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Fantastic Future Friday: A sure way to have a better future

Today is the last day of 2010 and a traditional day to drink until you pass out. The best way to have a good chance at having a fantastic 2011 is not to drink and drive this New Years. Spending the New Year in a prison cell, hospital or coffin would be a sucky future.

So tonight I hope everyone has fun at their parties, but doesn't get behind the wheel afterwards.

After all, living through the night is the best way to have a fantastic future.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of Alien Thoughts

MY BAD!

Wow, been a minute! Okay, Christmas was fun, spent time with my brother and I got cash for presents. Awesome! Visited with my newest niece who now moves around a bit, she's 3 months. The only thing is my sister was drunk (no surprise) and she got on my nerves. I'm usually okay with her being drunk because at least I get to see her, when she does drugs I never see her. This time around didn't enjoy her company that much. My Precious got a laptop for Christmas! Of course his redneck dad bought it used from some person with a profile name of CaliGirl, yeah...the laptop wasn't factory restored or anything. In his dad's defense, it's not like I would expect him to know how to restore the machine. There was no anti-virus or malware software on it. So I brought it back to Sac and now it's like a brand new machine, a brand new PROTECTED machine. :)

I did some intern work at school this week, so basically being an intern means you do what no one else wants to do and you don't get paid for it? Got it. They fed us though, so can't complain. We start classes back up on Monday and I must say I've enjoyed the break.

I moved out today, they are making my room into the baby's room and Jodi's mom lives next door now, so no reason for me to be there. I'm okay with it, it was time to move on. So tonight I'm in a hotel, will check some rooms for rent out but may just stay in a hotel until I start working. I enjoy my privacy and my room has a stove and fridge so I'm good. Just cheaper to rent a room though.

Um what else, that's about it. Got a little melancholy today packing up but it's a good thing and I'm actually feeling so comfortable right now in my room. It's nice and quiet and I don't feel any responsibility like I did when I was care giving for Jodi and the baby. I'm back to it just being me against the world! haha!

With the new term starting, I was hoping for some eye candy...I am once again disappointed! Really!? There was one hot guy my first day of interning but he had a wedding ring on and I've never seen him around campus. The way we are scheduled, you can go six weeks without seeing someone that you used to see each day in class. I haven't seen Hottie this term, and probably will not, because of how we are scheduled. Kinda okay with that though.

Alright, time to wrap this up and just enjoy some Hotness!! ;) peace

Thieving Thursday: Left Cheek

I hadn't been planning on doing a Thieving Thursday today but I ran across this post:

According to research revealed in this Slate story, Americans are twice as likely to report regularly attending Christian church services as to actually go to church services with any sort of regularity. Which, apparently, means that we're no more religious than, say, Europe.

But of course, there's more than meets the eye, right? A few thoughts:

To read the rest of the post go to Left Cheek.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of Alien Thoughts

Blerable

Remember what I was saying about how she constantly fucks up easy shit? Yeah...

Stander4Palin takes a seat

Somebody is sucking at their job

Maybe Abigail was sending letters to John in Britain, who then took the time to express some of her concerns in his letters of encouragement that he sent to the dudes at the Constitutional Convention? Maybe? I don't know, and quite honestly, I don't give a shit. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that most people feel the same way I do in not giving a shit about what Abigail wrote, when she wrote it, who she was writing to, and where her husband was when she was writing it. That's what makes this smallblunder@hotmail.com even worse. It was made while discussing a subject that doesn't advance anything at all in a redundant resume padding book. Good thing the only person to notice this so far seems to be a Stander4Palin. Sure would suck to catch a bunch of grief over something so meaningless. <_< >_>

But What Does David Keene Have To Say?

Pass

:'(

My World Is Collapsing In On Itself

0_0

At Least It's Not An Illness

And here we are-

Always?

Just how did she end up in this most shitty of situations? Since the answer to that question is layered with several depressing items, I'm going to list them because paragraphs are for.....

- She surrounded herself with incompetent jackholes, who are in far over their head. I guessing that the anonymous attacks from the "McCain Campaign" left her feeling a little paranoid, so she started farming all of her "talent" from C4P. She could definitely trust those people, right? FFS, they have 4Palin in their name. If only she could have seen what Conservatives4Palin.blogspot.com looked like before Joey24007 got ramrocks to join him. It kinda looked like fotns-vf.blogspot.com, but 1,000,000x worse. And they (she) also fail(s) on the trustworthiness bit too, but I'll have more on that much later.

