Kilmeade shows us how it's done

I know I said no more politics but I just couldn't let this pass by...



(meh, having trouble getting this video embedded. Until I get it to work right, here's the gist-

Kilmeade: It took Obama only "hours" to appoint Petraeus, "so why is it taking months to plug the leaking oil?")

God... it's just so STUPID!

Just to remind you, this is the portion of FOX news that is considered "news" and not opinion.

In other excellent questions:

It only took Bush 6 years to damage the economy, divide the nation, launch multiple wars, and wreck political discourse... why hasn't Obama been able to fix all this yet?

It took decades of neglect by presidents and congresses of both parties for the country to fill up with illegal immigrants yet Obama has not managed to fix this situation? Why?

It only took a few moments for him to eat breakfast this morning, so why hasn't Social Security been fixed yet?

Obama had a successful meeting with Russian leaders this week, why hasn't he been able to end violence in Africa?

The questions are endless! We need Obama to stop pussyfooting around and solve these problems!

Crying over spilled oil

Politics is hilarious. Can I just say that? There has been a ton of absolutely hysterical behavior lately so it's been kind of difficult for me to choose any particular issue to dive in to on this here blog. However, this whole oil thing has just been a joke. Before I delve in to that, though, I'll hit up a few other topics.

• Musics

There's been a little bit of new musics lately. I last blogged about STP's new album and over time it has really just struck me as mediocre. It just appears to be more blah blah blah like the last couple albums with nothing particularly pleasing to get excited about. It's always disappointing when the lead single is the high point of the album. At this point I have to admit that my affection for STP is nothing more than a fading memory of the mid 90s. There is nothing in their current works that bears any resemblance to Core or Purple.

Coming out at about the same time as STP was the new one by the Deftones. This cd isn't too shabby but, like STP, I am remembering the band more for one of my all time favorite albums (White Pony). Anyway, the reviews likened the new joint to White Pony and raved about it saying it was a return to that style but I just am not seeing it. I actually see their last three (post-White Pony) albums as kind of similar. There's nothing amazing going on in this particular era but I also don't hate it.

Another cd for me to get excited about would have to be the recent release by Sarah McLachlan. I love me some Sarah. She's awesome. I can't quite explain why my usually hard rock music taste is infiltrated by this sweet singing Canadian but the fact is that I love it. She sings great, there's usually some sweet ass bass lines going on, she's got commercials trying to make you adopt animals... what's not to like? Keep bringing it Sarah. Don't change a thing.

• Body movin'

So with the upcoming wedding thing the Hot Mary and myself have recently taken a couple dance lessons. Quite frankly I don't think we learned enough to actually hold our own anywhere but the surprising thing was that it was actually kind of fun. We had these cats teaching us some foxtrot steps and speaking to us in accents I could barely make out but I kind of dug it. Of course it's all sorts of expensive and will require practice that we don't necessarily have time to do but it might be something that we'll have to revisit in the future. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

• Eh... the fantasy baseballs

Wow. This season has been a bust. Let me give a brief summary. Doumit is ok at catcher but the guy I cut, Napoli, has since blown up. Konerko is one of the league leaders in dingers but the guy I drafted, Berkman, still has yet to do some damage. Beckham still can't put some distance between his average and the mendoza line. A-Rod is hitting well but is only on track for 20 HRs. Jeter is also hitting well but is mysteriously lacking the patience he once had (OBP of around .350). Abreu and Span are no where near the .300 AVE and .400 OBP they normally hit and Ellsbury is still not back from cracked ribs. Lester and Liriano are fine but Nolasco and Beckett are not contributing much. Finally, my closers are ok but Bailey and Franklin never get save opportunities.

That is my season thus far and, again, it is a miracle that I am not in last place.

Alright, so, the oil spill.

First of all, I suppose it's not even correct to refer to it as a "spill". That was an accurate description of what happened with Exxon up near Alaska but this situation in the Gulf of Mexico is more of an oil gusher. Not good news. The worst part (that's not actually true but it makes for a better phrase) of it is that it isn't a singular incident for which the news cycle will come and go and become yesterdays news. Nope, in this situation, as long as the oil continues to gush, so do all of the friggin experts.

