Foxy's Journal

12:36pm: Hi.
I'm still here. I just haven't had anything interesting to say lately.

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Silly spoof made with The Movies.



Descent 2 soundtrack video playlist thing.



Parody of video game reviews.

9:22pm:

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5:39am: This just in: you don't get to complain about the economy if you're willing to stand in line to buy a GODDAMN PHONE. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?

9:05pm: http://www.racingone.com/article.aspx?artnum=43276

I'm sure most of you won't know who he was, or -- worse -- won't care, but I feel like I should say something about him. My parents introduced me to drag racing when I was young, and though Detroit Dragway was long gone and Milan Dragway was too far away to go, I'd always had an underlying interest in motor sports, be it NASCAR, monster trucks, or drag racing. But back in the 70s and 80s, before I came around to screw things up, my parents would go down to Detroit Dragway and they'd share their stories about the 'good old days' with me. I never followed it religiously, but every once in awhile I'd run across it on TNN and settle in to watch the heats...

Scott Kalitta was the son of Connie Kalitta, one of the greatest drag racers of all time, and a native of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, one of the numerous suburbs of Detroit. He was fairly well-known around the area. He got Shirley Muldowney her start in drag racing, and he owned and operated a cargo freight airline based at Willow Run Airport. When my family went to air shows there, you'd occassionally see his big 747 jumbo jets parked across the way in their red and orange livery. Back in Desert Storm, they flew a lot of cargo operations in support of the war, and they eventually become one of the largest employers at Willow Run Airport. My uncle used to work for Kalitta Air. He knew Connie personally. I want to call him, but I don't know his number. He's probably devestated.

You probably know Kalitta Air better as the company that let the Mythbusters use one of their 747s to blow over a bus with its jetwash.

I don't know what else to say. We lost a great driver and a great person, and someone my family knew personally. He'll be missed greatly.

R.I.P., Scott.

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5:35am: The endangered species list is a serious thing. It is not to be abused. Abuse may result in revocation of effectivity.

Why does nobody talk about the dingos?

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6:51pm: I'm back.

4:37am: Radio caller dude : 'If Barack Obama were not a minority, this wouldn't be an issue.'

Of course not, sweetie. That's why we have double standards. Double standards are great, aren't they? Because it lets us say something is wrong without doing anything about it. I'm glad we live in an age where words (Obama: I'm not racist, dude!) mean more than actions (was it nineteen years he was a member?). Because you have to judge us by our intentions and not our actions. That's why 'carbon offsets' are so much better than BOTHERING TO CHANGE YOUR GODDAMN WAY OF LIFE. How DARE you inconvenience people by demanding they do things differently! No, let's just buy carbon offsets, or buy a hybrid, and assume HEY WHAT THE FUCK EVERYTHING IS BETTER NOW OKAY? No, it's not okay.

It's not okay, and I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it is. I'm not going to say it's okay to get by with words alone. Actions have to be judged and not ignored, and certainly not something to have an excuse made over. 'Oh, you're blowing it out of context, it's really not that big of a deal' YES IT IS A BIG DEAL. What if Obama hadn't been at Captain Racist's church and had been a member at Westboro Baptist Church for nineteen years?

Oh wait. Nothing would change. He'd go out there and give a big speech and all the goddamn liberals would forgive him because you can't criticize a black man! That's racist! Stop being racist by criticizing Barack Obama, you don't want to be racist, do you?

Yes you do. If you didn't, you'd be taking this more seriously.

I heard the most disgusting thing from a friend the other day: they compared this incident, to my face to the child-mollesting scandal in the Catholic church. Of course, they had the friendly audacity to preface their point by first asking 'You're Catholic, right? So you support fucking little boys?'

Because that's not offensive at all. Hell, I get that from friends all the time, 'You support fucking little boys' has replaced 'Hey, Trick! How are you today?'.

I know, I know, people say 'If my priest had been up there prophetizing about how great littleboyrape is, I would have left', and while I want to say that, it's conjecture. It never happened to me. If it had, I probably would have left, but that's not the point. The point is the two events are not similar and not compatible, but it would be okay to criticize the priest because he's white.

While I'm on conjecture, let's do a little hypothetical situation. Let's say I'm white and I've got a business, we make Widget-EXs for whatever. Let's say I'm a supplier to a large company, or I'm subcontracted out to a larger company. And let's say that I refuse to hire white people, and when asked about it, I say 'I've got statistics that indicate people of European descent work less and want more money than comparably skilled members of other ethnicities'. You probably don't notice when there's six or seven of us, but, hey, I'm a good businessman and the company gets larger and more successful. Soon we've got, let's pick a random number... 460 employees, and none of them are white (except me).

Is that okay?

(hint: if you had to think about it, you're wrong)

Here's the problem: racism has become (much to Dr. King's conjectured chagrin) that racism is only valid when a majority is 'oppressing' a minority. It doesn't even need to be actual discrimination; sometimes, it's minor. The average black person in the US, Canada, the UK, etc., makes more than the average resident of just about every, if not every, nation in Africa. But less than white people. So what's the answer? Punish white people? That makes sense.

