Ted's Soapbox 2.0

This is my last week of working nights and then I will be a normal person again, well almost a normal person. I don’t think anyone is normal and if anyone is normal, I feel sorry for them.

Our snow is almost all melted. All we have left are the big piles and the drifts but I can see grass and all the damage the moles did over the winter.

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At the upcoming 2012 Olympics in London, the police will have new powers to protect the corporate sponsors of the events. Note that these new powers are not designed to protect the people who are visiting London during the Olympics but are actually designed to protect the corporations who sponsor the Olympic events, the corporations who control our countries and our governments.

These new powers include but are not limited to entering people’s private homes and removing posters, no not protesters but posters, you know, the kind of things one might hang on a wall, and they will be able to stop people who have items on them that might have some type of mark on them that are not from the corporate sponsor of the event they are entering. That’s right, maybe you are wearing a tee shirt that says Jockey but the events are sponsored by Nike, your shirt could be removed and you could be going shirtless, all because of corporate greed.

The Olympics and Nationalism is beneficial to the large corporations as it helps to maintain uneven income levels for people across the globe. Since these corporations control western governments, we will not see any change in this status.

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5356
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Spc. Josiah D. Crumpler U.S. Army

I have two more weeks of working nights and then I will return to being an almost normal person after 10 months. I won’t be all the way normal since I will be working evenings but almost normal. I won’t see my family as much but at least I won’t be as tired as I have been the past few weeks. 10 months is a long time to work nights. I did really good up until the 8 month mark and then my body just gave out. My blood sugars went to crap and then it got worse. My mood went down the toilet too.

I hope the last two weeks go by fast.

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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has criticised an Irish town council’s decision to remove a page signed by the Israeli ambassador from its guestbook.
Carrickmacross representatives voted to remove Zion Evrony’s signature in protest at Israel’s diplomatic record. But a local councillor defended the town’s decision, saying he hoped it would send a serious message to Israel.

“I think if a government is responsible for a wholesale disregard for international law then local authorities, as well as our own government, have a responsibility to tell them we expect a higher standard,” Sinn Fein’s Matt Carthy said.

The council’s move follows reports that Irish passports were used by those allegedly behind the Dubai killing of Palestinian militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January.

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5365
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Sgt. Marcos Gorra U.S. Army

I had a very bad night at work last night. I wasn’t even in the door 5 minutes before I was called over to a computer and told my new password so I could log on to it. After I logged on to it I was required to change it. The temporary password was 16 charactors long so I attempted to make my password 16 charactors long, the system wouldn’t take it, it was too long for the operating system, I could only use a 9 charactor password with all the different capital, lowercase, number and special charactor requirements and it couldn’t have anything from the my past 24 passwords in it. Well nothing I came up with would work.

Then one of the guys I work with started telling me that my password had to be 18 charactors long, when I said it wouldn’t take 16 because it was too long he started to yell at me, which set me right off and anyone who knows me knows that if someone yells at me they usually get it right back at them twice as bad. Now this old man didn’t like that so he yelled again at me. I don’t work for this bastard, although sometimes he thinks I do, but I set him straight tonight.

Needless to say, 18 charactors didn’t work any better than 9 or 16 did. I have decided not to change the password until the Air Farce can fix their operating system and get it so it knows what it is doing. As for the old man at work…… well I promised my mother I wouldn’t use language like that anymore.

(He is also one of those idiots who believes everything Foxnews and Rush Limbaugh scream at him.)

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Some parents were upset about this. They can't handle the truth.

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Mr. Chekov’s son has comitted sucide. Actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since February 14, committed suicide, his father told reporters after his son’s body was found Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Koenig was an activist interested in many causes, his father’s Web site says. He was arrested at the Rose Bowl in 2008 while protesting U.S. involvement in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China. He opposed U.S. participation because of China’s support for a repressive regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Koenig suffered from depression and had stopped taking his medications about a year ago.

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The U.S. owe’s 32 million pounds to the U.K. for congestion fines caused by the embassy in central London.
The U.S. refuses to pay the fines because it is exempt from U.K. taxes.

The U.S. also refuses to pay the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax on the new 1 billion dollar embassy being built. The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs, will be made of glass and be surrounded by a moat.

****I guess the moat is to keep the gays from visiting after a night out at the clubs. ****

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America's biggest asshole

BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN AMERICA
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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5361

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Lance Cpl. Adam D. Peak USMC

It looks like President Obama’s surge in Afghanistan is succeeding in sending a surge of American’s back home in caskets. Quite a few of our Marinesare being killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, the site of a major offensive to liberate the area from Taliban combatants and the first major push since President Obama’s request for 21,000 additional soldiers in Afghanistan, targeting Taliban resisters.

