tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55131992011-04-21T23:41:14.649-04:00My views: completely lacking in political correctness and tact for over 23 yearsJPnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513199.post-1114364052996397562005-04-24T13:02:00.000-04:002005-04-24T13:34:12.996-04:00

     Since Pope Benedict XVI was presented, I have been blown away by the ridiculous opinions people are coming up with about him. You see, some people think that he should allow abortion, gay marriage, women priests, priests to marry, and birth control. I think these people are missing the point of Catholicism. You see, just because some public opinion might have become more liberalized, that

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     Where oh where does it say in the charter of any educational institution that it is within the school's mission to spend money to entertain the students rather than educate them? To give some background to my gripe, Georgia Tech was given the distinction of having one of unhappiest student populations according to a study/poll done of students at many universities and still does according to

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     Sandra Bullock has my respect eventhough I still won't sit through a "chick flick" voluntarily. Her generous donation comes at a time when the rest of Hollywood is ignoring a real humanitarian disaster. It seems to me that the majority of the news out of Hollywood in the past few years has been in opposition of US policies, yet when they have a chance to make a positive difference, they

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     One cannot help but notice the ubiquitous reporting of the natural disaster in the Indian ocean. Tens of thousands of confirmed dead from the disaster itself, with many more to come from the aftermath of disease and starvation. While watching a portion of the disaster reporting, I noticed a picture of a body being carried by a few men, with one of them wearing an Osama Bin Laden T-shirt.

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     Vioxx, Celebrex, Viagra, Cialis, etc etc etc. We might all recognize these names of prescription drugs from the commercials that are on tv, radio, internet, magazines, sporting events, etc. In all of these commercials, we hear "Ask your doctor if ******* is right for you." First of all, your doctor should tell YOU what is right for YOU, not some advertisement of happy people doing stuff

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     In a move that will surely get a lot of bad PR, the EPA has drafted yet another plan for testing on humans. What effect will this bring? Probably a lot of people fearing that the government will allow corporations to test their chemicals, drugs, etc on people without safeguards. In reality, probably not much will happen. People will most likely volunteer to be in a test group, they'll be

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     Whatever your thoughts of that picture, whether you're for or against the war, you're probably not thinking about the cigarette. Since when has a personal choice been demonized as much as smoking? I was flipping channels tonight and this picture was a topic on of discussion on some Fox News show and one of the guests said that the picture wasn't politically correct. Why not? He's not

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     People sometimes miss lessons in life because they think they're too busy or they just don't care. Some lessons aren't that major, but some will come back to bite you if you didn't learn it the first time. As always, it's much easier to learn something the easy way instead of the hard way.     Back in the 1970's gas prices skyrocketed because of OPEC and because the US wouldn't drill in

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     For the first time in UN history, the Secretary General is facing the prospects of a no confidence vote. In the South we have a saying, where people get what's coming to them. He's pardoned high ranking UN officials accused of all sorts of philanderings, thefts, lies, and other deceits, not to mention the oil for food debacle. This guy has been lining his pockets with this office for some

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     Since I've gotten dozens of hits for ABC's monday night football intro with the "Desperate Housewives" women, I've decided to put up a link to ifilm's website that has the video. I really don't see what the big deal about it is, except that it really wasn't appropriate for a sporting event. As I've said before, a sporting event shouldn't be provacative. Although the cheerleader's dances

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     With all the ridiculous backlash against television stations in the past year for airing the infamous "wardrobe malfunction," local stations are making their passive statement. ABC planned to air "Saving Private Ryan" in honor of Veteran's Day, but because of some foul language, some local affiliates have refused to show the movie. I think this is good because it underscores the absurdity

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     Since all the controversy over whether Arafat was dead or alive, we now know that he is dead. That and the PLO is setting aside $22 Million per year out of their budget for Suha to live in Paris (link here). Makes it seem like she doesn't seem to care too much about the plight of the average Palestinian. $22 million a year could build quite a few schools, clothe many poor, feed thousands,

