How To Argue With Females.

How To Argue With Females.

Funny column. Mostly because it rings very true. I especially love rule #11.

But I can't say I'd use too many of those tactics. Except for #2 and #4, which I have used to great effect before. And the "yeah" part of #8. (3, 9, 12 & 13 just seem tooooooo damn low!)

BTW: I'm not misogynistic. I just think the world is very much tilted in favor of females. Legally, socially, whatever. I agree with Vox that the world treats women and minorities as children.

And if you're inclined towards having a chivalrous view (like me) you are totally screwed. Because your own instincts screw you over in the woman's favor!

Were I a woman, I'd likely be cynical looking at how men & women interact. But I'd also enjoy all of the advantages I'd have too.

More Fun With Our Legal System

"But what is eye-opening is the frequency in which such cases are being found. In Tennessee last year, more than 7,000 men named as fathers by women seeking child-support or government assistance were tested by the Tennessee Department of Human Services, and roughly 27 percent of those men were found not to be the biological father — a staggering revelation."

Staggering? Hardly. The women in these cases are much more likely to be whorish. And more desperate to lie to get $$$ for their darling little bastards. Duh.

I do wonder... is a woman's word enough to force a DNA test upon a man wrongly named? Why do I expect the answer is "yes"? I already know that only a lying whore's word is enough to get a man tossed into jail overnight in Indiana (and most likely everywhere else too). Even when any evidence of alleged abuse is absent.

"State Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, introduced a bill in the legislature this year that would have allowed a man to stop paying support for a child who is not his, no matter when he learns he is not the father. The bill didn't pass. But it raises important elements of the issue. It's certainly not fair to require child support from someone who is not the parent, but that step alone doesn't provide for the child. Lawmakers should take a thorough look at the issue. The cases can be hardest on the children. And the cases certainly shed light on the behavior of grown-ups."

The law wants (and gets) it both ways. If a guy doesn't want to be a dad, the mere fact of being the biological father is enough to force him to pay for 18-26 years of child support.

If a guy isn't the biological father, the fact that he ACTED as a dad is enough to screw him for 18-26 years of child support. Even after DNA tests prove he's not the real father.

So no matter what, if you get involved with a lying whore and there is a kid involved: you're screwed.

Nice system.

... (speechless)

"He was serving a 25-year sentence for having 58 Vicodin pills in his bread truck. Jurors weren't told that it is legal to possess the drug with a prescription, which he had."

25 years. For drug trafficking. Murderers typically get less. So do rapists.

Twenty five years.

"Prosecutors then argued—and the trial court agreed—that the jury was not allowed to consider the fact that O'Hara had a prescription because Florida statutes governing painkillers don't allow for a "prescription defense," as if that rather crucial fact were some mere technicality those ACLU-types are always using to get criminals off the hook."

"He sold two condos, his car and his bread business to pay for the appeal. But the state took the proceeds, according to family friend Eric Mastro, to pay toward the $500,000 fine that came with his conviction."

This guy lost two houses, his car and his livelihood for pot possession. And he could still go back to jail for 25 years. This is justice?

"MANIC MIKE'S BLOG"???

For I while I've been wondering if I should take offense at John Peddie's referring to me as "Snake & Arrows"...

Then I notice Wonder Woman put up my link as "MANIC MIKE'S BLOG".

I guess I should be happy I'm linked to at all...

EDIT: And now... "Self proclaimed retard"?????

Ow.

Plus! I challenge her to show when I ever called myself a retard!

My retort is less stinging than I'd like. Might have to revise it later.

Regional Colloquialism Or Am I Just A Dullard?

Dang it! I left one "L" off of "Colloquialism"...

Anyway... I was watching "Homicide: Life on the Street" on "Sleuth" network this evening and this phrase was uttered that made me reflect on a past conversation.

They referred to a drug dealer as "a piece of work". It wasn't flattering.

Anyway, in this past conversation, I was very annoyed with this girl and said "You're a real piece of work".

From the tone of the conversation from that point on, I think she took that to mean that I equated "piece of work" with "piece of shit".

I didn't. And don't.

I always thought it meant "You're one of a kind" in a snide / sarcastic sort of way. Like, "You're a pain in the neck and it MIGHT be a good thing they broke the mold when they made you."

At the time, I thought she was overreacting, as females are certainly wont to do.

But now I'm not so sure and I'm wondering if I unintentionally really insulted her.

I'm looking for SERIOUS thoughts on this. So if anyone has an opinion, just let me know:

If someone said "You're a piece of work"... how would YOU take it?

Maybe I WILL Leave This Country...

...due to paternalistic BULLSHIT like this: the 20,000% tax increase on cigars.

Seriously! At what point does it stop? This tax bullshit has me furious already.

Due to some bureaucratic BULLSHIT I'm paying literally twice as much property taxes as I'm supposed to be. AND my property tax assessment nearly doubled this year.

So over 2 years, my tax burden on my house has very nearly quadrupled.

To say I'm unhappy is a bit of an understatement.

G. Gordon Liddy told a story of a visit to Appalachia. And how tax men very frequently just... disappeared from their visits to collect taxes. When asked, the mountain men said "We have no idea where they are... but they all got Christian burials."

I cannot truthfully say I'm unsympathetic to their attitude.

"I Don't Like Repeat Offenders..."

"I like DEAD offenders." - Terrible Ted Nugent



I love Ted. He rocks. And not just because he blows keyboards away with shotguns, either.

Shane Mewls Like A Cheap Whore:

"Where did my comment go?

I thought you NEVER deleted comments! Fucking hypocrite."

