Slimeball Sunday: What's Worse -- Threatening a Teenage Girl, Incinerating a Kitten, Or Killing People By Driving a Bus as Fast as It Can Possibly Go?

Maybe the Jimmy Carter-like current state of the economy (as discussed Saturday) is starting to get to more people than just me this weekend, as folks are absolutely wiggin' out!

When they're not tossing death threats at 13-year-old Internet sensation Rebecca Black (of "Friday" fame), they're pulverizing felines (allegedly) or driving buses like they were in the Daytona 500 (allegedly).

"Friday" Night Not Allright for Threatening

Sure, the song is trashy and annoying (watch the video below). And thanks to heavy use of the ol' Auto-Tune, Rebecca Black's voice is more altered than a Heidi Montag pin-up poster in a forest fire. (Hell, even I could carry a tune if I used Auto-Tune!) But is all that any reason to throw death threats Black's way, as cops in L.A. say has been happening? Obviously not.

"Friday" has been called "the worst performance ever committed to tape," but I find that description purposefully over-the-top and pretty difficult to believe (I've been called the "Worst Blog Ever," which had much more merit). "Friday" is annoying bubblegum stuff, yes. Like there's anything new about that. In any given week, at least half of the Billboard Top Ten isn't much better.

I hope they catch these scuzjackets who are sending these threats and let them do some singing of their own down in the joint for a long time to come.

They Oughta Fry This "Fur-Hating Thug"

No cat lover, here. This guy really hated kitties. Got his "Stray Cat Strut" on in ways that have to be described as, well, just a Big Bowl of Wrong (allegedly). Cops in New York say 26-year-old Garret Sloan "beat his girlfriend's kitty to death." They say this "beastly beau" first "snatched the kitty from her hands . . . and threw it to the ground."

But this cat-despising creep was only getting warmed up (allegedly). "As the tiny critter convulsed on the ground, [Sloan allegedly] picked it up again and slammed it repeatedly into the walls and stairwell" of the girlfriend's apartment building.

And this slime's animal animosity didn't stop there. Just for good measure, this cat-loathing lout reportedly admits that he then tossed the poor feline into the building's incinerator. But Sloan says that final barbaric act of domesticated detestation was justified since he claims the little kitten was already dead: "The cat died," purred Sloan the Sleaze (allegedly) to the cops.

Now Sloan may have to take his catnip in the can, since cops have busted him on aggravated animal cruelty charges. Hopefully his roomie in the ice house will be a big cat-lovin' Aryan.

Methinks He Saw "Speed" One Too Many Times

Either that, or he took fellow bus driver Ralph Kramden's expression of "shooting Alice straight to the moon" way too literally. Following a scene that must have been reminiscent of the '90s motion picture Speed, what kind of a deranged freak would push a bus to its maximum possible speed of nearly 80 MPH in a 50 MPH speed zone?!?

The National Transportion Safety Board says 40-year-old Ophadell Williams did exactly that, killing 15 people in the process in the Big Apple recently. No word whether this demented speed demon (allegedly) actually got the big bus airborne like in the movie.

The linked story doesn't specify the charges that this batty bus driver is facing, but I figure he's probably got at least a manslaughter charge hanging over his speed-lovin' head (allegedly), not to mention a one-way bus ticket straight to the hoosegow.

Maybe there, he can meet up with the "Friday" haters and the cat killer (allegedly) and have a big Speed watch party. I'll supply the Friskies, the "Friday" and the Bus Fuel. Talk about "Bad Company."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/cops-probe-rebecca-black-threats-645387
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/beastly_klyn_beau_busted_in_kitty_NWkXyPKHWfaLS1RVNmaW2J
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/deadly_bx_crash_bus_hit_mph_XX69pQjffIOipAoETBN3HP

[Postscript Note: I've also tossed into the video mix below (following up on Saturday's post) "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge from the Age of Jimmy Carter, 1979. This was the adopted theme song of the 1979 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates, led by Willie Stargell. I love that memory, and I've always loved this song. It'd be kind a boring, after all, if all I ever did was rock out!]

