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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, News, Politics.
Okay Matt… you think it’s scary that Sarah Palin will be Vice President because she was the mayor of a small town and the governor of Alaska for two years. Hmmm…. all of the questions you’re posing about her are the same kinds of questions I have about Barack Obama but I’m sure you would color me a fool for not buying off on this guy. I mean seriously Matt, what the heck do we know about Barack Obama? He was in state government and then in his first term in the Senate he decides… “I’m going to run for President of the United States”. How come I’ve never heard you speak out about that? How come it’s acceptable to have faith that this guy isn’t a neophyte unfit for the office? Is it just because he’s a democrat?
I think a lot of this experience argument is nonsense. Let’s face it, this country was founded by learned men, who were not professional politicians. They did a fine enough job of it. If Sarah Palin is a “bad Disney movie” I have to wonder what kind of stellar commentary Matt would have had to offer up in contradiction of the qualifications of those great men.
It’s nice to see that Hollywood continues to think that its opinion matters. Here’s a question for you Matt… what qualifies your opinion? Why should I think to myself, “Hmmm… Matt’s right”? The best you can do is say, John McCain is old, so let’s face it… he’ll probably die in office. Huh? Look, anybody can drop dead at any moment. Elect Barack Obama… he probably isn’t going to die. That’s a heck of a slogan!
I love the Bourne movies, but let’s face it Matt… you’re just a dopey actor.
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Political Correctness.
OK, I give up… I have to vote for Barack Obama! This guy must be magical, he didn’t need no woman to be born and he didn’t need no woman for Vice President! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
…no matter what your politics, that’s one for the history books. IT SURE IS! HAHAHAH!
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, My Life.
The world is akin one of those conveyor belts dubbed “people movers” that you find at Disney World or Universal Studios. You know, those horizontal escalators that drag your lazy carcasses from the parking lot to the park. Well the world is one of those and it’s moving at the speed of a bullet train. You don’t catch much of the scenery when you’re speeding through a countryside on a fast moving train and likewise not much of life is savored whilst being run ragged through the landscape that is living. Passé terms like “hours become days” and “days become weeks” apply in our time. Everything becomes a mash as one moment rushes into the next and there seems to be no end in sight.
Now we’re all consumed with “energy”. How will we survive without the ability to whisk ourselves from one unimportant and irrelevant process to the next? I know, FOUR DAY WORK WEEKS! Yeah, now we’ll have the time to be great parents and better human beings! Wrong. I don’t know about you but I’ve been out and about on Fridays and it seems to me that four day work weeks are already being abused. It’s just an extra day to peruse the aisles of Walmart or the local shopping mall. We’re not going to save anything by going to four day work weeks unless we do it in tandem with something that hearkens back to my childhood… (which was not so long ago), everything needs to be CLOSED on SUNDAY.
I remember Sundays when I was a kid. I remember everything being closed, even gas stations and I grew up in the metropolis that is New York (albeit Staten Island). Sometimes it was inconvenient. Sometimes you WANTED something, but rarely did you NEED something. Somehow we managed to survive the stores being closed on Sunday. Somehow we survived each other’s company. I can remember Sundays, sitting on the stoop at my grandmother’s house watching a colony of ants (they lived in the crevices of that stoop for a long time) rush around doing their busy work… and likely wondering when it was that my small foot would come crashing down upon their heads. I remember thinking how strange it was that they were forever busy running to and fro. Now, I am one of the ants. This world has made us all like those small things crazed in their “rushy rushy”. When I was a kid Sundays were spent with parents, grandparents and family. The work of the day was getting a nice meal to the table. Nobody was rushing anywhere. Nobody NEEDED to do ANYTHING. Now the only thing that feels like every Sunday of my childhood is THANKSGIVING. One day a year to remind me of so many from my youth.
So when I see people saying, “We need a four day work week,” I agree with them and add… “and everything needs to be closed on Sundays.” It isn’t about energy consumption, it’s about people. Do you really need the ability to purchase a plasma television at 3AM on a Sunday morning? Will you die waiting a day to pick up a package of underpants? I mean really people, what’s with the 24/7 Supercenters? A pharmacy is one thing, but does Walmart sell a damn thing that YOU HAVE TO HAVE in the middle of the night?
Instead of looking at just the energy situation, we need to look at the people situation. The world is going mad. We’re under assault day in and day out. An assault of advertising and information that is incessant and overwhelming. Four day work weeks are fine, but we also need to take back OUR Sundays.
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, Politics.
So John McCain’s campaign releases an ad that flashes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton on the screen and mentions that Barry Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world. Some people frowned on it. It seems that McCain contributor Kathy Hilton aka brood mother of the ridiculous Hilton Clan takes issue with it.
On Sunday, Hilton’s mother, Kathy Hilton, a McCain donor, registered her disapproval.
“It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs,” Kathy Hilton said in a short article posted on the liberal Huffington Post Web site. “And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States.”
First of all that the comments appear in The Huffington Post, says a lot. Talk about a place for the vapid and vacuous to congregate. I’m sure Kathy Hilton fits in wonderfully over there. Second, did this Mother of All Skanks not get the meaning of the advertisement? America holds up all kinds of imbeciles as idols and examples, this woman’s daughter Paris being one of them. It’s ridiculous that this country is entertaining the notion of electing Barack Obama as President much the same as it’s absurd that anybody in this country would look up to a Hilton or a Spears. I don’t expect that Kathy Hilton would grasp that notion though given that she blamed the system for locking up her precious little trollop after a DWI bust and subsequent driving while suspended/revoked charge.
