Carlin’s spot on here.

Airport security does absolutely nothing other than making white people FEEL safe.

You’re not going to get killed by a terrorist. You just won’t. You’re gonna die by some soccer mom in an SUV who’s yelling at her stupid kids and not paying attention to the road. That’s how you’re gonna die, but you can’t ban that.

White folks are scared of the boogie man. The boogie man is now a tall skinny Muslim guy with a beard who says weird things in a language white people don’t understand.

I normally wouldn’t let that bother me what scares white people but the reason it does is:
1) it infringes on my Right to travel,
2) it slows down flying to a fucking crawl. I mean, God damn (pardon my French), I was stuck in the Vegas airport for four fucking hours because airport security made the lines so slow. I could have driven and at least listened to my Metal on the way home,
3) airport security is getting white people used to a police state, which is my absolute biggest fear. I stick out. I can’t exactly blend in. Historically, police states don’t bode well for people who don’t look like everyone else.

I always bring $40.  That will get the three of us a lot of good food, and the rest goes into the musicians’ tip jars.  So I come home with nothing but credit cards.  Yes, I still have cash but that’s my technique.  I’m on foot, so can’t spend the rest of my cash as it’s at home.

On the way home, I’ve been noticing more and more homeless folk.  Yes, I know that a lot of homeless are alcoholic losers.  But we’re seeing more and more of them and sometimes they’re not losers; just people with really bad luck.  We’re seeing a lot more of the latter now.

So a homeless guy asked if I had spare change and I told him honestly I didn’t have a penny left as I gave it all away to the musicians at the Farmer’s Market.  He asked if I had spare food.  Usually I buy a bunch of Mexican food (from the Farmer’s Market) but I didn’t have any this time.

Bailouts

Meanwhile, YOUR tax money went to billions of dollars for bailouts for the super rich.  If there’s any example of socialism for the rich, it was that bank bailouts.  What the fuck were you thinking if you supported the bailouts? No, the economy wouldn’t have fallen apart.  That’s what they want you to believe and your stupid politicians fell for it.  Meanwhile, they gave themselves $46 billion in bonuses in the FIRST YEAR alone with YOUR tax money and threw huge parties.

Bad for business

I take my credit score seriously.  Sad thing about credit score is you’re encouraged to have long relationships with banks.  My bank that I’ve been a customer at was one of the banks that got the bailout money.  They had the audacity to tell me that they have new fees where they charge a $10 a month service fee if I didn’t have either $1500 in the checking account or direct deposit.  I really wanted to tell them to fuck themselves and close the account, but because of my credit score (history), I decided not to.

I’d much rather do business with a credit union.  We’re slowly moving over to the local ones.  For one, their customer service is superior.  For another, they’re not a bunch of evil assholes like the big banks.

Look, we should have let the big banks fail.  If you know anything about capitalism, you should know that monopolies are bad for business.  They’re bad for business and bad for the consumer.  Plus, they have these fat lobbies and end up having too much political power as we’ve seen with the bailouts.

Had those big banks failed, we’d have a better banking system.  Thousands of little banks would have taken their business and it would have been better for the consumer.

We lost in so many ways with those bailouts.  Vote them all out, folks.  Everyone who supported the bailouts needs to go.

You know me.  I’m the first person to oppose the Nanny State.  I’m also no fan of the O Bummer Administration either.  You know I supported the Ron Paul campaign.

But let’s call a spade a spade.  Palin SUPPORTED the bank bailouts and the military industrial complex which is one of the primary causes for our nation’s deficit in the first place.  Ms. Obama talking about breastfeeding isn’t even one percent of one percent of the problem that either of those created.  Not even close.  Not even in the same ballpark.  Like I said, not even one percent of one percent.

So I got four words for Ms. Palin - “shut up, you hypocrite.”

That’s why I neglect this blog.  Sometimes, the absolute LAST thing I want to do is see a computer.

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I’m glad I’m a man.  It’s not for the reasons you think though.  It’s simply because I can trust all my male friends.   A woman often can’t trust her female friends.  Does that sound sexist? Funny thing is, I bet two to one women will back me up on this.

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Why is “fuck” a worse word than “bloody hell?”

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Which brings me to why did “Clerks” have to lobby for an R rating while “Hostel” got an R rating? Our priorities must be out of whack.

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I got a good life.  I work a lot of hours, but it’s something I don’t mind doing.  Biggest advice I can give to teenagers is do what you like.  The money is secondary.

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Adults who say otherwise have their priorities out of whack.  Just smile and nod but keep this to yourself - “they can go fuck themselves.”  Or better yet, “bloody hell they’re stupid.”

You’ll be at work 40 hours a week.  Or more.  That’s a lot of bloody hell hours.  If you hate your job, you’ll hate your life.  Time is more important than money.  And your mental health is more important than your money as well.

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Another tip to make your relationship work - play a game together.  I strongly suggest a game called Pandemic. You have to communicate well or else you’ll lose.  It’s a game where you all win or you all lose, so you’re a team working together, not against each other.

My wife and I play this game at least a few times a week.

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Aaron Rodgers is the best Quarterback in the NFL today.  Think otherwise? Well, ten years from now, nobody’s going to agree with you.  Everyone will agree with me.

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For the record, I predicted the Packers to win the Super Bowl after the 2010 season.  I was right.