Once nicknamed “little America”, Helmand was the center of a U.S. development program in the 1960s with tree-lined streets in Lashkar Gah, the U.S. built a network of irrigation canals and constructed a large hydroelectric dam, which was abandoned when the communists seized power in 1978.

****So in 2010 it looks like the promise of change really has not taken hold. We still don’t have health coverage for a lot of Americans and it doesn’t look like that program will ever be seen, nor has GTMO been closed and it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. It doesn’t look like we will get out of Iraq as promised and it really wouldn’t matter since we are sending more troops to Afghanistan.

Oh, and a black man was elected president, something they said would never happen.****

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Dick Cheney had his 5th heart attack, which has baffeled the medical community since he has no heart.

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5352
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Lance Cpl. Larry M. Johnson USMC

Thanks for all your help the past week mom. It would have been very hard to have made it with Dawnell laid up without you here helping me out.

All right President Obama now I am pissed off. Why in the hell is GM chief executive Ed Whitacre getting a annual salary of $1.7m and $7.3m in shares? My tax dollars went to help bail out this giant company, which ran itself into the ground and now the Chairman and Chief Executive is going to receive over a million dollars a year?

On top of that Fritz Henderson, his predecessor is receiving $59,090 a month for advice? Advice on what? How to run a company into bankrupcy?

Since the U.S. government owns 60 some percent of GM, I can only ASS-U-ME that Ed Whitacre is receiving such a salary because he is a government employee. Well since I am also a government employee, I would also like my fair share and since that fair share now seems to be over a million dollars a year, PAY UP!

Hell, I will even offer advice for 59 thousand a month. My first bit of advice will be even be free… Hire cheaper help starting at the top.

Mr Obama, pull your head out of your ass and put a stop to these stupid payouts to execuitives of companies who we, the taxpayers have had to save. For once, think of and take care of the average American.

You may find Dick Cheney’s prediction of being a one term president correct. (Can’t believe I would ever say Cheney could be correct.)

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5344
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Lance Cpl. Alejandro J. Yazzie USMC

My experience at the airport with the TSA Gestapo went pretty well. I didn’t have any problems at the security check point in Omaha and I was allowed to board the aircraft without any issues at all. Yippie!

The flight itself was good, but crowded. We landed about 5 minutes early.

The drive back to Omaha was good except for some blowing snow in Iowa and Nebraska. Some parts of Nebraska had blizzard conditions and good sized drifts across the roads, but the Outlander we were in did a good job.

My wife’s surgery went well and she only had to spend one night in the hospital. Hopefully she will continue on the fast road to recovery.

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DOES FOX NEWS’ BOB BECKEL HATES CATHOLICS?

Fox News analyst Bob Beckel today criticized Vice President Joe Biden for wearing ashes on TV; today is Ash Wednesday and Biden is Catholic.

In the middle of a discussion on President Obama’s stimulus plan, Beckel gratuitously said, “Sorry about laughing, but I looked at Joe Biden’s forehead, and I know it is Ash Wednesday, but I’m not sure I would wear that ash on the air. Anyway….”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue wasn’t amused:

Bob Beckel’s admonishing remark, “I’m not sure I would wear that ash on the air,” makes us wonder whether it is the public display of ashes he finds risible, or the religion that sports them.

In any event, there is no record of Beckel ever lecturing a Jew about wearing a yarmulke on TV or a Muslim wearing a turban. Must be something about Catholicism that bothers this guy. We’d love to know what it is. At the very least, a clarification about what he meant is in order.

Beckel is a self-proclaimed born-again Christian and man of faith and recovering alcoholic.

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Just think America, this could have been our nation’s second family.

Bristol Palin, (daughter of Sarah Palin & mother to bastard child Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston) has lashed out at her son’s father, Levi Johnston, (who likes to be photographed nude so gay men can view him on Playgirl’s website and in print) claiming he lied about his income to avoid paying $1,688.42 a month child support. It seems she wants a lot of money so she can stay home and do nothing. (My God’s, I don’t even make 1,688 dollars a month from my Military retirement.)

Bristol’s mom, Sarah (religious nut job who ran for Vice President and grandma to the bastard child) said that an episode of the Family Guy was like a “kick in the gut”, because it had a parody of a child with Down syndrome who said her mother was the the former governor of Alaska. She was also upset about Rahm Emanuel, (actually a big jerk) using the term “retarded” and said he should be fired, but didn’t feel as strongly about Rush Limbaugh using the same word, saying it was satire.

I won’t call her retarded but it seems that the former governor of Alaska is a little two faced and definitely and ASSTARD!

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Phyllis Diller for President? Why Not?

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Wanted For Murder

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5339

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Cpl. Jacob H. Turbett USMC

NOPE! Not In A Thousand Years.

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5338

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Pfc. Adriana Alvarez U.S. Army