He Is The King of the World! He's Pretty! He's a Bad Man! Congratulations Tonight of the Highest Order to Kansas City Area's Own, Victor Ortiz!

He's The Best!!! Ortiz just won his first World Championship tonight in the welterweight division with a truly Classic victory and Classic fight over/with Andre Berto. This guy Ortiz is KC media talking head Steven St. John's main man, and I've followed him closely too the past few years, being that he is a local guy.

Ortiz (from Garden City, Kansas) had a background that is simply put, all the way tough. Mom deserted him. The Old Man was an alcoholic. Yet he overcame, and is one of the most personable dudes that you could ever want to listen to.

He has a HUGE punch. But frankly, watching him, has reminded me a lot of the last KC-rooted fighter that I followed -- one Tommy Morrison back in the 90's. Morrison was known for the huge punch and the weak chin. At any moment in his fights, he could destroy or be destroyed. I had way too much Deja Vu with Victor Ortiz prior to tonight.

Because the so-called "book" on Victor was that he had the heavy-handed fists, but the allegedly questionable chin (and heart). We had seen the fight with Marcos Rene Maidana (an absolute buzzsaw of a badass, truth be told), where Victor didn't really seem to want to be there at the end.

Then we saw Victor getting robbed in his so-called draw with Lamont Peterson -- a fight he very clearly won. So we wondered where things went from here with this local guy done good and now transplanted into the L.A. scene with one Oscar De La Hoya a part of his management team.

And then we watched the beauty of his performance tonight. Overcoming being knocked down twice, overcoming absolute adversity, to win the World Title on national HBO television in one of the more brutal fights that a human being will ever witness.

These boxers have always been to me complete heroes. They lay everything they have -- their lives, their mental stability, their very existence -- on the line every single time they step in the ring. It's a very brutal sport, but there's also a "sweet science" to it. I so admire the men who partake in it. Could I do so? [Hardly, since while I may be 6'3", I have small soccer-player hands thanks to my Old Man's genes -- small hands and boxing DO NOT JIVE!]

Victor did exactly that tonight -- laid it all out on the line -- and he came out victorious. Although Morrison once held the minor league WBO championship, Ortiz is the first boxer with KC roots to hold one of the MAJOR (i.e. WBC) world titles that I can recall in a long time. Congrats, V.O.! You earned it, dude, not only with your performance tonight, but also with all that you've overcome during your life.

http://www.boxingscene.com/victor-ortiz-beats-andre-berto-grabs-wbc-gold-war--38192

'79 All Over Again? Obama's Approval Rating with Independents Tanks to a Pathetic 35%. He Does Realize that We Decide Elections?

Actually, I'm not so sure he does realize that. If not, bad move. Because it does feel a lot like 1979.

With rising gas prices, rising inflation as a result of his endless money printing, crippling national debt of $14.2 Trillion, and the monetary system and economy teetering on the brink of collapse, this idiot was out there this week lobbing partisan bombs and talking up tax increases, class warfare and the need for "cooler" phones in the White House. Two words: Welcome Back, Carter.

Frankly, that's an insult to Carter, who was utterly hapless as a president but not nearly as bad, in my estimation, as Obama and Bush -- who have both been much more destructive to this country than Carter was capable of on even his worst day. You might say that Obama and W have presided over an 11-year Symphony of Destruction.

It's really nearly gotten to the point where almost all hope is lost. (See the linked column by Pat Buchanan from wnd.com, describing the "maelstrom" we may be about to enter -- and I think Buchanan's even underestimating a bit the direness of the situation).

These two rotten parties are just going to keep fighting, bickering and accomplishing nothing -- save for the occasional break to conspire together to accomplish nothing under the guise of having accomplished something (e.g. this week's phoney and disingenuous $38 billion "compromise" on 2011 budget "cuts"). Meantime, that debt just keeps growing and growing.

