it’s something…

Fucking congress has their head up their collective ass, and I think my Representative is particularly talented in this area…

So a few weeks ago I sent him an email about the flag ammendment, something to the effect of don’t be a dumbass and vote in favor this Ammendment.

So today I get his responce…

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Flag Desecration resolution, H.J. Res 10. I welcome your thoughts on this matter, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond.

As you may know, on June 22, 2005, the Flag Desecration resolution passed the House of Representatives. This bill will amend the U. S. Constitution to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.

This resolution is intended to overturn a 1989 decision by the US Supreme Court, which ruled 5- 4 that flag burning was a protected free-speech right. That ruling threw out a 1968 federal statue and lag-protection laws in 48 states. The law was a response to anti-Vietnam war protesters setting fire to the American flag at their demonstrations.

The proposed one-line amendment to the Constitution reads, “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.” For the language to be added to the Constitution, it must be approved not only by two-thirds of each chamber but also by 38 states within seven years.

While we may disagree on this particular legislation, please know that I am proud to represent you in Congress and I will continue to work hard to protect the American people.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. I look forward to hearing from you in the future.

Sincerely,

Ric Keller
Member of Congress

Maybe it is just me, but when I read this email I get the feeling that the intended messages is a big “Fuck You!”.

Alright, so I didn’t expect that I would have tons of stuff just pouring out of my head and into this blog, but what I did not count on is the nagging… The worst kind of nagging, no not the wife asking when am I going to take out the trash kind of nagging, nagging that I can not escape from.

This nagging comes from deep inside my own head…somewhere in my sub-conscious…

“you need to write something…”

“what the fuck?”

Where the hell is that coming from…why does some part of me feel obligated to provide content for this…and why the hell is that same part not generating any ideas about what to write about.

Well maybe posting this will get the monkey off my back for a few days…

Oh yeah and I opened up the comments, so send me some feedback if you want, but at the moment I don’t intend to publish them.

I am generally a very accepting person, but I have a very low threshold for “stupid”. It’s not like I don’t appreciate the dumb stuff, I can laugh at the lowest common denominator stuff, I am talking about genuinely stupid people. Like People who decide at the last minute they need to be in the right lane when they have be driving 5 miles under the speed limit in the left lane for that last 10 minutes…

Or the co-worker who asks the same question 3 different times with slightly different words expecting to get a different answer…and when you tell them “well just like I told you yesterday…”, they look at you with their head cocked to one side like my dog does when I say “walk” and she is trying to figure out if I am really going to take her for a walk. I am not surprised by this reaction from my dog since we don’t really speak the same language, but I would assume that my co-workers could understand what I am saying. I guess to the average person it might sound like a bunch of gibberish considering I am giving “techie” answers, but when it is a “tech” asking you a “techie” question, they should understand a “techie” answer…

Who am I kidding…it’s not really “co-workers“, it is just the one guy…the one guy who thinks he knows everything…the one guy that tells other co-workers he could have my job. The best is that he has told several people that he is smarter than me…sure whatever. Why is it that stupid people seem to be the ones always talking about how smart they are. I have a pretty good head on my shoulders, but I don’t feel the need to go around bragging about it.

The problem is not so much the bragging, but in order to support the claims that he is smarter than everybody, he has to have an answer to every question. It doesn’t matter if he knows the right answer or that he even understand the question… One day at a meeting with all of our “techies” this guy throws out some shit about network protocols and transports layers or some shit, whatever it was aside from using the correct terms he was completely wrong. I looked around the room and there where at least two other people that had the same “what the fuck are you talking about” look on their face that I did…

Then there is the “at we did it this way” or “I was in charge of all that at…” Whatever…

I think that corporate America is the breeding ground for this type of idiot. In a big corp., especially one that is not tech oriented, the guys at the top don’t know TCP/IP from Cat 5 so all you have to do is sound like you know what the fuck you are talking about and always have a quick answer… This shit doesn’t play in a small company, where the people at the top had to all the grunt shit back in the day because there was no one else to do it. I am disappointed in myself for not seeing through this guy’s bullshit before we hired him, because within 2 weeks of him starting his job I knew he was talking out of his ass. I am learning “Do you know about this?” is not a good interview technique, but in my defense…my input on the hiring process is “he seems OK”…so it was not my fault…or something.

So…theCrowd says to me “you want to blog?” Blog? Like a serious what’s in my head kind of blog? Shit I don’t know…sure I write some stupid shit for myspace, but myspace is full of dumb so my dumb shit fits in…sort of anyway. I don’t think that will work so well here without the offsetting dumb of wannabe underwear models…

That leaves me with the question of what to write about?

I guess I will just have to wait and see if I get inspired by something…maybe the next stupid old bitch that cuts me off in traffic.

Stay tuned for something…