'Damnit, Barry Bonds, stop hitting so many home runs, it's not fair! We're going to change your bat from ash-wood to MOTHERFUCKING LEAD'

No, it doesn't work that way. (And yes, I know that's a gross overgeneralization) That's not how it works. Let's forget a moment about the steroid scandal; you don't make your team better hitters by making your best hitter worse. You help your weaker hitters by teaching them better batting mechanics.

Why can't we do that in real life? Why is it so wrong to offer education and assistance to those who need it most? Why is 'inner city' a slang term for 'minority'? Of course, there's no poor white people, especially ones that need help (forget welfare a moment, I'm talking about people who actually deserve it). They can just go to the bank and say 'I'm white, I need a loan and a better job' and by God they just hand over, because that's how it is, isn't it? By the way, if you make a comment to the post, preface it with the phrase 'Greetings, Trick', or it will be deleted. It's just a way to make sure that people are actually reading this and not skimming. That's why I got my job at Boeing, because I'm white.

I don't want to give white people a free pass to be racist jerks. That's wrong, too. But punishing white people for being white is also wrong, and it's not okay, and I'm not going to put up with it. I'm not going to let people get away with double standards on this. Frankly, it's disgusting the way people are rushing to Obama's defense because YOU CAN'T CRITICIZE A BLACK MAN. It's not allowed! It's like putting two hotels on Boardwalk, you can't do it. Ever.

Why is that so hard for you people to understand? If it was up to me, the US Census wouldn't gather data on race. 'Well, you can't do that, then you can't see how much injustice there is' and that's exactly my point. You don't need to see it. In fact, seeing it is more likely to make it an improper issue. If you sit down at your dinner table and there's a candy in the middle, you're more likely to eat that candy THEN than, if it wasn't, going out and buying some. Out of sight, out of mind. There's no reason for it, it further devolves humanity into seperate subgroups and discourages the unity of being all one people.

But I can't say that. It's racist. It's racist to tell people to not discriminate against white people.

I've got some (white) friends in South Africa who would happily disagree with you. And if you don't know why, goddamn, you're not educated and therefore your opinions are invalid.

By the way, you know that hypothetical business I was talking about a little bit ago? Would you feel different if I was black instead of white? And if you have to think about the answer, or the answer is different, you disgust me more than you could possibly imagine.

-Signed, Trick. A person.

EDIT: Almost forgot. I'm flying back to Detroit in a few hours so I can go to my college graduation; the original take (in December) was cancelled due to snow. See? There's another white entity oppressing me. Sorry. Seriously, it'll be nice to see the folks again. See you next week sometime. Maybe?

4:51pm: Taking A Break From The Internet...
...because you all drive me nuts.

7:10am: Boy, it sure is a good thing nobody who matters reads your posts.

7:21pm: New video:

7:32am:  Hurray, I get a day off. Sort of. The car's got a flat so I need it changed... I got that ultimate triple-A thing so they do it for free? Plus I have a donut. I don't want to buy new tires but I'll have to before I need to drive to Seatac Friday...

5:23am: So, Obama was in the church, but he didn't inhale listen. Okay? That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

Hey, Ace, can you get on VR so we can talk? Maybe this afternoon/evening? I get home at about 5 PST.

I get paid tonight at midnight. I like money. It's nice to have?

5:30am: Terri Lynn Land sent me a letter yesterday. She said 'don't forget to not remember to renew your Michigan license plate! It's only $120 and it's due now!'

And I go, 'Didn't it occur to you that you're sending a letter about renewing Michigan license plates to an address in Washington'?

My dog is whimpering for some reason. I think he's sad because he knows I'm leaving for work in a few minutes.

Or now.

4:00pm:

We'd both be happier if you kept your opinions to yourself.

I don't like it here. I want to go home.

5:34am: Hurray, it's St. Patrick's Day. Let's make grossly offensive and negative stereotypes about Irish people. It's okay because they're white, right? I mean, it's not like they can possibly object, they've never had to go through any oppression or hardship in their existence, because they were fortunate enough to be born white. Good for them!

I can't wait for Step'N Fetchit Day and Big Dumb Polack Day. I'll get so drunk, because, as a Polish person, that's what I do, right? And then I move because I heard that 80% of all car accidents happen near the home. Get it? Ha ha, it's funny because I'm stupid.

9:12pm: God loves everybody. Even you. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

2:43pm: I like being yelled at about politics.
...only now it's coming from both sides, instead of just one.

That's right, everybody's favorite classical-conservative fox doesn't have to turn to all his liberal friends to get yelled at. Now he gets to take flak from his Republican friends, hooray.

