Sully is God

We're going to take a break from the Dumb Things to state..

Captain, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, is.. God. For this I have seen, and for this I've experienced. Those know-it-all metereologists said that on Giants Opening Day that it was going to rain, hail, thunderstorm with a tornado and a hurricane, etc. Okay, so I made the last two up. Weather.com had a 100% chance rain approaching game time and 3 and 4pm. Everyone was convinced that there was no way that this game would start on time. So, when I look up at the many "futurecast" radar and see the entire bay area soaked in a menagerie of green, yellows and oranges, I'm saddened. But wait! What's this? There's a neat little hole in the middle of the green....right over AT&T Park. Could this be? How could one perfect circle of non-rainness (yes, that's my new world) be so perfectly situated over the ballpark. It must've been a glitch on the radar. The 5 year old coloring the futurecast map must've had to get up to pee or something.

They pull the tarp off the infield dirt at 12:45. It starts to drizzle. Of course. It lasts 5 minutes. Giants take the field. Followed by Sully. The rain stops. The skys open. Sun shines down on the bleachers. It doesn't rain the entire game at all. Back at the traffic desk Mitch watches the radar and sees as the dark green band off the coast avoids the aura of AT&T park like the plague.

There is only one possible answer to this phenomenon. Okay, there are other possibilities, but I'm going with this one. Sully is God. He makes planes land on water and makes skies part. Plus when our boy Timmy pitches like the 13 year old bat boy he looks like, instead of a dominating overpowering 13 year old he was last year, and the Giants still score 10 runs?! Sully is God.

On a side note...why can't I get cell phone reception with my AT&T cell phone, inside AT&T Park?

On Traffic Jams Make You Do Weird Things....

Incident: 0547
Type: Traffic Hazard - Vehicle Location:
NB US101 JNO WALDO TUN S
2/16/2009 9:01:15 AM

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
8:56AM PER BRIDGE, VEH NEG 1125 NOW CHP CAN 1022
8:56AM PER THIS CALLER HAVE BEEN STOPPED IN TUNNEL FOR 45 MINS
8:54AM LL BRIDG
8:54AM MALE YELLING AT PEOPLE TO BACK UP SO HE CAN AVOID THE TRAFIC JAM
8:54AM JNO LAKE DRIVE
8:53AM AMA DRIVER
8:53AM MALE STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND TRYING MAKE A UTURN IN #3 LN
8:52AM GLD HONDA PILOT TRYING TO BACK UP TO INTERSECTION SO HE CAN TURN AROUND

And...he's ASIAN! Yay for the Asian Driver!...not that I have attempted a U-turn on a freeway....

On Paying Attention....

So...I know some people aren't as aware of their surroundings as some other people. Me included. But, this one might top the cake.

I walked into Safeway on my break and got my $3.99 (on coupon) Safeway sandwich (hey, its the economy!). Walked to the checkout stand. And of the 7 registers open numbers 2 thru 6 were open. I walked past #1, and this guy was unloading his cart onto the conveyor belt. I thought, oh, maybe they just didn't turn on the light. Nope. There wasn't a worker there. The light wasn't on, but he was unloading his cart. I got in line in an open register (an amazing concept, really) and the guy is done with his unloading. Looks up at where the worker should be....then looks up at where the light should be on....looks around...and repacks his cart and moves over.

No words can describe this.

On Stupid Comments...

There was another BART protest yesterday. This time the people were calling for the release of the people who were arrested during the riot that followed that New Year's Day Bart shooting. This one idiot they interviewed said that they should be relased because the people did it out of anger, and that it would further increase the tension between the Oakland youth and the police who are criminalizing them.

Basically this guy says that it is because of the police that the people arrested lit trash cans on fire, lit cars on fire, destroyed storefronts, etc...and that it is OK for them to do that because its the police's fault that made them do it. WHAT?! They committed a crime...they go to jail.

That brings me to other stupidity. There was a city in the Bay Area whose police chief came under fire because the amount of a certain race of people inside the jails was disproportionate to the percent of that race in the city's population. So does that mean...since I'm Chinese (or, rather categorized Asian) that if I go out and kill someone and the SF jails are filled with 35% Asian that I should be set free because that'd be disproportionate? THAT'S A STUPID ARGUMENT. Look, I don't care if you're black, white, yellow, purple, or puke green. You could be 3'6", or 7'9", if you commit a crime, you belong in jail. Simple. It doesn't matter. Its your fault you commited the crime. You pay the price and don't ask for any excuses.