I don't think I'm exaggerating in these sentiments. Get ready, people, for things to get real bad, and sooner rather than later (hope I'm wrong). Gallows humor would seem to be one of the few things we have left to cling to (sorry to end sentence in a preposition).

(Not to mention, the "Welcome Back Kotter" and the Willie Stargell-led "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates of 1979 are very nice memories to re-live on a cold Kansas City night like this one).

http://www.gallup.com/poll/147140/Obama-Job-Approval-Tying-Low.aspx

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=287225
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/obama-disappointed-lack-cool-phone-oval-office/

Democrats Aren't the Only Ones Uninterested in Cutting Debt: Republicans & Dems Team Up to Hoodwink Americans on Alleged $38 Billion in Budget "Cuts."

Just more business as usual in Washington, and proof positive why I view the republican party as being just as slimy and out-of-touch as the leftist 20 percenter democrat party:

From the Congressional Budget Office comes the revelation Thursday that far from making $38 billion in immediate budget "cuts" (itself a mere drop in the bucket) – as touted this week by republican and democrat scum alike – the deal reached last weekend will merely cut a paltry $352 million from 2011 fiscal spending!

I'm trying to recall the last time I actually saw these two slimeball parties working together to perpetrate such an absolute fraud on the American people. Typically, they work their frauds in isolation. If this is what they have in mind for a new era of "compromise" and working together, then I say that Independents should kick every single one of these bums' asses to the curb come 2012, regardless of party.

As confirmed by the CBO, the only thing last weekend's "compromise" (more like conspiracy) did was to cut about $38 billion in spending authority. But even that's a complete sham: Of that $38 billion in reduced spending "authority," about $20 billion or a little more in spending will be cut over five years – not in 2011 – and (to add insult to injury) about $15-20 billion of that $38 billion figure was never expected to be spent in the first place!

The linked CBS News stories provide an excellent concrete example of this: Congress set aside $20 million to build a Capitol Visitor Center. That construction project is now finished, and apparently it only took about $5 million. So the new republican/democrat budget deal uses the $15 million difference (which would not have been spent anyway) and calls it a budget "cut"! Good grief, these two parties are sleazejackets.

Independents stuck these GOP goofs in power in November 2010 to reign in the democrat party's crazy far leftist spending and the $14.2 national debt that threatens to collapse our economic system in the near future. People like me voted for republican House and Senate candidates for the first time we could even remember. And this is how they act once they get there?!

They ran on a promise to cut $100 billion from 2011 fiscal spending. They ended up cutting well less than one percent of that amount (0.352 percent to be precise)! Yeah – these guys are real serious about getting our crippling debt under control!

But maybe we shouldn't so damn shocked. While I do believe Paul Ryan and his plan to cut the national debt are very serious, I just don't think too many other republicans really are. Take this goof, this cry baby, this party animal, spray-on tanned Speaker of the House, John "Party Time" Boehner: He turns my stomach -- a career politician and your prototypical DC "establishment" republican. What a slimeball.

Apart from knowing where the next party is, all this boob cares about is keeping his job into perpetuity and not ruffling the leftists' feathers too much for fear that he'll become one of their main targets. Not surprising that he's behind this $38 million fraud that the republicans and democrats tried to pass off as a serious budget deal.

And BTW, I love how hardly any of the right-wingers are even talking about this today apart from a little lip service here and there. Conveniently ignoring it in large part. It takes an Independent like me to even raise it, "standing alone" like Jackyl.

You spineless jellyfish, do-nothing right-wingers. Your ilk starts running this country into the ground through the eight years of W Bush destruction, and then you act as complicit conspirators with the leftists after that idiot's gone. You make me sick.

At the end of the day, it becomes tiresome how it always comes down to the same thing: We Independents will give those far leftist creeps the boot one election cycle, and then we'll damn sure have to kick some republican hide to the curb the very next election cycle.

