Rant On Everything I Hate

 

Stupid People Having Kids:

Seriously, there should be some sort of assessment test or something that determines whether or not you’re capable, financially and otherwise, of raising children. We’re in dire need of something like that, lest we end up with more Detroits or Philadelphias. So many fucking dumbasses are popping out kids, can’t/don’t raise them properly, and then the quality of life in those neighborhoods dwindles down to a point where you need the fucking National Guard to step in, and put a stop to all the killing.

Nukes:

The Human race is a species that overwhelmingly believes that an invisible man lives in the sky and punishes us if we even think about having sex. The invisible sky man also wants us to choose whether or not to believe in him, but then he sends us to hell if we choose not to have faith. People actually believe this fucking shit. Are these really the kind of folks who we want having access to Nuclear Weapons? The amount of Nuclear Weapons at our disposal is staggering, and they’re enough to end all life on Earth several times over. What the hell gives Man the right to assemble weapons like these, much less actually use them?

Life Imprisonment:

What is the point of sentencing someone to life in prison? Why do that? That’s something I just don’t get because, well… if they’re going to be in prison for the rest of their lives, we can assume that they will no longer have anything to live for. Why not just kill them? Seriously. I was reading a story today about a 12 year old boy who may be sentenced to life in prison for killing a 2 year old in Florida. What? Why? Just give him a shot like you did with Stanley Tookie Williams and be done with it. What’s he going to aspire to in prison? Lifers just waste tax payer money. Its better to just drop the PC act and put them down.

Scientology Is The Greatest Religion:

I have to laugh anytime people put scientology down. Lol, as if your beliefs are any less stupid. Scientologists believe that we are older than the universe by several trillion years. Funny, well… you believe that a guy came back to life after having been dead for several days. What’s the difference? They’re both stupid as shit, and the only distinction is that Scientology is a relatively new religion with not as many practitioners.

Hillary Rosen was Right. Shut Up Ann Romney:

Nobody disputes the fact that raising children is hard work, but Ann, I highly doubt you actually know what its like to have to raise children whilst working and dealing with economic issues like regular, unprivileged American women. The fact that this blew up into a media frenzy of the Left vs the Right simply goes to show how stupid the media, and the people who eat it up, are. Right wingers are so eager to start a war that they trumpet anything to rile people up, and those on the Left are really no better. And Yes Sean Hannity, if the same were to be said of Michelle Obama, I’d be singing the same exact tune.

Best Fan Made Videos Part 2 – Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy (Live Action Full Length Movie)

 

Yeah, you read that right. Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is an actual full length movie created by Hive Division, a group of Italian film students. Although the the film’s budget was a mere $10.000,  fans of the hit video game franchise are sure to love Philanthropy’s take on the MGS mythology. MGSP isn’t an adaptation of any of the games in the numbered series or the spin offs, instead Hive Division came up with their own original story. In the film, Solid Snake is part of the anti-Metal Gear “terrorist” faction known as Philanthropy, and with the help of two operatives, he infiltrates an enemy base to secure a hostage. It wouldn’t be Metal Gear if things were that simple though, so watch the film to find out what happens.

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Damn Al Sharpton, Shut The Fuck Up!

I, along with a growing number of Black Americans, am becoming tired of listening to the same old song and dance from the likes of Al Sharpton. It seems the slightest things will set them off so often, that their cries of racism in America are beginning to grow similarities to the classic story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. A recent example is the scandal over the Nivea ad that depicted a well-groomed Black man tossing the decapitated head of a scruffy Black man with a tag line that read, “Re-civilize yourself. Look like you give a damn”. I covered that briefly here on the Watchman. Another more-so absurd example is the case of a Black man who was offended after he was told to, “Go back to Africa” by a Korean shop owner. The shop owner said this in response after the Black man told him to go back to his own country. Most recent, however, is the case of the February 26 shooting in Florida that claimed the life of Trayvon Martin. He was shot in the chest after a confrontation with Community Watch Captain, George Zimmerman. This case has captivated the country and raised racial tensions because allegedly, Zimmerman killed Trayvon in a racially motivated attack. Despite a glaring lack of information pertaining to the events immediately prior to the shooting, Al Sharpton & Co have taken it upon themselves to convict a man who, for all they know, may very well have been acting in self defense. The New Black Panther Party (whom share no relation with the original Black Panther Party) irresponsibly issued a $10.000 reward for the capture, or rather the head, of George Zimmerman. Spike Lee “re-tweeted” (I can’t believe I just said tweeted) a home address he erroneously believed to be that of Zimmerman’s. Instead it belonged to a family that had nothing to do with the case, who were then forced out of their home due to incessant harassment.