I've never denied deleting comments. I've deleted you before. And I'll do it again if I feel like it.

Get over it.

My blog ain't no fucking democracy. It's a total dictatorship and you're a little peasant.

I don't delete comments simply because they contain contrary opinions. That was the policy I objected to on other boards / blogs. Like Dyke Central (AKA Pandagon).

And if I delete the post, I'm deleting the comments directly related that would reveal exactly what that deleted post contained. Otherwise, it would be pointless to delete the post.

DUH.

EDIT: Wow. I just read Shane's comments on some threads below.


"No, YOU LIE. And make up STUPID Conspiracy Theories.

Get the FUCK out of our country!"

This is the rational response of the Angry American. Pretty isn't it?

Never mind that a rational person would have to admit that I have some valid points. Never mind that early reports on 9/11 mentioned us shooting down the 4th plane. Never mind that pieces of the plane were found miles away from the crash site (which would mean that something broke off pieces of that plane BEFORE it hit the ground, like an intercepting missle).

Never mind that something like 50 eyewitnesses contradict the official account of TWA 800.

Nope. I'm just a stupid conspiracy theorist. Yup. Stick that head in the sand a little deeper, Shane.

Then in the other thread, he skips over making any sense and just goes for the emotional jugular in a very womanly hissy fit that doesn't deserve one bit of rational response.

And you wonder why I think the "internet talk show" idea is stupid?

Great Quote

"Ron Paul is thin because he won't let special interests buy him lunch."

From HERE.

Incompetence... Shaken... Not Stirred.

Great skewering of the Bond film "Goldfinger" HERE.

The last paragraph is GOLDEN. Pun painfully intended.

Rushing To Judgement

Shane: Remember Richard Jewell, the Atlanta Olympics "bomber"? The Duke "rapists"? The non-existent white snipers in DC in the white van? The guy they were so sure had spread anthrax after 9-11?

As for the anthrax killers, the feds never DID find out who did that one, did they? Bet you forgot about it too.

And who REALLY did plant the Atlanta bomb?

And did you notice how oh-so quiet the country got when it was discovered two black guys were the snipers?

Those are the reasons why you shouldn't just take everything the feds or cops say as being true.

They are very often wrong and stupid. They are, after all, government employees. And they have about the same incentive as any other government employees for getting all of their facts right. Which is to say, next to zero.

In a country where the FBI labs were found out manufacturing false forensic evidence, there's plenty of room for doubting those that claim the powers that the law-enforcement" community do.

Do NOT Listen To Their Lies!

From HERE.

TWA-800. Senator John Cocksucker Kerry admitted on national TV that TWA-800 was shot down. TWICE.

The previous Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld admitted we shot down the fourth 9/11 plane while "over there". He very quickly said he "mis-spoke". Sorry, you don't "slip" like that unless it's the truth. That's like me saying about your missing sister "Yeah, I had to cut a lot of roots to bury her! ... I mean, yeah. Too bad she's not around!"

The government is still covering up the involvement of Middle-Eastern operatives in the Oklahoma City Building attacks.

And I do believe the official reports say that Branch Dividians at Waco burned themselves up in a mass suicide. You know, after the army pumped in explosive gas to subdue them. They then used incendiary rounds to shoot at these deadly criminals.

I think even Patrick the Starfish just might give Spongebob a tap on the shoulder to slow him down a bit on that one... "Uhhhhh... Spongebob... won't you kill all those kids you're trying to 'rescue'?"

They LIE, Shane of the Perpetual Blindness! Do not listen to their lies!

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(AODB Factor: ... about 6/10)

EDIT: Yeah... I forgot I wrote this...

BTW: AODB = Adventures of Drunken Blogger

A hard day at work + 94 proof Bourbon = revealing a little too much on this post.

Sorry. Hope it amused at least.

Wow. Happening Faster Than I Thought...

HERE.

"The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer's challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher."

Now this stuff can get really technical and confusing, as most tax cases do. But this one's pretty simple.

"Although the legal citations in the case tend to run the length of paragraphs, Cryer told WND the underlying issue is not that complicated. Essentially, he argued that income is not necessarily any money that comes to a person, but rather categories such as profit and interest.

He said the free exchange of labor for compensation has been upheld as a right by the Supreme Court, but that doesn't necessarily make the compensation income."

and...

"There are three points that are important," he told WND. "There's no law making the average working man liable [for income taxes], there's no law or regulation that allows the IRS to contend that earnings are 100 percent profit received in exchange for nothing, and the right to earn a living through any lawful occupation is a constitutionally protected fundamental right, and it is exempt from taxation."

Interesting times...

A good number of people in this country say "Just shut up and pay your taxes." I know, I 've seen and heard such "arguments" before.

But the rule of law is what's important here. And the IRS has been fucking us all for nearly 100 years. And mostly in an illegal manner.

Bill & Ted were so stupid

After they were killed by their evil robot us-es, they could have just sat in Hell content in the knowledge that they would soon and still be alive soon.

Because if B&T were killed BEFORE their music healed the universe... blah, blah, blah... then Denomaelos wouldn't have been born and if he HAD been born, he wouldn't have the same motivation to destroy B&T. So he would never create the evil robot us-es to send back. Therefore, no one would kill B&T and they'd still be alive.

This makes sense since in the FIRST B&T movie, they have to remember to go back in time in the future to steal Ted's dad's keys to put them where B&T would find them to bust the famous history figures from jail.

So B&T suck from an temporal ramifications internal consistency standpoint.

And yes, I thought and typed this all up while making time and a half on your federal government dime.

