Filthy Haberdashery

2005-04-05T19:40:00.000-07:00

I'm guessing it's been a slow news week? Apparently, the only thing that has happened over the last week is the death of the Pope. Boring. I now know every damn detail about the papacy. Thank you cable news!

Actually it's been a great week for me. I started my own graphic design business(because nobody would hire me!) and its going really well. This guy from Michigan called me up after he saw my portfolio and he wants me to do album cover designs for Sony artist. And, other work for the Hallmark Corp. Pretty cool I think.

I won the NCAA bracket fillout thing at my old workplace and got 50 bucks. Which is especially funny because I know JACK about college basketball.

My favorite Nascar driver won twice in the same week.

And I won the lottery!

No just kidding about the lottery thing.

Filthy

How about fantasy politicians?

2004-12-17T20:48:00.000-08:00

Fantasy football is coming to an end. And, I was thinking it would be cool to start up a new game of fantasy politician. The draft starts the second Tuesday in January so rank your politicians now!

*****Update***********
Scoring will be based on how well your politician shreds up the constitution. Not the usual---how well your politician appeases their special interest groups.

Before the draft be sure to remove most of the appointed cabinet members of the "W" team. Scratch your Daschle's from your list also! If your big John Edwards fans, sorry your have to delete him from your list. I realize that eliminates a lot of "top contenders" in this years fantasy politician game, but be sure there will be some sleepers this year like always.

Thank you.

Your commisioner
Filthy T. Haberdashery

Paper or Plastic?

2004-11-05T20:41:00.000-08:00

I at work now. Im not suppose to be on the internet at work, but oh well. What are they going to do? Fire me? Now thats heavy wishing.

Well, the Libertarian party loses again. I had exactly 12 people telling me I was throwing my vote away. And yes, I did keep track. I actually think I convinced my dad to vote Libertarian. But, out of kindness I didn't ask. But the way I look at it, the more people who vote a certain way, the more the two monopolies have to listen. C'mon, I knew my canidate was going to lose. Voting for the lesser of two evils........now thats throwing your vote away.

Looks like TDOHW is coming back to life. BOUT TIME!!! naaa just kidding, I know you guys have been busy.

Well gotta go. Im on the clock.

Oh... you know who I feel sorry for? Ben Affleck. Yeah.... Ben Affleck. Instead of "helping America", how about you make america better by making better movies. That would make me happier. That go's for all the rest of you damn hollywood elite. Seriously, when was the last time I saw a great movie? *****You know I act like they are actually reading this****** you see I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one.

bye.

Blame it on the rain

2004-10-25T19:58:00.000-07:00

Praise the Lord! I have an internet connection that won't fry my computer! Hooray!!!!
I've been gone for a while so this sums up my October

Ashley Simpson. Tisk, tisk. The funny thing is I turned to my wife during her first song on SNL and said, " God, she's totally not singing this!". And then, what do you know, she really wasn't. She should cover, blame it on the rain.

Go Michael Baradnik!
Go Cards! No DH for Red Sox.
The Cruces show rocked!

Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Great place. Beautiful. Expensive. Didn't want to come home. Go to the Smokey Mountains, you'll love it.

New house. First house. Mucho payment. Mucho responsibility. 5 acres, 1700 sq. ft. 3 car garage. Nice. Me casa es su casa.

This has to be the nastiest Supreme Court race I've ever seen between Maag and Kairimeir. Has anyone seen those commercials? Wow. Judge _____ sodimized 25 kids and beat his wife. Judge______ let a 100 convicted rapist go free. Judge_____is a dirty lying whore. Im exagerating of course, but I'm not too far off. I find them hilarious.

Everyone vote. regardless of your politics. Educate yourself. Vote. If you don't you will be legally unable to bitch about who is or is not the president, senator, board member, etc. And bitching is half the fun! Nov. 2nd

Babies on display

2004-09-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

The presidential canidates cannot address each other at the debates? What the hell? Why don't we have two puppets on stage telling us what we want to hear? What a load of crap. I love it when politicians get asked questions they can't duck. Its funny to watch them squirm. Next time someone asks Kerry about gay marriage, watch him very closely. Ha, I laugh every time. Usually they change the subject. No balls! None of them. All they would have to say is, " I don't believe marriage should be a government issue, but a church issue.". BUT, you won't see that because they know revenues from marriage licenses are substantial. And, lord knows they can always "ride the fence" and play to their respective demographics. Here, Filthy Haberdashery will end the issue of gay marriage right now:

Dear government of the United States of America,

Marriage was created by churches (religion). It was not created by the government. Why do you care about my marriage? Why do you even recognize it (straight or gay)? And, since you have that whole, "separation of church and state thing", I'm writing this to remind you. If your gay and you want to get married.........find a church. If you can find one........ good luck. If you can't....... sorry. No more court house weddings! That's all you would have to say. But since you have interfered in the process, you have put the church on it's knees. Forcing zealots from both extremes to wage a war that isn't even worth talking about. If you could simply butt out of the personal lives of me and my fellow Americans, I would greatly appreciate it. Just be straight with me.....it's about money isn't it?

