Thoughts On The Swine Flu Epidemic (Potential Pandemic)
M.D. Wright
4.27.09
My initial thoughts are always centered around HYGIENE. I know how pigs are processed and all, but SHEESH. How much does the FDA know (or play a role in) this spreading? What does the CDC and WHO know? Hmmm. I read a headline today that said "CDC prepares for Swine Flu in the U.S. as if it is a pandemic".
Oh.
Usually, as a cynic - when the government puts out ominous lines like that, I know things are worse than they're letting on. And I'm not blaming the government organizations. Not in the least. I just know that they don't want to cause mass hysteria by telling EVERYTHING that they know about the situation. It's scary.
First of all, people in Mexico are falling ill like flies these days. I have a friend studying abroad down there. They're out of school and relegated to living like people being quarantined from a leprosy outbreak. Dear God.
Now I am hearing they have found 30 plus cases in the US. And out of all places, two different boroughs in New York City (Bronx, Queens). Sheesh. Do I need to go back to New York, with the way stuff like this can easily spread with seemingly 1 billion people per square mile? LOL nah, I'm not going to let this SARS mess keep me from moving back. However two big issues here:
1. Even though this is a VIRUS, there is another trend at play here. I had to do some reading for my Biology class this weekend. One of the essays was regarding bacteria and anti-biotics. There has been a decline in production of new anti-biotics in the past 30 years; whereas there were dozens found between the 1930s and 1970s. Not only that, but they are being over prescribed, abused and used for purposes other than those for which they were prescribed. As a result of all this, anti-biotics have lost their effectiveness. Now, and in the future, these new bacterium and viruses are going to be resistant against these antibodies and anti viruses. We had better watch out and create more vaccines and such.
2. PEOPLE NEED TO WASH THEIR HANDS. I get so friggin' tired of people sneezing in the kitchen when they're cooking and not covering their mouths or going to another room to let that shit subside. And what has happened to people washing their hands? There used to be a time when you were petrified to have someone catch you leaving the bathroom without washing your hands. ESPECIALLY if you did so after losin' weight. DEAR GOD. Guys are bold now. I can't speak for women, but I've heard from my female friends that they're just as nasty.
Everywhere I go, UNCG, public restrooms at ball games, professional companies for interviews and what not -- it's the same thing. Everyone thinks their stuff is clean, so they don't wash their hands after fiddling with it (no homo) in the bathroom. SHEESH. WASH YOUR HANDS. The professionals at the CDC are saying that is the best way to combat Swine Flu (and everything else that is killing people -- all because these nasty buzzards don't want to take 10 seconds and wash fecal matter and smegma off their hands!)
If I see another guy casually blow up the bathroom while I'm in the stand-up urinal... look in the mirror, do the Jeff Hornacek to their face -- NOT wash their hands, and walk out, I swear I'll never give another handshake in my life. I already don't shake hands with anyone who isn't related to me or at least one of my boys or trusted acquaintance (I know some of them niggas don't wash their hands, but hey, if I get sick off them, I know who to bludgeon). Now I'm gonna have to resort to wearing blue masks and giving everyone the fist pounds that Michael Jordan started in the mid 90s (and now everyone's doing).
As politically incorrect as I wanna be.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
New York Football Giants - 2009 NFL Draft Roundup
New York Football Giants - 2009 NFL Draft Roundup
M.D. Wright
4.26.09
Here are my thoughts about the NFL Draft in 2009 for the New York Football Giants:
JERRY REESE IS THE BEST GM IN THE NFL.
No wait. Really -- he is. But instead of summarizing my thoughts with that line, I will not be a douche and will expound.
We addressed a lot of our holes either through this draft (or free agent pickups -- i.e. the SS position), so here they are in order.
1. At #29 in the first round, the Giants selected WR Hakeem Nicks out of North Carolina. I had been high on this guy all year in 2008; especially during UNC's Meineke Car Care Bowl game vs. West Virginia where he made this spectacular catch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ikDsi-DJA. Expected by Jerry. Great pick. Didn't expect Nicks to fall this far, though. If we hadn't gotten Nicks, I would've been after WR Kenny Britt (taken next by Tennessee) FROM?! Rutgers. Those guys came to my church out in New Jersey after their 11-2 season in 2007 ha. Britt's a cool guy.
2. Our 2nd round pick was OLB Clint Sintim out of Virginia. I don't know much about him; but again -- I don't need to know. Jerry Reese drafted him. He obviously will play strongside and shift over when Kiwanuka puts both hands on the ground. This guy is purported to be an animal. We need this. Chase Blackburn was a WASTE at strongside last year. With Boley at WLB, our weak link is now Pierce haaaaaaaa.
3. Our other 2nd round pick was used on an offensive lineman: William Beatty out of Connecticut. I know nothing about him. A value pick. We're playing with the house's money after getting this pick for Shockey last year. Fills a need for line depth.
