Of stupid superbowl shit, the Grammys, the US vs John Lennon, and various annoyances

Hello children. I know this entry was a long time coming, but I do not have unlimited internet access. My computer is down, and I must share the other computer in the house with three other people. And my creativity  packed its bags and for all intents and purposes left me for the better part of this new year, but to be honest I’m glad I have an excuse to walk over half a mile each way to the library every day I want more than an hour of computer access.

And before we get started I would like to remind you that you are welcome to discuss with me anything I write here, but I don’t really give a shit if it offends you and I would prefer to avoid such infantile behavior as name calling and youtube worthy arguments. I am opinionated. Get used to it.

Anyway, I would like to get on to today’s random assortment of things that are pissing me off. I have seperated them into sections so they are easier to navigate.

First in our coreographed dance of bullshit is about a controversial superbowl ad you may have heard about. Go  here to read more: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tim-tebow-super-bowl-ad-cbs-air-controversial/story?id=9667638

But basically, Tim Tebow’s mother decided not to get an abortion 23 years ago. What you may not know is that doctors advised her to get an abortion because she was on medications for amoebic dysentery and said medicines could harm her unborn fetus. The subject of the ad is basically ‘This woman didn’t get an abortion and her baby turned out to be a great athlete’, and the ad urges people to celebrate life, apparently. I am a hippie so I am all about celebrating life, but there is something that fundamentally bugs me about this ad.

Sure. His mother made her decision and now we have this great human being. I understand that, but saying “She didn’t abort and look how great her kid turned out” is a bit stupid because sure, if you don’t abort your fetus, it could grow up to be the next great doctor who finds a cure for cancer, but it could also grow up to be the next serial rapist who cuts off his victims’ left feet as souveniers too.

What torks me off about this is that, they are going to air that ad, but they are not going to air an ad about a homosexual dating site. We are bombarded with shit from eHarmony, match.com, and other more hetero dating sites, but we won’t air an ad for a gay dating site?

Wait a minute. So we can be bombarded by straight dating and also by Christian propaganda, but  we can’t advertise one little homosexual dating site? I’m straight, but this pisses me off. Doesn’t it say a  little something in our constitution about it being wrong to discriminate based on color, creed, and SEX? And isn’t there a little something in there about freedom of speech? It doesn’t surprise me though. As much as our society preaches equality and how much progress we’ve made, they fail to acknowledge that we have a long, long way to go. And while we have made great strides of progress, we have not gotten as far as the media would have us believe.

But enough about that shit, I have a lot of other stuff to get to in this entry so we shall be moving on.
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My dad watches a lot of ESPN, and a while back I overheard people discussing baseball hall of fame illegal substance matters. I can’t remember exactly what but I found a little article discussing something similar.

http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=001344

What bugs me about this issue is I overheard somebody on tv say something to the effect of “If we took out of consideration every guy who may have used illegal substances or was accused of such there would be three people in the hall of fame”.

Then so be it. Are you insinuating that you are backing people who have used illegal substances like steroids to further their athletic careers? If use of steroids took a great deal of people out of consideration for the hall of fame, then so be it. They broke the rules. Perhaps they did great things, but they fucking used steroids. What kind of message is this sending to people? If you do amazing things, it’s okay if we later found out you used steroids? What the fuck? The article asks at one point “If that’s the case — and I say it is — then how can we leave out Pete Rose, the all-time hits leader and most memorable competitor of his era? And how can we even consider leaving out McGwire, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, the three most memorable hitters of the 1990s? We’re supposed to stick our heads in the historical sand and pretend these people were never born?…”

I think we should leave them out and forget about them. It is possible to achieve great things without fucking using steroids. Why do we even still give a shit about them if they cheated? Why is it an olympic medalist would be stripped of their medal and some of their accolades if it was shown they used an illegal substance, but we are still considering these cheaters in baseball the “greats”? If those are the best so called “greats” that industry can come up with, I am not fucking impressed. Not at ALL.

On a similar note, I would like to give a big resounding fuck you to people who say “You don’t need substances to have fun”. I don’t want this to sound hypocritical, but getting drunk once in a while is fun. I’m not condoning cheating, doing hard, illegal drugs, or drinking three times a week, but sometimes, it’s fun to be drunk, and as long as this isn’t a regular occurance, I see nothing wrong. Do not take a pass at my intelligence because I like to, on occasion, get drunk.

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Moving on. About a month or so ago, I watched a program on Vh1 classic called “The US. vs John Lennon” and a great deal of things about it disturbed me. I wrote a few lines on what was pissing me off in notes on my phone, and I will now add to those a bit. You may read a little about this in this wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_U.S._vs._John_Lennon

I was watching “The US vs John Lennon”, and during a clip of John singing ‘Give Peace a Chance’ it hit me just what the world lost. I knew it was a shame before, but not until that moment did the severity of it hit me. All John did was preach peace and love, and some asshole goes and shoots him. If it weren’t for the last shot, John would probably still be alive. What. The. Fuck. Do they just let any idiot walk into a store and buy a gun? I still cannot wrap my head around this.  So you’re obsessed with a member of the Beatles. Big deal. Three fourths of the globe has been too.

