Obama has 'Jesus' covered for talk at Georgetown...Didn't want his flesh to start burning off....

I'm going to have to agree with the good Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, this was a cowardly act...check this action out...from Fox News.

Georgetown University hid a religious inscription representing the name of Jesus during President Obama's address there Tuesday, FOXNews.com has confirmed, because White House staff asked the school to cover up all religious symbols and signs while the president was on stage.

The monogram IHS, whose letters spell out the name of Jesus, and which normally perches above the stage in Gaston Hall where the president spoke, was covered over with what appeared to be black wood during the address.

"In coordinating the logistical arrangements for the event, Georgetown honored the White House staff's request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind the Gaston Hall stage," university spokesman Andy Pino told FOXNews.com.

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The White House said that the backdrop, which included blue drapes and a host of American flags, was standard during policy speeches and other events.

"Decisions made about the backdrop for the speech were made to have a consistent background of American flags, which is standard for many presidential events," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye in a statement released Thursday.

Georgetown is a private Catholic institution founded by Jesuits in 1789. The auditorium where the president spoke Tuesday is adorned with religious imagery, but only the symbols directly on the stage -- those likely to be picked up by a television camera -- were obscured.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, accused the university of "cowardice" for acceding to the White House, and criticized Obama's team for asking a religious school to "neuter itself" before the president made his address.

"No bishop who might speak at the White House would ever request that a crucifix be displayed behind him," he said.

The White House insisted that the move was made only to provide a proper setting for the speech -- and said that "any suggestions to the contrary are simply false."

Though his advance team asked that the religious signs be veiled, the president himself took up religious discourse and discussed a passage from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount as he outlined his plans for an economic recovery.

"We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand," he said during his remarks, which came two days after Easter. "We must build our house upon a rock."

It was Obama's first visit to Georgetown since being elected president, but he also spoke at the school on Sept. 20, 2006 about the need for energy independence. A photograph of the event does not seem to indicate that parts of the stage were hidden during that address, which Obama made while still a U.S. senator.

Another Catholic university, Notre Dame, came under fire in late March for inviting the president to speak at its May 17 commencement. Obama supports abortion rights, which are considered anathema by the Catholic Church.

Carbon Leaf...Check them out...Now.

A magical band, hailing from Virginia mixing classical folk, jazz and rock and coming together in 1996.

Alan Sculley, North County Times, San Diego has this to say about the band:

Plenty of longtime Carbon Leaf fans will notice that on the group’s two most recent CDs, 2004’s “Indian Summer” and the newly released “Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat,” there’s an obvious absence of the sound that once got Carbon Leaf labeled by some as a Celtic/bluegrass band.
It’s not that Carbon Leaf wanted to abandon its Celtic roots or had forgotten about that influence. It’s just that the last time the band got its “Irish” up, the results were less than enthralling.

“The albums are decidedly non-Celtic,” Carbon Leaf singer Barry Privett saidin a recent phone interview. “They weren’t intended to get us out of that
(Celtic) box so much that we had kind of grown tired of that box. For‘Indian Summer’ we had written probably 22 songs to see which ones would make the cut. A lot of the songs had that Celtic influence, but we had already kind of been mining that territory for a few years. The songs that we had written that had that influence just didn’t feel inspired anymore.”
As a result, “Indian Summer” and especially “Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat” have emphasized Carbon Leaf’s rock and pop influences.

The direction is apparent with tracks such as “Learn to Fly,” “A Girl and Her Horse” and “Under the Wire,” which all feature strong pop melodies. The rootsier side of Carbon Leaf, meanwhile, shows on acoustic-leaning tunes such as “The War Was in Color” and “Block of Wood,” while on “Comfort” and “Texas Stars,” the group rocks a bit more briskly.
The more pronounced rock and pop influences surfaced on “Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat” ---- the band’s seventh CD ---- for a variety of reasons, Privett said, including the fast pace that surrounded the writing and recording of the CD.
After spending January writing material for the CD, the band faced a tight schedule for recording. The band, which also includes Carter Gravatt (guitar/mandolin), Terry Clark (guitar), Jordan Medas (bass) and Scott Milstead (drums), had only three weeks for the session and a couple of weeks for overdubs.

