Never been one to let the carrier drop

Every once in a while, a particular peice of ineptness and/or cluelessness comes close to pushing me over the edge.

Today’s story comes from the neighborhood radio shack.

I decide that I want to give wire-wrapping a try. I mean, what the hell, it’s quicker than soldering and you don’t burn your fingers as much, right?

So I go down to radio shack and buy some wire wrap and a wire wrap tool. I’ve never wire wrapped anything before in my life, so I look at the instructions on the back of the tool and try to follow them.

What I end up with is a broken stub of wire and a horrid mess.

I keep trying, though, and eventually I get to where i can wrap the wire around a pin, but it ends up wrapped around the tool..

At some point, I start getting a touch, um, suspicious, and instead of reading the directions, I follow common sense and do everything exactly the opposite of what the directions say.. and lo and behold, beautiful wire-wrapped joints result, every time, spin the tool, thank you, drive through.

THE DIRECTIONS WERE BACKWARDS IN EVERY SINGLE REGARD!

You do NOT turn the tool clockwise! You do NOT stick the wire in from the back, you stick it in from the frount!

HOW COULD THEY DO THIS?

I mean, the directions were written in good english and all, they were just completely, utterly, totally wrong.

Is this radio shack’s idea of a joke?

Or do they maybe not want us to build anything?

My IQ is 127, according to a cheesy online IQ test that I just took.

I think that’s not even sufficient to get me into MENSA.

I think I’m going to interpret this as proof that IQ isn’t everything, since the few people I know who were in MENSA couldn’t have done half the things I did today if their lives depended on it. 😉

Anyone who is for a war in iraq should also listen to this Interview with Scott Ritter, the cheif UN inspector and a former marine.

Everyone who is for the war should listen to this mp3 of a speech by Michael Moore on Alternative Radio.

Someone asked in my journal comments section, ‘What, you haven’t left yet? What are you waiting for?’

It’s a good question. Especially since as we all know, when a country goes down the tubes and turns into a police state, it often becomes very difficult to leave. Obviously, if I had any common sense, I’d be catching one of the lifeboats out of the sinking ship U.S.S. USA.

But I don’t have any common sense. I’ve proved that time and time again. Common sense would imply that you don’t build your own EV just because you can’t buy one – common sense would imply that you don’t write things that might annoy the powers that be – common sense says don’t rock the boat because you’re sitting in it..

Did anyone catch Michael Moore at the Oscars? (I’m sure most of you did, or have heard of it). When asked why he said the things he did, he said – and I quote – ‘Because I am an American’. Nothing else. When asked ‘That’s all’, his reply? ‘That’s a lot.’

The idea of being run out of my country by a bunch of disguisting, pathetic, lying, cheating, murdering politicos rankles me beyond belief.

I didn’t even want to be run off of my bit of sidewalk at a antiwar protest in LA – it was only a combination of the inconvenience of being arrested in another state and the fact that I was so thirsty I thought I was going to faint that caused me to leave. [Yes, that’s right, in LA the cops stated that we could not stand peacefully on the sidewalk. We weren’t blocking traffic, we weren’t breaking things – but apparently, our first amendment right to peacefully assemble is no longer valid. Another casualty of Bush’s war]

I don’t like being run off. I’m stubborn. I admit it.

So, caller, there’s your answer. The reason I haven’t left yet is because I’m stubborn and I have no common sense. Make sense?

May every gun involved in this stupid war jam – may every gas mask leak, every chemical weapon turn out to be less powerful than tear gas, every rocket end up a dud, every engine on every vehicle on both sides seize, every geartrain refuse to mesh.

May every smart bomb turn stupid, every carpet bomb unravel, every bunker buster end up falling on uninhabited territory.

In short – deprive both sides of their weapons, and let them fight it out by hand, if they must.

msn article.

Not the spin I expected from msn.

A repost of one of my friend’s posts, mirrored in case any of you missed it. It’s funny. Really.

From a msnbc story:

Fleischer would not rule out a U.S. attack before Bush’s 48-hour clock ran out since the Iraqi leader had said he wouldn’t leave. “Saddam Hussein has to figure out what this means,” he said

Let’s break the whole situation down into words a three year old could understand. Pretend instead of armies, we’re dealing with a couple of kids here:

I think you have a knife, and you might use it because you’ve used knives in the past. Therefore, I’m going to shoot you with this gun because otherwise you might cut me with your knife someday in the future. But I’ll give you 48 hours first to get out of my playground.

Oh, you say you won’t leave? Forget that 48 hours, then. Time to start pulling the trigger.

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No, really, there are people who claim this is all about protecting our rights as americans. What rights exactly are they thinking about here? The right to unlimited cheap imported oil? Or perhaps the right to have no one except americans in control of any dangerous weapons? The right to have a military dictatorship over the world?

Exactly what rights, as americans, are being threatened here? Because I don’t see how Saddam without so much as a long range missile to his name, in the international spotlight, with inspectors all over his ass, is going to be able to do much to threaten my rights as a american. On the other hand, we seem to be threatening his rights as a Iraqi in new and novel ways.

Truly, the statement that we’re not even going to wait 48 hours tells me how immoral, corrupt, evil, and just in general dispicable the U.S. has become.

What do we want? Regime change. Where do we want it? HERE!

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“Get the empty warheads out of the white house”

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Well, here it is. The clock has run out, and Bush has aimed the U.S.S. State right at the iceburg.

I want so badly to just give up and move. Any country has to be better than this. I’ve never been more ashamed of my country. Where are all the assassins? They killed Kennedey, why can’t someone take out Bush?

Oh, right, because all the people who are against Bush beleive in peace. Which implies nonviolent solutions.

I’m sure some of the pathetic excuses for patriots are out there waving flags right now, convinced that it is the moral imperative of the U.S. to decide who gets the bombs – especially when we get lots of cheap oil out of the deal.

Really, what is WRONG with the entire power structure? Where are all the congress people? How much did they pay to buy them off?

I think it’s time for another constitutional convention. We need to figure out how to rewrite the thing so that this won’t happen again. Assuming the U.S. still exists four years from now, a point in which I’m in some doubt of.

The soldiers have been convinced that attacking unprovoked is a moral choice. Apparently they aren’t resigning – a testiment to the brainwashing techniques used by the military if there ever was one. ‘Let’s go blow the shit out of Saddam because we don’t like him.’ Welcome to preschool.

There can’t be any good ending to this story. But then, not one part of the story leading up to the ending was good either. Just remember, when you see that mushroom cloud, that you were warned.

If only we could somehow get those ten million protesters to all show up in DC at the same time. Maybe level the place? That might have the desired effect. Of course, Bush would just order the cops to shoot the protesters. Who cares. Kill the lot of them. Welcome to martial law.

Listen to http://www.sheer.us/stuff/bush.mp3 – that’s Bush’s dad announcing the war on Kuwait. I’ll try and dig up a mp3 of Bush announcing war on Iraq for a A/B comparison, but until then, ask yourself – could bush ever present so rational and well thought out a argument? I never liked Bush Sr.. but he’s a prince among men compared with his son.