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That’s right, I did it. I came at the right weight, but since I didn’t have my clothes on at MEPS, I am 2 pounds under. I weighed myself the next day (clothes on like usual) and have found that I lose 36 pounds instead of just 35.

My recruiter says I can lift weights again…it’s quite a change. Here I was watching my weight, now I can’t weigh myself. Here I was watching my diet, now I’m packing protein down my throat.

Someone told me about a lot of supplements and tricks, so I’m going to try them. I wanted to stay away from those, to grow my own muscles naturally, but then I remembered that boot is in a couple months and I don’t really have time to take it slow.

My uncle also told me about a great way to work out:
Day 1: cardio. Do 30 minutes, but every 10 minutes switch to something else, with the last 10 minutes being cool-down.
Day 2: upper body. Go for 30 minutes. Do 5 sets of 5 reps per muscle group.
Day 3: cardio (same breakdown as day 1, but try new cardio stuff if you can)
Day 4: lower body. 30 minutes, 5 sets of 5 reps per muscle group.
Repeat, taking one day off for rest.

He brought up a good point: which has a better body, a short distance runner or a long distance one? In case you were like me and didn’t know, here are a couple pictures for you:

Sprinters: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ContentResources/610.$plit/C_17_photogallery_173_list_photo_list_photo_item_2_photo.jpg

Cross-country runners:
http://silverhigh.com/athletics/crosscountry/run.jpg


Since it worked for my uncle, I’m going to try it since we share genetics. Maybe the rest of you will want to try it, too?

This is a long entry, and it talks about how I feel. If you aren't into touchy-feely faggotry (and I don't blame you, I'm just venting and don't actually expect anyone to want to read any of this bs), then please avert your eyes.

I guess I'm going to go draw. The server at work just went down, which means that I'm writing this knowing full well that I can only post it after the server comes up.

This has been an overall crappy day...erm, crappy few days, actually. Sure, I'm making some progress with things like my website, but other things are just pulling me down. I don't feel good physically OR mentally. Physically, I feel drained, light-headed, and somewhat dizzy. This is because (or I THINK it's because) I gave blood but continued to exercise (I exercised only after the alloted time, I didn't just give blood and then go run 50 miles or anything). My heart beats very fast and I breathe really fast while exercising, and so I have to take frequent breaks. I felt fine after I gave blood, usually I get a little dizzy and kind of woozy, but because I am much healthier and drinking way more water now than previous blood-donation times, I had no recovery time.

Or so I thought.

I felt good the day I gave blood, and felt good the next day until I did yoga. I got very light-headed, moreso than I anticipated, and ended up sitting out more than usual (I usually don't sit out at all). Yesterday and today, I feel very dehydrated. I've been drinking more water and juice, but I feel really dehydrated. My eyes, skin, lips, mouth, and throat are all dry, no matter how much water I consume. The sides of my mouth are painfully dry, and there's what I guess is dry skin on my upper lip but it feels more like some kind of scar. I've been itching in a few places, my neck and upper arm, and have been getting rashes (one itchy rash on my upper arm and on my neck, one non-itchy rash on my thigh). I don't know what's going on, but I'm pissed all the same. The insides of my ears are also itchy.

