Before 1970 there were a handful of shootings in schools. The pace picked up with the availability of automatic weapons for the common folk. Is the fact that there haven't been all that many shootings, relatively speaking, the reason we haven't gotten serious about preventing them? Maybe we have had enough shootings now. I would hope that NIU is the last time we have to address mass murder on a school campus. I hope there is a real solution in the offing. The one thing that people aren't talking about very much is how Steven Kazmierczak went from being a high achieving good guy to mass murderer. Like Cho Seung-Hui at Virginia Tech, Kazmierczak had been diagnosed with a mental illness. Kazmierczak did not exhibit the odd behavior that Seung-Hui did and he was not a loner. It may be that his abrupt discontinuation of his medication caused him to become violent. Two different personalities taking the same violent actions. Should students like Kazmierczak and Seung-Hui be monitored by health care professionals while they are enrolled in school? I can imagine some people protesting that this would be a violation of their right to privacy. What if schools required that students be assessed before they are allowed to attend? If it is found that they need psychiatric care, they should have to prove that they are receiving that care and if necessary, submit to testing to prove they are taking their medication. They can refuse to go along with this. They have the option of staying home. The students enrolled in schools have the right to live to graduate. I think they should prevail.
A lot is being made of the fact that win or lose Obama is breaking ground with his candidacy for president. We are to be congratulated apparently for allowing an African American to run for high office. Not much is being made of the fact that Clinton is also breaking new ground with her candidacy. Aren't we to be congratulated for allowing a woman to run for high office? Some men don't want to admit that they really prefer their women at home keeping the castle tidy. It would take a huge set of balls for a man to talk that stuff in this day and age. But, some of them are thinking it. Is it any more wrong to vote for someone because of his race than it is to vote against him because of his race? I think so. Some women on this board are fostering the belief that women shouldn't think about politics. They do this by posing stupid questions that could be answered quickly by using a search engine. They bat their eyes and ask in their little Betty Boop voices, "What does this mean?" Gag. As long as women like this continue to believe that they are the weaker sex in all things, we will never get to a point where the fact that a woman is running for the presidency isn't newsworthy.
I know a woman who doesn't work. She could, she just doesn't. She was married and then got divorced and the poor ex is paying spousal support. I don't understand why anyone in good health would choose to sit at home all day rather than going to work. Work is a human necessity, for normal people. We need to feel productive and we need human contact. A person who chooses to stay home and collect money for doing nothing is lazy, or greedy. Or both. Instead of being ashamed, this woman has no qualms about letting people know she is at home all day every day. She says she works around the house, cleaning and laundering and such. The thing is, most folks do both. They work outside the home and inside the home. It's what you do. I don't understand this woman. I'm glad I don't have to be around her, though. I don't think I could refrain from asking, WFT?
Today a very strange idea occurred to me. What if human beings had a shelf life? We live a certain number of years and then we die, or kill ourselves to be accurate. Some of you are probably thinking I don?t want to live or something. Not true. I don?t want to live past my shelf life. There has been a lot of talk about what we are going to do to fix social security. A lot of talk, but not many workable solutions. There is a lot of talk about our insurance problem, too. Michael Moore?s ?Sicko? has brought the whole insurance industry under long overdue scrutiny. That doesn?t necessarily mean a solution is afoot. This has stirred something in me. We are trying to do two opposing things at the same time. I?m pretty sure that will never work. On one hand, advances in medicine are allowing us to live longer. We survive illnesses that 30 years ago would most certainly have been fatal. On the other hand, we are trying to pay for sick, elderly people to have access to procedures and medicines that they cannot afford. We can?t afford it either, it turns out. Maybe at some point we should just decide to stop living. I do not want to live beyond my healthy years. In other words, when I cannot drive a car to get where I need to go, I will be considering the quality of my life and thinking about what I want for myself. I have expressed the thought to family members that I do not want to live if I cannot communicate with them any more. It?s important to say that now, while I still can. I don?t think I will want to hang around waiting for death, when I have no more independence or when my health declines to the point of no return. In this country, we give 83 year old people new knee joints. That costs a lot of money. Medicare pays for it. I think there?s something wrong with that. Not that I don?t sympathize with the fact that elderly people have painful joints, but at what point does it become indulgent to replace them? We cannot afford to do everything we are doing with medicine right now. I personally want my insurance to pay for whatever I feel I need to be healthy and active, but then I?m still paying for private insurance. Do I still get to call the shots when the public is paying my medical insurance? Yes, I will be paying premiums, but that is but a drop in the enormous bucket. Taxes will pay the bulk of the medical bills. There is something perverted about our unwillingness to think about allowing people to choose when to end their lives. We have this puritanical squeamishness about ?assisted suicide? and no qualms at all about letting senior citizens quietly starve or go months without electricity or heat. We care about life, but only in the abstract it seems.
