I am looking for pix of your tats for an Associated Content slideshow I would like to do. If you are interested in showing off your ink, message me for more info, or send me your pix. But I do need certain info to use your pic: The tattoo artists' name(s), date photo taken, photographers' name(s), and any info about the tat (meaning, etc...). Thanx guys!

~Josh Cook

So I'm leaving for Washington state tomorrow night by bus. It's gonna be a fun filled, over two day trip. I'm definitely going to need something to do, so the question I'm posing to the class today is this... Would you guys be interested in a Blog from the Road series that would probably be turned into an Associated Content article or two. I love I can blog from my phone and this is the perfect excuse to use it. Please respond to me one way or the other. I really wanna know the interest level out there. You can leave a comment here or just send me a message. Also, be sure to let me know what would be interesting to read. Thanx my loyal readers.

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Oh, the Things to Change

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There are many products in which I would like to change things about; cars, televisions, video game systems, the list is endless.  But when I really sat down and thought about the one item I would really like to change that I use in my everyday life, one idea kept floating to the top - the internet.  Now why would you want to change one of the greatest inventions of the modern area, you may be asking yourself, right?  Well my answer will have to be delivered in two parts…

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Number one…  Stupidity.  Plain and simple, I think, but for those of you that may need a little more of an explanation, here we go.  Right here, in front of my face and yours, in almost every home in ....America...., most schools and libraries, we have the most powerful tool in the world.  Any PC or Mac (or cell phone, Blackberry, etc…), can be turned into the most exciting and useful teaching tool in the world.  You can learn about places, or times, you may never get the luxury to experience.  You can learn to speak a different language, write and read, even teach yourself to become a better and more productive human being.  And what, in all our infinite glory, have us humans turned this wonderful learning tool into…  A porn portal! 

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Why is it that porn sites, mostly free these days, take up the majority of website populations?  Because computers are only as good as those that program them, and the internet is no different. People are stupid, so it would only go that the things they program become stupid.  I understand in a free society, such as the one ....America.... claims to have (but we all know that is not really true), these things will have to be dealt with, and I am A-OK with that.  My only problem is sheer number of these sites that have popped up, and continue to pop up everyday.  Come on people, is this really necessary?

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Problem two, and just as important…  hypocrisy.  Every single website and and portal have their own rules and regulations (see: SPAM Filters), but those rules are meant to be broken by those that make them.  How many times have you opened your inbox to find numerous amounts of spam from your ISP, cable provider, or email host?  The worst culprits of all on this point have to be the social networking sites.  Take the site myYearbook, for example.  One of the fastest growing social networking sites on the net, and understand that their site is populated with many younger users, so they have taken measures against nudity, violence, and drug use on their site.  Great, right?  Now if you check their ‘Pimp’ section which has numerous images, backgrounds, and falling images that you can use to pimp your page out with, there are pages and pages of marijuana themed graphics.  Now being a smoker, as I am, this does not offend me.  But being an American with a brain, I am bothered by the numerous users getting deleted and banned for using the same type of images that these sites promote using themselves.

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In short, what I would like to change about the internet are the people that program it.....

Well, well.  Guess who's back again?  Yeah, I know I've said this before, but with me not having a job, I have nothing to do but to write, as long as the girlfriend allows me time on the computer.  I will be doing a lot of writing on Associated Content again - which means I am going to need you all to click and read my articles to help me raise money to survive, but my blogs will be coming in full force eventually too.  I just wanted to make sure those few of you that used to read my blogs are still around and feel like gracing my pages with your presence.

I also wannna know what has been going on in your lives and what you are reading these days.  Feel free to drop me a line or a comment, which would make my day (LOL), and let me know.

Until next time...  Later!

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With Green Day's new release - 21st Century Breakdown - being released, I decided to do a review of one of my favorite Green Day albums from the 90's, Kerplunk! So let us see where Green Day has been, to more appreciate where they are going.

It is about time.  America has become a grown-up on November 4, 2008.  Barack Obama has become the president Elect and will replace President Nimrod come January!  Just had to tell everybody how unbelievably happy I am!

I don't care how much I have going on or how many changes my life may face, I cannot go long without throwing my opinions in your face on a major topic.  Considering the impeccable timing of this blog, the topic is sure to be a mystery to all of you. 

One of the most important and historic elections to ever be help in this country will be happening tomorrow.  I do not plan to sit here and preach for one candidate over the other, though Obama is exactly what this country needs right now, but instead I want to speak to those apathetic Americans out there who will be considering tomorrow to be just another day.  The rest of you can now leave the room and grab a cup of coffee.  I'll still be ranting when you get back, don't worry.

