Brutally Honest Audio Rant: July 4th Annoyances
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06/28/026
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(Computer – Introduction)
(Music intro – "American Idiot Remix" – by Green Day and David Matthews 2)
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s Brutally Honest Rant. I’m David Matthews 2, writer of the weekly online column Brutally Honest.
Well as of this rant the Fourth of July is less than a week away. It’s a pity it falls on a Tuesday, because it otherwise would make for a nice long weekend if it falls on a Monday or Friday. If it happened on Wednesday, then at least it would make for a great break right in the middle of the week. But, no, it’s Tuesday, which means people have to try to take Monday off so they can make it a REALLY long weekend… like I’m going to be doing.
But I digress…
There are a few quick rants that I need to get off my chest this week, so I figured rather than droll on and on about one subject, I’d get a few zingers in for a whole bunch of them.
First of all: Lake Lanier.
Now, I lived in the north part of the Lake Lanier area for ten years. Lake Lanier is actually a man-made lake, created from the Buford Dam back in the 1950’s. It helps regulate the flow of water from the Chatahoochee River so Atlanta and other places don’t get flooded when it rains.
So here’s the problem: the water goes down past Atlanta to Alabama and Florida before emptying out into the Gulf of Mexico. Alabama and Florida both claim OWNERSHIP of that water, even though it comes from Georgia. They basically want to CONTROL how much water comes out of Lake Lanier, which is NOT in their respective states.
It’s pretty much all about POWER.
Alabama claims that they NEED all the water they can get for their hydropower plant, but the truth of the matter is that they have THEIR OWN man-made lakes THAT ALSO feed water in that powers that same plant. They just don’t want to have to drain THEIR lakes to feed their power demands. They’d rather get the federal government TO FORCE ANOTHER STATE to drain their own water supply.
Yes, once again Alabama has demonstrated why the state is the world’s biggest blocked up colon! They ARE the ANUS OF AMERICA!
And Florida is no better! They’re claiming that all that water is needed for a bunch of fish and mobile muscles… creatures that would otherwise move ON THEIR OWN once they realize that their environment has changed. Oh but NO, WE CAN’T touch them, can we? No, they’re on the Endangered Species list, which basically means their species is endangering US.
This is basically POWER-GRAB by people who have no right to it.
We can solve the Florida problem really quick: We’ll have an extinction fish fry and clambake. If the sturgeon are too stupid to move on when the water goes down, we’ll cook them up with some tartar sauce and lemon, and if the muscles that CAN move don’t, then they’ll be served with some melted butter with a hint of garlic. Trust me, they’ll move pretty easily down our gullets. If there’s one thing that Southerners LOVE to do when they’re by the water is to throw a fish fry and clambake!
I’m sorry folks, I know that pisses off liberals to hear me say that, but the whole purpose of passing that federal law to protect endangered species was to have us work WITH nature, not use nature as a blanket excuse to exercise unconstitutional power-grabs. Working WITH nature is not a one-way deal. There has to be a BALANCE, there has to be equilibrium. And by the way, nature isn’t static. Nature changes too. If the climate is getting warmer than it has in the past 400 years or 2000 years, it’s because of NATURE, not because of something that was done by man in the past 100 years.
And it’s not like Atlanta doesn’t already have a problem with water consumption! We have local idiots that have absolutely NO IDEA WHATSOEVER how to manage growth. They are usually bought and paid for by developers who are hell-bent on converting every square millimeter of dirt into a suburban neighborhood with absolutely NO REGARD to the obscene explosion of demand for services that follows it. The developers don’t care! Why should they? They already made their money ten times over by turning an old farm into twenty overpriced subdivision communities. They’re busy looking for more areas to strip clear and build.
THAT is where the demand really exists for Georgia, and it’s THAT demand that SHOULD be addressed. But it’s not going to be addressed because of the corrupt criminal politicians in Alabama and Florida and their ILLEGAL power-grab. Two states whose politicians need to be kicked in the nuts and sent back to their corrupt little inbred redneck communities where they belong.
Okay, I think I’ve pissed off enough people on this…
Second issue… hey, I just want to know… who the hell appointed Angelina Jolie to be the living reincarnation of the Virgin Mary?
I’m serious. That’s how the air-fluffed ego-driven media appears to treat her! Oh, isn’t Angelina WONDERFUL? She goes out and adopts all of these kids from poverty-stricken places! She helps the poor! And then, right after she goes through the GLORY of childbirth, she wants to adopt another child! Isn’t that special?
Hey, I’m glad that she’s spending some off-time helping out the poor nations. Good for her! She’s got the means and she’s got the money. That’s admirable.
But I also think that the actress that decides to run her own little United Nations has got some serious issues to deal with. I put that in the same category as the women who decide to solve the stray pet problem by housing 200 cats and dogs.