This whole incident was labeled incorrectly right from the get-go as certain morons deemed it "Obama's Katrina". How does one single natural event resulting in thousands dead that was forecasted to occur have any similarity to a surprise man made event killing a dozen? I don't really know. Both of them involved water and Louisiana. Great job connecting the dots.

What it comes down to, and this is no surprise, is that there is a certain segment of the population flirting with blatant treason/sedition in the hopes of pushing Obama out of office. Most of these people like to come up with justification in their feelings despite the fact that they decided on this course before Obama was elected and even had a chance to unleash "TEH ZOMG EVIL SOCIALIST AGENDA".

The conservative criticism is two-headed and quite contradictory. On one side you have oil lover conservative head. These people are motivated by shouts of "Drill, Baby! Drill!" and, not surprisingly, is led by intellectual genius on all matters, Sarah Palin. She blames the crisis on environmentalists. This makes sense because environmentalists would prefer that there was no drilling at all. This causes drilling to occur in deep water which causes safety lapse induced explosions. In actuality I have no idea what Palin is talking about and I rarely do. I tried just now to connect the dots on her logic but I forget that pretty much everything says is some sort of Tea Party slogan which doesn't really translate well to actual thought. Fuck that bitch.

The other two prominent conservative minds claiming the oil gusher ain't no thang are Brit Hume and Rush Limbaugh. Just with the fact that Rush's name is attached to this is enough reason to already know that this stance is full of shit. Rush says that the ocean is used to absorbing oil all the time, so what's the big deal? You know what else isn't a big deal? Getting a little sun, having a glass of wine and eating a little bacon. However, just as dumping tons upon tons of crude oil in to the water isn't the same as a little oil naturally escaping in to the water it's also a whole different story to tan 5 hours of day, drink gallons of wine and eat a shit ton of bacon. Rush is a friggin moron. By the way, rush also spends his day criticizing Obama for his handling of this "non" crisis. Again, Rush is a friggin moron and so are the people who believe him.

As for Hume, it absolutely blew my mind when he asked a couple weeks ago on that idiot-fest known as Fox Sunday Morning or something like that: "Where's the oil?". What the fuck?!? At this point I had been douched with images of the following: oil slicks visible on the surface of the gulf, oil washed up on shores, oil slicks on fire in controlled burns in the water, unidentifiable oil covered avian creatures, dead turtles and other animals covered in that shit and satellite images of the mess in a big-picture view. And Hume asks where the oil is? Listen, Brit, the only reason you had no idea where the oil was is either because you are willingly ignorant on these images or your employer has chosen not to run any of the images and that's where you get all of your "news". Either one is inexcusable.

This brings us to the next bunch of critics. These are the people who think that Obama is personally responsible for everything that has ever gone wrong in this country. I really don't even know where to begin on this one as the criticisms have been coming from all directions and for any number of reasons. I'll try to round them up as I remember them.

One of the bigger complaints during this crisis is that Obama hasn't appeared to be upset enough and is detached from the situation. That criticism is entirely based on each individual. Some people want to see their leader get worked up and angry at those who have wronged us. Other people want someone who keeps emotion out of it. Regardless of your own preferences there are those that didn't like that Obama did not appear to care. Obama then made the mistake of saying that he needed to kick some ass in this whole ordeal and also gave a speech about it. All of a sudden now he is acting like a "street thug" and being rude. I also heard that he was acting like a child throwing a tantrum. These criticisms in many cases were coming from the same people who didn't like his then emotionless response. The obvious conclusions: these people wouldn't be happy no matter how Obama responded.

Next up we have the people who complained that Obama was not being hard enough on BP. This of course leads to allegations of collusion. Maybe Obama wanted this to occur hmmmm? Fast forward to this week and BP has been hit with the $20 billion bill for the damages. Now of course we hear these morons upset that Obama would dare force BP to pay for this. It's an absolute joke. The conclusion drawn in the previous paragraph is also applicable here.

The other criticism which I have personally repeated on Hannity as well as Fox is that Obama is not accepting any foreign assistance in this. This is an absolute lie and yet it gets repeated every single fucking day. There are no less than 15 nations with a ship in the gulf right now helping out in the process. All you have to do is a simple internet search. Why is that beyond the capabilities of these "professionals"?

