It's a misleading post. I'm not actually moving to Russia but rather to Europe.
Actually that is misleading as well. I'm not moving to Europe but rather visiting Munich, Amsterdam, and London. With that going on in my life next week and the fact that I am going to see Lady Gaga and have a birthday at the end of the month this will probably be the last blog I write in September which believe me makes me sad. I would really like to write on this thing more often but I have just been super busy. Anyways I will leave you with a couple thoughts before I hop on a plane and drink huge German beers at Oktoberfest.
The new television season is in full gear and one of the most anticipated shows is a show called Community about guess what; a Community College. I have not seen the show due to scheduling and will probably check it out in a week or so but one thing I have noticed in every review was that the writer offering their critique of the show was concerned this show would be mean spirited and mock those who attended such institutions. This is weak sauce for two reason: 1) Since when have these people been concerned with the emotional of people enrolled in Community College and 2) So what if it is mean. Why can't being relentlessly mean be funny?
Accordingly I read a review not too long ago about the latest Halloween movie from Rob Zombie that had this reasoning behind the abysmal score he ultimately gave it: "Zombie is so enamored with making everything in his films dirty and corruptible that he fails to create anything to root for, or care about, or against which to contrast the darkness." I have not seen any of the Rob Zombie Halloween movies but I think this is Zombie's greatest strength as a film maker.
Take for instance The Devil's Rejects one of his older movies about deranged redneck serial killers who are being chased down by a Sheriff whom, as the movie gets longer into its running time, commits deplorable acts that put him on par with the before mentioned serial killers. There is no one to root for in this movies (and some would even say towards the end you start rooting for the original protagonists)which I found to be the best thing the movie had going for it. Maybe it was a metaphor about how in a post 9/11 World we must be careful to not get as dehumanized as those who practice terrorism or maybe Zombie thought it would just look cool. Who knows right? Why does every movie have to have a character the audience can relate to? Is it for the same reason the American audience demands a happy ending and talking dogs in all their flicks?
Kanye West is a hero. I know I don't have to explain what he did to that little girl at the Video Music Awards last week but if you ask me he is a hero. This is from an email I sent some friends: Taylor Swift is some third rate weak ass countrified version of Avril Lavigne who looks and sounds more pop so those Christian Conservative Assholes who think Avril is too punk for their kid can buy Taylor Swift albums from their local Walmart along with their fucking Travis Tritt and whatever other racist cowboy has a new album out this week to go along with their miniature American Flags they can bring to protest Obama being a socialist (even though most of them aren't smart enough to spell the word let alone define it) and boxes of hot pockets they can feed to their all ready diabetic over weight children. IF you ask me Kayne West is a hero.
Of topic again but a lot of people are pissed at Michael Jordan for a speech he gave at his Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. I have said it before and I'll say it again that we are a nation of fucking pussies who freak out about the stupidest stuff. Here is sportswriter Rich Reilly on Jordan's speech: "Michael Jordan's Hall of Fame talk was the Exxon Valdez of speeches. It was, by turns, rude, vindictive and flammable. And that was just when he was trying to be funny. It was tactless, egotistical and unbecoming." This is only the first paragraph of his article but I can't read any more than that. Rich peddles this nonsensical crap all the time and let me tell you he has not met one kid with a learning disability with a jump shot without writing about them. The only person worse that Rich is Mitch Albon who I have to tell you if he was one of the people I met up in heaven I would have wished that i bought a round trip ticket. But you can't be surprised by Jordan's speech because he has always been an asshole but you know what this is his day and I say if he wants to be an asshole let him be an asshole.
On a related note can we as a society stop caring about hall of fame. This blind idol worship that permeates in this country is getting ridiculous and if your life is really that empty where you care about such things as hall of fame's than give up on life right now.
Ok that it. I wish I could have ended it on a more positive note. The last thing I write on here shouldn't be me telling you to go kill yourself should it?