4. Our first 3rd round pick was a DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. WR Ramses Barden out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (as me and my boy Tony used to mock back in high school: "CAL POLY SLOW"). This guy is 6'6" 235 lbs. Sort of like Plaxico Burress minus the bad choices. He's fast. He has glue for hands. Eli needs a tall player or he'll throw 27 INTs this year. WE USED THE IGGLES OF ALL TEAMS TO LAND BARDEN. Holy Steven.
5. The other 3rd round pick was TE Travis Beckum out of Wisconsin. More value. We don't even need a TE with THE BOSS and Michael Matthews out there, but any help we can get to add depth and a special teams player is good. House's money with an extra 3rd round pick.
6. The 4th round pick was RB Andre Brown out of NC State. He's a masher. I saw a little of this guy. Teams will walk away from Giants games this year with blood from their mouths after dealing with Jacobs and Brown (along with whiplash from watching Bradshaw run by them ha).
7. Rhett Bomar was the 5th round pick. We don't need a QB. No risk here. We got this pick from New Orleans as compensation for them taking Shockey and his attitude off our hands. We now have Eli, Carr, Woodson and this Bomar at QB. Someone's gotta go.
8. The last two picks were a 6th and 7th round tandem of CBs to add depth at the position and for special teams. DeAndre Wright (New Mexico) and Stoney Woodson (South Carolina); neither of whom I know anything about. But since I trust Jerry, our secondary is much better than it was last year; with MORE SPEED.
I'm completely satisfied.
M.D. Wright
4.26.09
Here are my thoughts about the NFL Draft in 2009 for the New York Football Giants:
JERRY REESE IS THE BEST GM IN THE NFL.
No wait. Really -- he is. But instead of summarizing my thoughts with that line, I will not be a douche and will expound.
We addressed a lot of our holes either through this draft (or free agent pickups -- i.e. the SS position), so here they are in order.
1. At #29 in the first round, the Giants selected WR Hakeem Nicks out of North Carolina. I had been high on this guy all year in 2008; especially during UNC's Meineke Car Care Bowl game vs. West Virginia where he made this spectacular catch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ikDsi-DJA. Expected by Jerry. Great pick. Didn't expect Nicks to fall this far, though. If we hadn't gotten Nicks, I would've been after WR Kenny Britt (taken next by Tennessee) FROM?! Rutgers. Those guys came to my church out in New Jersey after their 11-2 season in 2007 ha. Britt's a cool guy.
2. Our 2nd round pick was OLB Clint Sintim out of Virginia. I don't know much about him; but again -- I don't need to know. Jerry Reese drafted him. He obviously will play strongside and shift over when Kiwanuka puts both hands on the ground. This guy is purported to be an animal. We need this. Chase Blackburn was a WASTE at strongside last year. With Boley at WLB, our weak link is now Pierce haaaaaaaa.
3. Our other 2nd round pick was used on an offensive lineman: William Beatty out of Connecticut. I know nothing about him. A value pick. We're playing with the house's money after getting this pick for Shockey last year. Fills a need for line depth.
4. Our first 3rd round pick was a DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. WR Ramses Barden out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (as me and my boy Tony used to mock back in high school: "CAL POLY SLOW"). This guy is 6'6" 235 lbs. Sort of like Plaxico Burress minus the bad choices. He's fast. He has glue for hands. Eli needs a tall player or he'll throw 27 INTs this year. WE USED THE IGGLES OF ALL TEAMS TO LAND BARDEN. Holy Steven.
5. The other 3rd round pick was TE Travis Beckum out of Wisconsin. More value. We don't even need a TE with THE BOSS and Michael Matthews out there, but any help we can get to add depth and a special teams player is good. House's money with an extra 3rd round pick.
6. The 4th round pick was RB Andre Brown out of NC State. He's a masher. I saw a little of this guy. Teams will walk away from Giants games this year with blood from their mouths after dealing with Jacobs and Brown (along with whiplash from watching Bradshaw run by them ha).
7. Rhett Bomar was the 5th round pick. We don't need a QB. No risk here. We got this pick from New Orleans as compensation for them taking Shockey and his attitude off our hands. We now have Eli, Carr, Woodson and this Bomar at QB. Someone's gotta go.
8. The last two picks were a 6th and 7th round tandem of CBs to add depth at the position and for special teams. DeAndre Wright (New Mexico) and Stoney Woodson (South Carolina); neither of whom I know anything about. But since I trust Jerry, our secondary is much better than it was last year; with MORE SPEED.
I'm completely satisfied.
Movie Reviews/General Thoughts
Movie Reviews/General Thoughts
M.D. Wright
4.26.09
I'm going to try to keep this brief. I want to review two movies that I have watched the past two nights and then tie in some things that I have encountered both in the recent past and throughout my 20s (as I recount).
