I haven't blogged in months -as you probably haven't noticed, seeing as there are actually 3 or 4 people who know this blog existed. Ah well. What started as an idea to blog has become a failure in my eyes. Perhaps my life is too boring or I'm simply too lazy to share my thoughts. I will try to change that in the upcoming months. Maybe I can catch a spark and get this thing rolling.
Time will tell.
OK, so what I want to know is when is accepting an aplogy acceptable? Tough sentance to swallow but bare with me. The reason I ask is due to all the crap that celebrities have been getting caught with. Whether it's David Letterman banging his co-workers for promised promotions or athletes stealing or betting on games, or just your average Joe cheating on his wife or your average Jane following suit.
When you say you are sorry, how the hell is someone supposed to believe it or take it to heart? Let us use Letterman as an example. Would it have been better for him to tell his wife after his affairs occured rather than wait until he's being blackballed? Would the consequences be any different? I highly doubt it, but would he be able to slavage anything in his wife's eyes that he can not do now?
Most of the apologies and scandals revolve around affairs, whether it be a man or a woman. This brings me to ask another question -- is it unrealistic to believe you will remain faithful to your partner during marriage? Aren't men and women attracted to the oppoosite sex by nature? Hasn't it been this way since the days of Adam and Eve? I'm not saying it's right to mess around (I've personally never done it while in a relationship) but is it something that should end a marriage? Will the scope of things change in the near future, or in the next century?
I'd like to hear your thoughts, if nothing else, for food of thought.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Politics as Usual
I’ve never been big into politics, which is something I’ve been scolded for by my elders and even my peers for most of my life. My parents have pretty much been labeled “independents” throughout their extremely weak political careers. Politics has hardly been a staple of conversation at the dinner table growing up, so perhaps that is why my interest has never been there to begin with.
I’m not sorry I don’t care too much – well, that’s the wrong way to put it. I do care about the well being of the country and the people that populate it and the policies that run it. I want to see things end up successful. But I just can’t trust the politicians of this world because from what I’ve gathered, they have not given me much to trust in.
Everyone, from the politician to the president to the cable networks has a personal agenda to make their side more appealing than the other. Instead of working together as a “united” country the politicians continue to bash one party while praising their own decisions.
For the last eight years George Bush has been classified as the devil. Some of the criticism has been warranted while some of it has been a bit over the top. Overall the guy was just a terrible speaker with the ability to convey an idea to the general audience with the smoothness and accuracy of a six year old learning the ABC’s for the first time. The general impression given by Bush was a hard one to ignore. Add to that the fact that he seemed to act on “hunches” rather than with logic reason and it’s no wonder so many people questioned the way he ran office.
Of course, the Republicans are going to hail him as perfect and the Democrats want him banished from earth to rot in the depths of hell.
And then you have Obama.
Obama is attempting to bring life back to the economy with stimulus after stimulus. The last four months the stock market has been booming – I’ve even seen a 17 percent gain on my investments. The Democrats are going wild, feeling as though the light has been shined by the messiah and life will return to normal.
The Republics hang on to the idea that Obama is bankrupting America or the fact that while the market is improving, job losses continue to pile up in record numbers.
And then the Democrats fire back insisting that the market’s collapse was brought on the Bush Administration.
Or – does anyone remember the so-called “Weapons of Mass Destruction?”
And then the Republicans will criticize Obama’s reformed healthcare plan. They will preach socialism.
And the Democrats will come back … and so forth.
It’s all a sick game of he said-she said. It’s all about greed and influence and manipulation. Nobody cares about the issues – especially the youth vote. Many of those who voted for Obama didn’t give two hoots about his policy. They simply listened to what they were told – McCain is old, Palin is stupid, and Republicans like George Bush ruined the country.
Obama was marketed as the Black Jesus – the BLACK vote was finally going to count. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King’s contributions were even put on par with the possibility of a BLACK president taking office. It was an issue of race and culture and people listened. Obama was the popular vote. Just ask any number of celebrities that endorsed his every move. The press was full of praise. Up until his election CNN constantly brought the death toll of Iraq soldiers’ to the lime light of the program. As soon as he was elected that has since been muffled.
Coincidence?