So you want to be the fan that sticks out. I know. We all do. We all want to be the fan who meets our idol and makes a lasting impression on them. Big fucking deal. Wanting your name to be synonymous with your favorite rock star is a piss poor excuse. Now if you know me at all, you know that at times I can have obsessive tendencies, but even I could not dream of going to such lengths to be noticed. And sure, this asshole might have been so mentally ill he didn’t really know what he was doing, but big fucking deal. He still killed somebody. I don’t really trust the “not guilty by way of insanity” or whatever. I’m not saying that’s really applicable to this case but thinking of the asshole’s insanity (I refuse to name him, google it) brought that thought up.

It’s a damn good thing I don’t believe in the death penalty. And it’s a good thing I’m a hippie because if I weren’t, I’d beat this shit out of him. And another thing that gets me is how he shot John in the back. If you’re going to be stupid enough to attack somebody, at least have some balls and attack them to their face. Pussy.

On the political side, some of the commentary in this film bothers me. Some militant shithead said something like “Either shut up or go home”. I want to find this asshole and give him a piece of my mind. Why the fuck did the US make such a big goddam deal about John and Yoko anyway? Is it because the US hates to hear that they were in the wrong? UGH! John and Yoko preached peace and love. About what was good for people. Isn’t our fucking government supposed to look out for us? For what’s good for the people? For what is decent and right?

All of this aside, I almost wish John had been deported because then perhaps he’d have been in England and therefore not been shot.

I admit. Before my first real Beatles phase (which began in September 2009) I thought it was a tad out of whack how emotional fans would be when they spoke of Lennon’s death. I mean, I had always had a little fascination with John and Yoko, and I always thought was terrible and tragic that he died, but I found it silly how so many people that had never even seen him in real life got so emotional. Yet I am the one who used to get upset about Freddie Mercury’s death 20 years after the fact. And I was the one blubbering about Keith Moon’s passing 30 years after the fact. It made me think a little about myself and if anything I am glad I was able to learn something. Still. One has to wonder about the price of some of these lessons. I don’t know really.

But enough about this, as I am starting to ramble blindly.

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To wrap up this random entry I would like to include some ranting about the Grammys that I posted on my deviantart journal. I was in a pissed off, ranty mood, but since when am I in any other state when I write this blog?

“The beginning performance with Elton John and Lady Gaga was amazing. I don’t care if you don’t like her. DEAL WITH IT. It was amusing that Elton played along with Gaga’s makeup scheme, I loved it to death.
Beyonce also impressed me, despite me not liking her all that much.

Other than a couple of other decent performances (Earth Song) the night was a letdown. Fucking Taylor Swift needs to die. She can’t sing at all. She was pretending to groove to bad rap music, her dress was uglier than a fucking potato sack, I just can’t stand her at all. And she certainly didn’t fucking deserve album of the fucking year. If Gaga couldn’t get it at least give it to Beyonce, holy fuck. It pissed me off so much.

And anybody who plays that fucking Zac Brown band ‘Chicken fry’ bullshit loses their genitals, god I hate country so much I could barf.
And I am going to slap some sense into Stevie Nicks the next time she gets it in her head to sing with somebody as talentless as Taylor Swift.

And attention ugly hick who fronts the shitty band “Sugarland”, you need to crawl in a hole and never come out again. With your ugly square mouth that could devour a barn and your shitty voice, UGGGGHHHH

And what else torks me off about these music award shows is Lady Gaga is good enough to have huge hits and for her to sell tons of records, but she’s too out there to at least win ONE award?
I know why though. America is full of stupid fat white hicks who listen to bullshit like country.

And what is with all these rap retards performing? Like Lil Wayne? He sucks ass. And so did all the other rap “artists” that think they have talent. I would rather be a good singer and not sell very much than be a shitty singer like Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, or the Jonas Brothers and sell a bunch. I don’t care. I’d rather live in a cardboard box than sing that tripe. It’s bullshit.

This is the only part of me that isn’t hippie. I get too pissed at stupid people. Now I want to spread the message of peace and love as much as the next hippie but some things seriously just piss me off. I wouldn’t go out killing, hurting, or even vandalising people’s property (as I’m kinda against that), my rage is lived out through my words. It still torks me off though.”

The good, bad and ugly. But mostly bad and ugly.

Well kids, 2009 is drawing to a close which means the first decade of the new millennium is as well.

I’m going to blab a little about a couple more recent news stories, but later in the entry I will bitch about the crap this decade will be known for.

First up, a little blurb on this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091217/ap_on_re_us/us_old_rape_dna

“BARTOW, Fla. – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit”.

Okay. Why the fuck did it take people SO long to grant this guy a fucking DNA test? I don’t even have words for this. This guy was fucking kept in jail for thirty five years for something it was later proven he did not do.

I know back when he was “convicted” this sort of testing did not exist, so I can’t really blame people for that. It just makes me wonder how many times this guy tried to get dna testing only to be turned down. Innocent until proven guilty. Yeah, I know, he was sent to jail, but if there were a possibility for somebody to prove themselves innocent, why wouldn’t they be given that chance?

