Random Pattern Weekly 7/30/2007
The People Who Fix the Problems
It seems to be inherent with this administration.
It seems to be inherent with this administration.
“I’ve decided to stay and fix the problems, and that’s what I have been doing.”
That's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday (7/24/07) speaking to the United States Senate. He was asked about illegal wiretapping in the Department of Justice, Guantanamo Bay prison and potential cases of U.S. torture. He demonstrated a solid character by managing to avoid and ignore questions. It's not as if he didn't have a message for the people however.
He's going to stick around to fix the problems he caused. Seems like there's someone else in that administration going through a similar issue. Seems like there may be a common theme in there somewhere.
It seems like this kind of thing has been going on for a long time in America.
Senator- Wisconsin and Wyoming
Senator- Wisconsin and Wyoming
Last week's batch of Senators averaged 22.75 years in public office as U.S. Senator. This week's batch of Senators average 10.5 years as U.S. Senator.
Herb Kohl (Democrat, WI)
Religion: Jewish
1956- University of Wisconsin (graduated)
1958- Harvard School of Business Administration, M.B.A.
-owned the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team
1975 to 1977- Wisconsin State Democratic Party Chairman
1989 to present- United States Senate
Religion: Jewish
1956- University of Wisconsin (graduated)
1958- Harvard School of Business Administration, M.B.A.
-owned the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team
1975 to 1977- Wisconsin State Democratic Party Chairman
1989 to present- United States Senate
Russ Feingold (Democrat, WI)
Religion: Jewish
1975- University of Wisconsin (graduated)
1977- Magdalen College (Oxford, England), graduate degree
-Rhodes Scholar
1979- Harvard University Law School, J.D.
1983 to 1993: Wisconsin State Senator
1993 to present: United States Senate
Mike Enzi (Republican, WY)
Religion: Presbyterian
1966- George Washington University, accounting degree
1968- Denver University, M.B.A.
1975 to 1982: Mayor of Gillette
1987 to 1991: Wyoming State House of Representatives
1991 to 1996: Wyoming State Senate
1997 to present: United States Senate
John Barrasso (Republican, WY)
Religion: Presbyterian
1974- Georgetown University, B.S.
1978- Georgetown University School of Medicine, M.D.
2002 to 2007- Wyoming State Senate
2007 to present: United States Senate
appointed to the United States Senate on June 22, 2007, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Craig L. Thomas
How Much Is Too Much?
There must be a point at which earning (or making if you prefer) more money has no noticeable impact on your life. Whether that sum of money is 1 million dollars or 100 million dollars at some point your life will just not get any better for the use of external devices and stimulation.
At that point, start giving your money away. I know you might say that it is my money and I made it. I worked hard for my money. I would ask, what if I had all the money I needed to buy all of the apple orchards in the world? What if I bought all of those orchards and I pissed on all of those trees so that no more apples would be sold?
I know you are probably saying that I could never do that.
Someone else would surely have the ability to grow apples.
So I would make it my mission to buy all the apple seeds I could find. I've got like 6 billion dollars and that is what I want to do with my money.
Once I own all of the apples then I can say that the apples are all mine, because I worked hard to earn the money to buy all of those apples and you can't have them.
Why not?
Because they're mine.
I know: you are saying that would never happen because someone else would have an apple. If I did my job well though, those apples now cost fifty dollars a piece. So go ahead and have your fifty dollar apple if you can afford it. I will keep all of my apples and enjoy them greatly. I will enjoy them because no one can challenge me to give any of my apples back because I worked hard for them and I earned them. To take them away from me is an outrage and an act of subterfuge by part of the government if they try to tax any of my apples.
The apples are mine and nobody elses.
Then you've got this son of a bitch in India spending 1 billion dollars to build a home.
1 billion dollars.
I've got no issue with wanting what he's going to have. I don't want that and I would never live in a 1 billion dollar home. It's wrong on a deep spiritual level. If there is a hell this guy may burn in it (as may I.)
Somebody should've told him, spend nine hundred million and give a hundred million to charity. And even if he did, it still wouldn't be enough.
At that point, start giving your money away. I know you might say that it is my money and I made it. I worked hard for my money. I would ask, what if I had all the money I needed to buy all of the apple orchards in the world? What if I bought all of those orchards and I pissed on all of those trees so that no more apples would be sold?
I know you are probably saying that I could never do that.
Someone else would surely have the ability to grow apples.
So I would make it my mission to buy all the apple seeds I could find. I've got like 6 billion dollars and that is what I want to do with my money.
Once I own all of the apples then I can say that the apples are all mine, because I worked hard to earn the money to buy all of those apples and you can't have them.
Why not?
Because they're mine.