All told I really don't know what the critics expected of Obama. I honestly don't believe that any department in the Federal Government is knowledgeable or equipped to handle an oil leak miles beneath the surface. Obama certainly made a large number of campaign promises but no where in those speeches did he say anything about being able to swim down there and take care of shit like this.

The list of outright lies and smearing that is being placed on the administration right now is so ridiculous that it really takes away from the actual tragedy. There has even been the lie spread that Obama was just fucking around for a month without visiting the scene despite the fact that Obama made an appearance right at the beginning of May. Again, it's all information that could be easily obtained should one want to know the truth rather than just tune in to sources that will tell you what you want to hear.

What the fuck would it really matter if Obama showed up on the Louisiana shores anyway? Perhaps he could stand on the beach and give the oil slick a stony stare that would send it scurrying back to the depths from whence it came. That's exactly what Reagan would have done.

As for Obama, he clearly has justification to give a hearty "fuck you" to those conservatives who find fault in everything he does. Simple as that. Why give a shit about people who hate for the sake of hating. All they want is a Republican in power. When you are the type of person to put the party above the country you have clearly fallen outside of reality. The ironic part is that these are the first people to declare themselves "patriots".

Stop getting your information from Sarah Palin facebook updates and wake up. It's either that or remain an idiot. Your choice.

Stand up and be counted... or not

Lately there's been too much stupid going on in politics in the wake of the health care debate for me to sort it out. Combine that with a rise of many exciting sports happenings and all the political noise quietly takes a back seat. Lately though I've been hearing some really really idiotic bickering about the friggin census. The census? That's right. The census.

Only in today's political retard-ery can you find seemingly normal Americans arguing about the census. I'm not quite sure how the whole debate began but it seems to me that someone on the right started spreading the idea that the census was a tool of the Obama administration used to keep track of everybody in an evil Big Brother sort of way. Michelle Bachmann and others like herself have also been pushing the idea that participating in the census would somehow allow the Obama administration to round everyone up and stick them in internment camps like we did with Japanese-Americans during World War II. Michelle Bachman is also a crazy person.

What is it that could drive seemingly normal people to become this paranoid? The current mindset of the most vocal opposition of Obama seems to take every single piece of propaganda and treat it like gods-honest gospel. We are less than halfway through one term of Obama's presidency and I have heard just about every accusation that you could make of a man. There is no interest in anyone educating themselves. It's simply a daily process of people listening/ reading/ watching hour after hour of political punditry and then repeating it ad nauseum to anyone who will listen. It's an all too frequent event where I hear conservative individuals all use the same phrases and talking points almost the exact same day.

These people were the same that caused an uproar that Obama was going to indoctrinate our children when he addressed schools last year. It's a shame they have no idea they are allowing themselves to be indoctrinated for hours every single day.

You know the people. We have a local radio guy who comes on after Rush and Beck who actually has a level head. He will say something on the show about how the propaganda du jour is ridiculous and all of a sudden a flood of phone calls come in from all the sheep. They'll say "It's true that blah blah blah". He'll respond, "Ok, why?" and these people have literally no answer other than, "Well Rush said...", or, "Don't you think Obama wants this country to fall apart", and absolutely nothing to back it up. When pushed further they start sputtering nonsense and start calling the host a liberal and it just descends from there. That's right, because if you have no idea what you are talking about then the host must be a liberal.

These ideas are easily picked up through rote learning but it does absolutely nothing for your critical thinking.

As opposed to several other essays in stupidity, I actually want these people to continue believing this horseshit about the census. When Eric Erickson from Redstate and CNN says he is going to shoot a census worker, just let him talk like that. The best thing about this is that the more these people refuse to complete the census it simply means that their district will be counted less in upcoming elections. That's the beauty in this whole hot mess of dumb. These people are allowing their own nonsense to render them irrelevant. It'll be awfully hard for them to "take their country back" if this keeps up, don't you think?

Sometimes Rush just plain confuses me

It's been awhile since I last complained about Rush so I figure it's ok to take 5 minutes to discuss something he just brought up.

As soon as the show started Rush exhibited glee over the fact that the recent earthquake in Chile did not produce 5 foot high waves to pound the Hawaiian islands. I get that. Thank God nothing bad happened on US soil. But the actual reason that Rush is happy has nothing to do with the welfare of his fellow citizens (big surprise), but in fact it is because this (non) event proves once and for all that you should never trust scientists because they are evil and manipulative.

