tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47188660615159401922024-02-19T06:50:25.759-08:00ScreedsterThe Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-2021349082032008082014-09-17T09:08:00.001-07:002014-10-07T07:37:35.761-07:00Dear Authors: You ain't better than NOBODY.<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">So Screedster hasn't felt like getting into this Amazon-Hachette thing, because there are <a href="http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/">already skilled people telling the Hachette supporters what naive fucking dipshits they are</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">But then yesterday I came across this letter to Amazon from "Authors United" and signed by people like Richard Patterson, Amy Hempel, Richard Russo, and a lot of others who are carrying water for Hachette, which is a corporation that doesn't give the slightest shit about them any more than Amazon does.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">I wasn't very far into into when I realized it was full of stupid goddamn statements, but it was only when I came across this paragraph that I blew my fucking top:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Amazon has every right to refuse to sell consumer goods in response to a pricing disagreement with a wholesaler. We all appreciate discounted razor blades and cheaper shoes. But books are not consumer goods. Books cannot be written more cheaply, nor can authors be outsourced to China. Books are not toasters or televisions. Each book is the unique, quirky creation of a lonely, intense, and often expensive struggle on the part of a single individual, a person whose living depends on that book finding readers. This is the process Amazon is obstructing.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Holy shit. I couldn't believe they said that. I mean, <a href="http://screedster.blogspot.com/2011/08/get-over-yourselves-writer-douchebags.html">I knew a lot of writers were entitled douchebags</a>, but </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">HOLY HOLY SHIT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Richard Patterson, Amy Hempel, Richard Russo and all you other people who signed this letter: do you realize that REAL PEOPLE make those fucking razor blades and shoes and toasters and televisions?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">That when the companies that make razor blades and shoes and toasters and televisions get in a dispute with Amazon, real people feel the pinch?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">That when razor blade and shoe manufacturing are "outsourced to China," that real people lose their jobs?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Real people, by the way, who are no fucking worse for you just because they don't write books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Real people, by the way, who are your goddamn AUDIENCE, who need money to buy YOUR fucking books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">But YOU should be exempt from the trials and tribulations that they face, because YOU write books. You are unique, and quirky, and lonely, and writing those books is often expensive, unlike those poor mindless drones who stand all day in the assembly line, derp derp derp.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Holy fucking Christ fuck.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">If you were stuck in the mountains in the snow with people who made razor blades, shoes, toasters, and televisions, and you all realized you had to start eating each other in order to survive, your argument would be, "I must dine on ze flesh of ze common worker, because I am ze artiste!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">Fuck you. FUCK YOU.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">I cannot fucking believe that the inheritors of Dickens's, Sinclair's, and Steinbeck's legacies would have the unmitigated gall to suggest that because you're a writer, you're somehow more important than other people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">You know what I wish? I wish each and every one of you never makes another penny writing, and you have to get jobs making razor blades, shoes, toasters, or televisions. Do that for five years, day after day, and then come back and tell me that fucking delicate genius authors ought to be treated differently from everyone else.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px;">In the meantime, go fuck yourself.</span></span></div>
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The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-20010400379604064232013-07-31T07:55:00.001-07:002013-07-31T07:59:39.128-07:00Lauren Green, Dan Gainor, and All the Fucking Evil Retards Who Watch and Work At Fox NewsI just watched <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/07/30/the_reza_aslan_interview_reveals_our_collective_ignorance/">Lauren Green's interview with Reza Aslan</a>. Then I read <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/30/liberal-media-miss-reality-in-jabs-at-lauren-green-interview-with-zealot-author/">Dan Gainor's defense of her</a>. Then I went over to Amazon and looked at the "reviews" of Aslan's book.<br />
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And HOLY SHIT.<br />
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I guess the first thing I should say is that maybe Aslan was a damn idiot for going on that channel in the first place. I don't know what he was thinking.<br />
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Because everybody who works for that channel is a FUCKING EVIL RETARD. I don't really know a better way to put it. A FUCKING EVIL RETARD. And except for maybe some little old ladies who are actually really nice people but are scared and alone and are thus easy targets for the FUCKING EVIL RETARDS who work at Fox News, everyone who WATCHES Fox News is a FUCKING EVIL RETARD too.<br />
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First of all, Republican Christians love to write about Muslims. They love to write about Democrats. White people love to write about black people.<br />
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But when a Muslim writes about Christians, or a black person writes about whites, or a Democrat writes about Republicans, well then, WHOA, NELLY!!! THAT'S BIASED!!!<br />
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It's kind of like how these same asshole retards think of food: Chinese people eat Chinese food, Indians eat Indian food, and white people eat "normal" food.<br />
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Here's a clue for you FUCKING EVIL RETARDS. Everyone is biased. Muslims are biased. Black people are biased. Democrats are biased. AND SO ARE YOU, WHITEY.<br />
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That doesn't mean, however, that you can't write scholarly academic works about things that you're not. I mean, none of us are fucking ancient Romans, so then how the fuck, according to your bullshit ideas, could anyone write about ancient Rome without some agenda? You descended from Gauls or Britons or some shit like that, so obviously YOU MUST HATE ROME, according to your thinking.<br />
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That's bullshit. That's retarded.<br />
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Notice how the so-called geniuses who get on that channel touting their books about how the Muslims and blacks are GONNA GET YOU are never challenged on the basis of being Christian honkeys. If you're going to get down in Aslan's ass about being a Muslim, then shouldn't you work over the Christians who write about Muslims?<br />
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Of course not. Because Chinese people eat Chinese food, and whitey eats normal food.<br />
