Hi! This has been a rough week. I’ve been awfully unmotivated. Let me explain everything that’s been going on:
Doggy Be Gone
I finally passed my dog onto another family today. It’s a great family with a cat, a baby and the time/money to really take care of her. The reason I gave her up is because I cannot afford to take care of her medical needs, my attempts to move are being thwarted by her (most people don’t want a pet present) and we’ve never really been a good fit.
To me, our relationship was like a first marriage. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her because she’s so pretty. But I had a feeling deep inside that we wouldn’t be compatible. Like foolish lovers, we got together regardless and ended up going through roller coasters galore. That said, the time came for us to finally go our separate ways.
The good news is that I’m now only 3 doggy divorces short of becoming the Rush Limbaugh!
Web Traffic Done Been Gone
Remember how a week weeks ago I mentioned how it’s easy for things to easily change in the Web marketing world? Well, a few days after I dropped that post, Google made a change to its search engine that caused my site’s page rankings to drop significantly. Thus, my profits have also dropped, and I’m working my ass off to rebuild my previously held status. It sucks and has me rather depressed, but I’ve been putting in work to rectify it.
It doesn’t help that half of my website pages are now showing up in the SERPs with my name and picture beside them. I have a feeling my name provokes negative reactions, what with the fact I have the same name you’d expect from a lousy outsourced technical service support agent!
Hoes
Semantics. My generation loves words like hoes. I call all my female friends hoes, but they don’t take offense because it’s semantics. I don’t really think they’re hoes… save for one of the, that is (wink @ Sara, hahahah, j/k, Mami!). But when I REALLY believe a woman is a hoe, you’ll know, because like Rush Limbaugh, I don’t give a f**k. I say what I want to say, and I say it when I want to say it. #BASED
Thoughts Galore
\\ On Limbaugh
Personally, I could literally careless if Rush were to refer to my own Mother as an AIDs-having slut. I mean seriously, who is he that we esteem his opinions so highly? As far as I'm concerned, he's just a fatter, less unkempt version of Howard Stern. He's a nobody, man.
The only reason the media cares is because it views him as some revelatory mind when it comes to politics, which is just plain ridiculous. I assure you that my weed-smoking, alcohol-drinking and stripper-chasing a** has more revelatory insights on politics than his Humpty Dumpty-lookin' a** ever will!
Excuse the rant. My point is simply that he isn’t worth our time. He is, in the words of Newman, merely a “useless pustule.” #RealTalk
// “Rational Actor”
About a week ago, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that Iran is a "rational actor" in the whole nuclear debate and claimed that using sanctions and diplomacy with them would work. This pissed off a lot of conservatives, and I don't blame them. There is nothing rational about the pursuit of nuclear technology by a nation whose leader denies the Holocaust ever occurred. NOTHING AT ALL.
Meanwhile, it's very likely that either the US or Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities sometimes in the near future. Nobody wants to go to war, but Iran is close to reaching the point where it could develop nuclear weapons. And, well, its leaders are too irresponsible and bonkers for that shit to be allowed, especially considering that Iran has been the epicenter of international terrorism since the Iranian Hostage Crisis of '79.
Here's just a TINY list of what they've done:
1982 - Formation of Hezbollah.
1983 - US Embassy Bombing
1982-1992 - Lebanese Hostage Crisis
1984 - US Embassy Bombing
1985 - Hijacking of TWA Flight 847
1993 - World Trade Center Bombing
1994 - AMIA Bombing
SMH. Crazy bastards. It's not their people who are backwards, but their government. What a shame!
\\ Equilibrium
Very boring edition of the Jason Lewis show. Actually, it's not that. I don't know what it is, but I'm unable to think critically this week. IDK if I'm just physically or mentally exhausted, or of it's from the kush I smoked this weekend, but my mind just isn't working right. Anyway... the show finally picked up whenl a guy called in and put Lewis on blast for not demanding shared sacrifice among both the rich AND poor.
According to Lewis, the rich will pay once we reach a state of "global economic equilibrium." Oh, SHUT UP!!! "Equilibrium" or the lack thereof has nothing to do with the fact that the average CEO cares more about his own salary and profits than he does about the tens and thousands of people who work their asses off everyday to keep his business alive.
The bottom line is that income disparity exists because of GREED. And I don't trust the free market because people are naturally selfish. Those with the means will do everything to enhance their own profitability and longevity while stepping over those Mom & Pop operations who're just trying to survive. In the end, you end up with divided classes: the haves and the have nots.
