All that changed with George Bush.  I ashamed to admit it but I actually voted him the first time around.  I felt he was getting an unfair shake by the media.  They were making him look like a total idiot.  Damn that liberal media! I spent the next few years defending him on various forums.  I was believing the things he was saying, I was believing the fear and the hype.  I mean, we all had a pretty damn good reason to be afraid. 9-11 was no joke.  That shit freaked me out.

I was getting tired of defending the shit he was doing.  I realized I was making excuses for him and his office.  You see when Bush Jr. wanted to attack Iraq it was first and foremost because they were failing to comply with UN resolutions.  That’s what we were told.  The democrats weren’t jumping on board.  So suddenly, the story changed.  They never talked about the UN resolutions again.  Now, Colin Powell,  a man I had the utmost respect for was sitting before the UN with proof that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.  I was already sold on bombing the shit out of Iraq with the UN resolutions.  That was no lie, we should have bombed them.  But now, WMD’s?!  Holy shit, we need to attack now!  Wait, what’s that?  They are supporting terrorists?  OMG!  What are we waiting for!!!

By the end of Bush’s first term we learned that it was all lie.  Powell had lied to the UN, and to America.  Powell a once hero was disgraced in my eyes.  There was no connection to terrorism.  There were no WMD’s.  Bush just wanted to attack them.  So this country that I love waged an unjust war on a country that did not attack us and they lied their asses off to do it.  It seemed that every time Bush or Cheney opened their mouths another outrageous lie would spew out.

Cut to several years later and through some miracle Obama actually won and as is now our President.  Yes, I voted for him.  No I wasn’t one of his orgasmic supporters.  I didn’t think he was the best thing ever.  It’s just that he was the only one that made sense to me.  I couldn’t vote for Cain.  I think he is a great American, and a hero.  But, I couldn’t get past the fact that he voted with Bush Jr. something like 95% of the time.  The country was facing the worst recession since the depression.  The thought of 4 more years of Bush policies?  No fucking way!

Now, Obama made a lot of promises before he was elected.  He fought the roughest, cruelest campaign I have ever seen.  The republican party was so out of control, I was absolutely sickened by their tactics.  They did every thing they could to scare white America away from voting for him.  They tried to link him to terrorists. They tried to imply he was a secret Muslim.  They even started this crazy campaign that he wasn’t even born citizen of the US.  It was sickening.  I was so ashamed of my party.  I wanted no part of them any more.  They have lost their way and are being controlled now solely by the right wing crazies we all used to just shake our heads at. So I became an Independent.  I couldn’t be a democrat.  I just don’t believe in bigger government.

So where are we at now.  Well there’s those promises Obama made.  Over the past 4 years I have seen him fight tooth and nail against his own dumb ass party and against a republican party that has shown absolutely no respect for the President.  One of them even shouting out, while the President was speaking, calling him a lair.  And, to show how fucking stupid some of these republicans have become,  GOP Rep. Joe Wilson who committed the offense was wrong!  The President wasn’t lying.  To my surprise other republicans came to Obama’s defense and stated that Obama wasn’t lying.  Yet through all of that Obama was able to get some things done he said he would.  He got us the hell out of Iraq, is trying to get us the hell out of Afghanistan and he tried like to hell to get his health care bill passed.  Getting some of it passed but not all of it.

Not to mention, this liberal Muslim crazy man has shown amazing judgment in use of the military.  He has smacked the shit out of Somali Pirates at least twice that I know of.  Oh and he did something Bush refused to do, he found and killed Osama Bin Laden.