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Now your FUCKING EVIL RETARDS who watch Fox News may not know better, because they're DUMBER THAN A FUCKING BAG OF HAMMERS. But the FUCKING EVIL RETARDS who WORK AT Fox (well, most of them) definitely DO KNOW. And that's what makes them even MORE EVIL than the dummies who watch. The whole reason they get up in the morning is to fan the flames of hatred and ignorance.<br />
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Second of all, just because you believe in some bullshit hocus pocus with all your heart doesn't mean that it's true. In fact, I'm here to tell you that it's NOT true.<br />
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Jesus did not die on the cross and come back to life.<br />
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Jesus did not bring other people back from the dead.<br />
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Jesus did not turn the water into wine, or walk on the water, or any of that other bullshit.<br />
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Also, Mohammed didn't do any of the magical horseshit people say he did. That rock in Mecca that everyone runs around 10 times or whatever is just some dumb meteorite.<br />
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And Moses didn't go up on any fucking mountain and talk to fucking God and get some rocks from him with shit written on them.<br />
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NONE OF THAT STUFF REALLY HAPPENED.<br />
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It's fine with me if you want to believe it. I don't care. Be a dumbass. BUT LEAVE OTHER PEOPLE THE FUCK ALONE ABOUT THE BULLSHIT MAGICAL SHIT YOU BELIEVE.<br />
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I got nothing else to say, other than FUCK YOU.<br />
<br />The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-8188137280373129772013-04-15T10:43:00.000-07:002013-04-15T10:43:22.035-07:00Hugh Howey and the Fucking Online PC TalibanSo this Hugh Howey author dude writes a post about how this woman annoyed him at a conference. In the post he called her a bitch, and the whole Internet went nuts condemning him for it.<br />
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Jesus Christ, you people are worse than a bunch of fucking Southern Baptists.<br />
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You're worse than the fucking Puritans. I'll bet half of you were busy making scarlet letters to make Howey wear around his goddamn neck.<br />
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It was like the Internet had turned into my mom. IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE, DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL. TSK, TSK. TSK TSK.<br />
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GO FUCK YOURSELVES.<br />
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Save your outrage for people who want to feed the Jews into ovens and shit like that. Your TSK, TSKING is fucking appalling.<br />
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He didn't name the woman. How do you know she wasn't a bitch? She sure sounded like a bitch. But OH NO, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT WORD, say the motherfucking word police. Christ, it's like the people who say "she passed" instead of "she died." YO, SHE DEAD, BITCHES.<br />
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"Bitch" is so NOT like the N word. It's not a racial slur. It's behavior-based. Yeah, it tends to be applied to women, but not always. For instance, you're all my motherfucking bitches for your ridiculous behavior, whether you're a dude or lady or whateverz. Dickhead is usually a term for the dudes. So is prick. We're really going to get into whether one word is worse than the other? WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP USING THAT FILTHY LANGUAGE ALTOGETHER? Hey, fuck you, Mom!<br />
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There are lot of bitches in the world. A lot of bastards too. A lot of shitasses, a lot of motherfuckers, a lot of cocksuckers. Oh no, can I not say "cocksucker" anymore? That offends the lads and ladies who like to suck cock? What about the people who really like assholes? What about the people who like to fuck their moms? Don't they have feelings too?<br />
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The worst thing is, YOU motherfuckers like to go around telling other people how they're small-minded and intolerant. Usually, those people ARE small-minded and intolerant, and they need to stop fucking being that way, or at least leave other people the hell alone. "IF YOU DON'T LIKE THOSE BAD WORDS OR THOSE BOOBIES ON TV, YOU CAN JUST TURN IT OFF. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE SCAT PORN, DON'T CLICK THAT LINK." Isn't that what you say?<br />
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So where do you get off turning into the goddamn language police? NO, NO, SAY DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD PERSON. You really want a world where people eat turds live on the Internet, but no one can call a bitch a bitch?<br />
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THAT'S DIFFERENT. EATING TURDS LIVE ON THE INTERNET DOESN'T HURT ANYONE. BUT THAT NAME HURT THAT WOMAN.<br />
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Oh. So it was hurtful. Does that mean that not only could he not call her a bitch, but he should have avoided any kind of account that might have upset that woman in the least little way? Is that really what you're saying?<br />
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The fucking outrage was so bad Howey even took down his post. So congratulations! Your PC crowdsourced filtering accomplished its mission. And what was even more appalling were the comments on his apology. YOU SOUND SINCERE, BUT WE'RE WATCHING YOU FROM NOW ON.<br />
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Fuck.<br />
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And also, shit. Bitch. Bastard. Goddamn. Cock. Cunt. Motherfucker. Cockass. Shitass. Dickhead. Jesus H Fucking Christ.<br />
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Oh, and FUCK YOU.<br />
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<br />The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-1929469948764355422011-11-08T11:43:00.000-08:002011-11-09T07:41:27.018-08:00Pope Benedict, Boy Scouts deserve the same rage you have for Paterno and Penn StateLook, this Penn State makes me sick. But a lot of you people foaming at the mouth are a bunch of fucking hypocrites.<br />
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I hope this Sandusky guy goes to prison and some real sickos in there skin him alive or something. Cut him up piece by piece, maybe make him eat himself like the way Hannibal did to that guy in that fucking godawful <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> sequel. I hope everybody else involved with this gets what they deserve. People are right to be sick and enraged at how this was allowed to occur.<br />
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But how many of you fuckers with pitchforks and torches are Catholic?<br />
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Here's what I've been seeing all day:<br />
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"How could JoePa/that grad ass/other PSU people see/hear about something like this and not go to the police?"<br />
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Well, ask Joseph Fucking Ratzinger and a bunch of those other fuckers with funny hats. <br />
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Your goddamn "infallible" pope did the EXACT SAME THING that Joe Paterno and these other Penn State officials did. And it wasn't just one perv he covered up for, either--it was THOUSANDS of pervs. Yeah, I know he said he was sorry (like Joe Paterno) and made it so that child sex abuse was an automatic ticket to hell, but his <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/apr/24/children.childprotection">involvement in obstructing justice</a> is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html?pagewanted=all">well documented</a>.<br />
