On
Tuesday, Congressional hearing were held looking into a scandal involving the
General Services Administration.
This hearing involved several senators making statements about the
controversy, as well as the head of the GSA, Jeff Neely, pleading the fifth
when asked any question by anybody during the hearing. Among the statement given during this hearing
was one given by Representative Mike Kelly.
In the
hearing, Mike Kelly, Representative representing Pennsylvania's 3rd district,
gave a statement that was seen by many as peculiar. After some investigating, it appears that
this statement was written by Representative Kelly's office. However, Representative Kelly's staffers
appears to have failed to fill in the blanks in the statement they wrote, and
gave Kelly an incomplete speech. The
following is the statement Representative Kelly gave on Tuesday:
When I
first started hearing about this story on (Date), I was (Emotion). I find it very peculiar that such an
oversight like this could happen in the (Organization). The conduct displayed by the (Negative
Buzzword) bureaucrats in the (Organization) is (Emotion Conveying Disgust).
In all of
my (Year Amount) here in (Congress/Washington/Capital Hill), this is the most
outrageous thing I have ever seen. I am
(Emotion Accompanied With A Light Slamming Of The Hand). I am (Stronger Emotion Said Sternly
Accompanied By A Slightly Harder Slamming Of The Hand). I am (Strongest Emotion Said Loudly
Accompanied By A Hard Slamming Of The Hand).
This is something that should not be tolerated.
(Raising
Of My Hands Accompanied By A Bombastic Comment That People Will Only Take
Seriously Because I'm A Politician Who People Think Knows Things)
The
conduct displayed by (Organization) is so typical of the behavior that has
infiltrated the (Black Guy I Blame For Everything) Administration. We see stories like this everyday in
(Prominent Newspaper), the (Tabloid Newspaper), as well as on Fox News. The people can not be ignorant to the
behavior that is tolerated by the (Black Guy I Blame For Everything)
Administration. (Black Guy I Blame For
Everything) needs to clean house, and put in (String Of Adjectives That
Implicitly Conveys That I Want Conservatives And Only Conservatives To Be Put
In Charge). If such an effort is not
made by (Black Guy I Blame For Everything, This Time Using His Full Name While
Emphasizing His Middle Name), we may be forced to (Statement That Implies That
I Want To Impeach The President Without Using The Word Impeach). Thank you, and God Bless America.
When
asked later about his speech, Representative Kelly said, "I just went out
there and spoke for the people of this country, people who are outraged by the
actions of the Black Guy I Blame For Everything Administration." When asked if he thought his statement was in
any way peculiar, Rep. Kelly called me an Insert Liberal Insult Here, then
walked away.
When
asked about his colleague's comments, Representative Peter King punched me in
the face and called me a Muslim.
I Have No Good Reason To Repost This, I Just Find It Amusing
There are
things that have occurred during the course of my life that I have little to no
knowledge about. For example.
This,
apparently, is Grenada. The United
States invaded Grenada in 1983. I know
very little about this invasion, or about Grenada in general. The most I know about Grenada is the
reference made to it in Die Hard 2.
This,
apparently, is Nicaragua. In 1986 a
controversy erupted about the funding of rebels in Nicaragua, referred to as Contras,
with money earned from weapon sales to Iran.
The previous sentence represents all of my knowledge of the Iran-Contra
scandal. All other knowledge of Contras
in my mind can be summed up by the following: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right,
Left, Right, B, A, Start.
This,
apparently, is Serbia. In the late
eighties and early nineties, a series of conflicts broke out that the United
States got involved in. The small
knowledge I have about this conflict was delivered to me by the classroom news
service Channel 1. The
thing that sticks out most in my mind about Channel 1 is Lisa Ling.
These
three incidents exists as a hold in my knowledge of things that occurred during
my life. You could argue that this lack
of knowledge is because of bias in the media, ignorance on my part, the effect
defunding of public schools has on the teaching of history, or many other
factors. The fact is that I didn't know
a lot about these situations. That is
untill I read Drift by Rachel Maddow.
