As a preface to this piece, allow me to take some time to state, in bold faced print:

IF I AM EVER IN A VEGETATIVE STATE, OR ANY COMPARABLE STATE, NEVER EVER PULL THE PLUG! TAKE EVERY SINGLE EXTRAORDINARY MEASURE TO KEEP ME ALIVE, AND TO HELL WITH WHAT MY SPOUSE HAS TO SAY!!! (OF COURSE THE BITCH WOULD PROBABLY WANT ME DEAD!)*

*unless if I got into that state while trying to commit suicide. Then let me die. Hell, finish the job for me!

Now, America is polarized yet again. That's getting so commonplace in this "post September the 11th" (as Bushitter would say) that it almost makes me want to hop on a bicycle and hightail my ass to the lonely middle-ground of American sentiment. In this latest hot-button scenario, a husband and a biological family fight bitterly over the silent living corpse of a flesh-and-blood woman whose inability to speak up for herself has created a miasma of strong opinions in what amounts to a convoluted "right-to-die" case.

This case did not come to light recently (it's been going on for over ten years), but as time runs out in the life of Terri Schiavo (and she may be dead as of this writing), the media has turned the story into a circus (imagine that). With parents and siblings desperate to see their daughter live, and a husband desperate to turn a blind eye as she starves to death, The Schiavo-Schindler debacle has emerged as one of our more colorful reality shows of the season.

Here's a groovy perspective on things!

Michael Schiavo is a scumbag whose wife Terri went into this persistent vegetative state as a result of an eating disorder shortly after they married. I am willing to bet that this callous husband made Terri's weight an issue, causing her eating disorder. He is obviously not some knight in shining armor, since he left her bedside to go off and bang some other broad (who should write up a living will, if she hasn't already, since Mr. Schiavo has a history of voraciously chasing his spouse's demises).

Schiavo stands to make over one million dollars in profit from Terri's death. Not a bad haul for destroying someone's self-image, causing their anorexia, and then forcing her parents to watch her starve to death as he goes home, eats dinner, drinks some tasty beverages and gets laid with his new girl.

Meanwhile, the parents and siblings get to say goodbye to their daughter, lose faith in our court system's ability to protect life, and forever regret offering their sweetheart's hand in marraige to a scumbag.

Now, the pro-lifers, those ever-vigilant christian soldiers, can wring their hands in front of the hospice that houses the "dead woman sitting." They can pray their little prayers, beseech their puppet president, but all the Bush's horses and all the Bush's men cannot put a respect for life back in American again.

The lefties can sit back and allow her to starve, since liberals only protect things that can protect themselves (yet don't). They ignore the cases like this. Terri's life is not as important as a child-murderer on death row. They, like Pilot, wash their hands of her starvation-murder.

And Michael Schiavo can sit back, breath a sigh of relief, buy some nice things with Terri's blood money and wait until he dies to find his place in Hell. It would be rather ironic if some of these homicidal pro-lifers that usually bomb abortion clinics would kidnap him, crazy glue his mouth shut, and then tie him to a chair until he starves to death himself. But they aren't ever that cool.

Then again, maybe a particularly impressionable moral-psycho reads this essay...and a seed is planted...

RIP Terri Schiavo. We hardly knew ye!

By Bug.

Tonight the blood flowed and cigarettes scorched at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ when the Sniperz opened for Tilt A Whirl and the Millionaire Reverends. Jacko, the intrepid promoter for The Bridghton Bar in Long Branch, had the balls to put the Sniperz onstage again, after their raunchy January debut, and the ensuing madness set the stage for another night of truly gritty musical entertainment. With a stomache full of rum and veins full of...um...adrenaline (sure, sounds good), I entered the CB's by the Sea of Brigton Bar and proceeded to pay about five bucks for quality entertainment, yet again.

I remember seeing The Dickies here during my youth at this place, which ranks among the high points of my post-high school existence, but tonight's entertainment showcased some of the most wild punk rock madness that could take the sleepy Jersey Shore city to Hell.

As an opening band, the Sniperz fucked everything up. They showed up late, the lead singer seemed more wasted than Iggy Pop circa 1973, and the drummer was apparently their lead guitarist sitting in for erstwhile drummer Johnny Larkin (of The Golden Dawn). Going White Stripes' style (one guitarist/vocalist and one drummer/vocalist), the audio-terrorists blared through ten or eleven disgusting songs about AIDS, abortion, heroin, Ronald Reagan and sundry other terrifying topics with gleeful abandon and skilless hatred for their audience. Not since the days of Dead Boys and GG Allin has a band cared less about caring and more about offending.

