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Disclaimer: this is an angry post with no much substance. I just haven’t read or watched the news for a few days and looked online through it today to catch up and saw this shit. I’m sure a lot of really shitty stuff goes on, but that rape case and this teddy bear bullshit is fucking insane and if there is a hell which I doubt in the Judeo-Christian sense, I hope they fucking burn in it.

Fuck Islam. I mean it, fuck it. How retarded are these sandy assed bastards? I know Christianity was not much better a few hundred years ago, but you know what? We grew the fuck out of it. Islam needs to stop living in fucking 500A.D. I mean with that Saudi rape case and this shit, it pains me to drive a car and support these numbskull douchebags that call themselves Muslims.

Well last night I posted some videos from youtube, but apparently they don’t work this morning so I’m going to just leave the links instead….Ryan Adams…one great fucking musician.

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Sometimes you gotta cherish the simple things in life. Like today, I worked my typical workday pullin’ double duty(cook/dishwasher) at the restaurant for 8 bucks an hour – splendid. Those aren’t the things I’m talking about though. I was going to go to the gym and lift after work today, but I decided against it seeing the hoards of people there when I went by. I ran instead. I used to run all the time, and be pretty good at it, my best is a 12 minute two mile, keep in mind I weigh 225lbs. That was at least a year ago and since I was in Alaska for two weeks my running has been near non-existent. I lift at least three times a week though – after all it’s about looking cool, not being healthy(sarc). Tonight I went out for my first run in almost 4 months, just an easy two miler to get me back into the swing of things. I borrowed my roomy’s I-pod and hit the road. The weather was perfect, a crisp 40 degrees and road was free of college kids zipping in and out of their parking spaces since they are all still on Thanksgiving break. I love the feeling of cold air stinging the throat. I started cramping up in places I didn’t know a crap could form – it was much needed pain, a cleansing one. Maybe that’s what I like about running, after you’re done and come off runners high, you feel brand new – clean. Lifting is much the same, but lacks a little something. Maybe it’s that with running you have to push yourself through the pain, and lifting doesn’t involve so much. Either way I need both, that constant day in, day out test of physicality and mental fortitude. If not for being able to run or lift, than knowing that I can pull myself out of bed at 5 or 6am to do it. That in itself is satisfying. Like all things though, get caught up in it and if I don’t get my 3 miler in, my day is ruined. I need to take a lesson from that and apply it to all areas of life. It’s all or nothing - I hate comprising. Sometimes though, I guess you gotta just settle for a quick 1 mile jog and get on with the day. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to doing that, I know I’ll never like it.

Seriously, it’s a joke. I was going to write an elaborate post about how we get wrapped up in all these “sales” and material things. Let’s face it…when you look forward to wait in line for hours at hours a nocturnal animal would shake its head at, you have yourself a problem. OOOOHHHH….9000inch LCD tv for 8 billion dollars…half off denim jeans…$600 laptops…I never have nor never will participate in that awful phenomena. I love how Thanksgiving(which no one really things much about anyway besides NFL, drinking and food) quickly turns into spending a shit-ton of money on the next great consumer holiday…X-Mas.

well it’s almost midnight and I’m half a bottle into the whiskey…so here it goes. My friend who moved to a town north of Wilmington called me to check the local newspaper of that town. Apparently the huge development they’re planning on putting in there which includes a 200 boat slip marina and two 15 story condo buildings is going to get a big fat no for the Florida located developer. Huge victory. Shiiiiitt….maybe the Bills will go on to make the playoffs and the movie I’m waiting on will be shot afterall. If nothing else, this is one for the good guys…Will Stout(the developer) can go somewhere else, because in the end he doesn’t care about the city, he cares about the profit.

another article from a UNCW professor about the environmental devastation all this “economic growth” is having on our local ecosystem…or lack there of. Here’s a reader’s response to that article, and I might add it’s the typical attitude down here. Notice when the writer says the trees are “unsuitable” and the formerly tree laden landscapes are transformed into something “attractive.” Attractive my ass. That attitude is what bothers me greatly about living in this area. It’s a lost cause. The mere thought of staying here and fighting for a few trees that are slated to be cleared for a new condo/apt building is a hopeless dream. The people here don’t care, and the bureaucrats certainly don’t. It’s all about profit. Using the land for the highest profit, not the highest good. For all the good people can do, it amazes me in this day and age we still have the potential to do so much harm without even wincing. It seems to me that a people that consider themselves so “advanced” socially and technologically would be able to live in harmony with fellow residents of the Earth and the Earth itself. Let’s see where this great idea of capitalism takes us in the next hundred years.

…Rip Ali-gator. 1998-2007

She suffered an injury as a puppy, and had the ball of her hip removed. However, she went on to live a full, and happy life. She is survived by her brothers Moose and Cordell, and her sisters, Shadow and Sadie. She loved playing with the puppies, and sitting watching the leaves change, as she did this year. She also loved playing in the woods, hunting varmits, climbing the hill behind her house, even as her legs were giving out she’d still struggle to the top. I know she is up in doggy heaven with all the kitchens and couches she can possibly have to dirty up. It might be cold and wet outside, but in doggy heaven she can lay her big ass wherever the hell she wants. We’ll miss you Ali. Shadow might have just lost a happy pouch today…

Man, I lied, I didn’t post anything worthwhile. These last few days have been pretty uneventful. Last night the Buffalo Bills got blown out after I got done reading the news about numerous horrific deaths. Today, I go to Walmart, see some 8 year old girl rolling herself through the store because her legs never formed right. I come home and my best friend calls me to tell me that they had to put his dog down after I get done reading about some girl in Saudi Arabia getting lashed and jail time for being gang raped at gunpoint. If that isn’t a reason to ride a bike I don’t know what. Shits gotta turn around…just been some “Bummy” vibes going around these last couple days, can’t explain it, but then again it really isn’t that bad. I didn’t see that 8 year old girl complaining.

I know I’ve been really lazy lately with this blog. It’ just that nothing noteworthy has happened, and you can only write about all the bad things going wrong in the world for so long without taking a much needed break. I promise though, by Sunday I will have something up, and it won’t just be a youtube video or linked article.

I know I’ve been an asshole for not posting something worthy myself lately. I’ve been shortcutting by linking articles I want you all to read. Oh well, it’s all the same I guess, as long as you are doing my reading assignments you will be somewhat prepared. Here’s another one.

Here’s a link to a presentation about the development that’s going in up in New Bern, NC. My buddy just moved there and got a job with the paper. It’s a great little town, a ton of history- the birthplace of Pepsi. I love it because it’s a small town with a friendly feel and holds true to the architecture of old instead of tearing everything down and putting up plastic cookie cutter developments…that is until this development….here’s the link the video….and here’s the link to the story. It’s obvious in a case like this that a small, historic town will be ruined by the blight of condo’s and yachts on the waterfront. Yes, the land it’s being built on is an old lumber yard…but considering the look and feel of the city it’s just a travesty. New Bern is one of the towns down here I actually like for it’s small town, friendly atmosphere. Just wait until they “increase their tax base” and bring a bunch of high rollers in who don’t give a damn about what the city was or is going to be…it’s all about profit…

Apparently the Daily Show did an episdoe awhile back in 2000 when they covered my hometown region. I don’t remember it, but apparently as you will see they did. The video loads awfully slow, or at least did for me and I almost didn’t post it because it’s practically not worth the time or trouble if you aren’t from where I’m from…anyway there it is.