:: it's a scary world: rants from a chemically imbalanced mind ::

:: Thursday, January 31, 2002 ::

my GOD... what year is it again??? 2002, right? when is america going to wake up and see what that godforsaken maniac in the white house is doing!!!! the man wants to make it 1953 again!!!! if you haven't heard yet, READ THIS.... okay, my first question is, WHO decided the white house should have the divine right to declare if and when life begins?!?! that sounds an awful lot like somebody trying to play "god" to me..... but of course, it IS republicans i'm talking about here.... let me get this straight. YOU, george dubya "i'm too stupid to breed" bush, are allowed to tell us that your daughters going out and getting busted for underage drinking is a PRIVATE family matter which is of NO concern to us and could we kindly butt out BUT at the same time you reserve the right to govern a woman's body??? HER right to do with HER body as she pleases??!!! now, this may be weird coming from a male of the species (and i use the term "species" loosely... i consider us more of a loose gathering of rabble who live in close proximity to each other...... monkeys who've learned to tie their shoes and occasionally get a math problem right, at best) BUT i'm a firm believer in the fact (notice i said fact, not belief. fact. simple and blindingly true.) that a woman's body is hers. NO ONE can tell a woman she can or can't have an abortion.... what is growing inside her is her business and she has to deal with it, one way or the other... and she has to live with her choice, one way or the other..... granted, in the event of a married couple, the husband has a say in the matter, in my opinion... but beyond that, forget it.... and i can see NO possible, conceivable reason for the government to EVER have a say in that decision! NEVER. i'm telling you, this misbegotten bastard is going to do his damnest to drag us straight back to the dark ages of sexual repression..... dammit, i thought republicans were the guys who HATED welfare type programs! and if that doesn't sound like a welfare type program, i don't know what does...... what's next? if you're THINKING about having a child you qualify for prenatal care, etc????!!!!
 

:: Shaman 1/31/2002 10:30:41 PM [+] ::
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 30 — Gov. Jeb Bush’s daughter was charged with prescription fraud Tuesday after she allegedly used the name of a doctor who no longer practices in Tallahassee to try to buy an anti-anxiety drug at a pharmacy. Bush and his wife, Columba, issued a statement acknowledging substance abuse by their daughter, Noelle, 24, and asked for privacy.

fuck off, jeb. you and your family (and i count dubya and his screwed up kids in there too) LOVE to throw out that line about asking the press for privacy everytime you stick your foot in it.... forget it... you and dubya are public figures... which means EVERYthing about you is open to public inspection and interrogation.... what - you think you can screw clinton and his family into the ground for 8 years continuous with lie, innuendo and investigations but YOUR family is exempt?? again, jeb, fuck off. you too, george. what is it with the republican belief that what's good for the goose ISN'T good for the gander? you wanna dig into the lives and affairs of everyone not affiliated with your party? well, then be prepared to have the spotlight turned on you at the first opportunity. idiots.
 

:: Shaman 1/29/2002 04:23:25 PM [+] ::
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one of the coolest and most thought provoking songs ever put down on vinyl would have to be dear god by xtc...... find it.... your musical tip for the day.
 

:: Shaman 1/29/2002 10:22:17 AM [+] ::
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a rocking little treat for your tongue: insert one lifesavers kickerz candy and a mouthful of mountain dew.....swish.... enjoy..... MMmmmmmmmm..... suuuuuugarrrr.....
 

:: Shaman 1/27/2002 04:32:22 PM [+] ::
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.... and OUT the window goes any possibility that all the whining feminists who scream "YOU'LL NEVER SEE A WOMAN DO THAT! A WOMAN COULDN'T BE THAT BRUTAL!" when discussing terrorist attacks and the like, might possibly be right..... READ HERE..... i've said for years - women are just as cruel and brutal as men (if not more so), they're just a lot better at... ah, shall we say, NOT being so open about it... covert? is that what i'm trying to come up with here? coy maybe is a better word.....but you get the point..... which brings me to my next one - i'm waiting patiently.... OH so patiently for the whole middle east/israel problem to end...... ideally, in a perfect world, i'd say we go over and raze the holy temple at jerusalem to the ground. pulverize it. utterly. totally. and then blast the dust into the sun on a satellite. because if you trace this whole screwed up affair back, it all revolves around religion and this ONE pissant "holy place"..... so destroy it. remove their reason for fighting. but that shit ain't gonna happen. which bites the ass end of a llama but that's the way love goes. or so janet jackson and merle haggard would have you believe. which means i'll just sit here and fervently hope that they end up just wiping each other out (and leaving the rest of us alone in the meantime!)... because let's face facts - neither group is going to be truly satisfied and truly at peace until the other group is wiped out. welcome to the human race.......
 

