UFC 63 Picks...
Wow… looks like another UFC is closely approaching. This one features some of my favorite fighters of all time. It’s good to see BJ get his shot against Hughes again, and I can’t wait to see Jens fight again in the octagon. The fight that I am really anticipating is Gabe Ruediger vs. Melvin Guillard. Gabe is a friend of mine, and a training partner and instructor over at Millennia Jiu-Jitsu. I know that the UFC is putting him in there with a puncher like Guillard to get KO’d, but I think he’s got a good chance to get a win this weekend. Here are my picks…
MATT HUGHES VS. BJ PENN –
BJ PENNMIKE SWICK VS. DAVID LOISEAU -
MIKE SWICKJENS PULVER VS. JOE LAUZON -
JENS PULVERRASHAD EVANS VS. JASON LAMBERT -
JASON LAMBERTMELVIN GUILLARD VS. GABE RUEDIGER -
GABE RUEDIGERTyson Griffin vs. David Lee –
Tyson GriffinDanny Abaddi vs. Jorge Gurgel –
Jorge GurgelJason Dent vs. Roger Huerta –
Roger HuertaEddie Sanchez vs. Mario Neto –
Mario NetoI'm from Chino and PROUD OF IT!"i'm out"
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Enough Bush Bashing...
HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GUYI'm not gonna defend Bush... I'm not going to tell you that he is a good president, or a smart man, or even that I agree with his policies...
what I am going to tell you, is that it is time to stop "bashing" him... If you want to poke fun, and send a email where his facial expression matches a monkey, thats fine, but enough with the impeachment talk, and calling him incompetent or an idiot...
He may be an idiot, but he is our idiot, and honestly,
despite what Ryan may think, I think making fun of the guy we elected to be our leader, TWICE, does little to improve Americas overall image...
And lets be honest... Kerry...? Gore...? those guys are boring and they suck... To lose to Bush
like this, you have to kinda suck...
I am not saying support him, just no more bashing him... he may be a moron, but he is our moron, and
saturday night live skits just wouldn't be the same without him...
For the remaining part of the post, I am going to do two things:
1. explain some reasons you should like Bush...
2. explain some reasons you should not like these liberal democratic bastards who talk shit about the pres dawgy dawg...
Reasons to Love Bush
He is a uniter. Sure he hasn't united America, but lets be real people, no one is gonna do that, it is what free speach is ALL ABOUT...
But he has united the rest of the world. Yes, the rest of the world now doesn't like America. He is like the coach, of a squabling little league team, who units the team against him, rather than against each other... Dubya has done more to unite Europe than anyone since the fall of Rome. Given time, he might manage the same in the Middle east too.
He has the moral clarity to stick to a line of action without ever wavering, no matter how wrong it proves to be. Anyone can lead when right, yet to do so when obviously and catastrophically wrong takes true genius.
He is fun. With his record of underestimating pretzels, Bush is a satirist's dream. As I stated before, imagine how tedious The Onion, and SNL would have been under President Gore or Kerry.
Now there is a Republican majority in both Houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, and Bush has promised to use his political mandate to the full, we will be spared the dangers of a weak or deadlocked US government. Frankly, that scares the hell out of me, but the need for strong government is always used to justify the unrepresentative nature America, so that argument must impress someone.
now for the part I like more
Reasons to hate democratic liberals who pick on the president
( Before I do this, I want people to know I come from California, one of the most liberal states in the union, and I LOVE Cali... so I am not talking about yall )
They are too uptight. When I tell a liberal that, if he says one more stupid word, I'll punch him square in his dumb monkey face, he always takes it personally. Lighten up, you stupid monkey-faced liberal!
Another thing you'll find out about liberals is that they have masochistic tendancies...they LIKE getting punched in the face, it gives them sensual pleasure, but none of them have the physical strength to whack each other effectively ( see below ). So to fulfill their depraved needs they call down the wrath of the normal "middle of the road" Americans upon themselves. Kinda makes me feel a teensy bit used... but not enough to make me want to stop from punching them in the face.
Liberals are a bunch of punk ass b!tches... Seriously, they fold and give up quicker than France. When people in the Ukraine felt the election was stolen from their man, they took to the streets, with orange pride, until all was made right. When people in Thailand thought their leader was out of line, they threw a coup. Even Mexico is all up in arms cause they think the election was stolen!. WTF is wrong with liberals... After he beat Gore Hillary Clinton was all about saying how the electoral system needs to be changed, but you dont hear any of that talk now... In contrast, lets look at the vice president. He shot a man in the face, and that man appologized to him!. Thats how I like my leaders.
LIBERAL QUITTERS... "cut and run" should be the liberal motto.