I don’t know what it’s like inside a prison, and I don’t know how it works, but it makes me a little more paranoid. What if something like this happened to me? And it was thirty years before I was proven innocent?

I doubt it would happen with the technology that we have, but it still scares me.

What bothers me, too, is the fact that he was convicted largely on eyewitness identification, the boy picked him out of a lineup.

I know in some cases this can help but… they would send someone to jail based mostly on what a person remembers? The brain is an amazing thing but people’s memories falter. They can convince themselves they saw something when they didn’t. They can remember wrong. Or remember what they pictured it as.

It frigtens me that we rely so heavily on witness testimony sometimes.

It said the purpetraitor  had bushy sideburns and a mustache, that’s what helped the boy pick Bain out of the lineup….
Who DIDN’T have sideburns and a mustache in the 70s?

I could go on but I can tell I’m sounding less and less intelligent so I will move on.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_nm/us_france_jackpot

“TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – A French court has split the jackpot from a casino slot machine between the woman who put in the money and the man who pulled the lever, ending months of argument between the two.”

This should have been an EASY case. If it was her money that was put into the machine, any winnings should have belonged to her. I mean, if this sort of thing happened to me, I’d have gladly shared, but the fact that they got into such a big argument over it is a little disturbing. And it was in FRANCE. I thought this sort of petty shit only happened in the US. I hope we are not rubbing off on them

NEXT!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091217/od_nm/us_newzealand_billboard

“WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) – A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny.”

People get offended so easily these days. I personally think this is hilarious.

But like… it was put up BY a church. It was their intention to get people thinking. Is it such an awful thing to be provoked to think about one’s religion? Or do you just want to follow it blindly?

I personally question my beliefs every opportunity I get.

“The church can have its debate on the Virgin birth and its spiritual significance inside the church building, but to confront children and families with the concept as a street billboard is completely irresponsible and unnecessary,” Family First director Bob McCoskrie told news website stuff.co.nz.

Why not? Did you want them to question that somewhere less public? Do you not want people to see things that make people THINK about their religion? It’s not like it’s graphic or anything.

But then again, the people most offended are the uptight Catholics.
You know, I like to think that everybody has the right to believe what they want, but some groups of people just irk me. I have a whole issue with the Christian religion. I’m not trying to hate on them, because I distrust MANY other widely accepted religions. It just bugs me that people would believe such CRAP. The earth is 6000 years old? Carbon dating, children, proves that the earth is MILLIONS of years old. I lean towards believing in such deities as Krishna, but I even have issues with the validity of that stuff.
Like, if God or whoever made the earth, who made God? And the earth was made up of a bunch of space rocks, but… where did the space rocks come from?

But that is another debate for another blog.

Now, children, onward to some of the popular news stories of the decade.

Unless you live in a cave, I’m guessing you remember the incident at the 2004 Superbowl Halftime show in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson’s costume, revealing her boob.
Maybe that was a tasteless move, okay, that’s not up for debate. What bothers me the most about this is how many people were offended.

It was a boob! It’s nothing you haven’t seen before! Don’t tell me children shouldn’t be subjected to that kind of shit either.

I wouldn’t let my kid watch video of naked people or anything… but we let kids watch movies with tons of violence and we don’t even bat an eyelash, but show one boob for less than ten seconds, and parents all across the country will be calling and complaining. Echoing one of George Carlin’s ideas, I would rather have a child of mine watch a video of two people making love rather than trying to kill each other.

There is a reason the US has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates, and one of the higest rates of rape. There is no reason or excuse for us to be this sexually repressed at this stage of the game.

It’s like kids and alcohol. Kids in other countries are taught that it’s okay to have a glass of wine with their dinner. We wouldn’t even have to go that far. If we taught kids it was okay to have a small glass of WINE COOLER with their dinners, then when they reach their teens alcohol wouldn’t be such a forbidden fruit. It wouldn’t be “so cool” if they’d been brought up with it their whole lives. Same with people and the abstinence only crap. Handing out condoms and preaching mutual masturbation is not going to make kids become promiscuous sex fiends who play with themselves or have sex every chance they get. Safe sex is not horrible.

If you keep repressing natural urges like this, eventually you are going to go insane! Or become a rapist! If kids were taught to channel their sexual feelings into something like masturbation, we wouldn’t have so many teenage mothers! And if you believe in no sex until marriage, good for you, but don’t tell me any of you who believe this don’t get horny. There is nothing wrong with masturbating. It’s HEALTHY. I can’t say I do it but it’s not exactly an unnatural thing.

Kinda went off on a tangent there, sorry. Moving on.

 ”South Carolina’s family-values Gov. Mark Sanford missed the Appalachian Trail and ended up in Buenos Aires, with his Argentine “soul mate”

This urks me. We have so many assholes promoting the “marriage is between a man and woman only” family values crap, but they turn around and cheat on their wives? Really? You people would rather have an unfaithful straight man than two faithful gay men?  Or rather an unfaithful straight woman than two faithful gay women? There is something seriously fucking wrong with that.

Speaking of wrong, anybody remember that time when Dick Cheny accidentally shot his hunting buddy? How fucking sad is that? All I have to say on the subject is “You don’t have to be a pornstar to get shot in the face by a dick”.

