Halal No you didn’t or…This little piggy got GOT!!!!

I saw some shit online that was epic. I mean normally my Tuesdays are always about epic mealtime and getting having some sort of fun while waiting on church night with my peoples(church is a metaphor). Now my nights may not always be epic, but they do always start with dinner.

Generally, dinner is either pizza or sushi(not at the same time). It’s quick, easy, and with pizza I generally have some food left for the post drinking action or maybe even the next day.

The Best Weaves are Made of Bacon

Tonight is something different.

I saw this thing on youtube called the  “bacon explosion” it is basically a heart attack wrapped in bacon,

And I need this in my life.

Get Creative, Next Time I am Using More
Sausage.

So I went to the grocery jump off and got me some bacon, I went and spent a little bit of bread on it and got the thick cut. I think that was best decision.  Actually making the bacon weave was pretty easy, I was surprised at how easy it was to get this sexy thing made. If you don’t like the way pork looks I don’t know what to tell you.

Now, the next part opens up the lane for some personal decision making. Some people call for 2lbs of sausage or a kilo if you aren’t from ‘Merica(Pew Pew Pew Pew). I live by myself so I figured a pound of sausage is enough for me. I once ate a pound of deer sausage and was not even the slightest bit apologetic.

No homo.

The youtube video calls for some bbq seasoning, but you know I was kinda gentle with it. I mean, there is a

lot of salt in this monstrosity. I then added some cheese cause…well I can’t think of any situation where cheese and or a fried egg is a bad idea so there you go.

Sleep, So You Shall Be PERFECT

Then I put that bitch in the oven.

I got some bread for the delivery device. I figure regular bread just won’t due. In the video they had some can biscuits, but I can’t lie

I don’t do can biscuits….

Seriously, I mean if you put them in front of me and I don’t have any other options, I will eat them. I mean, if you are cooking me breakfast and you make them, I will eat them. I mean, I ain’t gonna throw them shits on the floor and be like, “Biiiiitttcccch, you tryin’ to catch a beat down”.  

The fucked up part is that I can’t make a biscuit to save yo life.

Fact is, if someone put a gun to your head and was like, “KenNitro, if you want to save this , you gonna have to make some serious biscuits!!!

You a dead muthafucka.

Anywhoo, this is my dinner tonight. I know you are jealous. I know you are all planning on making this around the world.

That'll do Pig, That'll do

Lost Art of The Wingman Part 1: Do You Even Know What a Wingman is, Bro?

Whatever you do, DO SOMETHING!

Navigating the dating scene is like having a compass in the dark with no flashlight. There are so many different ways you can go about WINNING, one can be confused about which right way is the best way. One thing remains true, from human’s humble beginnings in caves to massive multiplayer online games

Teamwork makes the dream work.

There was a time when two bro’s could hit the scene and get all the cream there was to get, and high five the entire time. There was a time where men would run defense so their bro could make a play. The wingman was more than just situational, it was an honor. That’s shit over, charge it to the game. One of the greatest acts of wingmaning ever caught on film was this scene right here.

See, this right here is what it is all about. I'll be damned if Five doesn't get you Ten with teamwork like that.

So how did we lose the art of the wingman?

I’ll tell you when, we lost the art when men decided to use the phrase “bro’s before hoe’s” as just a phrase and not a part of the code of ethics governing male bonding rituals and appropriate man to man relationships. For instance,

There is real magic in this phrase.

if you invoke bro’s before hoe’s just because you as a man are jealous of your homey’s situation with his lady, you’re doing it wrong bro. If you are invoking bro’s before hoe’s because you are gravy in your situation and you just don’t like the chick your homey is kicking it with, you’re doing it wrong bro. If you being offensive to chicks your homey brings around, and then he stops bringing them around, and you invoke bro’s before hoe’s

You guessed it, you’re doing it wrong.

self explaintory

See, the above mentioned is hating.  Hating has become such an epidemic in our society that we have begun to think that we need haters in our lives to validate the fact that we are livin!

What kind of shit is that?

But I digress, a brotha dealing with some other shit these days.

Anyway

When did it become cool for a man to break in on someone else’s program over a chick in the first place? When was it ok for a man to offer up info on another man that is going to adversely affect his pimpin? I don’t know, I can’t even call it.

Hell man, with that kind of heat in your circle I can see how individuals start backing away from the code and doing work on their own all together.  Then of course, women in the media are always trying to play up the whole, “confidence” factor. Coming up with new ways of approaching women that all go in this direction

See a chick you like, roll up on them, hit’em with some sort of line. The line varies depending on a number of variables. Then if that works you invite them on some sort of no pressure excursion and hopefully, it works out for you.( ß 60 % of the time it works 100%)

See, the thing is women are already up on game.

It Can Be Done, But It Ain't No Fun...

Women rarely roll solo, and if they do, there is some wishy ass dude waiting on stand-by ready to get fish hooked to stop your advance. Gone are the days of being able to show up in the spot and pull chicks that you don’t know out of their situations and into yours without some help from your wingman.  Your wingman was your bro. Your Billy to his Jimmy lee, Han Solo and Chewbacca, Beautiful Bobby Eaton and Sweet Stan Lane, your success was his success and the reverse is also correct.

One Of the Best EVA!!!

Wingman skill sets  can come in different varieties, but the fact is that somewhere on this trip men collectively decided that it would be better to get a laugh out of seeing our bro’s fail instead of making the dream work. That’s just a damn shame, and we all know someone that is that guy.

So let’s get started, but let’s work in reverse for a second and go over what wingman-ing isn’t. It is just as important to know “What it ain’t” as well as “what it is” ya dig?

First, it ain’t the wingman’s job to bring you the pussy, and put it on your plate. Many a dudes have come up asking me to hook them up with some chicks, just like that.