Why? Well, that's an easy one. Because I haven't (and I won't) jump on the McCain bandwagon. I actually startled several people when they asked who I was voting for or what I thought of McCain (because most of them think I'm pretty blindly Republican, or have some idea that me and McCain share ideals), and then I told them I hate him and think he's the worst possible Republican candidate. No no no, it's got nothing to do with Iraq (not like anyone seriously cares about Iraq unless eighty brazillion people get exploded on a daily basis); I disagree with his economic policies, his immigration policies, his opposition to the second ammendment, etc. etc. Usually I get one of two responses:  either I get stunned silence (from most of my center-left buddies) or, from my right-wing friends, 'But if you don't vote for McCain, the terrorists Hillary wins!'. And I tell them I don't want McCain in office.

Don't get me wrong: I can't, in good faith, vote for either of the Democratic candidates. It doesn't matter what you say; I can't vote for either The Bitch or The Racist Dude. They're both lousy candidates, and I'm truly embaressed that they're the best somehwat-under-one-half of the country has to offer. Of course, I'm embaressed at what my somewhat-under-one-half-of-the-country has to offer as well, so that's not really the point. The point is, both sides have picked the worst candidates, when they clearly had better choices. I can honestly say that I would have voted for John Edwards over McCain; he strikes me as a nice person (as opposed to shrill or racist or 'economics isn't my strong point), he's obviously a competent politician, and I had a feeling he would have gotten things done.

But no, let's not pick him. Neither Hillary nor Obama are remotely competent as politicians, and while McCain has at least some idea how politics works, that (and his opposition to earmarks) are about the only things I have going for him, so that puts him only marginally better in my eyes.

More importantly, you know goddamn well none of them are going to do anything about anything. The President has become more of a figurehead than an actual executive-ator lately, and the real power is in Congress, which is happily executing its power to not do a damn thing. I'm ashamed at both sides of the political aisle for truly putting together some of the most vomit-inducing candidates in history. And I'm even more ashamed that otherwise-intelligent and rational people would support them (that includes people on my side, by the way). It was nice to see that there was a substantial amoutn of choice in teh primary this time, but that so many people made the wrong choices just leaves me feeling that people have become too stupid and partisan to realize they're stupid and partisan. And they're too stupid and partisan to think that anything is really going to change. 

No, let's not vote for who we think is best qualified, let's vote for who we like best, or who we think has the best downstairs plumbing, or better yet, let's VOTE FOR CHANGE. Boy, voting for change is sure the best thing any country can do, can't it? I mean, look at how great South Africa is doing since they voted for change, huh? And Germany was doing pretty well after they shifted from a liberal democracy, huh? 

Godwin bedamned, this is serious here, and I don't think most of you are actually thinking. You've really let me down, and you should feel ashamed for giving in to people who clearly aren't qualified to lead the nation at any point in time.

So, Trick, what are you going to do? Write in Ross Perot Ralph Nader Pat Buchanan Ron Paul? I'm not sure. I'm facing the uncomfortable position of abstaining from the election this year, and that sits almost as well with me as voting for any one of the other major candidates. If I turn away and ignore the problem, and not even exercise my voice for democracy, it's like I'm a non-citizen. I'm not particularly happy about that, and the long-term ramifications to my own morality might suffer if I make a decision like that.

Maybe I'll write in Joseph Hazelwood; it'd certainly be appropriate. Wrap your tiny, uneducated minds around that.

5:19am: So what are you supposed to write about in a thing like this? Daily events? Extraordinary stuff only? Thoughts and feelings? Opinions? The LiveJournal equivalent of Coast To Coast AM (I'm looking at you, Lance! :) )?

Kynn suggested I write about how Seattle is different from Detroit. I'm not actually in Seattle, but I'm close enough that it's there if I want it. Mostly I'm in Everett... actually, all the time I am. There's too many white people here, it creeps me out.

Did I mention my dog? I know I told a few of you but I don't know if I told everyone. I got a new doggy, who is so exciteable and energetic that he drives me nuts. Right now he's trying to eat my hair as I type this (mmmm, delicious hair gel...), and since his face is magnetically attracted to me, every time I shove him away he just bounds back like nothing happened. His name is Scamper.

Radio infomercials are weird. I think this one just told me that I should eat more hummingbird wings because they're high in Klaatubaradium or something. It's still better than that they played last Saturday. I don't care what you're selling, but you should never, ever start your story with 'I was looking at my daughter's bowel movement the other day...'. I swear, that's what he said. It creeped me the hell out.

So how is it that these infomercials say 'we're going to give away bottles of free whatever samples to the first 1000 callers'? What is the first 1000 callers? Everyone knows these things are taped and not live, and they probably play these things around the country. Does that mean they can only play them once in the nation at any given time, so that they can start the clock running and know when someone calls in? Or have they just given away their 1,000 free samples like, months (if not years) ago already?

Gah. The other infomercial ended. Now it's that bowel movement one. KVI needs to get some weekend morning people on.

It's almost time to go to work. Hurray for six-day work-weeks.