I find it damn near impossible to find that in this day and age of turmoil and despair that there are still Americans that don't feel the future of this country, and their families, are not important enough to spend the time to do a little research and speak up.  Too lazy have an opinion, but still righteous enough to think they can actually bitch about whatever road November Fourth will lead us down.

And what great reasoning do these patriots give that is supposed to amend the fact that they are spitting on the graves of countless men and women who have sacrificed their lives for this 'waste of time'?  Well, my favorite is the 'My vote doesn't count' argument.  I half agree with this one for the simple fact that the electoral system is asinine.  What really makes me laugh about this argument is the people who are using generally lack the grade school knowledge of actually know what the electoral system is or how it works.  Sure, they will spew the usual Bush v. Gore comments they have heard more intelligent friends say for years now, but when you actually attempt to peel away the outer layer of their friends opinions, the entire argument falls apart.  There is absolutely no mention of electoral votes, but more of  a one person can't make a difference theory, which shows no intellect but rather the exact opposite.  If one person is unable to make a difference, then how can any of the great changes in this country's history be explained?  Civil rights, the Women's Movement, Gay Rights (OK, that last one is still a battle but should not be)...  These were all fought with blood, sweat, and tears and all came from one person standing up to a society that needed change.

Let us look at another great argument of the under-educated that love to speak up during this time - 'I don't like either of the two people running.'  How many of you noticed what gets my goat in that one?  If you have been reading these stupid little ramblings of a Midwestern nobody for any amount of time, then you have surely heard me complain about the two party system.  It amazes me how little people actually know about the candidates that are fighting to be the next leader of the free world.  These people can rattle off the headlines for both major party candidates, but they usually cannot name one other party, let alone one other candidate.  This country is not supposed to have a two party system, and sheer ignorance is the ONLY reason it still exists.  As I have said before, if people would spend as much time paying attention to is, and who wants to, run this country as they do complaining about all the violence and swearing in video games, TV, music, etc..., we would probably have the most well run nation in the world.  But no, lets just keep our focus on passing the blame of society's faults instead of actually doing something to fix them.  I mean, that has gotten us by so well thus far, right?

Holy different look, Batman!  I leave MySpace alone for two months to play on the newer, and way more fun, myYearbook only to find that this is almost a completely different site!  The look and feel is revamped, for the better.  I'm not sure about the MySpace apps, though I am looking for MANY more members to add to my Mafia, Dragon Wars Alliance, and Pirate Crews - so feel free to send me any add requests for these games that you may want.  I will accept all!!

Now, as for your truly, I am back in Wisconsin, which you all should know if you read these mindless ramblings at all.  The Arizona thing did not pan out thanks to cheating and lying on someone else's end.  Oh well, right?  You may have noticed my status and mood updates, which would have caused you to wonder what the fuck has happened! 

Yes, I am going to be homeless within the next couple weeks.  Those that I have always tried to help have decided to turn their backs on me, yet once again, and kick me when President Nimrod's economy is down.  The Arizona Blunder caused me to lose my job, which I was told I could have back if I needed to come back to K-Town.  When I call to see if it is still open, they decided to pay somebody three bucks less than I was making to do the same job.  So now I am being told I am over-qualified for the crap jobs, but not qualified enough for the good jobs; hence the whole being homeless shortly dilema.  So if anybody has any extra room or space to rent out, please let me know.

Not really sure what else there is to catch you all up on, but I am sure I will think of more eventually.  So let's talk about some more boring ass MySpace shit, shall we?  I have finally updated my profile page, so go check it out and let me know what you think.  You will notice I have a guestbook for you all to sign and right below that is one of the coolest flash games you will ever find - JOHNNY ROCKETFINGERS!  This game has been a favorite of mine for years, so make sure you check it out and let me know what you think.  On the other side is my Associated Content widget, which each and every one of you better click each title and start giving me some page views on my articles since that is the only way I can make any damn money right now!  The video and banner link below that is nothing new and will always be on my page until the Medical College of Wisconsin stops needlessly murdering animals.  Then there is the usual MySpace crap - own some pictures, join my Mafia~Dragon Wars~Pirate alliances, and then the smattering of links all over the page.  So run on over to my page and check it out while I try to figure out where the hell I am going to live.

Until next time...  Later!

Surprise, surprise.  I am writing a religion rant.  Not possible.

We just had to put down our second pet in less than a month, and a third cat is on her way this week.  If there is a God, then why would he put such big animal lovers through this kind of pain so quickly?!  To me, it makes no damn sense. 

