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First two weeks in Korea
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Jul 31, 2008 10:02 am
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Mixed bag.
I've made some friends, but I don't really understand the culture that well.
I don't know what's orthodox when it comes to women in Korea, so I find myself keeping to myself more and more.
The way I look at it, it's the same thing I dealt with in the States. . .alot of flirting, alot of head games and alot of bullshit. I'm tired of it.
Half the reason I do not trust or respect women is because of the female mind. Just say what you feel and thing. . .no head games, not nonsense.
I am respectful, honest, up front and true to my word. My name is all I have at times and I put stock in not doing anything I regret or will regret. But, I don't get the women here.
Are they sincere? How can you tell they are interested? What is expected of men? How do I act? Forward? Shy, respectful, a dickhead? Don't tell me myself because I do that and all I get is flirting and nothing more.
So, on the professional side, things couldn't better. On the social side, things are really good. On the relationship/love/significant other side, things are as crappy and miserable as they were when I was in the states.
Maybe I just need to get drunk more often to shield the pain again. I figure I can go on another bender soon. . .I have 7 out of the 19 days I've been here.
Oh. . .and where does one go to get hookah shisha, steamed dumplings, non-pork food and a pizza?
Also, how does one get to Hongdae from Suji? What bus line and what damn subway line and exit?
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40 Rules to be a good Republican Idiot
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Jun 28, 2008 12:41 pm
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1. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread because people are evil and should be punished.
2. You have to believe that the evolution is a myth that shouldn't be taught in schools, despite the evidence of biochemistry and the fossil record.
3. You have to believe that there is no causal link between legal, easily-obtainable handguns and high murder rates.
4. You have to believe that global temperatures are completely unaffected by fossil fuel emissions, that the best way to save the national forests is to allow logging companies to cut down old-growth timber, and the best way to save endangered species is to allow trophy hunters and wildlife traders to import more of them.
5. You have to believe that homosexuality is evil (despite the fact that it occurs in nature) and that women should stay at home to cook and bear children.
6. You have to be against abortion but support capital punishment.
7. You have to believe that businesses never purposely hurt anyone to make money.
8. You have to believe that hunting requires an automatic rifle with armor piercing bullets.
9. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.
10. You have to believe that war is an acceptable solution to any economic or social problem.
11. You have to believe that everyone should support the troops - except when it comes to paying them.
12. You have to believe the NRA is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are for poor and middle class people, not the rich.
14. You have to believe that affirmative action is wrong, while still supporting discrimination against minorities.
15. You have to believe that Ann Coulter is normal and really a very compassionate person.
16. You have to believe that the only reason supply-side economics hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
17. You have to believe that the Ten Commandments should be displayed in every public building regardless of the fact that not everyone in America is a Christian.
18. You have to believe that Republican Party funding by corporations is somehow in the best interest of the United States, but Democratic Party funding by labor unions is wrong headed and evil.
19. You have to believe that the media are biased toward liberals, despite the fact that all the major media outlets are owned by ultra-rich conservatives.
20. You believe being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an illness and needs our prayers for your recovery.
21. You have to believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.
22. You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the wrong gender.
23. You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.
24. You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to Allah or Buddha.
25. You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.
26. You have to believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that Jesus shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.
27. You hate the ALCU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it to the country to bail out Oliver North.
28. You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to praise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.
29. You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can only be purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.
30. You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.
31. You have to believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate our allies and then demand their cooperation and money.
32. You have to believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMO's and insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.
33. You have to believe that providing health care to all Iraqis is sound government policy but providing health care to all Americans is socialism personified.
34. You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are "junk science", but Creationism should be taught in schools.
35. You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in Vietnam but right in Iraq.
36. You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we-can't-find-Bin-Laden” diversion.
37. You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and censoring the internet.
38. You have to believe that the public has a right to know about the adulterous affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a private matter.
39. You have to believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages from the Congressional 9/11 report because you just can't handle the truth.
40. You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital national interest but what Bush did in the 1970s is stale news and irrelevant.
"We’ll stop telling the truth about them when they stop lying about us. " - Adlai Stevenson
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Five Greast Musicals Of All Time
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Jun 20, 2008 1:13 pm
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Now, to me, there is difference between a musical and an opera. There is no talking in an opera, there is only singing. With that, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera are operas, even though they are two of my favorites.
For this to qualify there must be at least two scenes were the majority of dialogue is spoken, not sung.
