It's Official

The stupid, funny, angry population of the Liberal Forum has provided much political insight for me, but much entertainment as well. Just this morning, I posted a response to someone else’s huge list of Bushy flip-flops in a brand new essay. They’re either flip-flops for a good reason or not flip-flops at all. I became pretty popular within a matter of hours and got the worst attempt at a comeback I’ve seen since Prince’s latest album. I thoroughly agreed that they were flip-flops and that they were for good. So did the guy who responded to my essay, apparently. But because Bush flip-flopped in the few times that he did flip-flop, that is somehow evil to him.

I also managed to attract back the guy that gave me the list of flip-flops. He raised a bunch of new points that I’d made and tried his hand at making me look silly. I gave him the fisking he practically asked for last week and I gave him another one just now. Wonder if he’ll respond or go cry into his mama’s underwear drawer.

Anyhow, I’ve decided that it’s official. That is, I’m sending a link to this forum over to the folks at SomethingAwful.com for their weekend web forums spectacular. I hope they take it too.

Beating a Dead Dog

Yeah, I know. It's been almost a week since I updated this site, so I'm gonna toss in my chips for the day. I looged into AIM and saw an article concerning Scott Peterson's murder trial. Is it just me or is that story getting old for everyone? It got old for me only 2 months or so after hearing about it and that was over a year and a half ago. It especially go old when I heard of the Green River killer guy who got convicted and was under incarceration for killing 48 prostitutes. Hmm, one murder versus 48. Which do you think is a bigger disaster? But you don't see the people on the news still talking about that guy. Instead, they still talk about Laci Peterson like we're supposed to care.

A word to anyone who still wants to hear about it: She's dead, get over it.

Shut the FUCK UP and let me talk! Part deux

Remember that little argument I had last week with the guy in my Astronomy class? I've been waiting around all week to tell him that Bush apologized for being somewhat misled about Iraq and that basically invaalidates his entire argument about the Bush administration being immoral. Today, I got the chance. But when I told him that I had something I needed to tell him, he said "Really? Hang on a sec, I'll be right back" then walked to the back of the classroom to talk to someone and refused to acknowledge me on the way back. I can forgive that though because we had a test that was starting.

As I was doing the test, I noticed that the guy had not only finished before me but took the opportunity to go for lunch. He could have waited for me outside, but not a chance. I told him last week I'd find something to disprove him. Wouldn't want that to happen though, would he?

Coincidentally, I hung out at the library after school to help my boss do some work. The guy in the wheelchair, yunno. And as I was leaving, I happened to notice the face of the guy I'm talking about on a big poster nearby the library door. Mario Lopez, President of something-rather-that-has-to-do-with-College-of-Marin.

God help us all.

Battle Lines Being Drawn

My Political Sciences teacher did say something that I firmly agreed with and that is that we should always listen to what the other side has to say. Given this cue, I decided to do a Google search for a few things the ole lefties are saying and I found an excellent little place called "The Liberal Forum." Nice place for discussion and debate ove hot political topics. You can check it out here:

http://liberalforum.org/

Here you'll get an obviously biased, fiery look at how everything goes. And it's not just a place for Liberals either. That way we can see brilliant minds and idiots alike on either side of the political spectrum. Hmm, kinda makes me wonder if I should send a link to this place over to the SomethingAwful.com Weekend Web Forums. I might get banned for it, but it might be worth it. Think I should?

Passive Resistance

The situation in my Political Sciences class took a turn for the I-totally-saw-this-sort-of-thing-coming lately. Just to give you an idea about how left-wing the school is, we did a count at the beginning of a semester. There were only three Republicans and some 15-20 Democrats, which is just as well because every class I take seems to have a similar count. Anyhow, the only two Republicans who have the guts to speak out in class are me and Dan, the guy that sits right next to me,

Last Thursday, we went off on a political tangent as usual and Dan asked the teacher a question that I can’t remember right now, but I do remember that the teacher said he’d get back to it. He didn’t. So after class, Dan decided to go up and talk to him. On the way up, I told him in a sarcastic tone, “Don’t worry. He’ll get around to your question eventually.” And he said, “Yeah, sure.”

