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Minus The Nemesis
A Collaboration of Some of the Finest Thought on Today's World

DRIVE THE EXTRA 152 MILES TO ATLANTIC CITY...

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
This is utterly confusing and disturbing to say the least.

A group of investors from Chance Enterprises is planning on boosting economic development by putting in the Crossroads Gaming Resort and Spa about a mile from Gettysburg. That's right; that would be the battle that lasted 3 days and claimed 600,000 lives and left over 50,000 wounded. The battle more or less defined the tide of the War Between the States.

A battlefield of this magnitude shouldn't be placed on an endangered list, but it has been. As a matter of fact, it tops the list. It is a downright shame that American history of this caliber is being threatened by slot machines. In my opinion, sites such as Gettysburg should be preserved as they are part of our heritage as American people.

All in all, I say if you want to gamble that bad, take your chubby digits to the internet, or pack up Timmy's college fund and head to Atlantic City. Perhaps investors from Chance Enterprises will also want to make a waterslide next in Pearl Harbor? Leave Gettysburg the Hell alone.

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AND SOME THINK THE MEDIA ISN'T FLAWED...

Monday, February 27, 2006
When is the last time that you saw Denzel Washington headline a newspaper? Never is my guess. I have seen tripe like Madonna, er, Esther (this week) and the skinny version of the more talented half of the Penn brother's like to spew all over the front pages. Where do you think I read about Penn and his S.S. Minnow story? Front page slick. Where did I read about an outstanding person like Denzel Washington and how he visited wounded soldiers and their families at Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio? In the back somewhere. Why does the media think it's taboo to support the troops in public? A shame, I say.

Moreover, raving asshats like Joel Stein can have his "opinion" and it makes some headlines. Maybe it's because of his guest spots on VH1 where he sits like a chimp providing "insight" of days past? Who is to say? Not me, I will continue to say the media is bias and for the most part can kiss my ass.

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DARK WATERS!

As if it were some momentous occasion, Jessica Simpson broke bread with the Governor of New Mexico. She was arrested shortly thereafter for trying to slam-dunk a dinner roll down his yap while singing a crappy rendition of a famous Nancy Sinatra song.

This could go down in history...you know, right up there when another famous New Mexican politician (who just happened to be Governor at the time) spent his constituent's money by writing Sparticus instead of putting Billy the Kid in jail.

Either way, both scenarios are equally lacking in the interest department.

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WHY DOES THIS WOMAN STILL HAVE HER FREEDOM?

Repulsively rich hillbillies continue to populate the earth. Why is this legal?

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Here is the answer to your question A Man In The Arena. Happy blogging!

CrappyBlog

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WORD UP! K-FED COMMIN' ATCHA!

Monday, February 20, 2006
Laugh.

Kevin Federline, the leech-like husband of white-trash pop icon Britney Spears has submitted a statement that he is ready to face the backlash of rappers. This indicates to me that he doesn't even consider himself to be a real rapper.
"He hates his children, he treats his wife like dirt, he gets high all day," he said, quoting his critics. "If I was that bad, you think anyone, let alone Britney, would put up with it?"
Barefoot1Barefoot2DrivingMsBaby
You know, I have a strong suspition of what the answer might be K-Fed.

K-Fed goes on to say that because his single received 2 million hits in 8 days there is some interest. I am not so sure interest could be defined by people downloading and or listening just to make fun of your "talent", K-Fed. Haha, best of luck to you, however long it lasts. If all else fails, you can take your brewd (including the two from a previous "marriage") and perhaps backup dance for another sugar mama to make it through life. Dummy.

*Note: Unfortunately the pictures are not of such great quality to imply that BS is the best judge of character, but you get the idea.

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LACES OUT DAN

Saturday, February 18, 2006
I must say that I am mostly impressed with the winter olympics in Torino, Italy. I have watched several events, some of which left me wondering exactly why they were an olympic event and some left me wanting to be in the athlete's position.

I am not a very sports-oriented person. I skateboard and snowboard, but that's about it. I do have to say that two athletes bothered me in their approach to the games and the arrogance they carried with them. Bodie Miller and Lindsey Jacobellis utterly crapped the preverbial bed when it was their time to shine. At least that's what we were led to believe. You see, both athletes are very good athletes, don't get me wrong, but with their TV commercials and general build up of their image and ego have made their heads huge.

Case in point is Jacobellis and how she shit the bed by throwing down a trick on the last jump of the snowboardercross (SBX). She had such a lead and could have literally coasted to the win, but instead chose to showboat by doing some sort of grab off of a jump. Her explanation was that she was trying to "steady herself" in mid-air. I am not buying it. I have gone off of a few jumps in my day and been off-balance plenty of times. When I try to steady myself in the air, I don't pull a trick; my arms tend to flail about, reaching for balance. She paid the price for it though. Showboating dummy.

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ORIGINAL JOKES CAN BE FUNNY

Monday, February 13, 2006
If you for some reason haven't heard all of the chatter, VP Dick Cheney was involved in a hunting accident. Of course the Hollywood Set has already started in on the "jokes". Granted, there are going to be some funny ones out there to make light of the situation, but the one that I heard George Clooney Clowny tell was downright lame. It was to the tune of something like: "Dick Cheney called me and asked if I wanted to go hunting this weekend." Hardy har har Clowny.

Perhaps the fact that Clowny is unoriginal has carried over into his lack of Academy Award stats. Who is to say? At any rate, I think that Clowny should use material that he can relate to. For example:

Clowny: "What do Harry Whittington and I have in common?"
Anyone who cares: "I don't know Clowny, but I am sure you are going to tell us."
Clowny: "That's right; now we've both taken a shot to the face!"

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IMPORTANT SAFETY BULLETIN

For the sake of public safety, it is every decent American's responsibility to read this. Be sure to take the quiz afterwards-- I'm way above the power curve.

p.s. Man in the arena, you're sooo lucky I don't have a picture of you to highlight Maddox's point.

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FAIR WARNING FOR MY BLOOD ENEMIES

Less than 2 months left of my class, then it's back to full time, high-octane professional blogging.

Man in the Arena
, start counting the days till my wrath and scorching satire yet again devastate whatever scraps of self-esteem you've managed to pitifully cling to.

And the same goes to you, Word.

Fatties, the both of yous.

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DEAR WORLD,

Friday, February 10, 2006
Tori Spelling is ugly.

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NEW ADDITION TO THE COLLECTION

Thursday, February 09, 2006
Laphroaig Quarter Cask

On a recent trip I acquired this fine bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask. Unfortunately this scotch isn't readily available in the United States, but is in the UK. This is a great-tasting scotch with a good smoky flavor with a medicinal nose. Go to London immediately and drop a few pounds to get a bottle fatty.

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LEADER OF HEZBOLLAH SHOWS TRUE INTELLECTUAL PROWESS

Article.

In Beirut, Lebanon the leader of Hezbollah has made this quote, speaking to President Bush and his Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in regards to the latest events concerning the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad:
"shut up".
He was later observed passing a note to his burqa-clad love interest that read:
"Do you like me? Check yes or no."
He is perhaps taking direction and tact from the likes of Hugo Chavez.

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KATRINA: THE PROBLEM THAT WOULDN'T GO AWAY

Tuesday, February 07, 2006
There is recent news of FEMA pulling the plug on its free housing for many displaced persons of Hurricane Katrina. In the article FEMA claims that it has gone and knocked on the 25,000 subsidized hotel rooms "no fewer than six times". That's a lot of knocking.

Apparently some refused to answer their knocks and some even ran when they saw FEMA coming. These are the persons that are being evicted now. I am willing to bet this caliber of person is the same who decided to squander their $2000.00 USD FEMA-issued debit card to buy purses and shoes and even designer jeans. What's more is that there were some protesting at the hotel! Take all that energy and run along and try to get work and stop trying to live off of my tax dollars.

I think that Frank Michel, a spokesman for the mayor of Houston said it right: "People need to begin to take responsibility for themselves". Freeloaders.

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WHEN CONVENIENT, PEACE IS A FACET

Sunday, February 05, 2006
Islam is regarded as a religion built upon piety and humility, peace and understanding. Somehow I think that those Muslims burning and vandalizing Danish interests in Beirut will undoubtedly spread to burning the interests of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria before too long. I am also confident that these events aren't related to either peace or understanding.

The whole rift in the Muslim community started when some dude from a Danish newspaper printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a negative light. According to Islam, Muhammad isn't even supposed to be made into a likeness, nor is Allah. Well, in the Qur'an, there is not a specific reference to that. The closest thing to it is in chapter 42, verse 11. Basically it says "there is nothing like a likeness of Him". The Muslims have taken their interpretation to the extreme and are promoting peace and understanding with violence. That doesn't make sense to me.

I think that there were some things that were glanced right over when printing said cartoons, like common sense. Basically the cartoons were printed as to represent Muslims and specifically the Prophet Muhammad as terrorists, bomb-makers, etc. I don't think that this is representative of the whole religion or the peoples, but the cartoons would have you think so. I think that it is part of the growing European mistrust of Muslims as a whole. This combined with Iran giving the finger to the international community will prove to be interesting in the coming days.

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"COURTNEY LOVE SAYS DRUG PROBLEM BEHIND HER" --AP

She will undoubtedly slow down and or put it in reverse to pick it back up.

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TRIGGER HAPPY "PEACE" OFFICER

Article.

There are tons of links to the video and other resources explaining the unfortunate event. Basically what happens is that the cop is a jumpy one that pulled a Corvette over after a brief chase for excessive speed. The details leading up to the event are basically that the driver Luis Fernando Escobedo, 21 and Senior Airman Elio Carrion left a party and were driving to a store. The idiot driving the Corvette ditched the scene and left Carrion (or he was smart enough not to run, as I am guessing) to the wolves as it were. The driver was caught and charged with felony evading while Carrion was charged with absolutely nothing. Why? Because he didn't do anything but comply with the jumpy cop's orders.

A Chino, California resident happened to film the incident. A 40-second clip that is on the internet in numerous places shows the jumpy cop with his weapon drawn and pointed at Carrion who is supporting himself on one hand with his face lit up by the jumpy cop's flashlight. At one point you hear Carrion declare that he is unarmed and is in the military. Carrion, who is an Air Force policeman, offered his badge to the jumpy cop at one point. The jumpy cop tells him several times to get up to which Carrion replies "I'm gonna get up". The jumpy cop responds by firing no less than four times at Carrion hitting him three times.

Thankfully, Carrion after being hit it the chest, legs and ribs is listed in good condition at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California. What pisses me off the most is that the jumpy cop is unquestionably out of line. It would seem to me that the jumpy cop already had Carrion on the ground, why not cuff him and then have him get up? That would make sense. I think that this jumpy cop just plain screwed up and someone ended up getting shot for no apparent reason. The jumpy cop is on administrative leave as is SOP for shooting incidents. Here is the next thing that pisses me off: of all the references listed of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Gary Penrod and Chino, California not a single one has listed any sort of press release explaining anything. With that information I would encourage you, reader, to write to these three entities asking why there is no information concerning the event. Something this high profile would surely warrant a public announcement. If, in the event that you do decide to write any of the following agencies, do so with respect please. If you have a legitimate concern about the event you will no doubt do so with tact and reserve all the while expecting answers (i.e. if you are a self-proclaimed anarchist or socialist like "leftside" save your childish emails about how cops suck and whatnot; they are a waste of time).

Links of Interest:

California Penal Code
*NOTE: Nowhere in this penal code is there reference to the authorized use of force if a subject is in compliance with the Peace Officer. See Section 836 for arrest procedures.
California Peace Officer and Standards Training
*NOTE: I have looked the POST curriculum over and don't see the section that promotes the shooting of unarmed military personnel.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Public Information
*NOTE: Of interest are the following email addresses to which you can write to inquire about the incident: Public Affairs, Internal Affairs, Civil Liabilities and San Bernardino County Police Academy

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OH, IT'S NOT A PUBLICITY STUNT, REALLY!

Bag O'Nuts

I am sure that the media just happened to creep up on the Queen Nut lying like this and that it wasn't staged.

In reality, I am just pacing Nemesis for his blatant sarcastic post, also of this month. This woman is a dummy and I am convinced that Casey's spirit is not turning over in his grave as the age-old cliche goes, but rather is trying to split the uprights if you know what I mean.

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HOW COULD I MAKE MYSELF LOOK STUPID AND POSSIBLY WIN MONEY AT THE SAME TIME?

This has got to be a joke.

In the above article, John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana is suing Apple over a potential hearing loss. That's right, this guy is blaming the iPod manufacturer because he is too stupid to use the volume functions of the device. At first I thought this was a joke perpetrated by everyone's favorite self-proclaimed socialist that works for the government; "leftside", but then I found out it was the guy from Louisiana. Read the article, it is a bit of the funny.

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PRISON BREAK!

Interpol, or the International Criminal Police Organization created in 1923 as a means to assist international law enforcement has released a disturbing statement in that 23 inmates have escaped from a prison in Yemen. Among the criminals is the alleged "mastermind" of the USS Cole attack in 2000, also in Yemen.

This dickhead is no doubt connected with the Millenium Plots in that there was a previous attempt on a US ship by the name of the USS The Sullivans. This was a failed attempt because of the suicide bomber's boad began to sink under the weight of the explosives. We all know that al-Qaeda and terrorism in general is not usually connected with being bright. That is why I hesitate to use the word "mastermind" in connection with any of these thugs.

Hopefully the escaped criminals will be brought to justice before they do some damage.

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NO WAR FOR OIL

Friday, February 03, 2006
Read. The day before the President's State of the Union address, I was in an argument about the role of government in oil. Two usually conservative co-workers argued that oil is so important to the country, that the government had to intervene in our nation's "over-dependence". How would you like the government to intervene, I asked. "Why, by providing, ummm, incentives."

Never mind the already existing incentive of a potential trillion dollar market to the person who invents a rapidly marketable oil alternative, what in the world makes anybody think the government is competent enough to invent anything? And even if it was, why in the hell should the government be in the invention industry? The government's purpose, according to this neat little document, is to protect property rights, respect citizens' individual liberties, impeach Presidents and whatnot. Not invent and market, however useful, consumer products. Yes, oil is important to our nation. But, so are shampoo/conditioner combos. Not once have I heard of a proposal for the government to come up with an effective 2 in 1 that will keep those flakes from falling off of Minus' head.

To be fair, my two co-workers weren't arguing that the government, per se, create this oil alternative. But that they encourage it's creation.

Again, what can the government possibly due to top the already existing encouragement of the generational wealth opportunity that the private market provides? And, with government's "encouragement" also comes government regulation. Anybody who's read Hayek should understand why this is not helpful, and certainly overshadows any possible benefits the government could bring to the table.

I would agree that government should become involved in finding oil alternatives if the government wasn't a sclerotic, corrupt entity. Sadly, however, it is. An oil alternative is going to come from the private market. The more the government meddles with that market-- despite it's good intentions-- the longer it will take.

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