The Illustrious KenDiesel

12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself

2008-07-04T02:11:00.000-04:00

Dear God help me. I know better than to post something like this.... but I couldn't help but share it. I DIDN'T write this. It was written by Nannie Helen Burroughs, a century ago. I am simply sharing it. I think that this is something all people of all genders and races should take into consideration, but I didn't want to alter her words. So... here goes nothing.

12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself by Nannie Helen Burroughs

From Blackmeninamerica.com

(Circa Early 1900's)

1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership.

*The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls "a good time." The Dr. Kelly Miller said, "The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs." Too true!

2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself.

*It is the "Divine Plan" that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5:8) to do--Carry his own load--"Take up your bed and walk."

3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive.

*He must learn to "run his community up"--not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not--some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.

4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure.

*Knowing what to wear--how to wear it--when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.

5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.

6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance.

*The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship.

*We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance--satisfied ignorance--is a millstone abut the neck of the race. It is democracy's greatest burden.

*Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards.
* It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.

7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His "Color" And To White People's Attitude.

*The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun.

*God never intended that a man's color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction. It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan. He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone "RIGHTS" mad and "DUTY" dumb.

8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits.

*He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job--such as petty quarrelling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and--too often--liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!

9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places.

*Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered.

* There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration.

*Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services.

*It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation.

*The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.

10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People--Not For Negro People, Only.

* To do business, he will have to remove all typical "earmarks," business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously--in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.

11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had--(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did

*Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel.

*A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible "common people." A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never "things apart from the people." They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to "Come on!" Dante stated a fact when he said, "Show the people the light and they will find the way!"

*There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the "latter-day leaders." In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there.

"Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet."

*The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A's, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.

12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. "Remember."

* Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that "I the Lord thy God delivered you"--through human instrumentalities.

*The American Negro has had and still has friends--in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race--for their brothers in bonds.

*The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward--"God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is" sure to win out. Get to work! That's the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.

R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R

*In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!

Gas is Cheap... so quit your bitching

2008-05-25T00:19:00.001-04:00

That got your attention. ^_^

So... read this. Please. All the way through. Educate yourself. Cuz if you're on my myspace friends list, and I hear you bitch about gas a week after I post this, I will kick you in the balls. Or other applicable genitalia.

Gasoline Is CheapFour dollars a gallon is outrageous! We should be paying much more.
By Robert Bryce
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008, at 3:24 PM ET

http://www.slate.com/id/2191491/

The next time you have to take out a loan just to fill up your tank, remember this: Four-dollar-per-gallon gasoline is cheap.

There's no doubt that high fuel prices are hurting low-income consumers, and high energy costs are placing a tax on the economy that is slowing investment while sending billions of dollars overseas. It's unsurprising that presidential candidates and members of Congress issue new proposals practically every day to lower gas prices: Stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve! Suspend the federal gas tax! Open ANWR to oil drilling!

These proposals are delusions, and Americans are living in a fantasy land when it comes to energy and energy prices. Over the past few years, consumers have been inundated with news stories about the soaring price of gasoline. Invariably, these stories include comments from a motorist who is outraged at the evils of a) Saudi Arabia, b) OPEC, c) Big Oil, d) all of the above.

But by almost any measure, gasoline is still cheap. In fact, it has probably been far too cheap for far too long. The recent price increases are only beginning to reflect its real value.

When measured on an inflation-adjusted basis, the current price of gasoline is only slightly higher than it was in 1922. According to the Energy Information Administration, in 1922, gasoline cost the current-day equivalent of $3.11. Today, according to the EIA, gasoline is selling for about $3.77 per gallon, only about 20 percent more than 86 years ago.

Given the ever-increasing global demand for oil products—during the first quarter of this year, China's oil consumption jumped by 16.5 percent—and the increasing costs associated with finding, producing, and refining crude oil, it makes sense that today's motorists are paying more for their motor fuel than their grandparents and great-grandparents did.

Gasoline is also a fairly minor expense when you consider the overall cost of car ownership. In 1975, gasoline made up 33.4 percent of the total cost of owning and operating a car. By 2006, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, gasoline costs had declined to just 17.1 percent of the total cost of car ownership. Of course, fuel costs have risen by about $1 per gallon since 2006, but even with those increases, fuel continues to be a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. By contrast, the fixed costs of ownership—insurance, licensing, taxes, and financing—have increased nearly fivefold since 1975. Maintenance costs have also quintupled over the same time period. Given those increases and the relatively low price of fuel, it's not surprising that Americans are opting for big vehicles with powerful engines. Considering the overall cost of owning a vehicle, fuel expenses just aren't a very big deal.

History shows that significant declines in U.S. oil consumption occur only after prolonged periods of high prices. Over the last two decades, U.S. consumers have been spoiled by low fuel prices. And those lower prices led to a buying binge that put millions of giant SUVs, pickups, and other gas guzzlers on our roads. Today's higher prices are forcing consumers to adapt. The EIA now expects U.S. gasoline consumption to decline this year—the first drop in demand in 17 years. In April, sales of small cars in the United States were up by 17 percent over the same period a year earlier while sales of SUVs, trucks, and large cars all fell by about 30 percent.

On the environmental front, people concerned about greenhouse-gas emissions should be cheering today's oil prices. Expensive motor fuel is the only thing that will lead consumers to use less oil and make the switch to hybrid vehicles, smaller cars, and public transit. Higher oil prices are convincing automakers to change their fleets. Earlier this week, Nissan Motor Company announced that it will begin selling an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010. Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Nissan, made it clear that fuel prices were a factor in the company's decision to build electric cars, telling the New York Times that "the shifts coming from the markets are more powerful than what regulators are doing."

American gasoline is also dirt-cheap compared with gas in other countries. British motorists are currently paying about $8.38 per gallon for gasoline. In Norway, a major oil exporter, drivers are paying $8.73. In 2007, out of the 32 industrialized countries surveyed by the International Energy Agency, only one (Mexico) had cheaper gasoline than the United States. Last year, drivers in Turkey were paying three times as much for their gasoline as Americans were. The IEA data also show that in India—where the per capita gross domestic product is about $2,700 (about 6 percent of the per capita GDP in the United States)—drivers have been paying more for their diesel fuel and gasoline than their American counterparts.

(Gasoline is also cheap compared with other essential fuels. A Starbucks venti latte costs the equivalent of $23 per gallon, while Budweiser beer runs $11 per gallon.)

The simple truth is that Americans are going to have to get used to more expensive gasoline. And while they may continue grumbling at the pump, they need to accept the fact that even at $3.50 or $4 per gallon, the fuel they are buying is still a bargain.

Discrimination or Democracy?

2008-05-22T23:53:00.002-04:00

So, this recent attack against democracy in California really has me thinking about the issue of homosexual marriage. For the record, I don't think the government should have anything to do with marriage at all. I think the government's finger should be in as few cookie jars as possible, and that's one of them. It should be handled by religious or civil organizations. Not congresses or courts or governers. As for the issue itself, I don't care if Joe and Jim get married. That's between Joe, Jim, the sheets, and the attorney. I could care less, as it doesn't affect me. What has me outraged, is the blatant attack against democracy that occured when 5 Justices felt that their opinion was more important than over 60% of Californias. The citizens of that state passed a law by popular vote to ban gay marriage, yet the state's Supreme Court overturned it. Which has stirred this topic in my mind once more. Once I started thinking... you should know by now that it triggers a blog.

Why is gay marriage so important to homosexual couples? Don't they run around and tout their 'I don't care if you judge me attitude?' I'm simply trying to understand it all. Why do they fight so hard for nationwide validation of their relationship? Most states already have all the protections for a homosexual couple that a straight couple does, so why the uphill battle about this? I don't need church or state recognition to validate my relationship with someone. All that matters is that myself, my partner, either male or female, and God Almighty recognize our relationship. Especially when you can have every benefit of marriage.

They do their diversity parades, and talk about how different they are, and how we should embrace their differences, then turn around and sue the government because they want to be just like the straights and get married. If they want to be so different, why would they beg for the exact same thing as everyone else? If they like to stand out and buck the system so much, why fight to be a part of the system? It's the same thing I've never understood about the parades too. Are you that insecure about yourself that you have to join hundreds of other people to parade down streets? I'm a fan of females myself, so should we have a straight pride parade? Where all the girls come out dressed as french maids and school girls, and the guys come around dressed in their manly man outfits? Why do we have gay pride parades and not straight pride parades? Do they need them for the sake of moral? Are they all so insecure in their sexuality, that they have to put it out there for everyone to see? Why do they feel the need to cross dress as nuns and desecrate a Catholic church? So you can veal validated about your sexual preference? If you're born that way, why are you insecure? Why can't you just let it be part of you, and part of your life, and leave it at that? I don't flaunt my straightness by slapping 'Chicks Are Hott' bumper stickers on my car, or wearing shirts that say 'I love jugs' or anything like that.

As for the judgement itself, if a ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, are polygamist, incestuous, pedophilic relationships unconstitutional? Where do we draw the line? If anything, relationships between members of the opposite sex involving family members, more than one spouse, or a vast age difference would be more natural than a homosexual relationship, due to those relationships still being able to produce offspring. So, if it's okay to be gay and marry, who is to decide that a 34 year old man can't marry a 15 year old girl if they both want to? Or that a man can't marry his daughter if he wishes? Or that a man can't have 6 wives if they all agree to it? How are those any more unnatural? You can give me the 'Oh, that's sick!' line, but that's still only your opinion. If GLAAD has a case, shouldn't NAMBLA as well? You may think I'm dropping the 'can god make a rock so big he can't pick it up' line, or even compare this to my argument against abortion when I compare it to rape, but that would simply be you dodging a logical argument.

I'm not here to tell you what's right or wrong on this issue. I've made my view on the issue known, and I've stated that my main problem is with the court's actions. But think about what I've said. It could start making sense....

The Review of: Speed Racer

2008-05-15T23:27:00.000-04:00

Speeding into theatres last weekend in a disappointing opening, was Speed Racer. The minds behind the Matrix movies adapted the story to the big screen. I would say they adapted it to a live action movie, but that would be stretching it a bit. I don't know that anyone in this movie actually moved, or if they just moved the CG around them. Either way, I caught an afternoon Matinee on Saturday at a local theatre, and here's what I thought.

So, we'll start with the bad, so we can go out on a good note. My main problem with the movie was it's length. It dragged at times. When the action was rolling, I was in the zone and ready to go, but the other parts of the movie lagged a bit, and I felt myself getting bored more than once. Noticeably towards the end, where Speed has a flashback that basically recaps the entire movie. I had no problem with the movie being done with so much CG, because that's the only way they could have done this movie 'right.' The seizure-enducing colors and lights didn't really bother me either. But the length really bothered me.

I also got confused a few times, as to where the story was heading. Particularly when he's turns down the sponsorship offer, what I thought was a what if sequence, ended up being flashes of something actually happen. It was a crucial part of the story, being the bottom of the pendulum swing of the story, but they didn't really give that part of the story the time it needed. Maybe they should have disposed with some of the boring talk, and shown that race more, instead of showing it while some guy told him what would happen. After that scene was over, I found myself scratching my head like, 'Oh, wait, that was actually happening?' It was minor, but it kinda took me out of the story for a moment.

I've compared this movie to two others, to give people a good idea. I compare it to Iron Man as a 2008 summer movie, and I compare it to Transformers as an 'old school cartoon' adaption. Unfortunately, both of those movies were better than Speed Racer. I'll give the Wachowski's credit, Speed Racer was certainly better than the 2 Matrix sequels, but sadly that's not saying much. I just didn't feel Speed Racer was as exciting or action packed as Transformers or Iron Man. I didn't find myself bored at all during either of those movies, but there were definite lulls in Speed Racer. Hopefully they're easily skipped n the DVD version.