“Hey Ken, can you hook me up with some chicks?”

Get the fuck outta here with that shit! Dudes these days are under the impression that chicks are just DTF off the rip(down to fuck for the uninformed).  News flash, just cause your mans ‘andem got it like that with a crew of females does not mean that they are down to fuck at a drop of a dime or  more importantly, that they are down to fuck YOU at a drop of a dime. Take yo thirsty ass elsewhere with that.

And even if they were and did, they not inviting you to the party for the simple fact that you’re asking to come.

Second, a wingman is not your bomb dismantling device. This can be a little confusing, see there is a difference between your homeboy backing your play on the double date and you knowingly knowing that the chicks friend is the B.U.F.F.*

This is BROTHERHOOD

See, you wrong for that! With holding info is already not the move, expecting your homeboy to stick around after there has been visual confirmation on the BUFF, you asking for too much. To blame your homeboy cause you didn’t get laid, because he didn’t keep some B.U.F.F occupied, you need to have ya ass beat.

Twice.

Now if you told your wingman that this was the deal and he ends up in a situation with a B.U.F.F that he can’t get out of well…that’s why we have man night, to laugh and talk about such things!

Third, the wingman is not your whipping boy. This pisses me off more than unknowingly being placed in the  bomb dismantler position. See, after the fact, bomb dismantling is fun. Hell if you roll with a crew of folks and if you all don't have a story that y'all laugh about involving "Taking One For The Team", "Diving on Grenades" and so forth and so on, I may have to call shenanigans on the existence of you all as a crew all together. 

See what you have to understand is this,hating on your homeboy in an effort to make yourself look like a BOSS in front of some chick/s, is the utter definition of a DICK MOVE.  Don’t get me wrong, the story about how your homeboy bent a fat chick over and went to town during karaoke or even the same homeboy letting fat chicks rub all over his chest at karaoke while singing “I want you to want me", being told is ok. Why is that shit is ok? Cause it is funny before it is offensive, and as long as he is laughing you haven’t crossed any lines. 

What is not and by not I mean never ok is making your homeboy look bad or set him up for the okey doke so you can appear to be clever. 

  For instance, there was this one night where me and some people were out and about. This dude was trying so hard to get these chicks to notice him, he actually resorted to asking me questions just to cut me off and throw it back to the chick that wasn't interested in him in the first place to answer, acting as though he valued her opinion so much as to cut off your's truly!!!!!

 As if she would be impressed at a man’s ability to be a DICK.

FUCKOUTTAHEREWITDAT SON!!!!

Can't Win If You Don't Play

Now I’m sure I can go even further and establish some other behaviors, but you get the point. Fact is even if you have a wingman, you still got to get into the fight, you still have to acquire your target, and you have to take a shot.

Otherwise your wingman is going to hit you with a reversal.

While we can talk about what being a wingman’s job isn’t all day long. Sometimes your wingman is doing too much. Doing too much is a lot like not doing anything at all, because it will all achieve the same outcome.

FAILURE

A wingman that is doing too much is not THE MOVE at all.

It's Only Cool For a Second

When a wingman is doing too much, it looks more like competition than co-operation. They start to think of how they can get ahead instead of how we can all win. Now, I am not going to sit here and say that I have never competed against another man or men for a woman, I am not even saying that I will not in the future. What I am saying is that if you and a man that you would call brother are competing over the same chick, you all both run the serious risk of losing everything, all at once. On top of all that, the both of you end up giving this chick the big head. See, every woman was to be competed over, but no woman wants to be some  prize to be won. So you start competing in public with your bro, you both will lose, and she will be queen of sheba...at least for the night.

This is just going to get your feet wet, part two we are going to look at what makes a good wingman, and some factors to consider, and we will touch base on the "fabled female wingman" or would it be a "wingperson". Hell to be honest, when did men need other women to pick up women in the first place? 

Oh, so if you are into the other elements of social media add me on instagram @KenNitro.

*B.U.F.F. is a term I picked up from a female friend of mind that means “Butt Ugly Fat Friend”. Don’t get mad at me, women are always supporting each other when I am talking shit, so if a chick tells me some shit that is degrading to women on any level, I am taking it and running with it.

KenNitro Vs. The Facility: I Can Do This All Day or HATERS MAKE ME FAMOUS

So I wrote a blog…and what happened is that someone at the facility felt some sort of way about it. Personally, I don’t care. Let me say it again,

I don’t care.

Oh if you are new to this little slice of the interweb you can find the blog in question in its entirety here*

Anyway, so I wrote this blog back in February, and everything that I wrote all the way up to when I hit the post button, was some of the realest shit I ever wrote. What I did not take into consideration was that eyes were watching.

I don’t care.

Got to let your next move be
ya best move!

See, but what is interesting is that I was made an offer that I couldn’t refuse. I remember speaking with my Big Brother and Mentor, Dr. Octagon about the change in my work situation, and he was like, “I want to congratulate you, but you don’t seem excited.  At the time, I was apprehensive to be excited. So we just settled on being happy that we were making some more money.  I mean, more money is better than money, and money is better than no money. 

This was in March.

Now, I will admit I haven’t posted anything since February for a few reasons, which I will get into later, but the prominent one was that I knew I was going to have to readjust my writing style as it concerns the facility. With a shake of a hand, and stroke of a pen, KenNitro was catapulted to a new high,

And the haters had not only fired off their first rounds, but they had reloaded.

At the time, I hadn’t even got into this new mode yet, and the whisper campaign had already begun.  Some people I knew ahead of time, were out to get me.

Well, folks may say, “Ken, do these folks really have that much of a hard on for you, and your destruction?”

My response would be, “Go and ask them, and when you tell me, we will both know”, but the thing is

I don’t care.