This meant there wasn’t time to be too fussy with the basic tracks for “Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat” or to do much additional recording during the overdub sessions ---- a situation that led to a leaner, more rocking sound on the CD.
This more direct sound, though, wasn’t unplanned. The group went into “Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat” wanting to create songs that were shorter and more tightly constructed than on its first several albums.
They found an ally in that mission in Peter Collins, a producer whose resume includes projects with Bon Jovi, Elton John and Rush.
“He’s kind of pop oriented (in his) approach to song structure,” Privett said. “We tend to write long intros and a solo and a bridge and maybe a second bridge. We’ll add lots of pieces to songs. He kind of is the opposite. So we had to work with him (on arrangements). And we were in agreement. We wanted to try something a little different, shorter songs and little bit more focus on getting more into a smaller time frame.”

The shift toward more of a rock-pop sound should help Carbon Leaf further expand its audience.
For about a dozen years, the Richmond, Va.-based band has been used to earning fans the hard way ---- one show at a time. For the first nine years of its career, Carbon Leaf was a do-it-yourself band in the purest sense of the term. The group self-released its first five CDs and was self-managed, self-booked and self-promoted.
But things began to accelerate for the band in 2002 when it won the Coca-Cola New Music Award for the song “The Boxer,” off of the band’s fifth and final self-released CD, “Echo Echo.” Part of the prize was the opportunity to become one of the rare unsigned bands to ever play on the American Music Awards.

The exposure from the award and the AMA performance enabled the group to attract a manager, booking agent, publicist and lawyer, while extensive touring coupled with the increased media attention from the group’s AMA performance and some scattered radio play for “The Boxer” helped raise Carbon Leaf’s profile.
Eventually record labels started to check out the group, and after once again funding the recording of “Indian Summer” itself, Carbon Leaf signed to Vanguard Records, which released the CD in 2004. Privett said it was time to put the distribution and marketing capabilities of a record company behind the band.

The move so far seems to have worked. The song “Life Less Ordinary” off “Indian Summer” became a modest adult radio hit and gave Carbon Leaf its first taste of mainstream exposure.
“You probably end up making less money (than) the setup as an independent band, but you get more exposure,” Privett said. “So we were ready to take that risk, knowing there’s not a whole lot to lose. You can always go back to being independent if it doesn't work out."

I found this band while listening to a Pandora station I created around another great band; Moxy Fruvous . I was immediately impressed by their fresh, clean sound and witty word-play.

Coming up on May 19, 2009 they are dropping a new album enltitled: Nothing Rhymes With Woman.

Jamie Foxx...A High-Five, Miley Cyrus...Welcome to Celebrity

Here's a sample to kick things off...



Jamie Foxx had some not-so-nice words for Miley Cyrus during his weekend Sirius radio show "The Foxxhole," judging by a audio posted on YouTube and heard below.

During a discussion criticizing Miley, 16, for being upset at not getting to meet Radiohead backstage at the Grammys, Foxx, 41, told her to get a gum transplant and to "make a sex tape and grow up... Get like Britney Spears and do some heroin... get some crack in your pipe... Catch chlamydia on a bicycle seat."

Someone else is heard calling her a "white bitch."

Foxx has a teenage daughter.
And if you want to read it for yourself: Huffington Post


I'm sorry to all of you who have kids...because you have kids, not because I'm about to offend you.

Everyone is getting all up in arms about comments Jamie Foxx made about Miley Cyrus' Radiohead ordeal. What the uninformed public doesn't realize is that our dear Miley threatened to "ruin Radiohead."

Zimbio.com

Radiohead refused to speak to Miley Cyrus.

The Hannah Montana star is "obsessed" with the alternative rock band, but when she saw them at the Grammy Awards last month they wouldn't acknowledge her.

Miley said: "My manager asked and said, 'Miley, she's really obsessed and she'd really like to meet them,' and they were like, 'Yeah, we don't really do that.'

"I left because I was so upset. I wasn't going to watch!

"I'd already texted all my friends, we were all freaking out. This is someone who I would have cried to have met. Stinking Radiohead!"

This is not the first rejection 16-year-old Miley has suffered.

She recently revealed her school days were "friendless, lonely and miserable".

Writing in her new book Miley Cyrus: Miles To Go, she recollects: "The girls took it beyond normal bullying. These were big, tough girls. I was scrawny and short.

"They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm."

Ruin Radiohead!? After a comment like that and America getting up in arms for one of the top grossing bands in the history of bands, snubbing an upstart artist whose fan-base's collective total of high school diplomas is hovering around, what? 3-ish?

All of this and Cesar Laurean is back in our great state of North Carolina. DAMN RADIOHEAD!