I suppose it only makes sense that a show written by a man with some pretty weighty mental health issues would attract some viewers with some pretty weighty mental health issues. There is one particular poster who carries on dialogues with him/her self as different posters. This is one of those posters who drives everyone away with a superior attitude and a talent for alienating people. On the other hand, it turns out that a show written by a man with big talent attracts others with big talent. This unexpected bonus has given readers of the JFC bb access to writing we would never have enjoyed otherwise. That would have been our loss. We have benefited from the wisdom of some pretty deep thinkers and also some pretty amusing storytellers. The internet allows us to be whoever we want to be. We can be a poster with a personality completely different from who we are, or we can fully expose our true selves and know that we have anonymity to protect us. We can say things that have been bottled up inside us for years and finally release all of that bad energy into cyberspace. We can pour out our hearts and proclaim our love for strangers we will never know and not fear the consequences. The internet is big. Work here.
HBO suffers from instant gratification disorder. They don't know how to allow a show to build a following. No time. On to the next big thing. Original programming, but only temporarily. The internet is big. The internet will be huge. HBO will be as quaint as the peacock network in the not too distant future. On the bright side, the self important assholes who ruined this bb will have to disperse to other bbs to get their rocks off. Silver lining, folks.
This is the end of the road for me. The JFC board has descended into a permanent state of disfunction. There are so many hostile, toxic personalities here that I really think this show brought out the very worst in some viewers. Here are some of the offenders: Raindawg, ronnie, CalamityDan, lulucaliente, and all of the trolls. Wading through knee deep nonsense from these asshats every day is a waste of time. On the other hand, this board attracted some very stellar minds. I will not name them because I fear leaving anyone out. Also, they do not seek that type of attention. And finally, I think they know how I feel about them. I am going to watch the final episodes of the season and I do hope that there is a season 2. If there is not, I will not regret having had this experience. This is the second best thing I've ever seen on t.v. - amf
I knew that I would find JFC interesting because it is a David Milch project. I have found all of his work interesting. I did not know I would become so addicted so soon. Not that I'm complaining. This show is unlike anything I have ever experienced. The board is a reflection of just how diverse JFC's audience is. There are scholars and surfers, poets and scientists among us. There is also another element and that is the disgruntled viewer. I am surprised at the fact that people would post on a site for a show they say they don't like. Why bother? I guess the psychologists among us could tell us, but so far they haven't offered a diagnosis. It's very interesting to me that they could be so emotionally engaged in a show they don't like that they take time to post insults and disparaging remarks about child actors of all things. What kind of sick bully does that? I think of these whiners as pool pissers. Every neighborhood has one. They are the kids that no one else wants to hang out with. They live to piss in someone's pool.
Sadly, some Deadwood fans are stuck on the first stage of grief; denial. They are unable to accept that the show is gone for good and the movies will not be made. Deadwood is yesterday. JFC is today. A Song of Fire and Ice is tomorrow. It is quite amazing to me that some people are so angry, still, that they cannot look at JFC with anything but disdain. They fire off emails of protest to HBO execs, thinking that somehow a few hundred angry fans will change the course that HBO is plotting. Every day people who only recently discovered Deadwood log on to express their shock and dismay that the show is defunct. I am as disappointed as a tv viewer can be about the fate of the best show I've ever seen on television. But, there comes a time when you need to accept the reality of the situation and move on.
