Bust your ass and get rich.

Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes.

When you make a shitload of money. Do something positive with it. If you are smart enough to make it, you will be smart enough to know where to put it to work.

I don’t care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefiting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make the more of a financial impact you can have.

I’m not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. Every cut job by the big companies extracts a cost on the American people in one way or another.

Entrepreneurs are needed to create and grow companies to absorb those people in new jobs. If entrepreneurs don’t create those jobs, the government ends up having to spend more money to help them one way or another.

So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes , your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. Your 2nd thought will be “what a great problem to have”, and your 3rd should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you.

In these times of “The Great Recession” we shouldn’t be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes. I don’t. I find it Patriotic.

I’m not saying that the government’s use of tax money is the most efficient use of our hard-earned capital. It obviously is not. In a perfect world, there would be a better option. We don’t live in a perfect world. We don’t live in a perfect time. We live in a time where the government plays a big role in an effort to help lead us out this Great Recession. That’s reality.

So I will repeat my point. Get out there and make a boatload of money. Enjoy the shit out your money. Pay your taxes.

It’s the most Patriotic thing you can do.

I’m now an ordained minister, bitches! Who wants to get married?

1. Flying donkey = awesome.
2. Awesome = worth the psychological stability of one donkey.

The moment when the donkey launches off the beach is fantastic:

Just — you know — FYI. Here’s a photo I snapped just this morning of a Terminator shooting fire out of his guitar to add to the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. It really just doesn’t get any better than that.

Mucho Mucho

It’s stupid to deny that global warming is happening — the Earth has been warming over the last half century (though apparently not the last 8 years or so). The picture below, representing data from an ice core in Greenland, puts it into perspective though.

It's Getting Hot in Here.

If 120 years of CO2 is causing that little blip (down there on the right, way down at the end), then what the hell happened 1000 years ago? Or when the Roman empire was at its peak? And holy crap they must have been burning the ever-living-shit out of some green house gases back in 1700 BC. Probably the fucking Spartans, I bet.

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