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688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 03,May,2004 | I have a friend called Brock who lives in New Jersey and he read my blog and was like coo so he was like hey i'm good at writing pathetic stories about how pathetic I am too and I was like coo and so I was like hey how would you like to write some stuff for my blog and he was like uhh i dunno i was like c'mon first one's free so he was like mmkay and he wrote this story: on friday that girl i was talking about was handing in something during history class and friend sitting next to me said it looked like she got her pants out of the garbage because you know how sometimes people buy pants purposely ripped up because it is the style abd so i told her in math class that he said it and i was like aw yeah i stood up for you and said that they were very nice pants and that he should STFU and she was like thank you (jokingly of course) and she said she was going to repremand him and so today during gym class she's like 'hey friend i heard what you said about my pants' and friend is like hey well HE LIKES YOU and i'm like no so then everyone in the gym class is like nanny nany poo poo etc and i'm like no way guys stop it and this one mean kid was saying to her like 'you want to lick his body' and she was like shut up mean kid and then she was awkward the rest of the day and in math class she asked the person in front of her for a piece of paper and not me like she normally does Funny thing is it's not a story—he actually does suck that much. What a loser huh. C'mon everyone, tease him. 'na nee na nee poo poo brock and that girl sitting in a tree k i s s i n g'. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,May,2004 | I've made another list of all my music |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,May,2004 | It seems to be the latest trend in the ever-trendy world of highschool blogging: telling gimmicky and silly self-indulgent stories that end awkwardly and few care about. Well because I'm Shakeer and I like to keep it real, I'm gonna mix it up a little. Here goes nothing. Get ready for it. It's the Shakeer narrative style. Here I go. ok so i know this one girl who has a dog named jack her name is danielle the name makes for some pretty comical situations (the dog's name that is) like take the other day now give it back! lol but yeah so apparantly she was walking her dog one day in some sort of place where are dogs are walked and these was this guy a hot guy apparantly she wouldn't disclose how hot he was i asked though just you know, for the story's sake but yeah so jack ran up to the guy and was jumping on him dannielle was like 'jack, off! jack, OFF!' get it? yeah it was pretty funny i guess you had to be there i wasnt there but if i was it probably woulda been funny oh and the other day on the internet i was talking to her about how she mised an entire day of school to work on some project and so i asked her how much of the project she had managed to complete and she was like 'i'm so worried, all day i did jack' a sly comment followed sly indeed i'll leave it up to you to figure out what it was oh yeah another story i have this great story about this clever prank that went horribly wrong it woulda been awesome cept it went wrong horribly wrong you see: me and some pals were thinking of pranking this one guy the guy was driving his car and we were gonna like scare him but we scared the wrong person !!! the prank was the scaring it went horribly wrong see? we scared the wrong person thats wrong hmm k lets see what else i've got from my exciting life on the edge so the other day i was at starbucks and some stuff happened like someone took someone else's drink and stuff and then we jewed starbucks out of another drink cool huh ok so i only said that so i could use the word jew in that context lol ok i got another one the other day in religious class mr daley decided to go around the room and ask what each person was stressed out by at the moment he's nice like that you see so yeah most people were saying stuff like summer jobs, prom, AP exams, SATs, college, the junior paper, senior projects, blahblah so then we came to zach tarver zach's stresses were somewhat different 'uhh, I'm kinda worried cuz I might not graduate.' 'im kinda failing math and well if i dont pass i dunno whats gonna happen' 'man, I've really gotta work hard to bring my grade up to a D these few weeks...' mr daley proceeded to zing him with 'way to shoot for the stars Zach' everyone loled hmm yeah guess ya kinda had to be there anyway so one more thing some guy at school a few days ago 'who do you think is the hottest girl in the junior class, if you know what I mean' I was like WTF of course I know what you mean its kinda self-explannatory you d-bag. (the d stood for douche) the kid btw was this guy called rohit you can read his 'livejournal' here beware: its quite possibly the lamest and sickest thing on the internet well not the lamest that'd have to be brian seo's blog ^^zing and not the sickest either that would have to be http://www.goats- uhm nevermind ok thats about it for now i cant think of anythign else ok bye i'll be here all week make sure to tip the waitress and try the hot wings they're fantastic Hmm, that sucked. Well what else should I write about? Well everyone else is writing about getting rejected from MYAB or ASE or whatever else they're getting rejected from. I'd love to write about that too but well, guess what suckers: I got accepted by both. Anyway, yeah, I think I've reached my peak as a blogger. I think its for me to pass the torch onto the younger generation. I might do a farewell tour but after that I may have to retire. I know this might come as a devastating shock to some of you (oh who am I kidding, to all of you) but I'm sorry thats just the way, well thats just the way cookie crumbles huh? |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,May,2004 | urlLink Here's the slideshow . Make sure to read the witty captions. They're witty. Real witty. But don't take my word for it. Read 'em youself! And also check out these videos: urlLink A rufio (notice how Brian is completely out of sync). urlLink Another rufio . Jack urlLink breakdancing . urlLink Gus and Jack karaoke-ing (It's only the end bit, the rest was like 30mb. You can order it by special request. Just send me a blank disc and $5 for handling fees and I'll ship you a copy. I've also got the Michael and Avital tape but that'll cost ya extra). Oh and finally, well, urlLink just watch it. . The videos kinda ruin it though in my opinion. The conference was a pretty neat time but these video's don't capture the fun we had. Whatever, you've all been bothering me to put em up so enjoy. (That took entirely too long to do.) |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 25,June,2004 | Whoa! Gus updated! Maybe I ought to get off my ass and update too. Anyway, yeah, I've been pretty busy as of late with my this internship I'm doing. In case you don't know, its the ASE thing and I'm doing it at a local webdesign firm called urlLink PopArt . Among other things, I aid in the design and production of webcontent. Fun stuff. Whatever, its keeping me busy and I'm earning the respectable salary of approximately HALF OF MINIMUM WAGE. I'd go on about it but yeah, no one cares. So, Napoleon Dynamite. Boy have I been pumped about it lately. And boy have I been in for sore dissapointment. Last week, I went to a preview screening over at Pioneer Square and yep, you guessed it: didn't get in. I RSVPed for tickets and everything. I remember I saw a kid there that I knew and was like all 'hey I'm watching napoleon dynamite. oh, you wanna see it? yeah, sorry, you can't. yep, I got mad hook ups. you see, you gotta RSVP at the website. yessirree.' Little did I know that I was in for quite the egg on my face in a few minutes. And then I went again yesterday. The first time we were about five minutes late so I guess it makes sense that we didn't get seats. It was, after all, a highly anticipated preview screening. This time though, we were two hours early. And yep, once again, didn't get in. This time we were like 4 people away from the cutoff point in line. Oh man, it was painful. Anyway, I'm gonna try again this coming Tuesday and although I can't get out of work to make it there more then an hour or two early, hopefully I can get someone else to go early and stand in line. If all else fails, I'm hiring a hobo. So yeah, Gus, if you're reading this, that means no tshirts. And if you're reading this, good work kid. Keep it up. Oh and the foreigner night tomfoolery update and pictures will be up soon. If you're someone who knows what that means, then yeah, you know what it means. If you don't, haha sucks to be you. And also my iPod finally ran out of space so I've begun the tragic process of deleting music. Oh and I also just reformatted my computer so I had to look through old files and choose what to delete and what to keep. Once again, how depressing. Speaking of thinking that stuff is depressing, I've started reading Catcher in the Rye again. This is my 2nd time. I think I'm gonna make this a 'read it every summer' sort of thing. I'm really liking it the second time around. In fact, I don't remember it being this good the first time. I hope I'm not turning into one of those pretentious depressed reclusive CITR fans though. Well maybe I do. Just a little though. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 17,June,2004 | Shakeer and all blog readers, I just want to give you all a big WHAT UP from Greece. As I write this entry, I am sitting in an internet cafe on the island of Mykonos. Its off the heezie, the sun's up, the beer is cold, and the ladies are hot. Haha, well sort of. I have yet to hook up with a girl, but we're leaving for Africa tomorrow so the chances are looking better. The word on the street is the African chicks are HOT! Shakeer how was Napoleon Dynamite? Or has it come out yet? I'm expecting a blog entry and I want my shirt. Didn't we bet or something for it? Anyway, I'll try to update when we're in Africa with some pics. This is Gus Jewell for Shakeers blog, out. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 17,June,2004 | (Click the link above.) Its so stupid it isn't funny. Well maybe a little. Alright, its hilarious. He's such a douchebag. Here are some particularly golden quotes: 'in the grand scheme of things a typical human life is like a blink of an eye. the days that seem like an eternity become so insignificant when looking at the big picture, but what is the big picture anyway? each person's picture is the size they feel it to be.' 'certain musical notes in specific variations of sequences are a foundation for universal communication. instinct. an understanding beyond our mind's ability to formulate.' 'i love the country. i love north carolina. i am going to move there. get some land and have a damn ranch with a skatepark, studio, four wheelers, baseball diamond, horses, and a small house. just get loose and be creative on my own time. it sounds so right. i'm gonna do it. see ya!!' 'i also love skateboarding and the culture of the skateboarder's whole existance.' 'as soon as we hit the stage we decided to play by 'our' rules, which is 'no' rules, and let it come out. we played Faith and our new single Almost Over. i'm curious to see how they edit it. TV shows are so fucking phony sometimes. fake applause between commercials, people taking take after take to make it believable, etc. it's amazing how long i believed in what the television was providing me as an adolescence. now that i have been on the other side of the curtain i just can't believe what we're led to believe sometimes. oh well, fuck it. we rocked our songs once and bailed. it ended up being kind of tight.' 'i am an american alien living in an ever so changing place within my mind. i see too much with my eyes and i feel too much with my soul.' I just wanna throw a brick at him. I almost feel sorry for how retarded he is. Almost. This part pisses me off the most: Ugh. That just isn't right. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 16,June,2004 | |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 15,June,2004 | WHAT A TERRIBLE MOVIE. It sucked. So fucking unrealistic! I mean c'mon! People can NOT fly no matter how you try to justify it. Oh and 'hypogriffs' WTF? JK Rowling musta been smoking some crazy pot when she wrote that part because I don't know about you but I have never ever seen a 'hypogriff' in my life. I wouldn't be surprised if she just made it up. Also, why would you take a train to school? I know they're in Britain and probably wouldn't wanna be caught dead in one of those tiny little shitty cars but c'mon, there HAVE to be other ways of getting to school. Why not just take a bus? Who drives the train? Are they part of a union and are fairly compensated for their work? None of this was very fleshed out or explained. Talk about a lack of details. Its like the directors just made stuff up and didn't explain it. Oh and TIME TRAVEL? Give me a break. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TIME TRAVEL. Well, at least not without a whole lot of antigravity and wormholes and I don't know about you but I saw neither in the movie. Overall, a terrible waste of money. Go see something worthwhile and scientifically accurate like The Day After Tommorow. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 15,June,2004 | Ameteur night is coming up down at the one bar on 15th and Glisan so I've decided to write up a routine to show off my humor. Here's one of my first bits, the computer dorks amongst you'll love this one!: So what exactly is it about spyware? There's a spy on my computer? Where!? This must be why, everyday I log on to my computer I get all these blinking buttons and advertisements for porn. Hahaha. Porn is what all men love. Ask a man what he loves, he'll probably list in this order: porn, my wife, cardboard cutouts of famous people. At least that's my list. I used to have the ****iest job ever. I actually worked for McDonalds. When people would give their orders, I'd actually say... would you like fries with that *whispering under my breath* ...bitch? It was awesome until one day my boss (a female) took an order from me! Let's just say, the bitch came down! Wank you very much, you've been a great audience! Pretty funny huh? You like how I transitioned from the spyware stuff to the thing about what men love. It was pretty tough to do (it's probably one of the many challenges, and for me, struggles, of writing quality comedy). And what did you think about the 'wank you' at the end...nice touch, huh? Alright, I've got more! Here's one about airports, this is usually material that never gets old! So what is it with the airports and the so called 'airport' security? Yeah, check my shoes for bombs, bitch. Who stores bombs in their shoes? Who actually thinks, hey, got my socks... got my bombs... I'm ready to go! What if they stub there toe, does the whole shoe go up in smoke? (quite literally, I may add!). Hahaha, why do they hire dumb people to protect these planes. Why don't they hire smart people? Wouldn't that be a better idea? Hahaha. Thanks, you've all been wonderful. Good stuff huh? Trust me, there's more where THAT came from! Here's another one. It might be sort of controversial but it's usually seen as one my more sophisticated and witty pieces. It usually gets quite a few laughs with my test audiences (but then again, what DOESN'T mom find funny?): If God is soo real, why do hot dogs come in packages of 6 while buns in packages of 8? And if God has a penis, is it big enough so that he can fuck himself. The fact of the matter is, that when we die, that's it, there's no afterlife. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a dumb bible thumper, hahahah! If god were one of us, he'd ride the special bus and smoke canibus! Isn't that a funny mental picture, a retarded, marijuana smoking god. He'd be really dumb, as dumb as those that believe in him, hahaha! Anyway, thats all for now, I've got alotta prepping to do! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 15,June,2004 | You should be crying now. Unless you're a Discovery Channel educated insensitive bastard like Sean Major!: Major SEAN majoR: hahahha Major SEAN majoR: stupid ducks shakeeronaim: fuck you! shakeeronaim: IT WAS YOU shakeeronaim: YOU TOOK THE PIC DIDN'T YOU Major SEAN majoR: hahah no shakeeronaim: anyone else would scare the ducks away into safety Major SEAN majoR: thats just not really sad though Major SEAN majoR: because they dont have a big enough brain Major SEAN majoR: to really care Major SEAN majoR: haha Major SEAN majoR: the mom ducks just like uh oh Major SEAN majoR: need to mate Major SEAN majoR: hmmm im hungry Major SEAN majoR: whers some bread shakeeronaim: but they're cute little duckies shakeeronaim: and they died! Major SEAN majoR: they are cute Major SEAN majoR: but you cant let that make you think Major SEAN majoR: that they are like us Major SEAN majoR: they just dont think like us Major SEAN majoR: the mom duck doesnt like think ohhh my babiessss they coulda had such a great life with great grandkids Major SEAN majoR: its instinct shakeeronaim: but its just so sad! shakeeronaim: :( |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 14,June,2004 | First of all: dude, Sonic Youth is coming to Portland. If there's one concert I'm gonna go to this summer, it has to be this one. (Well if I beg and pester mom and pop enough, I may be able to see the Pixies in Bend in September, but thats not summer.) I know I say this for all the concerts I've talked about on the blog (yup, all TWO of them) but this seriously will be amazing. Sonic Youth is one of the greatest bands of all time and they seem like they'll be fucking terrific live. Just listening to their music makes you wish you could hear them live. When you hear Kim Gordon wailing her characteristic wails, you can almost imagine how she'd look like performing it. It just sounds so great and I can imagine the ambiance will be significantly cooler live. Okay damn, I suck at talking about music. I wish I could describe this better. Then again, as Elvis Costello once said, and I paraphrase, 'writing about music is like dancing about architecture'. But yeah, I can ancitipate absolutely nothing wrong with the concert. It's at the Crystal Ballroom (never been there, but have heard lotsa good) on the 15th of July. I'll probably need to get tickets early, seeing as how its Sonic fucking Youth (sorry, I'm just really excited). They had a new CD come out last week and although I didn't think it to be that great early on, after a few spins, I'm seriously growing rather attached to it. Its great. If you like them, take the advice of this high school senior (yeah senior) blogger from Portland, and give it a go. It's worth it and I have a feeling it'll sound even cooler live. Same goes with their old stuff. I bet it'll be awesome live. UGH I JUST CAN'T WAIT. Man oh man is this gonna be awesome. Okay, I'll stop now. I'm obviously too into their music right now to deliver the fair and balanced reporting you expect from shakeer's blog. In any case, yeah, I'm excited and I can't wait. Same goes for Pixies though, but thats much later. Man, I'd kill to see the Pixies. And their opening act is gonna be Death Cab for Cutie who are okay as well. But yeah. God damn. Sonic Youth and the Pixies. Anyway, make sure to read this week's urlLink Onion . It's a great issue. And also, the first Napolean Dynamite free preview screening is THIS Thursday. Boy, am I pumped. If you're interested (or let me rephrase that: if you're hardcore enough), RSVP yourself some seats urlLink here . If you go, you can get yourself a suh-WEET tshirt. (The movie doesn't come out 'til the beginning of July at Fox Tower so unless you're lame or safariing in Africa, you should watch the preview screening.) One more thing: some of you might remember the link I had on the side for Shehab Ahmed's blog. Well, Shehab's blog has come to an unfortunate end. It was great while it lasted and all of us in the local blogging community are sad to see him go. He had some really funny stuff on it. oh, how the mighty have fallen! Shehab's Blog - Never Forget April 2004 - June 2004 RIP. Alright, thats enough for now. Wait. One more thing. After hours (no, days) of tireless and mindnumbing toil, I've finally made another one of urlLink these . This last one looks pretty damn spiffy if I may say so myself. All those hours of cataloguing and organizing (and not to mention, listmaking) just serves as further proof that I'm slowly becoming this guy: Nothing wrong with that though. Right? |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 13,June,2004 | Say you walk into a room, and you are carrying only one medicated adhesive strip (or bandage, if you will). Two fine gentlemen walk up to you and you have a feeling that each have a story to tell. You turn to the first and he begins explaining that he's a manager of advertising for a major shoe company. Apparently he started off young in the field of entrepeneury with an old-fashioned Lemonade stand at the age of 8. Upon reaching the legal age to work, he jumped right into a position at a department store. He was assistant to the manager of the electronics department. Fine worker. Dedicated, hardworking, and friendly. Employee of the month, very first month in. A dry period of about 4 months hit, but then 5 consecutive employee of the month awards were bestowed upon him. He had the nickname 'the janitor', because boy, did clean up those awards or what. (He also reluctantly hinted at the possibility that the nickname may have been due to his insistence that the sales counter always be spotless.) When asked to move up the proverbial ladder, he declined. After all, collegiate studies were his top priority. He wanted to out live the legacy of his old man, a very successful archeologist that hit it big with his series of groundbreaking (literally hah!) volumes noting the correlation between life in it's purest form and an East Ethiopian dinosaur bone excavation. He, a down-to-earth man himself, realized that these ideas may be too niche to generate any true public interest and thus he made a lite version. He called it 'A Groundbreaking (Literally, Hah!) Volume Detailing the Correlation Between Life in It's Purest Forms and an East Ethipian Dinosaur Bone Excavation: Lite'. It had pleasant sensory details and was a hit in the beauty salons. It just had that universal appeal. Moving on, he decided to focus his talents in acting. He was very rusty but for reasons unknown, his instructor developed quite a fondness for him. Sure, some of the more apt students mocked his new and somewhat unorthodox methods, but by god if he didn't light up the stage. He was the only reason for the University of Illinois's drama department existence. He was quite the inspiration. Why, after his unforgettable portrayal of Banquo, a brand new hall was dedicated to him. When a then-fledgling department of a large multinational shoe company wanted to endorse him for their new line of acting shoes, he accepted. After 6 glorious years at that college, he moved east, to Asia. He was enthralled by their innovativity, and wanted to be part of it. Of course, he was enduring the difficulties of living abroad in a hostile and unfamiliar territory as a labour of love, since he was getting paid enough from the sponsorhip for a few more years. After the first three films he starred in, he became an internationally-known acting sensation. Noting the potential of losing him to the world of cinema, the shoe company offered him a manager of advertising position. He accepted, not expecting the massive pressure his position entailed. Oh! The charts he saw! The numbers he crunched, the migraines he recieved! You're probably thinking, sure but the acting world was probably fraught with its own share of chills and spills, so this guy ought to be ready for anything. Well, that's hardly the case, all you'd have to do is walk one mile in this guy's acting shoes shoes in order to understand what he was going through. Still, he was a steadfast and committed worker and soon put his own reservations and problems aside in favor of company interests. He continued to try new things and utilized a number of clever advertising methods. Unfortunately, this was far too inefficient for a man of his ambition. Memories of the lemonade stand came back, and he remembered the integral selling point: price. The prices were slashed and sales went through the roof. Audiences who never were able to afford such spiffy shoes bought them and became addicted. His rise to number one was undeniable and he was soon featured on the cover of all manner of magazines including Time (man of the year, in fact), Fortune, and some lesser known industry quarterlies. He even appeared on the Late Show with Jay Leno and lit up the crowd with his fiery story of his rise to fame and success (he was after all, quite the stage performer). Five months after his television spot, he released a book comparing the complexities of running a shoe company to those of a Lemonade stand. It bombed. Terribly. His success remained, but so did the feeling of failure. This probably was why he seemed so down. Moving on, you glance at your watch and ask the other person for his story. He had severe vision problems and was rather old. Apparently he hosted a Canadian morning talkshow, like Today, or Good Morning America (except Canadian). He was teamed up with a 20 year veteran, who on camera was rather cheery, but off camera was quite vicious. One of the producers referred to her as a 'bitch' and as the man revealed this particular detail, he leaned in and lowered his voice, as if not wanting to utter that word publically. Of course, there's no one in the room but you and these two men, so such an endeavour seems trivial. In any case, he continues and explains that the coworker didn't trust him because, at that time, he was a greenhorn. He had no credentials or prior experience, yet the audience loved his zany zingers and how he hosted the Cooking Tip of the Day like a real professional. She noted regretfully that she was the last of a dying breed. Only her and the camera man had been on the show since its founding, some 20 years ago. Thus, after much contemplation and consulation, she left the show with a bang, right in the middle of a broadcast. Right in the middle of a sentence, she barged off without a word. Not even a word of explanation. She bumped onto a coffee table on her way out, thus producing the bang. There afterwards, the camera panned to the greenhorn's puzzled face for about 5 awkward seconds until the producers scrambled to cut to a commercial. For the rest of the show's career, that point was known as its lowest, but also its most memorable. In any case, the man continued to host the show and took it in new directions and areas, including many in which it previously had not dared to venture. Like Northern Yukon (broadcasting fees and expenses were pretty steep there). Unfortunately, after 30 more years of having that ridiculously bright brightlight blared into his face, he began to notice slight vision problems and eventually had to quit. This was a difficult decision because a large nationwide 24-hour news network was looking to hire him but of course, vision always came first in his mind. With this, the man concludes his story, and as you and the first man both bow your heads in contemplation, he asks you, 'Do you think they should make unfunded federal mandates unconstitutional?' Then the other man, looking up, continues with, 'If so, is the problem the result of the fact that they're unfunded or that they're federally mandated? Or perhaps, some sort of outlandish mixture of the two?' And that, my faithful blogreaders, is the question now in front of you. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 09,June,2004 | They were in town for the Rose Festival and initially I was pretty undecided about whether or not to go. After all, the band hasn't really produced any solid music in like 20 years (or at least the only music I knew of was produced that long ago) and sounded like typical washed-up local city festival fare. Still, the three or four songs that I'd heard of them I loved and I'd only heard good things about their live shows so I decided to go. The concert started off pretty lame and I wasn't really feelin it, if you know what I mean. They played Blister in the Sun pretty early on (just as I got there in fact) and I was like meh, they shoulda saved it for later when the vibe was better. Eventually though, it started to pick up. I've been to rock concerts before but this was the first true ROCK concert, complete with huge amounts of secondhand smoke, flickering Zippo lighters, earth-shattering bass, mean-looking security guards, visibly entoxicated musicians (between songs, the lead singer would complain of how loud everyone was clapping and all the bright lights in front of him), rowdy fans, and plenty of crowdsurfing and shoulder-hoisting. All of that was cool. The music started getting better too, and up close, the band sounded really good. They were all really talented and entertaining and as they carried on, the did some numbers I recognized and could sing along to (like Add it Up and Kiss Off). In fact, when both of those songs came on, the crowd went wild. They also did some songs that I otherwise probably wouldn't have liked (they sounded awfully country-ish at times) but were enjoyable live. Oh and then it started raining like mad (this is after all Portland) but they made the best of it and sang some song about rain, I forgot what it was. Anyway, yeah, I thought they'd be lame since they were like balding and washed-out but they still had it. Then again, everyone's getting old now. Even the Beastie Boys. One of them has gray hair now. I guess it'd be depressing if I had listened to them as a child and all but yeah, I didn't. I noticed alot of people in the crowd who looked like they obviously had grown up listening to these guys. In the end though, the whole being old thing only made it funnier when they were singing about sneaking out the window and begging daddy to lend them the car. By the end, I was thoroughly entertained. They were really good and I'm glad I went. A great live band. Here are some pictures so you can see how old and stuff they are. (I had to go through alot of trouble to get them, one of the security guards was like 'NO CAMERAS ALLOWED, THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING' but I'm badass so I just weaved my way into the middle of the crowd and continued taking pictures.) (Click them to make them bigger.) urlLink urlLink urlLink urlLink urlLink |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 09,June,2004 | My name is Gus. I have been invited to join the esteemed writing team of Shakeer's blog. You may have read some of my work concerning the Junior Paper. Mark this day my friends because today is an important day for Shakeer's blog. No longer will this blog remain flacid, idle, and unused, a lot like Rohit's... well.... Anyway, I am calling upon the blog to produce beaucoup amounts of material from commentaries to reviews. We'll have rants, raves, cartoons, movies, pictures and all sorts of awesome shit! So from today on Shakeer and I will both update the blog everyday. No matter how trivial the entry we will still update. The blog will never go a day without being updated that is our oath, our promise, our only reason for living. To spice up the blog, Shakeer has sent me on location to Tanzania, Africa for a safari. I will be updating along the way with pictures and great stories. So get ready for the new and improved Blog. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,June,2004 | urlLink George W. Bush, Meet the Press, February 13, 2004: Tim Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein? President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion. urlLink George W. Bush, Rose Garden press conference, June 1, 2004: Question from reporter: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly -- THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi? Q: Yes, with Chalabi. THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq? THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq. urlLink Source. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 04,June,2004 | Quite possibly the single greatest thing that has happened during my tenure here at Jesuit. Thanks to whoever took the picture. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,June,2004 | Today's song of the day is urlLink Such Great Heights (4.7mb) by The Postal Service. Its that indie pop stuff I was blabbering about recently. Its good stuff. Sorta sappy but still good. The rest of the CD ( Give Up ) is great too. I've got the rest in case you want it. Here are the lyrics, read 'em along or something I guess. They're pretty clear, but I thought the songwriting was worth a share. I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss, they're perfectly aligned. And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay. And true, it may seem like a stretch, but it's thoughts like this that catch my troubled head when you're away when I am missing you to death. When you are out there on the road for several weeks of shows and when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you home. They will see us waving from such great heights, 'come down now,' they'll say but everything looks perfect from far away, 'come down now,' but we'll stay... I tried my best to leave this all on your machine but the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening that frankly will not fly. you will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows with the windows down when this is guiding you home Yeah. Listen. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,June,2004 | Yeah, thats right. Remember when Times New Roman used to be old and clunky? Remember back when every kid on the block was sporting some avant garde classy font like Verdana or Trebuchet? Well guess what. Those days are over. None of that shit anymore. Times New Roman is making a comeback. Times New Roman is now what Times New Roman wasn't: hip. Its the ghetto fab revolution. Retro, bitches. Fuck that New Age Avantgarde shit, its all about getting down and dirty. Times New Roman is a classic that should never have been abandoned. Its rough. Its tough. Its simple. But not Express/J-Crew simple. Oh, no. This is Kmart/TJ Maxx simple. So connect with your roots. Bring back Times New Roman. But wait. I don't think the formal world of papers and shit is ready for this kind of revolutionary behavior. Times New Roman needs to work its way up the chatroom and instant messanger charts before it can make its hit in the assignment/written work market. This is the people's revolution. We're gonna hit em hard from underneath. The underground is where Times New Roman will fester. So you heard me. Use it in your profiles. Use it in your emails. Use it in your IMs. And get rid of that Verdana garbage. Shed the highlights. Drop the colors. Fuck all that bourgeois shit. Its time for the proleteriat to take control again. Its all about simple pure black Times New Roman now. Feel free to change the size though. Thats pretty ghetto fab, in my book. Oh and remember: you heard it here first. As the instant messanger aesthetic capital of the internet, my profile is gonna be leading the Times New Roman revolution. Get your piece of the proverbial pie while you still can. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 31,July,2004 | Hi, I'm bbs. Astounding introduction, wouldn't you say? Somewhat deceptive though. My name's not really bbs. That would be silly. I mean, it reads good, but would you really want to call someone that to their face? Awkward, if you ask me. So yeah, my name's not really bbs, but if you want to call me that, go right ahead. I'm not going to tell you what to do. As far as I know, this blog promotes free speech. Not just in free speech zones, either! That would be mediocre. And apparently, we're against mediocrity. I'm not going to lie to you and say I'm a very interesting person. I'm not. As previously stated, saying I was interesting would be an outright lie. In fact, I'm not sure why shakeer would want someone as stale and flat out boring as I writing for his blog. I can't write about the cool things I've done and the adventures I've been on, because I haven't been on any. Take today, for example. Today I woke up (that was a given). Anyway today I woke up and read a book. Not very exciting, I think you'd agree with that. So after I read a book I watched some television. Watching television is definitely not exciting, unless it was the Daily Show or something like that, and it wasn't, it was the news. So I read a book and watched the news. After that I had a sandwhich, which I guess some people would like to hear about, considering the sandwhich industry is really thriving right now from what I understand. The sandwhich was turkey and ham. If you're interested in further details, feel free to email me. So after the sandwhich, I basically just looked at the wall for awhile. Then I watched Hellboy on DVD. If I was a movie critic, I could elaborate, but I'm not. That's the problem with me. I'm very critical but you'd never know it. So I watched Hellboy, and here I am. Wait! I almost forgot! My dog had diarrhea today. I guess I could describe it a bit (the whole ordeal spans several hours and 5 rolls of paper towels), but dog diarrhea isn't interesting, it's just gross! So, taking all these factors into account, it looks like shakeer made a big mistake. I have absolutely nothing to write about! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 29,July,2004 | Founder/Editor- one badass mofo! Savage/Writer-We found him in the jungles of malaysia He can't speak, but he sure as hell can write! Traveling Corespondent/Writer-He captured the above savage. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 29,July,2004 | ...just seeing if it works. shakeers gonna kill me for wasting this space so i better say something. This space is normally reserved for semi-interesting happenings of the day in which shakeer encounters strange young men downtown and gives them presents such as the very shirt off his back. Just dont give him your pants, I dont care how hot it is outside, or how sweet the pants are. Moving on. I would like to use my first blog post to introduce to the world a new expression. My brother and I have used it for years but i think the world may be ready for it. When something is cool you say 'that is NARWHALE'. This expression finds its origins in the classic word 'gnarly' and is also closely related to the 'narwhal' (Monodon monoceros), a rare white whale found in the Artic Sea that wields a distinguishing long spear-like tooth. This first entry was flippin narwhale. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 28,July,2004 | you're working on some stuff for a build for a huge client and you create a local project and do a get-latest-version from Visual Source Safe on you localhost and make all your edits and then use the robocopy script to deploy everything to the staging server but robocopy deploys the wrong files and overwrites everything on the staging server with all these old files and totally ruins the staging site and the person who worked on the usercontrol commands and business logic before you didn't back up his files in VSS so they're all gone and you think you're a goner because the guy didn't have anything saved in his localhost but then suddenly you find out that some changes can be recovered from the previous evening's magnetic tape backups over at easy street hosting but that means you need to drive all the way over to easy street on beaverton hillsdale highway and that'll cost several billable hours and cut into profitability and delay the product launch a few days and you get blamed for it all even though it isn't your fucking fault that the other guy forgot to check his goddamn files into Visual Source Safe?!?!? I know I do. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 28,July,2004 | (click the title for more pictures and stuff) |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 26,July,2004 | Yesterday, I saw Barack Obama deliver the keynote speech at the DNC (I've had C-Span on in the next room as background noise for the past few evenings) and wow, it was amazing. He's one of the best speakers I've seen in a while. His demeanor was composed and charismatic, his arguments intelligent and reasonable. I was really impressed. Barring some major political scandal or something, I suspect he'll have a soaring career over the next couple of years. I mean, barring some sort of major scandal or something, in ten or twenty years, this guy may very well become the first serious African American presedential candidate. I haven't been this excited by a politician since...since well, Bill Clinton's speech the day before. Just kidding, yeah, this guy is definately going to be one of the Democratic Party's most promising stars in the future. Barack Obama for President in 2024! Hah, yeah, as I was saying, Clinton's speech was really powerful too. I just saw Edwards earlier today...he was alright. Definately not as good as these other two guys. I don't see what all the fuss is about his charisma. Well, maybe when you put him next to Kerry, that element shines through more visibly...yeah, I'm starting to sound like some lame armchair political candidate. Speaking of which, today I was party to a particularly ridiculous incident of stupid political punditry at the watercooler at work (okay, we can't afford a watercooler, we have a fridge with magnets on it). It's been embellished and exagerrated for this comic adaptation, scanned straight from my brand new Moleskine: ( urlLink CLICK HERE TO MAKE THE ABOVE PICTURE BIG AND READABLE ) |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 26,July,2004 | As you've probably noticed, I've changed the layout of the blog. It looks somewhat spiffier. More notably though, I've cut down on the total number of posts displayed on the main page. That should make the page quicker/easier to load. Oh and, I've also figured out how to make the Comments thing work! As well as Archives! So now you can view all my old posts! And you can post comments! Please do, as my self esteem feeds directly off the comments you leave. Without your comments, I am nothing. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 26,July,2004 | It's awesome. Hopefully this will usher in a prosperous era of plentiful blog posts and creativity. You see, I always come up with cool stuff to post about or whatever but then by the time I get home and tucked away at the keyboard, I forget it. This also happens alot when I'm laying in bed, right about to fall asleep. I always tell myself I'll remember but uhm, I don't. This should put a swift end to that. Yeah, am I loser or what? But hey, at least I'm a loser with a cause. Hey, thats a good idea for a blog title! I think I'll use it. Don't worry, I'll probably get sick of it in a week and take it off by then. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 26,July,2004 | My limited edition blue and red Dr. Seuss Seussentennial Powells Nalgene 32-ounce waterbottle featuring art by Powells' own Amy Antonio has been robbed from me. By thieves. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 26,July,2004 | Today I was walking around downtown during my lunchbreak looking to purchase things I didn't need with money I didn't have and was actually sort of lost. I was consulting this walking map I had, trying to find the street where I could get a bus back to work when this kid about my age zipped by on his bicycle. I looked up and for some reason he was staring at me. He was pretty shifty looking. I stared back and he turned around. I returned to consulting my map, brushing the experience aside. Then I looked back up and so did he, but then he looked away again. This time, I got a good look at his bicycle. It was a pretty nice bicycle, I must say. Anyway, once I figured out where I needed to be, I started walking up to the place where the bus would come. I stood there, waiting for a bus and noticed the kid was waiting too. Naturally curious about this mysterious person who kept looking at me, I looked at him. This time, we both decided to put this awkward exchange to an end and he shuffled over to where I was standing and was like 'you looked lost'. He gestured at my map. I explained I was simply searching for the appropiate bus stop. 'You from around here?' he asked. I can see why'd he ask that. I always look pretty goofy with my map and backpack. I explained how I worked in the area and stuff. He was like 'you work here? how old are you?' I explained my age and the nature of my job and told him he had a nice bicycle. Then he got to the point. 'That's an awesome shirt,' he said, gesturing at the homemade Fugazi shirt I was wearing. Fugazi is like an alternative/punk band from the late 80s and they never trademarked their name so no real Fugazi merchandise exists. Thus, I took the initiative and made my own shirt. 'Yeah, I made it myself...you can get iron-ons online,' I replied. I stumbled at the three 'on's (irON ONs ONline) in a row and chuckled. I do that alot, chuckling at stupid stuff I say. He didn't seem to notice. 'Yeah, Fugazi owns!' he said. 