Writers Block: Ki-YA!!!!

So it has been a while since my last blog, the last one was one of my favorites. Read it if you haven't. Anyway, since then my life has been lacking the proper amounts of drama, adventure, intrigue and time and so that really prohibits me from the pseudo self-depreciating, misogynistic, ego-based blogs that everyone loves to read.

Basically, I don't hang out in bars as much as before.

Honestly, my life for the last six months have been filled with work, training, and the search for new hobbies. My job, which has been for the most part a great source of material for my blog, but even that has evened out. See, I work with a really good group of people on the island and through our collective efforts alone, we have boring days at work.

I spent a week in New Orleans doing Capoeira and I am still putting together a blog about that experience. I think it is going to require a two parts. I mean on the one hand I do want to share with all my friends the complete awesomeness of this art, and at the same time we all know how KenNitro gets down.

Also and this is more important than everything else I imagine, the Netflix, Hulu, Youtube triad with my TV has a serious strangle on my immediate free time. So I guess I can share, with you all what I have been watching instead of finding drama to commentate on.

Lets start with something awesome. EPIC MEALTIME

Now I have to say this before you watch this video, these guys are Canadians, and there is nothing wrong with that, these guys know how to get it in. These are some of my favorites.

And this one

Roll one up HOMIE

Then there is Fist of the North Star. To be honest, the only reason I started this was because I was tempted to buy the game, and then I remembered watching the live action movie as a kid, and I downloaded the animated movie, but then I was like, "Do I really want to watch the animated movie when there are 150 episodes that I have not watched?"

Here is the first episode, 'GOD OR DEVIL, the Mightest man appears in HELL

150 episodes of self-righteous violence, SMART!

and then the TV Show Numb3rs.

This is pretty much which has been taking over my social life for now.

Well, that's not 100% true

Are people really that dumb?

Are people really that blind?

This could possibly be the most un-popular blog I have written, well to a few people. Well, I hope they can build a bridge, and get right over it.

So, on May 1, 2011 Osama Bin Laden, the face of evil in America was killed by U.S. military action in Pakistan. Our country rejoiced in the killing of a man that we all look at as the physical manifestation of all that is evil.

So everyone is happy and sure why not, but lets be honest.

THE USA KILLED A MAN

And that is all.

If you believe that one’s man death will reverse the actions that have adversely affected the American populous home and abroad. Everything from airport regulations, racism against anyone that looks like they might be Arab, and the price of gas

You are sadly mistaken.

That being said, there are a lot of facebook statuses out there that raise questions of rejoicing a man’s death, celebrating the manner in which he died, and who is looking at your profile, but what has been amazing to me is this on particular status that I have seen around the interwebs.

“Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American soldier, who Obama just a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. Obama just happened to be the one in office when our soldiers finally found OBL and took him out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!! PLZ REPOST IF YOU AGREE!!!”

Here’s the thing, I tried really hard to ignore this…but the marginalizing of Obama’s efforts as it relates to this is hilarious. Honestly, the guy has to fight tooth and nail to get anything done. He comes into an office with an economy that disastrous and as the right wing, conservative; neo-cons constantly look to sabotage anything that will ultimately affect any change in the status quo. Then, they turn around and scoff at him for not being able to fix the economy with his bare hands.

Anyway back to this status, let me start off by saying that I have seen this status all over my newsfeed, if you posted and you feel like I am singling you out, stop being so sensitive, if you were worried about what people think, you wouldn’t post stuff like this anyway…

“OBAMA did not kill Bin Laden”

You are absolutely correct, Obama did not hop off a chopper and put the work in himself, but he did make the decision. He could have dropped bombs on the compound, which would have been the safe move as far as soldiers lives are concerned, but you would lose the strategic advantage, because well I imagine you can’t just fly over a sovereign land dropping bombs on shit. He decided to risk American lives and his political career by sending in troops. Imagine the backlash he would have gotten from the right if the operation was a complete failure.

“An American Soldier, who Obama a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to pay, did.”

