The Brighter Side

I've decided that today's post won't have any compaints or social commentary and I will try to keep it as sprite as possible. Unfortunately, this means that I really have nothing to talk about...

It's a shame when you think about it - I'd rather go on and on about how things can get better then what's good about the world. The problem is that there isn't all that much left. Which is why I've decided to list a few things here that make me happy. Add to it if you can because I honestly think that we all need to be reminded of the good and not so much of the bad (at least for the next day or so).

- Hazelnut ice coffee from Dunkin Donuts
- Not hitting any lights on the your way home from work
- Finding a dollar in a pocket you forgot about
- Seeing a rat on a leash
- Finally paying off that credit card
- Buying all sorts of kewl new stuff with that very same credit card
- Getting flowers
- Getting flowers (and an Ice Coffee!!)
- Getting flowers, and ice coffee and being able to smoke a cigarettee in peace! :-D
- Open highways
- Good music


That's all I can think of for now - what do you think?

I've officially decided that next time we get together Jessie I'm fixing your picture phone posts to come up under your name and not mine :).

Jupiters Moon has Water?

So I was wasting time at work again by reading through CNN.com - I would go somewhere that had a little less skewed news but Citizens Bank likes to overly restrict web access from the branches (go figure?) Well CNN (and the BBC for that matter have now reproted to the world that NASA thinks that the largest moon of Saturn might have a lake on it. One lake. One whole lake that might be there, might not be there or might be a big whopping puddle of Methane.

You'd think with all of our advances they would be able to tell us whether its water or not. How about using all the money that gets spent on absolute crap gets spent on making a better, more useful probe? Something that's a little more then a camera on a rocket engine in orbit.

"No" Says Uncle Sam, "We need to deafeat our enemies, kill our young and spend money on crappy, second class space probes." To this we give our approval because they talk sweetly to us and make us feel as though we are the ones doing the decision making. I would be hard pressed to find someone in this country that wouldn't like to know whether or not there are inhabitable places in space. But I know that a good number of us hate this war and the reasons we're there.

Presidential Address

Today Mr. President got in front of everyone and said that America should be for war because we are right. There are no if's and's or but's here - at least according to the President and all of his dropping support polls. If the war were really about democracy and freedom then we are should pull out already. They already had their elections. Yes these people are divided.. Does the Civil War ring a bell? How about the Revolutionary War? Just because these things happened in our own culture 200 years ago does not make them obsolete concepts!

If we were really about democracy and freedom then we would have gone after the Chinese government when they banned words like freedom and democracy from their peoples web browsing. Bloggers wouldn't have to form coalitions to protect their own freedoms here in this country. Heck, if this were really a democracy then people in this country would mind their own business and just let other people led their own lives.

No, this is not a tie in to my schpel, (Kristen did I spell that correctly?) about smoking. This about much, much more then that. This war is about controlling the limited energy supply that this country desperately needs to keep going and its coachroaches pace. If China had anything more then an overcrowded population to offer and a weaker army then we'd move in. But the truth of the matter is that we wouldn't be there this long unless we were fighting for something more then our morals.

Yesterday I posted my ID story and was amazed when the only comment posted was for me to quit smoking. The complaint went so far above the smoking issue that I couldn't believe it - however, here is my

TOP TEN REASONS WHY I HATE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME TO QUIT SMOKING

10. McDonalds, Burger King and Taco Bell still exist.
9. The average American only walks 2 miles a day.
8. Someone out there drives a Hummer because 'it's cool.'
7. Religion is still legal.
6. Smokers pay taxes - just like non-smokers.
5. Smokers are only hurting themselves - and no I don't want to hear any of that secondary smoke business. If you don't like it go away.
4. Fat people can get handicap stickers for being fat.
3. Obesity is the second largest killer in the US. All cancers are number one - making only smoking related illness a much lower killer.
2. Life is short - if I want to die early what concern is it to you?
1. We live in a democracy - I can do what I want. If you don't like it, move to a communist state.

Isn't Mattie so cute with his parasol?

Just look and be amazed.

PENIS FRUIT!!! Hehehehehe...

Myspace.com

Myspace.com

This is the link going to my friend Jessie's blog over on MySpace - she'll be uploading photos from her picture phone from now on.