So what are the republicans doing now to beat Obama in the presidential race?  Well so far they are torn between three fucking looney extremists!  You got Mitt, he’s the sort of normal one.  That good looking guy that comes at you with a smile just before he stabs you in the back.  There’s Newt Gingrich, a confessed liar and cheater whose history implies that when things get rough, it’s best to cut and swim, just walk away from the problem and pretend it doesn’t exist any more.  Then we got Rick Santorum.  This fucking nutjob is fucking crazy!  He’s against a women’s right to choose in any case even rape!  This fucking loony bastard calls these babies, a gift from god!?  Are you shitting me?  This is what the fucking republicans are coming up with to beat Obama? Oh and to top it all off, all three of these fucking crazy bastards have promised to ban porn.  That alone should make every American stand up and just laugh at these bastards.  They are fucking crazy and if you believe anything these fucking guys are saying than you’re fucking crazy too.  How did it all come to this.  When did crazy become a political voice?  When did politicians start listening to them?  When did the politicians become them?

I don’t want to tell anyone who to vote for this November.  All I ask is that is that you question everything you read about politics.  Look I am just some guy sitting at his computer ranting.  I don’t claim to have all the answers here.  I can at times be wrong.  But, I at least question things. I ask you to do the same.  Don’t read what I have said and believe it.  Look it up.  When Obama says something, look it up!  Is he telling the truth?  And check more than one source.  And get opinions from different news sources.  By that I mean, don’t look up something a candidate said on FOX News and then look it up on some other conservative website.   Of course they are going to both confirm or deny.  The same with some of the more liberal media sources.  See what they have to say about the same thing, and try to hard to find independent news sources.

The news is hard come by today because FOX News and MSNBC don’t really report the news.  Most of their shows are not news, they are opinion.  Just as this blog is an opinion.  Just because they are talking about the news doesn’t mean what they say is fact.  In fact FOX News is so bad, they actually went to court and won their case that allows them to basically lie about anything they want.  Seriously look it up!  So remember most of these networks do not report the news they respond to it with opinion made to sound like the news.  For example.  A reporter would state what happened, who, what, where, why and when.  ”At 4:30 pm a man attacked and bit a dog.” That’s news.  ”At 4:30 pm a crazy man bit a dog.”  That is opinion.  We don’t know the guy is crazy? Just because he sounds crazy because he bit a dog doesn’t mean he’a crazy.  He could have been starving, maybe he hadn’t had a meal in days and he had no choice but to eat a dog?

Ban porn, are you kidding me. OMG, republicans, get out of my life.  Get out of my bedroom!

Nope as it turns it, the article is about some girl who made a joke.  Really?  Our lives have become easy and simple that all people have to protest about now is a fucking joke?  This is the big moral problem?  It was joke?  That’s all.  Sure it was in bad taste, that’s what makes it funnier to some people.  And, what was this girls big joke?  Did she make a joke threatening to kill Chris?  Did she make a joke threatening to kill Rihanna?  Did she make a joke about both and throw in wanting to kick puppies?  Nope, she just said, “I’d let Chris Brown beat me any time.”  I get it, it was cute, it was a little funny.  It was a joke.  If you don’t like it, don’t fucking laugh at it.  But for gods’ sake don’t bitch slap the women telling it.

I am reminded of a time several years ago.  My mother had this Toyota Rav4.  It was really old.  The rear door was actually a door and not a tailgate and window.  So it opened out like a door and the little min-hydraulics that should hold it open had long since stopped working.  In Southern California, in the small city of Rialto when it gets windy, it’s no joke.  My mother had just been shopping and was bringing in the groceries.  She opened the back door of the Rav4 and started to grab some bags.  The wind blows, the door sings shut and slams into her eye.  She gets this horrible bruise.

I get a call from mother telling me about it and how now my father doesn’t want to go anywhere with her until it heals so people don’t think he’s beating her.  I explain that I don’t blame him and we laugh about it.

A few days later my mom calls again, she wants to go shopping, I need to pick up some things so I think, cool, I will go with her.  I drive over to her house and pick her up.  As soon as she walks out of the house I see that black eye.  I think shit!  Now everyone is going to think I beat her!

