On my way home from work today I stopped to get some gas. As I filled up my moderately fuel efficient little Mazda pickup I watched the sale price climb to nearly $50. I began to think about how prohibitively expensive gas is for the average family in my town. Just as I was about to let my mind wander on to another topic I looked up and saw the display on the pump next to me:
I saw a banner on some site for another site called SeeMyGrill.com. Curious I clicked to check it out, and BAM!!! Staring me back at me is young clover with what looks to be possibly the most obnoxious grill on the site. I almost spit my drink all over my desk. I'm still trying to figure out if he can close his mouth with that grill on. Maybe he has a little spray bottle he carries around with him to re-moisturizers his grill through out the day…? lol Reminds me of the old "Gold Overdose " joke in that movie "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". (Edit: OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!ONE! is he wearing Richie Rich pajamas!?)
So of course after finding this I just had to check the site out a bit more. Here are a few funny entries that I found:
pimpin_gator is currently ranked number 10. Personally I think he got robbed. That grill is straight pimpin!:
jaws_new_addition of course is rated number 1. Which is as it should be, because even with out the bling, sharks have the baddest mutha fuckin grills around:
[This is an old post that I never really finished. So I wrapped up the last little thought that I had on the topic and posted it anyway.]
So, as many of you know there was recently a report stating that 2% of the population of the world owned 50% of the wealth. More than likely you thought (just like me) "Those rich bastards! Always hording all the money to themselves! Someone needs to give 'The Man' the old 'what for'!!"
After reading the article on BBC and on Slashdot I was steamed. Then I noticed a link to a site in a Slashdot comment. It was a site that lets you enter your annual income and showed you where you rated on the global rich list. To my suprise I was part of the top 2%. I certainly didn't feel rich yesterday as I haggled with the mechanic to get him to do a half ass job on my breaks so that I could afford to pay for the work so that I could get to work the next day. After a bit of tinkering I discovered that $44,016 is the magic number that puts you in the top 2%. Well apparently these calculations are based on your annual income relative to the world wide average annual income of $5,000. It does not take in to account some major factors such as cost of living or the size of the family that you support. So some one making $5,000 annually in say Nigeria could easily be living like a king, while some one making $44,016 in NYC, London, or Tokyo could be eating cat food and crackers just to get by. Anyway, I found this amusing and just thought i'd pass it along.
It appears that the Evangelical Church has come out. The Rev. Ted Haggard was found to be buying drugs and getting "massages" from gay male escorts. According the accused (Haggard) he bought Meth but never used it. He was just curios about it. He also supposedly only received massages from the gay escort who was his Meth hookup. Apparently after the National Association of Evangelicals publicly voiced supported for gay marriage ban amendments his gay lover was upset at the hypocrisy and decided it was time for Haggard to come out. You can find the original article here. Here in Tennessee there is a proposed state level constitutional amendment on the ballot in this mid-term election. The exact wording of the proposed amendment is as follows:
"The historical institution and legal contract solemnizing the relationship of one man and one woman shall be the only legally recognized marital contract in this state. Any policy or law or judicial interpretation, purporting to define marriage as anything other than the historical institution and legal contract between one man and one woman, is contrary to the public policy of this state and shall be void and unenforceable in Tennessee. If another state or foreign jurisdiction issues a license for persons to marry and if such marriage is prohibited in this state by the provisions of this section, then the marriage shall be void and unenforceable in this state."
The Tennessee Equality Project is working with a campaign they call Vote No on 1. They outline many reason why the law is fruitless. The primary one being that it is already illegal to grant marriage certificated to same sex married couples here in Tennessee.
The opposition is Family Action Council of Tennessee and their campaign RealMarriage.org or "Vote Yes on 1. I for one find it funny they the Family Action Council of Tennessee uses FACT as an acronym they should have come up with a name that fit the acronym FAITH instead. There is very little fact on either of the opposition sites, but more than enough faith to go around.
