Welcome to Detroit....we hope you survive
May. 18th, 2008
May. 16th, 2008
10:28 am
son of a.....I had today all planned out, full of personal stuff/errands I needed to get done. Work calls...they want me to pick up material for a job _next_ week on _Thursday_, today. Oh, and the time I need to pick it up - right smack in the middle of rush hour on the _other_ side of town.
"But it's giving you needed hours!"
True...I only got like 4 hours this week otherwise, and I'm going to fudge the numbers with "vehicle maintenance" some more, but still. I sit around week doing nothing, waiting. The one day I plan to get shit done, this happens.
Life sucks.
May. 15th, 2008
05:08 pm
Memo to race mongers: “racist” and “racial” are not synonyms
Race mongers in the moronic media are saying that it was racist for Hillary Clinton to state the fact that she gets more votes from working-class whites than does Barack Obama. Based on this incorrect use of the word “racist,” then I’m a racist for stating the fact that Obama gets more votes from blacks than does Clinton.
Actually, both her comment and mine are racial, not racist. A “racial” comment is a comment about race, whether negative, positive, neutral, factual, or not factual. A “racist” comment is a comment that reflects a belief that a given race is inherently inferior to another race.
Why is this distinction so difficult for the brain-belching class to understand?
Here’s a 10-question pop quiz to see if you understand the distinction:
1. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that the Mafia, the Costa Nostra, and Tony Soprano have their roots in Sicily?
2. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that Northern Italians are born smarter than Sicilians?
3. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that as a group, African Americans have the highest rate of out-of-wedlock births?
4. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that African Americans are genetically predisposed to having uncontrollable libidos?
5. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that Asians outscore other minorities on placement tests?
6. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that all Chinamen can’t be trusted?
7. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that 90 percent of the illegal immigrants in Arizona are Mexicans and that their children have a dropout rate of 50 percent?
8. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that Mexican immigrants don’t have the brains to learn English?
9. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that Craig Cantoni reeks of garlic?
10. Is it (a) racist or (b) racial to say that Craig Cantoni is an idiot because he’s Italian?
Correct answers: “Racial” is the correct answer to all of the odd-numbered questions, and “racist,” to the even-numbered ones.
Bonus question: If a pundit, reporter, editorialist, K-12 teacher, or college professor uses “racist” as a synonym for “racial,” is he (a) a moron or (b) a race monger?
Correct answer: He is a moron and a race monger.
An author and consultant, Mr. Cantoni reeks of garlic and, thankfully, can be reached at a long distance by email at ccan2@aol.com.
May. 10th, 2008
12:22 pm
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thegreatdoogie facepalms....
Sometimes it truly frightens me just how well the fear mongerers in this country have done their job...
http://community.livejournal.com/azjour
May. 8th, 2008
10:31 pm - IMGP1338
That damn garage door just jumped right out in front of me!
08:05 pm - Andrew Sisters - Hit The Road
Hahahahahahahaha....the Andrews Sisters were doing the "brush off the shoulder" move back in the 40's LONG before the thug rappers were doing it :D (it's at 2:11/2:12)
May. 6th, 2008
Apr. 29th, 2008
04:13 pm - It's always the weird ones....
http://community.livejournal.com/azjour
You never hear about this happenening to the super cute/adorable/hot/whatever girls, always the homely weird ones. Kinda makes you wonder if it's really just an attention whoring ploy....
03:15 pm
http://www.srpnet.com/payment/mpower/de
The pre-paid craze spreads further....
03:09 pm
Since my last post bashing Firefox, I've been trying out Opera. So far, so good. It's taking a bit to get used to the different interface, but I've noticed general speed has jumped quite a bit, and web pages with Flash no longer make my computer feel like a pre-MMX Pentium. I still plan on trying out some other browsers as well, just to see what else is available. I do miss the extensive plug-in library of Firefox, although I haven't yet checked to see what's available for Opera.
Overall however, my life post-Firefox is doing well, so far :)
Apr. 28th, 2008
02:33 pm
What really pisses me off about Mozilla.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v
98% CPU use? For ONE tab/window? This shit has been going on now for years...I remember bitching about this on a P3. I know what the problem is - Mozilla can't handle Flash properly. You'd think by now they would have figured it out.
But it's more secure than IE!
How? By making it so that you can't use 95% of the internet?
Flash is lame anyways
Yeah...these people think that Lynx was the prime of the internet as well as bitch that they can't red box any more.
I'm seriously at the point that I'm sick of dealing with Firefox, and am willing to deal with the shortcomings of IE. At least IE doesn't bring my entire computer (3GHz P4, 2GB RAM, 160GB Sata-2 HDD, <2 month old Windows install) to it's knees just by viewing a single webpage.
Apr. 27th, 2008
09:39 pm - When it idles, it goes "homohomohomohomo"
The part about the Prius is hilarious :D Check out the one about Achmed the Dead Terroist as well :-P
08:08 am - When the Camaro guys get together, you actually see Camaros :D
Pictures from the 1st annual Arizona Camaros car club (1st anniversary of the club as well).
Apr. 26th, 2008
Apr. 20th, 2008
04:20 pm
Heh.. just randomly looked up at the clock, and noticed that it's 4:20 on 4/20.
Apr. 19th, 2008
10:02 am - Another reason to always have a camera handy.....
I headed over to the grocery store this morning around 6am, and I'm greeted by a flock of sheep walking by.....
05:50 am - Great Lakes Song
Heard the song on WCSX this morning, thought of saurianentity immediately, lol.
Apr. 16th, 2008
Apr. 14th, 2008
05:31 am
As someone who has once again, and repeatedly before, fallen for a woman who will only end up crushing him yet again, thegreatdoogie begins to relate to women who repeatedly date and/or go back to abusive assholes. I haven't yet figured out why this is, or what the actual draw is though.
/no, the current one, nor have any of the previous ones been abusive in any way. However, I feel there is still some common ground here.
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