Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today we celebrate the spirit of this Irish holiday as we salute beer drinking and the denial about our drinking problems. Have a pleasant and safe holiday, and remember, drink and drive responsibly.

Well look who finally walks through the door; Mr. I'm Too Good To Blog

*pokes* Is this thing still breathing?

So apparently it has been a month since I have even attempted at touching this thing with a ten foot pole, but I feel it is necessary to post something to keep the blood pumping. I have been working on a concert review on and off (okay, maybe I only touched that two times as well) which is about halfway done, and which I had planned on posting in here, but haven't even gotten to doing that. Recently I have been going through CareerLink and the local classifieds via the internet in hopes at finding acceptable places that might actually hire me. It is a pain in the arse to have to be laid off at the snap of a finger, and even when you think the job wasn't that great, being able to make your own money makes having a job in the first place all worth it. Myself and Blinking Woman have had on and off discussions lately about how her youngest is finally learning the value of money and how important it is to be able to make it. I have known this value all of my life growing up, watching the parents struggle just to support themselves along with three children, and somehow, somewhere, I feel as though I had lost that value, if just a little bit. I know while I was employed I used to always bitch at BW about needing a 'better' job, but what really is a better job? The highest paying job you could possibly get? To most, yes. As for me and BW, we tend to regard the best job as being a job in which you can love, one which you can look back on proudly, and more often than not, one which in ways helps people. Now, perhaps aiming for a career as a mechanic doesn't necessarly help people while being in the work place, since most people figure them for crooks, but if ever there is someone stranded at the road, and if I have the knowledge of the problem, and the tools already in the trunk of my car, I will be more than inclined to help them for nothing, and that I can thank to my job. So I guess where I am going here with this is that not all jobs are made out to be hell behind bars and minutes of your life which you will never get back again, but moreso the experience a job can give you and how you can put what you gain from it to good use, for yourself or for others.


/end rant

Peace Is Only A Concept (poem/article)

Were it in my design
To create harmony
Then all of the war birds
Would nest in my attic
Making themselves at home
In my very home
And if I were to try and deter them
They would shoot at me their worm victims
Plaguing my mind with the stained image
Of man versus man
And both falling to the ash
Yet still they nestle in my nooks
Like venomous vipers
Ready to strike at any given moment
And if I were to try and bleed
They would tear me down like Babel
Leave me forgotten like the great Babylon
And to never be seen again like Atlantis
Fear and poverty coincide
With destruction and death
Leaving this old withered mind
Incapable of such designation.


The idea of war roots in the back of our minds, and along side that festering thought lies the incapability to conceive its destruction on the world. There are no gains in war, aside from the gains in the financial status, which lines the greedy politicians pockets with more fodder for when the next oil crisis or risk of growing communism/terrorism emerges. While we sit idly by watching it being broadcasted from a thousand miles away brought into the comforts of our own home, others are watching it being broadcasted across the stock market. Is this human nature, the way we plague ourselves war after war, century after century? Human nature is fighting to survive, not fighting to watch the young men and women of all these parents go off to kill innocents (oops, my bad) while being killed themselves only to boost the economy with weapons manufacturing and cheaper gas prices, which in turn hikes the military budget percentage from the federal funding. The current military budget is approximately 558 billion dollars, and the estimated guess for total deaths by the Iraqi war is estimated to reach 200,000. If you divide the figures it comes close enough to three million dollars per toe tag, or perhaps I should say price tag, which is a pretty hefty price for a corpse.


"The danger to our country is grave. The danger to our country is growing. The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons. And according to the British government, the Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as forty-five minutes, after the order were given. The regime has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist organizations and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb and with fissible...fissle material, could build one within a year." - George W. Bush

"The very first day, on September 12th, one day after September 11th, uh, the, meeting that was held in the White House, in the situation room, uh, led to Rumsfeld asking the question, 'Shouldn't we use this as an opportunity to do something about Iraq as well?'" - Bill Christison

"We all said no, no, no. Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need to bomb Afghanistan and Rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan. And there are lots of good targets in Iraq." - Richard Clarke

"It was clear that Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program. But over and over again, President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, particularly Vice President Cheney, but also, National Security Advisor Condie Rice, drummed up the idea of a reconstituted nuclear capability, and particularly the notion that I think has some resonance among the American people, of the mushroom cloud." - Mel Goodman

"Leaders will use worst case assessments, uh, that point to nuclear weapons, to generate political support because they know people fear nuclear weapons so much." - David Albright

"The evidence was simply not there. Um, Wolfowitz would be asked to explain, you know, how good is the evidence, can you tell us more about it? This is in NATO, mind you, and he'd say, 'Well, um, it's like this, it's like pornography, uh, hard to decribe, but I'll, you, you recognize it when you see it.' My God. And we're going to go to war on that?" - Ray McGovern

"If someone is waiting on a so-called smoking gun, it's certain that will have waited too long." - Donald Rumsfeld

"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." - Condoleezza Rice

"We cannot wait for the final proof. The smoking gun. It could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." - George W. Bush

"A lot of people who supported the war in Iraq actually believed that Iraq had the capability to fire missles that could reach the United States carrying payloads of nuclear or chemical or biological weapons. Iraq has never had the capability to do that. They didn't have it in the first Gulf war, they didn't have it in this, uh, war in Iraq, and they don't have it, uh, any way of getting it in the future." - Philip Coyle


This is America at its finest, and the list of these quotes can go on forever, but I am too tired of typing them all out. It would seem fear in the masses draws out the majority of wars, or when a couple of suits try to dip their fingers of democracy into the pudding. As for me, my time for writing this is coming to an end, and perhaps I will write more on 'fear' later.

Credible sources:
War Resisters League
Evironmentalists Against War
Fun Iraqi Death Facts

And so it begins...

Here in the plains of highway current where billions of bytes are being processed faster than cattle getting ready to be shipped off to the demanding fast food market, I sit in boredom creating this blog. I never thought I would see the day, for it's rather simple; I despise blogs. Although my doing this gives perfect meaning to the blog title which I have selectively chosen, which in turns gives me the impression, 'it's not so bad.' So I imagine I will see how this . . . thing... unfolds, and who knows, perhaps it will be a positive outlet for a little bit of my writing creativity.

Recently we all went to see the controversial yet not-so-controversial movie Brokeback Mountain (yes, I am jumping on the movie review bandwagon) based on one of the stories by the acclaimed writer Annie Proulx. The reason I say 'not-so-controversial' is because the movie delivered no controversy at all for a person such as myself. Perhaps it is because of my Californian roots, or because my parents exposed me to such films as Rocky Horror Picture Show while growing, despite the fact, everything I read about the movie prior to its release merits about as much credibility as an National Inquirer magazine. The only thing I can say for the movie, in simple terms, is if you want a good story which stays on the line with the book, and has excellent acting by two heterosexual males in perhaps one of their most difficult roles to play, then I suggest seeing this movie. It is love in all of its finest moments, despite sexual preference.

Back to the whole blog issue; perhaps I am a blogophobic? It would be interesting, if willing, to see your reasons as to why you have acquired a blog and, oh, I don't know, display it in some neat sort of top ten list? This first post has bandwagon written all over it. No worries, after this one I will be hiring that monkey with the type-writer, so I will be coming up with more geniune and original posts, as soon as I can find someone to buy the monkey on my back.