I swear to god.
I hope these useless motherfuckers from Enron die a slow and agonizing death.
We all knew this was going on, and we all screamed about it last year, we all knew that this deregulation of the power industry in California(pdf) was a BAD IDEA but those incompetent morons in the California legislature and that mouthbreather in the governor’s mansion didn’t do a damn thing about it.
You know what makes me so goddamn angry? “Kenny Boy” is such a close friend of “President” Bush, and Enron has bought so many members of Congress (You know, those people who are supposed to represent us in government?) not a damn thing will happen to him.
Me, and thousands of my fellow Californians will be paying for his hubris for DECADES, and he is going to walk.
Grrr.
If you’re interested, there’s lots more Enron info here, and here.
*whew*
Sorry. Got off on a bit of a rant there.
Hey, it happens.
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Calm down. It’s all goign to be okay. I live in California so I know how you feel. I like Bush though.
What’s amazing is that…they’ll get away with it.
It’s all going to be okay.
For all of us taxpayers to foot the bill for blatant, premeditated, sociopatic, criminal actions by Enron, and subsequent inaction by Davis and the legislature?
It’s all going to be okay.
Oh.
My.
Effing.
God.
Did you read a single link?
Want a good snail mail read? Pick up this week’s US News.
The poor energy management by Governor Davis of California not only hurt California, but it also hurt other states in the region as well such as where I live in Montana.
The drought and the fact that energy producing dams were being ripped out without thought didn’t help either.
For the good of the west, ditch Davis!
I can’t wait to vote against him, but there’s no way California is going to elect Bill “Der Furher” Simon.
So it’s third party all the way this election for me. That way I get to vote against both of them.
Important clarification: I’d sooner run naked through the biggest Star Trek Convention in history, screaming “LOOK AT ME! I’M ON FIRE!” before I’d vote for Simon, or anyone like him.
Just to clarify 🙂
A third party candidate can win.
Just look at Minnesota.
Not too closely though. HA HA!
Well,
Government elections can be publicly funded. Elected officials would then be beholden to their voters. Support a flat tax. Outlaw “The Fed banking(secret “tax”) monopoly”. Question orthodox Socio-sexual religious concepts baised in ancient (flat earth) wisdoms. Pray to the powers that be for intelligent intervention.
Lars
I read every link and I believe it will be okay. By the way it is a democrate in office who really messed things up with the power situation. California will pull itslef together and work things out. It will happen. May take time but it will happen.
Good Lord, that’s horrible. I actually didn’t know about Enron(et al)’s role in the whole California power outages.
I find it most horrendous that those at the highest levels of power, those most resposible for the whole Enron collapse, will not be punished. All I’ve heard on the news here lately is that Arthur Anderson is going to get hit and hard. The focus has already shifted away from, not only Enron itself, but those in power there. And when Arthur Anderson dies, what does that do for the Houstonians already out of work? Make them wait longer in the unemployment line with all the lower level accountants.
Only one thing to do.
Fight the powers that be.
and don’t worry about the ranting. You never know how much good you can accomplish by yelling “F@*$ you, I won’t do what you tell me!”
I live in california too wil, and I am all against deregulizing it. I mean, when the energy companies want to HELP the governemnt create compition for themselves, there must be a reason behind it (maybe because they know that they will continue to be a monoply regardless of regulations?).
However, I don’t think Bill Simon is the nazi you percieve him to be. He is a self made millionaire, so he knows things need to be run in a business oriented manner (efficiently, something most democrats don’t grasp). Beside that, he is not a politician. He has never run for office before, in any level. I think he is the perfect choice despite a few general issue disagrements I have with him (and I am conservative).
So glad I don’t live in California, not that IN is any better.
Why do we even bother electing our government. We should just let the corporations do it. It would save us time and illusions.
He he.
Ironic that the first thing many Screen Savers first-timers are going to see is Wil wishing “slow and agonizing death” upon a bunch of “useless motherfuckers”….
