What the Fuck is up with Texas?

I'm not holding all of Texas in contempt, but just the two alleged racist Caucasians that have lost all sense of humanity and love for their fellow man. So, at work I was walking by a TV and there was a story about a hate crime that occurred in Spring, Texas. CNN reported that the two alleged assailants and victim were at the same party. The Latino victim reportedly kissed a white girl which supposedly angered the two Caucasian teenagers.

The two alleged animals poured bleach on the Latino, beating him severely and sodomizing him with a lead pipe. The victim was left for dead. It is crimes like this that make me lose hope in humanity. I sometimes wonder how these kids could grow up without a sense of right or wrong. Have we as a society desensitizing them as to not even respect their fellow man? Have the parents failed to instill a sense of decency and tolerance in their children? I can only wonder did the kids learn to hate in the home. Were they taught that other races are inferior and that they are rats and can be treated just as pest and be eliminated as was taught the Nazis in Germany regarding the Jews.

Racism is not something that comes naturally to a person. He is a learned belief that is first instilled in the home. For this I say shame on the parents. I'm not saying I'm perfect. Hey, I grew up in Irish/Italian Catholic Family and I know that I learn certain racial remarks through them. However, although I learned those remarks, I also learned to respect people for who they are not for the color of their skin.

On a side note, many Northerners think the are intellectual superior and more tolerant than their Southern brotheren. I just want people to know that the greatest metamorphosed and recruiting of the KKK occurred in the north. It is the northern states that have the largest membership and concentration of KKK. So, next time you think the south is full of racist rednecks, you better look to your neighbors first.

IF 80,000 People Showed Up Do They Make a Sound? Not According to MSM.

Many bloggers have been commenting on the brutal murder of a Belgian , John Van Holsbeeck. He was brutally murder by two North African youths in a train station for his MP3 Player. On Sunday, 80,000 Belgians marched through Brussels in solidarity with the Holsbeeck family as he was being laid to rest. Now, this could be demonstrative of society's over zealous appeal for material possession or it could be harbinger of what some American's have said as the Decline of the West by Islamic Facists.

The first issues is why would these two North African Youths conspire to kill this young man for just his MP3 player. Have they been overcomes by a tremendous sense of greed that they will not let anything or anyone stand in their way of achieving their goal or possession. Or is it that these youths have been manipulated by the Islamofacists to hate anything Western to the point death of a non-believer is acceptable.

The second issue is why has not that Main Stream Media picked this story up. 80,000 people march in support of this murder youth and the story is just a whisper. Why? Is it because the story does not meet the parameters or the agenda the media wants to advance. I can only suspect the media is not picking up the story because it may reveal these youths did not kill for just the possession, but something less secular such as to advancement of Islam and the subjugation of the West. Their heinous act only demonstrate their lack of respect for the dignity of human life and the individuals choice of consciousness.

Walking Around

When I worked in downtown DC, right near Connecticut Ave and M St., I never noticed that many homeless people. On my day off, I decided to head in to the city to meet friends for drinks, but first as any good Catholic Boy I had to go to church because it was Good Friday. The only church close enough to where I was the Cathedral of St. Matthews. It is a beautiful church inside and out, but there is one problem the homeless camped out on the steps and around the building. They believe a person attending mass will have a kind heart and give them the money they sorely need for their nightly libation.

However, this guy does not give money out like that. I'm not heartless or stingy with my money, I just don't want to contribute to their current alcoholic state. Sometimes, I ask them if they are hungry and if they say yes I will take them to restaurant and ask them what they want that is with in reason.

Entering St. Matthews is an obstacle course trying to avoid all the homeless that are yelling at you for money and then saying snide comments as you walk passed them. I'm not fazed by it and enter the church. The nice women hands me a program for today's mass. Uh, Oh, the program is in Spanish. I kindly ask the woman where is the schedule for the Easter Events and she provides one for me. Thanks. Shit, the 4:00 is Spanish. Well, I guess 5 years of Spanish will get me by.

The mass ended and I had sometime to kill before meeting up with friends for what turned out to be a night of debauchery. (I know, save it) Well, I proceeded to walk down Connecticut then K St. noticing this blond homeless woman with her exposed stinky feet. Thinking to myself, she is not going to get that much money with her feet exposed like that. I then walk pass the Metro where a man is yelling, "Common Sense, one dollar, one dollar, one dollar one dollar......" well you get what I mean. Walking up Connecticut Ave I pass the nice homeless man in front of the Mayflower after asking money from me for the second time he pursues me up the street, but not to far because he might lose his prime real estate in front of the Mayflower. The homeless are very territorial and don't want to lose their place where the wealth patronize such as the Mayflower or St. Matthews.

Finally, I decided to head to the Front Page to have some drinks but before I get there I'm accosted by the Larouche minions. They hand me some of their propaganda stating the war was started by Halliburton and other corporations. The follower asks what do you think of Lyndon, I said I believe he is a nut. Further more, your facts about these companies better be correct or you will be sued by them. I gave him the magazine back and told him I don't want the free rag because the articles were unfair, bias and did not present a balanced argument. I finally crossed the street to relax and begin my night of Gin and Tonics. What a day. DC is fun to people watch and I thought San Francisco was bad with the homeless. Well, at least I still have not seen used condoms or feces left on the side walks by the homeless as I did in the city by the bay.

