As a Lebowski fan.....

I just couldn't let this weekend go by without a nod to "The Jesus".

......and I feel fine........

Well, it's finally here. The rapture and the beginning of the end. As a young Christian I was always reading about this day and what it would be like. It's a bit different than most of the "end times" books that I read in my youth. The ones that terrorized me, yet held a strange fascination in my mind. We are one day away from hell on earth beginning and I feel like I've been short changed. I don't have the number 666 on my right hand or forehead. I was told that would be VERY important at this time. Where are the mass beheadings? Where is our one world leader? Donald Trump? Katy Perry? Ryan Seacrest? Where are the Four Horsemen (unless you count Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dennett)?  Where is the damned Whore of Babylon? You can't have an end of the world without that bitch slumming around, now can you?

Are You Ready? It's All Coming Down!    < Link For You To Click

Perhaps the best way to approach this thing is to get crackin' on my "To Do" list. And there is sooo much to do between now and tomorrow night. Sure, I can clean the bathroom on Sunday morning, but my wife and kids will have probably flown up to heaven, so why bother? So, I better take care of that today. What other things might one do, before the clock strikes midnight? Or six o'clock as it were?

Here is my list of things to do before the Rapture / Apocalypse:

1) Go ahead and skip to the last episode of Lost on DVD. No sense in spending my time seeing how Sayid, Jack, and Hurley (my vote for worst fat guy name in TV history) get to the end.....I just wanna see it. And I'm hoping they do a nude scene involving Kate.

2) I suppose I should finally go ahead and make up my mind on whether I support the death penalty or not. I'm going to say no. Because if I have to start killing the walking dead starting on Sunday, I don't wanna be sitting on death row, wasting away when Satan is released. It would be so easy to catch me.

3) Eat a banana split. I've never had one. But they have always intrigued me. Ohhhh....who am I kidding. I'll just "wussy out" at the last second and get the chocolate malt, like I always do.

4) Check on my status as clergy. I'm an "ordained" minister now..... who isn't these days.....and I'd like to see if that scores me any points.

5) Go to a used car lot and constantly refer to the salesman as "Kemo Sabe". When he's tired of that and asks me to stop, I'll call him an asshole and walk away. Who wants to buy a car from an asshole like that, anyhow.........am I right or am I right?

6) Walk up and down Broadway with a bullhorn and a sandwich board sign letting everyone now that the "End Is Now". That crazy assed guy with the bus says the Bible says it. 'Nuff said!

7) Watch the Red Sox play, one last time. Hope for a win, but expect a loss.

8) Mow the grass. That's the last thing I want on my mind as I'm trying to escape all the turmoil, death, and destruction on tap for this weekend.

9) Buy some rope. Tie it to the dog's leg. Hey, I'm not letting Jesus take the whole she-bang!!  I want at least one member of the family to hang out with.

10) Watch "The Big Lebowski" one more time.

11) Finally, after the Rapture, I figure I'll pretty much be single. So, it wouldn't be wrong of me to move on, right? If the world is in chaos and billions are dead, that may move me up the ladder at getting a shot with Elizabeth Banks.

12) OK......"Thriller" is overrated. There. I said it. So sue me.

13) I don't really have a last meal planned. I believe that the picture below explains where my next restaurant experience may be.

Everyone have a fabulous Saturday!

Why does my heart go on beating

Why do these eyes of mine cry

Don't they know it's the end of the world

It ended when you said goodbye

Skeeter Davis

Ron Paul: 1st Republican Debate

I've decided that if there is any candidate I can back in the 2012 election for president, it will be Ron Paul. Paul is the only candidate (maybe the only national politician), who wants strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States. I wish more people would take him seriously. Does he sound like a kook? Yeah, if you compare him to the other cookie cutter politicians who will say and do anything to curry favor with corporate America, so they can rake in campaign funds or further their own status. 

It's time we stopped letting politicians act like it's THEIR country and the rest of us have no say. They say they represent us, but how many of us out here really feel like what Bush or Obama have done over the past 10 years came from a place in their heart where they really just wanted what was best for the citizens of this country? 

The federal government has over stepped it's authority. They place so many rules and regulations on business that the small business' we need find it hard to flourish, while the large corporations just uproot and move. I'm not in favor of total deregulation, but the owners of smaller companies really need to have some wiggle room in regards to how they run their business. Corporations have purposefully take jobs out of this country. It has created an atmosphere that is of almost total benefit to the company, with very little given back to the worker. They have taken jobs out of this country and it has created fear amongst us in the work force. We'll take almost any type of paying job now, because we fear having no income at all. More and more benefits get taken from the work force, while most large corporations are still raking in dough and many of them are seeing record profits. Thing is.....our federal government has allowed it to happen. We have tax breaks in place for some companies to send jobs to other countries!!! Believe it.....or not. 

Republicans block end to tax breaks

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Tax Breaks For Companies Shipping Out Jobs?

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We need to consider a drastic change in leadership. If you want to learn more about Ron Paul and what he proposes, just click on the link below. It highlights his answers at the South Carolina Republican debate.

Ron Paul's America: South Carolina Debate

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We don't need more Obama and we sure the hell don't need Romney, Gingrich or Palin. We need leadership that is not in the pocket of major corporations. We need leadership that will not continue our addiction to military imperialism. A trillion dollars a year in military spending.......700 military bases around the globe..........and we have people hungry and homeless in our country. The greatest country in the world has children going to bed hungry? Really????   Why are we allowing this?

It's time to end all the partisan bullshit. We just keep getting worse and worse off. It's time to put the American people first. Bring back manufacturing jobs and it will bring back prosperity. If a corporation doesn't want to bring jobs back, then don't let them sell goods in the USA, unless they are taxed enough to help with the damage they cause. We talk about buying American made goods. We talk about supporting American workers. Yet, our government let's American companies move jobs overseas, get tax breaks to do it, and then they bring the goods back here and sell them to us. Wow!!!!!!! What a scam!

Checking In With Myself

I haven't written anything in awhile. That sort of bothers me. I really just haven't had anything on my mind that I felt like anyone would care to read about. Life is sort of just rolling along. Not very many ups.....not too many downs. 

A few random things;

1) Well, Bin Laden is finally dead. Good riddance. 

2) The new Beastie Boys albums is out. And I'm enjoying it. 

3) If the economy is recovering.....we aren't seeing it at work.

4) I've become an ordained minister or whatever the hell you wanna call it. 

5) And #4 alone should be enough to rattle my cage. But it hasn't. Because I still don't believe in religion.

6) It's obvious there isn't going to be any real choice for president in a couple of years. Get used to Obama and if the Republican answer is Palin, Romney, or Gingrich..........I'll take Obama for another 4 please. 

7) Wish I wrote more, but it simply hasn't been striking me very much lately. Starting to think I may be bi-polar.....not severely, but enough to explain my moods and actions. 

8) I still say being outside is overrated. So, I love all the rain we've been getting. 

Alright.....that's it. Maybe I'll have some more soon. Just writing this is at least a step in the right direction. So for all of you (none of you) who wait on the edge of your seat for my next blog......you can get up and get yourself a soda or take a piss.....you won't miss anything. 

It's funny.....

It's funny what 24 hours can do to an attitude. Thanks Chris. Narrow the world view for a few days and step away from what I can't control.

I think I felt like what Gandhi must have felt like after about 3 days of not eating. I'm not saying that I'm like Gandhi.....that's for other people to say.