18Jun10
Fifty Years of Peace: 1958-2008
By: Barry Belmont
18Jun10
The Bullshit of Fast Food
By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
12Jun10
Information: Property
By: Barry Belmont
I found this over at StopGeek and I gotta say it’s pretty convincing…
Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal
1.) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2.) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3.) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4.) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5.) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6.) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7.) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8.) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9.) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10.) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
By: Barry Belmont
7Jun10
National Debt by Country
By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
3Jun10
Stupid In America.
By: Barry Belmont
For anyone who has ever wondered why the American school system is so terrible and what can be done to improve it. This documentary by John Stossel is an absolute must-see.
Do yourself a favor and find 40 minutes of free time and watch this.
…For those of you without the time here’s the situation in a nutshell: Public schools are simply a monopoly and hence are plagued by all the atrocious inefficiencies that are necessitated by basic economic law. The solution? Open up the school system to competition by allowing children and their parents to choose their schools. In other words, don’t attach the money to the schools, attach it to the students. AKA support the idea of vouchers. This will weed out bad schools and promote good ones.
By: Barry Belmont
This is taken from AllGov.com and describes a major victory for highlighting the utter ridiculousness of the elections of governments. It’s a wonderful testament to the profound absurdity that is associated with all States.
Comic Party Wins Iceland Election; Promises Disneyland at Airport, Transparent Corruption
Running on a platform described as “anarcho-surrealism,” Iceland’s Best Party (Besti Flokkurinn) is no longer just a big joke. The six-month-old party led by one of the nation’s best-known comedians, Jón Gnarr, won a stunning victory in the capital city of Reykjavik’s local elections, securing the largest percentage of votes (34.7%) and capturing six of the 15 seats on the city council.
The ruling coalition, consisting of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement, fared poorly in the election, a likely result of voter unhappiness over an economy that was crippled by the 2008 financial crisis.
Analysts say Gnarr stands a good chance of becoming mayor of Reykjavik. He told the local media that people shouldn’t be alarmed by his party’s rise to power. “Nobody needs to be frightened of the Best Party because it’s the best. And we only want what is best—if we didn’t, we’d be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party.”
During the campaign Gnarr vowed, if elected, to add a polar bear to the city’s zoo and build a Disneyland near the airport, among other promises listed in his party’s music video, which claims that his is the “bestest of parties.” Gnarr has also promised “topnotch stuff as a general rule,” and “a drug-free parliament…by 2020.”
A couple of Gnarr’s other campaign promises:
“I want to become mayor, so that I can do a lot of good things…for my friends and relatives.”
“We want to abolish corruption…by doing our own corruption in plain sight.”
Apparently inspired by the amplifier in Spinal Tap, Gnarr stressed that “Every party has values. Most parties have five to ten values. But Besti Flokkurinn has twelve. This is because Besti Flokkurinn is the best party in everything.”
And how many Americans can relate to this appeal from the Best Party video: “All by yourself on Election Day, the ballot looking lifeless and a little gray, you have to choose. It’s all such a mess. Vote for us; we’re the best.”