So, while I was settling into this new vehicle that I am driving I got an email, from the “Man Behind The Curtain” Scott Merrit Himself. This was strange, I rarely speak to the man, and now I am getting an email, about a meeting, that none one else knows about.

Yeah right, people knew, but for some reason telling me what subject of the meeting was about before I go had to have been punishable by death or listening to justin beiber. I hold none of my (direct)bosses, at fault, after all, you were doing what you were told.

So, I get to the jump off and here I am sitting across from “The Man Himself” and we just sat there.

Now I can’t tell you what was on his mind, but I can tell you what I did.

I read the room.

Dude’s desk looks like organized confusion, while I am sure he knows where and what everything is, so I can’t figure out what he is wanting to talk with me about, but he got right into it.

“Ken, I read your blog”

My response was genuine, “Which one?”

It was this one here.

To be honest, I don’t think he actually cared about my blog. Too be honest, I don’t think my blog was even on his radar, until one of the haters put him on to it. Even then, from the time that I posted the blog to the time that he and I sat down to have a chat about it was almost two months.

Two months.

I See You Lookin

I am going to go out on a limb and say that, “The Boss of All Bosses” has other shit to do with his day besides read my blog.

Unlike some of his underlings, they are probably reading this right now :-)

So as we speak, I realize that not only does he not care, but he is really speaking to me because other folks keep running and telling. I can imagine the conversation goes something like this:

BOSS: Yes, what is it now?

Hater: Ken…He’s doing it again!!!

BOSS: Doing what?

Hater: He writin’bout , but he dont call it that, he calls it the facility!

BOSS: Ok

Hater: Annnnd, he be talkin bout work! He be talkin all about work!!!

BOSS: Well does he mention anyone by name?

Hater: Naww, but he be changin’um

BOSS: Does he talk about any work related incidents?

Hater: Yeah, YEAH, he be talkin bout work all the time, but.. I’s not real sure bout what he be talkin bout

BOSS: I don’t care.

I understand his position, see he has these bitch as haters that run tell that, and him not caring isn’t good enough for these bitch ass haters, these bitch ass haters start running their pie holes and this meeting was less about me and my blog and more about him addressing it with me so he can tell these bitch ass haters to fall back.

So he can get some real work done.

We sat and talked for about an hour, about my blog in general, the blog in question, and how I was adjusting to life on the otherside.

Haters, you played your best and it wasn’t good enough. I suppose you  were hoping I would get my feelings hurt, or maybe get a verbal beat down. Possibly a re-enactment of this scene here

I am not going to lie, I wouldn't be upset at all if this scene was re-enacted.

We all know that you people would not be satisfied with that, to satisfy the blood lust of these harpies one needs something more physical they would be pleased as pie if it was this!

HAHAHAAHAHA

I am laughing cause it's true. This is really what they want. It's no fun if you never see'em sweat right? See the thing is, none of the above happened. Not even close. That's why I haven't posted anything until now and even then I am still talking about this right here

My blog is not going anywhere, the previous one is staying up in it's entirety, you can troll my facebook, you can request all the friendships, use other peoples logins, hell you can even call up ex girlfriends for the dirt. COME AT ME BRO!!!!

I don't care.

This above interview pretty much how I see myself dealing with any of you, if any of you were actually bold enough to make yourself known.

Instead of accepting defeat, you just tried harder. Which demonstrates more of your desperation than your will to win, keep in mind,

I don’t care.

I did on the other hand post a challenge, to further demonstrate how bitch ass, these bitch ass haters are. This is what was on my facebook page on may 3^rd

"...Ken whats up with all the hater statuses?..." I got asked that today. My response is that the haters/groupies/malcontents or whatever you want to call them do not rest. for instance, I get pulled to the side because one of you Facility folks has a problem with my ode to the tv show hell on wheels, get a life. Seriously, I will buy you lunch if you man up and reveal your identity in a PM. HELL I WILL CUT MY HAIR, if you post in the comment section who you are and let the world see who it is. Come at me bro!”

Look at that, I call them out, I give them a chance to attain IMMORTALITY, as the individual that made me cut my hair. Hell, they looked to get lunch and LEGENDARY status, all in one swoop. All they had to do was step out into the light. They did none of the sort, as I expected.

Coward(s). I know you are not alone.

The best part is that I know who you are.

And when one of the rank and file told me your name, I laughed, mainly because I was not surprised. Hell, it would almost be funny, if you were not so sad in the first place. I leave you with a quote from one of the greatest martial artist ever.

"Death comes for us all...but when you die it will be something much worse comes for you, for when you die, it will be without honor" Master Hamato Yoshi(see what I did right there)

So please, continue your campaign.  I don’t care. Run and tell everything. I don’t care.

Yours Truly,

“The Walkin’ Boss” KenNitro.

KenNitro Vs The FACILITY: Are You Hupping Kidding Me!!!!

KenNitro vs THE FACILITY: The First and Only Qualification

Okay, before I even get into this.  I do not hold my BRO(inside title) in any way accountable for this. I said this before and I am saying this again, we both applied for a job, and only one of us could get hired for it. Like I said earlier, nothing that I have to say is posted directly at you. Personally, I think you are nothing short of amazing, and I hope you can compartmentalize this blog for what it is, and not for what it ain’t, and that’s you.

Seriously, this is not about you. I mean this in the most sincere way. I hope you understand this, you are too awesome to not be my friend, but I have to write this and not apologize for it.

Otherwise, I would not be KenNitro.

Well, lets get to it.

Last time I wrote about work, it was all about just getting shit off my chest that was keeping me from writing about the normal human dynamic, misogynistic, it is what it is, adventures that I have, codify and give back to you. I hate that I am going back to such a boring topic as my job, but all I have to say is that this shit is…hell I really don’t have a word to describe how I feel.

So let me start with what this blog is not about.