EDIT: In all due fairness to me, these thoughts came to me whilst listening to Steve Vai's "movie tracks" CD. He did several pieces for that film, including "The Reaper Rap" which has a lot of spoken parts from the film in the song.

So this isn't as whacked out as it first appears.

I'm Surrounded By Frikiin' Idiots...

at work. I was asked if I would be upset if some of my work was given to another employee.

Being me, I launched into sarcasm mode. I went on quite a bit about how mad I'd be if they did so. I THOUGHT the ridiculous amounts of sarcasm I inflicted upon my bosses was sufficient.

Apparently, it was not sufficiently sufficient to penetrate someone's skull. Which is apparently VERY thick.

I got half of another batch. Where anyone with a working sarcasm detector would have given it all to my backup person.

I'm referring to this episode as "accidental reverse psychology".

I should refer to it as "dimwittery revealed".

Caves Are Cool...

Literally! It was rather chilly in THIS place on Sunday...

My mom, my niece Samantha and I went to this place in Bedford, Indiana this past Sunday. Time well spent. We went underground into this cave some 200 feet below the surface and then got into a boat for an underground river tour.

I only saw blind crayfish, my mom saw a bat. I got a little claustrophobic when our guide told us how far underground we were. Strange how things don't bother you until you FIND OUT!

But it was eerie and fascinating at the same time. And our guide told us that it was the most boring cave in the area. So if we go to another cave, it should be better. And we have tentative plans to go to another one this coming up Sunday too.

Yet ANOTHER Reason Paul Gilbert Is Cool...

(and why I'm STILL kicking myself for not making me and Jason go to G3 in Boston to see PG, John Petrucci and Joe Satriani... almost as much as I'm kicking myself for going to a cave w/ my Mom & my niece visiting from Boston instead of going to see Zappa Does Zappa on Sunday night... ARRGGGGGHHH!!!!)

Anyway...

WHAT GETS 60 MILES PER GALLON WHILE IT'S HEADING OUT TO THE HIGHWAY?
IT'S MADE OF METAL
IT'S CIRCUITS GLEAM
IT'S (ALMOST) PERPETUAL
IT KEEPS THE COUNTRY CLEAN

IT'S THE...

ANSWER HERE.

I JUST Realized...

I'm too fucking NICE!

That stops NOW.

That is all.

UFC In My Backyard...

Ultimate Fighting CATS, that is. There are three maybe feral kittens fighting as I type. I'd really love to lob a Molotov Cocktail in their midst and listen to the piercing mewling...

Maybe I can pull a Vick and make dough by having Pussy Fighting in my backyard?

Must Be Female Ones...

My flowers, that is. My Daisies and Black-Eyed Susans have gone and sprouted in unexpected places, none of which are where I WANT them to be.

They're just simply uncooperative. How bloody typical.

The Mighty Micro Machines!

"Perhaps I’m being a bit facetious here, but I think that a telling symptom of today’s languid apathy is the inconceivable willingness to watch big-screen blockbusters on an iPod. Gosh, I can only imagine how exciting it is to experience Star Wars with tiny ear buds while watching it on a screen that’s smaller than a Post-it note. A slight smudge from a sticky hand could block out the Death Star completely. May the force be with you, at least until the battery needs charging. Oh, how thrilling it must be to watch the charging armies in Braveheart when they’re three-quarters of an inch tall! "They can take our lives, but they’ll never take our convenience!"

From HERE.

I don't get the video i-Pod thing either. Or the PSP movie function. It seems beyond lame to me to watch movies on tiny little screens that give you eyestrain.

Chilling

"Having read the above, you are now in a tiny elite of people who know anything about the greatest death camp in the history of the world that China became between 1949 and 1976, an experiment in total control unlike anything else in history. Many more people today know more about China's exploding cell-phone batteries than they do about the hundred million dead and the untold amount of suffering that occurred under communism.

When you hear about shoddy products coming from China or wheat poorly processed, imagine millions in famine, with parents swapping children to eat in order to stay alive. And what do China's critics today recommend? More control by the government. Don't tell me that we've learned anything from history. We don't even know enough about history to learn from it."

From HERE.

Communism's advocates should be shot dead on the spot on principle alone.

Neat Little Astronomy Perspective...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/earthperspective.pdf

Probably All Too True

http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy117.html

"Ron Paul is the one Republican candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton in the general election."
...
"On the other hand, Ron Paul just might secure the nomination, if you and enough other Republicans actually do what the primaries intend you to do. And in that wonderful scenario, the country could see what a true fiscal conservative can do to turn this country around."

I have to agree with Vox on this one. Rudi and the other Republican dipshits like Thompson and especially Romney are liberals. They offer no TRUE alternative to Hillary.

Have a liberal "Republican" in the general election... add in the vapid voting habits of females in general and you get Hillary as Prez.

Ron Paul would trounce Hillary in every debate. Rationally and calmly, while she held in the tears. It would be great theater!

And we in this country would have a truly stark choice about what we want the Presidency to be. And we would be getting exactly what the majority ask for.

I can only hope it will come to pass... but I shan't be holding mine breath.

More Ron Paul goodness:


And I won't be shutting up about Dr. Paul until after he's out of the election one way or another.

At Least Shane Just Wants Us To LEAVE...

"Of course, we need to execute some of these people... A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll get... Then things'll change."

From HERE.

I never thought I'd call Shane a thinking moderate! But in comparison to this fuckwit, I suppose... nah...

Are BLACKS God's Creatures, Senator?

