- I have never wanted to see anyone die more than I want to see Cheese die. First Butchie and then Prop Joe? What the everloving hell. The only good thing about Cheese being Cheese is that Omar is back to do some work. Sweet Jesus.
I wonder if I’m alone in thinking that Cheese might actually adversely affect how I view the Wu from here out.
- I don’t know if yo who pointed it out actually wants it to be known it was yo thought of it, so I will allow yo to identify yoself if yo decides yo wants to, but yo thought of me when yo saw this:
Cheese and The Cheetah Girls. Get it?
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- I don’t care that Heath Ledger is dead. Unless it causes The Dark Knight’s release to be postponed. Then I curse the bastard.
- I didn’t realize how important music I choose is to my workouts until my mp3 player’s battery died while I was on the treadmill and I had to plug in to my gym’s shitty music video channels.
- My current favorite song to run to is “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven. My Yahoo! Unlimited Music Jukebox To Go thing says that a similar band to Finger Eleven is Puddle of Mudd, whose “Famous” is also on heavy rotation in my eardrums. I think my main criteria for music these days is that it is loud, has distorted guitars and curse words in the lyrics.
- Unfortunately, at home I can’t get away from “The Best of Both Worlds.” I don’t get the whole Hannah Montana thing. Miley Cyrus isn’t that cute, doesn’t sing well, can’t act worth a fuck, and has one of the most annoying speaking voices on TV. Yet she’s the biggest thing going. And people wonder why I want to slice my wrists (long ways) when I think about the fate of the world.
- On the other hand, I would do really evil things to The Cheetah Girls, especially if they sang “Fuego” while twirling around a stripper pole for me. (And they’re even all legal; I checked.)
- Re: the last two bullet points — yes, I am almost 38 years old.
- Omar is going to fuck some shit up. For real. That boy don’t play.
I’m coming to the end of week 2 of my half marathon training. I’m a little concerned about logging so many fewer miles than I was before I started the program, but I have to say that I feel pretty good and am still motivated to continue (although that has more to do with the fact that I already paid for two [2] half marathons and being a jew I have to get my money’s worth out of them than anything else).
This training program is only devised as a way to get someone to finish a half marathon while I do have a goal time in mind. But all the more experienced runners I polled suggested I do the novice program even though I was already running as much as the intermediate program required. So I’ve decided to not stress about my first half marathon. That’ll be my first one and it’ll give me a chance to learn what to expect and to go through the experience. After that I’ll just jump into the last 5 weeks of the intermediate program and shoot for my time at my second half marathon.
If by some chance I come close to my goal time at the first half marathon I’ll be one chest puffed out walking mofo though. I can guarantee that.
As I wrote last time, I can not find anyone who will admit to voting for AND supporting Maryland O’Governor Martin O’Malley and his actions in office, namely his ramrodding a tax hike through a special session of the legislature with the help of his two goons over there.
Now, the increasingly shitty local fishwrap has taken a series of polls and has discovered that O’Gov has an approval rating almost as low as George Bush’s, there is no clear front runner in either party for state presidential primaries, and that a majority of those polled wish to keep the death penalty in Maryland, which O’Gov is a huge opponent of and which he couldn’t say fast enough that it should be banned here immediately after it was banned in New Jersey (I like how the article’s subhead tells how many want to do away with the death penalty rather than how many want to keep it, which is what the story is about).
People can say what they will, but the previous governor, who was the first republican governor in a generation, never dropped below 50% in his approval ratings, and I will say this forever: the only reason he was ineffective in his job was because he couldn’t even get the legislature to bring his ideas up for debate (Exhibit A: slots, which wasn’t approved in the special session, but was brought up for debate and which is going to a statewide referendum; the last governor couldn’t get the issue to even be talked about for four years unless he was willing to tie slots with a tax increase, which he wouldn’t do). He was stonewalled at every turn. Now that there’s a governor in office to get stuff done, it turns out that his getting stuff done is driving people to consider moving out of state.
In other news, here are some recent headlines regarding O’Gov:
O’Malley vows UM tuition freeze
O’Malley to offer energy package
O’Malley wants to expand DNA testing
O’Malley plays down prospect of more cuts [NOTE: Budget cuts totaled $200-300 million; new taxes are bringing in $1.5 billion. $5 says the state magically comes up with hundreds of millions in budget surplus and that money will buy off all the stupid voters in this state just in time for him to be re-elected. Dumbfucks.]
What is the common denominator with all those headlines? That each one of those proposals will cost a fortune. But we just suffered a massive tax increase to close a supposedly huge budget deficit. So where will the money come from to pay for all this stuff? And this is our new day in Maryland.
DISCLAIMER: I hate using polls and statistics as ways to make points because either can be massaged to say whatever those polling or compiling want them to say. However, if The Sun — O’Gov O’Malley’s personal P.R. rag — can’t skew numbers in a way to make the O’Gov look good he’s probably even more out of touch with his constituency than the fishwrap is reporting.
DISCLAIMER: I personally believe in the death penalty, but I can appreciate the arguments of those who don’t and can understand why they believe the way they do about it. The death penalty issue in Maryland where the O’Gov doesn’t want it and the populace does just helps show that people who voted for him thinking he was looking out for their interests are morons.
Here’s what I don’t get. If you come home and find something missing, say a television, and you exclaim “what the hell!” in front of your kids it’s perfectly fine. But if you come home and find something missing, say a television, and you exclaim “what the fuck!” you’re committing some sort of aural child abuse. You’re expressing shock over discovering something askew and using “hell” and “fuck” to express it is doing so in the exact same way but with four different letters, yet one combination of letters is acceptable while the other isn’t.
Words are just words. It kills me that people make such a big deal over them.
Also, it’s funny (not ha-ha) that so many people are outraged over the recent assfuckery going on to tax the shit out of people enough in Maryland to make them seriously think about moving somewhere else. I get that we have to pay taxes for some shit, like roads and bridges and schools and whatnot, but we got a big tax hike and on top of that proposals have been made to cover the uninsured for health care (i.e. illegal aliens) with no way to pay for it (until the next huge tax increase). What’s going to happen when I can’t afford to pay for the uninsured anymore and I become one of them? Truth is, I’m too white and too male and too responsible an adult for it to matter to anyone what happens to me if I can’t pay my own way, my family’s, and everyone else’s.
Anyway, O’Governor O’Malley’s approval ratings in Maryland rival George Bush’s, and I can’t find a single person who will admit to voting for him in the last election, but this article about a poll that even the Baltimore Sun can’t skew into a positive for the governor (no matter how hard it tries) attempts to explain away the huge tax increase by saying it was to cover budget shortfalls that “projected” to reach $1.7 billion. So we needed to get bent over a barrel because of an imaginary number. Terrific.
Meanwhile, taxpayers were on the hook for about $300,000 in order to allow the legislature to fuck us during a special session and for $17,000 to send an O’Malley contingent to Ireland for some dumb reason or another. But the people need to sacrifice for the greater good. And the people buy into it when the O’Governor bats his pretty eyes. What’s worse is that by the time re-election season rolls around everyone will forget all about this past year and O’Gov will probably win in a landslide. What a state of dumbfucks I live in.
Ugh, I’m making myself sick.