Now, to be more upbeat. Much in the same way I praised Iron Man, the casting for this movie was spot on 110%. I think every actor fit the part very well, but I was notably fond of John Goodman and Matthew Fox in their roles as Pops and Racer X respectively. I believed every character wasn't an actor, but the actual character. I was pessimistic about Matthew Fox, and the actor that played Speed... but I loved them both in the roles. The ninja scene was pretty cool, and all of the races were amazingly spectacular. I thought of someone trying to adapt something like Mario Kart or the old Wacky Races cartoon to a movie, and I see neither of those working as well as Speed Racer did. I really felt the Wachowski's captured the feel of the cartoon when it came to the races and the action. The 'Car'ate was amazing, and had me captivated throughout it. It was quite satisfying to watch those cars spin, flip, and explode their way across the screen. The scenes were epic and beautiful, and fit the feel of the movie very well. If anything, consider this movie as a gorgeous work of CG art, if not an entertaining flick.

Even the story was good. I liked that they gave the story some depth, but kept it to the point that it's still an accessible movie. Clear cut good guys and bad guys, and it wasn't all "fast and furious' style, where the hero has to win the race so he can prove that he has bigger cajones than his opponent. I imagine that if I was about 10 years younger, I would be utterly obsessed with Speed Racer after seeing this movie, at least until the next Iron Man commercial I saw.

Surprisingly I didn't hate the little kid or the monkey either. They both fit in well, giving some comic relief, and they're part of the story that shouldn't have been left out. Granted, I found myself rolling my eyes a couple times, including them running around after eating a bunch of candy, but nonetheless it didn't take away from the flick for me.

Overall, I recommend grabbing this at a matinee, or at least buying the DVD. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't end up seeing this movie at some point. It's a worthwhile flick, that I imagine will be fun to watch from time to time, when I'm in the mood for something a little whacky. I went in expecting nothing, and came out surprised. It was quite a bit better than I thought it would be, and find myself almost excited to watch it with a more intense eye once the DVD comes out.

Final Score- 8.5/10
Better Than- Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 2, Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions
Not Quite- Transformers, Iron Man, F&F: Tokyo Drift

The Review of: Iron Man

2008-05-09T21:00:00.001-04:00

So, some of you may have heard of a movie that came out last weekend, put out by a pretty small studio. It did mildly decent at the box office, and you might have even seen it in theatres. Of course, I'm talking about Iron Man, the first movie produced by Marvel Studios. And of course, if you haven't seen this, you now have a homework assignment after you're finished with this article.

Now, this movie made some fat stacks at the box office, stuck it's big metal book right through the box office, and officially opened up the movie season, setting the bar for the summer pretty high. Granted, there was no competition to speak of in the theaters, but still.

So, basically this big time weapons developer gets kidnapped, builds a suit of armor, and kicks some terrorist tail. I don't feel like spoiling anything for the few of you that have yet to watch it, but you need to see it, and soon. Also, when you go, stay after the credits for an added bonus. It's completely worth it.

So, automatically people judge this movie against other comic movies. In that spirit, I'll do the same. This is tied for the best superhero movie I've seen. I don't want to judge this against 300, or V, or Sin City, because they're different types of movies. The only other superhero movie that measures up for me was Batman Begins. Why you may ask? Honestly, I break it down like this- Iron Man couldn't have survived without the CGI 'crutch.' I think Batman Begins comes across more realistic to me simply because it was less CGI. That's not a slight to Iron Man, because there's no way they could make a movie like that without the CGI aspect, but that's the point for me. That being said, I enjoyed BB as a solo movie more, but I could honestly see myself rewatching Iron Man more if Marvel keeps intertwining their movies together the way they have been. Batman Begins is a better solo movie, but Iron Man comes out better as a 'universe' movie, if that makes sense.

But back to Iron Man. This is hands down, one of the best origin stories to date. I think it did it better than Spiderman, X-men, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, Superman, any of them. I was not bored at any point during this movie, and Robert Downey Jr. owned that screen every time the camera panned to him. I liked that it was so fast paced, and it started up with action. I like being thrown into a movie head first. That starting action gets my heart pumpin, and gets me psyched for the rest of the movie. They didn't really crap around much, and they just gave it to us straight forward. Robert Downey was brilliant and clever as Stark as well as Iron Man. I'm really glad that Jarvis was only the computer, and not an Alfred-like butler as he is in the 616 universe. It was a believable story of failure and betrayal, and that really helps the comic story connect with the people. I loved the fact that they didn't weigh the movie down with mushy romance, that it was simply an after touch. I'm also pretty happy that Stark wasn't in the suit the whole movie too, so we had alot more of the human interaction, which I liked. It truly was an amazing telling of an origin story.

If I had to pick out something bad in the movie? They spent half the movie showing Stark getting control of, and building his armor. Obadiah jumped right into the suit and beat down SHIELD with it.That was a bit unbelievable, but he also had an entire team working on it which I guess could explain it. So even that isn't bad. I kinda wanna say I didn't like Obadiah's little sonic device either, but it didn't necessarily damage the movie. Overall I thought Obadiah was a believable villian, and the best origin villain to date in a movie to date. He may not have been the most exciting in Stark's rogue's gallery, but there isn't another villain that would have worked better in an origin story.

Of course, the blatant references to SHIELD and The Mandarin really got me rolling too. I loved that they blended both in, without rubbing it in your face. The scene where the SHIELD guys blow that door open... love it. I love the little nods to the fan boys as well. Of course, the scene after the credits takes the cake. That 45 second clip made me SO frakkin happy. I was so stoked when I saw that scene... and I talk about it to all sorts of people. I loved it after the credits too, because it fit so well.

In the end, the summer has a high bar to reach, and I give kudos to Marvel for stepping up and launching into the summer like that, and kudos the Favreau and Downey for rockin the movie that hard.

Final Score- 10
Tied With- Batman Begins
Better Than- Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Superman

Animal Rights? What About Human Rights?

2008-05-09T20:58:00.003-04:00

So, animal rights have been thrust into the spotlight once more with this issue of the horse that broke it's leg at the derby this past weekend. With that, PETA has stepped in to toot their horn once more, and the debate rages on once more. I, however, have a problem with animal rights activists.

Of course, I love animals. I'm not for animal abuse, as many interweb-nazis might like to proclaim after reading this. Animals deserve fair and decent treatment, as much as people do. But therein lies the problem. The problem is animal rights activists caring more about animals than they do people.

PETA gets angry about death and mistreatment of animals, when there is still abortion and animal abuse on a large scale. That is the problem I have. Should we not worry about our own kind first? Granted, it's wrong to kill furry little creatures for the sake of manufacturing coats. If you live in the wilderness and you survive on only natural means, then fine. For food? That's another issue. We all need to eat, and not eating meat is detrimental to the human body. But that being said, should we not crusade for life all together, not simply animal rights? Should PETA supporters not protest abortion as vehemently as they protest animals being killed for profit? Should abortion supporters be allowed to throw buckets of human blood ..ionists? How are killing defenseless animals for the sake of selling their furs and worse than killing a child simply because it's inconvenient and unwanted?

The majority of avid PETA members and supporters are left wingers too, which is also the ideological wing that would probably permit abortion long past birth. I imagine most lefties would be okay with killing an inconvenient child up until they're having sex for themselves, or at least old enough for their schools to give them birth control without their parents' consent. These days that's what? 12 years old? 11 maybe?

At the Taste Of Chaos tour this year, I actually joined a PETA mailing list. Granted I was hammered, but after the guy told me I could still eat steaks after signing it, I did. I reiterate, I love fury little critters, and don't like to see any suffer. To me, someone who abuses or neglects their dog or cat is as bad as my parents, who abused and neglected their child. However, I don't see how people can go on crusades to protect and save animals when there are still all these children being abused or aborted every day. I know that, in the same way they care more about terrorists than Americans, they tend to not care about their own kind. However, it still baffles me that people could be like that.

All I'm saying is, maybe we oughta care more about human rights before we go on crusades for animals, eh? There are harsher penalties for animal abuse these days than there are for killing another human. I mean, they shout about how we need to leave Iraq to deal with problems at home... so let's ditch the animals for a bit to deal with problems with humans, eh?

A So-Called ’Recession’

2008-05-04T16:39:00.000-04:00

We're in this huge recession now, right? Our economy is falling apart, if you listen to the majority of pundits these days. Prices are too high, income is too low and people just have no extra money. They can't even afford their food or mortgages. I mean... 6% of mortgages are falling apart. SIX PERCENT!!! Can you believe that? That is horribly tragic. Our unemployment rate is, what? 6.5%? Foreclosures are up 23%, home prices down 13%. I mean... America is falling apart!!! Of course, we're not falling apart near as badly was we were in the Depression, or even during Carter's administration. But our economy is so bad that the government had to send out checks of free money to everyone to attempt to inject a boost into the economy.

Now, those of you that know anything about modern entertainment know that this week is the release of the much anticipated Grand Theft Auto 4 on the next gen video game consoles. This is a game that runs $60 new, not counting a deluxe edition that comes in a lock box that runs around $90. There are preorders out the yin yang for this game, and there were people waiting in line to pick up their copies yesterday. Kids stayed home from school to get and play this game. This game sells millions of copies... in a country where the economy is in a recession?

Last quarter, Apple sold over 2 million iphones and more than 10 million ipods. It's tragic, that our economy is so shaky that ONLY 2 million people got new iphones last quarter. It's George Bush's fault that we didn't sell 11 million ipods. That selfish jerk and his war for oil! How dare he crap on our economy like that. Doesn't he know we need to see at least 15 million ipods to have a strong academy?

Movie season begins with Iron Man this Friday. Would you be willing to bet that Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Speed Racer, Sex & The City, Incredible Hulk, Dark Knight, and movies like that are going to make tens of millions of dollars? I'd be willing to bet that. Even though everyone is so broke! They'll still go out to see those movies, I know I will. How bad is the economy, really, if people are still willing to pay $11 a ticket to see a 2 hour movie, much less people willing to pay $200 million to make the movie?

MasterCard and Visa finished great quarters too. It kills me. They finished great, because people have too many credit cards and wrack up too much debt. They get elbow deep in debt they can't manage, then cry to be bailed out of it.

Let's talk about the Fortune 500 list. Ford, Wal Mart, & GE in the top 10? Why aren't we screaming about their evil profits, as well as gas companies? Why aren't we screaming about Apple's sales? Why aren't we screaming about all the video game profit? If everyone is so strapped for cash, how is Grand Theft Auto 4 selling so well already? How did the $200 video game 'Rock Band' sell that well? Poor money management. That's how. Don't whine and cry to me about how expensive gas is, and how you're broke and can't buy food, then go buy a $200 or $60 video game. Straighten up, and take care of yourself. Personal responsibility is a common theme I mention, and I bring it up once again. If you feel you're strapped for cash, cut your spending on nonessential crap.

Can you say... Wtf Buffalo Bill?

2007-11-04T03:02:00.001-05:00

The KenDiesel Connection

2007-09-18T00:05:00.000-04:00

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Due to the increased paranoia of my co-workers...

2007-07-06T11:49:00.000-04:00

I have been suspended from Krogers 832, indefinitely, on July 6, 2007. For writing in my blogs on my myspace. The link is www.myspace.com/whodey69. This is not an explicative filled blog. This is a simple statement. I was under the impression that I was excercising protected rights. I was wrong.

"The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787 by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

"Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. It also extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution. In developed countries, freedom of the press implies that all people should have the right to express themselves in writing or in any other way of expression of personal opinion or creativity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights indicates: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers""

"Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies."

I did not make these blogs, or pass these blogs out at Kroger. I've never even given the link to someone while on Kroger property, or time. I simply wrote them on my myspace and left it at that. Maybe it was offensive to someone, maybe it made someone uncomfortable. Okay then, don't read it. I will not apologize, or tuck my tail between my legs. I will stand proud beside my work. There is nothing wrong with expressing your feelings online. Some people write in a journal. Some people gossip with other people. Sometimes people just keep it all bottled up. I blog it. And people like to read my blogs. If you don't beleive me, look at all of the comments I get. They're a hit. I simply report what happens to me, and others, in my daily life. I put my own humurous spin on it, and I write it in the language I speak. It's my personal choice to speak that way, as I see nothing wrong with my language, and I don't view any word as a "cuss" word.

