I said the other day that we would lose against Texas to fulfill our winning and losing pattern. I then said that if we wore the gold helmet that we would win... So, turns out. The bears played with their Gold helmets tonight and defeated those longhorns... First time since 1997 to beat those horns.. and first time to beat them in Austin since 1991.. It basically took my whole life for Baylor to beat the horns in Austin...
It was destined from this point (roughly 1993) that when I will be a Sophomore at Baylor, we would beat Texas again on their home field and then dunk all over them in basketball once again. Cant you tell by the look on my face, laughing at a longhorn joke that involves an aggie in a pig pasture being invaded by a red raider.
So next week will meet those cowboys with our gold helmets, and Ill be sporting my lucky shirt, undershirt, socks, shoes, and underwear. Sic' EM Bears!
You can be Muslim, but you can’t build a Mosque there
After the 9/11 attacks Islam has been given a bad name in America. Most of American citizens now associate Muslims with acts of violence and extreme religious practices. When in reality those extreme Muslims only exist in a handful just like Christian extremist. As a whole they are considered the enemy, because these attacks were done in the name of Islam and most of the US opposing forces are Islamic. So when Americans hear the Muslim tag attached to something they are instantly against it, just because Islam is associated with 9/11 and the evil in the Middle East. The First Amendment of the Constitution states that we as citizens are guaranteed the freedom of whatever religion we want, so does that not mean we can build a place of worship for our religion on our private property? A few months ago El-Gamal proposed to get a building permit to build a new Islamic multipurpose center, which includes a Mosque, in downtown New York City, a plan that has been in the making for many years. Since then he has faced not only opposition from the United States about it, but from the whole world; and the site is not really at Ground Zero. Many feel that this is the Islamic nation sticking its tongue out at Americans who have suffered losses on 9/11 by placing their house of worship just a few blocks away from Ground Zero. Political figures, media voices, and small church Christian pastors have all made their strong opinions against this Mosque, which is fueling the anger of Americans against the building of it. Most of them feel that it’s just insulting, which others feel that Muslims are being insulted by being rejected the right to build what they want too. The other side feels that since this is their property to build what they want, and then if they want to build a Mosque, so be it. It’s their land to do what they want with it. If El-Gamal is denied his right to build his multipurpose Islamic center, does this mean that more and more people will begin to lose their First Amendment rights. Or, is there something that we can work out on both sides about this new center.
The problem that exists with this proposed plan is not that it is a Mosque or Islamic center, but it is the location that it is being placed. The Location is just two blocks from the site where the World Trade towers once stood now known famously as Ground Zero, where attacks from Islamic extremists occurred almost ten years ago. New Yorkers are taking offence at the fact that Muslims are erecting a Mosque within two blocks from the site that was attacked by people who shared the same beliefs. Lisa Miller interviewed two New Yorkers who both lost their firefighter sons on 9/11 and one was quoted as saying, “The core conflict of the Ground Zero mosque is not about racism, tolerance, paranoia, or even politics—through each of these has come to play in important part. It’s about the appropriate place of private pain in the public sphere and how to hold memory sacred when the world, in all its craven momentum, moves on” (2). So the people who are opposed to this plan just do not want it because they feel mocked and see it has a harsh reminder to what happened. Leo McKinstry said in his article “the reason the hijackers were determined to destroy the Twin Towers was because they were seen as a graphic symbol of American enterprise” (1). He then went on to say that building this Mosque “will become a symbol of Islamic triumphalism, an assertion of Muslim power over the West” (1). It appears that the oppositions to building the Mosque is all focused around the idea of people feeling that it is Islamic terrorists laughing in the face of Americans suffering loses, and that this Mosque would be a harsh reminder to what happened almost ten years ago. This is understandable because if someone lost a loved one on 9/11 and Muslims have been hard coded in to their mind as being evil, then this Mosque will bring back horrible memories and possible hatred from people who will walk by this Mosque daily. Building this Mosque also brings up the possibility of violence towards the Muslims that go there, and the building itself. Violence against Muslims in the United States is generally very low, but if this Mosque is built then violence might become more common. The outbreak of violence is also another reason why people do not want the Mosque to be built, because strongly opinionated individuals, especially in New York City, might start acting out against the Muslim people and their building. Which on both sides, nobody wants.