Back when Bush was running for office in 2000 the Republicans were doing the same thing the Democrats did. They were criticizing Clinton and his NAFTA agreement. They were lambasting Al Gore and his “green thumb.” They spoke about Bush’s family values and his father’s experience, yadee, yadee, yah.
The interesting thing I’ve noticed is that once the opposite party gets elected the opposing team spends every ounce of energy destroying every decision that is made by the new administration.
Is this democracy? What exactly is America fighting for?
I don’t know the answer and I recon I won’t get the answer with Obama, Bush, or John Doe.
I’ve only come to one conclusion when it comes to politics.
Democrats got it all wrong.
Republicans got it all wrong.
The wool has been pulled over the sheep’s eyes.
We will continue to do our jobs, and ‘baaaah’ with the pride of USA.
Hooray.
I’m not sorry I don’t care too much – well, that’s the wrong way to put it. I do care about the well being of the country and the people that populate it and the policies that run it. I want to see things end up successful. But I just can’t trust the politicians of this world because from what I’ve gathered, they have not given me much to trust in.
Everyone, from the politician to the president to the cable networks has a personal agenda to make their side more appealing than the other. Instead of working together as a “united” country the politicians continue to bash one party while praising their own decisions.
For the last eight years George Bush has been classified as the devil. Some of the criticism has been warranted while some of it has been a bit over the top. Overall the guy was just a terrible speaker with the ability to convey an idea to the general audience with the smoothness and accuracy of a six year old learning the ABC’s for the first time. The general impression given by Bush was a hard one to ignore. Add to that the fact that he seemed to act on “hunches” rather than with logic reason and it’s no wonder so many people questioned the way he ran office.
Of course, the Republicans are going to hail him as perfect and the Democrats want him banished from earth to rot in the depths of hell.
And then you have Obama.
Obama is attempting to bring life back to the economy with stimulus after stimulus. The last four months the stock market has been booming – I’ve even seen a 17 percent gain on my investments. The Democrats are going wild, feeling as though the light has been shined by the messiah and life will return to normal.
The Republics hang on to the idea that Obama is bankrupting America or the fact that while the market is improving, job losses continue to pile up in record numbers.
And then the Democrats fire back insisting that the market’s collapse was brought on the Bush Administration.
Or – does anyone remember the so-called “Weapons of Mass Destruction?”
And then the Republicans will criticize Obama’s reformed healthcare plan. They will preach socialism.
And the Democrats will come back … and so forth.
It’s all a sick game of he said-she said. It’s all about greed and influence and manipulation. Nobody cares about the issues – especially the youth vote. Many of those who voted for Obama didn’t give two hoots about his policy. They simply listened to what they were told – McCain is old, Palin is stupid, and Republicans like George Bush ruined the country.
Obama was marketed as the Black Jesus – the BLACK vote was finally going to count. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King’s contributions were even put on par with the possibility of a BLACK president taking office. It was an issue of race and culture and people listened. Obama was the popular vote. Just ask any number of celebrities that endorsed his every move. The press was full of praise. Up until his election CNN constantly brought the death toll of Iraq soldiers’ to the lime light of the program. As soon as he was elected that has since been muffled.
Coincidence?
Back when Bush was running for office in 2000 the Republicans were doing the same thing the Democrats did. They were criticizing Clinton and his NAFTA agreement. They were lambasting Al Gore and his “green thumb.” They spoke about Bush’s family values and his father’s experience, yadee, yadee, yah.
The interesting thing I’ve noticed is that once the opposite party gets elected the opposing team spends every ounce of energy destroying every decision that is made by the new administration.
Is this democracy? What exactly is America fighting for?
I don’t know the answer and I recon I won’t get the answer with Obama, Bush, or John Doe.
I’ve only come to one conclusion when it comes to politics.
Democrats got it all wrong.
Republicans got it all wrong.
The wool has been pulled over the sheep’s eyes.
We will continue to do our jobs, and ‘baaaah’ with the pride of USA.
Hooray.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Boshoven Experience
I started working out with a personal trainer – Lynne Boshoven – at the end of the first week of July. I was referred to her by my uncle, who has been sending my cousin there since the end of June. This place doesn’t look like a gym from the outside – it’s a simple, concrete structured building with limited windows and a small parking area. But once inside your eyes are greeted to a gym built from the heavens.
