Someone Asked Me If I Believed In God. I Asked Them What Kind Of God Would Inflict Me On Their World.

Why is this a question?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30933860 The simplest answer to this isn't through how they get money, weapons, or people. I'd like to refer to a line from the 2005 Matthew McConaughey movie Sahara: "Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa." -General Zateb Kazim Not a great movie, but that line sums up the world's view of Africa. The only reason SA was ever considered important was for its diamonds. Other than that, the governments do next to nothing but cling to a non-existent power (if allowing their country(ies) to be taken by enemies is any indication of their power). They have no money because they have nothing to give. The money sent for aid, if it ever even reaches the government, typically goes directly to the ruling party/individual and their cronies. The people have nothing. Thousands are displaced by the insurgents, warlords, or corrupt governments, stealing ancestral lands, destroying homes, etc. Basics nearly every other continent has for the most part just don't exist. I can imagine the common people live in fear much of the time and just do everything they can to survive. Not to say everyone there is poor and living in mud huts. They have socio-economic classes, too, but they aren't like ours. Ours also aren't under constant, imminent threat of religious extremists. The people just want to live. Just have a normal, day-to-day life. Have a home, have a job, have a family. It's safe to say there are many who want to fight but are without means. They would fight to keep their homes if they could, but they aren't warriors or soldiers. Their governments sometimes gives groups guns, maybe training, but in the end, they're on their own against religious fanatics. I'm not saying the U.S. needs a direct hand in Africa. We don't even really need to fund them. We need to teach the governments, down to the lowest assistant/secretary/clerk, to stop being such shitstacks swindling each other and looking out only for "number one." It's the same problem in the M.E. The governments are so full of people who would stab their neighbor(s) in the back for a little extra that next to nothing ever gets done. It's true that our legislative branch is especially like that, but it's not on a scale that civil services, if they exist, are extorting people for their mail or some such. People here just don't get how lucky our boring lives are. Those who are all for sending our military in to do something they, themselves, don't understand should be challenged to take their Durrmocracy and Second Amendment over there to see how long their guns can win themselves a life like they have here. It is largely our fault the Taliban, Boko Haram, IS, etc. exist in the first place. This is what happens when you suddenly invade countries with zero plan. WW II was entirely different. There was no power vacuum. You had organized, educated, civic-minded individuals waiting on the sidelines to pick up the pieces. The M.E. had thousands of years of tribal culture that had no concept of a functioning State, only their immediate surroundings. Family was and still is their number one. Same in Africa. Those people we have "Americanized" are typically so corrupt, they'll wipe out entire villages just for a few thousand dollars. No different than what extremists are doing, just for different reasons. The funny thing is, if we focused on creating an environment that facilitated a mostly honest, civic-minded government devoid as possible of religious influence, we'd have seen a change. We'd be safer in the end, too. Instead, we fight for them and leave them just as ignorant as when we arrived. In the end, we're lucky we have an ocean between us and a government always watching us, because those are the only things stopping them from organizing here. But, it's Africa... It's over there. No one cares...

Spy gun. Check. Holster. Check. All I need now is a nice suit.

Going to make a CD called "The Sounds of Waking Up" which will showcase the wondrous groans, creaking, and stumbling around after long nights and naps. It could also go by the other name "The Sounds of Being an Ent".

If I have a tombstone, I want this on it. Or pepperoni and cheese. What would you like on your tombstone?

If Harrison Ford has a Twitter or anything like that, it'd be awesome if he posted, "Damn it, Chewie."

You people don't deserve shit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30339438

So, unskilled labor should be worth the cost of… what? Engineers? I worked at power plants as an operator for $15 an hour and only 40 hours a week.

I graduated college with a degree in power plant engineering and almost 500 hours as an operator, and ended up working at a gas station in Illinois for $8 an hour (about six months). They almost didn’t hire me because they thought I’d demand too much pay, but I just really wanted a job.

Being in the middle of two jobs and/or an uncertain future can be crumby.

The point is, I happily took the job.

So, you fuckers who have done absolutely nothing but complain and expect everyone else to bend over backwards to accommodate your habits of spending outside your means can go friggin’ bury yourselves alive to make way for people who will actually appreciate getting what they do.

Have any of you whiney fuckers ever met those poor bastards that pick strawberries all summer or stand on street corners in Texas hoping to pick up work who may or may not get paid something?

I have no guilt assuming you pieces of shit have absolutely no concept of the struggle others have. The only difference is they are willing to work and do their jobs well to get the barely survivable amount they do; it is no stretch to say many of them are trying to provide for more than just themselves and one other (You single mothers who think the world owes you something because you got knocked up and gave up deserve nothing [aside from rape victims because that really is not your choice]). My guess is that most of you people bitching about wanting professional wages while being shitty people to others (the word service does not end at just getting people their food on a tray) are trying to afford that new iPhone/iPad or something stupid and useless for your car.

