Chaos, discord, disharmony
stolen from
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims, “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands, visibly shaken.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”
Yay, Kat & I are going to Jamacia next month. 5 days of sun, rum and ocean type stuff.
I think I need new running shoes.
I only ran about 4 miles last night and my left hip is killing me. Its right around the socket. Since I don’t actually know when I got these shoes, I’m going to assume it was long enough ago that they’re overdue for replacement.
Beyond that, I think I hate treadmills. The gym is nice and all, but I think I prefer biking or running outside. I also need to start a regime of crunches to try and be less horrificly flabby.
I’ve also cut way down on my drinking, which will help too. Fear not, I’m still a big drunk, I’m just on a diet. 
A friend of mine,
I know. Imagine the repercussions in porn. As the average american body type changes, so will our ideas of whats fashionable. Or not, who knows?
Personally I think obesity is a really great way for us to control how long the average consumer lives. Who wants people getting old? Retired people don’t spend nearly as much as working people. In order to keep the GNP up, its in our best interest to kill off the non contributors as early as possible. This is why the government has vested interest in keeping the rate of diabetes and obesity high.
Can you imagine if all these people led healthy, happy lifestyles? If they don’t bust their ass to buy shit they dont need, where would that leave the rich, parasitic portion of our population? I’ll tell ya where. They’d have to sell a couple houses and not jet off to paris as often! That’d be horrible! Rich people are entitled to their way of life. Didn’t you get the memo when you registered to vote? A social conscience is verboten. Work, produce, consume and die before you’re a burden on the state. I mean, look around. Our shoddy health care system ensures that the impoverished people will die the soonest and the people with money to spend will languish the longest. In turn, this supports the natural order of things. The rich continue to get rich and the rest of us continue to support them! Why in the world would you want to shake up such a perfect system?
Sorry. Is this not helping? Personally, I think I might expatriate. I’ll start a new country or something. I dunno.
Finally, I leave you with a picture of the
The new bed is together. The new dressers are mostly arranged. I still need to get the mirror on the one big dresser, but we have to get cleaned up and head down to the club. I’ll be extra scruffy tonight. I have just enough time for a quick shower.
The new bedroom set is AWESOME.
Also of note, I went down to the apple store. Again. My powerbook was having more problems. I was completely pissed as this is the third time in 6 weeks or so. However, despite waiting forever to talk to someone, things worked out. I stayed cool and collected. When I explained that this was the third time I was in, and the timeframe, they gave me a new powerbook. It actually is faster than my old one and has a larger hard drive. Yay for decent customer service. Now, I just need to call applecare and have them cover this one instead of my old one in case my luck holds true.
Guts – is arriving home late after a night out with the lads, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: “Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?”
Balls – is coming home late after a night out with the lads, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the a*se and having the balls to say, “You’re next, fatty.”
I’m so glad that my wife is my best friend and favorite person to party with. I don’t think I could survive if being married was as bad as all the silly jokes make it out to be.
Coming up, potty humor.
Tonight I checked my credit report. Its not nearly as bad as I thought it’d be. I found one thing I need to check on. I expected worse.
Kat & I have been discussing our need for a permanent cat ranch. Our base of operations is a little on the small side and we’d like to own a home. So, soon we’ll begin the odyssey of attempting to figure out the labyrinth of rules, taxes and interest rates that make buying a house so fun.
We’re not sure where yet. We know we don’t want to be much further from the city than we already are. We know about what we want to pay. Now its just about time to find out if we can get preapproved, then find something we feel we can live at for the next 10 years or so.
Read this if you’re so inclined.
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000129.html
I found this to be a very interesting way of looking at the differences in human beings. Out of all the horror coming out of the NOLA area, how much of it is part of the natural disaser and how much of it is a statement about the human condition? The blog offers no real answers, but it does have me thinking in a different direction.
Also, over the weekend I re-read the constitution. Its not a particularly long document nor is it overly complex. This has other wheels turning.
I believe that like in all things the truth is not binary. It is only by looking at things from as many perspectives as possible that we are able to identify the true nature of things.
From http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/ . If you haven’t been watching this journal, do so.
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
10:01 am
The City is ON FIRE
Teams Alpha and Bravo finished the medium range recon and there are 3 separate locations on fire. We have pictures coming shortly.
During the recon, I spoke to some Federal Marshalls and NOPD. Morale is LOW. Very low. They’re not seeing the military presence they say they were promised. I told those guys they can’t possibly imagine how much we (the world) appreciate their dedication. I asked what civil rights the citizens have and the US Marshalls looked at me like I just fell off the turnip truck and chuckled. I asked if citizens can have guns for protection and he said if someone thinks he needs a gun, he should have already evacuated. He also said they are setting the city on fire.
The NOPD wants to know where “the two active duty brigades” were that he says they were told were supposed to arrive today. When I asked him what he would want to tell the world, he said Everyone keeps talking about the military presence in the city, and then asked me,” Do you see any military around here” in dusgust.
We reconned our roof also, to get a better view of the city and took… I hesitate to call them “amazing” pictures. My city… it has been punched in the face and is on the canvas being counted out.
And yes, that’s smoke you see out of the windows. The city is under a haze from the fires. Smoke and ash are floating miles away from the fires.