Why is this news?

I'm REALLY sick to death of the media. Why on earth is this or this even NEWS? I mean really, this is just ridiculous. Both of those articles were on the FRONT PAGE of CNN. Hey, dumbasses, we're having the worst economy in God knows how long and THIS is news? Are you people insane?

This just proves that the media will prostitute themselves to that dumbass we have taking power in a month or so. What the fuck do I care what Michelle Obama wears? What the fuck do I care if she's 'urban chic' or 'baglady suave'?

Yeah, I know I go on about Obama, but really, America, take a look at the coverage he gets and think about it. It's ridiculous. I mean you know who else had a cult of personality like this? And was what HE did good for his country? No.

I swear someone needs to beat some sense into America.

You know what's so funny.....?

Men,we really need to unite and put a stop to the bullshit the women put us through. They really think that because we like having sex with them, that they can control our lives. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. At least for me. So, you've got a vagina. Big deal. You aren't the only one with a vagina. And there is NO law that says I can't find another one out there.

Stop 'being in love' and just hit it. Get over the emotional crap and screw 'em and change them like socks. The love part is nothing more than a way for a woman to THINK she can control you by controlling the poon. No more. I'll not put up with it, nor will I let some stupid, halfwit female bully me with it. You can't stop me because you don't know where I'm getting it from.

So there.

Ladies, get a grip. Sure sex is great. And it's a decent weapon to use, but trying to use will only make us look elsewhere. There is absolutely no way around that fact. Try talking to us, not dictating terms like Hitler to the Poles. And you know who I'm talking to, don't you?

Obama's an idiot.

He says he has had NO contact with Gov. Blowjobovich? Right. What a dipshit. Now I know why he's brown. He's totally full of shit. When will the world learn Obama shouldn't even be cleaning windows muchless run this country? I mean look at how corrupt Illiois is? Are you kidding me?

Well, I gotta say, you idiots voted his stupid ass in, not me. Once my countdown timer is done, I'm going to add a new one for how long it takes before we're either attacked by terrorists, he attacks someone else, or he gets his ass impeached. :)

What is it with women?

I mean really, what is it with them? It's insane how they act. I am having surgery on Friday, and the only person I want at the surgery is my mother. No, not because I'm a Momma's Boy (Although I am to a point, I love my mother. I was there when she needed me most.), but because I will need someone to drive me home afterwards since I'm having my feet operated on to fix some bone spurs.

Now, my girlfriend gets ALL cheesed off because I 'didn't want her there'. Which isn't true. I do want her there. But, then again, I don't. I just want to have the surgery and then get the hell out of dodge. So, for the last 2 days she's been griping at me about this. I told all my family to stay away too. I don't like being hounded right after surgery, so let me resst and get over it and then come ask me how I"m doing. Not just AFTER the fact. Damn. What's so hard about that? No one is happy about it, but they understand. Except for the gf. So, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I relent. And guess what, NOW she says she doesn't want to go! What the fuck? Are you serious? You bitch and moan about it and then DON'T go when I say you can? Why bother? Just because you're a damn woman and you think you can get away with it? I think not, dear.

This isn't how the game is played in my world. I've had my fill of psychotics and bitches, so you can hop the next bus outta Dodge if you are going to be that way. I don't need that bullshit. Not now, not ever. If you are mad, be mad, the get the FUCK over it. Don't hound me about 'why don't you want me there?' when I tell you time and again, I don't want anyone there, and then tell me you don't want to go anyway. Obviously, some women are convinced that we'll put up with almost anything for a piece of ass, but I gotta tell ya. Not this one. I can use my hand. It won't piss me off, or pull some bullshit stunt like yesterday. AND I don't have to take it out for dinner just to get some.

So, dear, take it elsewhere. Find some other schmuck you can con. I have lived without a woman in my life before, I can do it again. And at this stage in my life, I'm not sure that's a BAD thing.

Yeah, I've had enough....

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how that IDIOT Obama gets a nice neat little placard in front of his podium for the 5 million press conferences he has (I hear he's doing one the next time he takes a dump) that says 'OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT'. Are you SHITTING ME? There's no such office, he's not EVEN the President-elect yet. Not until the Electoral College do their thing next week.