Last night, I was hanging with a good friend and we went to see "Obsessed" (along with "Earth", for my class -- but that is immaterial in this post). I had seen the trailer and previews, so I pretty much knew the basic premise of the movie before going in. I do not have a high opinion of Beyoncé on the big screen, but I went in with an open mind, rather than having it made up to rip her as some of the reviewers did. However, I did find myself saying "expected" and turning to my friend as I had flashbacks to being stalked back in the day.
I won't spoil the movie, so I won't delve into the plot and specifics. Nevertheless, two things really bugged me all throughout this movie (and the other one that I will briefly touch upon): the idea that 1) White women are stone crazy about Black men and will go to any lengths to land one and 2) These movies don't do anything to erase the stereotype that Black women have bad attitudes -- which are many times, uncalled for.
Side note: Beyoncé actually did a pretty good job in this role.
Ali Larter, who played the stalker/psycho in the movie also had a hand in perpetuating a common stereotype of White women that is floating around nowadays: "they are only after Black men for sexual escapades and nothing more". Whatever. Just like all Black women don't have nasty attitudes. Generalizations just do not work. I sat with my friend (Black female) and immediately next to two 20-something White females who squirmed and winced when touchy scenes passed by. Of course, this particular theatre was packed with hoodrats who were just there to see "B." whoop someone's ass and that's it. Even when Beyoncé's character was out of line for not believing her husband (played by Idris Elba), I said "expected", but at the same time, I would have loved to have seen her keep her composure instead of reacting "typically".
By the way, for anyone who has already seen the movie, does anyone find it ODD that Beyoncé refers to their home as HER house when I ain't seen her work a minute in this movie. DEAR GOD.
Segue.
The same with "Not Easily Broken". The movie started kind of slow, and it was very good throughout. But after one of the kids' passes away, his mother, played by a single White mother, began putting the subtle moves on the Black woman's father. The expected ensued. But this is when I began to think to myself: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE...? Where did this disconnect REALLY TRULY stem from?
I get tired of hearing Black women talk about "well, we're so accustomed to so and so and how they approach/treat us" as an excuse for acting the way they generally do. For those to whom this does not apply, you know not to get upset. If you get upset by what I say, then it applies to you.
Why, if "women's intuition" is so REAL, can't women truly tell a sincere man apart from one who is "just like all the others"? It's all BS. They know the difference. And given that fact, why am I being made to pay for the mistakes of others? Do I pop off and treat every woman I meet as a "bitch" because most of the women I've dealt with or entered into relationships with were slimy, reptilian, bloodsucking, selfish golddiggers who only cared about what they could get from me? No. Everyone gets a clean slate. And enough of the "well, we're so accustomed to our fathers, brothers, uncles not being there, so we have to be the men in the family". Okay, true, the Black community has its ills. That is one that is well-chronicled. HOWEVER, know when to put that BS on the back burner. When you are dealing with a man to whom that does not apply, cease and desist with the balderdash excuses to act like an ass. PERIOD. End of discussion. I'm sick of it.
But back to my main point about "Not Easily Broken", there are two trends playing out in the 2000s that are severely disturbing to me. First, the whole "Miss Independent"/"Got My Own" phenomena. Rubbish. Women who talk like that get defriended off my friends' list on Facebook and summarily dismissed. NO ONE IS AN ISLAND; and trying to prove one's worth to spite an entire gender is just foolish. Just because you've CHOSEN (key word) to deal with a bunch of sloughs doesn't mean you need to parade around and tell the world how much you don't need a man. He doesn't NEED you either, but he WANTS you (and I don't mean the slouch ass niggas, either). God created us to relate with one another and feed, serve, help and support one another physically and spiritually, not to flaunt our material rubbish around as a show of one's own efficiencies. How UNattractive is it to hear a woman banter about this, even if she does have her own things and doesn't need a man to provide them for her? What do you want me to do, provide a drummer's rim shot for you? Goodness gracious sakes alive, enough with this nonsense already.
My other thought about this point is the by-product of all this: the "me-first" (second, third and twentieth) mentality about marriage, children and so forth. Not all women are cut out to be housewives. Indeed, housewives have TOUGH lives; but it is not demeaning (no matter what brainless feminist zealots have led many to believe) or beneath one to do so. On the contrary, God made nurturing both children and the family unit as a whole such a noble thing that ONLY a woman is equipped to properly do so. Think about that. How is it that something God deems the highest of NOBILITY all of a sudden regarded as beneath or less-than? And please save the "you don't understand patriarchal society and the history of male oppression". Bullshit. I'm a Sociologist. Don't go there.
My thing is, in this movie, this woman was all about her career, trying to be something she's not, living above her means and trying to make people think things about her that were more lofty than they actually were. Who wants to be with someone like that? If you say yes, defriend me. NOW.