Mentally, I'm depressed. I am angry because I'm depressed, angry in the "fed up" sense. I hear a kid and normally I think it's cute how naive they are and how unnecessarily loud they can be, but now I just want to hit them (kids come in sometimes at work with their parents). I feel awful. I think it's stress, but I don't know. I don't get paid until Friday, but had bills to pay yesterday and one's due tomorrow, so both will be late payments. Great. I also am leaving on vacation, but I have to drive for 12-18 hours, which isn't a big deal except I've been do tired after giving blood that I don't know how I'll do. I have a flight to catch, too, so I really have to watch the time it takes to drive so I can make it to my flight on time. I have to drive back up to my house to make the flight. Whoop-dee-do. And who do I get to visit? Where is this flight to? Across 3 time zones to visit my dad. My dad...oh boy, my dad. I wanted to see him before I left for boot, considering the fact that if I get REALLY unlucky, it could be the last chance I have to see him. So here I am, leaving to visit him, paying $450 freakin' bucks to visit him, none of which he will give me. Did I mention he hasn't seen me in years, but filed me as a dependant? Thanks dad, you just sucked $700 out of my tax return, LOVE YOU TOO. Bastard. So I don't know how I'm going to visit him with a happy face. The way I talk about him, he sounds like a sleeze bag dead-beat, but he lives in a very nice neighborhood with a nice house and a nice car and he works for either the city or state as a building inspector with a great reputation. He's also a wonder with the ladies because he's all smooth and looks like Tom Selleck (both with and without the mustashe). Awesome. My dad is a player. Well, he was until he got married. I got nothing against my step-mom, I don't know her enough to have an opinion about her either way. My siblings got to know her more than I did, and they say she's awful, very mean and suspicious and all that wonderful crap. Awesome. How the hell am I supposed to talk to the guy? He's caused me so much heartache over the years. He's never raped us, never hurt us (although he did throw my sister and brother against the wall for jumping on the bed when his ironed clothes were on there...God, I want to punch him in the stomach everytime I think about that, it gets me so freakin' pissed), he's just never been there. Since my parents divorce (caused by my father's wonderful ability with the ladies...aka, he cheated on my mom for 11 of the 12 years they were married), he said that he'd still see us, that he still loves us but that mom and him just aren't getting along. Fine. I never blamed the divorce on me anyway, I knew what happened. We moved up to the Pacific Northwest while he stayed in California, and that's when all the crap happened. He visited us ONLY ONCE in the entire 10 or 11 years that we've been living here, and you know why? COURT DATE. He came over to make a court date. And the court date he was trying to make was to get out of child support. I don't know why he even showed up, he was always so good at avoiding child support. He'd quit his job, and then get a new one. And when child support found him, he'd quit that job and find a new one just so he wouldn't have to pay. Real upstanding citizen. Did I mention he doesn't drink or gamble? That he wears suits to work and is a great and respected worker? You'd never guess that this guy would be a dick. Nice as pie to strangers, and he seems a little whipped by his new wife, but he's a rat bastard to me and my sister and my brother.

I wanted to put this all behind me. I did. I TRIED. I told myself that it was about time I started talking to my father, so after about 2 years of not speaking with him, I called him (this was about 4 or 5 years ago). I told him I missed him, and that I'd forgive him for all the crap he did, I just wanted to communicate with him. He said he was sorry and wanted to talk to us, that he missed us, that his life wasn't complete and that a day didn't go by that he didn't think about us. Okay, great, we're on the same page.
Then he stops returning my emails.
Then he stops returning my calls.
Awesome.

The reason I didn't let it bother me too much is because I never really had a connection with my father. He wasn't there when they were married, he wasn't there when they were divorced. My sister, on the other hand, was daddy's girl, and my brother needed our father because he needed a male role model. He really hurt them. He crushed my sister. He crushed my brother (luckily, we have a great step-dad, and my brother is finally looking to him as a father). And I want to beat my father for that. I love my siblings so much, and even though I'm angry I'm not crushed. He crushed them. He really did, you could see it in their eyes. Sure, I cried when he lied to us, too (he's a big fan of saying he sent us presents for Christmas and birthdays, but he never, ever does. I keep telling him that it's okay if he doesn't send them, but he shouldn't LIE to us and say he did. He says that he planned on sending stuff, but then says that he ran out of money...did I mention he and his wife pull about $100,000 a year?), but it never affected me like it did them.

This all courses through my brain whenever I think about him, and now I'm going to VISIT the guy. You all know me, I'm confrontational. I want to know the answers, and I want them now, and I won't put up with any crap. Yet I know that if I bring it up, I'll be miserable staying there. I know that if I don't bring it up, it'll keep stewing. I'm not sure what to do. I have tried bringing this up to him SO MANY TIMES. Online, he says that I should call him, that it's more appropriate to talk to the person. And when I call, he gets so pissed, blames everything wrong he does on my faulty perception, and yells at me until I just hang up the phone because I don't need or want to hear his bs. Damnit. I get so pissed when I think about him and his retarded ways.

The plane ticket is non-refundable, too.

There's more, but most of you know that I'm a very private person and I feel that this is more than enough to share, so just know that there's more that pains me more than what I've mentioned that I also have to think about, stress over, and be depressed about.

I guess it's not DEPRESSION, per se. It's more like...like a quiet anger. I'm mad as hell, but I'm not saying anything because as I said, I'm at work, and that just wouldn't be very professional to break everything in sight and to yell and scream and storm off.

Since most of you reading this are my real-life friends and thus live where I do, I’m going to tell you about a great place called Luciano’s. They have excellent coffee, and their sugar-free flavors actually don’t suck balls. It tastes very good, like it’s not even sugar-free. This is good for all you Atkins fans, or people trying to cut down on your sugar intake…you know who you are :)

Anyway, yeah, just wanted to relay the message to you despite the fact that most of you do not drink coffee. :(

Realized I haven't updated in a while.