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     As many have said, the vast majority of terrorists in the past 20+ years have been middle eastern. That gives a pretty good breakdown of who to watch for correct? Say Mars candy came out and said that some red M&M's had a chemical that caused cancer (remember the urban myth). Would you eat the red ones or would you separate them out and eat the ones that didn't cause cancer? My light

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     I remember about a year ago, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) said that they wouldn't follow the RIAA's (Recording Industry Association of America) lead by suing peer-2-peer (p2p) filesharers. The reason being, that while the RIAA has to sue people for the results of the market not buying their used up, lame, one-hit-wonder pop albums, the MPAA has repeatedly shown record

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     Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this? Sending spam email deserves a 9 year jail sentence, while real crimes like theft, sale of drugs, battery, etc get shorter terms? This is some nerd that used his computer to send emails about mortgages, viagra, and teens that want to get it on with you. Obviously, this doesn't hurt anyone it's just an annoyance that can be solved with

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     Unlike Gore in 2000, Kerry is accepting the results and is conceding defeat. I'm glad that he's not going to resort to using an army of lawyers to sue for the office. While I still think the man's politics are ridiculous, I have to say that his acceptance of the facts and defiance against his party's leaders by not persuing the low road of courts over real votes, that he at least has some

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     Since I am more than tired of partisan politics at the moment, I thought I'd address another issue that irks me to no end: What do you do if your candidate loses? I've heard Hollywood types say that they'd move to Canada or Europe. I've heard people say that their rights would be trampled entirely or that their social security would disappear. I've heard people say that taxes would be

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     I love going out in public and seeing the crazy stuff people do. I ran into the grocery store today to pick up a few things. Having only a few things, I decided to use the U-scan checkouts. There was one guy in line in front of me with an entire shopping cart. So being the non-interventionist that I am, I told him that these checkouts were for 15 items or less. He just looked at me

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     In probably the best turn of events I've seen in a while, the Georgia State Supreme Court overturned the state's hate crime laws. The problem they cited was that the laws were "unconstitutionally vague" and didn't define what the victim groups were. I don't believe that these laws would have followed the Constitution even if they did define the victim groups. The equal protection under

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     And Now For Something Completely Different....I got to thinking earlier, we've all had that clingy friend at one time or another. You know the one, that kid that was on the same bus stop as you and then followed you everywhere all through grade school, or that kid you met at freshman orientation at college that turned out to be a complete psycho and followed you everywhere you went for the

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     In another in the long line of fluff interviews with Teresa Heinz (name as according to her tax returns read this and this) she says that she doubts that Laura Bush ever held a real job. In fact, here's the exact quote in response to how she thinks she'd be different from the first lady, "But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up." Now if that

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The only curse I could see in game 6 was one of highly paid players doing something stupid. Anyone with half a brain and at least one eye could see that A-Rod slapped Arroyo's glove to knock the ball loose. Let's face it though, the Yankees were still down by 2 so that play really would not have mattered. My biggest disappointment is that A-Rod felt he had to cheat to win. Is this the Yankee

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     At any other time of the year, this would be a ridiculous story, but 2 weeks before the Presidential election, it can't happen. A "volunteer" for the NAACP in Ohio paid a man with crack rocks to get voter registration forms filled out. Apparently a lot of famous people have moved to Ohio this year and all seemed to give fake into to a crackhead so he could fill out voter registration forms

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     Since last year's flu "epidemic" people have been worried that they, their children, or parents could die if they contract the flu. Well I've gotten the flu multiple times per year over my lifetime and I'm still here. Hell, even SARS has a 99.9998 percent recovery rate, why are we so worried about the flu? Easy, we're scared into it. So scaring the public will skyrocket any demand

