1812 Over Tour

New job's been fine. Different work in some areas, but since it's the same industry, some things are the same. Getting used to different terminology because I'm in a different company, and a different type of insurance. And my co-workers are nice.

what's up with you?

Can I get political with y'all? Sure? Okay.

1) Hooray for Deval Patrick. I'm not a Healey fan, so I hope he wins in the Gov's seat.

2) Check this out from the War of 1812 entry in Wikipedia (well, at least I'm reading SOME-thing!)

The main reasons for America declaring war on the British were:
1) American Expansionists noticed that the Canadian colonies were only lightly defended by the British, and some Americans believed that the majority in the English-speaking area, at least, would rise up and greet an American invading army as liberators: as Thomas Jefferson suggested in 1812, "the acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax . . .

Where have I heard that phrase "greeted" as liberators before? And, um...did we win Quebec yet? Please don't tell me if anyone were to try to start a war under the pretext that American colonial interests are view positively by every free-thinking foreigner that it wil take us nearly 2 centuries and we still won't see the promised outcome.... Then again, Quebec is supposed to be a wonderful city. Maybe liberating it from a despot British ruler, and spreading our ideals of democracy is a reason why the drinking-age is so low, and many people visit it for it's, um..."nightlife." Oh wait, we never did liberate it from Britian (until recently when Canada became independent.) As it turns out, we offered Quebec statehood three times finally invading the place when they refused, only to be rebuffed by the French candians and the British army.

History's so depressing...

Back by popular demand!!!

Fresh from Randy Hayes and Xavier Nazario of My Way Entertainment, to You Tube, and now to YOUR tube...

It's the Juggernaut...(you finish the rest).





Warning! It's crass...but there's a ton more movies just like that. Some with the Juggernaut, one of Batman, and a funny, but really offensive Pokemon parody called, "Find the Niggor." Yeah. Anyways, enjoy...

Please Please Please don't let this man be our next President.

Please Please Please don't let this man be our next President.

First of all, he calls the only minority at an campaign event "macaca", but he fails to admit that it's a French racial slur. He apologizes for the "misunderstanding." But, maybe I'm missing something, but how is it that someone who's fluent in French, mother spoke French (she's from Tunisia), and...nevermind. But, his first excuse? "Oh, I heard my campaign workers calling him that." Any other, fair-minded Republican (and I know there's a few), wouldn't brazenly call someone any dirty name, at least not if there's a camera around. Then, said decent and fair-minded Republican would FIRE those staff members he heard using the racial slur. Or better yet, he would simply take the bullet himself and not offer his campaign workers for criticism (because then it makes it less likely more people would work for him).

But George Allen isn't decent and fair-minded. Although he grew up in California (apparently, routinely terrorizing his siblings--he hit his sister's boyfriend with a pool cue for goodness sakes!), GA has a strange and abiding love for the devil--I mean for the (c)onfederacy. He painted his car with it, wore a the flag as a lapel in highschool pictures, puts the flag in his office and home, and associates with far-right groups who use that flag as a rallying cry for white supremacy.

So please, those of you who are Republican and read this blog, please tell your friends NOT to vote for George Allen for Presidency. Unless Hillary runs, because he polls the worse out of all Republican candidates against her.

And he has two first names! I mean, come on!

Resignation Letter

I resigned today from my job. I've thought, talked and prayed over it for the last few months. I've also talked around it, using hints and innuendos -- but finally I decided to do it.

With that, I'm going to take this labor day weekend off and redesign the website and put some effort and elbow grease into my "web presence". I'm going to take the next two weeks off, then I'm going to start my new job here in Worcester.

Hope all is well with you. Give me a call or an email. I'd love to hear from you.

- Cool Hand