5) The King and I
Rodgers and Hammerstein
The musical adaptation of "Anna and the King of Siam" is just fantastic. Granted, two songs make me teeth hurt ("Whistle" and "Getting To Know You"), but that aside, the King and I is marvelous.
4) Grease
Jacobs and Casey
The 1950s never had more style or flash than when Danny and Sandy step on stage. From "Summer Lovin" to "You're the One That I Want," the show never stops, which the ultimate horndog song "Greased Lightning."
3) 1776
Stone and Edwards
Only a history teacher could turn the drafting, signing and debate over the Declaration of Independence in a masterpiece on stage. Everything is almost historically accurate and there isn't one part that is long, drawn out or tedious. The musical flies through, leaving chills in your bones at the end.
2) West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
"Romeo And Juliet" set in Manhattan's Upper West Sidt in the 1950s and given the Broadway musical treatment, "West Side Story" is almost perfect. The Capulets and Montagues are replaced by the Sharks and the Jets. . .with Romeo and Juliet replaced by the two "star crossed lovers" of Tony and Maria. Perfect, thought-provoking and even relevant to today's disillusioned youth.
1) My Fair Lady
Lerner and Lowe
The musical rendition of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" is the perfect musical: great songs, excellent characters, high brow humor and a story that draws you in. From "Why Can't The English" to "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face," the story of Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle will always stand the test of time.
Honorable mention:
Flower Drum Song
Sound of Music
Guys and Dolls
Damn Yankees
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My Top Ten Depressing Movies of All Time
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Jun 15, 2008 2:56 pm
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I fashion myself as a movie buff and historian. Hopefully, my agent will get me my break soon. I write them, I've reviewed them for newspapers in college and I enjoy them.
The following are, in my opinion, the top ten depressing movies of all time.
10: The Man With the Golden Arm
1955 with Frank Sinatra/Kim Novak
Director: Otto Preminger
Right off the bat, we deal with Frank Sinatra's character fresh out of prison, clean from heroin and all the forces that pull him back into his addiction. While it has a somewhat happy ending, TMWTGA was the first movie that presented drug addiction honestly. The 3:20 scene of Sinatra drying out is Hollywood magic, and was done in exactly one take.
9: Schindler's List
1993 with Liam Neeson/Ben Kingsley
Director: Steven Spielberg
The accuracy of ghetto life, the pain of being a Jew in Nazi Germany and the brutality of the movie is legendary, while Neeson and Kingsley's performances are epic. The escape scene where Neeson breaks down because he "didn't do enough" pulls on anyone.
8: 8 MM
1999 with Nicholas Cage/Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cage plays a private detective hired by a widowed heiress that employs him to prove that the snuff film her husband had wasn't real. Upon learning the truth, the movie's detective feeling disappears into grim melancholy, with an ending that will leave a person feeling hopeless.
7: Days Of Wine And Roses
1962 with Jack Lemmon/Lee Remick
Director: Blake Edwards
Another film that presents addiction in a realistic life, this time alcoholism. Lemmon and Remick play alcoholics spiraling out of control. The movie is pure heartache, and has a rarity with the movies of the 1960s: It does not have a happy ending. Lemmon's drying out scenes are amazing, and the movie is part auto-biographical because Lemmon himself was an alcoholic.
6: Lorenzo's Oil
1992 with Nick Nolte/Susan Sarandon
Director: George Miller
A child dying of an incurable disease, the medical community saying there is no hope and a family trying to find a way to save their young son. The scenes of Lorenzo's ALD fits are just too much to handle and too much to take. The hopelessness of Nolte and Sarandon comes through perfectly. Sadly, Lorenzo died earlier this year.
5: The Fly
1986 with Jeff Goldblum/Geena Davis
Director: David Cronenburg
Vincent Price's version was good. Campy, but goody. This version has so much more life to it. We can feel Davis' devotion and love for Goldblum and Goldblum's love and honor of Davis, right to the credits. The last 15 minutes of the movie is just heart pulling, and we feel Davis' pain.
4: The Elephant Man
1980 with Anthony Hopkins/John Hurt
Director: David Lynch
"I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am. . .a. . .man." The story of Joseph Merrick and his fight with Proteus syndrome, ignorance and brutality. Hopkins was perfectly cast and the movie is one set of depressing events after another, leading up to Merrick doing the one thing he knew would kill him at the end of the movie: lying down and falling asleep.
