Matt Damon Is An Idiot

I've decided to make this idiot feature a regular here at Steven's World. And today's idiot feature will star Matt Damon.

Damon is one of those rare Hollywood actors that really did graduate from high school. Okay that isn't what makes him an idiot. What makes Damon an idiot is that he is an idiot. Too simplistic? Well when it comes to Matty Damon simplistic should suffice. But I will be glad to expound.

What makes Matt a real idiot is this from last year's election:



Transcript:

I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that's a really scary thing. Because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm gonna know anything about her. I know that she was a mayor of a really, really small town, and she's governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don't understand - I think the pick was made for political purposes, but in terms of governance, it's a disaster. You do the actuary tables, you know, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. And it really, you know, was talking about it earlier, it's like a really bad Disney movie. You know, the hockey mom, you know, "I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska," and she's the president. And it's like she's facing down Vladimir Putin and you know, using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink, you know, it's just absurd. It's totally absurd, and I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. I...it's a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we've gotten this far and we're that close to this being a reality is crazy. Crazy. I mean, did she really - I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. That's an important - I want to know that. I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes. You know, I wanna know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago, or if she banned books or tried to ban books. I mean, you know, we can't have that.

I have a question. What does believing in a young earth have to do with holding the nuclear codes? Seriously. What correlation is Damon trying to draw? That if you believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old then you are going to push the button as president for no reason? This guy is an idiot.

Damon then raises the spectrum of Palin's banning books, an accusation leveled at her shortly after she was named John McCain's running mate. Ask Matt in private what he thinks should be done with books written by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Sean Hannity. Interesting how these morons are so pro free speech until it is speech they disagree with.

I also love the way Damon speaks as if it was a foregone conclusion that McCain was going to die, and that Palin would ascend to the presidency.

You do the actuary tables, you know, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin.

33% chance according to actuarial tables. Remember, those do not take into account the health care that is given to a sitting president. The truth is that if you factor all factors in (not to mention what McCain had already survived in his life up to this point), the chance that McCain would die in 4 years was much less than 33%.

Of course, a brainiac like Damon doesn't care about facts. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy that attended Harvard and quit 12 credits shy of a degree. 12 credits. 3 classes. ARE YOU SERIOUS? That is like having a lead in the fourth quarter of the Superbowl, with 2 minutes left, and forfeiting! Yet this guy has the gall to question someone else's intelligence?

Why would Damon speak as if President Palin was a foregone conclusion? Simple. The politics of fear. He was playing the fear card. Scare people away from the McCain/Palin ticket, and get people, out of fear, to vote for Obama/Biden. Ahh yes, the liberals that bad mouthed Bush for scaring people into supporting two wars are happy to play the fear card themselves whenever it is convenient.

Damon also loves to try to throw out a big word or two to try to make himself sound more intelligent. "Actuary tables." Never mind that the proper term is 'actuarial tables'. Please. Matt, just because you played a genius in one of your movies doesn't mean you are one in real life.

But my favorite part is this:

I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that's a really scary thing. Because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm gonna know anything about her.

Hello! Barack Obama anyone? No one knew much about Obama, still do not know much about Obama, but ol' Matt here ran happily to the polls to cast his vote for Obama, and all without knowing much about him. Funny how he has no problem putting a label on one person, and to completely ignore the same qualities of another. The double standard is off the chart.

So Matt gets the idiot label for making, well, an idiot of himself. I can't wait until 2012 to hear more nuggets of wisdom from a guy that can't go more than 10 minutes of any movie he is in without using the F-word. Yeah, he is a real voice of moral clarity.

Steven Crowder Blows The Lid Off Of Guantanamo Bay!

The Democracy Nazi: NO HOPE AND CHANGE FOR YOU!

Chairman Zero (Obama for those of you slow on the uptake) ran an election based on a message of hope and change. Who the hope was for, and what change, are still topics that are fiercely debated, but I digress. The key was that that he wanted to provide hope and bring a wind of change to America.

What has followed has been dashed hope, and the kind of change that we Americans do not want. Stimulus (read: political payoffs), Cap and Trade, National Health Care, Cash For Clunkers, multi-trillion deficits, etc. Not what we were hoping for in our change. In fact, if he had been honest he would have ran on "Hope For Government Money And Change Into Socialism", but honesty apparently isn't his strong suit.

