...weekend report...

It was a good weekend.

Friday was the Scarlet Whore show, and it rocked. There wasn’t much of a pit, I think at most only five people were involved; but I was one of those people, and I kicked some ass (in a friendly way, of course). The music was awesome; they really are great live. After the band played, we went and got food and went back to Gyrog’s for a few minutes. We ended up leaving because I drove, and I didn’t want to be around the pot stuff.

Saturday was fun as well, the apartment was once again cleaned, and Heather cleaned the computer/workout room. Ben, Michelle, Scuba, and Quazi came over. We had Jell-O shots and beer.

Sunday was a bum-around day. Not much happened, and it was relaxing.

One good thing that took place Saturday is that the seed of a huge BJ event was planted. I can’t go into any detail about it, but something is in the works.

As I said, the workout room is now clean and ready for use. Tomorrow is the inaugural “kill myself” day. I’ve done some light stuff off and on, but tomorrow night will be the first real heavy workout.

Quilled Tunes: “Knuckle Up” – Scarlet Whore

Quilled HOTD (Humor Of The Day):

To be a Republican:

1. You have to believe that government shouldn't subsidize AIDS research but funding cancer-spreading tobacco companies is allright.

2. You have to believe that 12-year-old children are too young to be taught about sex but old enough to be tried for crimes as adults.

3. You have to believe that state registration of handguns is tyranny, but medical companies should be able to collect and distribute data about everybody's medical problems and spending habits.

4. You have to believe that people have no right to be offended, except for flag burning and art questioning religious authorities.

5. You have to believe that anti-enviromentalist think tanks funded by timber and fossil fuel companies are good source for information, but Census Bureau statistics are biased.

6. You have to believe that women who complain about sexual harassment are just uptight feminazis, but gays shouldn't be allowed to military, because straight guys might get upset about being in same shower with them.

7. You have to support banning abortion, but oppose regulating chemical companies for exposing pregnant women to chemicals and pesticides causing countless unwanted miscarriages.

8. You have to believe that government spends way too much, except when your congressman manages to get order for 1.5 billion helicopter carrier that military doesn't even want for your home district.

9. You have to believe that all that global warming stuff is just scare talk from enviromentalist wackos, and the day when there are more members of minorities than whites in United States will mark the destruction of social order.

10. You have to believe in the value of hard work, to be rewarded with its intrinsic character-building benefits, but not with an actual living wage.

11. You have to believe that when George Bush Sr. bombs Iraq after arming it with taxpayer money for years it's fight for democracy, but when Bill Clinton bombs Serbia for attempting a genocide it's unwanted interference to national sovereignty.

12. You have to believe that ACLU doesn't represent free speech, but FreeRepublic.com, notorious from banning anyone who doesn't go in lockstep with conservative line, does.

13. You have to believe that social programs like Head Start waste taxpayer money, but a national missile defense system based on an interceptor that can't even pass rigged tests is in America's best interest.

14. You have to believe that best way to make children upstanding citizens is to lie to them about what Christopher Columbus really did.

15. You have to believe that Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice aren't hypocrites for opposing affirmative action even though Thomas got to law school and Rice became provost in Stanford because of it.

16. You have to believe that George W. Bush won in a landslide because he won such an amount of counties.

17. You have to believe that entire world outside US and 50% of nation's populace became socialists the minute after Reagan single-handedly won the Cold War.

18. You have to believe that the congressmen that professed disgust at Clinton’s sexual behavior had the moral high ground even when their own extra marital affairs were exposed.

19. You have to believe that two men shouldn't be shown kissing on TV because it's simply revolting, but displaying pictures of dead fetuses to protest abortion is all in good taste.

20. You have to believe that states' rights should always be superior to federal government, unless they hinder election of Republican presidents.

21. You have to believe that Carter was bad because of bad economy and despite lack of scandals, Clinton was bad because of all those scandals and despite good economy, and Bush Sr. was good despite bad economy and scandals.

22. You have to believe that the mainstream media which uses fact checkers and portrays both sides of the story is biased, but the internet tabloids that operate on rumors are not.

23. You have to believe free speech means your right to use terms that insult people and not get called on it.

24. You have to believe in unchanging morality expressed through the word of God yet you forgive the Founders for owning slaves on the grounds that we can't judge them by our standards.