- She adopted the blogger mentality (which I'm going to blame on the C4P imports) of commenting on anything and everything no matter how irrelevant and stupid it may be ex: Carrie Prejean and Dr. Fucking Laura. And during this pointless blabble/twitter storm of her own creation, she made several embarrassing grammatical errors. When a good majority of the voting populous already think that you're a drooling moron, it's a really good idea to avoid fucking up simple words like "admittance" and "admission." Even more so since it seems that she has a perpetual hard on for adjectives. You would think that after the first couple of times it happened that she would slow down when talking, and double check her oh so important tweets, but no- she kept on chugging along the fuck up road to Failsville, USA. This would lead the casual observer to think that A) She's lazy and doesn't give a shit, B) She really is as stupid as the media portrayed her to be, or C) She's lazy and oblivious to the problem, and her numbnut advisers can't bring themselves to tell her the bad news. I'm going to go with C because the others are too disheartening.

- She never took the time to sit down and shut up. This one is directly related with the last dash. In the 24/7 news cycle people can get pretty tired of seeing your face and hearing your voice extremely quick. When you're doing your own thing, commenting on shit that won't matter in seven days, and all of a sudden your first born daughter decides to go on the most watched twelve week vacation to "find herself", or some bullshit, it really puts a fucking drain on people's minds. Add to that a book tour for a completely redundant book that doesn't advance anything meaningful to people's lives and a 8 week TV show.... fuck. Glad to see that she seems to have quieted down recently. Not spending every single day in the public eye has done wonders for Huckabee and Romney.

-Bristol. Bristol. Bristol. Bertolli. This might be the hardest pill for her to swallow, but Bristol is a big, fat, annoying tub of miserable failure. She could have avoided a ton of headaches and the "trashy hillbilly" smears if Bristol decided to not let that cock sucking scumbag ejaculate inside her womb. Woe is life. Bertolli should have been pushed into a deep hole a long time ago. I don't know the names of any of the other 2012 contenders kids and I wouldn't be able to pick any of them out of a crowd. I fucking love that. Sadly, if her facebook is any indication, Bristol is going to be tagging along with mom on all of her fun adventures. ( I would love to know how Bertolli's beautiful mind plans to better a third world shit hole like Haiti.)

- The media and public think of her as an unserious person, so she decides to become an overly descriptive stand up comedian: "anti-dendite puppy-kicking, chain-smoking (adjectives!) porn producers." WTF?

There is a lot more, but this is way more depressing than I thought it was going to be. It's not all bad though. She does get some pretty cool consolation prizes. The most awesome, of course, is getting fucking rich. I've always believed that getting paid is awesome, and anyone who tries to use that as a slam against her is probably a jealous testicular cyst. I hope that Todd makes it rain one hundred dollar bills on that bearskin rug by the fire every single day. The other prize is knowing that the GOP cunts that are spitting on her now will turn her into a conservative demigod after she dies. Being worshiped for eternity is always fun!

greck!

Writing Wednesday: 2010

2010 was a great learning process for me, if not the most productive in terms of shear volume.

I wrote one book that I feel is publishable, THE PIZZA DIARIES, and got halfway through two others. Not quite as productive as I would have liked in terms of finished products. However I did an awful lot of revising and editing.

I've rewritten more this year than I actually wrote. I've done well over 100,000 words of revisions on my own stuff and offered over 5,000 of suggestions for other peoples work. As far as writing I wrote a little over 100,000 words, not counting this blog.

I will have to admit that my writing has gotten much better even in the first draft stage, but it has slowed way down. This problem will work itself out as things I'm picking up in the critiques and revisions start to become automatic, instead of having to write something, think about it and rewrite it.

The other learning process I'm going through is learning to format ebooks. It really isn't that hard just time intensive. A nice thing about it is as I read my work, while doing the formating, my mind doesn't get caught up in the story so it is a great way to do the final edit.

I was hoping to have a treat for all the readers of this blog and put out a free ebook of some of my short stories before the end of the year. But due to a lot things I won't be able to do that until the end of January.

So for next year I plan on writing, critiquing, revising, rinse, lather, repeat.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of Alien Thoughts

New House!

What dark secret lies behind those doors?

(Reuters) - The reasons behind Bristol Palin's apparent move to this quiet, tree-lined community south of Phoenix remain unclear, but her new neighbors say they are ready to roll out the welcome mat.

I think the reason she bought it was to live in it, dude.

The 20-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin and third-place finisher on "Dancing with the Stars" quietly bought a five-bedroom, 3,900-square-foot home in the Cobblestones Farms neighborhood of Maricopa for $172,000 on December 10.

Countless hours, turning into, countless days
A doubtful outlook...

Digging from my grave, that's my home actually
Sick and angry for no reason at all
Falling into Manson's thrall...

And how do you buy a house loudly?

