Well, I wanted to just post somethings that have been in my mind recently, more rantings and ravings about this fucking mud ball planet we live on. Of course my special someone is kicking my nuts to post in my RP blog, and I shall as I have promised that someone I would. But since my mind has worn down in the now wee hours of the morning, I'll go to real life, and return back to the RP world tommorrow after recharging my brain. Click on in.
Finally its freakin spring, well almost where I live, the artic tundra of new york. And no for those who read this page, its not NYC, its not even Albany. Basically look at New York, and look at the most northern point you can go in the state. So its not really spring yet, its this odd void between winter and spring. There is no snow, yet there is no grass or leaves, just browness and wetness. But its warm enough to go outside without 50 pounds of clothing, so its all good. The grass is begining to turn green, and thus everything will be green in another month or so.
But today it was suppose to hit 70, which is a god send to use northern hicks, hell, even 30 felt good this year, we had an extremly cold winter, sub-zero temps most of the season due to artic air moving down from *gasp* freakin canada. We've had warmer, but not totally unusual. Sadly I spent most of this time watching tractor trailers move back and forth while I was down state training. And this will tell you how different a few hundred miles make in the weather.
I trained for my CDL in Syracuse NY, at a very professional place, not just some garage with a tractor. This was a 30 year old established trucking school that's the only one accredited by NY state, so its actually concidered a college course, yay. I even have a nice degree in a frame, and of course my Commerical Driver's Licence. But it would be 20 out and everyone who was generally from central/upstate new york would bitch. And I'd be outside just fine and dandy. I did have alot of trainers who had been up here in my hometown, and yes, they said it was one of the coldest places they've been in new york, and sometimes even the entire country (minus Fargo and those places in the mid-west). So yes, while everyone was hiding indoors at 20 degrees, I was outside all day. Even when it was -20 with the wind, I was outdoors more than most. So yes, 30 feels good, 40 feels even better, 50 is excellent, and anything above that is glorious feeling. Its nice to feel warmth from the sun once again.
But today despite them calling for 70, it was only mid-60s, and raining *murr*. Since its gotten warm out, I've been working outdoors and doing the usual spring crap, and other business I needed to do. I'm selling the 1965 Pontiac GTO I have. It was a nice car, but it was not taken care of, since 1987 its sat outdoors and off the road, so its basically sunk into the ground. Since the mid 90s I've tinkered with it. First I fixed it, drove it around my property, then tore it apart. Now its just pointless to fix, for the amount of time and money I'd have to put into it, I can get one off E-bay for the same amount of money and taking little to no time with the world. And I'm working to the point of this rant, slowly but getting there. I was on a forum called Pontiac Performance Years, which is a GTO/Pontiac Reproduction Business. And in the general blather I came across a section about war protesting in San Fran on the left side of the country. And this is what I'm going to rant about.
It was pictures, of course the under-writing made fun of everyone. But these pictures kind of disturbed me, that people have such thoughts or actually run around with such signs. All I can say is ignorant people who don't know what the hell they are protesting. But let me read off the two signs that caught my eye.
1. I (Heart) Love NY, Even More Without The World Trade Center.
2. Support Resistance in Iraq.
3. Ashamed of my Country.
4. Workers, Soldiers, And Students Fight For Communism.
5. George WWIII Bush is the Anti-Christ, Embrace Love Now.
Heh. Okay, Sign 1 you cannot see the people holding it, hidden behind it but what the fuck is that all about. I'm unsure if they're saying they don't care the buildings are gone, but what I get is that because the WTC were destroyed, it made NYC a better place? Sign 2 is help up by a balding guy (no offense to peopel going bald, heh) but you know, your usual yuppy soccer mom and dad people. Sign 3 is held up just by a Joe Blow, looks like anyone else I've seen. Sign 4 is held up by a chick and someone else who isn't in the picture. Sign 5 of course is held up by hippes. Actually...
http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=504281#post504281
You can check out the site yourself. But what the fuck is wrong with this country. First, let me get my view of this war out. I really don't support any war, war is almost pointless half the time, and even if this war is for oil, we did good, we captured Saddam and his two bastard kids. One less evil in the world. Does that mean no more evil will replace him, no, it doesn't, someone new will appear. So I don't support the war fully, I'm glad we kicked Saddam's ass and fixed that whole mess, but it'll get replaced with something else somewhere else at some point, problem solved for now though, next lets get Osama and THIS time lets not capture him, just kill him. As for weapons of mass productions, we didn't find any yes, but you know what, either we will NEVER find a single shred of "WMP", or years and years later a bunker will be found deep in the sand we'll find them. Who cares. As for the oil, if it makes my gas cheaper, go for it, personally that oil supply should just be shared by the world.
My views on this country. Yes, i'm very against things in this country, but in general its more about being against the government. I think Bush is nothing but a meat puppet with his father's hand stuck up his ass, basically just finished what Daddy could not in his 8 years. Jobs are hard to find now a days, maybe its his fault, but maybe not, 9-11 hurt the economy, so does the war, but many say it was sliding before the meat puppet. I don't care, but his meatness could make an effort to create jobs. Northern New York was bad off before the war, and now its just worse. I'm proud of this country, I'm proud to be an american, and yes I am somewhat ashamed at the way we act, but hey, don't judge me because this country is filled with morons. We're all not bad.