Through all of this opposition of people saying that it is offensive that they want to build this Mosque and that it will cause an outbreak in violence are missing a key element. If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing! This is that they have the right to build this Islamic community center where they want too. Also, most people think that it is solely a Mosque that they are building and that is not true. El-Gamal envisioned to improve the facilities for Muslims in New York City and said, “They would demolish the existing building and put in its place a deluxe, multipurpose center big enough to house a swimming pool, a gym, exhibition space, conference rooms, a day care, a senior center, and a 500-seat auditorium” (Miller 2). So really, they want to build a community center for the people in downtown New York City that Muslims can also pray at on Fridays, which is like Sunday for Christians. The people against the building of this center call it the Ground Zero Mosque because it is close to Ground Zero, not even visible from the proposed building spot, and people think that any Muslim building is a Mosque. Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr said in their journal, “Furthermore, mosques and Islamic centers provide a public space for meeting and facilitate networks of activism, fundraising, and dissemination of information” (3). Then in Geneive Abdo journal they said, “ The role of the Mosque has indeed changed for many Muslim Americans, who now seem to view it as a setting to bond with other believers and as a place for education and social gathering” (4). So really what El-Gamal wants to build in downtown New York is just a community center for like minded individuals who are all Muslim and seeking a place to interact with other Muslims. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what he wants to do and he has the property already paid for, he only has to raise more money for the new building to be built. If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing! He also has the right to build this here and the government cannot stop him, “The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that neither the national government nor the states may enact a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion” (Gedicks 1). Not letting him build would be the government denying a U.S. citizen’s right, and this might cause protest in itself and might cause violence from Islamic extremist. Another small problem that has come out of this is how the media has completely blown this out of proportion and making it seem that a Mosque is going to be built on Ground Zero its self. Only filling American’s heads with one side of the story and not facts about what is happening on both sides, and doing this is making the opposition to building the Mosque much larger. Some politicians are even voicing their opinions about this in order to get votes, which they are using the idea of a Mosque on Ground Zero and not a community center in New York City.
This is a messy situation for both sides. If you build the community center then you might get violent New Yorkers starting trouble with Muslims, or get more people like the pastor in Florida wanting to burn Qurans. Which then might force Muslims to start acting violent against Americans. Then if you do not build the Mosque then what does that say for First Amendment rights of people down the road in the United States? Will people not be able to build a Baptist church in a predominately African American neighborhood who in years past suffered from torment of the Ku Klux Klan in the name of Christianity? Also, what if Muslims take this as an action against Islam and then allied Islamic countries turn against the United States and Islam fueled violence breaks out. Neither of these we want, so we need to find a solution to please everybody. One possible solution is that the location of this planned community center be moved somewhere else, in order to please the people who do not want anything near Ground Zero. This is similar to what happened in the late 1980’s in Germany. Catholics wanted to build a convent at Auschwitz so nuns could pray the souls of the dead in to Heaven. Then Jews argued for them to move it because it “Christianized the Holocaust” (Miller 3). Then eventually the convent was moved away from the former camp to please the Jews. Some people claim that they’re plenty of Mosques already in New York City, but there are no community centers. This option would be helpful for both sides because the planned center would not be near ground zero and the center would also get built, but that is not quite what the planners had in mind. Khan said in Millers interview regarding the location, “We want to provide a counter movement against extremism. We want peace and we want it where it matters most. That is where it matters most” (2). So moving the center would make one side happy, but it would take one of the motives to build the center away from the supporters. The next possible solution would be to build a community center that is available to everybody’s use and only has Islamic roots, very similar to how the Y.M.C.A is rooted in Christianity. Then they could have non-denominational prayer rooms and certain groups, such as local Mosques and Churches, could use the conference rooms and auditoriums. This way New Yorkers will not think of this center as an Evil Muslim Mosque, and the Muslims will still be able to build their center.
It is disappointing how this small issue has turned in to a global debate just over the location of a certain building. Yes Muslims will build the center, and yes it will feature a room for Muslims to pray; but people are missing a few important details on the opposing sides. If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing! Then on the supporting side they are not taking into the fact that that location is too close to what a majority of New Yorkers consider sacred ground. In order to get through this difficult situation both sides will need to come to an agreement about what should be done. The to best options would be to relocate or to build a community center that has a different appearance than a Mosque. Or, the major problem in all of this might be that the greater population might not be fully educated on what they are planning to build, which also might solve some problems.
