Again

The ratings hungry 'chicken littles' that call them selves the media once again over sensationalized, the sky is falling, and the public once again bought into it. I admit there was a brief period there in the middle of the storm that I thought it was going to be bad and thought that maybe I should have left but I stuck with my instinct that everything was going to be fine and who was right? Me. We didn't even lose power. Our biggest inconvenience was the loss of cable for a few hours.When will the public learn? The media sells ads to oil companies and hotel chains and then tells you "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!" Then you go and fill your tank, evacuate and get a hotel room. Come on people, cooler heads alway prevail.

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Update 1

We are riding this bitch out. We have food, water, guns and beer. The first little rain hit us right before sunset. It was falling straight down. The wind isn't really kicking ass yet. I'm going to stay up all night on tornado watch and try to keep you all posted on what's going on. I hope those of you who decided to stay and weather the storm are safe and smart and those of you who ran for the hills like delicious chickens make it home safe.

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Pack ya shit

WE ARE ALL FUCKED
by Jay Janus

The National Weather Service declared Hurricane Gustav a category 12 fire hurricane this morning at 8:45am EDT. Bob McMacy of WKLO in Port Dolan FL explained the need for a revised category system saying "Every year, to get ratings and feel self important about a job that basically a retarded turtle could do, we predict giant killer storms that threaten to end civilization itself. When this never happens people just start to tune out and watch the new season of project runway or something. Granted we got lucky with Katrina but even by then the category 5 label had lost it's terror factor." When asked what was meant by the phrase 'fire hurricane' Martin Standish of the U.S. Department of Scaring the Shit out of People said. "Though we have no scientific basis for our hypothesis, we believe that this hurricane will rain giant balls of flame."

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Work
Current mood: happy

I saw my new office today. It won't be ready to move into for a few weeks but it's pretty nice. It will be nice to have a real sit down office type job even if it's not my dream job or where I though I would be at 30 when I was 20. I guess nobody really ever feels like they are where they thought they would be but I'm happy with it. I'm pretty much my own boss. I'm making money and I like the people I work with.

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The important difference between broke and poor.
Current mood: awake

So I saw something in the news today that made me start thinking. Apparently in the poorer neighborhoods of Chicago (which is an euphemistic way of saying minority) community leaders are actually encouraging students to skip school to protest the inequities of funding of inner city schools. Now, I don't think anyone can argue that primarily black schools in American inner cities are fairly funded, they just aren't but this is the wrong way of going about protesting that fact. The way I see it, regardless of race or geography poor people in America today go about addressing their situation the wrong way in that they expect the government to make them happy. Maybe I'm bias because I'm an anarchist and I HATE GOVERNMENT but it seems to me that robing children of their education to protest their lack of education is just stupid, just plain fucking stupid. Here's an idea. Organize an actual protest. Stand in front of city hall with huge signs. Let the elected officials of the criminal, municipal government that there are more "poor" votes than "rich" votes in your city. Demand that you be addressed as a voting block. What you don't want to do is send the message to your government that you plan to cripple future generations with the disease of poverty. Politicians are by nature corrupt, horrible little people obsessed with lording over the masses and subduing with with any means available to them . I don't care if it's Barack Obama or G.W. Bush or John Mccain or Che Guevara. Government might be a necessary evil but it's an evil none the less. People in power care about only one thing, staying in power. Remember "black leaders" are leaders first and black second. They don't give a rat's ass about black people just like Bush and Clinton never gave a shit about white people. They only care about staying in power. Think about it. How do black leaders stay in power? They keep the population in situations where they feel they need "black leaders". It's all bullshit. Just like the whole fucking "oil crises" is bullshit and just like the "war on terror" is bullshit. We are all being oppressed by fear and envy fed by these leaders. Fuck leaders and fuck government. We all need to learn to be self made and self sustaining.

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Party
Current mood: hungover

So Lindsay's going away/Patt's Welcome home party was a great success. I have no idea how many people ended up showing up but it was a shit load, most of whom I had never met before. I was really happy with the turn out. Gypsy Dystrophy DJ'ed and the house was rife with debauchery. It was awesome.

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pernicious
Current mood: warm

I like end of the world movies. I like the action and the play on our most base fear. I mean no one wants to die but how much less do we want everyone to die all at once. The only little comfort that we take in death on an individual level is that at least for a short time we are special, people mourn and pity, people cry and get hugged and we caused all of this. We are special. End of the world movies however we are just one of billions of victims. There will be no crying for us and no mourning. Also sense the population of the world is about 80/20 complete douchbags or useless fuckers, optimistically it's fun watching them all panic and die. Plus explosions never hurt any movie.

Currently listening : The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, and More! - The 25th Anniversary Collection Release date: 2002-09-17

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Short Pants, Jesus, Beer and Porn

I bought the first pair of shoes I've owned in a very, very long time. I've been wearing combat boots purchased from army surplus stores for many years now. They are cheep and last forever. Today however it was very hot and I had to work at 3pm as opposed to 9pm so I decided to buy a pair of short pants for this afternoon. Once I get to the store and pick out a pair of short pants I thought to myself, aloud. "You can't look much more redneck than short pants and boots" so I decided to buy a pair of athletic shoes to go with the pants. Then I get to work because the beerfest thing was going on today and to my happy surprise the Christians show up. Now not the normal/sane/sure-I-dig-Jesus type Christians. No no, the bat shit crazy/god hates fags/snake handling fuckers. Apparently beer is evil and they were also yelling a bunch of anti-catholic shit too.



Judging by the font they could very well be the same people that put up the "SIN = DEATH" signs across from the porn store.

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Robopocalypse
Current mood: weird

I've been telling Joey for years that we will soon all be slaves to our great robot masters and here's the proof. www.cyberstein.co.uk/ Sure he's just a toy right now but if you can rent this guy for parties just imagine what the government has up it's sleeves. It's just a matter of time before the robots figure out that they can do it better with out us. You think Zombies are bad? Robots can think, head shots will just let them know where you are plus they are fast. There is no R.A.P.T cause you can't prepare.

Oh God I just figured out how the world will end. The government will unleash an army of robots to neutralize the zombie threat. We'll welcome them as heroes and after the last zombie falls. The blood stained titanium hulks of these cyber beasts will turn and recognize the source of the zombie infestation. Living humans! The only logical step? Eliminate the source.

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Sick

Either I gave Lindsay a cold or she gave me a cold, whatever the case may be I'm sick and so is Lindsay. Man this really sucks but Lacey is taking care of us and we are both feeling better today.

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