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     In probably the most ridiculous thing I've seen besides Kerry debate himself, John Edwards has promised that if John Kerry is elected, many illnesses will be miraculously cured. In a stump speech at some high school gym in Iowa, he said (now imagine this in your best tele-evangelist voice, think of cartman when he was pretending to be a preacher) "We will stop juvenile diabetes,

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     Why is it that ever since the advent of network news, has the media decided to trumpet any and every off-beat story about something bad possibly happening? I know I'm not the only one to have noticed this. Although with the Department of Homeland Security showing their level as orange or red or charteuse or whatever, how can we expect the media to do any better. So I decided that I'm going

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     Were I actually inclined to vote for Kerry, this would be the kind of thing that would make me not vote for him. How in the hell can you respect the office of President of the United States if you go around saying that the President is out of touch, in denial about everything, or blatantly incompetent? Like anyone would do any better for the last administration. Our economy went to shit

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     Apparently it's "Coming Out Week" here at Georgia Tech and no one could care less. I'm of the belief that you do your laundry at home. In other words, what's personal should stay personal. Tell your friends, family or whomever would be affected, but I don't know you so I really don't care to hear it. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. While I really have nothing against

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     I came across this article this morning about a civil rights spokeswoman, Joanne Bland, in Selma, Alabama who gave quite a few choice quotes about the electronic voting machines. She started off by saying "The computers really terrify me." I've used these machines before in the primaries, you go in the booth, put in the ballot smart card into the computer (there are even pictures so you

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     I've been kinda silent on the whole campaign thing recently, which is rare. I'm still cracking up over the fact that the media is doing more to ruin Kerry's chances than he is. Think about it, Dan Rather taking unchecked documents on the air just because he has a grudge against the Bush family? His overzealous anti-Bush actions probably cost him his credibility not to mention the blow

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Being a 23 year old senior in college and working nearly full time as a bartender can cause some undue stress. For the friends of mine that have noticed how joyless I've been for the past year, things are getting better. Today, I quit my stupid job. I don't need it anymore. My finances are straight to the point where I don't have to work until next fall. How many times in your life do

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     As if I didn't already dislike the Yankees enough, this latest thing is just ridiculous. They're demanding that Tampa Bay be charged with a forfeit over the first Monday game. Wonder why they couldn't show up? It was this nasty little hurricane that got in the way. The unusual random acts of God clause should be imposed by Selig to shut the Yankees up. It's not that they didn't realize

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     Zell Miller lived up to my expectations at the convention. He was never one to sit idly by and not speak his mind when he sees something wrong. He was one hell of a governor in Georgia and did the right thing no matter if it was popular or not. His dedication lies not to any party, but to doing the right thing. If all our politicians were like him, this country wouldn't have a mess in

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     Maybe now Russia will take terrorism seriously and help convince the rest of the world that working to end terrorism is a common goal. Unfortunately for many, Russia had to learn this lesson the hard way, just as we in America did on September 11, 2001. These weren't "Chechen Rebels" or "Insurgents." Let's call them what they were, they were islamic terrorists in their purest and most

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     I just finished watching Giuliani deliver his address at the Republican National Convention and I am left with one word: Wow. The delivery itself is something to be taught in any public speaking course. At times I was laughing, other times nearly drew a tear, sometimes were extremely partisan, while the general message was that we are not two Americas, as John Edwards put it, but rather

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Say that you were a cop and you catch a criminal with only half a carload of explosives. Say that you had good reason to believe that the criminal put those explosives somewhere in a large city. How far do you go to find out where he put the bombs? If you go by the approach our media prefers, you would sit there and say something along the lines of "please tell me where you put them.