:: Shaman 1/27/2002 03:44:32 PM [+] ::
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yea, like that's EVER all i have to say....... (figured i'd say it before somebody else did.)
 

:: Shaman 1/22/2002 08:56:20 PM [+] ::
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there are so many falsehoods throughout life that we accept as truth and fact that it's amazing...... like two of my favorites: "absence makes the heart grow fonder" & "familiarity breeds contempt".

bullshit. absence makes the heart grow forgetful and familiarity breeds comfort. it's that simple.

and that's all i've got to say today.
 

:: Shaman 1/22/2002 02:03:34 PM [+] ::
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okay, THIS is scary as hell..... not actually scary bad... but scary, nonetheless.... and potentially scary bad.... whereas it would be nice to see someone with the balls and money to market it properly end up buying red hat linux, i don't know if aol getting it is neccesarily a good thing..... i mean, aol=time warner elektra atlantic=the single largest entertainment conglomerate in history...... i have this nightmarish image of back-doors planted in operating systems as a way of "protecting artists' works and investments"..... call me a conspiracist but that just gives me jitters.....
 

:: Shaman 1/21/2002 12:15:17 AM [+] ::
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awww hell..... this can't be good.... suddenly i'm feeling a real steely dan thing coming on fast....
 

:: Shaman 1/17/2002 08:17:06 PM [+] ::
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DaimlerChysler, which makes the popular vehicle Jeep, is yanking a commercial from the air after hunters jammed the switchboards and fax machines of the automaker to complain about the spot. The offending ad showed a deer strapped to the top of a Jeep, driving through a group of deer hunters. After the vehicle was in a no-hunting zone, the driver stopped, got out, and told the deer, “OK. It’s clear.” The deer opens its eyes, jumps off the roof of the Jeep and runs away.

“DaimlerChrysler . . . . has turned its back on American sportsmen by launching an advertising campaign that glorifies anti-hunters and vilifies hunters,” the U.S. Sportsman Alliance wrote in a letter to its members, urging them to complain to the automaker.

No one from DaimlerChrysler was available for comment, but the U.S. Sportsman Alliance quotes an exec from the company as telling them it was pulling the ads, saying, “Obviously we underestimated the sensitivity of this issue. Because this is so emotionally charged, we will no longer continue this campaign.”

and if they'd made a commercial that instead glorified hunters and villified non-hunters, billy bob and cletus would be laughing it up in their budweisers and slapping their knees. uh..... hunters suck. at least until they start developing a sense of humor. it's a COMMERCIAL, guys! wake up and suck the coffee grounds, you inbred morons!

and people wonder why i despise the human race.
 

:: Shaman 1/17/2002 01:48:09 PM [+] ::
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

and be SURE to read the section on processing!! its a RIOT!!
 

:: Shaman 1/16/2002 10:41:48 PM [+] ::
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heaven \Heav"en\ (h[e^]v"'n), n. [OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS. hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham[=o]n to put on, clothe one's self, G. hemd shirt, and perh. E. chemise.] 1. The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. 2. A hot cup of coffee, a fresh pack of Camels, a toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich and any Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin movie.
 

:: Shaman 1/14/2002 10:44:41 PM [+] ::
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the year is 2002..... but we might as well still be living in the dark ages....... READ
 

:: Shaman 1/13/2002 10:29:59 AM [+] ::
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okay, it's up and it looks to be perfectly configured now, so check it out and let me know what you think: New Cam.
 

:: Shaman 1/12/2002 02:44:53 PM [+] ::
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currently playing: faithless ..... insomnia

and lo and behold, the package he awaited with baited breath arrived... and there was much celebrating and laughter across the land...... ! hehehehe.... oh, like i haven't been called a drama queen before.... whatever..... where was i ... OH yes my trackerpod arrived! WAAHOO!! the trackerpod, for the woefully techno-disabled, is a wonderful little robotic device upon which you mount a small digital camera feeding to the web..... then you run an app to address said cam AND the robotic arm and VOILA! instant controllable cam from anywhere in the world!!! WEEEE!!! absolutely, totally, undoubtedly USELESS for me... at least for any REAL application.... but holy SHIT it's the coolest damn toy i've seen in a LONG time!! be nice and i'll send you the addy to control it..... and the funny thing is... where i've never been bothered by all the webcams surrounding me now, suddenly THIS concept unnerves me..... i can't help but keep glancing up at the cam thinking i just saw it move out of the corner of my eye..... but that would be silly and paranoid of me...... wouldn't it?
 