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So if you're all angry and frothing and shit about Penn State, and then you go to fucking Catholic Church on Sunday and genuflect and make the sign of the cross and all that shit, then you're a goddamn hypocrite. And frankly, when it comes down to it, I don't know if you're much better than Joe Paterno, because you've allowed these church officials who obstructed justice to remain in place. CHILD RAPE ENABLERS RUN YOUR CHURCH.<br />
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Don't feed me that shit about the Church is sacred and the people flawed. What a load of horseshit. Get that flawed fucker out of the Vatican and put in someone a little less flawed--someone who, I don't know, didn't keep information about child rape from law enforcement. I mean, Christ, that's a no-brainer. And yet there he is, Pope Benedict, saying Midnight Mass and making you kiss his fucking ring.<br />
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And it isn't just Catholics. Too many other people, Protestant or Jewish or whatever think Pope Benedict deserves respect. He doesn't. Not any more than those Penn State officials. If the number of offenses matter, he deserves even less. Whatever hell you have reserved for them, he should be there too.<br />
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What's more, everyone ought to demand that the Boy Scouts of America be run out of every school and place they meet until they make public <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/14/us-boyscouts-abuse-idUSTRE78C7R320110914">documents that chronicle thousands of molestation incidents over decades</a>. Just like the goddamn Catholic Church, the goddamn Boy Scouts of America have no business making moral pronouncements about a fucking thing.<br />
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You are ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT RIGHT to be pissed off about what happened at Penn State. But there are a lot of other people out there who did the exact same thing, and they deserve your fucking rage as well.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-43099236162730039572011-10-06T07:12:00.000-07:002011-10-06T07:15:02.738-07:00Shut the fuck up, seatwarmersSo if you get to eat bologna instead of digging in the fucking dirt for a grain of rice, you don't have a right to protest?<br />
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As long as you can find one person in the world who has it worse than you, you should be thankful and shut up?<br />
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FUCK YOU.<br />
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Let me explain something to you, you piece of shit.<br />
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Those goddamn motherfucking oligarchs on Wall Street built a ponzi scheme with the economy, and when it all came crashing down, WE all bailed them out to the tune of TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS of dollars. They whined and bitched at the slightest hint of reducing their salaries, and their butt boys in Congress dutifully backed them up.<br />
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In the meantime, while stock brokers kept piling up the bonuses, auto workers took huge paycuts.<br />
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State workers and teachers took huge paycuts.<br />
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A ton of other people just got laid off. Or lost their homes. Or got laid off AND lost their homes.<br />
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And now the Republican butt boys are set to gut Medicare and Social Security so these criminal oligarch fucks can keep the party rolling along for themselves. Everyone has to sacrifice--except the highest earners.<br />
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But the Occupy Wall Street people are just spoiled, you say. No one is supposed to mind, no one is supposed to say anything, so long as you're scraping by and still breathing.<br />
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When we're reduced to living like the Somalians, or black Sudanese, or Bangladeshi, or North Koreans, THEN we can bitch, huh?<br />
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FUCK YOU. EAT SHIT AND DIE.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-47736791018488459642011-08-11T07:53:00.000-07:002011-08-11T07:53:15.978-07:00Get over yourselves, writer douchebags.So you're a writer.<br />
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We'll, whoop-te-fucking-do.<br />
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I know, I know. Nobody understands you. And you feel things so much more deeply than everyone else. You're always daydreaming, always thinking up your next story.<br />
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Unlike the person at the cash register. Unlike the guy working on your car. Unlike the person teaching your kids.<br />
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You're special.<br />
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The fuck you are.<br />
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You might have a skill that some other people don't. You know what? They have their own skills. I don't know why you think your skills are so superior. Because you're in such demand? The fuck you are. If you're Stephen King, your skills are in demand. Otherwise, your shit is going to end up in one of those discount book stores in those sad little outlet malls on the side of the interstate, right next to the Nike outlet. And the Nike outlet will be selling a lot more socks than the bookstore will be of your book, even if your book is 3-4 dollars less than the socks. And that's if you're lucky.<br />
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I don't know how we got on this kick about writers being rock stars. You know who are rock stars? Rock stars.<br />
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I think some of it is leftover from the days when people actually gave a shit when a book came out. People used to line up to get the latest Hemingway, back when people didn't have TV and X-Box. Now it's news when three people publish a book: Stephen King, Dan Brown, and J.K. Rowling. Oh, and rock stars.<br />
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Maybe some of it is because of the Internet, where you can now be in a big circle jerk with other writers and pretend that no one in the world gives a shit about anything or anyone but writing and writers.<br />
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And even if you are in demand, how much are you making on your book? Five grand? Holy shit, you'd be doing better at Wal-Mart. I've seen some shit from people who've been on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list, who've made a lot more than five grand on their book, but after all their expenses they're still left with maybe 20 grand, if they're lucky. That's sad, dude. That's barely scraping by.<br />
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But you resent the hell out of that, don't you? In your world, you'd be paid what your writing is worth. Well, here's the deal, smart guy: you're getting paid what your writing is worth right now. You can bitch all you want about how your werewolf book is worth more than $.99 on Kindle. Go ahead: bitch. You know who ain't bitching? Your auto mechanic. You want your fucking car fixed, you'll pay what he asks. Or get the fuck out of his shop.<br />
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And please don't give me that shit about mankind's eternal thirst for narrative. Mankind may have a thirst, but there are a million watering holes just like yours. There's no shortage of material for thirst-quenching.<br />
