Not Christmas and Not New Year's yet

So, Christmas is over. One more come and gone. And the new year begins between Saturday and Sunday of this coming weekend. Meanwhile, I truly have nothing much to say. My life is currently in a state of uncertainty. I mean, it's certain that I am still physically alive, but as for the rest of my situation, my general status and all that, it's sort of up-in-the-air. This is one of the reasons that I haven't really known what to say here lately, and the main reason that I don't know what to say here now. I don't know what to say because I don't know what I'm going to do or which direction I'm going to go.

I have not forgotten about the Little Red Riding Hood rewrite. If you've been anxiously awaiting that, I'm rolling it around in my head, but so far nothing concrete has come out of it.

How about, for no particular reason, I write 10 Things I'd Like To Say to 10 people without identifying who those people are? Sometimes that's entertaining. Other times it's just ... wtf.

1. Yes, I understand where you're coming from. I certainly would not feel particularly loved or appreciated if the person I was married to valued a bunch of random stray animals over me and my health. But then they have always been like that. In fact, a lot of people are, mostly women, which is where the whole cat-lady stereotype comes from. I don't know what to say about it, but I can see that it really hurts you and I think we all fully understand that. We try to say something and point out how it might be unfair, unreasonable and downright hurtful, but it's sort of like talking English to someone who only understands Korean. The best I can say is, protect your health and let the animals go wild. Whatever they destroy, just make sure it isn't you. Perhaps when the back yard is being flooded by a now-bitten off faucet and there is no easy way to turn it off then that person might decide that their own convenience of not having to walk very far isn't really worth the cost. Perhaps.

2. I think my purpose in your life, my role, however brief, may be ending. I mean, no regrets. You have been a great friend to me. But I think my purpose may now be fulfilled as you appear to be on your path to happiness with the person you were meant to be with. I wish you all the best. If anyone 'deserves' happiness I think you do. I hope you find it and it all goes your way. You are a truly great person.

3. Seriously, all our lives we have known each other. All our lives. And yet I mean no more to you than your car in the driveway or a stray cat wandering the neighborhood. And sometimes I wonder if anyone does. I mean, I know your family does, but is there no one else?

4. I don't know what you want from me.

5. So you're determined to win this race, eh? Even if we desperately need someone better, someone who is who they say they are and not just a poser who moves in whatever direction the wind blows? Well, here's hoping you find the courage and integrity to be someone better if you win this thing, because if you get in there and sell us all out it's the end of the line for the shining city on a hill.

6. There's no pot of gold at the end of my rainbow. Wait, that's not a rainbow. That's just a trail of colorful smoke coming from the burning remnants of all my hopes and dreams.

7. Why don't you just kill me and get it over with? Or is that too much trouble? You're obviously busy and don't have time for me except on the bad days.

8. Isn't it odd how the people I once held onto so tightly as best friends never cared a thing for me at all and yet now I find some of the people who passed me in the halls without knowing me are today better friends than any I ever had before? Or maybe it isn't odd at all. Maybe I'm just an idiot. I say maybe, but there's really no maybe about it.

9. Squirrel!

10. As far as I can tell you have a bright future ahead of you. If you can just get through all the frustration of being so tightly controlled, and it won't last forever, then I think you're going to have a very happy and promising life. I certainly hope that you do. Surely there is at least one of us who might be permitted to fly?

Yeah, well, that's the best I could do. So there it is, about as random as it gets.

Christmas

Merry Christmas!

I Remember

I remember when I could go outside first thing in the morning and look down my street to see the morning paper in every single driveway. Now its just me. No one else gets the paper anymore.

I remember when the sky seemed so incredibly blue and the grass so green, the sun was so bright it was blinding. Now its all just gray.

I remember when it seemed like everyone had a mom and a dad and they lived together in the same house. And then one day, suddenly, it was as if a bomb exploded and half of every home was blown apart. Now a kid living with their own mom and their own dad is as rare as the morning paper in the driveway.

I remember believing that everyone was nice and wanted to help you. I remember believing the mailman was nice, and the garbage man, and the milkman, and even the policeman. I didn't even realize at the time that there was no such thing as milkmen anymore. After all, they were in all the storybooks. I remember when the police were called policeman and not police officer, and they were men. I remember believing that you were safe if a policeman was around.

I remember cars made of metal with chrome and doors that went THUNK when you closed them. The sound was so solid and reassuring. You knew you were safe inside that steel shell.

I remember women in dresses, but only just barely.

I remember when bullies punched you in the stomach or the face. And then one day feminist teachers at my school taught sexual assault against boys and the world became much different.

