tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56816142011-04-21T17:35:21.078-04:00Phils RantsMy personal opinions about thingsJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1124136603477757582005-08-15T15:56:00.000-04:002005-08-15T16:10:03.503-04:00This post is about the oil situation in this country. Maybe you've read my earlier posts that commented about how many American's choose to drive huge unecessary SUV's at the expense of burning oil like a champ, just to look cool. Ok everyone knows that SUV's waste gas. Many people say things like "Fuel cell cars are the answer to our reliance on Middle Eastern oil! Why doesn't the Shrub giveJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1114443812683431832005-04-25T11:29:00.000-04:002005-04-25T11:43:32.683-04:00This rant is about people's driving mainly. My biggest pet peeve is when you are merging on the highway, and people start merging over the white line instead of waiting for the appropriate dotted line. Some people do this because they are aggressive bastards, who want to cut you off. I am actually ok with this as long as they speed off and I have plenty of room to get in. Unfortunately Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1112040118573780582005-03-28T14:30:00.000-05:002005-03-28T15:01:58.576-05:00Something thats been annoying me lately are the people that pick sides of things and stay with them blindly. The best example is republican vs democrat. I don't know how many times i've heard people say "Ugh how can you be republican!!?!? They want to destroy all the forests, bomb france, and they hate black people!!!!" or "Ugh how can you be democrat??!! They want 90% taxes, disband the armyJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1110821167368654002005-03-14T12:05:00.000-05:002005-03-14T12:26:07.373-05:00This post is about American excess...no not the credit card, just our need to have everything bigger for no good reason. On my recent trip to costa rica, i looked at all the cars driving around, and they had one thing in common. They were all small, 4 cylinder japanese/korean cars. Even once out of the big city, in the unpaved country, all the cars were still 4-cyl, even though you started to Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1107188906997492062005-01-31T11:20:00.000-05:002005-01-31T11:28:26.996-05:00The simpsons needs to end. I've said this to a lot of people and only about half agree. Some people havn't noticed that it's different now and sucks. Some people think i'm a Simpsons hater. Well I started watching the Simpsons back when they were on the Tracey Ulman show...when they came to network TV I knew who they were. I watched every episode from 1989 when it started to 1995ish. They Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1104319379156767502004-12-29T06:15:00.000-05:002004-12-29T06:22:59.156-05:00Holiday rant part 2! (See last year for the last one). This one will be quick, I think I made most of my points last year, but this year I saw some other things that took the cake. First of all, on December 15-24 I heard many commercials where people should do their "Holiday shopping", and on Dec 23rd, coworkers were wishing me a "Happy Holiday weekend". Well this year this politically Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1100191679265834402004-11-11T11:29:00.000-05:002004-11-11T11:47:59.266-05:00Social Security Reform
In further evidence that the modern democratic party has no original ideas and their entire unifying platform is "the opposite of whatever republicans suggest", they are against Bush's plan to partially privatize social security. Which is all well and good...the problem is none of them have given a single idea of how they WOULD fix social security. When asked what John Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1100034328022124752004-11-09T15:57:00.000-05:002004-11-09T16:07:24.690-05:00Of course democrats love to play the race card, and now the sore losers are trying to make a connections between slavery and red states. Which a) even by the comparisons i've seen an exaguration, and b) innaccurate c) antidotal at best. Here is the make up of slave/free states and territories before the civil war:
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/fimage/lincolnimages/us_1860_slv_041001_400.jpg
and Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1099535762814022692004-11-03T21:31:00.000-05:002004-11-03T21:36:02.816-05:00Oh and real quick, on a lighter note.... The best things about Bush winning the election:
1) Bruce Springsteen, Dave Mathews, Michael Moore, and every other celebrity idiot that came out for Kerry.....has wasted both their credibility and their image.
2) The Bush twins will return. They have only gotten hotter in the last 4 years.