'God never puts more on your plate than you can handle'.  Well of course not.  If he did, that egotistical maniac would be losing believers faster than MC Hammer lost his money (yeah, that's a dated pop culture reference...  Deal!).  But how could his ego stay unbelievably inflated to the extent it is if he gives us more than we can handle?  Hell, he wouldn't exist that way since that would put him on the level of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Honest Politician...  All figures that have been blinked out of existence due to lack of belief.

'God helps those that help themselves'.  If God is all knowing, wouldn't he know those that are helping themselves.  He'd be the greatest welfare monitor ever!  But we do help our animals.  We spend thousands of dollars a year, no lie, just to try and keep them healthy.  We never take the cute healthy animals at the pound since they will always be adopted.  it's the others that need us, but that's not helping?

'God has his reasons'.  WTF?!  Can we say bullshit answer?!  That's all i can say about that.

I know I forgot a shitload of 'reasons' these religious freaks love to use to numb themselves into belief, so please inform me and maybe we;ll see a sequel rant.  For now though, all i can say is...

 'FUCK YOUR IMAGINARY GOD!'

Until next time... Later!

So America actually did something right for once.  Granted it did take a year and a half and billions of brain cells have died for the cause, but we gave Barrack Obama the Democratic ticket in November.  Yes, Hillary 'The Robot' Clinton is scheduled to throw her support behind Obama on Saturday (June 8th), which means the Dems must have finished completely shooting their foot off. 

Now that McCain has had approximately a lifetime (yes, that's a little far fecthed, but you get the damn point).  He's been doing nothing but trying to gain support, money, and backers since he beat the Looney Tune competition the Republicans threw out onto the field this season, except my boy Ron Paul - the only Republican I would have ever voted for.  While he's gaining a stronger race team, the Dems stretched out this shit until the end, and in the process, ended up splitting their own party.  That would be the equivilant of America fighting the British during our Civial War!  Doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me, how about you guys?

But not the true question comes into play.  The political 'experts' have tossed this around a little, but now we have no choice but to think about it.  Yes, America says they'll vote for a black man for President, but we all know that America is like a couple before they get serious.  They say they'll do a lot of things, but when it comes time for it, they have a headache.  So in November, are we all gonna have massive headaches?  Will we actually be able to go through with what we said we would?  I am very sad to say this, but I don't think we will.  No matter which Dem won, we are just too full of right wing conservatives that will not allow a woman or a black man in office.  Heaven knows our country is doing great the way it is now, right?!

Until next time...  Later!

Yes, I decided to come back home.  Cheating, drinking, and total bitches are just not my thing, and from what I know of Arizona (including Sharon - the friend I was helping), that's all there is down there.  Really not much else to say right now.

I'm in Kenosha again and looking for roommate.  Anybody else need a roommate, let me know.  As for the rest of you guys, I'll bitching soon enough.  Just gotta find a job, or decide if I wanna go back to my old one, but I will be back for the two of you that miss reading these stupid little blogs.

Until next time...  Later!

Well, well kiddies.  Long time no talk, I know.  Guess what your favorite blogger has decided to do on a spur of the moment whim...  I have relocated from Wisconsin to Arizona! 

Now when I say spur of the moment, that is probably the understatement of the damn century!  I went to Vegas with a long time friend who used to live in Henderson, which those of you CSI fans know is just outside Vegas, and she got into some trouble when she lived there.  The plan was to have a couple good days of vacation, which didn't happen thanx to her fighting with my for two fuckin' days and ruining my vacation, then Monday morning turn herself into the cop shop to get all her crap taken care of.  Well her other friend that was with us turned her in to the pigs and at nine am on Monday I woke up with a badge in my face screaming at me.  Not a good start!!!

So after she was taken away I found out my mom had to put down Reggie, my dawg!  So that just killed me.  A couple shots at the airport after my bags were already checked, and a phone call later, I decided to move to Arizona with a friend with nothing but a few hundred bucks and my carry on bag!!

So here I am!  Living in Apache Junction, Arizona, trying to find a job and hoping I can make this work.  I am sure there is a shitload more to come, so when I have a chance to write again, I will definitely fill you all in on what I may have forgetten in this quick couple minute rant.

Until next time...  Later!

