that'll learn em

So beginith the rant,

This bit of news has kind of slipped by as less important than Libya, or Japan having a meltdown. It is a small story that often finds its way to the ticker at the bottom of the screen or maybe even a short mention between coverage of the major stories, or at least it had to the point of me writing this little rant.

What story? you ask. Apparently Islamic people are taking to the streets in Afghanistan, Iraq, and I assume other Islamic countries and rioting and killing people... Normally one would just call this a Monday because of the frequent nature of their outbursts of violence over any thing... "What?!? Someone 3 thousand miles away mentioned something about Mohammad's momma... Better kill some people and destroy some more property..." What stirred up the hornets nest of mouth breathing radicals? None other than the pastor here in FL who burned the Koran... The same guy who was asked nicely not to by the frigg'n pentagon. I cannot even begin to speculate how that jackhole thought burning a Koran would be a good idea? (I wrote about it a few rants back if you want to revisit it) I am not going to continue to blast that idiot, we can all agree that upper brain function is a hit miss thing for him... No what I want to do today is ask a question... 

And here it is, "Why, when outraged at the west, do the Islamic people of these middle eastern countries go to their streets and cause mayhem?" Seriously... Why are they punishing their own country, their neighbors, their infrastructure, to protest us? It would be like me being outraged about something happening in the middle east and driving down the road to McDonald's and burning it down, yeah that'll learn em. I could understand a cry for Islamic people in the US to march in the streets, but to going around killing and breaking stuff in your own country over something some idiot pastor who no one even really cares about over here just doesn't make sense... But who am I to judge a people's actions? I heard GE marked a couple billion dollars  in profit last year and has to pay zero taxes... I am going to go out and sledge hammer some stop signs.

So endith the Rant:

show me some skin

So beginith the rant.

MTV...

Seriously, that could be the entire content of this rant. Those three letters. MTV. The other day I found myself watching a jersey shore marathon... With my roommate...(cause, its was just three dudes watching. nothing wrong with that bro. don't judge) I am the kind of person who tries not to judge a book by its cover. I try not to be one of those close minded people who see something they are not into and assume it is garbage. I also am not one of those people who will never try and experience new  things outside of their comfort zone. So, as much as I hate reality TV, and as much as every aspect of the show jersey shore causes a bile reaction in my throat. I watched it. I even laughed a little bit at it. 

The show is basically a bunch of grown children, having arguments over who took whose toy or touched whose cookie.... Like a roided out kindergarten class. If this show is watched by teen or children and they hope and aspire to be like the cast, then this show could cause more damage to a generation then lead paint. But smashing the jersey shore is not the focus of my rant. The show is a retard, and we all know it. No the focus of this rant is about the commercials that were shown during the breaks of this marathon. 

These are the common repeats of advertising:

-Skins, a new show on MTV (more on this later)

-anti stretch-mark cream

-the new season of 16 and pregnant

-college in your pajamas 

What is the demographic here? 

College aged, teens, with stretch marks, who take classes at home. Wait. Knocked up teens. That is the demographic. Really? Wow... (more on this later)

It dawned on me. MTV is a cancer on today's youth. I'm not saying this because I'm old. I used to watch MTV. It had music, Beavis and Butthead, Jackass, and Ren and Stimpy. You also had Matt Pinfield mumbling to rockstars who performed live on his show... (did I just date myself) Heck I still remember having a crush on Kennedy (what can I say chicks with glasses are hot). Moral of the story is at that time MTV was geared to a college aged demographic. 17 to 25 year old group of people. Today it appears that the target market is more in the 13 to 16 year old demographic. Which wouldn't bother me if the programming reflected anything of merit. But no it is still the same idea as it was when I was in high school. Naked pretty people doing stuff that would make their parents cry. Back in the day it was all 20 somethings making poor choices. Stupid, yes, but they were adults and even with their low IQ's they were doing the dumb stuff at an age when it is legal. Today, MTV seems to promote preteens and teens doing the same stupid stuff only at a younger age. So, instead of naked pretty college people, you have naked children... Let that sink in for just one second... naked children? seriously? 

I will now bring back up the new show skins... I have no idea what this show is about. The commercials for the show had two threads. First, was a bunch of, what appeared to be, 14 to 16 year old kids at a house party spraying liquor and whipped cream all over each other while drunk and rubbing around (in slow motion, you know for effect). Second is a flash back scene played in reverse where a young lady (again appears to be barely 16) is white chick wasted tripping over trashcans at the beginning of the clip but by the end you see that when she left the house she told her mom she was off to study... The hell people? Who is this show written for? As an adult there is no way I should want to watch this... They made this movie once called KIDS. It showed the dark side of teens and the crap that happens. But, it also showed the consequences for those actions, kids died. This show is not written to shock people into paying attention to a lost youth of a generation. To me this show just appears to show the youth of America that its cool to do this crap...