This is where I have to end it for now, but I have more to say about this decade, including GOOD things, so stay tuned.

Extra helping of stupid.

Seriously, it never ceases to amaze me at the sheer amount of stupidity in news stories.

First up is a story I caught on my MyYahoo homepage: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_us/us_zero_tolerance_boy

“BEAR, Del. – A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve”.

What did he bring? A combination knife/fork/spoon utensil to eat his lunch with.

Are you seriously saying they suspended six year old because of their no tolerance policy? Even if they overturned it, really?
It’s a six year old. I’m pretty sure six year olds, even in our society today, do not have thoughts that horrible that they would bring a knife to school with ill intent. Plus… if his PARENTS let him take it to school they obviously thought it was safe. It’s not like a first grader can just sneak a knife into their lunchbox.

And that’s not even the first issue that district has had. If you read farther down in the story it says a fifth grader was expelled for bringing a serrated knife to school to cut her BIRTHDAY CAKE. Even though that was later overturned, really? An innocent kid brings a utensil to school to cut their birthday cake with, and they get expelled?

I know that zero tolerance policies were started for a good reason but they’re going the way of PETA. They started out with good intent and a good message but now they’ve just been fucked up beyond recognition.

I don’t think it should be a no tolerance, immediate suspention/expulsion policy. They need to look at each instance and judge them accordingly, not just have one blanket policy for everything. Ugh.

Anyway. The rest of today’s entry has to do with random acts of stupidity in news stories I’ve run across on the internet. All of them are amusing in a sick way. To me anyway.

Get This…

You read right. “A family feud between a Eustis mother and her daughter — both of whom were involved with the same man — landed both women in the Lake County Jail on battery charges.”

First off, there are better ways to settle this type of feud than beating each other.  But secondly, look at that huge gash in the mother’s forehead. She actually needed paramedic attention for that.

Now, even though I said there are better ways of settling this than fighting, maybe I would understand if they just went outside and had a fist fight over it or something. Just the two of them, no weapons, just their bare hands. Even though any fighting bugs me, it would be better than assaulting each other with household objects, or whatever they used.

And really, why do guys (and girls, don’t want to be sexist) keep sleeping around? Is it really that hard to just stick to one person? Ugh. I can’t even get into that one.

And honestly, after all that, you would fight over a guy that starts dating your daughter when you go to jail? Shame on both of them! The daughter for agreeing to sleep around with the guy, and the mother for not kicking the guy out on his ass when she got back home. Why would they fight so hard for a guy who has obviously shown he cannot be faithful and will drop you like a hot rock the first chance he gets.

Nobody, man or woman, should have to deal with a partner like that. I say,  tell them to fuck themselves. You are better than that.  You can do better.

Next up in our ode to bad relationships, this little gem: Get me more beer, honey, or I’ll throw a leg through the window

“A woman accused of throwing a table leg through the window of her home after her boyfriend refused to buy more beer faces a felony charge, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.”

Long story short, white trash woman gets angry and starts throwing things when her boyfriend won’t go buy her more beer. And it’s because he says she gets aggressive when drinking.

And she’d been drinking all day?

Now I’m not going to lie, there are those few days when drinking all day is enjoyable, but those are few and faaaar between. I mean really far. I mean like once, maybe twice a year type deals… but it sounds here like this woman does it a lot more frequently. To me it sounds like she needs help. Her boyfriend was trying to help but she was too far gone.

And even after all that, she couldn’t go buy beer herself? Was she not within walking distance of somewhere? Or was she too drunk to walk there?  If you are too drunk to walk somewhere to buy more beer, perhaps you should stop drinking for the night.

I really hope her boyfriend either dumps her or gets her some serious help because it sounds like she needs it.

Next up is this.

Something about this story just irked me.

A police officer was taunting a guy who only had one arm.

Okay people, you should know by now I don’t give a damn about being politically correct, but some things you don’t do because they’re INDECENT, not because they’re not politically correct! How would you feel if you had one arm and some asshole was making fun of you for it? I mean really. And these are the type of people that “protect us” and uphold our laws and decency.

Great example, guys. And we wonder why the rest of the world thinks we’re all bumbling idiots.

Speaking of bumbling idiots…

“Police say a Wisconsin woman stripped when they tried to haul her in for shoplifting… under the mistaken belief that a naked person can’t be arrested, according to the Sheboygan Press. Julia E. Laack, 36, is accused of stealing beef jerky and lighters at a convenience store.”

First off… where the hell did she get the idea that she couldn’t be arrested if she was naked? And secondly… she was being arrested for stealing beef jerky and lighters? What an idiot! If you are going to be dumb enough to steal something, go for something expensive that would make it worth it! Would you really be stupid enough to risk your entire record over something that doesn’t even add up to five bucks?

I’m going to stop myself here but I could seriously go on all day with this crap

Stupid people with a side dish of weird.