So today, I asked Dan how that whole situation went. He’d forgotten the question as well, but by the time he got back to his desk, his schoolbook was gone. I guess that’s we get for being Republican in a Democratic atmosphere.

Guy with his hand up: Excuse me, but if there’s one more Republican in the class than you two guys, isn’t there a tiny chance that a Democrat didn’t steal his book?
Me: Yeah, that chance is so small it practically doesn’t exist. Why would a Republican steal from another Republican’s book?
Guy with his hand up: Umm, because he needed it? O_o
Me: Look, this isn’t a case of stealing for survival here. This is a case of someone pushing someone else around. He’s lucky the Democrats didn’t form a lynch mob around him.
Guy with hand up: That’s totally over exaggerating it!
Me: Really? A lot of Democrats like to form parades in places where they’re likely to hold up traffic and maybe hospitalize a few cops in the process. Wouldn’t surprise me if that happened today.
Guy with hand up: YOU DIIIIIIIIIIIIICK! (Runs off to safety as if I was going to attack him.)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the majority of Democrats.

Protest Evil Italian Shark Stereotypes!

You know, I’m usually against the whole idea of CGI taking over every aspect of cartoon animation, but these guys sure have the wrong idea.

In its continuing struggle against the DreamWorks animated film Shark Tale, leaders of the Italic Institute of America took to the sidewalks of New York with a unique information campaign on May 2nd.

Their target was a special preview of clips from the multi-million dollar children's animation. The plot of the film revolves around an Italian American shark "mafia" that controls an undersea world. Voiceovers are performed by Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro and members of The Sopranos cast.

Having cleared the protest with local police, the Institute flew in three of its Chicago members decked out as Leonardo DaVinci and his Swiss bodyguard. DaVinci, played by Lionel Bottari, unveiled his latest full color painting, The Last Sucker, a satirical gathering of all the "goombahs" who have earned a living defaming Italian American culture. Included in the grouping were DeNiro, Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Copies of the painting and a packet of press clipping documenting the Institute's 8-month campaign against the film were passed out to Tribeca pedestrians and movie-goers.

Although no outside media chose to cover this protest, nearly every family waiting in line to see the Shark Tale preview received a packet and cartoon. Because there were no trash bins on the way into the theater, hundreds of packets were carried into the theater by the audience. As there was a half hour delay in the start of the show the audience began reading the packets. The Last Sucker and the Shark Tale packet could be seen everywhere in the audience as people whiled away the minutes waiting for show time. The head of Tribeca security, Lou Palumbo, was so disturbed by the proliferation of cartoons that he ordered the Institute's chairman, John Mancini, who was in the audience, to stop distributing the troublesome hand-outs. When he was told that distribution took place outside the theater he was nonplussed. It seems that DeNiro and other cast members were in the theater at the time and, no doubt, saw the sea of cartoons around them.

Observed Institute President, Rosario Iaconis, who was also in the audience, "Although Shark Tale will not be released until October 1st, the preview shown to the audience that day was a searing indictment of the DreamWorks agenda. The characters were unmistakably Italian American. Names like Lino, Luca, Frankie and Lenny all came with the usual cultural baggage. The speech patterns, the vocabulary (fuggetaboutit, capeesch, agita, badda bing) stereotyped all the "bad guys" as "Italians". The actors and director manipulated the children in the audience to participate in the movie production.”

Institute Vice President, Bill Dal Cerro, who flew in from Chicago to participate in the protest added, "The significance of Shark Tale is that it will be the first children's animation to carry America's obsession with Italian criminals to a new generation. When completed in October with promotional toys and video games and after release on DVD, Shark Tale will represent the most comprehensive ethnic defamation ever aimed at American children. In this day and age of political correctness, it is an appalling escalation of anti-Italic bias.”

For those of you who didn’t want to read all that and just skipped down to this part of the text to see what I had to say in response, basically the article reads that there’s an Italian group protesting against the new movie “Shark Tale” because the bad guys are Italian mafia stereotypes. I mean, come on! These guys are cartoon sharks! These protestors are the sort of people that complain about stereotypes being brought on to certain kinds of Italians in their race that happen in every race, and now that they are being used to depict sharks instead of real Italians they still have to protest against it.

