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It aint right I tell ya

Tell the ‘ugly’ kid to hide in the shadows like Bart’s twin.

I’ve been stumbling more than posting. Aging more than enjoying. Talking more than speaking. Working more than living.

The soul of our world is left to the likes of some rather nameless individuals. I guess Al Green’s carrying the torch.

The Olympics are in effect, Russia is going for the Gold.

Looks like I haven’t posted since I was pondering the probability of a certain death at the hands of a drunk pilot to the score played by Jane Austen.

Which reminds me of Santa Fe. If you’re white, artsy, and over 40 you should consider visiting Sante Fe New Mexico, it’s like a retirement home for silver-flakes…

The conversation was recently focused on hipsters, trust-fund vintage struggles, ten-speeds, vegan-ism, and the well kept un-kept.

I’ve ranted…

2008 08 13 O Personal Rants Comments (0) Permalink

13yo Honor Student Gets Strip-searched for Drugs

Our gov’t actually upholding the 4th amendment?

This common sense requirement allows parents to rest assured that their children will not be stripped and searched without their knowledge or participation for allegedly giving another student the equivalent of two Advils.

REDDING V SAFFORD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Crazy that the ruling wasn’t unanimous, but 6-5. I can’t believe 5 judges were actually okay with this. WTF is wrong with people?

2008 07 14 Will Our Tax Dollars at Work Comments (0) Permalink

So Much for the 4th Amendment

On Wednesday the Senate approved a bill that expands the government’s wiretapping powers and also grants retroactive immunity to the telecoms that assisted with the illegal wiretapping done on suspected terrorists in America without a warrant after 9/11.

There is nothing to fear in the bill, said Senator Christopher S. Bond, the Missouri Republican who was a lead negotiator, “unless you have Al Qaeda on your speed dial.”

Bull-fucking-shit. Ever hear of McCarthyism? How about the House Committee on Un-American Activities? Terrorism is a very broad fucking term and can be used to describe just about anything. I wouldn’t put it past members of the RIAA or MPAA to demonize filesharers as terrorists since they are essentially a threat to their markets. Next thing you know, they’ll use their money to grease the wheels of the government to create new laws for the enforcement of copyright theft. Oh wait, they did that already.

The system is clearly broken and all people worry about is not being able to buy some fucking tacos from a roach coach, whether or not they’ll be able to buy the new iPhone tomorrow or that somebody on the internet is hating on Bow Wow. Fuck the iPhone. Fuck Bow Wow. Fuck the taco trucks.

Obama voted in favor of the bill as well. Fuck him too.

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In-terror-gation in our Nay-shun

Terror is them
2008 03 08 O Images
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Cause I cant stand Airplanes and Jane Austen.

So riding in an airplane is one of life’s necessary evils. I try my best to indulge as a glamorous drunk should but none the less its is an arduous process. Of course I only fly coach (first class dies too, they might be first) I figure I should minimize costs. So I’ve managed to cramp 6’4” into isle 47 seat E; 3 beers & a gin and tonic later (non-sapphire) the turbulence has subsided and the diversion has reached its ending. I watched some Sony Pictures Classics release called the Jane Austen Book Club and unless your life’s dream is to build a time machine so that you can have the pleasure of meeting Jane Austen I suggest skipping it. (it would be good if your unethical and writing some required paper and want to re-iterate someone else’s feelings about one of her characters) I don’t like Jane Austen. I wont say hate but when attempting to read Pride and Prejudice for some class I fell asleep three times trying to watch the movie. After the ‘A’ on the paper (lets hear it for community college) I still try not to say hate about Jane Austen. So they made the passion of the Christ equivalent dedicated to Jane Austen, it is a terribly cliché chick flick (starring jimmy smitts –damn he needs work/reality) where Jane Austen’s work is not so subtly emulated and every damn character in the movie ends the film saying, “read Jane Austen”. And guess what cures every ones relationship woes…’a lil’ jane austen’. I left the film (well no I was stuck on a plane watching it) thinking wait I read Jane Austen a while ago, why are my always soon to be ex-relationships inevitably doomed…oh yeah that’s right I didn’t read I watched the movie.

Planes and Jane Austen ain’t right. Oh yeah I don’t like Marky Mark- or Mark Wahlberg’s acting, and I don’t like the show Entourage. The Wire was good. And Little Bow-Wow still sucks and if you need proof check the album cover with him and Omarion (who sucks equivalently).

Oh and if you don’t like anything I write on here please hit ALT+F4 and then hit the space bar quickly….if your using a mac, well I dunno do something with that one mouse button & spend some more money on the revolution/movement.