Sincerely,

Filthy T. Haberdashery

Apocalypse, Florida. Population: 0

2004-09-25T01:05:00.000-07:00

Another Hurricane in Florida! I hate to be so cold, but there is a reason nature selected Florida as useless swamp land. The swamps were drained, population increased and then POOF!, total fucking destruction. It's like building a house on top of train tracks and praying the train doesn't come to town. This is me shaking my head. I do feel bad for the people that have been fucked by these hurricanes. It's horrible. Then part of me is like, "Well what did you expect dumbasses?". Clean up, rebuilding, relief. All payed for by me and you. Whoopi! We can do it again next year!
No solutions, just the same old problems.

Won't get fooled again

2004-09-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

Interesting day for me today. My mother, who was returning home from shopping, was carrying bags through the door and fell. Unfortunetly, the edge of the entertainment center and her forehead broke her fall. That had to be the worst cut I've ever seen. Hats off to the healthcare professionals who have to deal with this type of thing on a daily basis. The good news is that after 34 stitches she seems like she's doing fine.

Also, I was watching CSI Miami and I SWEAR that Candice Cameron, of Full House fame, made a cameo role in the very first scenes. But, everyone watching it with me said I didn't know what I was talking about. DAMN IT! I know it was her. So, (this is sad) I went to the "official" Candice Cameron website to see If I could prove my detractors wrong. No luck. Someone tell me they saw the same thing. I also thought I heard a new Coldplay song. MAYBE I'm losing my mind? I also can't decide what will happen first, CSI St. Louis, or CBS running out of "Who" songs? CSI San Francisco could play "Happy Jack". Yeah, that'd be funny.

Photoshop rules!

2004-09-09T01:14:00.000-07:00

Has anyone ever used Adobe's Photoshop? What a great program. Edit pics, design websites, anything.

If you get really good at it, you could create a picture of your boss in a compromising position, blackmail them, then take their job. Hmmm I just got an idea. Gotta go!

Culture of entitlement

2004-09-01T19:15:00.000-07:00

September 1st
2:30 P.M.
local grocery store.
Lane 3.
In line to pay for my groceries with money I earned from working at a job.

Two people ahead of me in line this guy is talking about how he got this elaborate tattoo, which he proceeds to show his buddy, talking about how it cost him $300. Then, shortly after his talk with his friend, the cashier asks "how will you be paying for this sir?". To which he replies, "It's on Link".

WOW! Hey, if ya need it.......fine. If you got $300 dollars to spend on a tattoo and can't afford the $150 you, uhh.....I mean.... the taxpayers just spent on groceries, I got a problem. Priorities? Responsibility? Nowhere in sight!

The solution for irresponsibility lies not in removing choices from the irresponsible. Rather, the solution is to inform, educate, and allow people to suffer the consequences of their own actions--------Thomas Jefferson.

Ahh Thomas. Why do you make SO much sense? Damn you!

Thats it! I'm going to mac

2004-08-26T12:37:00.000-07:00

Well whats been up with you Filthy? Oh, not much. Just trying to figure out how to get my computer back from virus hell. I can't connect to the internet from my house, I can't navigate windows, and worse, I can't look at free porn.

AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! How many times has this IBM PC platform screwed up for people? Im pissed at Microsoft, Intel, and anyone else connected with the manufacturing of PC's. Their products S. U. C. K. And I'm sick of it.

Does anyone know how much different a mac is? Are they better? They have to be, right? I know a lot of proffesional graphic designers and recording engineers use them, but is their a reason? Windows XP has like 80,000 bugs on it. Internet Explorer has so many firewall loopholes, I could drive my truck through. Stop the insanity! Let the revolution begin, I'm thinking of switching to Mac!

Why healthcare is not a right

2004-08-10T20:40:00.000-07:00

Or should I say, "why healthcare shouldn't be a right". First off, I'm what you call a political nerd. I don't claim to know everything, but when I feel like I'm right about something I blurt it out without repercussions. Some of what I'm about to say is opinion. Some of what I say is fact. It just is. The examples I give are "real world". There are always exceptions to any of the examples, but I'd need to write a book or talk one on one to a person to have them understand. However, this is a blog.

Healthcare is not a right.