"Merry" Maids My ASS

My house gets a note to call the office. I call and I guess they wanted us to clean up the house before they get there. One, a roommate likes to leave things around, just clutter nothing dirty. Two, why the hell do we hire them to sow and make dinner. It is called MerryMaids for a reason to clean the house thats what they do. Next the person that cuts my hair will ask me to cut my hair before I get there.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter, I did my Catholic duty by attending the Easter Vigil. It starts with a fire outside the church where the Easter Candle is lit and from there smaller candles are lit as the parishioners march into the Church. Once, there from darkness comes light. It is very symbolic as when Jesus died and arose again to become the light of the world. The whole experience is very moving.



From that point on it becomes rising and sitting, rising and sitting, rising and sitting, rising and sitting. The whole mass is a very long ordeal with 7 readings that has 7 psalms and then the Epistle to the Romans and Finally the Homily. Another touching part that brings the history and heirarchy of the church to the forefront it the singing of Litany of Saints. This is the song that is sung to call on the Saints to protect God's children and the newly baptized parishioners into the Catholic Church. It is a very beautiful song and makes you think of the sacrifices and devotion to God these people made.

Well, the mass finally goes to renunciation of sin, with questions do you denounce sin, Satan, ..Etc. I do knowing full well that I will be going out with friends right after and probably going to sin. This does remind me of a funny story in which many years ago my friends and I attended Midnight Mass for Christmas and one of my friends was so drunk we had to take him out of the church. I blame myself for it because I challenged him to do shots of ouzo that I just got from Greece. However, I did behave myself this time and only had a few Bombay Sapphires while celebrating a friends birthday. Then I called it an early night because I wanted to get up for a run and to study. I hope everyone has a good Easter and Passover.

Spring Cleaning

So, I decided to clean my room today. For the most part, I easily threw away everything I really did not need and then I noticed a business card. You see it was a business card from a fellow attorney I worked with. MS was the most ornery and cantankerous man I've ever met. Let's just say as most my friends now admit they did not like me at first and like them MS did not like me when he first met me, but I grew on him.

He became my confidant and would always calm me down when I got excited. He was a well educated man that served his country in the Marines, as a cop, and finally a lawyer. The business card brought back all these memories of a good man that the world lost year ago around this time. He was stricken ill while at work and never recovered. We will never see the man get up with his arthritic joints and try to simulate love making. Trust me, with him biting his lip and making sounds it was a riot. Along with that, he would tell of the horror stories with his ex-wives including the one who put cement in all the drains of the house. I would say, "MS you sure piss off people easy."

With that card, also brought back memories of two other people that died with in a week of MS. One, was a classmate from college that attend an Ivy League Business School and was very successful. She died at the age of 31 of breast cancer. The other friend was also a classmate of mine from college a young mother that was pregnant with her second child when she succumbed to the cancer. She was officially dead the day after MS, but was kept alive for the sake of her unborn child.

Shortly, after hearing and going through the emotions, I was running on a beautiful day and said out loud, "Fuck it." Life it to short to be like MS and let work kill you. You must be responsible and have your priorities straight that you must live life to the fullest. Be serious in your work, but don't allow it to consume you and most of all spend as much time with friends and family because you never now when that time will end.

Poetry Sunday: "No Man is Island"

"No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the contient, a part of main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee."
---John Donne

You may discuss the historical ramifications of this piece and also apply it todays world. With Globalization, I think his statement is more true today than it was back then.

What Not To Do At The Gym

I work out at Gold's Gym and the one thing you should not do is go there hungry. I usually work out for about an hour and half. The first hour is devoted to cardio because I need to burn off the Dunkin Donuts that I ate in the morning. The next half hour is for lifting. I go to the gym before I eat dinner and that was all good until the evil Five Guys opened up. For those that don't know the DC Area, Five Guys is a burger joint that has some the freshest and best hamburgers around. Well, you can imagine that after working out I'm pretty hungry and when you smell those burgers and frys cooking, as the serene sirens call sailors to the rocky shores, so to does Five Guys smell tempt those that have just labored to get their body in shap. Luckily, I have will power or else I would end up like the girlieman govenor. Nice speedo Aaarnold.

Oh, and the reason why I was prompted to write this is because my gym was distributing flyers for 20% with Golds ID at the local Resturant/Bar. What do they want their customers to put on the pounds and blame them for not seeing results or is this just a kind favor. You must decide.

Maryland Drivers Are The Worst

Ok, I've concluded after extensively traveling around this country that Maryland Drivers are the worst. They don't obey the speed limit in that they go 10 miles below it and they drive slow in the passing lane. They also have the blinkers on for miles before they decide to go in the other lane. For fucking sake, make a decision or ass mom used to say, "shit or get off the pot."

However, Texas is number two especially with their side roads and way to many pick up trucks. The too drive slow in the left lane. I do think everyone should at least live in Massachusetts for a year or two to learn how to properly drive. At least there you will learn to cut in the middle of circle without getting hit, cut four lanes of traffic from the right to take a left, and learn that it is easier to flip someone off than to beep your horn.

This was all brought on by me traveling to Baltimore last night where for the second night in the row a person was feeling my chest and had grab my junk. Come on, you were cute, but play a little hard to get.

The first post.

Well, today I decided to start a blog after meeting so many other bloggers around the country. Starting it today is not the best idea, since I'm suffering from a huge hangover and have not left my bed except for water. So, for right now the blog might suck, but it will have more content as my head clears.

So, be prepared for a very bombastic person that will get on his soap box and will not get off. Now, if we can only get rid of those illegal Irish aliens that take bar jobs from hard working Americans.