I never allowed my blogs to interfere with my work at Kroger. I always came to work, and respected my managers and co-workers, regardless of my personal feelings or what I've said in blogs. I had a job to do, and I did it. I dealt with my personal problems elsewhere. I graduated high school in 2005, and assumed that people in the work force could be mature enough to handle things as adults. I was wrong. Instead of simply ignoring what I read, they continued to read it, then cried to management as if they were the Principal or Dean of a high school. I maintained a proffesional relationship with everyone, regardless of my feelings. I put the customer, and the company before my personal vendetta or feelings against or for another person.

So, I stood around doing my job, and the immaturity of others won over as management decided to pull me from my job, and spend a half an hour meeting with me, before suspending me, for speaking on my time, on my website, completely away from Kroger. But apparently the freedom of speech, and freedom of the press do not matter to my company. They've suspended me, and probably intend to fire me. I've been loyal to that company for 4 years so far, and had intentions of riding it until the wheels fell off. But someone was uncomfortable, so they felt the need to punish me for my private life. What's next? The firing of homosexuals for being gay? How about someone get suspended for not liking Hillary Clinton?! That sounds like it could work. Maybe because my car is in a public place, they could fire me for having a book they don't like in my front seat.

This is garbage, and a violation of my rights. Not to mention a waste of resources. Kroger has nothing better to spend it's time and money on than investigating and firing people for writing on their myspaces. There were no physical threats, just personal opinions, facts, hear-say, and history. So it begins. The silence of free speech is here. Congress wants a "fairness" bill to mediate radio, people get fired for voicing their personal opinions. Where does it stop? There is no end in sight.

Guns don't kill people. Fucktards with guns kill people.

2007-04-18T21:11:00.000-04:00

From the attacks of 9/11 to Monday's school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to "do something" to prevent a similar attack.

But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.

Most of the time they can't be locked up until it's too late. It's not against the law to be crazy — in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.

It's certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing — as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooter.

The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.

Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.

And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.

Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.

Oh by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.

But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them.

Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.

Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone — at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.

Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.

But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: "Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?"
If it wasn't obvious then, it is now.

^^^^ Genius. In every sense of the word.

All praises be to A.C.

am I a racist?

2007-03-03T19:01:00.000-05:00

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are a White people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community.

We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These White Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever White are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the White Community
3. Commitment to the White Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

What do you think? I was considering putting this on my website. But I think it might be considered racist against non-white cultures. What do you think?

Be careful what you answer. Replace the word "white" with the word "black" and you have Obama's church beliefs.
http://www.tucc.org/about.htm

Do we really want someone who believes in such segregation, running our nation?

Objectify Women

2007-02-02T11:56:00.001-05:00

[Verse 1]
She makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Just one touch
And I errupt like a volcano and cover her with my love
Babygirl you make me say (Ohh ohhh ohhhh)
And I just can't think (of anything else I'd rather do)
Than to hear you sing (sing my name the way you do)
When we do our thing (when we do the things we do)
Babygirl you make me say (Ohh ohhh ohhhh)

[Chorus]
Sexy love girl the things you do
Keep me sprung keep running back to you
Who I love making love to you
Babygirl you know your my (sexy love...)

[Verse 3]
Oh baby what we do it makes the sun come up
Keep on lovin' til it goes back down
And I don't know what I would do if I would lose your touch
That's why I'm keepin' you around... my sexy love

Those are some of the lyrics to a song, "Sexy Love" which Angela absolutely adores. Now, due to my past, my girlfriend and I had a conversation regarding strip clubs. Of course she gave the typical female response:
"It's degrading to women. It objectifies women."
That whole routine. Now, I sit back and listen to songs like "sexy love" and I find myself wondering how it's any different. Girls will adore a song, sung by a black man, that is basically saying he's with her because the sex is good, but men watching naked women is bad. They can hang posters of oiled up guys on their walls, but guys admiring a female body objectifies them. How is that right?

Another very popular song, "U and Dat," is very popular, where the artists are very openly talking about wanting to get to them and hook up with them for the night. "Whisper in your ear while I'm holding my dick" is one of the lines in this song. Another example of a song that makes women out to be nothing more than a piece of ass. Fun for a night.But the girls love it. They request it all the time. They buy the cds.

The artist "Akon" sings a song called "Smack That." As you can probably assume by the title, it referring to smacking the girls ass. Throughout the song he talks about "maybe go to my place and just kick it like tae bo, and possibly bend you over and smack that." Another man referring to women as nothing more than a piece of ass. But it sits on top of Yahoo Music's video list. I hear it on the radio all the time. Does this not objectify women as much as exotic dancing or pornography? What's the difference? What part of the equation am I missing?

Another great example of a very popular song that objectifies women is “Laffy Taffy.” The whole song is about a girl dancing (at one point “on a pole”) and how the rappers want to take the girl home. See, if a rapper talks about strippers, or goes to a strip club, or sings about taking a girl home for sex, or lusting after a girl… it’s ok. But if anyone else does it, then they’re degrading women.

I could do this for days. The song “Gimme That” by “Lil Boosie” (wtf?) and “Lil Webbie” (WTF?) is the exact same thing. The song says “Girl gimme that pussy.” That’s the fucking song. I can’t do it. Someone please explain this to me. Show me the logic.

The Ignorance of Our Dying Society

2006-12-15T17:08:00.000-05:00

This week a black boy, a South High school graduate/ "supposed" basketball star, was shot and killed while trying to break into and rob someone else's house. And now he get's bulletins like this ""R.I.P JOHN CARSON" SPRINGFIELD LEGEND" all across myspace.

So, you get killed trying to rob someone, and instead of everyone pointing out that you're an idiot, you're loved? How the fuck does that work? I mean, it's bad enough he was stupid enough to try and rob someone else, but add that to being stupid enough to do it and get shot? We should be using his story in elementary schools to show dumbass kids what not to do. Not praising him for it. And if he was white, we probably would be. But he's not. He was black. So of course, he's being immortalized. All the "G's," "hoodrats," "street teams," "gangstas," and "homies" are all crying outrage, legacy, "thug love." And who can blame them? I mean, all he was doing was trying to rob someone else. But seriously. Give me a fucking break. The dumbass tried to break into someone's house and steal their stuff. He deserved it. I only hope he bled and suffered a little bit before he died. If only so he learned a lesson before he died. Give it a week and I'm sure the liberals will be using this as a reason for pushing Gun Control. I can see the arguments now:

"This poor BLACK man was simply trying to get by, and this fool thought he had the right to protect himself, and shoot anyone dumb enough to try and take his stuff. Outrage!!"

Now at this point, the majority of my readers are probably shaking their heads and calling me a racist. Soon the town mob will come banging on my door crying out for blood because I'm discriminating, hating, and supporting bigotry. Let them. At this point, I could care less. I cannot stand the stupidity. The ignorance must be stopped. We are a society that is slowly slipping away into nothingness. And of course, my liberal brethren will find a way to blame this on George W, like they do everything else, from baldness to high gas prices. But face the truth. Our society has been dying long before even Bush Sr. was in office. I'm not even sure where to lay blame. But currently i see the infectious disease in our music, our movies, our news, our books, our clothes, our speech. Everything!! Take this for instance. I was wasting my time on Myspace, and was looking up some music when I stumbled across "Young Jeezy's" picture on the main page, with a link. I clicked, listening to the jungle beats, and browsed the comments many people had left. Now the first question in my mind is "What the fuck is a "Jeezy?" followed quickly by... "What language are these comments in?"

"WUS HOOD MY NIGGA ACE BOOG. OF BODYMORE MURDERLAND. REA RECOGNIZE REAL! KEEP IT STREET MY NIGGA! OUT!"

"What Up My Dude? I'm Just Coming Thru To Give U Some Props For What U Doing Out There In Da Game! Keep Doing Ya Thang...Cause They Can't Band The Snowman! Cheaaaa....Ayeeeeeeee!"

"wat it dew playa, keep doin it 4 da streets my nigga, you jus keep gettin better and better each time u come out wit new songs. im definately gettin dat inspiration CD,cant wait for it... jus keep doin ya thang my nigga you doin a great job aight... duce"

"A dawg u is my nigga mane.....a lot of niggas done gave up on u but not me bruh I tell errbody I fucks wit Jeezy, anybody who don't FUCK U"

"Whats Crackin Cuh Cant Wait Till December 12th you know so i could cop thug inspiration 3 times ya digg and Ima Put All My Homies On It Aight Cuhz"

"YA BOI FEELINDA ALBUM MAN CTE OH NIGGA YOU ON DAT FIRE CRIP FLAG UP 4 YA MAN SOUTH CAROLINA BOI GOT YA BACK YA NEED US HIT US UP WE N DA A NOW"

I mean seriously. Will someone please.... EXPLAIN this to me. I have no idea what any of those mean. These people worship him. He is even referred to as "The Snowman" because he used to be a cocaine dealer. So I guess that somehow makes him cooler? I don't understand it. It blows my mind. Take Curtis James Jackson III for instance. He is popular because he was shot 9 times. How is that cool? OO, I'm awesome because I don't know how to wear my hat straight. Or because I wear a band-aid on my face. Or because I don't understand the function of a belt. I'm cool because I've got more metal in my mouth, than i do in my kitchen.

The ignorance must stop. Someone must take a stand somewhere. If people continue to do nothing, we are going to slip into nothingness. I mean, seriously. Conservatives? You must just not have the balls to say anything because you're terrified that the NAACP and the rest of the liberals out there will get angry and yell at you. Liberals? I'm going to supply you with all the motivation you need. Famed rapper Curtis James Jackson III, aka "50 Cent" said that if it wasn't for his felonies barring him, he would have voted for George W. Bush, and he has supported him in the past. That right there should be enough for you to take action.

So, I feel better now that I've ranted and raved for a bit, but this is not a closed subject. Something must be done. We need to take a stand against stupidity and ignorance.

Historic Victory for Diebold!

2006-11-15T14:35:00.000-05:00

November 8, 2006
written by Ann Coulter
from www.anncoulter.com

History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.

So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.

Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.

Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb — I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.

Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards.

Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just in time for Christmas!

But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red" Lamont).

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" — especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.

But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" — as MSNBC calls it — rather than the death throes of a dying party.

During eight years of Clinton — the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! — Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House — only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House but lost seats in the House.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate — and that's assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)

So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.

In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats' "Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ... redeploy and then come back ... leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans prefer the Republican policy.

The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse." Democrats keep talking about a new military strategy in Iraq. How exactly is cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats are calling their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."

The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years to release as many terrorists as possible and lock up as many Republicans as they can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always carping about — and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs.

Get a Damned Job!!!

2006-11-14T21:50:00.000-05:00

So, it's currently 1:37 AM, and I have to be up at 8am. I should be asleep correct? Yes. But I can't seem to bring myself to do it. Instead, I write. Prepare thineself. Of course, you're probably asking yourself, "I wonder what this sick bastard is writing?" Well, I can't answer that for you. Because I don't know yet. I'm just going to write, and eventually, something will come of it I'm sure. I mean, there's so much I want to talk about! I really should invest in a laptop, or get the net at my apartment so I can write whenever I want. Things pop into my head all the time, but I'm never around a computer where I can write it out, and it sucks.