Liberals are boring, since all they ever have to say is "yada, yada, yada, yada,..." ( Sorry, I stopped listening after the second 'yada'.)
Bill O'Reilly is Liberal ( need I say more )
and finally...
Obviously, they want the terrorists to win.
DISCLAIMER
I am not conservative, I am not liberal, I am neither republican, nor democrat. I dont particularly like the president, or his views. And most of the stuff I write on this blog is dictated to me by my pet hamster.
I just dont think any of our other choices for president would have been any better, but they certainly wouldn't be as entertaining. So lets stop the trash talk...
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the state of affairs...
This week, I think the united nations is meeting for it's annual general council session, or something like that... Now, I would never claim to be an expert on the UN, but from what I understand this is like a big meeting where everyone shows up, and talks about what they want for the world, and then everyone goes home, and does nothing...
kinda like a typical office meeting, only the whole world ( except maybe africa ) is there...
I know I would never get the chance, but if I did I would like to tell the united nations some stuff... this would be my speach...
World leaders, heads of state, and fellow delagates: First I would like to thank you for inviting me here today to speak, ( or maybe forgive me for: the hostile takeover and, detention against your will,.... whichever suits the situation best ), I would like to share with you my thoughts on current events...
As I notice, Great Britan has purchased a
wrap it up machine, and I know better than to eat into my own presidents cartoon time, so I will keep my words brief...
I was Born in 1979, and lived through what could be considered a good part of the cold war, as well as Saturday morning cartoons. Despite my home countries best wishes and efforst I am going to tell you things all generation X'ers know.
Communism works. The smurfs taught us this. For naysayers who point to the Former Soviet Union as proof that communism is inherently flawed, consider for a moment Smurf Village, where everyone shares everything, wears similar clothing, battles Gargamel and his "turn Smurfs to gold" get rich quick schemes, and obeys the dictates of a bearded, benevolent authority figure.
Secret communist agendas ceased being dangerous, or really even threatening to people, years ago. The worst thing communism does these days is make Ivy League students waste a couple of years wearing ugly clothes and attending boring meetings. However, the sexual politics of Smurf Village, with its one female for every 30 guys, did go a long way towards preparing many of my friends for lates nights at bars.
"Might",... kinda does, make right.
G.I. Joe taught us that "knowing is half the battle". But the other half, and arguably the more important half, was kicking the living shit out of Cobras punk ass.
( if you can't add good, the third half was having cool nicknames )
That is why I propose these new names for heads of State in world countries...
President: Snake Eyes
Prime Minister: Duke
Queen: Lady Jaye
King: Shipwreck
With names like that winning the war on terror should be no problem. Good will always win out over evil, because good guys work together (Team Work! Cooperation!)Now that’s some good strategery.
Actually, I'm pretty certain that our strategy for the Iraq War was conceived after a two day long G.I. Joe marathon in the Pentagon. They just implicitly trusted that firing off our guns would make the bad guys run for the caves and that giving everyone cute nicknames was somehow endearing. When things didn’t turn out the way they’d planned, the administration placed the blame on faulty intelligence, or in other words: “Knowing is half the battle, and we unfortunately didn’t know shit.”
But people like me, who were born and raised in the United States know a couple of things:
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.
AND
Still,... No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
VIVA LA MEXICO! ( and Central and South America )
In reguards to the recent rift created between major religions of the world.
well... "can't we all just get along?"
I understand the leader of
my religion, the pope, recently said some pretty inflamitory things about the prophet Mohammed, and the Islamic religion. He Was Quoting someone else when he said:
"'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'"
It was a bad quote for him to pick, and I would like to point out two things about this:
Catholics, and Christians have a super rich history of converting by the sword. The Inquisition, the Crusades, witch burning, converting native americans, jewish persecution... Essentially Chiristianity wrote the book on forcing your religion on infidels... but after we did all that, we kind of learned that it really doesn't work too well, and it fractures and splinters, more than it joins people together.
It was John Adams, one of the founders of our country that said
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." So for all those countries who govern based on religion, trust me... my people have been there, and done that, and it aint gonna cut it...
And finally, people of the world... Software programmers, and hardware engineers
SHOULD GET PAID MORE. If computers ever take over the world, which they seem predisposed to do, people like me and my friends will be the only people that can save you...
Having worked with computers a while now I can tell you that there is a 27% chance that the thing that will turn computers against humans will come from a security hole in Microsofts Internet Explorer. And to be truthfull, there is even less of a chance that even with the help of all the computer experts in the world, Will smith and Jeff Goldbloom will be able to save us with an apple laptop.
In short, we might already be doomed...
