Country Music

Why is country music making such a strong come back?

I have a hypothesis. It’s the LNS effect.  Basically, xenophobic white people have found their cultural identity. Them colored folks wouldn’t be caught dead listen to music that has traditionally been associated with rednecks and sitting in the back of a pick up truck drinking beer. 

Country music in and of itself is actually quite good (from a musical standpoint), especially when compared to top 40 / R & B.  

I have not recently met a white girl that didn’t listen to country music though.  It’s even more pronounced in Washington State.  There’s three music stations… c89 (techno for the nerds), Wolf 100.7 (country), Kube 93.3 (hip/hop , top 40).

After observing this, my only concluision is that fair skinned people are flocking to country music as another form of white flight. Not that there’s anything wrong, with that.  Even if they are wearing confederate bras and planning on how to get rid of all the dirty immigrants.  Eventually, they’ll figure out they need someone to clean the toilets and do everything they’re not willing to do for non-ridiculous sums of money. Example, the kitchen at coastal flatts.  Seafood, by Mexicans. Yum. 

MBAs should be worthless soon.  Everyone and their mother has one.  It’s getting ridiculous. Everyone plans on getting an MBA and working at Goldman Sachs. Fantastic. I need to find a new plan or become even more ultra competitive and start bleaching my skin.  Oh wait, Seattle’s taking care of that already for me.

Reminders

She wants time & space, and I’m trying to make sure I give it to her, but it’s a lot harder than I thought.

Every little thing triggers a damn memory.  It’s absolutely terrible.  I deactivated my facebook account and luckily myspace is blocked at work.   I was reading CNN and I see an article that mentions how ford is not losing money this month.  Then I remember she drives a Ford Escape, and how happy she was when she got that car.  How she used to park as close as possible to the entrance to wherever we were going, even driving around for a while to get a good spot, but now parks as far away as possible so there’s no cars around her, because she doesn’t want it scratched.

I remember trying to learn the difference, between T.I, T-Pain, and some other rappers (I liked the music, I just couldn’t match voices to the names).  I remember how she told me that little bow-wow or something doesn’t like being called little anymore.

That was just “0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.”   For me too :-/

Then crossing Dulles Toll Road on my bike to work everyday, on our first date we took the road to the airport and ended up having to go to Regal, because we ended up so far out west.

Everywhere, I turn there’s something to trigger memories and I’m trying to avoid it so I don’t come off as too clingy/desperate.

That said I’m glad there’s three virgin past times that I’ve been taking advantage of:

1) Transformers

… one shall stand, one shall fall!

Can I ride you home? I mean can I give you a ride home?

2) Conan the Barbarian (you’re not a man until you’ve watched this movie)

Conan! What is best in life? 

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women!

Yes, yes, that is good! 
3) Rocky Training Montages

Every time you hit him it’s gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train.  *cracks neck* Let’s build some hurting bombs!

That man’s got bricks in his gloves!

I really hope that this doesn’t last long like this, because I’m definitely feeling the cold November Rain.

VA Speeding Fines

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/18/1818.asp

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.  This makes me glad I’m riding my bike to work everyday. Get the lube out, Falls Church City is going to be pounding drivers up the ass hardcore.   2500 + 6 demerit points?  Resulting in a yearly fine?  Please raise the speed limit!  55 MPH when most places have 65 and some even have  75 MPH. 

Plus judges are prevented from reducing or suspending fines… jeez.  Bend over, VA!

“It’s outrageous,” says traffic court attorney Thaddeus Furlong of Springfield, Va. “When Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class find out what they have to pay, there’s going to be a backlash like you’ve never seen.” 

Nope, they’re just going to have to use more lube.

 Oh and I like this part:

Virginia motorists convicted of minor traffic violations will face a new, multi-year tax beginning July 1. Led by state Delegate David B. Albo (R-Springfield), lawmakers slipped a driver responsibility tax into a larger transportation funding bill signed by Governor Tim Kaine (D) in April. Albo, a senior partner in the Albo & Oblon, LLP traffic law firm, can expect to see a significant increase in business as motorists seek to protect their wallet from traffic tickets that come with assessments of up to $3000 in addition to an annual point tax that tops out at $700 a year for as long as the points remain.