3: Mask
1985 with Cher/Eric Stoltz
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
The story of Rocky Dennis, a teenager with a rare condition that deforms his face and the struggles he faces with his drug addicted, motorcycle gain mother Cher building him up, while tearing herself down. The only people who accept Dennis are his mother's gang friends, and are the only ones who show up at the end.
2: Leaving Las Vegas
1995 with Nicholas Cage/Elizabeth Shue
Director: Mike Figgis
John O'Brien's "suicide note" of a novel given one of the most heartfelt movie treatments ever made. Cage and Shue are fantastic, but the elements of the plot (along with Cage's hopeless, protracted suicide) will just melt away any attempt at not being emotionally drained. You leave the movie asking "how can someone do that to themselves?" However, #1 makes this one look like Dr. Seuss.
1: The Green Mile
1999 with Tom Hanks/Michael Clarke Duncan
Director: Frank Darabont
The only movie I ever watched in the theaters where I couldn't move after it ended. Hanks' conversation with Duncan before his execution, asking Duncan how can he go to heaven knowing what he knows and defending his actions will tear your already torn heart out out. I didn't cry at this movie, I was empty. I was emotionless and I talked about it for days. This was one movie that really affected me.
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I Just Got An Obnoxious Chain Letter and It Pissed Me Off
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Jun 14, 2008 6:41 pm
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I got a letter called "26 Things the Perfect Guy Would do." Sad thing, people, namely clueless, romantic comedy, chick flick watching women believe this crap! I feel the need to comment, so be prepared for some rather pointed cynicism.
26 Things That A Perfect Guy Would Do
1. Know how to make you smile when you are down.
Ummm. . .why not make me smile when I'm down too? I had a girlfriend who told me that, when I was down or depressed, I "needed to be more of a man." Please, the door swings both ways, sweetie.
2. Try to secretly smell your hair, but you always notice.
Why would I do that? What's with the hair smelling? What does that prove? How does that show anything other than a weird sexual fetish? If I were a woman, I'd be freaked out if the man I was with trying to sniff my hair, shoes, underwear or sniff me period.
3. Stick up for you, but still respects your
independence.
This is easily made into cake and eating it. If she screws up, I need to bail her out, but it's not something I should ever bring up. Yet, there is not statue of limitations with me. You can bring up something I did that pissed you off two years earlier as if it happened yesterday.
4. Give you the remote control during the game.
Touch my remote during my Mets, Bills or Sabres games and you'll take a quick flying lesson out the window. Don't bother me during the game and I won't bother you during something you enjoy. Better yet, take an interest in what I like and maybe you'll like it too? Ever think of that?
5. Come up behind you and put his arms around you.
Huh? Random groping is romantic? I should have done that more in college then.
6. Play with your hair.
Again with the damn hair. You don't play with the hair on my ass, why should I play with the hair on your head.
7. His hands always find yours.
Can't your hand find mine? Door swings both ways.
8. Be cute when he really wants something.
No. If I want something, I will be direct. "Honey, I'm hungry. Please make me something." "Honey, I'm horny." "I had a bad day, I need some space for a while." Why do I need to sugar coat anything? Women, by in large, don't when they have a bug up their ass.
9. Offer you plenty of massages.
I massage nothing. In my eyes, a massage should only lead one place, and if it doesn't, I'll be in the bathroom. And it will be the last massage I give.
10. Dance with you, even if he feels like a dork.
Put enough liquor into my stomach and I may dance. But dancing makes me envy the dead.
11. Never run out of love.
Huh? Wha? Never run out of love? And if we do, I think there's a love sale at the supermarket? The adage goes "it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind." I'll run out of love the second you use sex as a weapon.
12. Be funny, but know how to be serious.
Serious men die at 62 on the golf course. Laugh at everything, everyone and anything, especially yourself. Try it, lady.
13. Realize he's being funny when he needs to be serious.
Okay, thinking about #12 and #13 together made my brain hurt.
14. Be patient when you take forever to get ready.
NO!!! It takes me ten minutes to get ready. You need to do that too or else build up strong walking muscles. I'm autistic and hyperactive. I have next to no patience.
15. React so cutely when you hit him and it actually hurts.
When you hit me and it hurts, it's cute and I should react that way. If I hit you and it hurts, it's called domestic violence? Wrong. You hit me, it's called domestic violence. Enjoy your night in jail.
16. Smile a lot.
Smiling makes my face hurt.
17. Plans a romantic date full of cheesy things he wouldn't normally like to do, just because he knows it means a lot to you.