I remember when your coach was as respected as your preacher and neither one raped you in the ass.

I remember when people who assaulted a person's sexual organs were reviled rather than admired. And you couldn't show it on TV because it is obscene.

I remember beautiful women with long shiny hair.

I remember when my dad wore a tie to work every day.

I remember riding a purple bicycle to school early in the morning. I have no idea why I had a purple bicycle. I didn't choose it.

I remember when almost no one wore a seatbelt and child seats were only for babies.

I remember when everyone's mom had a giant stationwagon and no one thought there was anything wrong with that.

I remember thinking electric windows were neat because all my parents cars had manual windows.

I remember when we would install cassette decks in our cars in place of the factory radios, some of which were AM only.

I remember Members Only, polo shirts that fit way too tight, and tight jeans.

I remember when I believed I would one day have a good and secure job, a wife who loved me, and a family of my own which my wife and I would raise together. These were my major goals in life. These are what I always wanted and needed in order to be happy. And they still are.

I remember when I had faith that people were basically decent and good and I trusted them not to betray me.

I remember when I lost my faith.

Frying Friday

Police intentionally shoot girl in groin with Taser
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a police officer grabbed a 14-year-old high school freshman from behind, slammed her against a car, then pushed away and drew his Taser. He aimed the Taser at her groin, which he admits was absolutely intentional, and fired. The girl was electrocuted through her genitals and fell to the ground.

The video of this is going viral all around the internet.


Apparently now it's copyrighted and we can't see it

There are numerous stories being reported about this already. The cop said he was told that students were walking in traffic and create chaos on previous occasions, so the police were called to put a stop to it. He says he yelled to her and she had her back to him and ignored him. He said she was cursing, which he defined as inciting a riot.

I have already commented numerous times about my feelings concerning the use and abuse of Tasers, as well as Taser's own encouragement of targeting the groin and genitals specifically. If you read this blog then you already know how I feel about this. I'm leaving it up to you to watch the video, read the articles detailing what happened, and make up your own mind.

The police department has made the usual statements excusing the officer's actions and indicating that this will happen again in the future. The girl was absolutely bombarded with criminal charges following to the incident. Reading the list of charges filed against her you would think she was wearing a bomb vest and waving a machine gun when she ran up and tackled the unsuspecting policeman. But the video shows nothing of the sort. What it shows is a human being, an American citizen and child, being grabbed from behind, slammed into a car and then shot point blank in the genitals for what appears to be no just cause at all. Clearly the office was not in fear for his life when he drew the weapon, aimed it at her genitals and fired it.

Not only that, but she can clearly be seen raising her hands and surrendering right before the officer shot her in the genitals, in the exact same manner as the wheelchair-bound man in San Francisco earlier this year who was shot twice in the testicles with a shotgun after surrendering, all of which was also caught on video.



But again, you decide and tell me what you think. The beginning part of the video apparently does not show what they were doing beforehand, or so some of the articles say. Perhaps we missed something. Is there anything you can think of the video could possibly have missed that would justify the shooting of a human being in the genitals at point blank range with the world's most popular torture device, a device which is known to have caused permanent and total destruction of the genitalia of numerous victims in addition to having killed over 400 people?

How many unarmed human beings have to be shot in the genitals by American police, or grabbed by the genitals and lifted off the ground screaming, before something is done about this rising tide of sexual violence, absolute indecency, and torture by authorities and pretty much anyone else who enjoys sexually hurting people, without the slightest response from lawmakers and judges?

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Now, in an unrelated note, I've noticed something else that is really bugging the shit out of me.

Yes, yes, I just assume you all come here to read about what is bothering me and hear me bitch.

OK, but once you notice it I guarantee its going to piss you off, too. Take a look at this car, the Nissan Juke:


Higher, brighter, larger and in-your-face

Look at the headlights. No, not the giant round driving lights that are now located where the headlights should be. Look up higher, closer to eye-level with the driver of a normal car. Yeah, THAT'S the headlights up there, up where your eyes will be as you're driving towards this monstrosity in your normal car. Those are the retina-searing laser HID headlights that are blinding drivers all over the world. The giant super-bright lights below are just parking lights, or driving lights, although they come on all the time to maximize the asshole-effect of this optical assailant.