This entry will probably be short and perhaps not that great, but I haven’t updated in ages and the library’s not open for another hour and fifteen minutes.
There are from news stories on my Yahoo page.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_back_in_prison_2
Really? I mean… really? Just DAYS after getting out of jail for robbery, you commit more robbery?
He’s only 24 and while that doesn’t seem young to me since I’m only almost 23, it’s still fairly young in the grand scheme of things. I really hope this guy learns his lesson this time. Isn’t that what prisons are for? You do something illegal, you get thrown in… so hopefully you learn the err of your ways, so when you get out again, you won’t go back to doing what you did. Or did they just let him rot in his jail cell for two years straight?
I don’t want to be mean here, but it takes a special kind of stupid to just get out of a 2 year stay in jail for robbery, then not even a week after you get out, to commit more robbery. Definition of insanity, folks; keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Speaking of a special kind of stupid, get this:  Click here for link
“An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van”.
I have few words for this. It’s just…. no.
And it makes you wonder. What other stupid things has this mother let her daughter do?
Wait honey! Let me throw some gravel on the lawn before you mow it in flip flops and absolutely no protective clothing!
Sure, you can meet that “14 year old” that just messaged you on myspace! Hell, I’ll even drive you there! Hop into the cardboard box on top of our junked up van and we can leave right away!

Ugh. Just think of the whole new dimension of shit the mother would be in if the girl had gotten seriously hurt or even killed. I’m glad the girl is all right but.. really.

Speaking of people getting hurt, I just found this little gem:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/05/11306676-cp.html
These guys scale barbed wire fences and shit to stick their arm in a tiger cage at 1 in the morning, and people question the zoo security?
It’s zoo security as in the whole zoo… They don’t get paid to stand in front of the tiger cage all night, they have other animals to check up on.Fuck’s sake. I really don’t wish harm on anybody but it would serve the more injured man right if he lost the arm that that tiger mauled.
There is nothing wrong with the tiger. He was acting on instinct. He was being a tiger. Now I of course don’t know what that is like but as a prowling tiger in the middle of the night I can’t imagine I’d take too kindly to strangers in my space.

In lighter news, I found a particularly entertaining news story that I don’t have much to say about but it’s definitely worth a look see.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/nobelusignobelsoffbeat
I want a gas mask bra! xD How big of sizes do they come in?
And a tequila diamond? Finally, a use for Patron that justifies it’s outrageous price! (I don’t drink it but once at a party a friend wanted us all to pool our money together to get a bottle, and the general consensus was that we were not going to pay 8 bucks each for something we’d only get one shot of… And an eight dollar shot? Unless it has gold flakes in it and or was poured by a famous musician, there is no way that is worth it).

Here are some other award winners: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_re_us/us_ig_nobels_list_1;_ylt=A9j8eOpSSctK_QYApgCspph4
I am particularly intrigued with the guy who cracked just his left knuckles for 60 years to see if it contributed to arthritis. Now that’s  dedication. And… Hell. I’d never be able to do that because I’d forget after like three days…. xP

That is all I’ve got for today’s entry. Don’t know when I’ll be back but I will be back.

Bullet shortage? WTF

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated this, but I’ve had life going on and since I’m not great with words even when I’ve got my shit together I decided to wait to write.

I’m going to begin this entry with a story pulled from my MyYahoo page this morning, then I’ll get to a little bit I had planned earlier.

First up on our oh so exciting roster is this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_re_us/us_ammo_shortage

in which the headline is “America armed, but guns not necessarily loaded”.

A bullet shortage? A little piece of my hippie heart just shriveled up, and not just because I don’t like guns.

I dislike guns but as it says in our constitution “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

I am all for people having a means with which to protect themselves.

It’s just that, as the story says, gun sales spiked when it was clear Obama would become president, and in recent months people have been going overboard fearing some sort of anti gun legislation… but seeing as nothing official has even been proposed and the story even says Obama passed a law that allows people to carry loaded guns in national parks.

Which leads me to believe that it’s just the country’s population of conservative dumb fucks going overboard.

And anyway, are guns such a terrible thing to hate? Ugh. In a world where we care more about dead celebrities and how skinny we can get, guns are not a terrible thing to not want.

UGH! And it even says in the news story that Obama isn’t even anti gun, he just promotes common sense! Fucking shitbags people, COMMON SENSE! Is our nation so fucked that everyone has to be all “we dusnt want bamma to take away our gunz” just because he promotes gun laws and common sense together?

In other news on today’s MyYahoo page: They’re making barbie into a movie movie? As in an in theatres not just for tv release movie? Hasn’t our entertainment world already gone to hell? And barbie? WTF? How is that a positive role model? Hay gurls, u has to be stik thinn and hav weirdly shaped purfecktly evun boobs and be blondd

UGH.

Yeah so I know today’s entry sucked but my brain is goo right now, this was the best I could come up with. I have another blurb planned but I want to collect other related things to bitch about before I release that on the public.

Men’s fashion, Gay =/= stupid, media: STFU, and racist neighbors.

Okay. So I know there seems to be a lot of unrelated stuff being thrown into the pot with this blog entry, but there is a reason to my madness. It’s all on my brain RIGHT THIS SECOND, and thusly is relevant to where I am at right now.