I liken this case to the 2 examples I mentioned above because there is no substantiated evidence to believe that George Zimmerman targeted Trayvon and shot him because he was Black, but that is the media’s mantra and has been so since the case gained nation-wide publicity. Some will point to Zimmerman’s specific utterance of, “he looks black” in the 911 audio, but he was merely responding to the dispatcher’s question regarding the suspicious person’s race. Others will try to point to the supposed racial slur in the 911 tape where Zimmerman supposedly says, “fucking coons”, but what he actually said is open for debate. Some hear, “coons”, others claim to hear, “punks”, while others hear, “cold”. The audio at the specific moment that the phrase in question is uttered is not at all clear, so unless Zimmerman himself clarifies what he said, a hate crime charge based on that tape will be unfounded. When confronted with this, those who would call for the death of Zimmerman backtrack and say that what they are protesting is the Police Department’s lack of action in arresting George Zimmerman. That, again, is erroneous. George Zimmerman was placed under arrest and Homicide Detective Chris Serina recommended he be charged with manslaughter. Chief Bill Lee and State Attorney  Norm Wolfinger decided not to pursue charges because there was not enough evidence to disprove Zimmerman’s story, which was also corroborated by an eye-witness who stated he saw Trayvon Martin over George Zimmerman (who was yelling for help) beating him.

You may have seen Piers Morgan’s bout with culture critic, Toure a few days ago. Nearing the end of the spat, Morgan asked Toure flatly, “do you believe George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin?” Toure foolishly answered saying that he did, despite knowing little of what transpired. Toure is what I would call a caricature of everyone who has prematurely rushed to lay down a verdict in this incident. Not merely because of Toure’s rush to judgment, but also his response to the application of logic in a case such as this where a conclusion cannot be so easily drawn. Claims of neutrality are met with vitriolic opposition and if you adhere to such a view, you’re likely to be accused of racism, defending George Zimmerman, or siding with a (in their already made up conclusions) convicted murderer. That isn’t too far from Toure’s childish argument in which he claimed that Piers Morgan, who has only been in the US for 6 years, cannot understand America’s racial history. Both stem from the same lack of willingness to apply reason, and an overly emotional reaction to a tragic, yet ambiguous shooting, which has only been exacerbated by the media’s one-sided portrayal of events.  

I’m not trying to exonerate George Zimmerman. That isn’t my goal and it would be a rush to judgment in my part to say he is innocent. I don’t believe he is innocent, nor do I believe he is guilty. I am on the side of reason, and to apply reason is to do the exact opposite of what the Toures of the world do. That means waiting for facts to emerge before taking sides, before putting bounties on people’s heads, before throwing out accusations of racism, before you end up with another Tawana Brawley.

Best Fan Made Videos Part 1 – Team 7 Reunites – Kakashi Vs Sasuke (Fan Animation)

I have to be honest. I didn’t expect much going in, but man did this video blow my mind. Its amazing what a person, or in this case a team, can accomplish when they get together and pour all their energy into something. I’m a pretty patient guy, but I don’t know if even I would be willing to sit through a year working on an animation like this. There are so many details that have to be noted, that I can only imagine how hard it must’ve been for these guys. That’s just the animation side of it, the voice work is also pretty darn good for the most part, aside from a few awkward sections. The voice actors for Sasuke and Kakashi both sound nearly identical to their official English dub counterparts. This is awesome stuff, so if you are at all a fan of Naruto, watch this video.

