Now I don't mean exploded into small pieces, but I see bad things brewing in this world, and I hope for god sakes that the retard we call president doesn't fuck this up. Please oh mighty Jesus who rose up for our sins today to shed chocolate bunnies, creme filled eggs, and as a cruel joke hid eggs all over the place, actually come down and guide this special education student called the president into doing the right thing.

I couldn't tell you where the US Forces are all over the world, but from what I have gathered. Currently of course we are struggling with Iraq and trying to get them to form their own government. We're in Afganistan searching for ye old Taliban and Osama. And we're stretched on troops in those areas, and never claim that I don't support the troops, I support them completely, they are our protectors and guards, and they are following their orders....

Unfortunatly those orders are coming from Bush's Bert-n-Ernie Playphone from the Oval Office. Back to the troops, we also are basically Japan's military, correct? And we have bases in Korea making sure the communists don't come charging into S. Korea. So there's two more countries we're in.

Now....Iran. This can go one of two ways. The first would be to get Iran to stop fucking with nuclear power, so they can make a bomb. Yes they consort with terrorists, yes they are probably evil, keep your friends close and keep your enemies CLOSER. Why not say hey, you want to make a nuclear power plant, well let the good old USA show you how its done, you don't want to be getting help from Russia now do you, cause well....Russia's pretty big and you don't want another Chernobyl, probably take out your entire country.

We build a nuclear power plant that is supervised by both countries, unholy security making sure none of the plutonium escapes outside the facility. And maybe things will go well, or they'll send a nuke somewhere. That's why we take up Ronald's Star Wars plan, cause he was smoking some good shit when he wrote that, and we could probably easily do it now a days.

Think about it, all that money we are spending on sending probes deep into space. I'll admit the mars probes we will need, we need to explore that planet in case this one decides to die, or we destroy it, or global warming (if real) destroys it. And about global warming, I say its probably happening, but you hear all this shit on "Ice Age", if Captain Planet hasn't taught us nothing that there should be a "Fire Age". Think about it. But the other probes can wait, cause one of them will fall into an alien planet killing most of their race, then we got pissed off aliens.

So now we're protected from Iran and any other country in the world. We're happy, the world probably will go back to ignoring us, Iraq will form a country, la la la.

OR.....

Bush with his Bert and Ernie phone pushes Iran's buttons, along with the UN and the rest of the world. So now the world is pissed off at Iran cause they will not cut it out. This is simple. All the leaders of the world, with the exception of Iran will gather. They will all agree on doing one thing after much talking. Everyone will drop a nuclear bomb on Iran, and we'll wipe it off the face of the earth. Yes alot of innocent lives will be lost, but the world (not the united states) needs to say to the middle east, FUCKING SHUT UP AND FLY RIGHT, ELSE GET OFF THIS CRAZY ROCK. Iraq will promptly form a country.

BUT PROBABLY?

I heard something about the US using a nuclear bomb to destroy their bunker? I'm sure the rest of the world was like "wait hold up, you haven't dropped a bomb on someone since World War 2....". Bush promptly orders the nuclear bomb to be dropped on Iran from the Bert and Ernie phone. A nuclear bomb will be brought to Iraq and flown to Iran via Stealth Bomber, they will take our Iran's nuclear operation.

Now Iran will get pissed, and cry because they wanted a nuclear power plant. Russia steps up to the plate and says hey, we've got nuclear wessels and shit, we'll build you a nuclear reactor. So Iran and Russia together build on despite the screaming United States.

The US will want to know why our friend Russia has done such a thing?! Russia will claim its not right to disallow the country from developing the nuclear plants. We'll say they're making a bomb, Russia will claim it is overseeing everything and that no bomb will ever be made.

This is when it will go wrong.

The Russian Space Station will have a major piece of it break off, it will rotate and form a space cannon. To prove its point and how evil they are by turning the cannon towards German and erasing it off the face of the planet, due to all the trouble they caused Russia during the world wars. The US will scream and push the button, releasing cold war aimed nuclear missiles at Russia, but the eastern end that really has nothing in it, Chernobyl already fucked that up.

Russia will fire off their cold war nuclear missiles aimed at the US, half of them will fall in Eastern Russia adding to the nuclear flames. The other half will fall on the west coast of the US, obliterating Microsoft, San Fran, LA and all of Hollywood, including parts of Mexico. Iran will nuke Israel but not before Israel sent their counter attack destroying Iran. Pakistan with no where left to go nukes parts of India, while China invades the rest for room, taking over the technology known by India and all those "us" trained guys. North Korea invades South Korea and takes out our troops, cause they were all in Iraq and Afganistan. Kim Jong Il promptly builds boats and invades Japan.

The US will head for Japan to defend itself against the communists once again, telling Iraq to go fuck itself and its on its own, but hey, Iran is gone. Europe will bitch slap russia and take out Moscow with a nuclear strike, killing the beast. China will promptly take over Russia and counter attack Europe, wiping it out. The US invades Japan while sending others to Europe, now we're deep in World War 3.

The US will free the Europe from China and we'll get Japan back. Australia will have our backs since everyone forgot about them. But we also forgot about others. South America and Africa will remain the same, probably laughing, but for the hell of it Columbia nukes Mexico.

The US Aussie Forces will seem to be making progress, at least pushing China back into its own borders. Pakistan will take control of what is left of India, and Iraq will not form a government, but be taken over by Turkey. Since the US is no longer in the area, no one will care. Turkey promptly thrives on a new oil industry, and sells it to us for a moderate price.

But then the United States gets it. But from whom.

Cuba will promptly dust off the 1969 nukes that are still there, and will take out the Southeastern parts of the US up to roughly Washington DC, which will burst in flames just from the Fall Out. The rest of the United States will take the death blow and be invaded by....Canada.

Happy Jesus Zombie Day.

[ Once Again, Yahoo News... ]

GILLETTE, Wyo. - A teenage boy accidentally set himself on fire early Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter's car.

Police first learned of the injury after a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy claimed that someone had thrown gasoline on the 17-year-old at the Common Cents service station and lit him on fire, said Lt. Rod Hauge.

The boy was taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his legs. Police were called to the hospital to investigate the incident and later learned that the 17-year-old spilled gas on his pants while siphoning gas. He then used a lighter to try to determine how wet his pants were and set himself of fire, Hague said.

Both boys have been ticketed with larceny, Hauge said.

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Awww man, I got gasoline on my jeans. Hold on, let me light this road flare to see how much on got on it. I had to post this one, reminds me of a friend of mine who's drunken step-father siphoned gasoline out of a local fire truck and ended up burning the truck and the fire station down to the ground, cause he used a lighter.......wait for it.....to see how much gasoline was left in the gas tank. Those explosive warnings at gas stations are not just for shits and giggles people, gasoline is an unstable fuel compared to say Diesel Fuel or Motor Oil, either or you can put a cigarette out in.

[ From Yahoo News ]

NEW YORK - Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras, cat food and even a 1-pound raw fish in a desperate effort Wednesday to entice an 11-month old cat named Molly from behind the basement wall of a Greenwich Village delicatessen where she has been trapped for 12 days.

The effort was renewed early in the day when workers heard the cat meowing again after several days of silence that had given rise to fears she had died. "That was a motivator to try again," said Mike Pastore, field director of Animal Care & Control of New York City, a private agency that handles animal rescues on a city contract.

Pastore led the rescue team trying to locate the peripatetic pussycat with a tiny video camera attached to a plumber's snake. But the sound of the drill may have spooked Molly to retreat further into the maze under the front wall of the 19th-century brick building, which extends back about 40 feet from the sidewalk.

Pastore said Molly, being a curious sort, apparently slipped into a narrow space between two buildings and fell or crawled through a hole into the space inside the cellar wall.

The police and fire departments also have been on the scene but as of Wednesday were leaving the job to Pastore.

"This is the most difficult case of this kind I've ever been on," said Pastore, whose agency receives an average of 120 stray or surrendered dogs and cats per day for temporary care and adoption.

Others pitched in to help. Neighbors left cans of cat food on the steps, and Renato Migliorini, proprietor of Piccolo Angolo, an Italian restaurant at Hudson Street, delivered a whole fresh fish called a branzino.

"I hope it will come out because I love cats and dogs," Migliorini said.

The day's search efforts ended by 9 p.m., when rescuers laid out a trap for Molly.

The fact that the building is landmarked by the city makes breaking into the walls a more delicate proposition, Pastore said. He said Molly may be blocked from reaching food left for her and it was unclear whether she has access to water dripping from a drain. "We are concerned about dehydration," he said.

Molly is the resident mouser at Myers of Keswick, a popular West Village delicatessen catering to a specialized clientele with clotted creme, Scotch eggs and other British food products not available in American stores.

Normally she sleeps in a basket inside the store, said Peter Myers, who opened the store 20 years ago. Myers said he periodically pays a $300 fine for the health violation, "but if I didn't have the cat I would be paying a $300 fine for having mice in the store. I saw a mouse running across the kitchen floor this morning."

A few neighbors watched the activity but were outnumbered by the television crews and other news media on the scene.

At midday, three observers from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission showed up to make sure no serious structural damage occurs. The four-story building, dating from the mid-19th century, is in one of Gotham's historic districts.

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Ok, yeah it sucks when a cat gets trapped like this, soo many times have I seen this on TV, but it is the last paragraph that really pissed me the fuck off. So what, this fucking commission wants to make sure they don't harm the building, by like knocking a hole in the basement wall to get the cat. This is the kind of shit in the world that really makes me want to strap C4 to myself and go give them a giant fucking hug. Ooooh, boo hoo its a part of history, its from the mid-19th century, wow its old.

EAT SHIT AND DIE. The house I live in is twice the age of this building, I'm talking about rough cut timbers held together with pegs, the outter walls are nothing but two layers of bricks. The foundation is made from stones someone picked from a field and the beams in the basements are (not even joking) trees cut in half, there's still bark on some of them.

I don't know, I read these kinds of things and it just get me angry, cause I'm sure this commission is a bunch of stuck up cunts like Hillary Clinton (WOULD YOU FUCKING HURRY UP AND DIE, OR AT LEAST LEAVE NEW YORK, NORTHERN NEW YORK DOES NOT WANT YOU, HATES YOUR FUCKING ASS, THAT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS WHEN YOU COME UP HERE AND EVERYONE (once again, not joking) HAS LARGE SIGNS ON THEIR LAWN THAT SAYS "BITCH GO HOME"). If I knew where these people lives, I would send them fish wrapped in newspaper cause any good new yorker would understand that stands for.