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     For those of us NC State fans that followed Rivers during the greatest 4 years of NC State football history, this is the best news we've had all summer. We were overjoyed that he went in the first round, and became the de-facto first pick, but we were holding our breath until he signed. Today, Philip Rivers has agreed to the terms of his contract with the Chargers, and that means that we

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     Every now and then W does something that I think is flat out riduculous. Be it curbing federal funding for stem cell research while allowing federal money to go to "artists" that smear fecal matter on a canvas and call it "art" or by supporting an idea for a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage, but this one takes the cake for me. The idiocy is actually on both parties for this

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     Starting back at school in the fall always brings fond memories of botched haircuts, forgotten lunches, and of course, homework. Despite my favorite things about starting back at school, there are some things that I can't stand and/or am frankly disgusted by.      First of all, fat people in tight clothing. Good Lord what are you thinking? Just because it's trendy doesn't mean it's for

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     Apparently Kerry's contempt of the average person is shown again in how he handles his past. The Christmas eve he spent in Cambodia under orders from President-elect Nixon was actually in January, maybe. Now, my problems with this start off in that the President-elect can't give orders to move troops. I doubt that Democrat LBJ was going to abdicate his power before a Republican's

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     I read this article I found on fazed.net the other day and decided that MADD is more than a little nuts. Before I tear into them, I'll explain the article. Some engineers designed a product that wraps around a keg to keep it cold without all the ice. Great idea since ice is really a pain since it melts, needing to be dumped out in the morning and also this way you wouldn't waste so much

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     In the spirit of going back to school, I've decided to share a little story I overheard while getting my hair cut the other day. This rather large woman with 3 rather large kids (you know my stance on fat kids) was sitting in the barber's chair talking about how her kid was so afraid of some test the state requires elementary school kids to take. Needless to say, my first impression was

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Recently, the campaign between Bush and Kerry has taken a turn into whether or not Iraq was a good course of action. Bush says the world is safer, as does Kerry. Bush said our troops did a good job, Kerry says he would have done better, without saying how. Kerry doesn't see a coalition of the US, Britain, Australia, Pakistan, Italy, Spain, etc as a multinational force, when obviously it

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     So this woman was fired from a middle eastern-owned telecom firm in Florida for eating a pork. Now she's suing claiming religious discrimination. At first you probably laugh this off as ridiculous because someone got fired for eating a BLT, but further down this is actually a matter of employer rights being challenged. Who's rights matter more: the employee or the employer? In this case,

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     I think the Republicans are doing some great planning by contemplating desolving the IRS and instituting a national sales tax. My only beef with it is the Value Added Tax (VAT) where products are taxed along the production line to the consumer. That's the idiotic part. The fair tax as originally designed, would lower the ultimate cost to the consumer by doing away with taxes levied during

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     I doubt anyone one else will find this as annoying as I do, but whenever I check out any of the "underground" type sites on computer security, all I see are primers targeted at beginners. Now, I can see where this might be useful for people who can't understand the terms in the readme or the howto, but come on, regurgitating the help file is just lazy and uninspiring. If all you can do is

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     The age old saying, although somewhat modified, holds true for Predidential Candidate Kerry who decided to pull a campaign trick from Clinton and stop in a fast food restaurant for a photo op. Kerry saw these 4 Marines sitting there enjoying their food and decided that he was going to go over there and talk to them to "prove" how much he supports our troops. After he called them

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     You know who you are. You're that imbecile in the SUV that drives 40 miles an hour in the "fast" lane. There should be laws against you breeding to keep traffic flowing. Never you mind that I have to get to work or that other people have to get places, you just keep going 40. Pay no attention to the speed limit signs that say 65, you can do 20-30 under that and keep up with traffic,

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     Ever wonder why you always think you're smarter than your boss? It's because you are. No really I mean it. The way our corporations run in this country is pathetic. Any middle aged moron with a degree in business from a community college can be in charge of people better qualified for that job than he/she is. My example? I'll use where I work. A corporate owned restaurant will send a

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     Being a bartender has it's challenges sometimes. Usually I have decent guests who may not always tip as well as I deserve (hehe), but don't generally cause me a headache. My problem is the guests that come in after having had a few drinks, which isn't always noticeable, then having about 3-4 more drinks. Since I'm usually relatively busy at work, I don't always take the time to notice

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     We may have the freedom of speech in this country, but sometimes there are consequences for what we say. Our right to say, think, and do contrary to that of others is a fundamental right of our people. Yet there is another freedom in this nation that sometimes can take precedence over our freedom of speech: the free market. The idea that all speech is protected and tolerated is a farce.

