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Daily Prompt: Time Capsule

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The year is drawing to a close. What would you put in a 2012 time capsule?

Hmmm…  This is an interesting question.  And to be honest, I really don’t have a clue.

I guess we could start movies.  Batman and Spiderman would definitely be placed in the capsule.  Along with a Blu-Ray player to play them.  After all, if this capsule is eventually discovered, our technology will be antiquated.  Also, The Avengers would have to be in there, since it is one of the best movies ever.  Also, the upcoming Hobbit movie would have to be included.  I obviously haven’t seen it yet but I’m betting it will be good.

One of the best movies ever.

One of the best movies ever.

Music?  I don’t think I’d put in music in there.  It’s embarrassing, at least to me, what passes for popular music today.  Gangnam Style?  Nicki Minaj?  Justin Bieber?  Will. I. Am?  Taylor Swift?  Chris Brown?  Embarrassing.  All of it.  It’s all a big, steaming, nasty pile of suck.

Hard to believe, but true.

Hard to believe, but true.

Justin Bieber at the 2010 White House Easter E...

It’s hard to believe that this creature is in fact male. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2012 was also an election year, although a forgettable one.  Other than Mitt Romney honestly, but unwisely, pissing of 47% of the population because they get free stuff from the government and calling them out on it and Barack Obama’s inane “you didn’t build that” rant, we didn’t get anything but pathetic, and childish, political banter.  Oh, and Obama was reelected.  We all lost.

Makes sense, right?

Makes sense, right?

I guess I’m not really that good at this.  I’m obviously out of touch with what the majority of Americans like (and strangely, I’m okay with that) so I guess I’m not really a good judge of what to put in a 2012 time capsule.  Oh well…

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Random Thoughts: 7/16/2012

  • Happy birthday to Revis Edgewater!
  • Mitt Romney doesn’t like the fact that the Obama campaign is attacking his character with negative ads.  So the natural thing to do is to release some positive ads to counteract the negativity, right?  Right?!?!  Apparently not.  Romney released his own negative ad besmirching Obama’s negative ads.  How typically hypocritical.  Gotta love politics.
  • Laszlo Csatary, a Nazi war criminal, has been located in Budapest.  The Simon Wiesenthal Centre is all over it and wants the man prosecuted.  While I get why they want to make this man pay for his crimes, what’s the freakin’ point?  The man is 97-years old and has lived a full life already.  The are more meaningful things to pursue.
  • The ACLU is suing the Highland Park school district because parents are fed up with a system in which 90% of its students are not proficient in reading or math.  I don’t generally agree with what the ACLU does most of the time and I don’t know how suing a school district which is extremely broke will help, but it’s better than doing nothing.  I wouldn’t send my children to this horrible excuse for a school system.
  • The US Olympian contestants will apparently being wearing uniforms that were….made in China.  How very appropriate.  In an election year in which the outsourcing of jobs is an important issue, our olympic athletes will be wearing red, white, and blue clothing with tags that say made in China.  I wonder what the children that made those uniforms wear thinking when they made them?
  • Michael Payless, a 33-year old father of three, left a loaded gun within reach of his 3-year old son on Friday night.  Today, Michael Payless is no longer among the living.  While his son was playing with the loaded weapon, it discharged and Payless died from the gunshot.

    I know some people are going to come on here and scream about tougher gun laws, but no law can regulate stupid.  Owning a gun comes with a lot of responsibility.  The biggest of which is ensuring that the firearm is not within reach of a child.  I’m a firm believer that every US citizen has the right to defend him or herself with a firearm against criminals who get their firearms by bypassing current gun laws, but those citizens should exercise some common sense.

    I’m just glad it wasn’t the 3-year old who paid the ultimate price for his father’s stupidity.

  • George Zimmerman’s legal troubles have just been magnified.  Not only does he have to somehow justify the murder of Trayvon Martin to keep himself out of prison, he now has a family friend accusing him of molesting her.  I hate to judge (well, not really), but George isn’t turning out to be a very likeable guy.  First he shot a teenager dead because he looked suspicious, then he lied (well, his wife did.  Allegedly) about how much money he had at a bail hearing, and now he’s been accused of molesting a young girl.  Nice guy, that George.
  • This post is going to be uncharacteristically short.  Most of the news articles I perused to construct this post were political posts dealing with the coming election and I just didn’t have the patience to read them.  Or the desire, for that matter.  I can only stand so much political posturing, and that’s all these idiots do any more.  They very rarely talk about what they plan to do if elected and concentrate on the fuck-ups of their opponent’s past instead.  It gets old fast.  I’m tired of hearing about Bain.  I’m tired of political ads that attempt to slander the character of political hopefuls.  I’m tired of hearing about negative ads condemning negative ads.

    Hey, I have an idea.  Instead of searching for who’s to blame or where things went wrong why don’t we look for solutions instead?

Mitt Romney hits magic number

Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts,...

Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2010 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is my first attempt at a satire article.  Please let me know how I did, even if it’s to let me know I should never attempt this again.

Mitt Romney hit the GOP’s magic number today, gaining the 1144 delegate votes needed to make him the party’s unofficially official presidential candidate.  He can’t officially be named the GOP’s nominee until August 27, when the Republican National Convention is set to be held.

Romney received the remaining 78 needed delegates from the Lone Star state, otherwise known as Texas, a state that has produced many winners in the past, including George W. Bush and Rick Perry.

After receiving a projected 152 out of 155 delegates in Texico, Romney said he was humbled to have become the GOP’s nominee.

“I am very  honored and flattered that I was able to get a bunch of extraordinarily bigoted Christians to vote for me, a Mormon.  Now, come this November, our country’s citizens will have to choose between a Mormon and a black guy who supports gay marriage and charge him with the task of running this country further into the ground.  I am confident that on November 6, this country vote for me, the guy with the stay-at-home wife, of whom everyone is jealous,” Romney wrote.

Romney was pretty much a shoe-in for the nomination as all of his competition has fallen by the wayside.  Rick Perry dropped out when he realized nobody cared that he doesn’t want gays in the military.  Newt Gingrich ran out of money pursuing votes for the moon base, and Rick Santorum dropped out because of an illness in the family.  Nobody has seen or heard from Ron Paul in weeks, and he’s presumed dead.  Michele Bachmann dropped out after she was advised that this was a rich, old man’s party and that she had the improper equipment.  Herman Cain bowed out in December amid allegations of sexual misbehavior so plentiful and heinous that Bill Clinton sued for copyright infringement.

Romney began his quest for presidency last June.  During a gathering at his New Hampshire farm he declared that Barack Obama had failed America because he uses words most Americans don’t understand.  “Is there really a need for the amount of syllables the president uses?” he inquired of the gathered crowd.  “I don’t understand half of what he’s saying!”

Romney is the first Mormon  presidential candidate of a major party in…ever.  Asked if his religious beliefs would influence his policies, Romney declared, “Boy will they ever!” enthusiastically before continuing to say, “My administration will redefine marriage to be between one man and however many women he wants.  Every wife will have to sign a wife agreement.  Oh, and gay marriage?  Yeah, it’ll still be illegal.  In fact, we’ll make being gay illegal.”

Asked about Romney winning the nomination, president Barack Obama said, “Mitt Romney?  That Mormon guy?  That’s who they’re going to run against me?  Shit, I can stop campaigning now and still win.”

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