Yes, its a cat, it only will live 10 to 20 years and there are millions of them around. But still, for them to come along to snoop and make sure no one harms this pointless fucking building that I'm sure no one but themselves care about, all I can say is Fuck (Almost) Everyone in NYC. I say almost everyone cause of several people who I like from NYC, and actually now that I think of it, only one truely lives in the city, the other two at least chill outside of it.

Yes, I hate NYC, I'm sorry for 9/11 but most people don't understand why could I hate such a city. That's because I live on the opposite end of the state, a state that has to support this monster of a city, a state that has outragous taxes even in the poorest of lands (like NNY).

Anyways, I did go to their website but since it is a .GOV site, I felt I'd rather not write them a nasty e-mail that would be calling them assholes and that I hope that eternally burn in hell. Fuck the Landmarks Preservation Commission in NYC, yes history is good to keep but the fact they went down to make sure the building was not harmed, makes me want to stomp their fucking heads in with my steel toe boots until there is nothing left but a squishy pile of brain matter and bone. Maybe I'll contact my favorite psycho animal rights group PETA and tell them to attack, since they love violence, but after they're done they can go burn in hell. If you support PETA then you are a fucking idiot, read the internet and news, they're nothing more than a front for local terrorists (Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front). Records indicate last year that they took in roughly 2,500 cats and dogs (and other home pets) and well, instead of adopting roughly 90% like my local animal shelter, they killed 90% of them cause it costs too much for their 25 million tax-excempt organization to take care of these animals.

HOW IN THE FUCKING HELL can they not afford that, yet they can afford a 10,000 dollar walk in freezer to store the bodies in? Or the fact that my local humane society that is dirt poor can adpot more animals than them.

End Rant...before I'm flagged as a terrorist.

PS: Someone really really really needs to kill Mr.Bush (I will NOT call him President), cause you know he's going to be all Texian and go gun-ho into Iran and start WW3. If only someone good had ran in 2004.

[ I HAVE BEEN TAGGED ]
Things That Make You Happy

The Rules:

List ten things that make you happy in no particular order.
Tag 0-5 friends.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY
1 . Warm body to snuggle with, who can't be happy with that.
2 . 65 Pontiac GTO along side the Childhood Memories of my Father's.
3 . Remembers things that were cool but you had forgotten about (Family Dog!)
4 . Listening to Gwar (shit...look at the book insice I just wrote about them)
5 . Making other people happy and secure with themselves, even if i"m not.
6 . Not having to work.
7 . Watching something really good, movie, anime.
8 . Ripping the fucking tongues out of people who say Pwned, and other internet jive talk.
9 . Satisfaction of a good day of work.
10. SKITTLES & PEPSI

And actually I must admit its hard to come up with a list, gets your thinking. Now to start slapping people in the head with a tag.

Unfortunatly I just came under the horrid realization that I don't know anyone I can tag that hasn't been already tagged, and as a blogger, I do suck big time. At least I got say what makes me happy :(

Click on that link below this to go into the "Extended" dwelling of the blog.

First off to put them into a genre almost cannot be done, its general thought of as METAL but even so, that doesn't really hold true. I dubbed it OPERA METAL, because they are for the most part very metal sounding, and I call it opera because their songs are not just about raping babies and killing humans, they are stories. You can find short blurps about the story around the net. But first lets get the "Real Life" Aspect of the band out of the way.

Gwar was founded in 1985, as an opening band for the punkish type band called Death Piggy. The band was made up of local college and art students, Death Piggy was one aspect, and then what is dubbed "The Slave Pit" which is a group of artists of all different forms (not just drawing) who came together to form this opening band, Gwar. The two groups would come together as The Slave Pit & Gwar (I don't think they had a name before, mostly they are called the slave pit, which is a gwar term).

The idea of Gwar was to do something different, and something fun. So they laid down a backstory and dressed up a Mutant Space Aliens, The Scumdogs of the Universe. These Scumdogs were a band of space pirates who did nothing but go from planet to planet, laying waste and having fun. They are controlled by The Master, who is the creator of the universe, supposely formed when he took a shit. When he wiped his ass, the members of the Scumdogs were formed.

Over the years the members of Gwar grew in power and stupidity, causing too much chaos and destruction with no reguard to the Scumdogs. Thus the master became angry, and banished them to the worse mud ball planet in the entire universe....Yay, Earth.

Then legend and lore says while on earth they had sex with monkeys and accidently created the human race. They continued to live until the destruction of Atantis, when once again the Master noticed them, and got angry. This time he banished them to Anartica, encased them in an ice tomb, where they slept for many years.

In the 80s, Musical Businessman Sleazy P. Martini was for some reason flying in his helicopter over Anartica, when he crash landed. He stumbled into Gwar's tomb and accidently sent them free. Seeing an oppertunity to exploit them for billions of dollars, he soon gained control of Gwar by feeding them cocaine, gave them instruments and marketed them for profit. Thus the band GWAR is born.

Since then, Gwar has spent the time playing music, in which they slaughter and maim all the humans who come to listen to their music. They have also had the on-going task of trying to get off this planet, they wish to return to space to wreck havoc and chaos once again, they have grown tired of the planet. But thus they always blunder the mission, and remain stuck on the planet, due to their stupidity.

There are many members of Gwar, some that have come and gone, but the main characters have always remained. Gwar.net currently doesn't have their main page up anymore, or I can't find it, just plays music and has their tour dates. Gwar is currently celebrating their 20th Anniversity.

THE MEMBERS OF GWAR

Oderus Urungus - Leader Singer
Balsac "The Jaws of Death" - Guitar, I guess backup for most
Flattus Maximus - Lead Guitar
Beefcake the Mighty - Bass Guitar
Jizmak da Gusha - Drummer

Slymenstra Hymen
The Sexicutioner
Sleazy P. Martini

These are the members of Gwar for the most part, there are many other members such as Techno Destructo who is a "scumdog" like gwar, but is treated like a slave. Then there are the slaves, which are in Rp terms humans that gwar captures and uses as slaves, they are suppose to go through them all the time, but in reality there is at least two who have remained with the band at all times. And actually only Oderus, Balsac and Jizmak are the only original members of the band, which even that can be "talked" about later, cause I know in the early dawn of Gwar there was another singer, so basically no one is original, but I'm talking from the Album respective.

Beefcake and Flattus have changed hangs several times over the years, about every other album. These are the albums of Gwar...

Hell-O
Scumdogs of the Universe
America Must Be Destroyed
The Road Behind LP
This Toilet Earth
RagNaRok
Carnival of Chaos
We Kill Everything
Violence Has Arrived
War Party
* Live from Mnt. Fuji

Ten Albums in 20 years, the * one is their only full live album, The Road Behind LP did feature a live track though. This is where you get into the "genre" aspect of Gwar, and what the fuck are they. The albums different alot in the type of sound, so lets go through them one by one. I am also going to speak of the story of each album, and hopefully a few songs, as I said, I classify them as Opera Metal cause their songs are telling the story of the album, for the most part.

HELL-O was their first album, and would fall into the realm of being punkish. Death Piggy was roughly a punk band so their first album still lingered with the sounds. The recording is kind of low since they did it themselves, of course with modern shit it has been made to sound good, but I guess in certain parts you can hear shit like a truck driving by, since "The Slave Pit" which is a real business, was located in some industrial area, in a old warehouse. There is no story with this album, except the usual killing, raping and slaughtering of the humans, one of Gwar's favorite pass times of course. The first story didn't start until the next three albums, which is when Gwar's popularity flared up in the early 90s.

SCUMDOGS OF THE UNIVERSE, AMERICA MUST BE DESTROY and THE ROAD BEHIND Lp is the first of "Gwar" stories. And can be found in movie form, called "Phallus in Wounderland" which was actually nominated for a..Tony Award, it is a B, possibly C class movie all done by the Slave Pit, which as I said earlier is a group of artists. These guys do not dress up in papermache outfits, they are forging shit like a movie studio would, latex compounds and such.

The movie is about the abduction of Oderus's penis, known as the Cuddlefish of Chutulu, which kind of looks like a snail. It is taken from Oderus by Grandbo and her Morality Squad, the christians, which is made up of Grandbo, an old hag confined to a tank like wheel chair, two special agents of the CIA, her grandson just back from the war in Iraq (1st one) Corperal Punishment, and her nephew Tiny which is really two men mutated together. They grow sick and tired of Gwar's corruption of the world through the music and tours, and after interigating the Cuddlefish (and even beforehand) go after Gwar to destroy them.

Gwar in the mean time have been doing what they've been doing since Sleazy P. Martini found them, slaughtering humans who come to their concerts and plot to escape the plant which to Sleazy says "Not if I can't help it". All of this is in the movie, but sadly the movie itself is horribly confusing. After reading this it would probably make sense to you. In the movie which is filled with videos, it starts off with the conception of Gor-Gor, which is an egg that Slymenstra (the only female character ever in the band) laid, and then Gwar pumped krak into it, so it came out as a horrid krak baby t-rex. And of course Gwar wants to fuck it and eat it, cause they are space aliens, in the movie this is all done to "Crack in the Egg" which is where their songs are telling the story. Later you see them in a couple of videos, good b&w ones to a couple of my favorite songs, then they are at a party on a rooftop in NYC (blue screen backdrop of the skyline and its like the twin towers all giant in the center, but of course this was many years before that, and its not like they attacked it in the movie, just background). It shows them making a ceral commerical, more or less showing the band being used and abused by the corperation, which plays alot in their stories.

The movie ends with Gor-Gor coming back full grown, and they battle amounst the city and defeat him. That was their first story and campaign, which as said spans those three albums. I will also note as I like to say they have the "greatest stage show on earth" for any band, because they more or less act this stuff out on stage, this movie was the more "in depth" approach with their own money of course.

This was when Gwar was big, you afterwards you find them on a few "pop" culture type things, like the movie S.F.W. (So Fucking What) which they have a song, or Jerry Springer, or "Empire Records". Gwar has always had a big underground following, and have never made it over the top big. For the most part the band has been poor, espcially in the later years. They have mostly been on METAL BLADE RECORDS until the last recent years, which their new label seems to treat them very well, where as Metal Blade did nothing for them after this era in the 90s.

