Jaimetud: Shout! To the Music

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Jaimetud recollects his summer job as a music director for a lesser known Off-Broadway play and pokes fun at the process of writing the music in this special, musical episode of "Jaimetud." Will some of your favorite songs from the sixties make an appearance here? Take a look!

It Ends…

I waited a while to post this so I could make sure it was officially over, but I had to be sure. Chriswpieper lasted longer than the rest of them, but at least he struck up an interesting conversation:

The regulations help prevent future bank failures by restricting very risky investments. And the bailouts helped avoid an economic depression, so without them we could be a lot worse-off. As we can tell by the contrast between Hoover and Roosevelt, it's better to have a president who takes action instead of one who lets the economy recover on its own.

Another product of our educational system. FDR saved us all, right folks? Wrong. My response:

I know the regulations are put into place with the best of intentions, but as I’ve said, the people who put these things into place don’t often know how economics works. In the late nineties, Fannie Mae was regulated to give out loans to any family who asked for one. That’s the part of the story they don’t talk about enough. So unless that Regulation gets removed, we’re still headed for more trouble.

It’s not over though:

These regulations aren't the same as the one's in the late nineties. These are designed to LIMIT loans. And yes, I do agree that WWII was ultimately the main thing that got us fully out of the depression, but the new deal did help us get halfway out, and it helped avoid deeper depression, if not help grow the economy. I believe that if he didn't take action, the outcome would be a lot worse.

A Democrat president that limits spending. That’ll be the day. My response:

Yes, I can see that. They are hopefully limiting, but the problem is mainly that they have that power. Say that they know what they’re doing and that they manage to make decisions good for the short term. Whoever comes in to replace them MAY NOT have the same philosophies and you’ve continued the vicious cycle of the effects of poor legislation. That’s why government should have less to do with business practices altogether.

I would also like to ask, where is the balance? If Congress is allowed to spend more but Fannie Mae is not, isn’t that just taking the same problem and moving it elsewhere? And again, I would Googling “FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate” for more information on FDR’s policies.

It’s been four days since this ended, but it turned out interesting. I admit, for someone who started off with an insult, he did make me think more about my position. It shouldn’t have to be a fight, but I hope I made him think too.

The Saga Continues

Lately, I’ve been considering chopping both my hands off to stop myself from voicing my opinion on Youtube. That video on the so-called “GOP Job Killing Agenda” hasn’t yet stopped providing entertainment for me. Today’s comments come from Youtube user chriswpeiper:

In case you didn't know, the health care bill REDUCES the deficit and creates competition within businesses, which is good. Educate yourself BEFORE commenting.

My response:

Don't worry, sir. I keep myself educated. And last I checked (today), small businesses are already paying more thanks to the Health Care bill. That's not pro business and it's not helping.

And here’s what he had to say in response to one of my other comments:

Jamieturd, thats a lame argument. People could have gone to work but chose not to?! And actually, ever since Obama took office, unemployment started to go down and now jobs are actually starting to be created, something that hasn't happened under the Bush era for a long, long time.

Facts are hard to face sometimes, but lying to make yourself look smart is just plain wrong.

Time to whip out the guns:

Good. Now you've stooped to the level of name-calling and made yourself look childish. As for unemployment, don't make the mistake of atributing it to this administration's actions. Again, read "Basic Economics" by Sowell. The actions of this administration aren't what's going to help this economy.

You don't realize that there's a subculture of people in this country who simply don't want to work? I just got back from Louisiana. There's a large percentage of people down there who simply live off of welfare. You can find these same people in places like Chicago and on the streets of San Francisco. Heck, I know a guy whose wife tried to stop him from getting a job so that they could live off of food stamps. The people getting jobs back now are those like me who WANT them.

I must’ve said something to calm him down a bit, because he did come back to me with this:

Okay, so the economy is starting to recover, jobs are being created, and consumers are starting to spend more. Seems to me like the Obama admin, is doing at least something right. But, as you can see in the video, their colleagues don't want to help. As for people that don't want to work, sure it's true, what I'm saying is that is such a small minority of people and they're not the ones keeping our economy from recovering.

Here’s my response:

Thank you for being reasonable, but I still don’t agree. The economy is recovering thanks to it’s normal fluctuation. What the Obama administration is doing is putting regulations into place, which inevitably get in the way profits and cause harm to the economy. This is behavior typical of career politicians. They go for what sounds best as opposed to what truly is best.

Now, the Republicans DO want to help. It’s just that this video only gives you half of the story. This is why I’m subscribed to this channel as well as the “EricCantor” and “RepublicanLeader” channels. Republicans have offered alternatives since the first stimulus bill was created and they’ve been working on bills that don’t cost nearly as much nor do they enforce government intrusions that harm businesses.

What do you guys think so far? Is this saga of political banter getting long enough, or shall I post what he says as a response?