I wonder if they’d show that on TV 🙂
PS Wil…let me know how that eTrex Vista works out…It looks like it takes input from the MapSource CD and has (gulp) 24 meg!! (dang..mine only has 1.44 meg)
*gnash*
*grind*
This is exactly what made me bite my tongue and run away screaming when a soapboxer whos name escapes me blamed CA’s energy crisis on Environmentalists blockading the construction of power plants in CA for the past decade. (its the “ANWAR, a must” thread in Current Events, if you’re curious)
Argh.
Let’s get Anonymous Donation added to campaign finance reform laws as well.
Not a day goes by that I’m not glad I registered Independent.
~j
Woops, the thread I referenced above is in R&P, not Current Events.
~j
Wil –
Thanks for speaking truth to power!
I’m amazed at the conspiracy of silence (so-called) intelligent Americans have accepted surrounding our latest (s)election debacle.
So the decade of Peace & Prosperity under liberal Democratic leadership just wasn’t worth the cost of ‘their’ pride. So now it’s back to Israel, Oil Wars, and deficit spending – so wise! Not to mention the increased ‘security’.
Hopefully, the right winger corporate types will learn they’re not ‘at home’ with your values, and leave the ignorant pro-fascist comments off your server!
Thanks again for trumpeting the word! I believe our first & most sacred duty, as thinking beings, is to The Truth!!
Delusions of democracy, based on big business & disenfranchising Black and urban voters, will be this countries undoing.
More Oil Please! Thank You may I have another!
You Rock Wheaton! The best way to fight for the country we love, is to oppose & expose it’s illegal leadership — the world is watching!
Stay Strong!
I am a sad pitiful human being. You have everything Wil. I have nothing. I am lonely. I have no family. I have a couple friends. I get excited cuz a nice guy likes me but I know it will go nowhere. I know this cuz 1. he calls me snapshow and he is very demanding. and 2. he is moving 3 hours away for school in the fall (which is just enough time for us to have the time of our lives, fall madly in love and then have to part to start seperate lives. Plus I find myself madly attracted to him. It busts me up inside knowing we both feel the same way but we are both taking it slow, going the friends route. ARG. I JUST WANT TO THROW SOMETHING AT THIS SCREEN. I am sick and tired of being calm, cool, collected, sane, strong. It’s hard work keeping it together!!! Somebody please shoot me and take me out of this juxtaposition we call LIFE.
Wil said:
>>> I’d sooner run naked through the biggest Star Trek Convention in history, screaming “LOOK AT ME! I’M ON FIRE!” before I’d vote for Simon, or anyone like him. Just to clarify
Uh. Wil. You seem to forget that Enron was one of the biggest Democrat supporters out there. Many, if not all, of the Democratic leadership (even Billy Boy) took money from Enron.
Now, as for energy. The wacko’s out there in California did it to themselves. Here in good ole San Antonio, we have excess power and the rates are dirt cheap.
Andrew is right.
In my ranting, I left out another reason that Enron will skate out of this: They’ve invested heavily in BOTH parties, buying themselves numerous “screw over the common man for free” cards.
As an Aussie I have bugger all invested in this argument, but I would question the claim that “Enron was one of the biggest Democrat supporters out there”.
From what documents that I have seen (and I have read as much as I can on this because currently in australia we have similar situations developing – again involving anderson, but I digress. . .) the donation tally is extremely heavily weighted towards the Republican Party – something in the order of 90%. The donations to the democrats seem to be the usual “bet each way” carried out by corporations asa contingency.
Money aside, the political connections are very clear, and the failure of the VP to release the documents on the energy meetings is a huge concern – and once again security gets called on to excuse it.
Why is opposition now equal to terrorism in the USA?
All I can say is good luck! I hope that next election the people get the government they really deserve rather than the government the corporations bought.
It will be OK. Consider this a lesson learned. You all out there vote for idiot Democrats and freaky enviornmentalists and this is what you get.
