On my way to the 'Natti to play some golf yesterday, I ran into traffic. I don't get too pissed since it's the A.M. rush and these suckers are running to work and I'm cruising to play golf.
Thinking that it's probably something stupid like merging traffic or something serious like a horrible accident where one can't discern flesh from metal in the mangled wreck, I proceed with caution.
I was wrong on both accounts. Someone was driving a little too fast and the police noticed. A chase ensued resulting in the offender being pulled over and issued a citation for speeding. This would cause traffic problems if the speeder didn't pull all the way over and blocked a lane, but this wasn't the case. He was half on the emergency lane and half on the grass. There was a good 10 feet between him and I-75.
Traffic was at a stand still. I thought I was in another country. A country where no one had received a speeding ticket so they were curious to see what happened. That had to have been the case because why else would traffic slow down to a crawl around a ticket?
A TICKET! Not a bloody mess, not a DUI, none of the above, A FUCKING SPEEDING TICKET. My golf was delayed because people are such assholes that they have to gawk at some dickhead getting a SPEEDING TICKET. People are so stupid, it's amazing they remember how to breathe.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
People / Fire The Government
people
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I don't understand something. Why is it that people use their blogs to post stupid, hokey song lyrics they they think are somehow meaningful and poignant?
We have this medium at our disposal to fill with our innermost thoughts, perhaps some thought provoking commentary or even some light-hearted prose or original poetry to express ourselves, but no... people put the shitty number one song of the week up as if it was written just for them and has some kind of meaning to their mundane suburban lives.
People are so fucking pathetic.
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Fire the government
Scary news from the enemies of freedom i.e. your government.
check out this article.
While most of the country is pining over useless pieces of desert teeming with useless desert people going through man made hell, young Abraham and his parents have had their rights stripped from them. They live RIGHT HERE. They are not foreigners, they are U.S. Citizens. How can anyone think we live in a free society?
There is no freedom, there is only the illusion of freedom. If the government tells Abraham what kind of treatment he is and isn't allowed to have for his cancer, and labels his parents guilty of abuse by neglect for supporting his decision to persue alternative treatment; what is next? That isn't just governmental interference in our lives, it's governmental interference in how our lives can continue and for how long.
If Abraham dies, God forbid, I have an idea. On his certificate, list the official cause of death as "The U.S. Government".
These people must be stopped. This was not the concept that our founders had, this is Socialism at it's core and we are falling apart.
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I don't understand something. Why is it that people use their blogs to post stupid, hokey song lyrics they they think are somehow meaningful and poignant?
We have this medium at our disposal to fill with our innermost thoughts, perhaps some thought provoking commentary or even some light-hearted prose or original poetry to express ourselves, but no... people put the shitty number one song of the week up as if it was written just for them and has some kind of meaning to their mundane suburban lives.
People are so fucking pathetic.
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Fire the government
Scary news from the enemies of freedom i.e. your government.
check out this article.
While most of the country is pining over useless pieces of desert teeming with useless desert people going through man made hell, young Abraham and his parents have had their rights stripped from them. They live RIGHT HERE. They are not foreigners, they are U.S. Citizens. How can anyone think we live in a free society?
There is no freedom, there is only the illusion of freedom. If the government tells Abraham what kind of treatment he is and isn't allowed to have for his cancer, and labels his parents guilty of abuse by neglect for supporting his decision to persue alternative treatment; what is next? That isn't just governmental interference in our lives, it's governmental interference in how our lives can continue and for how long.
If Abraham dies, God forbid, I have an idea. On his certificate, list the official cause of death as "The U.S. Government".
These people must be stopped. This was not the concept that our founders had, this is Socialism at it's core and we are falling apart.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Weekend Fun?
This past weekend My wife and I went to Paramount's Kings Island (PKI) with Jericho and Hope. The park was empty! No waits on anything (except the indoor rides with air conditioning) and it was a great time.
HOWEVER... I'm elated that Cedar Fair has bought Kings Island from Paramount. The park hasn't been right since Paramount bought it. Paramount renamed all the rides after movies and gave the park a stupid theme. The staff is so lazy they can't even give a thumbs up for ride safety checks. It's just a lazy fist hung in the air. The classic rides are in terrible need of paint and general sprucing up because Paramount focuses on the side games and adventures that are additional cost instead of the rides that are the main attraction. Generally the great amusement park I remember from years ago is gone and a corporate money pit has grown in it's place. It is sad, very sad.
Hopefully the good people at Cedar Fair can return Kings Island to it's former glory.