So back to the protest, and all these worthless fucks. Yes, many of you will protest, but many of you have intellgence behind it. If you read the fourm, you'll see these people asked the protesters, either from this rally or those in the past real intellegent questions, and I know one guy said the girl's reply was her friends were there. Don't protest just to be cool, don't protest just to be on TV, protest in WHAT YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IN.
Support Resistance in Iraq, that one pisses me right the fuck off. This is the kind of shit if I was president, I would have these people thrown out of the country. I don't like the army, I'm not against it, I just don't like it because of how they act, and if I was in the army, I would slaughter my drill sargent because I don't take being yelled at by someone, or anyone. But I have a good friend who is Military Police over in that sandbox. I also have a friend who's brother is in Afganistan. If I saw these people in real life, and my friend had died over there like so many, those people holding that sign would be dead. I would jump on them and end their life so freakin quickly it would not be funny. And sadly I have things that support this, such as a parent who said out of her three children, she believes I would be the one most capable of taking human life, and I don't blame her. I believe that if I was raised any other way in my life, I could have been a serial killer, my mind works in strange ways, mostly an over-active imagination. In school I was makin blueprints of the school and Xing out the places were I was going to place gun turrets. Was I actually planning on doing this, hell no, that's just insane. I did these things mostly for shock value. And this was before Columbine, afterwards I would have never done such a thing, I probably ended up on one of those lists.
The "Ashamed of my country" sign is an easy one. IF YOUR ASHAMED MOVED TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND SEE HOW LIFE IS, HOW ABOUT A NICE 3RD WORLD COUNTRY. Dump ass people.
I won't even comment on the communism sign, I really don't understand what it means, I guess its pro-communism, which well, doesn't really work, except in Cuba and China, which I'm sure will end sooner or later like the USSR. And of course there are the other pictures, some freaky chick with a holla-hoop, some punk rocker chicks (sorry, punk is dead, I was a 90s punker, but in my opinion its dead, as in it was dead in the 80s, the good shit has gone back to the underground and of course we have the main stream wanna-be punk bands, who are not punk, just more poppy look at me I'm fucking cool be like me crap music). Personally, music is dead except for the underground stuff. Fuck MTV, and most bands. I hate Rap, and other various genre of music. Yes, if you know me, I listen to Gwar, which is defined basically as Heavy Theatrical Metal. That really can't explain them, since they've played almost all forms of music, I can play you jazz, blues (I think), hell, even a country song they've done. But of course we're talking about guys in their 40s now still wearing suits and jacking off and blowing fake come loads onto the crowd. But hey, they didn't sell out, they don't even make really any money, they even still load their own equipment. And for that, I love them, besides the music.
And of course there is a picture of a really fat chick laying on the ground, no comments. But these are the things that make me feel this world has gone to shit. Protesting use to mean something, not just something to do, not just to be cool, not to be on TV, or be one of those people who go with the crowd. But what can I do, I just see these things, and shake my head and continue on with my simple life.
Then you got the FCC, which I think I've already talked about. What the hell happen to them, it must be the government that's pressing down on their heads, then again, they're part of the government aren't they? I don't know, I don't bother to research these things. But they're just going nuts. I've been told they even want to CENSOR HBO. I mean, I'm not going to pay for a fucking channel that is censored, I thought that was the point of the pay channels, they can play uncensored shit. Yeah, this is all over that Janet's floppy dog, but god damn. Now they're after Howard Stern, who I could care less about. I thought his movie was cool, I liked him when I saw that movie, but watching his E! Recordings, he's just a filthy fucking pig. So he goes on the shelf right next to "Spike TV". I hate that channel, besides that extreme challenge show which is fucking funny as hell. The First Channel for Men. Yes, I don't mind the pro-men choice since I am a man, well, I hope so. But they're just doing this because we now have Lifetime and other womans channel. You know, the point of Lifetime was more or less because "TV" was ran by men. So Spike TV isn't really the 1st channel for men.
But now, I'm just looking at Yahoo News, and of course I see the better stuff. There is a cookie tin that shows an early 20th century painting on the front, and the painter who copied the picture was basically fired and told to finish up this last project of coping the painting. So what does he do, apparently there is a pair of dogs humping, a pair of naked people, and a jar of jam that has something written on it to suggestion something else besides jam, I'm guessing man pudding.
Santa fired his elves. A granny in germany robbed a bank with a bomb threat. Dutch doctors humping their patients. Crap about Bush. I gotta say, if I didn't hate bush so much, I wouldn't vote, because I see no one worth voting for.
And I'll leave on this note, since Twilight Zone the Movie is about to end, and I gotta see John Lithow freak out about the muppet on the wing. Anyways, I think one real major problem with the world today is MEDIA. We know too much, and we blow everything out of size. Watch Bowling from Columbine, I know many don't like Mikey Moore, i'm not a fan of his but I did enjoy two of his movie thingies, but he has good valid points, and other points I don't agree with. But the media is just crazy, I'd say too negative. You know, why the hell should we see a commerical for the news when they're saying "A new danger you didn't know about shoe strings, and how it might kill a loved one, TUNE IN at 10". They are not doing this to warn us about jack. They're trying to make you turn to their channel to get ratings. The world has lost its way, good things have turned too corperate. The news is suppose to be about news, not fucking ratings. I don't know, this world just seems so fucked up now a days. Maybe its because I'm now a part of the world, rather than just an innocent child, but god damn, I sometimes fear what my children will get to face in their age.
- DW