Little Willie's senseless ramblings

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Not really worth it...

Slate has finally got their comment system working (or maybe I just finally found a backdoor method to get logged in, one of the two). I commented on an article about racist trademarks -- they said the U of I was persuaded to give up Chief Illiniwek, and I pointed out it was actually blackmail (pretty much the argument from a post earlier here). Needless to say, some empty headed, liberal, left-wing, politically correct windbag started spouting off. You know, disagree with me if you will -- I'm not always right, and many issues have many sides -- but don't call me stupid because I don't spout your rhetoric. I'm 40+ years old with an IQ just under genius level -- I'm far from stupid, and have managed to accumulate some wisdom during my lifetime.

Which is why I'm letting the raving lunatic have the argument -- I made my point, and I'm not going to look stupid by arguing with a dolt. I believe it was Mark Twain who said it was better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an fool than to open your mouth and prove it...

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Caught up in the Web...

In case you haven't noticed it off to the side, I've been using twitter.com a lot lately. It's kind of like blogger, but for people with short attention spans. And like blogger, I have two of them going -- one for the real me, and one for something else. In blogger, the something else is whatever I feel like sending from my cell phone -- in twitter, it's the musings of the poor guy who has to keep track of all the dead red shirts from the Enterprise. I'm not the first person to do this, Darth Vader is probably the most famous -- though most of the Star Wars/Star Trek universe is covered now. I am at least trying to stay chronological with it -- I've got 3 years of original series, I am working on getting the animated series -- then there's the movies. I have plenty of material to work with, just have to try to keep the stardates in line.

I've also got a second myspace page going -- one for me, and one for my musical efforts. The music page doesn't get nearly the attention, although once I finally make good on my threats to put the studio together and start recording again it will grow. Of course, I'm still being annoyed with people more interested in using me to spam than actually dealing with me as a person -- those folks get denied and/or blocked. I've had a few just wanting to add me to their list to add me -- so why not.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Oops, spoke to soon...

I guess I am still a myspace friend to my brother-in-law. Maybe he accidentally deleted me -- I did go through and clear out some dead wood myself (including what appeared at first to be a legitimate request, but turned out to be another spammer).

So harmony has returned to my online family once again, much to my relief.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

You like me, you really really like me...

I was stunned -- after months of spouting off about stuff here in the blog, I check back and some one has left a comment!! A person I've never met, has, without any prompting from me, read my blog and left a comment!!

I guess someone's reading this stuff after all...

Family Tension...

My myspace page has been looking a little off to me lately, and I just now figured out what the problem was -- my brother-in-law has decided that I'm not his friend anymore. Imagine that -- could explain why he didn't make it to the family Easter dinner, or why he never comes to church anymore. I suppose the biggest problem is he has a bad habit of saying stuff on the internet that he should probably keep to himself -- and he got tired of me reading it. I could give some examples (and did, but thought better of it and deleted it) -- but I'm sure you get the general idea. It would have been better if he had never added me to his myspace page in the first place -- then I might have only thought he had something to hide.

Now I know he does...

Monday, April 16, 2007

Imus is just like like Bush...

So how is Imus like Bush? Well, he just can't seem to catch a break these days. MSN had an article about the Imus Charity Ranch, where sick and terminally ill children can go and play cowboy for a week during the summer. They explained how the program worked, what the kids did, even how much it cost to host each child for his stay ($28000!). All so some sick and dieing children can forget about the bad and enjoy playing cowboy for a week. They told of his sponsors (many of whom are pulling their support now) and how much work he put into the program.

Then, in order to remind everyone that Imus is a redneck racist, they interview a local Hispanic man who points out that none of the locals can get on the ranch (strangely enough, the Imus's don't allow every Tom, Dick, and Harry onto the property to rubberneck at him and the children), and how all he's done for the community is donate money to the local medical clinic, and help convert an old school into a community center. To quote the local....

"Sometimes he was kind of funny, and sometimes he would say things he shouldn't say," said Lovato, downing a hamburger in La Risa Cafe. "I really don't think he's a good person."

Like I said, just like the president -- he just can't win...

Friday, April 13, 2007

more victims of stupidity...

