Fast Food Workers Strike? Really?!?!

So ... It's all over Facebook and the national news ... Fast food workers are going on strike because they believe they are not receiving a fair wage for the work they do ... Um ... Really? You mean to tell me, after your lack of ambition, talent, drive, intelligence and work ethic, landed you a gig that requires you to ask people if they would like fries with their meal, you think you're underpaid?!?! Fast food gigs are for high school/ college students and retirees who just want to get out and socialize. If you're over 25 years old and you work at McDonalds and you're NOT the manager or owner, you have WAY bigger problems than the size of your paycheck. You zigged when you should have zagged ... Your compass was defective ... In short ... Things have gone slightly askew.

And now, you want to make it someone else's fault and make THEM pay because you refused to pay attention in school or apply yourself? You want to be HANDED something that everyone else on the planet had to work their asses off to get?!?! And you're not gonna give us our Big Mac's til you get it?

Let me tell you something .... YOU settled for a job that I can basically train any primate with opposable thumbs to do. YOU cut class. YOU ignored all the warnings from your peers. So now YOU have a fast food job. Live with it and the shitty paycheck that comes with it, or MAKE THE NECESSARY SACRIFICES to better yourself and your life. Then you WON'T have a fast food job. It's like this .... A morbidly obese, stupid guy who has zero charm and is completely ugly due to lack of proper hygine, marrys a girl who is in the same proverbial boat. Then, after a few months, he starts riding her ass saying she has to lose a bunch of weight, go back to school and get smart, improve her hygine and become more attractive .... But when SHE asks him what HE'S going to do to improve HIMSELF, he says "Nothing". Want a thinner girlfriend? Lay off the Twinkies and Ho Ho's. Want a smarter girlfriend? Read a bunch of books and improve your mind so you can keep up in a conversation. Want a better job? ..... Yah .... I hope you're getting the picture. It's not the fast food place's responsibility to make it so you make more money ... It's YOUR responsibility. That means make yourself a person who DESERVES a better job because you improved yourself and made yourself an asset that employers are willing to pay more money to get.

Thanx for spending a little time with me.
I appreciate it.

Dinner On The North Fork To Die From ... Not For ... FROM ... O'Mally's ... Just Say "No".

Okay ... So this was a few weeks ago. A very close friend and I decided to try this place: O'Mally's, in Southold, NY out on the North Fork of Long Island. She was living with me at my house out on Nassau Point for about a month, and dinner out just sounded like fun. Our hopes were high due to the rave reviews I'd been hearing about the place for several years.

Sooooo ... We piled into the Jaguars and drove the few miles from my place to their place; mouths watering and bellies eagerly awaiting something along the lines of a juicy Porterhouse or perhaps a nice New York Strip. When we pulled into the parking lot, there were only two other cars there. "What luck!" we said. "They're not even crowded!" we smiled ... Unfortunately ... There was a really BAD reason for that.

The elderly gentleman who greeted us at the door was VERY friendly, albeit a bit shabby in appearance. The interior was somewhat dated but passable. The table we were seated at was TINY. Considering there were only two other occupied tables in the place, there were plenty of larger, more comfortable places they could have put us, but we went along with the plan. Perhaps they had reservations for the rest of the tables ... ?

THEN, our waiterS came over ... Yes waiters with an "S". Not one, but TWO waiters ... Young men in their very early 20's, dressed in shabby blue jeans, faded, less than clean tee shirts and aprons that brought to mind something a butcher might wear. Now ..... My dinner companion is VERY easy on the eyes if you catch my drift ... The waiterS certainly noticed ... Although I'm not so sure they noticed me ... You know ... The guy who was about to shell out $100 + on dinner. They didn't glance in appreciation at my companion ... They GAWKED, STARED, DROOLED, PANTED ... They pretty much did everything short of whipping out their respective Johnsons and masturbating while they took our order. They were back at the table ... no shit ... every 3 friggen minutes for the rest of our dining experience until I'd finally had enough and told them "Stop hovering. If we need anything else, I'll wave or something" ... at which point they repaired to the kitchen entrance with the rest of the male staff to stare unabashedly from some 30 feet away. MUCH better.

