Little Willie's senseless ramblings

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Ok, the best subject line was already taken...

...by Slate.com -- "3 Girls for Every Boy". Still, since this is my place to pontificate on matters, I shall do so about the big Polygamy scandal. Yes, I know this is a lame opening - sorry.

First, I want to know why feminist aren't yelling about this from the rooftops. This whole "religion" is really nothing more than an organized way for a group of men to enforce complete control over other people. Don't believe me? How about someone who actually was a part of it. Carolyn Jessup is a 6th generation member of the FLDS and for 13 years was married to one. She escaped, and wrote a book called "Escape" (If you don't have time to read the whole book, Slate.com excerpted the juicy bits). I gotta tell you, after reading that, I can't help but think the whole lot of the men should be castrated and emasculated, and the women -- first, Unibrow needs to see a stylist. Well, they all need to see a stylist, but especially Unibrow. You know which one I'm talking about - she's always on TV begging to get her children back because "we're perfectly normal average people, who just don't watch TV", and if they stay away too long, someone might start deprogramming them. The boys might as well stay away forever - they'll get kicked out eventually anyway, because the old perverts in charge see them as competition for the fresh meat. I've seen interviews with people who practice and support "Cohabitation", but that isn't what's going on here - these people aren't polygamist because they love each other. It's a way for the men in power to show just how much power they have. In fact, they aren't men - they're walruses. They keep their harems, and physically chase out the young males who might want a mate of their own.

These guys are a perverse opposite of the fundamentalist, radical muslim whack jobs that think they'll get 70 virgins in heaven. The FLDS men get higher heavenly positions by having more wifes on earth.

And they're just as big of whack jobs too. I wonder if Warren Jeffs (the FLDS leader who's been jailed for pimping out children to his favorite cronies) has found any new spiritual wives there in prison...

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Still working on it...

I've been a semi-busy little beaver lately. I've started updating things on my personal site (like I said I was going to do in the last post). I've been moving the movie reviews into a new blog here on blogger. I did have to tweak the template a little - using the matching background from the rest of the site so it matches better, widening the post area so it doesn't require a reader to scroll as much, few other odds and ends. I've repaired some bad links in the music section, and updated link descriptions to match the changes. I've fixed a formatting error in the PC section, but since I'm in the process of doing some major upgrades and rebuilds (including repainting some cases), I'm going to wait to update the content there.

I've complicated life for the hero of my redshirtsquad twitter feed, and doomed another 2 characters -- I know, I'm a heartless bastard when it comes to Star Trek fan fiction. But honest and true, I still have a happy end planned for my hero -- that's part of the reason why things have gone the way they have.

I got some auxiliary baffles for the exhaust pipes on my Harley, and I installed them today. It is definitely a different sound than before, and quieter -- though I won't know for sure how much more until I get a chance to get out on the road. When Spring finally sets in good I'll get it cleaned up, and change the oil in the engine, primary, and transmission. The Kawasaki is another matter...

We're going to try Alex with his extended school day again tomorrow. He was supposed to stay later Monday, but ended up coming home sick. So tomorrow we send him with a little lunch again, and hopefully he'll make it the day this time.

This concludes our web logging day.

Thank you for reading.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Catching up -- again

I recently FTP'd my entire site back to my PC, partially to have a copy in case of disaster, partially to find which files have been hopefully corrupted, but mainly to have a good starting place to try to update the whole mess. I think it's been 2 years since I've made any significant updates to my personal site, what with all the other stuff in the way. So I'm actually making some progress - I updated my personal info section, my PC section, and a few tweaks to the main page. I also just reviewed the Soapbox section of the page (the part that has been effectively replaced by this very blog). There's stuff in there dating back 12 years (well, 12 years in November) so it's like a little time capsule revealing my growing up and becoming a conservative Republican kind of guy. I'm also considering using blogger to do my movie reviews (the original purpose of this site) - after I figure out how to tweak the layout a little more.