No. . .if it's my plan, we're doing what I enjoy. If it's your plan, we'll do what you enjoy. I'll put a fake smile and try to not vomit doing it, so will you. If the date consists of theater, dinner and a hockey game, clap, eat and enjoy body checking.
18. Appreciate you.
Door. Swinging both ways. I think there's a saying like that.
19. Help others out.
I help my friends and buddies all the time. In fact, I will drop everything to help them out at the drop of a hat.
20. Drive 5 hours just to see you for 1.
Are you paying my gas? No? Up yours? It's $4 a gallon.
21. Always gives you a peck on the cheek when you depart from each others company, even when his friends are watching.
I don't do public displays of affection. I have some tact and class. If you don't, we aren't meant to be together.
22. Sing, even if he can't.
I can sing, very well actually. If I couldn't, don't put me in a position to embarrass myself or I'll tell everyone around us something embarrassing about you.
23. Have a creative sense of humor.
I am cynical, sarcastic and droll. You need a brain to understand my humor. Dane Cook sucks. My comedic inspirations are George Carlin and Rodney Carrington. If you don't like people like that, you will say I have no sense of humor. And I will respond by saying I no patience for you either!
24. Stare at you.
Yes, because you've always wanted to date a freaky stalker. Gross! Stare at me and I'll ignore you.
25. Call for no reason.
See, that's what women do to annoy the hell out of men. We HATE TALKING ON PHONES!!! Call, speak your piece, hang up. We have other things we could be doing, like watching the game with buddies.
26. Quit smoking, chewing, drinking, or drugs - just because he loves u that much to quit it.
Addicts and alcoholics don't do that. . .EVER! They love their addiction more than anything else, including their own safety. If you think that will happen, you're sadly mistaken. But keep enjoying the crappy pablum Hollywood throws at you.
Anyone who believe any of this crap needs to be put to sleep. Sadly, alot of women believe stupidity like this. And I need to do something to make me forget I read this list, like drinking drain-o.
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Laws that need to be re-examine (response to the self-righteous indignation of bannng one person)
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Jun 14, 2008 2:03 pm
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8 Things Government Shouldn't Regulate
Let's begin by saying I am not against the government. I believe government serves functions that we, as individual citizens, cannot perform ourselves.
However, government needs to get the hell out of certain things and rescind their rules pertaining to certain things. Here is my list:
1: Marriage: GET OUT OF THE MARRIAGE BIZ, period. It's sad you need a license to get married, but not to own a gun. And who cares who marries who? If you are of legal age (1 . . . who cares if you marry a man or a woman? 53% of marriages fail within the 1st 5 years anyway. If gay marriage makes a mockery of marriage, what does straight divorce do? Personally, if gay people want to get married, let them. They should experience the let down marriage offers straight people first hand as well.
2: Speed limits: If I am in control of my car at 90 mph, why should some guy with a badge give me a ticket for it? Because I might cause an accident? Preventive laws are just stupid! Who cares? Having speed limits may actually increase the risk of accidents because a speed limit is artificial to begin with and takes away the driver's ability to think. "I'm going 75. I'm fine!" Idiotic rules by moronic people.
3: DUI: See Speed Limits. Arresting someone because they "might" cause an accident because they are drunk. If they do cause an accident, then bang them. Give them tickets for driving poorly, but DUI is a waste of taxpayer money and effort. No one get hurt. . .who the hell cares?
4: Drugs: See DUI and Speed Limits. Nothing dumber than making a physical disease a crime. "No, we're making possession of the thing that causes the disease a crime." BULL!!! We tried that. . .it was called "prohibition" and it was such a great success. Those new "animated" above the influence cartoons about weed are just retarded. What's with the flag? Victimless crime . . . worthless waste of time, money and energy. Screw the Drug War, screw the Drug Czar and screw any cop who arrests someone with an gram of weed, coke, heroin or any other Drug on them. Nothing like prison to clean someone up, right. . .because there are no Drugs in prisons.
5: Drinking Age: I'm 29, so I'm not one of these mindless underage whiners who think they should drink. I just think they should drink without punishment. Especially now that Arizona has determined that a person's body is a container. Only people over 21 have the maturity to drink responsibly? Sure they do. . .just look at the number of overage DUI charges (that shouldn't be there unless someone or some property get hurt). They're practically zero, aren't they? They're not. You mean turning 21 doesn't instantly give you drinking maturity? THEN DROP THE AGE TO 18 AND STOP MAKING CRIMINALS OUT OF KIDS WHO PICK UP A BEER!!! You can go to adult prison at 18, but can't drink at 18? There are different levels of adulthood? What a crock.