Her wash-up father weighed in with this response to Bonnie Hunt “It was hurtful, there wasn’t nothing funny about it, and quite frankly, I think if I said those things about his daughter he might not find it so comedic.”

"...Wasn't nothing funny..." That breaks my achy breaky grammar heart. BRC, your ignorance is showing, you might want to tuck that back behind your ear with your shaggy-cool-dad-do.

It's painfully telling about a society who wants to fight about a whiny-snot-nosed, 16 year-old who has already made more money than Onslow County will see in three generations.

Foxx doesn't owe her anything. It shows he is a gentleman by apologizing but, he's a comedian, a comedian who has a show on SIRIUS satellite radio. It's not like anyone could've heard it. Only paying customers heard it.

Get over yourselves people.

Jamie,

Keep on truckin, Man.

WP

The AXE Effect...

I'm sure you all remember when body sprays hit the mainstream and everyone was using them. By 'everyone' I mean guys who watched the commercials and actually bought into the naked chicks appearing in the rooms of guy who sprayed-on as he dresses.

I think AXE was by far the most popular, but then TAG got in the mix as did Old Spice. While each of the brands provided solid scents, they named them hard-core things like: Vice, Pheonix, Swagger, Live Wire, After Hours, Lucky Day. Well, Lucky Day is slightly less hard, but catchy nonetheless.

I'm a body spray fan.

What I'm not a fan of is the guys that think it's a shower alternative.

I looked at the three big names in body sprays or brays as I'm going to refer to them in this story because I'm tired of writing two words to describe one thing.

The guys who'll go for a run at lunch spray on some Lucky Day and put their work clothes back on. The makers of popular brays factored in preventing stink, not how good their scent smelled when mingled with overwhelming ball sweat-stank.

The reason this post is seeing the light of day is because i purchased some AXE Clix yesterday because I had forgotten my Arm & Hammer, all natural, stick deodorant at my house and subsequently had nothing to grace my underarms with when I was done showering after my workout.

I ran over to the store before class, dashed to the deodorant aisle and saw AXE Clix on sale. I sprayed some down the aisle and stuck my nose in it, like an old Warner Brother's cartoon with the visible scent waifs coming from a pie that Sylvester follows into the kitchen. I liked what I smelled, purchased and added some AXE to my life.

So, I condone the use of these products as cologne or in some cases deodorant, but never would I allow one to use any of these as a shower substitute. That is all.

Thanks for reading,
WP

The Car is Coming Together....Expect Pics...

So, my 1995 Volkswagen GTI VR6 is slowly coming together but it's going to start speeding up.
I bought new rims from J. D. down in Wilmington for next to nothing. The only issue was the offset of my stock rims was larger than the rims I bought. I went searching for a set of 10mm wheel adapters and 20 wheel bolts in a size 10mm longer than stock. Found the spacers on the 'tex for $80 and a couple weeks later I found all 20 bolts from a fellow dubber, also on from the 'tex. The bolts were never used and still individually packaged; I picked up the lot for $55. So all in all I spent $260 to get a sweet set of Avus rims on my car. I'm pretty stoked because EuroRennen 2009 is an annual european car show held this year in Jacksonville, NC and my car though not show worthy will be complete to ferry me to and from the show. I'll post pictures as soon as I can of the new rims. For now here is a photo before the new rims and when the rear spoiler was still on.

I Love My Wife...

I mentioned in a previous post about how my wife brought me out of a depression I didn't know I was in. I'm living a more vivacious life as a married man.

I've heard all of the arguments about how being single and how playing the field is a liberating and fulfilling experience. I beg to differ.

My wife is all that is woman.

Without so much as a word of opposition or gripe she's by my side through thick and thin. Nothing illustrates this point better than my endeavour to get back on Active Duty. I've told her about the prospect of me deploying, us having to move, us having to move every three years or her having to find a new job whenever we move. Nothing filled my heart with more joy than her unflinching resolve to support me when I told her about the option of us moving across the country, leaving our little slice of beach, to take up residence in the great state of Colorado. Her response was, "When? Let's go."

When people rush into a marraige after only seeing the surface of the perks and fun of having a help-mate to traverse life's peaks and valleys with, they never anticipate the trials that lurk in the deep, dark receses of the future.

I've seen marriages dissolve after a deployment, after a reassignment or when the stresses of military life interfere with the love a husband and wife have for each other...