'Actually man, no one owns Fugazi!' I retorded. He laughed. I was of course referencing the fact that no one owns the Fugazi trademark. And then, I dunno why, but I felt generous, so I was like, 'So uhm, do you want this shirt?' He was like 'whoa, are you sure?' I explained that it was no problem since I could just make another one. I took it off and handed it to him. He was really appreciate and made extensive note of his gratitude. Unfortunately, I noticed my bus pulling up and lamentfully realized that it was time for our paths to branch away. Sealing the bonds of our deep friendship, we made our farewells and parted off onto our own ways. Now I have to wear this damn sweatshirt in this sweltering heat all day long but I think I'll be okay. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 25,July,2004 | If Ralph Nader singlehandedly captured Osama Bin Laden like a few weeks before the election. Now, I'm no fan of Ralph himself but I have to admit, this would be like so awesome since every politician in the country would immediately be pissed off at him. Not to mention all the bad guys and stuff. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 24,July,2004 | Today I was at Starbucks and I was sitting at this lame table that was filthy and wobbly. Then suddenly I saw this guy across the room get up from his clean and sturdy so I totally pounced on it. He thought he was getting away all sneakily but with me around, he most definately wasn't. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 24,July,2004 | Like how you'll be driving along the interstate and listening to Wilco and then suddenly you'll see one of those signs informing you of the gas stations that exist at the next exit and on it, it says Wilco, on account of the fact that Wilco is also the name of a gas station and that gas station chain happens to have an outlet at that next exit from the interstate. You'll see it and be pretty excited and because the music is so good and the coincedence so spectacular, it'll almost feel serendipitous but you'll realize that no one will ever know about what just happened and that that moment will forever be lost and that even if you tell them, they really will not care. Then again, why should they? PS. Thanks for the post and stuff, Gus. I figured my use of expletives would accurately convey my frustration. Come to think of it though, it's pretty lame. Like you know, lame as in 'omg my mom told me to pick up my clothes but i was like fuck off mom i dun wanna and she was like go up to your room young man and i just went up and listened to my punk rawk 4eva, down with rules and stuff yo!!!' |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 24,July,2004 | Was it just me? or were many loyal blog readers shocked to see Shakeer's latest and may I add outdated update titled 'I'm a fucking idiot' I've known Shakeer for many moons and I have never heard him say 'doggy poop' let alone the forbidden word that I will not mention here. Shakeer you have let down me, your fans, and most of all the blogging community. So Shakeer, cut the fucking, dog kissing, boner biting, ass whiping, shit shoveling language. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 15,July,2004 | You know the Sonic Youth concert I've been preaching about nonstop for the past few weeks? Yeah. It's today. And yeah. It's fucking sold out. And yeah. I didn't buy tickets in advance. I'm such an idiot. I figured I'd be able to get them this week. So I went on Monday but the box office was closed. So I figured I'd get them today. The day of the concert. HUGE MISTAKE. So then I went on eBay and found a total gem—a charity auction for a 2 person general admission ticket PLUS VIP pass (so meeting the band after the show). I was excited beyond words. I quickly put up a $25 bid (I was the first and only bid with the auction ending in a half hour). And yep, you guessed it, I got outbid. Some fuckers came out of nowhere at the last minute and outbid me. I got served. Thoroughly and wholly. On the way back home, I stopped at Crystal Ballroom and I saw this hugeass tourbus. Upon closer inspection, I noticed Thurston Moore chillin beside it, pulling stuff out of the trunk! Some kids were heckling him for autographs. They had like bags full of shit for him to sign. I didn't have anything but I was just like 'whoa Thurston Moore!' He just chuckled and he was signing stuff. I tried talking to him and he was pretty polite but unresponsive. Probably really stoned. I explained how I couldn't get into the show because it was sold out. I was like 'dude I can't believe you guys sold out so fast!'. He responded with 'fuck you, asshole'. I was like 'no dude, I mean the concert!' We then shared a chuckle and he was like 'hey I like you kid. how would you like some free backstage passes and tickets?' I was like sweet thanks and then I saw the concert and it was amazing. Okay, the conversation ended after I explained my situation and he was like 'man thats too bad...sometimes we tell the venues to reserve a few tickets for right before the show...I guess we didn't do that here'. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 14,July,2004 | I have to keep writing so I'll post this useless psot. Today at work I didn't do much. In fact, I don't think I did anything. I had one meeting but thats it. It was the first day where I spent the entire day just doing nothing. And then I came home, really tired for some reason. Probably beacuse of the goddamn heat. So I took a nap. It was an okay nap. Three and a half stars. Then I watched Mystic River with my mom. Four and a half stars. No but really. It was good. The ending at least. Thursday I'm going to see the Sonic Youth show. I'm trying to beg people to come. So if you're reading this and I haven't begged you and you're up for a great rock concert, talk to me. It'll be good. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 12,July,2004 | Well hello there blog. It's been a while—over two weeks...and my last entry was crap anyway. I suppose the reason I haven't been writing for a while is that once you stop, its hard to pick it back up and 'report' whats been going on in my life all of a sudden and as time passes, more reportable material snowballs, thus hindering my will to post even further. Now I know what you're thinking. 'lol yea rite shakeer u dont have nething in ur life to report lol'. Yeah, I guess. But I still didn't feel like writing in the past two weeks (then again, two weeks isn't really that much time). In any case, here I am, beginning again. Because this is my first entry in a while, it should be pretty thorough. I've gotta lot to catch up on. Then again, the longer it is, the less likely people are to read it. We'll see though. Anyway, the reason I suddenly decided to start writing again is I'm reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road (loyal shakeer's blog readers will be thinking 'whoa shakeer, I thought you read that like last year, whats goin on man?!' Well loyal shakeer's blog reader, cool it. I started reading it earlier this year (and read about one half) but never got a chance to finish on account of all that school reading we get assigned. Geez. Cut me some slack, man. And its not like I can't read books more than once! I just finished reading Catcher in the Rye for the second time and it was just as enjoyable (maybe even more) this time around. I think I may turn that book into an annual tradition. Wow, I'm such a dork. But anyway, I'm reading On the Road for the Jesuit summer reading thing. So I have a reason. Other then the fact that book is amazing. Whatever, I've started reading it and I guess I've become inspired to write all over again. So I'm at work now, wasting my time writing this. I don't think I've done an entry on work yet so hey, I think I'll do that. I've probably already mentioned that I'm doing an internship at a webdesign firm in downtown. It's called PopArt. They basically are contracted out to make websites for various companies and organisations. It's a pretty small company (less than 20 employees) but some of their clients are somewhat high profile. My internship is in the programming / software engineering department and I mostly just do bitch programming work...the tedious easy work that none of the real programmers do. Also I get payed diddly squat. If you calculate my hourly wage, its something like $4. But I guess people don't do ASE for the money. Well obviously they don't. And I'm making it sound much worse than it is. It's been a pretty interesting experience. The whole corporate environment thing is interesting, to say the least. It's almost like a new culture. And the actual web development work, well I'm learning as I go and it's a pretty rewarding experience—seeing the end product of my toil. One thing that sucks is the temperature. The PopArt office complex is divided into two wings...the nicely decorated and furnished main wing and the production wing. The latter is quiet and boring. And because the roof has no insulation and we're on the top floor, the heat just bleeds straight through the tar and bakes us. The fact that our air conditioning is a piece of shit certainly doesn't help either. So its like about 95 degrees in here right now. Probably more. I'm not very good at estimating these things but pulling numbers out of the air like that gives you an air of legitimacy and wisdom. As does saying things like 'broadway and glisan'...or 'the corner of 3rd and stark' ...or 'across the street from the koreon grocer oN upper burnside'...it just makes me sound so...so cosmopolitan! Yeah. Yeah, I'm such a dork. Anyway, today is my birthday. I'm 17. No more trying to be badass and sneaking into R movies. Now I can brandish my ID with pride when I get carded at the movie theater (something that I prophesize will continue to happen for the next decade or so, judging by my growth rates). Maybe thats one reason I'm writing this. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Breakfast of Champions as a 50th birthday present for himself. This blog entry will be a 17th birthday present for me. Anyway, what else do I have to say? Last weekend I went to Seattle. In Seattle they have that Experience Music Project. That place is amazing. It's probably like the single awesomest place on earth. They had like drums and guitars and stuff that you could play and I like learned it all and stuff, it was fun. If you're in Seattle, check it out. Yesterday I saw the movie Ghost World. Great movie. Well maybe not awesome, but definately really good. I liked it. Nothing spectacular (I guess I was expecting a little too much of it) but I liked it alot nonetheless. Maybe one reason I didn't really get into it way too much was that I had this fuckin headache when I watched it. Caffeine withdrawl, I suspect. Thats what mom says. She won't let me take any headache medicine. Gotta build up a resistance for this sorta thing. Can't become immune to tylenol at such a young age. It's only a lousy headache. nuh uh mom it really hurts! but yeah. I'll make sure to watch it again. It was good. Also I went to Powells many a time in the past few weeks. Thats always cool. Its near where I work. Oh and I got my AP scores. A 5 on Calc and 2 on Chemistry. Just what I suspected. Blegh. Yeah, I can't think of anything else to say. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 09,August,2004 | today these random group of young men were talking about spiders and there was this random hot girl sitting near them and the girl sort of joined in on the discussion and one guy was describing this spider of particularly unbelievable size so the girl was wincing in fear and plugging her ears, jokingly of course, so the guy was like 'awww!' and then he totally just gave her this big hug and squeezed her i was like wow what a sleazy bastard you don't even know her i had an immediate dislike for the group of guys. they all seemed like assholes. assholes who wore matching flip flops and cutoff tees (or tank top, whatever they're called) and applied inordinate amounts of jell to their hair to preserve the neatly manufactured disorder they had spent who knows how many minutes that morning crafting. assholes bursting with opinions, opinions on everything. assholes willing to say anything and do anything just because they were insulated by their asshole group of friends. oh man, i certainly hope i never become that sort of person but yeah, sorry to digress, i actually wrote an entire essay on my ordeals on the max today in my head and transcribed bits of it in my moleskine but then i realized that it wasn't something that could effectively be put into words then i decided i needed to record it on tape beacuse alot of it would sound interesting but then i realized that if i recorded it, it wouldn't be as cool because without explanations, no one would recognize the signifance of whatever it was that i was recording. so then i deemed commentary neccesary, like a 'what i'm thinking in my head' thing but that doesn't really work with audio recordings so i decided decided that videos would be better since i could show everything in raw form but yeah, i always pick up very interestings bits of dialogue that i really wish i could somehow record like this woman who was walking around reading out loud an advertisement for a hotel or lodge of some sort from her head in the middle of the sidewalk to no one in particular later she went on and declared that she wasn't crazy and that everyone could think that she was but that she'd never sink down to their level and judge others like that and that perhaps by being crazy she was living up to everyone's expectations that killed me some smartass from behind me (i didn't catch sight of him) then decided to exclaim 'it's a free country!' but the woman continued on with her speech, walking back and forth on the MAX platform, oblivious to the stares and commentary this was truly a sight to see but back to the hot girl in the max. i wrote up a whole story in my head about how she was this slutty rich pampered girl who was riding the max for some reason today and how she got her kicks by finding and fucking random men that she met on the subway and how scattered and fragmented and unfulfilling her life was and how she lacked a conscience much of this i gathered from her conversations with these new 'friends' of her and others were from plain old stereotyping at one point the guys around her (there were like 5) began poking her like one would poke and tickle a child and quickly turn away so as to not let him/her know who the mysterious tickler was she seemed to enjoy the experience then at a later point the 5 guys pointed at this disheveled scruffy african american man a few seats back and made fun of him for his looks and demeanor. one said 'haha that one crazy nigger' or something in a fake imitative voice of some sort that i don't care to identify. i inadvertendly shot a glance back to identify the subject of their amusement and they caught me in the act addressing me, one of the more arrogant ones in the bunch asked if i agreed with their suppostions, 'hahaha this guy knows what we're talkin about, ain't that right?' i had no choice but to agree i felt sick |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 07,August,2004 | CONFIRM/DENY |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 06,August,2004 | Well, not the 'new' Elliot Smith album; rather, it's the future Elliott Smith album. You see, it isn't out yet. But I downloaded it last night from indietorrents.com (it was sweet, took like 2 minutes to download the entire thing) and I'm really loving it. I've only given it like 2 spins but so far I like it better than all his other albums. Anyway, I can't wait for it to actually come out. I'll probably purchase it, if only because I'm a tool. Allow me to explain. Elliott Smith died last year. He committed suicide. Well actually, I don't think his suicide was confirmed, there was some conflicting evidence or something that left unanswered questions. I'm not sure if that's been settled. But that's another story. For another time. So you see, before he died, he was working on this record 'From a Basement on the Hill' but sadly, he never completed it. Sadly, indeed. Anyway, the album was essentially all recorded but wasn't mixed and mastered and all that other business. Since his death though, some fine mixers and masterers have taken care of that and his family has okayed the release. It comes out it in October. Somehow though, versions of the album were leaked and as a consequence, his die-hard (no pun intended) fans began severely criticizing the pirates and filetraders who began downloading the album, accusing them of being graverobbers who were desecrating his name and disrespecting his legacy and the wishes of his family. Quite the bum rap. I don't really agree with what they're saying but I'm feeling pretty guilty nonetheless so I think I'll buy the album for good measure when it's released anyway. That's all I have to say. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 06,August,2004 | Yesterday I was on my way home from work in the pouring rain without my trusty Seattle Times (I have no idea where we got it, my family has never lived in Seattle) umbrella and I was strolling down the street where the Max blue line runs westward (the north side of pioneer place)), the name escapes me. This is next to the Courthouse, the portion of our humble town where that disproportionate number of jewel-studded punks hang out near that perpetually-overflowing fountain with the brass beaver in it or something, and I'm always a tad bit frightened when I pass here since the punks have a tendency to yell crude insults at the people walking by (I think I've been subject to a racist remark once and earlier this week, I heard one of them yell up 'fat goth bitch!' at this young woman walking in front of me. I know fat people and I can tell you that the target in question was hardly fat.). I don't know why this particular area fills me with fright because I'm always walking around alone in the Pearl or in Chinatown without the slightest smidgen of concern but this area I usually try to get through as fast as I can. In any case, none of the punks were in sight yesterday, probably on account of the inclement weather. As I was rushing towards pioneer square to find some shelter while I awaited the Max, I saw this particularly hip-looking couple right ahead of me. The male half of the party had the cookie-cutter scenester pastel retro shirt and tight neatly-pressed jeans, topped off with thick glasses and overgrown hair. The female half had fashionably short hair with a wide nonelastic Audrey Hepburn-style print headband, an unseasonable old-school ski vest, and a knee-length skirt of a modern cut. Both were sporting the sort of hipster attire fairly common in our nothing-short-of-hip town these days. They looked like any other high school couple, out for a splendid afternoon on the town. I didn't pay too much interest. Later though, as we were all huddling under the banister adjacent to Starbucks to escape the rain, I got a better look at the couple. Turns out, they weren't a couple at all. The girl wasn't a girl at all. She was like a woman in her mid 60s. The guy was still like 15. So it wasn't a hip couple, it was a kid, escorting his grandmother around the town. Thing is, even upon closer inspection, it became apparant that she she was indeed dressed like your typical record store clerk or fine arts major. My point? This, my fashion-forward highschool friends, is the danger that you must be ever vigilant against, particularly as it relates to 'retro' fashion. Bear in mind that when you decide to revive a fashion trend, particularly in an ironic manner, there will still be people who wear that fashion, unironically, as though it had never ceased to be current. The mullet is a particularly most salient case in point here. You see, when you decide to grow an ironic mullet, you run the risk of either offending, or even more dangerous, impressing, people with straight-faced mullets. This is why I personally have elected to revive the monocle. That was pretty much the purpose of me telling this entire pointless story. You see, there aren't a lot of people alive anymore who had them, and the ones who did probably have interesting stories. Now I just need to find one. Any suggestions? |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 06,August,2004 | Okay, I lied. I didn't go to the mountains. I didn't even go on vacation! I'm such a bad liar. Come to think of it though, I did sort of go to some mountains today. Sort of. You see, I went to a store that has mountains as its logo. Patagonia. It was cool. I picked up some fancy literature and a bumper sticker. The clothes themselves were much too expensive (but cool nonetheless) so I just picked up their schwag. It's stuff about voting. Or something. I didn't read it, I just picked it up. Yeah, I was at the Ecotrust building in the Pearl. I had some pizza. And breadsticks. Very good pizza. Even better breadsticks. I also picked up a brochure for the Time Based Art festival that PICA is putting it on. PopArt gets free tickets because we're a sponsor and I was pretty interested until I found out that unlike what I expected, it wasn't an art show featuring interesting time-based art. Instead, it's some stupid fancypants festival thing with like music and drama and shit in the streets. Pretty lame, huh? Yeah. So I'm definately not going to that. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 06,August,2004 | Hello friends, just when you thought I had once again left you in the dark about upcoming concerts in the greater metropolitan Portland area, I'm here to bring you another one, fresh off the presses! Death Cab for Cutie , They Might be Giants , and Pedro the Lion will be playing at the waterfront this coming Friday. It kind of sucks because that's also the day Kerry may be visiting Portland for some unannounced public rally. And Bush too, possibly. Crazy, huh! It's also my last day at work. But yeah, Death Cab for Cutie is awesome. Probably one of the coolest bands out there right now. They'll be worth the ticket alone. Pedro the Lion is pretty cool too, I wanted to see them like a month or two ago but it was at a bar or something so I couldn't attend. They Might be Giants, yeah, they're alright, I dunno, they'll probably be cool. And stuff. There are some other bands performing before them but they're mostly just local contest-winners and I probably won't be able to make it anyway. But yeah, 3 great bands over the span of 5 hours for five bucks. 'FIVE BUCKS?!' Yep, five bucks. You have no reason not to go. I mean Death Cab for Cutie for five bucks! They're also going to be touring with Pearl Jam and R.E.M. and stuff for the Vote for Change tour that goes to a bunch of battleground states to get people to vote or something. That isn't coming here. Bastards. But yeah, I was gonna see them with the Pixies in September but that's like labor day weekend and it's in Bend so it might get complicated. I also want to go to Bumbershoot in Seattle (like a gajillion bands ranging from shit like Nickelback to well, the Pixies themselves and also other cool stuff like Harvey Pekar, of American Splendor fame) that weekend but ehh, we'll see. Anyway, yeah, that's Bite of Oregon. Pink Martini will perform the next day at the Bite of Oregon. That might be cool. It probably will be. They were at the Crystal Ballroom last month for a Kerry benefit concert. The Friday after that is Mr. David Byrne , formerly of the Talking Heads! Now the Talking Heads is like one of the coolest band of the 80s (Life During Wartime was my favorite song of all time for all of this week) and David Byrne, although old and stuff, will probably still be amazing. I hope he plays SOME Talking Heads though, not just his solo stuff although I probably shouldn't judge any of his solo stuff on account of the fact that I haven't heard it. But it probably ain't as good as the Talking Heads. Anyway, it should be good. It's at the Zoo. That'll be interesting. Also: that night Mogwai , Rapture , and Cursive are performing at the Roseland but I mean fuck that, David Byrne is where it's at. Oh and if you didn't catch Mr. Art Alexakis at prom (like me!) this year or at the last John Kerry rally butchering 'Brown Eyed Girl' (yeah, I dunno wtf he was doing there) or Flugtag (ok, he's a loser who needs to find better things to do), you can catch him at Dante's that Saturday (8/21). Oh but wait. You're under 21 and can't get into Dante's. Sucker! So unless you've got a fake ID, you'll have to settle for the urlLink Antique Roadshow Tour at the Convention Center. ok, I admit, my fascination with that show may drive me to actually go there. Anyway, then the next big night is the Friday of Labor Day Weekend. That night, Portland is treated to The Unicorns and Ben Kweller at the Roseland. The Unicorns are awesome. Jawsome, one might even say. Well their first album was last year (or was it the year before?) but their new EP is kinda lame. Really lame in fact. But their first album was liek woah. So that should be awesome. And it'll top off the first week of school, so that's cool. And stuff. Oh and Ben Kweller is cool too. He was featured in the Jesuit paper (yep, people actually read that, and not just if they quickly scanned it and found their own or their friends' names in it) so read that I suppose. Anyway, that Saturday is THE PIXIES ! In Bend. I'd love to go but it's like in Bend. After that, My Chemical Romance is coming to the Roseland on Sunday. Go if you're into that sort of thing. I certainly am not. The next week you have Hilary Duff at the Rose Garden on Wednesday the 8th. 'nuff said. But screw that. You might want to go (if you're Gus) but save your money for that coming weekend. It's urlLink MUSICFEST NW ! Lots of venues. Lots of bands. Shuttle buses. Festival prices. Bands stuck out (for me at least): Built to Spill (they're a great band, I'm not a HUGE FAN but I like them nonetheless), The Decemberists (cool band, AMAZING live), and Xiu Xiu (haven't heard too much of them but have liked what I've heard). But there's more, from all sorts of backgrounds and styles. Check out that site. It's not just rock, it's all kinds of music. Thus the name. And then, to top off a great month for music here in Portland, FRANZ FERDINAND is stopping by at the Roseland! I shit you not, Franz FUCKING Ferdinand themselves! Yep. It will be awesome. And it will sell out faster than, well faster than something that would ordinarily sell out slower than Franz Ferdinand will. Which is pretty fast, if I may say so myself. So make sure you get tickets early! That wraps up September. That's all for now folks! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | urlLink Hiss.aif |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | There is a travelling dodgeball tournament coming to Portland on August 21st! And yes, I am playing. I'm putting together a team, so if you want in, give me a holler. Right now we've got Me, Sean, Charlie, Pat Schneider, and Danielle Towne (If we play in the co-ed league, haha sorry danielle). It should be amazing! We have to practice though, because we're going to kick ass! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 04,August,2004 | Napoleon Dynamite is opening at Tigard Cinemas tomorrow! Why am I so excited, you ask? Napoleon Dynamite is the flippin sweetest movie ever! DUH! Seriously, If you have not seen this movie you have got to. IT IS AMAZING! I pooped my pants twice during the movie. Yea, twice! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 04,August,2004 | urlLink MISUNDERESTIMATED , a brand new politics-dedicated blog from the people who have brought you whatever this blog is being called this week. We've already got quite a few posts going there. Make sure to read urlLink this post for a better introduction to the blog and then join in on the fun! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 04,August,2004 | It's the book I have to read for the schoolwide summer reading thing. I've only read like a third of it and already I have to say: it's well set to claim the coveted title of 'shakeer's favorite book ever'. But don't take my word for it, read the book! Or if you haven't the time to do that, read the following excerpts. And if you haven't the time to do that , MAKE the time. My favorite passages yet far: Then he told me how Dean had met Camille. Roy Johnson, the poolhall boy, had found her in a bar and took her to a hotel; pride taking over his sense, he invited the whole gang to come up and see her. Everybody sat around talking with Camille. Dean did nothing but look out the window. Then when everybody left, Dean merely looked at Camille, pointed at his wrist, made the sign 'four' (meaning he'd be-back at four), and went out. At three the door was locked to-Roy Johnson. At four it was opened to Dean. **** Dean and I are embarked on a tremendous season together. We're trying to communicate with absolute honesty and absolute completeness everything on our minds. We've had to take benzedrine. We sit on the bed, crosslegged, facing each other. I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races. I go with him. He jumps and yells, excited. You know, Sal, Dean is really hung-up on things like that. **** My moments in Denver were coming to an end, I could feel it when I walked her home, on the way back I stretched out on the grass of an old church with a bunch of hobos, and their talk made me want to get back on that road. Every now and then one would get up and hit a passer-by for a dime. They talked of harvests moving north. It was warm and soft. I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk-real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotive howling off to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further. **** 'What's your road, man? -holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.' **** We each had a bedroom, and there was a kitchenette with food in the icebox, and a huge living room where Major sat in his silk dressing gown composing his latest Hemingwayan short story-a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real life confronted him sweetly in the night. He sat like that at his desk, and I jumped around over the thick soft rug, wearing only my chino pants. He'd just written a story about a guy who comes to Denver for the first time. His name is Phil. His traveling companion is a mysterious and quiet fellow called Sam. Phil goes out to dig Denver and gets hung-up with arty types. He comes back to the hotel room. Lugubriously he says, 'Sam, they're here too.' And Sam is just looking out the window sadly. 