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Oh, but wait. You don't care about recompense. No, you are <i>ze fucking artiste</i>! You suffer for your goddamn werewolf romance Art. Well, good for you! Now take your head out of your ass.<br />
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I'm serious. You have your head so far up your ass you can't write about anything other than the inside of your own rectum. You're so in love with the idea of yourself as a writer that you can't write about anything that anyone gives a shit about. I mean, who cares about you? You sit around in front of a computer all day. That's boring as shit to read about. Other people actually <i>do</i> stuff. Step outside yourself, quit worrying about being Mr. Fancy Writer Cockass, and write about them. If you really have skills, congratulations. Now shut up and put your skills to use. Be a voice for the voiceless. You remember Barton Fink, right? That's you. The guy next door has some good stories. He has something in the box. You don't have shit.<br />
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The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-63316221247904980702011-07-26T06:45:00.000-07:002011-07-26T07:18:41.856-07:00Get your fat ass up those stairs.I don't know about where you are, but where I am, there are fat people everywhere. <br />
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I ain't talking about just overweight. It's true we have body image problems in this country. If you haven't figured it out yet, you can't look like a <i>Sports Illustrated</i> swimsuit model without being on the Cigarette & Tic Tac Diet and having some geek Photoshop 20 more pounds off you. We have a very fucked-up view about what's actually normal.<br />
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No, I'm talking about fucking whales. I'm talking about brontosauruses. You think the brontosaurus never existed? Come take a look around where I live. These are people who are running up the price of cotton worldwide because we can't grow enough to make clothes to cover their obscene fatness. <br />
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Look, I'm no doctor. I'm sure that in some cases medical conditions are responsible for people having a two-foot-deep exoskeleton of blubber. But I'm also pretty sure that some people have that because they're stuffing their pieholes with Ding Dongs while watching <i>Jersey Shore</i>.<br />
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Fat is not a lifestyle. That kind of fat is unhealthy. It's gross. I shouldn't have to accommodate your fatness. I was in a Mexican restaurant recently, and a woman was so fat she had to squeeze to get through the very generous entrance to the restrooms. She's probably the kind who would think about suing the owner so he would make a bigger entrance. Pretty soon they'll be petitioning Congress to pass The People Who Are Fucking Fatasses Act, and make everyone build doors that are five feet wider. <br />
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I'm glad people get kicked off planes for being too fat. It should happen more often. I shouldn't have to deal with your blubber spilling over into my seat. I don't see how that's your right. You should get your ass off the plane, and fucking walk. Walk 500 miles, and you might have lost enough to fly on the way back.<br />
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But maybe the thing that really gets me are stairs. Look, I know some people have disabilities that are no fault of their own. I know some people are 90 years old. But everyone else can climb one fucking flight of stairs. I'm guessing they could climb three or four. But one is definitely possible. <br />
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And yet perfectly healthy people, people who are not yet fat but will be, can't be bothered to climb a single fucking flight of stairs. I'm pretty sure some of them think they're important. Stairs are for proles, or some shit like that. But others are just fucking lazy. <br />
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So here's my suggestion of the day: get your fucking ass up those stairs. Do it today, and tomorrow it will get easier. In fact you might even start enjoying it. A few flights of stairs isn't going to kill your knees. It'll help your heart. It'll burn a few calories. It'll buy you a little time. In the meantime, those assholes who have to take the elevator up one flight, who are stuffing their faces with a cupcake as they drag their big butts on the elevator to go up one flight, will pack on the pounds day after day, day after day, until they can barely walk, and some of them will even qualify for those scooter things, and their insurance will fucking pay for it too, all because they're fucking fatties, and you might just live long enough to see some of them floating around on those flying fat-seat things in <i>Wall-E</i>. But I guarantee that if you keep going up those stairs, you'll see those whales drop off one by one, one by one. Your ticker can't take that much grease, man. It just can't. You'll survive. They won't.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-49951958173076736772011-05-04T07:44:00.000-07:002011-05-04T08:50:28.256-07:00It is just fine to be happy we killed Osama bin Laden.So I've been reading and watching some fucking people on TV and Facebook and elsewhere wringing their goddamn hands and shaking their finger at people for being glad that we killed that motherfucker Osama bin Laden.<br />
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Look, if you're really trying to live the Christian life and forgive people for their heinous acts, then my hat's off to you. I mean that sincerely. You're a better person than I am. Maybe the world would be a much better place if we could all follow that example. And I've got no problem with you promoting that kind of attitude. But at this moment, regarding Osama bin Laden, please just leave everyone else the fuck alone.<br />
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If you've got a beef with our foreign policy, that's okay by me. You're more than justified, in my opinion. We've done all kinds of fucked up things. You're fucking right to complain and demand we improve. <br />
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But let me tell you about this fucker bin Laden. Supposedly he first got pissed off at us when the Soviets left Afghanistan, and we closed up shop and told everyone to go fuck themselves. And you know, it's understandable to be pissed about that. But then he got really mad when the Saudis asked us to come save them from Saddam Hussein. He went apeshit over the idea over our Christian/Jewish/atheist/Trekkie feet touching his sacred fucking Saudi sand. So in revenge for that, he decided it would be a good idea to take planes full of innocent people and fly them into buildings full of innocent people.<br />
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See, you do shit like that, you have forfeited whatever argument you had. Because while we have done shitty things, while there have been numerous instances when the United States should have been more thoughtful about the innocent lives we fuck with all the time, our goal is not to go around blowing up innocent people. It just isn't. We don't delight in that, like he did. When things get fucked up, like My Lai and shit like that, we get upset and do what we can to fix it and do better next time. We don't throw a fucking party.<br />