Ok I will say this. I was hesitant on Lady Gaga at first. Well I still think her album The Fame was not great but she is someone I respect for whatever thats worth (Yeah I know most musicians put out albums with their main concern being that Webby will respect it). Anyways I have a new found respect for her. I kind of like it how she wears jackets covered with Kermit the Frog Puppets. She has this whole I don't give a fuck attitude way of life thing going for her and, coming from more of a punk rock background, find it refreshing a new for someone who enjoys semi mainstream popularity. I also read that she is a big supporter of the homosexual community which I think is great too and shows up for a lot of their causes which I respect immensely (Equal rights for all). So yeah when I get back from Europe I am pretty excited to see her show since it is going to be epic. I bet a tiger ends up eating someone.
Ok that's a positive note right? A tiger eating someone? Who cares because I have a plane to catch. See ya in Munich, Amsterdam, London, or at the very least, back here in the colonies.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Not Everything Happens For A Reason...Case In Point Tim Allen's Career
Since I am going to London in a week or so I decided to have a night where I taste six different English beers and rate them. I thought it would be a good experience even though I am not hip on all the beer lingo. I mean whats a hops anyways? I guess it is something I should know but I guess its not vital. One less thing for me to talk about at parties. That will be something to keep me occupied during Jeopardy and then the Steelers game.
I skimmed through the latest Arctic Monkey's album and it is sort of lackluster. Have you ever listened to an album and just yelled at the stereo "Why aren't you rocking me? ROCK ME BABY!" So I just listened to Fake Tales of San Fransisco and All You People Are Vampires.
I have to say I blame the guy from Queens of the Stone Age for the lackluster sound of this album. I don't know his name but it is not even worth taking the time to look it up. I think he produced the album and he has seemed to manage to make this disc even more boring than his shitty band. Don't get me wrong there are many worse bands than Queens of the Stone Age but their music just doesn't do it for me. It just seems to go through the motions man. Its like yeah we're gonna rock but not too hard man why need that ever important radio ready sound. Fuck man I might be going to hard on the band. I'm listening to Era Vulgaris and it sounds ok.
I read a really good article at work the other day that I think if you have the time you should give it a once over. It's called A Mugging On Lake Street (what a misleading title read it and you'll see why). In summary it is about this reporter who was riding his bike through the streets of Chicago when a group of teenagers attacked him which sent him to the hospital. The reporter writes about his efforts to reach the kid who knocked him out to basically find out why he decided to attack him. Really you should read the article even though the author does not come to a satisfying conclusion.
What I liked about the article is that it made me think about why things happen. I have always been a nihlistic person and don't think things happen for a reason or that everything is inter conected. That's why I really liked Jeff Goldblum's character in those Jurassic Park movies; I am all about Chaos theory. Everyone questions why something happens but I just embrace it as happening. Fuck man life is like a big game of roulette only the wheel is bigger dude. That's a metaphor.
I understand why the author of this article and people in general question and try to figure out the why. Why was he attacked? Why did my car get stolen? Why do people watch American Idol? I understand why people try to find meaning with what are basically a bunch of random actions around them. Life without any sort of meaning is scary to some people man and it doesn't matter what it is and why something happened; God, Tim Allen's performance in Wild Hog's, the Democrats in power it doesn't matter man. Sometimes things happen for no reason and people just do things.
The best example I can think of is a story I heard about I guy I used to work with. He lived in D.C. and was walking to his jeep when he noticed a bunch of young kids near his car. I forget now what it was that one of the kids picked up but lets just say it was a brick. Anyways right in front of the guy I worked with this kid takes this brick and breaks one of the windows out of the jeep. So my ex coworker walks up to the kid and asks why did you do that. The kid basically shrugs his shoulders and says "I just wanted to see what would happen."
