Just Some Random Examples Of EveryDay Stupidity

I can't open a newspaper or watch a report on TV without cursing the commercialized bastards of journalists feeding the stupid masses their daily dose of pulp.

There are 4 groups of people I mainly keep responsible for the current reign of fear, the shameless capitalism, the general lack of spine and complete hypocrisy:

• Journalists (or better: The Media in general, for poisening our minds and clouding our judgements by consistently bringing certain kinds of brushed-up and popularized news in a wrong light, making grave errors bringing it, and even having the guts to serve up their own uninformed and unreliable conclusions, finished off of course by some weak joke at the end and the sensation-dripping head.)


• Marketing sleezebags (you know 'em, those sleezy slick swindlers who could sell sand in the desert and go through loads of lies, FUD and deceit to do so, who create research companies just to support their crap, who will do anything in the name of "corporate image" (even spend money!) and just swindle the whole world in general, even if they have a good product to begin with)


• stupids (people who in general just plain refuse to look somewhat further than a noselength and thus buy into the completely narrow-minded bullshit and nonsense of the other 3 categories)
  and of course 


• politicians (special mix of aforementioned three with real power and an entire arsenal of weird dirty games)

This combination of powers despises the truth, objectivity and the constructive solution. It's mind boggling to see how diseased a society can get when this combination is playing against it. See also The Netherlands.

Just a random exerpt from today's (and yesterday's) newspaper:

• "KLM: Big Luggageproblems Solved"
  The Telegraaf is by definition a pinnacle of sickening decorated made-up lies, but in this case they're just copying the press release, just as so many do.
  Only 3% of all luggage gets lost in the airport, "A 33 percent improvement from last year”.
  In other words, jackass, last year it was 4%. So in fact you're losing 1 lousy suitcase a hundred less and you're fucking proud of it!? Who the hell makes this shit up anyway!?
  Better yet, the luggage transportation systems are migrating to a RFID solution next year. Apparently this will be working flawlessly from the start, since their goal next year is to lose only 15 out of a 1000 suitcases, "another 200% improvement!"!


• "Mission Afghanistan Closer"
  As always our Parliament is fussing with the Cabinet about "the safety of our troops".
  I'll say this one last time: If you want our boys to be safe, just scuttle the entire army and please shut your ignorant traps. The people engaging on these missions are volunteers, and they know very well what they are getting themselves into. And the last thing these guys are waiting for is patronizing belittling arguments from a bunch of lame politicians who've been around for 2 years dragging themselves in a complete farçe from scandal to crisis to scandal to crisis, who have no substance whatsoever and who are even too louzy to actually read up on their files. Better yet: Our Foreign Affairs minister expressed his happiness for the "interesting guarantees" NATO gave for this mission, namely they'll intervene when necessary.
  WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO!? Show up a couple of days later with some bodybags after the shit's hit the fan!? Or will every Dutch soldier be taken by the hand by an American who has the task of dying for his country instead of hearing constant bickering about his uses and safety in Afghanistan?


• "No More Cruelty Against Prisoners"
  Again our Foreign Affairs minister: "We've had a good hard long talk about that, and it's clear that the United States are upholding the international treaties". Eeeeuuuuh... it is?
  
  
  
  • They only started dismantling prisons after it became known they existed.
  
  
  • They only "changed policy" when it became known they were violating it.
  
  
  • They've been lying about lots of stuff anyway.
  
  
  • They've acted illegally before.
  
  
  • They're still doing it, for example in Guantanamo Bay.
  
  
  • They've pushed us as their allies around completely before, using us as doormat and convenient sidekick to lay stuff on.
  
  
  • What's their actual statement: "We've never done it and we will never do it again. No, you're not allowed to check on that, we're just saying that, friends. And besides, all the evidence that never existed is destroyed by now anyway". OR AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS UTTERLY RIDICULOUS!?
  
  
  
  


• "Sixteen-year Olds On Tractors Is Absurd"
  On stage we have a true dimwit, who, combined with a press mosquito, manages to cause an uproar about nothing, at least in our province.
  Short summary of the stupidity:
  Fact: From 16 years onwards one is allowed with a special certificate to drive scooters and tractors.
  Fact: Scooter- and cardrivers aged below 23 are relatively speaking causing the most accidents.
  Conclusion drawn by the replacement chief-in-command of police for Zeeland: It's absurd a 16-year old is allowed to drive a tractor. That age should be brought up to 18, because youngsters cause by far the most accidents in traffic.
  Google: Searching for accidents caused by tractors driven by persons aged below 18 gives less than 10 incidents in the past 5 years, of which one was aged below 16 and two others were drunk. Aside from that, I fail to find any figures or statistics supporting this guy's nonsense (Pears+Apples=Bananas), although I'm open to anyone who can show me the statistics who prove him right, I know Google isn't exactly an authority for this).