I agree, it was an American soldier. Now, lets talk about the whole debate on whether or not to pay. See this is what I believe to be a minimization of the issue. Now people that swore up and down that this solider was not going to get paid are lacking in some facts about what a gov’t shut down is.

A gov’t shutdown is when the gov’t stops providing all but essential services. Generally speaking, the services that continue to operate regardless of said shutdown are police, the military, fire departments, correction officers, post office(they pay their own cost) and you know…other services that are crucial to the day to day functions, so yes this soldier that everyone is concerned about will receive his pay. Unfortunately, park rangers will have to take “L”, the people in the passport office will also be carrying an “L” for the day, and maybe even the entire courthouse itself. Oh and the trash may not be picked up.

Ok, now that we have what a gov’t shutdown encompasses, let’s go over how the good elected folks up in DC arrive at this point.

But first, lets go over some 8^th grade political science

The U.S. gov’t is separated into equal parts, the legislative, Judiciary, and the executive. The Legislative also known as congress has the power to pass, amend and repeal laws. They also can raise or lower taxes

Pretty cool huh!

They also handle the budget for the year for all the gov’t programs (this is important, we’ll get to this later)

The judicial in turn interprets the laws that the congress passes and acts as the final say in court cases that can’t seem to get handled in the lower courts

Now the Executive Branch is runs the day to day operations of a nation, now the executive branch does not make nor interpret laws, but enforce the law as it is written.

Now inside of the legislative branch you have two houses, you have the House of Representatives (congress) and the Senate. Now these two groups determine the budget for the year, and they have to get it done by a certain day or else the gov’t has to shut down because well…folks can’t get their shit together. Now, the Congress is controlled by the republicans and at the time of this blog the democrats control the senate. Now the president has nothing to do with creating the budget, but when both houses are not in agreement there tends to be a problem.

Ok, now that the crash course is over let’s review that line again:

“An American Soldier, who Obama a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to pay, did.”

Now we have determined that the American Soldier falls under the essential services list and his paycheck is secure, but now we can infer that Obama did not debate about whether to pay him or the military, because the executive branch does not create a budget. It is the legislative branch that could not compromise over 2 billion dollars that could have in fact shut the gov’t down.

“Obama just happened to be the one in office when our soldiers finally found OBL and took him out.”

No, he didn’t happen to be the one in the office, see he is a democratically elected leader who is in charge of all branches of the armed forces who regardless of what the opinions of generals, experts, reports from the front line etc, he is responsible for what they do or fail to do, so when the troops went in and took him out, it was because the president gave the go ahead.

“This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!”

This is petty to say the least, what exactly did America win?

In my opinion Osama Bin Laden represents an idea. The idea that America is in fact the source of all the strife, hunger, and any other calamity that has hit the Arab Nations over the last thirty or so years. An idea given breath by a generation of people living under economic sanctions for decades at a time, suffering under U.S. supported dictatorships, and ravaging of the natural resources.

I’ve said it before; one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

Just as Americans take to the streets to celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden, as newspapers printed the corpses of Saddam Hussein’s children, as we laughed during the fall Saddam Hussein on the other side of the world there are groups, we become the monster.

You all remember the Virgina Tech shooting that happened a while back, you know the Korean Kid that shot the campus up, I remember speaking to people when I lived there and one of the concerns was that the U.S. was going to retaliate against the whole country. I kind of laughed it off and assured her that the U.S. doesn’t wage war against individuals that have attacked us, but was I really telling the truth?

The U.S. attempted to fight an unconventional war by conventional means against an enemy that lurks in the shadows, has no ties to any government and does not fear death. This demonstration of Americas might cost us billions upon billions of dollars, countless American lives as well as innocents in the war zones themselves, for one man that was able to fund his war out of his own pocket. As that war waged on, the U.S. military machine moved into Iraq, because there was a possibility that there were WMDs, that Saddam had the capacity to develop them and that we needed to neutralize the threat before it becomes a threat.