This asshole-effect is important. The way these headlight systems work, the higher they are relative to other drivers, the more damage they do to your eyes when directed at you. They are 10 times brighter than normal lights, but the law only regulates the light they throw straight ahead, and even that is too high. They can throw as much light as they want at a slightly downward angle. Thus, the car companies can legally fry your eyes as long as the measured light projected straight ahead is below a level slightly less than the sun (seriously.) Lights mounted higher can emit as much light as possible downward into your face and the law doesn't care. So pickups and SUVs can legally blind us all because their lights can be mounted higher than a car's roof. The poor cars, though, are being left out. So that's why the manufacturers are now mounting the HID headlights up as close to windshield level as they can figure out how to do. They'll be putting them up on the roof soon if they can get away with it.

It isn't just this one Nissan car that has done this, raising the headlights up as high as possible to blind other drivers, while also installing the literally blinding Xenon HID system to make absolutely certain that every other driver on the road is blinded by them. It's nearly all the car manufacturers who are trying to figure ways to do this now. And for those of us who have to do a lot of night driving it is a major problem.

The worst offenders are the SUVs and pickup trucks. The systems I'm encountering in the full-sized pickup trucks are single-bulb on each side and when these trucks flash their brights at other cars there is absolutely no difference between their low and high-beam settings. They are EXACTLY the same literally blinding brightness. This means they are blinding everyone else on the road all the time and can't turn their ridiculous lights down even if they wanted to.

And lawmakers are doing absolutely nothing about it.


I'm gonna fry the eyeballs right out of your head

Wednesday

This was going to be a Wordless Wednesday post, but I couldn't manage it even though I don't have anything specific I need to say. I've been swamped at work and busy after work, so I haven't been able to write as much as I usually do. I haven't been able to do a lot of things lately. Basically I go to work early, work late, then go home and watch TV while practicing guitar. I still suck at the guitar, by the way, just in case you were on the edge of your seat wondering about that.

I'm under a lot of stress. What else is new? I have several different ideas in my head for what to do with Little Red Riding Hood, but none that just grab me with excitement as being THE idea. I'll write something, though, just as soon as I can. It takes a lot of hours. I just haven't had them available.

Christmas is coming and there is a lot of chaos surrounding that right now. I don't know if I'm staying here and working through it or going to visit family in Georgia or what. I may end up spending Christmas alone. New Year's too. We'll see. I have a lot to think about.

In the news, Herman Cain was run out of the presidential race by a typical sex-accusation attack. Apparently it had started to get to Herman's wife, so he dropped out of the race even though he was winning. Perhaps this helps to explain why America has such a void in the leadership department? Anyone worth having as a leader can always be assassinated with false accusations and lies. Only a true politician of the sort that makes for a poor leader is prepared to handle such things. Sad for us all because it means we will likely only ever see inferior men take the most important positions in the nation. Michelle Bachmann, meanwhile, has been under constant attack of the sort I thought only Muslim terrorists would stoop to. Gay Leftists have been using children to hit Michelle Bachmann with obviously scripted questions about gay marriage that mislead and misdirect as to what the real issue is. Typical. Most likely we are going to end up with yet another party man, a lying sack of shit who promises whatever and delivers only a larger and more overbearing federal government, while solving no problems. We are on a road to disaster.

Meanwhile, in the TV world, TLC has been running an obvious Muslim propaganda piece called "All American Muslim" that comes straight out of Hitler's own playbook. Considering how much of what is shown on television is pure political propaganda, either feminist or gay or black, and always socialist, this really doesn't surprise me at all. I don't watch it anyway. I've been busy. But I do hear that some companies have pulled their ads from TLC over this show. That's a rare display of testicular fortitude from America's corporations. It won't last long, though, if recent history is any guide. They'll all be back, voicing their full support for the show and seeking to placate the Muslim terrorists by burning Christian symbols during Ramadan. Wait and see.

The news media has been trying to make stories out of shit that isn't a story at all. For example, a church in Butthole, Kentucky with maybe 60 members argued over disallowing mixed race couples. No one gives a shit. A fraternity in Vermont made a joke about "who would you like to rape" and got the feminists' grannie panties all in a giant wad. A school teacher removed the word "gay" from a Christmas song when her students wouldn't stop giggling every time they sang it. The Press is all over this shit. They think it matters.

Meanwhile, the NTSB, a Federal Agency with a huge budget and nothing legitimate to do with the money has ordered all the states to outlaw cell phone use while driving. Not just texting, mind you, but any use of a cell phone of any kind. That includes hands-free conversations. As for the Xenon headlights that have apparently burned my retinas and caused me vision problems, not a single fucking word about those from the Nationional Transportation Safety Board. They are fucking blinding drivers coming in the opposite direction at high speeds, but not a single thing has been said or done about them. Nope. And as a result of these blinding lights, more American drivers than ever before are habitually driving with their high beams on because they see everyone else doing it and not getting ticketed for it, so they think it's legal now. I guess if Xenon headlights are legal maybe it is legal to drive around with your high beams on. There is no difference between high and low when those fuckers with the Xenon lights flash their brights at all the drivers flashing to tell them to turn them off except when they have dual headlamp systems where there is actually a separate bulb for the brights, in which case their brights are more blinding than a camera flash, except they don't turn off right away.

