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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.
You Don’t Know Jack…..
Friday, January 18th, 2008….but you should. Jack McLellan is a self-admitted pedophile working his evil in California and Washington state.
Jack was recently featured twice on ‘The Steve Wilkos Show’ admitting to the world that he was sexually attracted to children. Apparently he’s admitted it publicly in other forums as well, not metely on ‘Steve’ because he has his own website which guides peophiles to places where they can easily find children. He even rates these places by how attractive the children are that can be found there.
Yet he claims he’s never done anything illegal. The ‘worst’ he’s done is to lure children away from their parents and give them ‘hugs.’
McLellan is still operating his website. I’ll post the link to it here as soon as I can find it. Never having trolled the internet for sites relating to pedophilia, I really don’t know where to look. Wilkos actually asked the question as to what kind of a person would want to visit his site. I give Steve this answer: Any person who wants to protect children. One way of beating the pedophiles is to know where they operate and how they do it. By knowing which places McLellan is promoting, we can know to be extra careful when in those places.
McLellan also argues that having this website isn’t violating any laws since he’s not directly promoting the molestation of children. Wilkos asked him about this as well, stating that if something illegal was done to a child based on information gotten through his website, he is partly responsible and should be held as an accomplice.
I agree.
I think Jack McLellan should be locked up. He’s already a ‘person of interest’ in the murder of a young girl at one of the locations that his website promotes. He also refused to submit to a DNA test at the Wilkos show to clear his name. What does that tell you? The way he was fidgeting around onstage made him look guilty in my eyes.
Here’s an interview done with McLellan:
Oh, Those Dangerous MySpaces!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008The bigwigs at MySpace have finally decided to cave into the pressure being put on them by idiot parents and try to ‘protect’ its younger users from the threats that sicko pedophiles pose on the website.
That’s all well and good, but some of the ideas they have, and are going to put into place, really won’t work. They just aren’t practical.
Although this is my opinion, I’ve been discovering in my travels around the interwebs that this opinion is shared with bloggers from all corners of the globe. Here’s the gist of what they want to do:
1.) Set all profiles of 15-and-under users to private, and prevent those profiles from getting any sort of communication from any adult they do now know.
2.) Default all 16 and 17-year-old users’ profiles to private, which they can change to public if they so wish.
3.) Deny any registered sex offenders access to the site.
While all of those are pretty good ideas, how does MySpace propose to enforce them? Any 13-year-old can go on there and create a profile with the britdate set to 1982. It’s not difficult.
Also, suppose Joe Smith the Molester wants a profile on MySpace but he’s a registered sex offender. How does he get around that? Easily, by signing up as Bobby Jones, the nice guy from Detroit.
MySpace should be thanked for the effort, but politely told that none of this is going to work.
What would work, on the other hand, is better parenting. I’m so sick of hearing parents declare to the media that their child was raped or put in danger because of MySpace or some other internet bases social network. I ask you this, parents: Where were you while your child was chatting it up with Chester the Molester online? Why are you not monitoring your minor’s internet activity, when you hear every day about a child who falls prey to some online predator? WHy are you not protecting your child?
It’s sad to say, but I truly believe that a lot of these “parents” are hoping their child will get injured due to a MySpace rendezvous so that they can try to sue.
’nuff said.
Scientology Revisited
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Back in 2003, Chuck and I paid a visit to the new Church of Scientology building in Buffalo. It was their grand-opening Gala, and for some reason they invited us. We were at the time, freelance writers working mostly for the Buffalo Beast, and independent newspaper circulating in the city. A lot of talk of Scientology has happened recently, what with Tom Cruise showing his true colors to the world and Katie Holmes turning into a robot, as seen in a recent guest appearance on ‘Regis and Kelly.’ There’s also a new unauthorized biography of Cruise that states that his and Holmes’ daughter, Suri, is the spawn of bad Sci-Fi writer L. Ron Hubbard himself. The author of the book goes so far to compare her birth to ”Rosemary’s Baby.”
A few years back, the boys from South Park did an episode about Scientology that starred Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Galactic Overlord Xenu. Non-surprisingly it was blocked by Mr. Jerry Maguire himself, and now can only be found in various places around the internet.
With this newfound fascination with Scientology, I’ve decided to re-open my interest in this goofy religion. Following is the article Chuck and I wrote, which appeared originally in The Buffalo Beast. This time, though – the punctuation is there and a spell check has been run so it’ll be a much better read:
The Beast Goes Scientological
By Rob Gerke and Chuck Notaro
It’s been said that there are two sides to every story. I’ve found this to be true in almost everything I’ve experienced or thought about. The case of Scientology is no different. It has its supporters and its detractors. I, myself, have never given much credibility to a religion that was founded by a science fiction writer. I’m not even much of a Sci-Fi reader any longer. But I’ve never been one to openly express an opinion about something unless its an informed one, which is the reason I paid a visit to Buffalo’s new Church of Scientology this past Sunday when it celebrated its grand opening.
I’ll admit, I knew next to nothing about Scientology before I attended the opening ceremony, and honestly, I’m not sure it’s any clearer to me now.
Let’s start with the basic question: What is Scientology? In founder Lafayette Ron Hubbard’s words, Scientology is an “applied religious philosophy.” Does that clear things up for you? If not, Hubbard goes on to say that it is the “study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life.”
Scientologists believe it to be a path to enlightenment gained through auditing. This is where an upper-level Scientologist evaluates you, and through certain scientific method, helps you gain control of your true self. Your inner spirit. Your “Thetan,” as the Scientologists call it.
Guilty!
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Damien Echols sits on death row, waiting for justice.
In 1993, he and two other teenage boys in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas were arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of three young boys.
It was said the murders were part of a satanic ritual, performed by the boys known nowadays as the West Memphis Three. They were satanists because they had long hair and listened to Metallica.
The trial was a joke. The conviction was an even bigger joke, only not a funny one.
You can read all about them at www.wm3.org, or watch the film Paradise Lost. I’m not here to talk about them. I’m here to talk about another case that’s been in the news recently that has quite a few things in common with the three boys from West Memphis.
The victim’s name is Stacy Peterson, the suspect her husband Drew.
I’ll say it right off: I don’t like Drew Peterson. I don’t like the attitude he seems to have, nor the fact that he doesn’t seem to care about the welfare of his missing wife. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did, in fact, murder her.
See what I did there? I implied that he may have killed his wife by making a statement to which a lot of people would argue I’ve already tried and convicted him in my mind.
Which is exactly what the media has done to this man. Every news story has basically come out and said he killed her. He’s been tried and convicted before even being arrested, or before it’s even been proven that his young wife is dead.
Sure, it’s been proven by one of the top medical examiners in the nation that his previous wife, Kathleen Savio, was murdered in her bathtub. It was never proven, however, that Peterson killed her.
The problem that’s being created here by the sensationalism of this news story is that our justice system now can’t possibly provide a fair trial for this man if he is indeed arrested. The court system would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been following this story and who hasn’t already formed an opinion of Drew Peterson.
This is the same thing that happened in West Memphis. The town had already tried and convicted these three boys, and thus the prosecution needed no physical evidence lock in a guilty verdict. The same thing is going to happen to Drew Peterson if he goes on trial.
We see this investigation every day in the news, but is Peterson the only lead the police are following? The only suspect? If so, they should arrest him. If there’s any doubt, they should be finding other avenues to pursue and say so. If Peterson can be all over the news, so should any other lead that the police are following. That’s the only ay this horrible journalism can be made unbiased.
I’ll be interested to see how all of this unfolds.
Any opinions?
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