Posts Tagged ‘missouri’
Posted By kage / 30th January 2012
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stupider comes a report that one of our local state representatives (Rick Brattin) is sponsoring a bill in the Missouri state house that would force schools to teach “intelligent design” alongside evolution.
Look I don’t mind if you’re religious. If you are, more power to you. But don’t try to enforce your stupidity on my children. Don’t try to bring your religion into my school. There’s no place for it at school, unless you want to teach ALL religions and give equal credence to each. If that’s the case, then more power to you. If not, which I suspect is the case, then sit down and shut the f()#ck up.
Really our schools have enough problems without you stupid, pandering politicians getting involved and trying to force curriculum.
Just focus on whether crops need funding or a new road needs built or whatever you waste our taxpayer funded time on.
Idiots.
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Posted By KJ / 16th March 2011
Spring break. My daughter decided she wanted to go and visit her grandparents in Chicago. Seeing as how we have no money, it was incumbent upon us to do the Chicago trip as cheaply as possible. Short of having someone else pay for it, we had to decide how to do same. Gas prices not withstanding, it was apparent that it would be cheaper to drive than to fly her up there. Just barely but cheaper none the less.
I don’t know about you or where you have driven but the drive from Kansas City to Chicago is a boring ass drive. Boring.
Once outside of Kansas City the land itself is ugly. It’s as if god decided that sure there would be some land, but that it would be ugly assed scrub brush populated by ugly people who drive ugly cars. Seriously, someone hit the entire northern Missouri area with an ugly stick and didn’t let up until everything was made puke inducing.
As you get into Iowa, the landscape gets a little better. More hilly, lakes, etc. Iowa also has the best rest areas in the world. I’m a fan of rest areas. Or at least clean, well kept rest areas. I tend to shy away from the ratty, run down looking places. Like most of those in Missouri. They’re the kind of rest areas where you just know shady deals are going down and to go to the bathroom is to invite a fat old man dressed as Little Orphan Annie and running around the restroom with his junk out, asking if you’d like to see his little orphanette grow into a big orphanette. I’ll pass.
We had some good conversation, my daughter and I. Nothing serious, nothing to earth shattering. Just mindless gibber. Nice for a change. Seems like we’re always talking about something serious, like her inability to do any school work or to participate in anything but swimming.
Of course we obeyed the speed limit. It is 90 mph, right? If so then we totally obeyed it.
The trip back was brutal. We were both so ready to get home that neither showered. We gassed up, drove through to get something fast and got back on the road. I stank. I’d just wanted to get the hell out of dodge. Or Chicago. Whatever.
Posted By KJ / 1st January 2011
Kansas City has more highway miles than any other city. I’m so proud.
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Home Solar Power Discounts – One Block Off the Grid
Posted By kage / 9th June 2010
I kind of dig traveling. Who doesn’t right? Well, maybe some of you homebody’s who would miss the Dukes of Hazard reruns for your nightly dose of culture. For those of us who have moved past the General Lee, the world is at the very least an interesting place. With that in mind here’s a quick list of places I want to go and some that you and your mother probably couldn’t drag me to.
Places That I Want To Visit
1. Paris – I’ve been there. I want to go back. Long a dream of mine, my parents surprised my wife and I with a trip about 10 years ago. Three or four days in London and the same for Paris. London was great and it was a city I had always wanted to visit. Paris on the other hand was beyond great. Paris was without a doubt the trip that was the highlight of my life to that point. Marriages and births not withstanding. Paris was foreign, Paris was not foreign, it was culture, life, modern, new, old, fantastic. It was Paris. I want to live there.
2. Amsterdam – Not for the pot. Seriously. Amsterdam seems to me to be a place, like Paris only more so. With Paris I could understand and read the language, just not speak it very well. Amsterdam? Who in the hell can understand Dutch? Maybe some other Dutch I guess, so yeah there’s that but not me. And I love that. Also very cool art and history and beer. So there’s that.
3. Germany – Pretty much anywhere in Germany. The countryside? Sure. The cities? Of course. My favorite artists and cars generally come from Germany. Not to mention some fine beers.
