New Year's Ramblings & Rumblings...

Yay - Happy New Year... Ha!
With the new year, comes a whole lot of
eye-widening things, I say...

Like me here -
I widen some people's eyes
simply by telling them the truth
that they don't want to either hear
or read about (anywhere - not just
on the old blogs...!)
and still I dispense it
TO THEIR FACES
with a sarcastic smile!
:)

As a result, though,
oddly enough
I wound up feeling like
one of my "anti-role-models"
aye - the Godfather!
Read the following
with that characteristic
hush voice of his
(as he was portrayed by
Marlon Brando...!) -
anybody can impersonate that!
Just pretend you've a cold...

"Ahhhh... Everybody is after me...
The FBI is investigating me...
The IRS keeps hounding me...
The CIA is tickling me, too...
The Gambinis want me dead...
The Sopranos are stealing from me...
The Vitriolis want my blood...
The Medusas want my head...!
The BBC is pissing me off...
The FCC won't let me BE...!
Even the SPCA is after me,
for that cat thing...!
Ohhhhh...
It isn't easy being a Corleone!"

Yeah - it sure isn't, eh!
Of course, substitute the name
Corleone with Pimentel
and operate further substitutions
all throughout that funny bit
and you will get a more accurate
list of my very own adversaries...!
Mamma Mia - Que Inferno É Este!
À Bon Entendeur - Salut!
;)

So, I try to relax
getting off the net
and onto the couch
watching some cable TV... right?
That's going to work out!
RIGHT...
I wind up, invariably,
zapping through channels
as I see, once again,
the veracity of the Boss' words
("57 Channels And Nothing On")
and everywhere I go, almost,
I see and hear something
that makes me cringe
and feel like BLOGGING ABOUT!
Not just anywhere either
but HERE in particular,
on "Ramblings In Writ"
where I am at my most acerbic
EVER - AND ALWAYS!

Let's see, where should I start...

Maybe on the Trekkies' case?
One inane trekkie, a girl,
that I saw on some documentary
mockumentary (alas, not the case
but it would have been better
had it been that!)
hosted and narrated by
Denise Crosby...
Anyway...
That silly trekkie girl
made a prediction for the future:
"we're going to all move to another
planet, in another galaxy...
Start anew there..."
RIGHT...
Typical capitalistic mindset there!
Consume - THE WHOLE EARTH,
THIS TIME, NOTHING LESS -
and throw it away afterwards
when we've sucked it dry
of all its natural resources
and polluted it beyond repair,
killing in the process all
of the wildlife there...
LET'S JUST PACK UP AND LEAVE IT THEN!
YEAH!
That inane trekkie could not have summed up
any better why I loathe "Captain Kirk"
and always prefered both
"Commander Koenig"
and "Luke Skywalker"
over his vainglorious, cocky hide!

But, speaking of
(and against) capitalism...
The more I think about it
and the more I observe
our wasteful ways
that lead to tons of food
being dumped in the garbage
EVERY SINGLE DAY...
I am forced to think
that, perhaps, rationing
has its merits
and intrinsic LOGIC too...
Because it makes NO SENSE
AT ALL that, in
North America
we get unlimited access
to goods and services
and WASTE THEM
both shamelessly
and ceaselessly
while there are others
on this planet
who are dying
from malnutrition...
The fragile economical
system that we have
is based upon
supply and demand
of course -
and to make sure
the demand is always
satiated, the supply
is always ample;
lest a war of the prices
begins, and it drives
them DOWN...
Something that is NOT
good for business
but so good for the
consumer!
But it is that same darn
consumer who,
once he has all he wants,
is being so wasteful!
CUT HIS RATION -
then, maybe, he'll wise up!
MAYBE...

Communist Russia, for instance,
never had clogged up toilets!
Those problems could not BE -
not when a roll of toilet paper
was all they'd be allowed to have
for an entire week or something...
Gotta make it LAST
in these situations... EH?

But I've digressed enough...

Let's see now...
WHAT ELSE
did I see on cable TV
LAST NIGHT
that made me go
"ewwww"

AH YES...
The sharp rise of a barrel of crude oil
from 15$ to 100$
within A FEW YEARS really...
And no one is quite sure
HOW THAT HAPPENED...?!?
Sheesh...
Not even economy whiz
SUZE ORMAN
(I always thought it was
Suze as in "Zeus"
but with an S...!
But nooooo -
Larry King,
her host, kept saying
Suzie...!
Oh well...)
Suze revealed, while she
patronized everyone
on how to cut costs
and manage their own finances,
that she wanted either Obama
or Hilary to win THE BIG ONE
and she revealed why too...
She wants to be able to leave
"all the money she's made"
(and she isn't shy to say that
she's made a lot - the former
waitress gone genius...!)
to her SAME-SEX
LIFE PARTNER...!
Wow - I usually have a radar
(a "gay-dar", right?)
that is pretty acute
for these sort of things
but THIS really came out (!)
of left field for me...!
Perhaps because I only
thought of Suze as a boring
woman too preoccupied
with MONEY MATTERS...
Seeing her on Larry King Live
only meant, for me,
more boring "loan talk"
or "refinancing talk"
or "debt management talk"
or "credit improvement talk"
etc... so on and so forth...
with the occasional political
commentary thrown in,
for good measure...
And that, too, is boring...
Hence, when it came,
I never thought such a
revelation would come with it!
I believe her mate is named
Kathie...
Suzie & Kathie...
How sweet...
And Suze displayed her
outright envy and jealousy
of Larry's ability to just
CROAK AND LEAVE IT ALL
TO THE WIFE...
While she can't leave a penny
to Kathie - without the
damnable State Tax
taking a cut!
And since she's made
"A LOT OF MONEY"
she wants to be safe from that
- after all, Kathie made money too
and it could be Kathie who
croaks first, not Suzie!
:!