• "AIVD Demands Peter R. de Vries Returns Diskettes"
  You've got to admit: However that bloated piece of sensationalist shit got it into his possession is a mystery, but it's just as believable as last time, and he's going to score over it bigtime again. Back then a high prosecutor was supposed to have put his unwiped PC out with the trash (which is not allowed), a taxidriver who happened to come by picked it up and delivered it to Peter R. de Vries.
  Sure.
  The story's even better now: A Regional Intelligence Service (RID) employee is supposed to have either sold his car or to have traded in his lease-car. The new owner is supposed to have found two diskettes in the car which had been laying around in there for the past 3 years and passed them on to Peter R. de Vries. On the diskettes there are reports about a number of highly confidential matters.
  I don't know whichever pisses me off: Either I choose to not believe the story, in which case this Peter R. de Vries gets his hands on this kind of shit way too easily, or I choose to believe the story, in which case anybody can get their hands on that shit way too easily.
  Either way, one thing is absolutely for sure, especially with the latter: the government doesn't even get the rudimentary basic principles for safety and carefullness, not even with the most secret service in our country. Or so we are led to believe. Which I simply refuse to do. They simply can't be thàt stupid. On the other hand, it's the military intelligence who does all the digital dirty work, like e-mailinterception, internet espionage and so on. And the military intelligence service is yet to be caught with it's pants down like this.


• "Broad Measures Against Cannabiscultivation"
  OK, fair enough, this one is a first for Zeeland but other municipalities have been doing this for some time.
  
  
  
  • The basic idea: The laws aren't strict enough, we're going to put matters into our own hands HUH!? For real. We can do that.
  
  
  • Another argument: "They think this cultivation is too much of a security risk"
    I was wondering when they'd start about that.
    It suprises me they didn't go so far as yap about how smalltime homegrowers are financing terrorism.
    The point is they're too much of a fire hazard, "especially for the neighbours".
    To my knowledge and searchings there has yet to be a single casualty due to fire in a home caused by a small grass farm. Better still: The only wounded I did find had to be taken to hospital because of smoke in their lungs or because they'd come into contact with asbestos. There are also strong indications this holds true nationally.
    Again: I fail to find good statistics, there are no sources stated, but if someone feels the urges to prove this bunch of suckers right, go right ahead.
    Also pay attention to the carefully constructed sentence: "{The mayor of Hulst} already had several incidents where neighbours could only barely escape after a fire broke out" 
    ... O wait, I missed a piece: "in a home weedfarm."
  
  
  • And there it is again: "They'll be "taken care of" in other ways as well...The punishments layed down by the courts...are not deterring enough" Great. Vigilantism is what I call it. And ever since something called a constitution and justice system are in existence civilized people have promised not to engage into it.
    "Amongs other things, the housing corporation will 'immediately and without further ado' cancel the renting agreement...{and}...will notify surrounding landlord corporations".
    There you go. That's it. Now they're not only allowed to "take care of" you, no, they're effectively legally banishing you from the Netherlands ór put you in the hands of corrupted criminal landlords. All that for an attic with some weeds growing in it, mind you. No wonder they've stopped calling it "social housing".
    What they fail to mention is whether or not they will do this when you're not doing it on their turf but for example in a shed on the other side of the country.
    Or if they'll do this to the residents or the growers.
  
  
  • "{they'll get a} subsequent tax demand"
    What for!? On what!? Thank you trash journalism for not mentioning it, but what the hell is this about!? You can't tax something that's not legal can you!? What's next, VATting stolen goods receivers?!?!
    Although I have to mention in all fairness that I actually do agree upon the principle of not letting the taxpayers carry the burden of cleaning out the house and stuff.
  
  
  
  


• The thing they don't get in my eyes is who's exactly doing what here in the Netherlands. Final list:
  
  
  
  • Municipality governments control they daily business of a municipality. They do NOT make laws, just regulations which are meant to be written within the spirit of the laws.
  
  
  • Housing/Landlord corporations build and let houses and keep their traps shut about anything else.
  
  
  • The mayor growers harvest huge quantities, are not in the least deterred by fines, don't have a rental house, make up their losses within a year after they're busted and so on.
  
  
  • Aside from that there's a growing part of the population failing to cope financially thanks to governmental budget cuts and steeply rising costs and who decide to either let their attic or start growing the grass there themselves. When they get caught they're now not only punished by fines, they're also ruined by the bill for their own arrest and they are banished from the neighbourhood, the city, indeed the entire province they've been living in for perhaps all of their lives. And all this because they're a danger to the safety of the neighbours.
    Contemplating this train of thoughts I've got some pretty good ideas of my own (allright, this will truly be the final list):
    
    
    
    • Let's not deny it any longer: When there's danger, the person perpetrator causing the danger is less of a human than the bystanders in danger. Let him or her rot as we save them first.
    
    
    • Hell, let's throw everybody who's "a danger" in the eyes of people who have nothing to say about it out of our country right now.
    
    
    • Everybody who has a record should be branded. On the forehead, so that anybody can give a kick or throw an egg as soon as they see these culprits.
    
    
    • And finally: Anybody who has an overgrown backyard is a perpetrator heavy criminal and should be put behind bars for the remainder of their life.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • The elderly are another fine example. They leave the gas on too often, they fail to keep up their gardens, they don't have a lot of money and they're real good pushovers. Arrest them, lock them up, brand them and banish them, that's what I say! You can't deny I'm learning from our wise chosen leaders and their cronies!
  
  
  
  

I could go on for quite a while, but I'm done bitching again and I'm sick of it again. I just wish that instead of fear and money, reason and compassion would start ruling again.

tags: nonsense  media  lies  politicians  deceit  

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