Some of the more sanctimonious know-it-alls from the DW board have slithered over to JFC. These people (I won't name names but they are D** and di**a and a few others) fail to realize what they reveal about themselves when they try to seem like experts about certain topics, like drugs and abuse. There is a "psychiatrist" on the JFC board as well, so we get armchair analysis of everyone. Most of the people on the JFC board are fans of the show and just want to talk about Milch and the story and the great characters who are portrayed by great actors. But, these other people lead such desperate lives that they can only feel important when on the bbs. They can create a persona and pretend that for once they are liked or even admired. I will not address them personally on the board. Instead I will put them on ignore one by one as warranted. Like I did with D** today. She is now on ignore, along with d***a. My time is too important to spend any of it reading their gibberish.
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the HBO website and then onto the Deadwood board. It was my first excursion into the world of bbs. I have met some fine human beings here. They are people I am honored to call friends. I have learned more about politics here than I've ever learned anywhere else. People from all over the country come together on this board and if not for DW, I never would have gotten to know them. I have come to realize that we Americans are all alike in what we want from life, no matter which political party we identify with. We want peace. We want a government free from corruption. We want an administration committed to upholding the Constitution of the United States. Hooples are by definition a little bit smarter and a little bit quirkier than your average citizen. Everyone doesn't get us. But, here at least, for a while, I felt at home. It's been real.
The recent step backwards for the rights of women to make decisions regarding their own bodies has caused a lot of women to be concerned. Maybe we've been taking things for granted because Roe v. Wade has withstood all other challenges. With this administration and this Supreme Court, that is a big mistake. I hope this is the wakeup call needed to get this matter settled in the legislature. The strange thing is, some of the same women who cry "foul" when someone tries to suggest that they don't know what's best for them, still look to men for approval in social settings. If there is a card game going on and the men invite a woman to sit in, some women will be more concerned with what the men think about her skills than with winning the pot. Even women who share the same careers as men (doctors, lawyers, professors, executives) can still be reduced to the emotional level of high school girls when it comes to their need to win the approval of the males in their world. The feminists will insist that this doesn't apply to them, but watch carefully when you are in a social situation with a group of men and women. Women who crave male approval are all around us. We haven't come all that far in some ways.
I feel sorry for poor Dannielynn, the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith and someone else. I say it's Larry Birkhead. Howard Stern says he hopes it's him. I think that of the two men, Larry would be the better father. Why do I think this? Well, the other option is Howard K. Stern. He had been Anna's lawyer and then "boyfriend" and then "husband". That wasn't really a legal marriage, but whatever. I actually have always thought he is gay, not that there's anything wrong with that. But, Howard presided over the downfall and eventual death of Anna Nicole Smith. He not only did not keep her from using drugs, he got prescriptions filled in his name on her behalf. It goes beyond enabling. It seems criminal. But, that can't be right, can it? I mean he said he loved her more than life itself. And of course he would do anything for her. Within reason. Which apparently doesn't include staging an intervention. Or getting her medical help for her depression. Or anything really. While ANS was fighting a serious illness he took off and went who knows where. Then he came back, after she was dead. So, there is no way to blame him at all, is there? I mean if you aren't even present when someone dies, how can it in any way be your fault? Jeez. So tomorrow they are supposed to announce the results of the paternity test. What if it's Howard? Well, don't be surprised. I think it's possible that he paid off Larry to go along with the "results" of the test so that Howard can remain in control of Dannielynn's fortune. If ANS prevails in her lawsuit with the family of her late husband, that baby will be worth a LOT of money. He who controls the baby, controls the purse strings.
Some people are so predictable. They can always be counted on to behave like cunts. It's that whole anonymity thing. They would not dare say half the stuff they post here if they were looking someone in the eye. To all of the cunts hereabouts I say, do us all a favor and STFU.
P.S. The cunts have spoken. I knew they couldn't resist. Like I said, predictable.
An acquaintance of mine has an annoying habit. She name drops. If she comes within shouting distance of a celebrity, she manages to make it sound as if the two are bosom buddies. And she always butts into conversations to say something about herself. That's bad enough, but it's never even about the topic we were discussing. Sometimes she will hear that some of us went out somewhere and were dishing about this or that and she will feel compelled to call one of us the next day to try to add her two cents. She doesn't get that it's too late and we have all moved on to other things. I guess I feel more sorry than annoyed. She is a rather pathetic figure. She has a need to feel important and she wants to believe that we value her contribution to the conversation, late or not.