Now ... I paint this picture of the staff to illustrate what we both considered the MOST TOLERABLE part of our dining experience. The menu SUCKED. There was only one kind of steak ... Sirloin ... You know. The crap they grind up at the grocery store to make Hamburger. The baked potato each of us got was about the size of half a hot dog bun and poorly over-cooked. The so-called salad was sub-par to say the least. The steaks were improperly cooked and eating them was like unto self-flagellation for something I didn't even do. At one point, Tricia (my dinner companion and dear friend) said "I'm just going to ask for a doggy bag and bring the rest of this home for Bear" (Bear is my dog's name) to which I replied "I thought you LIKED my dog" ... Laughter ensued. As a matter of fact, laughter was the only thing that kept the evening from being a complete bust. The food and service were SO terribly, it was literally laughable. Every single thing was ridiculous in its inadequacy.

After paying the offensive tab and finishing our minuscule glasses of sub-standard wine ($12 a glass ... and the glass was the size of half an orange ... half of a small orange ... and only half full) we rose and headed for the door. As we passed the Mat re De's podium, we came upon a wicker basket, filled with rather high-end after dinner mints in pretty gold wrappers. I snatched a HUGE handful while announcing, in a voice loud enough for EVERYONE in the place to hear, "We are by GOD getting out of hear with SOMETHING that tastes good!"

She laughed. I laughed. We giggled as we ran to the Jag and sped off, literally into the sunset.

Footnote: On April 10th, the day after Tricia and I had dinner there, O'Mally's went up for sale.

Gun Control ... ?

 

Okee dokee ... I've seen a ridiculous amout of "stuff" over the past few months on here on the gun control issue. But before I get out my soapbox and start in, lemme preface it with this: I'm 6 feet tall+. I weigh 212 pounds. I can easily bench press most muggers and/or burglers. I have owned MANY guns in the past, though I currently own none. I taught my two sons gun safety and taught my now ex-wife to shoot, long ago. So, I have lived life with and without guns. NOW ... Up on the soapbox I go: The people who govern our country, from the Pres. right down to whatever level you want to stop at, is protected on a regular basis by ... people with guns. Police officers, are people with guns on their person pretty much anytime they are awake. Our military consists mainly of ... people with guns. So .... Guns are good to protect our nation. Guns are good to protect the public and keep the peace. Guns are good for protecting the lives and well-being of our government and their families ... But we need to crack down on the general public having guns??? Look ... a cop, a soldier, a secret service agent, someone out hunting pheasant or deer, someone shooting skeet ... all PEOPLE WITH GUNS. Any one of them could have a screw lose and decide to go on a shooting spree. Guns aren't the problem. PEOPLE are the problem. And let's face it ... THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO TO GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF ANYONE!!!! This is Earth. It can be a dangerous place to live sometimes. So either climb your ass into your root cellar and stay there for the rest of your life, or realize that life has zero safety guarantees and get out there and live and let live. Just because I can beat a mugger into the ground like a tent stake, hence have no need to carry around a gun, doesn't mean that right (YES RIGHT) should be denied to ANYONE who believes THEY SHOULD have or carry a gun. Look at the statistics. States with the most strict gun laws HAVE THE HIGHEST CRIME RATES. States where the gun laws are the least restrictive HAVE THE LOWEST CRIME RATES. What happened at Sandy Hook was a horrible tragedy. But if the guy had locked everyone in the school by chaining all the doors shut and then poured gasoline on everything and burned everyone in the place to death ... would we all be debating whether or not our chain control and gasoline control laws were adequate? NO! We'd be lamenting fifty times as many deaths and wondering what drives a person insane enough to do such a horrible thing. News Flash: THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ARE USING THE HORRIBLE TRAGEDIES THAT OCCUR IN OUR COUNTRY AS A MEANS OF SHOCKING US INTO BUYING INTO THEIR AGENDA!!!!! You're smarter than that. No ... It's not some conspeiracy theory or "OMG, they're out to get us" ... It's politics. It's special interest. It's fear-mongering. Don't fall for it. Don't buy into the hype. "Never has a good decision been made amidst hysteria" ... Me.

 

 

Obama Is An Arrogant Prick

I tried to come up with a better title for this addition ... "Obama Is Not Fit To Be An American, Let Alone The President" came in second place. Just LOOK at this picture of our "President" I found posted by the Patriot Underground:



Now ... I try to keep the profanity in my Columns to a minimum. But for this one ... Well ... If you are under 18, or if you are easily offended by profanity, read no further. This is not going to be a RANT for the faint of heart .....

