Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the next President of the United States

With the election in the U.S now only weeks away and race getting more intense, I wonder what ever happened to the Meadow Party's Candidate Bill the Cat. While most people are wondering what the hell I am talking about, I'm sure there are some Bloom County fans somewhere. (I think Hugh is, this post was inspired by a pic of Bill he put on his blog) Anyway every time during an election they would have Bill run for president but he never got any votes, though I hear he was a close third after Walter Mondale in the 84 election.

Well the deal with Bill was that he rarely spoke, he would just gag and cough up hair balls but this never stops him from being a communist, a lead tongue for a heavy metal band and a televangelist, and a presidential candidate. That's how crazy this comic strip was. In fact the strip ended when Donald Trump (whose brain was transplanted into Bill's body) bought the strip and renamed it Trump the comic strip. (Actually he changed it into something called Outland and brought in a bunch of new characters, Opus and Bill were the only ones to stay).

Anyway it has been years since Bloom County has been in newspapers but now you can read the old strips at mycomics.com but you have to pay (I'm not linking to a pay site). Anyway after looking at what is going on with this current election south of the border, I wonder what it would have been like if Bill had been in the debate last Thursday (because of that debate, I had to wait till Saturday to watch The Apprentice, whoever decided to schedule the debate then, should be fired. Come on Mr. Trump, fire them).

Anyway I can picture the questions and his response. I think it would have gone something like this.

Question : How would you improve homeland security?

Bill: ACK ACK ACK !!!!


Question: When will the war in Iraq end?

Bill: OOP ACK THPPPT!!!

Question : Why not send troops to Sudan?

Bill: Ththbbthttbt!!!

Question: What is the most serious threat to national security?

Bill: BANG !!! THUD!!! (Bill smacking his head on podium and passing out)


Anyway I honestly think were missing out on something big. Personally I hope that Bloom County the Next Generation will appear on newspapers one day but until then, all we have are memories of OOP ACKK!!

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Sometime, I feel humbled by other people's blog

There are times when I'm really pleased with the writings of my blog, how its entertaining and yet it shows the trials of my life. I usually pat myself on the back and talk to my friends and get new ideas, then they're other times when I feel that my words are nothing more than a waste of space.

As a blogger, I also read other people's blogs. Some blogs I've only visited once and then there are others that I visit on a regular occasion and I always enjoy reading what they have to say.

Lately though I found a blog from a woman who lives in Iraq and she talks about her daily life under the changes that are going on. I'm starting to read it more often now and I find it interesting.

As well, there's another blog that I visit regularly, and she has left a comment or two on my blog as well. Anyway a few days ago, I read her blog entry and I felt that I didn't have the right to read what I was reading. It felt like she was revealing her soul to the world and I just felt that I wasn't close enough to her to be allowed to read her confessions (Actually were not close at all, we just frequent each others blogs). Originally I had planned to redo the links on my blogs and add a link to her blog, but I don't feel comfortable doing that after that post. Its one thing to read something that came from someone's soul but its another to stand up and point the way so everyone can read it. I won't do that.

There a few other blogs that I'm impressed with and I leave posts when I can. There was one thing that another blogger was doing that I left a comment that I was going to steal his idea (Don't worry I will site my sources when I 'borrow' ideas from other blogs Hugh)

So as I read these blogs I feel that my blog is like Gilligan's Island as opposed to these other blogs which are more like Law & Order or 60 Minutes.

Now I don't feel my blog is bad at all. I've also found blogs and I wonder, what the heck is going on, and I found one where all this guy goes is slam the people he knows. While my blog might be Gilligan's Island, but at least its not the Weekly World News.

Again, I am planing to rework the links and split them into two parts but I've decided to wait another week unless vics plans to reveal her soul again, then it will have to wait another week.

While sometimes I do get a little more serious with my observations and try to take the high road, most of the time, I got for the laughs (and most of the time, I fail). I guess I want my blog to be like the 'Will it float' segment on Letterman, educational and entertaining. MMM I wonder if a block of cheese will float? I'll go find out.

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Remember when we knew who the bad guys were?

Now I remember this old cartoon from the 80's called G.I. Joe. It was for kids and the concept was simple. The Joe's (they were called that) would defend the world against the evil forces of Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization that wanted to rule the world.

Now one thing about G.I. Joe was that all the enemy wore a uniform that indicated that they were the bad guys instead of the good guys, so it was black and white, there was no gray area.

Now let's fast forward to today. Today we are threatened by terrorists who could be living among us and all we know is they they are all of a certain minority group. Its not black and white now is it? Most Muslims are very nice and kind people, but its this small minority that is making life difficult for them and the world in general in my opinion.

Now I prefer to look as people as individuals, after all we are all unique; with our beliefs and our values and our life experiences, we become an individual and not one of the masses. Now I do feel bad that people are being singled out because of their heritage or their beliefs but were dealing with the safety of the majority. There is a time when the rights of the individual has to be balanced against the safety of all but is this that time? Its a moral dilemma for me actually, I've always considered the rights of the individual to be all important above all else but if these people are out to cause harm to the majority, should we not do everything in our power to stop them before more lives are lost?