THIS TOILET EARTH: After listening to the last three albums you'll kind of go What the Fuck. It starts off with Saddam A Go Go, which is a song that actually has a brass section and is just strange. Most of the music of this album was strange, and it was for a good reason. Due to the semi-not-really sucess of Phallus in Wounderland, the Slave Pit now attempted for a real B movie that would actually get played in theaters, the "midnight" shows. Thus comes their second movie and story, known as SKULHEADFACE.

The Movie starts off with Gwar having a marathon, FEED YOUR SOUL TO THE WORLD MAGGOT, which they were playing on Slave Pit TV, a suppose television channel they have. The World Maggot is a giant maggot underneath the earth, that once its had its fill of humans and their souls, will leave the planet. Gwar plans to ride the maggot from the planet using sadals....so thus they quest to feed the world maggot. Then comes in Mister, Misses, Doctor Skulheadface, who is an alien, but first appears as a large fat corperate executive. The movie goes away from Gwar sitting around a table with a giant "Marathon Counter" and eating humans to the meeting room of this corperation, who wishes to buy Gwar and exploit them. They discuss Gwar and the fact that the band itself was worthless, but the idea behind it could be used, assuming Gwar was nothing more then people dressing up in costumes. Making Dolls and Cartoons of them (of course all cute and children like), so they call upon Sleazy P. Martini, manager/owner. They try to bribe him, showing him trunks of cash, one bigger than another until he finally cracks. The deal is closed with one condition, that Sleazy P. Martini must kill Gwar so the corperation can go on with their plans. Sleazy refuses, saying nothing can stop Gwar and so forth, and Gwar bursts into the room and the slaughter begins. At first they all think its just costumes and such, but of course the truth comes out and the main fat executive flees to the elevator and disappears. In the elevator he removes his face to reveal this horrid alien head that looks like a giant skull. He goes down into his lab deep in the corperation building.

Inside he falls out of the elevator weak, and calls for his companion, Floppsies, which unfortunatly is a human with a vagina for a face. Gets dragged over and starts to reveal his true plot, even goes into a song after awhile. Hiding behind the Corperation look, Skulheadface is harvesting "gizmogloben" which is the source of people's talent, and basically the source of energy in life. The corperation has been signing bands, and then using a machine to suck them dry of the gizmogloben. Skullheadface is working for Cardinal Syn, a giant robot warlord in outterspace, a villain of Gwars which appears all throughout their stories, the previous movie does show a quick battle scene glimps against Cardinal Syn. Cardinal Syn has sent Skullheadface to Earth to harvest the gizmogoben, and does call him up in the movie (crude puppet!). Reveals Skullheadface has other intentions and has been using the stuff on himself, which would give him power.

Finally he lures Gwar down into the lab, in which a battle takes place between Gwar and the FleshCollum, which is a large machine built of the corpses of famous dead people. Gwar looses, and Skullheadface sucks their gizmogloben out with the machine, which in turns overloads the machine and they end up in this strange universal type place, Gwar has been turned into babies and Skullheadface has actually been turned into -her- real form. Through the movie it is hinted Skullheadface was something else, flashes of Cardinal Syn having a woman with the same large shaped head hooked up to the sucking machine, it quickly flashes it all, Syn pulling the lever, her screaming, Syn laughing, and her as Skullheadface, drained of her gizmogloben. She was once a powerful ruler and with this great power once again sees the day of light, and that happiness wasn't about power, blah blah blah. Gwar agrees as cute babies on screen, I ponder whos children got tortured for that part, they said they liked her as Skullheadface, and thus she returns the power.

Now the fucked up this is, all through this movie you stare at this robot head they made, which is very crude, the outside is good but the movements are horrid of course, entertainment though coming from those guys. The eyes moved and the jaw moved, but it had trouble, but it looks like a giant skull with this hole in the forehead, so all through this time you're just like, okay. Then when she is transfered back into her original self, she is wearing this thing over the hole and pulls it off, and she has an ass for a head more or less, and when she releases the gizmogloben, of course it comes out of the asshole on her forehead....

That in a nut shell was the second story, which all can be seen in the movie. In the end the World Maggot finally got its fill of humans, and took off from the planet with Gwar's Anartica Stronghold strapped to its back...sadly without them. Thus they are once again stuck.

RAGNAROK

This album is concidered my favorite, holds alot of meanings to me and the time that it came into my life, this is kind of where I began to listen to Gwar. As I said with This Toilet Earth, even after listening to all of the previous albums, you'll once again say What the fuck. Ragnarok is a strange album with alot of mixed instrumental shit in it, some keyboard, vocals, it just totally different from all the previous albums. And at this point pretty much all the rest of the albums go back and forth. Once again there is kind of a movie for this album, I was disappointed after buying the first two and then getting this. More or less its a recording of them doing the on-stage show of the album, with blurps and such added in, very much entertaining but not like the other two movies.

The end of the world is coming, a giant meteor is seen in the sky, its 1999 (was I think 96 or 97 though) and Gwar was touring to each town for their usual slaughter of humans, this time a celebration because they were going to once again get off the planet. This time using Comet Sadals, they would ride the meteor away from earth...er well jump on it when it slammed into the planet and ride it away. So as the world prepared for Doomsday, Gwar lived it up with the humans, and went on the slaughter.

What they do not know is the meteor is really Cardinal Syn, who is coming after Gwar, cause well, he's a villian. He needs a mutant baby fetus to be powered, and thus aliens come down to get one, made from Oderus's sperm and Slymenstra's womb. The video shows this, and one of my favorite gwar scenes, in which the aliens use a device to get Oderus off, and as any gwar show when he comes, its alot, he turns to the crowd and sings the pledge of alligance to one of their songs for a moment, jacking off and spraying everyone down. Yeah I know, its sick, just remember its water with color, and I get people who go "oh that sounds fun, yeah right" but hey, who said you gotta be right against the stage. So they go on about Slymenstra since she is now pregnant and really pissed off about it, Oderus talks about abortion...with a coat hanger and they play "Knife in your Guts", heh. The baby is born and they want to rape it. Then it gets stolen and put into Cardinal Syn, Gwar goes to Nasa and steals a shuttle, being morons blast off with the shuttle and the tower its hooked to, crash into Syn's ship, fight the bad guys. They raid the planet, Gwar fights then, and destroy Cardinal Syn in a really good "city" landscape battle they did with models. Thus ended Ragnarok, and pretty much all I can tell you.

CARNIVAL OF CHAOS is a mixture of their music, metal, punk, even a jazz like song. From this point now that Gwar had been popular, they began to explore, and even some say get really weak, which even Dave (Oderus) says they got fat and lazy. The general storyline was about Techno Destructo wanting to take power, and attacking Gwar with an army of mutant pengiuns. There is a concert dvd of this, like Ragnarok.

WE KILL EVERYTHING is concider by at least Gwar to be their low point, the album was fine but it was nothing like the old stuff, they said it was going back to their roots, which is was, punkish like music, a little too happy, and even the videos for the music showed this. The dvd for this is "It's Sleazy" which is as fun as the rest, and an actual movie like show, a daytime talk show hosted by Sleazy. They introduce a new character called Scrota Moon who didn't go over wel, the story was about them being on this show and being teamed up with their "lost long" brother scumdog, which they booze and drug him up so he can rejoin them. He has a tablet of great power, in which Gwar breaks and the pieces are stolen. They must get them back or else The Master, the creator of them and the Universe will be angry, yet again. They discover the Portal Potty, a portal toilet which they summon up everyone who stole the pieces, such as Marilyn Manson, Elvis, and once again this is the shit you'd see on stage. The crowd in the show is made up of all the characters they've used in the movies and stage. Entertaining as always.

VIOLENCE HAS ARRIVE: Once again Gwar changes, this album is more metal, a step up from what they where and an attempt to go back to the Scumdogs of the Universe sounding days. It was a good album but I must admit I know nothing of the story, basically Gwar wages war on earth, and it was a good album.

WAR PARTY: Is the newest, now a year old. Once again unclear of the storyline, its about Gwar taking over the government I believe, and the destruction of all humans as usual. That is all I can really say, it lingers with the same sound of Violence Has Arrived, but I must admit it sounds very much like the Scumdogs Days, alot faster and harder now they are attempting to keep up with the times.

And that is all I'm going to tell you about Gwar for the moment, it took me many hours to write this and my brain hurts from the thinking and whatnot. This is Gwar, and I enjoy them because they are not just another band, even if they "can't play their instruments" as they even say, but then again, listen to them, cause they can play.

This is bigger than 9/11 sadly, and I think 9/11 will remain "worse" in people's books because that was a foreign attack, and not just "a natural disaster". I wish there was a word bigger than disaster, cause this is what it is. Everyone should take a moment to think about this, more or less America has lost an entire city, get the eraser and delete it from all the maps, and not just a city, New Orleans, one of our highly cultured and famous cities, a place I wouldn't have minded to go chill in for awhile. Yes it will be rebuilt, but it will never quite be the same. And I personally feel that America has dropped the ball on the recovery, I'm not sure who is to blame, the Government having all our troops overseas, FEMA and Homeland for not getting of their chairs quicker, but waiting four days for something to happen isn't right. Its kind of like Bush waiting 9 minutes or whatever to get up on 9/11, waiting means people will die, and that will be shown in the "death toll count" when its done, probably a year from now.

Yes people should have been evacuated, but to those who say its their fault for not leaving, think about trying to remove a shitload of people from a city, and yes, alot of poor people. Its one thing I noticed on all the news footage, its the black population that seems to have been left behind, and yes being the South I'm pretty sure they're making half the wages us white honkies make. Yes I can see the argument "Well they knew they were living below sealevel" but that's the same as people who live in the Torando Belt, Florida or California. Its living in an area where there is a chance this could happen, but I know I'd personally be like "It will never happen".

I've been through a "Natural Disaster", of course as most nothing like what we see here, but I spent about a week without power in the dead of winter, and here in Northern NY our winters are extremly cold, most of last year it was below zero. Its called "The Ice Storm" of 1998, more or less two weather fronts, one hot, one cold slammed into each other over our heads. So instead of cold snow or warm rain, we got ICE, rain that instantly froze to whatever it landed on. And we got anywhere from 3 inches to a foot of this freezing rain, meaning that is a foot of ice on everything, limbs, powerlines, houses. I didn't have it the worse, most people were without power for at least a month, my town was lucky because we have the only municipal power corperation roughly in the state, everyone else is on Faceless Corps like Niagra Mohawk and Con-Ed.