Up until now, I have never been a huge fan of Obama. But I have done my best to give him a fair shake. When I hear something said about him that I know to be untrue, I have defended him. When asked if I thought he was a bad person, I always said, "I think maybe he just bit off more than he could chew with this President thing. That doesn't make him a bad person. Just inexperienced." When people have said derogatory/racist things about him, I have quipped "Hey ... He IS our President. Have a little respect!"

And now ... I take back every fucking WORD of it! Obama, you fucking low-life piece of SHIT!!!

Those two guys ... You know ... The ones in the uniforms, saluting you as you get off that chopper THAT WE THE PEOPLE FUCKING PAID FOR are SOLDIERS. These guys and millions of others look to you with the utmost respect as their Commander and Chief ... If you tell them to go to the Middle-East and die, they fucking DO IT. You tell them to leave their spouses and children and parents and boyfriends and girlfriends and jobs behind and jump on a plane and go fight to uphold your ideals, they fucking DO IT. They get shot and blown up. They sleep in huddled masses in shallow foxholes in the sand with fucking scorpions and biting ants and they get to change their clothes once a fucking month sometimes. They go to some of the most God-awful shit-holes on the planet because YOU fucking tell them to and they DO IT!

YOU ARE A PUBLIC SERVANT you fucking asshole! WE THE PEOPLE pay your fucking salary. You hold a position of power BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE FUCKING GAVE IT TO YOU. And the very pinnacle of the people who have given you every fucking thing you have ... That really cool, big ass house? ... You know ... The White one ? ...WE OWN IT!  That fucking plane your wife uses to take $500,000.00 trips to Africa to take your fucking kids to a private trip to a safari park? ... WE OWN IT! Your limos and helicopters? We fucking own them too. Because every fucking bit of it was bought with money WE earned and paid in as taxes to support our country.

Your sense of entitlement is obscene! For Christ's SAKE! You were given a fucking NOBEL PRIZE for doing absolutely NOTHING!!!!! There were people that year curing forms of cancer and creating new science and better bio-fuels and vaccines etc. .... And they gave it to YOU?!?!?! And you had the absolute absence of class or grace to DECLINE?!?!

THAT, coupled with the above posted picture has drawn aside the curtain and revealed you as the arrogant, useless, graceless piece of shit we Americans have grown to be so terribly ashamed of. If you had a decent bone in your body, you'd resign tomorrow and live out the rest of your life in exile.

In summation, Fuck you Obama.

Thanx for spending a little time with me.

I appreciate it.

Billy

Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals .... HUH?!?!

"Palm Beach, Fla. (CBS TAMPA) – The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race.
On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.
The plan has infuriated many community activists in Palm Beach County and across the state."

Really? "Infuriated"? Um ... Are you friggen KIDDING me?!?!

It's like some racist butthole somehow got into a position high enough to try and make racial stereotypes statistically correct. From what I'm reading, Asians are better at math than Whites, Hispanics and Blacks in descending order. The same goes for reading. So ... Buy into the stereotypes and lower your expectations?!

Let me tell you something about the intentional muting of potential ... Human beings, by nature, tend to perform to the MINIMUM expectation of their peers. So if I wanted to make sure the status quo isn't upset ... If I wanted to reinforce the building of a stronger Cast System in the United States, this is EXACTLY how I would go about it. God knows we don't want any minorities catching up or even PASSING any race considered their superior. So, lower the expectation on the intellectual playing field, for them. If you set up a system that accepts less of a performance from Blacks and Hispanics than what is expected from Whites and Asians, and give out the same rewards across the board to all, you can, in a sense, mute the performance of those from whom you expected less in the first place. According to the plan the Florida State Board of Education has set up, a Native American from a broken home who suffers in abject poverty, is being pretty much told it's okay to do poorly compared to students who 'have it better' ... It's just a left-handed way of saying "You suck because you're not from one of the races we consider better than you ... But it's okay to suck because we already expected you to."

Guess what else? Let's say I'm an employer, say, around 2018 ... And I KNOW that a group of job applicants, all possessing the same educational credentials, but differing in race, had varying degrees of requirements to get their respective credentials ... I would know that the credentials held by Asians and Whites were actually BETTER than those held by Blacks and Hispanics because of the respective varied levels of excellence required to obtain said credentials.

You get the point.