There are two sections to the building. The first provides all the cable machines you could imagine as well as the machine oriented squat platforms and some treadmills for cardio work. The back of the building is built more along the lines of power lifting. There are five to six heavy manual squat racks, two normal dead lift bars and one axle bar and a rack of free weights.
A little information on Lynne … she’s one of the top power lifters in the nation, including both men and women. She’s a monster, point blank. She doesn’t’ look overly intimidating from a physical stand point, but when she gets behind a squat wrack or stands in front of a dead lift bar, you’d better be prepared to do some heavy lifting. She has 26 years experience as a personal trainer and still, in her 50’s, does her best to compete in competitions whenever possible.
The best thing about the gym is the flexibility. She’s pretty much open for service from 7am until anywhere past midnight. This is excellent because it doesn’t provide people the excuse of time when it comes to getting to the gym to work out while balancing the daily grind of life. Whether its 7am or 11pm, working out is no problem.
I’ve been working out and eating a lot of protein in hopes to gain some weight and muscle. I’m ball parking for July 8th, 2010 as the big day of results. I’ve learned more in 3 ½ weeks than I ever thought imaginable. The price, $30 a week for unlimited usage is something that you will be hard pressed to beat.
Just look around if you need proof. I wouldn’t lie to ya.
The workouts consist of the three main core muscle groups: legs, back, chest, with some variation on other types of exercises as the weeks go by. Regardless of what you do, you’ll never leave feeling as though you didn’t put a good 2 hours of work.
All the business is pretty much word of mouth, as she hasn’t been a public gym in decades. I think that works out best. The people there have more of a community feel to them, rather than a bunch of big jug heads romping around on the mat looking for a head to smash. So far in the little time I’ve been there I’ve seen some pretty impressive results. The first week there (and no experience, mind you) I dead lifted 185lbs, which is pretty pathetic, even for me. The second week I dead lifted 250lbs at 3 reps. I’m not sure about my squat weight, but I do know that within 2 weeks I had gained 50lbs of strength.
Hopefully as the results pour in I will try to get some pictures up to show my advancement.
Take it easy.
There are two sections to the building. The first provides all the cable machines you could imagine as well as the machine oriented squat platforms and some treadmills for cardio work. The back of the building is built more along the lines of power lifting. There are five to six heavy manual squat racks, two normal dead lift bars and one axle bar and a rack of free weights.
A little information on Lynne … she’s one of the top power lifters in the nation, including both men and women. She’s a monster, point blank. She doesn’t’ look overly intimidating from a physical stand point, but when she gets behind a squat wrack or stands in front of a dead lift bar, you’d better be prepared to do some heavy lifting. She has 26 years experience as a personal trainer and still, in her 50’s, does her best to compete in competitions whenever possible.
The best thing about the gym is the flexibility. She’s pretty much open for service from 7am until anywhere past midnight. This is excellent because it doesn’t provide people the excuse of time when it comes to getting to the gym to work out while balancing the daily grind of life. Whether its 7am or 11pm, working out is no problem.
I’ve been working out and eating a lot of protein in hopes to gain some weight and muscle. I’m ball parking for July 8th, 2010 as the big day of results. I’ve learned more in 3 ½ weeks than I ever thought imaginable. The price, $30 a week for unlimited usage is something that you will be hard pressed to beat.
Just look around if you need proof. I wouldn’t lie to ya.
The workouts consist of the three main core muscle groups: legs, back, chest, with some variation on other types of exercises as the weeks go by. Regardless of what you do, you’ll never leave feeling as though you didn’t put a good 2 hours of work.
All the business is pretty much word of mouth, as she hasn’t been a public gym in decades. I think that works out best. The people there have more of a community feel to them, rather than a bunch of big jug heads romping around on the mat looking for a head to smash. So far in the little time I’ve been there I’ve seen some pretty impressive results. The first week there (and no experience, mind you) I dead lifted 185lbs, which is pretty pathetic, even for me. The second week I dead lifted 250lbs at 3 reps. I’m not sure about my squat weight, but I do know that within 2 weeks I had gained 50lbs of strength.
Hopefully as the results pour in I will try to get some pictures up to show my advancement.
Take it easy.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Sex, Nudity, Masturbation, We just Love it!
With last week’s news centering on ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews being secretly videotaped while changing through a hotel room peep hole, I began to think about how the internet has become a place of vulgar indecency just as much as a great place to explore and gain information.
