Drunk Drivers and drugs in general

What is it with this country and drunk drivers???? How in the hell can someone be arrested of DWI or DUI and then let go to just do it again?? Every time you read about a drunk driver killing someone, like today in the NY Daily News, you always read that the person has been arrested before for DUI or DWI. Why do we not have stronger laws in place to protect people?? Also, how in the hell can alcohol still be legal and Pot is not?????? If someone can explain what sense that makes I would be happy to hear it. Drunk drivers kill more people every year than Pot has in the last century. Alcohol kills more people every year than Pot has in its existence. Yet, once again, just as with cigarettes, this country will keep anything legal that it can make a buck off of.

For those of you saying, "Well, the Government could make a buck off of Pot if they legalized it." That is very true. Unfortunately, it is not as much money as they make by keeping it illegal. If anyone out there doesn't believe that our Government gets kick backs to let drugs into this country you should try leaving the matrix. If you watch the news you will notice once every 6 weeks or so there is a huge drug bust. For every one of those drug busts I would think 100 similar shipments get through. Those drug busts are meant to just let us think something is being done...well, I for one do not believe it. Also, let us not forget that our jails are full of drug dealers. Most of them low level, selling an ounce on the corner drug dealers. There are so many people in jail for Pot that they have to parole rapists and murderers to make room for them. That is where the Government makes its real money.

I am not saying Pot is harmless, but if you can smoke cigarettes which kills a half million people a year and drink alcohol which kills thousands more why in the hell can't you toke up??? I truly loved the commercial that the Government put on TV regarding Pot and how if you bought it you were supporting terrorists. One kid who bought a dime bag in the commercial said, "I helped the hijackers crash into the WTC." What BULLSHIT!!!!!!! About 60% of the weed you get on the street is grown in the good ole USA...one of the very few things that this country still makes very well. Much of the other weed comes from Canada and Mexico. I do not remember the last time a Mexican terrorist killed innocent people with an exploding burrito! As for the Canadians...they are almost French so all you have to do is look at them and they would surrender. Buying Pot supports terrorists.....BULLSHIT!!!!! Now, if you are buying opium or heroin...then they have a case about you supporting terrorism. BUT, we know where the poppy fields are so why in the hell have we not destroyed them????? You guessed it....kick backs!!!!!!!! Are you waking up people?????


I just don't get this country sometimes.


Later.

Judge Judy, Dr. Phil....Daytime TV

The worst thing about being home on a weekday is flipping through the channels in the hope that you might find something intelligent to watch. While flipping I saw about 2 minutes of Judge Judy. Now I realize the people on the show were stupid enough to sign a waiver to have their case heard by this old crow, but that does not give her the right to talk to people the way she does.

She insults people, belittles them and comes off with some kind of superior attitude. Plus, she always has this look on her face like someone is holding a fresh dog turd right under her nose. It would be worth the fine from the FCC to tell her to go fuck herself on national TV.

She is as bad as Dr. Phil. He cracks me up when he tells people how to lose weight or that they need to lose weight. After he drops about 50 pounds he can give that type of advice...or when he can look at his balls without the use of a mirror...whichever comes first.

Then let us not forget Maury Povich. This asshole brings on women who have to have 8 different guys checked to see who fathered their child yet his stupid audience boos the men and not the slutty women!!! That makes a lot of sense! Then, when someone is totally embarrassed on TV he walks after them to prolong it. He is the worst case of someone saying that he is only trying to help people. He is a Jerry Springer wannabe. Except that Jerry Springer knows his show is pathetic...especially now that they are all actors. Those of you who didn't already know that...I pity you.

Daytime TV...gotta love it!

Later.

My Niece

This is the one shining spot in a dark cloud of things right now. She is just over 2 weeks old and she is absolutely adorable! She has the tiniest little hands and perfect little finger nails. Her eyes, when she actually wakes up long enough to open them, are brilliant to look at. I just love looking at the wonderous look on her face. It's either that or she just pooped her diapers.

She makes me want to go out and get my own. That is one of the few things that I actually look forward to down the line...having a baby of my own. Well, mine and the Mother's of course!

Anyway...consider this a brag post on me having the most adorable niece ever!!!!!!!


Later.

What it comes down to.....

Should Have Been Different
But It Wasn't Different
It Was Same Old Story
And Dear John And So Long
It Should Have Fit Like A Glove
Should Have Fit Like A Ring
Like A Diamond Ring
A Token Of True Love
It Should Have All Worked Out
But It Didn't
She Should Be Here Now
But She Isn't

The above lyrics are from "There's Your Trouble" from the Dixie Chicks.