HOWEVER... I'm elated that Cedar Fair has bought Kings Island from Paramount. The park hasn't been right since Paramount bought it. Paramount renamed all the rides after movies and gave the park a stupid theme. The staff is so lazy they can't even give a thumbs up for ride safety checks. It's just a lazy fist hung in the air. The classic rides are in terrible need of paint and general sprucing up because Paramount focuses on the side games and adventures that are additional cost instead of the rides that are the main attraction. Generally the great amusement park I remember from years ago is gone and a corporate money pit has grown in it's place. It is sad, very sad.
Hopefully the good people at Cedar Fair can return Kings Island to it's former glory.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Pimp Credentials
I know I'm some kinda wonderful, but where did all these friend requests from porn chicks come from? 99 percent of my friends list are people I actually know or have worked with, and to date I have not worked in porn.
I get about 10 requests a day and although I appreciate the confidence booster, I'm married. My Mrs. would not appreciate the hot little porn starlets and so I deny them. It's annoying. On one hand I understand the business aspect of fishing for leads, but on the other I wonder what makes me look like a mark for the internet porn market.
I'm not against porn, in fact I'm in favor of it. I just don't partake because my Mrs. has requested that I abstain. I guess it's like any addiction, it's hard to stay clean when everyone around you is doing it. There should be meetings.....
[me] Hi. I'm E-Rock and I'm a porn-o-holic. It's been 4 years since my last indulgence.
[group] Hi. E-Rock
[me] I don't have any stories to tell, I just wanted it to be known that I don't don't watch porn, it's just an internet scam.
[group] Denial E-Rock, own up to it.
[me] No, really - no porn for me.
See... this is the problem, the appearance of impropriety is often enough to convict, so please... STOP WITH THE REQUESTS FROM PORN CHICKS.
I get about 10 requests a day and although I appreciate the confidence booster, I'm married. My Mrs. would not appreciate the hot little porn starlets and so I deny them. It's annoying. On one hand I understand the business aspect of fishing for leads, but on the other I wonder what makes me look like a mark for the internet porn market.
I'm not against porn, in fact I'm in favor of it. I just don't partake because my Mrs. has requested that I abstain. I guess it's like any addiction, it's hard to stay clean when everyone around you is doing it. There should be meetings.....
[me] Hi. I'm E-Rock and I'm a porn-o-holic. It's been 4 years since my last indulgence.
[group] Hi. E-Rock
[me] I don't have any stories to tell, I just wanted it to be known that I don't don't watch porn, it's just an internet scam.
[group] Denial E-Rock, own up to it.
[me] No, really - no porn for me.
See... this is the problem, the appearance of impropriety is often enough to convict, so please... STOP WITH THE REQUESTS FROM PORN CHICKS.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Independence Day
(transposed yet edited from Neal Boortz)
The 4th celebrates not only freedom, but independence from an oppressive government. For seven long years following July 4, 1776, an unbelievably courageous and determined minority of colonists fought to achieve our independence from England. That's right ... a minority. At no time during our Revolutionary War did the majority of colonists support the cause of independence. If CNN, ABC, The New York Times, and other agencies had been around to do their polling back then we would undoubtedly have been faced with a barrage of weekly poll results showing a lack of public support for the war. Loyalists would be demanding an exit strategy. Newspapers would be editorializing for negotiations and troop withdrawals. There would be feature stories on the news every night about families left behind to take care of the family farms while husbands and brothers were off fighting this unwinnable war.
Thank God we didn't have television during the Revolutionary War. It certainly wouldn't have ended the way it did.
But ... back to this independence thing. July 4th is known as Independence Day. Independence from what? Independence from the government of Great Britain, that's what.
Now, in 2006, Americans are far more dependent on and oppressed by the Imperial Federal Government of the United States than they ever were by Great Britain. The level of taxation is higher, and the level of government interference in our daily life exceeds anything the colonists ever saw. In spite of all this, Americans will be waving flags, watching parades, going on picnics, and gawking at fireworks today, all in celebration of their love of freedom.
Love of freedom, my ass. This isn't a celebration of freedom, this is a celebration of hypocrites.
Let me just ask you if you will do something. I want you to write a letter to your congressman and your senators. I want you to tell them that you really got to thinking while watching people working on their melanomas on the beech, and you want the government to do something for you. You want the government to cut you loose.
Tell your congressman that you want to be free to establish your own relationship with your employer. No minimum wages. No mandated benefits. You want to negotiate your own employment contract with your employer, and the only thing you want the government to do is to help you enforce it through the courts if your boss starts screwing around.