Aye Myos Dios... I'm already out of thoughts. Time to lift!
// We All Gon’ Die
Did you know Iran and the US are both in election season? And Israel is approaching election season as well. You know what happens during election season, right? People talk shit to stir up their base. So we got 3 countries talking shit, beefing with one another (Israel/US vs Iran). It's like Jon Stewart said: "We're all gonna die!"
Meanwhile, conservatives are trying to make it sound like Obama doesn't give AF about Israel. BULLSHIT. Excuse me for being blunt, but Obama be on Jewish dick like white on rice!
Jon Stewart noted that the Israel debate is basically limited to two simple sides -- either you love Israel and might bomb Iran (Obama) or you love Israel and will definitely bomb Iran (Republicans).
The only 3 people with enough courage to argue against Israel's heated rhetoric and for Palestine's statehood are, ironically enough, 3 members of the Israeli government.
Jon Stewart ended by saying that, apparently, only Israeli politicians have the right to criticize the Israeli government.
\\ Free Speech vs The Right To Take Offense
I gotta give it up to Jason for being on point yet again. So in Texas, a predominantly Hispanic school went up against and defeated a predominantly white school in a basketball game. Immediately following the victory, the students from the white school began chanting "USA! USA!" The Hispanic students were offended, so a complaint was filed with the University Interscholastic League on the basis that the chant was racist.
Jason and I immediately perceived the whole predicament to be outright ridiculous. If patriotically chanting "USA! USA!" makes one a racist, then I'm the biggest racist of all, because I love my country, save of course for the lack of free healthcare (damn you Sara and Megean!). But then a highly astute caller, and a former marine, I might add, suggested that the white students deliberately chanted "USA! USA!" so as to underhandedly insinuate that the Hispanic students were illegal immigrants.
Lewis then concluded that, given this new insight, it's very likely indeed that the white students did in fact purposefully provoke the Hispanic students out of bitterness from having lost the game to them. This is awfully unfortunate, and I do declare that such an unpatriotic use of what should be a beautiful chant is outright disgraceful! (Did I just say ‘I do declare’!???) However, this situation begs several important questions:
Does suffering an offensive remark entitle one with the license to interfere with another person’s Constitutional right to free speech? And if so, where does the road end? Can I file a complaint against and sue all those insipid rascals who’ve at one time or another referred to me as a loser, wankster or straight-up punk?
Furthermore, why were the Hispanic students racially offended by a patriotic chant to begin with? Why didn't they just chant along with it in celebration of OUR great country? What about a seemingly simple, patriotic chant inspired feelings of offense?
My underlying feeling about this issue is that in the United States, the right to free speech trumps the right to be offended. We all reserve the right to feel offended, but we do not reserve the right to use this feeling as a means to interfere with other people’s right to free speech, no matter how offensive the original remark. Frankly, it’s on all of us to acquire thick enough skin to withstand such offenses, lest political correctedness turn the US into a totalitarian regime by virtue of people being too pussy to handle real life.
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Another issue Jason brought up was the fact that the media is pretending Romney isn’t kicking ass in the primaries. He imagined that they’re likely just trying to keep things interesting / use up all the free time they have. I would have to agree with this assessment, because it doesn’t take a genius to realize Romney is going to win the nomination. HELLO!?
// Pay Up, Bitch!
Excellent. American Airlines planned to dispose all their scheduled employee pension payments as per a bankruptcy organization, but media attention and Union influence helped stop this injustice from occuring. Instead, AA is going to freeze all the pension plans, meaning workers cannot accumulate additional pensions, but they are at least assurred payment for that which they've earned thus far. I wouldn't mind also seeing a freeze on executive salaries, bonuses and stock investments, as the fat cats up top are the dumbf**ks who caused this mess in the first place!
\\ Kony 2012
Alright. I've been listening to the Kony debate for days now, and it's time for me to drop my official opinion.
Yes, atrocities have been occurring in Africa and elsewhere for decades, centuries and probably even millennia. Furthermore, the majority of us lack the power to make even a minute difference. However, as someone who values knowledge and believes there is no excuse for ignorance, I'm bloody happy as hell that kids are finally turning off their music, games and chats to tune in to something important and relevant, even if it’s only for a slight moment.