I mean, I would sit in the hospital with Angela when she was in there, and things would just pop into my mind, but there was nowhere to record it. Of course, I hate writing on paper, so I would have had to find a computer. Or when I'm at Kroger, brilliant ideas and rants pop in and out of my mind, yet I can't record them. Another good instance is when I'm driving. I always think of topics and rants when I'm in my car. If I had a laptop, I would seriously pull over and type them out. One of these days I'll get one, I'm sure. O, and if you've never heard me rant in person, you haven't lived. I can talk, and boy when I talk, let me tell you, it's a thing of beauty. It's just this uncontrollable gift, and when I finally stop to breathe, the people around me are either visibly impressed, or horribly offended. I can get quite colorful in my speeches, regardless of the topic. The hypocrisy of the Christian Church, the endless circle that our government is in, the futility of explainign things to women. Ever heard me talk about the welfare system, and those that rely on it? It's a beautiful thing. But, that's not a topic I can easily sit down and write. Someone would have to get me fired up about it, and just record everything I say as I rant. It just comes to me.

I mean, let's be honest. Probably 70% of the people on welfare, don't actually need it. they just do it because they're lazy peices of human waste that figure "Why should they work, when the government buys their food for them?" It's one thing if they were working 40+ a week, and still not making enough to pull it off. But I get so heated when I'm at work aroudn the first of the month, and I see these fools walk into the store at 3pm in their PJ's and sandals, getting snotty with me because we're out of 2% milk, T-bones, pepsi 24 packs, 1 gallon buckets of ice cream, or Family Sized Oreos.. I just want to throw them to the ground and let loose. The governments money will still be on that little card tommorow! It's not going anywhere. I mean honestly. Why the hell can people get half the crap they get with food stamps anyways?! Shouldn't they be limited to essentials? Bread, milk, cereal, peanut butter, vegetables, and soups? Why the hell are they using my tax money to eat better than I do? What have they done special? They're not in poverty. They just can't keep it in their pants, and refuse to get a job. I mean, I've never been for abortion, but hell, if someone is gonna have a kid, and they don't have a job, isn't it our civil duty to NOT bring that child into the hell of a life it would have?

Ya know, you hear about school test scores dropping, and they blame it on teachers. (even though I've seen about 100 teachers get cut from our city schools in the past 2 years.) But it's not the teachers. It's the parents. Lazy, ignorant people are breeding, and their offspring are being raised to be lazy and ignorant as well. What the hell else do you expect? If 2 French have a kid, and raise him in France, chances are... he'll speak French, know the French lifestyle, and probably be a wimp, like the other French. He's not gonna pop out and start singing the Star Spangled Banner, speaking English, and have any testicular fortitude. That's just simple logic. So if you have 2 people who've been dependent on the welfare system, and have adapted to the amazingly plush lifestyle of not working, or even attempting to get a job, then they will raise someone in the same mindset. Why should he try hard in school? His parents didn't try and they have everything they need. Much like the character "Jigsaw" speaks of in the Saw Trilogy, people have lost the will to survive.

"John: The jigsaw piece that I cut from my subjects was only ever meant to be a symbol that that subject was missing something. A vital piece of the human puzzle. The survival instinct."

Of course, there will be exceptions. There always are. It's called evolution. No, I'm not saying I agree with a theory that says we all used to be monkeys.

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I'm saying that people adapt, and there are always anomalies. Out of all the crap that comes out of our society, somethign great will happen from time to time. Someone will be born who has higher expectations, and wants to make something out of themselves, and they will strive to acheive. And by something better I don't mean a football player, or a rap star, or anything like that. The majority of kids I went to school with were either "rappers" or sports players who were gonna "go pro." I'm talking about scientists, doctors, nurses, things like that. Even just a decent citizen. Someone that gives to squirts about other people, and about themselves. So, I guess this is my rant. I guess somethign did come out of just sitting down and writing. I feel much better. The moral of this article is... Get a damned job! For me, get a damned job. And maybe some birth control pills.

Ann coulter lays the smack down again

2006-06-22T17:15:00.000-04:00

I dedicate this column to John Murtha, the reason soldiers invented fragging.

In response to the arguments of my opponents, I say: Waaaaaaaaaah! Boo hoo hoo!

If you're upset about what I said about the Witches of East Brunswick, try turning the page. Surely, I must have offended more than those four harpies. Wait 'til you get a load of what I say about liberals in the rest of the book! You haven't seen the half of it.

For snarling victims, my book is Christmas in July. Hey — where's Max the grenade-dropper? Let's keep this diaper-fest going all summer.

How about these pungent points:

— No liberal cause is defended with more dishonesty than abortion. No matter what else they pretend to care about from time to time — undermining national security, aiding terrorists, oppressing the middle class, freeing violent criminals — the single most important item on the Democrats' agenda is abortion. Indeed, abortion is the one issue the Democratic Party is willing to go to war over — except in the Muslim world, which is jam-packed with prohibitions on abortion, but going to war against a Muslim nation might also serve America's national security objectives. Liberals don't care about women. They care about destroying human life. To them, 2,200 military deaths in the entire course of a war in Iraq is unconscionable, but 1.3 million aborted babies in America every year is something to celebrate.

— Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court was known for shouting obscenities from the bench and identifying undercover policemen in open court. Bill Clinton nominated Massiah-Jackson to be a federal district court judge in 1997. Among other notable rulings, Judge Massiah-Jackson sentenced the brutal rapist of a 10-year-old girl to the statutory minimum and apologized to the rapist, saying: "I just don't think the five to 10 years is appropriate in this case even assuming you were found guilty." She refused to allow the district attorney to present a pre-sentence report or victim impact statement, saying: "What would be the point of that?" After his release, the defendant was rearrested for raping a 9-year-old boy.

Massiah-Jackson wasn't some random nut nominated by Clinton by accident, likeJanet Reno or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was a liberal heroine. The New York Times was in high dudgeon when Massiah-Jackson withdrew — and not because Massiah-Jackson had sneered atAIDS victims and rape victims ... The Times was in a snit because of the "judicial mugging" the Senate had put her through. Massiah-Jackson, the Times said, "now returns to the state bench, battered but with her honor intact. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the Senate."

— Liberals were afraid of a book that told the truth about IQ ("The Bell Curve") because they are godless secularists who do not believe humans are in God's image. Christians have no fear of hearing facts about genetic differences in IQ because we don't think humans are special because they are smart. There may be some advantages to being intelligent, but a lot of liberals appear to have high IQs, so, really, what's the point? After Hitler carried the secularists' philosophy to its grisly conclusion, liberals are terrified of making any comment that seems to acknowledge that there are any differences among groups of people — especially racial groups. It's difficult to have a simple conversation — much less engage in free-ranging, open scientific inquiry — when liberals are constantly rushing in with their rule book about what can and cannot be said.

— While gays were being decimated by the AIDS virus, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was more interested in not "stigmatizing" them than in saving their lives. See, where I come from, being dead also carries a certain type of stigma. Instead of distributing condoms in gay bars and at productions of the play "Rent," where they might have done some good, Koop insisted on distributing condoms in kindergarten classes, in order to emphasize the point that AIDS does not discriminate, which it does.

In 1987, New York Times reporter Maureen Dowd — before she was elevated to the cartoon pages — wrote a heroic portrait of the man. Dr. Koop, she said "fiercely wants to strip AIDS of its stigma," and for that reason, he talks "about making an animated educational video that would feature two condoms 'with little eyes on them' chatting, and about the need for 'gentle, nonmystifying' sex education for students, starting in kindergarten." I would pay quite a bit of money to hear someone describe anal sex — oh hell, make it any kind of sodomy — to a 5-year-old in a gentle, nonmystifying way.

Finally, a word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have written or said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

Game Informer talks smack!

2006-06-01T23:22:00.000-04:00

The video game world has a few games that are held above all others as paragons of brillian design and compelling gameplay. Even years after their release, these titles continue to be praised by fans and the press alike as timeless classics. So, why do all these game ssuck so much? Really, is it too much to ask that the greatest examples of our artform not be hampered with incomprehensible stories, sloppy gameplay, and god-awful graphics? Read on to find out why your favorite game just arent very good. Oh, and just to make sure weve made absolutely everyone mad, heres a list of other things that suck: Star Wars, anime, Arrested Development, puppy dogs, gummi bears, Lord of the Rings, ninjas, comic books, D & D, Kevin Smith movies, and pizza. Yuck!

Video games have long helped us escape the drudgery of our boring existence by allowing us to enter amazing worlds of fantasy. For example, what child doesnt dream of someday stepping into the shoes of... an overweight plumber with a gay cop mustache! for crap's sake, we at least expect our gaming avatars to have more exciting jobs than we do in real life. Yep, Mario sure is a great character, and so is Luigi, who is totally distinguishable from Mario because he wears different colored clothes. The save the princess storyline is trite, and even worse because you spend most of your time saving some weird guy named Toad instead. The levels are extremely simplistic and so is the gameplay, which largely revolves around bonking your head on bricks. Well say one thing for this game, at list its short; if you're good and you know your warp pipes, you can cruise thorugh it in under an hour. And did those underwater levels really suck that much when we were kids/ Answer: yes, they did; we just didnt know any better. So, yea, we respect the hell out of Super Mario Bros., as long as we dont actually have to play the damned thing.

Final Fantasy 7 is not your high school sweetheart. Just because it was the first one to break your heart doesnt mean that better games wont come along. In fact, FF VII's major lasting contribution to gaming (besides making nerds cry) is the prettiest male villain in history. Seriously, youd think the FF gang was dressed entirely in clothes left over from Duran Durans 1984 world tour. And what is Cloud doing while the fashionable yet feminine Sephiroth is destorying the world? Decorating weapons with jewelry, talking to a stuffed animal, and making birds do it. HEy, you can trush heroism... especially when your most powerful magic attacks clock in at a full minute. Its a sad day when watching a metallic space-dragon incinerate an entire hemisphere is just boring. Oh, and "One winged angel" is a Carmina Burana rip off. Deal with it.

Metal Gear Solid proves that to be considered a classic, all you need is a plot so convoluted that people are embarressed to dmit they don't understand it. Recessive genes? Ear pulling? Cyborg Ninjas? Throw it all in. The more jumbled the story, the harder it is to realize that you just snuick by a guard while wearing a cardboard box. It's a good thing the hobos down by the docks arent involved in nuclear politics; they've got more cardboard boxes than you can count. And if that doesn't sell it, the character names taken from an erectile dysfunction informational pamphlet will seal the deal. How does Solid Snake firmly defeat his flaccid counterpart? With the seemingly boundless military aresenal in his patns. Hey, Snake! Is that a nikita missle launcher in your pocket or are you just happy to see us? The only thing that could make thi sgame worse is a hero whose haircut make him look like the weird dude in your high school in the megadeth jean jacket who always hung out at the convenience store... oops!

Halo completely revolutionized the first person shooter genre. Or, thats what you might think if youd had your head shoved up your butt for the past 10 years and hadnt touched a PC game since the original doom. Heres yet another game that proves that greatness is more a matter of opinion. Sure compared to blodwake or any other of microsofts dreadful early xbox entries, this was a masterpiece, but the fact remains that haol is perhaps the most overrated game of all time. Hey do you like those levels? Good because your going to hgave to go back to them all again because Bungie couldnt manage to actually make a complete game. Halo also earns our ire for introducing the needler, the lamest and most useless weapon since the spitwad. On the plus side, halos whicles are a great way to experience what drunk driving feels like without risking your life on the freeway. Still not convinced? Lets not fail to mention master chief, a facelss game hero so free of charisma that he makes Vice President Dick Cheney seem like David Lee Roth by comparison, or the story, which is insipid scifi boilerplay not fit for the script to an episode of Cleopatra 2525.

Ah yes, the game that changed the world! Brilliant, mind blowing, visionary, and kind of crappy when you come right down to it. GTA 3 Proves that if you cant do one thing right, just do a whole bunch of stuff poorly. Combining mediocre racing, mediocre action, and a load of banal gangster movie cliches that comone probably scraped off the bottom of Martin Scorcese's italian loafers, GTA 3 offers a heaping helping of lukewarm gameplay to meathead jocks the world over. It's like the old country buffet of video games; you'll definitely get your fill, but the bad aftertaste left by the shoddy mechanics leave you with little more than regreats and a gut ache when you're done. Lets not even get into the tedious objectives - its not for nothing that this game resulted in the coining of the term "pizza delivery mission." Sadly, a lot of the 80 hours you spend in Liberty City arent much more exciting than working the night shift at Dominoes, but without the tips. In its defense, it does have a lot of swearing, which seem to be enough for the millions of unemployted 19 year olds in pit stained Eminem shirts that make up this game's target audience.

