smoke on DEEZ....

That's right bitches!!! Rasta's pull through with their easy ways again in Italy this time! You know, this is the type of stuff that makes me really happy in life. It's the little things in life right? Italy's supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that members of the Rastafari faith can possess 'abundant' quantities of marijuana because smoking it is an integral part of their religion.

The ruling was made in response to an appeal by an Italian against his sentence of one year and four months, as well as a 4,000-euro fine, for possession of some 50g of marijuana inflicted by a Perugia court in 2004.

The Rastafari faith, the court pointed out, allows its member to smoke even 10g of marijuana a day.

Now, lets ALL plan a trip to Italy and smoke like Rastafarians!!!! Let your hair grow out some more too.

What a great ruling.....HAPPY GREEN DAY EVERYONE!!

SMOKE-IIITH!!!!!!!

Moral: Don't rule out what mother earth provides. It's not worth it, she'll always win.

I'm turning into an 80 year old woman right before your very eyes...

I've noticed something about myself in my mid-twenties. Mostly that I'm a blunt asshole, who tries to be sensitive sometimes since I'm still sensitive myself,...but I'm going to be honest with you; it's VERY VERY HARD to be that nice to everyone around me that doesn't deserve any type of kindness. This leads me into the 80 year old woman I've become. I'm not bitter, I just speak bluntly. With all the fakeness and sugar-coated words and sentences that come out of most folks mouths, I'm trying to change that. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not walking around hating every person before they say or do something because "I'm not a judger" BUT, once you start to paint your true colors by actions and sentences that come out your mouth, that's when I DO get to judge you because most of the time it's either fake, or completely ignorant. Those who have the least amount of exposure to anything in the world are the ones that I'm REALLY talking about. I'm speaking on some general tips right now, but I don't want to put certain folks that I personally know on blast, so I won't.

I am going to bed MUCH earlier than I wish I would (still not sure exactly why except that stupid people that I work with on a daily DRAIN me physically and mentally). Then the other day I was walking home in the rain in my flip flops and completely almost busted my ass several times, so I had to shuffle step like an old woman with arthritis (def not cool when you're only 26 and acting like this). So I already know what type of old lady I'll become, haha.

I wonder what the world would be like if everyone was a blunt as 7 year olds are. Can you imagine? Everyone being that blunt? I'm not sure if I'd like that honestly, maybe that's why so many folks sugar-coat everything,...who knows. All I know is that I'm not going to come down to that level since everyone else already has.

Moral: DON'T FAKE THE FUNK, it's not healthy

Sex = God

That's right folks...God and Sex go hand in hand. There was this article that I was reading this morning which was SOOOOOO rediculous that I HAD to share it with you. It goes a little something like this:

Sex in Crisis - by Dagmar Herzog is a book that explores the religious connection between sex and sexual acts among the Christian faith. It's basically talking about how conservative religious groups are condoning sex (as long as you're straight and in a marriage), and encourage all woman to drop everything that they're doing if their husbands need sex at that very moment no matter how awkward the place is etc. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that happening among all male dominated religions accross the globe to women already?? According to my book, it was called sexist as well as a slave-act. Look up all the rapes that happened to the African American slaves brought to the US of A. Ahhhh yes folks, we can't forget our fine history here, as well as all the Native Americans that were first thrown and killed off their own land. Land of the free my ass. Anyways I digress...

Current TV said that, "The conservative right are using the (literally) touchy feely language of sex-positivism to demonstrate how much they 'value' and 'respect' women, and acknowledge that sex is a vital (and maybe even fun!) part of relationships... as long as its not DIRTY AND SINFUL. In conservative right-speak, "prostitution demeans the value of women" equals "so lets withdraw AIDS outreach efforts to prostitutes in developing countries, cause they shouldn't be doing it anyway." I know....my jaw dropped too when I read that folks. I can't believe that there are actually humans out there and think this way, it's AMAZING, in a horrible way. This is the ignorance of the world and mind-set that we all live in.

The other GREAT part of this whole thing was that the, "best of all is the news that good wives who put out wherever, whenever (and whatever time of the month) will protect their husband's spiritual purity by preventing any 'need' for porn or masturbation".

I SH** YOU NOT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, this is stuff that some religious conservatives really believe. So that's that. Man's satisfied, woman's satisfied, God's satisfied - and Jesus is coming again.

hahahahahahaha...this is why I can't be religious, it's people who think just like that and believe that with all their heart that they're right. I can't do it!!!!!

Moral: Don't believe everything that is spit in your ear...EVER. Question everything, especially when it comes to religion. There is no easy answer.

I F***ing HATE my job

So like most of you out there, I work a regular 9-5. I fortunately get to work in the industry that I studied and enjoyed working in, but my position is FAR from what I have done for the radio world and it's even further from any sort of promotion. But guess what guys...apparently less than 39% of people in my age group like/ are satisfied with their jobs. Now the economy SUCKS here. The value of our American dollar has gone WAY down (hense why folks aren't traveling to Europe in the summer time like almost everyone else was doing every summer for the past 4 decades).

Anyfart, I'm not surprised by that statistic one bit considering the same responses I get from close friends working in similar or totally different industries; but I AM upset that I'm only sticking around because nobody else is really hiring that I'm interested in working for, and I don't wanna job hunt while I don't have a job, and I don't want to loose my health-care (a whole other subject that I could and will blog about since our "system" SUCKS when it comes to that mess). As you know, I'm pretty much stuck here due to this operation coming up that could cost up to $10,000 - $18,000 just to get this procedure done (big dent in the pockets if you're not covered by health care). It's really out of control and it's one thing after another it seems.

