Those dirty bastards behind freecreditreport.com, whoever they are, are slick. I’ll give them that. When I hear that guy singing about his posse’s legs sticking to the vinyl in his cheap car I can’t get the stupid song out of my head.

The truth though, is that freecreditreport.com is a scam. The irony is that freecreditreport.com claims it will protect you from being scammed. I suppose that if you are the sort of person who would hire a criminal to protect you from other criminals then freecreditreport.com is a good choice. Just remember it isn’t free.

The company uses false advertising to get you to do a “free” check on your credit and then robs you of $12.95 a month and hopes you won’t pay careful attention to your bank or credit card statement. The company will try and pressure you when you call to cancel the monthly charge. They don’t want to let go of that money for nothing.

The charge on your bill will look like this:

I’ve had this company rip me off twice now. The first time was my own fault and the second time I’m not even sure how they decided it was OK to start billing me again. I’m sure they are working on new and more insidious ways to steal a few more dollars out of my account. Experian owns this little ripoff business. If you ever have the chance to avoid doing business with the company, I would encourage it.

It took me quite a while to realize that many people are very offended by the idea of living forever. Many are offended by the idea of living beyond a natural lifespan. I often find myself asking these people how many years they think it is OK to exist? 100? 500? 1,000? The answers vary but the most amazing thing, to me, is the amount of unrecognized hubris these people harbor because of the flawed memes they have been taught. So many of us are products of our environment.

Why should we only live 75 years? Because God intended it? Because it is programmed into our genes? Because that is how all previous generations lived? Such narrow thinking is silly and condemns us all to death. I do not wish to be a part of staid fatalism.

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor. He is also a transhumanist, and wants to live as long as possible. Wired ran an article on Kurzweil today Futurist Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity. Besides being an extremely long titled article, author Gary Wolf’s screed is a great example of the ire many death cult believers hold for those of us who wan to exist as long as possible. The comments run the gamut, but many of them are disparaging and outright dismissive of the idea of a longer than natural lifespan and the man who wants it.

I’m sure many of these same people believe they are headed for an eternal reward in some sort of ethereal afterlife on an imagined plane of existence none of us can prove. As far as I am concerned Kurzweil is just betting on a different horse, so to speak.

If there is a soul (and I think there is), then the sheer audacity of believing we might one day be able to transfer it to another, longer lasting vessel is not a sin, not in my opinion. God helps those who help themselves. Every visionary throughout history has been mocked. Some of them have needed bodyguards. If Ray Kurzweil ever does, I’m his man. In the mean time, I’ll tip my glass to his immortality. I’d rather party with dreamers and die trying to live than resign myself to a mere century of life on this plane of reality.

The consequences of socialism include the rapid breeding of parasitic morons.

Take, for example, this family, led by the Matriarch of Ultimate Moochiness.

“The only problem is,” she says without a hint of irony, “that we’re living in a three-bedroom council house, which is ridiculous.

“I’m asking the council for a ten-bedroom home for all of us. We need more space. It’s awful sometimes when all the children are squabbling. Still, we do have a big TV with Sky, but we need some relaxation.”

Maybe the British taxpayers can fund an all inclusive paid family vacation to Hawaii while they are paying for your existence! Ha. This is why all charity must be completely voluntary. When it is run by a large bureaucracy you end up with parasitic classes that do absolutely nothing and have absolutely no motivation to work towards their own survival and comfort. If these people were in my community I would burn them out rather than pay their way through life, especially after reading this quote:

“I don’t worry about the example I set to my kids or the fact that two of them don’t work. It’s up to them what they do, it’s their life, not mine, so it’s not my problem. I don’t think my desire never to work and to live off the state and my husband rubbed off on Steven. He makes his own decisions”

Lady, when people are paying you to spawn offal out of your loins and then paying that offal to sit around and breed more ignorance it is well past time that those funding your adventures start demanding changes to system. And by demanding I mean doing whatever it takes to motivate your sorry ass to get back to work.

WASHINGTON, Mar 18, 2008 - A new study from the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group in Washington, shows that most American states tax job providers at a higher rate than any other country in the developed world.

We outrank Japan, Germany and Canada in 25 states when it comes to effective tax rates. I was born in Canada. Maybe it is time to think about relocating to my homeland. My effective tax rate would go down 2%.

The more I think about this issue the more angry I become. We have taxation without representation in this country. My county just passed a new 1% sales tax by 27 votes. I had no idea the issue was even up for a vote and that was by design. Many legislative and other governing bodies make decisions “under the radar” by design so that motivated citizens who work for a living will have a very hard time participating in the decision making process. Taxes, once enacted, are almost impossible to get rid of because they create a new underclass of parasites who cannot survive without the nanny state and its organized theft by vote and deceit.

Here we are, five years into a war and occupation that might take 20 or more years before the dust settles. I am talking, of course, about Iraq. Having invested a year of my life in the country, I have a real interest in how things turn out.

One of the most important questions that needs to be asked long term is - how have we improved freedom in the lives Iraqis? Five years in the violence levels may be going down and that is a good thing. What I would love to see now is a documentary that asks regular Iraqis if they feel freer now than they did under Saddam. It will be very important to track the freedom index in Iraq and the United States over the next two decades. If the freedom index improves in both places then I will consider our ill named “war on terror” a success. If not, then it is a failure. So many factors will play a role both here in the U.S. and “over there.”

Let’s start with you, my blog readers - do you feel freer now than you did five years ago? If I could make a living answering this question, I would do so in a heartbeat. Unfortunately I’m not John Stossel.