After watching Iron Man, I was relieved to find that someone, finally, did it right. I was never a fan of the comic, mostly because he was a part of Marvel’s legacy crew, A.K.A. The Avengers. There was zero character development, at least from the “I want it, now.” standpoint of a teenage boy. X-Men and Image comics offered more twists and turns. That aside, I was really impressed by the movie. I thought about it for a while to figure out, why? Sure, the acting and special effects were great, but ultimately the main reason I truly enjoyed it was because the bad guy was a real dick. The mark of a great superhero movie is a villain you can hate with a fiery passion. Continue reading
Church: Get Out There and Believe in Green Guys
Go ahead and do it! You are now free of the possible phone calls from the Vatican at Midnight while star gazing as of today when you even mumble that you believe in UFO’s or those pesky green Martians that continually probe our nation’s finest in areas that are less than desirable. So as of today I am going to tell everyone that I believe in aliens and I am going right to the nearest church to tell them I do as well. I will proceed to start drawing UFO pictures in the pews during the sermon and leave them everywhere. I mean hell, it’s a celebration now! I think the first picture I color will be my Priest holding my hand (with adult supervision of course) and me holding a Martian’s hand like a little family. Galileo and those persecuted in the past for thinking the sun was the center to today in which I have the freedom to think carbon actually inspired life elsewhere on a possible habitable planet in another galaxy. All I can say is damn am I so lucky to live in a free society where church is so forgiving. Continue reading
Another Vehicle Registration, Another Birthday
Amazingly enough each birthday is celebrated with friends, family, and loads of ecards. However, depending on your state, your birthday also comes with renewing your vehicle registration. So I get gifts then I give the gifts to my county in which I receive nothing in return for my payment. For those that know me you can understand I might have a frustration with this particular agency. Tomorrow is my birthday and I will have to move the numbers up by one to make 30 this year. For 30 I am one incredible man though, so you ladies don’t forget that. I can count, brush my teeth, walk and chew gum, and build websites (adult/non-adult depending on what you are looking for in your man). Continue reading
Black People Can’t Swim
I was enjoying my daily dose of Yahoo News this evening only to learn that black people can’t swim, or at least 60% of them can’t. The big plan is to target inner city kids and start teaching them how to swim. I think this is a great opportunity to reach them before a tsunami hits the inner city or pool purchases in the apartment complexes shoot through the roof. I know last time I walked through Atlanta or NYC, I had come close to drowning in the pool just off the patch of a shopping center. It was close but luckily there were white kids there to save me. If I remember correctly there were 5 of them and all 5 jumped in to save me. Continue reading
Fixing Fuel Cost – Build Better Cars
Fuel costs are high, and people don’t know what to do. We have our answers from our politicians and that’s either to stop taxing fuel through the summer or to get better gas mileage cars in the production. This is great but where is it going to help anyone in middle America? Of course everyone is up in arms, who wants to pay $60-$100 for a fill up? Who wants to spend the first 2 hours at work to pay for going to work? Who’s got two thumbs and answered not me to the first two questions? This guy.