6: Sports games: Let's forget baseball and steroids. I'm talking about some fool that gets drunk and jumps on the field. Why should he be arrested? Because he's drunk and jumps onto the field? When did a sports arena become a sanctuary? If they don't want fans (which is obvious by the checks, rules and restrictions most ballparks have on their paying fans), don't sell tickets! I paid my ticket. . .I have the right to be as obnoxious as I want to be. . .PERIOD!!! Without some nazi badge sniffer and his little rent-a-cop retard threatening arrest.
7: House renovations: I need a permit to build something on my lawn? Does the government by my mortgage? NO, they don't! Then take your permits, your licenses and your directives and shove them. Pick up my mortgage and then we can discuss it.
8: Smoking regulations: Now the government is going to dictate where I can and cannot smoke? I don't smoke anyway, but who cares where I smoke? "Your rights stop at my lungs." Okay, well. . .your rights stop at my ears. . .let's restrict where you can speak and what you can say. It should be up to the individual business. Arizona passed this abomination because the smoking nazis were out in force. I hate liberals like this! I really do! Who cares? Let them smoke. . .if you don't like it, LEAVE! Why do non-smokers have all the rights? 9 times out of 10, smokers are more fun to be around.
Two last things: Are you sick of seeing cameras everywhere? Speeding cameras, red light cameras, surveillance cameras. I'm on camera every place except where I drop trow, but I'm probably being watched there too! Police have turned my country into a police state and the police state loving right wing pieces of garbage love it. They love cameras everywhere. . .until it impedes them. Then they turn self-righteous. So much for police doing their jobs and the idea of cop didn't see it, I didn't do it. The cameras gotcha and you've been tagged!
Lastly, you notice the mixed message Arizona sends to its smokers. "Please call the Arizona Smoker's Helpline to quit smoking, but don't stop smoking because we've just added a 40 cent per pack tax on cigarettes to fund state funded after school programs." That logic destroys brain cells. Think of the children you'll leave behind when you die of cancer before you smoke, but don't stop because you'll hurt the children who use this new after-school program. Kind of makes you think they don't want smokers to stop smoking. Genius!
And that's called good government in action. Actually, I'd like good government inaction. . .because when they act, they screw up a system that's already too screwed up as is.
FINALLY: To those who do not like the fact that I banned one person for a personal insult and the self-righteous indignation it caused - I'll make it simple:
I. . .DON'T. . .CARE!!!
You don't want to read what I write. . .fine! I lose zero sleep. No one asked you to read. I post my opinions and my feelings, no matter who I offend. I don't care if you are offended, incensed, annoying or disgruntled after you read my postings. Don't like. . .there's an x up in the top right corner. Click it and go away.
This is not a "free-speech zone." I control the content of MY blog. If I want to erase or disregard, or even ban someone, I am well within my rights. After all, this is MY blog.
You want one, write one yourselves. Either way, I don't give a tinker's damn if what I write bothers you. Develop some thicker skin and accept the fact that, on the blog header, I announce that this is a place for " Insightful and cynical ramblings about things that impress, offend, enthrall or anger me."
Ahh. . .I love the smell of fail in the morning.
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Intelligent Design = Utter Hogwash
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Jun 12, 2008 10:42 pm
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The University of Kansas recently laid the smackdown on these Intelligent Design idiots. For those who are confused, Intelligent Design is Creationism's $25,000 whore. So good job, University of Kansas, for reaffirming my faith that Intelligent Design is a bullshit religious "mythology" and not actual science. What the hell is this nonsense? I'm a Jewish. . .I know the book of Genesis. And I know it's a story and not SCIENCE!!!
Let me ask these bible thumping bigots a quick question. . .how long was the first day of the Creation? There was no sunlight because there was no sun because G-d didn't create the sun until the fourth day. Right?
Next question. . .produce evidence that there is a higher power. I am a deeply religious person. I am a deeply religious Jewish man, but these fake Christian theocratic Taliban religious fascists aren't! They aren't Christian, they aren't religious. They are nihilistic hustlers that don't understand the concept that Jesus wasn't the person they think.