I guess I was just thinking of the whole relationship thing while lying here trying to get to sleep.

No other point than mentioning the song lyrics...they seem to fit.



G'night.

Stress Boils Over

Well...it was an innocent enough situation. I had just ironed a shirt...a very rare occurrence that should be covered by the media. After finishing I attempted to close the ironing board. Sounds like a simple enough task, doesn't it??? Well I kept hitting the latch and it just would not close. I took a step back and did the count to 10 thing...well, I actually only got to 3 before I absolutely beat the ever loving shit out of the ironing board. I pretty much took every aggression I had this week out on this ironing board. I was about to fling it across the room when I realized that I could possibly hit my TV and cause a shitload of damage. That would not have been good so let's all thank my "Common Sense" angel for stopping me from throwing this $20 piece of shit through my TV screen.

Destroying this thing helped a little bit, but it was temporary. I am now eye balling the microwave. I have never liked the way it has looked at me. Tonight might be the night it gets what it deserves.

God...my life sucks so much right now.

Well...the venting helped a little more so hopefully I will get a decent night's sleep and wake up ready to break another appliance.


G'night.

Stress Level

I am just about max'd out on the amount of stress I can handle at this point. I have what feels like a million things going on and nothing is going right. Work sucks. My apartment sucks. Being alone really, really sucks!!!!!! You would think that having your own space and schedule would be a good thing, but I have never been like that. I always liked being in a relationship. Oh well.

Let's just leave this post with the knowledge that I am STRESSED to the point where I just want to put my fist through the wall. Of course I would then have the hole in the wall to worry about which would add more stress.

Later.

US Basketball Team Loses to Argentina

The US Team is now out of the Gold Medal for the first time since NBA Players have been allowed to play in the Olympics. It didn't take long for the finger pointing to start on whose fault it was and guess who the players are blaming! You guessed it...people like me who thought they were too cocky and wanted to see them lose. It is my fault and the fault of others like me that these overpaid prima donnas lost the Gold Medal. It isn't the fact that they played like crap...no, no, no...that would actually be too much for their egos to admit to.

So tonight...when you are losing a few seconds of sleep over this as I will be...please say a little prayer for our basketball team. A prayer that involves knowing how to play the ZONE since that is why they really lost.

I am not the biggest basketball fan to begin with, but I know enough about the game to see that they just got plain outplayed. End of story.

Later.

48th Floor - Part 2

Well, it's official sports fans! We will be moving to the 48th floor which pretty much means I will be out of a job. I had to be up there for a 15 minute meeting today and I have not felt that uncomfortable in a long, long time. It doesn't matter if I can see out the window or not since I know that I am up on the 48th floor. I know it does not sound rational, but what phobia is???? I am proud of the fact that I was back in work on 9/13/01 and have stayed here since then and have continued working on the 31st floor. However, working on 48 is a bit too much to ask. My co-workers who will have to move up there do not have an issue with it so I kind of feel lame and worthless about that, but I feel the way I feel. Yet another reason for me to beat myself up!

If anyone out there knows of a Help Desk position in NYC please post a comment!!!!!!!!!

Later.

Basic Rant

I have no particular idea to write about right now so I will just rant away on things.


Olympics - I know I am not the only one who is actually rooting against our US Olympic Men's Basketball team. I think that cockiness is a necessity in sports, but not classlessness. The only athletes that have apexed the classlessness of our Basketball Team were our US sprinters who played "no, you go" at the finish line of one of the races. Crap like that has no place in sports and what it teaches kids is how to be a sore winner. Being a sore winner is worse than being a sore loser.


Republican National Convention - Being that I live in NYC I am not happy at all that the convention will be held here. Whoever the schmuck was that came up with this idea should be poked in the back of the head repeatedly with an ice pick. The only thing left to do before Monday the 30th is to draw a big red Bulls Eye on NYC. However, Al Qaeda really does not need to bother doing anything since it will be the protestors that are the real terrorists. These idiots have actually said they will do everything they can to disrupt life in the city. Personally I think cops shouldn't be restrained in knocking some sense into these wastes of life. Speaking your mind is one thing, but destroying property and causing riots is not a "RIGHT". It is breaking the law. Bloomberg is a moron for actually offering these protestors price breaks on things so long as they promise to protest peacefully. He is actually trying to pay these people to "OBEY THE LAW". When the f**k did I enter the damn Twilight Zone????????