"I am confident that the hottest places in hell are reserved for the souls of sick and brutal people who hold God's creatures in such cruel and brutal contempt." -- West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, on those who participate in dogfighting and raise dogs for dogfighting. From HERE.

I love how Mr. King (as well as all MSM outlets) leaves "Former [EDIT: KKK Recruiter. Sorry - Mikey]" off of Sen. Byrd's description.

This guy is a douchebag racist. He's in no position to be throwing stones or pointing out motes in anyone's eye.

Who Cares?

"...every diehard NBA fan had the same reaction. They weren't thinking, 'I can't believe it!' or 'Oh my God, how could this happen?' They were thinking, 'Which one was it?'"

From here: Bill Simmons' article

The NBA scandal is no surprise to me in the least. A while ago, Mark Cuban made a very strong case statistically that the NBA fixes games by putting certain refs into games where the series needs to be extended.

Morally, there's no difference between what this ref Donaghy's done than what the NBA has done. Both manipulated the ref system to make more money.

It Never Fails...

I cut hot peppers, I touch my eye. Every damn time.

Where's my sign?

I Know... I Know...

For late 80's cheese with a twist...

Paul Gilbert is just too f'in cool. I keep meaning to buy his solo stuff, but my list of "CD's I Want To Buy" is so big that... I don't have an apt comparison.

Too Beautiful!

EDIT: This is NOT my guitar. I would love to have my rat Universe painted in exactly this manner. I was leaning towards a red, white and blue swirl paint job. But this colour scheme is KILLER. FYI: A paint job of this nature is typically over $500 for the white primer, swirl and clear. And that's WITHOUT a matching headstock (the end of the guitar where the lettering is, if you don't know what that is).

Different Stages

The really talented players tend to use sounds and tonalities that don't please the common ear (at least some of the time)." --- me

"BZZZZT!!! Bullshit alert!

The best? no. Those who perport to be the best. Yes. Those worshiped by 14 year old boys that don't know anything about musiciality and are fascinated by athleticism... Absolutely." ---- Nate

"Musiciality? Please. Harmonic content does go beyond Texas blues.

And if I'd said "time signatures" in there you'd probably be nodding your head with me. Rush uses whacked out time, chords and tonalities all over, especially in the newest stuff.

And how many truly talented players only stick to the major and blues scales?

It ain't about athleticism, either. Speed gets old quick. (And this is from a guy that loves Peart, Bozzio and Virgil Donati as drummers.)

I'm talking about hitting the ear with something other than the I-IV-V progression and the same-old verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-solo-chorus forms that almost every blues song ever written use.

And if you ask anyone that can REALLY play, almost all of them admit the jazz guys are the best players in the world.

Example: Ask Geddy Lee (one of my top 5 bassists, BTW) who the best bassist in the world is. He says Jeff Berlin." --- me again

This is a couple of rants from Vox's blog.

I don't get why folks just don't see this.

Yes, there are wankers out there that just hit fast scales and/or atonal runs and spew it all over. Some music fans think that's awesome. I disagree. I get bored too easily listening to that stuff.

Sticking with Jeff Berlin, I saw him playing live at BX3 here in Indy back in February. It was a triple-bill with him, Stu Hamm and Billy Sheehan. Now in the bass world, Stu and Billy hold a position sort of like Neil Peart. Most folks either love or hate them. They're seen as either badass talents or shredding noisemakers. (I love Stu, Billy & Neil, thank you.)

Jeff seemed a very odd third for the billing, but he kicked major (and minor and Lydrian) ass. His fingerboard knowledge seems effortless and second to none. And while I don't know music theory, my friend that does said he was the best player on stage that night. His chordal / progression theory applied to the songs he played stunned my bass-playing friend. (And he can REALLY play bass too.)

My point over at Vox's was simple, but I'll say it differently: Put guys like Steve Lukather or Steve Morse and the such in any rock band. They can replicate any rhythm part or Eddie Van Halen solo or anything else without trying. They can play in any style and do it authentically, even note for note, bend for bend, harmonic for harmonic, slur for slur.

Now try the reverse. EVH? Jazz? Right. The guy does PORNO SOUNDTRACKS NOW! And in his heyday, he never pushed himself to do anything other than the "EVH Schtick".

Different leagues. Always has been.

It's also why when drummers get together and say the name "Vinnie", there's only one player they should think of. And it ain't the guy from Pantera.

Put another way, Neil Peart is to lyrics what OHM is to harmonic content. It's not all "right there" for anyone to easily digest. Sometimes you have to think a little to "get it".

And not everyone will get it or even care to TRY to get it. And that's all okay too.

Because for all my ranting, I'm not even a musical snob anymore. Because I'll gladly put in Vixen's "Rev It Up" right after getting off to the classically-inspired "Petrucci/Ruddess in Concert" CD.

It's all good. And no one's wrong. Except for rap and soft jazz fans.

GREAT Ron Paul YouTube Video Interview!

You Dawg! Dooz Diz Beez Offenziv & Shitsid?

Brutal but FUCKING FUNNY!

The FLY MUST DIE!

I WAXED his wingman buddy. But this little bastard WILL not set down anywhere. And me lacking both newspapers and flyswatters.

But he WILL die, I tell you. Oh yes, he will die.

Creepy Thoughts...

When I first moved into my current house, I got up on a stepladder to put some boxes up on a shelf. The dang ladder proceeded to collapse under me (I weighed less than 200 at that point). I banged up my leg and exchanged the ladder for a new one.

But I couldn't stop thinking "What if I broke my neck and no one was here?" Especially since I walk about in my boxers almost the entire time I'm home. Unless I doing renovation work or I'm expecting company.

