budgets, work, housework BLOWS…
I have been out way too much this week but I am amazingly sane. Slow curling smoke rising from my menthol in a crowded bar with light jazz lilting over the all too young crowd has been just what I have need. That and high doses of “the usual“. It’s a tragic night with tragic people. Daniel is a drunk unlike any other and my friend behind the bar is tragic in his own way. I am tragic along with the rest of them in ways that even I do not comprehend. Tragic is the word for the week. Everyone is tragic in their own way. Sad secrets and unfollowed dreams that they may not even realize. Nothing scars you deeper than the things you haven’t done. Blares over the speakers while I write and I wonder how tragic Cory is feeling right now.
Masses of people doing masses of things in their own special ways. Freeways jam packed with people who don’t want to be where they’re going in the morning and want to be where they’re going in the evening less. Tragedy permeates out lives and we don’t even see it. We have a false sense of happiness based on what they tell us should make us happy. We cannot rise up and demand what we do not know we want.
Sorry for being depressing today. It’s tragic isn’t it?
The blogospere is still reeling from the loss of Acidman. It has been asked that some of us help mirror one his songs. Of course I have bandwidth to spare so I volunteered. I would have even if I didn’t have much bandwidth but having a lot makes it easy. You are more than welcome to click the play button and here it without downloading it or you can right click the link and download it. It’s up to you.
You can read his obit here.
We dress as clowns to show that humor and laughter are key elements in the struggle to transform the structures of destruction and death. Saint Paul said that we are “fools for God’s sake,” and we say that we are “fools for God and humanity.” Clowns as court jesters were sometimes the only ones able to survive after speaking truth to authorities in power.
No really go read the story. Some crazy priest and two of his buddies who happen to be veterans really dressed up like clowns and tried to break into a Minuteman silo with household hammers and a sledgehammer. It doesn’t get much stupider than this. They are lucky they weren’t shot on sight. They have no clue about national defense. They are part of a movement that wants us to disarm ourselves and pretty much let anyone take over. They painted “It’s a sin to build a nuclear bomb” or some such drivel on the silo. Nevermind their sin of destroying the property of others, breaking and entering, and so on. I guess their sin is alright because it’s for some cause. Nevermind that nowhere in scripture can you find that making a weapon is a sin. These crackpots go right up there Phelps’s crowd in the already chock full looney bin or people who just don’t get it.
By getting the message out. I have no money to send Pat but I want to throw up the trailers from youtube and link him so maybe some of my readers can send a little his way. Pat believes in this so much that he done got blowed up filming this.
I am going to warn you. These are not nice videos. They show the reality of war and the ways our boys deal with that reality. If you are offended by body parts, coarse language, or patriotism then don’t click them…
Yesterday one of the few bloggers I read passed from this life into the next. Sam has updated Gut Rumbles with all the details that are available at this time.
It’s hard to say goodbye to someone you never really knew outside of reading about them on their blog. In fact it’s dowright strange. Rob was an abrasive, outspoken, southern cuss and proud of it. There are lots of people saying goodbye with better words than I have right now.
Day by Day
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The Rott who also has an asshole who doesn’t respect the dead posting in the comments.
Kim Du Toit
G’bye Rob. We will all miss you.
It’s summer for sure here. I have to mow the lawn every week. This is a job I do not enjoy. It’s hot and it’s outside and those are two things I try to avoid. What makes it all worthwhile is the tall boy Lone Star, sitting just a little to my left but mostly in front of me, Pat Green singing Songs About Texas pouring out of my speakers, and just relaxing after real work.
Relaxing is something you can do after you have accomplished or finished a task. My job, my paycheck producing job, has no sense of this. It robs me of relaxation by being a job that is never done. It’s not that there won’t always be broken servers though. The problem is we aren’t fixing the problems that cause the servers to break. So its, quite literally, the same old shit every day. Knowing this means that when the workday is done there is no sense of finishing anything and when you get up in the morning there is a real sense of dread knowing you will face the same old things all over again. There is no challenge to this sort of dreary job and sense of accomplishment so there is no relaxation when it’s all said and done. That my friends will spin you out of control. It has spun me into a manic swing the likes I haven’t had for years.