My God, this is ridiculous. The media coverage is beyond HYPE, it's outta control. Seriously. No one should take this man seriously if he stands up there with that stupid placard on his podium. What kind of insufferably arrogant egomaniac does that? This just proves that someone has given this man a God complex. Sadly, the American people are the ones that will suffer for his arrogance. He's NOT the second coming of Christ, he WILL NOT change the world as he claims. He WILL NOT even change America. It will be the same old shit in Washington, only, I believe the hype is SO high for this dimwit, that when the American people wake up from this illusion, they will turn on him (and all politicians) and do what is necessary for America to be strong again.

Americans are INSANE!

I gotta tell you, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU who call yourselves 'Americans' ought to be ashamed. I just read this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/one.party.poll/index.html and simply cannot believe how fucking STUPID America has become.

62 PERCENT say they like having the Democrats in control? Are you fucking kidding me? Hey America! If you would get your head out of your ass for 30 seconds you'd realize the Democrats have been in control for 2 years now. CONGRESS runs America not the President. Does ANYONE remember Communist one party rule?

I thought we were screwed before, now I know it. But what's so funny is watching the so-called smart 'American Public' (otherwise known as 'THE MOB') turn on the Democrats once they realize Obama isn't the second coming of Christ and the economy will not magically right itself because his pathetic ass is in office. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, appalling yet oddly fascinating.

As it is, I will NEVER call Obama president. I will NOT debase myself to that level. And no, not because he's mulatto (I love that even the media claims he's the first 'African American' president. HEY DICKHEADS, his momma was WHITE!) but because he's a fucking idiot.

You know who else was an eloquent speaker and carried the masses to such hysteria? (Give you a hint, he LOVED swastikas.)

I'm ashamed of this country. I'm disgusted with the entire group of in-bred cretins and dimwits who think Obama can magically wave his hand and fix everything. I'm even more disgusted at every business and company begging for MY money.

Personally, I wouldn't give a FIG is someone nuked DC while Congress was in session. Serve those fuckers right.

What an Obama-nation!

I can't believe I ever thought I would say this. I'm DISGUSTED to be an American today. I'm disheartened. I cannot believe the idiot people of America voted in a non-voting Senator as President and a bootlicking scumbag as VP. We are officially witnessing the death throes of the United States of America.

Look back, everyone, to the Roman Republic. Look at the pandering to the lowest common denominator, look at the 'grain dole'. Look at the fact that hardworking honest people were being taxed to death to support the thousands, tens of thousands getting free food in the city of Rome. Look at the economy as the taxpayers become paupers and have to go on the dole, leaving more mouths to feed and less to TAX. This is the death knell of America. Oh, it may be 50 years before utter collapse, but it WILL happen. No one in the last 2,000 years has learned a damn thing from other civilizations mistakes.

I hate to say this, because I was brought up to respect the President. Not this one. Not now, not ever. This will be like watching a train wreck in slow motion, you can't watch because it's gruesome, but you can't look away because it's gruesome. I can honesly say now that the majority is stupid, since they will believe anything, including electing a useless President.

Good luck with that. I'm hoping I have nleft from my paycheck to maybe by a pack of gum at the end of the month.

$700 Billion?

Are you kidding me? How is it that the big banks and investment houses get my freaking tax payer money and yet the bloody government doesn't 'bail out' the people stuck in disadvantageous mortgages? This is disgusting and immoral. Let those idiots fall on their asses. They knew the risk, they took it. It bit them IN THE ASS. And yet they do not have to pay for it? That's absurd. But yet another notch in the Nanny State this country is becoming.

And would SOMEONE please shut Obama and Biden up? Are those two idiots still at it? Nationalized health care is NOT FREE, dumbasses. WE STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. But now, we're stuck with morons like Heath Shuler deciding how to pay it.

Can someone please wipe these dickheads off the map and put some real people in there? I'm sick of this crap.

About a month eh?

Time flies when you are having fun. Or not. There've been a lot of changes in my life in the last month or so. Good ones and bad ones. The biggest one Ithink is the stabbing in the back of someone I thought a friend of mine. I either am the worst at seeing someone's character or people nowadays are just plain evil. Maybe a little of both perhaps, but I've always thought I had good judgment of character. It does call for a rethink I guess. Mostly, people now just piss me off. They are either stupid or selfish, or both. In this past case, I would say both. I've been betrayed before, but never so clumsily. It's kinda sad that someone in their 30s would pull a stunt that didn't work even in middle school.