Which leads me to this conclusion:

Preventative measures taken to avoid potential catastrophes of nature is bad.

Preventative measures taken to avoid potential military (at the cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives) catastrophes is good.

Rush would have rather that the people of Hawaii had continued on with their lives as if nothing was amiss until the actual moment the wave was sighted.

This is what happens when idiots argue science. Most of what exists in science is theory. There are very few absolutes. However, there would be very few breakthroughs if science had to be absolutely 100% verifiable before being acted upon. That is the world that Rush wants. I just wonder if he would feel the same if those same restrictions were placed on Oxycontin and Viagra.

Grammy review from a guy who didn't watch them

Fuck the Grammy's.

In fact, fuck all the music award shows. Somewhere along the way it became important for all of the elitists to jerk each other off over how much they like particular artists who they have decided it would be "cool" to like.

For example, it has suddenly become "cool" to think Lady Gaga is the tits. Why? Nofuckinidea. Her music is awful. Her outfits are not edgy, they're ri-goddamn-diculous. I'd comment on her equine-like face but looks should not matter in music. If you look at pictures of the music stars of pre-internet and media saturation times, you'll know what I'm talking about. I'm no fan of that Susan Boyle woman but you have to give her credit for shaming the world in to looking past her Jabba the Hutt-like exterior.

But Lady Gaga is everywhere. In the car she's on the radio. She's a guest on every talk show. I have to hear her at the gym. She's constantly in my head. And how can anyone take her seriously when she looks like this:





You'd think I would be a fan as she is one of those rare women who doesn't believe in pants. Ordinarily, that is something I can get on board. But this woman does nothing for me. Maybe it's the hermaphrodite rumors. Either way, her music is awful, she's obnoxious, and the people who celebrate her eccentricities are doing so in a self-serving way to make themselves think they are edgy.

My next beef is on that little starlet Taylor Swift. Now I hate country music, I think it's awful. Sometimes it can be funny when you have those songs that are just so redneck it's hard to figure out if it is meant to be satire or not. That being said, if I was a country fan, I'd friggin hate Taylor Swift. It's kind of like being really in to rock and having to deal with little bitches like My Chemical Romance and Death Cab for Cutie.

Swift's music is so far from legitimate country music it's barely recognizable. She's a blond Avril Lavigne, who's also annoying. Perhaps my problem is with these little starlets in general. Is there any other country which has to deal with them en masse like the USA does?

Speaking of which, OMGZZZ did you hear the whopper from Miley Cyrus??? She's going to call it quits on Hannah Montanna!!!

My guess is that she has just grown up too much for a show that caters to pre-teen girls. I'm not sure what's next for Miley but I have some guesses...


Now on a positive note, you won't hear me bitch about Beyonce and her shitload of awards. Good for her. That woman can sing, that woman can dance, that woman can do whatever she wants. The "Sasha Fierce" alternate personality bullshit that she's been talking about is lame but these rock stars these days always engage in a little bit of self-indulgence so I will give her a pass on that.

The lack of rock dominance is a trend that gets worse year after year, and that's a bummer. The crop of good rock musicians is just getting weaker. Green Day won, of course. So did Kings of Leon for the one song that people know. Whatever, it would have been nice to see Pearl Jam win something, but that is wishful thinking.

Is rock dying? Perhaps. The genre itself is getting pushed aside by the likes of Country, R&B, Rap, and American Idol-style pop. It took hippies to make it big in the 70s, glam and drugs in the 80s, and Kurt Cobain in the 90s. It will be interesting to see what it will take to bring it to the forefront in the future.

Now, in honor of Beyonce's record-breaking haul, get up and shake that ass.

The only thing that could have made the Rams season worse

I don't like Rush Limbaugh. Not at all. He is an expertly guided hypocrite missile aimed at the Democrats/liberals. So when it came out that the group planning to buy the St Louis Rams had dropped him from their efforts I would be lying if I said that it didn't make me happy. Rush has every right to do with his money as he wishes, but it's also the right of others to exclude him from their business proposal.