Marriage. It's a job. It's a hobby. It's not the place to be selfish and no one has taught me that more than my wife.

That is all.

Don't be selfish and tell the one you love, you love them. Put them first and when you take the rose-colored glasses off, you'll see the world is rose-colored....

Thanks for reading,

WP

Just A Quick Note...So You Don't Thing I've Forgotten You...

Hi. 

How's things?

I hope everything's good.

I've so much going on right now and I'm having a hard time differentiating it all into posts. I'm going to, just not right now. Keep checking back...give me a day or three and I'll have something here for you. Thanks.

love,

WP

Shameless Site Plug

I found a magical site and this site contains a magical list:

Skippy's List.

Considering some of my audience is military or military affiliated I think this list will be have you literally, wetting your bloomers.

Happy Reading,

WP

Shameless Site Plug!

I hate the idea of contradicting my Shameless Site Plugs but I'm about to.

WWW.IMEEM.COM (If you click on the headline of this story you can go to the site....)

It's like Pandora.com but it's actual on-demand and you can type in an artist or a band and listen to it right away. Check it out and let me know.

-Piece

Obama...Taking a Stand...Shirking From the Challenge...and Offering Advice

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," President Obama told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

This is classic. I just finished writing a piece about how Limbaugh needs to take action but should wait for a more opportune time to pounce and this comes out.... I love it...Follow the link in the headline...

-Piece

Rush Limbaugh...Game On...But, Not Yet...

Rush Limbaugh needs to cool his jets. I'm not a huge Obama fan. I've seen/heard him speak and I'm still skeptical. But, I think what everyone is missing is; he's the new president. We should be skeptical of him! He's new, unproven, inexperienced.

That is no reason to jump all over him and challenge him to an on-air, verbal joust. I love our first amendment right to free-speech and the like, but can we let the man get settled first? I understand there are people in America who dedicate their children to Rush, name pets after him, tune into his show as if his words were the oxygen they needed to live. Limbaugh, while a staunch supporter of the military, apple pie and baseball, he generally comes across as a tactless, baboon, who's only looking to diminish the morale of the left-wing liberals of America.

With that said Limbaugh was recently a guest on Sean Hannity's program; "Hannity" and he made some great points:

"I mean, Sean, he is our president now. And he's not black, he's not from Mars, he's not — he's our president, he's a human being. We're a country comprised of human beings that the Democrat Party and the left have attempted to arrange into groups of victims, and that's who he appeals to, and the victims are the people waiting around for some grievance to be resolved."

Obama's camp made and makes every effort to make the American public more and more dependent on the government by convincing them, they are victims of something.

He goes on to say:

"Now I look at the things that he has said, and I'm very much concerned that our greatness is going to be redefined in such a way that it won't be great, that we're just going to become average. You cannot have this large of government role in the private sector with so many people thinking that just because they're Americans they're entitled to things, that this guy is going to pass them out and keep this country great and innovative, full of entrepreneurs, and — these things concern me."

Limbaugh is right to be concerned as are we all for the simple reason the American people are getting bombarded with double-speak and conflicting statements. During a recent visit to a Camp Lejeune, NC, the biggest amphibious Marine Corps base in the world and a gymnasium full of Marines, he announced a time frame to get end the offensive military presence in Iraq and focus fully on the rebuilding and supporting the fledgling Iraqi government. Married up with that announcement is the announcement that Guantanamo Bay is closing down. Why would these two events coincide? I'm hardly saying everyone incacerated in G-bay is a terrorist but certainly there are terrorists there and once they're released to an Iraq void of a mass military presence who else is thinking this is a bad idea?

Limbaugh:

"...he plays both sides. He's going to placate the far left Fringe Kook base, his Web site people, and OK, he's going to close Guantanamo, but he's not going to close Guantanamo, because he — and he's not going to get out of Iraq in 16 months, he's going to say so, but he's not going to saddle himself with defeat of forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, and he's certainly not — I can't believe that he's — he will willingly release people at Guantanamo who will come back and revisit terrorist acts in this country.-

-Not on his watch. They would have loved for that to have happened during Bush. They would love surrender in Iraq when it's on Bush's shoulders, but I don't think he's going to do it, and I think — but he's got to say things that make his Fringe Kook base think that he is being true to his campaign promises."

However backwards his comments are and whether or not he is going to be able to please everyone I think we should give him chance to shoot himself in the foot if that is what is going to happen. I say give Limbaugh his shot...but let's even the odds and make this entertaining.