She didn't want to have a child because it would "get in the way of her career". WHAT.
Meanwhile, because her husband decided to... get this... GIVE BACK TO THE YOUTH BY COACHING, he's a less-than and also-ran who is worthless to her. Here we go. A social-climber, me-first, all about her career and status type who will run off a PERFECTLY good man (with a nasty attitude to boot) because he's not trying to keep up with the mythical Joneses.
One thing that I did like about her character (played by Taraji P. Henson) is that she redeems herself by doing something MANY women do not do (and drive me nuts by doing so; including some from my own personal past) and that's ADMITTING that she was wrong. That was like the icing on the cake, the cherry on top and putting the jello in the fridge (as Chick Hearn used to say) for me. A guy can be 100% sincere and honest, but if he's with a woman who never admits when she's wrong, 9 times out of 10 he's going to cheat or she's going to leave him for Joe Social Climber the 3rd. My problem with this generation of women (to whom this applies, not the ones who have it figured out and know whether they're supposed to be in the corporate arena because they've been called to do it and not those who do it just to compete with men and try to one up their OWN boyfriends/husbands -- that shit is BEYOND annoying) is that everything is about job prestige, money/wealth, status and material possessions. I grew up hearing women that "it doesn't matter how much money he makes or where he works, just as LONG as he has a job". Bullshit. I know these movies are just scripts and not actual life, but I've seen too many people around me live out what is in these movies and I REFUSE to be treated like a lie-about in the face of someone who doesn't appreciate me for my virtue and consistency as a good man. Sure, I'm going to be a billionaire eventually, but what about right now and how I've been received by women now versus when I was making very good money both from the job and from side business hustles, driving the 350Z, wearing the nicest clothes, shopping, traveling, fine dining -- and when all that ran out when I returned to school; to have some do a 180 on a DIME solely because the money wasn't flowing anymore. That goes to show the "it doesn't matter how much he has, just as long as he is a good, honest, hard-working man" line is utter hogwash.
Good day.
M.D. Wright
4.26.09
I'm going to try to keep this brief. I want to review two movies that I have watched the past two nights and then tie in some things that I have encountered both in the recent past and throughout my 20s (as I recount).
Last night, I was hanging with a good friend and we went to see "Obsessed" (along with "Earth", for my class -- but that is immaterial in this post). I had seen the trailer and previews, so I pretty much knew the basic premise of the movie before going in. I do not have a high opinion of Beyoncé on the big screen, but I went in with an open mind, rather than having it made up to rip her as some of the reviewers did. However, I did find myself saying "expected" and turning to my friend as I had flashbacks to being stalked back in the day.
I won't spoil the movie, so I won't delve into the plot and specifics. Nevertheless, two things really bugged me all throughout this movie (and the other one that I will briefly touch upon): the idea that 1) White women are stone crazy about Black men and will go to any lengths to land one and 2) These movies don't do anything to erase the stereotype that Black women have bad attitudes -- which are many times, uncalled for.
Side note: Beyoncé actually did a pretty good job in this role.
Ali Larter, who played the stalker/psycho in the movie also had a hand in perpetuating a common stereotype of White women that is floating around nowadays: "they are only after Black men for sexual escapades and nothing more". Whatever. Just like all Black women don't have nasty attitudes. Generalizations just do not work. I sat with my friend (Black female) and immediately next to two 20-something White females who squirmed and winced when touchy scenes passed by. Of course, this particular theatre was packed with hoodrats who were just there to see "B." whoop someone's ass and that's it. Even when Beyoncé's character was out of line for not believing her husband (played by Idris Elba), I said "expected", but at the same time, I would have loved to have seen her keep her composure instead of reacting "typically".
By the way, for anyone who has already seen the movie, does anyone find it ODD that Beyoncé refers to their home as HER house when I ain't seen her work a minute in this movie. DEAR GOD.
Segue.
The same with "Not Easily Broken". The movie started kind of slow, and it was very good throughout. But after one of the kids' passes away, his mother, played by a single White mother, began putting the subtle moves on the Black woman's father. The expected ensued. But this is when I began to think to myself: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE...? Where did this disconnect REALLY TRULY stem from?
I get tired of hearing Black women talk about "well, we're so accustomed to so and so and how they approach/treat us" as an excuse for acting the way they generally do. For those to whom this does not apply, you know not to get upset. If you get upset by what I say, then it applies to you.
Why, if "women's intuition" is so REAL, can't women truly tell a sincere man apart from one who is "just like all the others"? It's all BS. They know the difference. And given that fact, why am I being made to pay for the mistakes of others? Do I pop off and treat every woman I meet as a "bitch" because most of the women I've dealt with or entered into relationships with were slimy, reptilian, bloodsucking, selfish golddiggers who only cared about what they could get from me? No. Everyone gets a clean slate. And enough of the "well, we're so accustomed to our fathers, brothers, uncles not being there, so we have to be the men in the family". Okay, true, the Black community has its ills. That is one that is well-chronicled. HOWEVER, know when to put that BS on the back burner. When you are dealing with a man to whom that does not apply, cease and desist with the balderdash excuses to act like an ass. PERIOD. End of discussion. I'm sick of it.