It is not about the KIDS and the how I affect them on the daily. See that is not even questionable, the fact that I make Gangsta Disciples, Piru, and Peoples Nations members all go to bed at 8:30pm without having to dump them on their heads is a testament to me and the team that I work with. Talking to me about how regardless about how I feel about how I am treated as an ASSOCIATE at the FACILITY has NOTHING to do with the KIDS, means you are missing the bigger picture so what I am talking about right now is not about the kids or how Mr. Ken deals interacts with the kids but how

ADULTS ACT AT THE FACILITY

And how that affects me.

I just recently applied for a job as a Teacher’s Assistant at the Facility, a job that I was more than qualified for, more than capable, and defiantly ready to work for. On paper I defeated all under heaven and above hell. In theory, I defeated all under heaven and above hell for the job. In reality, well…that is where shit gets all fucked up.

See, this was easily the best Interview I had at the FACILITY, The decision maker and I spoke for a hot second about everything concerning me and the job, what I look for in a supervisor, what makes me happy and when I think about it, that is about it. She had an informal interview style, which was fine because I already have a job at the facility. My work history, ethic, and overall awesomeness should be enough to do the talking for me. Let’s check the ballistics G, I have almost three years in mental health, a college degree, and over one thousand hours teaching in an actual classroom environment. Inside of those three years in mental health at THE FACILITY, I have been an integral component to two teams that essentially took back units from clients due to lack of leadership I have a positive rapport with all clients, a positive rapport with all staff that I work with on a daily basis. I mean, there are folks out there that don’t care for me, but that has nothing to do with me.

STOP

Let me speak on this for a second.

It is not that I just get along with the people that I work with, but there is not a shift at the FACILITY that if my name was on, other associates don’t get a confidence boost from. They don’t say, “Oh man, I got to work with him, geez he really sucks”. I make a real effort to build up everyone around me so that they do not have to rely on me when I am working with them, and that they have the confidence to run shit when I am not there.

Tell you the truth, I am like the 4^th person that gets put in a leadership position behind the full time people that I work with. That is not indicative of my ability to lead, just a technicality. Hell, the asterisk next to your name is really the decision of the Good King Gary Russell. In reality, all that means is that you are in charge of giving out medication and group notes…and doing the email. Truth be told, there is no one that I work with that steps on my toes whenever I jump out there to run ship. That’s because I know what I am doing and they(meaning the people that I work with) know that I know that they know that I know what I am doing, and they are happy for it. Hell even in the collective funk that I have been in over this recent travesty I am still effective on the unit, and I have not even raised my voice past a normal tone in two weeks.

But wait Kenneth,

If you are all these things, what is keeping you from moving around to other departments? Why is it that you can’t seem to break out of department you are in when it seems as though everyone else can apply, interview and move with ease?

Good question.

See I have asked myself, others, and to tell you the truth, I get a lot of speculation. One person has said that Eric Banks(the former program manager)would ask that other departments look elsewhere besides the Childcare Worker II’s when it comes to hiring people. That reason was that it was so difficult to hire, train, and then keep competent people in direct care, so for the sake of consistency in these kids lives, don’t hire from this group.

I have also heard that the move is to always keep the stronger staff on the unit and essentially push the weaker staff to other areas.

All of this is on the macro scale. Let’s talk about me.

Aside from not getting hired for any job at the facility other than the one I have, I have also never received any FEEDBACK. I think this is really important part of the interview process. I mean, I understand if I don’t get hired for a job, but as a potential employer, I think that giving feedback is  not only courteous, but the right thing to do, If you want to be professional about it. I brought this up in my interview and the person doing the interview assured me that they have no problems giving me feedback.

 So the day came and I got the phone call. It basically went like this:

Me: Hey insert name here

Them: How’s it going

Me: Pretty good…

Them: Well, I just wanted to call and tell you that I have made a decision on the TA position and I have decided to go with another client

Me: Oh. Well Okay

Insert awkward silence

See what was supposed to happen was that I was suppose to say, “What! Who!!! Who did you hire?” which would have in turn put the other person on the defensive. Which is probably how they were prepared to deal with me in the first place, but the silence is one of those make or break things. So I was asked to find them so we could talk about some of the obstacles that I had.

Awesome.

The way I looked at it, I would at least know what I needed to do in the future. So I went into this post job interview debriefing with an open mind. In the end this is going to help me right?

It essentially boiled down to three things, that kept me from getting this particular job, that I was and in my opinion still the most qualified for.

1.      My hair.

Wow, you work a job for almost three years and my hair is still an issue. If my hair is too much for Scott Merritt to deal with I don’t know what to tell you, even though he is rarely seen engaging any employees in any capacity aside from the associates awards ceremony where he shakes your hand. The only reason that I am even dropping his name is because folks want to tip toe around his name when they are speaking on my Afro. I mean, I don’t want to throw the word discrimination around, but it is what it is.

2.      There is a concern that I may leave for a bigger, better, deal.

This is dirty pool by anyone’s standards. How can you not hire me based on the possibility that I might leave for another job that is better? How can you not hire anyone based on that period? How can you hold the desire to grow and better yourself financially against anyone? I bet if I asked anyone, anywhere in the world, if they would leave there job for a bigger, better, deal, they would. It was mentioned that I have talked about going back to Korea to teach English in the past, and that is true. I bet if you asked me when, it was probably after I applied for a job that I was qualified for and was looked over, I can name about 4 times for sure I have looked at returning to asia as a real option for me.

3.      You have not gone full time.

This is always a fun one, because this is always used in conjunction with questioning my commitment to the job. Now, granted I understand that the perception of part-time associates at the facility has not always been the most positive, but once again, that has nothing to do with me. Check the schedules; see how many weeks I have worked forty hours. Check that against the number of times I have called out or no-showed a shift. Now how does my current status as a part-time employee affect my desire to move to a full-time position in another department effect one another?