Now people are saying that the way Muslims and people from middle east origins are being discriminated against and they are correct in that, they are being treated like second class or even third class citizens but I wonder if these policies were in place back in 2000, would the twin towers still be standing tall?

I'm not going to defend the actions of the U.S. government because I don't think they are correct in their actions. WHEN THE HELL DID CAT STEVENS BECOME A SECURITY RISK? (I really hate that Peace Train song but come on) Does this mean, if the U.S. Government can keep Cat Stevens out, that we can keep Michael Moore out of Canada? However I can't condemn them for their actions. It wasn't the Amish who crashed those planes. Its wasn't the Japanese or the communists. We all know who they were and who they represented. We've been hurt and we don't want to get hurt again and trust is at a new low right now. Sort of like my feelings over (insert minority group here) because that taxi driver stole my cell phone.

Now I confess that I do not know all the facts about Iraq so I'm not qualified to make a judgment on that topic but this is my theory about why it was invaded. Osama is still at large and there was no visible target to fight. The terrorists were all in hiding. It wasn't like in the days of the cold war or even in the G.I. Joe cartoon where all the enemies wore that Cobra symbol. Iraq was an enemy that could be named, so it was off to Iraq. This was something that would never had happened a few years ago but rules have changed. The U.S. had been attack and they wanted vengeance and Iraq was a good enough example as any.

Now I honestly feel bad for the people who are caught in the middle of this. People who are looked at suspiciously because of where they were born or what religion they are but this is the end result of what happened three years ago. Personally I'm not surprised by this. You take stick and break open a bee's nest and they are going to come after you and keep coming until your gone and they will still be pissed and go after anything else that's around. This is the U.S. administrations mind set right now and I can't condemn them for it and the innocent suffer because of it.

Actually I got an idea. Maybe we can get the terrorists to start wearing those Cobra symbols from the cartoon and then we'll know who they are and the innocent can go on with their lives without fear of being persecuted.

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I think my sim is gay

Alright I'm a little concerned about my sim, I think he gay, at leastI thought he was until I discovered the shocking truth.

I've talked about the fact that I'm hooked on The Sims and now TheSims 2. Anyway I had created a sim of myself and he was in love with a female sim and things were occurring (well some things were anyway). I found that I was having a difficult time in getting my sims to YAHWOO. It seems that whenever they are in bed together, they end up asleep, like an old married couple. This was not my intention.

Anyway I also discovered something else; whenever the two sims would have a make out session on the couch (and it was some serious making out here) the fun meter on my sim would go down. Now, I don't know about you, but when I'm on the couch with a beautiful woman and our hands are all over the place and were lip locked, I'm having a good time. This was when I thought, "Oh no He's gay" This sim has my name and I don't want him to be gay. I'm not gay and there is no way my sim is going to be gay either, not if he has my name. If it's someone else's name, fine but not my name.

Well last night I discovered the shocking truth and it wasn't pretty. I had downloaded the nude patch for Sims 2 and installed it so I wouldn't have to put up with the censoring affect when they are bathing or whatever. Anyway, when my sim came out of the shower, I saw that he had NO DEAL!!! Were talking Ken doll here. Now I know why my sim wasn't having any fun. He's not a true male. How can he go on like this? Dammit I'm going to e-mail EA about getting a 'deal' for my simso he can reproduce. A man just isn't a man without his deal

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Zombie Boobies

Over the weekend I sent to see the new Resident Evil movie and it was quite different from the first one. I'm not saying better or worse, just different.

While the first movie took place within a "Secret Underground Lair" this one took place in a city. Raccoon city as its named in the video game (who the hell comes up with these names?). So basically we have our characters running through Raccoon City, fighting zombies and trying to escape the city. Sounds like a good video game; wait, it is a video game.

I've been a fan of the Resident Evil games for some time now so I was looking forward to the movies, though there were things about this new one that annoyed me. In this movie, we have 2 tough women instead of one, we have the stereotypical black guy who's streetwise and acts dumber than he really is, and we also have the snoopy reporter and the innocent child that has to be protected. Now I’m not expecting Forest Gump here but can we at least make an attempt to be original. I think Michelle Rodriguez is glad that her character was killed in the first movie now.

Actually they did try to shock us by having more swearing and having topless stripper zombies in once scene but let’s face it, if your running from zombies, YOU DO NOT RUN INTO A GRAVEYARD TO HIDE!!!! Now I guess I can pick this movie apart but I am a fan so I can say that I enjoyed

What I really liked was the fact the Raccoon City looked a lot like Toronto, with the exception of the CN tower and even then, the tower had a habit of showing up once or twice. Its nice to see the U.S. City of Raccoon City is the home of so many Canadian banks. I guess I now know how the people of Sydney feel when watching the Matrix movies. At least Eeks vs. Sever told us we were in Canada so it’s wasn’t a surprise to see Vancouver landmarks everywhere.

Oh well. I’ll try to be more interesting next time but until then, see you at the movies? Yeah the topless zombie strippers were creepy.

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