I break my neck, lie dead for a week, stink up the place and I'm half-eaten from bugs and mice and still only in my boxers except for the extra holes the mice eat through to eat my gonads first. (Eyes & gonads are the first to go.)

I think I worry about this far too often. But then again, I'm half-blind and have a trick left knee. Hmmm... I guess I should go adopt a 17 year old Korean chick... to give me peace of mind. And to clean house. And my pipes. Mmmmmmm.... "Kimchee, hungry for more Bulgogi? I know you love the special sauce!"

I should really lay off the late night blogging. I only mentioned this because I tripped over my motorcycle helmet on the living room floor, precisely where it should NOT be.

Sheesh... It AIN'T The Crusades, People!

Folks over at Vox's blog like to take hardline stances on some things. I know that I am no Biblical scholar. But reading through the Gospels it would seem to me that Jesus isn't going to be picking on little things here and there.

And due to misinterpretations and mistranslations and bad and/or outright EVIL preachers or elders... JC knows that there is going to be a lot very bad teachings out in our fallen world - be it intentionally or not.

So if I had to guess, he's going to give us a break on the smaller stuff and focus on the bigger (but still VERY hard) stuff... like "Love God with all your heart." Oh and: "These 15... I mean 10! Commandments!"

You know, those little commandments...

I MUST Link To This....

From John Peddie's blog. Just go there. Trust me. Safe for work and family.

Techniques For LISTENING To Jesus?

I just noticed I usually use the term "talk to" instead of "talk with" or "listen to" when referring to my interactions with God and Jesus.

As usually is the case, I seem to be focusing on myself and my problems or prayer requests instead of trying to hear something.

Just talking to Him does help me sort out some thoughts and such. But it seems insufficient and even a little disrespectful in some way I cannot describe.

Even though I believe He's out there, I actively want to deal with my problems myself. I have some advising me to "put it all in God's hands and let him deal with it". First: that seems like a cop-out to me. I feel the heavy-lifting should be MINE since I put myself in this position.

Second: I know some folks have bigger problems than mine that don't work out even with a whole community praying for them. So it seems a little foolish to try and just duck out the hard work of fixing my life.

Ideas or suggestions?

"Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament"

"The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years."

"But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a cry last Thursday. He had made what has been called the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books of the Old Testament are based on fact."

I find this stuff fascinating. And while I've only recently started talking to Jesus, I have always found amusement in the discoveries of the Bible's veracities while atheists grind their teeth in rage that ANOTHER fact is proven true from the Old or New Testament.

I honestly wonder how much of the discoveries pertaining to Biblical truth have been conveniently "lost" after discovery and prior to it becoming public knowledge. I would bet a significant percentage of them myself.

Jesus As A Kid?

I posted this over on Vox's as a quick joke:

Quick Aside: can you imagine how easy Mary & Joseph had it being Jesus' parents?
No "I didn't do it", no snuck cookies, no backtalk...


An emailer that read my comment over on Blox's Vog (sic) said:

"Imagine being his brother. 'Why can't you be more like Jesus?'"

Yeah, if it was an older brother, JC might've ended up on a cross a few years too early!

"Well, Mom Mary, sibling rivalry's a KILLER!"

I am so going to hell... and Fallon's driving the bus!

Movie Recommendation:

"License to Wed"

It's funny. And it has Mandy Moore and she's cute and hot and stuff. So go see it. That's all.

Wow. With reviews that are THIS in depth, I figure I can replace Siskel And Ebert in no time!

Right?

Homeland Security Response To Ron Paul

From HERE.

A brilliant parody from the Lew Rockwell.com folks. Very much worth the time to read.

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Excuse me! Early AM ramblings that matter not.

You ever write some things you have to try REALLY hard to remember the next day?

Oh REALLY?

Me: I'm about done with the lot of ya [WOMEN]. I'll just reproduce by mitosis or something.


WW: And how much fun would that be, really?

EXACTLY.

We're worth every moment of insanity.

I promise :)

I'm not at all sure about the veracity of WW's claim. Bad enough I have to deal with MY OWN insanity. But someone else's? For THE REST OF MY LIFE?

Man... that's a lot to ask.

Brilliant...

About 18 months ago I went to my boss and asked for more work. Because I was sick of surfing the net instead of being productive.

Let me back up... we have a 15 day pay cycle. That means we pay interest if we don't pay all our incoming contracts in 15 days.

But our bills come in once a month, all on the same day around the 15th. So yes, if you think for more than ten seconds you will realize that if we pay everything on time we sit around for 15 days doing NOTHING. And it's been this way for at least 6 years.

YOUR federal tax dollars at work.

So I asked for more work 18 months ago and they had me help our disbursing folks certify voucher information for our division's payments. I started doing it and almost immediately everyone in our division was asking me to do ALL of the disbursing work because I cleared it so quickly compared to the ACTUAL disbursing folks. And I made fewer mistakes while doing it.

I did this for a few months before disbursing got SO far behind they gave most of their work to our accounting division and took it away from me. And immediately our division began loudly cursing accounting division for screwing up the certifying work so badly.

The icing on the cake was being in an assembly where everyone that was doing (read: SCREWING UP) the voucher certs got bonus checks for doing the extra work.

So I sat there and watched the idiots messing up get money while I KICKED ASS at it and got NOTHING.

Lesson learned: I don't even fucking know what lesson to take from that. Nothing positive, at least.

Fast forward to TODAY:

So this side project at work that I've been sucking at for over a year?

Yeah... the idiots in my management team put all of that work on me as the primary "do-er" of it.

