November 24, 2008 by RBuffordTJ.

If a man cuts his finger off while slicing salami at work, he blames the restaurant.

If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your family blames the tobacco company.

If you crash into a tree while driving home drunk, you blame the bartender.

If your grandchildren are  brats without manners, you blame television.

If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.

If a street racer crashes into a law  abiding citizen and kills them, you blame the police for not cracking down.

If your unable to pay your mortgage on a house you could never afford in the first place, you blame the mortgage company.

If a teenager goes on a shooting spree at his school, you blame video games.

If you gain too much weight and become diabetic you blame McDonalds for their “Super Size” meals.

And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the pilot at 35,000 feet,  and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the crazed deceased blames the airline.

If you lose your job you blame the government, even though you don’t work for the government.

If I die while my butt is parked in front of this computer, I want all of you to blame it on Bill Gates.

WAKE UP AMERICA!  It is time to stand and take responsibility, lets stop playing the balme game.

Bufford

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June 6, 2008 by Jeremy.

Taken from Dirty Harry comes clean:

Clint Eastwood folds his gangly frame behind a clifftop table at the Hotel Du Cap, a few miles up the coast from Cannes, sighs deeply, and squints out over the Mediterranean. “Has he ever studied the history?” he asks, in that familiar near-whisper.

The “he” is Spike Lee, and the reason Eastwood is asking is because of something Lee had said about Eastwood’s Iwo Jima movie Flags of Our Fathers, while promoting his own war movie, Miracle at St Anna, about a black US unit in the second world war. Lee had noted the lack of African-Americans in Eastwood’s movie and told reporters: “That was his version. The negro version did not exist.”

Eastwood has no time for Lee’s gripes. “He was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.” As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, “but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.”

 Eastwood pauses, deliberately - once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho - and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies. “A guy like him should shut his face.”

I don’t understand why Spike Lee can’t use some Common Sense and realize that there is no need to make this movie a “race issue” because the movie deals in what I like to call “fact” and that is how Clint Eastwood did the film. I’ve seen the film and it is very moving and told the story of the Iwo Jima flag raising very well.

I am so tired of people making racial issues out of something that should not be racial at all. I cannot stand racism from either respect. There are those that are racist by hating someone of a particular race and then there are those that are racist because they think their race deserves special treatment. Both of these thought are racist and deserve to be called such.

So I will put myself out there right now and say that Spike Lee is a racist. I think that is just Common Sense.

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May 6, 2008 by Jeremy.

That’s right I went to see Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and I must say it is the perfect film for anyone using some Common Sense.

The basic premise is why Intelligent Design is not even allowed to be argued in academia but the true point of the film is to show that freedoms are being taken away from the American people and that is something that should worry us way more than it seems to at the moment.

The part that really blew my mind was at the end when Richard Dawkins admits that Intelligent Design is feasible as long as God was not the designer. That really shows his true intentions for believing in evolution. He just doesn’t want to answer to God. If you don’t know who Richard Dawkins is then that is good for you. (Keep in mind we’re not a religious site and we are not trying to convince anyone to that end on this site, we just hope you use some Common Sense on the matter.)

If you consider yourself a person with some Common Sense then you need to see this film.

So go see expelled and learn why there is “No Intelligence Allowed”.

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April 14, 2008 by Jeremy.

At least that’s what Alicia Keys believes now. And for her completely moronic theory she gets to be our new Illogical Thought Award winner!

She actually believes that the government and the media fueled the “gangsta rap” coastal wars. This has to be one of most illogical theories I have ever heard.

It makes me glad I’ve never bought any of her albums and assures that I never will.

Let’s hear it for the lack of common sense once again! Congratulations on the award Alicia!

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March 20, 2008 by Jeremy.

I have to admit that I am. My wife did a great thing for me last Christmas and bought me an awesome HD DVD Player. I told her that I probably would have waited to see which format won but that it was no big deal.