See. That is one example. Sure this little kid is a dick but I would make the argument that he is more liberated than most people. Sure to you it might be a scary and horrible way to live without putting a fixed meaning behind every action. This kid understands the only thing that governs the human existence is just random fucking chance man. It all started with the creation of life with the big bang theory. If it wasn't for the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs we would not be the dominant species. Why did that comet hit earth? There was no governing structure besides the laws of physics and the fact that the projectory of this massive space rock happened to coincide with where earth is located. There was no master plan or divine intervention or predetermined place where this comet would land (Actually if there was a Jerry Falwell dinosaur he would have blamed all the homo dinosaurs for the comet hitting earth). Actually it was probably an asteroid but that's just semantics man. All I am saying is that there was no meaning behind it. These things just happened.
I was thinking I was more of a nihilist than anything else but I don't think so. Well maybe I am even though there is no way that is possible since the definition of nihilism is having no belief structure; that would kind of be like having a meeting for your anarchy club to discuss parliamentary procedure. I think living this way is more liberating. Like Fleetwood Mac said dude you should go your own way. Was that Fleetwood Mac? Actually who cares man because they sucked and are like eighty. All I am saying is that you should live life and stop worrying about the why. Just be happy. Of course I say this many times. But I mean it this time. I have a new motto on life and it is the same as that kid from the rollerblading movie: "If you see the perfect wave, the perfect girl, the perfect anything you take it." Seriously that kid from Airborn was some sort of miniature high school surfing Buddha man. But yeah I am going to live life and go after and fight for things worth fighting for. Please do the same.
I thought I would add this video. It kind of comes to the same conclusion I do about life even though it tackles a diferent subject. Plus Cursive is an awesome band. Win Win.
I skimmed through the latest Arctic Monkey's album and it is sort of lackluster. Have you ever listened to an album and just yelled at the stereo "Why aren't you rocking me? ROCK ME BABY!" So I just listened to Fake Tales of San Fransisco and All You People Are Vampires.
I have to say I blame the guy from Queens of the Stone Age for the lackluster sound of this album. I don't know his name but it is not even worth taking the time to look it up. I think he produced the album and he has seemed to manage to make this disc even more boring than his shitty band. Don't get me wrong there are many worse bands than Queens of the Stone Age but their music just doesn't do it for me. It just seems to go through the motions man. Its like yeah we're gonna rock but not too hard man why need that ever important radio ready sound. Fuck man I might be going to hard on the band. I'm listening to Era Vulgaris and it sounds ok.
I read a really good article at work the other day that I think if you have the time you should give it a once over. It's called A Mugging On Lake Street (what a misleading title read it and you'll see why). In summary it is about this reporter who was riding his bike through the streets of Chicago when a group of teenagers attacked him which sent him to the hospital. The reporter writes about his efforts to reach the kid who knocked him out to basically find out why he decided to attack him. Really you should read the article even though the author does not come to a satisfying conclusion.
What I liked about the article is that it made me think about why things happen. I have always been a nihlistic person and don't think things happen for a reason or that everything is inter conected. That's why I really liked Jeff Goldblum's character in those Jurassic Park movies; I am all about Chaos theory. Everyone questions why something happens but I just embrace it as happening. Fuck man life is like a big game of roulette only the wheel is bigger dude. That's a metaphor.
I understand why the author of this article and people in general question and try to figure out the why. Why was he attacked? Why did my car get stolen? Why do people watch American Idol? I understand why people try to find meaning with what are basically a bunch of random actions around them. Life without any sort of meaning is scary to some people man and it doesn't matter what it is and why something happened; God, Tim Allen's performance in Wild Hog's, the Democrats in power it doesn't matter man. Sometimes things happen for no reason and people just do things.
The best example I can think of is a story I heard about I guy I used to work with. He lived in D.C. and was walking to his jeep when he noticed a bunch of young kids near his car. I forget now what it was that one of the kids picked up but lets just say it was a brick. Anyways right in front of the guy I worked with this kid takes this brick and breaks one of the windows out of the jeep. So my ex coworker walks up to the kid and asks why did you do that. The kid basically shrugs his shoulders and says "I just wanted to see what would happen."