Nothing is worse though than his handling of Nicaragua and Iran. In case you missed, Obama has been decidedly anti-Democracy in both of those countries' cases. One wanted to preserve their Democracy (Nicaragua) and the other started making overtures toward Democracy (Iran). In both cases Obama turned into the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, and essentially told both nations "NO HOPE AND CHANGE FOR YOU!"

In case you don't know what I am referring to with the Soup Nazi, here is a short video:



Apparently, Obama's hope and change is only for changing America into a socialistic nation, and not allowing other nations to change toward freedom.

Nicaragua had a president that decided he was bigger than the Nicaraguan constitution. He was eyeballing a Hugo Chavez type dictatorship. Nicaraguan's said "no thanks", quietly put him on a plane, and dethroned him peacefully.

Obama's reaction? "NO HOPE AND CHANGE FOR YOU!" Then his administration began to pressure the new administration of Nicaragua to put the dictator-wannabe back into power. Huh? A nation decides to remain free and Obama sides with the dictator?

Then there is Iran. Pseudo-elections were held in June and despite a wave of public outcry, Ahmadinejad, Iran's "president" (really their dictator) fixed the elections so that he would win in a landslide. Iranians reacted by holding mass protests, riots in some case, in a bid to overthrow the dictatorship and bring in Democracy.

Obama's reaction? "NO HOPE AND CHANGE FOR YOU!" Then his administration conveniently ignored the people of Iran and offered no solace. Offered no encouragement. Offered no help in toppling a radical regime with their sights set squarely on nuclear armament. Huh? A nation's people makes a play toward Democracy and Obama sides with the dictator?

Where is the outrage? Can we really have a president that would rather see a dictator remain in power, and a fellow Democracy converted to a dictatorship? Could this really be where we've come as a nation where we turn our backs on the oppressed? That we offer no consolation for those that want and demand freedom?

How anyone can defend Obama after not only what he has pulled in our nation, and then what he has done on the world stage (not just Nicaragua and Iran but his multiple "I am sorry about America" tours), is beyond me. The guy seems bent on destroying the America we all know and love, and his fellow ideologues in the media are content to try and cover for him.

WAKE UP AMERICA! Enough is enough.

Andre Agassi's Open

I finished it last night. Andre Agassi's Open is an incredible read. I found it impossible to put down. I picked it up less than two weeks ago, and even with a hunting trip during that time I managed to read the 385 page autobiography in less than 12 days.

Now admittedly I am a huge Agassi fan. As previously stated on this blog, I identified with him immediately. As a skinny, long-haired kid, it was easy to identify with a skinny, long-haired kid. I always felt somewhat of a kindred spirit with Agassi, but as I read this book the similarities between us were profound.

Agassi is less than a year younger than I am. We both experienced hair loss at a young age, which was exasperated by the fact that we both had our identity tangled up in our long hair. The excerpt of the book where Agassi details shaving his head mirrors my experience in getting my hair cut short for the first time.

I began shaving my head in the summer of 1994 after trying a hairpiece, which I immediately didn't like. Andre used a hairpiece, but in late 1994 was convinced by his girlfriend, Brooke Shields, to ditch the thing and shave his head. Just one of the many weird coincidental parallels between Andre's life and mine.

His early adult love relationship was very similar to my early adult love relationship. Both of our mothers are breast cancer survivors. There are many other parallels, too many to list here actually. Just suffice it to say that I really do identify with Andre on many levels.

Obviously, there are differences. I am devoutly Christian, while I get the sense that religion isn't Andre's thing. He still uses bad language, something I outgrew over a decade and a half ago. He is a Democrat, while I am a staunch conservative. The music Andre listens to I wouldn't be caught dead listening to (Barbra Streisand? Barry Manilow?!? Puke.)

Still, reading the book was a trip down memory lane. So many of the things that he writes about I remember. The matches he describes, I remember watching. Watching him win Wimbledon in 1992. Watching him win 2 U.S. Opens, and lose in the finals of others. The 2001 U.S. Open Quarterfinals against Pete Sampras, which I believe is the greatest tennis match in tennis history. (Sampras won in 4 sets, with all 4 sets going to a tiebreaker.) The incredible win against James Blake in the 2005 U.S. Open. And, of course, his final matches in the 2006 U.S. Open.

