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And in this corner…
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Why is it that whenever a “tragedy” strikes all the idiots in the world have come out to play?
The death of actor Heath Ledger was tragic in the sense that the world lost a talented actor, a little girl lost a father and his parents lost a son. I never get too bent out of shape when a celebrity dies, but it’s sad when it’s someone who actually has talent and whose work actually meant something. I honestly think that Ledger would have been one of the greats if he had lived, especially since he aspired to become a director and had been taken under the wing of Terry Gilliam.
Now, Fred Phelps and his cronies want to picket Heath Ledger’s memorial service in New York because he portrayed a homosexual in “Brokeback Mountain.” I say let ‘em do it. The more they picket, the more people are just going to get used to them being around and they’ll turn into a minor annoyance, even a joke. Getting all up in arms is what they want – they even say so. The more we go on about the evils of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Asshat Church, the more prominent they become. Ignore them as best as possible and they’ll go away. Now, with the good people of the Patriot Guard Riders helping out, their voice is becoming stifled and soon it will be silenced completely.
There’s this other moron, though, who seems to think the death of Heath Ledger makes for good trash talking. Every time I read something this man has written or listen to him talk I have to wonder if there’s anyone on this planet who takes him seriously. That man is:
The Ultimate Warrior.
Yep. The same Ultimate Warrior who wrestled in the WWF in the 80’s. In his blog, he somehow manages to compare Ledger’s death to the parenting ability of Hulk Hogan.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. Maybe I don’t get it because this guy is a top of the heap moron who can’t put a thought together to save his life. This is a man who played a character in the world of “professional” wrestling, but can’t seem to stop being that character even though he left the ring years ago.
This is the same guy who began his wrestling career going by the name “Dingo Warrior.”
Here’s what the Ultimate Douchebandit had to say. Try to decipher it for yourselves, because it really doesn’t make a lot of sense. Especially not the nickname he’s given to Heath Ledger.
Oh, and if you want a good laugh, spend some time on his website. This is an idiot who takes himself WAY too seriously.
Taken from Ultimatewarrior.com
Dead Before 28
In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you I have watched Brokeback Mountain no less than 45 times and I own the Limited Edition DVD, signed by Willie Nelson a short time after he wrote that queer cowboy song as a tribute to the courage of the producers and actors who broke such incredible creative ground when they made their agenda-less movie. Serious. Until I saw Bendover Brokeback, Braveheart was my favorite movie. But the love scenes of Brokeback sucked me right in and I had no choice but to give myself over to the passion of its wide open range, if you get my drift. Such courage this young man and his colleagues have. Reminds me of the courage of classic movie stars, where during the War they enlisted and flew bomber planes and fought on frontlines, then came back and picked up their lives and careers right where they left off, without anti-American sentiment, whining and complaining, or self-destructive self indulgence. I’m equally inspired.
Apparently, Leather Hedger had sleeping troubles and anxiety and dealt with terrible mood swings. So do soldiers but they don’t self-destructively fuck up their lives. In fact, they don’t sleep, handle anxiety and mood swings while dealing with whether or not they might at any moment lose their life. And they do this all the while they are dangerously protecting the freedom of others to fuck up their own. By the way, how many 28 (or older or younger) year old soldiers met their death yesterday? It’s not easy to find out. None of them made the headlines of any news.
By today’s standard, though, I do have to agree that he was a great father. Perhaps even greater then the father of the year, Hulk Hogan. After all, Leather Hedger did what it took to kill himself. His kid is without a father, yes, but the negative influence is now removed and his own child has the chance for a full recovery. Hogan, on the other hand, won’t go quite that far. He insists on sticking around to keep further ruining, and profiting off of, the parentally mismanaged lives of his own children.
It is sad and tragic….that we don’t demand attention be paid to greater things.