A treelimb fell and slammed our outside powerlines going from the poles to our house. It snapped one of the three wires wound into this one powerline. You have a POSITIVE, A NEGATIVE, and a NEUTRAL wire, that is a powerline. Positive and Negative are easy, just like any plug, battery, etc etc. The Neutral Wire is the Kind of them all and keeps the other two in check, keeping a constant 440 volts going to your house, which in your fuse box gets changed to 110 and 220. This line was broken, we didn't know it, the power had been going on and off for a few days now. Its power, hurry, cook dinner. Coffee pot was on, so I turned it off. The lights dimmed. Now as a geek I know this is not right, when you turn one electricity type thing off, the lights would get brighter being more free power in the lines. I turn the pot back on, the lights get bright, brighter than before. Then someone switched the dining room light on, small 40 watt candle bulbs, KER-POW, they all blow. This caused us to have seven days of no power.

So I know what a disaster feels like, seven days of no power and probably two more days previous to the power-outage of the power going on and off. Right before we were about to abandon our house due to it going into a deep freeze, power somewhat restored to those still with good powerlines and power, once and awhile. In the end we string about 200 feet of extension cord from my uncles house next door into the basement, to run our furnance and one other thing....the TV! We were one of the last people to get our power-line fixed, somehow our names got lost in all the others, and sadly our neighbor was the Manager of our Municiple Power, luckly his wife stopped by to talk with my old man plowing with an open air front end loader, and was shocked when she heard we had no power. Hour later ze truck was here.

But that holds NOTHING to New Orleans. This is history in the making, and once again it has shamed our country I think, reading the news it seems like the other countries are now sniggering and whispering about us. God Damn it America, its getting harder and harder to say I'm American, I'm going to have to resort to telling people I'm Canadian, fuck, border is only two miles from my door and most people very south of here thinks that just from how we speak, and no I don't say Ey or Aboot.

Then we have everyone going on about the fuel, even people up here on the northern border of the country, rushing to fill their tanks in fear of a shortage, then getting hostile over the price. I'm sorry you cannot fill your big giant gas guzzling SUV, its your fault that you bought it, so don't bitch about it. The people of my area have a right to bitch compared to others, if you have a Mass Transit system then you don't need to be bitching, in my area there is no train, no bus to take you anywhere. There are three buses I believe that take people from town to town in our county, the LARGEST county east of the mIssissippi. But its not Mass Transit, we need our vehicles, but I don't feel sorry for the SUV drivers. I personally take the right to bitch about fuel prices because it dictates my job. As I always love to say, I am a Trucker, who currently drives a 26 Ton International Ice Truck that burns 7 gallons of diesel per Mile. There are truckers called "Owner-Operators" which means they own their truck and pay for everything, they are paid more from the company because its not their truck. They have to pay for their own fuel, and I"m talking about people who are going coast to coast in a Semi. Its happened before and if the government doesn't keep at least the cost of diesel in check, they will be sorry as 50,000 tractor trailers will decend upon the capital. I will just state for the record that being a Truck-Driver does place you into a Brotherhood of people, most truckers greet each other on the road, almost anyone I pass will give this one finger wave from the wheel, cause yes you can see each other even when doing 65.

Relief should have came sooner, that is my opinion. Only on Friday did my company get the call to help out, and we're shipping roughly 22 tons of ice out every other day (6270 bags at 7 pounds a bag) and only being sold for .13 cents per bag, which at wholesale its .75 bags for my company. It should be free but companies gotta at least cover the cost to make the stuff. And we're not the only ice company, more or less there is now a chain of ice houses which will be shipping ice down via some government trucking network. If the company had to ship it down themselves I would have been more than happy to do it, being the only "Class A" driver in the company. But I get the feeling my boss wouldn't have bothered otherwise, creepy pollock.

So keep New Orleans at mind, which doesn't mean watch CNN play the same story over and over.

But its kind of weird when you are against something, and more or less going about it ignorant. My little redneck valley always has something to talk about, you gotta or else you will go CRAZY. The newspaper contains no news, our local news which is like "Seniorama" as old folks dance around an indian bingo parlor, or my favorite, the PUBLIC RECORD which if you get any kind of involvement with the police, and I do mean anything, you're name is in the paper explaining why. Most newspapers this section would be full of criminals, but in our paper its all about who had the broken headlight, who was DWIing, who ran the stop sign, I've been in there several times, and as my parents like to say as joke, bringing shame to the family, a family who has lived in this town most of its life and still, the name is unknown. There was only one thing they never wanted to see, Blah and Blah was found with X.X grams of Marjuana, and of course manslaughter. In the past years it has been about the SEAWAY AQUARIUM (Spelling, sorry) which was going to be this big fresh-water aquarium built near the power-dam and all our fancy ass Seaway shit. Half was being paid by the Seaway, half by an organization, oh well 5 years after raising donations the Seaway tells them to go fuck themselves and drops the plan. Nascar wanted to build a race-track here, nothing large, fancy or would be seen on TV, but a Nascar Class Racetrack. Would bring lots of jobs and shit, oh no, no one wants to take the noise. At the moment its building a small powerdam in the downtown area.

To the point, around this area there is also talk of a company building a Power Wind Mill Farm somewhere south of us in the foothills of the mountains. As usually I hear this and go "oh, ok..." cause I really don't care, they are talking about towns south of me, out of my site and not within local driving range. Ain't affecting me, so I don't care. Fun.

Then the signs start to pop up on the road, and remember I drive a truck, so I see the shit every single day. "NO WIND MILLS! - SaveUpstateNY.Com", so of course once again this gets me going. What the fuck is their problem, this entire region is more or less powered by "green" power, we have tons and tons of hydropower dams, nothing else. So they don't want to have these windmills, they'd rather have a nice COAL plant next to their house, yummy.

I go to their website to investigate, and maybe write a letter about what a bunch of assholes they are, kind of like PETA. I read the page, watch some videos, and holy shit if not for once my views were changed, rather than a bigger fire under my ass. Mainly due to aspect I did not realize.

There are a few windmills around here, local, small. The video showed a mountain ridge with like 5 of these fuckers on it, and holy shit they are massive. 389 feet tell, I mean christ almighty, I thought they were these tiny things like solar panels, had to have a billion of them to make things worth a damn. These suckers are just mamoth and yeah, i fully agree now we don't need that shit in this area, green power or not.

There are several aspects of the mills that have been brought up, things I sniggered at but now after the size and such, realize its gotta be true. One is called the "Flicker" effect, which is basically the shadow of the blades crossing over the sun, which as a slow moving fan in the window would, cause a shadow to travel over the area, their size of course, it'd be like the whole town going in and out of shadow at 1 second intervals, aka a strobe light. Well that's fun as a person who has had a seizure once in his life, and I will say the flicking of trees and the sun while driving gives me this funny feeling....(once again, I will die in a tanker truck full of rocket fuel).

Second was the noise, once again I didn't think they'd put off any, all I heard was the "underground" harmonics it gives off, this I only heard the half, which was it fucked up gophers and things that live beneath the dirt. Oh the poor creatures. Third was the "fowl" aspect. Caw-Caw-Caw-THUNK. Those blades spinning around no matter how slow...still a hazard to dumb creatures. This complaint can go fuck itself anyways, I can't count how many birds have perished against my truck, you know how birds love to be suicidal and fly close to you, then at the last minute quickly fly upwards and over your car roof? Now put a 3 foot wall above that, set back so you'd have enough time to say "oh shit.

And the shit doesn't create any jobs really, said 6 towers = 1 person, someone to clean up the birds and make sure the teenagers are not tieing people up to the blades. As for power, well the mother fucking wind needs to be blowing for one thing, otherwise it resorts to a diesel generator backup...hey wow, green power, the power of the dinosaurs.

So all in all thanks to that web site, I am against these things, but once again it has nothing to do with my town, which is at the base of the valley, 50-60 miles from the mountains, and not good for windmills. That and we have a giant hydro dam, and the indians wouldn't like us PUSHING the pollution from our three large industrial factories onto their reservation any faster.

Burn in hell Green Power.

I'm giving 5 to 1 odds that the shuttle explodes on re-entry, sorry guys, heh. I don't believe anyone going to space is a hero, as if you search this archieve you will find a ranting about Columbia and how I didn't feel they were "Heros" in the true nature. But for Dest, I'll pin the medal on them. Why you might ask? Cause they have the balls to get into a 30 year old vehicle (aka a "classic" by automotive and boat terms) and go into space. I hope they do go back, but that shuttle seems like a smoldering pinto on the side of the interstate. Satan bless them..

Back to the point, who the fuck is Jack Thompson and why in my little world would I care about him. Thanks to Scott @ VGCats.Com my world was distorted by yet another jackass of video game violence and how its bad for our kids. I'm reading his web page, or a page about it, StopKill.Com, heh. It claims that Harvard has discovered that violence more or less damage the brain, aka games are nothing more than MURDER STIMULATES that makes you want to KEEL more. Wow, did someone just shit?

And of course like Mortal Kombat & Whatever that Sega-CD Game was, Grand Theft Auto takes the spotlight as the evil video game of the 21st century. Thus, DIRECT QUOTE!! "In this game you have sex with a prostitute and then kill her grotesquely to get your money back and win the game faster. Police officers are set on fire, shotgunned in the face, and innocent pedestrians are run over with cars." Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm not a "gamer" as the term now means someone who does nothing but play video games all day and night when not working or having sex with whores, killing them for their refund. I play like, one or two games every 10 years, back during the Sega Genesis, oh yeah baby, but when it came time to buy my own games, heh, no thank you, too expensive and if I don't like it, damn if Electronics Boutique ain't a pain in the ass for returns.

First off, having sex with the prostitutes and or killing them afterwards was not really part of the main game. It was not a mission or a sub-mission, it was just one of the many random things you could do. As for the burning and shotgun blasts to the face, well yeah, its a violent game. In Vice City though, I mean shotting someone in the head means their head disappeared and a few squirts of blood shot out, body fell down dead. In the latest GTA, San Andreas, heh, its like a melon explodes, a touch more graphical.

