at the top. Heh.

Talks about activist judges and how they're overstepping their bounds. This was written in 1997, though, nicely ahead of its time considering later democrud foibles. We're reminded of California's Prop 187, yes, but also think back to between 1997 and now and we have Prop 209 (also blocked by judges in California courts despite overwhelming voter support) numerous other Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judgments, and most notably the 2000 election fiasco in Florida. Activist judges at their finest.

Ask any elementary school student what the three branches of government are and their respective duties. Then ask him if judges are supposed to pass laws (in effect).

"If judges make the law, then the considered judgments of the people on how they wish to organize their lives and their society are reduced to, at most, advisory opinions to be accepted or rejected by the those with real power."

Really, all you Republicans who complained about the 2000 election and Sore-Losermann's attempt to steal the presidency have yourselves to blame. If you would've nipped this activist judge thing in the bud earlier, Florida never would have happened.

On this date in Tio Jaime History: Was dating OCDs, having broken up with the would-be-manhating-cunt. We needed not sneak around anymore as it was no longer cheating.

The national dirty joke
"Yup. The president who championed the v-chip to keep violent and sexual imagery away from children is now a worldwide dirty joke."

Ouch. She points out many obvious things, one of which is that the Clinton impeachment was about perjury, not fellatio. (TJ: Yes, I used the f-word so SHoP will now turn up in searches for "Mona Charen Fellatio".) And ha ha, Monica Lewinisky *is* a permanent dirty joke six years, one bombed destroyer, two bombed embassies, four hijacked planes two toppled skyscrapers and one Pentagon later.

Nice job, btw, Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright on that foreign policy there. When Bush #41 said that his dog Millie knew more about foreign policy than you and al gore, man oh man was he right. Unfortunately, the way he said it turned off a few people and managed to elect you so you could continue your sexual predatory exploits on a federal level. Still, nice fucking job taking care of the whole middle east thing with some shitty peace accords and appeasing the terrorists in the name of Legacy. You're fucking lucky the blogosphere wasn't around back then.

On this date in Tio Jaime History: Hadn't started to date Stupid Little Girl yet, was actually pursuing several interests in band. Probably Sierra the clarinet, Joanne the trumpet (who later becamse SLG's roommate in the band house).

America the greedy and cruel
On this date in Tio Jaime History: Went shopping, dinner at my grandma's, posted on SHoP later that night...

Damn, we're good.

"The (New York) Times does not tell readers that the United States is the world's largest food aid donor by far. In 2004, the United States provided $826,469,172 — almost a billion dollars — to the United Nations World Food Program. The next largest donor, the European Union, contributed $187,102,068. This, despite the fact that the European Union has a total population of 453 million, compared with the USA's 281 million, and a gross domestic product that is larger than that of the United States."

Her column talks about some leftists complaining that we're cutting aid. Fucking assholes, all of you. I swear to Christ how stupid must you be to try to villify those that are going above and beyond the call of duty to fulfill this shitty social contract onto which we've all apparently signed?

On a related note, I heard that on average, an American family gives 6 times more to charity than the average German family. Also an American family is 7 times more likely to volunteer their time than will a German family. Holy shit, I see all these Catholics dropping a damn dollar in the collection basket on any given Sunday. How can you give less than that? Holy Fucking Shit.

I'm tired, gonna leave work. Wasn't really any work today anyway since the crew got rained out.

Enjoy the remainder of the year,
Tio Jaime