Rachel
Maddow's aim with Drift was to show how the American mindset about the military
has changed throughout history, particularly the 20th century. To this end, she details several military and
congressional conflicts and points out the impacts these conflicts had on the
way America handles it's military.
Grenada is an example of how congressional oversight has changed. Iran-Contra is the beginning of the
privatization of the military's functions.
The Balkans shows how further privatization has caused the actions of
the military to have a lesser and lesser effect on the civilian populace.
The
United States military has undergone a monumental change in the 20th
Century. This is a change that is not
made in a way that is giant and blatant.
Rather this change was made incrementally in a way that is almost
unnoticed. Drift shows how that change
was made, every large and small step on the way.
Drift by
Rachel Maddow: Recommended
Red
Review- Friends With Boys by Faith Erin
Hicks
There's a
dilemma that I have as a writer. It's
something that every writer encounters, something some deal with better than
others. There is a difference between
the way that things happen in real life and the way that people like to be
entertained. The conflict comes when you
want to make something realistic but also entertaining. Friends With Boys encounters this dilemma.
There are
things that are brought up in the course of Friends With Boys that are never
really resolved. These are things that
people deal with in their lives, things they deal with in more time than takes
place in this graphic novel. However,
these are things that scream out for a resolution. These are things that if the person dealing
with them do not resolve, the lack of a resolution nags at the person in ways
that affect them in other ways.
Friends
With Boys brings up a number of conflicts, deals with several of them, but
leaves several more unresolved. These
are things that would nag at a person, but also nags at me as a reader. I want to see resolution of these things, I
can imagine how I would deal with these things, both as a person and as a
writer. Friends With Boys feels like the
first part of a long term piece. It is
my honest hope that this is not the end of the tale of Maggie McKay.
Friends
With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks:
Recommended
For the
three hundred-twenty seventh time this year, this week Twitter was set ablaze
by a law proposed in the Arizona State Legislature.The Arizona State Legislature, in it's infinite
psychotic wisdom, sought to craft a law that was supposed to curb cyber
bullying.Instead, this legislative body
crafted a law that is so vague and obtuse that even people who do not know what
vague and obtuse means would have been negatively affected by it.
According
to this law, later retracted under Internet pressure, anyone who sends out a
message that is deemed to be annoying, offensive, or defaming to any person or
group can be subject to criminal prosecution.Most of the criticism of this proposed law has been about its definition
of "annoying offensive, or defaming", and to who's standard that will
be based on.There is another line of
criticism that can be made of this law.
This
proposed legislation will apply only to persons who live or send out their
messages from places in Arizona.If you
live, work, or Tweet outside of Arizona, this law will not apply to you.However, if your website is hosted by a
company that is based in Arizona, it could be argued that your website is being
sent out of Arizona, therefore the message is coming from Arizona, and
therefore you would be subject to this law.
The
website for R.C.O.A.:The Four Stars Blog is hosted by GoDaddy.com.The server that the website is hosted on is
located in Scottsdale, Arizona.Therefore, it could be argued that the messages sent out through
R.C.O.A.:The Four Stars Blog is being sent out from Arizona.Therefore, I would be subject to this law.Rather than feel I should run and hide from
this proposed law, or censor myself in the face of this proposed law, or be
intimidated in any way by this proposed law, I want to taunt this law and the
people that would enforce it.I want to
say to the state of Arizona "Come and get me!I will not run!I will not hide!Your authority is meaningless to me!I dare you to try and affect me!"
To that
end, I wrote the following piece.This
piece is designed to offend and disgust the kind of conservative politicians
that seem to have the most political sway in Arizona.Enjoy!
Behold!
The Thing That Is Designed To
Offend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are
people who use games to live out experiences that they would never experience
in their lives.Usually I am not one of
those people, however there is one way that I use games to act out experiences
that I may never have.I use games to
fuck aliens.