The amazing thing to me was that while taking this trip down memory lane, after all these years I got the inside scoop. What was Andre thinking? What advice did he receive from coaches, trainers, friends, and family? Did he really have mental collapses as it appeared to me as a TV viewer? What demons was he fighting? It was fascinating to get that inside scoop. Not only to relive what I remember, but to relive it as Andre told it, in his own words.

I have always admired Andre's philanthropy. One of the most generous athletes of our time, Andre describes in the book how he came to understand that helping others is important in life. It seems to me that here is another difference. While I agree it is important, Andre seems to think it is most important. That, of course, leaves God out of the equation. I only wish Andre could come to a knowledge of the truth of Jesus Christ.

Still, his foundation and his charter school speak volumes about who Andre is. About his heart. Andre is a good guy, deep down. That he has been widely misunderstood for the last 2 decades is a shame. Hopefully this book, Open, can help people see who he really is. That he was just a young kid from Vegas that had talent and the work ethic to become one of the most successful tennis players of all time.

One thing I've discovered is that I was never really a tennis fan. I started watching because I like John McEnroe. I became a huge fan once I discovered Andre. I never could relate to Pete Sampras, he was too boring. Sampras to me was the American version of Ivan Lendl. Since Agassi's retirement in 2006 I haven't watched more than 1 minute of a pro tennis match. It turns out that I was never really a tennis fan, I was an Andre fan.

One of the things he says through the majority of the book is how he really hated tennis. But by the end of his career, Andre didn't want to quit. At the end of the book, he is playing tennis with Steffi (he calls her Stefanie). They have places to go and important things to do, but again he doesn't want to quit playing. By 2007, and for the last few years of his career, he seemed to have finally fallen in love with the game that made him the man he is today.

Other blog entries related to Andre Agassi:

Andre Agassi A Couple Of Weeks Later

Sometimes You Have To Deal With Difficult Subjects
Thank You Andre!

When Old Songs Change Meaning

I remember watching, in horror, in 1995 as the O.J. Simpson verdict was read. Not guilty. How? Everyone knew he did it. Even his own lawyers. The lyrics for Metallica's ...And Justice For All immediately hopped in my head. (Read those lyrics sometime and tell me if they don't perfectly describe the O.J. trial.) Even though the song had been out for 7 years, the O.J. trial gave new meaning to the song.

I had another moment of such clarity on my way to work this morning. I was listening to an album I hadn't listen to in years, Megadeth's 1992 album Countdown To Extinction. One of my favorite songs from that album is Symphony Of Destruction. I will share the lyrics and you can decide for yourself if it is apropos to anything currently going on in our nation.

Symphony Of Destruction lyrics
Songwriters: Mustaine, Dave;

You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a 'roll
A 'roll, a 'roll

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

Acting like a robot
It's metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes
Explodes, explodes

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A warring for the heavens
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall, tall

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction


© MUSTAINE MUSIC;

WHOA. Obama has people swaying to the symphony of destruction. Of course the destruction is of the United States we know and love. Dave Mustaine, the lead singer and songwriter for Megadeth, never intended for this song to talk about Obama. As a left-wing ideologue himself, Mustaine agrees with Obama on almost every issue. Yet he wrote a song, back in 1992, that talks perfectly about Obama as a destroyer of his own nation.

Meanwhile, the Marionettes sway to the symphony of destruction.

When Conservatives Turn On Conservatives!

Okay, you liberals will love this. Andrew Klavan, the conservative author, takes Rush, Beck, Coulter, and Hannity to task. The conservative movement is collapsing in this video before our very eyes!

Here you go:



Go get 'em Andrew!!

Hat Tip: Neil over at 4 Simpsons

Oops, She Did It Again!

Norah O'Donnell proves her anti-Sarah Palin bias. Again. Here she is in Grand Rapids, MI this week, ambushing a 17 year-old high school student. Here is the video:



And here is a link to this young woman's blog about her run-in with O'Donnell.

Click here: The Day I Met Sarah Palin…and the Liberal Media

O'Donnell should be ashamed of herself. Of course, the liberal mainstream media has no shame. O'Donnell has proven this herself, time and time again. Especially when it comes to Palin. Why do they feel so threatened by Sarah?

Hat tip to theblogprof.