Sure enough everyone is looking at me as I walk with my mother through the store.  By the time we get to the checkout stand I can’t stand it any longer.  I had asked her a question, I don’t recall what it was.  Something like, “Didn’t you get chips?”  She nods her head “No” and I shout back, “Women!  Don’t make me tell you again!”  We both just start laughing and I am sure everyone else had no idea what just happened. But, we just laughed and laughed.  it was a joke.  We weren’t condoning anything, it was just a joke.  It wasn’t a comment on society or a support of violence against women.

Some jokes are just so wrong they are funny.  I believe there is a fine line between what is funny and what is not.  However, I don’t think anyone person should be left as judge, jury and joke police.  There are a lot of people in this world that I don’t think are funny.

Few comedians were as bad as one of my all time favorites, Sam Kinison.  For Christmas one year I got this Sam Kinison DVD set. It had three of his biggest stand up events.  A ton of special features by family and friends.  At the time I had gotten this, it had been about six months since I had a break up with women that I loved dearly.  She broke my heart, cheated on me, was an alcoholic and she was married.  The relationship was doomed from the start.  But, you can’t help who you love.  I hadn’t smiled much in that six months since I left her.  But, that Christmas Eve, I got home and put on that DVD.  His first special, the best one.  I hadn’t heard it in years and I never laughed so hard in my life.  It was such a release.  His comedy was so wrong but damn it, he was funny.  I was in tears laughing so hard.

The other two stand up specials on the disks weren’t that funny to me.  Even with my anything goes sense of humor, I found it to be not so much funny as just mean spirited.  That kinda humor, I don’t like.  I am not sure what makes one joke about some kinda abuse funny and another mean spirited.  So, for me, I don’t analyze it much. I personally feel the intent behind a joke is what makes it funny.  It can be “racist” or “sexist” as long as the intent behind it I feel isn’t racist or mean spirited.  For example, one of my favorite jokes is about Helen Keller.  ”Why couldn’t Helen Keller Drive?  Because she’s a woman!”  Now, I think women can drive just fine.  But, there is a stereo-type about them being bad drivers.  I get it!  Now, that same joke could be told by someone who really believes all women are bad drivers. Someone who really hates women, he could tell the joke and it changes the whole thing.  It would go from being funny and absurd to not so much a joke but a social commentary on a woman’s ability to drive.

So for the most part, I don’t try to over analyze jokes, if it makes me laugh than it’s funny, if it doesn’t than it’s not.  However, if I don’t laugh at it, I don’t go shouting to the world about how said comedian isn’t funny and mean spirited.

I just find it sad that in this day and age the best some idiots can come up with is to use a joke to bring attention to their cause.  Shame on them.  Their actions are disgusting.  There’s a difference between telling a joke about domestic violence and actually beating the shit out of a women.  And, if you’re too stupid to see that, then obviously you’ve never had the shit beat out of you by some dude.  Or, you have, and in that case, you really are an idiot because you actually think a bad joke is just as bad as domestic violence.

The point to all of this is that for the most part, a joke is

 just a joke.  It’s the wrongness of jokes that usually makes them funny.  When ”Henny” Youngman joked, “Take my wife, PLEASE!”  It was just a joke, he really didn’t want you to take his wife. He loved his wife and they stayed married till her death.  When Ralph Kramden joked, “To the Moon Alice!”  He wasn’t really going to beat his wife.  It was just a joke by a fictional character on an old TV show.  These are
classics of comedy here and what Sarah did is no different!  So get off her back you moronic, hypocritical idiots!

Most of you are nothing but attention whores and I refer specifically to Dana Edell, the Executive Director of SPARK and Jennifer Pozner the director of the media analysis group, Women in Media &
News.  Your comments on the topic are shallow and self-serving.  You should however be proud of your attention whore status.  I guess if a man abuses a women mentally or physically it’s a problem.  But, when you two attacked Sarah and the others who made similar comments, it’s all good.  You’re hypocrites and so much worse than just a bad joke, because you actually meant the shit you said.