Whether it’s a blog, such as this, or a social networking site, the internet has empowered generation X with the ability to say whatever it feels without having to worry about the consequences of crossing certain moral boundaries that we as people have lived by through society since before anyone could even begin to remember.
I’m all for free speech. I don’t particularly enjoy my work being blocked with some sort of goofy censorship tag. Some people deserve a good tongue lashing – or keyboard beat down, as generation X would refer to it.
See my blog on Bill O’Reilly’s unfathomable criticism of Michael Jackson for proof.
But to videotape a sideline reporter such as Erin Andrews with such scandalous intent as using a peep hole or the idea that she’s a modern day sex symbol to beer guts across the nation as motive, is … well, quite simply disgusting and flat out wrong.
This isn’t the first time something like this has occurred. But rather than focus on past events, why don’t we seek a solution to an all too common problem within the American society?
Perhaps we have become to close-minded to the thought of sex or nudity. I just don’t see the appeal of wanting to look at celebrities – or random every day women at that – in the nude, or having sex with their boyfriends or husbands. What the hell is the big ruckus over?
Boobs are boobs, people.
Some are a little bigger than others. Some are firmer than others. But for God sakes, if you’ve seen one boob you’ve probably seen them all.
Anatomically speaking, if you’ve slept with one gal, it’s not going to be that much different with your second partner. Other aspects may be different, but that’s a whole different column for a different day.
Maybe it’s just the appeal – we want to see people naked – we want to violate their rights because it’s exciting. It’s become a cult-like obsession to watch Paris Hilton screw her boyfriend on DVD. It’s become shop talk to be able to tell the next guy you witnessed Tommy Lee’s male member and how it pales in comparison to your own insecure body type.
Instead of “Welcome to America” signs, we should seriously invest in something a little more honest so the immigrants that are flocking to this country truly understand what we stand for.
How about something like, “Welcome to America: Home of The Sick and Exciting.”
Not everyone in self absorbed in this nudity craze, but most people would neither confirm nor deny their involvement or curiosity in such an act. I don’t want to sound hypocritical, so I’ll just let the cat out of the bag early.
Yes, I’ve watched a few porno’s in my day.
But I’ve never thought about watching a co-worker have sex (yes, I have stared at a couple co-workers boobs – unintentionally, of course) or have I ever wanted to videotape a friend changing or whatever the hell else women are doing these days.
Look, I don’t know how to describe what is going on with the morals of America. You can blame it on everything and anyone – hell; George Bush is probably fair game at this point. All I know is it needs to stop. We need to move on from our obsession.
So this leads me to ask, what the hell are women doing so much differently than men?
Think about it. When is the last time you heard of a WOMAN videotaping a man or watching a sex tape with a male celebrity or neighbor for that matter?
Go ahead, I’ll wait.
I guess Adam was just a lot sicker than Eve.
Or just a whole hell of a lot smarter.
But I digress.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
With a Heavy Heart
Tonight I write this with a heavy heart for the Eardley family.
This past weekend the neighborhood family lost one of their sons to suicide after a long battle with depression. I won't get in to any more detail because it's a rather personal matter but I will say that a tragedy of this magnitude is something the Eardley's never deserved to experience.
Yet even in a time of pain and sorrow, I doubt you will hear any questioning from the family. They will not pull out the sympathy card or find themselves quarreling with God.
Instead they will most likely celebrate Matt's life and thank the Lord for the time they had with him. This is coming from a family that would do anything for anyone, regardless of race, gender or financial or political status. In a neighborhood that wasn't always the friendliest, the Eardley's stood out like a green thumb. They were always there to offer a helping hand.
And in a time like this, I hope the community will extend the favor and help their family out as they deal with this devestating event in their lives.
A friend of mine took his own life in 2005 after his own battle with depression and bipolar disease. It was at that moment I realized how strong a grip this disease had on him. This guy had a great job, an excellent education and a beautiful soon-to-be wife. He had work ethic, dedication, loyalty -- hell, he was a human cliche all knotted into one.
He was in Arizona doing charity work when he went out in to the woods and took his own life, leaving his mother with only one last voice mail explaining how he had come to a fork in the road and decided a bullet was the best solution to all his pain.