Work - Work sucks. I am sure that most people feel that way about their jobs. I know we all have to make money to pay bills and buy things and support our families, but to actually have to sit in an office 8+ hours a day, 5, sometimes 6, days a week is no way to go through life. You bust your ass your whole life and get to a point where it is time to enjoy things and....BANG....you die! Then all that Social Security money you paid to the government your whole life goes to your family. Wait a second...that would actually make sense...where does all that money go??? That's right..the government keeps it!!!! (Actually, they don't keep all of it. If you fill out the right forms you can get a whopping $255.00 back.) What BS is that?????????


God - I believe in God, but I do not believe in organized religion. Religion has become a business and that is not what God is. God is God...not a symbol on the Stock Exchange.


Atheists - I hope you all work on Christmas and Good Friday!!!!


Terrorists - When is the last time you saw one of the "Leaders" of these radicals go and blow themselves up on a suicide mission?? That's right....NEVER! You would think the followers would have figured this one out by now.


Catholic Priests - They say it is less than 1% of priests have molested young boys. However, I would have to think that roughly 100% of them knew what was going on. They are all guilty for not coming forward to do something about it and this includes the Pope and his henchmen at the Vatican. Those of you who find the Pope reference blasphemous...reality check for you: The Pope is a man...NOT GOD!!!!!!!


Mayor Bloomberg - I really hate this guy's voice. It just about gives me the runs every time I hear it!!!!!!! Plus, it is hard to listen to a guy tell others that they should be able to live off of the money they are making when he probably wipes his ass with thousand dollar bills. He has no connection with the common person on the street...I don't care how many times he takes the subway to work. He has "ONE TERM" written all over him. Three words..."BRING BACK RUDY!!!!"


President Bush - He is definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I definitely thought his joke at the Press Dinner regarding WMDs was way out of line. (For those of you in the dark on this...the President had a slide show of him looking behind the sofa, under the bed, etc etc...and every time a picture came up he would say..."No weapons there.") People seemed to find this funny. I would think the soldiers who were dying that day in Iraq wouldn't have found it very humorous.


John Kerry - Major league BS artist. He goes to Vietnam...kudos for him. I have mucho respect for any and all of our Vietnam Vets...any Vet actually. They are the reason I can actually post stuff like this on the web!!!! BUT Kerry came back and dissed every one of his comrades saying they were burning villages and killing kids. He says now that he was blaming the leadership here in the US and not the soldiers. It sure doesn't sound that way if you listen to him talking back in the 70s. THEN Kerry turns around to use his service in this war that he protested against to try and get himself votes. What kind of hypocritical slimy bastard would do that??? Oh yeah...John Kerry.


The Clintons - Anyone who has respect for these two lying sacks of crap is out of their mind. Bill was not a great President. He was, however, a great BS artist! "I did not have sexual relations with this woman." He blatantly lied to the WHOLE country. Then he blatantly lied in fron of Congress! What do Bill fans come up with?? "Big deal, he cheated on his wife." Great moral fiber these people are teaching their kids. As for the lovely Hillary...someone please tell me what she has done for NY since being elected because I haven't seen it.



In Closing - Support the troops. It is because of them we can all have our own opinion. Freedom of Speech is not free...thousands of brave men and women have paid for this Freedom with their lives. To take that lightly is sacrilege. For the protestors coming to NYC...remember that the reason you can actually protest is because of the sacrifice of soldiers like the ones who are fighting in Iraq right now. Peaceful protests are one thing, but these morons are going to make sure they create a sh*t storm. Of course when they get a night stick upside the head they will claim "Police Brutality" and there will be some scumbag attorney backing them up. They have actually already set up a whole infrastructure of attorneys to defend these moronic protestors. They already know they will be breaking the law and getting arrested so they had to set this infrastructure up. I so can't wait for this Convention to be over!!!!!!!!!!


OJ - GUILTY!

I had mentioned scumbag attorneys and that made me think of Johnny Cochran which made me think of OJ so I had to add that in. I wonder if OJ is still looking for the real killer. He should have found him by now...I am sure he has a mirror in his house!



Rant over.




G'night.

John Kerry

Dick.

'nough said.

48th Floor

Well for a guy who says this will not be a BLOG with insight to my psyche it is sure turning into that...at least for now.

Well it seems that the rumor at work is that they want to move my Department to the 48th Floor. We are currently on 31. Now to be honest, I have never been a huge fan of being high up in a building. Working on 31 was about as much as I could deal with. Occasionally I would have to go to 49 to help, but would do things as quickly as possible since I did not like being up there.

Then we all watched 9\11 happen. We, unfortunately, had a ringside seat to the whole thing. The second plane passed close enough to our building that it shook. That pretty much solidified my intentions of never going above 31. In fact, I would prefer not being on 31.