Jesus didn't:
1. hate homosexuals and want discrimination against them
2. tell the poor and the weak in society to go take a flying fuck
3. support war and bloodshed
4. support the death penalty
5. support tax breaks for the wealthy
6. support blind capitalism (Jesus was a communism, actually)
7. molest little boys (yes, Catholic Church, I'm looking at you)
8. support Genocide (Christians have KILLED anyone who is not their brand of Christianity)
9. hate blacks and use social Darwinism to advance their selfish needs
No, these "Christians" aren't Christians and they don't worship Jesus. They worship Jeebus. . .Jesus' evil cousin. The only Christians that have it right are the Quakers, The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unitarians. Screw these fake Christian asswipes. I HATE every one of you.
I love it when these Christian missionaries come to my door. I point to my Mizzah on my door and they don't get it. One of these morons actually asked me if I wanted to be born again. I told him "I wad born correctly the first time" and slammed the door in his face!!!
Back to this Intelligent Design shit (actually I'm going to refer to it as Utter Hogwash)!!! According to the Utter Hogwash Network, the concept of Utter Hogwash is simple: Things that cannot be explained by Evolution can be explained by the existence of a higher power. They want "objectivity." Here is the crap from their turd factory of a website.
"Utter Hogwash Network, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that seeks institutional objectivity in origins science. Objectivity results from the use of the scientific method without philosophic or religious assumptions in seeking answers to the question: Where do we come from? We believe objectivity in the institutions of science, government and the media will lead not only to good origins science, but also to constitutional neutrality in this subjective, historical science that unavoidably impacts religion. We promote the scientific evidence of intelligent design because proper consideration of that evidence is necessary to achieve not only scientific objectivity but also constitutional neutrality."
1925, here we come!!!
For a good stage play on this subject, please read or buy the Spencer Tracy/Frederick March version of "Inherit the Wind." Avoid the Kirk Douglas/Jason Robards version.
To learn more about the Utter Hogwash Network and their Utter Hogwash theory, go to their Utter Hogwash website. Google "Intelligent Design Network."
Don't say I didn't warn you about their utter hogwash.
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Adultery and the idiocy of lying
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Jun 12, 2008 12:49 pm
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Adultery is a misnomer. From an outsider's standpoint, adultery is an adult looking to gain a second childhood, or third, or fourth, or even fifth.
I never understood the idea of lying about something as intimate as a person's heart and emotion. Maybe I'm one of these crusty, cynical curmudgeons who has aged far beyond his years, but I have always looked at a relationship with someone as a blessing.
There are close to seven billion people in the world. Let's assume 55% are women and 45% are men (which would be almost accurate). That means that, if you are a man, out of the apx 3.15 billion men on the planet, she chose you. Ladies, out of the apx. 3.85 billion women on the planet, he chose you.
That's a commitment the likes of which we, as higher order chimps, cannot comprehend. Why the hell would people blow it by cheating?
When I started this writing concept, I was reading through what ideal men and ideal women are, then it came to me. Ideal is chasing a dream. There is no such thing as ideal period. There is no such thing as ideal because there will always be faults. Holding out hope for something better doesn't ever happen. If you get 90 - 95% of what you are looking for, to hell with the rest, especially if the other 5% - 10% are the shallow things (good hair, nice smile, hot car, tall, etc).
Sadly, the shallow things tend to be the deal-breakers. We are truly a mixed up people. We'll let a good man (or woman) go because they don't measure up physically for us. Chemistry is a five-alarm fire that burns out too fast. If it's based on chemistry (looks, money, material), the relationship isn't going to last.
But that's what we do. We base chemistry first and then look for reasons to stay. He's hot with a nice car, but he's shiftless and lazy. But he rocks my world. What??? Chemistry is the icing on the cake, nothing more. Sadly, it's the deal maker or breaker.
Intellectuals don't get women. I should know that. A lawyer friend of mine put it best: "Success buys beauty." In a way it's true. Sugar Mommas and Sugar Daddies are always looking for the next trophy. Trophies don't want intellectuals unless they can get them things.
People don't judge compatibility first. Is he hot? Does she have a nice rack? The shallow things are what is are used. We'll fit in the rest as needed, if needed, if we want to.
When someone asks me want I want in a woman, I always say this: "Stimulate my mind. Turn me on intellectually and I will crawl over broken glass on my knees through Hell to be with you." The way she looks it a bonus to me. Many beautiful women turn uglier than bulldogs the second they open up their vapid, clueless, self-important mouths. I don't care about your hair, I don't care how you dance and I truly don't care about what is happening in the Lifestyle or People section of the newspaper.