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     This is probably my favorite topic of any to talk about. I love making my money go as far as possible. I respect the money I make by shopping around for low prices and searching the internet for new ways to make purchases cheaper. It's such an easy thing to do, I can't believe more people don't do it.      I'll start off with an anectote about an experience of mine the other day. I

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     Last week, a huge reversal on the definition of obesity by Medicare and Medicaid took place (pun intended). Historically, the government programs took a stance of "you chose to do this to yourself, you deal with the consequences" but that stance is no more. The taxpayer supported programs have redefined the condition as an illness whose treatment will be covered by the program. Since I

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     Since the great state of Georgia is having it's primaries this coming Tuesday, I figure I'd get in the spirit by giving my voting ideals. I won't go into specific candidates because anyone can just go look at the rag of a newspaper called the Atlanta Journal and find links to platforms, but I will go into what types of candidates I'll be supporting. Obviously, I'll be voting in the

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     It's been almost a week and a half without a cell phone. In a way, I didn't miss it, but something just wasn't right about not having one around. I guess you could say I missed the wrong numbers at 3 in the morning, the strange text message spam reminding me that ch 34p v1agr4 i5 0n s4L3, but most of all, I missed being able to receive calls from people I probably wouldn't have talked to

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     You know why people back in the middle ages weren't fat (and this goes way beyond not having frappacinos)? It's because people were forced to get off their lazy asses to survive. Why doesn't this still hold true today? We all go to work, so why aren't we all thin and healthy? Because our jobs don't require anything physical. There is nothing physical about sitting your fat ass in front

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     Ok, I can't take the irony of this any more. Does anyone know why it costs so much to have a kid in a hospital? Lack of doctors? Exactly. Why is there a lack of doctors wanting to go into the OB field? Outrageous malpractice insurance costs. Well that's easy enough to figure out, there's a barrier to entry in the market that's high enough to keep new doctors out and thus keeping the

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The two John's are planning to announce their overwhelming support for gay marriage by dumping their wives and marrying eachother in Kerry's home state of Massachussetts. They took a play out of Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan's book by performing public acts of groping and kissing in front of large groups. Most voters, while unaffected by the male on male action, were disgusted when

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     I know I'm not the only one who thinks that they leave a path of affectional destruction in their wake as they go through dating. If you don't, you're either lying or asexual, in which case your opinion matters less to me than a USA Today reporter. But seriously though, dating is such a messed up affair to begin with, no pun intended. It's so much easier just to get the biological

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     Anyone notice how many mortgage ads are on tv and the radio lately? I hear/see at least 10 a day from stuff like ditech.com or stuff like that. So why is that bugging me? If you've read my stuff before I'm big on personal and financial responsibility, so you should see where I'm going with this. Taking money out of your home is stupid about 75% of the time. First I'll say why it isn't a

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So the past two weeks have been pretty decent monetarily. As I get more accustomed to tending bar I get to have more fun with it. And I do mean fun. Fun for me is not the same as fun for most people. It doesn't involve kicking a ball, spending money, or doing anything besides getting my way through being a dick. Yes I admit, I am a dick to a lot of people. Here are some examples of me

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     Unless you've been cryogenically frozen since before the infamous Super Bowl incident, you should know about the useless quest to make the media safe for the children. Let's face the facts though. The media only shows people what sells. Sex sells. People are nuts for anything that might be the least bit sexual. Look at the overwhelming sales of the Starr report during the Lewinsky