I was trying to use my common sense!

I really thought the war would last a little longer but, as I’m sure you know, it did not.

The other unfortunate thing for me is that she did not buy it from Best Buy.

Best Buy $50 gift cards for HD DVD suckers

This is Best Buy using some great common sense. They know that all of these people that have and HD DVD are going to go Blu-Ray seeing as how they are pre-inclined to grab new gadgets and have the top of the line anyway.  So Best Buy is going to give them some free money in hopes that all of the those Blu-Ray players will come from Best Buy.

That’s some good common sense, let’s see how it works for them on the bottom line…

So were you and HD DVD Sucker?

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June 20, 2007 by Jeremy.

Movie Scolded For Not Espousing Abortion

Slate is no better with reviewer Dana Stevens seeming to insist that no one in an “upper-middle-class, secular L.A” would ever imagine that abortion isn’t an option.

Allow me to briefly divagate here on the nonexistence of abortion as an option in Knocked Up. This omission smells of the focus group, and it’s a disappointment in a movie that otherwise prides itself on its unsentimental honesty about the realities of unplanned parenthood. It’s just not believable that, in Alison and Ben’s upper-middle-class, secular L.A. milieu, abortion would not be matter-of-factly discussed as a possibility in the case of a pregnancy this accidental.

Her pedantic use of “divagate” aside, Stevens is amazing because she is such a true believer in abortion that she just can’t imagine that anyone else except, perhaps, a knuckle dragging midwestern rube, would ever care about the life of a fetus… or is that an unviable clump of cells? What ever the hip phrase for infanticide is today.

And let us not leave out The New York Times, all the news that’s fit to abort, which quickly jumps on the why-not-have-an-abortion bandwagon with a review by Mireya Navarro.

The possibility of not having the baby is never discussed by either woman despite her circumstances. The word “abortion” is never uttered…Though conservatives regularly accuse Hollywood of being overly liberal on social issues, abortion rarely comes up in film.

How completely crazy is this notion? These people are upset because the movie didn’t even talk about the characters having an abortion. I haven’t seen the movie and had not really planned on it due to the nature of the film.

I’m going to overlook all of the other problems with this stance and look at one through a common sense point of view. The whole idea and comedic action of the movie is the two characters trying to work things out, since they are both so extremely different, to raise this child. Abortion wasn’t brought up because the idea of abortion is not funny. The thought of abortion is depressing.

It’s just really sad that a society had reached a level in which they are upset because the idea of killing an innocent child is not even considered by a character in a movie. It’s sad and disturbing.

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May 11, 2007 by Jeremy.

Well today I get to cover a topic that I know others have talked about before, but it is my turn to chime in.

Last night I went to see Spiderman 3 at my local cinema. It was my wife and I and another couple. It was a Thursday night early in the evening so we showed up and we were the only people there. A little time passed and another couple showed up and sat in the very back. We were in the front of the second tier which offers the best view and sound experience in my opinion. Well it was nearly time for the movie to start and this kid and his mother came in and started to sit behind us a ways. No big deal! It was at this time though, that the child (demon spawn) decides to move. So he starts to sit right next to my wife! The entire place is virtually empty! Then he moves again on the other side of us. They finally, after moving so many times I literally lost count, sat right behind us. I knew at this point I was in for some fun.

What made it even better was right as the previews were about to start a couple came in and sat in front of us in the only seats that could possibly block the view of any other seat in the entire place. So now I have demon spawn behind me and two morons in front of me.

It doesn’t take much to see where a lack of common sense comes in here. To top it all off the kid wasn’t even there for most of the movie because he kept going back and getting more snacks and I can only assume a bathroom break or three. At the end, which turned out to be his last snack for the movie, he kept crackling the package and it was making so much noise because it was at the quiet end of the movie. (If you’ve seen the movie you know the part… tear)

So next time you’re in a movie, leave the kid, turn off the cell, sit by yourself, and SHUT UP!

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