Charlton Heston Share's His Wisdom

2006-05-11T18:00:00.000-04:00

Some wisdom from Heston that I picked up while reading "In The Arena," his autobiography. Enjoy. I may come back with some love from Ann Coulter from her books, "Slander" and "Treason."

"Looking back now, trying to sum things up, I find it more puzzling than it used to be. "Whats it about charlie," indeed. A generation ago, though we were in a fierce inflationary spiral and the depths of the Cold War, it was unthinkable that a respected and intelligent head of a giant conglomerate would defend the marketing of a record celebrating the sexual abuse of young girls and the murder of policemen. Now the hcildren of that generation have grown up in the ruins of what was once the best system of public education on earth--barely literate, many of them hardly English-capable, too many more raised in fatherless welfare families.
Our borders are awash in immigrants, a large portion of them illegal, but all nonetheless qualified for the fruits of out welfare state, entitled to generous benefits, including not only voting in our elections on ballots in the language of their choice, but the education of their progeny in that language. This last is the most colossal blunder of the many made in supposed support of the young: to deliberately deny children, at any age when they learn most quickly, access to full command of th elanguage that can best offer them a chance at productive employment anywhere in the world in the twenty-first century can only be described as cruelty to children.
Multiculturalism is not only perceived as a virtue but a goal. I actually heard a young woman at an arts fund-raiser say, 'Well that's the motto on the U.S. currency, isn't it? ""E pluribus unum."" From one, many.'
"Actually you've got it backward," I said. The correct translation is 'From many, one.' As in one country."
No kidding? she said. "Well, whatever."
A columnist described the childhood of a welfare kid with brutal honesty: "first felony arrest at fourteen, becomes an absent father at sixteen, out of school at seventeen if he gets that far, with a diploma he can't read."
The senate chaplain, the Reverend Richard Halvorse, put it more fully: "We now demand freedom without restraint, rights without responsibility, choice without consequences, pleasure without pain. In our narcissistic, hedonictic, masochistic, valueless preoccupation, we are becoming a people dominated by lust, avarice, and greed." (Isn't it odd that th eCongress has a full-time chaplain who opens every session with a prayer-- which is forbidden in schools? How did we get to that?)
How did we get, for that matter, to the point where the ethical foundations of western civilization are now in question? The LA Times reported not long ago that some geneticists have advanced the possibility that much of what we've understood for thousands of years as failing in the human condition are in fact genetically imprinted in us at birth. Wife beating, obesity, alcoholism, murder... none of these our fault. Just think how that frees us! We are now responsible for nothing! There is no good nor evil; man is no longer burdened with free will. Old Thomas Jefferson's comment serves her, I think: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
Charlton Heston

Darth Mark & Count Diane

2005-11-07T17:38:00.000-05:00

Time for an update.
So as The Captain would say... i learned something of IMPORT a few days back. But i waited until i had a backup confession of someone trustworthy to unveil it.
Guess who tried to get at least 2 people to beat me up?
Youll never guess.
Stop trying.

cmon... do u think u really know?

ok, so ill tell you.
Mark and Diane. Thats right. The proverbial egg donor and wannabe sperm donor. My ex-mother and step-father. Yea. David told me that. He said they tried to get him to, and they tried to get louie to, and that both said no. I didnt beleive him. So i asked Louie today. And louie goes, "Yea, they said u had an attitude problem and wanted me to 'fix' it."
Love works in mysterious ways?
I just want all my friends to know... that Im going to have someone jump you... because i care about you, and thats what u do when u care about people.
I'm no longer at marcias. So ill only be online when i hit the library.
Peace, love, and jump your loved ones!

Desperate Mothers & Pathetic Excuses of Human Beings

2005-10-27T18:29:00.000-04:00

So I talk to a friend of mine today. She informs me that Diane is not happy with just destroying her family and her relationship with her firstborn son. I guess Diane had to do it to someone else.
I dont feel like explaining the details. That mixed with not knowing alot of them, is going to make this a fairly short post.
And look at the time.. I have to go. I will continue later on.

Top 25

2005-10-25T22:11:00.000-04:00

As October draws to a close, I feel the need to remind people that in December I will release my top 25 of '05. To bring it all back to mind, i will repost the lists from 2003, and 2004.
2003-

1. Kristina's coat, Brandon's pina coloda

2. Thanksgiving Convo with my dad. (Dad-)Don't F*ck with me! (uncle orv-) Hey kenny, F*ck with him.

3. Saddam Hussien caught.

4. Holidae In

5. Jay-Z's retirement announcment

6. LOTR: Return of the King

7. 2003 North Vs South Football Game

8. Antho-"knee" problem

9. The Matrix Revolutions Disappointment

10. Madonna & Britney

11. Madonna & Christina

12. Ichthus 2003

13. Michael Jackson

14. We as Americans- Eminem

15. The Oreo

16. R. Kelly

17. The Cell Phone

18. Getting a job at Krogers

19. Freddy Vs. Jason

20. Ruben Studdard

21. Jedi's Last Hope

22. The Camel Toe song from Bob and Tom

23. Grand theft auto going to X-box

24. In da Club/Get Rich or Die Tryin'

25. The Kroger Hobbit, T- Baggins

2004-

1. Election 04
2. Getting Kicked out of the house
3. Tubin Down Mad River
4. Homecoming
5. 17 Birthday Party
6. SOCOM II
7. Kill Bill
8. Superbowl 04
9. Protesting Kerry rally
10. Ichthus 04: Mission in the Mud
11. Troy (all 3 times)
12. Bengals vs. Giants
13. Gold Bond
14. Traders World
15. Midnight Bowling
16. Brandie
17. Halo 2
18. Smallville Season 4
19. Passion of the Christ
20. Jaimie
21. Xanga
22. Red Vs. Blue
23. Bush Rally in Springfield
24. Amber
25. Jessica

Keep an Eye out for the upcoming 2005 list.

I've been drafted

2005-10-19T15:45:00.000-04:00

You read the title right. I'm informing everyone that I received a letter in the mail today telling me that I was drafted into the Marines. I cried for almost two hours. I know theyre going to push me through boot camp and then send me right over to Iraq. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do.
I apologize. Everyone was right in November when they said that if President Bush got another term, he would bring back the draft, and you were right. I just wish I would have listened to you all. Everyone told me that if he won in November, the draft would start before summer ended and I guess it has. You were all correct and I sadly admit that I was wrong.

Except I'm not. Because I'm NOT being drafted into the Marines. Or the Army for that matter. In fact, here it is, closing on the month of October and BEHOLD... no draft. A year has passed, and you were all wrong so far. Don't you all feel like asses now?

Star Wars LEGO

2005-04-03T23:48:00.000-04:00

Finally a combination of 2 of the greatest things ever made, Legos and Star Wars. In this game you play as the lego incarnations of yoru favorite star wars characters and play through the storylines of Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. You should def. play it. It is beast.

Three-toed Christians

2005-02-23T02:22:00.000-05:00

So I was sitting here, bored, and browsing xangas when I think I finally had enough. I've read through all these xangas of people in my area, or people on my subscriptions. I began to get really upset while readign through them. Hypocrites. All of them are. I know I have no room to talk, but im gonna make room and im gonna talk.
I know were only human but damn. One post I hear about how great there life is and yada yada yada and then the next post is like " I was at church..." or "I was praying..." or w/e and then they continue with how God knew exactly what they needed or God really spoke to them. It kills me because my biggest problem is knowing that I'm unworthy for forgiveness, hence making it a little difficult for me to accept that I can be and AM forgiven. I know I've fucked up and I know im unworthy so I need to be humble. And until I become humble before him, how can I really be forgiven by him? Its not important for God to know exactly what I "NEED." It's important for ME to know what God wants from ME. Not what I want from him. They write posts about it in their blog's like its getting a allowance from your parents. I mean DAMN... someone DIED to give us this gift so shouldn't we be a little slower to just go up, take it, and walk back to the life thats behind us?
I know the things i say and whatnot are a little unorthodox but im a realist. On top of being a realist.... im a pessimist. I inadvertantly focus on the negative simply because... its part of me. I know from talking to other people my age and through searching my own mind that 90% of what they show is an act. Its funny too because... one of the girls that runs in these circles and talks about how great God is to her and whatnot, is the same girl that goes out with my friend who came up to me one day in idle chit chat and informed me of thier... sexual... endeavors. They met at church, she goes to a christian school, she runs in the christian groups, she comes to the alter calls, she buys the Jesus clothes and such.. and he informs me (in all honesty) that not more than a 3 days before he had his hands up her shirt. I mean... WHAT is that? Thats just one example. The hypocrisy of people that call themselves followers of Christ is appalling. Personally, I think that if Jesus just showed up one day and started from going house to house, hed start flipping tables in houses and churches across the nation. What have we become? We are supposedly followers of the One True God Jehovah, His son Jesus, and The Holy Spirit yet we know nothing more than rituals and stories out of a 2000 year old book.
Jesus is not our church. Jesus is not our pastor. Jesus is not our christian concerts with our church vans and matching christian shirts. Jesus is not merchandise. People will not find nor share Jesus in thier pews on Sunday. Sunday christians are nothign more than fools trying to assure themselves that heaven is waiting on them. Jesus is kid sitting at the lunch table all alone. Jesus is the lady sitting on a bench downtown surrounded by 3 plastic bags of clothes. Jesus IS NOT your youth group.
Its all fine and dandy to go to church and get the gospel and chill with your christian homies, but Sunday should not be about going somewhere to make yourself feel better about yourself. When you "give your heart to Jesus" your giving your life to a life of service. Being christian doesnt mean go to church on Sunday and be really nice to people the rest of the week.
I read the LEft Behind series and I think the books interpret the bible fairly well, but what it lacks in is the projection of the world. See, they say "millions" of people dissappearing at the rapture. No, I think not. I think its more like thousands of people. I think we will be sadly dissappointed at the rapture and the return of christ as very few people we know dissappear. Then further into the books... they talk about the mark of the beast being given to people and such. Sadly enough... I doubt there will be much resistance to that. If it buys them the new cd, some food, or gets them to a concert, people will get it. Most people will get it.
True Christians are the three-toed sloths of todays world. They're on the way out. Harder to find than a decent radio station.

Valentines Hell... I mean Day

2005-02-14T00:40:00.000-05:00

Working at a retail store, I see the fruits that businesses reap from this "great" day. Its pathetic if you ask me. Guys desperately running through the stores buying flowers, candy and stuffed animals for thier females in an attempt to show them thier feelings or just to try to get a peice of ass. Its rather gross. A friend of mine over on xanga (www.xanga.com/KamaSutra) Talks a bit about marketing and whatnot of V-day.
So on this holiday, instead of buying a ton of crap for your female interest (or male depending on your flavor) stay home and chill. Watch some Howard Stern, some cartoon network, or pop in a good DVD. Thats what I'll be doing.