Nothing really special is going on. Sucking it up in my strength of materials class. I don't know why, I just don't like studying...sucks balls. I always say "I'll do it" and then I never do >:[

Still doing the Marines thing, still losing weight but hit a rut where I've been exercising every other day. I even ate half a chocolate chip cookie and a piece of a spider roll (deep fried soft shell crab) and a small bite of a chocolate-mint stick. That probably sounds pretty tame, but you have to remember that I did NONE of that all April. I even have had 2 sugar-free nonfat coffee frappucinos (coffee light frappucinos) which I also stayed away from all of April. It just feels like I'm losing focus, it sucks.


Took a test:

what flavor pocky are you?

[c] sugardew

As most or all of you know, I'm joining the Marines. I decided to make a site about my progress. I happened to have two driver's license photos on me and they show some progress, so I posted them: http://www.freepgs.com/beamarine/photos.html

I think the most annoying thing in the world are people who call other people hypocrites, but are doing the exact behavior that they hate.

Case in point: Morgan is mad at the Lippls. She says that they feel like they're better and smarter than anyone else, and she hates that. She also hates how they joke behind her back.


So, of course, the logical and rational thing to do would be to refuse to apologize for her rudeness, to refuse to listen to an explination instead of flying off the handle because of assumptions she made (basically, refusing to admit that she's wrong...another thing she hates about the Lippls), and then to block them from her LJ but still talk about them behind their backs (and it ain't jokes, it's pretty mean, arrogant stuff). In a sense, she's saying that she's too good for the Lippls because they joke that they're better than anyone else.

I still think it's funny that she says things to them and they shrug it off, but if they say the same to her, she blocks them and shuts them out of her life for a month.

I have nothing against Morgan, but damn, she's being awfully mean to my friends. She's being too emotional, and that's causing people to get hurt.

Maybe I should start using this more as a journal or something. I don't know. One of the Lippls was complaining that my journals are always long and I don't update enough. Cry me a river.

After having some talk about religion, Morgan apparently wanted to know if I wrote about her. There you go, Morgan, just wrote about you :)

Birthday coming up this Saturday. You're all welcome to send me money and presents.

Decided to get a BA in English, so I applied for my AA so I can go to some 4 year college and get that dumb degree. I figure I'll go through boot first, that way I can:
1. say I'm a Marine
2. have them pay for school
3. not have to worry about gaining weight (read: I can lift weights again)
4. there really was a 4th reason but I forget.

I still have to tell my dad. My step-dad knows, but my real dad doesn't. I wonder what he'll say.

Now I get to go run. Oh, and Hadleigh, again, sorry about jacking your 300 PFT paper. I thought you were handing it to me like you handed me all those books :D

I always wondered why straight women draw metal bikini armor. I mean, I've done it, too. I think (and this is just a total stab-in-the-dark-came-up-with-it-just-now kind of thing) the reason might be because we've seen it so many times before and, let's face it, it's sexier to see women's skin than a woman in full plate (unless you like that kind of thing). And because women are still used in the media for the sole purpose of sex appeal, we're used to seeing women as sexy, and seeing them drawn sexy, posed sexy, with sexy clothing on. I think it that we start to believe that it looks weird if a woman is dressed PRACTICALLY instead of sexy. I've been called a prude so much because of how I dress, but at the same time, I still drew lots of sexy women in sexy poses with sexy clothes (or no clothes). It's expected, it's what everyone sees and what everyone comes to accept. No one wants to draw UGLY people, and it's so easy to turn a woman ugly: just put more clothes on her. That's what we're accustomed to, anyway. A woman who has dignity is a tease or a prude, and dignity is usually associated with how you dress. No one wants a tease or prude (or so we're told, my boyfriend loves the fact that I'm modest), so no one wants to look at one, thus no one wants to draw one, and then you get the impractical of impracticalities: the armored bikini.

I dunno, just a thought. We're not all slaves to this idea, and we're not unable of giving up the idea (I LIKE drawing ugly people sometimes).

This was originally titled: "'My Solution To Our Troops' or 'My Solution To Overcrowded Prison'" but I thought the one I went with was funnier.

Two things were mentioned around the same time, so my brain linked them and I have the best idea ever. What were the two things?

1. We need more soldiers.
2. We need less prisoners.

I know, I don't have to spell it out for you, but please, lemme do it. Okay, thanks. Here, I'll keep it in bullet form so it's easier for you to read. Here's why it's a good idea:

1. No one likes sending innocent men and women to die in foreign wars that a lot of people didn't agree with in the first place.
2. No one likes prisoners not dying.
3. No one wants a draft.

Yeah, it's pretty short of a list.

