Obese And Proud Of It

I swore I wouldn't rant, but I just have to. I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not perfect, and there aren't a lot of perfect people who aren't celebrities, either. But c'mon...

So I'm Publix tonight, just shopping for a little Vin la Rouge, and I see this....KID, no older than 20 years old, riding on the fucking cart reserved for senior citizens and disabled people.

As an aside, the day after I gashed my heel open, walking wasn't that easy, and I confess, I utilized the motorized scooter in Publix that day, as well. I felt like shit about it, but what are you going to do?

So the kid, probably weighs about 280, was waiting in line for a Publix sub. At that particular moment, I THOUGHT about blogging about it, but I decided it would be a little bit out of line. Anyway, I put it out of my mind, selected my wine (ooh, that could be a song: I put her out of mind, selected my wine, and went to drown the lonliness that I feel inside...lilnilhil, WRITE ME A RIFF!) , but on my way back, I was wont to walk down the cereal aisle, and there is the kid again, fucking drooling over some fruity fucking pebbles. After he realizes that he has PASSED the preservative laden, over fattening (yeah, RIGHT, part of this complete breakfast my ASS -- kind of like anal is part of a complete sex life) cereal, and get this -- THE KID PULLS AN AUSTIN POWERS AND PROCEEDS TO TRY A 3 POINT TURN IN THE FUCKING AISLE!! I shit you not. Keep in mind the aisles are really narrow, so it was classic Powers, bumping into both sides of the aisle, looking backwards and scooting forwards, the whole 9 yards.

Still, I didn't even want to blog about it, UNTIL:

So I get to checkout, this time, I couldn't put it out of my mind, with the wine that was mine (and is currently slowing dropping in my insides), when I see an elderly woman who was walking with two half crutches, or whatever they are. That's when I decided to rant.

Look, I've dealt with a weight problem my whole life. So has my mother and one of my sisters, and several people I know. But we know this, we try hard to maintain it. But never never NEVER have any of us stooped so low as to accept it to the point that we would force someone who needs a scooter to not have one because we didn't.

Honestly, at that point, I felt like going and slapping this kid dead in the face, taking away his sugar, and booting him up and down the aisle. Typically, I'm a pacifist, so I wouldn't, but dayum, it just would've felt nice.

At any rate, I'm not ragging on obese people. I realize that God made us all in different shapes and sizes, and we all have our own challenges. But if I could....I'd slap him AND his mom. That kid is going to be a burden on society. Seriously, the kid was just fine with taking this resource from someone who might've needed. He was PROUD to drool over sugary cereal and do a Powers-Esque turnaround. What the fuck?

As an aside, I checked him out -- to the best of my knowledge, he had absolutely no reason he couldn't be walking. No special equipment, no special shoes, leg braces, crutches, etc.

Alright, thanks for listening. Going back to my wine, which is mine, because I went and cleared my mind, and I feel fine inside...My wine...

Evil Manifests Itself Via MySpace

I won't say too much about it, I think it speaks for itself. This is the link to the lady who harassed that young girl through MySpace until she hung herself. Disgusting.

http://meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com/2007/12/im-lori-drew.html

YouTube VS Politics

Sorry if the title sounds uncatchy, but it's almost true.

There are a lot of people pointing out the lack of civics education or actual participation in Democracy by the younger generation. I know a lot of them THINK they're being participatory, but the true fact is that the younger generation is simply regurgitating the same tired facts and opinions being fed to them by the liberal media. A media, which purports to label itself 'impartial', divides our country more than actual bi-partison squabbling.

This simply isn't participation. Participation is educating yourself on candidates and facts, not someone else's opinions (you get the FACTS so you can draw your OWN conclusion). Participation is not only voting for your choice of president, but federal legislator, state governor, legistlator, mayor, city council, etc. I don't see the sense of urgency in people 10 years younger than myself to get involved.

Unless, of course, it's the tech generation. I'm sorry, but sending in sloppy questions like "why shouldn't we get married", or listening to a guy in a santa suit send video questions to candidates is kind of making a mockery of the system, in my opinion. Granted, I understand that these are issues which are important to the person asking them, but a part of our Democracy is also being inclusive of others, and challenging the accountability of our leaders and candidates. A debate is simply a very public job interview, and our job as spectators is to use that information to draw our own conclusions and therefore support the person we believe is best for the job.