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So imagine you're a nine-year-old kid, and you wake up one morning, and you see videos of big planes flying into big buildings. You always liked planes, and you always liked big buildings. You read about the Twin Towers in New York City and wanted to go to the top of those one day. You had a great time when you got on a plane to see Grandma or Uncle Joe or whoever the fuck. But then you see those planes blow up and the buildings fall down, and suddenly you're scared as shit, and everyone around you is scared as shit. And you don't even know anyone who got blown up or killed, but even so your life has fucking changed. For a long time everyone talks about chemicals and biological weapons and nuclear bombs, and you don't know if you're going to wake up one morning and see a mushroom cloud or your mom covered with smallpox. And you have to go through all this shit at the airport, and every time you get on a plane you hope it isn't getting flown into a building. And moms and dads of your friends are going off to war, and you hear grownups arguing all the time, and they're always talking about scary shit all the time on TV.<br />
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If that was you, and ten years later, when you're in college, our guys finally find the motherfucker responsible for it all and blow off half his fucking head, then that is a really good day. You've been living with that shit for a long-ass time, and now that evil motherfucker is dead as dreams. So maybe you get a little excited and go outside and shout about it for a few minutes.<br />
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Some of you fuckers might say, well, some of those poor kids in the Middle East and elsewhere live with that same kind of fear all the time, and a lot of times it's the U.S. or our equipment that's doing the blowing up, and maybe our goal isn't to blow up innocent people but they get blown up all the same. And I say, yeah, I get that. And Screedster has major issues with U.S. foreign policy. But going outside and blowing off some steam for a few minutes because an evil mass murderer is dead is different than deciding you need to go blow up some other innocent fuckers. It just is. I'll cut innocent people a lot of slack for being pissed at being on the business end of our foreign policy--up until the point they start blowing up innocents.<br />
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And then maybe you say, but violence just begets violence, and it's this endless cycle that only ends in death. Look, I don't know the details of everything that went down, but I'm pretty sure if we'd run into bin Laden in line at McDonalds, we probably wouldn't have blasted his head off right then. Maybe we would have attempted to subdue him and bring him in alive. But you couldn't send some local beat cops to cuff bin Laden. You had to send in Seals, because they're the only fucking guys who had a chance of going into his compound and taking out that bastard. And Seals don't fuck around. They're in a room with this asshole, and they don't know what he's got planned, whether the whole place is wired to blow or what the fuck. Someone who is presumably such a fucking mastermind would have some kind of tricks up his sleeve, like the Joker's electrocuting joybuzzer, or shit like that. You've already fought and killed some other fuckers just to get in the same room with him, and he makes the slightest fucking weird-ass move, and it's pop, pop, there goes part of your head, asshole.<br />
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And that's more or less the same thing that would happen if the cops went to bust some serial killer. Didn't you see <i>Silence of the Lambs</i>? Because that's really what bin Laden was: a serial killer, but one with enough charisma to make some other miserable fucks go blow themselves up so he could get off. The Islam stuff, his beefs with the United States, that was all just an excuse to kill people. That was his <i>Catcher in the Rye</i>. Because to fly planes into buildings or tell other people to, to think that it's a good idea to blow up innocent thousands and make countless others miserable, you have to be sick in the head. Like John Wayne Gacy or the guy in Lambs making the woman suit. "It puts the lotion in the basket!" Just like that. If you can subdue those guys, great. But one fucking wrong move, motherfucker, and pow. <br />
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So please fucking spare me your goddamn righteous indignation. This guy was a major-league mass-murdering asshole. Outside of Hitler and Stalin and maybe a couple of other guys, he was a contender for All-Time Mass-Murdering Asshole. We lived with the threat of this guy for over ten years. It's okay to be happy he's dead.<br />
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P.S. And quit being a shitass about giving Obama or Bush credit for getting bin Laden. Bush went after him, would have gotten him if he could have. Obama kept after him and got him. It doesn't matter what you think about either of them otherwise. Grow the fuck up.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-37204504250037152522011-05-02T08:07:00.000-07:002011-05-02T08:07:28.285-07:00Goddamn Osama bin Laden Motherfucker is Dead as ShitYEA!!!<br />
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Dumped your carcass in the sea, motherfucker!<br />
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Screedster is more into cussing than killing, but in this case, I sure hope you got to experience some serious fucking pain before it was lights out. <br />
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I imagine you must have shit your pants good when the Seals busted through that door. HAHAHAHAHA.<br />
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Rot in hell forever, murdering cockass!!!The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-58076186419599969512011-04-26T07:03:00.001-07:002011-04-26T13:41:28.187-07:00Jim Tressel, College Football, and the Stupidest Fucking Story of the YearSo I'm listening to the radio yesterday and all the sports show guys have lowered their voices and are talking in these grave tones. Jim Tressel, the head football coach at Ohio State, has committed some grave offense. He may lose his job, and the integrity of the university is at stake.<br />
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Uh oh. Did he rape some little boys? Or did he burn a cross in a black family's lawn and then string them up from the nearest tree?<br />
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Fuck no. <br />
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He didn't report to the NCAA that some of his players exchanged their memorabilia for free tattoos.<br />
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Holy Jesus fucking shit, I thought, in those exact words. This is what these sports fucks are all concerned about?<br />
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Look, I don't give a shit about Jim Tressel. I hate Ohio State, what with their THE Ohio State University bullshit and their holier-than-thou president and his fucking bowties. I'm glad they're in trouble. I hope they don't win another game. <br />
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But it's still one of the stupidest fucking stories I've ever heard.<br />
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"Well, the rules may be wrong, but they were the rules, and he broke them." Go snort rabbit turds, Mr. Assholes-for-Eyes. When the rules are that goddamn stupid, you stop giving a fuck right then. <br />
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This whole college amateurism shit is nothing but a fucking sham, and we all know it. Amateurism is some 19th-century shit that was designed to keep the riff-raff from mixing with the blue bloods. If you needed money to compete, then you obviously weren't rich, and therefore you needed to get your ass out of that rowboat and back down in the mines or factories. Now tell me how that squares with mostly poor black kids from the ghetto.<br />
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"Well, they have a chance to get a college education that's valued at so-and-so dollars." Go chug diseased diarrhea from a funnel, Cock-Nose. You and I both know the colleges don't give two shits about these guys getting a college education. The only reason they're walking through the doors is because they can do stuff with a goddamn ball. <br />