Let me expound, I've a former friend who thought they could air our argument (which wasn't really an argument) to all her 'friends' on MySpace, remove me as a friend so I couldn't see it, and expect me not to find out. Is that not the most childish thing you've ever heard? I know even my 12 year old daughter went 'What?' when I told her.

It all stated because I was unable to answer the dozens of IMs she sent me throughout a couple of days. I mean I WAS at work, and I wasn't at my computer at the time. Yet, instead of getting no response to the first and figuring I was busy, she kept at it. Like a rabid woodpecker. As if the more the IM'd my empty cube, the more likely it was going to answer. If my cube ever shows that kind of sentience, I'll put it to work. :)

SO, the next morning, I get an IM saying 'So is this how you say goodbye to a friend?' I snapped. I made it clear that I was busy. And that if I didn't reply I most likely wasn't even at my desk. She needed to get a grip and that I would IM her when I had a chance.

Granted I used harsher language but there was no name calling, I just said she needed to get a grip. So, she posts ONLY the part of the log that made me look like an idiot to get sympathy and to be the 'victim'. I found out about it and ripped her a new one and told her she needed to stay away from me until she grew the hell up.

Now, I know I wasn't wrong. This isn't about that. This is just me getting out my frustration over my horrible judgment of her character. I must be losing it as I get older or something.

Oh well. Life goes on.

The Politics of America

I've really tried to do my best to stay out of American politics. Mainly because I get really irritated at the fact that no matter how much the candidates talk, they really don't SAY anything. Listen to them, sure Obama says he'll introduce 'change', or be a motivator of 'change'. But what does that REALLY mean? If you look deep enough, he doesn't know. The Democratic party doesn't really know. It's all just WORDS without a hint of PLANS because he thinks most Americans are fed up with the status quo and want something different.

Maybe that's true, but without some sort of concrete ideas, or thoughts about WHAT he wants done, I'm not buying it. Different isn't always better. To me, the Democrats are virtually open Socialists. Let's let the government take over health care. Let's provide money to live on for people who won't get a freaking job, but are quite capable of doing so. Don't mistake me for downplaying the economy, but even in the best economy you have people who simply WON'T work and expect the government to support their sorry asses. The Dems want to keep feeding them, and I want my tax dollars to go somewhere that will actually make sense and will do someone some good.

This is why, more than anything else, I'm voting Republican. And why McCain is a better man, than Obama. The Dems have never had ANY ideas of their own, they just say the exact opposite of the Republicans and call it a platform. Sorry, but that doesn't work for me. And it shouldn't work for a majority of Americans who stop to THINK about things.



End of discussion.

The sadness that is America.

I want to take a couple of minutes and berate a few pathetic government officials who a) think they know more about technology than us geeks do, and b) who think they know more about education than the teachers themselves do.

Let me start with that giant moron, the Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo. I saw an interview on one of the news channels last night and I must say, he HAS to be the most ignorant human being on the planet. Does he really think the telcos can a) block ALL child porn? and b) not block legitimate websites/data at the same time. He's currently my front runner to 'Delusional Man of the Year'. Mr. Cuomo, I say to you, IT WILL NEVER WORK. No matter how hard you try. No matter how much money Verizon, et al invests in filtering technology, the distributed nature of the internet and the cleverness of people will render it moot. Not to mention your pushing the boundaries of constitutionality by trying it. Your methods border on extortion and I"m amazed the big telcos didn't smack you for pulling this.

Believe me, I am not advocating child porn. I have 4 kids of my own, so there's no way I would want that. I'm only going over the truth of the matter. That it's impossible to stop with filters. It won't work. Those of you who are naysayers, try it yourself. Setup CyberNanny or some such and see what you can and cannot get to online. IT DOES NOT WORK. I beg of you Mr. Cuomo, get your head out of your ass. Anyone with any tech savvy will tell you it won't work. Listen to them instead of promoting yourself. Idiot.

Now on to the Educational system, specifically in America, but something I read yesterday from Australia is rather telling how the 1st World is coming to a screeching halt in every way culturally. There's a report coming from Australia that says one of the biggest school systems in that country are looking to DROP ENGLISH as a subject because 'it's too hard' and the kid aren't 'intellectually able to handle it'.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ENGLISH? TO HARD? IN A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY?