Works Cited
Abdo, Geneive. “Islam in America: Separate but Unequal.” The Washington Quarterly 28. 4 (2005): 7-17. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Bakalian, Anny. Mehdi Bozorgmehr. “Muslim American Mobilization.” A Journal of Transnational Studies 14. 7 (2005): 7-43. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Gedicks, Frederick. “Religious Exemptions, Formal Neutrality, and Laicite.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 13. 2 (2006): 473-492. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
McKinstry, Leo. “Putting a mosque at Ground Zero is a grave insult.” The Express 16 August 2010, Edition 1: p12. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Miller, Lisa. “War Over Ground Zero; A proposed mosque test the limits of American tolerance.” Newsweek 16 Aug 2010: 27. Print.
If you haven't noticed already, there is a pattern in Baylor football wins.
Same Houston: WIN
Buffalo: WIN
TCU: loss
Rice: WIN
Kansas: WIN
Texas Tech: loss
Colorado: WIN
Kansas State: WIN
So I'm predicting that Baylor will lose to Texas. Win at OSU. Completely-Flat-Out-Destroy the Aggies. And then lose gracefully to OU by one point.
Now I've also found another reason that Baylor wins football games, and this is that we win games when they wear the Gold helmet.. and lose when they were the White helmet.
Baylor Vs Tech = loss
Baylor Vs KState = WIN
Baylor Vs TCU = Super loss
Baylor Vs KU = Super WIN
So see, in order to win games they need to wear the gold helmet. It is good luck.. just like my lucky shirt.
Also, I almost died twice this weekend. Once in an out-of-control bonfire on campus. Then in a mass exodus at Floyd Casey stadium. Lessons learned... Stand up wind of a really large fire... And when the football announcer says to get under the stands.. get under the stands the first time and find something tall to stand on...or get ready to get to know the ten people squished next to you REAL well....
Anyways... lets hope I'm just as good as predicting football games as I am predicting the stock market and lets plan to beat everyone here on out.
-Drew
Sic' Em Bears!
*I will blog about predicting the stock market another time
Yes, this is what happens everyday I drive my car... I speed around town... Drop my boss off at some sketchy illegal business deal.... win a car race... and drive off in to the sunset with some pretty girl... magic dream book comes standard! What they forgot to ad in the movie was the car breaking down all the time....
I think the term "Facebook stalking" is thrown around too often and used out of its context like the phrase, "Be quite, I'm studying!" So I want to make a distinctive difference between what facebook stalking is, and what facebook investigating is. Because they might seem similar, but they are completely different.
Lets take for instance Guy 1, Guy 2, and Mother of 3. (Guy 1 and 2 could also be female, but for my example they are dudes).
Lets start with Guy 1, and he is our facebook investigator. Now guy one is what you would describe as a "kool" guy. All his friends thinks he's funny and he's had no creepy relationship issues. So this is what his use of facebook looks like. Guy 1 meets girl A and girl B at *Social Event*. He then leaves said *Social Event* with two new phone numbers and the girls saying, "Hey, I'll add you on facebook." So right now Guy 1 is feeling pretty good that he is still on top of his game and he proceeds home to get on his computer (or heads to bed depending on what *Social Event* it was). When he gets on facebook he finds three new friend request from Girl A, Girl B and Girl B's BFF Girl C. Now the investigating begins and Guy 1 starts with Girl A. He notices that she is single and then procedes to look at A FEW of her pictures to sorta get an idea of what kind of girl she is. He notices that she recently went on a mission trip to South America with her church, +1. Picture of her cooking at Thanksgiving, +1. And a picture of her sitting in her dads Porsche, +3. After looking at some of her pictures he sorta has built and idea of what type of girl Girl A is and for this example we score her at 5. Now Guy 1 moves on to Girl B's profile. While looking throw Girl B's pictures he notices that she usually parties hard and makes out with a ton of guys and likes to take pictures of it. This gives Girl B -2 points in Guy 1's book. He also noticed that Girl B sometimes swings from both sides of the plate with Girl C (They might be close friends.. but still). So Girl B's final score is at -4. With this investigating Guy 1 now knows which girl he will begin to purse more, and which he will not. This is totally not stalkerish at all... just investigating.
