New Day

I was reading over some past blogs, and I must say, there has been a general theme of mean-spiritedness. I think it's time for a change. The last election taught me that we who care about the country are truly helpless and ignored. So I'm gonna take a break from my rantings about society for a while.
This past Sunday was a very beautiful fall day. Went out and threw the frisbee and baseball around with my girl and my mutt. We had a great time. Then hiked around through the woods. I then figured that I'd build a fire pit out back. It was a bit more ambitious an undertaking than I originally thought and I am far from finished. But I sure am sore! It will be well worth it when I'm done.
In the evening we went and saw an old friend play in a band in Denton. Denton is really cool and it is sad to see that it will soon be swallowed up by the voracious appetite of suburban sprawl. (sorry, old habits are hard to break)
Anyway, my friend and I were really close at one time, but we haven't been friends really in several years. It was kinda sad seeing him. His band(s) are doing better than any of the other peer/band folks that I've known over the years, so I'm really happy for him.
I decided not to continue working at the Mental Health Network. It's too far away. I was not told during the interview that it would be a temp job and that left a bad taste in my mouth. It also involved quite the pay cut. I think I'll continue working at home and seek part-time employment at this kick ass book store here called Half-Price Books. They are hiring. I'm heading over there now. When I establish residency, I plan on going back to school. Maybe now that I've seen how much I've really wasted my college education, I'll be far more motivated to do well. Plus, public tuition is pretty cheap here.

Alvin, Simon und Theodore

Christmas, Christmas time is here, time for horrors and time for fear...

It's that time of year again, folks! Buy, Buy, Buy!!! Consume!!! The horrors of massive Big Dumb Trucks, cruising around full of pre-fab, Chinese-made merchandise terrorizing the streets. All in the name of fearing Christ. Ye shall attend services on Christmas Eve and pray to the Lord in your 4000 seat mega-church complete with gift shop and Starbucks.

Dear Lord,
Please tell me how to further enrich myself. I pray that the women and faggots that I hate will bend to thy will. And please keep the troops in Iraq, so that my Big Dumb Truck's gas tank will perpetually runneth over. And God bless Dick & W, and may they and their ilk rule forever.
Amen

Yes, amen!

Artestament

Did you all see the Indiana Pacers vs. Detroit Pistons game this past Friday? I did. I was at the Lakewood Landing drinkin' beers and kickin' my biyatchie's ass at pool at the time. These players (I don't know their names, and you know what, who gives a fuck, they're fuckin' basketball players for the love of Christ!) rushed into the stands and beat the livin' hell outta some fans. Since then, I've watched a few news programs about this incident. The best was this local Dallas transmission. One of the newscasters said something to the effect of "where was security?" "the fans were in the wrong" and finished with the astounding, "there's plenty of blame to go around for this incident." There's plenty of blame to go around!? What?! I know this is the age of W and all, but fucking Christ!, the blame rests squarely and soley upon the shoulders of the players who ran into the stands and started swinging! How in the world could a thinking and responsible individual with any modicum of common fucking sense see it any other way!? Apparently not the powers that be in the NBA. The players involved received penalties of anywhere from 5 game suspensions to 30 game suspensions. Give me a fucking break! Is this the message we send to the youngsters who worship these assholes? I guess so. As Dick and W would surely attest, in America in 2004, you don't have to take responsibility for your actions. If you are in a postition where your very existence pays others an enormous sum of money, you can do whatever the fuck you want.
We're in trouble folks.
God bless America.

A Funny Thing Happened

Today when I was at the grocery, I was walking across the parking lot and I saw a blue jeep with the sign Silly Boys, Jeeps Are For Girls on the windshield. Pasted under the driver's side windshield wiper was a piece of yellow legal paper upon which someone had written, If you are the girl with the boots on, I think you're hot! and left two phone numbers. I stopped to read both and who should come walking up, but the girl with the boots on. She sure wasn't hot, but she was pretty friendly. She asked me if I was reading her Jeep, still unaware that someone had left her a little booty-call note. I said that I thought it was funny. Then while I was walking down the sidewalk she pulls up and says Hi! I quickly realized that she mistakenly thought that it was I who had left her the note! I stammered, It wasn't me! and embarrassed the shit outta the poor woman. I could barely contain my laughter as she drove away. I'm sure she could see me in her rearview mirror. Oh well. Silly girl.

Michael Powell E-Mail

Following is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Michael Powell. You can e-mail him from www.fcc.gov.

Mr. Powell:
I am interested in your thoughts regarding the fact that you are playing up to the old white fear of the black man polluting the pure-as-driven-snow white woman that is the true basis for the controversy surrounding the Monday Night Football intro. I thank you in advance for your written response.

Bloggin' Fool!