I don't consider reading "Harry Potter" because it's a blasted children's book. Henry Rollins said is best: "Don't be an adult woman reading a kid's book in my car!!!" Reading is important, as is knowing and actively being involved in the world around you. I may not agree with your positions, but at least you'll have the intelligence to formulate ideas.
Deal breakers should be the following in the following order:
1) Is s/he stupid?
2) Is s/he looking at you like a blank check?
3) Is s/he clueless about everything around them except what affects them?
4) Is s/he not trying to better their position in life?
5) Is s/he not ambitious and driven?
6) Does s/he read? If so, what?
7) Is s/he cultured in the fine arts? Remember, Theater does not mean movies and music doesn't mean Top 40, Rock and Hip-Hop
Is s/he not family oriented?
9) Is s/he not interested, and I mean truly, interested in you?
10) Does s/he sound and speak illiterately?
11) Does s/he treat other people rudely (e.g. the waiter/waitress)?
12) Does s/he treat their parents well?
13) Does s/he not know how to cook or do general work around a house?
14) Does s/he not have a hang up on their looks?
15) Does s/he turn you on physically?
Notice the first ten are deep intellectual criteria? Notice the next three are social interaction based and the last two are shallow?
Is the answer numbers 1 - 14 are "no," RUN!!!! But, if the answers are yes, she can be ugly as sin, Question 15 will always be answered "yes."
The hottest person on the planet can turn ugly fast. Look at the divorce rates of the "beautiful" people. Relationships built on chemistry fail and make women and men jaded.
Chemistry is a failure. It should be the last thing, but it's usually the first. S/he's hot so I'll talk to them.
We do this and fail all the time because we judge relationships like buying a car. We want the hottest and fastest, not the most practical. I love Corvettes, but I'll take a Hybrid any day. I'd love a model, but I'd take an intellectual any day and twice on Sundays.
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Words that need to leave the Modern English Language - FAST!!!!!
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Jun 11, 2008 12:57 pm
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There are certain words and phrases we need to look at and examine to see if they are being used correctly. Personally, I have no use for the "well, it's slang" or "it's street." We need to raise the level of our language, not continually drop it.
1) Ghetto: This is a suspect phrase because I have it on good authority that no one in America lives in a Ghetto. A ghetto is, and was, the place were European Christians shuttled their Jewish populations in order to keep the "Christ Killers" in one place. This made government sponsored acts of violence, bigotry and murder easy. The Nazis used Ghettos often, because exterminating Jews in small areas was easier.
Poor people do not live in "ghettos." "Slums" would be better, but a more apropos word would be "poor areas." There are no ghettos in America, because minorities and the poor aren't murdered by their government. Don't give me "the police" line. Yes, the cops target minorities all the time, but when was the last mass extermination of an American "ghetto?"
2) Hater: Oh, grow up. Haters hate the player and the game? Don't hate the player, hate the game? Who plays "the game?" What is this mindlessness? CHILDREN PLAY GAMES!!! Bigots hate. Are these people actually saying that hating "the game" is tantamount to bigots hating children.
I will admit. I am a hater, whatever that means. I dislike, with a passion, idiots, abusers, stupid people, jerks and divas. Maybe because I've progressed maturity, emotionally and intellectually past the idea of selfish gratification. Anyone who uses phrases like "hater," "baller," "suckers, "buster" and/or "player" just exposed themselves as a pitiable idiot. Sadly, these same people will realize how stupid this idea is by the time they get to middle age.
3) Hot: Never have I wanted a return to the world of the 1980s when "that's gnarly," "that's radical," and "that's tubular" were in vogue. "That's hot." No, lady. . .the sun is hot. Phoenix in the summer time is hot. Just say it's cool, awesome or wonderful and show that you aren't a snide, trendy fool.
Better yet, get those large sunglasses that look retarded, those "ug" boots that are "ug"ly and those micro minis that stop right past the dip in your ass and go away. Wow, I guess I am a hater. Well. . .maybe just disgusted.
4) The "N' bomb: The one word that has caused more misery, hatred, discrimination, violence and bigotry in its use by white people IS NOW ACCEPTED AS A WORD TO MEAN "BUDDY," "PAL" OR "FRIEND!!!!" BY THE VERY PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF WHAT THAT WORD MEANS!!! I'm sure Martin Luther King, Booker Washington, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Sojourner Truth and Medgar Evers are so happy that their Civil Rights movement to get over the stigma of that word IS NOW USED BY THE PEOPLE THEY TRIED TO HELP OVERCOME THAT STEREOTYPE.