Wish it didn't have to be that way every single time, but this shit never changes. Only problem: In the past when we've had this sort of business as usual in DC, we weren't teetering on the brink of economic collapse.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054026-503544.html?tag=breakingnews
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20053879-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Goodnight Irene: Joe Biden Falls Asleep During Obama's Budget Speech Wednesday. What's the Big Uproar? I Nearly Caught Some Shut Eye Myself.

(Watch the video yourself below). Biden falling asleep during Obama's speech is getting quite the Net buzz from the right-wingers. But I can't blame Biden or criticize him today. Instead, I can empathize with him.

I also listened to that long, rambling speech live on Wednesday, and while I didn't catch any actual ZZZ's, I was certainly clamoring for it just to end already. (I'd estimate the speech went on 35-40 minutes, but it seemed like a damn eternity). Hell, from the look of the above picture, Obama nearly put himself to sleep!

And what's with all this presupposition by the media that Obama suddenly now has a budget and/or debt reduction "plan"? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as best as I can tell, this so-called "plan" Obama was talking about today isn't written down anywhere. Can I read it? Where? Link? Until I can, it's not a plan at all, but rather just a collection of rambling talking points and leftist rhetoric.

Given that I haven't seen any coherent "plan" that can even be discussed, I see little point in addressing the merits of Obama's Wednesday harangue in any great detail beyond a blog post of typical length. I will say that in addition to be highly bored, I was also left very unimpressed. Some general reactions are set out below.

Just more of the same: If you basically force a leftist 20 percenter to talk about cutting debt, then the leftist will always revert to the same tired old playbook that I've heard my whole life: Raise taxes; and cut military spending. Now I'm all for finding ways to cut defense spending, but I find it comical that no democrat party member can ever talk about budget cuts without defense spending being the first thing out of his or her mouth. As predictable as a Joe Biden gaffe.

And with one notable exception, the "let's just raise taxes" stuff was also just more of the same: Stick it to the damn rich. Let's engage in same nice class warfare, and never mind that our economy is still mired in the tank. Very Bright! Raising taxes in awful economic times. Yawn.

And then we had plenty of the typical leftist rhetoric about those damn rich people not paying their fair share of taxes. Kind of like your beloved GE paying no income taxes last year, Mr. President? Hypocrite.

As hinted at above, one aspect of Obama's tax talk would seem to be something that could potentially hit middle class Americans very hard. I'm referring to Obama's highly generalized talking points about eliminating or restricting itemized tax deductions. First, Obama didn't specify which deductions he was talking about, making the topic a bit hard to discuss (which I'm sure was Obama's very design).

But I'm inferring that whatever the hell that Obama is talking about, it would hit middle class Americans (such as me) who have the unmitigated gall of actually itemizing their tax returns. I say that since Obama went out of his way to point out that a "majority of middle class Americans do not itemize their tax returns." So as long as you're fine with throwing money away to the government by filing a simple tax return, then what Obama's talking about will have no impact on you.

Finally, Obama gave some lip service to looking for ways to cut debt by focusing on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – but that stuff was so generalized that I don't how it can be rationally debated, criticized or credited at this point. As Daily Show comedian Paul Mecurio said Wednesday night, you could see more detail in a scrambled cable porn channel than in Obama's speech.

So here's where we are: Until I see a written debt reduction plan from Obama or his minions, we've still only got one real plan on the table: republican Paul Ryan's. Until I can actually read the specifics of what Obama claims to be proposing, I'll continue to say it to the whiney democrats: $14.2 Trillion – What’s Your Plan?

And if it looks anything like what I heard today, don't even waste the ink to reduce it to writing. The democrat party can use that ink, after all, to print some more money.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/13/biden_falls_asleep_during_obama_budget_speech.html

[Postscript Note: Check out the Comments section, as I create a blog post within a blog post and reflect upon one thing Obama said today that was very accurate and got me thinking and reflecting upon the sad state of our current two-party political system.]