Anyway

You can’t kill an idea, Osama’s death has done nothing but galvanize the resolve of those who chose to follow him. They have seen firsthand how one act can change the lives of a country, how the actions of a few can affect the lives of many. Did you see Batman begins, Ducard tells him, “…if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely, you become a legend”. Don’t believe me, look at Saddam Hussein, where are his followers and supporters? He was found ducked down low in a hole…hiding. Tried in a court in his own country and subsequently hung. You remember Zacarias Moussaoui, exactly. This guy was an alleged highjacker that got caught, got a trial, and is sitting in a supermax prision for the rest of his life, and mine, yours and the person next to you. These men will disappear into obscurity in time of course, but Osama…this man knew his time on this earth was limited, and I am sure the United States of America has already trained his replacement.

Wake up people, Wake up

P.S. Lets be clear on this: Obama did not kill Bin Laden, an American soldier, who obama signed a short-term spending bill so he could continue to get paid, did. Obama is the commander-in-chief, who made the decision to green light the operation which gave our soldiers the opportunity to take him out. This is not a victory by any means, this is a war of attrition, with no end in site! PlZ POST IF YOU AGREE!!!!

I am sooooo confused, well not really.

Like everyone else in my age bracket, I try to eat healthy. Eating healthy is very difficult with all the dollar menu's, .75 wings, 1.00 draft, free stuff from chic-fi-la, and the proverbial turf war between dominos, and Papa johns pizza that gives everyone in this back water town 5.00 pies almost all of the time. Which is cool, because well...no one makes anyone eat at any of these places.

Well no one strong arms you at least.

I guess that is well enough, because as much as these companies spend enticing you to come and eat at these places you got a bunch more people telling you how evil it is. Now I am not going to go list any links for other things for you to read.

If you want to read it I trust you are smart enough to google it yourself.

Now a few years back there was this documentary called "Super Size Me", it was about this guy who obviously has this overbearing vegitarian bitch of a girlfriend that has him eating like a rabbit and probably gave him the option of eating grass and bark or never getting laid.

So what does he do?

Well he does what most men do when faced with that situation, he does what he has to do, and he eats the rabbit food. Of course he gets tired of it, and instead of telling his obviously overbearing vegetarian bitch of a girlfriend, "I ain't going for it! If I want to eat 12 baby cows and wash it down with tiger blood, then dammit Imma do it"

He makes a documentary about how fast food is bad, obviously as a head-fake so he can actually eat it.

We all do it ladies, and you fall for it every time.

Anyway, this documentary was pretty awesome. He is a youtube clip of basically what this guy does for thirty days

So after that, I watched this other documentary called food inc.

This documentary talks about how evil any food product that has a president, CEO, and VP of marketing is in fact the spawn of Satan with no other purpose in life but to pump you full of delicious, inexpensive, and easily accessible poison.

And they did a good job of it too!

While I didn't go full fledged Vegan off of this documentary, I did in fact curb my fast food intake to a screeching halt for about 60 days. Even now, I think I have only eaten at fast food places a handful of times.

By the way, I am not counting quick trip in this tally.

This documentary was crazy, now I can't trust the grocery stores. 100% all natural, Rubbish! Farm raised? Old McDonald didn't have no fish! Organic, huh? I was starting to feel the same way I felt when I was a kid when Shawn Michaels Super Kicked Marty Jennetty through Brutus the barber beefcakes window Wayyyyyy back when, in case you were living under a rock

Oh yeah, I forgot a clip of Food Inc(I got too caught up in the awesomeness of the Rockers).

So what have I been doing to steer myself through this storm of information?

Well I joined a gym, started reading labels, and set some fitness goals. I figure, if I worked harder and cut my calories then I would lose the weight that I got from the year or so of dollar menus, 1.00 draft, .45 cent wings, Chinese buffet, and individually wrapped snacks. Then I see this documentary.