Rush is in the business of saying offensive scandalous things. He's built his entire reputation on this and has gotten paid very very well by doing so. He is well within his rights as an American citizen (although I have yet to see his birth certificate) to say whatever he wants on the radio and get paid for doing it. What Rush seems to have no clear concept of is the idea of consequence.

As with most things and with most people, there are consequences to ones actions. Certain people who have mucho de money and mucho de power can avoid most of these as long as they stay within their little bubble of influence. In Limbaugh's world, he's a god. He's untouchable. But time and time again, whenever he has ventured outside of his world things have not gone too well.

Although, Rush may deny it at every opportunity, he has steadily built up a body of work that may lead a large number of people to believe things about him. If it were one or two instances, maybe I could believe the excuses. However, this is years and years of his work on the radio. That's fine, he can say what he wants, but after all this time of saying things about black people, mexican people, european people, and whatever people there are... it's really easy to believe this man is racist.

Listen, I understand that Obama being elected has caused a huge race card shit storm sweeping all over the nation. I used to be a huge fan of Keith Olbermann's show Countdown but at some point he became one of those pundits who started calling everyone a racist and that really turned me away from his program. But, with Rush, it just has been too much a part of what he does to be able to make any rational excuses about it.

So when it became known that Rush was a part of the group hoping to buy an NFL franchise, the disapproval by many was not surprising. It must have been a bitter disappointment for the radio show host. The man is football-lover, which I can appreciate, and big time fan of the Steelers. But a number of players and owners all came forth with criticism about Limbaugh. The commissioner even released a statement. It just wasn't going to work, and to avoid any potential problems, Rush was dropped from the group. One would think that in the face of all of this opposition, perhaps Rush would see the error in his ways.

But, alas, this is not a Shakespeare story, but rather another chapter in the life of Rush Limbaugh. The reason for this turn of events does not lie in the actions of Limbaugh, according to him. As with all things, the blame for all of the horrible things that happen in America, and America's Anchorman, can be placed squarely on liberals.

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

In all honesty I believe this story serves as a huge clue as to how this man operates. In his own mind he has built up liberals to epic nightmarish proportions. Liberals, in the mind of Rush, are the boogieman hiding in the closet. For the longest time I have wondered if he is serious about the crazy shit he says, or if he is simply operating on an agenda to further the conservative movement. Although that is still a possibility, his childish reaction to not getting what he wants has convinced me along the line of thinking that this is stuff that he actually believes. A life built around sitting in front of his golden microphone and spouting rhetoric day after day has done a far better job of indoctrination on himself than anything the President could have accomplished with an hour on tv in front of school children.

In other crazy conservative pundit batshit crazy news:

• Glen Beck tells his audience that "progressives were slaveowners"
• Ann Coulter debates with Joy Behard (how fucking annoying must that debate be) states that "presidential assassins were all liberals"

Palin around with Rogues

Here it is boys, soak this image in

"Going Rogue". That is the name of Sarah Palin's book coming soon to a Walmart near you. Word is that there's like a zillion of these books preordered for all of her many many fans. The way this lady has vaulted in to super stardom is amazing and I can't blame her for throwing a lasso around that charging bull and riding it for all it's worth.

There has been no leaked info on what exactly is going to be in this book but the obsession that the politically aware have over this lady is such that these people don't even care. Conservatives love her and liberals love to hate her.

The choice of title really baffles me, though. My understanding of the word "rogue" is that it is not a term used to describe someone in a positive light. Why not a title of "You betcha" or some sort of cheesy use of "patriot" or "America"?

Let me put something out there, in my youth I enjoyed a little Dungeons & Dragons and I recall a character class called "Rogue". Here's the description: "A rogue's real talent shines in deceit, espionage or performing acts of subterfuge: lock picking, disarming traps, stealing valuables, and assassinating key targets."

Here's how Webster sees it:

1 vagrant/tramp
2 a dishonest or worthless person :scoundrel
3 a mischievous person :scamp
4 a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation

or

1 resembling or suggesting a rogue elephant especially in being isolated, aberrant, dangerous, or uncontrollable
2 corrupt/dishonest
3 of or being a nation whose leaders defy international law or norms of international behavior

I'm not sure if she's trying to capture the mood of any of those definitions. The thing with Sarah is that she has never been one to get caught up in specifics or literal meaning. She's always been kind of a loose cannon. Make shit up along the way, shoot from the hip, and let the elitists try to to clean up after her. What she really wants to do is evoke emotion out of the people who love her and aren't bright enough to dissect what it is exactly that she is saying.