Yes people, the video game and others are violent, but as many have ranted on before me, GAMES ARE NOT JUST FOR KIDS, just like people should not be shunnded for eating Fruity Pebbles at my age, I am not the Trix Bunny. But no one is paying attention to where these games are going, Billy age 10 puts Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on his birthday wishlist and Mommy and Daddy who grew up with video games as two lines and a square bouncing back and forth, buys it for Billy. No one is thinking, the guy are the store is just doing his job and I'm sure he isn't all fucking happy and dancing like the Wal-Mart people are on the commericals, I'm sure he's sitting there going "please let this end, someone blow my fucking brains out".

And on the side note for Wal-Mart, I bought the "GTA Classic" collection which has the three older "top down" Nintendo-esq graphics of the old GTA Series, and the bitch wanted to see Identification. When she said it I actually paused for a minute and muttered "what the fuck?", pondering what I bought that could even REQUIRE such a thing. Then its like, Oh yeah, GTA...heh. The funny part is that I don't look young, most people are suprised at how old I am when I tell them my age, thinking I was older. I turn 18, oh fun, I can buy my own smokes. No one cards me. I turn 21 eons ago, oh fun I can buy my own booze. No one cards me. So I could have been buying cigs and booze long before 18.

You know what the fuck the problem is? For that, you can enter the rest of this rant.

Children are not being parented anymore, parents are not paying enough attention to their kids, kids are being thrown aside as it they are a hobby or something you are forced to do. I'm not saying everyone of course, but a fair amount. Many parents are ignorant, redneckish and just utterly insane. Some parents have no choice.

And if its not the physical part being taken care of, parents are not paying attention to mental development. A teenager should know the right from the wrong, what is evil and good. Some are just rotten apples who will fall into despair, and as the parents, some are just utterly insane.

Some kids should not be allowed to watch certain movies or video games. And if they do a parent should be around to explain that, death means the person never comes back, and hurting people are wrong. Parents are not inserting the morales and values as the religious people always rant about, as they ignore their children to further their cause, and wounder why Billy is cracking their skull open with a sledgehammer.

Compared to most my mind is filled with all sorts of things, regular thoughts and thoughts that are just pure, evil, cruel, and horrid. Everyone gets those thoughts, but I feel I get them more, you know, like how at a crosswalk while people walk across, YOU are the keeper of their lives, you could inflict so much pain and anguish to those innocent people walking across the street by a quick stomp of the gas.

I've used this to expression a kind of odd-psycho exterior, like turning to one of my good friends and saying it would be interesting to peel the skin off that girl's face to see her skull, she was a small girl with a really small head, teenager, and she had no meat on her face, a skullface! But it caught my eye and I said what my brain was thinking.

Now from all that I have read tonight, because I have played GTA and still play it, my Murder Stimulants are going insane! I THIRST FOR BLOOD! No, I don't, why, cause I HAVE ETHICS AND MORALS. Yes I was raised as a catholic and for once, not touched by a priest. The priest we knew was cool in his own way, and sadly was accused of touching, he was given a test and classifed as "A-Sexual" meaning he has no sexuality, which he didn't. He liked to drink but never drunk, was all into his house, decorations, restored churches, came from a family that was big-money at one time so had his own cash to throw around. Sadly the cash was the reason he got kicked out of the church, some drunk who called from a bar phoned in his report. The guy now holds church in a small house, which is illegal for him, but he can't stop the faith.

I believe in the higher power but I don't believe in Jesus, he may or may not existed, I'll only half believe the shit I said, Penn & Teller perform the same miracles all the time. But I believe that the way I was raised and my enviroment accounts for who I am and how I think. I feel that if I was in a different situation growing up, then yes, I'd have a basement full of body parts.

The most recent uproar is with the latest GTA, San Andreas, pushing aside the melon-like exploding heads and cop burning, there is this thing called "HOT COFFEE" which in one aspect of the game in which you date, at the end of the date, your girlfriend asks you if you want to come on in for some coffee, and we all know what that means. Apparently there are scenes of the players getting it on, WITH CLOTHS on so no skin boat to tuna town. But wait....

This feature is NOT available on any of the GTA Games when you buy it from the store. To make the game do this, you are required to download a "MOD" file (game modification, changes things in games if you did not know that) which unlocks the feature. This "Mod" was created by a "hacker" known as PatrickW on the GTAForums.Com web site. This guy is just like you or me, except he knows how to code for the game (thus getting the term hacker slapped on him).

His mod does nothing but unlocks this feature, which was created by Rockstar / Take Two who created the GTA Series but blocked out from the game, I'm sure to get the rating to M instead of AO on the game chart. I don't think Rockstar Games should be held accountable on that, yes maybe they were sneaking shit by, but who is to say what, because it was a 3rd party person who unlocked it, and since the internet is a wounderful land of the true free, nothing should happen. I can't defend against the nut jobs who say the games should be banned to the children.

There is no solution until the parents step in, its their fault for buying it and not looking into it, and its (mostly) their fault for ignoring Billy, with the exception to Parents who are forced to both work a job to maintain a life style that is just above the toilet rim of "decent". I do believe a parent should stay home with its kid, at least one, but I know that just can't really happen in this world. And I know many parents don't want to do that *psst then don't have kids*. I'm for both i guess, but there must be a balance.

So yes, in the end I blame the parents for the most part, but there is just not one situation to point a finger at, life is life, parents try and suceed, parents over do it, and some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

There is no point to this, as always its just the shit in my head that I'm expressing, the world is fucked, but Love me some GTA. As for the whole murder stimulants, Penn & Teller ranted about the same thing on their show bullshit. It showed that teenage & child crime, murdering each other and such have actually dropped big time, like better than it has been in the past 30 years. Why? CAUSE THE KIDS ARE PLAYING GAMES INSTEAD OF BEING OUTSIDE NOT BEING WATCHED AND ALLOWED TO RUN ANYWHERE AND DO ANYTHING.

So I don't know Jack Thompson, but from what I've read about him, he sounds like another douche on the barby. And he's a part of the whole Hillary Thing, which she can just go straight to fucking hell, why someone from the south is senator of my state I don't know why, but the cunt promised to pay attention to my economically poor area if elected, and outright ignores us. Go Home you Wench.

Once again I remain at the job I was working last year, the fun and joys of The Ice House. I'm sure I've explained how this job work before, but I know you people, unless you're coming here on a regular bases, you don't bother reading anything but the most recent.

This is the wounderful world of the ICE INDUSTRY, yes we do exist, and actually we are one of the oldest, like the Milkman, once your fridge was an ice box, held food, large block of ice in the bottom, hense the name, doy! The Job Title I guess would be VENDER, unless you're in retail you don't know what these Venders do. Kind of like a Vending Machine, we are the people who stock your shelves and bring you food. Chips, Soda, Beer, Bread, Snacks, Candy, Cookies, Ice, and I'm sure there are more. Its different compared to just regular items like toilet paper, light bulbs, actual retail crap.

You've seen the venders in their trucks of all shapes and sizes, I'm sure you've seen the Soda guys, bread and chips, etc. Ice you probably never catch at times. We venders run about all day from store to store, getting in as quickly and leaving even quicker, dealing with our customers, the store owners, as quickly as possible cause they're either really cool and nice, or complete and utter fucking assholes. No one really flocks to the same locations together, but usually you'll find another vender at the store. At times yes, some store owners get the fucking HORROR of 10 trucks pulling into their really small parking lot.

We are the Venders, and we are your gods.

THE BAR CUBE MACHINE
This makes an actual ice cube, more or less its 4 of these machines that drop ice into a large bin, same type of machines you'd have in a bar. Makes big sheets of cubed ice thinly connected.

THE TURBO
This machine is massive, compared to the bar cube machine which can only produce 2 tons of ice per 24 hours, this machine can shit out 40 tons of ice every 24 hours. More or less it makes giant blocks of ice, and crushes it into chunks, aka Crushed Ice.

So you got the ice, now lets bag it. Both machines move the ice with these metal tunnels with a corkscrew inside. The ice goes into another room and is dropped into one of two machines. One machine will automatically bag the ice, seal it and spit it out at you, you stack it on a pallet. The 2nd machine takes the smaller ice chunks and compresses them into 10 Pound Ice Blocks.

Once bagged, goes into a big freezer. From the freezer it will be loaded onto a large box truck which can hold 10 pallets aka 10 tons of ice. This is the vending truck, and I am the vender.

My job is to be up at the ass-crack of dawn, and on the road. Mornings are bad, typically I'm not awake and I even half-sleep behind the wheel. No one is around, and I've yet done anything bad, usually I drift, scare myself and wake up. My job is harder than the other venders, who can zoom up to the store and unload their shit anywhere, and cart their nice boxes into the store. You've seen them, the ICE CHEST, freezer outside with ICE on the front and side. I have to take this box truck, and back its ass up to that chest, then with a partner we get out, someone gets in the back and throws the bags onto the tail gate, I throw the bags into the ice chest, simple enough, eh?

1. Do not park in front of the Ice Chest.

If I had a dime for everytime I've pulled into the parking lot of a corner store, only to have someone come charging in and parking it right in front of that cooler. Whats worse is they stare at me with this dumbass blank look, sitting up in my cab with the door that says ICE on the side, Then they fucking look at the chest, and back at me, get out and go inside. Or I'm pulling in and someone is riding my ass to get to the gas pumps. I pull around so I can get into a backing position, and they drive all up behind me so I can't back up. Or just somehow you're fucking with me, this does not make a happy ice man.

2. Do not speak to the Iceman.

How many times must I hear "The Iceman Cometh" and "That must be a cool job" or "that must be nice for summer" as I stare back at you with that human-hatred look I have, the sweat running down my face cause I don't work well with heat, and become dripping. How I want to take that bag of ice and smack you upside the fucking head with it, asking how that feels. And for christ sakes just don't talk to me, you think I'm just sitting there going la-de-frickin-da. No, I'm counting, and yes it will FUCK me up if I have to change thought. You fuck the store owner or my company if you talk to me.

3. Beware the Rage of the Iceman.

In general I'm a calm and cool person, but god damn when I let loose you will know it. If the store owner is around I usually don't, but I know some have heard me. One marina in which it was hard to back down their fucking driveway, which had two hairpin turns and down a steep hill, I get out half way screaming "Fuck this, fuck this marina, fuck this customer, fuck this place, fuck this hill" fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fucking fuck fuck. Its fun. Someone parks right behind me on the side of a street at a difficult location, I semi-yell "god damn fucking rednecks around here" cause I'm 50 miles from home, get out and the guy actually has the rebel flag on his truck.