But back to my main point about "Not Easily Broken", there are two trends playing out in the 2000s that are severely disturbing to me. First, the whole "Miss Independent"/"Got My Own" phenomena. Rubbish. Women who talk like that get defriended off my friends' list on Facebook and summarily dismissed. NO ONE IS AN ISLAND; and trying to prove one's worth to spite an entire gender is just foolish. Just because you've CHOSEN (key word) to deal with a bunch of sloughs doesn't mean you need to parade around and tell the world how much you don't need a man. He doesn't NEED you either, but he WANTS you (and I don't mean the slouch ass niggas, either). God created us to relate with one another and feed, serve, help and support one another physically and spiritually, not to flaunt our material rubbish around as a show of one's own efficiencies. How UNattractive is it to hear a woman banter about this, even if she does have her own things and doesn't need a man to provide them for her? What do you want me to do, provide a drummer's rim shot for you? Goodness gracious sakes alive, enough with this nonsense already.
My other thought about this point is the by-product of all this: the "me-first" (second, third and twentieth) mentality about marriage, children and so forth. Not all women are cut out to be housewives. Indeed, housewives have TOUGH lives; but it is not demeaning (no matter what brainless feminist zealots have led many to believe) or beneath one to do so. On the contrary, God made nurturing both children and the family unit as a whole such a noble thing that ONLY a woman is equipped to properly do so. Think about that. How is it that something God deems the highest of NOBILITY all of a sudden regarded as beneath or less-than? And please save the "you don't understand patriarchal society and the history of male oppression". Bullshit. I'm a Sociologist. Don't go there.
My thing is, in this movie, this woman was all about her career, trying to be something she's not, living above her means and trying to make people think things about her that were more lofty than they actually were. Who wants to be with someone like that? If you say yes, defriend me. NOW.
She didn't want to have a child because it would "get in the way of her career". WHAT.
Meanwhile, because her husband decided to... get this... GIVE BACK TO THE YOUTH BY COACHING, he's a less-than and also-ran who is worthless to her. Here we go. A social-climber, me-first, all about her career and status type who will run off a PERFECTLY good man (with a nasty attitude to boot) because he's not trying to keep up with the mythical Joneses.
One thing that I did like about her character (played by Taraji P. Henson) is that she redeems herself by doing something MANY women do not do (and drive me nuts by doing so; including some from my own personal past) and that's ADMITTING that she was wrong. That was like the icing on the cake, the cherry on top and putting the jello in the fridge (as Chick Hearn used to say) for me. A guy can be 100% sincere and honest, but if he's with a woman who never admits when she's wrong, 9 times out of 10 he's going to cheat or she's going to leave him for Joe Social Climber the 3rd. My problem with this generation of women (to whom this applies, not the ones who have it figured out and know whether they're supposed to be in the corporate arena because they've been called to do it and not those who do it just to compete with men and try to one up their OWN boyfriends/husbands -- that shit is BEYOND annoying) is that everything is about job prestige, money/wealth, status and material possessions. I grew up hearing women that "it doesn't matter how much money he makes or where he works, just as LONG as he has a job". Bullshit. I know these movies are just scripts and not actual life, but I've seen too many people around me live out what is in these movies and I REFUSE to be treated like a lie-about in the face of someone who doesn't appreciate me for my virtue and consistency as a good man. Sure, I'm going to be a billionaire eventually, but what about right now and how I've been received by women now versus when I was making very good money both from the job and from side business hustles, driving the 350Z, wearing the nicest clothes, shopping, traveling, fine dining -- and when all that ran out when I returned to school; to have some do a 180 on a DIME solely because the money wasn't flowing anymore. That goes to show the "it doesn't matter how much he has, just as long as he is a good, honest, hard-working man" line is utter hogwash.
Good day.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Why You Lost, Miss California
When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Why You Lost, Miss California
(J. Albert, M.D. Wright)
4.22.09
As Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said a couple of years ago, "WHERE ARE WE AT IN SOCIETY TODAY???" (watch at 2:22), I have to wonder the same thing after watching the first half and then the end of the Miss America contest the other night.
Most people know that the Miss California entrant, Carrie Prejean from San Diego was prompted (rather strategically, in my opinion, given that voters OVERTURNED and voted against Proposition 8 in California during the General Elections. This vote made it unconstitutional for gays and lesbians to marry and be recognized by the state. Of course "celebrity blogger (???)" Perez Hilton does not like this. He asks Carrie her thoughts here:
Watch --
She answered with her opinion. If you are going to ask someone a question, why expect them to give the politically correct answer -- then when they DON'T, you villify them:
Huh?