As it has always been since she showed up, a slogan (drill baby drill, paling around with terrorists, death panels) has proven to be much more effective to her target audience than a well-thought out idea.

Now excuse me, I have to go preorder this book STAT!

The Original Birther

This Orly Taitz bird is a riot. Why they even give her airtime is beyond me but it might be doing her opponents a favor by showing that he's unhinged.

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This whole birth certificate thing is really quite silly. It was debunked a long time ago and the people who still believe can't even agree on what story to go with. Obama's a US citizen. End of story.

Wow... just wow

I don't even know what to say...

Idiot!

On another somewhat-related Palin note, I was going through some old magazines and came across the recent Time 100 Most Influential People issue and saw the entry for Sarah Palin, written by Ann Coulter.

I hate Ann Coulter. I don't even know her, but I know I hate her. She might be a delightful human being in person and it's just her on-TV persona which is a vile, nasty, hateful, little troll. Just the titles of her books are enough to make me want to slap her in the dick. There are only a handful of people in this world that I can seriously say would make the world a better place if they would go ahead and die, and she makes it on the short list.

Now that I've set that up properly I can go on. Her entry about Sarah Palin was innocent enough until she decides to take you for a trip down crazy person lane with this one: "Palin is a threat to liberals because she believes in God and country and family- all values liberal pretend to believe in but secretly detest".

What the fuck???

Bear in mind that Ann Coulter is credited with doing things like "exposing liberal hypocrisy" or being "refreshingly politically incorrect". One reviewer of her books says she is "intelligent, thoughtful, and articulate".

I just have a hard time deciding if she is serious or doing all of this as a ploy to get paid. I can't see how anyone who takes politics seriously and considers themselves a somewhat intelligent person can read that statement about Sarah Palin and liberals and think to themselves, "what an intelligent, thoughtful and articulate statement!".

Here's what's wrong with it:

• Argument from fallacy
• Bare assertion fallacy
• Blanket statement
• Argument from repetition
• Generalization

Essentially, I am trying to use terms used in the proper art of debate to refute an asinine comment, which only begs the question:

Who's the bigger idiot, Ann or myself?

Have a good weekend. I'm hoping to get drunk. Slap hands!

"Palin" around with idiots

Oh my God, Sarah Palin resigned!!! The United States political landscape has got its collective panties in a bunch over the news developing late last week. It was one of those press conferences geared to generate as little attention as possible as it was held late on a holiday weekend. So, she managed to escape a ton of attention and many news reporters weren't even able to get there in time to cover it. However, all of the pundits are on this case like me on chicken wings.

My personal feelings are that she is clearing her schedule so she can make some money and get herself in position for the 2012 election. That's just a hunch. But I'm not too firm on that since it doesn't take a political genius to see that giving up on being governor of Alaska will cause some voters to see her as opportunistic and unreliable.

I don't buy the pundits who are crying about how unfair everyone has been to her. It's as if the attacks on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and every Democrat in the last 20 years never happened. Politics are ugly. If she didn't want to be under the microscope then perhaps she should have never thrust herself in to the 2008 elections with guns a-blazin'. Her role right off the bat was that of "attack dog" firing off insults, non sequiturs, and sarcasm at will. She gets no sympathy from me. Yet when people criticize her, her actions, and her family values it's unfair? Grow up.

That being said, there is not enough money in the world that could ever convince me to get in to politics.

I know it's too much to ask for the talking heads to wait until more information is presented regarding this issue before they start frothing at the mouth about it, but it would be nice to see some restraint. All I can say is, if Obama survives his first term and finds himself facing off against Sarah Palin in 2012, I think the Democrats will be in a very good position indeed.

See ya, Bernie

So 150 years is the sentence for this jackass. The dude is over 70 already so it seems a little like overkill, but I'm pretty sure they were trying to make a statement. I honestly don't even really know what to say about the case as the scope, duration, and money involved are way beyond my reckoning. My big financial concern is that Subway now charges $2 rather than $1 to add bacon to a footlong sub. I wouldn't mind seeing the person behind that being put behind bars for 150 years.