Thanks for reading,

WP

I'm Boycotting Sears Automotive...

I went on an adventure this past weekend, 28 Feb, 2009 after finding that one of the rims on the GTI was bent.

I remember hitting a pothole going about 60-ish a couple weeks back and didn't think anything about it. Big mistake. I should've had it checked out immediately. I would fill-up my tire with air to about 35 psi and by the next day it would be sitting at 16 psi.


To rectify this problem I quickly retreated to ncdubs.org to hunt down a second-hand set of rims for not a lot of money. A fellow Volkswagen enthusiast screen named: JeffyDahmer who happened have a set of rims for the right price. I made the arrangements to purchase these wheels and headed down to Wilmington.

The night prior I called Sears Automotive in Wilmington and made an appointment to have the tires on the old rims taken off, put on the new rims and put them on my car. I didn't expect this to be difficult for the technicians at Sears Automotive.

The wife and I walked around the mall for about 2 hours and found our way back to Sears to be greeted by the tech who was working on my car.

"There's a problem with the wheels," he informs me.

There certainly was a problem. The offset of the rim wasn't allowing for any sort of free motion and the rim was getting hung up on the brake caliper. I was disappointed and kicked myself for not thinking about this.

"No problem," I said, "Take two of the rims that aren't bent, put the tires back on them and put them back on the car."

After I was told it was done I went to pay and was promptly overcharged. When I brought it to the gentleman's attention he first tried to tell me I was wrong, until I showed him where I was previously charged the correct amount. He reluctantly changed it to the correct amount and I paid him.

The following days I noticed my front passenger tire wasn't holding air. I called the Jacksonville Sears Automotive and told them I went to Wilmington and I think they might have messed up my tire. They agreed to check it out for me.

I arrived at Sears in Jacksonville at 6 p.m. and by 8 p.m. only to find the retard in Wilmington put the ONE bent rim back on my car and that was the express reason my tire wouldn't stay inflated. Fortunately for Sears a fantastic individual in Jacksonville told me to bring in an unbent rim and he would get it fixed for free.

So, over the course of four days I spent $4 to fill up with air everyday, spent a combined total of 4 hours in Sears and $118 to get the work done initially and wasted a trip to Wilmington.

After I call back down to Wilmington I'll let you all know if I'm successful in either getting a refund for the work to compensate me for my wasted time or get that mouth-breather fired.

Thanks for reading,

WP

I'm now an Ordained Priest...

...In the Church of the Latter-Day Dude. Which would make me Dudeist Priest. A frame of mind lacking in modern-day society is the "Take-it Easy" mentality. In our everyday hustle and bustle we as a community are jarred and assaulted by deadlines, bosses and societal norms. Normal be damned. 

Abide,

WP

Dudeist Priest 1st Degree

Here are some of the teachings of the Dude as authored by the Dude:

BOOK 1

1. Thou shalt always use fresh creamer when preparing the sacramental beverage. To ensure its freshness, it must be sniffed and even sampled before purchase. If it is unclean, put it back.

2. Ideally half-and-half shall be used in preparing the sacramental beverage. Failing this, milk, and under the most dire of circumstances, non-dairy creamer.

3. Always write checks whenever possible, as your cash is limited and you never know when you might have to pay off roving bands of heathen Nihilists.

4. When confronted by vicious thugs demanding money, give them it. If you don't have it, employ humor to lighten the situation. Do not under any circumstances try to fight back by hurling a bowling ball at them.

5. When discussing a matter of grave importance, or even of trifling idiocy, always make sure to employ expletives as much as possible to prove your heartfelt honesty and conviction. To ensure your dudeness, all out-of-control, manic discussions should be followed with entreaties to "just take it easy, man."

6. If an adversary is clearly too uptight to see things from your perspective, don your sunglasses and intone "Fuck it." Then take something of fair value from his house as you depart.

7. Employ comfortable furnishings in your home such as reclining chairs, scented candles, Persian rugs and fanciful mini-bars with ironic posters of former adversaries. Your house is your temple and your temple should be well tied-together.

8. Always honor your landlord. Do your best to pay the rent on time. Failing that, indulge his artistic ambitions regardless of how utterly misguided they might be.

9. Never have an outward-opening door on your house.

10. When confronted by a large man with a gun who demands you mark it zero, oblige him. Otherwise you risk entering a world of pain. Ideally he will get his comeuppance from the League for contravening a number of its bylaws.