I'm stunned. What the FUCK? I told them I hated doing it. I told them I didn't "get it" and I have been VERY verifiably awful at it. They just have to look at my "interest paid" reports.

So they take me off the of the work that I'm actually GOOD AT and put me on the project I hate and suck at.

And I got three days of bonus time off while still needing to clear my APRIL accounts.

Lesson learned: my bosses are idiots. And I need to start selling drugs and/or pimping for a living.

Just Keep On Swilling The Horse Piss and Chemicals, Ladies!

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56623

This article only mentions the artificial hormones, but a good deal of birth control pills are (or at least WERE a few years ago) made from horse piss.

From here:
"But what disturbs me about this even more than the environmental impact (and the reality that this will NEVER be dealt with because of its political ramifications) is what this is doing to us. I mean, if these effects are happening with fish and frogs, what is happening to us? What is happening to our daughters on the pill? Are they really as safe as we have been told they are?"

I really doubt that there is no effect on humans from drinking contaminated water. Puberty onset ages have been dropping for years, if I'm remembering correctly and this is to be believed.

If I were raising kids, my food bills would be really expensive cuz I'd be buying free-range and hormone-free meats. Something deeply irks me about the idea of pumping meat full of chemicals to boost production. All these ingested hormones just cannot be a good thing for us.

Can We Just Kill Her?

I'm referring to THIS dizzy bitch.

"I got knocked up by an Indian (dot, not feather) dude and I'm all white and now we have a brown baby!"

Oh REALLY, genius? Whooda thunk!

What a douche! Can you imagine this vapid tool's kid learning to read and then coming across an article on the net about what a flipping idiot your mom is and how she thinks you look "alien"?

Does anyone even begin to think anymore? If I ever thought this, I'd just keep my mouth shut.

Here's a hint: The kid didn't ask to be born. Especially to such a fucking idiot.

Can we just hang her? Now? Please?

I Am So Much The Dorkus Fanboy...

I want!



I need mental help.

In The Middle Of A Downward Spiral...

This month I'm setting a personal record for interest paid on my accounts at work (bad thing, BTW). And I'm not even done with my APRIL accounts!

So I look at my new pay statement this morning. And I got 3 free paid days off awarded to me? (Read that with this voice: "I'm... Ron Burgundy?" It's funnier that way.)

Your federal tax dollars at work. Or... in this case, NOT at work.

I am so confused.

EDIT: I found out that a good deal of folks at work got the 24 bonus hours too. I don't know if it was everyone, but that would be typical of how our managers do things. I can honestly say if I'd been EX-cluded from getting the bonus, I'd have fully understood.

Blegging: Caramel Recipe

I know I read on someone's blog about making homemade caramel or caramel sauce. The recipe quite literally made me drool. It sounded amazing.

So if you had one on your blog or you know who did, please leave a clue for me here.

Thanks,
Mikey

EDIT: I'm going to keep moving this up until someone spills. I know someone out there knows what I'm talking about. I just can't remember who it is, dammit.

iDon't Think So!

From HERE.

"I have an iPhone, therefore iAm"

"THE iPhone has finally been released in the United States to an avalanche of media hype. Here is a guide to understanding the language that accompanies this year's hottest consumer release.

iPhony An iPhone owner. A group of iPhone owners are known as a "pod" of iPhonies. Warning: the term has some derogatory connotations."

More iPhun at the link.

I Think I Have A Problem... A SEROUS Problem...

Man, were I to reveal THIS one here... it would make the Corn Dog Incident look normal! And I didn't ever SHARE that one on here, just with one person! (And they can keep quiet, thanks!)

Dang. After tonight, I'm really starting to worry about myself. I really need a woman... or three.

A HINT: I was browsing here.

So What's The Biggest LIE In Our Country's History?

Reflecting on Vox's blog discussion about female suffrage. (Women suffering? Yeah, gotta get rid of that!)

So now I'm wondering what aspect of U.S. History has been the more destructive to the social, political and/or legal fabric.

My top picks:
1) The Federal Reserve, the establishment of inflationary fiat currency in the U.S.
2) That FDR bureaucratizing everything & WWII saved us from the Great Depression?
3) That Lincoln fought the War of Northern Aggression to free slaves / destruction of state's rights
4) female suffrage and the incoming nanny state
5) something else I've omitted?

My personal fave has to be #3. I think it cemented the supremacy of the feds over the states once & for all.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I was not ranking the lies, just listing some and asking for more for the list. Josh says "Reagan being a small government guy." That's a lie, and a pretty big political one, but IMO small compared to the others.

"Put down the gun, then we’ll talk."

I posted this before, but I'm moving it up the blog. I'm doing so for one particular person that stopped by not too long ago, and thought I'd offer it up for consumption.


In essence, then, all libertarian arguments come down to one single, simple statement:

"Put down the gun, then we’ll talk."

From here.

More from this guy here.

Sad that these ideals will likely never be realized on this earth, but a guy can dream, right?

Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Week To Stop Drinking!

I just got this in my email inbox from the Makers Mark bourbon newsletter... and it sounds freakin' GOOD!

2 parts Maker's Mark bourbon
2-3 scoops of your favorite vanilla ice cream
1 dose of caramel syrup


I have NO idea how those measurements would work (2 parts?) but I think the ratios can be tinkered with until good results are had.

I can honestly taste this in my mouth right now. And I'm all out of bourbon and ice cream. And caramel syrup, though I found a recipe for that once that would serve well I think.

Crap.

I Keep Thinking Of This

What's your favorite movie judged solely on the dialogue? Either the writing of and/or delivery of the dialogue.