LAP: Liberals Against Progress

2005-01-20T18:05:00.000-05:00

I swear.....
I watched the Inauguration today. It was rather interesting. The first one I've watched that I've actually understood. Bush's speech was nice. He skillfully dodged the middle east in his delivery, but in general it was a well written, and spoken, speech. But what killed me wasn't the avoiding of debatable subjects, but the protesters.
I can understand, and sympathize, protesting DURING the race. I mean hell... I protested Kerry when he came by the Heritage Center. During the race, your protesting MIGHT have an affect on undecided voters. But the race is over. It has been recounted, recounted, recounted again, debated, debated again, and it was decided that, whether the liberals like it or not, Bush won the election. Bush WILL BE the President of the United States for 4 more years. Standing outside dressed in black, shouting, and throwing snowballs won't change that fact. No matter how much you protest, it won't change the election results. I specifically remember Kerry spouting "It's time for a change" when he was on the campaign trail. I also remember hearing him speak of "progress" and "uniting america" when he was dumping those hot air tanks of his. To support a candidate means that you are behind them. Well for any normal or sensible human being, you wouldn't support someone if you don't beleive in what they preach. So where is their support for Kerry's values and beleifs now? How are we uniting and progressing if we're screaming and throwing things at the Inauguration ceremonies? It just doesn't match up for some reason.
A recent editorial by Ann Coulter summed up alot of what is on my mind. She titled it:
It's Our Party, You Can Cry If You Want To
Dead serious when I say that you need to go check that article at. It's so funny. Almost as good as her one titled: Liberals Love America Like OJ Loved Nicole. She is an excellent writer. Check her out at www.anncoulter.com
But moving on. In my stupid teenage mind, it doesn't seem to click that 2 months ago they were bitching about progress and change, and now that they lost, suddenly those values are unimportant. I'm beginning to realize how John Kerry appealed to them. Thier values change almost as much as his do. But seriously, it's over now. Kerry isn't president. Shouting and bitching won't make it so. So instead of pouting and complaining, how about you work with him. How about the liberals in America admit that Kerry lost, and move on. Don't worry, the chance will be back in just under 4 years for the bitching and complaining to start again. But until then, how about you dust your shoulders off and get in the game with the rest of us. This country needs healing, and throwing snowballs and trash at fences and cops is NOT gonna do a damn thing.

Losing Childhood

2004-11-21T13:56:00.000-05:00

Don't let your kids get a job. Ive come to realize while the money is nice, it takes away from other things they would otherwise have. It takes away from extracirricular activities, daily energy, friend time, family time, and is a distraction from the world they used to know. Dont get me wrong, I'm not going to quit my job or anything.. I'm just saying that I personally am missing out on alot because of my job. Example: I work 2-10 today. I wanted to go to the Gun Show in Dayton with my parents, but I can't, because they wouldnt have been back by 2. Another example is Thanksgiving break from school. I am off wed.- Sun. and right now, i work wed, fri, and sat, and more than likely sunday too. I will get ONE of my FIVE days off off. So I will miss out on things i wouldnt have if i was jobless. This happens all the time, and so many of my friends can't do things cause they have to work. The money is nice... but is it worth it?

Somehow this will be Bush's fault too.

2004-11-15T17:26:00.001-05:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime reaped over $21 billion from kickbacks and smuggling before and during the now-defunct U.N. oil-for-food program, twice as much as previous estimates, according to a U.S. Senate probe on Monday.

The monies flowed between 1991 and 2003 through oil surcharges, kickbacks on civilian goods and smuggling directly to willing governments, Senate investigators said at a hearing.

"How was the world so blind to this massive amount of influence-peddling?" asked Republican Sen. Norm Coleman (news, bio, voting record), head of the investigations subcommittee.

Coleman made public more documents he said were evidence of bigger kickbacks and payments than what was previously known, including 2003 data previously not reviewed.

The new Senate figure is about double the amount estimated by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which had pegged it at $10.1 billion. Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq (news - web sites), had estimated about the same amount based on Iraqi documents, with $2 billion through the U.N. program and $8 billion in smuggling by road or sea or in direct illegal agreements with governments.

The oil-for-food program began in December 1996 to alleviate the impact on ordinary Iraqis of sanctions, imposed when Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. The U.N. Security Council allowed Iraq to sell oil and buy food, medicine and other goods and let Baghdad draw up its own contracts.

This left room for abuse in the $64 billion program, administered by the United Nations (news - web sites) and monitored by a U.N. Security Council panel, including the United States, according to investigators.

Oil smuggling alone netted Saddam's regime about $9.7 billion, with other funds flowing from switching substandard goods with top-grade ones, as well as exploiting food and medicine shipments to the Kurds in Iraq's north.

Panel investigators also echoed the findings by Duelfer, head of the CIA (news - web sites)-led Iraq Survey Group, that Saddam's regime gave lucrative contracts to buy Iraqi oil to high-ranking officials in Russia, France and other nations.

On the list of 270 individuals, businesses and political parties was the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, who has vigorously denied the charges.

Other recipients include Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his Russian Liberal Democrat Party. The Senate panel released a document signed by Zhirinovsky in January 1999 that invited a U.S. oil company to Moscow to negotiate to buy the oil voucher. The name of the U.S. company was withheld because of pending investigations, panel staff said.

In Russian press statements, Zhirinovsky has denied taking bribes from Saddam's regime, though he admitted meeting with the former Iraqi president during trips to Baghdad.

Senior Iraqi officials like former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz were also personally involved in oil talks, Senate panel investigators said.

In each case, Saddam's regime awarded a certificate that allowed the holder to sell the right to buy Iraqi oil at below-market prices.

The certificate holder would charge a per-barrel commission to transfer the rights to an oil buyer. Per-barrel fees were usually less than $1 per barrel but racked up big dollar amounts because allocations upward of 1 million barrels were routine.

The United Nations has refused to hand over documents to a U.S. congressional committee or allow Sevan to appear before a panel while its own investigation is under way, led by Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve (news - web sites) chairman.

U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York that Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) had telephoned Coleman and Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, "to assure them we are not being obstructionist" following an angry letter last week from the two senators.

ISNT THAT BLOODY LOVELY? WHAT WAS THAT YEAR AGAIN? OOO YEA. 1996. LEMME THINK BACK. YES, CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT. ALMIGHTY CLINTON. BUT NO DOUBT THE LIBERAL WEINERS WILL SOMEHOW FIND A WAY TO TURN THIS AROUND AND MAKE IT BUSH'S FAULT. THEY ALWAYS DO.

"Lord Vader?" "Yes Master?" "Riiiiiiise."

2004-11-10T19:02:00.000-05:00

"Lord Vader?" "Yes Master?" "Riiiiiiise."
When I heard those words this evening, I got the chills. When the entire screen went black, and then after words were spoken, it came to a room with fog. Then you hear the deep breath, and see Darth Vader strapped to an operating table. I went nuts. Where did I hear those words? Where did I experience this awe at? At www.starwars.com on the Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith trailer.
Step by step:
00:07 - 20th Century Fox Logo
00:09 - Lucasfilm Logo
00:14 - "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
00:19 - Luke Skywalker in ANH walks out to view the binary sunset on Tatooine.
00:23 - Obi-Wan Kenobi in ANH speaks to Luke about the Jedi.
00:26 - Qui-Gon Jinn in TPM brandishes his saber before the final duel with Darth Maul.
00:27 - Shot from AOTC of the Clonetroopers walking into the transport.
00:29 - Shot from AOTC of the Clonetroopers at the end of the movie with transports lifting off in the background.
00:23 - Obi-Wan and Anakin with their backs toward the camera, walking up to a window during the day.
00:36 - AOTC shot of Anakin looking evil just before the Tusken slaughter.
00:38 - AOTC shot of Anakin riding the Swoop on Tatooine.
00:41 - ANH Obi-Wan continues his voice-over.
00:42 - A hooded Anakin turns to the camera with red and yellow eyes much like Darth Maul's.
00:50 - Shot of erupting volcanoes on Mustafar.
00:56 - Geonosians ride giant beetles in a Mustafar lava field.
00:58 - Black screen- "Lord Vader?" "Yes Master?" "Riiiiise".
01:04 - Darth Vader, strapped to a table, begins to rise.
01:05 - A hooded Obi-Wan looks up.
01:06 - Palpatine turns to look at the camera.
01:07 - Vader continues to rise.
01:08 - R2D2 on the Tantive IV.
01:08 - C3PO on the Tantive IV.
01:09 - Padme turns to look at Obi-Wan with a terrified look on her face.
01:09 - Mace Windu raises his saber above his head.
01:10 - Vader continues to rise.
01:11 - Chewbacca and Tarfful.
01:12 - Yoda opens his cloak to reveal his saber.
01:13 - Vader finishes his rise and locks into frame.
01:17 - Two starfighters speed past the camera.
01:18 - Anakin kisses Padme.
01:19 - Yoda pulls out his ignited saber and points with it.
01:19 - A starfighter speeds along the hull of a capitol ship towards the camera.
01:20 - Mace Windu fights against a red lightsaber.
01:20 - A large Wookiee army cheers on the Kashyyyk beach. Republic walkers and troop transports can be seen in the background.
01:21 - Tion Meddon snarls at Obi-Wan.
01:22 - Flaming capitol ship heads into Coruscant with a fire ship spraying water on it.
01:22 - A very angry Anakin does an overhead slash with his saber.
01:23 - R2D2 in a grimy area.
01:24 - Padme, with a ANH Leia haircut, hugs Anakin.
01:24 - A small Naboo cruiser flies away from Mustafar.
01:25 - Obi-Wan and Anakin, both with blue sabers, fight on Mustafar as lava erupts around them.
01:26 - Capitol ships fire on each other above Coruscant.
01:27 - Anakin grab's Obi-Wan's neck with his robotic arm.
01:27 - A "Tri-fighter" flies toward the camera.
01:28 - Obi-Wan held near the ground by Anakin, who appears to be trying to behead him with his own saber.
01:30 - A starship hanger door slams shut.
01:30 - A very angry Darth Sidious swings his red lightsaber.
01:31 - A large explosion on a capitol ship above Coruscant.
01:36 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith logo.

Sure it could have been better. They could have had no mushy stuff, and probably no droids either, but the droids at least has a place. The kissing and hugging had none. Sure, Natalie Portman is hott, but it is all out of place in the teaser. But it's all good. I eagerly await more Star Wars goodies.

Election Outcomes

2004-11-04T01:12:00.000-05:00

Hey Osama, we rejected your little truce so you might want to look into buying four more years worth of subscription to "Better Holes & Caves" magazine.

It looks like George W. Bush has caused some unemployment since the Kerry campaign staff and John Edwards are now unemployed.
-Antijohnkerry.blogspot.com

We emerged victorious

2004-11-03T19:02:00.000-05:00

I may be a teenage thumping racist bigot who doesnt know anything, (Cincinnati Blog, scroll down to Axinar's Universe Lays Down the Law- Oct. 31st.) but my president got reelected yesterday.

Enough with the damned politics

2004-11-01T15:06:00.002-05:00

Quite frankly I will be extremely happy when Indecision 2004 is over. The Damnocrats and Republicunts are both pushing my patience beyond what it has ever been pushed before. I mean sure, it was fun getting those pictures of Bush at the Fairgrounds rally (www.picturetrail.com/bushinspringfield) and it was fun protesting at the Kerry/Edwards rally at the Heritage Center. That was all fun, but now it's getting old. The mudballing is disgusting and the hate among Republicunts, Damnocrats, and Indumbpendents is just too repetitive. Why can't we just vote, keep our opinions to ourselves, and move on with life? And WTF is up with all these damn TV ads? I can't watch anything anymore without someone having a political ad. It is simply disgusting.
I understand how touchy this election is, and how much is at stake, but DAMN. Seriously. Its about 18 hours long, and its been about 3 months of non-stop crap. I was even personally going to go sign snatching, but I cancelled those plans because I just got sick of the whole thing. People even turned that into a hate game. Instead of moving them or knocking them over, people are burning them, peeing on them, or even stealing them. It's gruesomely disgusting.
People will say, "But Kenny, this election is too big," or "there is too much to lose." Trust me. I know all this fully. Bush has fucked us over. Our country is in shambles both economically and socially, even though jobs are coming back into the country they arent coming in fast enough to replace the ones we lost, our troops are over in Iraq with no plan of coming home, and rumors are circulating that if we don't pull out soon they will have no choice but to instate the draft because we dont have enough troops to sustain that country. I am almost 18, and I will be one of those draft candidates if it comes to that.
Then we also have Kerry. To some he is a savior. He comes in a troubled time, looking like a light in the darkness. But the problem with that is, we dont know if he's a blue light, a green light, a red light, a white light, or what. Because he keeps changing his colors. He is for gun control, at least until he goes hunting the next morning. He voted for and supported the war in Iraq, until shit went sour, and then it became "The wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place." But for most it's simply because, "He's not Bush."
Finally we come to our third party candidates. Mainly Nader, Badnarik, and Cobb. But there are others also, there always will be. While they may seem nice to some, the majority of Americans find then TOO liberal or TOO radical for them, so they dont get enough votes to even show up in the percentages.
As Axinar likes to remind everyone so often, I am a "thumper," and I am proud of it. And that influences many of my views. I disagree with homosexual relationships, I am Pro-Life, I am anti-war, I am against Capital Punishment, pro-education, I agree that "gun control is being able to hit your target," and I don't particularly like a government all up in my business. If i could chose anyone to be president, it would probably be Badnarik, BUT he doesnt seem to being too hott, so I would need to throw my support between one of the two main candidates. George "Wrong" Bush, or John "Flip Flop" Kerry. Honestly, I may not agree with everything he has done, but at least I know what Bush stands for. So i threw my support behind him. Obviously Ive had some rough times being in a mainly democratic county and that's to be expected. But i am seriously just gettin sick of it. Isn't there a new cd droppin, or a new movie coming out that we can talk about? Screw Iraq, screw politics, and screw Amerikka. I am getting disgusted with the way our country is presenting itself.