3) All those kids that were super Kerry people and were Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1099535335771753022004-11-03T20:51:00.000-05:002004-11-03T21:28:55.770-05:00Well the elections are finally over. This being "The most important election of our time", or so i'm told. Can anyone tell me why this election was any more important then any other? I know the underlying reason that liberals say that...but do you? I am honestly surprised at the wide margin of victory George Bush got. Considering he had the worst media coverage and news year of any modern Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1097114784930094822004-10-06T21:59:00.000-04:002004-10-06T22:06:24.930-04:00Cheney's comment about not meeting Edwards backfires! Oh they got him now, they actually did meet once before, at a prayer breakfast and elizabeth dole's swearing in! They sure proved Cheney wrong! Whatever. As President of the Senate Cheney should have met Edwards many times ON THE SENATE FLOOR. A prayer breakfast and swearing in are not senate votes or discussions or anything. Edwards wasJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1096631497553661712004-10-01T07:41:00.000-04:002004-10-01T07:51:37.553-04:00I'm not gonna say much or anything about the debate here, I do think Kerry is a much better debater, and Bush missed some great opportunities to slam him. I will look forward to hopefully having a more intelligent candidate in 2008, hopefully Guiliani. That said, Kerry is still a politician in the worst way, and despite his better debate, his socialist, globalist, pacifist ideals do not gel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1092169600444706762004-08-10T16:26:00.000-04:002004-08-10T16:27:33.776-04:00From the extremely liberal Guardian newspaper in the UK:
The lack of an appreciable post-convention "bounce" in John Kerry's poll ratings is significant. The Democratic party's Boston shindig last month was supposed to present him as a strong, experienced replacement for President George Bush. But Boston's main achievement may have been to highlight the limitations and flaws of Kerry's candidacyJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1091457349500666942004-08-02T10:09:00.000-04:002004-08-02T10:35:49.500-04:00I got a letter from John Kerry the other day. It was interesting to read, because it accused republicans of all the same things republicans accuse democrats of. Are each party really blind to see they do the same things? I can at least acknowledge that republican ads are negative sometimes, though democrats ads are too (or at least their millions of 509 groups do it for them). The only thing Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1090267508119599242004-07-19T15:44:00.000-04:002004-07-19T16:05:08.120-04:00John Kerry ..... lots of people are going to vote for him, but almost no one can tell you why. Well, actually the most common reason I hear is "he's not Bush". Which basically makes him the democratic version of Bob Dole, who was not a strong candidate, but got votes because he was "not Clinton". John Kerry hopes to ride this "anything but Bush" ticket all the way to the white house. How? ByJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1084323653587686822004-05-11T20:36:00.000-04:002004-05-11T21:00:53.586-04:00Ok, I havn't had the time to rant about much lately, and i guess I havn't had much to rant about...but i doubt anyone reads this site so it probably doesn't matter.
Anyways, todays rant is about the Anti-war people. Also known as the anti-everything people, these people will protest anything for the sake of protesting. While the hippie movement in the sixties was originally based on something,Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1070135835315048442003-11-29T14:57:00.000-05:002003-11-29T14:57:49.560-05:00A "Holiday" Rant.
This rant is about how rediculous the political correctness is getting these days and how it is ruining a tradition that has been going on for years. It is how Christmas time is slowly but surely turning into "Holidays". The absolute most rediculous thing I've seen in recent years are Christmas tree sales being called "Holiday Trees". This is absolutely rediculous. And hereJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1069093618646536792003-11-17T13:26:00.000-05:002003-11-17T13:27:21.436-05:00More about cars. Today I'll rant about people buying SUV's. Now if you've read my other rants you'll see i'm pretty conservative on most issues, but I am somewhat more liberal when it comes to environmental issues, and this is my view here.
There are several arguments people use now-a-days to justify buying an SUV.
A) I am a soccer mom and I need to haul my kids AND all their stuff!
B) I Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1067613529509638032003-10-31T10:18:00.000-05:002003-10-31T10:18:48.470-05:00Ok so i typed a really long detailed rant about Japanese vs American cars or whatever, but then lost my internet connection, and consequently the big long rant. So here is a shorter redo of it since i don't feel motivated to type the whole thing anymore.