First in our jumbled mess: Men’s fashion.
Okay, I’m only 22, but I miss the days when men’s fashion wa sactually interesting; when they could be straight and wear more flamboyant, perhaps effeminate clothes and not be made fun of. I wish people would wear bell bottoms again. And I wish more guys would grow their hair out. Guys are hot with manes of hair. I could list a slew of musicians that demonstrate this. Inb4 this isn’t the 60s anymore, hippie. Screw you, I don’t care.

And I wish more guys would wear makeup. All I have to say to them is the same thing I’d tell women: KNOW HOW TO DO IT RIGHT. I.E., like, it’s a free country and you can do whatever you want, but wearing makeup so dark you look orange is going to undoubtedly affect how other people see you. And I know you should like, not care all that much about what others think, but you kind of have to care a little bit, dude.

Next in line is the incredibly dumb people who use “gay” as another word for “stupid”.  Gay used to mean happy, now it’s come to mean homosexual. But saying “That’s so gay” as another way of saying “That’s so stupid” w0uld be like saying “That’s so fat, that’s so skinny, that’s so brunette, that’s so female, that’s so male, etc” basically any trait anyone could have. How’d you like if it all the gay people were going around calling stupid things ‘straight’? Don’t do it, people. And I’m sure I’m going to get someone in here saying “Don’t use retarded as another word for stupid, how’d you like it if all the retarded people went around saying ‘that’s so normal ” but that’s not really the same.

NEXT! A short shout out to the media who need to shut the fuck up. Quit slapping Michael Jackson’s name on everything just to rake in cash or ratings. Like, I ran across this infomercial for a motown multiple cd collection and they billed it as the Michael Jackson something or other when in actually he only accounted for a small portion of the material. And really, who gives a shit who the biological father of his kids was? Michael was their legal guardian and I’m sure the kids aren’t making a big stink about it so why should we? Michael was their father. It doesn’t matter who their sperm donar was.

Now, I don’t know if this incident is related to our racist neighbors which I’ll explain shortly, but as I was walking to the library, this old man in this boring old person car was driving slowly, staring at me. Now, I’m wearing my Michael Jackson tee shirt so that may be why. But I look at the car, then look away. Then I look back, and he’s still following me, staring at me. He shook his head, looked away, and finally drove off. I was like WTF was that all about? Was that one of our racist neighbors?

I will now tell that story. A week or two ago, a thunderstorm detached a huge branch from a tree by our garage and hit a bit of the roof in the back. It didn’t bust it in or anything, but the branch was blocking the alley behind our house.

We called our landlord to remedy the situation, and I wasn’t present for any of this, but my parents and brother told the story. Our neighbors to the left only live here in the summer, they live in Florida the rest of the year. They told our landlord he should make us clean up our yard etc. Now, we don’t have crap sitting out everywhere, we just don’t over preen and overmow our lawn, and the flowers out front are a little overgrown. But they said our landlord should make us fix it up because it looked like a family of “n” words lived there, and I don’t use that word because I find it vulgar.

I mean honestly. I didn’t get good energy from those neighbors before but after I heard that, I was shocked. They threatened to go to the city council and everything.

Maybe they have to landscape perfectly in their little old people gated community, but we do NOT. And city hall or whatever won’t do shit about us not having a perfect lawn. And these people are retired. My parents work, my brother is in school, I work and do shit, we don’t have the amount of free time that they do. They have the time to piddle around with their yard all day. They were even in some garden exhibition. They have a fenced in back yard, but all day that day we had to deal with all the noise from people constantly touring their stupid garden, and all the stupid people taking up parking everywhere, practically blocking our driveway.

And if anyone should complain about their neighbors, it’s us, because our racist neighbors’ dog and cat constantly poop in and invade our yard. It’s like our yard is the residential pet port-a-potty, because we have other neighbors whose dogs probably crap in our yard all the time too.

I don’t have much more to say than that… they just piss me off. I can’t wait till it gets cold and they fly back to their stupid retirement community in Florida.

Healthcare BS, and the country’s vanity obsession

I’d like to elaborate on each topic a bit more but seeing as I have to use library computers that will have to wait.

And I have to warn you. A lot of you will probably not agree with what I’m saying on this first topic. I could give a shit less about that. I just don’t want to be personally attacked or demeaned because that is what I believe. Disagree with me without being an ass. It can be done.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090813/pl_politico/26078

A load of BS. Palin is good at spewing that out. I have to warn you, I go off on a tangent here. Sure. Non productive citizens, old people, and retarded people not getting decent healthcare is awful to think about, but if they didn’t get it, I’d understand why. Why are we spending all this money on vegetables who have no real worth to society? Like what are these senile, diabetic, catheter using people doing for society? They can’t work, either because of their deteriorating physical condition or because they’re too senile to work. So why do we have all these senior citizen homes? It’s kind of a waste of our resources by keeping alive what is essentially a vegetable. Sure we can learn some amazing stuff from our old people… I can’t speak for any of you, but if I get so old and senile I can’t do anything but sit there, sleep and drool, I want someone to feed me poison. How good is their quality of life if they can’t move, they can’t even go to the bathroom by themselves, and they have to eat baby food? I don’t want to live a day past when I lose my mind. I mean, it’d be one thing if they had the body of a half rotten pumpkin but still had their wits about them and could still impart some part of their past knowledge, but if they can’t even do that, what is the point, really?