There are so many factors that go into cost of living, and I know some people have a very hard time trying to manage it all alone. Had it not been for the good fortune of having financially stable family in that part who let me stay until I got that job at the gas station (before, luckily, getting a better job), I’d have been very hard-pressed. The difference between myself and you pieces of shit demanding pay many starting engineers get is that we take the time to budget ourselves. We go through absolute hell to keep our jobs (which, by the way, require a hell of a lot more skill, intelligence, and dedication). Sometimes, it does not pay off. Sometimes, the management are more of assholes than you people demanding $15 an hour. Sometimes, there really is no way to get help; however, that is, beyond a doubt, nearly impossible in this country.

If you have a minimum-wage job and cannot afford basic necessities (shelter, food, clothes), and you have cut everything unnecessary, apply for welfare. If you are on WIC, EBT (electronic version of food stamps), welfare, etc., with a minimum-wage job and still cannot afford to live by absolute necessities, you are a piece of shit and need to learn to live within your means. You are getting help from your own government, using money gleaned from the incomes of millions of other families (some who may be as well off, if not worse than yours), and squandering it away on things you either do not need or should not procure through your current methods.

I know some of people would complain they’ve tried everything. But, then, there are the people who have actually tried everything and didn’t just sit around whining and waiting for someone else to give them money to buy their iPhones, American Eagle, or stupid, fucking rims. Those people have my sympathy because they’re doing absolutely everything they can, and they actually have to recognize and appreciate the smallest things in life to be happy.

I had to basically beg for more hours at the gas station. Since I was new, they didn’t like giving me more than about 25 a week, and my financial duties were far more than most of these whiney fucks could ever imagine. My coworkers who didn’t feel like working gave me theirs. I came in when they called. I changed my phone plan, I sold my motorcycle (because I couldn’t even afford that, a cheap Yamaha cruiser), I got rid of my internet and TV, I ate nothing but spaghetti noodles and/or rice for a seemingly long time. But, I still paid my student loan and bills on time.

You fucking pieces of shit who think you’re special because you’ve done absolutely nothing worthwhile with your lives and demanded a respect you’ve never afforded to anyone else need to die to make room for people who will use those jobs to the fullest.

I’ve seen both sides of the coin. I’ve been well-off and sank to a mere few family members. I recovered without drowning too much. A little brain damage and emotional scarring, but I made it back (sort of).

Those shits who think they can live on easy street by dropping school and working at McDonalds while waiting for your get-rich-quick scheme to fruit and expect $15 an hour in the meantime just need to exterminate yourselves. So many people are worse off than you. So many people are more worthwhile than you. Take everything you possibly can from everyone else and give absolutely nothing back. They think their job at a cash register or fryer is too intensive and horrible? The technology we have can replace those pieces of shit with a vending machine. Why do we need - no - why do even WANT those people? Why? What the fuck is the difference between a vending machine and yourselves? They are a person. That’s the difference. They are no more than a flesh and blood representation of what a computer can do faster, cheaper, and more accurately. They are worth fuck all in the long run because I’m sure McDonalds will eventually replace them. In seconds, I was able to devise a system capable of doing my job as a gas station attendant, and I wasn’t the only one who did that; a coworker who was a college math major dropout (partied too much but still smarter than me book-wise) saw the same thing I did. What makes those people at McDonalds special? Nothing makes them special. Nothing about them makes them any better or worse or more equal than anyone else working an unskilled labor job. You all understand what that means, right? Unskilled labor means anyone at anytime could replace them because they are worth nothing. They are worth federally/state-mandated minimum wage, and that is all. If they aspire to be worthless and demand they deserve more, they are reducing our country’s value. They are as much of a leech as the parasites at the top. Both groups suck the life out of everyone else because they expect everything for nothing. Where’s the next place to make a quick buck in order to buy the next ridiculously overpriced clothing, the stupid electronics, and the entirely unnecessary indulgences? The best bet is to somehow sue a famous person by claiming they raped you 20+ years ago.

Until these people are of any value, they deserve nothing but ire for their greed. I’m surprised this pay situation hasn’t somehow turned into a race issue…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37352326

Guess Russia had to step up its dirtbag game. Not sure I'll ever understand the reason behind being shitty people for the sake of being shitty. Being known as the largest country containing the largest concentration of dirtbags just to remain relevant on the world stage really doesn't make you a worthwhile enterprise. Would do the world a huge favour if you'd just stop.

A French woman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. She caught the culprits and personally beheaded them with an axe. source

image via badassoftheweek

No one else thinks it's disturbing?

I'm not sure when this "daddy" craze began, but it seems to have picked up in the last few years. Why? No one else finds it exceedingly troubling there are guys who insist on being called "daddy"? The only people I'd ever want to call me that are my kids. Or, is that the point? These guys have some deep-seated child rape/incest fantasies they satiate by demanding their significant other pretend to be a helpless prepubescent? And the flip side: Girls who have some father-figure obsession. I get the dominant relationship thing. "Master" and "sir" I get. Bondage, pain, biting, slapping, choking, forcing, &ct all make sense. "Daddy" makes me queasy.

"You must stay at the table until you finish all your beans. Then, you have my permission to die." -Lima Bane

In case you're wondering, yes, I did do this. Yes, it was on my phone, which is why it's not perfect (really wanted the coat, too). Yes, I hate lima beans.