Tell your elected officials that you do not believe that you have a right to health care. Tell them that you do not wish to use the police power of government to force someone else to provide you with medications or medical services. Write that you are perfectly willing to assume the total and complete responsibility for acquiring your own health insurance, all you want them to do is eliminate the mandates and allow you to shop for just the coverage you desire. Be sure to add that in the event you get sick without insurance, or you can't cover the costs, you absolutely do not want the government to step in and spend one dime of someone else's money on your care.
Tell them that you want an end to Social Security. You want out. You will be responsible for setting up your retirement plan and you will be willing to suffer the consequences in old age if you fail to do so. Tell your representatives that in a free society the government shouldn't take money from people who are now working just to give it to people who are not.
Maybe you will want to tell your senators and congressman that you have no interest what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. You don't want any laws that regulate their sexual conduct, and you don't want them punished if they sit out in the back yard under the stars at night puffing on some marijuana.
Inform your representatives that you want to be free to make your own consumer choices, and that includes choices of which professional you want to use for medical and legal services. Tell them that you are perfectly willing to rely on your own judgment, or the judgment of private accrediting agencies when it comes to selecting an attorney or a doctor. You might add that you don't like the idea that you have to go to the government to ask who may and who may not clip your fingernails.
When you have written that letter ... then you can go out and proclaim your love of freedom.
The 4th celebrates not only freedom, but independence from an oppressive government. For seven long years following July 4, 1776, an unbelievably courageous and determined minority of colonists fought to achieve our independence from England. That's right ... a minority. At no time during our Revolutionary War did the majority of colonists support the cause of independence. If CNN, ABC, The New York Times, and other agencies had been around to do their polling back then we would undoubtedly have been faced with a barrage of weekly poll results showing a lack of public support for the war. Loyalists would be demanding an exit strategy. Newspapers would be editorializing for negotiations and troop withdrawals. There would be feature stories on the news every night about families left behind to take care of the family farms while husbands and brothers were off fighting this unwinnable war.
Thank God we didn't have television during the Revolutionary War. It certainly wouldn't have ended the way it did.
But ... back to this independence thing. July 4th is known as Independence Day. Independence from what? Independence from the government of Great Britain, that's what.
Now, in 2006, Americans are far more dependent on and oppressed by the Imperial Federal Government of the United States than they ever were by Great Britain. The level of taxation is higher, and the level of government interference in our daily life exceeds anything the colonists ever saw. In spite of all this, Americans will be waving flags, watching parades, going on picnics, and gawking at fireworks today, all in celebration of their love of freedom.
Love of freedom, my ass. This isn't a celebration of freedom, this is a celebration of hypocrites.
Let me just ask you if you will do something. I want you to write a letter to your congressman and your senators. I want you to tell them that you really got to thinking while watching people working on their melanomas on the beech, and you want the government to do something for you. You want the government to cut you loose.
Tell your congressman that you want to be free to establish your own relationship with your employer. No minimum wages. No mandated benefits. You want to negotiate your own employment contract with your employer, and the only thing you want the government to do is to help you enforce it through the courts if your boss starts screwing around.
Tell your elected officials that you do not believe that you have a right to health care. Tell them that you do not wish to use the police power of government to force someone else to provide you with medications or medical services. Write that you are perfectly willing to assume the total and complete responsibility for acquiring your own health insurance, all you want them to do is eliminate the mandates and allow you to shop for just the coverage you desire. Be sure to add that in the event you get sick without insurance, or you can't cover the costs, you absolutely do not want the government to step in and spend one dime of someone else's money on your care.
Tell them that you want an end to Social Security. You want out. You will be responsible for setting up your retirement plan and you will be willing to suffer the consequences in old age if you fail to do so. Tell your representatives that in a free society the government shouldn't take money from people who are now working just to give it to people who are not.
Maybe you will want to tell your senators and congressman that you have no interest what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. You don't want any laws that regulate their sexual conduct, and you don't want them punished if they sit out in the back yard under the stars at night puffing on some marijuana.
Inform your representatives that you want to be free to make your own consumer choices, and that includes choices of which professional you want to use for medical and legal services. Tell them that you are perfectly willing to rely on your own judgment, or the judgment of private accrediting agencies when it comes to selecting an attorney or a doctor. You might add that you don't like the idea that you have to go to the government to ask who may and who may not clip your fingernails.
When you have written that letter ... then you can go out and proclaim your love of freedom.
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