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.

The joy and pain of moving.

Well, after 2 weeks or pure hell trying to get the final inspection done on my renovations, we're all moved in. That's the good news. The bad news is I am so sore I can't feel my feet. God, I hate moving. There's nothing worse than moving all your crap out to renovate then back in once it's done. I must have been insane when I thought that was a good idea. Doh.

Not all is bad on the home front. My crazy ass, creepy, stupid whore of a stalker is finally leaving me alone. The bitch. I hope it's a permanent thing. I'm sick to death of her whining and bitching and moaning about how she misses me, how she loves me, blah blah blah. Unfortunately, my boss is still talking to her. Trust me dude, she ain't that great in the sack and after you are done with her, she'll hound you like a rabid squirrel. But it's HIS problem, not mine. She made me realize I have the greatest woman on earth as my wife and nothing will ever change that. I sincerely hope she drops off a cliff somewhere. The world needs LESS idiots like her around and not more. It's a good thing she could only breed ONCE. Maybe the line will die out and the world will be one stupid strand of DNA less. We can only hope.

Sadly, that is my Christmas theme. Good riddance to her and that bratty assed son of hers. One of these days my daughters will be buying their groceries from him at the checkout. Maybe they will tip him more than I would.

I must be a stupid people magnet....

I swear, I must be a stupid people magnet. Maybe it's due to the fact that stupid people can sense when someone just detests the air they breathe and congregates around them like Catholic priests around a boys choir. And apparently some of those people seem to think they can outsmart me. It's really amazing how really REALLY stupid people think they are Einstein. It would suck to be that stupid. I know I'm no Brad Pitt or George Clooney, but at least I'm not an idiot. At least I don't go around insulting people and not realize I'm doing it. If I'm going to insult someone I INTEND to smack them down. And sadly, stupid people BREED MORE STUPID PEOPLE. It's this never ending stupidity cycle. Unfortunately too, the stupid breed like guppies, while the smart ones don't. If that were reversed, the world wouldn't be such a giant sinkhole of stupidity. Earth really is one cosmic joke.

Hate crimes...a note to the supporters of the Jena 6

I've been following this news item and the recent 'March' with a ridiculous amount of disgust. Can someone, ANYONE, tell me how the believe that hanging a bunch of nooses in a tree is even remotely the same and nearly beating a boy to death? When is murder or attempted murder NOT a hate crime? If you want to kill someone, it's not likely because you love their personality, now is it you dimwits?

So, you want to prosecute a couple of kids hanging nooses as a hate crime? Hmm, let me see, are the BLACKS the only people to ever be hanged? No. Just because a white boy hangs a noose, does that mean he's a racist? No. Are all of you hypersensitive because those boys nearly killed a kid and you want to divert attention? Very much so. I say again, when is nearly killing someone NOT a hate crime? Those attempted murderers get off with a slap on the wrist when they should all get the chair for it and you still want the noose hangers punished? How? Prison? Really? Hmm, beat up a kid, ANY kid, get off scott free; hang a noose, go to jail. BRILLIANT. You wonder why there are still so many racists out there? Because of that very fact. You won't let it go. It's been 140+ years and we owe you something? It's funny, I don't recall owning slaves. So why should we cater to your whiny asses? Grow up, be accountable for yourselves and stop pointing the finger at us every time one of your punk kids does something stupid.

People do stupid shit. Black, white, green, it doesn't matter. But blaming the 'white folks' for all your problems is facetious. It's a never ending cycle, you blame us, we get pissed for being blamed for something we didn't do, so we do something to be blamed for. Then you retaliate. It's stupid, and childish and gets all of us nowhere. Take your whining somewhere else if this country is SO bad to you. Here's some bus fair.

Idiots.

Darwin was wrong.....and GOD must be an idiot

A new theory just occurred to me last night. Darwin was wrong. This isn't 'survival of the fittest', this isn't EVOLUTION. If that is truly the case then how come there are so many STUPID people in the world? I see the majority being complete morons and the rest of us are the outcasts, the anomalies, the 'mutations'. I read an article in Discover magazine this month that details a study being done that says that the best looking, most successful 'buck' has offspring that are much less of either and do not procreate as much or as often and that the ugly, stupid ones breed like rabbits and have offspring that breed like rabbits. (Travis Henry are you listening?) This is almost completely contrary to Darwin. Sure, I suppose the 'fittest' do survive, but only in a sea of stupidity. After a couple hundred thousand years of development (and lets not get into semantics about human pre-history) you'd think we'd be much more 'fit' to survive. Not a chance. Out of 6 BILLION people, only a merest fraction of that is capable of moving us into an era of enlightenment. The rest are dragging us down. With wars, and ignorance and despotism and ignorance and religion.

Speaking of religion, doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible that God made us in His image? Well with a far majority being morons and useless strands of DNA, it stands to reason, God must be an idiot. How else do you explain it? This isn't free will here, if you take the Bible (or the bloody ignorant Koran) at it's word. God isn't perfect. Far from it. He gave us jealousy, and vengeance, and evil. And stupidity. And ignorance. And intolerance. He's no better than the Norse, Greek or Roman gods. In fact I'd say a thousandfold worse since he is such a jealous God. I am consistently amazed at the pinheads that continue to fall into cults and congregations who don't have a CLUE what religion is about. It's just more proof that Allah/God/Yahweh is a despotic controlling entity who wants us to stay stupid and ignorant. Assuming he's out there paying any attention to us. Which, after looking at the news this morning, he isn't. Good riddance. Maybe the stupid ones will follow suit and go away.