So anyway, that's all I've got time for. I have to sleep. Good night!


News that couldn't possibly matter any less

The Winner Is

The People have spoken and they have chosen Little Red Riding Hood as the next Memphis fairy tale.


The Winner - Red!

So, it's Christmas right now and my time is divided between a large number of things, but I shall endeavor to crank out this twisted version of the ancient children's story just as fast as I can. Maybe if it goes well I'll take whatever fairy tale was number 2 in the poll and rewrite it, too. We'll see.

Thank you for voting, and for even caring whether I wrote anything or not.

This Week in the News

Presidential candidate Herman Cain is under constant attack by Democrat operatives claiming he sexually harassed them, had a sexual affair with them, raped them, produced Satan's child through them, sacrificed goats with them, pretty much anything the Democrats can pull out of their ass is being thrown at Mr Cain. I thought they were vicious to Michelle Bachmann, the lone female candidate, but that was nothing compared to the raw hatred the Demos are firing at Herman Cain, the only black candidate. (No, I don't count Obama as black. Deal with it.)


Democrats go after Herman Cain with a vengeance

A computer scientist has revealed that virtually all smart phones have software installed on them that track not only our every move, but our every keystroke, as well. And then they report this information back to the company that provides your phone service. I had been cursing the hell out of my Blackberry for the ridiculous amount of time it spends ignoring me because it's too busy talking back and forth to the server. I couldn't figure out what it could possibly be saying that took so damn long. I guess now I know. Bastards!


Can't text now, busy reporting your passwords to Big Brother

Even though the Demos in the Press are virtually stringing up Herman Cain like their ancestors in the Ku Klux Klan used to do, that doesn't mean they aren't still taking cheap shots at Michelle Bachmann. They planted a high school student in one of her audiences and had him hit her with a bullshit question about gay "rights", worded in a way that assumes gay people in America don't have the exact same rights as everyone else, the very definition of 'equal rights'. They fear her because she's smarter than Obama, which doesn't take much, but she will take the hetero female vote away from him. Obama can't win with just the black and gay vote. And with the way they're lynching Herman Cain he may not even have the black vote for much longer.


I'll answer your bullshit question and impress voters as I do it

Apple's new Siri, the (of course) female voice on the new 4S phones that answers questions, gives advice and will tell you where to find businesses near your location if you ask, is under fire. It seems that feminists are drilling her with lots of PC questions and discovered that she has a glitch which they instantly declared a 'conspiracy to keep the woman down!' Siri can't find abortion clinics. If you tell her you want an abortion and need an abortionist, she says "I can't find one." Perhaps that's because in the everything-is-political United States, all abortion clinics are mislabeled 'family planning' clinics, and abortionists are called 'family planning doctors?' So if you ask Siri for a family planning clinic she has no problem answering. But if you ask her for an abortion, the intentionally misnamed and miscategorized clinics don't show up in her database as a valid answer. Don't blame Siri. Blame the American abortion industry that works so hard to hide what it is and what it does.


Feminists attack Siri

Government Motors' much touted and Obama-mandated Chevy Volt is (as expected) a big pile of shit. It catches fire when hit from the side, sometimes showing no indication that it is going to burst into flames for as much as 3 whole days, giving the owner time to get it to a bodyshop and have them pull it inside before it explodes like a terrorist's bomb and burns the whole place to the ground. And now the power chords are melting while recharging the damn cars. Its a good thing no one is buying these things anyway because if they did it could cause some serious problems.


The Chevy Volt - 230 mpg, 451 degrees Fahrenheit

A tiny church with only 40 members located in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky, voted to ban interracial marriages at their church. The Left-Wing Press, believing that nothing else other than Siri not being able to perform abortions was more important than this story, has been covering it like mad all week long. The fact that a church is a private group of individuals and can vote to do just about anything they want, which has no impact on anyone outside of that group, seems to have escaped the understanding of the Media. Also escaping the perpetually bitchy American Press was that the church vote to do this was in response to a couple that only attended once, with the female of the couple being only barely associated with the church and her boyfriend not being a member at all, and even that vote hasn't been settled. The church members are still fighting over it, with most of them refusing to vote on it at all, and only 15 of them participating in the issue. Yet somehow THIS is the biggest news story of the week in the United States of PMS.


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