Constitutional arguments aside, lets just imagine that because I'm a taxpayer, I want the government to pay for all of the food I want to eat for the entire existence of my life. What would you eat every night? Filet minion, lobster, or bologna? I mean, Derek was even complaining about the rising cost of fast food! See where I'm going? The fallacy in demanding healthcare as a right is that just because I pay taxes, I'm "entitled" to free healthcare. Now that I've rephrased what "someone" said on a comment to my last blog, you can see how silly it sounds. Of course some of you will say, "healthcare is not the same as food!" Well, if your with me so far, come a bit further.

The more government "involvement" the worse things get. Contrary to popular belief, the government is not efficient. Just look at the massive debt, bureaucracy, and waste by our government! The FDA approves drugs that have killed thousands. This is the very same government agency that was designed to "protect" us from harmful drugs. On average it takes drug companies 10 years to get approved by the FDA. This means more cost for the drug companies. Which gets passed on to who? YOU! Those train wrecks a few months ago are another good example. The train industry is heavily regulated by the government. I could go on and on. When you think of public toilets do you think good thoughts?

More government means more poverty. (this is one I'm going to hear about on the comments) Okay. This is where the opinions come in. If a company wants to build a factory, and It takes 5 years for them to get permission to build, the fewer people have work, the fewer people have money. So what do these companies do? Locate elsewhere. Mexico, Japan, China, India, anywhere but in a pit of red tape and regulations. Who can blame them? If you start a business(with a location) and you had to deal with all the mucky mucky, what would you do? Companies spend more money on how to "beat" the system than they do on the actual cost of their product.

There is a better way. Thomas Jefferson said it best. "the least the government governs, the better it governs". Thomas freak'n Jefferson. I mean how can you argue with a founding father? FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM!!!! Im a customer, and this is what I want to buy. If your product sucks or is not satisfying, I will go elsewhere to buy the same product or service. I don't need the government to keep me safe from myself. I don't need the government to tell me what to do (providing legality). I don't need the government to tax every bloody thing, to pay for something that is making me poorer. I need the government to stay the hell out of my life! Provide for my common welfare. Protect me from foreign invaders. Give me a post office. Give me courts, and a legal system. Give me liberty, or give me death.

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I came, I saw, I conquered.

2004-08-04T18:14:00.000-07:00

I saw a story on the news today that a 14 year old boy used a library computer to email bomb threats and death threats to the president. The funny part is they caught the kid and they are making him write a big report on homeland security without the help of the internet. Which I find personally humorous. I wonder if impressionable minds are being swayed by liberal propaganda such as Fahrenheit 9/11, or CNN, New York Times, Hollywood, Carbondale's NightLife, etc. etc. to do such stupid things? Anybody but Bush, right? Really? I am a Libertarian and I think the amount of back-biting partisan politics in D.C. is exactly what the terrorist wanted all along. For example: the 9/11 commission recently suggested a new department called the "Intelligence Department". The Bush Admin was going over the recommendation's and has since approved this new department. But before this approval, Democrats were ranting about how we should quickly implement this new department (even before a panel of "experts" on the 9/11 commission made the suggestions). Now that it has been approved, the Democrats now say its all wrong. This is a prime example of how politics from both sides of the aisle are so partisan they don't care about how to come together to protect America from terrorism. As a Libertarian, I oppose all big government, but when it comes to the security of America I'm okay with it. I think If you have no allies, you have no enemies. I also think that It is not the job of the president to be popular, especially with other countries. It is the job of the president to protect freedom. I quote "I will restore the respect of America to our foreign allies" (John Kerry). Well who gives a shit whether they like us or not? They aren't looking out for our interest! What a load of shit. Also Kerry's going to pay for everybody's health care, education, balance the budget, make us safer, and save Timmy from the well. No, I don't think so. And if you believe it, God bless. Remember these are only my opinions. P.S. John Kerry. Health care is not a right.

Reality show plot game.

2004-08-03T15:33:00.000-07:00

I watched the greatest episode of Monster House yesterday! If none of you saw it, you missed a good one. Someday one of these people from these reality/docu-shows is going to pull a gun and blast a fellow member of the show in the face. I sometimes wonder if thats how people really act or whether its just how they act in front of the camera. The newest reality show, Growing Up Gotti, has got to be the last possible thing the networks can think of. I mean what's next? Here are some idea's I came up with that would make stupid and silly reality shows.

1. Love Me Tender- a reality show where brother and sister are sexually involved.
2. Animal Farm- a reality show where a farmer routinely has sex with farm animals
3. Manson- A show where cameras are fixed on Charles Manson all day long (like big brother only more satanic.)
4. Pimps- reality show on what else? Pimps!

You get the picture. Now you try. What is the last stop on the reality show plot game? The winner gets nothing.

bic-a-bow-dow-dow-dow-dow-dow

2004-07-30T18:27:00.000-07:00

You know, I just watched "Deliverance" for the very first time last night on TBS at about 2am and It was quite disturbing. The banjo playing kid freaked me out the most. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. The movie reminds me of a time when I went deep into the southeastern part of Missouri's Elephant Rock and Johnson's Shut-in's. Where all the houses were flying confederate flags and most of the "folk" didn't have teeth. Anyway, great acting in Deliverance! Even Burt Reynolds gave a convincing performance. Going canoeing will never be looked at the same.