Discovery Channel and Animal Planet are two of my most favorite stations. ” Dirty Jobs”, “Animal Cops”, “Mythbusters”, “Man, Woman, Wild”, “Deadliest Catch” and even “Bear Grylls”. Some fun, entertaining shows and most of them are most of important of all, educational.  Then there’s the total crap shows, Finding Bigfoot, Lost Tapes and a few others. Shows with so much potential but are ruined with misinformation and stupidity.

Now, I will admit that as bad as Lost Tapes is, I totally enjoy the show.  I know it’s fake, I know these aren’t real videos of real peoples last moments.  I get it.  However, people are for the most total morons and believe everything they see when it’s presented as a truth.  I assure you that there are a lot of people that watch Lost Tapes and believe it’s all real, I have met them.

I was in Laughlin maybe a year ago.  Sitting as usual at my black jack table  when two young Latino guys also at my table were talking to a third guy who was talking to the dealer about Vampires.  Now, it wasn’t a deep conversation.  It was actually just small talk about the Vampire Diaries I believe.  I was too busy unsuccessfully counting cards to pay much attention when one of the Latino kids says, “No man, Vampires are real! I saw it on Animal Planet, yo!”  His friend then jumps in and says something like, I saw this special, they found these tapes yo.  This family was terrorized by this monster vampire!”

I understand that Animal Planet implies the show is a complete fake by saying that the show is inspired the thought that such animal do exist.  But, they have got to understand, stupid don’t get that.  Hell, I didn’t get it at first either.  I watched the first episode and was blown away, I thought, “How in the hell did I never hear of this chick on a boat?”  I immediately went online and found so many others looking for answers as well.  After finding forum after forum with the topic, I found one that said it never happened.  It explained the myth and I was pissed!  How Animal Planet put out this war of the worlds type bullshit?  Then I saw another episode again and I paid more attention to the opening, “Inspired by the possibilities that animals like this exist.” Now I just think it’s a fun, entertaining show.  I just wish they’d make it more clear to us idiots that the show is just for fun.

Finding Bigfoot.  This takes stupidity and ignorance to a whole new level. Matt Moneymaker scares me. He can’t be as big of an idiot in real as he appears on the show. In every single episode this guy makes the most outrageous claims based on hearsay, conjecture and “eye witness reports”, oh and of course the occasional footprint. He really needs to learn about the scientific method. Now, I don’t claim to be a scientist but at least I have a the vaguest idea of how to research, document and conduct experiments. I know enough to know that just because you don’t have an answer for something doesn’t mean it’s Bigfoot.

This moron, just wants to believe in the creature so bad that he has lost all objectivity. This is how pretty much every show goes. Matt and his team show up and talk to some witnesses. Immediately Matt is convinced there is a Bigfoot out there. Next they take the witness out to the field and they get the big man Bobo to run, jump, skip or crawl in some manner that the “eye witness” saw the Bigfoot move. When Bobo can’t match it, Matt declares that it’s obviously a Bigfoot. If Bobo can match it, Matt pretty much ignores it and continues on until he gets to something that they can’t explain and then will declare that it’s a Bigfoot.

I would so love to go along with these people for a few trips if anything to add some objectivity to the show. The “scientist” on the show Ranae Holland never seems to get her objections listened to. Maybe the just edit them out? But, I can’t believe someone with a science researchers background like her’s isn’t laughing at him non-stop for Matt’s outrageous claims.

This show has so many possibilities but Matt’s total ignorance of science is just so laughable it makes the show a total joke. I want to like it, I want to believe in Bigfoot. I want to believe the possibility of that and so much more. But, I am not going to jump on the “It’s a Squatch!” Bandwagon based on the evidence presented in this show because Matt righteously announces that everything he hears is proof!

It doesn’t matter what the kids were protesting.  It doesn’t matter if they right or wrong in their ideology.  It doesn’t matter if I think they are just dumb college kids.  It doesn’t matter if I am wrong about them.  The only thing that matters in this case is did the cop, Lieutenant John Pike or one of the other officers give a lawful order to  disperse.  If so, then the police were completely justified in their use of pepper spray.  End of story.