So I can either save a few pennies per gallon or take out another loan for about $20K-$30K to buy a new vehicle and save money. These options sound completely insane to me. Why would I spend $20K on a new car just to save $1K-$5K on gas for a few years? This is the America I live in. We have no real answers or real solutions to real problems we face. Everyday I have the pleasure to read the junk that comes from our politicians. I am taxed, and of course re-taxed to buy thing. Why is my paycheck taxed so much? Why do Democrats want to raise taxes? Ahhh, I know…because everyone that makes these decisions make so much more than me. Continue reading
How Dare Battlestar Galactica Break Up With Me
If there is one thing that frakkin pisses me off more than accidentally pissing the bed half way into an erotic dream, is when TV shows break up with me instead of the other way around. I mean how dare they, how could they, and who the frak do they think they are? They can’t just rip Athena/Boomer from my retinas and think I won’t notice. Sure you might say ,”Easy dude, they are on DVD.” I say it’s not good enough and they should do way better than that homosexual show “Friends”. I mean a hot asian in space, bombs and bullets, and it’s in space. How awesome is that? Completely awesome to help you answer. Continue reading
That White Guy Barack Has a Chance
This year’s Presidential race is interesting to say the least. What were the odds of having a young white guy, an old white guy, and a woman running for that one seat? Normally we as Americans have always choosen an older white male for our President. Now we have youth and a woman competing. Perhaps 2008 will be the changing tide. I don’t know how many people enjoy Opie and Anthony, but in the way that they regard Hiliary Clinton is the same as I do. I think to date, Beatrice Oneil had it right as he said,”She is the worst speaker ever, she is so fake”. So in my opinion it is not that women don’t have a place as President, but rather, that particular woman. She is one of the worst choices the gender could be putting up. Continue reading
Modern day slavery, tax rape !
Welcome U.S. citizens and all other people working legally here in the good old U.S.A. Welcome to modern day slavery. OK, so you want to know what i am ranting and raving about? I’m 32,married, home owner, with one kid and hoping for more sounds like the good old American dream don’t it?
I make an average of $18.00 per hour, 40 hours a week, that comes out to $720 before “Uncle Sam” takes his share. Which then leaves me after taxes and deductions around $500 , sounds great doesn’t it? ya, not bad if your not looking at the whole picture. $160 dollars of that goes to taxes every week. Thats $8320 a year. Now lets add on my property taxes, $3400 a year for my 2000 sq foot home, built in 1923, with an acre of land. Nearly $800 in car taxes a year, thanks to Conneticut. Can’t forget that little fire tax they throw in there, if you don’t pay that when your house is burning down, they might not show up with the water to put it out, my fire tax is around $100 a year.
Now here’s the grand total $12,620 a year in taxes. Divide that by 52 weeks a year and you get $242.70, that’s how much Mr. Government really takes out of my pocket, I can’t figure it in on this equation, but do’t forget sales tax, and God forbid you put some money away in a bank, you get taxes on the interest you make. So figure it out for yourself, how much do you really bring home and how much does our government rip out of your pocket?
What effect does this have with our families? Most families have two working spouses, which leads to “latch key kids” for anyone that doesn’t know , that is when your kids have there own key to the house because no one is home, because Mommy and Daddy both have to work. Is this the way the government wants us to raise our children? I could rant and rave about cause and effect for days and days about how the government is killing our society and family values. But i will just end it with this,
” Hello fellow Americans, Your government is raping you! “
PS. ” I feel like a street whore and the government is my pimp! “
Wikipedia and Me
Wikipedia and I need to have a talk. Well, maybe a write off or something. If I could write something to Wikipedia as a whole it would be something like this:
Dear Wikipedia,
You’re special in many ways, but you’re not complete. You are missing me. I know, I know…I am not a rockstar, a pornstar, a mass murderer, Hollywood filmstar, heck I am not even a kid’s show host. I only ask that one day you consider me as a page. I am just a normal guy. I have some children, and I have some websites. I haven’t done anything too special in my life but I can make people smile and laugh. You have around 1.8Mil pages in yourself, and what would be one more about me? Perhaps you could just say a couple things about me like I am handsome, or I am above average in my IQ. I yearn for you to write about me and my life.
Signed,
Desperately seeking Attention Continue reading
Wal-Mart and Covert Name Brand Competition
As I walked the giant mall-like Wal-Mart with my family this evening we found our way to the food section where the giant retailer does it down and dirty competition against well established name brands. Though I know many realize this trickery that Wally world uses, some still don’t see it. Let’s face it, Sam Walden’s dream takes a PR beaten from the media and groups fighting against the system that employs 10′s of thousands across the United States. One thing that they don’t get recognized for is the way they out price same-like products that helped them to get into the huge position they have come to enjoy. Continue reading