Another one I don't get it is the Insanity Defense. Most notably I remember is the lady that threw her three kids into the bay because she said God told her to do it (THAT is a rant in and of itself). Look...it doesn't matter that you're insane or mentally unstable. It really doesn't. That doesn't excuse the fact that you did what you did and you can't reverse it. Get help....in jail....for a looooooooooooong time.

Christmas Observations vol 2

1. Holiday season, in my book, officially starts November 1.

2. Only one holiday should be advertised at a time, and should not be advertised prior to an upcoming holiday.

3. Why are candy canes being sold during Halloween candy shopping? That's nasty.

4. KOIT (96.5 FM): I am fine with you playing Christmas music 24 hours a day. I am fine with you being the "Bay Area's Christmas Station." Start the day after Christmas...not a week before! Sleigh bells should not ring on my turkey!

5. Your Christmas lights...are for Christmas, that means that they need to be taken down. Due date: January 2nd.

6. If you have your lights still hanging up from last Christmas (or 10 years prior) and just plug them in in Dec...then that isn't the point!

7. Why does Santa smell?

8. Am I the only one who thinks that the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a horrible Christmas song? You're going to traumetize the poor kid seeing Mommy cheating on Daddy like that. Geez.

9. Where can I buy a partridge in a pear tree? (or twelve for that matter)

10. How many Chistmas' is it going to take before Mariah Carey just gives up? (anyone get this reference???)

11. No gigantic Christmas trees in the middle of plazas before Thanksgiving.

12. I do this one, so I shouldn't complain but..anybody find it funny that we take a tree, hang things off of it and then light it up like a big gigantic beacon?

13. Don't forget to reduce your carbon footprint with these nifty solar-powered Christmas lights...hmm why don't these things work? Oh that's right I'm in San Francisco, its foggy and rainy...

14. Does this mean that Rudolph's nose is also solar powered?

15. Apparently Christmas is the only time where plugging something into an electrical outlet in the rain is totally acceptable.

On Pointless Boycotts

Cinemark's CEO Alan Stock donated $9,999 ($1 below the $10K reporting threshold, fishy, yes...) to ProtectMarriage.com . Now, the NO on 8 people are calling for a boycott of Cinemark Theatres, especially for Milk.

While I agree with the No on 8, There are financial reasons why a boycott is not effective in ousting Alan Stock.

- In just the specific case of Milk...the direct effect that the movie's expected revenue would have on Cinemark is....minimal, with or without a boycott. (I point to the screaming teenage girls packing the midnight showings of Twilight...). Plus the studio takes around 50% of the box office gross, so the figure 1,000 tickets x $10 a ticket = $10,000 really only amounts to around $4,000 to $5,000 in revenue...and thats pennies to the company, and what, if any of that, filters up to Mr. Stock is probably the quivalent to low end toilet paper.

- While it is contradictory for the CEO of Cinemark to benefit from showing a movie about a gay supervisor....realize that it isn't the CEO'S choice which movies are played at what theatre...

- In terms of a general overall boycott...Alan Stock will still get his pay regardless of whether or not he is fired by the company. And, he probably has so much that would be unaffected by a job loss in any case. An effective boycott (and, sorry, I point to Twilight, and say that this hasn't happened, yet) only affects the ground level workers, most of whom, probably agree with the No on 8 campaign. The lack of business brought on by an effective boycott means less budget, less hours, less need for there to be workers at the theatres. The ground level workers are the people who really need the money in the first place.

- So you ask...why don't the workers just...not work there? In this economy, if you have a job, you hang onto it for dear life, unless its absolutely horrible.

- Alan Stock doesn't have to directly deal with the e-mails and the calls, its everyone else in the company that has to "clean it up".

- You're taking on a large, global, corporation. The reason why the boycott worked in Sacramento is because it was smaller, with one source of income, not thousands of screens worth of income.

- I don't know what a direct answer would be to Mr. Stock's donations, or even if there should be, except to continue the fight to make gay marriage constitutional, once again. I just believe a boycott against a company of this size unintentionally affect the wrong people.

Personals Stupidity...

Found this one...it made me sort of...hurl...

Is it weird I've never been attracted to an Asian guy? - 21 (SF)

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Reply to: pers-926411003@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-11-19, 7:16PM PST



And I'm Asian? I mean I guess it has to do with where I grew up and the demographics of my hometown...but yea...I've liked white guys, black, even this one latino guy who was really caliente Lol! I think it has to do with the height, since I'm really tall, or maybe their lack of confidence, or the eyes or something. Was that a weird post, or what? So I guess I'm looking for a relationship, blah blah, attach a picture if you want me to reply, if you're not in San Francisco, don't respond. What do you do for a living, what are your interests, goals etc. Thanx.