Lead Vocalist/guitarist Patrick Vile fucked up his own songs, lost his pants mid-set, feigned (?) masturbation, broke at least two strings, and spewed all manner of anti-social lyrics and thoroughly demeaning stage patter before vomiting into a bag from dopesickness. Drummer Jay D smashed away at the kit like a lion on a hyena. His background vocals provided a healthy support to Splat's snotty ramblings in a way that evoked some of the most exemplary germs gigs.

Tilt a Whirl mercifully took the stage from the Ocean County kooks to provide a breezy, punkish sonic fest of soaring melodies until the Millionaire Reverends worked their primal, gospel-cum-stooges rhythms out over the crowd. In all, I wound up having to hang out with the biggest assholes that played that evening- the local boys Snipers (never knew hell was local). Never see this band. Never unless you want to get fucked till your're sore in the parking lot afterward, like I did. Check out the Millionaire Reverends and Tilt A Whirl, though. They won't puke or bleed on you.
-Ladybug

Jersey shore spraypaint artist Doug Z's newest exhibit opened in his hometown of Belmar on Saturday night at Coffee Blue, a nice establishment run on a strange punk-rock ethic with beat undertones. Featured art included some strange and colorful abstract work and a painting of a woman with a horse protruding from her vagina. The musical acts were Patrick of the Snipers (who drank a bottle of cough syrup onstage and proceeded to antagonize Wall Twp's police force from the stage, imploring any in attendance to "go die"), Danny Matthews and Johnny Larkin of The Golden Dawn (whose tripped out set gave any and all stoners in the crowd something to soar with) and headliners Lonnie and Johnny of Sunshine Flipside, who actually managed to behave themselves and turn in one of the more potent performaces of their careers. Everybody played very well and the audience seemed enthralled by it all. Doug even sold a painting of a toaster.

Incidentally, if anyone is in the Long Brance, NJ area on February the Ninth, come on down to the Brighton Bar (www.brightonbar.com) and witness a rare spoken word performance from Professor Vile of Fabric Staircase Magazine. Reach out and lend an ear and eye to the man critics are calling "the next Lenny Bruce" and most acquaintances are simply calling "son of a bitch." The reason this appearance is rare lies in the fact that Vile is banned from most NJ area clubs due to his raunchy, highly political, sometimes violent, always outrageous performance art. Known for vomiting, dropping trou, decorating himself (and unlucky audience members) with his own blood, and entertaining fisticuffs with local celebrities, Professor Vile shows are always an extravaganza of audaciousness. Admission is three dollars (and well worth it) and the doors open at eight.

Dimebag Darrell Abbott, formerly of seminal 90's metal band Pantera and currently of Damageplan, was shot dead onstage during a gig in Ohio by the ultimate death metal posterboy Nathan Gale. Here are some key quotes from the article.

"witnesses reported hearing an accusation about Abbott breaking up his former band"

Officer James Niggemeyer, who, if I had his last name I would have had it legally changed. (this guy's just waiting for a racially charged police brutality case to come his way, and when it does, may god have mercy on his soul...and his name), shot the gunman to death, presumably due to the fact that Niggemeyer must have been a Pantera fan.

"The tall, physically imposing Gale hung out at Bears Den Tattoo Studio, staring at people and trying to get them to talk about music and bands, manager Lucas Bender said."

But here's the best part!

Dozens of messages were posted to the band's Web site after the shootings.

"This is the worst day in metal history," one posting read.

"The metal world feels your pain," another wrote.

"How dare this man try to stop the METAL!!!" wrote someone else.

"Dimebag will be back! You can't kill a man forever who had the metal pulsing through his veins!" The messages continued.

"He's down there with our lord and master satan, rocking out with Randy Rose, the Great White guy, and f**king OZZY man!" Referring to superstar Ozzy Ozbourne, who, all appearances aside, is not believed to be dead."

"This was a f**king awesome metal show, man! I never seen nothing so good. F**kin' A, man!" These writers were not available for further comment.

Metal World Reacts To Dimebag Darrell's Demise

Airdrop of paper 'birds of peace' is followed by bombings, shootings, and arson attacks.