It was a sad day in a lot of people's lives. Our hunting trips up at the cabin haven't been the same since all of this happened. I still feel for his family now and I will hope to be able to use the experience to help the Eardley's in any way, shape or form possible. I'm not so sure people can really help in these times by doing, but rather just listening to those who need to grieve.
Despite the economy, George W. Bush, President Obama and whatever else the media is throwing out there, we need to remember how fortunate we are, and if we forget, a moment like the one I'm sharing should help to steer us back on track, as there are a lot of less fortunate people out there that need help.
So I ask that we all take some time to help someone around us, even a complete stranger.
Because you never know when you will be the one who needs help.
This past weekend the neighborhood family lost one of their sons to suicide after a long battle with depression. I won't get in to any more detail because it's a rather personal matter but I will say that a tragedy of this magnitude is something the Eardley's never deserved to experience.
Yet even in a time of pain and sorrow, I doubt you will hear any questioning from the family. They will not pull out the sympathy card or find themselves quarreling with God.
Instead they will most likely celebrate Matt's life and thank the Lord for the time they had with him. This is coming from a family that would do anything for anyone, regardless of race, gender or financial or political status. In a neighborhood that wasn't always the friendliest, the Eardley's stood out like a green thumb. They were always there to offer a helping hand.
And in a time like this, I hope the community will extend the favor and help their family out as they deal with this devestating event in their lives.
A friend of mine took his own life in 2005 after his own battle with depression and bipolar disease. It was at that moment I realized how strong a grip this disease had on him. This guy had a great job, an excellent education and a beautiful soon-to-be wife. He had work ethic, dedication, loyalty -- hell, he was a human cliche all knotted into one.
He was in Arizona doing charity work when he went out in to the woods and took his own life, leaving his mother with only one last voice mail explaining how he had come to a fork in the road and decided a bullet was the best solution to all his pain.
It was a sad day in a lot of people's lives. Our hunting trips up at the cabin haven't been the same since all of this happened. I still feel for his family now and I will hope to be able to use the experience to help the Eardley's in any way, shape or form possible. I'm not so sure people can really help in these times by doing, but rather just listening to those who need to grieve.
Despite the economy, George W. Bush, President Obama and whatever else the media is throwing out there, we need to remember how fortunate we are, and if we forget, a moment like the one I'm sharing should help to steer us back on track, as there are a lot of less fortunate people out there that need help.
So I ask that we all take some time to help someone around us, even a complete stranger.
Because you never know when you will be the one who needs help.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Bong Smoke Clouds Judgement of Grand Rapids Press
Ten years ago I worked in the bottle return department at Meijer. The job was disgusting and downright degrading if you really stop and think about it. Every day I would report to work only to spend the next six to eight hours emptying sticky and foul smelling blue bins with a gazillion pop bottles filled to the top. I would constantly be annoyed by a loud beeping nose which either meant the machine was full or jammed by a dented pop can. I would sit and listen to customers whine and cry and piss and moan about everything from failed marriages to crappy weather.
Take your frustrations out on me; I’m only the bottle return guy!
I toughed it out for over two years and finally quitting at a whopping $5.65 an hour.
One day, a couple months before I resigned to seek other employment, a co-worker and I were sitting behind the pop machines on a unusually slow day on the job. My co-worker decided to grab a pop but quickly realized he forgot his wallet in his other pair of work pants. So, like a typical moronic sixteen year old, this guy decided to make out a bottle return receipt from the cash register and then proceeded to cash it out so he could indulge in a cold root beer.
You know how this story ends. This guy was fired a couple days later by our loss prevention team, and rightfully so because he stole from the company and became a liability.
Perhaps this is comparing apples to oranges, but thinking of this (or the time a co-worker with 30 years seniority was fired for walking by the produce department and plucking a grape from the display) really makes me wonder how the hell the Grand Rapids Press columnist, David Mayo, was handed his job back on a silver platter after accepting a plea deal in a marijuana case which forces him to now reside as convicted felon.
I keep hearing all this talk about Mayo being a veteran writer with a clean past or the fact that smoking a little cannabis is a personal choice and because he wasn’t distributing it to other people the whole thing should have been dropped and ignored.
Excuse me, but last time I checked smoking marijuana was illegal.
You know, against the law.