See. That is one example. Sure this little kid is a dick but I would make the argument that he is more liberated than most people. Sure to you it might be a scary and horrible way to live without putting a fixed meaning behind every action. This kid understands the only thing that governs the human existence is just random fucking chance man. It all started with the creation of life with the big bang theory. If it wasn't for the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs we would not be the dominant species. Why did that comet hit earth? There was no governing structure besides the laws of physics and the fact that the projectory of this massive space rock happened to coincide with where earth is located. There was no master plan or divine intervention or predetermined place where this comet would land (Actually if there was a Jerry Falwell dinosaur he would have blamed all the homo dinosaurs for the comet hitting earth). Actually it was probably an asteroid but that's just semantics man. All I am saying is that there was no meaning behind it. These things just happened.
I was thinking I was more of a nihilist than anything else but I don't think so. Well maybe I am even though there is no way that is possible since the definition of nihilism is having no belief structure; that would kind of be like having a meeting for your anarchy club to discuss parliamentary procedure. I think living this way is more liberating. Like Fleetwood Mac said dude you should go your own way. Was that Fleetwood Mac? Actually who cares man because they sucked and are like eighty. All I am saying is that you should live life and stop worrying about the why. Just be happy. Of course I say this many times. But I mean it this time. I have a new motto on life and it is the same as that kid from the rollerblading movie: "If you see the perfect wave, the perfect girl, the perfect anything you take it." Seriously that kid from Airborn was some sort of miniature high school surfing Buddha man. But yeah I am going to live life and go after and fight for things worth fighting for. Please do the same.
I thought I would add this video. It kind of comes to the same conclusion I do about life even though it tackles a diferent subject. Plus Cursive is an awesome band. Win Win.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wolf Notes
The title refers to the Fiery Furnaces song I am listening to right now. They are a brother sister group who I find to be pretty fucking good but they are also a little weird. I only have their first two albums but I hear one of their albums was about their grandmother or something which reads like a radio play. They have a lot of albums that are all supposed to be good that I think I will have to check out. Check them out below preferably after taking some mind altering drugs.
There are two channels on television that I don't understand how some people can just sit down and watch for hours (well three if you count Fox News). I know people who watch hours of programs on the Animal Planet and The Food Network. The Animal Planet needs to air more shows where football players race horses and stop it with the shark week. My problem with the Food Network is that most of the cooking on the channel probably don't eat the food with the massive calorie intakes that they prepare (though they probably give it to that TGI Friday guy).
One channel that my dad will forever say was his idea that got stolen from him that is almost unwatchable is the Sci Fi channel. Oh I'm sorry to get street cred they changed their name from Sci-Fi to SyFy. I guess they needed to get rid of that extra letter so they could finance the sequel to Manticore. Seriously why do they keep making all these movies and than actually broadcast them? Besides Mansquito Man and Locust all these movies are shit.
Though all of this can be forgiven because Sci-Fi channel produced and aired Battlestar Galactica which I can say after watching all the way up through the halfway point of season three is one of the better shows to come on television in a while. What I like about it is that it has complex themes and ideas being tossed around in it such as what it is that defines us as human, living in a post 9-11 world and various other aspects of the human condition.
Don't make the same mistake I did and ignore the show because you are not a big fan of science fiction because this show is well written and superbly acted, especially Edward James Olmos who I never really cared for but who I am now a big fan of. I have been catching up on Netflix and sometimes when I get a DVD in the mail I will watch every episode on it that day.
I don't want to get into any of the plot-lines on the show because I think you should really experience the show without knowing anything about it like I currently am. Fuck it man I even have a list on my door that lists the twelve cylons that have been revealed so far (I have seven cylons confirmed on this list). I will say one thing that gets my goat about the show is that during the opening credits they will play scenes from the actual episode you are about to watch. I didn't notice this until about the third week and it pissed me off because one of the key plot points of that episode was revealed to me. Now I just look away during the opening credits but it is still something the perturbs me.
So what are you waiting for. Got put Season one at the top of your Que right now.