Some of you may think "You can just SIGN people up for war, what about their rights?" but you are forgetting that when you commit a crime, you have pretty much waived all your rights (except your Miranda rights, but you have the right to waive that, too...I guess that's really two rights right there).

Some of you may think "I don't want some crazy murderer given a gun." That's the dumbest thing I've heard. Those ARE the people you give guns to in wartime! Who better to kill enemies without remorse than a guy who's already done it to civilians IN HIS FREE TIME? Yeah, exactly.

Finally, we can solve the homeless problem by putting them in some kind of special forces to supplement the Prison Military. I don't think we'd have a lot of homeless people, though. There are so many things setup so that people don't have to be on the street that most of the homeless people would turn to those places. I mean, we know that they're on the street because they're lazy and want to make a quick buck, and the last thing a lazy, greedy person wants to do is join the military.

Why it would give America peace of mind:

1. The prisoners would FINALLY be paying back their debt to society.
2. There would be no need for a draft as we'd have plenty of meat-shields.
3. Our tax money would be going to something we support.
4. If someone complains about not having cable TV, they get to do push-ups while getting loudly made fun of, and probably kicked.
5. They'll get some much-needed discipline.
6. If they die in battle, WHO CARES? They rape, murder, and steal...if anyone is more deserving to die, throw them in combat, too.
7. Since their rights are stripped away anyway, they won't notice the difference in the military.
8. Prison sympathizers won't complain that the guys are getting sub-par food, clothing, conditions, and medical care...and I think rape occurs a lot less in the military than in prison.

Some may be thinking: "Then they serve in the military and now are buff, murderous machines released to the public. Then what?" Then nothing. They won't be released.

Some of you may be thinking: "SP, you sure used a lot of lists in this post." You're right. It's because:
1. I'm awesome.

So...I realize that I may not have updated you guys on the gay porn I gave my brother.

He opened the porn, saw that it was porn. I'll put his dialogue in caps. He wasn't yelling or anything...just to differentiate.

"WHAT IS THIS?"
"You know...you're a guy..."
"WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW PORN ON THE COMPUTER?"
"Gosh, I dunno."
"EXACTLY."
We paused.
"MAYBE RONNIE'S LITTLE BROTHER WANTS IT. I CAN SELL IT FOR 20 BUCKS."

I didn't tell him anything, in case he wanted to watch it.

The next day:
"HERE, RONNIE'S LITTLE BROTHER ISN'T AS BIG A PERVERT AS I THOUGHT."
"You didn't even watch it?"
"NO."

At this point, I told him what it was. I couldn't let the joke just slide like that. He looked a little mad, but then I said "And then I figured you could give it to one of your friends. It's the gift that keeps on giving." He threw his head back and laughed.

Turns out, a friend of his had a birthday two weeks later. Three guesses as to what my brother gave him. His friend is a porn connisuer, and watched it. He was PISSED. :D :D :D

I love militias. It’s our Constitutional right to have one, and I heard that it’s under attack. Why? These people don’t do anything wrong. Here are some common complaints:

1. Militias are a bunch of gun-nuts.

So? Some people are art-nuts, or reading-nuts. Just because you like something a lot doesn’t make you a bad, murderous person. These guys aren’t crazy, they ARE enforcing our rights. They’re nuts about guns, not gun-nuts.


2. I don’t like the idea of a bunch of yahoos with that kind of firepower.

Name me ONE TIME that a militia did something bad. One time. Let’s see…they fought for our freedom in the Revolutionary War. They patrol the border between America and Mexico to make sure no illegal immigrants come through (and they do it by catching the illegal immigrants, giving them food and water, and turning them over to the border patrol). Yeah, gosh, sure sounds like a lot of gun-toting hicks that are out to cause trouble. This argument can be dispelled one of two ways:
“So, just because someone or something has the potential to be dangerous, we should outlaw it?”
or
“People get into cars and can kill. Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you WILL or WANT to.”


3. Guns should be illegal.

Yeah, because the right to protect yourself isn’t a right anymore? Sorry, we aren’t going to change the Constitution because you’re scared of guns. Besides, think about it. If a guy got an illegal gun, he could kill a lot more people in a country where guns were illegal. You going to threaten him with a knife? Yeah, exactly. Still doesn’t prove that militias are bad.


4. I saw Bowling for Columbine. America leads the world in murder because we have so many guns! And did you see those militia men? I don’t want backwards yahoos having guns.

