This is funny on so many levels …
Participant at KKK initiation wounded after shots fired into sky
November 28, 2003 – 07:57 AM
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee (AP) –A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.
Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.
About 10 people, including two children, had gathered for the ceremony. The man who was being initiated was blindfolded, tied with a noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns as Freeman fired a pistol in the air to provide the sound of real gunfire, Sheriff Fred Phillips said.
A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said.
Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home,…
Standing in line at the feeding trough of self-involvement … The Soap Opera of the Damned.
Reality TV.
What an immense festering crock of shit.
I guess MTV’s “Real World” show started the craze. Get half a dozen punks with more lifestyle issues than brains, jam them into a house fit for Puff Daddy, set up a few external stimuli to create conflict, and then sit back and watch the emotional carnage. And at first there was something more than the novelty of it all. To actually see people’s lives unfold in front of you was kind of interesting. Kind of like what a soap opera would be like if Jerry Springer directed it. And wrote it. And cast it.
And then came Survivor. Big network TV. Big ratings. Big money. And, again, it was interesting at first. By the second time around you pretty much knew the formula. And watching normal people crap in the woods and eat bark…
An ode to the scum of the earth.
I hate spam.
Not the lunch meat. Which is a fine and venerable product; and only semi-hazardous if consumed internally.
No, I mean the endless, mindless, pointless diarrhetic slough of junk email which pours its ugly ass into my accounts every minute of every day. So lets take a loathsome look at this bane on our online existence
First of all, these walking-talking buttplugs cast themselves as “direct marketers.” If the jerkwad who sends spam is in marketing, then Saddam Hussein just discovered the cure for cancer. Email marketing – and it’s more annoying yet easier to ignore cousin, telemarketing – is the “dumb blonde” of the marketing world. It’s cheap, it’s stupid, anyone can do it, and it’s popular. So to the numb-nutted freak about to hit “send” on another 10,000 emails about penis enlargement – here’s some news – you are NOT a marketing professional. You are a slut.
So the US economy is in the shitter.
Massive layoffs every month – though rarely to executives. Jobs being shipped overseas by the cartload. The market goes up, but that only means the rich are getting richer as no one else has money to buy the crap. Investrors are cringing in their bunkers because there might be another 9/11. And pretty much everyone with a job is cringing because they know if they lose it odds are they won’t get another.
Some people see this as a step towards the “Global Economy.” Whereby the US standard of living will adjust down while the rest of the world’s adjusts up. It’s a reasonable sounding theory. And it’s also bullshit.