By the way, sorry if it's offensive, I just tend to be rather honest. "lookism" it's superficial but hey, it's human nature.


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The problem with the Asian American community is kind of summed up here..good ol' Asians stereotyping Asians. How does one community ever find the ability to come together when they're busy bashing their own people? The main thing I hate about stereotypes is that people take three to five people, make that the generalization for the entire group of people and that's it for the rest of the population. What happened to that "individuals" thing?

Hope that "exotic asian woman" stereotype works out for this girl...

I Can't Even Think of a Title for this Stupidity...

Story

Basically, this girl says that a 6 foot 4 black man saw her bumper sticker that she was support McCain and proceeded to beat her, rob her and carve a "B" into her cheek all while tell her that she was going to vote for Barack.

Yes, when I first heard the story, I thought: Someone's a few bees short of a hive! (End lame joke.)

So turns out, she made it all up. Although she did carve a "B" into her own cheek. And she can't explain why she did it. She was charged with filing a false police report and instead of being cited is being sent to seek mental help.

Okay, it doesn't take a detective to figure this one out...

She obviously wanted to make a claim that people were so crazy for Barack that they would go out and beat anyone who wouldn't support him. Of course it backfired, hence stupidity. There is nothng wrong with her mental stability, although I give her credit for figuring out how to carve a full "B" into her cheek...

When Political Desperation leads to....Extortion!

And no I'm not talking about McPalin. In this case they're better than this.

Here's the story about Prop 8 in SF.

Lets pull some quotes shall we?

"Make a donation of a like amount to ProtectMarriage.com which will help us correct this error," reads the letter. "Were you to elect not to donate comparably, it would be a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage. ... The names of any companies and organizations that choose not to donate in like manner to ProtectMarriage.com but have given to Equality California will be published."

That sounds like a threat don't it. But of course what they're doing is completely legal just morally wrong. Funny how I would bring up morally wrong...

"But when asked about the letter to Equality California donors, Prentice confirmed they were authentic and said the ProtectMarriage.com campaign was asking businesses backing the other side "to reconsider taking a position on a moral issue in California."

Because threats aren't moral at all!

Look folks, this isn't an issue about kids learning about gay marriage in schools. And if someone can explain to me how a gay marriage takes away from a man-woman marriage then let me know. And if someone can explain to me how it also destroys the family structure when these people actually go out and adopt because they want kids, and not because they have a kid on accident, :cough: Bristol Palin :cough:

Stay out of peoples lives...geez.

An Endorsement....

Barack Obama is my choice. And yes, I know that means that all those swing states (OH, NV, CO, FL, real Virginia) will all back my endorsement and this race will be over and we can all go on living happy lives. Anyway, here's why.

1) John McCain is a racist.
2) Sarah Palin is an idiot.
3) John McCain + Sarah Palin = Divided America.

I explain.

-Someone tell me how Sarah Palin can get away with saying that the small towns of America are the "real" or "Pro-America"? How can she say, "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."

-How can Sarah Palin, herself, be Pro-America, when she calls a senator and Presidential candidate a terrorist?

-How can Sarah Palin, in the debate, tell Joe Biden to "say it ain't so, Joe, there you go looking into the past" and still bring up Bill Ayers?

-How can John McCain sit there and say he, the maverick, is going to run a clean campaign, only to "energize" his base so much that he created a monster that doesn't even listen to him when he tries to defend Obama. Seriously. When that woman says, "I can't trust Obama, he's an Arab", and when McCain tries to defend Obama and gets Booed...just look at his face, it has "oh s*it, what have I started" all over his face.

-And, another thing I don't understand. Of Wal-Mart shoppers, McCain is supported over Obama 58 to 33 percent. I'm assuming that Wal-Mart shoppers are of a lower income (less than $250,000) and would receive a proposed tax-cut under Obama. So why are people cheering when McCain points out that its a redistribution of wealth? If Joe the CEO is making seven figures and has a personal shopper, and Joe the Janitor is making minimum wage and shopping at Wal-Mart, then we should help Joe the Janitor, not giving more money to Joe the CEO...

-I'd also like to point out that the Director of the SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival has more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin. Does that make him qualified to be VP?

-Yes on V, No on 8, No on Eric Mar, No on Mark Sanchez.