A creative peace offering has been met with renewed violence in the troubled south of Thailand.
Hours after 50 Thai army planes dropped some 100 million Japanese-style origami cranes over the predominantly Muslim region Sunday, suspected Muslim militants shot dead a former prosecutor in Pattani province, reports The BBC.

On Monday morning four Thai troops were wounded when a bomb was detonated remotely by a mobile phone at a rest-stop for patrolling soldiers in Narathiwat province, reports The Associated Press. Hours later, writes AP, another bomb exploded nearby seriously injuring an assistant district chief as he parked his car

One bird folded and signed by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra offered a scholarship if found by a child, or a job for an adult. The cranes could also be exchanged for food as The Bangkok Post reports

Twenty cranes can be exchanged for one egg, 50 cranes for 1kg of sugar or rice. All cranes collected would be given to authorities who will boil them and mix with lime to build a monument to peace

Air Drop of Origami Birds Met With Violence In Southern Thailand.

When one realizes what utter gutterscum make up our list of current celebrities, the mind reels as the stomach empties. What's more, there exists a whole cadre of talented, eager, and interesting young actors, singers, artists, writers, pundits and personalities who have spent years starving and taking wait staff jobs while a group of spoiled, stupid, vain and ungrateful twits have hijacked popular culture towards their own ends. Witness the rash of non-talents railing against the paparazzi's supposed "invasion" of their so-called privacy that has steadily grown to a head (like a zit) over the past two decades. Now, the first example I can find of a bratty celebrity lashing out against the work-a-day pressmen would be Sean Penn, who was sued back in the 80's for punching a photographer. There have been other skirmishes, lawsuits (Claudia Schiffer sued over pics taken of her sunbathing topless in the 1990's, but models might be too stupid to realize that you shouldn't do such a thing in public, so it doesn't count).

The latest celebrity to bravely take on people who make far less money annually is the perennial enemy of the press Cameron Diaz.
She's been in the news twice this year, and neither scoop related to her acting abilities. Back in the spring, she had her lawyer send a cease and desist letter to a website which aired topless footage of her taken back before she rose to fame (courtesy of The Mask, a Jim Carey vehicle which used computer animation to make him look weirder than he really does and used lots of makeup and lighting to make her look hotter than she really does). Apparently, history is revisionist for a celebrity of her stature (note the use of the word "celebrity," not "actress), so when she whored her breasts out in desperation early on, we are supposed to censor the images and forget it ever happened, whereas many other women's mammaries have wound up on the net courtesy of jilted ex-boyfriends, but you never hear of a lawsuit pertaining to these. (Celebrities are "special," probably in the developmentally disabled meaning of the word). With her shameful past censored and her born-again modesty upheld, she plunged forward, making more headlines over her relationship with a boy ten years her junior.

Now, she's back in the press again (sorry no new good movie or anything) after getting into a very dignified shoving match with papparazzo Saul Lazo, who was trying to take a picture of the "star" and her little boyfriend as they walked to their car from Hollywood's trendy Chateau Marmont hotel on Nov 6. The bleach blonde bimbo apparently whacked him in the neck and stole his camera, in her very dignified celebrity way. She and Justin Timberlake (the boy wonder, star of Backstreet Boys and gay porn) are claiming self-defense, since so many celebrities have been murdered, beaten, robbed and raped by cameras, presumbably.

Cameron and Justin are not alone. Kim Jong Il's favorite son Alec Baldwin h... [ Read More (0.4k in body) ]

GREENSBURG, La. - Beavers found a bag of bills stolen from a casino, tore it open and wove the money into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek near Baton Rouge.

"They hadn't torn the bills up. They were still whole," said Maj. Michael Martin of the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office.

And it only goes to show you that Beavers respect and understand the value of cash more than some people. Why bother with a bank? Beavers do just as good of a job investing your money in construction endeavers that won't go the way of Whitewater.

Busy Beavers Build Dam With Stolen Dough

Nice guy. Cool guy. It's a shame to see him go. It's one thing when a scumbag like Tupac or Biggie gets it for being a piece of shit. It's another thing entirely when your message was positive, you were a nice, rather humble fellow, and you drop dead before your time. He will be missed. Wonder what he's cooking up right now with Jammaster Jay. Guess we will have to wait a while to find out.