Now for Guy 2, and he is our fb stalker. Guy 2 is sorta the quite type who does not partake in many *Social Events*, and usually has less than 250 friends on facebook. His game is not quite as good as Guy 1's and is usually not practiced as much, or at all. So Guy 2's attempt at conversation might seem awkward at first, mainly because robots might not be your favorite thing to talk about. When Guy 1 finally becomes friends with you he will then start to visit your profile daily. He will comment on most of your statuses and might say to start a conversation, "it took forever to look through all your pictures last night." Which he then liked about three pictures which are about two years old. Also, if you make a change to your favorite actives or favorite movies he might ask you, "Why did you take the notebook off your favorite movies, I love that movie!" or "I saw you added curling to your favorite activities, I was on the team that won the curling competition at my county fair in Montana last year!" These are the signs of a facebook stalker, he's seen all your pictures and knows everything about you on your facebook page.
The Mother of 3 persona is starting to become more frequent as Facebook becomes easier to use for old people, and the older generation of people that first start using fb usually have kids in high school or college. Commonly used by MO3 for "checking up" on their precise baby off away at college, or letting other parents know their little angel was partying hard the other night and posted pictures of it. Although some high school and college kids embrace that fact that their parents are on facebook and write on their mommas wall all the time ( :) ), but other kids don't like the fact that they are being spied on. Now MO3 sometimes acts the same as Guy 2 and they will ask you about your statuses and why you added car surfing to your favorite actives. Also, they will not only like your two year old pictures, they will comment on them and your four close friends that had already commented on them will get the notification that your momma commented on it as well... So the over obsessive commenter MO3 and questioner is usually the stalker mom.. not the soccer mom...
I hope this clears up the confusion between FB stalking and FB investigating...
Pros -
1. Its small
2. It has an apple on it
3. Steve Jobs is holding it
Cons -
1. Its an apple product
2. It requires that you have a computer
3. You have to pay for just about everything you watch.... typical
4. Doesn't play YouTube videos
5. Can't get on Facebook either.
6. No Storage (i think)
What this little black box does is connect your TV to your iTunes account on your computer. So you can listen to music, look at your photos, and watch movies and tv shows from your library or rent them ( Does anyone really sit down that often to show people pictures, like I have never got all my friends around my computer to show them my pictures. Ever apple device always has the ability to show a slide show of their pictures, but I only think a few people out of the millions only really use it.. like old people with grandkids... or in reality probably don't know how to set it up to be able to do it... so they just resort to the photo album books that are at least 10 years out of date) . So basically, this is just like having your iTunes hooked up to your tv for 100 bucks.... yay...
Google TV - $200
Pros -
1. Its shiny as opposed to apple tv's matte color
2. Made by logitech - that in itself is better than apple
3. You can get on Facebook and YouTube... at the same time!!
4. Netflix!
5. You can get apps!
Cons -
1. Its $200 bucks
2. Doesn't connect to iTunes
3. No Storage
So basically this is just a small computer.. that doesn't do a lot of things but web browse and stream videos. For a big price tag.
To have my iTunes on my tv. The ability to watch YouTube and chat it up on facebook (and heck write a blog post). I have invented my own device.
Drew ShoeBox computer - $20 (All I had to buy was a keyboard and mouse!)
Pros -
1. Was $20
2. Fully functional computer that runs Linux Ubuntu
3. I can surf the web at blazing single core 2.6Ghz speeds..
4. You can even play video games!
5. 700 gigs of space for movies, tv shows, and music .. (and I guess pictures but I have none)
Cons -
1. You have to turn it on with a screwdriver by connecting to prongs on the motherboard
2. Might catch on fire being on a shoebox
3. Not the prettiest thing, but for a dorm room its freaking awesome
So my point being is that what Apple and Google offers is just something to take your money for something you might already have. I'm sure some people have old computers at home and you cant easily convert it into a shoebox computer and hook it up to your tv, even if it is "slow" you can install Ubuntu and it makes any slow computer fast. Or if you have a laptop you can also easily hook it up to your tv and watch whatever is on your computer on your tv. Save your money, ask a smart friend or grandkid to set your laptop up to your tv... its simple...