This guy basically puts a middle finger to the above posted documentary and uses a mixture of math and common sense to not so much disprove super-size me, but disprove how he got to his destination. Obviously, this guy doesn't get laid as much as a man that eats grass and bark like their overbearing broccoli headed girlfriend does, but at least he eats what he wants. He even played a race card, and the only thing I could say was, "Well played sir, well played". He called up Morgan and asked to see his food log several times so he could actually see what he ate daily, and low and behold, ol'boy's people were not trying to give up the goods.

I mean, why not? If everything was on the up and up why not.

hmmmmmmmmm

Oh here is a clip from his documentary

So what do you do, for every idea about exercising that say's do "X" and you will get "Y" results, you have somebody else telling you that is not true at all you really have to do is "B" to get "Y" results. Then you have people telling you that it is all genetic and you were really doomed from the start.

Eat Low Fat

Eat All THE FAT

No carb

ALL THE CARBS

What is anyone to do? Now, I understand that nothing get's done without effort, but seriously can you take that seriously when every health magazine is guaranteeing results in less than ten days on average to the populous! Whenever I get overwhelmed by all this (dis)information, I ask myself, "What did the Spartan's do(no homo)?"

Then I just get outside and sweat.

KenNitro Vs. Fake People : can it be so simple?

Fake people are always interesting to me, you know everyone can sit and tell you about how they know someone that is in fact fake, and I am willing to venture if you took the time to read this, it's because you yourself know some fake people.

Truth be told, you are probably fake yourself.

Just as I refer to myself as a "Situational Bad Guy"(I explained that in a blog so I am not going to repeat myself), people are situationally fake(just like you!) The problem you have with other fake people is the same thing that they have with you.

Consistency.

Seriously.

You know, I fake it...I even fake it when other people are faking it, it is one huge imaginary party where everyone is acting as if they are really excited about some variable that in reality they all wish didn't exist. It is really self-serving, fake people can just chalk it right on up and call it a head fake secretly while they know just how much they are flexing.

My problem is that I have learned to leave well enough alone.

So in reality, I am actually enabling the fake people to keep being fake, kind of like a magicians assistant. I mean, they know they aren't really being sawed in half, but they have to act as though they are just as surprised to see their legs moving on their own as they are separated from their lower regions, and they don't even have a sigh of relief when they are joined back together.

See, they are not ignorant of the situation, they are just being fake.

Like most things in life, you got two choices.

You can check it or respect it, but after either choice

you got to god bless it.

Tax return a go-go

So every year from now until April 14, everyone in the United States gets either happy or depressed about one thing.

TAXES

Now for all my peoples around the world that are not exactly sure what I am talking about, this is the short version. Americans have money taken out of their paychecks every time we get paid, at the beginning of the year, the gov't sends us a W2 and we get it filled out and send it back in and then in a few weeks or so we get a check from the the government.

Honestly, getting a tax return is not a bad thing, unless you are the guy that wrote this

http://money.msn.com/tax-planning/why-i-hate-income-tax-refunds-schnepper.aspx?GT1=33005

See, now here is the thing, I understand if you are making 50 trillion dollars a year and half your paycheck is going to taxes, leaving you with 25 trillion dollars and you are like, damn I don't want to get a tax return because that would mean I have been paying too much during the year and I could have used that money, but now I have to wait to get it back.

Now for the rest of the working population that is essentially living from paycheck to paycheck, The smart move is to get a tax return. Honestly, you work the whole year and you are still broke on the first and the fifteenth of every month, and then sometime between January and april, you get a check for anywhere between 1,ooo to 2,000 or whatever, feels really good.

So seriously, fuck this guy.

KenNitro Vs The Facility: The WAR REPORT

So there was this huge ice storm that hit Carrollton, and as usual the people of this town and any other town in Georgia did not disappoint. All the bread and ALL the eggs were purchased with the veracity of angry wilder beast. I even went to the store myself, late and I picked up a loaf of bread too. I actually already had eggs, so while I still fell into the madness it was more of a casual walk.

The snow was a crucial moment at the facility and if you read my previous blog you know the decision I made and the perilous journey to work. I along with the “Professional Wild Boyz” did in fact go and “Get dis Money HO!!!!!”

