saturday randoms…

wow, so another week begins?  you folks are enjoying the first day of a well deserved weekend while i go about starting my week.  don't get me wrong, i love my days off.  thursday and friday are awesome days off.  sometimes though i am a tad jealous of the folks who get to do stuff on weekends.  then again nothing ever really happens when i take off on weekends, so i guess i'll stick with life as it is.

so did everyone catch the new york post's political cartoon on wednesday?  me too!!

i'll be honest i'm not certain what i think about it.  i don't think it was meant to be racist, but i do think he intended for everyone to think it was.  don't get me wrong, i laughed my ass off because i love inappropriate humour.  my first thought was "holy shit he just called obama a monkey. this guy is so fired…" 

then i remembered the chimp up in connecticut and how the cops shot him and realized the cartoon was funnier than i had given it credit for.  not only did he spoof a real life event, he got to voice his opinion on the stimulus bill as well.

see, generally when something is done that you don't like it's fairly common to compare the abilities of the person who did it to those of a monkey.  hell, i often tell people that 95% of the time a retarded monkey could do my job as well or better than me.  5% of the time i'm incredibly useful, but that's only 5%.

now here's where the problem comes in.  obama–if you weren't aware–is half black.  jackass racists have a history of referring to black people as monkeys. 

so is the cartoon racist?  probably not.  was the idea that you might think it's racist heavily considered  and embraced?  probably.  am i ok with that?  absolutely.

to that end it doesn't bother me that reverend al is out and about pretending people give a shit about him and his agenda.  i can actually see where he can legitimately have a problem with the cartoon.  i don't' agree, but i can see where he's coming from.  at least he's not just making shit up this time.  the people that are bugging me are the bleeding heart liberals who all of a sudden are super patriotic and think the office of president is the holy grail (since january 20th).  where were they when george bush was being picked on left and right?  how come they never told me to get behind my president no matter what?

i loved bill clinton and mocked him mercilessly.  i hated george bush and mocked him mercilessly.  i want to like obama but am going to mock him mercilessly.  that's what happens when you get the cool airplane.

just to shut youse up, google "george bush monkey."  bush took his share of bashing on that front with my favourite site being bushorchimp.com…holy shit did he look like a chimp!

i am thirsty as all hell.  this is a problem.  i'm always thirsty.  i don't know how not to drink.  it doesn't matter what it is.  water, soda, alcohol, tang, hot chocolate.  i drink a lot of it, often.  this isn't necessarily the healthiest way to go about things.  i'm all about excess.

speaking of soda, i hate pepsi.  i am absolutely the guy who will order a coke and when told that they have pepsi instead of coke will ask "what else do you have?"  substituting pepsi for coke is not ok with me.  fuck pepsi.  that said i kinda like diet pepsi.  better than diet coke, but not nearly as much as i like coke zero.  wild cherry pepsi is also quite delicious.  but regular pepsi?  nopes.

weird.  right after i typed that a guy at work asked me why i don't drink pepsi. 

on that note, i think i'm done.  cheers!