Who Threw The Monkey Wrench Into The Global Warming Machine?

Inquiring minds want to know that. But now climatologists are having to admit that the earth is no longer warming. UH OH! Just when Algore and his minions of mindless automatons were getting traction, along comes real science to disprove their little theory.

Click here: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

Here are some of the most interesting pieces of the article, with my comments.

The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

I love how they can't bring themselves to say "it has stopped". They use phrases like "Time-Out" or "taking a break". As if they are hoping that the warming will resume again. That is the problem with these ideologues: they can't just let the science be what it is, they have to try and bend it to their own agenda.

Speaking of that, there is this from the article:

But a few scientists simply refuse to believe the British calculations. "Warming has continued in the last few years," says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, Rahmstorf is more or less alone in his view. Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the other hand, says: "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."

You got to love these guys. When temperatures were rising, at a rate of 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit over 30 years mind you, all we heard was chickenlittle, doomsday predictions. But as soon as the science shows that there is no longer any warming occurring, they dismiss the objective, real data, and "simply refuse to believe".

That is the difference in the "global warming believers" and the "global warming deniers". Believers want there to be warming, regardless of the science. Deniers have never denied the data that the earth was warming, they simply pointed out that the actual warming was less than the predicted warming. And that the cause could not be pinpointed to human activities.

"Perhaps we suggested too strongly in the past that the development will continue going up along a simple, straight line. In reality, phases of stagnation or even cooling are completely normal," says Latif.

You think? See this is their problem. They have attributed the warming to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet there are more greenhouse gas emissions today than there were at any point during the warming that occurred from the 1970's through the 1990's. Their hypothesis would suggest that warming should be accelerating, not decelerating, or even stopping altogether.

At a minimum, this lack of warming, or even cooling, proves that this is not a man-made phenomenon. That the earth warms and cools in cycles, regardless of what humans do or don't do, is now apparent. This fact is being met with skepticism for one reason and one reason only: it fails to provide the excuse they need for the radical changes they want to impose.

Algore and his minions were planning on using the fear over human-induced global warming to push through a radical agenda of changes. Carbon credits, fines for emissions, outlawing of internal combustion engines, etc. The lack of this fear that this lack of warming is now allowing for is jeopardizing those initiatives, and they have lost traction. The momentum is now swinging back the other way toward the direction of making sound economic decisions, and no longer worrying about global warming.

In the end, Algore sees the possible end of his meal ticket that he has enjoyed over the last 9 years. Since he lost the 2000 election, Algore has made a significant amount of money in promoting the idea of human-induced global warming. I have a feeling he won't give up that idea until it is pried from his cold (pun intended), dead hands.

John Conyers Is Stupid

To set this up you need to watch this video:

Click here for video: Dem Conyers Makes A Very Stupid Statement

Now it seems that everyone is concentrating on this statement:

"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House"

Small potatoes. Seriously, that is minor compared to this next doozy.

"The public option.....which is the only way you'll manage costs and give some competition to 1300 other health insurance companies...."

Did he really just say that? Did he even hear what he said? This guy gets elected despite being about as smart as a piece of paper. And he marries very badly as well (if you are ever bored, do a google search on his wife, former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers).

First of all, Johnny, the only way to manage costs is through competition. The public option has nothing to do with free market competition. The public option is a step towards a single payer system. The same system that is failing all over the world.

Secondly, 1300 other insurance companies are the VERY DEFINITION OF COMPETITION! How does this doofus not understand that? Instead of trying to get a public option, what your bill should be doing is making it easier for those 1300 insurance companies to compete with one another in each and every state in the nation! That is how you generate competition. Creating a government run, 1301st insurance company does nothing to generate more competition.

This is the essence of what we are up against in this fight. Elected officials that do not understand simple economic principles. Elected officials that think that government is the solution to all our problems, instead of realizing that government IS the problem.

Until voters toss out idiots like Conyers we will be stuck with the problems that exist today, with no real possibility for solutions in the future.

When You Bad Mouth My Wife Or Mother I Get Angry

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Ephesians 4:26

This is a tough scripture for me. I have always had a bit of a temper. It is like a pressure-cooker. It builds slowly, but if the pressure doesn't get released it might explode. As I have aged I have learned to control my anger much better. I've realized that reacting angrily in most situations is counterproductive: it doesn't change anything, and then I have to deal with the fallout of my outburst on top of the original situation.