Now, what the hell am I going to do if they decide to move us??? I am pretty much screwed. There is no way I can work up there and that is a fact. So on top of my past two posts I have this hanging over my head right now.

I hope that things perk up soon.


Later.

Thought Before Sleep 2

Tonight's thought is a bit more disturbing than last night's. This whole day has been hard for me to shake the whole 'mortality' feeling. I recently lost someone very close to me and it kind of woke up some dormant brain cells into thinking about death for the past 13 straight days. I have always been "the glass is half empty" kind of guy as it is. Throw in thinking about dropping dead on a consistent basis and you can just imagine what my brain feels like.

You don't realize just how much negative thinking affects your body. I have been tired for the past 2 weeks. The only time I find I am not tired, or at the very least can't sleep, is when it is actually time to sleep. I was tired all day and could have layed down at any time and slept like a baby, but now that I am trying to sleep it feels like someone glued my eyes open and gave me an espresso enema.

Facing death has never been one of my strong points to begin with and I am sure many of my friends have been wondering where my head has been at for the past few weeks with everything that has happened. Well, in all honesty, it is not in a great place. Hopefully I will be able to break away from this whole thought pattern and begin posting things that will make people laugh, but right now I can't do it. I have tried quite a few times to do another post like my previous ones, but it seems I am just forcing it and it turns out to be totally not funny. Fortunately, I was smart enough to not even bother posting them. Although the Bus Ride post and The Village post were pretty good I thought.

Well people, that is where my head is at this evening. Don't get too used to these thoughtful insights into my messed up psyche since I don't expect my brain to continue working this way for much longer.

Well....I hope not anyways.


G'night.

Thought before sleep

Number one thought is that life is not fair. I bet we have all thought that one before. I always try and put the fact that there are so many people out there who have it worse than I do into perspective, but it only helps me out for a little while.

I think Jack Nicholson said it best in As Good As It Gets. He said, "What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."

Whether I want to really believe that or not I sometimes feel like that. Maybe even more than I would like to think possible.

Consider this post one of the few confessional type posts that you will see from me.

G ' Night.

Bus Ride

My bus ride to work today was better than usual. With a few interesting side notes.

First, as I crossed the street, against the light of course since I had to catch the bus, the bus driver peered into the right side mirror as I ran up the side of the bus and then took off. He actually made eye contact and yet he still left. I can understand maybe he thought I wanted to jog beside the bus to work for my morning workout which is an honest mistake...yep...honest mistake. Granted, my arrival may have cost him about 2 seconds extra if he had waited, but I am pretty sure it is these moments that make a bus driver's day. For this indiscretion on the driver's part I hope that his pubes get ravaged by crabs the size of Maine lobsters.

Second, as I stood waiting patiently (yeah right) for the next bus a woman was standing with me. 6 minutes later the bus comes. Even though it was barely light out and I was doing the crab dance in my head for the previous bus driver I still held onto some chivalry and let the woman on first. On the third step up into the bus (and there are only 3 steps) this woman decides it is now time to look in her purse for her MetroCard. She had been standing with me for over 5 minutes waiting for the bus, but she decides now is a good time to start looking. Now instead of moving further into the bus so I could pay and get on she decides to just plant her fat ass on the top step while rummaging through her bag. It was like she got to the top step and was 'amazed' that she actually had to pay. To this woman and the fact that she waited until the very last second to get her MetroCard out (and the fact that I had her funky ass in my face for what seemed like an eternity) I wish her chapped lips...and I ain't talking about the ones on her face. May they get so chapped that they get to look like fatty bacon that has been sitting on the kitchen counter for 7 days. That should make her 3 step journey up the bus steps the next time an interesting one.

Lastly, to the guy who got on the bus 4 stops before the last stop of the bus route. By the time he got to the top step (reminder: only 3 steps) he looked like he was about to pass out. He actually had to hanky himself off since sweat was cascading down his face like a miniature Niagara Falls and it was nice and cool this morning. He then sits down in the front 2 seats. That's right, the front 2 seats. This is because getting his body into one seat would have been a bigger miracle than the parting of the Red Sea. It gets better. He is holding onto a Department Store sized bag from McDonald's which I can only assume is his breakfast because he started eating the food before his ass even touched the seat. It gets better!!!!! 2 stops and 4 blocks later he gets off the bus. He spent 2 dollars to go 4 blocks!!!! He couldn't wait 4 blocks to start eating his breakfast!!!! He was not an old guy, just a very out of shape guy. Wouldn't it be better if he walked the 4 blocks and burned off a few calories instead of wasting the 2 dollars??? Also, bartenders are obligated by the law not to serve drunk people...shouldn't people at McDonald's be obligated to not serve the insanely obese??? I say this in his best interest and not to make fun of him. To this gentleman I wish him a run in with Richard Simmons at the airport. Maybe that little fruity guy could slap some sense into him to drop a few hundred pounds. I say this as a previously overweight person who made up every excuse in the book to not lose weight so I do mean this guy well. If you are too lazy to walk 4 blocks and are in the 300+ pound range you really have no right to be walking around with a suitcase sized McDonald's breakfast bag gripped in your hot dog like fingers. I hope someone puts him on the right track before he eats himself into an early grave.