Gallery: Metal Gear Solid – Peace Walker for PSP

So here we have a gallery of images from the greatest PSP game ever made, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

 

Gallery: Dragon Ball Z – Tenkaichi Tag Team + Look out for PRXShot plugin for PSP

 

I’d like to use this blog posting for two things today. 1 is to introduce PSP homebrew noobs to prxplugin. It’s a newish plugin (its been out for some time but I’ve only recently discovered it) developed for the PSP and it allows you to take screenshots of your PSP’s screen, whether you’re playing a game or running some app. You may be saying to yourself, “but there already are many screenshot plugins for PSP”, and while that’s true, none of them are like this one. Other screenshot plugins forcibly pause your game, and force you to wait several seconds while saving the picture. Not PRXPlugin. While playing, you can quickly press the Note button and then resume playing while the picture is saved. Needless to say, I’m loving it.

If you’d like to take screenshots of your own, just download PRXShot from HERE. Be sure to follow the installation instructions carefully.
The other thing I’d like to do is show off some of the screenshots that I took with PRXPlugin a few days ago.

Below you will find a gallery of screenies I took of the 2010 PSP game, Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team.

10 of the Best Songs by Tupac Shakur

 

As a long time fan of Tupac Shakur, I’ve had years to devour the many songs he released while living, and those that were released posthumously by Amaru records.

Tupac’s catalog of music was often blasted by critics for being needlessly violent and misogynistic. In many cases I can do nothing but agree, not just in regards to Tupac’s music, but also rap in general. That is one reason I’ve had what you can consider a “falling out” with the Hip-Hop music genre. I can only list a handful of rappers that I still listen to. Tupac is one of them primarily because some of his music could touch you on a personal level. He wasn’t the “50 Cent” of the mid-90s. He wasn’t all macho-braggadocio like today’s rap contemporaries. Despite his claims to the “Thug Life” and other gang affiliations, every one of his albums contain songs that anybody can relate to.

The coming list of songs will include some fan-favorites, and others that you may not have heard, but that have left long-lasting impressions on me. The majority of these songs have shamefully gone under the radar, overshadowed by their more popular and violent cousins like 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted and Hit’Em Up.

Without further adieu, let’s begin:

10: Better Dayz – Tupac says in Better Dayz, “I’d love to see the block in peace with no more dealers and crooked cops”. He continues, “and only we can change. It’s up to us to clean up the streets that ain’t the same”. Better Dayz is one of those mellow songs where Tupac speaks on the violence that plagues the black community, his own relationships, friendships and other things.

9: Brenda’s Got A Baby – This is a song that has stayed with me since the very first moment that I heard it. It’s the first great record from Tupac’s discography. Brenda’s Got A Baby is a metaphorical song. Brenda, the fictional African-American girl spoken of in this song, represents the many immature teenage girls who, through unfortunate circumstances, have been burdened with a pregnancy they did not want or could not handle. The song’s resolution is a sad reminder of what has happened to many girls in such a situation.

8.) Still I Rise – You may find the title familiar. That’s because it was named after a poem by the world-renowned Maya Angelou. Although Tupac only has a single verse in this song, it is the singular moment of the entire song. Tupac eloquently expresses his anger, “this cruel world could do without me”. “The lord can’t see us in the deep dark clouds of the projects. Ain’t no sunshine. No sunny days and we only play sometimes”.

7.) Young N—-z – Don’t let the title turn you off. Young N—-z is actually a song where Tupac advises the younger generation to stay away from the gang life. If only songs like this were more prevalent, instead of the more common gang-glamorizing music that you’re more likely to hear.

6.) Hell Razor – This is one of the more intense records in Tupac’s catalog. It may not fit in with the rest of the songs on this list. I’ve included it because it is a great showcase of Tupac’s intensity, especially toward the end of the song where he raps about Latasha Harlins. She was a young black girl who was shot and killed by a Korean shop-owner, after she allegedly attempted to steal a bottle of juice. This incident was also a pre-cursor to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which in my view were completely and utterly useless. They caused nothing but death and destruction.

5.) Papa’z Song – If you grew up without a father in your life, like I did, then this song is for you. In Papa’z Song, 2pac and company express the anger laden within fatherless youths of all creeds.

4.) Keep Ya Head Up – When this song released in 1993, people started to realize that Tupac wasn’t just another rapper. There was something different about him. In Keep Ya Head Up, Tupac discusses a range of issues including the black communities’ disparities, but most notably, the hardships that black women are subjected to.