David Mayo should have been fired immediately because his conduct was irresponsible and unprofessional. And the message the Press is sending is flat out hypocritical to everything they supposedly stood for at one point and time. There are plenty of struggling journalists out there looking for work. They are doing things the right way and Mayo is rewarded for acting like a fool.
I sure as hell don’t want to see any more stories in the press talking ill of those who smoke marijuana because your lead sports guy is a pot head.
I guess drinking and driving and stealing are all acceptable acts of conduct for the Grand Rapids Press. By giving Mayo his job back they’ve opened a Pandora’s Box. The next time someone on the staff breaks the law how can you justify firing them? Can you imagine what the morale in the department would be like?
Bill is clearing his desk while staring across the hall to David Mayo, his feet kicked back with a coffee cup in one hand and the latest edition of High Times in the other.
One man’s family suffers, another man writes a column explaining – not apologizing – his situation and is handed his salary with not so much as a slap on the wrist.
Look, I don’t care if you smoke pot. But if businesses are going to make illegal behavior legal, then it’s about time we quit forcing congressmen to resign from offices for having affairs. And while we’re at it, let’s lighten up on drunk drivers throughout the state. After all, just because you act like a drunken fool when you blow .08 doesn’t mean that I will. If we can start placing discretion on the crimes we commit then there is no credibility within the system.
We’ve simply created a crutch for some people to use to their advantage.
And you can bet your ass people will do just that, because we are Americans and there’s nothing better than a free handout.
So hurry up and light off that bong. What do you have to lose?
Certainly not your job.
Take your frustrations out on me; I’m only the bottle return guy!
I toughed it out for over two years and finally quitting at a whopping $5.65 an hour.
One day, a couple months before I resigned to seek other employment, a co-worker and I were sitting behind the pop machines on a unusually slow day on the job. My co-worker decided to grab a pop but quickly realized he forgot his wallet in his other pair of work pants. So, like a typical moronic sixteen year old, this guy decided to make out a bottle return receipt from the cash register and then proceeded to cash it out so he could indulge in a cold root beer.
You know how this story ends. This guy was fired a couple days later by our loss prevention team, and rightfully so because he stole from the company and became a liability.
Perhaps this is comparing apples to oranges, but thinking of this (or the time a co-worker with 30 years seniority was fired for walking by the produce department and plucking a grape from the display) really makes me wonder how the hell the Grand Rapids Press columnist, David Mayo, was handed his job back on a silver platter after accepting a plea deal in a marijuana case which forces him to now reside as convicted felon.
I keep hearing all this talk about Mayo being a veteran writer with a clean past or the fact that smoking a little cannabis is a personal choice and because he wasn’t distributing it to other people the whole thing should have been dropped and ignored.
Excuse me, but last time I checked smoking marijuana was illegal.
You know, against the law.
David Mayo should have been fired immediately because his conduct was irresponsible and unprofessional. And the message the Press is sending is flat out hypocritical to everything they supposedly stood for at one point and time. There are plenty of struggling journalists out there looking for work. They are doing things the right way and Mayo is rewarded for acting like a fool.
I sure as hell don’t want to see any more stories in the press talking ill of those who smoke marijuana because your lead sports guy is a pot head.
I guess drinking and driving and stealing are all acceptable acts of conduct for the Grand Rapids Press. By giving Mayo his job back they’ve opened a Pandora’s Box. The next time someone on the staff breaks the law how can you justify firing them? Can you imagine what the morale in the department would be like?
Bill is clearing his desk while staring across the hall to David Mayo, his feet kicked back with a coffee cup in one hand and the latest edition of High Times in the other.
One man’s family suffers, another man writes a column explaining – not apologizing – his situation and is handed his salary with not so much as a slap on the wrist.
Look, I don’t care if you smoke pot. But if businesses are going to make illegal behavior legal, then it’s about time we quit forcing congressmen to resign from offices for having affairs. And while we’re at it, let’s lighten up on drunk drivers throughout the state. After all, just because you act like a drunken fool when you blow .08 doesn’t mean that I will. If we can start placing discretion on the crimes we commit then there is no credibility within the system.
We’ve simply created a crutch for some people to use to their advantage.
And you can bet your ass people will do just that, because we are Americans and there’s nothing better than a free handout.
So hurry up and light off that bong. What do you have to lose?
Certainly not your job.
What would we do without Bill O'Reily?