I got off the bus at my stop and am now sitting in what I can only describe as the seventh ring of hell. Satan should be showing up soon so I will end this entry here and start looking busy! NOTE: I said "LOOK" busy!!!!

PETA

Now if there was ever a bunch of ass backward people...this group would be them. First let me say that I am totally against cruelty to animals. I do not like zoos and I do not like circuses. I applaud the Tiger that bit into Roy. Maybe the Tiger just got fed up and said, "If this fudge packer hits me one more time with that microphone it is on! Oh....that's it, it's on!!!"

However, there are a few things that are needed. Medical research on animals, whether we like to admit it or not (I am one of the ones that does not like to admit it), is necessary. I limit this opinion to valid medical research such as cancer or AIDS. I do not like it when scientists put a rat in a jar of water to see how long it will swim before it drowns and stupid crap like that. Those scientists should be hung upside down by their pubes until...well; they should just remain hung up by their pubes.

(An alternative to using animals for medical research would be to use prison inmates. I am talking about ones like Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc etc. They serve no useful purpose so what difference would it make if they died from an experiment or two?)

Now these PETA freaks would like us to believe that animal testing does no good, however many of them have received treatments for ailments that were developed by the use of animal testing. Even the lowly aspirin was tested on animals. Does using these treatments make them hypocrites? Hell yes. Should they just rot and die if they are sick and not seek medical treatment? If they truly believe in what they stand for then, "Hell Yes!"

They do not like the idea of fishing since they say the fish feels pain. One of the members (I will leave his name off of this, but it can be found at Reuters (Oddly Enough Section for today 8-18-04)) said, "Fish aren't swimming vegetables. We shouldn't torture them just for entertainment or palate preference." Now it has been scientifically proven that when a plant is cut or ripped from the ground it gives off a signal that can be equated to pain. Look here http://www.uncoveror.com/plants.htm.

Since plants feel pain I think that every PETA member should start learning to live off of air. Then again there are microbes in the air and I bet they can feel pain as well. There are also microbes in the water and if they drink purified water then the microbes that were in the water were heartlessly murdered.

So PETA is really in trouble now since, according to their own rules of not causing any living thing pain, they cannot eat, drink or breathe. Hopefully, if they start following their own rules immediately, within 5 minutes or so we shouldn't have to listen to their rhetorical crap ever again.

PETA...great concept, but your holier than thou attitude makes me want to club every single one of you like a baby harp seal!!!!

I'd write more, but I am cooking up a juicy steak right now and it just stopped mooing. CHOW TIME!

The Village

All respect to M. Night....The Village sucked balls!!!!!! It sucked more balls than NJ Gov. McGreevey on a field trip to Boys Town.

The story was lame, the acting was lame and the ending was "BEYOND" lame! This was a complete waste of $10.25. I can let it slide since his previous movies were so good. I guess he was bound to have a toilet clunker sooner or later...and this one had corn in it.

I just hope he makes up for it with his next film...whatever it may be.

My Intentions for My BLOG

This is a real 'no spin' zone. Not like the pseudo zone that Bill O'Reilly has. I usually agree with Bill, but when people start to make their point and he doesn't like it he always interrupts them. That is how he puts his own 'spin' on things.

Everytime I turn on the news or walk out of my apartment something gets my attention and pisses me off and I usually end up talking to myself about it for 3 hours. So instead of that I will use this blog as my venting tool.

Now for those of you that believe in "Political Correctness", please just go away. All of this PC crap lately is a major form of censorship that should not be allowed. Since I do not believe in censorship there will be no PC crap here.

I am sure I will post other thoughts than just those that piss me off, but those that piss me off will be the mainstay. I am very blunt about things and will not hold back on my opinion. I will say that if I am wrong about something and someone can prove that to me and convince me I will post retractions admitting I may have been wrong.

That being said....get ready for a bumpy ride!