I also saw "The Village" today. I like M. Night Shamalamadamadu's movies. They are original, which is a very rare thing in this day of sequels, trilogy's, and comic book movies. Like usual there is an unusual twist in the end. I think its probably the second best movie I've seen this year behind "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Oh wait I forgot about "You got served"! I like his movies because its a thriller that isn't a slash and gash horror. Just freaky boogie man shit. Which I dig. And I like the fact that "The Village" isn't recycled Hollywood garbage. Eg. Catwoman, the new batman flick, another blade!, Predator Vs. Alien (oh lord), some movie with John Travolta that looks like Backdraft 2, predictable teen comedy movies like Without a Paddle, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, etc, etc.

Proof that Jeopardy is rigged. It's NANOTECHNOLOGY!!! Of course.

2004-07-23T17:36:00.000-07:00

Okay I ran across this article on the internet today and I'm not the only one who thinks this thing is set up (do a Google search for "Jeopady is rigged" or "ken Jennings". Also I found out that Ken Jennings is being investigated by the Mormon Church. And Alex Trebek had to answer questions recently about how Jeopardy was going to increase the numbers of viewers which has diminished in recent years. Also Christopher Reeves is faking.

For all you haters who dont believe Jeopardy is rigged here it is:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i5701

PLANO, IL (SP)--Ken Jennings, a 30-year old software engineer from Utah, is setting the entertainment industry on it's ear. The 29-time Jeopardy champion has won over $950,000 since his reign as the game show's king began. But one local activist is questioning the game show's integrity, and has gone as far as calling the show rigged and Jennings, a paper champion.Esther Long's day job is a pollster for long shot presidential candidate John Kerry, but by night she heads the largest game show activist network in North America, Grandma's Against Game Shows (GAGS). Long, 58 of rural Plano, has headed the organization since 1998. "When I first became active in GAGS, our intention was to steer older Americans away from long hours of game show watching on television," states Long. "Though it's not well known, game shows are the number three cause of Alzheimer's in females; behind soap operas and bearing more than one delinquent child."Until recently, Long's rather benign duties as president of GAGS has included issuing press releases, spearheading nursing home protests and the occasional speech at a new age health convention. But Ken Jennings has changed all that. "No one can be that smart. He has won every show for over a month now. It's all very, very fishy."Long has at least forty notebooks full of single spaced scribblings detailing her suspicions about Jeopardy and it's reigning wunderkind. "Look at some of the questions they have asked him. Question: What is the minimum TGL width under normal atmospheric pressure in a superconductor? Answer: 14.7 mm. Question: What is the capital of South Dakota? Answer: Pierre. Question: Why is Britney Spears so popular? Answer: Because male puberty now runs from age 8 to age 38.""I mean, who could possibly know the answers to all three of those questions?" asks Long. "This guy is either a genius or something weird is going on. And we know he is not a genius. How many geniuses do you know that live in Utah?" "There are other things too," says Long. "I have kept detailed listings of every opponent Jennings has faced on the show. Look at some of the people he has competed against: a traffic school instructor, a feminist poet, a state senator from Vermont, a TV weatherman, an environmental activist; I mean, c'mon, he clearly has a huge intellectual advantage at the start of every show."Long has many suspicions, but she says one tic of Jennings proves that the game show isn't on the up and up. "Ever notice how sometimes he pauses when he is about to answer a question, then tilts his head to one side and shrugs his shoulders while looking off into the audience. A few seconds later, he taps his ear and winks at somebody off camera, and poof--he answers the question correctly. I suspect this whole thing is rigged and they are feeding him the answers through nanotechnology."If Long's allegations turn out to be true, Hollywood may be looking at the largest television scandal since John Turturro exposed the shenanigans on the rigged game show Twenty One in 1958.

Jeopardy and the wool over my eyes

2004-07-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

I don't know if anyone watches Jeopardy, but there is this guy named Ken Jennings that has won 35 or 36 games in a row totaling well over a million dollars. Has anyone ever seen the movie, "Quiz show"? You're telling me Jeopardy can't find one single person to bump this guy off? He just so conveniently gets the daily double EVERY TIME! I've watched several times when other contestants were frantically pressing their buttons, but guess who seems to ring in first? Most of the time he goes up against not-so-intelligent people (I know this because when they actually do ring in, its wrong less than half the time). Several times the other contestants are in the red by final Jeopardy. This guy is either Albert Einstein or Jeopardy is rigged. Have I mentioned I believe Christopher Reeves is faking? Ahh, another time.