4. Don't Fuck With An Ice Vender.

This second year with the company is good, we were one of the only two ice manufactoring plants in Northern New York, there are others down below the mountains in the more populated area, and one company over in Vermont. Take a map of NY State, and from the middle of Lake Ontario, cutting East to West, slice the top of NY State off. This is what our company rules over. It was once shared by this other company, which ruled the eastern half, but due to bad practises, shitty service and just going into the red with costs, we now own their customers, and they no longer exist. So now we are more or less the Gods of Ice here, minus one guy who just sells ice, and buys it off one of the companies to the south. So unlike the other venders, you can't really fuck with us, and not like before when we had competition. I have a few customers who are acting like assholes and think they can go with another company. Its possible, the one guy who just sells it might snatch them up, or the people in Vermont, but the prices for the bags are just horrid compared to ours. The people in vermont sell 5lbs bags of ice for a Dollar a bag, we sell 7 lbs bags for Seventy-Five Cents.

That's the fun of my day, it means nothing overall, work is work, but its fun to bitch about it at times. TGIF.

HAPPY 420 EVERYBODY! I've recently been asked a couple of times by people of "What holiday is on the 20th". I see this year its becoming to be known as Pot Smoking Day, a certain show i listen too in the morning at work "The Bob & Tom Show" was talking about it. Oh well, unfortunatly I'm currently not smoking, but I still keep the day in my heart.

Begin Rant. While searching around the internet for information, I came across several articles about Hillary Clinton, my search was for the well known game, Grand Theft Auto. Apparently at the end of March, kind of a ploy for her 2008 Presidential Campaign, Hillary is going after Violence in Video Games.

Former first lady aligns with hardline right-wingers to slam Grand Theft Auto

New York senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton has launched an attack on violent videogames, singling out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto titles as a "major threat" to morality.

Clinton, who is reportedly planning to seek the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 election, has aligned herself with hardline right-wing Republican senators in order to pressure Congress into researching the impact of electronic media on children.

"Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them," she said in a statement on the issue. "This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place."

She wants a $90 million investigation to be launched into the impact of games and other electronic media on the "cognitive, social, emotional and physical development" of children, according to a Sunday Times report.

Clinton has been joined in her attack on violent games by Republican senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum - the latter of whom is best known for his outspoken stance on homosexuality, which he is accused of comparing to bestiality in public statements.

American political analysts have noted that Clinton has taken on some increasingly right wing stances on domestic issues in recent months, in an effort to win support from traditionally Republican voters in the next presidential race, with videogames being merely the latest political kicktoy to be adopted by the ambitious senator.

There is the article. I'm pretty sure somewhere in this blog you will find the same rant, but seeing this kind of shit just sparks a fire under my ass. 90 MILLION DOLLARS to study this, anyone else find that a tad high. I'm sick and tired of politicians stepping into the ring against video games, and after reading this I came to realize something very simple. These people do not understand that video games are NOT JUST FOR KIDS. Of course these politicians are old, and I guess I can see where they would make that mistake.

Now unless you just don't pay attention to the gaming world, Grand Theft Auto is one of those break all the rules game, namely its the one that has brought up the morals of video games due to its violence, just as Mortal Kombat did originally. The game is about crime, be it drugs, whores, killing people and such. There have been other compliants, the Haitian Government forced Rockstar Games to apologize, since its previous GTA had a mission called Kill the Haitians, which was one of the gangs. But within the game there is nothing "offical" about getting whores and having sex with them, then killing them. And its not like sex is a mini game either, its a very simple process.

There are whores that walk around the life-like city, along with all the citizens. If you have a nice car, you can stop next to one, and they will walk up to the window. After about 15 seconds they'll either get in the car, or walk away. If they get into the car, you drive to a secluded area to "have sex", which is nothing more than the car slightly bouncing. During this time your SCORE aka CASH will go down slowly. Afterwards the whore gets out and you're over. The purpose of this is it will heal you, or if you are fully healed, gives you a boost. And yes, after she gets out of the car if you run her over, you can get your money back. But this is just a little feature, its not a mission, and its not part of the game, and most people probably wouldn't really know about it unless they read it.

But the whole concept of Video Game Violence, and Children is getting out of hand. As TV and Movies, we have a rating system in place, and GTA is rated M for Mature Audiences aka age 17+. But yet with this system in place, children are playing these games, and its very very very very very very very sad why that is, which is kind of a side topic.

Parents are too fucking "nice" to their children now a days, I've seen Nanny 911 and watched in horror as these children just fucking tore the place up, and basically would scream at their parents, demand things and such. For example its like the 5 year old comes in the room and beats his mother with a baseball bat, and afterwards as his mother lies dieing on the ground, she says "Honey, could you please not do that, mommy doesn't like that". I tend to watch Bill Muhr on HBO, I do find him funny at times, its kind of like my "news" of the world since I do pay very little attention to it at times, and he tends to view things as I do.

There is this case where more or less the parents are complaining about RED INK being used in Test Grading in schools. They think a big red X gives the child a negative outlook, that it harms them mentally. I mean what the fuck, as Bill said, god forbid the child might think he didn't get it right, and learn something. Its the same with video games. Parents are not taking into concideration of what game they are getting their children. Either they are just not paying attention, thinking well video games are for kids, so the content will be fine. This I do find hard to believe because the generation that is having kids, grew up in some part of the video game era, at least those with a Atari 2600. Even so I guess no one figured a bunch of squares and circles bouncing around to generic sounds would turn into bloodshed and chaos.

So yes, I think parents are getting way too soft for their children, I'm even seeing this with my sister and my nephew. During our Christmas Vacation up in the mountains, a piece of my 4 year old Nephew's "Sippy" cup disappeared, and she searched for it and slowly got pissier and pissier because HE MUST HAVE IT TO GO TO SLEEP. I'm sitting there getting pissed cause she's acting all pissed off, and I'm like what the fuck, he is 4, he can go to sleep without it. She tends to ask him things, rather than order. Do you want to do this, do you want to do that. Not you must. I can't understand why she is raising the kid this way, cause that is not the way I was raised. More or less both my parents kept the fear of god in me, my father never had to do a thing, for some reason we always feared his wrath, despite him never showing it.

So what you get are these kids who will throw themselves on the floor and have a fit because the parent said you couldn't get that game. And thus we don't want to harm little billy's mind with something negative, they give in and get them a very violent game. The most recent one has a tone of swearing in it, which the previous games did not (funny cause the previous games were more mafia and vigelanty style and the new one is based in an LA like city and black gangs).

So this 90 Million the Bitch wants to spend to study this, is a big fucking waste of the tax payers money. Its been done on television, and as someone pointed out that playing a video game is the same exact thing, except you might be thinking a touch more, and pushing some buttons. This seems like a right-wing thing though, it looks good to the voting public sadly.

Of course another problem is the lack of enforcement on the game ratings, some the major chains like Walmart will actually ask for your ID when its a Rated M game, but alot of places will not. This needs to be enforced, this is half the reason kids are getting these games, the other half is ignorant parents, or parents who do not care.

But also lets take into the fact of what we think of children, since that GTA has been blamed by kids in the past for doing stunts, i've seen at least one case where the kids actually said they were just coping what was happening in GTA, of course these kids were not 17+. Of course concidering today is the Anniversity of Columbine, they were looking at games like GTA. Columbine did not happen because Marilyn Manson sung about violence, or some game showed violence, it happened because these kids were outcasts and more or less picked on, I never looked at their home life but I'm sure at least one of the kids probably had a problem, one had a fucking arsenal in his bedroom which should not be allowed.

Hiliary or HIllary, whatever the fuck her name is seems to be a little pain in my ass, well, not really but she seems to always piss me the fuck off. Worse she is my state senator, and when she was trying to get elected for that, she promised the people in my area that she would help us out. I live in a economically poor area, we're kind of cut off from the rest of the US pushed up against Canada, and lack major corperations for jobs. Did she help us, fuck no. I live next to the St.Lawrence Seaway which is a series of water locks that allows ships to travel between the Great Lakes and the Ocean. When they built the system in the 1950s they based the lock size off the "newest" one down near Lake Erie. Well...by the time they completed the system, the locks were too small for the ocean going ships of the day. Certain types of ships can pass through the system, Lakers is what we call them, ships made to travel this system. To create this system which also included a massive hydro power dam, we back-flooded a massive part of the area, which sunk many towns, espcially in Canada where 10 towns had to be relocated. More or less we create a lake, which along with the towns sunk islands, trees and wildlife. So now they want to increase the size of the seaway, nothing even major, they want to dig the shipping lane from 27 feet to like 30 feet. But noo, the eco-freaks don't want that cause we might harm someone's ecosystem. Hiliary is a big supporter against this, and she is more or less fucking everyone out of here of possibly more jobs.

So its simple, it will be a cold day in hell when she reaches the white house, if I must eat 100 pounds of C4 and go give her a big old hug, and push the trigger, I will. God why won't this southern bitch go back to her own state, oh yeah, cause she and Slick Willy stole a bunch of money.

Someone mention something funny, a conspiracy theroy about this whole 90 million Study. Someone said that if Hiliary raises 90 million, that Bill Gates will also donate 90 million, and someone else would donate 90 million, and they would in turn give this money to the creators of Grand Theft Auto to "retire" and go away, and in turn Bill Gates would design a new computerized tolling booth for the 2008 election that would only pay attention to the letters HRC. I wish I could find it.

HOLLYWOOD, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING....

Anyone else thinks that Hollywood ran out of stories to tell? Last year it was like the Remake Movie Marathon of Movies, and it continues into 2005. First we have the Amityville Horror, which I will say looks -entertaining- it its own way, but will never ever be anywhere near as good as the original. Entertaining mainly for the magical computer images. House of Wax is a remake of the 1953 chiller story staring Vincent Price, who was a great artist in sculpting, and created wax figures. He owned a wax museum which was very private, but wanted to buy out his parnter and open up one for the public. A rich guy who was interested had to leave for 3 months, and he would pay upon his return. Vincent's partner in the current museum didn't want to wait for his money, he wanted out, so he sets the place on fire, which of course begins a fight between him and Vincent. In the end the partner gets out, but Vincent more or less in shock as his greatest creations melted away, and remains in the building. Its set in the time of gas lighting, and the partner had blown alot of them out, thus the building explodes. Its assumed Vincent is dead.