Alot of people refuse to buy Japanese or German cars, they will only buy American. This comes from the 1980's gung ho era of only buying Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1066232847447370482003-10-15T11:47:00.000-04:002003-10-15T11:47:26.950-04:00This is part 2 of a rant, read the posting below this one first.
Ok in this rant I want to deal with the unlikelyhood of macroevolution. I say macroevolution, because I believe in microevolution. It is obvious (as it was to Charles Darwin), that species have evolved to adapt to their environments. For example, alot of animals have fur that camoflague them in their environment, and even with Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1066143216554436812003-10-14T10:53:00.000-04:002003-10-14T10:53:35.976-04:00This is what we are taught in school. Not in theoretical terms, but in absolute fact. If you read a recent Astronomy or Science book, they will present the following ideas as if they themselves were there to record the information. (This is just a rough description, feel free to correct any inaccuracies I list here. (ryohki98@yahoo.com)).
The universe started out as an infinitly dense ball Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1065103394070357022003-10-02T10:03:00.000-04:002004-07-20T14:25:16.893-04:00Rush Limbaugh is in a heated controversy over this comment he made on ESPN Sunday Countdown:
"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well,"
He said just before that quote basically that McNabb was overrated. Everyone and there mother was calling for his firing over the "racist" comment....but i'm a littleJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1064497052372753822003-09-25T09:37:00.000-04:002003-09-25T09:37:32.156-04:00New Jersey. The Garden State. This is not your typical one-sided opinion of New Jersey that is based on visiting it once or twice or hearing about it on TV. New Jersey isn't as bad as people say. For example, the whole state does not smell. People get this opinion I think from just traveling through on the New Jersey Turnpike, which is the 2nd worst highway in America in my opinion. First Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1063820503818588462003-09-17T13:41:00.000-04:002003-09-17T13:41:43.350-04:00This rant is about disaster relief...its an issue that was brought up on the Chris Core show last night, and I thought i'd share my own opinions about it. What I'm talking about is when a natural disaster, such as a hurricane does alot of damage, the government comes in and gives the people that are victims of this disaster money for relief. This is also done after terrorist attacks, tornados, Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1062609083452852252003-09-03T13:11:00.000-04:002004-07-20T14:46:30.450-04:00Global Warming.....we hear alot about it, and almost all the time the second you hear the word, you think "man-made destruction of the environment". You often hear lots of environmentalists talking about global warming and how the ice caps are melting and manhatten will be under water soon etc. These are always given in dire terms and almost always presented as a man-made problem. This is where IJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1062182804598165692003-08-29T14:46:00.000-04:002004-07-20T14:27:47.616-04:00This week's rant is somewhat petty, but its definitly something that annoys me. It has to do with people crossing the street. Now this is perhaps the most simple thing a person can do...heck seeing eye dogs can do it, no problem. I think the first and primary problem with people crossing the street is attitude. It breaks down to a couple types of people:
1) People who are too scared. These Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1061576810441587422003-08-22T14:26:00.000-04:002003-08-22T14:26:50.413-04:00So last night I saw "Bowling for Columbine" a "Documentary" about guns and violence in America. I use the word documentary in quotes because the word implies some kind of impartial study..."Bowling for Columbine" is anything but that. It is perhaps one of the most one sided films posing as a documentary I have ever seen. First I will talk about the problems with the film, then go on to addressJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1061157559266377362003-08-17T17:59:00.000-04:002003-08-17T17:59:19.310-04:00So this summer I set out on the quest to read as many "great" books as i could. By this I basically mean classics, that you hear about everywhere, but most likely have not read first hand. Now I know about half the people that read this are thinking "read??!??! what? ugh, what a nerd!" and the other half are like "who cares, i read these when i was 5". To the first group I say that since I Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681614.post-1060892574294389052003-08-14T16:22:00.000-04:002003-08-14T16:27:25.376-04:00Ok, I finally caved in and decided to cheese off everyone else and start a Blog. You probably won't find much interesting here, I don't plan on telling you about the day to day events of my life, because I find that when you tell everyone about you on the web, they stop asking about you in real life, or even more scary, they already know stuff about you that you know you didn't tell them. But Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234449283143308024noreply@blogger.com0