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Just took a sleep aid and it’s kicking in, at which point a poignant lyric entered my head as my challenging day was winding down… I am happy to share it with you in case you had a long day too. Please to enjoy.

Lyrics to Angry Anthem by The Forces of Evil

If I had my way, I’d never speak to anyone again
I gotta say, I hate people I’m so sick of them
I just can’t stand the bullshit I wish I was so far away from it
I’m just stupid and I’m angry is it immature for me to say

Fuck all you Motherfuckers
Fuck all you Motherfuckers
Fuck all you Motherfuckers
FUCK YOU!
Fuck all you Motherfuckers
Fuck all you Motherfuckers
Fuck all you Motherfuckers
FUCK YOU!

I feel so lame, ’cause that’s the best I can do to express myself
It’s always the same, say the “F” word maybe that’ll help
I’m so sick of trying to fit in, I don’t even know where to begin
I got friends but they don’t know me,
but I’d tell the world to blow me

[Chorus]

And there’s just one more thing that, I have just got to sing ya
Everyone and everything FUCK YOU!

[Chorus]

Spread the love.

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Idiot.

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Don’t ask Google because Google doesn’t know.

Just a little over two years ago, I noticed that Google had widely varying results in their search suggestions: http://www.laytheism.com/blog/2008/who-is-god/

Check out this radical piece of journalism hot off the press from Fox News:

Google’s search engine returns common results to most queries as you type. But the “don’t be evil” company appears to be censoring its results when it comes to Islam. …

Enter “Christianity is” and you’ll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type “Judaism is” and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as “Judaism is false” and “Judaism is not a race.”

But type “Islam is” into the search engine and Google’s auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is “don’t be evil,” is censoring its search results.

According to Google’s Web site, the query suggestions that appear as you type are drawn from from searches you’ve done (if you’re logged in), searches done by users all over the world, sites in the search index and ads in Google’s network. …

Perhaps the returned results are so inappropriate that all results have simply been turned off, an option some Internet users label ‘cowardly.’ After all, search for hot-button items such as “scientology is” or “Muhammad is” and the results are even more offensive.

A Google spokesman explained that the weird absence of results is just a software problem: “This is in fact a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can.” But the company would not respond to requests for clarification.

An intriguing corollary: Google offers search suggestions for future tense queries as well. Ask “Christianity will” and Google suggests “Christianity will end, it will disappear,” and “Christianity will end.” Ask the same about Islam and Google notes that “Islam will dominate the world” and “Islam will destroy Europe.”

Pretty clever on the tense change.  Guess the Google engineers missed that.

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Here I am.  Still blogging two years later… still a non-believer.  For sure.  I have too seen much evidence that directly contradicts an all-powerful God that interacts with the concerns of this mortal coil.  I saw a child’s mother die of terminal cancer on Christmas Day, I saw a baby mauled by a pit bull brought to the hospital, I saw a man cheat on his wife for weeks while he worried about how it affected his faith.  Are you fucking kidding me?

Shit happens, and bad choices happen, and the two are frequently causal. Interestingly, the more bad choices you make, the more shit happens.  Ergo, if a friend goes to his friend’s in your new car, drinks 3-4 generous drinks an hour, and then takes off in your new SUV (OK, this story is about my car), then he has certainly made a bad choice… and so have I.  Well, guess what this genius didn’t clue in on: he is driving an unfamiliar vehicle, drunk, and might not drive well… because he’s drunk.  He did hit someone from behind.  Cops came.  Arrested his ass and threw him in jail.  Impounded my car ($9,000 damage).  He basically refused to cooperate.  Guess what… automatic one-year license suspension and virtually guaranteed DUI conviction ($2000-4,000 either way just to defend).

Several bad choices above, but it NEVER EVER fails.  Make good choices (not godly choices)… just smart, moral choices, and good things will tend to happen.  That’s very karma-like, and it works.  There are exceptions, but it’s not God doing anything one way or the other.  Several people had the power to prevent this problem or change the outcome, and it’s not God working in a mysterious way.

Don’t let this happen to a friend or family member this holiday season or ever.  Don’t let people drink and then drive.  Give them a bed or a cab.  It’s just the right thing to do.  We are lucky that the douche nozzle in my story didn’t kill anyone.  Relatively minor damage, but $16,000 in repairs and legal fees later (and 30 days of work release jail) is a tough lesson.  Don’t live that way.  This “friend” is someone that I can’t just walk away from (unfortunately), so I am stuck helping him.

Ironically, or not, the major tool in this story is a Christian.  He drowns his sorrows in booze regularly because he can’t make sense of a fucked up world that God doesn’t seem to care about and he has thoroughly wrecked his life….  well, no shit.  Easier to blame the bastard deity that did it versus your own dumb ass and poor choices.

Hope to write more on these real world things in 2010.  Still trying to get the game plan together.  Hang in there, and if you ARE out there, please comment.  I haven’t a clue what you folks are interested in talking about….

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I finally was able to skate through Christmas without attending a religious service.  In a family full of Christians, it’s pretty tough to not get roped into a evening service or a choral presentation or some other faith-based celebration.  Because of a scheduling fluke, my wife and I were able to bow out gracefully and head home to prepare dinner.

It’s been an interesting year for me…  Next year I want to open up more via this blog.  Seems the best blogs to me are the ones where people reveal a little about themselves and their life experience.  I like several “link puke” blogs, but I really like the ones where people have something to say or something to share that I might learn something from their point of view, or at least be entertained!

Many things that took place in my life this year will allow me to open up more next year, to my readers, and to my family.  I hope you have a happy, healthy, prosperous next year, and if you care one way or the other, please let me know.  I promise to be interesting, if you promise to tell me when I suck.  All the best…  Hugh.

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