BOOK 2

1. Never trust wealthy, successful people you hardly know who want to employ you to engage in shady undertakings.

2. Money is the root of all evil. It's also the root of all good stories, so hooray for money.

3. A plan referred to as foolproof is often proved foolish.

4. Life does not stop and start at anyone else's convenience.

5. Respect everyone's point of view. It's just, like, their opinion, man.

6. Always remember interesting turns of phrase that you hear so that you can employ them in completely unrelated situations later and convincingly sound as if you know what you're talking about.

7. The ringer can't look empty.

8. Make sure to always use the proper form of the pronoun. No one uses the editorial or royal "we" in everyday exchange unless they're trying to hide something.

9. Never park in a handicapped space if you've got a million dollars in your car. In fact, never leave a million dollars in your car, especially if your car is in lousy condition.

10. If a doctor is referred to as "thorough," harbor some reservations about visiting him. Unless of course you enjoy that sort of thing.

11. When confronted by unfortunate circumstances, forget about it. You can't be worrying about that shit. Life goes on.

12. Always protect your sacramental beverage, even in times of severe duress.

13. Whenever possible, try to get paid in cash in order to avoid getting bumped up into a higher tax bracket.

BOOK 3

1. Freedom is great. Many young men have died face-down in the muck to protect our freedoms. Nevertheless, one should still be courteous and keep their voice down in a family restaurant.

2. Unless you're a high-ranking member of society, don't expect too much from the police.

3. Sometimes not having an ethos is an ethos in itself. Usually it's a bad one, though.

4. Never go into a tournament with a negative attitude.

5. Try not to use so many cuss words. Unless they're near and dear to your heart, in which case, fuck it.

6. Make sure the window of your car is rolled down before ejecting a burning object. You probably shouldn't drink beer and drive either, even though it might come in useful to extinguish the burning object.

7. When strange men show up at your house accusing you of a crime and brandishing evidence at you, it is best that you feign mental illness and don't say peep.

8. What happens when one fucks a stranger in the ass is not always what one might think will happen, nor what is necessarily fair or just to any of the concerned parties.

9. Never trust a known pornographer to whom any sizeable sum of money is owed.

10. Never trust an African-American cab driver who enjoys listening to the Eagles.

BOOK 4

1. If you are a man of modest means and charisma and a rich, beautiful woman wants to have sex with you, don't question her motives until after the act is over.

2. Avoid living in the past, even if memories can be beautiful and remind you of a time you once enjoyed.

3. Though the man in the black pajamas might be a worthy adversary, you should avoid him whenever possible. Especially if he's easily avoided. Choose instead to cling to the tree of life.

4. Just because you're bereaved doesn't make you a sap. Keep your wits about you, even when you're bummed out.

5. Take 'er easy for all the sinners of the world, dude. Abide. And amen.

Shameless Site Plug!

Ha ha...You were just thinking, "Man, Mr. Piece totally bailed on this sweet idea and as cool as Pandora is, I need more."

Here you go fans of the interweb: International Society of Supervillians

This is a fine/hilarious site, I'm not a comic book kid but I find this site a breath of fresh air to an all too stuffy internet surf session.

Have fun,

love,

WP

Fun Little Facebook Exchange...

Here is the revision of the granddad fiasco...Red is Lester and Blue is me. Happy reading.
The back story behind this exchange comes from a comment I left on Ryan's Facebook.com page, peppered with colorful language requesting his deployed address.

I (and hopefully others) would appreciate it if you would cut out your foul language on Facebook. I am surprised they would even allow it. Usually it is a sign of immaturity. You should remember that young children are reading what you write. So -watch it.

Thank you for your concern, for your sake and the children perusing this fine social network

I will refrain from using unbecoming language on my good buddy, Ryan's profile. Have a good day.

I appreciate your response, especiially since I noticed you listed your religion as Christian.Foul language anywhere is not a trademark of a Christian and reflects badly on your Christian witness.

Think about that. Have a good day.

Lester,
I'm curious whether or not you have a day job. I'd consider getting one and worrying about your witness and keeping your advice to yourself. You seem like a fantastically self-righteous Christian who turns the unsaved away from precious salvation because of your snarky attitude. Think about that. Have a good evening.

