Author: Richard

Fun with Racism: Facebook illegal Mexican edition

This guy went on a rant against illegal immigrants on one of my friends notes about illegal immigration and they mostly agreed except for my friend tamping down the intensity of this guys rhetoric. The tipping point was when my friend responded that immigration itself is good and that plenty of Mexicans have something fine to offer the country and should be welcomed in legally while those illegally crossing the border are cheating the system (the obvious position of every rational human ever). This dude didn’t like that so he announced that he was deleting and blocking my friend for daring to say that there was something redeemable about Mexican immigrants. I guess he was slow to the blocking part though since he checked back to see my followup comment labeling him a jerk and a bigot so he sent me this interesting message:

He blocked me instead of responding. lulz.

Zombies vs Vampires

Since the nations birthing when the undead Colonists won the war against bloody England, the fight has raged on domestically between the vampires and the zombies. In the beginning there was the Werewolf party but when they couldn’t cut it any more, zombie Lincoln entered the stage to fight against the vampire insurgency and win the battle to keep the union intact.

this bar graph shows the effect political parties in the US government have over which is more popular..

Study: College graduates driving increase in bankruptcy filings

“We’re told that if you do go and get advanced education, you’re going to be almost guaranteed this economic success,” said Leslie Linfield, the group’s executive director. But the recession proved that “higher education was no guarantee that you weren’t going to be at risk.”

Prediction: It will do no use showing this to my dad and the next time I display an inability to immediately access knowledge on anything from how to change a wagon wheel to how to fix the nations debt crisis, he will tell me I would know “If I went to college” just as consistently as ever. Still, however:

But Linfield said the recent increase in the number of bankruptcy filings is driven largely by wealthier, more-educated households. The percentage of debtors with bachelor’s degrees peaked in 2009 and then inched down in 2010. Those with graduate degrees jumped from 4.9 percent in 2006 to 6.7 percent last year. And the share earning more than $60,000 rose from 5.5 to 9.2 percent.

Linfield said she is also concerned about the age of debtors. Over the past five years, the number of consumers filing for bankruptcy between ages 18 and 34 has fallen 31 percent, her group’s study found. Meanwhile, the number of people 55 and older, who have less time to recover financially, has jumped 25 percent.

Norwegian politician, Tove Lill Lyote

Tove Lill was one of the finalists in Miss Norway (Not to be confused with the Frøken Norge pageant, sometimes translated to Miss Norway in English) 2007 and won the finale. After that she has travelled around the world as Miss Norway in international beauty competitions such as Miss Tourism Queen International, Miss Peace International, International Union of Beauty pageants, Miss Globe International and Miss Pearl. She had her first modeling job at age 19 for a friend just for fun, doing a music video with a Norwegian rapper band. She realized modeling was what she wanted to do, and she sent the photos to a photographer, and a few weeks later she was on the cover of one of Norway’s biggest magazines.

A famous model scouter saw Tove Lill’s photos, and wanted to bring her to Los Angeles for work. They started a reality show called Glamour of Sweden with 5 other models, where they were competing with Playboy’s Girls Next Door.

In The United States, Hugh Hefner noticed the Norwegian beauty, and after Tove Lill moved back to Norway, he called her and invited her to the Playboy Mansion to do a Playmate shoot. Tove Lill stayed for a while, and Hefner wanted Tove Lill to be his girlfriend.

In addition to be a model, Tove Lill is also a politician. She is the leader of the Norwegian political party Progress Party’s Youth Organization the Youth of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiets Ungdom in Norwegian) in the county of Vest-Agder.

The Progress party:

The Progress Party’s Youth (Norwegian: Fremskrittspartiets Ungdom, FpU), is the youth wing of the Norwegian political party the Progress Party. It is generally more libertarian than the Progress Party itself, both with regards to economics and politics in general. The current leader of the organization is Ove Vanebo.

In the organization’s manifesto, it states that; “The government should not use economic politics to influence economic development”, in stark contrast to the Progress Party’s economic politics. It also wishes to replace the public safety net with private insurance arrangements and privatize some schools and hospitals, making the public hospitals “compete” with the privately owned hospitals. On social politics, the youth party also has a much more liberal approach. The youth party does not support gay marriage in a common church, thus they do support them in getting married in a humanitarian church, due to religiously-influenced views that state that it is against the bible and what the church is built on.

The overarching political principle of FpU is that of individual freedom, and the right to do as you want, as long as it don’t bother anyone else or break any religious principles. A much used slogan, “my freedom ends where yours starts”, illustrates that in a clear way.

Too many Sperm Donor offspring could result in accidental incest

I really want to be a sperm donor because i feel like i owe it to the world to have more of my DNA running around, but… at the same time… my future wife is probably not born yet so i REALLY dont want to be hitting on a girl and have to bring up her family history right away to make sure she’s not my daughter before i bang her. also, if there’s a bunch of male-me’s out there, they could rise up and destroy me King Arthur style so eff that too.

I think I’ve mentioned my concerns about donating sperm, myself, on here before, but this story is another thing that makes me think about that stuff: This one guy has 150 offspring out there in the world from his sperm donations…

As more women choose to have babies on their own, and the number of children born through artificial insemination increases, outsize groups of donor siblings are starting to appear. While Ms. Daily’s group is among the largest, many others comprising 50 or more half siblings are cropping up on Web sites and in chat groups, where sperm donors are tagged with unique identifying numbers.

Now, there is growing concern among parents, donors and medical experts about potential negative consequences of having so many children fathered by the same donors, including the possibility that genes for rare diseases could be spread more widely through the population. Some experts are even calling attention to the increased odds of accidental incest between half sisters and half brothers, who often live close to one another.

“My daughter knows her donor’s number for this very reason,” said the mother of a teenager conceived via sperm donation in California who asked that her name be withheld to protect her daughter’s privacy. “She’s been in school with numerous kids who were born through donors. She’s had crushes on boys who are donor children. It’s become part of sex education” for her.

See?? I’m not the only one with this concern. Although maybe the only one concerned about screwing his daughter rather than being a donar-baby and accidentally screwing your sister. meh. whatevs.