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     Ever look back on any websites you wrote in the past and said "damn, this looks like crap?" I did just a little while ago. I spent a lot of last summer learning CSS and XHTML and absolutely no time learning photoshop. In other words, the text and layout are excellent, but there just isn't enough color by any means. Why on earth did I think that was a good setup? I'm sure people say that

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     I had a conversation with someone the other day, a student at another college here in Atlanta, about the position of technology and science in the world. He was trying to tell me that people are more than eager to introduce technology into their lives. He cited examples of plasma tv's, dvd players, cell phones with a zillion gadgets, and various other things that I lovingly refer to as "

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     What is the big deal with sex? It's been done for reproductive purposes for millions of years all the way back to some simple single celled organisms. Yet I seriously doubt that those microorganisms cared about getting some good sex. Same thing goes for most other animals, the only exception seems to be humans. For some strange reason, mankind is so obsessed with sex that we have done

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     So I'm bartending now. It beats the hell out of being a waiter. As a waiter, you get no respect at all. Bartending, I get paid to be a dick. Which suits me very well. Take today for example, I was at the mini-bar up in the game room. So that means I don't have certain things up there since I'm so far away from the kitchen. Here are some examples: "Give me summa dat Henn dog" "Excuse

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     Ok, I know this story is getting old, but I just have to say that Kobe is an idiot. He's young, rich, married to a beautiful woman, yet he wants to get with some 19 year old hotel staff member and not use protection. Didn't he learn anything from Magic Johnson? You make millions per year yet you can't spend 75 cents on a condom? If there were no DNA evidence, the case would have been

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     Like many people, I've been following news stories and campaign ads and I just can't help but wonder where these people were educated, on both sides. Take a look at the DNC website and look on the right side column where there's a bow with a title that says "The Bush Record in Your State." I read the Georgia one, and I am blown away by the gist of it. First, jobs lost in Georgia, ok, I'll

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     Superman, Batman, Dirty Harry, Schwarzenegger, the list goes on. In America we hold high the selfless heroes that give of themselves for the many. We aspire to have qualities in a lifelong persuit of virtue and morality. A common tactic for these heroes is to bend the rules to achieve the happy ending. Examples of temporarily shelving morality for the best possible outcome are many. My

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     I know this has pissed off a lot of other people, and rightly so. We need to start implementing a common sense requirement in the Army. This is just proof that when stupid people congretate, bad things happen. Giving the excuse "I wasn't trained to be a guard" just means you deserve to get pimp slapped. Do you really need to have someone say "You know guys, I might be wrong here, but I

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     So I was talking to this guy at work yesterday morning, who was going on and on about how he and his brothers are doing all this stuff for his mom for mothers day. That's nice isn't it? Well, he went on and on about how they bought her some ring with their 3 birthstones in it, and a bunch of other stuff. Great, so they're spending a lot of money on mom, that's nice. Then I ask how old

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     After a much needed rest from school, work, etc, I'm back to my old self again. The semester ended with the same usual GA Tech BS. Meaning that they decided to put me in housing with a bunch of 19 year olds, 6 of them. Like that is going to happen. There's no way I'm going to live with a bunch of kids that either smell really bad or want me to buy beer for them. I'll be doing a design

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     I doubt most people know what it means to be at war. The WWII generation knows what it means to take orders and do what's good for the country, but people today just have no clue what that means. People don't seem to realize that a stable middle east is in the best interest of this country (not to mention the rest of the world). People don't seem to realize that we don't want war, but

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     It's been over two and a half years since 9/11 and people still don't get it. There are people in this world who manipulate others to do what they want by promising them things they can't have otherwise. Historically religion has had a stranglehold on the minds of its followers. So much so that they were willing to die in struggle to bring their religion to the forefront. That's the

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     Every time I start to think that maybe this school isn't so bad and maybe I'm just being overcritical, they end up proving that they really are that lame. Beating UConn by 16 points in the preseason NIT, and then having a 25 point deficit in the 2nd half of the championship game.... All I can say is that I think that the championship game sucked. Xavier played better than Tech. I would