So now I try to be angry and sin not. Being angry is not wrong in and of itself, it is what you do with that anger.

One area that I struggle with today is Sarah Palin. From the time I started to get to know Sarah after her being named John McCain's running mate, I began to identify with her. She was like my wife. She was like my mother. She was like most of the women in my life that I care about (aunts, cousins, sisters, sisters-in-Christ, etc). I felt like we finally had a woman in the national political spotlight that was representative of the women that I know and love. Unlike Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Barbara Boxer, Sarah was smart, articulate, and passionately conservative.

Then the badmouthing started. At first it didn't bother me, most election are like this. The opposing candidate and his VP running mate bad mouth your candidate and his running mate. But then it turned ugly.

I had a coworker start referring to Sarah as a "dumb -female dog-". I had another coworker, and ardent Obama supporter, saying that with McCain's age it scared her that Sarah could be one heartbeat away from the presidency. (Note: Community organizer Obama, Crazy Joe Biden, and Nancy The Wicked Witch Pelosi did nothing to bother her, despite that being the proposed chain of ascension).

I had a "friend" that badmouthed her, and when I told him that she reminded me of my wife his response was "no offense, but I don't want your wife as president or vice president, either". Really? Well I don't want you and your wife to set foot in my house ever again. (Sorry, like I said I get angry related to this topic!)

The truth is that when someone would badmouth Sarah Palin, in my eyes they were badmouthing my mom, my wife, and all the women in my life that I mentioned previously. Disagree with them all you like. Hate their pro-life stance, their religious beliefs, or even their hair style and glasses frames. No problem. Start calling them "dumb -female dog-", or stupid, or belittling their character and I turn into a rabid dog.

I mentioned this to the aforementioned coworkers, that it feels like they are belittling the women I care about because those women are very similar to Sarah. The reaction is not good. The ardent pro-Obama supporter, who also happens to be black, starts saying "I feel the same about Obama, when you badmouth him you are badmouthing all black people". Interesting, since I had never said anything about Obama the person, only his policies and beliefs. The distinction is lost completely on this "intellectual" of a coworker. (Note, she also a few days before this discussion was expounding on how Obama really wasn't very "black". Her words, not mine.)

The fact is that these Democrats couldn't badmouth Sarah's beliefs. They had to try to attack her very foundation as a person. "She shoots wolves from helicopters! Surely you don't support that." Actually I do. The wolf population in Alaska has to be controlled, this method of control predates Sarah Palin.

"She is a traitor to her gender." Why? Because she believes in the right that an unborn human has to life? I, and the women in my life, disagree with that. They think that any woman that would willingly rip that unborn child from their womb, and/or support others' rights to do so, is a traitor to their gender. At the least a traitor to motherhood.

All this has been bubbling and percolating in me for well over a year. Then yesterday I read this article:

Click here: AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'

As the Drudge Report points out, they didn't even bother assigning 1 reporter to fact check Obama's book. I feel the anger returning.

Then I read a paragraph from the article like this: "Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book."

Breathe slowly in and out. Inhale through your nose, exhale through your mouth.

The media's treatment of Sarah for the last 13 months has been unconscionable. I will never trust the mainstream media again. If ever there was a bias shown by the MSM, never was it more apparent than with Palin. From Charlie Goofball Gibson's loaded, ambushing questions, to Katie The Troll Couric's creative editing, the media proved that they had an axe to grind, and they were sharpening it at the expense of the character of a good, decent woman.

Sarah got the Dan Quayle treatment to the power of infinity. Heaven forbid she ever add the letter e to the end of a word like potato. The liberal-dominated media will always form a wagon circle around any candidate or politician they see as a threat. They want no more Ronald Reagans to render them powerless.

Since 1988 they have slowly advanced a leftist agenda in the vacuum that Reagan's absence left. They want to make sure no Quayle, nor Palin, nor any other true conservative ever step on all that they hold dear, which is everything America is the opposite of. So they cut these conservatives' legs out from under them before they can build any momentum.

In the meantime, we get a far-left, extremist, ideologue like Obama elected to the presidency. And no one better question him or you will be silenced with the label of racist applied across your forehead. What have we let our nation become?














Bad mouth Sarah, and you're walking on the fighting side of me.