Constant irritation

I swear, what IS IT with people in this country not wanting to be accountable for their actions? I've never seen a group of people TOTALLY act like nothing they do is their fault. From suing because coffee was spilled on them and there wasn't a goddamn disclaimer on the cup that coffee was hot, to being told you have a disease that you can control with diet and exercise, and they don't, then they fucking moan about it because it's not getting any better. SUCK IT UP YOU LAZY BASTARDS! My god, get off your lazy butts and take responsibility for a freaking change. Maybe if you fucking worked a little harder, things wouldn't be so bad for you. Idiots. Stop suing over every little thing, take responsibility for your actions and be a fucking adult for a change. You'd be amazed at how much you can do.

This country is completely in the shitter. And it's sad that this is supposed to be a MODEL OF DEMOCRACY? I think not. If there was ANY OTHER country that was better (which in itself is bad) I'd be out of here in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, this whiny assed country of the offended is the best this planet has to offer.

I just don't understand the complete laziness in this place. We've got it all. Everyone else wants it, and here we are doing our best to give it all up to corporations and corrupt officials. It's disgusting.

Randomness

Here are some of my random thoughts for the day.

AL GORE, Nobel Prize winner? Are you shitting me? He won over a woman who saved Jewish kids from Concentration Camps? How the fuck does this idiot win over that? Global warming, or 12 million Jews dead? Hmmm, don't see the parity there. The world is truly in the shitter for this vote.

Secession. A thought that has occurred to me more than once recently. I think my great home state of NC should think of leaving the union. Seriously. I'm sick to death of the big corporations running things. The lack of lobbying restrictions and I'm tired of paying my hard earned money to slack asses on welfare who CAN work but won't get a fucking job. I think it's time for the South to rise again.

Hillary Clinton. Hasn't she served her two terms already?

Hmm, I think that does it for now. Maybe, if I think of anything else, I'll post it.

I need new titles.

Why do people insist on doing stupid shit? I mean is it this innate ability to not think about what they are doing? Seriously, why do we continue to see teachers banging their students? Don't they watch CNN? Don't they read FARK? It seems like every single day at lunch, when I hit up my favorite site for following stupid people there's some article about a teacher rogering a student.

And these girls that get knocked up in High School? My 16yo daughter's HS, just in the past 8 MONTHS has seen 7 babies born to students with 4 more that she knows of on the way. Are we failing to provide the necessary information?

Personally I attribute this to Americans epic lack of discipline. Apparently the morons simply don't think they will get caught, or 'it can't happen to me'. What a joke we've become to the world and to the intellectuals in this country. Don't you see the end result of all this? The fall of Rome will be nothing as compared to the gigantic fall of America. Have we learned nothing from the past? Oh yes, that's right, we're not allowed to teach the past anymore, it's got horrible things in it. Slavery, the KKK, Hitler, the Holocaust, the exploitation of the Native Americans, etc. Let's not upset anyone by talking about the past. Hey, assholes, the past is the past! It is there to learn from. Not to ignore and hope it goes away. As Cicero said: 'Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum' Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Even with all the knowledge at our disposal, we are making the same mistakes the Romans made. We're leaning more for dictatorship for we fear freedom. We're collapsing internally from luxury and sloth. We are no longer the disciplined multitudes who went to war to fight Fascism and Nazism. We don't even deserve the right to be called the 'Descendants of the Greatest Generation'. We've failed our fathers by letting our kids be undisciplined. By not wearing their asses out when they get in trouble, instead we put them in 'time out'. We no longer let the punishment fit the crime. In fact we hardly punish at all.

I'm very distraught at the state of this country. The one I call my own. The one I'm proud to be part of. Until now. What would my grandfather and father-in-law say about things now? Both were veterans of WWII, one a vet of Korea as well. It's disgusting how all of you have let that generation down. How you are giving up the very freedom they fought to defend. And only 60 YEARS after they fought and died for it.

Individuality?

Okay, today is my day to bitch and moan about all these dumbasses and freaks who continue to show their 'individuality'. Is it REALLY being individual if you dress the same way as everyone else? You know, used to, you'd see people with tattoos and say to yourself 'wow, what a rebel' (or idiot if you were me). Now, EVERYONE has a tattoo, and lots of them have more than one. So, when rebellion becomes mainstream, it's NO LONGER REBELLION you imbeciles. When hippies all dress like homeless people (and we see this a lot in the town I work in) you just look like all the other hippies/homeless people around. That's not 'being yourself' or 'showing who you really are', that's just being a sheeple like the rest of these pointy headed wierdos. Get a grip people. The tattoos and body piercings are all well and good until you have to get a fucking job then you just look like a dumbass. No one I know in business will hire a moron with a giant rod through his nose, or ears, or lip. Grow the hell up. You are ADULTS, so act like it. And stop being sheeple by getting the tramp stamps, or the back tattoos, or what have you. It's just silly now.