In short ... Hey Florida Board of Education ... Fuck you, you bunch of racist, misogynistic assholes!

Aahhh ... I feel better. How 'bout you?

Thanx for spending a little time with me.

I appreciate it.

Billy

Explaining America

Saturday Morning on Long Island ... On The Bay on Long Island to be more specific (Here's a tip:It's ON Long Island. Not IN Long Island. The locals get upset if you say it wrong) ... I look out the sliding glass doors that lead to my 16x50 deck, beyond the railing, across my acre and a half yard, past the bulkhead and dock and out across the private, saltwater cove, the inlet and across the glittering expanse of water to The Hamptons. Five spacious bedrooms (I HATE small bedrooms) and four full baths ... 5000 square feet in all. Half circle driveway that starts on Little Peconic Bay Road and comes out on Sailors Lane. You'd think there were more than just the two of us living in a place this size. But no. It's just me and my son.

Seems excessive. But that's America.

That's just the point ... Well ... Not THE point. Just one of many I guess.

A while back, on the late shift at work, I was asked by a visiting physicist from Germany, to "explain America". I'll refer to him as "Arron" from here, since that's his name ... Arron was confused about the prevailing mentallity of Americans in general. He couldn't understand things like our lack of respect for our political leaders, the wide variations in socio-economic circumstances of the population, spanning from lives of excess to abject poverty, the resistance to gun control, the need to cling to the First Amendment ... The list was long. We stood in the half-light outside, smoking Marlboros ... The was a moment of silence after he posed his question before I made my move ...

Slowly, with as much Clint Eastwood as I could muster, I drew my right hand from the pocket of my 501, button-fly Levi's, and I gave him "The Finger" as I affected my best James Dean 'look at the ground, then up' move. "This ... is what America is all about." I said. He smiled and half laughed then asked for more detail. This is a paraphrase of my answer:

"The very origin of our country is based on a general statement of 'kiss my ass' ... From the Boston Tea Party to the push West to the Industrial Revolution to the Atomic Bomb. We are irreverant. We pay our taxes and in return, we expect to be left the hell alone to do as we please, just so long as we aren't hurting anyone else. We like our guns, even if we never have a reason to use them. We by God have 'em if the occasion should arise. We have a general lack of respect for our politicians because we SUCK at electing the right guy. The Terminator is the governor of California. Sonny Bono was a senator or representative or whatever. One of our best presidents in recent decades played a friggen cowboy on Death Valley Days and made movies with a chimp. Jessy The friggen Body Ventura, a pro wrestler and minor movie star was the Governor of Minnesota. Kennedy bangged Marilyn Monroe and Clinton got his junk sucked in the oval office. Our priests pork altar boys. Our school teachers seduce high school students. Our cops stick broomsticks up the asses of bad guys or play lookout for each other while they rape drunk coeds. Our doctors feel up patients when they're under sedation and I don't even wanna TALK about Kentucky. We're not much different than the majority of people from other countries except we don't quietly leave our skeletons in the closet. We yank those fuckers out and leave 'em on display on the steps to the county courthouse. We give reverence where it is deserved, but we call a turd a turd without batting an eye. The difference in quality of life in by and large directly proportionate to the level of ambition someone has. Not always. But more often than not. We make movies about heroes and cowboys and boxers and lovers and geniuses ans rock stars ... Then we buy into it and fuckin' LIVE it as best as we can. We'll give you the shirt off our respective backs if we believe you need it, but we'll punch you in the mouth in a second if you spit on our metaphoric shoes ... That's the short version of America' ...

He stood, mouth agape for a moment, then a smile of realization crept across his face.

"I think I get it." he said.

"No you don't" I smiled.

Then we went back to the control room and finished the shift, gathering data from the Linear Accelerator we were commissioning.

I hope I explained well enough for those of you who weren't there to provide your point of view. But I'm not going to lose any sleep over it if I didn't. Because this is America. It's whatever the hell I say it is ... and whatever the hell you say it is ... and you ... and you ...

Thanx for spending a little time with me.

I appreciate it.

Billy

Same Sex/Gay Marriage Legislation

Happy Friday Kiddies!

Unca Billy's back with yet another rant.

Seems all the hubbub about Same-Sex marriage legislation is still brewing. I thought some lawyer worth his salt would have put this one to rest by now. Guess I was putting a little too much faith in them. Guess I'll have to do it for them ...