News of the purchase, which only surfaced in the last few days, triggered media speculation over why the Alaska native would relocate to the lower 48 -- including reports she planned to study journalism at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

Moving to Arizona to study journalism is both gay and boring. Where's the secret births and baby cloning facility?

A Palin family spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on Bristol's plans for the home, built in 2005 and featuring a three-car garage and landscaped backyard.

Leave well enough alone, annihilate the telephone
Be what only you can see, a curious and odd belief
Meant to walk the crooked mile
Never blink, never smile
Sees itself in nothing much
A skeletal emotion push

Arizona State, meanwhile, dismissed the college reports.

Phew!

"Actually its a rumor. She's neither enrolled nor has she applied to ASU at this time," Sharon Keeler, director of media relations at the university, told Reuters.

The first thing that came to mind was "When did colleges get media relation people?" then it was like "Oh yeah, people get raped and killed at colleges all the time."

Maricopa Vice Mayor Edward Farrell said he showed Bristol's father, Todd Palin, around town in April but could shed little light on the reasons for the home purchase.

Again with the dumb "reasons" line. Hey, douche, she bought the house to live in it. Duh!

"He never indicated anything. I got the feeling that maybe they were looking around for possibly a second home, maybe a winter home, something to get out of the winter months in Alaska, just like the snowbirds do in the Midwest," he said.

Please, sir, do go on. I could listen to you prattle on and on about nothing for ever.

"But never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that he was looking for somewhere for his daughter," Farrell said. "When I saw that Bristol had bought, I started rehashing the visit and tour and thought, he never gave any signs of that."

You must have some dull fucking dreams, guy.

'A NICE SURPRISE'

AHHHH! Don't sneak up on me like that, Caps Lock

Originally a farming community about 40 minutes south of Phoenix, Maricopa was incorporated in 2003 during the housing boom. Its sprawling, planned subdivisions offered cheaper prices than the Phoenix valley, but were hit hard by the foreclosure crisis.

Getting sleepy...

The city noted about 45,000 residents last year, up from just over 1,000 in 2000.

Getting boringererererer

Bristol's future neighbors in Cobblestone Farms, which features a small park with a little lake and date palms to frame the desert setting, were largely positive.

Date palms!?!?!?!?! I have to check that place out some day.

Local drug store pharmacist Ronny Kassees and his wife Monika live five doors up the street from Palin's new home in their own, slightly smaller house.

Congratulations are in order for Ronny and Monkia Kassees. They live five doors up from Bristol Palin's new home in their own, slightly smaller home. lol, I bet they're poor.

The couple bought five years ago near the top of the market, and said they were "way underwater" with the mortgage, in a street that has seen a wave of foreclosures and several homes stand empty.

Yup, definitely poor.

This "story" is two pages long!

I'm gonna pop

I want to die.

"Their buying a house is a nice surprise, and we're kind of hoping it may turn around the economy of Maricopa and the surrounding areas," Kassees said.

I hear that if you hope hard enough, your wife just might turn into a real boy. What?

"I was a little shocked at first, but if she's going to bring the property value up, that's probably my best bet. If it will stimulate the economy in Maricopa, then I am all for it," he said.

Why is this asshole still telling us how shocked/surprised he was that someone bought a home five house down from him? And she's not going to raise the property value or stimulate the economy of your shitty town. Not "for it" anymore, Kassess? Tough shit, Cuntface, because she already bought the place and there isn't anything you can do about it. Mlehhhh

"If she wants, she can buy my house too. If she made me a fair offer, I might consider it."

Fuck you.

Natasha Mays, a 36-year-old mother of two, lives opposite Palin's house. She first heard Palin had moved to the neighborhood when television crews pitched up on her doorstep.

Sound like fun.

"I've seen her a couple of times on episodes of 'Dancing with the Stars,' but I know that she'll like the neighborhood. It's a really great neighborhood. Hopefully they'll give her a little bit of peace and rest when she does move in, if she does," Mays said.

I'm sure that you talking to every microphone that gets shoved in your face will make her feel real welcome to you really great neighborhood, Natasha Mays.

Meanwhile Richard Brock, 48, a property investor fixing a house up the street from Palin's that he hopes to flip, said Bristol's arrival would be good for the community.

Why is this article still going on?

"You may agree or disagree with her mother's politics, but I think she held up pretty well on 'Dancing with the Stars,'" I really do. I think it was tough on her. My wife was watching, and I said 'that girl's handling her business pretty well,'" Brock said.

It's never going to stop, is it? :'(((((((

"I'm a little more centrist, but I'm not going to put my politics on Bristol. I'm just glad she's here," he said.

