Absent-Minded Jay

I am a fan of the show “The Biggest Loser”.  I watched last season as much as I could.  Basically it was decided by if I remembered the day it was on or not and if I just got lucky by flipping channels and seeing it on.  I’m just too busy otherwise to remember more than my share of shows.

What I am not a fan of is that they vote off people from each team if that team did not win the challenge.

That’s bogus!

I think dieting, like alcoholics anonymous, is a team, support-group adventure.  If they work their ass off and lose weight, just to have someone vote them off the show because they may not have lost the five pounds the team expected.  Instead, they lost four pounds.  That’s crap.

I guess in the long run though they could benefit from being on the show by taking the exercise regimen and dieting plan home with them.

I also think that telling the contestants that they will win $100,000 if they are still on the show and the winning team in the end is ridiculous as well.  I mean give them something for their efforts AFTER the show reaches the final episode.  Surprise them!  But to tell them up front that this is their goal as well as weight loss gives them an ulterior motive to vote someone off.

Just my thoughts…could be me reading to deep into things as usual.

To see a Dallas Stars hockey game on television after such a long, long while, I just didn’t know if it was real.  I had to pinch myself to prove that I wasn’t dreaming.

It wasn’t just that a game was on but that I didn’t know ¾ of the players on the team.  My how one year and a new collective bargaining agreement can change things!

Alas, I was happy that a game was on – albeit a preseason game but a game nonetheless.  The Stars were playing the Edmonton Oilers and won it with a score of 6-4.  High-scoring game…exactly what the NHL and NHLPA want to make the game more exciting and interesting.

We’ll see.

Currently studying for my first economics exam.  I went to an optional extra study session today at 3pm before my hockey game but it wasn’t a big deal.  She went over two word problems we’ll have to work through on the test but she had already done them in class.  She seems to be repetitive about some of the stuff she lectures over and over on.  I guess it’s a good thing if you learn by rote but sometimes it’s just kind of annoying.

I went to the session just to see if she’d do anything new or go over some things but she really didn’t.  Turned out to be a “I was here and made an effort so take pity on me while grading my test” visit! LOL!

By the way, we lost our hockey game.  It was like 5-2.  We didn’t have 3 of our guys there.  Sucked losing to the team we did because they are a bunch of cheating assholes!  I don’t know how many times I come home from a game with them and I have scrapes and bruises from where those bastards hacked on me.  Fucking referees suck but I guess that’s what we get from the “trailer-park-run” business we play.

Oh well, back to studying or sleep now!

What the hell is this world coming to?  Humans are a dying breed and the world once again will be run by the smart creatures – animals and insects!  Here’s why…

An article in the Dallas Morning News online says, ”Reciting the Pledge of the Allegiance in public schools was declared unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge in the second attempt by an atheist to have the pledge removed from classrooms…the [dumb shit] judge ruled that the pledge’s reference to one nation “under God”…is unconstitutional when recited in schools.”

I’m not a complete faithful believer in a “God Almighty” because I’m just the type of person that can see “acts or miracles of God” also as scientific anomalies or coincidences.  It’s tough for me to understand how there can be this compassionate God that allows certain things to happen like in the referenced articles to come.  When I die, if there is a God I hope that he will understand my confusion.

These courts ruling on some things that have just always been and should always be should be burned to the ground.  The Pledge has been said for years.  I said it.  My parents said it and probably their parents.  I’m not saying it is right or wrong but it certainly hasn’t caused any harm.  If the atheists don’t want to say “under God” then just don’t say it!  It reminds me of an episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati”.  Venus Flytrap was working at the station on Christmas night and he started singing White Christmas.  He sung, “I’m dreaming of a [hum] Christmas.”  Simple!  Move on atheists asses.  There are more important issues to deal with in the world like…

Article #2 in the DMN, “A couple pleaded guilty Wednesday to torturing and starving five of their seven adopted children [ranging in age from 12 to 17], including yanking out their toenails with pliers, and were sentenced to 15 years each in prison.”

Why did they only get 15 years!?  Because they pleaded it out, which is BULLSHIT!  This couple should have had their own toenails ripped out with pliers!  They had “twin 14-yr-old brothers that weighed 36 and 38 pounds each – about 80 pounds below normal.”  So, there is not telling for sure how long these children suffered but the couple will only suffer for 15 years.  Just crap.  Oh yeah, notice it said “five of their seven”?  The article says “the two children who were not mistreated were favored by the Dollars [the couple] and had no physical injuries.”  So, did these little spoiled bitches feel anything for their siblings – adopted or not?