Remember when “The Phantom Menace” came out and people were so upset because they used racial stereotypes? I didn’t notice that until I read an essay all about it! The bad guys in the Fu Manchu getups, the trade dealer who sounded Jewish, Jar-Jar who was supposed to be a Jamaican in disguise? I didn’t notice and I didn’t care simply because they were friggin’ ALIENS! They weren’t Chinese, Jewish or Rastafarian! Am I the only one familiar with that subject that knows that?

Oh well. We’ll just have to see. My prediction is that when Shark Tale comes out on October 1st, it’ll turn out to be a smash hit like every other computer animated movie. Probably thanks in part to these guys bringing negative attention to it and going to see the movie to see if it’s true. Been there, done that. And when it becomes a smash hit, they’ll say it’s because it’s 3D animation. As for me, I really couldn’t care what format it’s in. I only care if it’s good.

Investing in Human Relations

Today my church had a very interesting sermon. So interesting in fact that I’m doomed to forget it yet have the message engrained in my memory. One of the best things one can do in life is give, because every time you give you get back what you gave in heaven. A while back, I recall reading that Ben Affleck made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention in which he claimed that the government gave him a million dollars last year that he did not need.

Does anyone here not know how much Ben Affleck makes? Let’s take a look at his salary as noted on the IMDB, shall we?

Paycheck (2003)
$15,000,000
Gigli (2003)
$12,500,000
Daredevil (2003)
$11,500,000 + gross participations
Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
$12,500,000
Changing Lanes (2002)
$10,000,000
Bounce (2000)
$12,500,000
Reindeer Games (2000)
$6,000,000
Armageddon (1998)
$600,000
Good Will Hunting (1997)
$300,000 (split $600,000 script sale with Matt Damon)
Chasing Amy (1997)
$7,000
School Ties (1992)
$30,000
Daddy (1991) (TV)
$20,000

Does anyone sense an equation brewing here? Mr. Affleck, which of these millions of dollars did you not need? Couldn’t you have settled for less? And there’s no way of bullshitting around it either. No matter how many charities this guy supports, he’s keeping an outrageous sum for himself. Check out his website: www.benaffleck.com. I don’t see any plans to support a charity. Do you?

In short, I cannot provide an immediate example of who to be, but this can be a lesson in who not to be. Ben Affleck, like all other Big named Hollywood stars, is NOT a giver. He’s a taker. Be a giver. Give. I can’t spread the word any better than that.

Murder, robbery and tits makes a happy afternoon.

What happens when you spend weeks trying to download “Cabin Fever” and you wind up downloading pornos every time? Life rewards you for your efforts with a pleasant surprise. Sadly, I did not get to watch “Cabin Fever” as I’d hoped. Instead, it turned out to be “Wild Things 2,” the straight to video sequel of “Wild Things.” I’ve never seen the first “Wild Things” as I hadn’t quite cared to see it, but I thought it had a good enough plot that was easy to follow.

The story begins with this hot college gal named Britney Havers. She’s gone from being a poor trailer trash girl from the Florida Everglades to being the filthy rich girl that everyone wants to be after her mother married a multimillionaire and as it just so happens died a year ago. But that’s ok because Britney now has money and all the friends in the world. Except for Maya King, the bitchy head of the school newspaper who wants to dig up dirt on Britney as much as possible. Then suddenly, Britney’s multimillionaire stepfather dies in a tragic plane crash and as it turns out, none of the money has been willed to Britney and the money is to go to the first blood relative that they find. And that blood relative happens to be…MAYA KING!

And so a huge legal battle in court happens and Maya takes a blood test and WHAMMO! She is now to receive 69-70 million dollars. But how did this happen? How could she have turned out to be the millionaire’s daughter? That’s right folks, major plot twist! Britney Havers and Maya King are secretly a couple of hot young lesbian lovers/murderers who want in on the stepfather’s money. And the doctor who did the DNA test, Julian Haynes, is in on it too! And just as the plot starts thickening, the producer’s decided to throw him into the sex scene too, making them transsexual murderous lovers.