It really sucks that there's no union for 20 somethings 'just cause'. We should create a "just cause" union so we can do whatever the hell we wanted to do. I know that in this country most come here because it's the "land of opportunity" and people want to live out their own "American Dreams" which usually ends up with people wanting fancy cars and mansions. How typical is that sh**? It's all the same f***ing dream dudes and dudettes! Just be satisfied if you're HAPPY at your job. That's what I say. Don't pop out kids if you can't afford them, or just get on some BC and condoms (you can never be too safe) especially since the STD and AIDS rates in this town are out of control. There's many reasons why kids should NOT come into this world. But the ones that WOULD listen to what I just said are either not reading this blog, or are too ignorant as it is and have daddy issues and pop out kids like Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors (am I wrong?...exactly, let me continue).

Here's a list of some movies that helped me and can help you if you're feeling like your HATE the SH** out of your job:

1) Office Space

2) Old School

3) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2)

4) Nine to Five

Moral: Only stop working where you're at if you can mooch off your family / friends (they must be well off and willing if you pick this plan), and please stop having children if you're not fit to be a parent, it's such a basic thing to say, but TRUST me, it's worth the wait.

Oscar nominations and all the crap that follows it...

So there's been a lot of talk about Heath Ledger and his possible nomination in the up coming Oscars for his last role in the new BATMAN movie. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but has anyone in the history of the Oscar world ever received one from playing a character in a Batman movie? I mean I'm a batman fan, but I've never thought to myself, "oh yeah, Oscars, BIG TIME" ever. So how come just because the guy passed away are they trying to nominate him? Out of pure respect for his untimely death, or is it all the media that followed him? My mom had no clue who he was, but due to the story being covered as if it was part of this earths rotation on TV, she quickly learned everything about him.

I know that I'm making a kinda big deal about this whole thing, but it could be due to the fact that I hate media, although I work in it, it's a big LOVE/HATE relationship going on over here. It keeps things interesting, but his death is not HUGE NEWS folks...and nobody has been thinking about his death except those that were close to him personally. The only reason anyone brought it up in the first place was because of the "news" coverage that stations would base their whole show on. RIDICULOUS

Morel: It's not cool to be a follower of dead people,...EVER

How dumb are American's?? Apparently SUPER DUMB

So as I'm trying to wake up under this horrid fluorescent light in my office, I start glancing at the news trying to pick today's topic for all you dedicated readers out there, when I stumbled onto something so re-donk-u-lous that I had to stop and ask myself, ARE AMERICANS REALLY THAT DUMB?

Here's what brought this whole thing up. I read that gun advocates in the fine state of Georgia were trying to carry guns into one of the largest airports in the USA as visitors ( Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ) because of a new GA gun law down there (which doesn't allow them to do this, they just think that they should be allowed to). Yes people THAT IS how dumb Americans are. I'm pretty sure that I don't need to prove it in any other way but with this bit of news.

This also brings up the overall "happiness is a warm gun" phenomenon that our citizens seem to support without question. As if they've never read a statistic about guns in America EVER. Let me just make this one thing clear...we should develop a COMMON SENSE test for all citizens in the USA to pass in order to know who has the right to roam the streets possibly with a gun (which isn't needed, this is developed by fear tactics that our government has conveniently produced in our minds over time). I'm not trying to get into a conspiracy theory or anything like that, I'm just saying it seems pretty obvious to me.

Anyfart, before I get too deep into through and my own feelings about gun ownership etc. I would just like to remind you about how dumb most of America is....the last thing we need are dumb people all over our country with guns in their hands where ever they go.

Moral: Get over your gun, it's not cute

Little Miss Amy Winehouse

So, as I was BEAT from yesterday at work...I decided to kick it at me casa and watch this over-done birthday celebration for Nelson Mandela on VH1. Now I'm NOT knocking on Nelson Mandela AT ALL, I'm knocking on VH1 trying to over do and market his birth with a bunch of large named bands to perform in the name of what he's done. I mean the man is 90 years old after all and that's impressive enough to me. I guess they wanted to plug his other 8 non profit foundations that he's started as well. Fine because they're all for good causes, I just don't like VH1 sometimes, that's all. I guess it's my own personal beef with them and those stupid ass reality shows they throw up every season.

But what I was REALLY surprised about was the Amy Winehouse performance. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE ME SOME AMY...but I also know her drug habits and just like Whitney when she was on crack with Bobby, your voice WILL NOT SOUND GOOD LIVE. The studio pulled a Britney on her (as in, she sounds sooooo much better in the studio than in person), here's proof from her performance last night for Mandela's birthday.

AMY WINEHOUSE

It's just REALLY hard for me to watch her little twig frame try and dance, or just kinda shake around the stage as if she's in a long on-going seizure. Just very difficult to watch PERIOD. Then if you catch her eyes in some of the camera shots, you see how lost she looks, it's as if she has no idea how she got on stage or what she's supposed to be doing. It was like watching a drunk person at a Karaoke bar...you know, the ones with trannies and all sorts of fun stuff to look at.

That's all, I just couldn't believe how she looked....and is that REALLY her own hair? Or are they extensions? There's no way that that's her own hair, it's re-donk-u-lous.

Moral: Don't do drugs