I did not see the intro to ABC's Monday Night Football on, you guessed it, Monday night, but I did watch a re-broadcast just moments ago. My my, but quite an uproar has resulted!
Now, what is so upsetting about it, as far as Billy Blog Bob can tell, and, like the Super Bowl Halftime show, is that it is just so fuckin' stooooopid.
The execs at ABC TV decided that it would be super cool if they took the fake-titted, much- plasticized and white Nicolette Sheridan (sic?, who cares) and had her "disrobe" and jump into the arms of a very popular, arrogant, wealthy black athlete who functions at a borderline level of intelligence, thereby creating a scintillating tie-in for the show Desperate Housewives.
Offended: yes. Offensive: not even.
The irony of the ensuing controversy is that Mr. Michael Powell, chairman of the FCC and offspring of Colin Powell during his pre-neutered days, seemingly fails to note that race is the motivating factor behind the uproar. Michael Powell is black, kinda, and he is speaking out about the indecency of this intro and fueling the fire of the old white fear of a black man taking the pure-as-driven-snow white woman and polluting her.
Although it's rare, those execs at ABC have created a brilliant advertising EVENT and are busy whackin' off over all of the free publicity that is being generated for their show. I don't know about you, but I cannot wait to see this Desperate Housewives show!

Chicago

Yeah!!!
The rockin' part of Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away makes me wanna bang my head, dance and sing!
Good Listenin'!

I completely forgot to "Blog This", but on Saturday I saw my congressman, Mr. Pete Sessions, at the local Subway at lunch time. He was with whom I presume to be his wife and a little retarded boy. Anyway, I gotta say, he was a down-to-Earth and seemingly sincere man. He was very friendly to everyone. It was funny, because he was wearing some Sears-purchased sweat pants and some torn up old New Balances. He must be rich, right? I would think so. I was dippin' on his conversations with all of the red-faced ass kissers when I heard him say that he beat his opponent, Mr. Martin Frost, and he couldn't believe it because Mr. Frost was a man that came at him with four million dollars. Bear in mind that I was kinda hungover and emboldened by my state of still-drunkenness, so I asked him if the quasi-legal redrawing of the congressional districts wasn't worth a lot more than four million dollars to his campaign. He looked at me and replied that he felt that the redistricting was legal and that he felt that it would be found so by the Texas State Supreme Court and that he was thankful for it's benefit to him. Well, at least half of his response wasn't bullshit. Will I vote for him in four years? Assuming that I'm still in this land of Red and Honey at that time, FUCK NO, but I did like the guy.

Oh No!

Condoleeza Rice has been named as General Colin Powell's replacement. Do you know what W said as he introduced Condi as Powell's replacement? He said that she will be the "face of America" to the rest of the world. Well, I don't know about yins, but we here at Billy Blog Bob don't believe that the face of America should be one of a troglodytic, sexless little shrew who lies her ass off, but in red-faced America, that's just what we'll get.
And we still won't get anyone with balls!!!

A New Direction = Victory!

What's all this I've been reading about it being time for the Democrats to start learning how to communicate with and more closely resemble the right-wing whacked-out nutjobs? We wanna be like the Evangelical Christians?! The fucking neocon hawks?! So, I need to start hating gays, mandating that women should succumb to my stone-aged vision of reproductive rights, advocate abstinence-based sex education, reject 100 years of scientific research and throw out Darwin's proven Theory of Evolution? I need to accept the rollback of thirty years of progress on the environment so that Dick's secret energy program can chug along whilst spewing ever-increasing amounts of filth into the air?

Jesus Fucking Christ on a Gottdam Hot Dog Stick!!!

I can think of one word and one word only.
Pathetic.

Where is My Spine?

I see that Colin Powell has decided to resign as Secretary of State. I used to think that Mr. Powell was the only man possessing any level of integrity in Dick & W's cabinet. All of that went out the window on that fateful day when Colin went to the U.N. and lied his black ass off. Many accounts I read at that time described how Mr. Powell was extremely upset with some of the bullshit that he would be slinging that day and made it known to members of his staff in private. His opinions and recommendations on how to proceed with the War on Terror were continually rebuffed and ridiculed by Dick, Rummy and Condi. This man, who was the first black commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served in the armed forces for thirty five years, had been reduced to a eunuch. Colin had no spine and was humiliated and defeated by the red-faced whacked-out nutjobs in the Defense Department and on Dick's staff. I'm sure that he could have resigned much earlier, made a statement and did the right thing. This is the man who stated during the Gulf War that capturing Saddam Hussein was unnecessary and that invading Iraq would lead to years of bloody occupation of that country. Turned out the old boy had hit the nail on the head. Colin Powell served our country admirably for decades, but in the end, he did us a great disservice by cowering in the face of the neocons' push for this bullshit war. I say good riddance.

The Oncoming Onslaught

From a discussion with a "values voter", heretofore to be referred to as "ignorance voter", on Saturday night.