So they think they’ve got it in the bag and that all the money will come to them, when suddenly a nosy insurance agent starts squeezing the good doctor, who as we soon find out, isn’t really a doctor at all! Sort of a poor plot twist there, but Which makes us wonder how he keeps the job in the hospital. And Julian’s getting nervous, so the two gals murder him and toss his body in the swamp for the gators to eat. So all is quiet on the western front and it looks like they’re going to get their money when SUDDENLY (gasp) the insurance guy catches up with them and tells them that he wants in. Another plot twist!

And the next plot twist occurs when Britney decides to murder Maya just to show how far she’ll go for all that money. Now it’s just her and the insurance guy. But that’s not all! She ditches the insurance guy and leaves him as a scapegoat for all their crimes! Finally, rich and lonely at last, she decides to fly away on her private jet when ANOTHER PLOT TWIST HAPPENS! The stepfather is still alive! He just faked his death so that he and his daughter could escape the mafia and go live in retirement in some remote location! Wow, that’s just creepy how that works out.

And if that’s not enough plot twists for you, here’s another one. Britney kills her stepfather so that she and her mother, WHO ALSO CHEATED DEATH, can live in peace for the rest of their lives. Woooooooowwwwwwww! That’s sure a lot of plot twisting there. And if you need to have any little plot bits re-explained to you, the film does just that during the credits by playing back past scenes they hadn’t showed yet “Pulp Fiction” style to show who was really on who’s side and all that. But the writers, I guess, decided that they didn’t have enough twists yet. So they tossed one more in at the very end. Britney poisons her mother so that she can get all the money. Damn, that really sucks how that turns out. You’ve waited around for a year for the perfect robbery, you think you’re in the green and suddenly your own kid poisons you.

That’s 8 plot twists for ya folks. Go back and count’em. 8 plot twists. All in all, the film did a fine job of having plenty of twists, enough thrill and several sets of really nice boobs. All things considered, they should fire the gang that makes all the Bourne movies and hire these straight to video writers for some spy flicks. I mean, come on. Who wouldn’t want to see a spy flick with sinister gals and nice breasts? That’s why thirteen year olds go to see Bond movies anyway, to see hot gals in bikinis. They might as well raise the bar in a different set of flicks and raise the bar for us older, somewhat more mature folks.

Someone up there wants me to suffer

Here's some back story for ya. I always loved Scooby Doo, but the live action movies sucked. I always loved Garfield, but the movie sucked. Inspector Gadget I once liked more, but I gradually grew out of it. Either way, I still had a firm grasp on the characters and the environment when the movie came out and let me tell you that sucked too. Although the straight-to-video sequel did try to be more like the show in many respects and for that, I actually liked it. Are you beginning to see a pattern here?

Now, take into consideration that I never saw the Thunderbirds TV show or read a single Daredevil comic. I enjoyed the movies made out of those, but ask anyone who knew the series and they'll tell you otherwise. So basically, I'm pretty sure that in most cases, Hollywood doesn't give a shit. Certain exceptions were The Flintstones (Which I liked and it was accurate) and Tomb Raider (I thought it sucked, but so did the games and therefore it was accurate), but what's their problem when it comes to accuracy? Most movies based off of video games failed to be accurate too.

Now, I take you to the link above. The Chipmunks are a well-cherished childhood memory held byu many people of many generations. I'm not one of them. Most of my life I have found them unattractive and sometimes rather annoying. But they do make nice material for spoofing. However, I did watch the show a number of times and I'm pretty sure that already the producers have decided that they're going to fuck it up. The problem is that when they do, will I like it or not? I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed. Hollywood doesn't know any better. Something I'm going to have to work against in the business when I become bigger in the business and get the chance to remake an 80s cartoon myself.

Shut the FUCK UP and let me talk!

Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I’ll tell you what actually happened today. For any Republican living in Marin County, you know the liberal troupe, most of which are pretty loudmouthed. Well today, I overheard at the beginning of my Astronomy class one liberal and one republican having a brief argument that ended with the teacher starting to talk. As soon as class ended, the liberal started up with the republican again asking her if there were ties between Iraq and 9/11, because if there were, we would have been there on 9/12. Now that I have my thoughts organized, I can properly debunk this point: We weren’t even in Afghanistan on 9/12, so why would we be at the second stop? So I went up to them and decided to help her out a bit. I told them that there were links between 9/11 and Iraq. Hussein funded Al-Qaeda, housed it’s members and met with Bin Laden on many occasions. Over what no one can say, but this guy felt the need to deny what I said and go on with what he was talking about.

Long before this point, the republican girl who he started the argument with had wisely chosen to move on. As I continued to argue with the liberal, I wound up proving to him that the president did not lie about weapons of mass destruction but he was lied to by Democrats and “misinformed” by foreign authorities and God knows how many other people. But after that, he went on again like I hadn’t said anything and said that the president lied AGAIN a minute later. I corrected him again, but it doesn’t seem to matter to him because it’s all the president’s fault when it comes down to it. Like it’s his fault that he was misinformed my numerous people.

As we continued, I contended that there was a weapons of mass destruction program, Saddam killed off more of his own people than we ever had, there were ties to 9/11 and since that was all going down with Iraq, I feel pretty good that we went in there. Once again, I was ignored and he contended that in that case we should have done something about North Korea and the other places a long time ago and gone to save the people starving and dying in Africa. Like we can start all kinds of wars in so many different countries. What made Iraq so dangerous is that it was all that rolled into one! But no…nonononononono. This dude’s against the president because he hasn’t apologized for being lied to.

And what about the soldiers that have died? Shouldn’t their families be apologized to? No, because they were not lied to. They went into Iraq being told about dethroning an evil dictator. Oh, but the soldiers are citizens too and they were not told the whole truth. So they were lied to. No, they were never lied to either, except by democrats.

That’s the problem here folks. The democrats either lie or make this shit up and when a Republican does something about it, it’s a bad thing. This is why I’m not one of the liberals because right now the common mindset in them all is “bash the Republicans NO MATTER WHAT.”

In conclusion, I vote Bush because I see the big picture. I vote Bush because I like tax breaks for everyone. I vote Bush because the liberals will back up their own liars to defeat Bush. I vote Bush because I don’t give a shit about Vietnam. I vote Bush because I don’t care if he did coke 20 years ago if he doesn’t do it anymore. I vote Bush because he actually has a strong head on what he believes in or at least whoever’s got their hand up his ass, IF ANYONE, does. I vote Bush because I do not want someone who changes their mind all the time to be my president. I vote Bush because if the UN doesn’t want to support us in international affairs because the French loved Iraq’s oil or the rest of the nations can’t figure out the truth for themselves, they can suck it for all I care because I actually care what happens to my country and I care about bringing whoever screws us over to justice.

I VOTE BUSH!

It’s written there loud and clear for all to see. I’m a republican and I’m proud of it.

Thank you

Defining Liberal

I heard something the other day that I felt I should comment on. For those of you who don't know, I have a U.S. History class on Monday and Wednesday mornings. The other day, my teacher, who has established herself as a democrat by believing that Fox News is just a joke, was going on about Colonial Times when she came about “the birth of Liberalism.” This was a brand new idea at the time. Instead of helping God like the majority mindset of their time, the idea of liberalism was to help oneself. Seriously, the original definition of Liberalism was to help oneself. It shouldn’t come so much as a surprise to me though as it seems to echo in the mindset of every liberal I see. Don’t believe me, fine. Take a look at the Dictionary.com definition of it.

A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority.

Read that definition carefully. “The autonomy of the individual.” The modern definition may be somewhat different from the original definition, but it’s still there. At least I see it. With all these anti-war protests going on, someone’s behind them making money. Probably even more money than most Republicans make. Although it’s not always out in the open of course. As for the majority of the Democrats, that’s why they are anti-war. They act so fiercely when it comes to a relatively small number of innocent lives dying for a humane cause that they go out protesting in huge numbers and trample police if they get the chance to. And when it comes against that, it’s ok with them. The police aren’t individuals, right? Or maybe the people the Dave Matthews band dumped shit all over aren’t individuals either. It’s become such an obsession over the individual that if many individuals die, that’s just a breaking point isn’t it? It doesn’t matter if they died for something they believed in or if it was an accident or millions of more lives have been saved. If roughly 13,000 citizens as opposed to the roughly 25,000,000 citizens living in Iraq have died – and by the way, many of them were insurgents – it’s a worldwide problem.