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     Yesterday, former Heisman trophy winner Paul Hornung said some things, while containing many truths, angered some people in the sports world. So he, a white man, stated in not-so-many words that Notre Dame's success is dependent on getting "the black athlete" by lowering academic standards. The state that black athletes seem naturally better at sports is a foregone conclusion. Just look

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     I saw the funniest thing when leaving the nuclear labs today. This GA Tech pickup truck was driving up atlantic avenue with a lot of boxes in the back that were labelled Biohazard. Well, one fell off and the car behind the truck had to swerve to miss it. The truck stopped, backed up in front of the box, and a guy wearing latex gloves got out, picked up the very dented box, threw it back

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The Senate and Abortion      I usually try to stay out of the whole abortion debate because most people I get into it with have no actual comprehension of the subject, but with recent developments in Congress have created a law that will outlaw violence against pregnant women. Well, the law (full text) excludes legally performed abortions so as not to take away a woman's right to choose to

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The Kids Aren't Alright      Maybe I'm just getting older, but it seems to me that younger kids today are trying to act more and more grown up by embracing sexuality at younger ages. I just read this story coming out of Boston about a 14 year old girl who gave a 14 year old guy a handjob on a school bus (Article). If that doesn't strike you as shocking, I don't know what will. Why is this

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How to Choose a College      So I just read this thing from princeton review where they gave a poll about dream colleges and how people choose their college. First of all, only 10 choices is a bit of a stretch because it just strokes the egos of those 10 colleges. Not to mention the choices were all rather liberal colleges, which explains what I saw next. The second thing I noticed was where it

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Angry Customer #4324321      This seems to happen to me a lot. I get a customer, and he's too stupid for his own good and tries to take it out on me. Read on: "This isn't what I ordered" "The Zone turkey burger right?" "Yeah" "That's it" "There's no turkey on it" I take a look, he's got his salad all over the burger so I can't even see it, so I said I'll take it back for him. I get to the

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Work Stories      If you don't know, I work in a sports bar. I get to see the best and brightest people come through there. I always like to see what they say and usually it's pretty stupid. So I'll post a few of the funnier things people have done. customer: "What do you have on draft" me "Well we have the major domestics like bud, coors, miller, and then imports like guinness, bass,

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Realistic Expectations      So it has occured to me, since my grades are currently suffering as a result of my own lack of motivation to study, that one's position in life is a direct result of personal expectations. It seems that I can procrastinate until the last minute, and still do decently better than most other people. I feel fortunate for this. Mainly because I know how the less

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So I've decided that the reason for my complete and total apathy for all things academic is a direct result that Tech is making my brain go stale. Yes that's right, stale. All I deal with are short sighted professors with a narrow mindset. They know their specialty and nothing else, or so it seems. Obviously they can't sit and chat about all sorts of things, but it would still be nice to get

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Foreign Born US President? I think not      Ok, so Arnold won the governorship of California. That proves what money can do for you. But should any foreign person be able to buy his/her way into our political system? I should hope not. If the person has been here for 20+ years, as Arnold has, he should be able to run for some sort of office. But in our Constitution, it says that the

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     All the uproar in the past few weeks over gay marriage and whether it should be legal is starting to get ridiculous. If gay people want to enter a committed relationship in the eyes of the law, how does that possibly harm my individual concept of marriage? Easy, it doesn't. If a gay couple wants to marry, it has absolutely no impact on me. My world is not going to come crashing down because

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Miscellaneous Stuff      So I went out the other day to do some errands. For some reason everything was pissing me off so I was in one of my moods. You know the one, where I talk smack to people for no reason. So I go in to get my hair cut and the woman says "Good afternoon, welcome to great clips, can I have your phone number?" I said "Well we just met, so no." She didn't think it was funny