Racism: More Rampant Now Than in the Past

2004-10-29T23:55:00.000-04:00

When people hear the word “racism,” they think usually one of 3 things:

Martin Luther King Jr.

Black People

KKK

To support this theory, I asked some people:

M******ffy: KKK and black people

M******ffy: but most importantly...black people

Xsoxha****rex: kkk

**** Ezekiel 1: not liking black people

ax****: pete Bronson

dscotty****: blacks

MiZz ArC ****: black

You see, people are so close-minded these days, they don’t even realize that racism has grown into more of a beast now, than it ever has been. First off, black is not the only other race besides white. But when asked what the first thing that came to mind was, the younger the person that was asked, then the more their answer was focused on blacks. That’s do to the portrayal of race in our world today. Racism reaches beyond the dislike, or unfair treating of darker skinned people. It also reaches into the realms of Whites, Mexicans, Orientals, Europeans, and most apparent in today’s Divided States of America--Middle Easterners.

When a black man is killed or robbed in your town and the cops are called to respond to the situation, they say a 25 yr. old African-American male was killed. But if it was a white guy, they would say a 25 yr. male was killed. Are they suggesting that white is the norm? Isn’t that racism? What about the United Negro College Fund? IF we are as unified as our douche-bag leaders say we are, then why isn’t it the United College Fund? Because our world went to the extreme in equality. It was originally that blacks were being treated differently (worse) than white folk, so we made laws and reforms to change that. Now it is to the point where being African-American isn’t a curse anymore or an up and coming section of society being oppressed, but it is now a gift. In our world of equality, we have BET, (Black Entertainment Television) The United Negro College Fund, www.blackpeoplemeet.com, www.black-collegian.com, www.blackvoices.com, www.blackenterprises.com, African American History Month, and many, many more to be found.

Is there a White Entertainment Channel? Or whitepeoplemeet.com? White History Month? If I saw “nigger,” “nigga,” or any other form of the “N” word at my school around people of the darker skin tone, It’s highly possible I will be getting jumped. Not to even get into school discipline where even the principle gets involved with it. But if they say “Cracka” or “Whitey” or “Pale boy,” or anything along those lines, nothing happens. Nothing at all. The world is to the point now, where we can be racist, as long as we aren’t white. When a white guy is racist, it is Politically Incorrect. But if someone mainly non-white does to us what we get smashed for doing to them, it is alright. Now don’t get me wrong. I do not dislike blacks or whites or anything like that, but I think that this is a problem that has gone unnoticed, and untouched.

Confused....

2004-10-13T21:01:00.000-04:00

I'll know how to vote come November. Right now, we have one guy
saying one thing. Then the other guy says something else.
Who to believe. Lemme see; have I got this straight?

Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia - good...
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq - bad...

Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia - good...
Bush spends 87 billion in Iraq - bad...

Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia - good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad...

Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists-good...
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator - bad...

Clinton bombs Chinese embassy - good...
Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad...

Clinton commits felonies while in office - good...
Bush lands on aircraft carrier in jumpsuit - bad...

No mass graves found in Serbia - good...
No WMD found Iraq - bad...

Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton - good...
Economy on upswing under Bush - bad...

Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden - good...
World Trade Centers fall under Bush - bad...

Clinton says Saddam has nukes - good...
Bush says Saddam has nukes - bad...

Terrorist training in Afghanistan under Clinton - good...
Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan - bad...

Milosevic not yet convicted - good...
Saddam turned over for trial - bad...

Ahh, it's so confusing!

Every year an independent tax watchdog group analyzes the average tax burden on Americans, and then calculates the "Tax Freedom Day". This is the day after which the money you earn goes to you, not the government. This year, tax freedom day was April 11th. That's the earliest it has been since 1991.
It's latest day ever was May 2nd, which occurred in 2000. Notice anything special about those dates?

Recently, John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are actually paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no explanation and provided no data for this claim.

Another interesting fact: Both George Bush and John Kerry are wealthy men. Bush owns only one home, his ranch in Texas. Kerry owns 4 mansions, all worth several million dollars. (His ski resort home in Idaho is an old barn brought over from Europe in pieces. Not your average A-frame).
Bush paid $250,000 in taxes this year; Kerry paid $90,000. Does that sound right? The man who wants to raise your taxes obviously has figured out a way to avoid paying his own.

"Greater love has no man...."

2004-10-12T01:43:00.000-04:00

The Bible says that giving your life for another is the greatest love. But what does God mean when he says give your life for another?

John 15: 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved
you.13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15: 12This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.13No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends.

The Bible says that giving your life for another is the greatest love. But my question for you this evening is this: What does giving or laying down your life actually consist of?
On dictionary.com i found many definitons of life, but this one made the most sense:
Human existence, relationships, or activity in general: real life; everyday life.

So to give that up.. what exactly does that mean? I ask this question randomly because i just watched the movie Saved! Yes, 'tis a very contreversial movie, but my point is this. She gave up her virginity to try and turn her bf, whom happened to think he was gay, back to straight. Is that a way of giving your life for another? Or, many a times i find myself worrying more about my friends salvation than my own condition with God. I find myself devoting all my time and energies into trying to save them that i find myself slipping. Is that a form of giving your life for another? what exactly does that mean, to GIVE YOUR LIFE. When it says "your life" what does it mean?

Obviously we can see through Christ's ultimate form of love on the cross, that your literal life, your very heartbeat sacrificed for someone else is nothing but love. Is that the only form of giving your life? Where is the definition at? When i asked a friend, he said that marriage was a form of giving your life. So if you give your life to your wife, is that the greatest love? I don't think so personally... but i would like some thoughts. Because in the movie, the girl thought that giving her virginity to this guy in hopes of turning him straight was God's plan for her. That God wanted that. Would God ask someone to go against his own rules for the greater good? And in her case, was that the greatest love? The bible tells us that homosexuality is a sin, and she was trying to save him from a life of sin by giving it all up. Is that not giving everything up for someone else? If you step in front of a loaded gun pointed at your friend and tell the shooter to take u instead, you are giving it all up. Are you doing the same if you take the steps she took? or if you worry more about the salvation of others than your own walk with christ?

R.I.P.Christopher Reeve 1952-2004

2004-10-11T14:55:00.000-04:00

Today the world lost a truly great man. One of the few people that actually were "super" men. This guy toughed out things i could even imagine.

"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died. He was 52.
Reeve died Sunday of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore. He went into cardiac arrest Saturday, while at his Pound Ridge home, then fell into a coma and died Sunday at a hospital surrounded by his family, his publicist said.
In the last week Reeve had developed a serious systemic infection, a common problem for people living with paralysis who develop bedsores and depend on tubes and other medical devices needed for their care. He entered the hospital Saturday.
Dana Reeve thanked her husband's personal staff of nurses and aides, "as well as the millions of fans from around the world."
"He put up with a lot," his mother, Barbara Johnson, told the syndicated television show "The Insider." "I'm glad that he is free of all those tubes."
Before the 1995 horse-riding accident that caused his paralysis, Reeve's athletic, 6-foot-4-inch frame and love of adventure made him a natural choice for the title role in the first "Superman" movie in 1978. He insisted on performing his own stunts.

"Look, I've flown, I've become evil, loved, stopped and turned the world backward, I've faced my peers, I've befriended children and small animals and I've rescued cats from trees," Reeve told the Los Angeles Times in 1983, just before the release of the third "Superman" movie. "What else is there left for Superman to do that hasn't been done?"

Though he owed his fame to it, Reeve made a concerted effort to, as he often put it, "escape the cape." He played an embittered, crippled Vietnam veteran in the 1980 Broadway play "Fifth of July," a lovestruck time-traveler in the 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time," and an aspiring playwright in the 1982 suspense thriller "Deathtrap."
More recent films included John Carpenter's "Village of the Damned," and the HBO movies "Above Suspicion" and "In the Gloaming," which he directed. Among his other film credits are "The Remains of the Day," "The Aviator," and "Morning Glory."

Reeve's life changed completely after he broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Va.

Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury. He moved an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.
"Hollywood needs to do more," he said in the 1996 Oscar awards appearance. "Let's continue to take risks. Let's tackle the issues. In many ways our film community can do it better than anyone else."
He returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of "Rear Window," a modern update of the Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who is convinced a neighbor has been murdered. Reeve won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries.
"I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story," Reeve said. "But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face."
Reeve also made several guest appearances on the WB series "Smallville" as Dr. Swann, a scientist who gave the teenage Clark Kent insight into his future as Superman.

In 2000, Reeve was able to move his index finger, and a specialized workout regimen made his legs and arms stronger. With rigorous therapy, involving repeated electrical stimulation of the muscles, he also regained sensation in other parts of his body. He vowed to walk again.
"I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery," Reeve said.
Dr. John McDonald treated Reeve as director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He called Reeve "one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life."
"Before him there was really no hope," McDonald said. "If you had a spinal cord injury like his there was not much that could be done, but he's changed all that. He's demonstrated that there is hope and that there are things that can be done."
Dr. Raymond Onders, who implanted electrodes in Reeve's diaphragm in a groundbreaking surgery to help him breathe, said the sore that led to the infection was not Reeve's only recent health problem.
"Many different problems develop after nine years of being dependent on a ventilator, not being able to move yourself, having intestinal problems. ... It just slowly builds up over the years," Onders told ABC's "Good Morning America."
Reeve was born Sept. 25, 1952, in New York City, son of a novelist and a newspaper reporter. About age 10, he made his first stage appearance — in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Yeoman of the Guard" at a theater in Princeton, N.J.
After graduating from Cornell University in 1974, he landed a part as coldhearted bigamist Ben Harper on the soap opera "Love of Life." He also performed frequently on stage, winning his first Broadway role as the grandson of Katharine Hepburn's character in "A Matter of Gravity."
Reeve's first movie role was a minor one in the submarine disaster movie "Gray Lady Down," released in 1978. "Superman" soon followed. Reeve was selected for the role from among about 200 aspirants.

The Male Chauvinist

2004-09-28T23:35:00.000-04:00

If anyone besides Axinar reads this, I am confident they won't after this post.
DISCLAIMER: I do not HATE women, I am not gay, & I am a minor, which means you can't kick my ass without going to jail.

Woman are the root of all evil. Simple Algebra will solve this:
First we state that girls require time and money.

Girls= Time x Money

As we all know, time is money.

