Monday, July 25, 2005
My watering hole
I have this little joint where I karaoke and wet my whistle every other week. My buddy Laz is building their new website, check it out: http://www.ourplacelounge.net
fuck ernie!!!
Thursday, July 21, 2005
I have joined My Space
Thursday, July 07, 2005
How to stop terrorism: The $$$ solution.
So the terrorist have struck again. I am getting a little bit pissed at these fundamentalist assholes. However, I am sure that they have griavances which are not being advertised to the general public. This complaints may have been kept underwrap lest us, the public, may sympathize with the terrorists. This doesn't mean that I support nor condone their murderous jihad. There is no cause worth killing innocent people, but frankly our "leaders" tend to make some hard choices, like not publisising the terrorists' demands. So armed with what little information I have, I think this may be a way to chip away at the terrorists.
We take the Sopranos/Godfather approach.
Let us assume that <u>everyone</u> has a price. All the target goverments of these terrorists are rather wealthy, so I say that we offer an open ended reward for the head of these assholes. My plan would go something like this:
1. Find a cleric who leans to the extrimist views of Islam, offer him a bunch of money or give him some other incentive (like making sure his family is safe) to work for us.
2. Through word of mouth (urban myth,) spread information of who or how to contact someone for the reward.
3. You are Ahmed Q. Public and you are approached to heed the call of Allah and join the martir brigade. You agree to do it, but you contact that urban myth reward giving place.
4. You're instructed to contact the cleric or someone the cleric has enlisted to help them.
5. The cleric or his proxy, tells gives you some form of signaling device ( i know this is a bit far fetched but I think the technology is available ) and you are to activate the second you are sent to fulfill your suicide mission. You also memorize the face of the asshole who called on you.
6. We find said asshole and coerce through $$$ or pain as much info as possible on his terrorist cell, we then work our way up the food chain.
Of course a task force must be setup to handle the logistics of this operation and give them the funding necessary to see it through.
I think that the house of Saud has something to do with all this, and I am sure that there are other states that sponsor terrorism, I don't know if war is the answer to stop them, but western societies are far more ruthless than any other society in the history of this world, I am sure we can find a way to make it happen.
We take the Sopranos/Godfather approach.
Let us assume that <u>everyone</u> has a price. All the target goverments of these terrorists are rather wealthy, so I say that we offer an open ended reward for the head of these assholes. My plan would go something like this:
1. Find a cleric who leans to the extrimist views of Islam, offer him a bunch of money or give him some other incentive (like making sure his family is safe) to work for us.
2. Through word of mouth (urban myth,) spread information of who or how to contact someone for the reward.
3. You are Ahmed Q. Public and you are approached to heed the call of Allah and join the martir brigade. You agree to do it, but you contact that urban myth reward giving place.
4. You're instructed to contact the cleric or someone the cleric has enlisted to help them.
5. The cleric or his proxy, tells gives you some form of signaling device ( i know this is a bit far fetched but I think the technology is available ) and you are to activate the second you are sent to fulfill your suicide mission. You also memorize the face of the asshole who called on you.
6. We find said asshole and coerce through $$$ or pain as much info as possible on his terrorist cell, we then work our way up the food chain.
Of course a task force must be setup to handle the logistics of this operation and give them the funding necessary to see it through.
I think that the house of Saud has something to do with all this, and I am sure that there are other states that sponsor terrorism, I don't know if war is the answer to stop them, but western societies are far more ruthless than any other society in the history of this world, I am sure we can find a way to make it happen.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Al Franken is an annoying asshole.
That's what you'll hear most Republicans, conservatives and even some democrats say about the actor / comedian / author / talkshow host. I have read only one of his books, the hilariously titled: "Lies and the lying liars who tell them: A fair and balanced look at the right." I do listen to his show when I have the time. I have been trying to intellectualize the real reason he is so viscerally hated by his detractors, and (I think) that I have found the reasons why: Al Franken does not fear those he mocks. More over he does not fear calling them on their lies and shove the evidence in their face. That, in my book, is the definition of a bonified and unapologetic annoying asshole. It is not enough that he calls liars liars, he rubs the evidence of their lies in their face, leaving them no room to defend themselves, what I call an intellectual check mate. No one likes to tip their King in defeat and that makes it even more enjoyable for the evil Mr. Franken. Evil because if left to their own devices, conservatives would label him a heretic and have him burned at the stake, literally.
It is quite clear that conservatives do not have the advantage of an honest to truth dissenting voice, and that if they did such voice would be crushed faster than a Bill O'Reilly guest who disagreed with him. And speaking of Bill O'Reilly, I am convinced that he is as willing to lie to his listeners as Franken is to call Bill on those lies. It's too bad that O'Reilly lacks the moral and intellectual cojones to civilly debate Al Franken. One the most entertaining television programs I have ever seen was a panel in which Al, Bill and Molly Ivins participated in to sell their book at a publishers gathering on CSPAN. The WWF should take pointers from the tension generated by Al and Bill on that panel. Al re-called that Bill O'Rilley continually claimed to have won two Peabody awards while on the show "Inside Edition." Al called the Peabody people and confirmed that it was not true. I have never seen anyone as angry on television as Bill O'Rilley was, I think that if he'd been armed Al would be dead and Bill would be in jail telling the other cons how Al "had it coming" and how he had not killed anyone since he was "in combat" of course the other inmates would just answer: "Those are not microphones in your hands, less talking more sucking."
I like Al Franken and I like what he has done with his fame by calling the liars liars and the crooks crooks. However, I feel that he often goes a bit overboard and does not apply that critical eye to the democrats. I agree with nearly all that Al Franken says and I have yet heard anyone able to refute the well researched information he always puts forward.
Al please help clean the democratic party of the idiots they have, maybe then liberals will have a chance in 2008.
PS: Katherine Lanpher has a very, very sexy voice. She is smart too.