The photo to the right of an Evangelical Church makes a lot more sense to me now. (The obviously doctored photo to the right came out much better than my GIMP skills should allow. I guess when you have some artistic inspiration the sky is the limit. Hehe…)
It's funny that in a supposedly mostly Christian nation, where politics are charged with Christian religious moral issues, that this country is spending nearly five times more on the Pagan holiday of All Hallows Eve than on the mid term elections. Why is it that so many people of Christian beliefs participate in Halloween?
Who knows…
I've edited out the religious bashing rant as it really didn't fit this post properly. It shall be making a return as it own much more cohesive post.
Theme Music:
For the last two weeks or so i've been completely consumed by 9-11. If you had asked me 4 years go where we would be today regarding 9-11, I would have told you that most of the questions would be answered. Some how though, 5 years have slipped by and none of the questions have been answered, and now hundreds more exist. At most we've been given explanations made up of half truths, psuedo-science and out right lies. As more and more time passes I become more and more sure that the only way to effect change is through revolution. So what exactly is a revolution? Lets take a quick look at the definition as it applies to the current subject:
rev‧o‧lu‧tion [rev-uh-loo-shuh
n]
–noun
Here in the United States of America our system of government boils down to a very simple premise. "…of the people, for the people, and by the people." These nine ten word above all else sum up the very essence of our system of government. Lets take a look at these words for a second. Firstly in "…of the people,", of states that the persons making up the body of the government are the same people that the system governs. Second we have "for the people," which suggest that the government exist for the benefit of the people it governs. Finally we have "by the people." which shows derivation, meaning that the people are the source of the government and its direction.
So how exactly does a revolution take place in a country "by the people"? The short answer is that it doens't. The long answer is, technically it can, but why would "the people" want to move away from a system that is designed specifically to benefit and empower them? It is relativly safe to say that so long as the government is of, for, and by the people their won't be a revolution. When the people begin to loose faith in the system that allows them to elect their peers to positions with in the government then it is no longer a government "of the people". When the government begins to eliminate the rights of the people, and shift money from programs that serve the people to the eleet "upper crust" of society it is no longer a government "for the people". When the government is given special privilages over the people the people become disenfranchised and begin to feel that the government is a seperate entity that they have no power over, and it is no longer a government "by the people".
I'll leave you with the following quote from George Orwell's 1984: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
With that in mind go start a revolution!
This guy just can't stop laughing. He tries to gain his composure several times, but as soon as the guy starts talking again he laughs. At the end of the clip he completely looses it. Enjoy!
…Clifton "Woooooo weee…oh lord…this racism is killing me inside…"
In case you didn't already know Clifton is the milkman character from the Dave Chappell "The Niggar Family" skit. Pretty funny shit…but lets not get distracted here. Ok, ok…go ahead and get distracted, and then continue reading.
All of the recent blatanly racisist comments by republican party members has really got me steamed. But lets not turn this in to a Racisist Republican bashing post. There are plenty of racist fuck faces in all walks of life. Of course most of them are red neck republicans. Lets take a quick look at some of the things over the last couple of weeks. I'm really not sure if I should laugh or cry. These are politician that are controlling the world we live in… You may be asking yourself why i'm picking on the Republican party when there is so much rasicm in the world to address. Well, it's because they are race-baiting the elections. They have been know to do this time and time again. They are hurting in the polls right now and stand to lose the control the now have over our government. So they go back to the tried and true tactics of race-baiting the South East and Mid West to snatch white voters away from the Democrats. It really fucking sad…not that they are racist, but that it actually works. It shows you just how fucked up this world we live in is.
Macaca:
Black people can't swim:
There's more where that came from but I just can't take too much of this at once, so lets end this on a light, but still very racism remark Daily Show style.
Feel free to scream now…just let it all out…when your done we will all still be living in a very racist world…but while your screaming you will probably not be thinking about how fucked up it all is for that one tiny moment…