Onto other Topics

You might recall a short time ago a friend of mine on Facebook complaining about PJTV downsizing the power of the minority. Ended that post saying I’m glad that it didn’t turn into a foaming at the mouth argument. Well, it seems I’ve danced on the fine line that turns it into one.



“Drinkingwithbob” on Youtube is the very definition of a radical figure. Not only is he very strong in his convictions but he also is very outspoken about them. And by that I mean, every video he puts on a ranting routine about whatever current events he can think of. Sometimes he has a point, sometimes he sounds like a nutball truther, in which case I’ll give his videos a thumbs down. But apparently, he’s got that angry insult comic style that’s popular up until the point where you don’t agree with him.

So when I gave the above video a thumbs up, I made sure to post the following comment along with it on my Facebook account:

For the record, I don't condone the action of a guy going around with a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache. For all I know, he could've been a member of the LaRouchePAC. The problem I have though is, that this sort of thing was condoned in a lot of places for almost eight years straight and no one gave this kind of attention to it for reasons I can only guess.

My Facebook friend responds:

this guy just gets angry to get attention. why is the bungling of a situation at the Alaska state fair worth mentioning? this is not one of the larger problems the guy discussed.
don't get me started on the "ground zero mosque" what a load of bologna. I know your accounts are linked but I see posting as asking for a conversation, so let’s have one.

This is the sort of response I get from people who notice I thumbs up this guy’s videos, even though I’ve been doing it for some time now and he just finally noticed. So I accepted his challenge:

Yes, you guessed right. This guy get's angry as a schtick. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's out to make a point, and somtimes I even think it's baloney, in which cases I don't give him any ratings at all. But the reason as to why it’s worth mentioning is because IF it is a violation of first ammendment rights and not about the other charges mentioned, then that’s a problem. Like I said, I don’t agree with the protester’s methods at all, but I thought he had a right to do so. I’ve seen these protesters before and it pisses me off to see people likening politicians to infamous dictators, but they have their rights.

But you know, it doesn’t matter sometimes the attitude that people have. If you don’t agree with the message in video, it’s still worth a response:



His response:

watch this for 12 minutes and tell me what you think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpT2Muxoo0&feature=player_embedded

also note that this is a clip from a major news network and not a made up news network on youtube. That talks about world religions sucking.

Another victim of Keith Olbermann’s inability to see past the end of his nose:


My response…was a bit lengthy:

Ah yes, MSNBC, the network that tried to prove that the Tea Party movement was anti-black racist by showing footage of people carrying guns at one of their conventions…who just so happened to be black. Sorry, but just because a news network is major doesn’t make it any more or less accurate than any other organization.

My first thoughts are as follows. Keith starts out by doing exactly what the guy at the Alaska State Fair did. He likens his political opponents to Nazis, then backs away in his own typical style. As I said before, this bothers me no matter who does it, but he has his right to do so.

Second, I can see that Keith is content with dumbing down the influence of foreign monetary ties to this center. As far as I can tell, these ties, these ties are not being properly investigated, but imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is ambiguous in many of his statements so long as it furthers the more radical Islam agenda. The way he talks about Yusuf Qaradawi, a man who said that Iraqi citizens have a religious obligation to kill Americans in Iraq, you couldn’t tell if Rauf had a personal opinion on him.

For more information, read here:
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3453

Now for this Park 51 as it’s being called. I’ve actually read up on it and some of it’s supporters. And no, I didn’t have to go to PJTV to hear about this, but it’s been a slap in the face to the people who remember 9/11. and don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t be against building a mosque in New York. There are already mosques in New York, some of which have condemned the more radical members of their religion as they should. It’s just that with a controversial figure like Rauf involved, it makes you wonder.

Keith of course, spins this against his political opponents saying that they’re just bigots and that Muslims are the true victims here. Never mind the Islamic Brotherhood, Hamas, PLO’s and Al-Qaeda. Muslims are somehow more likely to be victims of violence and bigotry. And to prove it, he shows a video of a guy trying to blow up a mosque in Florida because that ONE guy speaks for the whole group apparently.

Now, I want to make this point quite clear. I do not hate Islamists. As I have been explained time and time again, there are two kinds of jihad described in Islam. There are Muslims who make jihad internal, which is simply put their own spiritual struggles, and those make it external, which is what radicals do I knew a guy who was a Muslim back in high school. Nice guy. Do I think he’s gonna go crazy? No, I don’t.

So in order to get a bigger picture, don’t watch MSNBC. Put your own time and effort into finding alternatives and do your own research if you have to. Support more independent news organizations and not people like Keith Olbermann who can’t see past his own nose to figure out who persecutes who.

Amazingly, I’m still friended with this person. Which means that he’s more tolerant than I give him credit for, he’s stopped watching the videos I post, or he’s waiting for me to crosspost a clip from Fox News to start whining about me being a hypocrite.