I know: you are saying that would never happen because someone else would have an apple. If I did my job well though, those apples now cost fifty dollars a piece. So go ahead and have your fifty dollar apple if you can afford it. I will keep all of my apples and enjoy them greatly. I will enjoy them because no one can challenge me to give any of my apples back because I worked hard for them and I earned them. To take them away from me is an outrage and an act of subterfuge by part of the government if they try to tax any of my apples.
The apples are mine and nobody elses.
Then you've got this son of a bitch in India spending 1 billion dollars to build a home.
1 billion dollars.
I've got no issue with wanting what he's going to have. I don't want that and I would never live in a 1 billion dollar home. It's wrong on a deep spiritual level. If there is a hell this guy may burn in it (as may I.)
Somebody should've told him, spend nine hundred million and give a hundred million to charity. And even if he did, it still wouldn't be enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6712605.stm
http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/the-1-billion-house/
Poor Little Lindsay. She got busted again ya'll
http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/the-1-billion-house/
Poor Little Lindsay. She got busted again ya'll
Lindsay Lohan got arrested Tuesday morning of this week. This seems like a recurring theme. I just
wrote about her a couple of months ago running into trouble with the law.
I don't necessarily give a shit about Lindsay Lohan.
I don't think she's especially hot, maybe cute.
I don't think she's got any sort of exceptional- extraordinary- talent.
I don't think she's any sort of saint.
I don't care. Lindsay Lohan is really a dime a dozen. She's got a couple of movie contracts under her belt.
I don't necessarily give a shit about Lindsay Lohan.
I don't think she's especially hot, maybe cute.
I don't think she's got any sort of exceptional- extraordinary- talent.
I don't think she's any sort of saint.
I don't care. Lindsay Lohan is really a dime a dozen. She's got a couple of movie contracts under her belt.
She's making money. It doesn't really speak to her as a human being. She's got some people hooked. It's not her fault and it's not their fault. She was in the right place at the right time. She's
successful. Don't get me wrong.
There is no ill will felt on my side of this keyboard.
She's a dime a dozen though. There are plenty of kids hopped up on drugs and doing stupid shit. That's what she's doing- make no mistake.
The first thing you learn as a successful druggie is that you don't carry your shit outside of the
There is no ill will felt on my side of this keyboard.
She's a dime a dozen though. There are plenty of kids hopped up on drugs and doing stupid shit. That's what she's doing- make no mistake.
The first thing you learn as a successful druggie is that you don't carry your shit outside of the
house unless you absolutely have to and whenever you do it is a risk. It's like drinking and
driving.
Think twice.
When you venture outside of your house with illegal drugs in your pocket- you are asking for
Think twice.
When you venture outside of your house with illegal drugs in your pocket- you are asking for
trouble. Snort it before you leave. Base it before putting the keys in the wheel and then they've
got to prove it. They've got to definitively determine that you are high.
We live in a pretty good country for the most part. (Don't get me wrong: it's pretty fucking stupid how the war on drugs has proceeeded.) You still have the right of habeas corpus.
They've got to find the body and you looked high shouldn't be good enough!
It just depends on the judge you got stuck with.
Lindsay Lohan is pretty stupid. It's my belief that she is intelligent enough to know that when she
We live in a pretty good country for the most part. (Don't get me wrong: it's pretty fucking stupid how the war on drugs has proceeeded.) You still have the right of habeas corpus.
They've got to find the body and you looked high shouldn't be good enough!
It just depends on the judge you got stuck with.
Lindsay Lohan is pretty stupid. It's my belief that she is intelligent enough to know that when she
walked out that door with a sack of coke in her pocket she was taking a risk.
"The star of “Herbie Fully Loaded” was just that, registering a blood alcohol level between .12 and
.13 percent on a breathalyzer test. The legal limit in California is .08 percent. During the arrest,
police also found a bag containing cocaine in Lohan’s pants pocket."- http://www.smdp.com/article/articles/3808/1/Freaky-Tuesday
That's stupid!
Put it in your sock. If you want to put forth a little bit of effort stick it in the bottom of your
shoe. Do something with it other than putting it in the place that you know their going to look.
Stuff it in your waist band. They have to search you to find it there and by the time they're
searching you- you're fucked anyway.
Do something to demonstrate your intelligence. Take the drugs first before you leave the house.
Do something to demonstrate your intelligence. Take the drugs first before you leave the house.
Leave the bag at home. Take enough drugs that you don't need anymore for a while after you leave.
If you haven't slept in a few days, make discretion the better part of valor and keep you ass at
home and go to bed.
Use your fucking head.
If you didn't know that you were in trouble walking out of the house to drive on a revoked/suspended
Use your fucking head.