So, please help me. Tell me who this show is written for. If you are an adult, you should be creeped out by watching naked teens rub on each other... It would be like finding you little brother or sister making out, and instead of stopping them.. Just you know watching.... So, it can't be written for the college age demographic. Is it written for kids? Do you want a group of teens and preteens watching naked teens make out, get faced drunk, and do drugs? I lost all respect for MTV a long time ago, but damn MTV you are F'd up... Seriously, to shock me with your depravity is actually impressive... Your advertising during the day is geared toward knocked up teens, who got that way making choices your shows promote and say are cool... You are like a perpetual motion machine of awful.  MTV, you stopped being edgy, a long time ago, you're now the 30 something guy at the high school party in your letter jacket. You stopped being about college aged people doing off the wall stuff to get attention and wandered into the dark side of things, kids dude, kids... If MTV was your neighbor, in most states it would have to come to your house and inform you that it was living there and put a sign in its yard...

Thus endith the rant.

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This is a test of my phone's ability to post a blog. If this works I may be able to vent in realtime... I will now attempt to post a picture from phone as well

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Soccer... A repost from the past

Soccer

So beginth the rant:....

We all know that nobody in the U.S. really likes soccer. But, we are made to think we, and by we I mean all those who will admit how crappy the game is, are wrong because the rest of the world seems to love it. For the most part I've reserved myself to just making fun of the few people I know who come out of the closet and let me know they actually enjoy soccer, and most of those people understand that I'm not going to waiver in my opinion on the subject. Not to mention that my arguments are based on facts, facts are like poison to hippies and soccer fans alike.

But, still to this day I find people who not only enjoy soccer but find the need to explain to me how the rest of the world is right and that I and 89% of the United States is wrong. I will now go about listing my argument against soccer with a few points.

Point one: Kids are not supposed to be sex slaves… Yes, I said sex slaves. What the hell am I talking about? Just do a little google on World Cup Soccer and sex trafficking. You will be shocked at what you will find. The long and short of this fact is apparently rich people who flock to the biggest world soccer event need to indulge in horrible acts of depravity to suppliant the boredom from watching soccer. So, yeah… Soccer leads to sex slavery.

Point two. USA! USA! WE'RE 1 Face it we are. If we were not hundreds of thousands of people would not be flooding our country to live here. But why are we so awesome? Because we are, and even though hippies and liberals will argue that we are not the best place on the planet… We are. For the past 60 plus years we have been the benchmark of civilization. Her is a short list of why we are the best in the world.

-Soccer, we hate it the rest of the world loves it.....

-Democracy, we elect our officials and actually don't have to worry about being killed for our political beliefs. ....

-Freedom of speech, I mean look at the media today they talk crap about everything the government does and none of them are disappeared.....

-Freedom of religion, you don't have to worry about your Baptist neighbors killing you because you are Assembly of God. (isolated cases sure but not tolerated as a way of life)....

-Infrastructure, we have electricity, phone, roads, running water cable television, satellite, and even inner net to just about every corner of our country.....

-Modern medicine, we have hospitals that will cure you of most ailments that are not built out of cinder blocks, with dirt floors, and equipment used in WW2. ....

-Public schools, if you want you can go to school get educated, and will not be turned away because of gender, race, or religion. ....

What is my point. My point is if the greatest country on the planet hates the sport, it’s a crappy sport.

Point three. IQ. That right the average IQ rating of the world is 80, that's five points above retardation. The middle of the road is 100. So doing the math if you are average intelligence (90-100) half of the world is dumber than you. And according to poles most of the world is below the bar. I have included this bell curve diagram to help you out.

What this shows is over half the world is not very bright and therefore more easily amused by people kicking a ball around not scoring and not accomplishing a linier task. The fact the game is non linier is what makes it suck so badly… You are actually punished for moving too quickly down the field to score…

Point four, poverty. True in most countries people don't have much stuff. We fat lazy spoiled Americans are all about stuff. We have cars, TV's, Ipods, computers, and at least three pairs of shoes. In most countries that's not the case because of their lack of infrastructure and economy they don't have luxuries that we have. So when it comes down to the picking of a past time they can't play a sport that requires equipment. For example lets say you wanted to play basketball. You need a ball, flat hard surface, a hoop, and a backboard. Or baseball, you need a stick, ball, bases, and gloves. To play Tennis you need a net, racket, balls, and a mini skirt. To play soccer you need…

And with this I rest my case… Soccer sucks. It is widely played around the world not because it's a great game, but because the rest of the world is too stupid or too poor to do any better.

Thus endith the rant.

You all look the same to me...