Lady your kid is a piece of GARBAGE… and I’m sure the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Likewise electing this neophyte Obama because he looks good and speaks well is equally preposterous. Get it now Kathy? Or do you need me to force feed it to you via night vision video? No, you get it? Great… shuffle off then.
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, My Life.
Last night the wife and I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. One street over there are farms with cows, horses and chickens… so we headed out in that direction to see if any of the “critters” were out. There were some cows chomping away on one guy’s parcel but they ignored us. The horse that’s usually out was tucked away in his barn… so the whole thing was pretty much a bust even if we did get the blood moving. It wasn’t until we were walking up our own driveway that we actually saw something cool, an owl swept across the trees that line the creek behind the house. We see them pretty rarely… but we hear them all the time. It’s the same way with the family of hawks that live back there… but anyway, this guy was perched on a tree in the middle of the yard about ten feet over our heads and didn’t seem the least bit intimidated by the humans pointing from below. Here are a couple of pictures that we managed to take (I can’t believe the sucker WAITED for his close up!). Forgive the focus, it was dusk and the autofocus threw a fit.
Now, if the hawks would just be so kind as to cooperate… we could have a whole section on birds of prey!
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, News.
Remember how I just posted that Martin County was the greatest place to live in the entire state of Florida? Well, here comes a story that proves the rule… NO PLACE IN FLORIDA IS SAFE FROM NUTTERS.
INDIANTOWN — He pelted her with an orange, but she came after him with a steak knife, and deputies arrested both Thursday afternoon, according to arrest reports.
The incident occurred in the 14900 block of Southwest 173rd Avenue about 5:30 p.m. when 18-year-old Quandaries Cornell Kerr took his live-in girlfriend’s car keys and refused to return them, according to the reports. Kerr then threw an orange at the woman, 22-year-old Joythia Rena Wallace, striking her in the face, and she retaliated by grabbing the knife and trying to stab him.
Kerr managed to take the knife from Wallace, but he accidentally cut his own hands doing so, according to the arrest reports. He refused treatment from rescue personnel.
Ah, love… it’s a many splendor thing. I feel sorry for their 5 month old kid.
But hey… have you heard? WE’RE NUMBER 11!
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, My Life.
I must admit that I’m a little shocked by my steadfast approach to finishing this book. I guess I decided that it’s now or never. The progress isn’t moving at warp speed or anything, but it’s been consistent. That’s huge and it shows a commitment on my part that to this point has been sorely lacking.
Now it’s just a matter of determining who lives and who dies. Writing a thriller of sorts I’ve elected to keep myself in suspense. I have an idea of where the story is going to go and where it will eventually end up… but there is plenty of wiggle room. The protagonist being the villain makes the whole thing all the more open ended. The so-called “good guys” that are tasked with dealing with the situation could be perceived as vigilantes in a way. They’re casting judgment and electing to take an action that they technically aren’t within their rights to do. They’ll have to pay a price for that… it’s just a matter of determining how much of a bastard I want to be to these poor souls that I’ve conjured up in my warped mind.
Ahhhh… is it any wonder that I’m hooked?
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, My Life.
When you get to 20,000 words on a project and realize that represents 25% or less of the total sum of what you’re going to be writing… you need to amp up the funny… and fast.
Here’s a little something that makes me laugh every time:
This is another good one:
Argh… back to the stone.
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, My Life.
Sometimes you’ll do almost anything to avoid writing. You hit a snag and it just seems insurmountable. For the last couple of days I’ve been in a kind of writing hell. What did I do in order to escape it? I made for a writing site that I frequent and ended up wasting a lot of time posting about politics, etc. You’d think that it might be a good outlet, and for a while it was. Lots of intelligent people discussing the issues and debating the merits. So what happened? Some tool equated the conservative movement and republicans with Holocaust Deniers. Yeah it’s pretty unbelievable, but it got worse. This person then went on to imply that Cindy McCain (the mother of a black child) is a racist in some awful supposed satire that has her not only fixing the smiles of Vietnamese kids but also the color of their eyes (apparently brown is offensive). It was disgusting… yet the poster is embraced as a fine addition to the community. If this is liberalism, you can guess why I finally said enough is enough and gave up my crusade against the Republican Party. The GOP is a disgrace, but the Democrats and their ilk have degraded into some kind of a radical fringe group loaded down with nutcases. Can you imagine if somebody put big lips and afros on children that Michelle Obama works with? Needless to say, it was time to hit the road… the best part though… I got banned for calling this person out. I must have been doing something right considering what garners praise at that site.
Anyway, I’m back to writing this morning and it’s going well. When I get this sucker done and published, I’ll have to go back to that site and thank them… for all the wrong reasons.
*Meh*, just another day. Be strong and fight the good fight.
Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Politics.
Pastor James David Manning has been going after Barack Obama for a while now and I know that the rant below is old, but the video is humorous and so I am posting it. This is a Youtube video that puts images and the music of 50 Cent, behind the words of Mr. Manning. The poor kids on the altar can barely keep from cracking up as this guy rants about big breasted, white women, pimps and mack daddies.
Reverend Manning has gone on to produce a new video which discusses the sexuality of Senator Obama and the Rev. Wright along with Oprah Winfrey. I don’t find the accusations to be of any merit, so I am not posting that video. However, should somebody add some humor to that video, my stance could change. This guy Manning is just dying to be mocked and ridiculed.