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So some of these players wanted some tattoos. For the life of me I don't understand why you'd want a fucking tattoo, but whatever. They took some of the shit they OWN--their PERSONAL FUCKING BELONGINGS--and exchanged it for tattoos.<br />
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But this AGAINST THE RULES. You can't sell the shit YOU FUCKING OWN. <br />
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Lemme tell you: if you were some fucking violin prodigy on a music scholarship, you could sell whatever the fuck you wanted. Not only that, but some rich cocksucker could pay your whole fucking way and set you up in a Hummer and buy you platform shoes with fucking live goldfish in the heels. <br />
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But if you're an athlete, that's AGAINST THE RULES. You're VIOLATING THE SPIRIT OF AMATEURISM. Never mind that the universities and the coaching staffs are swimming in cash because of you, with endorsement deals and shoe contracts and even YOUR FUCKING DIGITAL LIKENESS in video games. Somehow that's still "amateurism."<br />
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And so it turns out that Jim Tressel is a weasel by knowing this went on and not reporting it. Well whoop-te-fucking-do. Somehow these sports writer and radio assholes thought he was some kind of saint, which as far as I can tell was because he wears glasses and sweater vests. <br />
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That's another thing: these "sports personality" assholes, who are all doing worse shit than Tressel did, like cheating on their spouses or driving drunk or cheating on their taxes or sexually harrassing people, they get all serious and high-and-mighty about this stupid violation, when THEY ALL KNOW the entire system is fucked and crooked from top to bottom--and to top it all off, it PAYS THEIR FUCKING SALARIES. If they're so outraged about Jim Tressel and his negligence in not forwarding an email to the NCAA, how about they quit their fucking job with ESPN, which just so happens to be in bed with the Big Ten and THE Ohio State University due to broadcast contracts, and go fucking flagellate themselves in some fucking monastery. Otherwise spare me your outrage and dismay, you fucks. <br />
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I mean, goddamn. Right now there are people getting shot in the head for standing up to dictators with nothing but rocks and sticks. Either tear this whole rotten fucking system down or stop giving a fuck. It's rotten and you know it. Fuck it.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-44239782069080193742011-04-04T09:02:00.000-07:002011-04-04T13:19:39.023-07:00Get Your Class War OnSo there's this fucking asshole named Rand Paul who got himself elected senator from Kentucky. He fancies himself an intellectual, but in committee meetings he recycles arguments about low-flow toilets that were favorite topics of community-college forensics competitions in 1998.<br />
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Paul's also been going around to shows like Letterman and <i>The Daily Show</i> blathering about how the top 50% of earners pay 96% of the income taxes. Conservatives love touting that statistic; in part it's used as an argument for cutting taxes for the top earners, and it part it's used to stir up resentment for the bottom 50% who aren't paying taxes (but of course driving Cadillacs and buying steaks with their food stamps).<br />
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Now the thing is, it's true that the top earners have been paying a higher and higher percentage of the income taxes in the past several decades. Here's a handy graphic <a href="http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/top10-percent-income-earners">from some fucking conservative site</a>.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Check out the dark blue. That's the top 1% of earners. Their share of total income taxes paid have risen to 30 fucking percent. The top 5% of earners pay 50% of the taxes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And look at those red fuckers. They ain't payin' nuthin'. Bunch of fucking freeloaders! The orange dudes aren't a whole lot better, for that matter. Time they pay their fair share, right?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">After all, if we take money away from the rich, that's just less money for us, right? Because it all trickles down. You remember trickle down, don't you? Rich people spend their money on jobs, like for people to work in their factories or clean the toilets in their yachts or jack them off by the pool while they sip cocktails and read <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I went and found me <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph">this other little fucking graphic</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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You get a good look at that? Here it is again:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're too fucking stupid to read a graph, what it says is that since 1979 the top 1% of income earners have been getting more and more cash, while the other 99% have been getting ass-raped.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They pissed all over us, that's for sure, but that's not the kind of trickle down they were promising.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"So what?" you say. "So they made a lot of money. Why should we take it away from them?" Okay, you know what, I was about to reply, "Eat shit and die," but then I thought it about it a second, and I thought, okay, maybe that's a decent argument. Let's go with the idea that those top earners have earned the right to roll around in mountains of gold doubloons like Scrooge McDuck. Okay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The problem, asshole, is that they don't want to just keep their mountains of gold. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They want to take MORE from YOU, to wring out every last cent they can.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They want to cut your Social Security. They want to gut Medicare and Medicaid. That fuckface Paul Ryan wants to <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/paul-ryans-radical-plan-to-overhaul-medicare-medicaid.php?ref=fpb">abolish Medicare AND cut upper-income taxes</a>. They want to erase any healthcare reforms so the insurance companies can dump your preexisting-conditioned ass in order to "ensure healthy profits." They want you to swallow and accept wage cuts because "we all have to make sacrifices." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The nerve of these vile cocksuckers to tell you to pay more because their earnings have gone up and yours haven't. That's hucksterism at it's very worst. These people are worse than every fucking snake oil salesman who ever lived. The slimiest used car salesman, the crookedest carny, have more integrity than pseudointellectual Rand Paul and the motherfucking assholes who try to pull this argument on you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here's <a href="http://www.datapointed.net/2011/03/relative-us-income-taxes-1913-2011/">one more chart just for good measure</a>. It shows how burdensome taxes are to the fucking wealthy in this country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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From the authors:<br />
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<blockquote>That’s a line for every year from 1913 onward, sized and colored by the tax burden: the amount of tax due relative to the long-term average at each income level. Above-average burdens appear thick and red and below-average thin and blue.</blockquote><br />
Well, whaddyaknow. The fucking tax burden on the wealthy is at a historic LOW.<br />
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They aren't sacrificing FUCKING SHIT. They are rolling in their mountains of gold.<br />