I saw Bowling for Columbine, too, and was very disappointed to see how misleading it was. America doesn’t lead the world in murder…it leads the world in gun-related murder. The overall murder rate, whether it be done by strangling, vehicles, or stabbing, was completely ignored. There was a story on BfC which talked about a kindergartener who brought a gun to school and shot and killed a classmate. Tragic. But, in Japan, a kindergartener brought a knife to school and stabbed and killed a classmate. BfC also neglected to mention any gun-related deaths due to “secret government killings” that folks in some countries died from (like Iraq under Saddam’s regime). I was expecting a documentary, and was instead given a crappy attempt to pass America’s murder rates as higher than any other country. This was one attempt to sway your opinion…you can think of Michael Moore as a thin, Democratic version of Rush Limbaugh. As for the militia, it was another attempt to sway your opinion. The men that Moore interviewed were either war veterans or just enjoyed guns. They had a lot of weaponry, but they didn’t use it for any purpose other than target shooting. They hang around and talk about guns, like people hang around and talk about cars.


5. Okay, maybe militias are Constitutional, but do they really need that kind of firepower? A 9mm would do, they don’t need uzis and all sorts of crazy assault rifles.

All sorts of crazy assault rifles are under the protection of the Second Amendment. Some people say “They meant muskets and stuff, not AK-47s.” Sure they did, otherwise they’d have been more specific. Besides, think about it. If someone’s going to shoot you, you’re going to be dead whether it’s a 9mm or an AK. Because we have every right to have any form of arms, a militia has every right to the same arms.


I’d love for someone to tell me why militias are bad. I can’t think of anything.

One of my friends decided to become Jewish. She was brought up in a Protestant home, and I asked her why she was making the switch. “I hated the crap with the church,” she said. “I just don’t believe it.” I asked her if she had read the Bible, and she said no, that her decision was made up based on the church.

As a Christian, let me tell you that the church pisses me off, as well as people that follow the doctrine. Even the fact that we have denominations isn’t Biblical (1st Corinthians 1:10, Paul tells the chruch to not form separately, as we are all following the same God).

I know a lot of people like my friend, people who have been upset by so-called Christians; followers who never read their own religious text. If you’re one of those people, I’d like to give you the opportunity to ask questions. Go ahead, post. Ask and ye shall receive and all that ;)

As if it wasn’t bad enough that we have crappy musicians that somehow manage to sell albums, we have celebrities banking on their popularity to sell CDs. There are a few that have done this, including Kevin Spacey, but the most popular right now are Hillary Duff and Lindsay Lohan. Unlike most recording artists, these girls can’t seem to decide on a sound. As a person who won’t form an opinion about music until she hears it, I decided to listen to both Duff and Lohan. In one video, Lohan was wearing a cleavage-bearing slinky shirt and singing as if she was an R&B star. The “music video” was really just Lohan running her fingers through her hair, arching her back, and posing next to walls; she sang about how she wanted to just be herself in a song called Rumors. It’s at this point when I realized that she’s A) still a teenager and B) starts her own rumors (after her and Fez from That 70s Show broke up, she spread rumors that he was unfaithful). Even though I wasn’t turned on, and even though I’m only 2 years older than her, I still felt like a paedophile watching her practically display herself in front of the camera. At one point, the camera zoomed in on her breasts…I’ve never seen this happen in a music video with a female lead singer. Of course, she’s a celebrity, she’s used to having to sell her body to an extent. Lohan’s new CD, Speak, makes you think that she’s some kind of pop-rocker (think Ashley Simpson). I started to wonder if celebrities have “stunt singers” or some kind of music underwriter, as they tend to sound the same. She really does sound like Ashley Simpson on her new album. Since we know that Simpson doesn’t like to sing her own music (the live lip synching fiasco) and that celebrities-turned-musicians are rumored to have the recording studio modify their voices, it makes me wonder if the same company is working on Simpson and Lohan, or if they have the same “stunt voice.”



I decided to listen to the teen queen, Hillary Duff, and found that she also has no solid grasp on what type of music she wants to play. Granted, before her first solo CD came out, she did sing a bunch of different songs for Disney, but aside from that, she sounds like another kind of Ashley Simpson, who sounded like a spin off of Avril Lavinge to begin with. It’s a popular music genre, pop-rock, and it seems that it’s all-too-easy to get into. Instead of playing a beat-box for rappers and R&B singers, you get some guitar riffs to lead into the chorus after singing a soft-but-steady-voiced verse. Some people have accused Duff of using studio technology to make her sound better. I haven’t heard these proven or disproven, and I really don’t care. I mean, who doesn’t use that technology…especially if you’re popular? I think it’s a direct proportion: the more popular you are amongst teenagers, the more likely you are to use studio technology. Case in point: my brother and I listened to Good Charlotte live. After about a minute, we looked at each other. I said, “Is he horribly off-key?” My brother, having wondered the same thing for the past minute, managed to say “yes” before he busted up laughing. I joined in. My brother and I play music (he plays 2 or 3 instruments, I play 12). We know crap when we hear it.