I will be the first to agree that it looks bad.  I don’t see that it looks violent in any way but I agree it really doesn’t look good at all.  But, cops have the unfortunate job of having to do ugly things every day.  Cops are a like nature.  People want to see them as some cosmic force of just and good.  They are not, they can not be and never will be. They have to uphold stupid laws written stupid moronic liberals and just flat out borderline retarded conservatives.

It is impossible to enforce any law in a peaceful and beautiful way if someone wants to resist it.  It’s always going to get ugly.  Hence they are like nature.  People have this unreal of view nature. People will look at a lioness and her cubs playing in a majestic looking all natural field and find it beautiful.  Nature at it’s best.  But, the same hypicrate will turn their head in disgust when said lioness and her cute cubs are covered in blood as they rip apart eat beautiful gazelle alive.

Do you remember the 60′s?  I was only alive for the last year of them.  So I don’t actually remember them but I do know a little about them.  I remember seeing kids protesting in college and being beaten brutally because they failed to disperse.  And, at that time, cops didn’t have much in the way of crowd control.  Things like this just weren’t expected on a school campus.  They didn’t have mace, hell I don’t even think it was invented until 1965.  I am sure it wasn’t used on the force until the very late 60′s and even though I would imagine it was only used by the larger agencies, LA, NY but most smaller city and sheriff’s departments I am sure couldn’t afford it until the mid to late 70′s.  But, my point here is.  Mace and Pepper Spray are used now as a non-lethal and non-violent solution to crowd control.

Another thing to remember is that resisting arrest in the most peaceful Gandhi of ways, is still resisting arrest.  Cops are trained in use of force tactics.  And at what level to use them.  It all starts with the cops presence and words.  Their presence and a verbal order is the first level.  Some agencies will consider putting hands those resisting and the next step.  This is considered to be grabbing, wrist locks and other simple ways to gain compliance.  The next step would be pepper spray.  If that doesn’t work now we’re talking an actual fight, fist punching, kicking, throws and so on.  If that doesn’t work than, they move on to non-lethal weapons, batons, rubber bullets, things of that nature.  When that fails, out come the guns and the problem is solved. However, the the order doesn’t have to go like that.  Cops, can skip levels if they feel the need.  And, crowd control is one of those times it’s best to skip a level.

But wait?!  Those kids were just sitting down damn it!  They were threatening anyone’s safety!  How can you justify a jump in use of force like that?

Well it’s easy actually.   There’s this thing called mob mentality.  You can take the most calm people on earth and stick them in a crowd and the vast majority of them will follow the crowd no matter what.  All it takes is for one idiot to jump off and start throwing punches and panic can and usually does ensue.  Had those cops started to grab those kids and dragged them outta there first, it’s quite possible one of them would have overreacted and started throwing punches.  If I am bent over grabbing some kid and trying to remove him.  I am now left vulnerable to the rest of the kids.  It just takes one of them to jump up and hit me.  As much as those cops have a responsibility to protecting those kids, their own personal safety is going to come first.  It’s not just the way they are trained, it’s human nature.  Pepper spray was the next logical step.  It’s non-lethal, it doesn’t leave scaring and it keeps the cops from beating the kids and the kids from beating the cops.

Can you just imagine if they had pepper spray in the 60′s?  Instead of kids that refused to follow lawful commands getting the crap beat out of them, a few shots of pepper spray and problem solved.  The world would never have had to seen photos like this…

John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, kneeling in anguish over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard.

I know I sound like I am having some kinda pout session.  I am not.  I just am bored.  I can’t do anything I want to do, I’m broke, not homeless broke, I mean I can go put gas in my car or get some food.  I just mean, that what I want to do. Go on some long ass drive cross country and see shit, I can’t do.  It costs so much money just to drive.  I want to make some extra money but no one wants to pay me to do what I want to do.  I’ve worked doing things I don’t like to do so and have no plans to do that again.  It’s just not worth it.  Some people think it is, but it’s not.  I have a job, it pays, I am ok with it.  If I am gonna do something for extra money, it’s gonna be something I want to do.  The key to happiness is finding something you want to do and then find a way to get paid to do it.

