You've Gotta Be Asleep...

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But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever,  EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,  lobbying, to get what they want.  Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: 

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests.

Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! Its a big club, and you ain’t in it!  You, and I, are not in the big club.

By the way, its the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.

They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL.  And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.

Its called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it.

-George Carlin, he's always saying everything better than I can even write it.

Now, quit arguing over which you'd rather elect, the bowl of shit or the bag of shit and start a real conversation about politics.

Later, I love you Mom...

People Who Think...

that there is much difference between either the Democrats or Republicans make me laugh.

Read a quote today, its an old one. Coming all the way from Robert Heinlein of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" fame.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The place where any political argument becomes funny and/or depressing is when someone actually thinks that there'll be a difference between a Democrat or Republican. Left/Right it doesn't matter, they're both the same thing coming from a different direction.

So there seems to be a few things that are getting all the publicity this election cycle.

First, the Scott Walker thing. Victory for Republicans, or so they said. I heard unions described as "thugs" and that they were bankrupting the state governments. But finally, a white knight showed up in the personage of Scott Walker and crushed the unions and their collective bargaining rights. Now government employees can't get those sweet raises they always get and they can't get all the benefits that civilian companies no longer give out.

First of all, I'm a Federal employee and I haven't gotten a raise in 3 years. Secondly, all I can see here is instead of people banding together to raise everyone up. They decided that they were going to tear the other side down.

Not since the industrial revolution and the days of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Mellon has so much power been given to the employers.

Now the prevailing wisdom says that we should just let the businesses and business owners do what they do and naturally they'll create all these jobs and the economy will boom and everyone will be happy.

Oh, how quickly we forget our history. The industrial revolution was remembered for many things, among them were  the corporations and their penchant for paying their workers next to shit, and then making them buy everything from the company store on credit. Oh, and they also engaged in price fixing and monopolistic practices till they could fix the market and charge whatever the hell they wanted.

From that situation grew the unions. Jeez, hasn't anyone seen Newsies?

Secondly, Obamacare. You've got one side screaming TAX and one side screaming something else.

Now maybe Obamacare is a bad idea. Hell if I know. I know that at least he's doing something. Because there aren't many arguments that our health care system isn't broken.

Most Americans spend their lives one medical emergency away from the poor house. That's wrong.

Constitution says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well, you can't pursue much sick, and if you're bed ridden then liberty means shit, so from where I'm sitting health care would be included in that right to life.

Here's a piece of this debate that I have never been able to figure out. Insurance for me is pretty cheap because we're in a huge pool. All federal employees pay into the system and the government throws in some also. Now that says to me that if the entire country were in this pool. Then the price would go down.

Instead of 2.1 million federal employees you would have the entire nation of 330 million. Blue Cross would have to give you some kind of group discount...right?

Another thing that bothers me. I'm always hearing that everyone's rates go up because the fucking poor people and the illegals are all going to our hospitals and not paying their bills so the hospital passes those expenses on to us. (Sounds like a nicely packaged argument to get the poor to kill each other) However, if everyone has insurance, then all the bills get paid and then prices should go down right?

Not a fucking chance America. Prices will never go down. They will only go up. Because we have willingly and idiotically thrown over 80% of the nation's wealth into the hands of 1% of the population. And they have created a political system which requires membership in the 1% to gain entrance. (You know any poor Senators?)

THEY RIGGED THE FUCKING SYSTEM, MORONS!

We live and toil in their world. We live paycheck to paycheck. They tax us to death, and then if we don't pay up they take everything you own. We buy their products, we work our lives away in their businesses while they go golfing.

They even managed to turn the tax system on its head. Its cliche but its true, Warren Buffet pays less in taxes on his income than his secretary does. And why? Because she earns her income with her labor whereas he earns his income passively with his investments. Capital gains tax is less than the income tax. We're about the stupidest bunch of fucktards ever, given the fact that we allowed this.

And we handed it to them. We built a country that was supposed to be the antithesis to Great Britain and its monarchy and aristocracy.

It took us about 200 years or so, but we just allowed our own to be created.

And now we're reaping the whirlwind of that, as they take up more and more of the wealth, and we work harder and harder just to keep our heads above water and a roof over our heads.