And about “special needs” people, sure it’s sad. Yes I know they didn’t ask to be born that way, sure, but it’s sort of the same as with old people. I don’t know if I’d want to have the burden of a child who’s going to have the mind of a nine year old their entire life. It sounds awful, but honestly… And I know you’re supposed to love your children unconditionally, but I don’t know how much I could love something that I’m going to have to constantly care for until I’m too old and senile to do it. I would never want to fucking raise children until I was like 80 and had to be put in a home… Maybe I’d welcome raising a child for 18 years and then helping them along with the rest of their life, but having to be as responsible as that for like 60 years? I’ll pass. And honestly.

If I got pregnant (which I never will) and we could tell that there was a great chance that my kid would be severely mentally retarded, I’d have the pregnancy terminated (a more politically correct way to say “get an abortion”). Sure it’s an awful thing to have to do, but we’re so overpopulated, do we really need to bring another retarded kid into the world? Think about the kid’s quality of life. How good is their quality of life going to be if they have the intelligence of an ape or a severe physical disability? Sure. There are loads of disabled people living meaningful lives… It all depends on the risk of mental/physical disability. And don’t get me started on the people who have multiple mentally retarded children. STOP HAVING KIDS IF THEY ALL COME OUT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090812/music_nm/us_clarkson_1 Another volume in the continuing horror story of this country’s obsession with being thin. I am going to quote Foamy the Squirrel here: “You don’t have to adhere to an idealistic vision of beauty marketed by fashion magazines and negatively reinforced by a society dumb enough to believe that beauty only appears on the cover of a magazine”. I mean really. Do they realize that girls (and some guys) look at these magazines as the standard of what they have to be to be accepted? And if these assholes airbrush and retouch their covers so much they don’t resemble real life, how can people live up to that? But nobody cares because not liking who you are makes for a great way to sell people shit. Of course these advertising fuckers don’t want people to like who they are because that won’t make a sale. If people loved who they were, all those anti wrinkle serums and creams wouldn’t sell. The weight loss industry wouldn’t exist. If people liked who they were, nobody would be buying all the fucking weight loss products and expensive home gym equipment. It’s like Phillip Morris (a tobacco company) advertising no smoking campaigns. Really? Do you think they really give a shit? They don’t want you to smoke until you’re 18; after that, they’ll be back to encouraging you to smoke. And they put out these don’t smoke if you’re a kid campaigns, but do you really think they believe that shit? Their advertising and their actions say otherwise. They might put out the kids shouldn’t smoke campaigns to shut the parents up, but they actually want 12 year olds to smoke so they’ll get addicted, so the tobacco industry can continue to rake in shitloads of money.

Human stupidity in general with a focus on blogs and parenting.

Okay. You  may have heard this a few days ago but just in case you haven’t, I will provide you with a link to the story: http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/08/02/Mother-finds-own-babys-photo/1249263747.html

Um, duh. You posted a picture of your child on the internet. You should know this by now, but anything you post on the internet can be seen by anyone, with good or bad intentions. Don’t act all shocked that somebody lifted a picture of your child. Sure, it was wrong, and the idiot who stole the picture shouldn’t have done it.

Password your blog if it’s that important.

And anyway, with all the recent shit that’s been going on with posts on Craigslist such as murders and all that, either advertise in a local newspaper, sell something on eBay, or go without! Or, omg, use a different, more reliable site!

Another movement in my symphony on bad parenting. This morning on Headline News, I saw a story about this: http://www.parentdish.com/2009/08/04/parenting-can-be-a-drag-for-woman-who-keeps-child-on-a-leash/

Now, while the author of that article reserves judgement, I don’t, really. Dragging your kid around on a leash? No thank you. Even if they are being stubborn and fussy, and even if you’ve run out of options, dragging your kid around like an unruly dog is wrong. The woman claimed that she had a medicial condition that wouldn’t allow her to pick up the kid. Um. If you had the strength to pull your kid around the store, you’d have the strength to pick him up.

Now, I don’t have kids, and I wasn’t there, so I can’t say how I would react but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t resort to dragging my kid around. And anyway, I hate those little kid leashes anyway.

It’s a child, not a dog. How about you just watch your children like a sensible human being? It’s not like you’re the supervisor of a group of 15 six year olds that you’re taking on a field trip. Then, those little things might be a good idea, but one kid? Is it really that hard to keep track of one kid?

Speaking of people with children, I occasionally watch The View, and I really wish Elizabeth would just shut up. What is she on, her third kid? Do all conservatives have to breed another platoon for god’s army? Honestly! And honestly, don’t talk over everyone else and then bitch when they do the same to you. She just grates my gears too, with all her skewed perceptions on politics and bitching about how When is it going to be Obama’s problem, Bush isn’t in office anymore.

News flash, sweetheart. I’m not saying Obama is perfect but what I am saying is that a lot of our problems are still Bush’s fault. Obama has barely been in office for 100 days, he cannot fix everything that quickly. On that note, why the fuck are there already books about how bad Obama is doing?