Ew, what? I really should have read that last paragraph. You better not put anything on her, you creepy fuck. Richard Brock, 48, a property investor fixing a house up the street from Palin's that he hopes to flip, is a creepy fuck.

(Additional reporting by Yereth Rosen in Anchorage and Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Jerry Norton)

4 people contributed nothing to the advancement of the human race. I hope they all get ozena.

Great Moments In Political Child Rearing: The Roman Edition

Do it-

Augustus- The King Of Kings

Pretty awesome dude-

"Upon his death, Augustus was declared a God by the Senate to be worshiped by the Romans."

Julia The Elder- His loser daughter

Scandal

As the daughter of Augustus, mother of two of his heirs, Lucius and Gaius, and wife of another, Tiberius, it must have seemed to Julia that her future was assured. Yet in 2 BC she was arrested for adultery and treason; Augustus sent her a letter in Tiberius' name declaring the marriage null and void. He also asserted in public that she had been plotting against his own life. Though at the time Augustus had been passing legislation to promote family values, he likely knew of her intrigues with other men but hesitated for some time to accuse her. Several of Julia's supposed lovers were exiled, most notably Sempronius Gracchus, while Iullus Antonius (son of Mark Antony and Fulvia) was forced to commit suicide. Others have suggested that Julia's alleged paramours were members of her city clique, who wished to remove Tiberius from favour and replace him with Antonius. This would explain the letter, written by Gracchus, asking Augustus to allow Julia to divorce Tiberius.

It is hard to reconstruct what actually happened, but historians agree that she had taken part in nightly drinking parties on the Roman Forum and that Antonius was her lover as he is the only lover mentioned by more than two contemporary historians. Several men were also reported to have enjoyed her favors, but this may have been mere gossip.

Exile

Reluctant to execute her, Augustus decided on Julia's exile, in harsh conditions. She was confined on an island called Pandateria (modern Ventotene), with no men in sight, forbidden even to drink wine. The island itself measures less than 1.75 square kilometres (0.68 sq mi). She was allowed no visitor unless her father had given permission and had been informed of the stature, complexion, and even of any marks or scars upon his body. Scribonia, Julia's biological mother, accompanied her into exile. Upon any mention of her and Julia, he would say: aith ophelon agamos t'emeni agonos t'apolesthai meaning "Would I were wifeless, or had childless died!" [from the Iliad]. He rarely called her by any other name than that of his three imposthumes, or cancers. The exile of his daughter left Augustus both regretful and rancorous for the rest of his life.

Five years later, Julia was allowed to return to the mainland, though Augustus never forgave her and ordered her to remain in Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria). He explicitly gave instructions that she should not be buried in his Mausoleum of Augustus. When Tiberius became emperor, he cut off Julia's allowance, ordered that she be confined to the one room in her house, and that she should be deprived of all human company.

If only...:(

Jenifer Solis Miss Globe International 2010

Miss Globe Spain Jenifer Solis was crowned Miss Globe International 2010 held Sunday December 26th 2010 in Northern Cyprus.

Miss Globe International 2010 ( Jenifer Solis )

Miss Globe International 2009 ( Winner / Contestants )

Miss Globe International 2008 ( Winner / Contestants )

My Lovely Christmas Present:

Over Christmas I got a lovely little Windows virus. I went to use my old Macfee Anti-Virus program and the virus was so bad it wouldn't run. Fun.

So I am done with Windows. On my PC I switched to Ubuntu (Linux) and I'll use my Mac for formating things in MS Office. Ubuntu comes with OpenOffice and reads the Word formating, even the higher functions like TOCs, comments and stuff.

I'll be playing around with the new operating system and seeing what it can do. So far I've been able to do all the things that I could do in Windows except ASP Programming which I haven't done seriously in a few years anyway.

I haven't used Linux in nearly a decade so it is a little different than it was then.

I was wondering if there are any other people out there that have given Windows the boot?

By Darrell B. Nelson author of Alien Thoughts

Sorry, Fats

No one likes a mean fat woman telling them what to eat

New Exploding Faces!

Little Stuttering Jimmy sounds different on paper too, Dana. Does that make him "inauthentic" as well?

Dana Perino Is Bigoted Towards Stuttering People

Super genius

Appearing on National Public Radio’s light-hearted quiz show “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me,” which aired over the weekend, Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis — and she didn’t know what it was.

“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about . . . the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”

Something about living in glass houses and throwing stones

Also-

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Update- It gets worse


Greck!

It's horrible

Miss Universe Kosovo 2010 Kështjella Pepshi

Kështjella Pepshi is a pageant titleholder from Kosovo, who won the national title of Miss Universe Kosovo 2010. She competed in Miss Universe 2010, but did not place.

courtesy photo: miss universe kosovo website