And a note I have been writing more often lately but I will be going away this weekend for a wedding. Maybe if I find a computer and I get bored I will write something. Hmmm?
There are two channels on television that I don't understand how some people can just sit down and watch for hours (well three if you count Fox News). I know people who watch hours of programs on the Animal Planet and The Food Network. The Animal Planet needs to air more shows where football players race horses and stop it with the shark week. My problem with the Food Network is that most of the cooking on the channel probably don't eat the food with the massive calorie intakes that they prepare (though they probably give it to that TGI Friday guy).
One channel that my dad will forever say was his idea that got stolen from him that is almost unwatchable is the Sci Fi channel. Oh I'm sorry to get street cred they changed their name from Sci-Fi to SyFy. I guess they needed to get rid of that extra letter so they could finance the sequel to Manticore. Seriously why do they keep making all these movies and than actually broadcast them? Besides Mansquito Man and Locust all these movies are shit.
Though all of this can be forgiven because Sci-Fi channel produced and aired Battlestar Galactica which I can say after watching all the way up through the halfway point of season three is one of the better shows to come on television in a while. What I like about it is that it has complex themes and ideas being tossed around in it such as what it is that defines us as human, living in a post 9-11 world and various other aspects of the human condition.
Don't make the same mistake I did and ignore the show because you are not a big fan of science fiction because this show is well written and superbly acted, especially Edward James Olmos who I never really cared for but who I am now a big fan of. I have been catching up on Netflix and sometimes when I get a DVD in the mail I will watch every episode on it that day.
I don't want to get into any of the plot-lines on the show because I think you should really experience the show without knowing anything about it like I currently am. Fuck it man I even have a list on my door that lists the twelve cylons that have been revealed so far (I have seven cylons confirmed on this list). I will say one thing that gets my goat about the show is that during the opening credits they will play scenes from the actual episode you are about to watch. I didn't notice this until about the third week and it pissed me off because one of the key plot points of that episode was revealed to me. Now I just look away during the opening credits but it is still something the perturbs me.
So what are you waiting for. Got put Season one at the top of your Que right now.
And a note I have been writing more often lately but I will be going away this weekend for a wedding. Maybe if I find a computer and I get bored I will write something. Hmmm?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Hail Old Dixie
Man I used to really hate the Redskins. I mean really hate them. The level of hatred I had reserved for them was so deep it made my burning intense hatred of a million suns of rap metal look venial in comparison.
My level of the Skins hatred has succeeded in recent years basically because I don't really care anymore. Sure I will watch a game on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday as long as it is a decent game between two good teams; you won't find me watching the Lions and Browns play each other. I just find it stupid to associate the level of your overall happiness in life to a sports team based on geographic location alone.
Though I do not hate the Skins anymore I really hate their fan base probably because I have been surrounded by them my entire life. And I say fan even though they usually have no discernible knowledge about anything in regards to sports but that doesn't stop them from calling talk radio and giving unsolicited advice to the team; like their ideas will finally get the Skins back into the Superbowl.
Like anytime there is a Skins story in the news that is all this low rent city talks about. Today it is the fact that the Skins front office sells tickets directly to brokers who then sells it to the consumer at an inflated price. Well guess what why not it has been going on for years. And what do you fans expect your stadium holds more people that Britanny Spears vagina and your teams spends tens of millions of dollars on horrible players like Brendon Lloyd. And you guys keep going to the games no matter how bad they are. I think you lost your right to bitch about this a long time ago.
Of course you get mad about this but again don't get mad about the ineffective play calling or anything remotely resembling why your team really sucks. And of course you don't get mad at the horrible racist name your team has.
I always hear the fans say it is not a racist name (one guy even told me their original coach was an Indian and they named the team this to honor him which would be the same if New York's first coach was Jewish so they named the team the kikes). Maybe you don't find it racist and maybe the four native Americans that we have not wiped out don't care or never heard of the team because we gave them land that doesn't have a good service provider. Their name not being racist would be believable if it weren't for the history of the team.