AGAIN I ASK, WHERE ARE WE AT IN SOCIETY TODAY?
When did free speech become obsolete and virtually illegal? DEAR GOD.
I'm not surprised. That's where this nation is right now, but sheesh.
I thought "Perez" didn't take it so harshly that Carrie answered the question the way she did? It seems like he got pretty hot under the collar.
Listen, people can do what they want behind closed doors. If someone believes what is stated and clear in the Bible, then so be it. If we Christians must turn the other cheek and accept everything that is going on in this world, then so should those who may not like/accept Christian views when Christians assert their perspective.
People say Miss California didn't lose the contest based upon that. Please. There was rampant booing when she answered the question. The judges even say that it swayed them negatively.
What made it worse is that the winner, ultimately, is an ASS. And where is she from? North Carolina. LAWDAMERRRSY.
Perez Hilton asked that question knowing 1) gay marriage would be put back in the public eye after six months of nothing but economic talk. He knew what he was doing. He knew that asking that particular contestant representing the most liberal state in the union would spark controversy 2) that by doing this, voting for Miss California ultimately would've gotten the judges, Trump and the pageant's sponsors in hot water from "special interest groups". This is what makes me upset about this whole "rights" issue. You have rights. HUMAN rights. Why bring that trash into an elegant pageant by mudslinging against someone that you KNOW is going to disagree with you?
I'm going to be sick.
(J. Albert, M.D. Wright)
4.22.09
As Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said a couple of years ago, "WHERE ARE WE AT IN SOCIETY TODAY???" (watch at 2:22), I have to wonder the same thing after watching the first half and then the end of the Miss America contest the other night.
Most people know that the Miss California entrant, Carrie Prejean from San Diego was prompted (rather strategically, in my opinion, given that voters OVERTURNED and voted against Proposition 8 in California during the General Elections. This vote made it unconstitutional for gays and lesbians to marry and be recognized by the state. Of course "celebrity blogger (???)" Perez Hilton does not like this. He asks Carrie her thoughts here:
Watch --
She answered with her opinion. If you are going to ask someone a question, why expect them to give the politically correct answer -- then when they DON'T, you villify them:
Huh?
AGAIN I ASK, WHERE ARE WE AT IN SOCIETY TODAY?
When did free speech become obsolete and virtually illegal? DEAR GOD.
I'm not surprised. That's where this nation is right now, but sheesh.
I thought "Perez" didn't take it so harshly that Carrie answered the question the way she did? It seems like he got pretty hot under the collar.
Listen, people can do what they want behind closed doors. If someone believes what is stated and clear in the Bible, then so be it. If we Christians must turn the other cheek and accept everything that is going on in this world, then so should those who may not like/accept Christian views when Christians assert their perspective.
People say Miss California didn't lose the contest based upon that. Please. There was rampant booing when she answered the question. The judges even say that it swayed them negatively.
What made it worse is that the winner, ultimately, is an ASS. And where is she from? North Carolina. LAWDAMERRRSY.
Perez Hilton asked that question knowing 1) gay marriage would be put back in the public eye after six months of nothing but economic talk. He knew what he was doing. He knew that asking that particular contestant representing the most liberal state in the union would spark controversy 2) that by doing this, voting for Miss California ultimately would've gotten the judges, Trump and the pageant's sponsors in hot water from "special interest groups". This is what makes me upset about this whole "rights" issue. You have rights. HUMAN rights. Why bring that trash into an elegant pageant by mudslinging against someone that you KNOW is going to disagree with you?
I'm going to be sick.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Fishin' In The Wrong Pond
Fishin' In The Wrong Pond
FROM DISGRACE TO YOUR RACE
By Damn Shame
In recent conversation with various women, they all talk about liking/wanting to go to particularly gay places. This is the literal use of the word gay, not the negative connotation.
A young lady I know was saying how she and her friends enjoy going to gay bars. I asked why and what benefit could possibly come from this. She replied, "Girls like hanging out with guys who won't try shit." Now I don't know where in the man by-laws it states that you must try to fuck anything that walks, but I must have missed that section. To this, I say step your guy game up. Stop hangin out with grimy/desperate guys with no standards. I'd say a good 80% of women I talk to I have no interest in ever touching, and I'm not some dude who never gets out or anything. I find it funny that the same girls will find it weird that lesbians will hit on them in such bars. You are there, you are a woman... it's a safe assumption you are probably gay. If you go into a gay bar or club and get hit on by someone of the same sex, that is on YOU.
Another lady told me that she'd like to attend a gay wedding (now that gay marriage is being legalized in some states). I can appreciate wanting to go to one of the first gay weddings for historical purposes, but what's the difference? You may now kiss... the groom? Woo hoo. I also find it particularly funny that people who told me they want to go to a gay wedding despise the thought of marriage themselves. That's just ludicrous to me.