What has been consistent in my time at the facility is that there is something about me being flex and not full time on the unit that seems to bother people. I don’t understand because I work full time hours anyway. I really do need to ask the person that was hired, if they ever brought up the fact that she never worked the unit. I mean, it seems to be so important to some people that I work full time on the unit in order to move around, I just wonder if this is the general consensus?

There was also this point where the interviewer clearly misunderstood my desire to improve my environment as, “Ken does what he wants, when he wants”. I was really taken back by that due to the fact that I go out of my way to be a team player. I was like, huh? and she was like, “well you said in your interview that you like to change things”. I said yes, I like to go into any situation and observe how things are done and when given an appropriate opportunity,  I will raise my hand and offer a suggestion that may improve the situation for all parties involved. Her response was, “Well some people don’t deal with changes to things very well”. I totally understand that, and my response was “ but a good idea is a good idea and  it is not change that is either good or bad, but how people deal with it” at this point we were in agreement.

The best part was when I was almost called cocky, but there was that small break in the sentence before it was replaced with the word confident, as if I didn't pick up what was being put down.

Stop.

I will be the first person to admit that I not only enjoy talking shit but I am good at it a good part of my conversation with close friends is one of mostly shit talking. I mean, if me and my collective crews aren’t talking shit to each other, we are talking shit about someone loud enough for them to hear us.

Start.

What happened in this moment was not an issue of me being cocky. This was in my opinion a person’s issue with my level of confidence as it directly relates to my ability to do a job. Even then, it is not even about the job. It really came down to if the person sitting on the other side of the desk personal ability to supervise me, or at least their perception of their ability to supervise me.

Fact is, none of the reasons that I was given as to why I was not hired for this Teachers Aide position had anything to do with anything tangible, it’s all bullshit.

I do hope that this kind of stuff changes. I have been mishandled several times at the facility, and I do not think I can work there any longer than I have too. I am too intelligent to allow myself to be treated this way.  At this point, applying for any job at the facility is a guarantee that someone else will get hired.

SOCIETY WON'T LIKE IT:Guns Don't Kill People, People With Guns Kill People, and That Means You

 You know, since the shooting up in Connecticut  the USA has been in a tizzy, and baby when I tell you that the guns is out. I ain’t talkin no metaphor! Now let me be real clear for all of you “OBAMA TRYIN TO TAKE MY GUNS” folks out there, you are neither a patriot nor a militia men, and you are crazy if you think you are.

The second amendment ceases to apply to you past your right to “bear arms”

I say again, an overwhelming desire to own and being butt-hurt cause the governemt says you can’t own certain types of guns does not make you a patriot. What you are is a butt-hurt hobbyist that is mad that you can’t own the same shit you saw in an action movie. Look, it’s ok to like guns. I like guns, hell I am a little known Georgia black history fact. I am the first African American to be on the Georgia all state team for what?

Wait for it

MARKSMENSHIP

'Murica( pewpewpew)

So yeah, I am not just some liberal that doesn’t want everyone G.I. JOE’d up, but the fact still remains that folks that want all this equipment that police and military folks have really just want it to win any big dick contest around the ammo depot about what you just got.

So after you admit you are a hobbyist at best, let’s talk about what everyone’s go too excuse for all the cool ass military hardware!

Home defense.

Now let me say this, I honestly think that when people are so adamant about the “I want the biggest guns to defend my home” what they are really saying is, “I wish someone would try to rob me” because in your heart of hearts you just want to gun someone down and get off scott free cause they wanted something that belonged to you or because you “felt” like they “May” harm you.

Travon Martin anyone? Daniel Adkins Jr? Jordan Davis?

A kid gets killed for what exactly, cause he looked suspicious and a guy with a gun got into a fist fight with him?

here for business, but ready to party

To be honest, and I dare any gun enthusiast or hobbyist to deny the fact that the best home self defense weapon is a shot gun with a big ass light at the end of it(light optional). I am going to go out on a limb here and say that for the most part there is nothing in your house that is worth risking your life for. TV’s Xbox’s, laptops, etc all get covered by your homeowners insurance, but then again there is no fixing a broken ego.

So Serious

I remember when I was thirteen, I was in the seventh grade and I had gotten this cross colors jacket. If you don’t know what cross colors was it was the premiere clothing line back in the day. Man, folks in waycross would drive to Jacksonville to go shopping for them, so there was some repeats walking around, but see I was from augusta, and that is where my mom would get my clothes.  My mom got me this cross colors jacket that was one of a kind…in waycross. Black with a muti-colored hood of red, yellow, and gold, and you couldn’t tell me I wasn’t fly. One day in gym, a kid that was supposed to be in high school came and pilfered my jacket, and a bigger kid’s shoes. My mom knew my jacket was stolen before she picked me up, but in the mean time between time I was sitting in front of the school freezing. Then I saw my jacket running from the corner store in-between bailey heights projects. The jacket was followed by a crowd of fifteen or so kids. So you know what I did?

I remember not getting this shirt as a kid

I took off running after my jacket.

The short sprint lead me to this house where the bigger kid was outside demanding that the thief return the items stolen…well actually he wanted him to come outside so he could beat his ass, I joined in as best I could(I was not a very intimidating child by any means). The kid would say, “Bring his ASS outside!!!” I would say, “I just want my jacket!!!” long story short, I got my jacket back without having to get into a fight. I was really stoked about it, and when I emerged from baily heights I saw my moms car…

And she was none too happy.

First, why was I in the projects?

See, but my jacket was stolen and I-

See my mom already knew about my jacket being stolen from the gym and she was more upset at the fact that I would go running into the projects for a jacket, my mom said to me,

 “I can get you another jacket, but I can’t get another you”

What I learned that day was that there is no material object that is worth my life or even a fight to the death that I could possibly win.

