I was watching The O’Reilly Factor the other day and heard that the Supreme Court is currently hearing a case that’s all about the ten commandments being displayed in a government owned building… the ACLU is all over it of course. And since there our law dictates a separation of church and state, the might have a case. However, what’s sort of being lost in the noise is the fact that the ten commandments represents a fundamental code of conduct that is already embedded in our society. Or at least should be in our laws, instead of our ongoing trend of “do whatever you want and get out of punishment with lawyers” that our nation has adopted… so instead of the ten commandment, why not have a Bill of Unlawful Acts?
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Category Archives: Rant
Randy’s Faces of Phear: Winter ’05 Edition
Mildly Uneasy: Getting into a 30 year mortgage to buy a townhouse in a relatively new state and job that you’ve had for just over nine months.
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Temporal Kick to the Nads
Business Wire: Alanis Morissette Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Jagged Little Pill
Ten years have passed since the release of this CD? Ow.
Not Quite Twins
BWG: Tired of press speculation that her breast measurement is smaller than that of Gillian Chung Yan-tung (鍾欣桐) — her singing partner in the Cantopop duo Twins — Charlene Choi Cheuk-yin (蔡卓妍) set a great example for young women everywhere. […]Look at some of the stars at the Oscars the other night. They’re flat-chested but they all look so cool in their gowns. If more women though the way she did, fewer would get sucked into the belief that implants are the perfect solution.
Well said, Randall.
I Dub Thee Macy’s
The Bon Marché is officially gone. The flirtation with the Bon-Macy’s has been put to bed – no surprise in that – and as near as I can tell, almost all Federated Department Stores owned stores are now simply called Macy’s; they also own Bloomingdale’s and as strong as the Macy’s brand is, Bloomies has a cult following on it’s own.
What’s it matter?
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Don’t Be This Person
Lot of Ranting lately… either the public is getting progressively dumber or I’m stressed to my maximum limit which tends to make me cranky. Given that I spent the last eight months here, and didn’t have much to Rant about, I’m betting my stress level has worn down my stupidity tolerance. What stress you ask? I had my taxes done, spent three weekends packing (or drunk), am blowing away all sense of the budget I had in mind for townhouse and home improvements, had my Jetta hit in a parking lot, and have fought with more machines at work (and lost) than I think I have for the last two years combined.
Anyway, since it’s still the Lenten season – and today is Friday – I decided to pop over to Red Robin for lunch today. On my way back from picking up more moving boxes, actually… it just doesn’t end. It was there that I treated to a nice reminder that there are some stupid people on this planet.
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School Bus Driver Shot
Saw this story on the national news today, about a 14 year old kid that shot his school bus driver. The most we ever did to our bus driver is exit the bus all at once in a form of protest. Well, that and one kid once threw a watermelon on the bus, but even then, it was mostly harmless. Anyway, it seems that they don’t want to try him as an adult… feh!
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Feature Request: Notebook Makers
For the love of God… can notebook makers spend a little bit more money – like an extra $5 per model – for parts and the design of a keyboard? You know, one that a ham-hock-handed user can pound on and not be heard typing on from 30 feet away? Especially while sitting in a conference room… and constantly distracting everyone around you because ya can’t hear the speaker over the constant clanking?! Is your email that fuckin’ important?!?!?!
Glare.
Every conference should be available by remote video. This kinda crap is worse than the movies!
International Influence
America: One exposed Jackson breast during a live broadcast causes a political-infused witch hunt to make all things media-related “less offensive”. Some how pictures of Michael Moore’s face is still every where and I can’t think of a more offensive face to look at, but anyway… Bible thumpers thump louder than normal and old, crusty battle-axes put down their tea cups and doilies to support said witch hunts. The net result? The nation has proven yet again that we have completely lost our sense of humor, much less our sense of freedom, and needs a collective cream-pie-in-the-face or a kick in the crotch.
Australia: “Topless Aboriginal dancers welcomed Britain’s Prince Charles in Australia’s outback on Wednesday, where locals were preparing to throw a bachelor party for the newly engaged royal. ” [Reuters]
See the difference? Can we suck anymore than this?
*sigh*
Hockey Jerseys
So the NHL’s season was cancelled a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t notice, honesty. I still consider myself a Rangers fan; I started to follow hockey as the MLB had labor issues, well before the NYR won the Cup in 1994 and even a little bit after that… But, well, when the NHL started having labor problems in the mid 90’s, I lost interest in them. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. I also moved to a city that doesn’t have a team in the NHL, but, western WA does have a number of minor league WHL teams. I went to a game last night at the KeyArena, thanks to Steve, and I gotta tell ya: I think I like minor league games better.
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Saying Goodbye to a Furry Friend…
Never an easy thing, this saying goodbye crap… but it’s all part of life. Even when it isn’t your pet, it’s still hard to do. It’d like to post a tribute to Sheba, my sister’s cat of over eight years. A fat cat, yes, but pretty quick when chasing a laser light – in fact that little light caused her to act like a kitten beyond her age. She was also an effective cling-on: good for warmth during the winter. And now, after a bout of sickness, the vets have finally gotten to a point where they can’t do much for her except “prolong her life” for a couple of weeks… she’s an older cat now and she’s in pain – it was time, and so she left us today…
El Gato Sabetini: you’ll be missed and not forgotten.
A Change of Plans
And this just in: Randy has unexpectedly taken a second line with T-Mobile and is throwing out his Verizon land line! News at 11!
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Target: Acquired
From spring training, via Fox Sports…
Must. Crush. All things Red.
And yes, I expect a very ugly, messy baseball season, especially in the New York-Boston corridor.
Funniest Thing I’ve Read Online in a While
Gizmodo: T-Mobile’s computer forensics and security team is actively investigating to determine how Ms. Hilton’s information was obtained.
That just cracked me up some how… that there’s a forensics team for a mobile operator… funny shit.
Fire Drill… On Many Levels
Gut check time folks. Or as I like to think of it, the longest 24 hours that I’ve had to live through in quite a while.
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