You Want an Issue?

It is things like this that truly piss me off. An anger that I would not wish on anybody. In fact, I am pounding beers right now to make it go away.

That means that through at least spring 2010, Wisconsin will remain the only state in the nation where people caught driving drunk for the first time are treated just like speeders: They get a ticket and pay a fine.

Emphasis mine. For the sweet zombie Jesus' sake. I love my state, and am a big proponent of the "drinking culture." But really, how many people need to get t-boned and die because some asshole had "a few to many."

As far as state politics is concerned, this is what I am concerned with. There are people here who have more than 5, sometimes over 10, drunk driving arrests or tickets, whatever you want to call it. Yet they can still drive. They are still able to drive to a tavern, get shit-faced, and drive home. When the cops pull them over, they take the tests, and are booked. They go to trial, and they plea out so they spend minimal time in jail. They are right back out there...getting hammered and driving.

What is wrong with this picture? Is it so difficult to understand? Where is the flaw in the logic? Or am I wrong in thinking this way? I have a difficult time driving after 1-3 beers, ethically and physically. Not to mention that fact that I fear other drivers on the road more than I fear my driving ability. Afterall, I am a good wheelman.

As They Say, Back In the Saddle

Still the smartest man I have never met.

Everyone knows that this doesnt work.

How I got here makes no sense.

In case the thought strikes you.

Back to da roots ya.

WOW. Really good.

Aint Technology Great?

Work and Normal

So this dude at work overheard a conversation with another coworker. This other coworker just got an Iphone. Is that the correct spelling? Anyway I says "you can blog while you are diving." This new dude at the office says, peeking his head over the cube wall, do you have a blog? I say no. Is that right? I mean is this type of lying OK? Though I would like more than the normal 4 readers, I dont need people from work asking questions about my shady personality.Doesnt this dude look like Screech??

What I Do While the World Series Is On

So I am watching the world series this evening, go Devil Rays, and an add comes on. It is for some car, but the better point is this...They play the "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. According to my half assed search of the Internets, the song was made in 1969. Now this is a great tune. You cannot deny it. And the fact that a lady is singing it is really cool. I would like to know which lady or group does this version.

But it made me to think about the Elton John tune, Rocket Man. My feeble mind thought that they were made at the same time, so who came first? Dont get me wrong, Rocket Man is one of the few EJ tunes I dig on. But David Bowie is so much cooler because he was in this.

So I wanted to know who followed who. According to Wikipedia, which has been proven wrong in the past, Rocket Man was made 3 years later but based on a short story. Space Oddity came before, but was a part of the "I like to sing story songs" genre.

So I guess my question is, loyal 4 readers, is which is better? And did Elton John expand, therefore copying a good idea, upon the David Bowie theme? Or did he just think that he could make more money than he already had by singing about space, like the Brit that did it before him.

You Science People are All Lame

So I read this article today. I am going to tell you that it does not work. Tried it, failed. Someday I will tell you about the things I do every day to keep me sane. But this is no reflection on the rest of the things that I do day to day. I'll refute that that shit. In fact, Ill do it right now...

Connect Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich your life and bring you support

Really, I do think my parents are important, and there are maybe 10 people that I would actually wish well. But all in all, I dont care to know what other people think, and I dont want to hear their ideas or beliefs. Unless they can prove me wrong.

Be active Sports, hobbies such as gardening or dancing, or just a daily stroll will make you feel good and maintain mobility and fitness

I sort of agree, if weekly kickball and boring ass bike rides count. But otherwise, some people just dont like dancing.

Be curious Noting the beauty of everyday moments as well as the unusual and reflecting on them helps you to appreciate what matters to you

There is no way I am becoming that dude from American Beauty. "That plastic bag gets me all choked up." Eat a dick clown.

Learn Fixing a bike, learning an instrument, cooking – the challenge and satisfaction brings fun and confidence

Well...I kind of agree. I learn everyday that people, like it or not, are more capable of lame ass bullshit than anyone would ever think. Those people should see number 1 for advice.