Actual Home Self-Defense

That being said, if someone is in your house and you are alone I don’t think you should start a gun fight or even shoot first. I honestly think that you should barricade yourself in your bedroom with your shotgun pointed at the door. If they want your TV, fine. If they want your xbox, fine. If they want your silver, fine. Now if they decide to venture to your bed room or whatever safe place you have established in your home, the intruders forfeit their lives. It is as easy as that.

Everything else is really for shits and giggles. I mean the only thing that makes an assault rifle and assault rifle is how bad ass it looks. Seriously, you can get any rifle in any caliber to look like just about anything you want. Now, actual hobbyist would say that an "Assault" rifle, would be anything that shoots fully automatic. I agree with this statement fully along with my opinion that most people consider how a gun looks before it's rate of fire when coming to that conclusion.

I'm Soooo Scary

So what is the issue? If you ask me, it comes down to caliber and capacity. If someone can explain to me the actual practical reason to have a high capacity magazine outside of the bragging rights and resale value(keep reading), I am all ears. If you are deer hunting and you need more than three shots to take down a buck, you are doing something wrong. Most people that are all about gun legislation don’t have a background in shooting for fun, sport, or hunting. So their arguments are easily thwarted by this thing called education. I mean, what is the difference between this rifle and this one?

I'm Sooooo Cute

 Nothing, they fire the same ammunition. One just looks like something RAMBO would carry, and the other is something that a five year old in south georgia would carry. If it looks scary it must be banned, but it isn’t even that simple. There is a lot of convoluted stuff in these gun bans, but there will always be loopholes, work arounds, and name changes because….

 Guns are an investment. If you buy a gun today, and sell it tomorrow at a lower price than what you paid for it you are stupid. So if you own two AR-15’s that you bought for around 800.00 before Obama(keep in mind he made no new legislation during his first term concerning guns) got elected the first time and you are selling it now for around 1,500.00 because someone thinks that they can’t get one, well you have just about doubled your money and had a good time shooting this weapon at bales of hay, deer, and all sorts of stuff before you sold it, and that is fine too. Most people that would pay such a large price for such a weapon deserve to pay it. After all, this is capitalism at its finest.

Lets take a moment and watch a few videos, this is an AR-15 semi automatic

        

This is a video of the same weapon now FULL AUTO

Overkill Much?

Let me say again, I am not against the AR-15 or even the .223 ammunition it fires, but I am against zealots that cling to their guns as if it is their god given right. I see a lot of people talking about forefathers and what they envisioned and all that self-righteous bull-shit. I mean half of the people pumping all of that nonsense wouldn’t have been able to vote if the constitution was viewed as it was intended. As a matter of fact, neither would I, but guess what the constitution got changed or amended to include me and all other minorities that are citizens. Why was that, because the world changed, People changed, and the constitution which is viewed as a living document changed, and all y’all are going to have to change with it.

2nd Amendment FTW!!! 

See, but the real quick way to get gun control passed without issue is really simple. I mean it already happened in California. All you need to do is get some MINORITIES to embrace the 2^nd amendments with the same fervor that WHITE PEOPLE have, and you can watch all the legislation get done in record time. Just as sure as I did not get arrested cause I had my white friend with me during a waffle house incident. I bet that if there was all of a sudden influx of African Americans joining the NRA or heaven forbid another organization that has a foundation in black communities supporting a gun for every (black)man, SHHHHHIIITTTTT I am here to tell you, republicans will start demanding masters degrees in order to shoot spit balls out of a straw. The first time “Tenisha Watkins” starts showing up to the range with “Tyrone Jenkins” on the regular and they start bringing the family out, laws will change. LAWD, Jesus when the Mexicans start buying guns for the family, the laws going to change. I can tell you right now, if I was to be walking around town open carrying a pistol I assure you that I would be stopped and questioned by some authorities, and YOU KNOW IT’s TRUE!!!!

Don’t believe me?

That's They Nigggggaaaa!

Look up the Mulford Act signed in to law by (certain)”White Folks Favorite” Ronald Regan himself! Check it out, it was pretty straight forward. It prohibited the carrying of loaded firearms. Now what prompted that quick piece of legislature, I don’t know there was this group of people that were standing outside the senate house with guns on display exercising their 2^nd amendment right. It was Bobby Seale and some of his friends who are commonly referred to as the Black Panther Party for Self-defense. Which I believe that is the best example of a people being oppressed by their own government and exercising their 2nd Amendment right, the way people now a days are claiming that they are being oppressed in the United States, if you can’t see it, you need to do some soul searching(research).

Suffering is Repeated Until The Lesson is Learned

By Courtney Matthews Roberts

Another tragedy on a grand scale. Is this the first? No. Is this the greatest number? No. Will this be the last? No. We have applied a flawed logic system to these events and linking gun control to the problem whereas mental health has caused the vast majority of all our mass shootings.

 Gun control does not work as someone with a criminal mindset will just procure one illegally. Look at the crime rates in Australia as a result of removing all guns. Home invasions with a firearm and while the home owner is present jumped 300%. That means they quadrupled! If someone is willing to rob a bank they will buy a gun in order to do it. If they are deranged enough to look at a screaming, crying 5 year old child and shoot them they will have no problem buying an illegal weapon to do it. Look to Australia and their, nearly doubled, crime rate after making guns illegal. In 2007 the total number of homicides by guns was right at 9000 but the total number of suicides was almost 33000. With over half of those coming from firearms. Did anyone lose their shit over this? No. Did you hear even ONE politician on mainstream media point out how big a deal this is? No. Instead we talk about gadgets, money, and war. This disgusts me to no end.