If you didn't know that you were in trouble walking out of the house to drive on a revoked/suspended
license with drugs in your pocket you're just stupid. However, Lindsay, I'm willing to give you the
benefit of the doubt. I'm willing to believe that you don't want this attention. Any normal addict
on drugs wouldn't want it. I'm going to assume you fall into the normal drug addict stage. Maybe
you're not even a drug addict and therefore the term is inappropriate.
You might just like to party. I understand that. Have a good time and moderate. Snort the coke if
You might just like to party. I understand that. Have a good time and moderate. Snort the coke if
you must. It will make you feel good the first couple of times. After that you're always chasing
the first couple of times.
Snort it. Smoke it. Drink it, if that's what's called for; but use a little bit of goddamn common
Snort it. Smoke it. Drink it, if that's what's called for; but use a little bit of goddamn common
sense.
Drugs are illegal. Driving on a suspend license is illegal. Driving drunk is illegal.
Use a little fucking common sense and keep you ass out of the papers.
-Signed a Friend.
Tip of the week
Drugs are illegal. Driving on a suspend license is illegal. Driving drunk is illegal.
Use a little fucking common sense and keep you ass out of the papers.
-Signed a Friend.
Tip of the week
Avoid conflicts where you can. Squelch outbreaks where you can't. Do that which is hard first.
Birthday Shout Outs (7/29 to 8/4)
Birthday Shout Outs (7/29 to 8/4)
7/29-
(1953) Geddy Lee- When Rush is good; there's no one better!
(1962) Scott Steiner- Before the roids he was an amazing wrestler. Afterwards, he was a psychotic freak. He was great in both roles.
7/30-
(1962) Scott Steiner- Before the roids he was an amazing wrestler. Afterwards, he was a psychotic freak. He was great in both roles.
7/30-
(1863) Henry Ford- He wanted to use bud for productive means but was a racist. Kind of like everything else in American history.
(1936) Buddy Guy- He influenced a lot of people.
(1961) Laurence Fishburne- Who could forget his time spent on Peewee's Playhouse?
(1971) Tom Greene- The guy seems like he seriously has mental trauma and parlayed it into success.
7/31-
(1936) Buddy Guy- He influenced a lot of people.
(1961) Laurence Fishburne- Who could forget his time spent on Peewee's Playhouse?
(1971) Tom Greene- The guy seems like he seriously has mental trauma and parlayed it into success.
7/31-
(1912) Milton Friedman- Given a lot of credit when it comes to the ideas behind modern economics.
(1965) J.K. Rowling- Given a lot of economics for little credit.
(1965) J.K. Rowling- Given a lot of economics for little credit.
8/1-
(1819) Herman Melville- If you take the time to read Benito Cereno, and ponder, you will really be amazed and never able to sit in a barber chair the same way again.- http://books.mirror.org/melville/benitocereno/
(1933) Dom DeLuise- This guy was a hero from my youth. Always upbeat and way over the top.
(1960) Chuck D- Public Enemy got me into rap music. I hated rap music before "Countdown to Terminator."
(1963) Coolio- He wrote by far the most rational and clear picture of a particular type of life.
(1964) Adam Duritz- I find this song enchanting. (If I may use such a queer word.)
(1933) Dom DeLuise- This guy was a hero from my youth. Always upbeat and way over the top.
(1960) Chuck D- Public Enemy got me into rap music. I hated rap music before "Countdown to Terminator."
(1963) Coolio- He wrote by far the most rational and clear picture of a particular type of life.
(1964) Adam Duritz- I find this song enchanting. (If I may use such a queer word.)
8/2-
(1959) Victoria Jackson- I honor most (Joe Piscopo) cast members- past and present- of Saturday Night Live.
(1970) Kevin Smith- This guy turned my life into movies. Thank you.
(1970) Kevin Smith- This guy turned my life into movies. Thank you.
8/3-
(1926) Tony Bennett- Still getting the young tail.
(1950) John Landis- This guy should be nominated for a public pension for directing Animal House and the Blues Brothers.
(1963) James Hetfield- A legend.
(1950) John Landis- This guy should be nominated for a public pension for directing Animal House and the Blues Brothers.
(1963) James Hetfield- A legend.
8/4-
(1901) Louis Armstrong- This cat could blow.
(1955) Billy Bob Thornton- I don't care what my wife says, Slingblade kicks ass. MmmmHmmmm.
(1960) Dean Malenko- An amazing pro wrestler.
(1961) Barack Obama- I like him.
Leguizamo's Got Funny
I saw John Leguizamo do a one man act/stand up called "Mambo Mouth" and it was a fantastic show. If you ever get the chance to see him, I'd highly recommend it. He has a knack for being funny while being poignant.
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