:: Shaman 1/11/2002 10:50:48 PM [+] ::
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see, kids, it's the LITTLE things in life that bring us the most pleasure..... like a brand new spindle of 24x rated cdr's ..... i don't know what it is but i get a new spindle and i just want to start using it! never mind the other two spindles of 100 sitting under the desk..... it's kind of like getting a new magazine... you HAVE to open it up and start reading at the first opportunity.... whether it's an inopportune time or not...... impulsive, non-rational thought..... somebody wise once said - "you don't quit playing because you grow up - you grow up because you quit playing.".... which means i may die of lung cancer with the body of a 98 year old man but i'll NEVER grow up
 

:: Shaman 1/10/2002 09:29:54 PM [+] ::
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may the postmaster general burn in the furtherest depths of hell...... you will NOT believe this..... i come in from work and grab the mail on the way in.... i look up as i pull in the garage and lo and behold there's a package on the front porch.... oh hooray! my new technotoys are here!! i grab the box.... i tear it open (of course)..... and... it's...... bubble mailers. whahuh?! i didn't order bubble mailers.... i just buy 'em at office depot..... so i go in and check my orders.. hmmm, no... didn't order any bubble mailers... not since early last year when i did a bulk buy from.... uh.... wait a minute... the bubble mailers i ordered that never showed up. that i bitched to the guy who sold them to me about. that he quickly resent to me. no way.... impossible... can't be.... i run out to the garage and grab the box..... with the bubble mailers in it..... with the may 6, 2001 postmark on it. holy mary mother of god. AND IT'S GOT PRIORITY MAIL TAPE ALL OVER IT!!!! how in the name of all that is unholy in this world do you LOSE a box 2 feet by 1 foot wide that was sent PRIORITY?!?! and i swear to you, there was not a dent, scratch or tear ANYwhere on the box... it looked like it had been sitting on the shelf until this morning..... (as opposed to the replacement box he sent last year which was badly packaged, badly taped and looked like it had been used for the postal service intramural kickball tournament)..... for god's sake, it's time to privatize the us postal service!!!! it's been discussed and debated for years but i want to see it happen yesterday!!! at least then i'd have somebody to bitch to and get some kind of compensation from for silly shit like an 8 month delayed package! you know what i get if i call the post office and bitch about this? a headache and a blood pressure jump of 20/30..... and that's about it.... because quite frankly, they could give a shit less...."well, it GOT there, didn't it?!?!".... (that was an actual reply from a postal worker during a somewhat similar incident about 2 years ago)..... it's a major miracle that i don't have this kind of crap happen to me more often with all the ebay shipping i do...... of course, now that i've spoken that aloud, i'm doomed.
 

:: Shaman 1/10/2002 06:56:34 PM [+] ::
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annnnnnnd seven more die today in dubya's never ending quest to take america's minds off of the troubling economy..... because that's all it is at this point.... we've totally lost track of osama AND omar and it will be a major act of god if we find them anytime soon..... (and i'm an agnostic, so figure the odds there.).... from here out, we're pissing into the wind..... has anybody out there been keeping track so far? first, we lost 2 REALLY big buildings and 5000 people.... err... 4000..... er.... 3000 ..... er...... 2800....... at this rate, i'm figuring we'll be seeing recounts on that number well into the tail end of this decade..... now, we sent a buncha guys over to make somebody pay for this whole mess.... but we didn't find him in time... so we lose for now...... score: osama - 2 (sept 11th and escaping), usa - 1 (shattering the taliban)... but still we remain in afghanistan and still the us soldier death count continues.... and it'd be one thing if these men were dying in battle, but have you SEEN the causes of death??!! here, allow me:

A Green Beret sergeant was shot and killed in an apparent ambush last week in eastern Afghanistan.
Three Green Berets were mistakenly hit by a U.S. airstrike north of Kandahar in December.
A CIA officer was killed in November in an uprising of Taliban prisoners in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Two Army Rangers were killed when their helicopter crashed in Pakistan in October.
Seven Marines in a U.S. KC-130 refueling plane crashed Wednesday near an airfield in southwestern Pakistan. Defense officials said there were no initial signs of survivors.

does anybody else notice anything odd here? ONE soldier has died in combat. i count TWELVE us deaths from STUPID causes. and one death that i could throw on either side of the fence. apparently we've become much more effective than the enemy at killing our own men.... at which point, i think its time to stop, regroup and pull back.... osama isn't going anywhere we can't eventually find him.... and again, i reiterate - it's not the enemy who's killing our people in afghanistan.......
 