This is not meant to detract from the tragedies that have occurred via mass shootings over the years but it does point to a greater problem. Our mental health-care needs some drastic improvement and that doesn't mean just handing out more drugs. Real help for real people. We are going to get more coverage for people as the health-care laws go into effect but that doesn't mean the quality of care will improve. It needs to on all levels. Nearly every mass shooting has been committed by a person with mental issues requiring much more than Kleenex Tissues.

 As far as gun control goes look at the studies done on violent crime rate compared to the percentage of gun owners and you will see the countries with higher gun ownership have less crime committed with guns. Understood there are numerous social and economical differences that can't be accounted for numerically, like Sweden's mandatory service laws, but you would be surprised how much of a difference it makes when the criminal element knows most people are carrying a firearm. Removing guns does not equate to removing crime. How any thinking person can somehow come to that conclusion is mind boggling. In our very own state this was proven.

 For some Georgia news in 1982, Atlanta suburb Kennesaw required all households to have a gun. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89 percent in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4 percent drop in Georgia as a whole. Ten years later the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72 percent lower than when the ordinance was passed. I am NOT advocating this as a solution (I think it was actually fairly irresponsible to force people to have a gun in the home) merely using it to point the flawed thinking that removing guns will somehow make us safer.

 Researcher Gary Kleck found that 92 percent of criminal attacks are deterred when a gun is merely shown (or, rarely, a warning shot fired). By inference, this means that open carry would have the effect of deterring crime in the same way that a thief might choose another restaurant when he sees police eating at his intended target. A 1985 Department of Justice survey of incarcerated felons reported that 57 percent of the felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police." (I would love to quote a more recent source but we don't poll inmates that often, this is probably something we should do more of)

 There are 135 million gun owners in this country and over 300 million people in it. That means only 43% of the country owns guns and those that do own an average 2 firearms. We have nearly made them a taboo in some states and thankfully the supreme court turns over the no handgun laws. When open carry laws were passed each and every state saw reduced crime rates for everything from theft and rape to murder and grand larceny. If we make firearms a taboo we shouldn't be surprised when the criminal or mentally distressed persons make exclusive use of them. We are the most violent and destructive race on the planet, violence is almost second nature to us.

 I think we are moving in the right direction with the decriminalization of naturally existing drugs, nearly universal health-care, and allowing medical research that was once banned. I think that we should educate people more, teach better ways of dealing with life from a young age, advance people's personal liberties, ensure basic needs are met, and show true concern for our neighbors that we had only a few generations ago. If we can even just start a few of these things in the coming year this country will change drastically. I believe for the better.

 There are a lot of financial, medical, environmental, social, and governmental reforms that need to happen in this country but we can do it over time. For the sake of our fellow countrymen and children we must. This was made painfully evident to me when traveling overseas with the Navy. I learned why a lot of cultures do not like the way we do things and I saw other ways to live, love, and learn. Some of these things are on a federal level but a lot of things can be done on the local level. Our society has lost sight of a lot of hard learned lessons. We almost love to hate one another and it is tragic.

 We need to stop forcing l people into cliques and alienating the different groups from one another. Compassion and mutual respect comes through understanding; but, fear, hate, and violence comes from alienation. Nowhere is that more evident than our political system and it spreads like a disease to all aspects of our society. This is not some hippy-dippy call for peace and tree hugging. This is meant to be a wake-up call for our country and the world as a whole. Let it be known that all the statements above are not reasons why anyone is wrong but rather things I believe to be true. If you think your ideas are true and mine are false then explain them. I have been wrong many times before and am not afraid to admit it. Healthy debate has been lost in our everyday society, let's change that. Also I apologize for the painful mental image afforded in the first paragraph but it was necessary to convey the point. It disgusts me to even think about it for a moment btw it is something we all must do. Thanks for listening to my stream of consciousness. Some sites you may want to look at as a food for thought are below. Both sides of the fence are supported below.

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/publicationdisplay.aspx?id=13506

http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-shooting-rampages/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/statistics-firearms-industry_n_2303336.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/its-guns-we-all-know-its-not-really-guns

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110209-mexicos-gun-supply-and-90-percent-myth

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133505880/at-end-of-the-line-prison-an-unlikely-escape

http://www.policyalmanac.org/crime/archive/firearms_and_crime.shtml

Giving the Game Away: Continuing Education, Watch For The Hook!!!

Hey folks, Imma talk to you on some real live shit right here. See I have given the game away see here, here, and here, so read that shit if you ain’t up on game. Now in the mean time I have been away from the computer you know living life. Cause I mean in order to bring it to you, I got to get it myself ya dig.

You know what I have found?

hands down, chin out, BOOM!!!

I found that no matter how much knowledge you gain on the opposite sex, women will ALWAYS have the upper hand. They make the best liars, cheaters, and all things evil in this world. The only thing we(men)can do is to arm ourselves the best we can. So on that note, if there is anything men need to do is  WATCH FOR THE HOOK

See, men get hooked a couple of different ways, but no one and I mean no one ever gets up in the morning and say’s, “You know what, I want some chick to have me all wide open and shit to where I can’t make a good decision to save my mammy life” So when a guy gets hooked it is just like in Boxing, the hook comes after a well placed set up. Ain’t no chick out there throw’in haymakers hoping for the best and being successful at it. Shit that is what they want you to think.

God said the meek shall inherit the earth, but cold pimpin is only for the strong. Can you dig that?

So let’s get to it, what kind of hooks are we talkin bout Ken?

Calm down, we gonna get into that. First you have to understand how you end up on the hook in the first place. The most common way of being hooked is to disregard the idea of being hooked in the first place. When you think you are above it, you are open for it. Miyamoto Musashi said, “the only sword you see is the one that kills you” But some real pimps said this: 

What that has to do with one another, everything. If you don’t keep your situation in control you are going to wake up one day and realized that every decision you made is based on some sort of hook that got you fucked all the way up.