But I went off on a tangent there. I'm talking about the difference, or better yet the lack of difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans talk about lowering taxes and fighting Obama's socialist policies while telling the country that they will fix social security. Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth.

Let's get one thing straight people. Social security is a socialist as it gets. Take from the laborers and give to the retired. And do they pay social security on investment income?

Democrats talk about all these wonderful social programs they want to implement, all the while telling everyone they won't raise taxes.

Again, talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can't have more and pay the same. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Somehow, someway, someone paid for it.

I don't really much care about them, because if at any time the American people really wanted those fucks gone they'd be gone. What I do care about is the fact that American's are so blinded by the flashing lights and sirens the government and media put in front of them they can't see just how bad they're being fucked by the 1%.

America has gone to sleep, and allowed two groups (Dems and Republicans) to compete for the spoils of our labor. The funniest part of it all is that people actually believe that these politicians actually give a rat shit about anyone but themselves and the special interest groups that paid their way into the aristocracy.

Someday we, as a nation, might wake up. But it certainly doesn't look like it'll be anytime soon. I just hope that when we do wake up its not too late.

I'm done.

Later, I love you Mom...

I Think Our Giddy Ups Broke...

Few things to preface this entry...

#1 I've got an aunt that's a little crazy about this whole immigration thing. She believes that the Statue of Liberty's inscription should be amended...

Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...unless they're Mexican.


#2 I just cut down a whole bunch of brush in my back yard, and burned it all last weekend. I used my own fire pit and I used a trash can with holes specifically made for burning. We burned so much that the trash can was trashed. Completely burned through the bottom. Not much good anymore, time to throw that thing away.

#3 Tomorrow is trash day, so I took the trash out tonight. Two cans, a box, a recycling bin and this burn can.

Set the trash out at 8:17pm (I'm not making this up)

Started to smoke a cigarette in the backyard.

Heard a vehicle pull up. Heard the door slam, heard the back door open. By this time I had moved around the side of the house so I could see what was going on. Saw a guy, obviously Hispanic, maybe Mexican but hell if I know, and hell if I care.

He grabbed the burn can, loaded it into his van, and took it away. Ostensibly to be deposited at a recycling center sometime in the near future along with whatever else he can find. For which he'll receive around 40-50 cents a pound I guess. He was done and gone by 8:24pm. Seven minutes from placement on the curb to the back of this guy's van. Maybe another day or two till that can hits the recycling center and the money hits this man's pocket and back into the economy it goes because he's gotta eat, pay rent, put gas in his hoopty...you get the idea.

Now here's where I think our giddy up is broken. Here's a guy who for whatever reason is picking up scrap metal. Maybe he can't speak English, maybe he's got a conviction, maybe he's an illegal, God only knows what this guy's story is and truth be told I don't much care about that part of it.

How many guys do I know who aren't working? Quite a few, up until a couple weeks ago, my wonderful younger brother was out of work.

How many guys are sitting on their asses drawing whatever benefits they can squeeze out of Ole' Uncle Sam or their families and not doing a damn thing?

Quite a few. They say the unemployment rate is 8.2%, however that doesn't include the probably 12% of the long term unemployed who have simply given up looking for work. Always nice how the Government can cook the books to make things look nice.

What's stopping them from getting in their truck or van, or hell you could probably do it in a car if you were motivated enough?

Remember the story I told you about the kid painting addresses on the curb in my mom's neighborhood? Kid charged $5 per house, went up, asked if you wanted your address painted on, everyone did (ambulances and what not), took him about 3 minutes to paint it on, and off he went to the next house.

That kid paid his yearly college tuition doing that every summer. And that little shit went to U of I. Look up their tuition!

The point is, what happened to people? What happened to guys especially? Where's the testosterone? Where's the attitude that says, regardless of what happens to me I am going to keep swinging until I die?

This guy is willing to drive around the neighborhood and pick up other people's trash for money...

Kinda makes all your excuses seem a bit ridiculous...

But, I've never found myself in that situation so I guess I should just keep my mouth shut...

Fuck that.

Get your giddy up back, get off your ass, and do something!

I love you Mom...

It Should Be Legal To Viciously Flagellate Children, and Adults...

So, as of late I've seen two things that just about made me want to cry and then they made me want to inflict some serious Van-Damage (Child o' the 90's right there)

First. THIS.

