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Wunderkinds Annoy me.

http://joshmohrer.com/post/89475561/public-outrage

Personally, it pisses me off when wealthy wunderkinds generalize the American populace so condescendingly. Everyone must be pissed off about the AIG bonuses because they’re jealous poor people, right? There’s no way that they might be thinking logically about the situation at all. The entire end part about how the execs need to be getting bonuses so that they can “solve the problems” doesn’t cut it for me. The GM execs need private jets to fly places faster so that they won’t be bothered by the same airline annoyances as the little people? What kind of BS is that? Obviously the GM people weren’t thinking so well on their private jets BEFORE they shitted their company up; what makes us think that they will do so much better thinking now? While the GM and Ford people are riding their gorgeous G5s fom Detroit to Washington (begging for a bailout to save their company) , the toyota execs are making great innovations that have paid off in the long run!

And why should we as the American tax payers have to reward their failures by continuing to finance their ambivalance? When they were getting paid big bonuses scot free, they certainly weren’t motivated to enough to pay attention to the bad outcome of their actions. The atmosphere of greed and DESERVING these bonuses for doing shit is what got is in this mess in the first place. If anything, giving out these bailouts and then REWARDING these boneheads for their failures were just teach them that every time they get lazy and greedy, the American tax payers will bail them out again.

And that is the worst part. Usually, we taxpayers don’t know where our money goes? Yeah, right. We know exactly what happens with the money pay to support the government, but most don’t know why its being used as a salary for nongovernment workers! The bailout was supposed to go towards saving the company! How is an enormous bonus going to help the company at all? It’s not even GOING to the company! It’s going to the coffers of those greedy bastards. These AIG idiots need bonuses when they prove to their employees, their shareholders, and the American people who are currently paying for their mortgages and car payments that they can fix the system they messed up.

With that being said, congress cannot pass any bills to retroactively tax the execs for the money WE gave them. If I were a congressmen, I would be more embarrassed than angry. At the time that the bailout bill was being negotiated, people were far more concerned with any extra pork on the bill than what the IMPORTANT money would go towards, and no one, including Obama & Clinton, attempted to put any limits on what the money could be used for. Therefore, we cannot punish the execs for our mistakes. Besides, trying to tax them like this is a bit to authoritarian for my tastes.

It’s these times that I like to take a break and listen to some Karl Pilkington.

Catch-TwentySunday

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Just call me Trelawney

Yesterday, when I was trying to remember how to write a research paper, I went looking through some old, back-up documents to find my paper from Freshman year. While looking through my “school” folder, I saw a document titles “Deathly Hallows Predictions.” I wondered why it was stored in the school folder, but after reading it I realized that it was a prediction I wrote for a teacher who was holding a predictions contest. He wanted people to give him written predictions of what they thought would happen in DH, and the person who got the most right would win a wand of their choice. I wrote part of mine, and never really finished or turned in, which I completely regret. And you’ll see why.

So here’s a little excerpt of what I wrote, pasted straight from the document:

• Harry is not a horcrux. No way.
• Snape works for the Order
• Hogwarts will reopen, but Harry will not return for classes. He will visit though…
• There is a horcrux at Hogwarts
• RAB is Regulus Black.
• Grawp is not pointless after all! He’ll fight on the good side and squash some Death Eater butt.
• Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione are set relationships. I we don’t [apparently I couldn't speak two years ago. I think that's supposed to be "if."] see marriage in the actual book, it will at least be mentioned in the epilogue.
• We’ll see Krum again, and he’ll be part of the trigger that gets Ron to make a move on Hermione.
• Percy’s a jerk, but he’ll redeem himself somehow

I suppose it’s time for Snape now.
Snape works for the Order, and has since the night James and Lily were killed. Dumbledore’s death was planned, and he wanted Snape to kill him. It may not have been planned fpr that specific night, but it happened to be the right time. So when Snape said, “Don’t call me a coward,” he meant that it took a lot of strength and courage to continue with Dumbledore’s plans. However, Harry will go through the majority of the book believing that Snape works for Voldemort, and it isn’t until Harry witnesses Voldemort killing Snape that he learns the truth. Snape did love Lily, and part of the reason that Dumbledore trusts him is because he made a deal with Voldemort that he would give him certain information about the Potters if he promised to spare Lily. When she was killed, he decided to switch sides in an effort to seek revenge. Also, because Snape’s a greasy git, this would give him a reason other than helping Harry, a selfish reason, for fighting on the good side.

However, these predictions vary greatly with the list that Alex, Alison and I all came up with. I’ll probably post that another day just because it’s so hilarious. One prediction was “Hermione will say, ‘Embargo, Ron!’”

This makes things very difficult.

This will sound stupid, but my heart literally ACHES for summer!
The windows in my house are open, I can hear the breeze outside, and I can SMELL it! Smell! As in my NOSE knows what’s coming! And it is coming.
I drove to dance today in shorts and flip flops with the windows rolled down, I made Crystal Light raspberry iced tea, the HPB trailer is friggen awesome, I’m not wearing socks right now, and the weather is BEAUTIFUL!
These are the absolute worst conditions under which to write a research paper.

And that’s all I can say because on the toolbar of my computer screen lies a minimized word document, and in that document lies the rest of my evening, the middle of my night, and probably the very early hours of my morning.
2 1/2 months, and then we graduate. Lord, help me.

FUG YEAH!

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