We are so damn absorbed with our own petty existence that we oftentimes forget that others also inhabit this planet. And though we face many tribulations in our lives, none of them compare in even the slightest bit to those grievances endured by the most indigent, distressed people on this ****ing planet. Unfortunately, most of us are so caught up in our own problems that we never take the time to acknowledge these people—if for no other reason than to humble ourselves.
That said, it irritates me to no end how so many people have taken it upon themselves to cast judgment not only on this video, but also on those souls who’ve allowed it into their hearts. It’s as if said people would prefer we the masses stick our heads deep in the sand and remain forever ignorant as to the world’s true nature. They appear so caught up in cynicism that the very prospect of an awakening—however trivial it may be—apparently brings on nausea.
Meanwhile, over seventy million people have viewed the Kony video thus far. While the majority of them will simply return to their mundane lives unaffected, I imagine, or I suppose I hope, that for every million viewers, at least 1 to 3 (perhaps children) will be so inspired by this video that they’ll stand up and do what people like you and I are too ****ing selfish and lazy to do—go out into the world and make a genuine difference.
Perhaps this hope is naïve, and perhaps I am in essence just an imbecilic 30-year-old in need of a smack-me-bum. But I’d rather be just a simpleminded fool with a big heart, large ears and wide eyes than a sneering cynic who for whatever reason automatically presumes that we’re all evil, and that as a result, there is no reason to try anymore, let alone hope for better days marked by love, compassion and tolerance galore.
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DAPS @ Kreayshawn for putting me onto Kony 2012.
DAPS @ Sara for pissing me off enough to write this, lol. Stupid hoe! <3<3<3
// Final Thoughts
I really miss my dog, but I know she’s in a better place. I imagine she’s 10x happier at her new home. It’s like they say… "If you really love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours, and if not, it wasn't meant to be."
PS – With my luck, the lil slut will escape from her new owners and find her way back to me. FML!
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I got this email AFTER I wrote the previous post:
[I'm sad to say, I'm not sure this is going to work out! It's nothing to do with Sheila. She's a wonderful dog. She adores my husband and watches over my baby like a hawk. She's incredibly well-behaved, and so smart.
My cat, however, doesn't think as highly of her as we do.
Veranda (my cat) is a 15lb ball of mean. She's always been feisty with dogs, but she actually chased Sheila through the house, all puffed up, hissing!
Sheila gets into play stance, we have her on leash, and Veranda just lunges at her. She scratched her nose. :( Sheila is ok, and somehow still wants to play with the cat. The cat is in my downstairs bathroom now, with her food, water and litter box...
I'm not sure how to fix this and get everyone to live in harmony (or at least ignore each other.)
I'm not sure we can keep her, and I feel awful, she's a great fit for us. If we can't, would you take her back?
I'm sorry to even have to ask. :(]
Unreal. Unbelievable. I went out of my way to find this heffer a GOOD place to stay. This a TWO PARENT home, son. A proper home with a MOTHER and FATHER (Jason Lewis would be proud), not to mention a baby and a cat. And these ain't people like me. These upscale nuggaz. These the type nuggaz that spend more money on pet food than they do on themselves. And YET, and YET Sheila managed to FUCK IT ALL UP in less than 12 hours. LORD HAVE MERCY!
Earl is right; karma does exist. How else would you explain the fact that after I put in so much hard work to get rid of Sheila, her bitch ass back home again? I must have been Hitler in a past life or something! <3
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And oh… some of my more cocky, intellectual friends would argue against me that I’m just in love with the idea of being in love (Bitch, I’m 30 years old… don’t you think I know the difference!?), but I think I’m falling for someone. I haven’t met her and expressed myself physically, but this chick and I vibe really well. And I really like her. And I like her Mama too (her Mama WILDDDDDDdd, son). IDK if she feels the same or ever will, but I sure hope I one day get a chance with her! #VERILY!
I mean I can imagine a future with her. We’re different, but I’m starting to realize that’s good, because we won’t butt heads. I don’t care about beats and hood shit (she got MAD audio engineering skills, yo), and she doesn’t care about politics and news shit. The only things we’d ever argue about would be dishes, laundry and the toilet, all of which I’ll gladly clean for her, cuz I’m a docile dude when with a woman I love… except for in the bedroom!
We could each have our own individual life with our own individual interests, and yet work together as a team to make money and raise up our children in a good home and MAMA! (gotta have MAMA G). SWAG!
FYI - My Mama STILL better though, YO!
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