Talk about conflict of interest.  I’m sorry, I must be a liberal whining about how Republicans are working to undermine the middle class.  I am completely wrong.  If you’re not successful and rich in America it’s just because you’re not doing what it takes.

I guess it’s going to take being unscrupulous, opportunistic, and unethical.

Womyn

The more education I actually acquire, the more I realize all this feminist bullshit I’ve been spoonfed all my life isn’t even good enough to use as a mental compost heap. Judith Butler can go live in Mexico. In fact, please do.

Porcupine

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141309/index.htm?postversion=2007072506

More Sadness

Great work Jim. America is eating its own. The lies from the Iron Triangle are at a fevor pitch. Paulson says this is the greatest economy he has ever seen. Bush says we will have victory in Iraq. The NPC says there is nothing to worry about. Dick Cheney says he is not part of the Executive branch. The occupation of Iraq is not about oil. Conrad black swears he is innocent. War criminal Scooter Libby is spared from the big house. Lies, lies, lies. We are a nation of liars, thieves and warmongers. America is completely fucked. I saw a two year old child last night, and I wept.

-Xer

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/07/psychotic-break.html#comments

Reading that made me sad for 0.68 seconds, the same amount of time Data was tempted by the Borg queen’s offer.  Yeah it’s shitty, that’s why you shouldn’t be on the losing side.  Buffet can safely complain about only paying 17% tax rate, with 45+ billion in assets.  Things need to get much worse than they are right now before anything will change.  Dividends = 15% tax rate, ftw.

Independent Women’s Forum

Why do people take labels and symbols for themselves without really knowing what they represent? I’ve seen so many white middle-to upper class trophy-wives to be call themselves feminists, I don’t even find it non-sequitur anymore.

Why aren’t there more women like those in the IWF?

For example, my (ex) girlfriend who claims to be a Republican has the following beliefs:

1) Pro-choice
2) Not religious
3) Pro stem-cell research
4) Doesn’t like white guys
5) Thinks she’s a feminist

So let’s take a look at the Republican party platform:

1) Pro-life, no exceptions (even for mother’s health)
2) Literal belief in the bible, party leader speaks for God. God sent Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans. Pat Robertson speaks at the Republican National Convention.
3) See #1, even though they have little to do with each other. Vehemently against stem cell research.
4) LOL. If you’re a Republican and not an (angry) white male… you seriously have something wrong in your head. I mean besides the fact that they [secretly] support segregation, seccession, theocracy, racism, discrimination, etc. Maccaca slipped out of your mouth on accident, YEAH RIGHT!
5) Traditional family values and gender roles. What are you doing going to college and grad school for a Pharm. D. so you can do something with your life. You don’t even know how to cook, wtf?

It’s really depressing how propaganda controls the mob that is America. When I meet most women who claim to be feminists I’m either shocked at how ridiculous their positions or are how uninformed they are on what is third wave feminism.

I also hate the word equality. It’s a bunch of hogwash. What I am a proponent of is EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. That means that you are judged as an individual by your actions, beliefs, etc.

If a woman can with regular basic training can carry a rucksack and equipment that probably comprises 50-75% of her bodyweight for 10 miles at a trot and do it within 1 std deviation of the time the men did it, then let her serve in a fighting position in infantry.

Common sense needs to make a come back. Feminism has become like MADD, an organization which accomplished it’s purpose, but has grown so big and successful and proven to be a money-making machine that board members ousted the founder. It still lives producing all sorts of crapola propaganda at schools and promoting laws that hold parents responsible for their misconduct of their teenage offspring (i.e They went on vacation for a week and my son threw a party at their house and served Alcohol.  Now they’re going to jail.)

On that note, why isn’t Bush in jail?