Identification Please!

I recently lost my license. But I was responsible about it - as soon as I realized that it was officially gone I marched down to the RMV and plunked down the $20 for a duplicate. In the meantime I was given a paper temporary by the "kinder, more understanding" RMV.

I had been carrying this wonder of modern ID requirements for about a week when I stepped into the Pride gas station to buy cigarettes. It should be now before I get into the story that I tell you all that I am well over legal cigerette buying age.

I go to the counter and ask the kid behind the counter for a pack of Newport Lights. He walks over to the cigerettes, brings them over to the register, scans them in and then asks, "Can I see your ID please?" Not thinking it would be an issue, I pull out the paper ID and hand it over.

"Sorry, we can't take this - Do you have the laminated one?" He grimaces and looks up at me as if this question is painful to ask.

"No - I have this one because I lost my laminated one." I probably look a bit peeved at this point.

"Well, this isn't a legal ID and I can't take it - Sorry agian." He voids the cigerettes and starts to walk away.

I don't usually make a big deal out of this stuff - but he said it wasn't legal... this paper temporary is legal all right. If I have to take it at a bank, as long as it's accompanied by a secondary ID (ie signed credit card, ss card... etc), for things a lot more important then buying a pack of Newports! "What do you mean this isn't legal? Can I speak to your manager please?"

"No. These can be easily duplicated so we don't take them." Right after he said this the manager - an old woman who belongs in a geriatrics ward, not managing a Pride station - comes shuffeling out of the back room.

"We don't take those because they can be easily made."

I mutter some choice words under my breath and just walk away at this point. Cigarettes aren't important enough to make a fool out of myself in public for, I can always walk down to the next place and get them their. The point to the story is that if a bank, or a policeman has to use these ID's than what makes these gas stations any more important?

Fox and The Simpsons...

Today, Fox re-aired an episode of the Simpsons this evening - but it's not the episode that I care about but the warning Fox aired before the episode. I hope to get the authentic screen shot off my TiVo later, but until that can happen here's the general idea. "This show depicts gay marriage. Viewer discretion is advised." I didn't know that was something we had to gaurd against in prime time t.v. Guard against violence, drugs, poverty, war but not fucking marriage. And I know this may come as a shock but gay marriage is marriage people - like it or not.

Old friends new websites!

The best news that I've heard recently isn't anything on TV or CNN.com, (because we all know how happy I get with that information). Its that my old friend Pitcher is still alive and kicking. He goes by the name of "CireDark" for the puposes of his LiveJournal and talks about things like old Roseanne episodes and Sealab 2021 - you can't beat it.

PS. Image a little bigger then I had hoped - but thats him... ;;chuckle;;

What goes around comes around

Its gotten to the point where I don't even want to read the news featured on CNN.com anymore. Has anyone else seen the newest push from New Jersey to require women 17 and under to make sure that their parents know about abortions?

How about the woman who was recently thrown in jail because she left her 12 YEAR OLD SON home and the dog mauled him?! 12 YEARS OLD!!! Not 5, 6, 7, 10 - he was 12! I was left home that young.. heck I had to watch my little brother when I was that old. In my opinion the little fucker was kicking the dog and deserved to get mauled for abuse.

Then there is the entire issue of people losing there home to Wal-marts and Targets everywhere. Yep, you heard it right - because the cities of America, land of the free, being greedy and immoral - we can lose our homes so that a new store, condo or hotel can go up. All because these places, (now brace yourself for this one), create tax revenue. It used to be towns got most of their money from small business and property taxes.

Is anyone else paying attention or are you all so wrapped up in the rising gas prices and fighting tax reform that you don't give a fuck. Women are being forced to get security clearance to make decisions about their own lives, others can't even leave what should be a responsible aged child home alone because they might get eaten! And even worse, while your all worrying about whether or not its going to cost you a little more to gas up your SUV your neighbor may be losing there home for that new shopping plaza.

Do I have an answer to this... no. Of course I don't. I'd be doing things much differently if I could though. For starters, I'd force everyone driving a gas guzzeling piece of crap to sign up with TerraPass. Next, I'd remind everyone that what goes around comes around.