What surprises me is that both Duff and Lohan are pretty talented actresses. They have money. Why are they wasting time producing this music? I mean, it isn’t BAD, it’s just BORING. It’s the same stuff that you hear…it’s a “pop-rock princess” genre, and it’s tired. I’m sick of hearing rich, teenage girls whining about their hard life, what with the “why won’t he call” and “why don’t I have privacy?” Gee, maybe it’s because you seek publicity? People who don’t even deserve to be making music, like Paris Hilton, are doing it. Sisters of famous celebrities are doing it. America’s greatest gift to Germany: David Hasselhoff…the musician. I know the record industry is greedy, but this kind of cheapens music, don’t you think? I know I don’t have to listen to it (and I don’t listen to it), but at the same time, I wish that companies would spend time finding real talent instead of trying to modify the voice of this minute’s popular actor or actress. Don’t get me wrong, I know why they do it. I just wish they wouldn’t.



On the other hand, singers turned actors have a better track record. While it’s true that Gigli was the biggest flop of the year (even worse than the American Idol movie), you can’t deny the popularity of Jennifer Lopez in The Wedding Planner, or how she was revered for Selena. I’ve seen both, they’re pretty good. My favorite singer turned actor would have to be Ice-T. My boyfriend and I see him on Law and Order, and he’s really good. Heck, even Snoop Dogg in his black-sploitation movies is pretty good. And wasn’t Queen Latifa a rapper before she became an actress?



So why do singers-turned-actors do well, while actors-turned-singers get some well-earned guff? I have a theory. Actors need to know how to act but, especially nowadays, they need to look good. They sell their bodies, some sell an image. This is what you know them by. People like Keanu Reeves, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, the rest of the Baywatch cast…these people all go by how they look instead of any talent. Before you get big in the music industry (provided you aren’t already famous and trying to rake in more money), you need to have talent. No one knows who you are, what you look like, who your parents are. All you are is a voice on the radio. If they like you, you sell CDs. Even if you ARE an attractive band, people find out after you become famous because of your music. So, because you initially needed talent, not looks, before you became famous, musicians are (generally) already talented, and their talent can easily go into acting.



Of course, not all actors are awful. There are great actors and actresses that grace television and movies alike, but these aren’t the actors who are trying to start a music career. Think about it: if you’re really a talented actor, you wouldn’t need to try and rake in extra dough by starting a singing career, or, like Duff and Lohan, you just want to be cool and do everything. I encourage you guys to boycott those albums, and maybe even the record labels…send ‘em a letter so they know what you’re doing. If you happen to like an actress/actor’s version of the same angsty teen bull, then just download the music and burn it to a CD.

I’m getting really sick of Europeans bad-mouthing the USA.

This feeling started when I heard that Great Britain, after our re-election of President Bush, produced a newspaper with the heading: “How can 59 million people be so stupid?” or some such nonsense (“stupid” could have been “ignorant” and 59 could have been 50, but you get the idea). I think Europe should shut its yap. Sure, we all joke about each other, but we’d NEVER produce something where we insult an entire nation. Nothing like a newspaper, news headline, or even a well-known magazine. Maybe it’s because we’re so concerned with being PC. Maybe we just know better than to be ethno-centric.

The anti-American feeling is felt in a song by Rammstein, a band that I listen to. I purchased their new album, Reise Reise, and in it is a song titled “Amerika” (in case you didn’t know, Germans spell “America” with a K). It’s a catchy tune as I’ve come to expect, an awesome guitar solo as I have not come to expect, and a part of the changing chorus that says “We’re all living in America, Coca-Cola, sometimes war.” I hope I don’t need to point this out to you, but I will anyway: they’re a GERMAN band. A GERMAN band is mentioning OUR wars? Wasn’t Germany the country that tried to take over all of Europe in hopes to take over the world, all the while creating the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem and also backstabbing the recent (and very temporary) ally (the Soviet Union)? So, with that history, Rammstein feels like it should remind all its listeners that America attacks.