Give Helping friends and strangers links your happiness to a wider community and is very rewarding

This one is OK. I send money to people every year, and sometimes every month. But I also give in other ways. If judging you is the one thing I do well, I am only helping you out right?

So I half agree with 3 of 5, but in a way that makes their points mute. I guess if they recommend these things, they should think about who they are dealing with first. There will be none of this hand holding "we dont like landfill" bullshit here. I would bet that 65% of the populace is angry with this drivel that you put into the Internets, but those of us that actually read things may find your experiments boring and mostly unfounded, and a waste of time.
This is no reflection on my pure unadulterated love of the Internets, just what some people think others should read. New, controversial, or something to further the advance of knowledge in people. Not crap to placate lonely housewives, or househusbands, with things they should already know.

The Theme Music is Good

This one goes out to all you parrot heads out there.

So I have been watching a lot of the House lately. Mostly because USA is nice enough to play it a lot, like Law and Order. Tonight, they have on the ones where he is slowly getting in trouble with the law. The cop is going at him because he is on pills and House is on drugs while treating people. Other than the fact that the doc is good, the cop is right. But I choose to look at it like this...Brett Favre won a superbowl on pain killers, Chopper kills hookers under the influence of sadness, Muntaba writes well because of anger, and I passed college because I was drunk and stoned for the last 5 years of school. Anyway, I think the cop is just angry. Angry because the doc put a thermometer in his ass, and angry at the fact that the doc is a better doc than the cop is good at being a cop.

This brings me to my point. As my 3, I mean 4, readers know I have been given a promotion. Funny thing is that my former boss and mentor has also been given one. But that doesnt matter. The point of the first paragraph is this. The promotion I got was for a new national acount. They are Canadian. They think that because for the past how many years they were getting screwed out of money, they can jerk me around because we are paying them more. On Friday, these people told me something. Sometheing that made everyone in my office tell that nice lady, my former boss, to take me outside to smoke. This thing that these people said to me is the most important thing in my industry is not important. They seem to think that they are better at my job than I am. Suffice to say that I have only done it for 4 years, I think I am damn good at it, but they are better than me. They seem to think that they can dictate how things work.

I love my job, and unless the New York Yankees need a new GM, I wouldnt trade it. But the point is be careful of what you wish for. Beacause come monday, It may not be alright.

Then there is this.

Brett We Hardly Knew Ye

These guys say it best.

A Weekend Without Drinking

Fun with Spanish(?) fruit.

Fun with candidates.

The dash dont be silent.

I love lamp.

James Bond is not happy.

Former Brewer Update

Former softball player of the year enjoys what?

Thank you FJM

Cantstandsya

Its always funny when people break Seinfeld down to the bare bones.

For The Record

I have been drunk for 3 days. I am now 30 years old. I am not going to work today. Bitches.

Yes. I Have Not Worked

Fucking Hippy.

Good advice.

For those of you who believe.

It will happen people.

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Dolphins Hate People

Yes I am Awake. Looks like Man has fucked up big time. Even the dolphins, who are gentle creatures, have become angry.

You Said What?

So the local fishwrap has put out this. Funny thing is, I mostly agree with them. With one glaring fuck up. They have given this guy a better grade than this guy. Wait a minute...A since retired player comes back and gets on a team. He has to play the first month of the season due to a drug violation by the hired gun. Really? Sure he played well in those games, but what? So the JS would rather have Kapler over the guy who hit the most dingers as a rookie in the history of baseball? Granted the Prince will get the money, and the Brewers should trade him now*, but what the fuck. The Sweet Zombie Jesus does not like "Veteran clubhouse leadership" over good baseball. He also has no place for grit, like I have no place for lactose.

*This is a discussion for another day regarding fat guys who hot home runs and how they get worse as they get older.

Also, I am on vacation Bitches, so suck it.