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But rich motherfuckers like that cocksucking shitass Rand Paul, the guy who takes such enormous shits that he has to flush his toilet 10 times to get it all down, will smile and tell you it's right and just.<br />
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"You want some trickle down?" Sen. Paul will say. "Get on your knees and I'll piss all over you."<br />
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And he will, too. He's doing it right now. They all are. And then they'll laugh about it all the way to the bank.<br />
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They don't want you to think about it. They want you to be scared. They want you to worry about how the black man is GONNA GET YOU, and the gay person is GONNA GET YOU, and the Muslim person is GONNA GET YOU. When all the while it's the rich greedy cocksuckers who are robbing you blind.<br />
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Take a look at that and tell me if it's right and just to cut your Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and income and healthcare. Tell me where the fucking trickle down is.<br />
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They have no answer for that. Oh, they might shit out of their mouths about "global market forces" that are beyond our control. In other words, it's "natural" that they're getting richer and richer and you're getting poorer and poorer. It's "the way it was meant to be."<br />
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Funny how the people making that argument are always the ones on top. <br />
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Their latest line is about "tough sacrifices." But their idea of a tough sacrifice is when the king has to walk up to the edge of the volcano to toss your sorry ass in it. There's no shared sacrifice. None. Zero. And you don't dare raise their taxes. No! Think how that will affect the economy. It's okay to gut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and public education and everything else. It's okay to fuck you up the ass with a baseball bat wrapped with barbwire. But if you raise <i>their</i> taxes, they'll have less money, and therefore they'll spend less, and less will trickle down.<br />
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Hmm. How much of it was trickling down again?<br />
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Oh yeah. That's right. None of it.<br />
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FUCK THEM.<br />
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FUCK THEM TO HELL.<br />
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FUCK THEM TO HELL FOREVER.<br />
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It's way past time to GET YOUR CLASS WAR ON, MOTHERFUCKERS. They've been waging war against you for 30 FUCKING YEARS.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-55071011734348057392011-03-24T08:48:00.000-07:002011-03-24T08:48:40.987-07:00Quit honking at me, BITCH!Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a rash of fucking assholes honking their horns as soon as the light changes?<br />
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It's not a new phenomenon, I know. But I was wondering if some cockasses put in the new editions of driver's ed textbooks that it was okay to do that.<br />
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And they're not just honking at me. If they were, I might start thinking I had Alzheimer's and get myself checked out. They'll honk at fucking anybody. <br />
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If some fucko is just sitting at a green light yakking away on their goddamn cellphone, then I think it's okay to give them a little toot. I mean, after you've sat there 10 seconds or so. But while I know you think you've got the reflexes of some motherfucking NASCAR driver, not everyone floors it the instant the light changes. Wait a few goddamn seconds and calm your ass down. Go get a massage or jack off or something. Christ. <br />
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I don't want to start some road rage incident. I'm nothing if not reasonable. But goddamn, those horn fucks deserve the fucking finger more than anyone. What I really want to do is drive 5 miles an hour and then make jackoff gestures to them when they find a chance to pass me a mile down the road. But cocksuckers like that, they're likely to have a fucking gun. <br />
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It all goes back to people thinking they're so much more important than everyone else. Let me remind you, shitass: YOU'RE NOT. Gotta be somewhere in a hurry? TRY LEAVING EARLIER NEXT TIME, FUCKWIPE. Oh, and while you're at it, GO DRIVE IN FRONT OF A TRAIN.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-34377301443998235082011-03-23T10:02:00.001-07:002011-03-23T10:29:58.674-07:00What the fuck is all this 99-cent shit about?What is the deal with these fucking fucko writers bitching about other writers selling their shit on Amazon for 99 cents? What a bunch of arrogant cockheads.<br />
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They're saying 99 cents "devalues" writing. Let me ask you this, asstards: does that 99-cent breakfast burrito you stuffed your piehole with this morning devalue burritos? Do those ugly-ass 99-cent flip flops you wear devalue footwear? But you don't care about that, do you? Because you're a Writer, and you're so fucking Important.<br />
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You know what's important? Shoes. But you don't really much care about the miserable fucking people in Burma or wherever the fuck working in sweatshops at 1 cent a day to make those flip flops you put your big clown feet in. Because they're not Important. They're not Writers.<br />
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Don't give me any of that highminded shit about humankind's unquenchable thirst for narrative. That's abstract horseshit. You know what's not abstract horseshit? "No Shirt No Shoes No Service." Shoes are important.<br />
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Plus I'll bet a lot of you snooty poseur fucks go get your cover images from places like istockphoto. What about your fucking fellow creatives? Photographers say <a href="http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2009/11/microstock-creates-new-markets-no-it.html">microstock services are devaluing photography</a>. Do you give a fuck? I'll bet you don't. I'll bet you even write blog posts telling other Important Writers how to make covers on the cheap. I'll bet you tell them to use free fonts too. Don't fontmakers deserve to eat? Or do they just get to eat your scraps? Jesus fuck, you piss me off.<br />
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If you wrote <i>War & Peace</i> or you were Vladimir Fucking Nabokov, maybe you could talk about other people devaluing writing. Even then you should shut the fuck up. But at least you wouldn't be the author of <i>Teen Ghost High School</i> or <i>Mommy Never Loved Me</i> or <i>Alien Ass-Rape</i> putting on airs. Hey, I might actually want to read <i>Alien Ass-Rape</i>. But not if you're so fucking snooty.<br />
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I'll tell you when you shouldn't shut the fuck up about devaluing writing. When you make every fucking purchase in your life the same way you want your goddamn precious writing to be treated. When you make sure your flip flops don't come from sweat shops. When you make sure that fucking ereader or ipad you fondle like a clit isn't thrown away and disassembled in China where all the chemicals leak into the groundwater and babies are born with their kidneys on their foreheads. When you actually fucking make the requested contribution to the font designer whose work you slapped on your cover and then charged for it. When you don't go taking advantage of the same fucking technologies that are devaluing other creative work but then whine about the same technologies devaluing yours. Because every other person on the planet is just as important as you are--more important, if they make shoes.<br />