Article #3 in the DMN, “Frances Newton was taken to a small holding cell near the Texas death chamber…[she will be] the third woman executed in the state since the Civil War, and the first black woman.  Newton, 40, faced lethal injection for the fatal shootings of her husband and their two children [at the time of the crime the husband was 23, a 7-yr-old son and a 21-mo-old daughter] some 18 years ago.”

So, I ask, is this justice?  The husband and children didn’t get 18 years do decide to die.  I’m sure prison-life hasn’t exactly been peaches and cream but come on, 18 years later to be put to death?  Who do you think has been paying for her 18 years of waiting?  Texas tax payers who are out in the real world making a living and busting their ass to make sure Frances Newton gets a bed, a toilet, three meals a day, and exercise time.  Maybe she’s even gotten some personal loving time with Big Bertha.  It’s ridiculous!  Even if an inmate isn’t on death row, there is no reprogramming of a serious felon.  I don’t have them but there are statistics basically showing “once a criminal, always a criminal”!

Granted, on occasion, a few innocents may be exonerated for some reason over this time of 18 years but her case and many others are open-and-shut.  Man, I wonder what it would be like if we just went back to hanging people like in the western and medieval days?  I wonder if Newton’s health insurance pays for the medication used to put her to death.  It’s probably doubtful.  I’m sure that was taken from my paycheck this month under FICA.

I’m done!

I cannot stand ignorance.  Not the kind where someone can’t rattle off what 9 times 9 is but the kind of narrow-minded ignorance that basically says, “It’s my way or the highway!”

I don’t mean the “my way or the highway” statement of a father/mother to their child.

I mean the stupid idiots that say “marriage is between a man and a woman” or “races shouldn’t mix” or the nimrods that drive 55-60 in the fast lane and won’t move out of the way to be courteous but would rather be peanut-sized dicks!

Steve, a coworker of mine who is the Director of DIVERSITY for my department, sent an email out regarding the Women’s Center on campus seeking gay/lesbian graduate students that might be willing to mentor undergrads.  He sent a general information email to the class listservs we have for our MBA programs.  Some closet-case-himself – I’ve seen his picture and he looks gay LOL! – replied to Steve and to our Assoc. Dean of MBA Programs saying that he found the email offensive since he was not gay.

What a friggin’ idget!  It wasn’t sent directly to him but he seems to have taken it awfully personal.  Steve replies to him politely and politically correctly and then this guy replies going on about how marriage is a union between a man and a woman in the state of redneck-fucks, I mean Texas.  He said something to the effect that he does not approve of the gay/lesbian lifestyle and blah, blah, blah.

Of course, Steve is gay and I’m sure he’s dying to reply to this moron but the Assoc. Director said for him not to respond.  Saga to continue if I get the gossip on how it ends.

I’m in no way gay or lesbian, although being a lesbian male would be quite interesting – I guess that would still make me straight LOL – but in my book, to each his own.  As long as it doesn’t affect me personally, let them be who they are.  I’ve known Steve for 5+ years and his chosen lifestyle doesn’t affect our friendship.  He’s a great, giving and caring guy.  The world would be so lucky to have more generous people like him.

I just had to rant quickly because this really irked me.  Mainly for the fact that the guy had to take it so personally – like he was being singled-out as being gay because he got the email.  Also, it makes me wonder how he would have reacted if it was an informative email about blacks, Mexicans or Asians.  Would he have gotten bent out of shape because he is a Caucasian?

Freakin’ idiot!  Do the world a favor and just put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger!

Once again, thanks to the online Blockbuster movie pass, I am able to rent and watch (sometimes unfortunately but this time fortunately) randomly selected movies.

I just watched the movie, Bride & Prejudice.

It has been some time since I added it to my queue so I don’t recall what tempted me to take a look at this movie.  I basically started it not knowing what to expect.  Within the first ten minutes, I thought it was a good movie.  It’s sort of a musical/movie like Annie.

To me, this movie was so entertaining that I started it at 9:45pm thinking I’d stop and finish it the next day but I ended up watching it until the end (including the outtakes during the credits) until around midnight.  I was tired the next day but it was an enjoyable movie.

That’s my take on it.

Once again, thanks to the online Blockbuster movie pass, I am able to rent and watch (sometimes unfortunately but this time fortunately) randomly selected movies.

I just watched the movie, Bride & Prejudice.

It has been some time since I added it to my queue so I don’t recall what tempted me to take a look at this movie.  I basically started it not knowing what to expect.  Within the first ten minutes, I thought it was a good movie.  It’s sort of a musical/movie like Annie.

To me, this movie was so entertaining that I started it at 9:45pm thinking I’d stop and finish it the next day but I ended up watching it until the end (including the outtakes during the credits) until around midnight.  I was tired the next day but it was an enjoyable movie.

That’s my take on it.