However, in preparation for such an even there was a great email sent that in a very professional said the following “Regardless of the weather, get yo ass to work. There will be repercussions, no one will be over looked.”

It was wild, after I decided that I was going to risk it on the road, I started to get hype. I started to feel like how I guess you should feel if the zombie apocalypse was going to happen and you had a six hour head start on the whole thing. I put together an anti-cabin fever package containing all things necessary for such an event as this epic snowpocalypse.

First on my list was food. I know for a fact that the children of the facility will have their nutritional needs taken care of and just like on airplanes where it says put your air mask on before you help someone else, I had to make sure I had food for me so I can handle all situations at work.

Second, my toothbrush.

Third, a 24 pack of cokes, see the soda fountain might have been available for my caffeine needs, but like I said earlier, this is the cold weather version of zombies coming to eat my brains, I can’t take the chance that the machine is off and I can’t get a coke. I can promise you there would have been a death, and I could prolly tell you right now which child would be made the example and which one would be the object lesson.

Forth, my Xbox 360. This time it was for me. On rare occasions I disable my entertainment hub for the kids but I figured if I am going to be snowed in, I need to have something to give me the idea that I am not at work.

Finally, the mental preparation to know that sleep will be what I am working for not without.

Seriously, I worked about 23 hours and had maybe an hour worth of sleep. Sleeping was not really an option because there is a third shift from 11-7 that had to be covered, but there were enough to where we could sleep in shifts, but I like most of my coworkers would rather go without sleep than not get enough. Around 10 that morning I was coaxed into taking a nap because my actual shift did not start until 3, but I am working the 1^st shift from 7-3. I sleep for about five hours in an office with a locked door, I could actually relax.

I worked my shift and finally made it home Tuesday night/Wednesday morning at 12 am.

What is funny is how some people at work apparently have their nose turned up at the people who made the inverse decision to stay home. Honestly, I don’t blame them. I live 13 miles from work and there are those at work that live 45+ miles from the facility.

I was reading all over facebook how folks suffered from cabin fever and all this snow related nonsense. I would have killed to have been at my house during this stuff, but you know this flat screen tv is not going to pay for itself.

FACT.

KenNitro Vs The Facility Vs The WEATHER: This is for the TV title

As we all know, the TV title was actually the hardest belt to win in WCW. The match was always the last on the show and the challenger generally had 15 minutes or TV time remaining in order to defeat the champion. A lot of champions, especially Diamond Dallas Page or DDP as us real fans refer as was the king of exploiting this particular rule. I remember as a kid watching this guy not cheat, but take full advantage of the opportunity of the rules set forth. Not to mention the Diamond Cutter, this move was in fact the business because it could come from anywhere at at any moment and then BAM!!!! you are looking like the dude in the orange spandex I mean just so we are on same page here, I am going to give you a little hot youtube action of the man, and you will see that not only could the Diamond Cutter be delivered from any angle of position, but it was a game changer!!!!!

and anyone could in fact get it!

Like Muddy Waters said, "Ain't that a MAN!!!!!"

Well right now, I am in a similar position. Here I am, the facility is thirteen miles away, and the only thing stopping me from coming closer to the flatscreen tv that I want is ice on the road.

The smart move is always the safe move.

The safe move would be for me to stay my ass indoors play this call of duty, and watch dexter.

The pimp move, would be for me to get out there, get this money, like a hungry lion. Cats is on the island counting money like....like....

LIKE THIS NIGGA HUURRRR

Seriously, if Brian Nichols can walk into a court house, and walk out, not because a judge told him he could, but because he decided he did not want to go to jail. Why am I sitting here not gettin this money?

ACT LIKE YOU WANT IT, GO HOME WITH THE TROPHY

I base a lot of decisions around this phrase, sometimes it works out, sometimes not so much, but in the end, I made a decision, which is something a lot of people never really do. So I am going to pack up some sandwiches and teletron and brave this 6-7 inches of snow in Georgia.