More Cellular Gripeage

I was in the mall today, looking for a CD (it was insanity, but that's besides the point)... As I was walking down the hallway, I came up on a group of three young men walking towards me... all talking on cellphones... My guess was that they were talking to each other on a three-way call, trying to appear cooler than they actually were. I stopped where I was and laughed. They saw me. I didn't care.
If you're gonna hang out with your friends, howsaboot actually hanging out with them?
The whole cellphone thing is really out of control around here.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually agreed with something the Rev. Jerry Falwell had to say on TV, this evening... but not for the same reasons...
The topic on Scarborough Country tonight was "PC Police Bans Christmas." There were these wackjobs on there spouting off about how Christmas was offensive to non-Christians and stuff... It was pretty insane. But what Jerry Falwell said was something to the effect of, "These people say that it's okay to sing Christmas carols as long as they don't mention Christ, which is a load of hooey..." (note:those for sure weren't his exact words) Now his reasoning for it being hooey was because this country is a country "under God" and all that... which I don't really care about... My reasoning behind the "hooey" was because politically correct people need to be slapped around a little because they are ridiculous... and becoming more ridiculous all the time. The whole idea that Christmas offends muslims or atheists and stuff like that... it's just silly. I can't even argue with people like that, because they're so ignorant.
So, if you're offended by Christmas, go to Iraq... or wherever. If I want to sing a Christmas carol, any Christmas carol I want, I'm gonna sing it, not because I am some kind of devout Christian (because I'm really not), but because I want to and I don't care what some politically correct jackass says...

A Little Too Ironic

This is Lucy:

Lucy is a sweety of a dog, but she has a little problem with chewing stuff up from time to time... so, her owner got some stuff from Petco to try to stop this little problem... the result:

I thought it was a bit of hilarious, beautiful irony. Her owner didn't think it was as funny as I did.

Okay... More Shit to Gripe About

There's a law in Ohio where you're not allowed to drive a car and talk on a cell phone unless you are using a hands-free device... So I come to Fort Collins, and everyone and their mothers talk on their cellphones and drive at the same time... apparently there is no such law in Colorado (but there's a law that says you can kill people on your front porch).
Dont get me wrong... I love my cellphone. It comes in quite handy at times, not to mention the WAP browser that helps me find my way around a rather big town that I've only lived in for two and a half months. But everywhere I turn, some little 18 year-old college girl has her cellphone glued to her ear with one hand, engaged in a deep conversation about eye liner or something, and trying to drive a car with the other. I've seen a few near-wrecks by these exact same people in recent days, and I think it's ridiculous. You think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not... at least every fourth car contains a driver on a cell phone... I say it's time that Colorado jump on the hands-free bandwagon. I mean, there's already public smoking bans everywhere, in an attempt to save lives, apparently, how about trying to save a few more?

There's actually a law here in Colorado called the "Make My Day" law...

...and it was used in a rather heinous way, earlier today...
Okay... The "Make My Day" law states that a person is allowed to use "any force necessary, including deadly force" if someone enters your house without your permission... There was a law similar to that in Ohio, but in order for "deadly force" to apply, you have to be reasonably certain that your life is in imminent danger, or else if you kill someone in your house, it's not justified... see?
So, guy #1 has a dog... it barks... Guy #2 lives next door... he doesn't like guy #1's dog, nor it's bark... so he shoots guy #1's dog... Guy #1 is enraged... Guy #1 grabs a stick from his yard (probably not his best move, but still, guy #2 just killed his dog) and goes to guy#2's house... Upon arriving on guy #2's front porch (not unlawfully entering the house, mind you), guy #2 shoots and kills guy #1... The DA of wherever this all took place refused to charge guy #2 for any crime, citing the "Make My Day" law...

This is the one of the most ridiculous, ludicrous things I have ever heard of in my life...

That South Park About Starbucks is Too True

When I first saw the South Park that was about Starbuck's trying to buy out Tweak's parent's coffee shop, I thought it was a hoot... they made it out like there was a Starbucks on every other corner out here...
Well, I come to find out by moving here that it's oh, so true... There is a Starbucks on every other corner here in Fort Collins (which isn't all that far away from South Park, actually - well, closer to North Park, but y'know...)... not to mention that Starbucks is now the coffeeshop that inhabits the Barnes & Noble bookstore... I swear, one popped up overnight inside a Wells Fargo building... there's probably a dozen of them just on the main drag (College Avenue), alone... fuckin' crazy...
Makes me glad I don't drink coffee...

Y'know, I always liked the first Crow movie, even with some of the discrepencies with the original James O'Barr comics... I thought the story was incredibly good, the movie artwork was done really well, and Brandon Lee was a great pick for the role... However... What in the name of all that is sacred was that Crow 2 shit??? Could they at least picked a guy that spoke some semblance of english? Okay, Iggy Pop was in it... but that couldn't keep the movie from sucking royally... Decent premise, poor execution... There was a Crow 3 made, I think, too... straight to video... I can't imagine how much it sucks, and I'm not about to find out... I remember trying to get into the TV series (Stairway to Heaven), too, but it sucked on equal par with this crappy thing on my TV... Thank Maynard it's time for South Park...

"The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to
Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry
VIII and his wife Catherine of Aragon, his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane
Seymour, his wife Anne of Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife
Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on
traditional Christian marriage."


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Congrats

David Letterman became the father of a 9 pound 11 ounce baby boy on Monday...

The baby is named Harry Joseph Letterman, after Dave's father.

Congratulations, Dave.

Kobe Bryant

I've been quiet about the whole Kobe Bryant thing, and I guess it's time I opened my mouth on it, now...

Plain and simple - Kobe Bryant is a megalomaniac who measures his love for his wife in carats.

My guess is that we will never know what really happened in the hotel room just down the road from here in Eagle County... Kobe could be innocent and get conviceted, he could be guilty and be acquitted, or any combination thereof... Such is the case when you are dealing with the law and celebrities...

But he's trying to pretend like nothing's wrong and he's still the Kobe that everyone supposedly knows and loves... and he's wrong... he's never going to be that guy again, no matter what happens in court. He thinks he's just going to show up on the basketball court and everyone will forget about the fact that he may well be a rapist... news flash - they won't. He's about to go on trial for rape, and all he seems to put forth that he cares about is basketball... Kobe, c'mon... don't you think the other stuff is a little more serious than dribbling a ball down a court?

Kobe Bryant is a lost cause who's about to become a public relations nightmare, and he only has himself to thank for it. Not the press, not the law, not the girl... himself.

What About Pedophilia Victims?

Many people remember the high profile "Operation Ore" that went after people that download images of child pornography... It nabbed a few pretty despicable people along the way. But it seems that there has been a big upswing in the availability of such imagery, thanks to good ol' peer to peer file sharing... It's free, there's no need to leave any incriminating credit card data anywhere where it can be picked up on, and there's no "middle man," thus providing much easier access to the images...

Is anything being done to stop the people that make the imagery? Well, people are trying, but lack of manpower and lack of knowing where to look isn't helping matters very much...

HERE is a rather disturbing article into some of the things that are going on, and what law enforcement is trying to do to in response...