So I'm watching the news, and some older concerned African-American women are on TV yelling how the government need to pass laws banning racist and sexist speech against black women. And while they're spouting off I'm thinking to myself, what happens to the entire hip-hop industry when the old black women make 80% of the "music" hip hop artists produce illegal? Have you listened to this shinola? I get young urban black males coming into the store asking for some of the vilest noise I've ever heard put on thier phones as ring tones --Ring tones! They could be standing behind you and your kids in the checkout line at WalMart, and suddenly thier phones starts blasting out Akon's "I wanna F*** you" loud enough to hear 3 lines over.

Maybe a ban wouldn't be such a bad thing...

Speaking of jerks...

The idiot responsible for the Girls Gone Wild videos is in jail. Aside from disrespecting a judge, and tax evasion, and child pornography allegations, he also gets felony bribing, and posession of contraband while in custody. As the judge orders him hauled back to jail, he cries to his mommie. Let me say that again -- he cries to his mommie.

What a jerk...

Imus in mourning...

Once again the forces of victimization have won out -- I sure hope Al Sharpton doesn't hurt his shoulder patting himself on the back. Imus is off the air -- for now. The thing is, Imus was pulling in between 15 and 20 million dollars in revenues for his show (depending on which news organization is busy skewering him at the time). That's a fairly substantial amount of money -- someone will offer to put him back on the air -- the only one who will keep him silent is Imus himself.

Myself, I never listened to him -- or Howard Stern for that matter. They're both jerks (actually they're both something else, but I'm being nice) who open their mouths without thinking of anyone else first. I think Dana Plato wouldn't have killed herself if it hadn't been for Stern's badgering (although she was still one seriously messed up woman).

But here's the thing -- I'd be willing to bet the girls on the Rutgers b-ball team have heard a lot worse than nappy headed ho (and in all fairness, according to the description of nappy headed in the Spike Lee movie School Daze, most of the girls weren't nappy headed) -- from opposing team fans, from most of the young black men they know socially, and from the hip hop industry in general. Why should these girls care what some old ugly white redneck calls them? Because Al Sharpton (who would be nappy headed were it not for all the hair gel) and the Church of the Abused Victim told them to care. The African-American community has a lot more to worry about than what Imus calls the girls of one b-ball team.

The fact that this is what they protest about is one of them...

Friday, April 06, 2007

Just Like Mikey

I watch American Chopper -- have since the beginning when no one knew who the Teutul's were, Mike Rowe was still narrating the show, and Mikey couldn't ride a motorcycle (don't act suprised, after all the crowing about finally getting a Harley this revelation should have been painfully obvious). All those years, and all those fights, but I never saw Mikey get mad until last night. He and Paul Sr. got into it over Mikey's house until Mikey got so pissed off he stormed out of the shop and left. But Paul Sr. still had to rage, so he started in on Paul Jr. -- until he (Paul Jr.) punched his fist through the office door and had to go outside to cool off. Something else I notice -- Paul Sr. and his girlfriend were getting new tattoo's from the guys from Miami Ink. But wait, this isn't the same woman he was with a few years ago -- the one he specially built a new chopper for. This is some young thing probably Paul Jr's age. Can no one get along with this guy?

One of these days somethings going to happen, either Paul Jr is going to tell Sr to **** off and go off and start his own company, or Sr is going to stroke out right infront of the American Chopper camera crew.

Sounds like it's time for sweeps week...

The advantages of age...

It's Good Friday and I'm at work -- all day, by myself. A few weeks ago I was anxious to get out riding on my bike; a few days ago I was glad to get my bike back to the shop before the cold snap came in. Earlier today I noticed snow flurries outside the window. This does not surprise me, because I'm an old fart, and can remember when 2 years in a row we got hit by Easter weekend ice storms. I suppose the only thing that surprises me less is the fact that it's going to rain when it does warm up again.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Thou shall not commit Idolatry

I might actually watch american idol if it was more like this...

http://www.gofish.com:80/player.gfp?gfid=30-1091869

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Revisionist History 101

I'm sitting here, kind of watching this show on the 10 commandments (and switching between The Langoliers on SciFi) and when they get to the bit about adultery, and this egghead, liberal, scholar type comes in and says Bill Clinton was impeached for committing adultery. Wrong WRONG WRONG!!! He was impeached for lying under oath about having committed adultery -- a somewhat more serious offense. Amusingly enough, not more than 15 minutes later, when they get to the commandment about bearing false witness, a different expert points out that very point.

Someone needs to make up their minds...