4 – 6. San Francisco, Portland, Seattle – I’d like to do a west coast tour. Especially Portland and Seattle. Seems to me that the cities are cool. Not just in a weather kind of way, but in a hep way. Kansas City has fucking barbecue. The rest of the world has culture. Seattle and Portland seem to represent everything that Kansas City isn’t.
7-9. Montreal and Toronto – Europe without going to Europe. Of course this is all based on nothing that I can speak of in a concrete manner, but still…
Some places that I don’t want to visit
Mexico – I’d prefer not to get caught up in a drug war and chopped up, put in a barrel and dumped in a ditch. I can probably do that in some parts of Kansas City.
Pretty much anywhere in South America except for Chile and Bolivia. Of course I don’t know but seems like they have some fairly cosmoplitan cities. The rest of the countries have drug wars. I’ll pass.
The southern United States (and I’m from Texas) – Recently the south seems to have lost it’s collective mind. Apparently to live in the south means that you have to become a hyper religous, intolerant, badly educated, George Bush loving ass. Missouri is only marginally better. Marginally.
Utah – The south only with more white people.
Posted By kage / 14th March 2010
It’s dangerous to say, I know but, I hate basketball. Can’t stand it. Won’t watch it. Could give about 1/3 of a rats ass about KU or MU or any U in basketball.
Why dangerous? Because of where I live. Kansas City is rife with people who fancy themselves basketball fans. We’ve got Kansas fans and Missouri fans and Kansas State fans and whatever fans. It’s no different than any other sport, everyone is convinced that their team is the best. I’m sure your team is wondeful. Yessiree bob. A #1. Tip Top.
Whatever…
Here’s a few reasons why I hate basketball. All of them totally valid becuase I fucking say they’re valid. That’s why.
1. The season is what? 932 months long? Seriously. How long is the basketball season? Seems like each season starts four or five years back and somehow lasts for 19 or twenty years into the future. How a champion is decided upon every year is a strange and wonderous feature of time that surely involves Newtonian physics, magic and some sort of governmental time/space manipulation.
2. Every fan knows every motherfreakin’ thing there is to know and you should listen to them because hey, they really know. Seriously…everyone knows someone who likes to mention to anyone who will listen to them how the KU defense has a better 5/3 court coverage plan than K State because K State can’t run the go and blow or stop and shove or whatever kind of dumb saying there is for a “play”. Basketball seems to generate more people who think they know everything there is to know and that they should be coach and grand potentate of whatever team they root for and how you don’t know a fucking thing because you don’t know how to run the full court dumpshot defense, than any other sport.
3. Shorts to the ankles suck. What kind of fucking moron decided that shorts that go down to the ankles was a good idea? Who thought they looked good? There’s more fabric in a pair of basketball shorts than there is in a full blown stage costume for a lead woman in a viking opera, complete with cape, many skirts and under skirts and attendents dresses as 11th century court jesters.
4. Fans who live for basketball season. Don’t these people have lives? They’re probably just as bad as football fans who constantly wear their team clothing, but it’s basketball so it makes it about 421 times worse than football fans. Since I like football they get a pass. Kind of.
5. Post season sucks. The post season seems to be longer than the regular season and is even more boring. Who gives a rats ass if Eastern Mid North Carolina has to travel to Northern Alaska to play Mid California at Detroit in a first round game. Jesus, there’s what 40 rounds?
6. You can’t go enjoy a beer at the local tavern without every television in the place being tuned to some basketball game. Year round. Forever. You can’t escape it. I hate going to bars now because of basketball. Which makes me hate basketball even more.
All in all I’m sure that basketball has some fine points that perhaps I’m missing. I’m also totally sure that your team has the best offensive plan in a seven planet area and that the other team, whatever other team, sucks. Yes they do. And yes your team is the best. Right. Yep. I’m totally with you. Now when can I get that anal exam I’d rather have?
Posted By KJ / 31st August 2009
Parents and some teachers at a high school in Missouri are up in arms over a t shirt the band kids were wearing to promote their new show. Seems that the shirt said Brass Evolutions 2009 and something like the evolution picture we’ve all seen.
Parents and some teachers at Smith-Cotton High School were upset. One parent, who is also a teacher at the school said…”I was disappointed with the image on the shirt. I don’t think evolution should be associated with our school.”
And people wonder why our students don’t do as well as those from other countries.