These are not even the point of this edition of D2YR. The real point is, that each of these people (as well as others like them) have pulled the "It's so hard to find a man" card in my presence before.
Now, not only is going to gay places counterintuitive to finding a man interested in you... it's completely opposed. If you're complaining about finding guys and then you don't want to hang around guys that "try shit," I have no words for you. If you complain about the quality of guys who approach you, then re-evaluate your image or try approaching a guy for once in your life. You don't have to put a smooth move on, but if you just start a conversation they will more than likely find confidence in that and show you interest in return.
Despite the fact that this applies to a gender and not a race, I'll allow it. If you only chill with gay dudes and avoid straight guys, and then complain you can't find a mate.. you are a walking damn SHAME. If I only chilled with lesbians and then complained I can't find a girl that meets my preferences, you'd say I was an imbecile too! Basically, put on something that isn't frumpy/yet says I'm not a slut... go out, and if you're not attracting the guys you want, then take some god damn initiative and start a conversation. If you are passive and wind up going home alone, that's on YOU. Guys have to accept this on a constant basis, it's time for y'all to learn! In life, sports, work, and everything else.. being aggressive for what you want is everything. Sit around and wait, and it ain't comin. So re-read this, take notes and shut yer god damn mouth about inability to find a good man. Disgraceful.
Posted by A Damn Shame at 11:42 AM
FROM DISGRACE TO YOUR RACE
By Damn Shame
In recent conversation with various women, they all talk about liking/wanting to go to particularly gay places. This is the literal use of the word gay, not the negative connotation.
A young lady I know was saying how she and her friends enjoy going to gay bars. I asked why and what benefit could possibly come from this. She replied, "Girls like hanging out with guys who won't try shit." Now I don't know where in the man by-laws it states that you must try to fuck anything that walks, but I must have missed that section. To this, I say step your guy game up. Stop hangin out with grimy/desperate guys with no standards. I'd say a good 80% of women I talk to I have no interest in ever touching, and I'm not some dude who never gets out or anything. I find it funny that the same girls will find it weird that lesbians will hit on them in such bars. You are there, you are a woman... it's a safe assumption you are probably gay. If you go into a gay bar or club and get hit on by someone of the same sex, that is on YOU.
Another lady told me that she'd like to attend a gay wedding (now that gay marriage is being legalized in some states). I can appreciate wanting to go to one of the first gay weddings for historical purposes, but what's the difference? You may now kiss... the groom? Woo hoo. I also find it particularly funny that people who told me they want to go to a gay wedding despise the thought of marriage themselves. That's just ludicrous to me.
These are not even the point of this edition of D2YR. The real point is, that each of these people (as well as others like them) have pulled the "It's so hard to find a man" card in my presence before.
Now, not only is going to gay places counterintuitive to finding a man interested in you... it's completely opposed. If you're complaining about finding guys and then you don't want to hang around guys that "try shit," I have no words for you. If you complain about the quality of guys who approach you, then re-evaluate your image or try approaching a guy for once in your life. You don't have to put a smooth move on, but if you just start a conversation they will more than likely find confidence in that and show you interest in return.
Despite the fact that this applies to a gender and not a race, I'll allow it. If you only chill with gay dudes and avoid straight guys, and then complain you can't find a mate.. you are a walking damn SHAME. If I only chilled with lesbians and then complained I can't find a girl that meets my preferences, you'd say I was an imbecile too! Basically, put on something that isn't frumpy/yet says I'm not a slut... go out, and if you're not attracting the guys you want, then take some god damn initiative and start a conversation. If you are passive and wind up going home alone, that's on YOU. Guys have to accept this on a constant basis, it's time for y'all to learn! In life, sports, work, and everything else.. being aggressive for what you want is everything. Sit around and wait, and it ain't comin. So re-read this, take notes and shut yer god damn mouth about inability to find a good man. Disgraceful.
Posted by A Damn Shame at 11:42 AM
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Clout?
Clout?