Really, I just can't believe that we're sidestepping social security, a failed Iraqi government, two-front wars that are costing hundreds of billions of dollars, illegal immigrants, failed justice systems, etc in order to field questions from a guy in a santa suit. Doesn't make sense.

Anyway, that's one poor man's opinion.

RB

Happiness, and What Not

Thanksgiving was yesterday, and it was damn well nice.

Went to my grandma's, had some good food, and then adjourned to my sister's withe some of her husband's family there. Great food and even better times.

Didn't have shit to write about -- I went a responded to someone else's blog with all my thought and vocabulary I'm going to get to use today. At least I liked the response.

Anyway, hope everyone had a great turkey day. I'd post pictures of my day if; A) I had pictures, and B) I knew how to do it.

Happy Holidays (won't say it much longer, because I'm going to have a serious holiday bitch very soon)

RB

When The Looking Glass Is Reversed...

Great article today in the St Pete times. I won't try to take anything away from it, so I'll leave the link at the end of this post.

The gist of it is, Bush's warrantless wiretapping program in actuality exceeds the scope he described to the American people. A former AT&T executive states that he has seen some of the NSA's "secret rooms" where agents are filtering through millions of web pages and email addresses -- this is traffic that is originating and TERMINATING within our borders, which, according to Bush, was not supposed to happen. Does anyone else think this guy is an imperialist?

Here's the link. Enjoy and leave your comments. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/18/Opinion/In_the_US_of_A__we_ar.shtml

RB

Blackjack, Bacharrat and Slots -- OH MY!

To say that I'm thrilled right now would be a bit of an overstatement, because I really don't give a shit either way, BUT:

Governor Crist signed a compact with the Seminole Tribe to allow Vegas style card games and slot machines in all 6 of its casinos in Florida. The state is guaranteed $100M in the first year alone.

The state legislature is not too happy about this turn of events. They are planning to block this measure if it has to come through the floor of the House. One member of the GOP cited that the presence of slot machines and blackjack would increase crime rates (SERIOUSLY?! It's a casino surrounded by cops! And, if you look at my LAST post, you see what happens to criminals after fucking around in a Seminole casino), and someone else cited the fact that compact is non binding and therefore not a legal agreement with the State of Florida.

Either way, those douchebags should seriously shut up. It's $100M in revenue the state needs, and they're probably objecting because they did not work to capitalize on this opportunity. So, I guess to cover the fact the state is going to be over $1B short in revenue for the second year in a row, select members of the legislature are going to play the moral card. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a Republican, but what are you going to do?

Nothing from state Democrats, but I'm sure once the above is all finalized, I'm sure we'll all see some requests for ridiculous social programs, like "save the butterflies", and "science and research run amok: Cloning".

At any rate, remember that if you play your hand too strong, they will fold, and if you play it too weak, they will draw out on you. Every time.

RB

How Crime Kills

So, some guy on the Miccosukee Indian reservation was breaking into cars when noticed by police. As you probably know, all Indian reservations are autonomous, which means they are self-governed, and have their own police force (and I could have fun with THAT, but I digress).

So guy breaking into cars gets noticed by the cops, and runs into a retention pond. Apparantly, he disturbed the meal of a pretty big alligator, who wasn't quite thrilled about that, and promptly bit the man on the head and dragged him 50 under water. Needless to say, the man died.

Now, they trapped and killed the alligator, because under state law, any gator that bites and/or ingests a human must be destroyed and not consumed as tasty gator tail nuggets (tastier chicken and baby cow nuggets, even).

That's lunacy, I say. The state should be offering this vigilante reptile a job, either as a police chief, or even to be the new face for "Take a Bite out of Crime". In fact, we could probably throw this gator into the Democratic presidential race, and then we could all rest better knowing there is at least ONE tough candidate on their ballot.

RB

First And Foremost...

First and foremost, this is my first post on my new blog. Certainly new to the blogosphere.

First post = no readers, so I'll see if I can actually draw a fucking hand.

RB