I'm gonna make this short and sweet:

1. Marriage is a spiritual union.

2. The institution of marriage is outlined and defined and has it's foundations in The Bible.

3. The United States Constitution clearly states that there SHALL be a clear seperation of church and state.

4. Hence ... There can be NO legislation governing who  may or may not partake in a matter which is the sole domain of the church, i.e. marriage, baptism etc.

5. The requirement for a "Marriage License" is moot and should never have been allowed to come into existance. As it is now a requirement, it needs to be done away with ... Are you listening Lawyers?

6. If you want a "Legally Binding" union with someone, rather than a purely spiritual union, you need to go to the Justice of The Peace and have him/her perform a ritual known as a "Civil Union" for you and your chosen mate.

Of course, it's not all as simple as that. But it should be. But, over time, we have allowed the government to slowly creep across that line which is meant to define that affore-mentioned seperation of church and state. And it is the opinion of this ranter that members of the clergy need to hook up with some really good lawyers and take back the territory that has been stolen from the church.

As for Civil Union: That is 100% a legal matter and serves only the purpose of defining the legal aspects of the rights of two people who have chosen to declare their co-habitation as something binding as per the letter of several pieces of legislation. ANYBODY should be able to have a Civil Union.

'Nuff said.
Now ... stop bickering and get your butts to work straightening this mess out.

Thanx for spending a little time with me.
I appreciate it.

Billy

Health Care, HS Education, Birth Control and Abortion.

Happy Hump-Day Kiddies!

I know I've been out of the spotlight for a while. What can I say? Life happens.

Anyway ... Time to raise a little hell ... This is "Off On A Rant" after all ....

I saw a pic posted on Facebook the other day. It looked exactly like this:



Really?

Let's dig into this a bit ... First, the average age of a child, entering high school, is 13. If your child is 13, and they don't know where babies come from, you are a horrible parent. It is NOT the duty of our educational system to teach our children about the proverbial birds and the bees. It is the duty of the parent/parents of said child. As for health care, what the hell does THAT have to do with abortion? Abortion is all about your moral compass. If your parents have taught you right from wrong, you won't have to worry about becoming pregnant within unfavorable circumstances because you won't be sexually active until you are ready and responsible enough to prevent unwanted pregnancy. And as for birth control, if you are of legal age to have sex, you are old enough to stop by the local friggen Walgreen's and pick up condoms or get on the pill. If you are a female and want to get on the pill, it's ONE visit to any GP doctor's office to get a prescription written. If you don't have the money for that, I'm willing to bet the guy who is dying to get in your panties will be more than happy to pay for that in lieu for what he stands to get in return.

When the hell did all of this become the responsibility of the government? We want the schools or some social program to take responsibility for raising our kids now? And while we're on that subject ... Follow me here ... What the hell are we doing letting said government legislate abortion? First off, gender-biased laws are ILLEGAL ... As far as I can tell, abortion legislation applies only to people who have a vagina ... And last time I checked, the only people who possess one of those, are female. I personally, am against abortion. But, not being in possession of a vagina, I really have nothing more than an opinion. When it comes down to the brass tacks, I don't have a dog in that fight. It is a moral issue. Morality can't be legislated.

Now ... There are always going to be people out there who, for whatever reason, have a moral compass that could be used as the cooling fan on a Buick. People who live like that are more than likely going to see some negative consequence. Blaming the abortion rate on high school or health care or birth control is like being morbidly obese and blaming McDonald's. You KNEW that eating six Big Macs for lunch every day was going to make you gain weight. It was a gradual process. You could have stopped at any time. It's not like you woke up in great shape on Tuesday and by Friday you were a semi-gelatinous, wheezing pig.

SHOULD everyone have a high school education? Sure. What does that have to do with abortion? NOTHING.

SHOULD everyone have adequate health care? Sure. What does that have to do with abortion? NOTHING.

SHOULD everyone have access to birth control? THEY DO. What does that have to do with abortion? NOTHING.

When looking at any issue, it's important to look at the basis ... The root cause, if you will. And there are any number of reasons women get abortions. And each of these reasons is a deeply personal and often spiritual struggle for that individual. Slapping a generic label on it is just wrong. Supposing there is a generic answer to the problem is just ignorant.

I rest my case ... for now.

Thanx for spending a little time with me.
I appreciate it.

Billy