WHINELINE To all those affiliated with the churches in Atlanta, who cancelled their Christmas Day services so that their staff members with young children could be at home to open presents: If I ever hear you say “Jesus is the reason for the season,” I will find you and personally beat the crap out of you. happy holiday I am seeing lots of just tall grasses around certain obviously abandoned houses that are caving in. When the city takes those lots finally, can we get prisoners or maybe school classes to adopt the lots to use to grow foods? If the White House can do it and feed not only their guests but also a soup kitchen, why can’t we work out something like that? hope you’re following _unclebilly on twitter. Thumbs-Up to Alec Baldwin? An American treasure? The guy’s a talentless, self asorbed, selfish dip-wad. I have a good friend who is suffering right now because his son was murdered but the murderer is getting to eat, drink and watch TV and other things in a prison. We should have a law that permits the relatives of murder victims of the imprisoned murderer to get to visit for at least 10 whole uninterrupted minutes where the prisoner has no where to go in a room but listen to whatever the victim’s relatives wish to yell and scream at them. I think that should be justified psychological time assigned to every victims’ close relatives/direct kin for at least 10 minutes each birthday, wedding anniversary and death date of the victim. How about it?
enough people helped out the angel trees: I looked at the tags and was horrified to see those requests for Xbox and video games and other expensive items that were not really “needy.” Clothes and maybe food items are necessary but certainly not electronic devices. So I didn’t bother picking up a single tag to treat. Next year, stop the list at only clothes and other true necessities, like maybe bandage items, but leave off expensive wants. You know what’s funny and yet scary? Your article about the cameras in use on the roads didn’t even slightly mention the PRIVACY concerns of people! Come on folks! You guys are supposed to keep our gubmint officials honest! Isn’t anyone else concerned that Big Brother is becoming TOO BIG??!! On whose authority are they Just like the Patriot Act, yeah, sure, let’s just call it Security! “We are only doing this for your OWN good! We are doing this to PROTECT you from the Terrorists! And Criminals! Don’t you WANT to be safe?? You can thank us now.” Let’s just put cameras everywhere! Put them in our houses! Wouldn’t that make it safer for all of us? Yes!!! WE NEED MORE CAMERAS! MORE AND MORE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE!!!
Lighten Up Does anyone really care what New Year’s resolutions Buddha might have made or which ones fail most often? No, we don’t. It’s too depressing. Hell, it’s depressing even trying to come up with one on our own. So why not visit moninavelarde.com/newyears/ and let someone else come up with one for you? Hit enter after that web address and you’ll be directed to a site that says “This Year I Will…” Choices include things like “Be Me,” “Lighten Up” and “Moisturize,” but if you don’t like what you’re given, you can always hit the “gimme more” button till you find something you like. Thank God somebody finally understands that even the lazy want resolutions they can actually keep… maybe.
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