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Otherwise, SUCK IT.The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-41799779510602081222011-03-23T06:26:00.000-07:002011-03-23T06:26:23.275-07:00AT&T is a piece of fucking shit<div>I fucking hate AT&T. Hitler had better customer service at Auschwitz.</div><div><br />
</div><div>One of the reasons I had T-Mobile was because it WASN'T AT&T.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Now I'm fucked. Asshole Telephone & Telegraph is going to swallow up a company that had better service just so they can continue their shitty ravenous ways.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I'm going to have to switch providers. I can't stomach paying those AT&T assholes.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I wish regulators would tell AT&T to go fuck themselves. They ought to. But they won't. They serve their motherfucking corporate overlords. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Fuck you.</div><div><br />
</div>The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718866061515940192.post-78888814392904447172011-03-14T08:36:00.000-07:002011-03-14T08:48:30.018-07:00Turn Off Your Fucking Phones in the Fucking Movie Theater, AssholesYou know, if I was going to see some fucking teen movie on a Friday night, then I'd figure it'd be anything goes: kids constantly coming in and out, smoking pot, fucking in the aisles--and of course their smartphones on the whole goddamn time.<br />
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</div><div>But when I go to see THE KING'S FUCKING SPEECH, in what's supposed to be an ART-HOUSE THEATER, I expect people to be a little more behaved.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Not that they were constantly coming in and out, smoking pot, and fucking in the aisles. </div><div><br />
</div><div>But FUCK these FUCKING SMART PHONES.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Two college-age chicks in the row ahead of me had to check their goddamn phones every 15 minutes.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Some broad who was 15, maybe 20 years older than me had her phone going off in her purse every ten minutes until she finally turned it off. It wasn't ringing. It was buzzing. Like that's somehow okay.</div><div><br />
</div><div>BUZZ, BUZZ. BUZZ, BUZZ. Every 10 minutes. In THE KING'S FUCKING SPEECH.</div><div><br />
</div><div>When I go to a theater, I want to be immersed in the fucking movie. Apparently that makes me some kind of weirdo. Everyone else would rather watch the movie while they're on their FUCKING PHONE. Just like they do at home. Or when they're fucking DRIVING.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Here's what it looks like in a movie theater when you have your GODDAMN FUCKING SMART PHONE on, assholes:</div><div><br />
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</div><div>There are some people who just don't care. They'll keep their phone on the whole fucking movie, and laugh at you if you say anything. You can't do anything about these people. I wish we could ship them all off to some island so they could fight it out with sticks and coconuts, but that's probably not in the cards.<br />
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But then there are the people who supposedly care, who at times at least claim to be aware that there are other people in the universe beside themselves. These people <i>know</i> they shouldn't be using their smartphone in a theater, but they also always have some goddamn <i>excuse</i>:</div><div><ol><li><b>Your friends changed the meet-up place after the movie:</b> You can check where to meet AFTER the movie, asshole. This is not pertinent information WHILE YOU'RE STILL WATCHING THE MOVIE.</li>
<li><b>Your mom has fallen, and she can't get up:</b> Jesus Fucking Christ. Your mom can get one of those things to hang around her neck to call the ambulance when that happens. And come to think of it, if she can call you, why can't she call FUCKING 911?</li>
<li><b>Your kids have started a fire in the house:</b> Your kids are that fucking dumb? Then stay the fuck home. What the hell are you doing in a movie theater when you have miscreant arsonist kids at home? And come to think of it, if they can call you, why can't they call FUCKING 911?</li>
<li><b>"I'm waiting for an important call! It's part of my job! I'm on call 24/7, and if I don't respond, I'll be fired!"</b> Go fuck yourself. If you really have some miserable-ass fucking job that requires you take every fucking every call every minute of the day, then STAY THE FUCK HOME. It's not like they don't have movies there. You can go to the Red Box. You can order pay-per-view. Hell, Netflix will even put movies in YOUR FUCKING MAILBOX. Your fucking job doesn't entitle you to RUIN MY MOVIE EXPERIENCE.</li>
<li><b>"Justin Bieber was just on TV!!!":</b> FUCK YOU!!!</li>
</ol></div><div>Think about the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of fucking people who somehow managed to sit through a fucking movie without a phone for the ENTIRE 20TH CENTURY. Sure, for a while, they could smoke instead. BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT, YOU ASSHOLE.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I sat there thinking how the size of the screen to my eye was probably about the same as my 42-inch screen was to my eye from my couch at home. I have surround sound, and for the most part the experience is just as good at home, except that the popcorn I make at home doesn't have that little bit of crack or PCP in it that movie theater popcorn does to make it taste so good. </div><div><br />
</div><div>But I'd rather go to the movie theater and have a shared experience.</div><div><br />
</div><div>A shared experience means laughing with everyone. Maybe getting a little choked up with everybody else in the theater, like when Spock died. Encouraging Rocky to kick Clubber Lang's ass. Sometimes it all goes wrong, like when I went to see <i>Forrest Gump</i> and all these adult, even middle-aged dudes were crying in the bathroom afterward and saying it was the best movie EVER, and I thought I must be having a nightmare or something, because that movie was a PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT. But I digress. </div><div><br />
</div><div>A shared experience does require tolerating your fellow humans a bit. They might have to walk past you to piss. They might fart. They might make a little crinkly-crinkly noise when they're opening their lozenges to keep from coughing through the movie. Not a big deal.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The flip side of tolerance for your fellow human, though, is showing some FUCKING RESPECT for your fellow human. What's that, you say? That it's kind of ironic that someone who calls people FUCKING ASSHOLES would be talking about respecting others? Well, here's the deal, fuckface: it's not ironic at all. You deserve respect up until the point that you demonstrate that you don't. And it's that point that you deserve a big loud FUCK YOU, rather than what most people do, which is sit around like a bunch of ninnies who don't want to "rock the boat."<br />
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So if you want respect, keep your fucking interruptions and distractions to a minimum when you're in a theater. If you gotta pee, fine, get up once, but if you're incontinent, wear some damn diapers or stay home. Don't kick the chair in front of you. If you have candy or lozenges, get it out the package and quit making crinkly-crinkly noises all movie long. If you can't quit coughing, LEAVE. For fuck's sake, SHUT THE FUCK UP. And TURN OFF YOUR GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PHONE.</div>The Screedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15893478101057398689noreply@blogger.com2