You deregulate prices without allowing supply to be deregulated – not allowing new power plants because some cute little animal may not like it – and you get this mess. You require power plants to be sold off, all in the name of deregulation and you get this.
Enron was able to pull off their shenanigans because no one was able to fill the void with more power supply. Government control and regulation in a supposedly deregulated energy market allowed them to control the distribution of power to their own ends. They were crooks, abetted by a screwy system.
Gray Out, after creating the situation by his horrible policies, then had taxpayers foot the bills for years to come by agreeing to fixed price deals at astronomically high prices. Some deal.
Gray Out Davis deserves to be booted. Replace him with a real Republican — not some limousine liberal democrat in masquerade — and this situation can be fixed.
Deregulation works. What Gray Out gave you all in CA, was no deregulation. It was insanity; a perfect setup for some crooks to come in and screw you all.
Wil,
a few days ago you gave us the thought;
“If you sacrifice others for yourself, you will suffer the consequences.”
so you have already answered yourself as to what will happen with these people who have angered you so. The world is full of givers and takers; the takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.. and according to scripture;
“Vengence is Mine!” says the Lord Jehovah, “I shall repay!”
so in due time, those who sacrifice the enviroment, or the animals, or the people of this world, will be taken care of…
so be a giver, sleep well, perhaps to dream, dream
and yet live another day, when you can tell us all what you thought of this “new Geek” Tobias Maguire and his part in Spider-Man.. do you think
it will make any real money? will there be a sequal? and if you have trouble sleeping, get some melatonin, just half a pill, and you will sleep and dream dreams that are like old friends.
Hey, Wil-
You ended your post with, “Sorry. Got off on a bit of a rant there.”
You have nothing to be “sorry” about for voicing not only your opinion (on your own site, no less)but also the TRUTH.
I am not going offer my sentiments as they will be repeats of what has been said above.
It’s just really sad. That’s all.
-B
Hey Wil,
I must say you have developed.
But I ain’t sure either to think it’s good or not.
Well, at least you have stopped to be a greasy slimeball and say what you think, and this, at least, is great.
But don’t you think you overdo it a bit, like all this conspiracy theory shit you’re recommending.
We all know that the world is bad, but who the fuck cares.
In reading these books we’re probably all getting insane than finding the great epiphany we’re looking for.
Everybody should do what he thinks is right because read one of those books and you’re dependant on what the authors write next instead of developing own ideas about life.
Listening to others can’t be the sense of life…
Mic
EEK!
: mommy, Wil is scaring me :
Lemme first say that I’m not a big fan of Enron. I was listening to a radio talk show the other day, which had some indiders stating that Enron was about to take over the nation’s water supply, thank God they never had the chance. I’m from Houston, and yes, there are a lot of people here that are still big fans of Enron and swear Enron did nothing wrong. Of course, I’m ridiculed, and people down here call me ‘Communist Liberal.’ I feel like I’m the only half way intelligent individual in the city. Anyway, I’m off my soapbox now.
Yes, I realize I spelled ‘insiders’ wrong.
Andrew L,
“Uh. Wil. You seem to forget that Enron was one of the biggest Democrat supporters out there. Many, if not all, of the Democratic leadership (even Billy Boy) took money from Enron.”
I find it sad that such people as you exist. You missed the point entirely. How sad it is that people like you exist.
Hey Bill Clinton was in power when Enron and their goons made all these bad moves i don’t know why you blame Bush unless you are a liberal.i hope you aren’t one of those because there is no known cure as of yet and they say that they will have a cure for cancer before they ever find a cure for liberalism.
True democrats accepted money from Enron; however, with the democrats, the nation was only ‘rented’ out, but with the republicans, the nation was totally ‘bought’ out.
>> You all out there vote for idiot Democrats and freaky enviornmentalists and this is what you get.
Greenpeace brought us Enron?
Okay.
>> not allowing new power plants because some cute little animal may not like it – and you get this mess.
Spotted owl brought us Enron.
Check.