What can anyone say to this?

Here's my take...

These children's names should be splattered all over the airwaves and the internet to ensure that their lives are sufficiently ruined that not only do they never even dream of doing some shit like this again, but every other kid who might have some tendencies like this sees what happened to them and they don't ever think about doing it either.

That's my first reaction. No thought, no consideration, no logic, just pure visceral reaction.

Thankfully, I'm not the one in charge of all that. Because I suppose completely destroying those little bastards lives is not quite the punishment called for.

However, when I was a kid I remember this vividly. I was in my front yard playing with the little girl from across the street. I was maybe 6 or 7 and she was probably about 5 or 6. I took one of her toys from her and started playing with it. She started to cry. My mom stuck her head out the door and asked what was wrong, she told on me. My mom came out the house and smacked me upside the head, grabbed the toy out of my hand, and when I tried to hold on to it, she bashed me in the skull again, and took the toy away from me and gave it back to her.

Then she turned back to me, grabbed me by the shirt and started in on me.

Why did you take that from her? Is it yours? She's just a little girl. You don't ever take things from people. Especially from people who can't fight back. Don't ever be a bully. I ever catch you bullying anyone and I'll beat you to within an inch of your life. Now apologize to her!!!

I don't care what anyone says, a good sound beating, and/or a good verbal thrashing, is good for kids. There are some things that you don't really need to reason with people about. I got smashed, because I bullied someone, and I was told that if I ever did it again I would get beaten to within an inch of my life.

Good enough for me. I was 10. Did I deserve to be reasoned with or coddled? Hell fucking NO. I learned that day that bullying came with the price of getting bashed in the head, and could quite possibly carry a sentence of "beaten to within an inch of life" So psychologically I associated bullying with a lot of unnecessary pain. And I never did it again.

I won't even get into what my mom did to me when I was disrespectful to adults, because I'm not sure the statute of limitations has run out on that yet.

Someone obviously forgot to give these punks their bash to the skull.

However, there is a happy ending. These kids and their parents are now getting death threats on their cell phones and a website raised something like half a million bucks for this nice lady.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE!!!

That's poetic justice if ever there were such a thing!

And secondly, there's this.

Mother Cat Takes Bullet For Her Kittens, Saves Her Litter

Just more proof that a lot more people should've had a mom like mine, bashing them in the head.

So much air and food wasted, keeping these people alive.

But, at least we gave the nice lady a few hundred grand. So at least we're feeding some of the right people.

Later, I love you Mom...and thanks for bashing me in the head from time to time.

One Hitter...

Any pot heads out there will most likely enjoy the title, however its got nothing to do with weed. Its just a way for me to say that this is going to be short and sweet. No frills.

What has happened to people in this world today?

I went to the Chicago White Sox home opener today and was appalled by the humanity that I saw there.

Let's start with the ride over there.

Got on the "el" and took it downtown and then took the red line out to 35th street. On there, we ran into people who would just as soon knock you over as look at you. I had my 65 year old mother with me, and not one mother fucker offered her a seat. Just let her stand there holding on to the overhead rail.

Not to mention the incessant phones ringing and the music playing into everyone's ears at 1000 decibels. Then of course there are the wonderful people talking on their phones. Talking like the person is on the other side of the train car as opposed to the other side of the phone line. And yammering away like everyone in the train with them cares when they are meeting Boo Boo for dinner and we almost care that Shaniqua is Tyrone's baby daddy.

Then you get to the park. And first thing we run into is two broads arguing with Sox security about smoking in the concourse. Well sweeties, there is a designated smoking area. I'm a smoker and I'm smart enough to realize that not everyone wants to smell or inhale our smoke. So you smoke where its allowed, and you don't bitch. Its not your house. When you own US Cellular Field then you can do what you want. Until then SMOKE IN THE SMOKING AREA.

Next up is all the people who again want to run over you instead of saying, oh heaven forbid, excuse me. Its not like that's a dirty word. And don't look at someone like an idiot if you walk into them and they call you out on it. You walked into them, say you're sorry and move on. But if you stop in the middle of the walkway, don't get pissed if someone walks into you.