Anyways, so why rant, no one’s paying me for it.  And since no one’s listening, why bother?  I think that’s my point.  I just need to figure out a way to get people’s attention, and then figure out how to get them to spend money on me.  Then I guess I’d be happy.

Now, if you don’t mind I need to upload a photo or two.  I just upgrades my blog software and uploading images is supposed to be “easier than ever!”  We’ll see about that!

Some women can marry a guy, have a kid, and still make her husband feel like he’s important. Now, men know we’re not important but we’re fragile creatures so it’s awesome when a women can fake that she really gives shit about us after having kids. When they can’t fake it, divorce happens, or the guy stays married, cheats and eventually becomes a serial killer. I did all three. But, that’s another story….

This is about stupid things I’ve done. So back to Jen and I. By this time I wasn’t working any more. I wasn’t cop any more, I hadn’t yet started selling cars. I was depressed, but was too young and stupid to realize it. So I spent months spending every day with the girlfriend. She eventually moved in. She worked I gambled to pay the bills. Really! I actually did ok for a while. But, my luck changed. I could win for anything. Every trip to Laughlin ended in defeat.

We would stay at the Ramada Express. It’s now the called the Tropicana. If we were lucky we’d get the room comp’d and maybe a nice lobster dinner. This one trip, we were broke, had enough for gas money home, not even any food money. So I get this bright idea. I am gonna get our meal for free!

In our room, I break a glass. I take a sliver of the glass with me. I put it in some tissue and into my pocket. We walk across the street to the Colorado Belle. We head upstairs to their diner and order our meal.

I had it all planned out. Towards the end of the meal, I very slyly take the sliver out of the tissue. I poke it in to my lip and gums, enough to make me bleed. I reach for my glass and bring it to my lips and then as the waitress is walking up to the table, I drop the glass on the table and say, “Ouch!” It was very convincing, I didn’t scream it, just said it loud enough that if the waitress wasn’t watching me, she would be now.

She immediately comes over to my table and I say that something cut my lip. I reach to my mouth and between my lip and gums I pull out the tiny glass sliver on my finger. “Is that glass! Did I just cut myself with a broken glass!” The waitress looks horrified and says she’ll come back with the manager.

A few moments later the waitress and manager are back. He’s looking at me suspiciously. I can’t figure out why. I don’t look like a criminal, I was well dressed and my performance was first rate I must say. I keep it up saying things like, “Do I need a shot?” “Our meals are ruined!” The girlfriend got in to it to saying, “I’ve lost my appetite now.”

The manager still looking at me suspiciously and says, “I am very sorry this happened, I can’t imagine how it happened. Sir, do you still have the sliver?” I show it to him on the table in it’s little napkin. He inspects it. He looks confused, then says, “Sir, allow us to comp your meal. But, I just don’t get it.”

I ask him what’s not to get? Glass, cut, blood, it’s pretty simple. Still looking at me. The manager replies, “Well, it’s just that your drinking glass is plastic. We don’t serve any drinks in actually glass. I can’t imagine where it would have come from.

“Well I don’t know where the hell it came from either! But, I do know that I am bleeding and I am not in the habit of spontaneous bleeding! Jen, let’s go!”

We left 5 bucks on the table for the waitress and got the hell out of there before the manager figured it out.

Lesson learned here. When attempting to scam a free meal with the old sliver of glass trick. Make sure the establishment actually has glass in it.

I have been working night and day on getting the Celebrity Screen Saver ready to go.  I believe it is ready.  Gonna make a post about in a few minutes, just need to go refresh my coffee and upload my video announcement for it on youtube.

It’s going to take some time start adding what I can back. But, in the meantime I am gonna get started on my screen savers that I have been promising.