You see, Marshall, their original owner was a horrible racist. HE did not like black people. Well maybe he didn't hate them but just thought white people were superior; whatever I don't know but I think we can agree that he was a dick. Anyways when he moved his team to DC he decided that he was only going to draft players from southern schools so the Redskins could be the team of the south. And guess what. The Skins were the last team in the league to have a black guy on it and only because the federal government said if they don't integrate they would deny them federal funds for their stadium. Whats worse is that stupid fight song they play on the rare occasion they actually score a touchdown that makes me want to tear out my eardrums and stuff them down my eye sockets so I don't have to see that fucking old guy dressed up like the Indian used to say fight for old Dixie instead of fight for victory.
I find most Skin fans are oblivious to this. Sad.
But yeah thinking about it I think I still hate the Skins. F them. Luckily they usually lose in spectacular fashion and I don't think this year will be any different.
My level of the Skins hatred has succeeded in recent years basically because I don't really care anymore. Sure I will watch a game on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday as long as it is a decent game between two good teams; you won't find me watching the Lions and Browns play each other. I just find it stupid to associate the level of your overall happiness in life to a sports team based on geographic location alone.
Though I do not hate the Skins anymore I really hate their fan base probably because I have been surrounded by them my entire life. And I say fan even though they usually have no discernible knowledge about anything in regards to sports but that doesn't stop them from calling talk radio and giving unsolicited advice to the team; like their ideas will finally get the Skins back into the Superbowl.
Like anytime there is a Skins story in the news that is all this low rent city talks about. Today it is the fact that the Skins front office sells tickets directly to brokers who then sells it to the consumer at an inflated price. Well guess what why not it has been going on for years. And what do you fans expect your stadium holds more people that Britanny Spears vagina and your teams spends tens of millions of dollars on horrible players like Brendon Lloyd. And you guys keep going to the games no matter how bad they are. I think you lost your right to bitch about this a long time ago.
Of course you get mad about this but again don't get mad about the ineffective play calling or anything remotely resembling why your team really sucks. And of course you don't get mad at the horrible racist name your team has.
I always hear the fans say it is not a racist name (one guy even told me their original coach was an Indian and they named the team this to honor him which would be the same if New York's first coach was Jewish so they named the team the kikes). Maybe you don't find it racist and maybe the four native Americans that we have not wiped out don't care or never heard of the team because we gave them land that doesn't have a good service provider. Their name not being racist would be believable if it weren't for the history of the team.
You see, Marshall, their original owner was a horrible racist. HE did not like black people. Well maybe he didn't hate them but just thought white people were superior; whatever I don't know but I think we can agree that he was a dick. Anyways when he moved his team to DC he decided that he was only going to draft players from southern schools so the Redskins could be the team of the south. And guess what. The Skins were the last team in the league to have a black guy on it and only because the federal government said if they don't integrate they would deny them federal funds for their stadium. Whats worse is that stupid fight song they play on the rare occasion they actually score a touchdown that makes me want to tear out my eardrums and stuff them down my eye sockets so I don't have to see that fucking old guy dressed up like the Indian used to say fight for old Dixie instead of fight for victory.
I find most Skin fans are oblivious to this. Sad.
But yeah thinking about it I think I still hate the Skins. F them. Luckily they usually lose in spectacular fashion and I don't think this year will be any different.
Hey Obama Leave Those Kids Alone
I know. It was the cheapest joke to make but I kind of like the song so its cool.
If there is one thing people value more than dogs in this country it is children. I don't have kids, don't find them very cute and could care less about debating them on the finer points of Harry Potter. And I hate the people who ask me if I want to see a picture of their kid. Man unless your kid is in a picture where it is surrounded by a bunch of naked chicks playing twister I probably have no interest in looking at your kid who you have to admit has really no distinguishing characteristics between kids of its age. Maybe these are all reasons why I can't get worked up into a pitchfork mob frenzy by the news that Obama will be beamed in through the intertubes into schools of America to indoctrinate them in the upcoming Marxist army which will rule supreme through the ages.