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Superbowl      So if you're wondering what I thought of the Superbowl, I don't care one way or the other. I didn't like either team. Next year the Lions are going all the way though.... And if you believe that, you're either more optimistic than I am or you need professional help. It would be nice though. I guess I was pulling for the Panthers just for the upset. Schadenfreude is cool

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Grad Schools      So I finally decided to start looking at graduate schools. I don't want to go straight to work after I get my bachelors because I know I won't be as driven to get my masters and Ph.D if I do that. That and I really want that Dr before my name. I'm not talking a doctorate in something cheesy either. No women's studies or philosophy for me, I want a real doctorate. One that

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Whatever Happened to Honesty?      I was up late last night reading some of the political news, and I got to thinking, whatever happened to honesty? I assume that most everyone I would ask would say that they're an honest person. Most people don't lie, cheat, steal, or do anything out of malice to anyone else (except while driving). So if there are all these honest people out there, how can

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The Whole Story      So it's becoming a more widely known fact that a certain professor of mine last semester accused me of plagiarizing my final research paper. Ironically, this was in my ethics class. The charge came as follows: "Paper is inconsistent with prior effort in the class." In otherwords, she either said I'm a retard that copied off someone smarter or I'm a slacker that decided to

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The Inability to Think      It's no secret that politicians think the American public is stupid. Power is said to be the ultimate aphrodesiac after all. So it's no wonder that when they reach a position of power, they feel that everyone else, meaning people who are in no position of power, is stupid compared to their "great intellect." That being said, people who are characteristically weak,

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This doesn't suprise me      According to the Russian news agency Pravada, the Devil has moved from Iraq to New Jersey. Anyone who's been to Jersey could've told you this a long time ago Article

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Links to Amusing Articles First off, I have nothing better to write at the moment, so I'm posting a bunch of links. Here they are: Zell Miller's Speech Regarding his trip to IraqGive 'em Hell Zell actually took a trip to Iraq. He saw how things were there, and what the media is not reporting to us here at home. If ever there was proof of media bias, it's that we aren't seeing how things have

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Throwing Money Away      So I've been away for a while, haggling over grades and money with my school, but I've saved up some things to say. First of all, money. I hate it, but we all need it to live on. So since money has been and appears to always be the driving force of society, why aren't people more careful with it? I had a guy get mad at me because his credit card was overdrawn and

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Driving South      Last Sunday I made the trip down to Orlando for the Tangerine bowl to see Philip River's last game with NC State. During the 6 and a half hour drive down there, lots of interesting things happened. Only in the South (capitalized like a country) will you fine the Crime and Punishment museum advertised on a billboard. Did I fail to mention the "And come to the last meal cafe,"

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Flu?      So for the 5th year in a row, I've opted to not get a flu shot. When I was younger, I'd get one every year, but I'd still catch the flu anyway. So I figured, I'd save my 10 bucks and spend it on nyquil when the time comes. This flu season's "outbreaks" seem to be only in certain areas. I don't know anyone who has even had the flu yet. I haven't seen anyone with the flu, and I'm

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Stealing Faith      It seems that in order for this country to be PC, all references to christianity must be removed. As defenders of a ideologically neutered america, the ACLU is suing over voluntary prayer when held in a state or federally funded location. For example, the ACLU has set the sleazy legal wheels in motion to sue the US Naval Academy over a voluntary lunchtime prayer. Note that

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On Diversity      Anyone who works in corporate America has taken one of those ridiculous diversity awareness courses. It's supposed to be fun since it's time at work where you don't actually have to work, but you're subjected to listening to tons of facts and figures that have no bearing on your job. It's just more pressure to be politically correct all the time. Although, in forcing others

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Heisman Bitching      The award for the best all around player seems more like an award for the player who scored the most for the winningest team. Jason White of Oklahoma won this year. Were his numbers that impressive considering the team behind him? Not really. The player I would have chosen to win was NC State's Philip Rivers, and that isn't just because of my bias. He had 4016 yards

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