YouTube is awesome, because you can come across some crazy stuff... like.. crazy ... (there are people out there that film some weird stuff)
for example: if you want to experience and acid trip with out taking acid, and watch something over again for an hour... watch this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
But, YouTube is also tainted with the 12 year old trolls.., and I just came across the newest. Apparently, a group of gay twelve year old computer hackers with "connections", who love Justin Bieber, have declared war on all Justin Bieber haters. First off, when did twelve year olds start coming out of the closet, and why are gay kids computer hackers... whatever.. anyways.. these kids say that they have peoples ip addresses of JB haters and they are going to suspend their YouTube accounts, get them arrested, and do who knows what to their computers if they dont take down all the JB hater videos and websites. Also, main homeboy claims that his uncle works for the FCC and he has a program that he can type in an IP address and everything about whose ever ip address that is comes up.... mhmm, the FCC regulates tv radio ect.. not internet.(I think thats the FBI and CIA's area of operation). and a program does not exist that tells who you are with just an ip address.. because, an ip address changes when ever I move my computer or get on an wireless network.. and all my other address on my computer I can change fairly easily as well.. so if he searched for my ip (which is possible) it would just say I'm in Waco. So, this kids hacking skills are crap. He probably just learned how to ping somebody and though it was the koolest thing in the world, or he came across the Network utility on his mac and thought traceroute traced a route to that ip or whois tells you exactly who that ip address is... dumb kids, learn some real hacking skills!!
Heres the video for your viewing pleasure and comic relief from a stressful day:
I'm surprised that first kid wasn't waring a v-neck, and were did these parents go wrong? These two kids need to get together with Chris Crocker (that tranny guy who made the video, "LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE") and talk about cloths, boys, or something like that, and stay away from a computer and video camera. The're making America look bad to people from other countries on the internet...
And here is my point of all this. Justin Bieber is ruining America!!! He is fueling the everyday troll and turning your average gay 12 year old into a computer hacker. We need to stop playing his music and buying his posters! He's popularity will soon go away, just like his high pitch voice... and the gay 12 year olds with take their Barbies back in to the closet and put away the cameras... And YouTube will be back to videos like this:
Unless your playing a contact sport WITH your iPhone as and objective, you have a problem of dropping your phone out the window of a moving car, or you have anger management problems and throwing your phone against the wall solves problems. Then a bullet proof case is probably not for you. These are the ones that I have in mind:
Oakley case- Match's your sunglasses... (that are probably over sized too). Also, try sticking this in your jeans pocket..
The OMG- Because when your bff sees this she will say, "OMG!!!:D your phone matches your bag!!AHHH!!" and I bet you paid $150 for it...
The Bungee jumper- just in-case you forget what type of phone you have while throwing it against the wall or your ex boyfriend, there is a window on the back that reminds you $400 of your money went to Jobs. Plus try putting this in and out of your jeans too, let alone have it just sitting in your pants and make all the people around you wonder what you got going down there...
The snorkeler texter/tweeter - Yes this bad boy is only water resistant up to three meters... lame.. For something that looks like that I want it water proof to up to 200 feet so if I'm scuba diving and I happen to be close to an underwater cellphone tower (or I guess cellphone buoy) I can google what to do if I get stung by a jelly fish... or get stabbed in the chest by a sting ray. This came out a little too late for Mr. Irwin..... (to soon?)
The Photographer - "I'm here to take a serious picture, but all I have is my iPhone.. let me use my serious picture app"- this thing is $200 and you can put different lenses on it...really?...
Come on people its a phone.. not a baby.. all you need at least is a small case for those accidental waist high free falls. Or, just go naked iPhone.. I mean really, why do you need to protect it if your only going to get one next summer... rich people...Plus, why do people get those $35 dollar screen protectors that make your screen look all foggy and have air bubbles underneath them.. Who cares if you get like 3 scratches on the screen... I had only like 4 scratches on my old iPhone I had for two and a half years..big whoop....If somebody made a case for the case of your iPhone.. people would buy it.
First off, a word from Prince; ""The Internet's completely over” - “The Internet's like MTV. “At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
No Prince, you are over.. and have been over for a (very) long time. I think he just cant figure out how to use them and since he cant use them, then nobody can use them... oh well... Anyways, I will continue filling numbers in my head and use the internet and gadgets. So as Prince dies in his world of sending letters in the mail and talking to people in person rather than on facebook, we will continue wasting our lives filling numbers into our head, which apparently is not good.
Apples next step at taking over the world.