Being 82 years old it is difficult to get a job. As for keeping my advice tro myself it isn't just my advice but what the Bible has to say about how we should act so as not to lead a life that is a bad influence on others. I am not sure what "snarky attitude" is, but I suspect that it is not something I possess. As for being a fantastically self-righteous Christian ;et me assure you I am not. I just , at times, speak out against things that are contrary to the teaching of Christ, especially to those who claim to be Christians but do not show it by their actions.

Eighty-two huh? You've had a pretty good run. I'm 24 and I can distinctly remember my mother telling me to keep my mouth shut if I'm not being spoken to. I would've expected that advice was carried over from your generation. My reference to your getting a job was less a suggestion about you being gainfully employed and more of a point that you might take up a hobby, get a drinking problem or something other than pestering people. You are perpetuating the stereotype that old people are annoying.

I'm still wondering why we are having this conversation. I'm entertained by it, but it's tragic that even after receiving an apology from me and the restraint I've displayed by not using foul language on Ryan's page, you are still harping on this.

I think you should open a school or perhaps offer a weekend clinic where you can teach the Gospel according to Lester, which may or may not coincide with actual Biblical truth. This way you can indoctrinate small children first, then maybe you can stand-up a fanatical militia comprised of the children you trained, then you can single out a particular sect, race or creed of people you don't like and eradicate them...oh wait. That's already been done. Mein Kampf might be worth a read if this is your plan.

I'm going to pray for you, Lester.

love,
Matt

My 25 Random List from Facebook...

1. I love being married and can't picture my life without my wife.
2. Civilian life sucks. It's boring, lacks structure, it's full of fat people.
3. I've some really great friends. The term "friend" doesn't do these kids justice. Brother/Sister is much more fitting. I love you guys.
4. "I am firm believer in everything happens for a reason. People die, people who you thought were your friends turn out not to be, marriages end, but life still goes on. It's what we make of what we have that matters." - Drew Pendracki
5. I love my job and being back in the Corps. Bleed Green, F*ck*rs.
6. Two Chicks in Baltimore that never were...DINFOS days...
7. Two white MkIII Golfs rolling tandem through Jactiontown...
8. I love being a Marine.
9. I'm often told I'm too accessible to people and I should say 'no' more.
10. I really enjoy cigars and imported beer.
11. My wife brought me out of a depression I didn't know I was in until I look back on it.

12. I'm 24 but I feel like 35.
13. Love the beach.
14. I'm not a fan of our new Pres. I don't think he likes the military enough.
15. I'm ready for this war to wind down...The history books have enough heroes for a while...
16. As a Marine journalist, Hunter S. Thompson is my hero.
17. Society needs to re-focus. We're all broke, we're all tired of the same stuff, we all have families, we're all living...we need to cut each other some slack. Shake a hand, offer to help someone for no other reason than they're having a hard time.
18. Try to stay out of WalMart. There are mom and pop businesses who would love to have your business and to greet you by name and be your friends.
19. I'm ready to be done with school.
20. I plan on having a lot of money in the future.
21. Don't hold grudges, they'll kill you from the inside.
22. Don't worry.
23. Shotguns would solve the immigration problem.
24. I'm tired of minority groups yelling for equality. America, God Bless it, is the most equal country in the free world. If you want preferential treatment, Go F*ck Yourself.
25. White, Mid-Twenties, Male: The new n*gg*r....try to get a good job f*ck*r.

Shameless Site Plug!

If you're a regular reading of my meanderings you probably aren't going to get to excited about me starting a new segment: 'Shameless Site Plug!'

"SURE!" You say knowing full well I'm going to religiously give you some sweet sites for about 2 weeks before abandoning that great idea for a while and then resurrect it and re-package and present it to you again in a couple months as a brand new idea. 

But for now we're doing it, I could give a hoot whether you want to come. 

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Check that out and happy listening...

love,

WP

Rising Sun Cat: Part Deux

I'm still trying to figure it out, but eitherway I'm pleased to report my cat neglecting neighbor is being evicted from our little slice of beach-front heaven. So, hopefully Rising Sun Cat is going with them...More to come...

Alcohol Update!

I have been experimenting with various ingredients and I've invented a new drink: Mandy's G-Spot. Now my wife's G-vegas isn't a myth any more...

Of course my previous statement is rather incriminating, leading the unsuspecting reader to think I can't please my wife...To clear the air; I own that sh*t and it's just the name of a drink....