But all things considered, there is a silver lining: Progress. We have brought democracy and a free govt. to the people of Iraq. We’re putting their kids through school; they’re living healthy and can now enjoy a similar to American way of life that even includes going to restaurants, fast food places, etc. Stuff that the tyrant ruled over them before and killed even more of his own people for his own sick pleasure didn’t let them have. The majority of or Iraqis are enjoying a higher quality of life now. That’s what I call progress.

Challenging the web-powers that be

I probably should have remembered to ask this in my first post. I noticed that this place is a great place for posting articles. and writing articles is something I've been somewhat onto for some time now. But the articles I wrote before I began this blog are articles I would like to make public. If anyone evver reads this outside my friends and family that can help me on this matter, please do. I'm looking to find a way to post those articles as articles on my blogspot. Is that possible? Thank you for your help.

Welcome Welcome

Good Day everyone. This is Jaime, a man who goes by many names and appears in many shapes and sizes. OK, so not really, but I wish. I've been eager to start a blogsite or some form of website for quite some time now. Need to publicize my stuff and my thoughts every once in a while, yunno.
A little bit about me. I’m 20 years old living at home with my parents in Corte Madera, California. I attend College of Marin and plan to get an AA in Liberal Arts. I haven’t decided yet whether or not I want to attend a four year college. My major goal in life is to become a successful filmmaker with a career in music on the side. I may wish to attend a four year college just to] complete my education, but I’d really like to see what I can get done before then. I have two movie projects on my platter right now. The first one is “Amber: Journeys Beyond,” a supernatural thriller I’ve been trying to get done for 2 years now about two guys in a haunted house that try to set the ghosts free. It’s been a real labor of love just trying to get it done and I’m only over halfway done with it. The second movie is called “Life With Sebastian,” a documentary about my job as a caretaker for a developmentally disabled man and the kind of times we have together. I’ve already shot most of the footage I need for that one. Just need to get it together and score a few more interviews, maybe scan in some images and do some cheap cartoon work. A few more projects down the road include “McClay Road,” a party movie involving an ensemble cast and an as-of-yet unnamed project about a post-apocalyptic world with an emphasis on religion and battling an evil entity who wishes to enslave what remains of the human race. I’ll have to really cook up some case for that last project though.
For those of you who would like to know about my political preferences, I am a liberal republican. And yeah, for those of you who are most familiar with Marin County, my kind are hard to come by, especially in a college setting, but I like Bush, I appreciate what my country is doing, I don’t believe the Democrats on a lot of issues and I will be voting for Bush this November. When it comes to these issues, I realize how little the left actually knows about the war. They say Bush went into Iraq for the oil, when mounds of evidence prove otherwise, the democrats have been speaking out against Iraq for years and Bush has as much to do with Halliburton as anyone else. But no, if a Republican does something about it, they must be selfish in some way or another right? Also, they still complain about the 2000 election results in Florida saying that Bush bought the election, when it was a democrat that redesigned the polls and screwed up the voters, the recounts were mostly in favor of Bush and the Electoral College vote is what really gets you into office anyway. Sorry suckers, but that’s the truth. Oh, but Republicans are inherently evil, so they must have pulled some strings. And what’s with John Kerry anyway? Why can’t he stay constant on the major issues? Why does he brag about fighting in Vietnam when that was such a tragedy? Why doesn’t he shut up about that? But of course, the majority of Democrats are voting for him because he’s NOT BUSH! Wow, at that rate they’d vote for Fidel Castro if he ran for president. Seriously, do any of them know that Kerry supported Communism during his run as senator? Come on, people!
Anyhow, that’s all I have to say for now. I’ll probably write up some more later as I feel like it, but for now, Peace out.