Everyone gets the hook,

The short hook.

Before we get into this tool used by women, lets talk about how it looks. Imagine yourself at the bar, the club, hell even a covered dish dinner. Now peep that one chick that just has this guy circling around her like a damn satellite infiltrating on all conversations watching the movements of everything happening around and what not? You want to know something about satellites; no one gives a fuck about satellites. So when a chick has that short hook in you, you are pretty much following her around the spot hoping that she gives you a little bit of attention, but really you are just there floating around Hooked…looking like a bitch.

Next on the list is another type of hook that sometimes works in conjunction with the aforementioned hook. I call it the “Fish Hook”, the fish hook just like the actual fish hook used in fishing is a sneaky sum bitch INDEED.

You ever watch fishing on ESPN, me either, but that’s beside the point. The point it, these fish were minding they muthafuckin business when some shit looked good too them, then BLAM!!! They asses got jacked from doing whatever the fuck they was doing and thrown in a cooler with some other BITCH ass fish. This is sad, because the fish actually thought he was coming up on something, but in reality he got HOOKED.

Is this you?

How this works in real life is when chicks that YOU hit up trying to see what’s up ain’t got nothing for ya. I am not saying that playing you like a 10 cent fiddle. Just whenever it is YOUR idea to do something, whether simple or extravagant, bitch is ghost. Now check it, you fuck round and get a call or a text message, and yo ass is jumping like G fo O.

LAME

The worst is that you sit around telling yourself that it’s ok, you weren’t doing anything to begin with so it’s not like you are going out cause she is making you do it. I mean, hell I was just gonna sit back and see what some other chicks that might actually be down to get it in, but I been trying to get at this one for a minute so you know Imma fucks with her, you know…So here you are scrambling to get to the spot so you can stand in line to talk to this chick…and every other dude that she has texted to meet her at the spot, lookin like a REAL BITCH, that’s you. You make me sick.

I told you, women got this shit in their DNA. Now don’t do anything stupid like try to tell a chick this is what she doing, cause you fucking up on two fronts. 1. You trying to tell a chick what to do, and that never works out in your favor unless your pimpin is on the STRONGEST level. 2. This is instinctual; she can no more control this than a dog can control the urge to lick his nuts. You know, like trying to tell a dude not to eye fuck that chick in the sundress walking around campus. We gonna do it cause the option is that we have no options.

See right about now, I got some readers out there saying, “Ken, you on some other shit. I got plenty of girls that are just my friends”. My response would be, “Yeah one time I slapped the shit out of chuck Norris” then you would say, “What does that have to do what I just said”, and I would say, “Oh, I thought we were just sitting around talking about shit that ain’t true.

the best of the worst situation

But the whole concept of male/female platonic relationships I will tackle another day, but for right now; if you one of those people that believe the women that you call friends are friends. You have been Grappling hooked.

Now a grappling hook is an awesome invention. Ninjas, to Vikings, to cat-burglars all utilize this to get where they need to go or drag what they want to them. Either way, the grappling hook makes everything “At Arms Length” Can you dig it? See, cats playing that position have it in their minds that all they got to do wait and sooner or later they are going to get theirs…and they are right.

Here’s the thing, I have seen a lot of shit in my short time on this earth, but I ain’t never seen anyone cook a meal, one dish at a time. So to be honest being on that grappling hook isn’t the worse situation to be in as long as you got other things going on. Otherwise you are going to be that guy showing up to the spot with a chick that everyone thinks you are with  for about the length it takes for you to walk from the car to the bar and order one drink and after that, you look’in like a real BITCH. Mainly cause she gonna let everybody know passively, unless she on some real disrespectful shit, that yall ain’t nothing. Now if you actually got some business about yourself you are going to find another female to strike up a conversation with, cause posting up at the bar waiting to talk to a chick that is not trying to talk to you is not the move. Nowhere on this earth is that the move, even in togo.

prison(cough)I mean home

The last hook, and probably the most dangerous of them all is a sky hook.

This shit right here, metaphorically speaking, is the worst shit in existence. I mean, in real life the sky hook can lift any problem and take them somewhere else. Seriously, got to move a house but you not trying to drive, get a sky hook. Got some tanks that need to get over this mountain, get a sky hook. Hey guys, you want to find a way to never be able to make a decision without having to text, call, finesse, the wife/girlfriend? Go and get yourself sky hooked.

The good news is that you will never have to worry about anything cause she got you, the bad news is that she got you, and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s like you still living in the house, but if the house you living in was underneath a helicopter 20,000 feet in the air, you aren’t living. You are now TRAPPED.

Ok, maybe it ain’t exactly like that, but I know too many guys out there secretly suffering in their relationships. Sure they aren’t exactly unhappy, but at the same time, they aren’t getting exactly everything they want. Now, men never claimed to be complicated. There is only a few things a woman needs to do in order to keep her man happy. Laugh at his jokes, have a suggestion if what he suggested isn’t yo thang, and give us a blow job without us having to ask for it. Seriously, you want to see an immediate change in your mans behavior, give’em some head out of no where.

But that’s the thing about being sky hooked, you have to ask for everything. If you not asking for whatever it is you want to do, you are doing it with the knowledge that you are going to have to pay for this down the road.

In my personal experience having fun without your lady present is the most expensive tax that can be levied on an individual.  Sky hooked folks know what I am talking about, you got to work twice as hard to get out the house half as much, just to get a little time with the bro’s and your phone best be charged and text messages best be returned promptly, and that is if you get to go in the first place.

Remember guys, whatever situation you are in, it’s YOUR FAULT. Don’t let my words be mistaken for me placing blame on women for being women; I am placing blame on you because walked into this head first.

So now you know, and what you do with the situation is entirely up to you(don’t be a bitch).

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