Tumbler 1/2 full of ice

1 can of Dr. Pepper

A shaker with the following ingredients:

1/2 full of ice

2 shots of Sailor Jerry's Spiced Rum

1 shot of Cherry Liquer

2 Tbsp of Maraschino Cherry syrup

1/2 fresh lime minus the rind, squeezed into the shaker then thrown in.

1/2 fresh lemon minus the rind, squeezed into the shaker then thrown in.

Shake until chilled.

Pour 1/2 of mixture into tumbler fill remainder with Dr. Pepper

Serve with lime wedge and maraschino cherry

Makes 2 servings.

I'm pretty sure this hasn't been documented but if it has let me know...

love,

WP

Rising Sun Cat

As I have ranted before, I’m having a problem with feral cats in my neighborhood. I’ve contemplated different courses of action including but not limited to; spring-powered pellet pistols, firing plastic pellets at no more than 200 f.p.s, calling the county animal control, calling my landlady, and my solution. I’m not going to give it away, you’ll have to read the rest and come on this little journey with me to find out how I solved my little conundrum.

The pellet pistol was a great idea, but my conscience wouldn’t let me use a CO2 powered pistol which is capable of rocketing a BB towards an unsuspecting feline at speeds up to or exceeding 500 feet-per-second. Those are dangerous speeds, considering I never shot a cat at a distance farther than 10-15 yards and wasn’t trying to maim or kill a cat, just spook it out of my yard. I purchased a cheapo, spring powered pistol from Wally World. This pistol looked very high-speed and had great BB capacity, but just didn’t put enough ‘stank’ behind the BB to actually deter a cat from hanging out in my yard.

Before I go any farther in my explanation of vermin eradication, let me validate my cause; Mandy is violently allergic to anything with fur. Not only that, because of this allergy, she never had pets growing up so she is under the impression; pets are gross and shouldn’t be indoors with humans.

The county animal control branch is a fine group of state employees who work very hard, but they’re under-manned and over worked. They are willing to come out to my house and drop off an un-baited trap. They leave the trap for two to three days and whether there’s a cat there or not, they come back for it. To get the trap returned to the house, I have to call them again and thus the cycle repeats.

My landlady is a sweetheart, who condones my campaign but offers no support. I asked her to send a letter to all of the occupants owning cats, advising them to keep them indoors. She allegedly sent, said letter and the response I received was; cats, in my yard.

So after much deliberation I’ve arrived at a conclusion, stop taking out my aggression on the cats. They don’t know right from wrong. I will, instead use the cats as a tool to get the attention of their owners. I recently did a project on my van, requiring red, tan and black spray paint. I still have a small amount of each of those colors remaining in my spray paint arsenal. One of the three cats, constantly invading my yard and therefore my life, is white with freakish, red eyes. These cats are blatantly indoor cats, demonstrated by their fearless presence on my porch and their unflinching resolve to stay there even when I come outside to shoo them away. This pesky white cat is very vocal, he’ll sit at my front or back door for hours meowing, moaning and groaning. One day he was sitting on my back porch when I went out to turn on my grill. I threw a rock in his direction, spooked him and went back inside to fetch my meat and veggies. Upon my return, there he was - white cat – sitting there fat and happy, like I was about to share with him or perhaps I was happy to see him. Luckily I had the can of red spray paint sitting on a cooler on my back porch, I grabbed it, ripped the top off and let’er rip. I put a fantastic red racing stripe, culminating in a bright red blob on the animal’s rump. I’m not going to lie; I cheered. I thought, man this is going to be great, the owner of that cat is going to see it covered in red spray paint and keep the cat under lock and key to avoid having to bathe it. If any of you have ever tried to bathe a cat, it’s nothing like fun. It’s right above a root canal on the fabulous fun meter.

My victory was short-lived, not two days later the same white cat strolled into my front yard while I was out there enjoying a fine cigar (Rocky Patel Renaissance). The cat walked right up to me rolled over on its back and did that here’s-my-stomach-give-me-a-scritch writhing on the ground thing; cats are so famous for. Instinctively, I gently set down my smoke and bolted through my house, out my back door, grabbed my red spray paint, bolted back through my house, gingerly retrieved my smoke and with my Patel firmly between my lips, I blasted that cat with everything that spray can had. That cat could’ve been strung up in Japan as the national colors. While I’ve slowed the event down considerably in order to give it some creative panache, it all happened in about a minute and a half.

That’s where I’m at right now in my battle against owners of cats. Any questions will be answered and any advice is welcome.

Thanks for reading,
WP