I mean, let’s face it… Angelina just pumped out her first and ONLY – as far as we know – tax deduction… and now she wants to go right back to adopting more children???? I tell you what… Brad Pitt should keep Doctor Phil’s number on speed dial, because in the next few years that naturally born child of theirs is going to be a crisis therapy session just WAITING to happen!
Remember the last actress who decided to play Mini-UN? Mia Farrow was her name, and then she found out that her husband ended up in bed with her teenaged adopted daughter! Not exactly a Kodak moment, if you know what I mean.
Hey, here’s a novel idea… how about having actors and actresses actually be known for the MOVIES they make? I may not agree with everything George Clooney says or does outside of the camera but at least he’s still cranking out movies!
And by the way, the same applies to the music business. If Britney Spears wants to have the air-fluffed ego-driven media lay off her mothering skills, then she should either crank out some new albums, or else pack her Gucci bag and head back to the old farm in Louisiana and pop out that second tax deduction in obscurity. But don’t sit around in the middle of paparazzi-land and whine about how the paid stalkers are obsessing over you and your little tax deductions. You’re there in the overhyped world of entertainment BY CHOICE, so either produce some actual entertainment, or else your private life will continue to serve as the substitute. That’s the basic and gritty fact of that part of the world
Okay, one more key issue tonight… the economy.
Gas prices took another spike this week. You know, prices did a great job of going down and down and down these past few weeks, but now they’re back up, and once again, they really don’t have to be!
And of course the excuse this time will be easy to swallow... hey, it’s the July Fourth weekend! EVERYONE has to get out and frigging DRIVE on this weekend! Hit the road! Go on vacation! Spend, spend, SPEND like there’s no tomorrow! Never mind that gas prices are going back up to the $3/gallon category. Never mind that inflation is jacking prices up. Never mind that we are, in general, spending more money than we are bringing in. Never mind that we are STILL hearing word about future layoffs. And never mind that the Federal Reserve is talking about not just jacking the federal interest rate up, but possibly even at TWICE the level it has been doing for sixteen quarters now.
BUT don’t you worry about that, boys and girls, just go on your little picnics and spend all the money you can to keep the economy going, and ignore what you hear in the media about the economy! That’s just leftist propaganda designed to make the Republican-monopolized federal government look BAD. It’s full steam ahead for the Bush Imperium, by direct imperial order of the White House!
Let’s get brutally honest here… and I’m DEADLY serious about this one… we are about TWO YEARS away from some serious economic problems! The signs are there, but the White House is REFUSING to either see those signs or to publicly admit to them!
When I saw these signs starting to appear in 1998, I was the ONLY PERSON warning people that this was going to happen! Gas prices were going up, companies were announcing layoffs, but the layoffs weren’t going to happen right then. It was going to happen in 2000 or later. That way, when the crap hit the fan, the outgoing White House wouldn’t have to deal with it. Not their problem!
Well that is PRECISELY what I see happening now! The same signs from 1998 are repeating themselves in 2006! The Federal Reserve Commission certainly won’t act on it. They just appear to be hell-bent on getting interest rates back up so the banks can maximize the money coming in before the bottom falls out again. The tax cuts will help us, but that’s also a drop in the bucket compared to what’s really needed, which is a complete and total REORGNIZATION of the tax system. What the tax cuts are doing are simply holding the line until 2008 or later, which is about when those big layoffs will start taking effect.
And here’s the punchline… the current residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have absolutely NOTHING TO LOSE over this! They learned from 2001 that whoever inherits a bad economy also inherits the blame! So they have no reason in the world to go out of their way to make things better or to offset the bad news before it happens.
But I promise you this… in two year’s time, when it DOES happen, I will be right here, screaming at the top of my lungs "I FRIGGING TOLD YOU SO… AGAIN!"
Then again, I’m learning the hard way that it’s not socially acceptable to be right too soon.
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I’m sure that some folks are thinking that I’d have a few more freedom-oriented rants to talk about since we are in the season of faux-patriotism. And I was sorely tempted to talk about that stuff. But to be honest with you, there’s only so many times that you can talk about the subject of freedom before it gets treated like a dead-horse issue. And besides, the three issues I did discuss tonight were important in their own right.
Don’t worry, I’ll soon be back to lambasting Congress and the White House on their other power-grabs. Sometimes you have to just break away from the nonstop complaint about certain subjects in order to keep the subject fresh. Think of it as a ranting-man’s vacation from the usual talking points.
It’s certainly cheaper than the actual vacation that most people will take this week.
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Brutally Honest is a Get Brutal production, all opinions expressed are those of the commentator, and may or may not be shared by the online provider. This is David Matthews 2 saying good night, and I’ll speak with you soon!
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