M.D. Wright
4.5.09
Clout:
Main Entry:
Pronunciation:
\ˈklau̇t\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English, from Old English clūt; akin to Middle High German klōz lump, Russian gluda
Date:
before 12th century
4: pull , influence (ex. political clout)
When I hear people talk about the clout they have; the influence with their company and what not, it really gives me pause. I was the eternal cynic until this year, so I automatically called B.S. half the time when I heard people mention they can do this, that and the third. I have been looking to resume my career since May of 2006. Why am I only coming up with 100% commission jobs? With my background, education and defined skill set, this is ridiculous. I look at some of the jobs that are going to people with less work experience, fewer years serving the community -- while I have a non-profit under my belt and assisted with helping another opening -- and education than I do land gigs paying 55-75K. I'm in No Man's Land right now, because graduation is less than six weeks away and all I've landed have been job offers for 100% commission. One of them was in New York, which was half the reason I went back up there a few weeks ago. NIGHTMARES. I recounted the money I spent going up there and back. ONE GRAND. For what? I couldn't even stay for my cousin's birthday party and her daughter's art exhibit. DEAR GOD. The guy who interviewed me told me over the phone I was being considered for management. As they SHOULD have been. I have had 8 years' experience in insurance. Enough trying to get me to go into sales. I'm not doing it. Especially on a 100% commission basis. HOLY STEVEN. With my body of work, anything less than management is an insult. I get there and he goes into this spiel about sales after trying to create a seamless segue (not realizing I've heard the same pitch from another con-artist with the same company down here in NC as well. I have not lived in New York ALL my life, but I'm no idiot, man. I think he thought I'd jump at the opportunity. How in BLUE HADES am I going to pay $1,500/mo. rent on a commission job?
Anyway, I digress.
For these past three years, all I've listened to is a bunch of hooey from people telling me a bunch of nonsense they would not do if they were in the same situation. I SWEAR I wish some of these people could walk in my shoes for one WEEK -- much less the three years I've dealt with this sickening BS. They're always bragging about who they know, how much pull they have at their office, "all I have to do is talk to so and so and it's a wrap". Oh really now? Where's my phone call? Why don't you have an office if you're that important? I'm sick of people bragging about what they can do when they have ZERO influence. They're nobodies. And what pisses me off most, these are the (sometimes superspiritual ones) who claim they're praying that God will block me being able to go back to New York, that my purpose is to remain in North Carolina (that's laughable, since I have known that wasn't true since 9th grade). Yet, when I try to find a job or come to them -- as they brag that I should because of their "connections" -- I come up high and dry. I'm about to give a big, fat J.O.D.E. to a bunch of people in the next three months.
If you have clout, good, do something with it. If you don't, well -- I'm trying to avoid cursing, so you can tell where I am going with this.
What have you...
M.D. Wright
4.5.09
Clout:
Main Entry:
Pronunciation:
\ˈklau̇t\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English, from Old English clūt; akin to Middle High German klōz lump, Russian gluda
Date:
before 12th century
4: pull , influence (ex. political clout)
When I hear people talk about the clout they have; the influence with their company and what not, it really gives me pause. I was the eternal cynic until this year, so I automatically called B.S. half the time when I heard people mention they can do this, that and the third. I have been looking to resume my career since May of 2006. Why am I only coming up with 100% commission jobs? With my background, education and defined skill set, this is ridiculous. I look at some of the jobs that are going to people with less work experience, fewer years serving the community -- while I have a non-profit under my belt and assisted with helping another opening -- and education than I do land gigs paying 55-75K. I'm in No Man's Land right now, because graduation is less than six weeks away and all I've landed have been job offers for 100% commission. One of them was in New York, which was half the reason I went back up there a few weeks ago. NIGHTMARES. I recounted the money I spent going up there and back. ONE GRAND. For what? I couldn't even stay for my cousin's birthday party and her daughter's art exhibit. DEAR GOD. The guy who interviewed me told me over the phone I was being considered for management. As they SHOULD have been. I have had 8 years' experience in insurance. Enough trying to get me to go into sales. I'm not doing it. Especially on a 100% commission basis. HOLY STEVEN. With my body of work, anything less than management is an insult. I get there and he goes into this spiel about sales after trying to create a seamless segue (not realizing I've heard the same pitch from another con-artist with the same company down here in NC as well. I have not lived in New York ALL my life, but I'm no idiot, man. I think he thought I'd jump at the opportunity. How in BLUE HADES am I going to pay $1,500/mo. rent on a commission job?
Anyway, I digress.
For these past three years, all I've listened to is a bunch of hooey from people telling me a bunch of nonsense they would not do if they were in the same situation. I SWEAR I wish some of these people could walk in my shoes for one WEEK -- much less the three years I've dealt with this sickening BS. They're always bragging about who they know, how much pull they have at their office, "all I have to do is talk to so and so and it's a wrap". Oh really now? Where's my phone call? Why don't you have an office if you're that important? I'm sick of people bragging about what they can do when they have ZERO influence. They're nobodies. And what pisses me off most, these are the (sometimes superspiritual ones) who claim they're praying that God will block me being able to go back to New York, that my purpose is to remain in North Carolina (that's laughable, since I have known that wasn't true since 9th grade). Yet, when I try to find a job or come to them -- as they brag that I should because of their "connections" -- I come up high and dry. I'm about to give a big, fat J.O.D.E. to a bunch of people in the next three months.
If you have clout, good, do something with it. If you don't, well -- I'm trying to avoid cursing, so you can tell where I am going with this.
What have you...
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