The recent Anthony Hopkins film "Fracture" has some of the smartest, best dialogue I've ever seen in a film.

Tombstone is snappy and memorable, but I don't know if I'd call it great dialogue.

Your thoughts?

(And Transformers wasn't nearly so bad the second time.)

EDIT: I also LOVE the dialogue in "Casablanca".

I Feel... Dirty....

So through the wonderful WWW, I end up at this feminist dork's blog. And she's talking about her trip to Hooters:

"After a while I stopped checking to make sure my boyfriend wasnt staring at the orange asses that sauntered by... because frankly, I was too! They are BRIGHT ORANGE.. The effect is impossible to avoid... YOU CANT LOOK AWAY! So props to the Hooters people for affectively using all this to their advantage...."

You mean, they deliberately used the colour orange to MAKE me look at their waitresses' asses? Man, that's just freakin' WRONG!

All that time, I just thought I liked looking... turns out I was PSYCHOLOGICALLY MANIPULATED into staring even moreso than is my natural inclination.

That is just SICK AND WRONG.

The good times... the innocence is just... gone.

Fools...

"The Bush administration has demonstrated in more ways than one that it does not honor our constitution, and has no respect for the American people. I, for one, will be relieved when this administration is over."

from the comment section of THIS page.

Now, I agree with everything said in the first sentence. And I actually agree with the second sentence too. But the unsaid implication of the second sentence is that things will change with the next administration. It won't.

How often do the powers of government get pulled back? EVER?

Anyone that thinks the next Prez will not use the PATRIOT Act to further their own ends is a MORON.

Unless we're somehow blessed with Ron Paul in 2008, the next President will find ways to use & abuse power. Guilliani is a faggot statist. He loves abusing power. Read up on his prosecutor days if you want evidence.

And if it's Hillary, she's gonna make Jorge Bush look like a total chump in the Civil Rights Abuses Contest.

Brush THIS!

There's a new Drum DVD coming out and I cannot wait. This is gonna be cool.

It's all about drumset playing with brushes. It's an art I've hardly BRUSHED UP on. I have a long way to go just with sticks, let alone hand and brush playing. But I'm fascinated by the topics. And with all of these great players... it's gonna be awesome.

Steve Smith's "Drumset Technique/History Of The U.S. Beat" is an incredible wealth of drumming information. To know he's a big part of this drumming DVD too makes me think it will be well worth the dollars spent.

I also keep forgetting to pick up Gregg Bissonette's DVD set. He's another of my drum heroes and I know it will be entertaining even if I already have the materials covered by some other source.

Ninja Update:

Reminder to self: I still need to put the lower fairing back on...

Anyway..

I noticed that it's definitely a leaning-left thing. It feels "too close to the edge" while leaning left. Since my range of vision is curtailed on that side, I feel as though leaning left puts me way too close to the "black" / unknown.

It's just something I'm going to have to work on. Now that I'm aware of it, I think it's going to be easier to deal with.

She Ruv Me Roonnnngg Time!

There's this girl in my building. Kinda cute Asian girl. She slumps when she walks, drags her feet and never keeps her back straight or her head up. And she's never smiling to boot! She looks really lazy, not disabled. Which is just even more of a waste.

I am so sorely tempted to smack her hard on the ass, then cup / squeeze her cheek, and tell her to stand up straight and smile. She might even be sexy if she does all that. (All that... whatever. That's like nothing!)

Right now I can't tell. And that's just such a shame. Too bad I'll get fired for sure for carrying that plan out. And that's just about the ONLY thing I can get fired for.

I just really want to see what would happen.

Almost no women believe me when I say it's how a woman carries herself that makes her sexy (to me, at least) way more than any one body part.

I suppose I'm just strange. Although I already know I have a thing for Asian women.

I Get To Watch My Favorite Musician In The World...

AND I scored an aftershow pass! I scored the ticket in my new Steve Vai "Sound Theories" CD digipack. Too cool. I thought it was a sticker at first. Then I was looking at it and wondering "What's with the lettering on my sticker?" Turns out it was the fine print.

Too cool. So I get to meet the best guitarist in the world for the... counting...

Chicago in-store appearance
Ultra Zone tour Indy out by the bus
Ultra Zone tour Columbus out by the bus
G3 tour 2001 aftershow
G3 tour 2003 aftershow
Real Illusions tour Columbus pre-show and aftershow

7th time! Ha! Too funny. Vai has a thing for the number 7. I wonder what cool thing will happen this time?

Vai has actually thanked ME the last two times I met him for being so into his performance. I was stunned both times.

The last time I saw him was in Louisville for the "Zappa Does Zappa tour". He threw a pick out to my area and I snagged it when the lights came up at the end of the show. It's residing in my Vai model signature acoustic, which was waiting for me when I came home that night. (UPS left a brand new $1000+ guitar in my driveway with no signature required.)

The next time will be at the House of Blues in Chicago this September. I cannot wait.

I also will finally get to meet Bryan Beller, a great bass player. Bryan plays for Mike Keneally and scored the Vai gig this tour. I've corresponded via email with BB but never managed to meet him.

And of course, the very cool and talented Dave Weiner. He's been Vai's longest lasting sideman ever, he started out w/ Vai in 1999. He also owes me a guitar lesson if I ever get my PC working right.

Hell MUST Be Freezing Over...

I said something nice about Shane. I think that's like four more times I can do that before JC comes back.

I Love My Ninja...