So I’ve been pimping out this new site for about a week, myYearbook.com.  Well, it was a fun little MySpace, until the gangs got involved!  Oh yeah, you heard me right!  The gangs!  The fun part of this site is posting pictures in battles against other people’s pictures.  People vote and the winner gets ’Lunch Money’, which is essentially points.  You can use these points to buy online gifts for your friends or whatever.  That’s all well and good, but there are groups created specifically for the purpose of trashing others’ battles, no matter what.  And if these groups were only kids, that would be understandable, but no, these are full grown adults that are doing this.  And for what?  Just to be dicks.  Yes, you can bid on real items like DVD’s, but that runs ya like 20,000 points or something.  Wouldn’t it be easier to just go to Best Buy and buy the damn thing for $15?

And what does this say for a society that can’t even have a fun and playful imaginary world without gangs?!  I understand the need for acceptance, trust me on that one.  But on the internet?  Isn’t that where anybody can go and be accepted?  But of course, what does it say about me to have to be 1 so bad that I am begging all of you to help whore myself out to win, which I really do need the help!  Probably that my self-esteem is so low that I have to win at something, and I just can’t hack it in real life...  But that’s just my opinion.

Here are the battles, please help and tell everybody to help!  Thank you to all of my readers!

 

What the fuck is going on in the Democrats brains?

I am not necessarily a Democrat, but definitely not a Republican supporter.  I consider myself an Independent and have always voted Independent, except the 2000 election; I voted Kerry because it was Bush or no-Bush and I wasn’t voting Bush!  But these morons that swear they want a real shot at the Presidency are so busy splitting their party, and in turn their supporters, that they are not realizing the truth of the matter.  McCain is gather endorsements (former first lady Nancy Reagan among the most notable) while Obama and Clinton fight like school children at recess.

 

I am an Obama supporter, but by the time he wins the Democratic ticket, which is inevitable, the rest of the country will already be behind the bullshit curtain of so-called truths the Republicans are already hanging.  Where, in all this shit, does the American public come out ahead?

 

Well, if you are very well off, then you will be as set as you have been while our troops have been dying for almost eight years.  If you are reading this, chances are you are not part of this VERY small group of so-called Americans. 

Yes, I said so-called Americans.  I do not believe the rich are true Americans.  As Americans we have a very strong common bond, though it may not be shown very often.  What is this bond?  It has been seen many times since the American Revolution.  We stand together and will not give up.  But the rich…  Where is their support and belief?  In their wallets!

 

They know that no matter who wins the Democratic ticket, the Republicans regaining office will help their bottom line, no matter what the cost to America as a whole.  Why the hell do we sit back and let this happen?  Do we not care?  Are we just lazy?  I don’t give a shit what the problem is, but it needs to stop now!  I have written letters to both Democratic camps and URGE each and every one of you to do the same.  Tell them that this has to end or else the country will be forced into another four years of Republican rule!  Go to each website: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – and tell them what the American people want.  The Republicans will notr listen unless you can talk with your wallet or power, or speak to those that may actually listen. 

 

We need to stop them from shooting the rest of their toes off!!!

 

I’ll confess something right off the bat; I have no clue where this blog is gonna go or end up.  I do know that I recently signed up for Netflix again and have been watching the television series Sliders a lot.  This really got my mind reeling now that I am a little older.  I watched the show when it was on the air sometimes, especially since I’ve been a fan of Jerry O’Connell since his days on ’My Secret Identity’ (check it out). 

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Let me educate those of you, which are probably most of you, that know nothing about the show.  Jerry O’Connell plays a genius college student that invents a machine that allows him to slide from our dimension to other parallel universes.  That means they slide into other realities; the same time, same place, same Earth, just different realities. 

 

I’ll also throw out the fact that I am a strong believer in the Butterfly Effect.  For those of you that think this is just a movie, the theory goes as so:  the flapping of a butterfly’s wings here in the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />U.S. could cause a tsunami in Asia.  The point is any little thing you do will have an effect somewhere else in the world.

 

I bring this up because this is what the show Sliders is based on, just as the movie The Butterfly Effect was, this theory.  My problem with this rant is where do I go?

 

My first reaction was the election of 2000.  What if Al Gore had won, like he should have?  What would have happened after 9/11?  Would we have attacked any country that had a majority of brown skin people, as we are now?  Or would we have sat down and given Bin Laden a time out?  Would that have worked?  I doubt it.

 

The point is, I have yet to really figure out the truly amazing butterfly effect to wax poetic, or in my case wax moronic, on.  There is a rant lying within the confines of this retarded mind, and the butterfly effect is one of the most amazing theories ever created, and the most truthful.

 

Until next time…  Later!

 

PS:  I need help with these battles at myYearbook.  You don’t have to sign up for an account, just click the links and vote for my color.  Thank you in advance and thank you to those who have voted!