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Saturday, August 02, 2008

OPEN LETTER

Dear John, Dirk, Snoopy, Anne, Michelle and the rest of the wannabe right-sided political pundits trying to make their way in the world today,

Stop it! For several years now on Internet and well before that in RL, we have had to listen to your "holier than thou" diatribes on the political institutions of this country. Your half-baked theories, thoughts and conspiracy-tainted BS that seems to spew from your mouth and finger tips like dank sewage in the NYC sewage system. You have spent the better part of 7 years with your fear-mongering "exposes" on how al-qaeda is here and now only to find out later that those "plots that were thwarted" had less to do with al-qaeda than you do.

Snoopy and the rest of the tin foil hat wearing conspiracy laden Art Bell wannabes have proclaimed the Iraq/Iran/al-Qaeda/commie plot to kill US citizens with Anthrax right after 9-11... yep, once again you were wrong... just as you were wrong about the great plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge, the Miami Plot and oodles of other ones that you seemingly heard half the words in the description and decided that it was time to hide in your bunker.

Even when you are proven wrong, like a good little propagandizing fear-mongering puppet, you continue to spew the shit and filth knowing full well that it isn't true... you are no better than a fucking lunatic down at the nut house except he probably has more dignity than you do.

Now you are smearing Obama like nothing else... you have nothing real to throw at him so you continue with your off kilter made up fantasy stories on how he is a commie, al qaeda loving whatever... it would help your cause if you really had something on him but instead you make up shit because, well, your grand old party bosses are doing the same thing... so it must be right, you fucking pricks.

This election is important not from the "If Obama wins the terrorist win" BS but more from the direction of this nation during this trying time. Instead of making up stories how about do something to fix the problems in this country... and for a few of you that means either moving or eating a bullet... take your pick on which area you fall in to.

thank you

John Redworth


Wednesday, June 25, 2008

just a few notes...

No, I am not dead. I have been extremely busy with work and working on a certain person's campaign... prolly and God willing, the next President of the United States.

I have also been flying coast to coast since my Dad is now really sick. Don't know how much longer he has but I will be there no matter what.

In other news, I have been getting a kick out of the conservobloggers and their lack of direction... smears, attacks, retractions (at times and most notably not from the bumble bees over at adoucheone). It has been fun watching them react to a person who isn't going to lay down and take it like a pussy (Gore and Kerry)... not to mention, no matter how many times they say it is cool, they are not happy inside with their candidate... McCain is a slag and his real record is coming to light... now everyone will know he is a pompus douchebag and nothing more...

BTW- Obama is not a muslim nor is he a black militant... he has given detailed thoughts on his stance of issues even if those on the other side missed it or were too busy thinking of another non-issue/smear to create...

I have to say, I want those guys at adoucheone to continue since they provide a slew of hilarity... their reactionary rants combined with the fact that none of those guys know shit about politics has made many a tough day for me... but I don't know what is funnier... them or their "fans" (aka the choir) who nod their heads and act as if the blog equivilant of white jelly beans is actually right...

I agree that they have been successful with rounding up people to read their dribble, but then again you can toss money at anything such as that to make it work... at the end of the day, they are still as insignificant as they were before they started... they are the modern day version of the loon standing on the corner saying that the world is going to end...

Keep up the good work, guys... as I said before, you guys are either the most brilliant satrists or you are the dumbest fucks on the planet... either way, it is better than a Mama's House marathon...


Thursday, April 17, 2008

Tonight after while watching the debate, I flipped the channels around and caught some Pizza Hut advert... the basic run down is this, a big wig Italian restaurant in NY has a house full of guests loving the food... then it is announced that the pasta came from Pizza Hut.

Now I have two reactions for this advert...

A) I would be fucking pissed if I put down some reservations for some swanky Italian high end place and find out that Pizza Fucking Hut could make pasta as well as this supposed high end $$$ restaurant... if I was the chef, I would be pissed to no end!

B) Maybe I thinking about this wrong way, maybe this advert shows how fucking stupid people are rather than how good the food is? These patrons are paying for the experience of the restaurant rather than the taste of the food...

has anyone seen this advert and what are your feelings?


Sunday, April 13, 2008

As McCain sits back and watches re-runs of Matlock on his Betamax©, Hillary has been busy doing something that neither Lee Atwater or Karl Rove could have imagined... the gutting and destruction of the Democratic party. HillaryCo have completely gone with the scorched earth policy that states that if she is now crowned the Queen, err President of the US in accordance to her status as married member of a former President (thus her birthright), then by God she will take the Democratic party down with her since they are to blame for her failure... they are not good enough to survive... leave nothing for the future, spend all political and societal capital right now to avoid the red-faced losses to a young, inexperienced junior Senator from Illinois... even if that means pumping up the GOP candidate to a point that it would be impossible to challenge him in the fall without having her own words come back to haunt her...

As the GOP political strategists make plans for the General election, HillaryCo is busy laying the groundwork for the attacks and smears that will come from the GOP. They have some help with some of the friendly allies and some makeshift alliances with enemies in the media... at what point does the general DNC crowd not see a problem that Obama is getting his sac slapped by such ideological counterparts as Rush, Coulter, Hannity and other wannabeneoconGOPassclowns? Yet, the division in the DNC is so strong that no longer do you protect your party but rather you decide to vote only if your candidate will get the nod... it is no longer oust the disasterous policies and ideology of the current GOP membership but rather it is Hillary or no one... WTF?