2008 01 20 O Movies Comments (3) Permalink

3 Good Tools for Consumerism

Some would like to think that I am negative towards shifty corporations and critical of everything so I made a list of some of the corporately owned things that I like:

1. American Express

American Express is the card of champions. Their customer service is on point, they have exclusive member deals (mywishlist.com), and when you call them for help you hardly ever get sent off-shore (if at all). Today I called Amex and they reduced my APR and reversed two finance charges, after losing my wallet they overnighted me a replacement card last Saturday. To make things even better they cut me a check every year for cash back on purchases that I would have had to make anyway (i.e. gas, bills, etc.) its to the point now where if a store doesn’t take Amex i really should not even shop there.

2. Costco

Costco has everything you need want to buy except homes. Despite changes they still have one of the best return policies in retail & they’ve been selling Hot Dogs for $1.50 for the past 24 years!

3. The Better Business Bureau?

A place (albeit biased) where you can take a step towards getting some rights as a consumer. Through the BBB I have received a refund and a rebate that would have otherwise been lost to the hands of greedy unscrupulous companies, despite their process being slow and not the most effective.

2007 12 21 O That's Right Comments (2) Permalink

No Child left Behind.

Give me your children.

U.S. leads the world in child incarceration Nice. At least in the developing world they put kids to work, here we make them fellons so they can’t work.

Tragic Comedy: reminds me of a song though.

[audio:http://thataintright.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/TheLittleChildren.mp3]

(Lyrics)

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Not Even Cheney deserves this treatment…

I was going to misbehave and suggest that Bush get treated like a 19-year-old Saudi girl, but I decided that would be inappropriate given how tragic. So even though Cheney is in fact satan were not going to wish that upon him either.

I think that despite the Saudi ass-backwards treatment of women and people in general we’re ok with it because they are our allies in the war we’re waging on drugs terror (and they produce a hell of a lot of oil). Plus they aren’t part of the axis of evil, and if we clamp down on them it would be a poor display of Christian tolerance.

2007 11 21 O Lackeys and Sycophants
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100,000 people dying is important; Little Bow-Wow is Not.

Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq and Iraqi civilians killed in attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:

U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 3,858

Britain 171

Other nations 134

IRAQIS: Military Between 4,900 and 6,375#

Civilians Between 76,241 and 83,057*

# = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam Hussein killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since new security forces were set up in late 2003.

* = From www.iraqbodycount.net (IBC), run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources. The IBC says on its Web site the figure underestimates the true number of casualties. The U.S-led military coalition toll includes casualties from Iraq and the surrounding area where troops are stationed. (Writing by David Cutler; Editing by Stephen Weeks)

From Rueters AlertNet

So about a year ago I had something to say about Bow-Wow and I have seen the most responses to a post since…I guess thats cool, I just wish the people that respond had more ambition than being some whack rappers ‘baby-mama’. This narrow, hardly updated site points to a lot of issues that a lot of people don’t find all that important but DAMN. That ain’t right that WE are on our way to a hundred thousand deaths in Iraq and folks are arguing about much they love Bow-Wow and how much of a hater I am for using MY site to say otherwise. I would go off on some tangent/rant but honestly it just makes me a little depressed…

Really get off your damn Myspace; keep a watchful eye on your ‘leaders’; try to empower yourselves through means that benefit and uplift your community; and get the hell off my site with bad grammar and ignorance.

2007 11 12 O Music
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I thought it was 2007 not 1984 WTF?!

Excuse me did i miss something…

Woman Gets The $222,000 RIAA Shaft

How the hell is this right? WTF was that jury thinking? These record labels should be ashamed of themselves. Yet another reason not to buy music. $9,250 per song…thats a little more than itunes. Hopefully they do some online fund-raising for this lady.

At least some of the readers have a little sense:

you say “Thank God” that this woman got hot coals heaped on her head, and hit with a ridiculous sum she probably can never come close to paying, for what amounts to nothing more than a hill of beans? Don”t thank my God, He is not for stoning people for petty crimes. As for you, you”re typical of the “jaywalking is a crime too” mentality that has caused the legal system in this country to run amok. Your god is, apparently, the god of corporate wealth, and you worship the corrupt system that prosecutes middle class apple-thieves while CEOs and senators walk away with the mint. And, you”re a shill for the shady, grasping record industry (who have been guilty of actual real crimes in their illustrious history — can you say “payola”?). How do you like being one of their shills? Is it rewarding?

2007 10 04 O Greedy Companies
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