Its a 3G (maybe 4G but who really cares) macbook. So now you pay for a data plan on your phone, a data plan for your ipad, and a data plan for your computer. Making it to where theres really no excuse for you not responding to my post I left on your wall in less than 30 minutes. So, computers will eventually get internet via wireless signals and hopefully by the time that is mainstream it will be super duper fast and super duper cheap because a data plan aint worth about 30 bucks a month. Or I will be the old guy still plugging a wire in to the back of my computer...Secondly about the internet that I see happening is that Obama (or future government nut job (cause there will be one with the people voting these days(we really have a ton of idiots in this country, anyways))) will put a ton of blocks over what we can an cant do on the internet and control all the information and read all your emails, blogs, and facebook walls!!!(the book 1984 wasnt lying, it was just a few years off!!!) They will also jack the prices of internet services up to help pay for your neighbors foot fungus and government cheese.... and help pay China that they will hold off an invasion until we all learn mandarin (thats Chinese for some of you). To rebel against the government I have devised a plan for an underground internet service! I haven't started work on it yet, but when I do it will be awesome! All you need is a satellite dish, computer hacking skills (I will write a how-to pamphlet, so dont worry), and an extra car battery. Ill let yall know when its ready and make sure you get your satellite dish soon before its illegal to have one. Heres one for $20 http://compare.ebay.com/like/350400675753. as for a plan against fighting off China invading... Stock up on guns and plan to defend your your house, cause we might not have a military by then. So if you need me when that time comes, look for me on my version of facebook on my underground internet, and if I'm away or I haven't updated my status in a while its because I deafening my little piece of whats left of America!!!
With that said, Have a happy Monday! And idk why the text ^^^ is in different fonts and sizes....
Every once in awhile I get an email offering me about 20% of a large fortune, only if I help them transfer money from Africa to the US and pay about 7 grand in “transfer fees” that I will be reimburse for later. A pretty sweet deal huh?All I have to do is help some stranger transfer about 25 million US dollars.. psh no big deal…. Well, turns out MSNBC did a special on these scams and found out it is a group of people operating out of Africa and the UK who are trying to find random people to get 7 grand from, then they disappear. They will tell you that they don’t have the money yet and they need to you pay some random fee for them to help transfer the money, and then you will get a percent of it… Apparently, people fall for this… So, usually the story goes is that some oil tycoon executive from usually Nigeria has died and this family member needs your help to transfer this money to a US account and you’re the only person they have found to help… I feel so special!! But today, I received a new story! And this one is filled with more lies than an Obama speech! It made me laugh more than all the others, so I’d thought I would report:
It starts out saying, “my name is Edwin Becker from the hospitality state (Mississippi).” Ok, first off when somebody says they are from a certain state they never say the state slogan that’s written on license plates.Like I don’t walk around saying, “howdy yall! I’m from the lone star state!!! (Texas for yall that don’t know)… No, nobody does that. Plus, who from Mississippi is named Edwin? Come on, Bubby J would be more acceptable here… Any ways, he then goes on to explain how he is an army contractor working in the reconstruction of destroyed building offering advice on how to rebuild… “Yeah, this broken building…. Yeah, you need to fix it… Okkkkay… all done here time for lunch”…. Besides his lame job excuse he then says he was in the basement of a building that was a former Al Qaeda hide out. (I thought Al Qaeda was only in Afghanistan and not Iraq… hmm, whatever) and he found a small cellar door.He then decided to break in to the cellar in pursuit of riches. (Oh yeah, two soldiers are with him for “protection”, because the destroyed former Al Qaeda buildings are dangerous).Inside this cellar he finds six boxes with huge pad locks on them.If breaking into this cellar wasn’t wrong enough, he breaks in to these boxes too. This is what he says that is in them, “On forcing the boxes open, we discovered several armored weapons including bullets. One of the boxes was filled with hard drugs (heroine) and two to my amazement was filled with money.” Dude the guns have bullets in them!! Hot Action!! And there are hard drugs… like heroine!!. (and yes he used “two” instead of “to”) And OMG I would have never guessed hard cold cash would be in here! This must be where they get their funding!. … I thought the only drug Al Qaeda came into contact with was anthrax…. Hmm, guess Bin Laden is a dope head too… And WOW! There is cash two!!!.Mr. Edwin then says it took them three hours to count this massive amount of money.. (During this three hours did they miss nap time?)…. The total ended up being $23.5 MILLION!! Holy crap im totally in this deal now for sure!!!...Now 23.5 mill if it were in hundred dollar bills would be about 235,000 bills and since there were three of them they would have counted about 78,333 bills in three hours… BULL CRAP!!... Any ways…. They decided to hand over the drugs and the guns with bullets over to the higher ranking officers and keep the money in a safe hiding place for themselves (typical). And my job would be to keep all this cash money until they were done serving in Iraq and in return I would get 20%!! Oh boy, that’s 4 million!!! I can’t believe they trust me!! Man, I’m totally sold on this idea…. Pretty lame huh? Yet comical… Well I decided to write a more believable version for Mr. Edwin that I’m emailing back to him.