:: Shaman 1/09/2002 09:07:13 PM [+] ::
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WOOHOO!!! and sometime during the night while i slept, it happened.... ..... phew.... now if i can just catch up to rayfield's feedback! hehehehe
 

:: Shaman 1/09/2002 07:10:56 AM [+] ::
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ohmygod. i just realized..... 999.... the number of the upside down beast......... uh-oh
 

:: Shaman 1/08/2002 09:24:14 PM [+] ::
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oh man oh man oh man..... i am soooooooooo close!!! ..... one more feedback and i've achieved my goal of a millennium.... one thousand satisfied customers.... which when you think about it, is pretty damned phenomenal.... yes, i'm tooting my own horn but tootfully so.... or something like that.... and ya know, i never DID get to watch burton's batman last night.... one thing popped up and then another and before i knew it, no time.... so i watched a couple of episodes from batman the animated series, the first season..... back when it was nice and dark and gritty.... no boy blunder.... just the dark knight.... but i digress.... i think my original point was....... EXCELLENT! .... which reminds me that i really need to watch the bill and ted's excellent adventure dvd i picked up last week..... i LOVE that movie! hell, i loved the second one too... not as much but it had its moments.... like giving death getting melvined... snicker, snicker...... when you realize the guy under the white makeup is bill sadler, better known as the villain american general in die hard 2: die harder, the scene takes on a whole new meaning...... or maybe thats just me.....
 

:: Shaman 1/08/2002 09:19:26 PM [+] ::
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and tonight...... it's tim burton's batman.......... aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh........ see, even though i'm a batfanatic, i haven't seen the original keaton batman in about 5 years..... it was one of the first dvds that i bought but i've just never gotten round to watching it..... i think it might be that batman 3 and 4 pretty much turned me off on batman movies in general..... but suddenly i feel the need.... and i'm all about obeying urges......
 

:: Shaman 1/07/2002 08:32:50 PM [+] ::
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a particularly disturbing saturday morning instant message conversation with my 7 year old.... (only the flesh of my flesh would prefer to im me as opposed to coming downstairs to ask me....)....

shamansmonkey: hi dad do you have any pennes
shaman: why?
shamansmonkey: i'm starting a collecsen well not exacle
shaman: what'cha need them for?
shamansmonkey: well at kroger there is a exchang for money maching
shaman: OH! so you want my pennies so you can get money for yourself!!!
shamansmonkey: yaaaaaa thats right
shaman: you PIG!
shamansmonkey: come on
shaman: you SNEAKY pig!
shamansmonkey: come on
shaman: you sneaky MONEY GRUBBING pig!
shamansmonkey: come on dad!!

oh god.... what have we created.......
 

:: Shaman 1/05/2002 10:44:58 AM [+] ::
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now THIS is a lighter, by god! TRULY a zippo any man, smoker or not, would be proud to carry...... or maybe i'm just psychotic about my zippos.....
 

:: Shaman 1/04/2002 08:31:39 PM [+] ::
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see, ya learn something new or hear something new everyday..... i had NO idea that frank sinatra had recorded a version of winchester cathedral..... and it RULES! okay, to even begin to understand that, you must realize that a) winchester cathedral is a distinct auditory trigger from childhood for me..... i hear that song and i flash on jasmine drive and running through (THROUGH) a storm door trying to get to my little brother to throttle the life from him...... i didn't catch up to him and i paid dearly by said meeting with a closed door.... unfortunately my own damn fault because i just wasn't paying attention.... a phrase which has haunted me most of my adult life, come to think of it..... but i digress.... it pops my senses with speckles of childhood..... and b) frank sinatra is god... that simple.... greatest single entertainer in the history of the world..... so you combine those two things and it gives me giggles......

never mind.....
 

:: Shaman 1/03/2002 11:14:05 PM [+] ::
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and deliverance WAS the perfect movie to watch on a new year's eve........ eerie, unnerving movie..... i understand perfectly why ned beatty went through therapy for years over his scenes in the movie...... tWISted..... BUT the movie's great fun for the ENTIRE family! hehehehehehe.... (yea, just TRY explaining the rape scene to little billy)....... and back to work we are again.... ah, but that 12 days of rest was well deserved, much needed and over WAY too fast...... vacations always are though.... so back into the pit i jump again, with my eyes closed..... (always seemed like the safest bet to me).... and now back to figuring out why this hp 4100n refuses to accept the extra memory i'm trying to shove in it.................
 

:: Shaman 1/03/2002 12:50:47 PM [+] ::
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