I came home Fall Creek Parkway from Shane's tonight. I got it over 80MPH indicated, so I was doing 75 or so. I love that road. The trees come over the top like a canopy so it feels enclosed at certain parts. It wasn't dark yet... good thing because the deer and other critters love that road. I won't do much over 50 there at night. I've wiped out a few critters myself in my Mustang GT. One raccoon was on the side of the road and there was a car coming in the other lane. No choice... and I saw him look up just before I heard the "Thuwump!". Almost cartoonish-looking when it happened.

But that road has some nice curves, not challenging but fun. And the almost-tunnel feel of that road is too cool. Just a fun trip home, riding too fast.

Thanks for the grub, Shane. You rock. I owe you a six-pack or something.

I did notice (And WHY did it take me OVER a decade to realize???) that I'm more hesitant leaning into left-hand turns at high speeds. I would guess it's because it's my blind side. Very odd and disconcerting. And something I would work on if I knew how.

EDIT: Just thought that's maybe why I freaked back here on THIS entry?:

Funny aside: My nephew asked my mom once: "How does Uncle Mike see out of his blind eye on the motorycle?" I found it funny that he asked her instead of me. Man, I really miss my buddy Drew. I can't wait to go visit my brothers out east again.

Have A Ton Of Disbelief On Hand And Need To Exhaust Your Supply?

Go see TRANSFORMERS!

BEWARE: SPOILERS AND A BAD ATTITUDE FOLLOW!!!

The Decepticons hack a government network in the middle of a heavily-armed desert base? Why not just put Soundwave into the building I work at? Or the Pentagon? Why AIR FORCE ONE? And why did Soundwave sound so stupid? He was more annoying than Jar-Jar!

A gorgeous blonde is the smartest asset the NSA has? And she's still inferior to a goofy black dude sitting in his grandma's house playing video games? HE is the best hacker in the world? And his home PC can do what NSA's computers can't?

A gorgeous brunette is an accomplished mechanic and car thief AND her dad's a convict and NO ONE IN SCHOOL KNOWS? And she's self-aware enough to know she's shallow about how she picks men? (That last one's the one that is just way too much!)

Megatron accidentally burns/etches a map onto a pair of spectacles while in a coma? Okay... And this map is visible from an ebay auction picture but completely unnoticed by the guy that owns them?

The ultra-secret government agency knows about the Grandfather but doesn't seize any and all relevant artifacts from the family? They kidnap folks, so obviously they don't worry about Constitutional restrictions...

A cube the size of an apartment building can fold down to the size of my desktop PC and be carried by a teenager?

The cube has the power to remake the ENTIRE PLANET but fizzles and dies after being used to kill Megatron? WTF?

That slide from the motorcycle? Come on! Ever hear of friction? It what would have ripped the clothes and flesh from that guy.

Megatron looks stupid in both forms. He looked as though he would dwarf Optimus Prime while in his coma, but is roughly the same size after waking up.

I was dead tired before watching it. I was yawning the whole way through. So I know I'm forgetting a good deal of my objections to this film.

What else? Oh yeah:

The directing SUCKS. The action is WAY too hurried and fills up too much of the screen. The Transformers shouldn't move like they do. They should be bulkier and heavier moving.

The dialogue is painfully bad in parts.

And lastly: John Voigt is in it. At least they spared us his daughter.

I really expected nothing from this movie. And MAN did it ever deliver! Usually when I have zero expectations, I enjoy myself. This one just hurt to watch it.

The worst part is I have to watch it again since I promised to take my niece to see it.

Man, if I ever want to indulge in 80's nostalgia, I'll just go pop in the 1986 Transformers: The Movie. The writing and storyline are actually better in a 20 year old cartoon movie than on this $150 MILLION P.O.S.

Hard To Argue That...

"...in exchange for an income tax King George III would have conceded every point made against him by the colonists, and might even have done penance for past sins." -- Frank Chodorov, from HERE.

I Guess I AM Weird

(As if somehow anyone would ever have doubt...)

I keep getting weird reactions from women when I hold their doors. Almost as if it's never happened to them before. Maybe I've just been oblivious, but this reaction occurs more often I think as time goes by.

Especially when it's double doors and I ask them to wait for me to open the 2nd one too. That really seems to surprise the ladies.

It's quite sad to have so many women seemingly shocked by my doing this. Isn't it? Or was I just born 30 years too late?

You Ever Watch A Movie...

And feel as though almost everything said is being said to YOU, not the other characters?

Very odd thing. To appropo for words.

Give Her Katie Couric's Job!

"AN AMERICAN news presenter shredded her script in protest at being made to lead her bulletin with a story about Paris Hilton.

Mika Brzezinski was so incensed that news of the party girl's release was considered the day's most important development that she refused to read it out.

After repeated on-air arguments with her co-presenters, she ripped the script up before trying to set fire to it."

From HERE.

Exactly.

"Why are pundits and politicians so eager to use force against others?" John Stossel, from HERE.

That's my whole reason for libertarianism (and Christianity) in a nutshell. And why I'm certain I won't need any other philosophies for the rest of my life.

It really is just that simple. Now I just have to stop being a hypocritical parasite and quit my government job... philosophy's a little easier on the net.

EDIT: 'Maybe libertarians should try to describe their philosophy by saying “libertarians believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, and the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in.”' -- from HERE. (Yes, grammar cops, I know I reversed my quote signs...it's called laziness.)

HELP! Am I Retarded?

I just want Mozilla Firefox to prompt me to remember my password for this site. Why can't I make it do that? I have three different userid's for blogger in my drop-down menu. Only the last one is right. I cleared my cache... what next?

Reinstall? I doubt that will work since every time I upgrade FF it remembers my passwords.

I'm at a loss.

Any ideas are appreciated.