Time= Money

Therefore:

Girls=Money x Money= (Money)2

And because money is the root of all evil:

Money=The root of evil.

Therefore:

Girls= (The root of evil)2

and we are forced to conclude that:

Girls=Evil

So we've proved the evilness of woman with Math, so let us move on to history:
Anyone who has read a bible, and some who havent, knows who Eve is. Eve was the companion God gave Adam in the Garden of Eden. So you may ask, why aren't we all in the garden. The answer is simple. A woman. Eve got tricked into eating the apple, and then knowing it was wrong, she gave some to Adam. Which in turn caused them to see their nakedness, hide, and get kicked out when God confronted them. Who started the chain of events? Eve, a woman.
Ok, moving a bit further in time. Samson was a strong man. A godly man. Well his strength was from God, and his hair was his source of strength. Well, a WOMAN, tricked him into telling him where he got his strength. When he woke up the morning after, his hair was gone, and so was his strength. Why? Because the woman lied to him, used him, and then cut his hair.
What about Helen of Troy? Has anyone read the Illiad? or seen Troy? or just heard the story? That whole mess, was over.. yes you guessed it... a woman. She ran off with Paris, and her hubby got mad, and urged the war to be waged on Troy. SHE, thats a pronoun for a female btw.
The biggest amunition us right-wing, nutjob, republicans have against the past democratic president (clinton for all the history majors out there) is a WOMAN flashing her stuff, and asking not what her country can do for her, but what she can do for her country. ;-) So many times in life, do woman use thier sexuality and bodies to thier advantage to take control of men by the balls, literally.
All you Star Wars nuts. Why did Obi-Wan die? You may say, well Darth Vader killed him, duh. Youd be wrong. It was all Leia's fault. If she hadnt have gotten caught in the first place, then Luke's uncle and Aunt wouldnt have died, and they wouldnt have had to pack up and head to alderaan to get the plans to the Leia's father on Aalderan, who just happened to be dead, and they wouldnt have followed the tie fighter, and found the death star and gotten caught in the tractor beam, and had to go save her.
How about Superman? The majority of the time he's in trouble, what is he doing? Saving LOIS LANE.
How about Spiderman, he's always saving his women from some psycho maniacs, risking HIS life, so he can bring her home and she can bitch about how dirty thier room is.
But im going to stop here, because im tired, and im pretty sure i got my point across.

Girls, God, Friends, and Parents....

2004-09-27T23:16:00.000-04:00

Girls- Wow heres a topic i could overload the web on. first off, does anyone realize how hard it is to find a good lookin christian girl that actually likes you? lol i dont know, but if anyone else does, let me know, and we shall go to dinner and share stories. lol. How do you tell if a girl honestly likes you? or if shed go out with you. because you can say almost any girl that is being nice to you is flirting, and i mean even then, every girl is different. where one girl acted like this, another may not. and your not just gonna come out and ask her..... cause thats just like 3rd grade aint it? well not quite... but like w/o any clue at all... just ask.... then she could be like, no im just tryin to be friendly.. and then think your a prick forever, and that would totally suck, and i mean most guys always have a chick they like but they dont know if she likes him, and the thoughts fester until he quits caring, or he finds out (these views arent directed at all females) Females are confusing. and you realize the mischevious nature of females? check out the story of pandoras box.... eve..... delilah..... my mom... i mean the list goes on forever... so so far we have mischevious, and confusing.. what else do we have? (this isnt meant to bash women, im just thinking.) if all these girls are always ending me up in trouble, pain, or messes of some sort.. why do i keep going after another one? i got wiped with jenny, went quite a bit before i got in that mess with jordan.. then right off the coattails of that i dove into brandie... and then 2 wks after that storm blew up i started with jaime... although i really wouldnt call what we had much of a relationship, it WAS one day short of a month of my life, not bein mean, just sayin.... so yea... i guess im a sucker... and in all honesty i liked all of them, but in each relationship somethin happened that hurt in some way... and from then i still liked them... but i just couldnt deal with it. Jenny sayin yes on sunday, and breakin up with me on tuesday, Jordan wanting to date andrea and me at the same time, brandie wanting to live with me or w/e she was doin, and then jaimie not sharing her true feelings, breaking up with me, and almost ignorin me... it all hurt.. and if those situations hadnt arisen, then i dont think the relationships would have ended..... but idk cause im not miss. cleo. also heres a pattern. Jordan and Brandie were both 19, and i broke up with them, jenny and jaime were both younger than me, and they broke up with me... is that a pattern worth watchin? But then the pattern has broken with the most recent one, Jessica. We kicked it for short of 2 months. The difference is she's almost 17. And i broke up with her. But i broke up with her for pretty much the same reason as brandie. She got too serious. Talkin about "You dont hug me enough" and "I only see you 5 times a week." Plus there was way too much gossip in that one. So once again i spend my long nights thinking about women, trying to make them make sense.

God- This is the topic bigger than the world wide web, and i could go longer on him than i could on females, and i know thats hard to believe. One thing that is hard to believe is how people can see all the signs, yet still deny. And what about that expedition up Ararat or w/e mountain noahs ark is on? yea, someones fundin this big hike up this mountain just for photos they say, no souveniers or nothin, cause they saw sattelite pix that look like it could be up there. The Trinity. I guess there are people right... Trinitatians, and Non-Trinitarians. Some people believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are 3 dif. beings instead of different forms of the same. Ive always looked at it as 3 forms of matter. Solid- God, he is the rock, he is unbreakable, and he has been firm and reliable since the beginning of time. Liquid- Jesus, as water does in a glass, took the from of somethin else, man, and cleansed as water would. And Gas- The Ghost, invisible but still affecting, and gives power just like steam does. does that make any sense? or is this just middle of the night rambling? I wonder myself sometimes. Well there is my god thoughts for the night.

Friends- How do you tell true friends. I mean sure you can see if they would give thier life for you, but when they do that, then it pretty much doesnt count no more does it? lol cause i mean what kind of friend will they be dead? and you can trust thier word, but that will falter eventually. In the end everyone leaves you alone or hurts you at some time except for god, so just because you get in a fight dont mean they werent really your friend. Do you judge them on what they are willing to give up for you? or just how trustworthy they are? or do you do as you do with Jesus and just trust, not blindly, but without doubt? and how much should friendship be worth to you? i can understand giving up your life for a friend, and i would for my friends in 2 snaps of a bullwhip, but i mean morals and such. and how do you choose between friends? and then my final question is this... is it right to betray a friends trust for thier better good, or should you hold thier secret or whatnot no matter the cost...........?

Parents- Sometimes you wonder if they're sent from god, or from satan.... I can see the positive in the things they do... and have done.... but what about the negative? when do you draw the line in respecting your parents? the bible says respect thy parents and such, but what if you believe what your parents say goes against what god would want? This has been an internal battle of mine for the longest time... when should a child begin to expand thier boundaries? at what age does a child start the trip into adulthood? At the begining of what would be my 5th grade year, my parents sent me to live with my grandparents. I went through a hell there..... one that i wont indulge into, because it is one of the few thing that will bring me to my knees crying. But needless to say afterwards my parents came to get me, and then they apologized and whatever, and i forgave them, but the scar still remained, and it took a while for me to trust them again. I started to trust them about the beginning of 7th. Then at the end of 8th, i did some things that im not proud of, and when i was caught, my parents sent me to a boarding school, and once again, i went through some life changing things, and they pulled me out of there. I forgave them, but more scars came... and it took longer for me to begin trusting. I started trusting my mom more first, and so when my mom did some things that could have ruined our household, i sided with her for a time, but then there came a point in all this where she ditched me for her habit... and i got fed up. well some stuff went down because of my actions after that, and i was scarred again after that, and i forgave them, and even longer it took to completely trust them... and then recently, i felt betrayed by my own mother in a situation, and it hurt.. and just how much more do i put my trust in them? how much more am i expected to take? dont get me wrong, i love my parents, but seriously, when your a kid you learn that when you touch fire it hurts. you learn that by repeatedly doing it.... and eventually you dont do it anymore. I guess this is true with any people, but with parents being around the longest, they get this the most, plus this is about them, so yea. So is trusting your parents completely like putting your hand in the fire? if so, how long will it take before you realize not to do it again? or should you ever realize it?

Jesus Wept?

2004-09-27T22:51:00.000-04:00

I am a "Thumper" as Axinar so colorfully put it, and as i am a christian, i read the bible. While watching Barbershop 2, Ice Cube mentions John 11:35- "Jesus Wept." I have wondered for a long time WHY he wept.

So jesus wept... and i have asked WHY. Here is some of the many things that ive gotten:

Columbus Pastor Ray Harper: KENNY, JESUS WEPT BECAUSE HE SAW THE EMOTIONS OF THE OTHERS AND REALIZED HOW MUCH THEY LOVED LAZARUS. IT WAS ALSO TO SHOW HIS GRIEF FOR A FALLEN WORLD WHICH CAUSES SUCH UNNECESSARY SORROW AND DEATH BECAUSE OF SIN. AFTER ALL, HE WAS A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. (JOHN 3:16 AND ISAIAH 53:3) I HOPE THIS HELPS GIVE YOU SOME DIRECTION. PAST0R RAY

My Mamaw: I'm not sure anyone knows the answer for certain. Ihave often heard it said that He wept because He was saddened by the unbelief of the people. He certainlydid not weep because of Lazarus' death because He knewHe would call him forth.

Alana: I dont know

aaronporter : That's a good question my friend. Why did Jesus weep? Well, that passage is found in John 11:35, but in order to figure out exactly what is being said you must read that whole chapter. It will help to bring clarity to your question. But I'll tell you what I think and what I have come to learn through a lot of studying and praying. Lazarus and his two sisters Martha and Mary are regularly mentioned in the gospels which leads us to believe they were close friends of Jesus. Now Lazarus has died. Of course Jesus is sad, his best friend just went through a great deal of suffering. Jesus knew his pain. Jesus knows everyone's pain. Don't you get sad when a friend or a loved one is hurting? But I don't believe that is the whole reason that "Jesus Wept." The big reason, I believe, that Jesus felt sorrow at this moment in his life is because of the unbelief of the people. Jesus had already performed several miracles and proved his claims as God's son over and over again. Yet, the people wanted to put the blame of Lazarus death on him, and they refused to believe that Christ had the power to save Lazarus. Jesus Wept because of the people's unbelief. Today I still think Jesus weeps. John Piper is quoted for praying, "God, help my unbelief." He's one of the most well known preachers and teachers of the bible; and yet, in some areas he finds unbelief, and he needs God's help to overcome it. Do you ever feel unbelief? of course you do. We all do. But Jesus wants you to overcome that, just like he wanted the people around Lazarus tomb that day to overcome their unbelief. And because he wanted them to overcome this unbelief he rose Lazarus from the dead. This story is still lived out today. Spiritually we are born dead, but to help our unbelief God sends his Holy Spirit to live in us and make us alive in Him when we trust Him with our lives.

This is all I have so far. Any ideas?

The Origin

2004-09-26T22:15:00.000-04:00

So I've been on a computer for most of my life, and I've been on the internet for about 6 years. Since then ive had over 35 AIM screen names, 17 email addresses, 4 Yahoo Messenger Accounts, 2 MSN messenger accounts, 2 ICQ accounts, and God knows how many websites I've run. Currently i use 5 AIM screen names, 5 email addresses, 1 Yahoo Messenger account, 1 msn account, and 3 websites. I still use www.kennyscrib.tk, www.xanga.com/kendeisel012787 and www.xanga.com/kennythethinker. This will make my fourth.

My inspiration for making yet another website, and hosting it here, is someone some of you may have read before, Axinar. He's one of the only people that my mother is still in contact with that knew her before 15 years ago, and isn't related to me biologically. A few months ago my mother decided I had reached the age where i could have unmonitored contact with him. And since then he's convinced me to open this blog up.

Regardless, I'm here now, and we shall make the best of it. Here's my introduction, ill post somethin deep here soon enough.