Mowing the lawn, which I still hate, seems to have mellowed this out a bit. There is a sense of accomplishment to it. A job done. Nevermind the grass will grow back it’s done for right now and I have a tall boy of Lone Star that’s almost done. Black bandanas under cowboy hats, a white t-shirt, and some Robert Earl Keene on the headphones and it’s all good, even mowing the lawn.
Time
It has been an unlikely legal wrangle from the start. First, a 14-year-old Austin, Texas, girl and her mother filed a $30 million lawsuit against MySpace.com, where the teenager claims she met a man who assaulted her. Now, the college student charged with the sexual assault also is considering suing the popular social networking site.
Of course he is considering suing. Remember he lied about his age and MySpace did nothing to stop him so MySpace is at fault. It gets better though. We find out something here that none of the original articles mentioned…The defense attorney for Pete Solis, the 19-year-old Texas community college student charged with sexually assaulting the girl dubbed “Julie Doe” in her lawsuit, told TIME that if the Texas courts accept the premise that MySpace is liable because the two met there, then his client also has a claim, since the alleged victim falsely portrayed herself on the webiste as 15 years old.
Now here we have the real crux of the alleged crime. If she hadn’t lied about her age her profile would have been hidden from this guy. Of course he is still outside the bounds of Texas law which is a three year sliding age scale. The odd thing is that if you look at both of their lies and consider the law then anything that happened would have been legal. And you have to wonder if a one year age difference would have stopped the girl from meeting to boy. He lied by one year and so did she. Her lie didn’t make her legal so homeboy is still a sick bastard but her lie made her vulnerable. I have to say that the blame still lies with her mother for not monitoring her activities more closely and that even if he hadn’t lied the victim’s stupidity likely wouldn’t have kept her from meeting someone a mere one year older.
“He’s been, in effect, just as much a victim — if not more,” says Adam Reposa, the attorney for Solis, who is facing up to 20 years in prison on charges of second degree felony sexual assault. Since the lawsuit against MySpace also names Solis as a defendant, Reposa said he will “cross-file” and also sue MySpace and its owner, News Corporation. “MySpace wasn’t there when they went to Whataburger. MySpace wasn’t there when they went to the movie and MySpace wasn’t there when they climbed in the backseat,” Reposa said. “Meeting on MySpace — if that alone is enough, then we can make the same claim for damages.”
His client wasn’t more of a victim as the girl’s lie still wouldn’t have made her legal. That’s total and complete bullshit and the lawyer knows it. The boy is the victim of a lie as is the girl. The fact remains he thought she was 15 which would have been illegal anyway. He’s still a sexual predator and should be locked up. The fact she lied about being 15 doesn’t change the legality of his actions even if you take his lie into account. He is not a victim in any sense except he thought he was screwing an illegal 15 year old and in reality he was doinking a 14 year old. Sick bastard!
The article goes on to state they are going to make it harder to be on a 14 or 15 year old’s friends list and hide the profiles of 15 year olds. All this will do is make them lie and say they are 16 or 17 which will open them up to people who are not predators but think they are talking to someone they could legally boink. Let’s face it there is nothing MySpace can do to make itself safe for 14 year olds. Parents are the ones that should be doing that and not MySpace. Their latest idea will likely get more kids in trouble and have the exact opposite effect if parents don’t watch their kids.
The email notifications for the entries last night (registered users only) didn’t go out. So this is one of two test posts. Ignore this.
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E-Mail notifications are broken. Sorry! I am looking for a new plugin. Much suckage…
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Just not working for private entries…
By way of Jack Lewis
The House of Deputies of the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church today overwhelmingly refused to even consider a resolution that affirmed Jesus Christ as the “only name by which any person may be saved.”
Jack says it all so just click the link at the top and go read him. I have to pray for those Christians who haven’t left this apostate church as of yet…