Wacky Wednesday 1

Well thanks for sticking with me over the short stint I wasn't posting. Was trying to figure out which way I wanted to take my blog and I think I figured it out!

I'm going to have 3 main days that I post on. These days will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each of these days will have a theme.

Mondays are Music Monday. I give credit to my dear friend Kirsten, who's blog can be found HERE, for the inspiration to this. She picks and artist, talks a little about them, and then puts some songs up. I'm going to narrow it down and pick a specific song. Then talk about the song, and how it relates to me and what not.

Wednesdays, as you can see, are Wacky Wednesday. I'll find something wacky, funny, or goofy and posted it here. I'll more than likely talk a little about it, maybe a story that was related, but something.

Friday is Freedom Friday. Could be anything. My opinions on recent events, cool videos I've seen, movie reviews, or who knows what else. Stay tuned for this one!



Now onto todays post: Wacky Wednesday!

This video is presented to you from Ebaumsworld. A site full of Trolls that say everything on there is dumb, but yet they keep going back to watch stuff. I like the site for the videos and Galleries. Some pretty neat stuff can turn up there. This one is of a prank some workers at a sling shot ride pulled on a guy. They kept talking to each other saying it wasn't working, and to try it without launching it. Then they told the guy the straps on the harness were messed up and they would refund his money. Shortly thereafter...well....watch the video and see. I got a kick out of it.





I used to do things like this all the time when I worked on a rollercoaster. I'd have the ride operator lift up a set of harnesses on a group of girls or something after latching them down. Then I'd run over put them back down and act like I was double checking them. Here comes the kicker, the following line was heard with dread to many people, "Sometimes these things just come up. Just hold on tight and you should be fine." Afterwards I gave them a smile and gave the "all clear" sign to launch the ride. Oh the screams that would be heard heading out to the hill!

Well thanks for tuning it, and stick around for Freedom Friday!

On this chilly day

I read a really good article today, and had a video along with it that really tied it all together. A lot of my post today is going to be copy-pasting from this article. Gonna go ahead and cite the article here: Wall St. isn't Winning - It's Cheating

Matt Taibbi starts out by talking about how he was having a conversation with a man and the occupy wall street movement came up. Here's the exchange:

"I hear Occupy Wall Street has a CFO" he said. "I think that's funny."

"Okay, I'll bite," I said. "Why is that funny?"

"Well, I heard they're trying to decide what bank to put their money in," he said, munching on hors d'oeuvres. "It's just kind of ironic."

Oh, Christ, I thought. He’s saying the protesters are hypocrites because they’re using banks. I sighed.

"Listen," I said, "where else are you going to put three hundred thousand dollars? A shopping bag?"

"Well," he said, "it's just, their protests are all about... You know..."

"Dude," I said. "These people aren't protesting money. They're not protesting banking. They're protesting corruption on Wall Street."

"Whatever," he said, shrugging.

Typical... a guy is trying to cut out the credibility of a movement that needs to be happening by stating they are trying to put 300,000 bucks in a bank....really man? Come on now. You walk down wall street with that much money in your pocket and see what happens to you. And then when that point is brought up, its dismissed with an in-arguable "whatever". He knows his point is invalid, and ignorant, but he can't admit that at this point. Oh no. Heaven forbid someone not know what they are talking about and admit a mistake.

The next point he brings up is that the protesters are just envious of the rich...well no shit. They work 2-3 times as hard as the rich, but the rich get 2-3 times more money. CEO's can run a company into the ground and then "get federal money at 0% to loan out to us at 5-10%" Something is majorly wrong there. If that was me, the gov't would own everything I have, plus I'd more than likely be either sitting under an overpass or in jail (this is not a stab at the homeless, please don't take it that way).

The whole article can almost be summoned up by one paragraph: "And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more."

And I'm done now...I'm getting worked up about this when there is no need to. Posting the video of his interview so you can see what I'm talking about: