2009 - meh

I'm not that impressed with 2009 as of yet. There seems to be no sense of direction. Just the same shit as last year. So far it looks like this year is going to be just like any other year and, honestly, that scares the hell out of me.

Oh and my nose won't stop bleeding. I wonder what that's about.

Not As Impressed

While I think that Dr. Pepper's original intention to live up to their word was nice their website was hammered during the time allotted to download the coupon for a free soda and I couldn't get one.

Very upsetting. Free Dr. Pepper is good. Better than regular old "paid for it" Dr. Pepper.

Didn't We Just Cut You A Check?

I hate politicians....

Read why Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the douchebags in Washington are...well...douchebags

Things I Don't Care About Today

• The new OJ Simpson trial ( or the old one for that matter )
  
• Sarah Palin or any of her children
• John McCain or any of his wives or houses
  
• Barack Obama or what he's going to "change"
• Any reason for bailing out a multi-billion corporation by the US government
• Explanations for why gas prices go up at the pump when they go down on Wall St.

I'm Disgusted

CNN.com has an article on the front page covering the bailout of Fannie May and Freddie Mac. This is the first line:

"Mortgage applicants rejoice!"

Rejoice!?!?!?! Two giant companies can't keep their shit together, causing hundreds of thousands of foreclosures (I'm the victim of three) and we're supposed to rejoice? We, the American tax payers, are going to fund the bailout of bastards who were so greedy they ran their companies into the ground and we're supposed to rejoice? Fuck you.

I'll rejoice when the people running this nation actually think about the people they represent before their wallets. I'll rejoice when we're more worried about unfed, uneducated, abused children in this country than how many homes John McCain has. I'll rejoice when I know the quality of my children's education is no longer based on my annual income.

I'm really starting to believe that the human race is the scourge of this planet. Everything was fine until we got here.

You can read the whole bullshit story here

A Bothersome Truth

When I saw the image below for the first time I thought it was very clever. It's a Mexican political cartoon. However, the more I look at it, the more I have to ask "Is this really how the rest of the world sees us?".


I'm afraid that for the most part the answer is yes, which is very disturbing. None of the people I know feel like they are better than anyone else just because they're an American. None of the people I know want to make the world a better place by getting rid of people whom are different than they are. None of the people I know feel a kinship to the Nazi regime of the 1940s.

That being said, people around the world are viewing us like this because of the actions of a few people in office. There are 300 million people in the United States and a small percentage of those people are fucking it up for the rest of us.

I guess I don't have a point here other than it really makes me angry that I'm lumped in with the assholes in Washington DC, just because of the country I live in. I don't hate anyone in another country just because they're from another country. I just want everyone to leave everyone else alone. Let people do what they want unless they're hurting someone else. If we would all follow that simple rule everything would be fine.

Or maybe not. Humans fuck everything up. I'm sure we would fuck that up too.

Why?

Why is it that so many people think it's OK to basically shower in the restroom at work. I can walk into the bathroom on almost any given day and find people washing their faces, brushing their teeth or any other number of personal things that should be done at home. For fuck's sake I saw a guy at work BLOWING HIS NOSE into the sink! I can understand wanting to take care of your teeth, but forcing me to listen to you blow snot out of your head and into the sink where I'm going to wash my hands is just a little too much.

Man, people piss me off.