The Outrage Game: Memorial Day Edition

Never a dull moment with partisan hack extraordinaire Matt Margolis of Blogs For Victory.com. Today's faux outrage against President Obama? He went golfing on Memorial Day!

Really, Barry? Really? According to a White House pool report, posted on Drudge Report:

Subject: Pool report 5/25/09

POTUS is, reportedly, golfing with Marvin Nicholson. No actual glimpses of the presidential golf game. Aides say POTUS paused at 3 p.m. to observe a moment of silence.

The jerk won’t let Memorial Day get in the way of his golf… sounds like Bill Clinton, who passed up the chance to get Osama bin Laden so his golf game wouldn’t get interrupted.

The president's agenda on Memorial Day:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama begins Memorial Day hosting a breakfast at the White House for families who have lost loved ones in military service. The Gold Star family members will be honored in the State Dining Room.

Later this morning, the president will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

Afterward, Obama will deliver remarks at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington.

Now it is true that the president played some golf today, but Matty left out one important detail: this was after he performed his mandatory rituals on Memorial Day!

FORT BELVOIR, Va., May 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama relaxed on the links Monday after taking part in a Memorial Day service at Arlington National Cemetery.

Aids said the president spent about 4 1/2 hours on the course at Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Va., out of sight of a pool reporter who was kept in a roped-off area of the base PX food court. He then returned to the White House.

Obama's aides said the president paused at 3 p.m. to observe a moment of silence.

Obama ventured out on the course despite rain falling as his motorcade arrived on base. It wasn't disclosed who accompanied the president on his outing.

So not only did President Obama play some golf after taking part in the traditional Memorial Day service in Arlington, he even paused his golf game at 3p.m. to honor a moment of silence for the fallen veterans of the U.S. Military, just like he asked all Americans to do the same.

But since Matt wants to play the outrage game, let me throw him a 'what's worse scenario:'

What's worse? Obama playing a few founds of golf after he completed his traditional duties.......

....Or former President Bush playing the guitar and his Secretary of State Condelezza Rice going shoe shopping while the citizens of New Orleans were drowning in their homes and dying when Hurricane Katrina hit?

Please, spare me your false outrage, you fucking hypocrite.

A Fool Falling Headfirst in Love

It takes one look from you, darling
Your amber eyes locked into mine
I might as we be a-fallin'
From Heaven's Gate, unto a moonlit sky


It takes one flash, baby
From your radiant smile
That i'll be helpless and hopeless to resist
You already know i'll keep you company awhile


Honey, Honey
I've been blinded by your spell
Have you been sent to me from Heaven?
Or are you a demon in disguise
Waiting to drag me to the gates of Hell?


For now, I have no choice
But to let this compass in my chest guide me
For now, only time will tell.

...huh?!

The news story that i'm still scratching my head over.

FINDLAY, Ohio - A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.

Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School's prom Saturday.

Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school's rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.

The teen, who is scheduled to receive his diploma May 24, would be suspended from classes and receive an "incomplete" on remaining assignments, England said. Frost also would not be permitted to attend graduation but would get a diploma once he completes final exams. If Frost is involved with alcohol or sex at the prom, he will be expelled, England said.

Ok, I get the sex and alcohol part, but the school suspended one of their own for simply taking his girlfriend to her prom?? But here's the kicker:

"In life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the school committee chose the other," England said.

Jesus fucking Christ.....he's a hormonal, angst ridden male teenager who probably beats off to a friend's naughty movies, all while listening to AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" every time the 'rents are out of town (you know, like me almost a year ago); you're not training him to become a priest who tells the alter boys to come hither and drop the pants to receive the 'touch of God!'

He's a teenage boy...let him be just that.

The Outsider

Yet another poem on teen angst.....what can I say, I understand and connect with losers, outsiders, misfits, and the vast legions of young people who feel alienated and feel like they don't have any connection with the environment they're in or the cliques they run into....That, and there's something about listening to Radiohead that gets me in this mood.

Songs I was listening to: "How to Disappear Completely," "Everything In Its Right Place," "Optimistic," "Planet Telex," "Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was," "Street Spirit (Fade Out)," "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"


These pictures
On my screen
They tease me


Snapshots of groups of friends
At parties, having fun times, with lovers
They're all teasing me


These places, their faces
They're tormenting my head
They're part of a world I'll never be apart of


No matter how hard I'll try
No matter how I wish I may and might
I'll always be an outsider, looking into their light

On This Day, April 23

* 1661 – King Charles II of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.


* 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.


* 1967 - Students at Colombia University raid an admissions building, shutting down the school in protest of the Vietnam War.


* 1985 - Coco-Cola releases "New Coke".....then changes the brand back to the regular formula because of the public backlash three months later.


* 1988 - Dark Side of the Moon, which spent a consecutive of 741 weeks on the Billboard 200, bows out


Bust most importantly, on this day, Jonathan Purcell Holmes, was born on this day.

And as it turns out, I have a star-studded line up of celebrities who share the same birthday as I: William Shakespeare, Michael Moore (Oh, yeah!), Kal Penn, Dev Patel, Andruw Jones (outfielder for the Texas Rangers), George Lopez, Shirley Temple


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_23


I am awesome.

My Cat Soxy

When I was around seven, mom decided on getting a playmate for our Pomeranian, Rusty. The second pet was a black cat with a white underbelly, which we named Soxy.



Today, after eleven years, my cat Soxy passed on to the great liter box in they sky.



He loved chasing the dog around, fighting for food and affection, loafing around, roaming outdoors, and snuggling up to us.



He was a good pet - I guess that's all we can really ask for.



I hope he knows that I loved him deeply, and that I tried to take care of him to the best of my ability.

Hermit Shell Home

Probably the biggest inspiration for writing this poem was a friend of mine, who shall remain anonymous, basically gave me a well-needed kick in the pants, about a letter I never wrote that she took as me asking for pity.


I havn't failed. You have. Do not continure to blame your trobles on others. It is you that is in the driver seat of your life. Take it by the wheel! I understand your life may "suck" and as probably "sucked" since highschool, and I've got news, it doesn't get better. Your life will continue to "suck" if you choose to play the victim in your own life. Get out there! Join the paper. Get a job!!!!! ooo. Get. A. JOB!!!! You meet so many cool people that way, and the prize is that you get paid to do so. Do not blame anything on anyone except for yourself because I will not take pity.
Quit being afriad and go out there!

Those words really sunk in. And they haven't left yet. Which is a very, very good thing.


Like all my other poems, they were inspired by songs I have been listening to, and this one's no different.


"Lovers in Japan" - Coldplay
"Let Go" - Frou Frou
"Lost!" - Coldplay
"Beautiful Day" - U2
"Smile" - Weezer
"Your Heart Is An Empty Room" - Death Cab For Cutie
"Caring Is Creepy" - The Shins

Hey!
You there
Hiding in your hermit shell home
Why are you living in an empty hole?
Why are you living like you're all alone>

Your time to shine
Is coming soon, my son!

It's time for you to fly
Into the warm arms of the sun.


Hey!
You there
There's so much to life for today
Quit retreating into melancholy and despair
Why piss it all away from more rainy days?

Your time to shine
Is coming soon, my son!

It's time for you to fly
Into the warm arms of the sun

Hey!
You there
Get up, get out, and take a look round
You say your lost, we're all missing as well
Jump right in, and you'll find your own meaning of being found

Your time to shine
Is coming soon, my son!

It's your time to fly
Into the warm arms of the sun

You there
Hiding in your hermit shell home
Please come out of that empty hole
You don't have to chose to live like your alone.