What I’m upset about the most is how rude and unreliable Europe is being about this whole war in Iraq. What did we do in WWII? We shipped supplies to England before we even were involved in the war, including a few people to help out as well as give lessons on tactics and such. When Japan attacked us, the simple thing to do would have been to just attack Japan. Drop a couple nukes, go back to life as usual. Japan attacked us, we attack them back, it’s even. But nooo, we jump into the war. With the help of Russia being just plain awesome during Hitler’s invasion, holding out for three years in Stalingrad despite the extreme cold, low supplies, trigger-happy kommisars, and Stalin running around killing a bunch of people (although the last two might have kept them there). So Hitler wastes time, money, troops, and supplies as he backstabs Russia, they hold out, and the Germans leave. Then America rushes in, and the whole thing is over before you can say “Hitler sucks balls.” And then, on top of everything, we give out the Marshall Plan.

THE MARSHALL PLAN.

I wanted to put that in caps in its own paragraph so that anyone reading this (especially any Europeans) will notice it and remember it. The Marshall Plan was the United States saying “Here, have a ton of money. No, there’s no interest. No, don’t pay us back. Just take some FREE money to help yourselves rebuild after that war.” We even offer it to Russia, a country we weren’t exactly in love with, but they refused. We even offered it to the non-Russian-controlled Germany…yeah, the country that STARTED the war we helped rebuild.

So let’s get this straight.
We weren’t IN the war, but we sent supplies, some men, and instructors.
JAPAN ALONE attacked us, but we attacked Japan and then also went into Europe to help out the Allies.
We get in, the war ends in a year or so.
After all that, we offer EVERYONE, including the Axis countries, FREE MONEY so they can rebuild their countries and economies.

And then, they hate us, the mock us, they insult us, they won’t help us out.

At the time we went to war, intelligence said that we had a reason. It wasn’t just OUR intelligence, it was some of Europe as well (and by “intelligence” I mean government intelligence, not common sense). So Europe would have had a reason to help us, because they had the same info.

France and Germany accused us of being greedy, saying that we just wanted Saddam’s oil. In fact, they didn’t help us out because THEY were greedy: Saddam owed them money and if we ousted Saddam, they wouldn’t get repaid.

Some countries were cool through this. We were helped out a bit, but not nearly to the extent that we helped them out.

“But StrawberryP0cky, we know that Saddam and Hitler weren’t the same.” Yeah? The criticisms from the press that Bush gets today is the same kind of stuff that FDR got back in WWII. People didn’t think we belonged in Europe. With the way they’re treating us now, maybe we SHOULD have let them fight their own damn war.

Europe, and pretty much the rest of the world, seems to have a love-hate relationship with the USA. They love us if we help THEM, they hate us if we try to get them to help US.
“Help us with our war! You will? Oooooh, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!”
“You want US to help YOU with your war? Yeah right, you can just suck it.”

Euro-centric pricks. I know that they aren’t ALL like that, and the folks that don’t hate the US or are indifferent, that’s fine. But it’s governments, it’s ambassadors, it’s the press…

And they accuse BUSH of being bad with foreign relations. At least we don’t have our government, ambassadors, and our news reporters running around and throwing us insults. We aren’t NEARLY perfect, but come on, no one is. No need to be a euro-centric jerk about it.

I’m SO glad that Bush won! Kerry voters claimed that this would be the start of the Armageddon, but they couldn’t be any more wrong. The Armageddon is a Christian belief, so if we start talking Armageddon, we have to see what the Bible says about it. The Bible says that a sign of the end times is that there will be peace in the Middle East, and that just ain’t gonna happen under the Bush administration! J So, in reality, a vote for Bush is a vote against the end times, and who really wants to start the Armageddon?

Hail to the chief :D Alex owes me lunch. At least I won ONE bet. The other was that Bush would win the ENTIRE west coast...and so I lost 5 dollars.

On an optimistic note for the non-Bush supporters, I think that this time around Bush will probably listen to people more. His lack of connecting and listening to America almost cost him the election, and I’m sure he’s aware of it. I think he’ll do a little better with this war on Iraq business. Now that people HAVE to look forward to Bush for the next four years (before they were just hanging on to the idea that Kerry would win and impatiently waiting for that to happen), they probably won’t tolerate more of the same, tired “war on terror” speeches and will voice their opinion, and this time Bush might actually listen. Perhaps Bush just wanted to get some things done, regardless of popular opinion, in fear that he wouldn’t be re-elected, but now that he has been, he might take things a little slower knowing that he doesn’t have to worry about being re-elected. I’m hopeful. I like Bush, but I’d rather have him be a little more caring about public opinion. He’s OUR president, not just a guy who’s supposed to do his own thing. I think we can look forward to less vacations, more “look, I’m at a rally, listening to what people are saying” public relations clips on the news, and a swifter, cleaner, clearer response to the war in Iraq, and hopefully tie things up (FINALLY) with Afghanistan. This is all completely speculated, and if I’m wrong, I’m wrong…but man, I’ll be disappointed if I’m wrong because I think that the above is the Bush that everyone wanted to exist.

