War is hell...

Bud Peterson is a bad ass.  Make no mistake.  Being in a dog fight would be insanely intense and scary as hell, but this guy makes it sound like a walk in the park.  I love it when people start ranting about how war never solves anything.  It truly reveals how stupid and indoctrinated people can become.  Here's a newsflash to all the idiots:  War sucks.  No one wants to go to war.  However, war is necessary.  It was necessary in 1945 just like it was in 2001.  Thank God we have heroes like Mr Peterson.  Thank God we have heroes like Lt. Michael Murphy.  When an enemy is circling the skies targeting paratroopers falling defenseless toward the earth, we need those heroes.  When religious zealots orchestrate a complicated plan to attack innocent men women and children just going about their days on that gorgeous Tuesday in September, we need those heroes.  I remember being a child and thinking about the leaders of our country.  I pictured them strong, precise, and wise.  I have never seen that from our President.  I do see him bow a lot to foreign leaders and custom or not, I don't want a bower.  I want a leader.  If that leadership manifests itself as speaking softly, fine, if it's manifested in carrying a big stick and ruling with fear, then so be it.  America needs more people like Bud Peterson and less people like our pitiful out-of-touch Congress and Executive.  It's embarrassing, his mom jeans and backward bike helmet...our esteemed Speaker crying about something he couldn't care less about in an attempt to pander to more idiots.  We need an overhaul, yet instead, we'll just line up and vote like sheep as we always do and it will be a battle of the undecided picking between two completely inept parties and only slightly less inept candidates.  Then for four or six more years, we'll be driven further into debt, stripped of our few remaining freedoms, and with haste and acceleration, spun into a mirror image of a failing Socialists Europe.  I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait.  

It's not all gloom and doom...

So often on this Blog, I'm cynical about humanity, religion, politics, celebrity, etc.  Actually, I'm cynical about pretty much everything.  That's part of the humor and the schtick.  I can never seem to laugh about happy things.  Happy things aren't funny, at least not to me.  I think that's weird, because to be honest, I've never really thought about why I write so negatively.  I think it's because to me, negative sarcasm is funny.  Maybe it's just my twisted sense of humor, or my dedication to being a "realist".  My humor focuses so much on the darker side of life that I tend to keep the other side locked away from this persona. I do love life, however, and try to experience all this amazing and beautiful world has to offer.  All that said, here are some of the stories that have revived my confidence in humanity.  I hope you like these half as much as I did.  

One of the coolest Disney employees ever

If I'm ever in this position, I hope I can be half the father this man is to his son.  

Football players that didn't want a special needs student eating alone.

And last but certainly not least, Derek Redmond at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.  Every time I see this video, I can't help but think how supportive my parents have been throughout my life.  If you have ever competed at a high level, or dedicated yourself to something that took massive amounts of hard work and dedication, you know what it must feel like to see your lifelong dream shatter in an instant...to be left alone on the track with no one to help when it hurts to move.  This story almost can't be watched without tears.

This is the new America...which is about as successful as the "New Coke"

I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with this genius in 1991.  He is truly a legend.  Stand up comedy is so interesting to me. Generally, I find it very unfunny, especially if someone is trying to make me laugh. Laughter should be the by-product of very clever and ironic insight.  Stand-up, at least to me, is all about pointing out the intricacies of life, the mundane things that people tend to ignore as normal.  All the great ones make this seem effortless; Seinfeld is particularly adept.  I wish more people would point out the ineptitude of our Government.  The problem in America though, is most people either aren't smart enough to comprehend or invested enough to care one way or the other.  Nothing in life rattles my cage more than apathy.  Have some stance.  Don't meander through life with no passion for anything.  But, you know, when Gov't rewards mediocrity, stifles technology and job growth, limits small business expansion, urges companies to seek foreign land for tax shelters, and blatantly discourages people getting OFF of Gov't assistance, what's the point in having passion.  These people's passion extends to the voting booth and no further.  Welfare and unemployment have become careers, not a way to keep you afloat until you find something else.  Obama and the democrats want this and encourage this behavior.  If you can't see this, you're an ostrich and you should pull your head out of your ass the sand.  Between the two joke parties in this country completely running it into the ground, the average entrepreneur or American worker that built this amazing nation is doomed.  The only way to regain our position in the world is to send a message to Washington that neither party represents the belief of the populous.  The problem with that is, the paradigm has shifted and instead of the populous being the producers, it has now become the consumers.  We're doomed and it's only a matter of time....that time being less than 100 years.  

A wise man I knew once said to me...

If you want justice, go to a whorehouse...

If you want to get screwed, go to the courthouse.

25 years he will never get back because of arrogant and probably racist legal/police work. What a shame.

My hatred for mankind never waivers

Apparently, people are even dumber than I thought, which for the record, is really really really dumb. Bugchasers are people that search out people infected with the HIV Virus to have sex with in order to contract the virus.  Yes, you read that right.  People actually search out HIV infected people to contract the virus.  WTF is wrong with these numbskulls? HIV isn't herpes or HPV.  This shit is serious.  What's attractive or intriguing about contracting HIV?  It's not like some people beat it, unless they're Magic Johnson, in which the "Magic" is simply 100 dollar bills that allow you 40 pills a day that costs thousands to beat the disease.  I remember being at basketball practice in 7th grade and Magic's press conference came on television.  We all were thinking, "He'll be dead in three years."  Because back then, everyone was terrified of AIDS.  No one knew hardly anything about it.  In 1991, everyone thought the the only way you could've gotten AIDS was to be gay.  Magic changed all that.  I digress.  People are stupid.  Very stupid.  Sure, it's 2014 and HIV isn't necessarily a death sentence, especially if one has money.  That said, who wants HIV?  I joke around about how America is doomed and more and more people are becoming the consumers and less and less people are doing the providing.  It's our ideology in this country that is to blame.  Producing in this country is no longer rewarded.  We penalize success.  We find ourselves apologizing for wealth, for a nice house, for a nice car.  When did this happen to our society?  When did it become faux pas to be successful or demand more from your life?  When did it become a Scarlet Letter to accumulate wealth through hard work and determination?  It's ok for Hollyweird to make billions on films, but not the evil Wall Street.  This country's younger generations have ruined the work ethic, the pride, and the educational desires to remain the beacon of the free market world.  The sad part of that statement is that the majority of this country is too stupid to understand it.