All I'm asking for is a little courtesy. There are other people in this world besides you. Have some consideration, say excuse me, get out of the way, offer your seat to the old lady on the train, keep your phone conversations to yourself, and stop stealing so much oxygen.

Oh, and lastly, when you are going out into public. Please wash your nasty asses. You smell like an anchovies' asshole!

Thank you and Goodnight.

I love you Mom...

P.S. any baseball fans out there who don't like the Sox. Please don't think that this applies only to the southside. I'll bet my left nut it happens at your park too.

What Would You Do...

My buddy Tommy, who slept right next to me for the majority of my time in Afghanistan had himself a little brother.

2 years ago his little brother died.

After a long battle with disease.

After his brother passed, Tommy found this.

"What would you do?"

What would you do if it all ended tomorrow?


Time running out, ain't no more you can borrow,

so many paths which one you gonna follow?
What would you do, What would you do?
Take a second look at your life,
all the mistakes you could have made right.
Life is short as your walkin away,
get your calendar out mark down the day.
To everybody your runnin up the road with,
they're your family make sure they know this.
Fear nothin and take chances,
Don't be afraid to fail and always make advances.
So when you ride on the Grim reaper highway,
no regrets you did it your way.
What would you do if it all ended tomorrow?
Time running out, ain't no more you can borrow,
so many paths which one you gonna follow?
What would you do, What would you do?








Thanks Kevin.

Allow Me to Retort...

About a week ago I was asked for my opinion on this article. 

Cooking Up a War, Don't Forget the Piss.

So here goes...

A little preface, apparently everyone is up in arms and shitting themselves over a video of Marines supposedly pissing on the corpses of Afghans. 

First things first I ask you, who were they pissing on? Taliban, al Qaeda, insurgents, or whatever we're calling the guys that keep shooting at and blowing us up. Because if they were confirmed then I say this, whichever one of these assbags let this video out needs to be castrated so that he cannot defile the earth with his moronic seed. So far as I can gather, this video was uploaded to youtube and then took off from there. 

Now if you're dumb enough to do something that you KNOW will get you fried and you not only videotape it but you allow the videotape to get uploaded to youtube and shared with the google using world, then  you really do deserve whatever happens to you. Because you are too stupid to live.

But that's not what I was asked. I was asked for an opinion on this Rob Delaney cat. Kinda went through it and picked out the main ideas...and we'll knock them down one at a time.

1. Soldiers piss on corpses in every war.

Most likely true. Can't say for sure because I haven't been in every war. All things considered in the grand scheme of things pissing on a dead guy, while reprehensible, isn't that big of a deal. I mean does anyone think that the dead guy gave a shit? The problem in this case is that these dipshits let this one get out and be seen by people who can make your life difficult.

2. Soldiers rape civilians, as a rule. Rape is a weapon of war.

Disagree. Soldiers do not rape anyone. Degenerate, disgusting, animals rape civilians. They might be dressed up as soldiers but there's an existential divide between a soldier and anyone who would rape another person. 

3. War is the very worst thing there is.

Nope. Wrong again. John Stuart Mill is about to make you his bitch Rob...

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

Now regardless of all this noise there's a few things that people are not going to hear or think about because this thing is already way out of control for any kind of sensible justice to come out of it. These Marines are going to cook for this one. How badly? I suppose that's a question of how long this story keeps its steam. (Which I am obviously not helping.)

This happened for a reason. These Marines hated these men enough to piss on their dead bodies. Now that kind of hate doesn't just materialize out of thin air. It came from somewhere, a firefight, an IED, a wounded or killed Marine, something.

Its not like these Marines will be able to plead innocent to this one. Sorry bub, there you are with 8 million youtube hits. So tell me why you did it. Tell me what pissed you off so badly that you were willing to go against everything that the US military stands for. And maybe, once you tell me, maybe I can have some mercy or pity for you.

I really hope you've got a good reason for this. You're gonna get fried for this fellas, your careers are over, you might even do a little time, you gave Mr. Taliban Man a little extra ammo, you're reputations are shot, but you can give us something. Give me a reason. I'm a fellow warrior. It'll make sense to me. You tell me that you pissed on them because you thought they were the ones that set the IED. Then I get it.

And if you give me that, regardless of what happens to you, at least I'll be able to enjoy that video again!

Later,

I love you Mom...