If I haven’t said it before, let me say it now: Bill O’Reily is a jackass.
And that probably won’t be the first time I say it, either.
O’Reily’s most recent attack on Michael Jackson, just 24 hrs after his memorial at The Staples Center, is just another one of the many examples (anyone remember Marilyn Manson?) that O’Reily has used to feast upon the court of public opinion since the inception of his career in star studded incompetent journalism 101.
O’Reily blasts Jackson as “no black icon” and continues to pour salt on a global wound by proclaiming Jackson as selfish for spending millions of dollars on himself. O’Reily attempts to downplay all the charitable contributions Jackson made over his 50 year life and all the people he touched or inspired to get up in the morning and vow to become a better person.
Since when is it wrong to spend YOUR OWN MONEY on something you want? Obviously, Bill, if you make more, you're going to spend more. We aren't tackling the Theory of Relativity here, you bozo.
You're really reaching for stars, my friend. Is the network putting that much pressure on you to come up with the next big scoop that all you can think of to be "opinionated" about is a man's spending habits? Last time I checked you weren't living in Harlem or shopping at a thrift store.
I can’t say I’m surprised. O’Reily is another blowhard who is living a life of riches by stirring up controversy whenever an opportunity presents itself. This ass clown needs ratings. It’s a numbers game with O’Reily and all the networks that do not see the death of a human being as sympathetic gesture to those who are mourning, but rather a chance to turn in more of a profit than the week prior.
Is that you’re contribution to this world O’Reily? A watered down opinion programmed by the suits? Or is it one of those shit-filled ‘books’ you drop every year proclaiming your greatness as an American?
Michael Jackson is an icon, period. There is no black or white attached. He was a good person who had some turbulent times in his life like all of us, but in the end he accomplished more good in his life than most men will ever imagine.
Including you, Bill.
I could turn this into pages and pages of information exposing O’Reily for all the past mistakes he made, but I refuse to stoop to his level. Do us all a favor Bill: Let Michael Jackson Rest.
Let his family mourn.
Let his children cope.
Because, believe it or not, The Greatest Entertainer in the World didn’t need you while he was alive.
And he sure as hell doesn’t need you in death.
Oh, that goes for you too, Peter King.
And that probably won’t be the first time I say it, either.
O’Reily’s most recent attack on Michael Jackson, just 24 hrs after his memorial at The Staples Center, is just another one of the many examples (anyone remember Marilyn Manson?) that O’Reily has used to feast upon the court of public opinion since the inception of his career in star studded incompetent journalism 101.
O’Reily blasts Jackson as “no black icon” and continues to pour salt on a global wound by proclaiming Jackson as selfish for spending millions of dollars on himself. O’Reily attempts to downplay all the charitable contributions Jackson made over his 50 year life and all the people he touched or inspired to get up in the morning and vow to become a better person.
Since when is it wrong to spend YOUR OWN MONEY on something you want? Obviously, Bill, if you make more, you're going to spend more. We aren't tackling the Theory of Relativity here, you bozo.
You're really reaching for stars, my friend. Is the network putting that much pressure on you to come up with the next big scoop that all you can think of to be "opinionated" about is a man's spending habits? Last time I checked you weren't living in Harlem or shopping at a thrift store.
I can’t say I’m surprised. O’Reily is another blowhard who is living a life of riches by stirring up controversy whenever an opportunity presents itself. This ass clown needs ratings. It’s a numbers game with O’Reily and all the networks that do not see the death of a human being as sympathetic gesture to those who are mourning, but rather a chance to turn in more of a profit than the week prior.
Is that you’re contribution to this world O’Reily? A watered down opinion programmed by the suits? Or is it one of those shit-filled ‘books’ you drop every year proclaiming your greatness as an American?
Michael Jackson is an icon, period. There is no black or white attached. He was a good person who had some turbulent times in his life like all of us, but in the end he accomplished more good in his life than most men will ever imagine.
Including you, Bill.
I could turn this into pages and pages of information exposing O’Reily for all the past mistakes he made, but I refuse to stoop to his level. Do us all a favor Bill: Let Michael Jackson Rest.
Let his family mourn.
Let his children cope.
Because, believe it or not, The Greatest Entertainer in the World didn’t need you while he was alive.
And he sure as hell doesn’t need you in death.
Oh, that goes for you too, Peter King.
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