Low and behold a few months later, Vincent shows up now crippled into a wheelchair, his hands which he used to create such beaty are now frozen like claws. But he recreates his museum with apprentices, and as always his artwork is very life like...except this time it is. It was an interesting movie, and I had never seen it before, then 2 hours later its bum BUM BUM!! Coming Soon, House of Wax. So I went and looked up the general storyline last night....well I didn't bother to read too much. Co-Starring the Whore of Whores, Paris Hilton. So that movie will blow in many ways.

Now I'll admit that I've watched the Powerpuff Girls, I use to always have my TV on cartoon network, and I saw all the modern cartoons like that, Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd and Eddy and such. I find them entertaining, I guess I'm a cartoon guy. But over on the web comic Exterminatus Now, one of the writers was ranting about this new Powerpuff Series. More or less its Powerpuff Girls go Anime with a really horrid name, Powerpuff Z. VG Cats kind of also had an article on this, it was how Anime is beaten and raped for american television, at least the more childrens shows. Its just like we've done everything, and now we're just going to repeat things, or recreate them. Its probably why we're making so many comic book movies, because its stories untold. Next they'll have to start doing all the fantasy novels. God knows.

END RANT.

WHO THE FUCK IS ANYONE TO DECIDE WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS NOT GOOD

I am sick of everyone telling me how to fucking live, how to breath, how I should look, how I should present myself, what I should do, what is right and what is wrong, this entire god damn country is falling into some chaotic world were mass groups are going to tell us how to live, who to worship and what to wipe our asses with. Religion is taking a big factor in this country, but all these small "rights" groups are begining to really piss me off. Find a life people, protest something worth it.

Anyone who sues MacDonalds or any fast food chain for making them fat should be dragged into the street, tied to the light pole and have their underbelly sliced open so their guts spill out for everyone to see. These companies did not make you fat, because you sit in front of a TV eating and eating and eating is no one fault but your own. Take a walk, see nature, see life wandering around, quit sitting in your god damn house.

Oh well you're one to talk Niss, you sit in front of a computer all day and you weight a good three hundred pounds, and eat alot of take out food. Why don't you get off your fucking ass and go outside?!!?

There are fat people in this world, and then there are gluntains (spelling?), people who wouldn't be fat, if they would just stop eating. I am a person who was born to be large, be fat and heavy all my life. At the age of 9 the dentist turned to my parents and said that "your son has the jaw bone of a large man" and he didn't say a man's jawbone, a large man's jawbone. Pee-Wee Football they had to order a helmet to fit over my skull, a regular High School Football Player's helmet. I don't eat all day, actually for the size of me it would actually scare you how much I eat. As anyone yes I will feast, but I don't sit all day and eat. I roughly eat a single meal a day as much as that is hard to believe. I eat dinner, a big meal, and typically have a sandwhich sometime before bed. That is all I eat besides drinking a couple gallons of Pepsi. Back to the point....

I am just so feed up with being told how to live my life and what to consume. More or less "Vegans" of America forced MacDonalds to change their oil, these beef juice type oil which has been used since the founding. I never noticed the change personally, but it could be possible it has yet to happen in my area, we seem to lag when this shit happens, when Supersize went away, it took a good month before our MacDonalds did away with it. I can understand their plea for years, no one ever mentioned this oil, most people assumed it was vegitable oil like everyone else uses, so for years you had Vegans who will not "eat anything with a face" eating tons and tons of beef flavored fries, how delightful.

I am against those who stand out and say "I AM VEGAN, DON'T EAT MEAT". I know Vegans, I've known both types. I know two people who do not eat meat. One is a good friend of mine and doesn't because his mother is a Nutricianal something or other, Dietary Assistant...fucked if I know, but he just doesn't eat meat. Same with the other person, she doesn't eat meat due to the inhumane way animals are processed. And I can agree to that. As for me, I'm a Carnivore, not an Omni, I rarely eat any vegitation besides corn and potatoes, I love meat, give me a steak, cut it from the cow and slap it in front of me.

The way we do process animals for food isn't right, Animals are living creatures and do deserve the right to some comforts while they live their short little lives before ending up on our dinner plate. It would also help with the current out breaks of disease, espcially with fowl. Chickens are kept in a yard or a building, and its basically like having a 20ft by 20ft mass of chickens running around. Those who lay their eggs are kept in small cages, I think typically not allowed to move, just shit out eggs. I think in general most of these places kept their animals in fair condition, but you get the places that do not treat the animals like a living thing, just items in their business, the more you have, the more money you get when you sell them for their flesh. Things could be done to improve on these situations, but.....

I swear to god anytime I hear that bleeding heart shit about animals, I just want to get an axe and start chopping heads off of people. There is one situation I always bring up, when I read it I was just like What the fuck?! To be frank, a town down south went by the name of Slaughterville, named after the Slaughter Family who started a general store that the town grew around (nice name). PETA I think it was wrote the town a letter to change their name, because a name like Slaughter brings up images of poor animals being killed, and how scared they must be knowing they are about to die.

Stop, Rewind. I'm sorry but I grew up in a semi-agricultural area, the land I live on, yet small was a small running farm with crops, cows and such. A chicken does not know its about to die, a chicken, a cow, a pig, I don't think really graps life. Yes a chicken will struggle and such, from what I've been told basically you strap them by the neck onto a belt and they get fed into basically a giant saw blade, remove the head from the torso. But that chicken does not know its about to die, all it knows is that its handing by its neck and that it is in trouble. And I'm sorry, I like chicken, so they must die. If it makes you feel better, I'll raise my own and kill them like my grandfather, a stump with two bent nails, you wedge the head in, take an axe, and then watch the body dance around for about two minutes. I've never witness such acts, unfortunatly my grandfather died a hell of a long time before I was born, so I am only told of stories. There was always two cows kicking around the place, each fall you would kill one and fill a freezer full of steaks and beef, in the spring get a new cow, and the 2nd older one is killed that fall, repeat. Now I'd imagine any farm animals would be pets, but its been described that all my uncles and such would whip each other with its guts after it was slaughtered. I have the single shot .22 that was used to slaughter them.

Religion is in an uproar, espcially now that the pope is dead. I was raised a catholic, but I don't really believe in that. Jesus may have existed, but he also could have been an alien. I believe in a higher power, a deity, a god, a goddess, there is some higher form of life than humans. I do think we evolved to what we are from single cells, but I think we were helped. But I do believe God does not really will anyone to do anything, he does not have a plan for us, we're just an ant farm on his shelf, sometimes he lends a hand or wills something, most of the time he's just watching like a pervert. But as for the Pope I'd rather see people not bash him now that he is dead. Look at his life and give him some respect, for what religion background he was, he did something with his life. Go make fun of Cochran's Death, cause Chewbaka killed him.

Abortion is always the highly talked about subject. One I notice was Pharmisists (sp) who refused to give women birth control. This is not right, because it is not his or her business despite belief. You are hired under rules that say we do not discriminate against color, race or religion, so thus you should leave your color, race and religion at the punch clock. My views on abortion is simple, it is the woman's choice, some babies should not be brought into the world. Sadly those who are going to be "special" as they like to call it, i feel maybe that life shouldn't be brought into the world. Its a life yes, but what kind of life will that person lead. I know of one "retard" who is now 65, he has lived with his brother all his life, he sits in his chair, watches tv, listens to music and attends work shops. He's had a fine life, but he is a weight around his brother's neck, not that he had too much going for him being a priest. But I could see where not brining that life into the world is fine. Rape victims, unless they want the child should be allowed to have abortions, I've seen that protested against. Children under the age of 18, they are too young to have children, but yet they do. But that is just me of course, and my father's words since I was one of those "could go bad" births. He told the doctor to "rip him out" if that was going to happen, they could always attempt another.

I don't know, is it just me or are there too many ignorant fucking humans walking the face of this planet. I've seen many things like protests were people would ask the protester "what are you protesting" and they said "oh I don't know, I just came here with friends....". There are too many followers who just go with the trend. My high school was full of it, The Vegans who did not eat anything throwing a shadow, and the sXe aka Straight Edge, who did not drink or do drugs. This was extremly popular in my school, my own counsin who was Vegan at the time spat on my brother, who promoted eating meat, doing drugs with his local band. Many of these people though were just following a trend. It was about being in one of these groups and having a band. We'd all cram ourselves in this bomb shelter like building, once a bar, now a "after school" spot with plywood walls, ancient arcade games, and a make shift stage. Oh and can't forget the Tattoo Parlor and Juice Bar. Behind our local plaza locaed on a street called Roach, broken glass all over the back, shit hanging off the building. It was fun. But god did these people fight. The first time I smoked pot with friends, we had kind of a party thing, parents were gone so we'd go over to my friends house, drink and smoke, but the first time we just got high. One of their friends who was sXe found out, and was going to call the cops. That bugged the shit right out of me, wasn't like we were having a cannabis feastival, it was like 8 of us, mostly band members and the random people like me. He never did, but when we went outside to smoke outside his house (double wide, forest in the back, neighbors on either side unseen) we had a friend go out the front door, round the back and turn the corner with a mag-lite blinding us and said "What are you doing!" in a deep voice. I wish someone had taken a picture of the four of us passing a bowl, we just totally froze. And while the thought passes the Straight-Edge kid even had a form of the word "Straight Edge" as vanity plates on his car. At a later party I rolled off the front steps laughing, he thought his car was bad ass and it wasn't bad looking, one of those big bass stereos, he opens the door and there's a gunshot noise. Somehow his car battery exploded and split in half. How I laughed.

But you know what happened to all these people. By senior year they were drinking and smoking and having a good old time. Man what a bunch of suckers, they spent at least 2.5 years of their high school days being these vegans and non-drug people, and I spent all 4 and then some drinking and smoking.

Besides that, I can't think of anyone else who has been pissing me off. In the words of Gwar....

Specicide, A New Word To Say.

Authors of a study that recommends a four-lane highway from Watertown to Plattsburgh held public meetings on the idea last week. The response from local leaders has been overwhelmingly positive, but the public's reaction has been mixed. David Sommerstein reports.