There may
never be a point where I will be in a position where I can have an alien in a
position where I can fuck her/him/it.Being in such a position where I put such a entity in such a position is
something that I have desired in my very nonexistent soul since I have been
conscious.I've come to accept that this
may never happen, but I have not accepted that such an experience cannot be
experienced in some form.The form that
I have chosen to experience the experience of putting another alien entity in a
position where I can fuck her/him/it is video games.
The
concept of fucking aliens is not new to the world, or even the world of the
depiction of space travel in cinema form.In the documentary film series Star Trek, the captain of the Starship Enterprise,
Denny Crane, spends a great deal of time pining over alluring alien
creatures.Captain Crane also spends a
lot of time fucking those same alien creatures.Denny also spent time fucking black women, but that is not nearly as
exciting to me.
Video
games may be the only way that I can experience sexual conquest of an alien
creature, be it conquest of a female alien, male alien, or a cloud of alien
spores with hole used exclusively for the disposal of solid or liquid waste.Getting this experience through video games
may not be as satisfying as it can be, due to having to rely on another
person's creating of the experience, but it's better than the alternative.That alternative being paining my dog blue.
Earlier on this week, I wrote a criticism of Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure. I based this criticism on something I heard during the trailer of this film, which I saw just before watching The Hunger Games. That criticism would be posted here, however I cannot find the trailer that I saw. I looked high and low for it but simply can not find it. Sigh.
Fallout:
New Vegas: Final Impressions
I started
playing Fallout: New Vegas recently. The
ultimate edition had come out and I wanted to play it again after having
stopped playing it just after the initial release.The reason I stopped playing Fallout: New
Vegas the first time was because of several bugs that prevented me from
finishing several of the missions I needed to finish in order to level up to
the point where I could tackle the endgame.
This time
when playing Fallout: New Vegas I did not encounter mission bug, but I did
encounter other frequent bugs. Sometimes, when the game would try to load
something, the game would stutter, stall, freeze, or crash altogether.I would be playing for hours but, near the
end of my play session, encounter a freezing bug that would leave me with a
negative impression of my play session.
In the
end I stopped playing the game after becoming frustrated with these bugs.I now understand the frustration that people
have with bugs in their games.Things
like this should not happen in games, much less console games where the game is
presumably optimized to play on that platform.Much like the first time I tried to play this game, I stopped playing
Fallout: New Vegas because of bugs that prevented me from going further in the
game, which will paint my viewpoint of this franchise and the developer of this
game.
Take your normal superhero origin story. Guy gets powers, guy realizes he has powers, guy goes out to save the world. Now factor this in: the guy has a score to settle.
Everybody wonders what it is that makes them who they are. The Hawk thought that question was securely answered. However a meeting with a boy in a hospital causes him to question everything. Why he is, who he is, what he is, and even if he is.
Eleven years after the events of Consequences Of Mayorust, The Hawk finds himself dealing with many of the same issues that many of us deal with: A less than satisfying job, co-workers of variant annoyance, and a romantic life is unhealthy at best. Thrust into all this is Madison Medina, a well meaning woman who's adversarial relationship with The Hawk morphs into a kind of friendship. Madison, in addition to learning more about herself and her abilities, help to reveal deeper problems inside the organization both she and The Hawk work for.
In every workplace there is a person. A person who doesn't talk to anyone, has walled themselves socially, and seems openly hostile to everyone. Every workplace has this person, even if you don't know of such a person, they're there. The Black Robin Christmas Carol is the story of one of these people. It delves into who this person is, why this person is, and how this person can change for the better.
There is a story. A story of pain, a story of loss, a story of unspeakable horrors, a story that has not been given it's proper attention. Some are ignoring this story. Some are unaware of this story. Some know of this story but are complicit in it's darkness. This is a story that must be told. Told so that the good can stop it and the bad can feel shame for it.
When I thought up thig blog, the name I first thought up was "Random Bullshit". Quickly I recognized that this name would put some people off. Then I thought of the name "Random Bull****". That seemed to be to much clutter. Then I was inspired with the name that dons this blog today.
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