3.) Krazy – This is the best song on this list in terms of mood. It is very slow and laid back. In Krazy, Tupac reflects on many events in his life, “and I swear I seen a peaceful smile on my mama’s face when I gave her the keys to her own house”.

2.) Dear Mama – Not much can be said about this song that hasn’t been said already. Dear Mama is to Tupac what Dance With My Father is to Luther Vandross.

1.) Thugz Mansion – “Is there a way to change or am I just a victim of things I did to maintain?” That’s a powerful question that Tupac asked in Thugz Mansion. Only Tupac knows if he ever found the answer to that question before he was shot to death in September of 1996. Thugz Mansion also happens to be where it all began for me. By that I mean it was the first Tupac record that I heard. It left such an impression on me years ago, but I hadn’t even heard of Tupac at the time. Since then, I’ve collected every single one of Tupac’s official albums. The rest is history.

I ultimately believe that in behaving the way that he did in 1996, which subsequently led to his own demise, Tupac wasted his potential. These 10 songs signify not only how different he was from the common rapper, but also how much more he could have done. He was a genuinely good person who chose the wrong path, and in the end he paid the ultimate price.

My Grandmother Is Crazy

A long time ago, my grandfather, who was relatively successful before wasting away his good pay on booze, had a nice selection of lovely ladies whom he could’ve married. Rather than choosing one of these damsels, instead he opted to ‘save’ a working girl. He was a devout man of God. He made it his mission to find a downtrodden girl, remove her from her hellish lifestyle and make her his wife. He was successful in his mission. The girl he ‘saved’ is, and has been his wife for over 40 years. She’s my grandmother and when she was young, she was forced into a life a prostitution by her own brother. Even after they were married, her brother still would try, sometimes successfully, to make her work for clients. I surmise that this contributed to my grandfather’s decision to move the family out of Mexico and to the United States, where they’ve since then led meager lives. This all was told to me by my grandfather as he sat on his wheelchair and reflected on his life’s choices, which he now consequentially regrets. He never forgets to tell me not to drink, as it is that which he now recognizes as his life’s biggest mistake. But there is another, possibly more painful memory he languishes in often. That is his decision to marry the woman he has been with for decades.

Everyday, or nearly everyday, my grandmother yells at him and blames him for things that he had no part in. She has accused him of having her brother, the same one who forced her into prostitution, killed. She has blamed him for her mother’s death. She constantly claims that she’s been mistreated by him her entire life. In her mind, the person who brought her to America and may have very well saved her life, is an evil person. I try to be civil and not get involved when she gets like this, but sometimes I cannot help but jump into a shouting match with her.

My grandmother has not been to a doctor because she refuses to do so, but I think she may have a very severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. From 7:00 AM till around 1:00 PM, she’s standing in front of the kitchen sink washing her hands and brushing her teeth. She believes that there is spit stuck in her throat. Yes, her own spit that she swallowed unintentionally over a decade ago. Apparently, it is stuck in her throat and that’s why she needs to obsessively wash her mouth. Our attempts to convince her to see a doctor are futile, because she simply cannot be reasoned with. When she makes up her mind about something, that’s it. There’s no getting through to her. If you try to convince her to be seen by her doctor, after some time she will begin to villainize you. “You’re a bad person”, is what she has said to me on numerous occasions after trying, exhaustively, to change her mind about this.

Due in large part to circumstances I will not discuss here, my grandfather is still at home with us. However, I believe it would be best not only for him, but for everyone involved, if he were to go back to the Convalescence where he was before. When he was there, he wanted nothing more than to come back home. Now he wants nothing more than go back to the Convalescence. There is no peace for him here. He doesn’t have much time left and he shouldn’t have to spend the remainder of his life being demonized, by the very same woman who vowed to be with him in sickness and in death.

This all reminds me of a quote by Jon Osterman from Watchmen, “I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives”.

New Study Confirms Religious People Are Stupid – Here’s Why

 

Disclaimer: YOU WILL BE OFFENDED

 

• You put facts in front of them and they either do not understand them or will ignore them.