Anyway, I hope you’re not too scared about the next 4 years. Bush isn’t ALL bad.

Lousy west coast, losing me five bucks…

Election day...FINALLY. Hopefully, everyone will SHUT UP about politics. Political jokes are fine and dandy, but when people are yelling at each other, insulting each other, calling each other cruel or stupid for voting one way...it just goes too far. I can't tell you how many people yell at me and call me prejudiced because I have certain beliefs. As I said in my "Bigot" entry, THEY are the bigots for trying to force their beliefs on me, insulting me for disagreeing.

So, when Bush wins this election, let's just move along, people. I really do think Bush will win, and I need you guys to vote for him...well, depending on where you live. West coast? Bush. I bet someone 5 bucks that he'd take the west coast.

Turns out my brother doesn't watch porn.

17 year old male.

Full of testosterone.

No girlfriend.

And yet, not into the porn. I decided to tell him what was on it, and he laughed and I told him that I figured he'd want to give it to his friends, that it was the gift that keeps on giving, and he laughed more and said "Yeah, that's a good idea."

At least it'll get SOME use.

Now...to figure out something to do with this gay porn that I have lying around my room...

This is to all drivers, myself included. It's something that we all need to remember:

1. You are not perfect. You will make mistakes. Don't assume that you'll be able to speed through everything and never have a problem.

2. It's your fault that you're running late, don't put others in jeopardy because of your lack of time management and/or selfish impatience. Wait. Don't honk, don't swerve, don't dart out in front of traffic. Just wait, you impatient retard.

3. Stop. No, really, just stop. 2 seconds, that's all it takes. Just stop for a full two seconds. Look around. Let someone go if you get there at the same time. Don't jump ahead after pulling a California Stop because you're an impatient retard.

4. Don't beat yourself up if you can't find a parking space. You aren't God. You can't separate the autos from the autos to create a parking spot. Be patient, you retard.

5. Accidents happen. Don't slow down traffic or, God-forbid, CAUSE another one because you're too busy rubber-necking. You don't see your family car in the wreck? Good for you, keep driving, don't hold up the rest of us because you forgot your dose of ogrish.com for the day and are trying to squeeze it in at the expense of others.

This was brought on by the moron who almost caused an accident today. I'm driving 40mph in the right lane because I know the left lane gets backed up like crazy. Well, some friggin' moron retard idiot jerk-off decides that he's too good to wait for people in front of him to go, so, without a turn signal, he rips into my lane. There are two lanes. One's backed up, and the other I'm doing 40 in (it's the speed limit). I slammed so hard on my brakes that I actually skid. My tires spun and my car jumped and I skid across the road, honking all the way. The 'tard doesn't even miss a beat, he/she just kept driving...and I kept honking. For those that know me, I'm not for profanity in verbal or visual form, but I was seriously trying to get alongside this moron so I could call him/her a dick (or other colorful nickname) and flip 'em off. I don't give people the bird. I can't think of a time when I actually did, except as a joke to my friends...three times. I just don't do it. But this dude/chick TOTALLY deserved it.

So remember that. I'm grabbing a weapons permit come April, and if you almost cause an accident, I hope you don't mind stopping off at Les Schwab to fix the 357 mag dents in your rims.

That's right, John Kerry hates black people.

You heard him speaking Spanish for the Mexican vote.

You heard him speaking French for the Haitian vote.

You heard him speaking English for the American vote.

But where's Kerry's EBONICS speech?

Bush has already pioneered this kind of pandering, and while the black community laughs a little at his out-dated FUBU gear, they appreciate the pandering.

One African-American by the man of Ray Blakensen wrote into this magazine: "I'm glad there's a white man finally looking to us for votes. Bush pays us attention, and at last it's not just a bunch of civil rights drivel. He speaks my language. He wears my clothes." We couldn't agree more, Mr. Blackensen.

Kerry just doesn't even try. What's the matter Kerry, you racist? I think so. There was some footage and photos of Kerry during a KKK rally (pandering to them as well, believe it or not) that the Democratic party snapped up in hopes that the Bush administration wouldn't see it. Too bad for them, but this writer has. They were disturbing, let me tell you. White sheet. White sheeted horse. A necklace of a burning cross.

Let it be said that Kerry KNOWS how to pander. "I love SUVs" in Michigan, "I hate SUVs" in Oregon.* So if he KNOWS how to pander, why leave out the African-Americans? Why indeed.







*I saw this on the news. Ignore the rest of this if you will, but this part is actually true.