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		<title>What An Idiot &#8211; You Can&#8217;t Be Serious?!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day I was trolling around MySpace and I saw the dumbest piece of &#8220;writing&#8221; that I&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life, ever. The person whose profile I pulled this from isn&#8217;t someone who I know directly, but it is someone who has a relationship with my extended family. In other words, this [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day I was trolling around MySpace and I saw the dumbest piece of &#8220;writing&#8221; that I&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life, ever.  The person whose profile I pulled this from isn&#8217;t someone who I know directly, but it is someone who has a relationship with my extended family.  In other words, this person is pretty far removed and I don&#8217;t mind putting this ridiculous paragraph on the blog and blasting it.  I&#8217;ve changed the names to protect the innocent (and extremely stupid).</p>
<blockquote><p>hey my name is jill im 28 and i like to hang out and meet new ppl i am with the most wondful guy name bob he my life and now i be came a wondful aunt and she also my lil gurl(tanisha) i love her with all my heart. i have 6 tattoes i have 3 priceing</p></blockquote>
<p>How can anyone write something so incredibly stupid, look at it, and say, &#8220;Yes.  That&#8217;s what I want the world to know about me.&#8221;  Are you serious?!  &#8220;I am with the most wondful guy.&#8221;  Really?  Wondful?  Is this a new word that I wasn&#8217;t alerted to?  Wondful?  Couldn&#8217;t squeeze out that &#8220;er&#8221; could you?  Idiot&#8230;</p>
<p>Oh, and this &#8220;wondful&#8221; guy means a lot to you because &#8220;he my life.&#8221;  He my life?!  What?  Couldn&#8217;t manage to pop out an &#8220;is&#8221; or &#8220;completes&#8221; or &#8220;enhances&#8221; or any word at all?  Moron&#8230;</p>
<p>Hold on, folks.  I have to go vomit.</p>
<p>Back.</p>
<p>But wait!  Not only is this guy that this moron is with &#8220;wondful&#8221; but apparently she, herself, is a &#8220;wondful&#8221; aunt!  Oh, how marvelous!?  A &#8220;wondful&#8221; aunt who has a &#8220;wondful&#8221; guy on her arm.  Life is awesome!!!</p>
<p>And not only is she a &#8220;wondful&#8221; aunt, but she loves her &#8220;gurl.&#8221;  Really?  Your &#8220;gurl?&#8221;  Just couldn&#8217;t manage to push the key located directly next to the &#8220;u&#8221; on the keyboard, huh?  Dummy&#8230;</p>
<p>However, for me the best part of this drivel &#8211; the part that forced me to write this post &#8211; was the last line where this &#8220;wondful&#8221; dummy writes, &#8220;i have 6 tattoes i have 3 priceing.&#8221;  No shit?  You have 6 tattoes, huh?  And what exactly is a tattoe?  Is that a tattoo on your toe?  If so, why does one need six of them?  But better yet, what is a &#8220;priceing?&#8221;</p>
<p>Many, many years ago I worked for PathMark in the Price Integrity Department.  My job was to put the prices up on the shelves.  Some people said I was pricing the items.  However, this dummy &#8220;have 3 priceing.&#8221;  So, clearly, what this dolt is talking about doesn&#8217;t match what I used to do for a part-time job.  Hmmm&#8230;  Perhaps she meant to say that she has three piercings?  Nooo&#8230;  NO ONE could be so stupid that they write &#8220;priceing&#8221; and mean to really write &#8220;piercing.&#8221;  Right?  RIGHT?</p>
<p>Folks, I put this up there because a bunch of my friends (and readers of this blog) are beginning to have children.  That&#8217;s great.  Kids are awesome.  However, please, please, please stay on top of your child&#8217;s education!  No, I&#8217;m not suggesting that you become one of these overprotective parents who don&#8217;t allow their children to form their own personalities.  What I AM suggesting, though, is that if you do not keep an eye on your child&#8217;s education and do as much reading to your child as possible in their early, formative years, then you may wind up with the moron that we see above.</p>
<p>The moral of the story is to read to your child and to get them engaged in reading and writing early on in life.  You wouldn&#8217;t want them growing up thinking that their life is &#8220;wondful&#8221; when it could be wonderful.</p>
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		<title>More Garbage from ESPN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like ESPN. I really do. But I take issue with the annoying tendency of their broadcasts to feel the need to deal in absolutes. Last night, the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox to extend their AL East lead to 1.5 games heading into July 1st. In a division where outrageous spending [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like ESPN. I really do. But I take issue with the annoying tendency of their broadcasts to feel the need to deal in absolutes. Last night, the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox to extend their AL East lead to 1.5 games heading into July 1st. In a division where outrageous spending by the Red Sox and Yankees made it seemingly impossible for any other team to contend, the Rays are defying all logic as they rip through the American League. Here come the lowly Rays- a team that never had a winning season, brutal attendance, and a team that has been an afterthought since its inception in 1997. It&#8217;s an underdog story and the public likes that. It deserves the amount of coverage that it gets from ESPN. </p>
<p>However, why does ESPN feel the need to ask questions on Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter like, &#8220;Next on SportsCenter: Are the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox the new &#8220;Sox-Yanks rivalry&#8221;? What the hell is that? The Red Sox and Yankees have been bickering back and forth and annoying to baseball fans across the country for decades. The Rays and Red Sox are battling in 2008 for the first time and played a close game on the last day of June. Calm down. Why must be everything be so hyperbolized? Fernando Vina and Chris Singleton are telling me that the Rays will definitely win the division. It&#8217;s 83 games into the season. The trading deadline is 30 days away. Way too much can happen to definitively assess a team&#8217;s chances moving forward and to do so is foolish. And anyone who puts stock into this drivel is an even bigger idiot.  </p>
<p>Discuss what these teams may do moving forward, their strengths and weaknesses-that&#8217;s what these shows are for. But why, after 83 games, does ESPN feel inclined to talk about the Devil Rays like they are Big Red Machine of the 1970&#8217;s? The programming in Bristol is simply becoming more irresponsible and less educational by the day. It&#8217;s lazy, cheap, and says a lot about what they think of their average viewer.</p>
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		<title>What the Presidential Election Does NOT Need</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The talking heads on television keep telling us how historic this election is in that we have the first black nominee (presumptive though he may be at this point) and the oldest person to run for a first term as President. Obviously Obama&#8217;s campaign is more historic that McCain&#8217;s campaign so I think the future [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The talking heads on television keep telling us how historic this election is in that we have the first black nominee (presumptive though he may be at this point) and the oldest person to run for a first term as President.  Obviously Obama&#8217;s campaign is more historic that McCain&#8217;s campaign so I think the future will remember this as the Obama election &#8211; whether he wins or loses.</p>
<p>With such an historic campaign there are a few things that we do NOT need this time around.  First and foremost, I get physically ill every time I hear Barack Obama say that John McCain is running for George Bush&#8217;s third term.  What a disgusting catchphase to use in this &#8220;historic&#8221; election!  John McCain is John McCain.  George Bush is George Bush.  John McCain is running for his first term.  Obama&#8217;s comparison of John McCain to George Bush is obviously rooted in politics and polls since most of the nation is sick of Bush at this point and the Obama team is trying to capitalize on that disgust.  THIS is the new politics that Obama promised?  Count me out, thank you.  As soon as I heard these words come out of Obama&#8217;s mouth, I immediately shut off my brain from listening to any other drivel come out of this man.</p>
<p>But lo and behold the brain trust running McCain&#8217;s campaign goes out and tells McCain to say that Obama is running for Jimmy Carter&#8217;s second term!  Good grief!  Is this the John McCain that ran as a maverick politician in 2000 and has based his entire political career off of doing what he believed was right over what his political party believed was right?  THIS is what I can expect from John McCain going forward?  No thanks.  At this point, you can count me out.  This is NOT the new politics that these men promised America and I urge everyone else who wants true change to withdraw support from either candidate until they stop throwing this type of mud.</p>
<p>The disguised shots at McCain&#8217;s age and the pathetic shots at Obama&#8217;s personal advisors are all too much to bear.  I encourage everyone to start exploring third party candidates if they are really looking for change this year.  For starters, go and take a look at <a href="http://www.bobbarr2008.com/"><strong>Bob Barr &#8211; the Libertarian Party candidate</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Change doesn&#8217;t mean voting for the same party or a candidate with flowery speeches, folks.  Change means using YOUR vote to make a REAL change in America.</p>
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