'Yes,' says Sam, 'I know.' And the point was that Sam didn't have to go and look to know this. The arty types were all over America, sucking up its blood. Major and I were great pals; he thought I was the farthest thing from an arty type. Major liked good wines, just like Hemingway. He reminisced about his recent trip to France. 'Ah, Sal, if you could sit with me high in the Basque country with a cool bottle of Poignon Dix-neuf, then you'd know there are other things besides boxcars.' 'I know that. It's just that I love boxcars and I love to read the names on them like Missouri Pacific, Great Northern, Rock Island Line. By Gad, Major, if I could tell you everything that happened to me hitching here.' Okay, enough self-indulgence. I just had to share. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 03,August,2004 | He was riding a bicycle out of a bank building. In the rain. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 03,August,2004 | This was submited by a rising star in the blogging community, Danielle Towne. Observe the genius that flows from her words. If viewers enjoy her entry she may become the newest addition to The Knights of Portlandalot! I was strolling down the aisles of Target today when all of a sudden the craziest thing happened. I saw this poor little girl with this giant grin on her face tugging a giant blue beanie chair down each and every aisle. She scooted along with tremendous authority. And her nametag gleamed with a golden touch flashing Kat-tay (her parents were German monks and thus added a dash in the center of her name). I found the feathers on my back fluster as my lips curled together. This girl was headed for the children's underwear section which contained my famed 'My Little Pony' underwear- And I say my because yes- it is my underwear. Although I found myself intimidated and at a slight sweat I marched down the aisle, following the damn blue beanie. I tediously spat in that poor little girls face and dashed in an Eastward direction as I grabbed the last pair of 'My Little Pony' underwear flashing my knife. You could say I was on Napolean's victory march but no- I was too late, my plan was thwarted when a man dressed in a giant Osama costume (im afraid of those muslims) stepped outward and planted his fist between my pair of squinting brown eyes (I didn't have my contacts in) and I was thrown backward with a tumultuous thud as I landed in the Malibu Barbie meets GI Joe section. You can imagine the pain I felt at that moment.- that's when the Target police came dressed in white with a splattered red target on the front and I felt the handcuffs go on. Lets just say my actions hadn't been on 'target' that day. P.S. Don't be offended by the Muslim comment- if you agree its offensive then agree to disagree. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 03,August,2004 | Rye-dizzle, a reader of the blog sent in this delightful creation known as Dub-Unit. Like G-Unit. Peace out! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 03,August,2004 | Can someone, anyone, please tell me why we sent a probe to Mercury today? Space exploration is really Narwhale but its not like the probe is gonna pull a Columbus and accidentally find something on the way to one of the least interesting planets in the solar system. .....or will it? How sweet would it be to find some aliens? Really nice aliens that are stupid and can be easily enslaved. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,August,2004 | We are becoming more and more dependent on foreign oil, a slave to foreign oil some say. We'll always need to import some, but we can do so much better than we are now. Our economy doesn't have to be their bitch, and its not just a matter of our economy. This dependence has caused just about every brouhaha over there in the Middle East. There are alternatives in our own backyard, but don't tell that to Cheney the Oil Pimp, he needs to stack his cheese. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,August,2004 | For all you politically inclined peeps out there... |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 02,August,2004 | I created what i believe to be the single most offensive image ever. All the major religions are covered here. If you feel left out because you dont see your religion included in this amazing work of art, have no fear. You were offended just as much as the others by not even being considered, so dont be jealous. If this makes you mad then please leave a comment! Who knew MS Paint could be so controversial? P.S. - to clear up some confusion, the penis is not Osama Bin Laden, it is the Prophet Muhammad, shiza. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,August,2004 | Disclaimer: The views, opinions, and ideas expressed in the herein advertisement are solely those of bushin30seconds.org and do not express the views or policies of The Knights of Portlandalot or its officers, affiliates and assignees. The Knights of Portlandalot do not endorse or accept any responsibility for the comments contained in the aforementioned advertisement. But pretty much all of us agree 100%. |
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688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,August,2004 | As you can see, the blog title has been changed to celebrate this great kingdom which we live in and will someday rule. While we know much about our own kingdom of Portlandalot i dont think were up to snuff when it comes to understanding the Nether-regions of our flat, 300 mile wide rectangle of the known world. Who would have known the world animal is the Beaver? Its true these fanged beasts roam the netherswamps but rarely enter our kingdom. Our world fish is the Chinook Salmon and the world shell is the Oregon hairy triton, certainly a shell worthy of Poseidon himself. It makes me wonder however, what is the shell of other far off landlocked worlds such as Wyoming? The peanut shell perhaps. Our world mushroom is the Pacific golden chanterelle, a favorite of the local wizardry community. Our world drink is of course Milk, the sweet bovine nectar of life. Yes this world is certainly full of mystery and ours for the taking once we crush the surrounding barbarian tribes of Hillsboria, Gresham upon Avon, and the southern rival forces of Kulongoski the Terrible. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,August,2004 | Today I went to a garage sale and purchased me five records: two Eagles albums, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water , this album called The Super Smash Songs of the Sixties which is actually just 10 assorted Beatles tracks, and a Chicago album (yeah, I dunno). It all cost 50 cents. Thing is, I don't really have a record player to listen to these records with. All I can do is take them out of their sleeves and inspect them for imperfections. Granted, I don't know what I'm looking for but it's still pretty cool. They're all dusty and musty. I can also read the covers. It's fun but the amusement only goes so far. So if you've got an old record player that you don't care for anymore, I'll be willing to relieve you of it. I did some searching at local thriftshops for one but found nothing that suited my taste (basically, one that works). So please contact me if you have a record player that you're willing to sell. Anyway, most of this has just been a setup to say what I really wanted to say: I just listened to the Simon and Garunkel song The Sound of Silence like 20 times in a row. The only other track that's ever reached that high for consecutive spins is Neil Young's My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue). That had like 30-40 over the course of like two days. Crazy, yeah I know. But now you know too. Nothing else of note happened today. Well wait. Today I was sitting at the kitchen table inspecting the Sunday Oregonian and fiddling with a can of Diet Coke in my right hand when suddenly the can burst. I think I was shaking it then I squeezed it because it suddenly had a gaping hole in its side and the contents were rushing out of it like, like, well like something that would ordinarily have its contents rushing out of it in a more spectacular fashion then you'd normally expect for the contents of a Diet Coke can to be rushing out in. It took me like a half hour to clean it all up. Oh and Mr. David Byrne of the Talking Heads will be performing at the Zoo on the 20th. I expect to go but I'm not going to make any definite declarations until I have the tickets in my hand. Also: Franz Ferinand is coming to Portland in late September. urlLink Read all about it here . Anyway, I hope Franz Ferdinand doesn't sell out too quickly but I have a feeling they may. It's too bad. (I'm talking about the concert lol) |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,August,2004 | A few days ago though, I made a prediction. Anticipating a horrible dissapointment on the scale of 'omg the aliens invading this planet thats comprised of 60% water actually fuck'n disentegrate in water!!', I made a predication about how lame this ending would be. Completely in jest, I guessed that in the end, we'd discover that the 'monsters' terrorizing the village weren't monsters at all. They were modern day people and this village was some crazy blast-from-the-past village stuck in the middle of modern society. Well. It turns out, that's pretty much what happens. Yep. Now don't get angry at me for spoiling the movie because I assure you, I'm doing you a favor. I haven't seen the movie yet myself, I just got a plot summary from a someone who knows someone who did. The former was Brian Seo, so please make sure to thank him for making this public service announcement possible. The latter, well I don't know who he is, but let's just say he wasn't as lucky as the rest of us. Fortunately, we can honor his sacrifice by all not watching this movie. So yeah, as I said, I was right. Almost dead-on. And I was totally joking when I made my prediction. Apparantly, what happens is there's these rich people who are fed up with soceity because they've all had violent unjustified deaths in their families. So what do they decide to do? They decide to spent their money in constructing a village. In the middle of the forest. Also, for some reason, they decide to have this village set in the 1890s. Slowly the village grows and they have kids and stuff. To ensure that the kids don't leave the village, they dress up in monster suits and circulate stories and lore about what lies beyond the forest. They even bribe air traffic controllers to insure that airplanes won't fly over the village because that might cause the kids to inquire about what these peculiar flying contraptions are (since these kids born in a village thats apparantly set in the 1890s would somehow be able to figure out that airplanes don't belong in the time period that's being recreated here). They also carry around these secret black boxes that contain mysterious contents. In the end, we learn that they contain cell phones that are hooked up to the village's secret PA system. Anyway, the movie is about this villager getting stabbed. They need to send someone out to retrieve medicine and dressings from the outside world (apparantly the billionaires didn't think of keeping some neccesary medical supplies when they decided to transport themselves a century backwards for no reason) so what do they do? They send a blind girl. The blind girl ventures out into the real world, meets M. Night Shymalan and comes back with the medicine. She never figures out whats going on. No one does. Yeah, ****ed up, huh? I'm not joking. That's actually what happens. I hope you don't watch it now. But man, it sucks, we brown people finally had a shot at credibility in Hollywood and suddenly this guy blows it. Now all our hope is riding on the shoulders of one stoner from New Jersey. Kal Penn, DO NOT LET US DOWN! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 01,August,2004 | They are an extremely rare occurrence, but FATTY attacks do happen. You never know when you might unexpectedly find yourself face to face with a FATTY. Most FATTY encounters do not result in an attack, but precautions should be taken just the same. It is better to be prepared, than to be left defenseless. When confronted with a FATTY, try to determine whether it is a black FATTY or a grizzly FATTY, this will direct your plan of defense. If you are able, stop, quickly and quietly back off and walk away from the animal, talking in a low tone the entire time. If it is a female with cubs nearby, try not to come between them, as this will only upset the female and make her more likely to attack. If the FATTY is a grizzly, you should try to find a tall tree to climb, and get as high up as possible. Although it is not known as a climber, never underestimate the abilities of a FATTY. If you startle a grizzly, and it attacks without warning, your best option is to play dead. One possible position to take would be to lie face down, hands clasped behind the neck, and legs spread apart. Keep your backpack on, if you have one, as it will provide extra protection to your body. The clasped hands will protect your neck from bites, and the spread legs will prevent the FATTY from rolling you over. Another position to take would require you to lie in a fetal position with your hands clasped behind your neck. In either position, you should remain perfectly still, without making a sound, and wait until the FATTY has left the area before getting up. If the FATTY is a black FATTY, do not climb a tree. Black fatties are excellent climbers, and your efforts will be in vain. You must fight back as hard as you can, your life will depend on it. You must fight because a black FATTY only attacks if it is starving, injured, or somehow provoked, and will fight with a vengeance. Playing dead or climbing a tree will not stop these types of attacks. Another option for warding off an attack is to use FATTY spray or pepper spray. However, this option should only be used as a last resort. The effectiveness of pepper spray cannot be guaranteed in this sort of situation. Air horns are also an option, although you must be prepared in case this tactic does not work. Okay, so I just wrote this entry by replacing the word bear in urlLink thisl article with the word fatty but I assure you, the threat is very much real. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 06,August,2004 | Sorry to be posting all these silly links and stuff but this one, I assure you, is really funny. It's worth the download. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | urlLink http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5625378/ urlLink http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040806_1606.html urlLink http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/bush.legacy/ Hmm, isn't Mr. Bush a 3rd generation Yale graduate? And doesn't his daughter go there? Then again, maybe Mr. Bush was just recruited by the university for his superb cheerleading skills: But yeah, I agree with him. I hope he pursues that stance and wasn't just saying it to impress the minority reporters that he was addressing. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | The July employment numbers wre released today. Select your poison: urlLink http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128209,00.html urlLink http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/business/06CND-ECON.html urlLink http://www.iht.com/articles/532875.html Looks like payroll growth was alarmingly weak this month. Now I'm not saying that this is all Bush's fault but it looks like Bush's plan to create jobs by handing out tax cuts isn't faring so well. He still seems convinced so though: 'Because of my policy of strengthening the economy while enforcing spending discipline in Washington, we remain on pace to reduce the deficit by half in the next five years.' ( urlLink http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127678,00.html ) Hmm, I don't see how permanent tax cuts, insanely high spending, and weak job growth is going to reduce the deficit. I mean seriously, reducing your source of income and increasing spending do not go well together. Seriously, economically-speaking, the Bush administration has been one of the most liberal administrations in recent history. They're almost too liberal for my taste! Addendum: By the way, Bush's quote was 'We're turning a corner and we're not turning back'. Kind of similar to something another great President said not too long aog: 'prosperity is just around the corner'. That President was Herbert Hoover and he made that statement during the Great Depression. He was the last President in history to preside over a net job loss. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | Hey officer. Sorry I just fatally hit that old woman while speeding with my SUV. I was on my way to deliver this fresh batch of cookies to the post office. I'm sending them to the troops. I support the troops. What's that? You're arresting me? But officer! You can't arrest me, what about the troops? You INSIST that I step out of the car? That'a outrageous, officer! I'll bet you're French. If you're not French, I'll bet you've been to France. AND YOU LIKED IT THERE! Odds are you like Michael Moore as well (Michael Moore is a socialist pig!). I am reporting you to your supervisor for sympathizing with terrorists, officer. That's basically what you're doing. By not letting me get to the post office, you're depriving the troops of the goods they need to defeat terrorists and A-rabs. How could you?! I know the problem! You're a liberal, aren't you? The downfall of our country. You should be ashamed! Now let me pass, or the terrorists and gays have won! That's right officer. Just go back in your car and pretend this never happened. You may have let someone that has broken the law go, but you're supporting the troops! God bless you, officer! I'll get these, uhm, cookies to the post office right away! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | That was our Commander in Chief, addressing a number of Pentagon officials earlier today, at a defense appropriations bill signing ceremony. Immature, yes, I know, but hey, maybe Bush is finally confessing to the Valerie Plame scandal! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | (click the title) Man, Matt Drudge is such a douchebag. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | What has America come to when perverted religious teachings have infiltrated the state constitutions of the United States? Recently, Missouri passed an amendment to their constitution banning gay marriage. In November a measure will be on the Oregon ballot attempting to ban gay marriage. With 60% of Americans favoring a constitutional amendment this will be pass easily. WHAT THE FUCK! How could 60% of Americans favor limiting the rights of their fellow citizens. What is wrong with gay marriage? I'll tell you what Americans don't like about it: the bible condemns homosexuality. People feel that they need to subject the rest of our country with their religious views. The last time I checked the Constitution of the United States of America said that Church and State would not mix. This has got to be the most blatant violation to our constitution I have ever seen. We cannot allow a 2000 year old book dictate the way we live. People have used the bible to protect slavery, and in the 60s some states banned interracial marriage citing the bible as their guiding light. How foolish Americans will feel in 50 years when we look back at our homophobic actions. Text books will describe how one president even tried to pass an amendment banning gay marriage. As an American, I have learned that every person is born with certain inalienable rights, and that everyone should be able to exercise them. And, today, Americans are trying to stop their fellow citizens from doing so. 'The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.' -H.L. Mencken |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | (click the title) (as of August 5th) That's a really interesting site that, instead of viewing polls in terms of the popular vote, breaks them state by state to display them in the way that matters: at the electoral college. According to their projects, Kerry is beating Bush by 70 votes in the electoral college. As you can see though, most of the states Bush has are states that he's holding on to very strongly. He's 'strong' in all of them. I think whats going on is that, by adopting such a conservative agenda, Bush is bringing out lots of new voters. Problem is: he's bringing these votes out in the conservative strongholds. He's doing nothing but strengthening and solidifying his base, which can be a good thing for fundraising and campaigning but when it comes to the vote and when it comes to the electoral college, that won't help him. In this country, elections are decided by a select number of swing voters in a select number of states. Those voters don't really care about flip-flopping and all that other mud the Bush campaign is throwing Kerry's way. Unlike conservative voters, who might come out in droves if there are ammendments and initiatives banning same-sex marriage, Bush's increasingly rightist agenda doesn't appeal to them. But that issue still may be a factor since it'll bring out a number of extra conservatives voters who feel really passionately about the issue. Many people seem to neither oppose nor support gay marriage. They just don't care. They'd rather have it but they probably won't come out to the polls to ensure it happens. Many of those who are against it are pretty vehemently against it and WILL come out to vote. That means more votes for Bush. Or maybe I'm just stereotyping and have no idea what I'm talking about. If that's the case, I'll just shut up and direct everyone at this urlLink state-by-state breakdown of a much more important issue . |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | Look at the sucka Republicans put up to try and bring down Democratic rising-star/juggernaut/heartthrob Barack Obama: Hmm, I wonder why they picked this man. HMMM. He ain't winnin' nuthin'. I pity the foo who tries to bring down the Obaminator! The last two suckas who tried got owned. But seriously, I've heard some pretty impressive stuff about Alan Keyes. Apparantly, he's a master debater (lol) so that ought to be interesting. He's also supposed to be a master election-loser and I hope he decides to utilize that skill in losing his race with Obama. At least this shows that the RNC recognizes the threat Obama will pose to them in the future and has dispatched a somewhat formidable opponent to match him. Now I just hope Obama doesn't dissapoint this early in his career. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | I do and I think it's pretty entertaining. And informative. And interesting. How about you folks? |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | This post will hopefully be a continuation of Sean's post on the other blog. Sean Major posted this intellectually stimulating and artistically genius comic that he himself drew: Mr. Major explained his masterpiece by explaining how he had pictured the US as 'a slave to foreign oil some say'. He understood that the US would always need to import some oil but reasoned that the American 'economy doesn't have to be their bitch'. He went on to explain how the dependence was not just economic and stipulated that the 'dependence has caused just about every brouhaha over there in the Middle East'. As a possible alternative, he pointed at oil reserves in 'our own backyard' but noted that this sort of an observation wouldn't sit well with 'Cheney the Oil Pimp', due to the fact that Mr. Cheney would need 'to stack his cheese'. The discussion took off from there. Ryan Moran engaged Mr. Major in tempered political discourse, addressing him as 'Sean, you liberal piece of crap' and demanding more clarification about 'what kind of fucking alternatives to foreign oil' existed. He then correlated Sean's lack of clarity with the trouble the Democratic party is often cited as having in truly understanding 'the issue before making a stand'. Mr. Moran continued his scathing indictment with the hope that Mr. Major would be able to wrap 'fat head around' the broader complexities of the issue. At this point, Gus Jewell stepped in noted his agreement with Mr. Major's arguments, not that he had a 'good point'. He explained that while he agreed the Saudi royal family should not 'the American people for profits', he went on to state his dissaproval for Mr. Major and Mr. Moran's suggestion of using 'depleting limited oil reserves in Alaska', especially considering the fact that said reserves 'only contain enough oil to sustain the United States for 6 months'. He then offered other alternative energy proposals, including but not limited to hydrogen power and hybrid cars. Mr. Jewell also made note of Mr. Major's obvious skill in drawing penises which lead Mr. Major to promptly explain that they are 'pretty easy to draw once you get the hang of it'. He also doubted Mr. Jewell's '6 months' claim, suggesting that more reserach and investment would yield more positive information. Mr. Jewell then argued that domestic wildlife reserves should be preserved for as long as is possible, suggesting that we first exhaust Middle Eastern oil sources and than consider alternative fuel sources before choosing to endanger the environment. Domestic oil, he explained, would hardly solve the problem and soon the nation would once again find itself depending on foregin oil if domestic sources were exhausted. H At this point, Shakeer Rahman joined the discussion and began by pointlessly declaring that he had 'missed out on all the action'. He then made a candid note of his distress over the fact that the first thing people were considering when brainstorming over 'alternative fuel sources' were drilling oil in different places. Instead he suggested that the focus be shifted to true alternative sources such as 'wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen cells, whatever'. He agreed with Mr. Major and Mr. Jewell's argument that the nation was becoming too dependant on foreign oil and in particular, the Saudi Royal family. He backed up this claim with a few statistics about the extent of the Saudi Royal family's investment in the United States but the validity of these statistics has yet to be confirmed. Mr. Rahman then shifted the focus of the discussion to oil refineries and explained that refineries were where oil usually got bottlenecked and blamed rising oil prices on refineries, making note of the fact that OPEC oil production was at a 25-year high. He even made note of the fact that 'the Saudis have offered to build refineries' in the United States. No one has yet been able to figure out why he felt it neccesary to make note of this fact. He then made the more relevant observation that the royal family 'offered to lower the price of oil around election season to help Bush win', promptly adding 'I'm not even joking'. Afterwards, Mr. Rahman attempted to discredit all his arguments by noting that he was 'more distressed about the power that energy companies have' than he was about 'the power that foreign nations have'. His arguments, designed to charge up the debate, ending up doing nothing but boring everybody. The post stood still for a few days before Mr. Rahman decided to post one more time. This time, he made note of Mr. Dick Cheney's recent allegations that Democractic Presendential hopefuls John Kerry and John Edwards were to blame for rising oil prices. He continued with the following quip: 'apparantly at a time when the Republican party controls the White House, both Houses of Congress, and have greater ties to oil companies than any other administration in recent history, it's two Democrats that are to blame for hindering their plans'. One would imagine that Mr. Rahman took great pleasure in this joke of his. This has yet to be confirmed. Let's try and continue this debate in the Comments section of this post. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/opinion/03krug.html (you need to be registered on nytimes in order ot see that. it's free.) The following is a very interesting article that, as the titles obviously implies, disseminates the widely-held and long-standing belief that the American media has some kind of huge Leftist slant. It's by Paul Krugman, an economist and writer for the New York Times. Reading the Script By PAUL KRUGMAN, August 3, 2004 A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good to see ourselves as others see us. I've been finding The Daily Howler's concept of a media 'script,' a story line that shapes coverage, often in the teeth of the evidence, particularly helpful in understanding cable news. For example, last summer, when growth briefly broke into a gallop, cable news decided that the economy was booming. The gallop soon slowed to a trot, and then to a walk. But judging from the mail I recently got after writing about the slowing economy, the script never changed; many readers angrily insisted that my numbers disagreed with everything they had seen on TV. If you really want to see cable news scripts in action, look at the coverage of the Democratic convention. Commercial broadcast TV covered only one hour a night. We'll see whether the Republicans get equal treatment. C-Span, on the other hand, provided comprehensive, commentary-free coverage. But many people watched the convention on cable news channels - and what they saw was shaped by a script portraying Democrats as angry Bush-haters who disdain the military. If that sounds like a script written by the Republicans, it is. As the movie 'Outfoxed' makes clear, Fox News is for all practical purposes a G.O.P. propaganda agency. A now-famous poll showed that Fox viewers were more likely than those who get their news elsewhere to believe that evidence of Saddam-Qaeda links has been found, that W.M.D. had been located and that most of the world supported the Iraq war. CNN used to be different, but Campaign Desk, which is run by The Columbia Journalism Review, concluded after reviewing convention coverage that CNN 'has stooped to slavish imitation of Fox's most dubious ploys and policies.' Seconds after John Kerry's speech, CNN gave Ed Gillespie, the Republican Party's chairman, the opportunity to bash the candidate. Will Terry McAuliffe be given the same opportunity right after President Bush speaks? Commentators worked hard to spin scenes that didn't fit the script. Some simply saw what they wanted to see. On Fox, Michael Barone asserted that conventioneers cheered when Mr. Kerry criticized President Bush but were silent when he called for military strength. Check out the video clips at Media Matters; there was tumultuous cheering when Mr. Kerry talked about a strong America. Another technique, pervasive on both Fox and CNN, was to echo Republican claims of an 'extreme makeover' - the assertion that what viewers were seeing wasn't the true face of the party. (Apparently all those admirals, generals and decorated veterans were ringers.) It will probably be easier to make a comparable case in New York, where the Republicans are expected to feature an array of moderate, pro-choice speakers and keep Rick Santorum and Tom DeLay under wraps. But in Boston, it took creativity to portray the delegates as being out of the mainstream. For example, Bill Schneider at CNN claimed that according to a New York Times/CBS News poll, 75 percent of the delegates favor 'abortion on demand' - which exaggerated the poll's real finding, which is that 75 percent opposed stricter limits than we now have. But the real power of a script is the way it can retroactively change the story about what happened. On Thursday night, Mr. Kerry's speech was a palpable hit. A focus group organized by Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, found it impressive and persuasive. Even pro-Bush commentators conceded, at first, that it had gone over well. But a terrorism alert is already blotting out memories of last week. Although there is now a long history of alerts with remarkably convenient political timing, and Tom Ridge politicized the announcement by using the occasion to praise 'the president's leadership in the war against terror,' this one may be based on real information. Regardless, it gives the usual suspects a breathing space; once calm returns, don't be surprised if some of those same commentators begin describing the ineffective speech they expected (and hoped) to see, not the one they actually saw. Luckily, in this age of the Internet it's possible to bypass the filter. At c-span.org, you can find transcripts and videos of all the speeches. I'd urge everyone to watch Mr. Kerry and others for yourself, and make your own judgment. Oh and hello and welcome to the new blog. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 05,August,2004 | Hi my name is Shakeer. Recognizing the need to shift divisive political content away from my own beloved blog, me, and a few other veterans of my blog, have decided to establish a politics-dedicated blog of our own. I've had this idea for quite a while (in fact, I first made urlLink misunderestimated.blogspot.com in November of 2000) but just never felt that anybody really cared or was interested in what people like me had to say about politics and current events (very much unlike how EVERYONE just loves and adores what I have to say on my blog about myself). Recent political posts on the other blog have indicated otherwise. Consequently, I decided to revitalise this old blog. I'm hoping that this blog will ofer not only a channel for us to share information on issues we feel very passionately about but will also become a forum for discussion and sensible debate. In order for the latter to work though, we need your help. We've just begun and in order for this to be succesful, we need people such as yourself to post comments and join in. So please do. Please leave comments and discuss with us. Make sure to tell us who you are when leaving comments though. We wouldn't want to find ourselves debating paper tigers (Gus tends to do that alot). Whatever a paper tiger is. Also, if you're interested in writing here, please shoot me an email (my address is shakeer(at)gmail.com) or just find and speak to me. Thanks! And enjoy. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 09,August,2004 | After the Bush campaign demanded an answer from Kerry about his vote for war in Iraq, he responded that he would, but 'would have done this very differently than President Bush has.' He continued by asking a few questions of Bush, according to CNN.com: 'My question to President Bush is why did he rush to war without a plan to win the peace?' Kerry asked. 'Why did he rush to war on faulty intelligence and not do the hard work necessary to give America the truth? Why did he mislead America about how he would go to war? Why has he not brought other countries to the table in order to support American troops in the way that we deserve it and relieve a pressure from the American people?' Well I have a few questions for Kerry as well. Why did Kerry give Bush war powers without hearing a plan to return sovereignty to Iraq and restore the country? Why did Kerry (as well as other Senators simply accept the intelegence they were handed, especially in light of the September 11 intelligence failures? Finally, why did he approve a plan that was bound to cause an uproar in the Middle East and was largely criticized by many countries and US allies? While I'd like to hear Bush answer the questions directed at him, it would be interesting to hear Kerry respond to a few of mine. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | Today Alan Keyes succesfully seized 13% of total posts on the Misunderestimated blog newswire and effectively established himself as the most posted-about topic. The shift came after Misunderestimed chief editor Shakeer Rahman decided to post a third topic on the twice-unsuccesful candidate for President and Senator of Maryland, his home state. The post came after Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert released his endorsement Mr. Keyes, as urlLink related by the Times : 'I spent five weeks trying to find good people,' said Mr. Hastert, who said he approached state legislators and the former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka and Gary Fencik, an Ivy Leaguer who was a hard-hitting safety. 'I got down into last week interviewing a 70-year-old guy who was a great farm broadcaster in Illinois,' Mr. Hastert said. 'He decided because of his health problems he couldn't do it. You know, we were down we needed to find somebody to run, somebody who wanted to run. And, you know, Alan Keyes wants to run, and I hope he's a good candidate.' I'm glad his own party feels so passionately about his candidacy. Of course, I don't blame them, judging by Mr. Keyes' own foolishness and hypocracy, as typified by urlLink this statement he made four years ago about Hilary Clinton running for Senatorial office in a state she'd never resided in: 'I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.' Of course, the Illinois Republican party had a statement ready to counterbalance this argument. According to a Republican party official in Illinois (sorry, I don't have a precise quote, I heard it on the radio), the reason that Mr. Keyes had changed his mind was that of all things, 9/11 had changed everything and that considering the current political climate, such a decision was acceptable. 9/11, yeah, that makes sense. Especially considering that one of the deciding factors for Keyes was Obama's stance on urlLink abortion issues . Yeah, we all know how 9/11 changed the way people view the issue of abortion. On the other hand, Mr. Keyes did have some other personal convictions in choosing to run against Obama: 'I'll tell you by the time I got through the records, I was convinced that somebody had to run against Barack Obama.' 'I must leave the land of my forefathers [i.e., Maryland] in order to defend the land of my spirit, of my conscience and my heart -- and I believe that that land is Illinois.' Uhh yeah, that makes sense. Not really congruent with his earlier statement that he was running despite ' urlLink a strong personal resistance '. But yeah Mr. Keyes, whatever you say! |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | Fox News is officially my news station of choice. Why? Of course, their obvious conservative filtering and Republican spinning of the propaganda they consider news appeals to my desire to be lied to. Hah! Yeah Right! I actually do enjoy watching the O'Reiley Factor, but comparatively there are few hot women on his show. Yes, I said it. I love watching Fox news because it has the hottest newscasters in the world. Seriously check it out, they're babes. |
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688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | I am honored to add my first post to this amzing blog full of insight and talent. I am also pleased to announce the beggining of a new dimension of blogging (if it works). I will bring to the table extensive knowledge of the American political system, my credentials surpassed only by my savvy. I have recently met with some of the key players in our government as well as prominent figures in the American political scene to discuss the status and ramifications of current policy and politics. Names such as Sen. Chuck Hagel, Terry McAuliffe (DNC chairman), Dennis Van Roekel (VP of the NEA), Ron Nessen (Ford's press secretary), Paul V. Kelly (Assistant Sec. of State), Rep. Darlene Hooley (Majority of us are in her district), and Gov. Ted Kulongowski. Yes, some I heard speak, others met personally, one I introduced to a group before a speech. So, while I have stories to tell about them, they aren't even the top sources from who I have gained political knowledge and expertise (though the most famous). Anyway, I am liberal- but I play devil's advocate very well, if only for the sake of argument. So with that, I feel I have much to add in the coming election year and beyond. I am called to report my opinions and ideas to this blog, not for my own ego, (though that laundry list of politicans was kinda egotistical) but rather because it is my duty. My duty to the blogging community, to ignorant Democrats and fire-breathing Republicans, and to America at large. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that I announce; this is Jack Arriaga 'Reporting... for duty' (I also enjoy puns, sarcasm, and irony in my writing) |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | In the past few months, liberals across the board have been tricking the American people into believing that their jobs are heading over-seas. They site examples such as Microsoft, and Fujifilm. These are two companies in the tech market, and they do happen to be moving jobs out of the US. The former is a US company that has never seemed to care for the welfare of the American people, putting out a poor product, with horribly exposed security mechanisms, and the later is not a US company, hence the name Fuji, a mountain in Japan. The thing is, Fujifilm outsourced jobs from Japan in the late 1970s to the Pacific Northwest. They are now exploring other options in areas such as Southern India. Now, to say that this is an epidemic is out and out lying. Having spoken personally to Karen Czarnecki, the Director of the 21st Century Workforce, I can say that the US is experiencing a huge influx of foreign companies moving their businesses into the country. Most of this is happening in the automotive industry. Examples include a recently opened Mercedes-Benz Plant in Alabama, a new Toyota factory in Mississippi, and a Honda warehousing unit in Ohio. Each of these installations offers thousands of jobs to the local area. Other counter examples to outsourcing include Delta Airlines and its movement of 1,000 jobs to India in 2003. Most people would say this is outsourcing of American jobs, but few know that by doing this, Delta saved $25 Million and was able to offer 1,200 jobs to Americans. Its a net gain, but the liberals only want you to see the first side. Between 1995 and 2002, manufacturing jobs decreased 11% in the US, while in China, the most industrious manufacturing nation in the world, there was a net decrease of 15% (16% in Japan). This is caused by the 10-30% decrease in the cost to consumers. These companies need to look to other sources of work to be able to offer those prices to their customers. The Washington Post describes Kerrys attacks on the Bush Administrations control of outsourcing: One of the first TV ads of the Kerry-Edwards Democratic ticket promises to focus attention on Bush administration policies that the campaign said allow and even encourage companies to ship American jobs to overseas markets, but economists argue the accusation is nothing more than political posturing. The Bush Administration did not cause outsourcing; it was an eventual end to an increasingly growing problem. And many studies have found that its effects were actually positive. After McKinsey Global Institute perfomed a study on the issue, it found that for every dollar spent on outsourcing by the US in 2002, the total value derived by the global economy was between $1.40-1.47. Now, 78 per cent of this was retained in the US, in the form of lower costs to consumers. That means that the US actually benefits from outsourcing, in the form of lower prices and increased income retention. People are spending less money to get the goods they want, and the companies are saving money, and in some cases using it to offer more Americans higher paying jobs. I simply cannot understand what is so wrong with this economic process. Maybe John Kerry doesnt want the US to do well, maybe that is why he helped to vote down the nearly 30 bills sent to Congress to limit outsourcing. One interesting point about this issue, and probably a problem for the Kerry camp, if ever he wins the election, is the fact that no anti-outsourcing legislation has ever passed the Senate. Even if he were to pass such legislation, it would most likely be illegal, and cumbersome at that. It most certainly would not agree with the World Trade Organization regulations, and therefore, could not function. A word of advice, Mr. Kerry, dont make promises you cant fulfill. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | I think the black guy is going to win. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | This is an official press release: This actually has never happened before, but we are going to invite Jimmy on to the blogging team after only a couple of comments. I'm sorry to those of you who have waited your whole lives to write for Misunderestimated, but Jimmy has shown promise and he will bring his sarcastic-conservative-liberal views to the table. May the blog be with you. |
688,869 | male | 17 | LawEnforcement-Security | Cancer | 08,August,2004 | Well, its been a long time coming. Actually its only been about two nights, but it seems like a long time. Guys, I present to you a new age in blogging. Dueling blogs. Yes, you heard right. I am introducing an alternative sister-blog to this very one. It goes by the post-title's namesake and hence ties itself to this blog. Visit it (click the title). Post comments. Marvel at the color change. And most importantly, open your mind to the 'NEW HOTNESS!' Oh, and by the way, I am also introducing myself as a new contributing member of the site. I will be the site's resident conservative so that we can truly fulfill the 'balanced' portion of our site's description. Anyways, this is gonna get interesting, so I would stay tuned, or connected, or whatever. That's enough for me today, so...Goodnight guys. |
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