>> You require power plants to be sold off, all in the name of deregulation and you get this.
Voters of California brought us Enron.
Got it.
>> Enron was able to pull off their shenanigans because no one was able to fill the void with more power supply.
Senators opposed to drilling in ANWR brought us Enron.
Noted.
>> Government control and regulation in a supposedly deregulated energy market allowed them to control the distribution of power to their own ends.
Public oversight of private companies brought us Enron.
I’m still with you, bro.
>> They were crooks, abetted by a screwy system.
Who were crooks?
The environmentalists, owls, Senators, or voters?
>> Gray Out, after creating the situation by his horrible policies, then had taxpayers foot the bills for years to come by agreeing to fixed price deals at astronomically high prices.
Gray Davis brought us Enron.
Alright, sir.
>> Gray Out Davis deserves to be booted. Replace him with a real Republican — not some limousine liberal democrat in masquerade — and this situation can be fixed.
Fixed by the Bush-led GOP and model private enterprise like Enron?
That’s pretty much what I was thinking.
And in other news…
The Vatican is hard at work fixing that whole child molestation thing, so no need to involve the police, victims, or parents who allowed the abuse to take place in the first place.
Fucking limousine liberal altar boys in masquerade.
>> It was insanity; a perfect setup for some crooks to come in and screw you all.
Those crooks happen to be at the very core of the GOP, but hey… why blame the rapist when you can blame the handyman who did a shitty job of installing the screen door?
Now see folks, that’s what misinformation does, just look at the last guy’s comments. I don’t blame this Spudnuts guy for his wrong views, and I’m not gonna argue with anyone; however, intelligent debate I will do. If one reads of true information, one would see the actual reality of it. Only one thing he said was right, price fixing does not work.
wil, can u run nekkid thru a Trek con anyway? would be a nice distraction
spudnuts … just because you CAN screw somebody over, doesn’t mean you SHOULD. You can blame and blame and blame away any wrongdoing, but ENRON is still the one who did the screwing.
I lived in CA until March this year. My family and I finally had it with the prices of everything there. I was born there, my wife was born there and both my kids were born there. I hated leaving, but there aren’t enough jobs that pay enough money to allow me to live the kind of life I want there. The power crisis isn’t the only problem, but it sure was a BIG one.
For the record, I vote for whoever is going to do the job best, like EVERYBODY should. I don’t register democrat OR republican because I like to keep my options open. Too many people blindly vote for “their” party. They assume that because the candidate is in the same party, they must have the same beliefs and ethics that the voter does. Well, Wil’s link showing how much money was “donated” to congress proves that’s a load of bat guano.
Also for the record … I miss CA, but I have a good paying job here in VA and we’ll be able to buy a house (in about a year) – something I would NOT have been able to do in Silicon Valley…
The problem is that you californians don’t build any new power plants.
Just check up on a similar incident which got virtually no press…. Global Crossing Inc. goes belly-up…. Democrat National Chairman Terry McAuliffe caught with his hands in the cookie jar http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/4/160911.shtml
Gosh, I’m so incredibly surprised that the whole “energy crunch” was an artificially created situation…not.
Actually, it -wasn’t- deregulated. The problem was there was only partial deregulation. There were still price controls on the power company selling power.
So they couldn’t sell for more than a certain amount, but they were forced to pay market prices for it.
Wil, before you go blaming Bush for this mess, simply because he knows someone at Enron, keep in mind that this was all happening well before Bush came to power. Don’t believe that Clinton didn’t know what was going on. It also happened on Davis’s watch, a democrat governor.
The rants are often times what I come here for, bra. Don’t apologize!
Two words: Third Party.
That’s all we need to remember when in the voting booth this coming June (primaries) and November.
Nuff said.