Seriously, as HillaryCo, the media and the conservoblogs make a big deal out of the Obama speech a week ago which a few lines were taken completely out of context as well as some other non-events has led to HillaryCo and her new found allies agreeing that Obama is an elitist... he is arrogant... he doesn't care for the common working class person... he can't bowl so he is out of touch with the general public... he asked for orange juice instead of coffee at a diner... he is fanatical Muslim, er Christian, um African-Centric racists pseudo-Christian that doesn't care about white people...

Let's step back from the heartfelt emotional ravings fueled by power and greed held of HillaryCo and really look at what all of these attacks/smears really equate to... ready? Nothing... Obama's statement that the working class voters in areas of great ecomonic depression (aka Western PA) was something that I think everyone would agree upon... yes, they feel disenfranchised... they feel that they were/are being fed empty promises of economic revitalization of their home area by candidates who don't give two flying shits about these people except when it comes to casting a vote on General Election day... they are bitter over this and instead of looking at the entire picture of events/issues, they instead grab issues like guns, religion, free trade or the immigration mini-issues as the reason to vote or not vote... this has been stated by political strategists for some time and mentioned in some way or another by all the candidates, but the difference is that now Convention is getting closer, HillaryCo and her allies have decided to use Obama's take on the issue and blow it up to a huge values ladened issue that has as much meat to it as a soy burger... but to add fuel to the fire to "prove" that Obama is an elitist, they point to the bowling escapade in which Obama showed he did not have game... or repeat the story of Obama in a PA diner recently in which he was asked if he wanted a cup of coffee but instead asked for orange juice... combine all of these non-issues together and what do you get? Like one of those 3-D hidden picture fads, if you stare at it long enough and someone keeps telling you that it is important, then you will see that Obama is... now get this... an Ivy league educated politico... since he is an Ivy league educated person, he is out of touch with the common people... thus he is not good enough to be President...

Never mind that this is all smoke and mirrors based on creating a fiction based back story that will resonate with the common voter who gathers most of their information on the election from the snipets on the nightly news or from talk radio instead of actually reading or hearing the entire context of the issue...

Let's break down some myths...

to be in touch with the general public, you must be able to bowl -- not just bowl but bowl well... which is really insane if you think about it since I know plenty of people who are hard working blue collar people who hate bowling or have never had an interest in bowling... I have also known a number of very rich highly educated "elitists" that loved to bowl, even a few that have had bowling alleys built in to their homes...

the same can be said for passing on coffee... not everyone drinks coffee... not everyone likes coffee... and if you were going to state that to be in touch with the American people, you must drink coffee... then by God, there are plenty of people who are out of touch even though they are what one would call a common American person...

The last myth has not been mentioned by me but it is something that came out this week in full force... the media has been very hands off when it comes to Obama... yeah, I see it... sure thing... but much like the media is too liberal or too conservative theories that abound, it is really a matter of view... the comments made by Obama's pastor led to a few weeks of painful discussion by the talking heads... the national security experience issue was discussed to a point that my ears bled... the bowling escapade was played over and over... hell, the recent "bitter voter" speech eclipsed other issues for days...

Yet, the whole Bosina "misspoken statement" by Hillary (and the subsequent other statements that continued to dig the hole a bit deeper by HillaryCo including her husband) was covered nominally and excuses were given that it was a simple mistake... now she says she is a big gun nut... yeah... does it ever stop?

McCain's comments that showed that he (as well as it seems most people) do not understand that not so subtle differences between Shi'ite and Sunni sects as well as what is going on in Iraq was dismissed as a senior moment (something that should scare the living shit out of people but for some reason they just ignore it)... add on to that, McCain's bigger allies (Lieberman and Graham) have re-stated similar statements showing that none of these strong defense-Surge in Iraq whiz kids actually understand what is going on... they are as clueless today as they were in 2001... or as the current administration is today... then again, a majority of Americans do not understand the differences and instead generalize every Muslim as an enemy... all aligned with Iran and al Qaeda which are one and the same (which is illogical and if push comes to shove, our Saudi friends are very much aligned with AQ rather than Iran and AQ)....

At the end of the day, HillaryCo will have to reconcile their blatant attacks on Obama and a vast majority of the people declared as Democrats or Democratic leaning Independents... yet to HillaryCo, right now is not the time since they feel she is next in line and fuck everyone who dares get in her way...


Sunday, April 06, 2008

Beatles the Greatest Ever?

an argument between friends...

A co-worker who was with me during my biz trip this week posed a simple yet complex question... who is the greatest Rock n Roll band ever...

He says without thinking one second that it had to be the Beatles... he said that you can not even argue against it which I said it was very possible to argue against it since it is a matter of opinion...

then I wanted to get to the nuts and bolts of the argument, what exactly qualifies the Beatles or any band as the greatest ever? Number of hit records? Their influence on music? Number of albums sold?

He started out by saying influence and named off a few bands that the Beatles influenced such as Nirvana... I quickly pointed out that Cobain was influenced by Lennon more than the Beatles and that his artisitic ways and style was more influenced by 70s heavy metal (Led, Kiss, Sabbath) as well as bands like Black Flag and the Sex Pistols...

Not to mention that both Lennon and McCartney both agree that without Chuck Berry or Elvis, the Beatles would never have existed... thus, is it more important that the band he is declaring as the ultimate influence on modern music was influenced by two other very heavy hitters?

His response was that their influences did not matter as much since the Beatles changed the face of music... which I pointed to the same two mentioned previously (Chuck Berry and Elvis)... as well as the Velvet Underground, Stones, the Who and even the Dead...

After we got back, I did some checking and see that overwhemingly the Internet experts pick the Beatles but I still do not think it is an open and shut case... one of the experts picked Jethro Tull as a major influence to music while another picked Kiss... it is a matter of opinion, in my mind, and while I do not say that the Beatles were/are not important, I don't think I would call them the greatest ever...

So what is your take?



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