Smut

So it appears that shitty wings and scantily clad ex-strippers bought a place in the city that I went to High School in. Yet another place for people to oogle at women, which is cool, and drink more beer as a result of their pseudo-hotness. What do people do when they drink beer, and eat shitty wings, then get sold more beer by almost hot women and drive home? Welcome to the suburbs. I used to go to Pedro's. They served giant beers. One or two times I drove home when I should not have been driving. I dont need to do that where I live now. Though Hooters does not serve giant beers, I do know they have women wearing all kinds of nothing. When she says "want another beer?" and dudes nod their head only because they are looking at boobs, they will get hammered no question. Driving and hammered dont mix. The grade school point doesnt matter as only degenerates drink a lot on Tuesday afternoon, like the bottle of scotch in my desk. Though there may be 8 year olds running across the road. Point is, shitty wings, booze, and almost hot women in the suburbs dont go together. In fact, bars in strip malls dont go together. Despite the fact that V-Dicks makes a bad ass egg sandwich.

Debatalicious

So I was all in to it a while back. Now...not so much. One walks around dodging questions, and one hobbles around dodging questions. This is not debate. Debate is when 2 people talk to each other in a civilized manor and each give their respective thoughts. Not to mention that the moderator was more concerned keeping time. There is more sniping than real thought. There is nothing that they said that was new, exciting, and maybe just once for once real. Every word out of their mouths was "he did this." There was no "Hey man, why did you do these things?" Mostly because the moderator was once again more concerned with time. The news networks? Totally different. This tells me that their was no winner. I am American, I only care about winners. The last question was probably the best one. Both showed that they are good orators, but which one said anything? Rhetorical Questions are good for these types of things. They both give the same answer. Neither is the answer. Put it this way. I dont want to pay for other peoples debt and loss based on poor decisions. And I dont want to pay for other peoples poor choices when they have kids at 15, or once again poor decisions. Is there a middle to that question? Some sort of idea that applies to both? No sir. Everybody screws up, and I should not be responsible for all of them. Everybody has skellies. Again, no sir. Both of these guys want me to do that. To do both. If presidential politics always drifts to the middle, they are doing a good job of not letting that happen. At least there is always garbage.

This?

This is why we brought him here. Hes a big game pitcher they said. He plays well in September they said. He is worth 42 million dollars over 4 years they said. Do you understand why you dont long term guys who are playing the back nine? So on the promise of one year of LCS numbers, you throw large amounts of money at this guy? Lets take a look at what he has done in a Brewers uniform. In terms of ERA+, he is exactly average over his career. Not bad, but certainly not good. Not the "late season lock" that he was signed for. But looking at that same number for the last 2 years, he is seriously getting worse. I dont have the patience to break it down by month for last year, but MLB.com makes it easy for this season. By my feeble estimation, he had 2 good months. Both of which are not September. Both of which are based on wins and ERA, which are flawed. Look at the strikes v the number of pitches. He never once threw more than 64 strikes, I lied as there is a 65 strike outing in there. And in September, for the Brewers, he never threw more than 60 while lasting an average of less than 5 inings in ought 8. In effect, making him ineffective in Sept. An argument can be made that this is worse than the Jeff Hammonds contract. I have to give credit to that comment to a dude I work with.

A good pitcher he is not. What he does do is eat innings, in a sort of half assed and shitty way. He even pitched less innings than glass bodied Ben and rubber arm Dave Bush. And he gives up a lot of taters. At this point the Soup, its not boos its soup, Is no better than a #5 starter and at worse a long guy in the pen. Shit, on this theory, throw crazy money at Dave Bush, at least he gets Ks. Beacause really its sad, no one will pick up that contract, and you dont pay long guys 10 mil to pitch garbage innings.

Somtimes...

The World Opens Up and All is Good

Artists are Hippies.

Because without pols, what have you.

More Politics...Does it stop?

For fucks sake?

For you agents.

I Dont Usually like email Forwards at Work.....

But this one is bad ass.