I have heard the clueless say "well, it's said with an "a" and not and "er," it is means something different." NO IT DOESN'T, DAMMIT!!! I'm Jewish. . .we don't call each other "hebs" and "kikes" when we talk to each other. My mother's Mohawk. . .they don't call each other "savages." My G-d, give me the ability to understand this concept.
What makes this word even worse is latinos, chicanos and EVEN WHITE PEOPLE use this word now!!! The one word used to keep people down for more than 200 years is now accepted language??? No wonder SAT scores continue to slip.
5) Bitch: Women calling each other bitches is just interesting to me. You're calling yourself a female dog, and, on top of that, you're calling yourself what men have used to KEEP YOU DOWN for decades with glee and without remorse. See above on the "n" bomb.
Heaven forbid a man uses it though. He's a sexist. If you had more respect for yourself and didn't use the word, maybe men wouldn't use it period. Just a thought.
6) Conversing in text message short hand EVERYWHERE: LOL, like OMG. TTYL. ROFLMAO. W2G!! Come on people, it's not hard to spell out "Talk to you later." It may actually take an extra two seconds to do! Show some intelligence!
Words can serve people well, but honestly, does it matter the context? Words can hurt, destroy, build and.or uplift. Please find some respect for yourself and try, to come up with new, less stupid ways of speaking.
Because a rapper, actor, diva (idiot) or some person in pop culture thinks it's in doesn't mean it has to be. The lemming mentality of people needs to stop. Think before you speak. . .and maybe even broaden your vocabulary. The ALA did a study five years ago. When I graduated high school back in 1996, the average vocabulary for an 18 year old was 65,000 words. In 2005, it was down to 30,000.
Broaden your horizons, don't narrow them. Better yet, work to install some pride in yourself. Avoid the above mentioned errors. Maybe you'll actually sound intelligent instead of the dumbed-down, MTV watching, know nothing about the world moron you sound like. And, you might meet a better quality of person along the way.
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City of Tucson's Answer To The Home - Kiss Off and Rot In Jail
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Jun 9, 2008 9:02 am
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So, the City of Tucson is looking to make homeless people pay an even higher price than their dignity, self respect and humanity. In to appease those business criminals in the Chamber of Commerce, the City of Tucson is looking to enact a $250 fine and/or jail time for panhandlers that beg near parking meters.
The same bullshit responses by these Business creeps come out all the time: crime, drugs, etc. The bottom line these business criminals hate anyone who don't make their waists fatter.
Homelessness is a blight on our society, this "Greatest Nation on Earth" should not have people on the streets living in boxes, picking through dumpsters and/or robbed of their humanity. Greatest Nation on Earth my ass. . .the power brokers who allow this to occur (see the C of C, Republicans, Big Business, Corporate America, religious hustlers like Hagee and Robertson, Conservatives, etc.) would rather adopt the Dickens "let them die and decrease the surplus population" attitude than work to get these people back on their feet.
The reason is simply money. There is no money to be made in curing homelessness. If there was a way where the business pigs and the corrupt politicans they bought could pocket a couple million dollars curing the homeless problem, you'd see the streets of this country clear up fast. Same reason drugs are illegal and there will never be cures for horrific diseases. Too many people are making too much money on the drug war and PharmCo will only make money on drugs to enable "living with" a condition. Cures are death to PharmCo's bottom line.
Sadly, I'm sure the rubes and pig-ignorant assholes that populate this city (Bruce Ash, Randy Graf, Tim Bee, I'm looking at you three dickholes) will support this shit. Think about it. The homeless will be fined for panhandling. When they don't pay, we'll throw them in jail. Problem solved. More jail space taken up by poor, victimless criminals and we, the mindless idiots who don't give a shit about anything but our own narrow interests, won't be bothered in the slightest!
What happened to my country that things like this abomination of a proposal are actually discussed and considered? Where did our compassion and our empathy go? When did we become a nihilistic, self-absorbed society?
Hopefully this measure will fail. Then, maybe, we can work on solving the problem, instead of the symptom. What the hell am I saying? All our solutions solve symptoms, not problems. We put band-aids on artery wounds all the time. Heaven forbid we raise a tax or two to help someone else. After all, didn't Jesus Christ say "fuck the poor and the downtrodden?" Doesn't the Statue of Liberty say "Give me your elites, your skilled, your rich masses yearning to breathe free?"
It doesn't and Jesus didn't? Why, those communists!
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