Un-fucking-believable. I'm astonished. Really. If English is too hard for those prats, what about Calculus? Or Chemistry? They'll be next.

I also read a report from the UK that said one of the top Governmental Education Ministers is wanting to drop the 'middle class mandated curriculum' and start teaching 'civic duty' classes. You know, all those good things that will help you pay your bills and stuff. He says the current curriculum is all about making money and that is just plain wrong. What is this world coming to? I mean seriously.

Have we all lost our senses? I know a lot of teachers. Was married to one. They know what they are doing, now let them do it. Stop putting these nutters who haven't seen the inside of a classroom for 30 years in charge of curriculum, and testing. The tests don't work. The curriculum is TOO EASY, and this current generation of students need to suck it up and realize LIFE IS A BITCH. The workplace is a nasty cage match and if you aren't prepared mentally, intellectually and emotionally, you'll never make it.

I should start writing a book, like Gibbon, called The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Because it will need to be written, sadly sooner rather than later.

64 years ago today.

On this day 64 years ago, the most important event of the 20th Century happened. Tens of thousands of American, Canadian and British men put aside their dreams of the future for themselves and took on the task of securing the Greater Good. I really can't say enough on how important a day that was for the planet and for America in particular. It was one of the last times, we, as a collective organism, stood up and showed what this country is really capable of accomplishing.

Tens of thousands of men DIED so that Adolf Hitler and his psychotic dreams would be snuffed out and freedom would reign for Europe and indeed, the world. The United States fought on TWO fronts and supplied, at it's height, enough supplies to equip 2200 full Divisions. We, as a people, supplied England, Canada and Soviet Russia with the equipment necessary to continue the battle against that megalomaniacal madman.

And what does America think of it now? There's not so much as a mention of it on CNN's home page. (As of 9am EST) Not a whisper. My grandfather AND father-in-law fought in that war. Countless others DIED in that war, and in the Invasion itself. And no one seems to give a rats ass about it. Are we THAT shortsighted? When kids these days think the 90s were a hundred years ago (oh it's SO quaint) then i guess we are.

This is why this country is doomed. And why this planet is destined to die a fiery, ignorant death. Sad really.

I salute all those that sacrificed their lives (and all other too) for allowing me the freedom to express myself. The rest of the country may not care, but your memory will live on in me and my children.

Reductio ad absurdam

That's my life now. Moot. Pointless. Without any sort of useful contribution to society, other than my DNA to my kids. More to the point, it's not even my fault. I pour my heart and soul into a family, a marriage, and what do I get? Stabbed in the back like Caesar. Betrayed by friends and confidants who don't have the bloody nerve to face me with their problems. So, where does that leave me? Back to where I was 20 odd years ago. Single. So, the point of all that time I invested? There isn't one. Sad, really, that life is such a waste for 99% of people. Even sadder is the fact that none of those 99% even realize it. They are just too busy ignoring it to want to face it.

Ah well....life goes on. Long after it's sell-by date has passed.

Yep, it's been a while....

It sure has been a while since my last post. Not that anyone cares, since there are so many of these blasted things, I'm just another tiny ripple in the sea. No problem there. This is really only for my benefit anyway. Everyone else can sod off.

You know, I'm constantly amazed at the self-serving, egotistical people in America these days. I mean when someone you love can just stab you in the back without blinking, THAT'S fucked up. I'm continually amused by the way people only think for themselves. Even ones who decide to have children are only out for themselves. They don't think of anyone else. And THAT'S why this country of our is fucked. Period. There is no self-sacrifice anymore. There is no long-term view of things. In America, if you can't get it yesterday, then you aren't keeping up. If we got in a major war, I really believe we'd lose. Badly. Had WW2 started now, we'd have never beaten the Japanese. Much less Nazi Germany. We'd be too busy protesting, or evading our responsibility to protect freedom in this world.

Hell, we're doing our best to give up that freedom that was so hard won all those years ago. We'd much prefer for the government to do everything for us. Take care of us. Universal healthcare, bailing the stupid people out of those McMansions they bought but could never afford. No more personal responsibility here.