Because if the transformers cartoon taught me anything it's that:
If we’re not careful, robots will kill us all.This is a humbling lesson for any child to learn, but an easy one to accept, considering Transformers was one of the coolest cartoons/toys of the '80s.
The Unabomber would have renounced his violent ways if he were to witness the sheer stunning spectacle that is
Grimlock. Too bad he didn’t have a TV. But I will tell you one thing: when machines replace humans at the top of the food chain, I'll be standing there, waving my Deceptacon flag with pride. Because, let’s face it, getting eaten by an alien VW bug would suck. This is the reason people of the world should stay away from Toyota Priuses and make our TV wear a blindfold when we sleep at night.
leaders of the world,
thank you, and god bless.
you have been tricked...
There once was a man who went to a computer trade show.
Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the door:
"I am a great thief, renowned for my feats of shoplifting. Be
forewarned, for this trade show shall not escape unplundered."
This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions of dollars of computer equipment inside, so he watched the man carefully.
But the man merely wandered from booth to booth, humming quietly to himself. When the man left, the guard took him aside and searched his clothes, but nothing was to be found.
On the next day of the trade show, the man returned and chided the
guard saying: "I escaped with a vast booty yesterday, but today will be even better."
So the guard watched him ever more closely, but to no avail. On the final day of the trade show, the guard could restrain his curiosity no longer. "Sir Thief," he said, "I am so perplexed, I cannot live in peace. Please enlighten me. What is it that you are stealing?"
The man smiled. "I am stealing ideas," he said.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Hospitals suck...
Hospitals suck!!!
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Ryans Blog...
I want to take a real quick second to point out that
Ryans Blog kicks ass!!!
lets forget for a moment that he did not complete edit his blog template, and it still says "edit me" on some of his links... and lets overlook the fact that his plain white with grey text page looks about as interesting as a school report...
you have to look at content people!!!
okay so his first couple of post were stories about him scaring his new wife...
NOW I think he has started to get the hang of this whole blogging thing... he has good pictures to look at, political and religious comentary... random links, and drunken rants cant be far off...
so, if you haven't yet, check out my friend
Ryans page...
and you get a permi-link on my page Ryan, you jewish bastard...( thats a perminent link... over there --> )
side note: if Brian S from oregon, Jay G., Skweek B, or any of my other good friends have a web page... send them to me, and I will make fun of your web page too, and if you are lucky, you'll get a permi-link...
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I am the spark that makes your idea bright...
First thing is first... this last week, sept. 13th, was the 10th aniversary of
tupacs death... rest in peace brotha'...
we miss you like the sun misses the moon
so I have talks with the lord
and I'll be seeing you soon...
Opinion:PEOPLE!... WTF is wrong with people and myspace??, you dont get mad at people because you aren't in their top 8, or you aren't on their friends list, And you certainly dont
try to kill someone because their pic is on your boyfriends site... Seriously!!! it's fucking myspace...
Having more friends on myspace doesn't make you any more cool, and if you have a lot of friends, and you post sparkly signs on their myspace pages, you are not only not cool, you are a punk ass, and you make the internet ugly... this may seem a lil harsh, but if you have posted a sparkly butterfly, or sparkly text,
on my page, I hate you... But I am not gonna remove you from my friends list, or try to hunt you down and kill you...
I kinda got in
trouble recently for using the word "rape" in a funny way...
as a logical thinking human being I will never understand how other seemingly logical person/people get so offended at the mention of certain words... There ARE NO "BAD" words... it all depends on the way you use the words... their meaning can be offensive or "bad", but you have to take them in context... You can't just make blanket statements like "I dont like the word "rape, or "tit", or "fuck""... a word is an inanimate object, like a rock, it can not hold a "good" or "bad" quality... When I point this out, people always ask if I would curse in front of a baby, or a small child, and I always say "hell yes I would", in the case of a baby... the babys shits itself, crys, is fat, throws up on people, all while remaining cute... that deserves a couple of "ufck!"'s...
Recently at work we were talking about downloading music from the internet... I pointed out that downloading music
IS NOT stealing, because to steal something you must take something, and leave nothing in place of the original... this sparked a debate between my good friend Ryan and me, because, and I am not sure if I got this correct, but he thinks you can "steal" something all while leaving that something intact... quickly the debate broke down into weather a person could steal something that wasn't physical, and while I am not sure about that, I am completely sure downloading music isn't stealing... It is copyright infringement. Still against the law?... sure... but is it stealing?... nope, just like murder is not stealing ones life, or speeding on the freewway isn't stealing others right to drive fast... it is it's own crime... Lets remember that.
here is some good reading on the subject:
BBC says file sharing isn't stealingis file sharing stealing?Theft Law ( read number 5 )
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What does it all mean?... I dont know...