No I am not kidding that people are actually getting worked up that Obama will be addressing the kids of America during school hours instead of primetime. I don't know what he is going to say but it will probably be the cookie cutter you're so special and if you follow your dreams to the stars you can be whatever you want to be bullshit that was fed to me when I was young.
For instance check out this Vodkapundit guy. Yes a guy who blogs under the alias Vodkapundit has an important message and he needs to be taken seriously. Who knows if he actually believes the dribble he actually writes or finds it a quick way to make a buck by working up the robotic masses who turn off their critical thinking skills and happily believe any fucking thing they hear from the talking heads in the media.
What is it that makes Vodkapundit so mad. Just the fact that Obama is the President I guess. I am sure if it was Bush he would talk about how the students are the luckiest kids in the world because they finally have someone addressing them who reads at the same grade level. Here is his main beef:
So he has no real substance to why he is upset just the fact that he can be so why the hell not? He's mad because the kids will listen to Obama and actually process what he says. I guess that would make me mad too because that is not what school is supposed to be about.
Vodkapundit goes on to say that if he had a kid in school he would pull him out that day (what this asshole is making a big deal out of this and doesn't even have a kid effected by this) as some sort of protest and you should to! Vodkapundit wants you to make it a patriotic day where you do patriotic stuff like watching the movie 1776 and setting off fireworks.
Vodkapundit is an idiot. There are better things to be outraged by but you want to make a big deal out of this inconsequential action. To anyone who this outrages let me ask you this question; did this make you mad too:
If there is one thing people value more than dogs in this country it is children. I don't have kids, don't find them very cute and could care less about debating them on the finer points of Harry Potter. And I hate the people who ask me if I want to see a picture of their kid. Man unless your kid is in a picture where it is surrounded by a bunch of naked chicks playing twister I probably have no interest in looking at your kid who you have to admit has really no distinguishing characteristics between kids of its age. Maybe these are all reasons why I can't get worked up into a pitchfork mob frenzy by the news that Obama will be beamed in through the intertubes into schools of America to indoctrinate them in the upcoming Marxist army which will rule supreme through the ages.
No I am not kidding that people are actually getting worked up that Obama will be addressing the kids of America during school hours instead of primetime. I don't know what he is going to say but it will probably be the cookie cutter you're so special and if you follow your dreams to the stars you can be whatever you want to be bullshit that was fed to me when I was young.
For instance check out this Vodkapundit guy. Yes a guy who blogs under the alias Vodkapundit has an important message and he needs to be taken seriously. Who knows if he actually believes the dribble he actually writes or finds it a quick way to make a buck by working up the robotic masses who turn off their critical thinking skills and happily believe any fucking thing they hear from the talking heads in the media.
What is it that makes Vodkapundit so mad. Just the fact that Obama is the President I guess. I am sure if it was Bush he would talk about how the students are the luckiest kids in the world because they finally have someone addressing them who reads at the same grade level. Here is his main beef:
He has to make this a — what does the Left call it? — a teachable moment. A speech-in, if you will. Teachers have even been given handy instructions on how best to integrate The One into the classroom. Here’s some fun educational-type stuff your young son or daughter might be doing next week:
After the Speech:Right Back At Ya
• Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
• Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
You mean, other than hurl?
Oh, and this:
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?"
So he has no real substance to why he is upset just the fact that he can be so why the hell not? He's mad because the kids will listen to Obama and actually process what he says. I guess that would make me mad too because that is not what school is supposed to be about.
Vodkapundit goes on to say that if he had a kid in school he would pull him out that day (what this asshole is making a big deal out of this and doesn't even have a kid effected by this) as some sort of protest and you should to! Vodkapundit wants you to make it a patriotic day where you do patriotic stuff like watching the movie 1776 and setting off fireworks.
Vodkapundit is an idiot. There are better things to be outraged by but you want to make a big deal out of this inconsequential action. To anyone who this outrages let me ask you this question; did this make you mad too:
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