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I’m writing this from a Linux desktop.  I love it.

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OK, I’m logging off soon and going to get the bloody hell away from this computer shortly and won’t see it again until tomorrow night.  Like I said, sometimes the last thing I want to see when I get home is a computer.

More Freedom, less government spending on stupid shit.  Yes, it is that simple.

Take 10 minutes to watch this.

I’ve been in and out of work for the past few years and learned a few pointers that I’d gladly share.  This is how I was able to find work (I haven’t been more than a month unemployed, even in the heart of the recession as these tips work).

First and foremost, you gotta treat your job search like a 9-5 job.  That means, get your ass out of bed at 8 AM, eat breakfast (do NOT skip breakfast), and start looking at 9 AM.  Spend the entire 9 AM until noon looking for work.  Do not fuck around.  Look for work.

I can’t speak for every profession as every profession is different.  For Software, I found dice.com, monster.com, and linkedin.com to be by far the most helpful.  Find out which websites are the most helpful by asking everyone you know, especially in your respective profession, what helped and what didn’t.

Take lunch at noon.  Take an hour off.  Don’t skip lunch.  Do not skip meals or else you’ll be thinking about food instead of thinking about finding work.  1 PM, back to work.  That means once again, no fucking around.  Look for work until 5 PM.

At 5 PM, you’re off.  You’re done for the day.

Do this 5 days a week.  Get as many interviews as you possibly can.  Be clean at your interview.  Don’t swear, don’t use too much slang, and don’t be an asshole.  Don’t complain about your former job.  That makes you sound like a whiner.

Find out every details you can about the company.  Show them that you’re interested.  Tell them what you can do for them.  It’s not about you.  It’s about how you’d be a good fit for their company.

Looking for work is hard work and it has to be treated as work.  You cannot slack off, especially nowadays that our economy sucks.

The other thing, you gotta smile.  You gotta be clean.  Don’t overdo perfume/cologne as when I interview someone, I don’t want to smell them, period.  That means I don’t want them to stink nor do I want to smell their perfume/cologne.  I know this sounds nitpicking but I know I’m not the only one who thinks this way.

Be cool.  This is important.  I don’t want to hire an asshole.  Know the difference between confidence and arrogance.

Also,  you gotta let everyone you know know that you’re looking.  You’d be surprised at how many people know somebody that may be hiring.  The more people know, the more chances you got.

These are a few tips.  Maybe later I’ll think of something more and add more.

Yes, a lot of the answers were what we’ve all heard before - intelligence, sense of humor, blah blah blah.  It was nice when someone actually gave me a unique response.  I had one say “strong enough to carry me home if I’m drunk.”

One actually gave me professions and after her, I asked if those professions are sexy and got mostly positive responses.  Here they are:

Blue collar - plumbers, electricians, and mechanics.  Plumbers because they consistently make a lot of money.  There is a sexiness to a man who strives under capitalism.  Electricians because of all the trades, they’re the smartest.  Mechanics, I’ve heard multiple compliments about them.  One, they can fix your car (which we joked is especially good when the zombie plague starts).  Another, like the plumber, recession or no recession, you still need your car fixed.  And the one I really liked best is there’s a sexiness to a guy who comes home covered in grease after a hard day’s work.

White collar - Professors, Doctors, and Dentists.  Professors I’ve actually heard before from several people.  Yes, intelligence is sexy.  Doctors are often Alpha Maleish.  I can see that.  Dentists, I was surprised but when asked why, they’re reliable.  Funny thing is I didn’t hear lawyers mentioned except once, and it was very negative - one mentioned she’d never even go on a date with a lawyer as she doesn’t trust them.

Funny thing is there were physical traits mentioned but they were more for flings than long-term relationships.  So of the women I asked, I might be able to generalize consistency, dependency, and reliability for long-term and physical traits for short term.  The physical traits ranged from strong hands, manly hands, tall and strong, broad shoulders, and strong facial features.  Not one women I asked though mentioned a physical trait for long-term relationships except for the one who said strong enough to carry her home when she’s drunk (she’s an alcoholic by the way).

Good stuff.  Like I said, entirely unscientific as the sampling was too small and not a representative of the general female population but definitely interesting enough for a blog post.

Judas Priest, my favorite band, is calling it quits next year.  Ronnie James Dio, my third favorite singer, died this year.  (Freddie Mercury, my 2nd favorite singer, died almost 20 years ago).

It’s one of those things about getting older.  People you really admired call it quits or die.  I know I’ve been writing nothing but politics lately and that’s why I intentionally didn’t include any political/social heroes, just pop culture heroes.

Both Favre’s and Judas Priest’s eminent retirements have already hit me.  Brett Favre is older than I am and I wanted him to play forever.  It never bothered me that he went to the Jets and later the Vikings.  I wanted an NFL QB older than me playing.  It makes me feel younger.

I haven’t accepted this aging thing very well.  I don’t like to know that I’m getting older and will eventually die of old age (if I don’t get killed in a car accident).  I know some of you who read this blog are older and you’re thinking something along the lines of “suck it up” but that’s always been a thing with me - not accepting time will eventually kill us all and no matter how much you want to hide from time, time always wins.

A scary thought.

I hate to say “I told you so” because I didn’t want to be right.

Poll source -  http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1925