Before the Lawby: Franz Kafka
BEFORE THE LAW stands a doorkeeper. To this door-keeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment. The man thinks it over and then asks if he will be allowed in later. "It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment."
Since the gate stands open, as usual, and the doorkeeper steps to one side, the man stoops to peer through the gateway into the interior. Observing that, the doorkeeper laughs and says: "If you are so drawn to it, just try to go in despite my veto. But take note: I am powerful. And I am only the least of the door-keepers. From hall to hall there is one doorkeeper after another, each more powerful than the last. The third doorkeeper is already so terrible that even I cannot bear to look at him."
These are difficulties the man from the country has not expected; the Law, he thinks, should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone, but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, with his big sharp nose and long, thin, black Tar-tar beard, he decides that it is better to wait until he gets permission to enter. The doorkeeper gives him a stool and lets him sit down at one side of the door. There he sits for days and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted, and wearies the doorkeeper by his importunity.
The doorkeeper frequently has little interviews with him, asking him questions about his home and many other things, but the questions are put indifferently, as great lords put them, and always finish with the statement that he cannot be let in yet. The man, who has furnished himself with many things for his journey, sacrifices all he has, however valuable, to bribe the doorkeeper. The doorkeeper accepts everything, but always with the remark: "I am only taking it to keep you from thinking you have omitted anything." During these many years the man fixes his attention almost continuously on the doorkeeper.
He forgets the other doorkeepers, and this first one seems to him the sole obstacle preventing access to the Law. He curses his bad luck, in his early years boldly and loudly, later, as he grows old, he only grumbles to himself. He becomes childish, and since in his yearlong contempla-tion of the doorkeeper he has come to know even the fleas in his fur collar, he begs the fleas as well to help him and to change the doorkeeper's mind.
At length his eyesight begins to fail, and he does not know whether the world is really darker or whether his eyes are only deceiving him. Yet in his darkness he is now aware t of a radiance that streams inextinguishably from the gateway of the Law. Now he has not very long to live. Before he dies, all his experiences in these long years gather themselves in his head to one point, a question he has not yet asked the doorkeeper. He waves him nearer, since he can no longer raise his stiffening body. The doorkeeper has to bend low towards him, for the difference in height between them has altered much to the man's disadvantage. "What do you want to know now?" asks the doorkeeper; "you are insatiable." "Everyone strives to reach the Law," says the man, "so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?"
The doorkeeper recognizes that the man has reached his end, and to let his failing senses catch the words roars in his ear: "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."
My boy Nick G wanted to know what I think that all means...
any Ideas ???
I have some thoughts on it, but I wanted to see if anyone else was like-minded, or if you guys just come for steves photoshops...
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Pimp a$$ sh!t...
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Once again... gotta give props to Steve for throwing together a dope ass photoshop...
from left to right we've got:
Jon "Ho-banger" Ho, The B.O.B., yours trully - Grey Mattr, Steve "slewis" Lewis, and Dean Snyder ( Conrad )...
Double props to steve for pulling off the hockey player, and the fire fighter from Alaska...
SUPER PIMP...
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Other Pimp Ishh: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: you know, the President of Iran... I LOVE this dude... he kicks ass... he wrote this letter, AND he has challenged Bush to a no holds bard debate... that is the coolest thing to happen since Saddam challened him to a dual... having said all that, he does have some faults... like he wants the Jews out of the middle east, and he denys the halocaust... but seriously, out president has faults too, and so do you, so just chill...
Beer fest: I have seen this movie now, almost two times... I highly recomend it... but sneak beers into the theatre...
Not Shaving... I haven't really been shaving my beard, or getting haircuts, and it's freakin dope... my hair is impossible to comb, but you know what is cool about that, the whole "put gel in your hair, and mess it up" is the "in style" right now... and the whole beard thing is pretty ichy, but I might get to be wolverine for halloween... I might post a picture later if I am not lazy...
The infamous Napkin Drawings ---> 
Parental discretion is highly advised...
Ummmm... let me see... what else...
Ummmm.... my mom and older sister are on their way to Europe to visit my lil sister...
School started back up, so there is crazy traffic on my way to work now...
a new law was passed in cali that make manufactures put warnings on Wifi equipment... me ans steve keep our fiberoptic wireless connection WIDE open, no security, but our router only allows 3 hardware addresses out to the internet, and I have put a shit load of viruses and spyware on our internal network for you hijacking bastards...
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some time this year was the 5th aniversarry of the spyders web... or something like that, so for giggles, lets turn to the way back machine, and check out the spyder-fonix.com's over the years...