mal wrote:
] Apparently a small majority of the voters have not been paying
] attention the past 4 years or else in some sort of
] Harrison-Bergeron-like trance they can look at Bush and say,
] "I know he's a complete idiot but he's trying so hard."
]
] This is a collection of things hje really said. I remember
] hearing some of them during the debates. I laughed so hard I
] cried, then I just cried. :)
]
] ] "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
] They
] ] never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and
] our
] ] people, and neither do we." —George W. Bush, Washington,
] D.C., Aug.
] ] 5, 2004 (Watch video clip)

People voted for him because the democratic party doesn't have it's shit together at all. Let's face it, if everyone could vote in the primaries, not just registered dems, then the party would NOT have nominated Kerry and, in turn, Edwards would not have hicked his way onto the ballot either. If the dems just folded and found themselves replaced by the Greens, then Bush would be packing his bags now. No true liberal wants to see Bush in office, but they definitely don't want to be pandered to by a democratic party so out of touch with america that their primary message is not what they can do for our country, but rather "Bush is evil," "Bush is stupid," "WE can't take another four years of Republican policies," or "Only morons vote republican." How many Reagan democrats might kiss the democrat part goodbye when confronted with such an ideology. The Democrats have tried to make themselves the "thinking man's party," but in doing so they lack action, one concise plan and the ability to sway moderate voters. It's kind of funny, because other than abortion rights, welfare and defense spending, they are beginning to be a mirror image of the Republican party, which has itself grown more moderate over the past ten years. Now, on the subject of Bush's intelligence, it appears to be absent. However, his cabinet (excepting Rumsfeld and Ashcroft), are awfully smart in their handling of national affairs, and they are very well-spoken. Certainly we could compare Bush to Al Gore, whom no one seemed to hate when in fact he was as much of an idiot, career politician and fortunate son as the current Commander in Chief. Let's face it, people who polarize two-party american politics don't know a whole helluva lot about politics in America. The liberals had a choice this time out (and last time out). He got one percent of the vote, but every vote cast for him was an intelligent form of protest against the pseudo-liberal conservatism of the democratic party. If the dems became more moderate on some issues and more left-leaning on others, they would have taken every election in my lifetime. Until people begin voting from the heart instead of their gut, our nation will be controlled by evil bastards. Not to harp on it, ... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]

RE: How Could Anyone Have Voted for Him? (Bush-isms)

So, we live in a country where everyday, people break their backs to further the profits and political interests of a corporate structure that hates individual rights, yet demands that its own structure be treated as an individual in the eyes of the law. Sounds a bit fishy to me.

On the subject of Kerry's tax on those in the 200k or over tax bracket. Bush claims this is a bad idea because many small businesses file their business taxes personally and a tax such as this would hinder small businesses abilities to grow. Kerry dodges that issue to try to make the small taxpayer feel that he will only tax millionaires. Well, there's an 800,000 dollar difference between 200,000 dollars and a millionaire. There are two solutions available, but neither of these two jokers care to explore this.

Solution 1: Make the millionaire's tax only apply to millionaires. That seems logical enough.

Solution 2: Correct the situations that make it more beneficial for a business owner to file their taxes personally. Then, allow small business to recieve a tax cut while forcing those making over $200,000 to contribute to the greatness of America that allow them to rise to wealth.

On the subject of healthcare. Let's take a nasty look at things. The liberals believe we all deserve healthcare, but we had 8 years of this philosophy under Clinton and I still have no benefits. The conservatives wonder who the hell will fund such an undertaking and they point to the socialized medicine of canada, what with waiting lists and other such nonsense. This makes me think a bit. If it's a given that socialized healthcare would create breadlines at the doctor's offices and ER's of America, then there is a moot point being valued by the conservatives (of which I count myself a member, proudly). If socialized medicine would create these pill-lines, then so would the reality of every american working hard to get benefits. Even if everyone worked hard enough to pay cash for all healthcare needs, there would still be these pill-lines. It could be the fact that our society NEEDS a certain amount of "expendable poor" that will never recieve healthcare, no matter what, in order to meet the needs of the priviledged many. Sorry, but we cannot take care of everyone. The recent revelation of flu-shot vaccine shortages underscores (but does not stand as sufficient proof) of this very problem. I hear that the suggestion is that we save these limited supplies for infants and the elderly. That's nice, but, if I may show a tinge of heartlessness, let's forget about the elderly and infants for a minute. They do less for our society than any other demographic. I will take the flu vaccine, I have at least 50 more years of living to do, I have a job that needs me there and I have people who would miss me numbering upwards of 50 (three on memestreams.net). Granted, there are about twice as many people who would fancy me dead, but we must prioritize, here. ... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]