Fuck Enron. Fuck Republicans. Fuck Democrats. Then, fuck Enron some more. Okay, so not a particularly intelligent & well-written statement, but I think you get my point. I don’t know of any elected (or in certain case(s)selected) official who really cares about the people. They are all bought by corporations like Enron. Some are worse than others. So screw them all b/c thats what they’re doing to us. I’m on the east coast & we have our own set of problems. But I feel for CA & the nearby states that are also hurt by this. Its just wrong.
PS: Spudnuts is the Coolest. Well, just after Wil, of course.
For anyone who may have thought Wil was overreacting… just read the frontpage of today’s (Tuesday) Wall Street Journal. Quotes like the following, made by an Enron document, will probably give you all you need to understand his outrage:
[these documents reference] their goals…usually getting paid to move often-nonexistent energy without actually moving it…[and] “the public relations risk” because one strategy “may have contributed to California’s declaration of a Stage 2 Emergency yesterday.”
So elderly people are dropping from heat exhaustion and Enron is counting the money. Disgusting.
Hey Wil,
fro your four or five entries yesterday, this is what I gather:
Your week end was good.
Work was good.
Something about the government pissed you off!
Hey take the bad with the good!
2 things out of three make you happy!!!
Anyways, I think I know what you mean, even though I’m a Canadian citzen whos too young to vote, i kinda understand the goverment and all.
Don’t worry about raving and ranting, thats what we’re here for! to listen and stuff!!!
Anwyas, at least your feeling better… another thing to add to the list of good things!
DONT THINK ME LAME PLS! im just trying to cheer my fav actor up!!!!
Lily
Thanks for the enlightenment. I never realized the depth of the Enron corruption. In fact, I had no idea that they were a factor in the Ca. energy crisis. Now that I am informed, I have to agree with you about being pissed. We all need to unite to get a REAL third party effectively running!
Wil, don’t you live in LA? They were smart and kept their public power authority… you don’t have to worry.
re: Third Parties.
America is a TWO party system… there are a thousand reasons why it will remain that way for as far down the road as political scientists can see. For one thing, this is the ultimate “winner take all” society.
Look at the 2000 election, Gore WON the popular vote by almost 3/4 of a MILLION votes, he won the electoral vote too (but that’s another story). Even so, because Bush ultimately ascended to the Presidency, look at the perception of the two men. Winner takes all in the U.S.
Third parties are generally destructive to the political process in our country. You can make a HUGE difference in politics by joining the Democratic or Republican party and pushing them in the direction you want to see them go. Voting third party however, only relegates you to the role of (at best) a spoiler in the real election. (other than the 1 in 100 times that the 3rd party candidate actually wins- if you’re happy with 1% success rates- then I guess you can vote Green)
Finally, the Greens (for example) are a mess! I wouldn’t want to associate with them for anything.
Spudnuts, you rawk man.
And Wil, I agree with everything you say man. We have 2 WONDERFUL candidates to choose from this November. Talk about the lesser of 2 evils. I’m voting for Jimmy Buffett for governor. Or maybe Wesley Crusher.
I am one of the fortunate few who didn’t have huge electric bills. I’ve lived here for 14 months now and I’ve never had an electric bill over $20. I also live in an apartment and not a house, so maybe that’s why. I had one rolling blackout.
Do I think Enron is a scam? Hell yeah. I heard rumors that Dubbya sold off all his Enron stock right before it started to plummet – made himself $20 million or so. Does Enron have Congress in it’s pocket? Most of them. Will Kenny boy go unpunished? He’ll get a slap on the wrist if anything.
This is such bullshit. And DaleJr, you are such a sweetie and almost always have a positive attitude, but this is not going to be ok. Raping the taxpayers is NEVER ok. Doesn’t matter about working itself out. This kind of crap doesn’t fly.
And Rant On, Uncle Willy.
*Ahem*
You know a good way to effect change is to get into a position where you have the power to have a say in these matters. Things like this and much more happen daily and our government does nothing because the people running it are there to stuff their pockets and nothing more! If we had a few more politicians with fire like yours, maybe these things would not happen. (Then again maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but we don’t know until we try)
It is truly messed up and that is putting it mildly!