Hello fellow American. My name is Bubba J Bush from the great old American state of Texas!!! and I am a demolition officer for the US Army. My job is to blow up already destroyed buildings in Iraq to make way for new western style strip malls.While in one building I noticed this room with a huge lock on it… so I blew it up… then inside there were boxes with bigger locks on them.. so I blew them up two.(hehe I misspelled “to”) Inside these explosive resistant boxes I found guns, bombs, booze, drugs(only the hard kind like crack and heroine), whores, and of course a crap ton of money!.Well, we already finished shooting off all the guns and blowing up the bombs, the booze is almost all gone, the whores have ran away, and I snorted the last line of coke and shot up my last dirty syringe of heroine.. but it’s kind of hard to dump roughly 23 million in Iraq because thers nothing to buy here… so can we ship you this money to keep for us till where done here then will give you 20% of it… k, thx bro.. peace…
Those who can pull having a beard off, those who cant, and those who cant grow one... Unfortunately, a majority of the guys who prefer to sport the beard, cant pull it off... This is what I have noticed in the younger generations today (mainly college people). And the these beards that people grow some times make you shiver in disgust. Although there are the proud few who can proudly grow what God gave them long and not feel self conscience about. Here are some examples of people pulling off wearing a beard....
David Crowder: Quite the interesting man with quite the interesting beard. His use of the beard is to distinguished himself apart for just your average worship leader/musical genius. Should almost be trade marked as the, "the crowder look", and he would not be the same with out it. Some times people try to replicate "the crowder look", and fail miserably at it.
Chuck Norris: Do I need to explain this beard?
It is known that most men who can pull off a beard do not always wish to wear the beard, this is because they do not want to make boys feel intimidated, adolescent, and ugly when they are around them. These are two men who have the ability and the authority of wearing a beard and who are socially accepted in society as someone of power, and not someone who is week and powerless. . .and not attractive... like those who follow:
Computer nerd/extreme gamer/Baylor ECS student/all the above: Like stated in the title this beard is a common occurrence in Baylor's ECS school. They ace commonly super thin, super long, and looks like it hasn't been washed since it was a little baby hair. Not only is this beard popular in the "nerd" group, but it is growing (pun intended) in other social groups. Such as the, "I'm so indie I pretend to do homework at common grounds", or the "one day I'm going to play guitar in a band", and finally "dude, have you played Starcraft 2 yet?".
The overkill: pretty self explanatory. Its long, gross, and probably smells like rotting food and built up dried sweat.
Finally there are the guys in this world that cant just grow a beard. Is it a sign that they are not men, or have not reached that stage in life yet (and for some never will, example is coming), or that they are not even humans just aliens that came to mess up our world!? Heres two of those non-bearded aliens.
Obama: It appears that this bearded american "figure" cannot grow full beard. Maybe a mustache, but not a beard. Maybe to improve his approval rating he should atempt to grow a beard to make him seem more powerful, but probably there is nothing this man can do to make him look more powerful...
Justin Bieber: yes this kid is only like 16, but at 16.. I could grow a solid goatee in a week. Even if this kid could grow one, he would never be able to pull off the rough look, hes too much of a fairy. Bieber might not ever be able to grow a beard, why . . . because girls cant grow beards - Ryan Hunter. Its so true and you know it.
So guys.. You are one of the following... Make sure you know your place. It will help your chances of making friends, getting a possible girl friend, and whether or not people accept you. Its true, just be careful
Side note,
Does anyone know why Lady or Joy are no longer brought to the football games? Did they maul to many longhorn fans and Aggies last year?