So Beginith the Rant:

What does a minister look like? Where in the bible does it share the dress code for a minister? Prophets maybe, ancient priests for sure. But ministers? Nope.
Does business casual exude more of the light of the Spirit vs. a t-shirt and jeans? Or even a pearl snap shirt? Should hair be long or short? Parted or combed back? Shoes should be leather or synthetic? Loafer or laces? Dare I ask if flip flops are even on the table?
Pastors are victims of stereotyping. They are expected to fit a mold that most people believe pastors should look like. A mold that exists due to a false idea of what piety should look like. Sadly most buy into this and fall in step, or are broken down by the masses or fear of losing a job.
Any other group would be lauded for bucking the stereotypes and fighting a close minded view, but not pastors. Most embrace the bent dress code expected of those in their profession and often condemn those who do not as well. Instead of educating the masses on the subject of not all having to look the same, they often allow the masses to dictate what is expected from them.
I’m sure you can connect the thinly veiled dots I’m laying out here with how in every group of stereotyped people there are those, in the group, that claim those who fight against those stereotypes are “not truly, insert group affiliation here.” I know we as educated people often see these poor souls as misguided, and a definite part of the problem. For example, when I am with my friends who are in those heavily stereotyped groups I often hear them say, “Thanks for holding us back.” a comment directed to a person from their group blindly following the stereotype and living up to the generalization, because every person who feeds the stereotype monster makes is stronger.
Now a person, not from the before mentioned stereotyped group, who expresses how someone from said group should dress, act, or appear is immediately branded a small minded racist or bigot. Unless of course that person is referring to a pastor… If that’s the case they make sure that person is on the church board so their contemptuous ramblings can be more affective in keeping the minister in step.
Where am I going with this? Most groups have leaders who fight for the members rights to be individuals. Stating that merits should be the judge of a person worth not their appearance. The cover does not make the book. Why do we as pastors not stand up for this? Why do those who fall into step with the “old school” look down on those who do not? Why do those who refuse have animosity to those who do not? Do you think I know that both of those questions are generalizations not taking into account that not every minister falls into those two camps or schools of thought? Well, crap… Generalizations are just easier to write I guess.

So endith the Rant:

good parenting

So Beginith the Rant:


I found myself watching some cable news today... I try to avoid this when at all possible to avoid having bouts of rage at the perceived stupidity of the nations people as a whole. But today I found myself seeing a story of a man who is facing a $1,000 fine, 1,000 hours of community service, forced to take anger management classes, as well as counseling, and six months probation. What was his crime? Let me first start with posing a thought experiment.

Do you have children? Do you know someone who does? Do you have children you love and consider to be your own? Do any of these children have "special needs"?

Now imagine that one of these children came to you repeatedly to complain about being bullied at school as well as on the school bus because of their physical handicap. (not just name calling we are talking physically abused) What would you do?

I am assuming we would all call the school and report the problem. What would you do if the school took no action? If the child was now afraid to leave the house? What would you do if you saw it happening and got to confront the kids bullying your loved one?

Call me old fashioned but I believe that yelling and threatening them would be acceptable. Hell, if the kids were in their mid teens I would even say an asswhipping would even be justified. Especially if you caught them in the act. I don't see a single person who would look at a parent defending their child (special needs child) in this way as a danger, or a criminal.

Back to the guy mentioned above. The man's daughter with cerebral palsy was being tortured on the school bus. After weeks of the school ignoring his complaints he entered the bus and yelled and cussed out the kids abusing his daughter. (the kids were in middle school)

What kind of world do we live in where this needs to be punished to the full extent of the law? Am I wrong to assume parents cannot protect their children? I do not encourage use of violence, but if any time is it justified here ya go... If you were a bully and a pissed off dad came at you beating you to a pulp because he caught you slapping his daughter (special needs daughter... as if her being a girl wasn't good enough reason) do you think you would hit her again?
I guess I'm just barbaric in my thinking...

So Endith the Rant

Not so happy meal...

So Beginith the Rant:

I wasn't old enough to remember getting any kind of "toy" in a cracker jack box. When I was a kid only thing inside there were stickers and or baseball card. I do remember when cool toys came in cereal boxes... Even though my family was the feed the kids sticks and twig cereal rather than the fun stuff... Whole other rant there.

What I can remember when I was a kid was the McDonald's Happy Meal. I remember getting anything from matchbox/hotwheel cars to lego kits. I know I had the opportunity to eat more than a few of the meals as a kid especially on the road trip to Snyder to visit grandparents. Now today I read a story that people in California (focused around San Francisco, stupid libbies and their stupidness) are trying to pass a law banning toys in happy meals because, and get this, they think it is a leading cause of childhood obesity.

I am a founding member of the not yet organized group T.A.C.O. (taskforce against childhood obesity)which will advocate shame and reticule to make obese kids stop being fat. Remember when it wasn't okay to be the kid who could run across the playground? Or the kid too out of shape and soft to dodge a ball? Or got winded eating a sandwich? (again... There is a small percentage of people who can't help being fat, but that condition is rare. Also being a large kid isn't bad either. Obese is obese, fat is fat. Fat kids can function and often make great linemen) It was this shame and focus on physical activities that kept the shadow of obese children from darkening the playgrounds of my youth... I find it strange that lawsuits are being brought against fast food chains, when last I checked children can't drive, don't have access to credit, and often get lost or runover when allowed to treck out unsupervised... so with the exception of the independently wealthy kids with cars... adults, more to the point, parents of these kids are buying this good and allowing their kids to eat it and not be active. The first order of business for TACO will be to file suit against any parent of an obese child who cannot prove a medical reason for its fattness. Yes, I will have fries with that... make it a large. So endith the rant

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