Okaaaaaaaaaay...

Let's, ah, MOVE ON...

Next, I caught a repeat
of MTV's very own X-treme wrestling -
the show that puts the McMahon revival
of the lame ECW brand to SHAME!
(Or to Shane?
Wasn't his silver spooned
pukester of a sonny-boy,
Shane, the "owner" of ECW
at some point in time?
Or was it WCW...
Does anybody care, really?
WWE swallowed up
its two long-time rivals
WCW and ECW
and it was all for
NOTHING!
For, in their place,
stand now two
improved competitors
apt and ready to cater
to the lowest common
denominator!
TNA and MTV's show
(Wrestling Society X)
ARE BETTER
than the old WCW
and the current WWE
and ECW crap!
And that is pure, golden
MAGNIFICENT
IRONY!
Whoooooooooo!
But never mind that
right now...)

McMahon is a BILLIONNAIRE,
is he?
Hmm...
I wonder how he can be, sometimes...
With so many bad moves
(XFL, that bodybuilding federation, XFL,
buying out the competition,
XFL... Letting go talent that,
immediately, strengthened the new
competition...
Oh, and did I mention the XFL?)
he must have lost twice as much
as he's made at a zillion rednecks'
expense...
All those steroid scandals
and tragic deaths
sure didn't help either...
But enough about Vinnie Mac...!

I criticize him enough times
to count him among my aforementioned
adversaries - potentially, at least!

I expected NEW adversaries this year
-far more fanatical ones too-
but, instead, I got their
counterparts...!

Aye, instead of more from the Barrie brood
(a wretched, misbegotten race -
believe you me...!)
I made soft-spoken, articulate
acquaintances
from Boston and Beyond...!

Instead of threats and insults,
I received kudos and accolades!

Wow...

And instead of a radical response
I received the moderate one that follows:

Muslims Against Sharia has left a new comment on your post
"This Holiday Season - Reflect On These Things:":

"Most of the Western Muslim establishment is comprised of Islamist groups claiming to be moderates. True moderate Muslims reject Islamic supremacy and Sharia; embrace religious equality and democracy."

"What is a moderate Muslim? According to a dictionary, a moderate is a person who is opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.
Yet, majority of the public seem to be struggling with the definition of a moderate Muslim. Perhaps we can make this task easier by defining a radical Muslim and then defining the moderate as an opposite of the radical."

"Muslims Against Sharia compiled a list of issues that differentiate
moderate Muslims from Islamic radicals.
Hopefully you can help us grow this list."
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/ 2008/01/what-is-moderate-muslim.html

"Poll: Who is a moderate Muslim?"
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/ 2008/01/poll-who-is-moderate-muslim.html

Aye - that was deposited onto my comments section
(that's the way I always refer to it!)
on TLB PRIME...
Further proving that "the luminous blog"
deserves to be called "TLB PRIME"
and not only because it came first
but truly because it is viewed the most
by every imagineable sort of people too!
Such a wide audience, worldwide,
(as evidenced by that ClusterMap of mine)
that has one thing in common:
CLASS!
The only other blog/site of mine
that comes close, with the quality
of its audience (and content, of course!)
and wide-appeal factor,
is the lugubrious blog!
Not sure what that says, though...
That I truly am an L.P. -
a Living Paradox?
:!
One who is in the Light,
basking in it one day,
and in the depths of despair
besieged by morbid thoughts
on the very next day...?!?
:!

Anyhow...

I've actually RAMBLED ON FOR TOO LONG...
AGAIN!
Missed out that comparatitive "study"
("luminous study", I should say!)
that I wanted to make on the subject of
LATE NIGHT TELEVISION...!
Aye - the damn talk-shows!
Leno, Conan and Kimmel -
all without writers!
Which one was the lamest?
I'll have to wait to find out...
Letterman - he's got his scribes back!
(Hmm - that sounds odd!)
My bet is...
inviting Hilary, on the day after
her defeat (Obama won -
Suze cried, I'm sure...)
took away Dave's advantage,
right there!

And as for the lamest...
My bet is that it will be decided
between Kimmel and Conan O'Brien
as well as Huckabee and some other
Republican candidate...!
*lol*