Where was that shit after Bush’s first 100 days in office? Sure. I hate him, but even with a politician I hate, I can’t write a book about how bad he’s done during his first 100 days in office because nobody really knows how he’s going to do yet. Give Obama some more time to figure shit out. Because it’s not like we’re helping either. All I hear out of everyone’s mouth is how they don’t want taxes to go up, blah blah, Obama’s bad because he wants to cost us more money. News flash! We need money to fix all this shit Bush left the country in. Honestly! If you are some multi millionaire, I think you have a duty to pay more taxes than someone in a lower or middle class. I don’t know why the fat cats are bitching about having higher taxes… It’s not like we’re going to tax them out of everything! We just want them to pay their fair share.

And while we’re on that topic, why the fuck do we pay pro sports players millions of dollars? Why are we paying grown men to play with balls and run around astro turf fields for a couple hours every weekend during the season? There’s no way they should make more money than the president, or teachers! Or even policemen, firemen, librarians, doctors, people who really service our country. What are these sports retards doing? Entertaining a bunch of rednecks and sports fanatics who can’t get off unless they’re watching a game! In my world, even an elementary school teacher would make more money than a fucking single digit I.Q. football player with a face that looks like a diseased squash with a body to match.

Well, I can see I’ve gone off on a tangent, so it’s probably a good idea to cut this off until I find something else to bitch about.

Shouting Fire… planned blog entry.

Today I watched a particularly thought provoking documentary on HBO called Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech.

This documentary primarily focuses on, and I quote “The documentary prominently features First Amendment attorney, Martin Garbus, who talks about the past and present state of free speech in the United States, and the case of Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, who was fired after writing a controversial article about the 9/11 attacks, as well as the cases of Debbie Almontaser, Chase Harper, and protesters of the 2004 Republican National Convention.^[1] Those interviewed include Floyd Abrams, David Horowitz, Eric Foner, Donna Lieberman, Daniel Pipes, Richard Posner, Kenneth Starr and Josh Wolf.^[1]“

In my defense, I was going to explain it myself but figured that would be redundant, as Wikipedia already had a synopsis.

Now, I’d like to go spouting off about my beliefs and the things mentioned in this documentary, but I have very little political knowledge. I know what I believe and what I’ve heard, but it’s not enough for me. Like, why are most terrorist attacks blamed on people with Islamic and Muslim beliefs? What fundamental beliefs do those religions actually have? As is the case with extreme bible bouncers/ protesters who brandish “God hates fags” signs, the extremists of the religion do not define the entire religion. And yet as I browse the religion section of this library, only a couple shelves in the entire row have books that aren’t about Christianity.
I have to put up with the annoying bells chiming from the church next door, but what if I don’t want to have to listen to a Christian hymn? It wouldn’t bother me so much, but I know damn well that if some coven of Wiccans blared their music for ten minutes a day, their place of worship would have protesters at the door day and night.

I’m getting into it already. I’m sorry. With something I feel so strongly about, it’s difficult to contain myself. Before I went off on a tangent, I was going to say that before I write the official blog entry about the matters discussed in this documentary, I am going to do some research.  I am going to read up on these points so that when I come back to you, I will know what I’m talking about. I will have some background knowledge to support my opinions. As of right now I hvae about six tabs open, pertaining to things like Ward Churchill, and the 2004 Republican National convention.

I can’t guarantee as to when this entry will be ready but you are welcome to contact me with anything you think it would be useful to include.

First Amendment violation.

Now, I wasn’t going to write another entry this soon, but a story popped up on my MyYahoo page and I felt the need to write about it. It is a short entry, but an entry nonetheless. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_re_us/us_upside_down_flag

Violation of first Amendment rights. Why is it that when the matter includes our flag, people get butthurt so much more easily than they would with any other issue? Sure, you can say it’s a symbol of our country, it shouldn’t be burned, flown upside down, whatever…

The first Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.

I wouldn’t ever want to burn a flag, but we don’t have the right to tell someone they can’t. If we let the goverment control that, what’s next? You can’t say anything bad about any figures of power? You can’t dress the way you want if the government doesn’t like it? We all have to think the way the government wants us to? Come on, people.

What right did the police officers of that area have to take down the flag? If they would have left it there any other day of the week, they shouldn’t have taken it down just for a holiday.

This is reminding me, in small scale of course, of China wanting to hurry and clean up before the Olympics, and then afterward letting things slip back to normal. What the fuck. That gets me into something else. As it says in the story, a neighbor asked what the police were doing, and they replied, “None of your business”… That doesn’t make any goddam sense.

Did the cop take it down because he knew he could and he wouldn’t have to give a valid reason for it? Why do we even have police? It’s illegal to cause a disruption. Whatever. Let people be upset. If we have freedom of speech according to the first amendment, we should be able to say what we want, and if other people don’t like it, fuck them.

Besides.

If it’s illegal to cause a disruption, maybe the cop should have bitched at all the people making a scene, not the guy who fucking flew his flag upside down. Christ. It’s not like he burned it and threatened to bomb a crowded airport or something. He flew a flag upside down. Whoop de doo.