On just about every overpass, bridge, embankment, underpass and highway sound barrier in upstate New York is a handmade sign pertaining to Ron Paul, the “libertarian” “republican” presidential candidate who is enjoying serious grassroots support, especially among more internet-savvy younger people who don’t know shit about shit but think they know everything about everything, especially if it can be found on Wikipedia.
The signs were all made to look amateurish but you could tell they were absolutely professionally organized. They’d say “Ron Paul - Hope for America” or “Ron Paul for President” or “Vote Ron Paul in the Feb. 5 primary” or “Ron Paul Revolution,” which featured the “evol” turned backwards and printed red to highlight it as the word “love.” Aw.
My favorite sign, however, was the simplest one. It said only “Google Ron Paul.” Every time I saw that one I said, “Fuck you… nobody tells me what to google. Nobody!” But I did, in fact, google Ron Paul. And I found this and this. Now I think Ron Paul is just a whackjob 9/11 conspiracy fruit with an army of whackjob deadbeat supporters who wouldn’t know what to do with the “freedom” they supposedly so desperately desire because it wouldn’t be the kind of freedom they would want (you know, the kind where they’d benefit the most). Also, Ron Paul is a TEN TERM congressman, which means he’s been inside the beltway for TWENTY years and is way more of a D.C. insider than he is an outsider.
It’s a shame, because on the surface (i.e., judging by his voting record) he’s more attractive than hollow men such as Mitt Romney or scary old hags like Hillary Clinton or pretty cover girls like John Edwards. And by digging a little deeper I found this via google, which makes me think maybe Ron Paul is the man for me. I take my hood in a size medium.
Heil Paul!
The official mother of Standing Cheese is now off the radar spending the holidays with family out of town. Because of that, she asked Standing Cheese and the family of Standing Cheese to come open presents Saturday night at her house. She told Standing Cheese that she expected him to “jump for joy” when he saw the Christmas present she got him. Standing Cheese is not the “jump for joy” type, but he doesn’t mind getting Christmas presents from his jewish mother.
The present turned out to be a brochure for Disney World vacations, along with a check to pay for the Standing Cheese family to go on a Disney vacation at their convenience. Standing Cheese was supposed to jump for joy for this? A “vacation” to the “happiest” place on earth, where he’ll get no rest or relaxation and will have to deal with two kids of separate genders and age groups who will want to do completely different things the entire time the Standing Cheese family will be on the Disney grounds and who will either whine, cry or both while stating their cases for doing what they want to do in direct contrast to what their sibling wants? There is a reason the Standing Cheese family hasn’t embarked on a trip to any Disney location to this point: Standing Cheese is very aware how much of a pain in the ass a trip to Orlando would be at this point in his life.
To make matters worse, this “jump for joy” present’s main only attraction — the check to pay for it all — was for only about half of what it would cost for the Standing Cheese family to go to the “magic” kingdom (Standing Cheese has been pricing a trip such as this for a while now).
Merry f’n Christmas.
P.S. Standing Cheese is already lobbying to hold off on Disney until January 2009, so that he can run the Disney World half marathon while he’s there. That’ll give him a couple hours of peace, at least.
In the last week or so I’ve done something twice that I never thought I’d do: watch full-length movies in streaming video over the internet. It’s either been the quality of the video or the speed of my connection or something that made it not worth my while. Also, what retard sits in front of his computer monitor in order to watch TV for two hours at a pop? I know it’s the big thing to turn your PC into a DVR, but that doesn’t make it any less retarded. And don’t get me started on dumb shit like Slingbox and AppleTV. Like my TV itself doesn’t have enough worthless bullshit on it to watch so I have to supplement it with more worthless bullshit to watch from the internet.
Anyway, it’s gotten to a point now where that might be changing. I guess that’s progress. Even if one of the movies I watched forced me to download Microsoft Silverlight when Abobe Flash player is already out there doing the same thing. But what can you do. It’s still a Microsoft world.