- North Country Public Radio (NCPR)

WASHINGTON - The rooftop highway proposed for Northern New York and New England is missing a few shingles. While the rooftop concept has strong support in Northern New York and Maine, it faces opposition in Vermont, where environmentalists worry that a new interstate highway would tear through valuable forest and disrupt towns along the route.

- Watertown Daily Times

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The first article comments very correctly about this interstate, it has become myth and lore of THE NORTH COUNTRY. First lets learn what is the North Country, and why you can get shot for calling it Upstate New York. Of course you have New York State, which for some reason many people do not realize that it is a large state. NYC is just a single city not even really part of the state, it sticks down into NJ and away from the main body in the south-east corner. And as great of a place it can be where I know a couple of people who I live, my feelings is the city needs to be cut from the state and become its own district, like Washington. The amount of money the state has to use towards this one area is just insane since there is alot more that is in need of help. NYC and the southern parts are known as New York State.

Upstate New York, which typically everything thinks its anything north of NYC, is actually the central part of the state. This includes part of the Adirondack Mountains, and such larger cities such as Syracuse, and Saratoga Springs. Past this you get into true wilderness, and thus you get....

NORTHERN NEW YORK. Find a map of NY with the counties shown, Northern New York is made up of roughly 6 counties, Jefferson, Lewis, Franklin, Essex, Clinton, and St.Lawrence. Lake Placid, home of the 1980 something Olympics and just had the movie about the US Hockey Team which kicked ass that year, is known as the Gateway to the area. I along with many others will actually get pissed if you call it Upstate, its a totally different world here compared to the rest of the state.

Norhern New York is not a place you'd want to live, unless you're already living here, or you're looking for a very peaceful place. Due to the Adirondack Mountains we are cut off from many things, since the mountain range is a national park for the rich NYC folks to come get away from their world of SIN! Joking, but that's the general attitude about it, the Adirondack Park is a lovely place to go camping, vacationing if you like wilderness. Its not the Rocky Mountains, unlike the Rocky Mountains which are very young in age, these mountains are old and worn down to be semi-small in areas. Nice glacier cut lakes, very clean, probably a good idea it was made into a park eons ago. BUT....

To get to my area, which all I will say is St.Lawrence County, you basically have to go around these mountains. There is a way to get places via the mountains, but the roads can be pretty shitty at times, just State Routes in need of some real work. The cool thing about the park is all the signs turn aburn/brown colors, and all the guardrails and railings are brown so they blend in more. But the true transportation, the one that brings ECONOMIC GROWTH are Interstates.

Interstates were created by Einsenhower (sp?) during his 1950s Presidentacy. Most think they were built because of the baby boom and the massive growth America experienced after WWII, and how we fell in love with automobiles, but that is false, and it shows how the government thinks. Interstates were created to allow our armed forces to move around our country quickly and safely. Einsenhower while serving in the army had to move his unit from the east coast to the west coast, and it took weeks over various roads, some nice, many rough. There was a highway system at the time, the old US ROUTES which many interstates were built next to allowed long distant travel. US 66 of course is the famous one, US 11 near me goes almost to Mexico. There is a US 9 near the I-90 here in NY that goes from Salem Mass to Portland Org. For every 5 miles of Interstate there must be a 1 mile of straight flat road....so the military could land planes if needed. Of course I'm sure that doesn't hold too true anymore, but that was 1950.

I am roughly 1.5 hours between the only two interstates in the area, I81 which goes from the Canadian Border down into Mississippi, and the I87 which goes from the Canadian Border to Queens. Interstate 98 as I discovered was the proposed number is suppose to follow US Route 11 from Watertown to Plattsburg, and apparently if possible all the way to Northern Maine. I've heard about this thing all my life, but as you can see, its being studied and cock-blocked by the politicians.

Its mainly the "Enviromental Impact" everyone is bitching about, oh god the fucking noise, what about the little animals, WON'T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS!!!!!!! Jesus Christ you people need to shut the fuck up. Northern New York has had a kind of tradition of "fuck nature", we are also home to the St.Lawrence Seaway, a water shipping lane which allows ships to travel from the Atlantic into the Great Lakes via a series of water locks. Before the river had a massive rapid area, which happens to be in my back yard. They built many locks and dams, and we fucking back-flooded a giant area that became to be known as Lake St.Lawrence, which is just a watershed to feed the FDR Powerdam, a massive cement powerdamn with 32 Turbines shared between the US and Canada (16 turbines each).

This is another area of woe, they built this entire system of locks based off a lock located between Lake Ontario & Lake Erie, and when they got done in 1959, they were a little too small for the modern ships. Its another lore and myth that has been talked about, the expansion of this system so it can handle larger ships. The Enviromentalists are also against this, because the shipping channel would have to be dug deeper, and we might disturb some wildlife. Maybe the Zebra Muscles will die off, wouldn't that be sad, some little snail like creature from china who hitched a ride on a ship and has caused some havoc on the river, clogging water intake pipes and such. We burrid 10 canadian towns and killed several US towns from growing in the 1950s to create this thing, including all the land we sunk under.

Anyways, back to the roughly main point of this rant, Interstate 98 is suppose to connect Interstate 81 and 87, and reading tonight the rest of the North-East America. But I found it funny that is it really a Myth, most have heard of it, and most know that we will not see it in our lifetime. Our economy sucks, we pay more than most for gas and vehicles, why? Because they are more or less Imported to the area due to lack of proper roads. Companies do not want to build facilities here despite some "good" things we do have, such as the FDR Powerdam, which currently supplies power to various locations in NY State including power down to NYC, two massive aluminum smelters and a GM Powertrain plant which produces engine blocks (alot more before GM went to hell). Those two companies (Alcoa & GM) are the blood of this area, if you're working here, you're making good money, and you are because they are union shops, and if you're not a doctor or a teacher (yes teachers are "higher" class here rather than spit as cities tend to treat them), you will either live alright, or you'll be poor. On the plus side housing and such is cheap, you can get a nice place for 400, a "NY Shoebox Aprtment" would cost like 50 bucks a month with everything included. Land is also cheap to come by, unless you are on the St.Lawrence River, or in the Adirondack Park (which you can't even build a firepit without three permits).

As someone who plans to stay in this area for at least part of his life, I feel that this interstate would be a very good thing for this entire area. It would allow things to be shipped here cheaper, lower prices for vehicles and gas, and could bring in some sort of business. If they would expand the St.Lawrence Seaway to allow at least small container ships, you could have disturbution centers here, trucking companies could setup in the region, companies would be more willing to come here.

There are other things they have talked about building here, such as a small nascar track that would at least give 500+ jobs to the community. Its shown economical boosts to areas that got a track, even though some areas complained about it, the people here are bitching because of the "noise" factor.

Anyways, my mind has wandered off the subject...

The main comment is how I tend to dislike the term of "Hero" being used about these accidents, but mainly its about Columbia, the recent one. The reason I don't like the term of "hero" for these people is because the job is dangerous to begin with, these people know that everytime they attempt to go to space, something could go wrong, something could easily explode and kill them. Sadly the trips we make are kind of pointless, like in the Simpsons when Homer went to space, it was to conduct a study to test the effect of no gravity on tiny screws, and they're right. Now a days we are going up there for stupid reasons, probably because its easy to do, but still these people are not heros, they deserve props and respect for what they do, but to call them great heros just is not right. Maybe we're just trapped in the past about it. Neil Armstrong is a hero, and all those guys who made the first flights into space. They had balls, as much science as we have, everytime those guys tried something, it could have easily gone wrong. Now a days we know what space is, we know what is needed and not. We know the moon is not made of cheese, and so far we know there are not black martians wearing roman gear on Mars (Melvin the Alien).

But I cannot concider those who died a few years back on re-entry any kind of hero, brave for even going into space of course, but no, no hero. For christ sakes they are driving a 30 year old vehicle, well maintained and all, but still 30 freakin years old. Would you take your 74 Duster cross country, no. They died because a chunk of their own craft fell off. Brave yes, Hero no.

Challenger I will allow them to be called Heros, they were brave and space will still pretty young at the time, the vehicles were newer, and they died because some moron on the ground didn't obey the rules and said launch the ship anyways. They died because it was 34'F out, and due to the temps the gasket around the fuel had shrunk, the basics of any engineers, when hot, things expand, when cold they shrink. Fuck, if you have a set of balls you know that without having a hundred thousand dollar degree. Their deaths could have been avoided, and thus they can be heros.

Of course I could go on about Bush and his "lets conquer space by taking the moon and landing someone on mars for the aliens to eat" speech he made a few years ago, actually I think a year after Columbia. Currently the status of our country, I say lets not spend billions on going to the moon or mars. We've danced on the moon, and we're probing Mars, good enough. Lets slowly invest in some new vehicles, a better and faster spaceship that isn't so proned to exploding. We need to stop reaching further and further into space, and heh, look more down to earth. We need to find a way to go to space that is cheap, with better vehicles. Ships that can go further, not the enterprise but there has to be an easier and quicker way into space. Don't we have the technology, come on, it was fucking amazing to see "The Shat" speaking into his communicator back in the 60s. Now Grandma is talking into her cell phone and grinding in parking lots (sorry, one of those "Where you At" commerical that should have never been made). If going into space was a common thing, I would go on out, hopefully to a better planet.

All I can say is I wish I could see that in my life, but I doubt it, and if I do I'll probably be old and crippled, calling it witch craft and widdling a duck from a log. Unless of course we have cloning, then I'll have myself a fresh new body. Anyways, the rant has died, so that's my mama!

Anyone who knows me, knows that Gwar is the band I worship, and I won't say worship like a drooling fan, but its my favorite. If I'm going to listen to something, its typically gwar. But my taste in music is very small and closed up, I can general sum up my mp3 list. Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Dillinger Escape Plan, Disciples of Berkowitz, Dying Fetus, Dyshythmia, DBX, GWAR, Six Feet Under, Skinless, X-Cops, M.O.D., Hatebreed, Misifits, and Section 8. I have other albums, but I only picked what I might listen to. 99% of the time, its some form of Gwar, be it X-Cops, DBX, or one of their ten albums.

And I get asked "why" do I listen to Gwar, and not other things such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, or some other good old school or new school metal. For the most part, shitty ass modem and not wanting to pay 20 bucks for a cd that I may or may not like. And yes, to many Gwar sucks, I ask that people listen several times, listen to the actual music and how despite sounding off the bat very one layered, they do alot of background layers. And yes, they do not sing about the woe of the worlds