• They claim homosexuality is a choice yet don’t realize that if at any moment in your life, you had to choose between homosexuality and heterosexuality, you are neither. Instead you are bisexual.

• They claim homosexuality is unnatural even though it occurs in nature. Its in the fu*king word you imbeciles. 1,500 animal species practice homosexuality

• They claim marriage is a religious institution and again, they’re oblivious to the fact that they’re simply flat out wrong. Marriage has been around far longer than today’s religions, including Christianity. But it doesn’t matter if you tell them that because they’ll just keep regurgitating the same erroneous crap.

“I agree 100% wit this dude. All gays need to b killed. Hitler style. That sh*t ain’t normal.

fu*k anyone in this thread that supports gay marriage, you fu*king clowns.”

• That is an actual comment from a religious nutcase in a topic regarding Kirk Cameron’s recent comments on gay marriage.

• Debating them is a waste of time because they are stupid. They are so stupid that I can’t even think of a word to describe how stupid they really are.

• They do not realize that their beliefs are entirely subjective and are essentially no different, in any way, than the beliefs of Ancient Greeks, or of the Aztecs, or the Mayans. Your religions are just modern versions of older ones. In time they will be GONE just like Zeus, Thor, Poseidon, Odin. Your beliefs are no fu*king different.

• The evidence is against them and they have none to support their claims, but they still try to argue as if their beliefs are factual.

• Just because your beliefs can’t be disproved means absolutely nothing. I can’t prove there isn’t an invisible dancing fairy behind me right now. Does that mean that there is an invisible dancing fairy behind me? I don’t even HAVE to disprove your fairy tales. The mere fact that you have zero evidence makes them negligible to me. Just think, would you take seriously the argument of a boy who tells you that there is a giant fucking singing evil invisible blob on the moon, but gives you no proof, or even the slightest bit of evidence? What if he then told you to disprove it? Would you even bother? Think about it. THAT’s HOW I FEEL… ABOUT YOU!

• The absence of a rational explanation isn’t evidence of an irrational explanation.

• They believe that the Earth is 6000 years old and that every species came into existence at the same time.

• Crazy Christians believe that people who suffer in our modern world (for example, the Jews during the Holocaust) are being punished for sins they committed in a previous life.

• They nit pick what parts of the bible to believe. That’s why there are Gay Christians. They only believe what they want, and they ignore all the horrible, disgusting and absurd shit.

• They believe that the Earth was made before the Sun. Seriously. It says so right in the very first page of The Old Testament.

• They actually believe that every thing in the bible literally happened. They believe that Jesus walked on water, and came back to life after having been dead for 3 days, that God killed everyone in a world wide flood and that he sent his own son to Earth to be tortured killed for our sins. He sent his own son to be killed. Re-read that. God set his own son up and had him wacked. Am I crazy? Am I the only person who thinks that may be a little bit extreme?

• And finally, they believe that they are the smartest sentient beings in the entire universe. Why is that? Because they actually believe that they know for a fact, that God, an unknowable being for which there is no evidence, exists, and that they can SPEAK with him. If some being who we’d call God actually existed, it would be unfathomable. I’d hate to reduce such a collosal being to a bitter, child-like, Hitlerish Tyrant who interferes with measly human affairs, who picks sides and condemns his own children, whom he loves so much, to an eternity of suffering.

 

 

A Pencil Portrait of Professor Richard Dawkins

This is my latest pencil drawing. It is of the famed Biologist and Atheist, Richard Dawkins.

It’s been a while since I’ve drawn any portraits. My last one was a portrait of rapper Tupac Shakur that I drew about 6 months ago. I have to be sure re-add that to my Alex’s Drawings page, but I wasn’t really too fond of it. I think this portrait of Dawkins is better, but it still doesn’t really satisfy me.

Its a funny story actually, about this Dawkins picture I mean. I drew it from the tiny little photo of him that’s in the back of the paperback edition of The God Delusion, and I thought it was alright for a while, but when I finally got online and, after a bit of searching, found a bigger copy of the same photo at a better quality, I was surprised at how much detail I missed. I tried to incorporate these new details into the picture, which I had until then considered done. All I felt that it needed left was some shading and a little darkening, but then I had to go back and redo several parts.