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Brightstar 2 - The Resurrection

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 08:12 PM

WHY ARE THESE CRIMINALS STILL FREE?!?

What benefit does this give to anyone that criminals are not being punished?

Do we want Bush Part THREE in this country in four or eight years? Even under the guise of a Democrat?

We let these punks pass, the next time, anyone who runs Washington will take it MUCH further.

Are people that drugged up in this country that they cannot think clearly enough to DEMAND, to FORCE THE HAND of our so called new leaders to do what is RIGHT???!?

"Do the Right Thing" was a phrase two decades ago. Whatever happened to that?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 08:05 PM

to finish the point I started on

I meet some people who are jealous of me. they wish THEY had had a house on a lake.

they piss me off to no end.

they whacked off in their twenties, blowing all their dough on liquor, drugs, and whores. In their thirties they married jerks they never loved and blew all their money on kids they are not too fond of. They reach their forties and it is back to the drinking and the whoring and lying and thieving and acting such that nobody would hire or trust them with money.

then I have to deal with the human detritus, with their resentment that it is not they, but I who have the nice house.

fuck them deeply.

anyway, YOU remind me of them to some extent.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 07:58 PM

I do not know whether to feel bad for you or to hate you for being such an ass

but YOU are the agent of your life, nobody else.

if you feel you are boring, so be it, that is your prejudice against yourself. make your life exciting, nobody will ever do this for you.

did it ever occur to you to go find your own action and fun? Walk around the block, make something new, read about some subject you like, go meet up with new people. What does your husband have to do with this? Let him be bored without you, he might eventually tag along.

and quit the fucking drinking. I swear this society is diseased. drinking messes your head up for life.

turn off the goddamn teevee, do jumping jacks, play with the cat, but get out.

maybe you are spoiled, you seem to have little appreciation for the small things in life. you expect all sort of magic greatness to just sprout up randomly around you.

I am the son of immigrants who came here with one suitcase. I worked my ass off to become marketing director of the US division of one of the top banking technology firms on the planet, never stepping on anyone and never being a dick.

Get this, I HATE to work. I want to spend all my time writing books and learning guitar and making documentaries. So I always sought jobs that would not make me work too hard, that let me do things that I would want to do, such as being creative, irrelevant of the low pay.

I kept my integrity.

I never watch the fucking teevee. I never waste time on creeps. I have a few close friends. I chose to remain single despite having the opportunity last year to marry. I choose my life, nobody else.

Today I have a beautiful lakehouse and live in one of the greatest cities on the planet, Austin, Texas, where it is impossible to be bored.

But I never sat there wondering when the gravy train was going to stop on my block. I never complained that somebody OWED me a good life or an exciting time.

Maybe this is a disease of women, but whatever it is, it is up to you. Wasn't Georgia O'Keeffe in her seventies and painting? What is with you anyway? Don't expect too much, do something that excites you, and quit bitching about stupid shit nobody owes you to fix for you.

and quit the goddamn drinking before it totally destroys you.

Monday, April 20, 2009 07:00 PM

I love the conditional morality

if Traister had not liked Spitzer she would be saying what he did was the WORST.

so typical of feminists and women and another reason men have little respect for women.

Monday, April 20, 2009 06:56 PM
Original article: Aubrey Reuben, 76

I love this double standard as well

if a man criticizes a woman on any aspect, like she smells, all you hear is the hurled insults that he absolutely MUST smell as well.

but then you hear women loudly making all sorts of nasty comments about the men they have been with.

I guess the ONLY proper response, I am learning, is to tell these women that they themselves are smelly, or fat, or wrinkly as well. Seems to be the only fair way to treat this until women shut the heck up and begin to treat us men with some respect for once instead of constantly steering things to their advantage and calling it even.

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