Me: I was stunned and shocked by the election results. All the information is out there right in front of everyone's faces, no WMDs, no Al-Qaeda connection, the CBO has found that the newly-projected $3 trillion budget deficit is the result of Dick & W's tax cuts for the wealthy and the war in Iraq and proof that Dick, W, Condi, Rummy and the ball-less Colin lied about the war 237 times.

Ignorance Voter: You know that there are WMDs in Iraq, they found mustard gas.

Me, completely aghast!: Where did you hear that?! Who told you that?!

Ignorance Voter: I heard it somewhere.

Me: Seriously, where the fuck did you hear that!? I really wanna know!

Ignorance Voter: You know, on the news.

Me: You mean Fox News?

Ignorance Voter, laughs: No, just, you know, on the news.

Check this out, the following facts were drawn from exit polls of Dick & W supporters:

72% still believe that there were WMD's in Iraq.
75% believe that Iraq was providing substantial support for Al Qaeda.
66% believe that Bush supports participation in the International Criminal Court.
72% believe that he supports the treaty banning land mines.

The discussion continues with another ignorance voter:

IV: I just don't think that you should change horses mid stream during this war in Iraq. (I swear to Christ, she actually said that) What do you think? (a foolish question, that this ignorance voter and myself, both later regretted being posed)

Me, slurring pretty badly at this point: I figure as long as we can protect the sanctity of that all-hallowed institution of marriage 50 percent of the time and tell a woman what she can do with her own body 100 percent of the time, then slaughtering 100,000 people is alright by me!

IV: You're an asshole.

And what I didn't reply, thankfully: Yep, I guess I am, but you're stupid.

Day Two of Doom

It's the second day of the coming apocalypse. I have been trying to not watch the news or read the paper. It only makes me depressed and angry. This morning, however, I couldn't resist. Some interesting tidbits from some of the new senators that were elected who will run freely in the next four years, from the New York Times:

- Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.

- John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.

- Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."

The fifty percent of us who are sane are in serious trouble folks. These red-faced, completely whacked-out nutjobs are in total control of you and me.
A quick look at the calendar says that it is 2004, but it sure looks a helluva lot more like 1954 out there.
I hereby intend to stay away from the "news" for a while. Talk about a nation divided by fear, terrorism hasn't got a thing on these psychos!

Dark Days Ahead

Well, it's all over. John Kerry called Dick and W to let them know that he was conceding the race about a half an hour ago. I must say that I am truly disturbed. This really says a lot about our country. We here at Billy Blog Bob sincerely believe that American society and culture is on a serious downward trajectory. This election (this isn't a re-election, remember, which is interesting, perhaps Dick and W will be able to get RE-ELECTED in 2008 because they weren't elected in 2000!) is quite telling. Americans don't mind being lied to, repeatedly. There is a growing attitude that no one is responsible for their own actions, an attitude that Dick and W definitely embody. We are a sheep-like people, who do not think, dissect information or question anything, more of Dick and Ws' hallmarks. And while we do not believe that we have to admit mistakes or question our own behavior, it is our sincere belief that we have the right to tell someone else what they can watch, hear or see. It is our inalienable right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body. We are stupidly sanctimonious enough to tell another person whom they should be allowed to marry. The American people have no problem passing on an enormous and ever-expanding debt to future generations for $300 fucking dollars and a stupid war. Ah, yes, the war. The meek won't inherit the Earth, they will be fucking killed! Why? Because the meek sit on a huge pile of disappearing gold, Texas Tea, that we consume in our Big Dumb Trucks.
Get outta my way!
Give me more!
God Bless America!
All of this homoerotic, cowboy struttin' around is only gonna get worse.
To all of you who voted for this fucking idiot and the rest of his administration, Billy Blog Bob thanks you.

More Whacked-Out Nutjobs

Here's a good quote:

... at some point, dealing with these people is going to require taking steps that the American people are going to have to be prepared for, and they're not going to be easy steps. They're going to be brutal. I'm talking about we are going to have to exercise some very, very brutal, take some very, very brutal military steps. We're going to have to maybe use more than just conventional weapons on these people. You know, it's like trying to wipe out cockroaches with Raid.

- Rush Limbaugh, on his website, referring to residents of Fallujah.

I've been reading about intimidation tactics used by the red-faced W freaks all day to suppress minority votes. One story told of a kid in Toledo, OH who had to go to court to verify his voter registration address this past Saturday. Apparently an officer at the University of Toledo's college Republicans challenged his registration on the basis of his name. This guy's name was Jermaine, so this bitch decided correctly that he is black and attempted to keep him away from the voting booth tomorrow by forcing him to spend what was probably several hours in court correcting the problem. Nice.
If anyone attempts to fuck with me tomorrow, I'll publish a full report here. Whereas W will certainly carry the state, the Martin Frost/Pete Sessions race is tight and very important so there undoubtedly will be some shananigans.