I mean, when someone you've known for 15 years and who you've trusted and cared about that long lies to you, hides the truth from you, that's really pathetic. When you're married to that person, it's even worse. It's no longer about the US, be it a marriage, partnership or nationalism, or otherwise, it's about ME. It doesn't matter who stands in your way, what laws you might be breaking, what social norms you might be violating, if it is what you WANT, you'll kill your own mother to get it nowadays. It really does make me wonder why bother? Is this truly the Age of Reason? The information age? Has the human race grown so little in the last thousand years? Boy, what a pathetic creature we are.

What burns my ass....

Wanna know what really BURNS my ass? (Yeah there's a lot of things, but this is a biggie.) People constantly mounted on their own moral soapbox looking down their self righteous noses at the 'commoners'. Who do these people think they are? Who are THEY to judge ME? And why do they get their panties in a wad when I blow them off like so much chaff? Idiots. All of them.

For instance, I have a friend of mine who asked me if I had my green on for St. Patricks's Day. I told her no, that I was Irish and that I was exempt because of that. She sneered and said 'that doesn't make you exempt. I have a shirt on that says 'I'm not Irish, but kiss me anyway!'. Fucking dumbass. So, I told her I have a button in my car that says 'Fuck me, I'm Irish!', but that I didn't wear it in the office. She PROCEEDS to tell me 'That's not right or nice.' She does this shit to me all the time, talking about praying and God help her this and God help her that. When she left her husband for another man and now is 'single' and has a different guy over almost every night. And she wants to talk down to ME? Are you KIDDING ME?

Nothing is more annoying than a self righteous moral drum beater who think they are beyond reproach themselves and are morally more bankrupt than anyone else alive. Morons. Step down off your high horse, act like a human being and stop being so damn smug, because it WILL come back to bite you in the ass. I promise you that.

More on friendship.

I know, I discuss this issue a lot (or at least I have recently). What causes a 'friend' to stab you in the back like a piece of pork, then a few months later come crawling back? Is it stupidity? Or they are being stupid? Or what? I'm just not sure I get it. I really dislike being crapped on (hear that Congress?) but I have so few true friends, I try my best to take care of the ones I have. But when I get crapped on, it irritates me and I can't stand the thoughts of seeing that person again.

But part of me, part of me wants to keep that friendship. I like helping people. I don't like helping morons, but that's another post. And I always think I know better than they do. Usually because I do. The problem is, am I a sucker?

Yeah probably. I can't stand the thoughts of the less fortunate moving along the world without my guiding hand. It makes them look bad when they do stupid shit. But now, do I bother with this person? Do I put up the wall and make them go away? That part really bugs me. I keep hearing my mother when I get that way. Telling me to be more patient. Is it worth it? I just don't know. I'm much more of a loner than I am a social butterfly, but I do like having GOOD friends around. I think this is why I like books so much. They don't talk back. Or stab you in the back when you aren't expecting. Or resent when you try to help them.

Damn, I'm too old for this.

I hate Corporate bullshit

Is it just me or are all the big media providers giant buckets of suck? How is it in this world of ubiquitous databases and internet that I can't get my fucking bill mailed to the same PO box I've had for 15 years nearly.

Get this, I get (at least I DID get) my cable from Charter. Everyone who reads this (Hi Mom, that would be you) knows I just moved back into my place after extensive renovations. I called mid-December to get cable, phone and power cut on. I tell each of them I just had it disconnected temporarily (remember a time when they would suspend service?) and wanted it cut back on.

With Charter, they pull up the SAME account, verify the street address, the MAILING address and everything. The guy I spoke to even told me what channels I was getting as well as digital cable, etc. With NO trouble at all.

So, I get up and start watching the news and around 6:15 it goes off. I figure Charter is doing something stupid (in the county I live in, it's a given) and don't think anything of it. I get home, the cable is still off and I have no landline as well. Now I know the jig is up. I call Charter and they tell me it was cut off because I didn't pay the bill. No shit, sherlock, because you never sent me one. I then find out that they mailed it to the street address. After it was verified twice. Are you fucking kidding me? The dickhead at Charter tells me that we can't have it cut back on until we pay the bill. I tell him he'll bloody well cut it back on until I get the bill to pay. He then proceeds to tell me that I could pay by phone. Uh, no. This is your mistake, not mine, so cut it back on now. He gets snotty, so I proceed to rip him a new one AND his supervisor too.

How is it possible I can use the same account number and they mail it to the wrong place? It's stupid. They must be stopped. All of them. This is what we get for letting the government be bought by these assholes? Boy, this country is so screwed.