Planet Crimson

Some random Phoenix resident started following me on Twitter today… and since he wasn’t a spammer I followed him in return. That didn’t last long.

I logged in to see what had been Twittered and I saw a charming update from my new follower:

being a failure at being pilot (i.e. being shot down) does not make one a “war hero”, sorry but it’s true and someone has to say it!

This was in response to someone else who said:

I can’t believe ppl don’t know john McCain is a POW. I’m gonna get hateful comments for my McCain support. Relax jacks. May the best man win

I guess she wasn’t kidding or expecting this sort of unpatriotic, disgusting speech from what the “angry Left” has to offer.

He followed it up a bit later with this gem of wisdom:

I’ve never understood how being an Epic failure as a pilot i.e. being shot down makes you a “hero”, I feel bad but that’s not hero

Seriously, I’m not making this shit up. I don’t care which side you’re on… THIS IS DISGUSTING. You want to blame every single man and woman who has died, been captured, or been injured in the line of duty and say it’s THEIR OWN FAULT and not heroic? Are you kidding me? I can’t even express to you how disgusted I am at this.

The sad thing is, it’s not even completely his fault. He’s a victim of brainwashing from the media! His poor little mind has been so poisoned that he has actually turned against his fellow US citizens! He’s turned against every man and woman who’s ever served in our military to keep his ass safe and to let him run his stupid, ignorant mouth without someone killing HIM for it.

If you are a liberal, you shouldn’t read this post. Who am I kidding? We both know you’re going to…

Whenever a particle A exerts a force on another particle B, B simultaneously exerts a force on A with the same magnitude in the opposite direction. The strong form of the law further postulates that these two forces act along the same line. This law is often simplified into the sentence “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.“

After reading a WHOLE BUNCH of anti-Palin stuff this weekend and now that the world is back to work, reading some more pro-Palin stuff, this is my conclusion.

When Obama announced his ho-hum VP pick of Joe Biden, there wasn’t really a huge media reaction on either side, except to say “Welp, I guess he’s trying to balance out his lack of experience and the fact that he’s black with a long-time white guy senator.”

Now, McCain brings out this virtually-unknown woman who delivered a fantastic speech and the media reaction is epic in scale! According to the Third Law of Motion, this huge and positive action required an equal (in size) and opposite reaction from the left-wing media. I love it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m highly disappointed that this picture-perfect family has to have such a large flaw, especially in a matter I am pretty opinionated about (young and/or unwed girls getting pregnant). I don’t believe that it says anything about her ability to do her job.

Side note here: It’s pretty obvious that unwed and single mothers are being congratulated and welcomed in society these days. I can only hope that if this incident and the opinionated retards on CNN’s political ticker have succeeded in turning this 17 year old girl into our nation’s shame, even for a day, that the gravity of one stupid decision might stop at least one teen pregnancy to occur elsewhere in the world.

I just don’t understand the left criticizing Bristol Palin while their own candidate made some pretty bad decisions when he was 17. From his own book:

I spent the last two years of high school in a daze, locking away the questions that life seemed insistent posing. I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, tried drugs enthusiastically. I discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van or in the dorm room with some brother you met down at the gym… [A]nd if the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bull [bleep] cheap moralism.”

And you tell me the left ISN’T sexist and hypocritical? Hmm…

My body is rebelling against me and I’m having a lot of trouble getting up to open the store on time. Last month I sold less than I could have because I didn’t have enough inventory. Now this month I have the inventory, but I am opening the store later than I should. The only thing saving my butt is my lack of competition.

On that note, there was a casino supply store kinda near here but in a crappy location, and all I ever heard from my customers was how they aren’t very nice. Anyway, they shut down their retail store (still selling online though I doubt they sell much on their crappy web site) and the owner moved the business to her home since they still do casino parties. I’d like to think I had some impact on that.

On the positive side, I am making good money. I have enough to pay my rent and loan payments and I will probably have enough to pay myself a little as well. More and more players are coming to our tournaments and we have a lot of players who treat this as their primary location to play.

I had a really productive meeting with my dealers on Thursday. After the rush of getting the room started up in a hurry, it was time to focus on operational issues and some mini-conflicts that needed to get resolved before they seriously hurt the business and before I needed to get rid of people to bring peace back. I always believe that getting rid of someone is a last resort but it’s a tool I will use if I have to.

Chris ran the room on Friday night and it was nice to see how things could run without me there as compared to how it had been in the past when I wasn’t there. I decided, however, to move my Friday night game back to the store and do a two-tournament set on Fridays in order to keep with my current schedule of having a 7PM tourney every weeknight.

Anyway, I’ve got a game starting in a few so I better publish this.

Hi, I’m testing Jott integration with my blog, so that if I really wanted to I could speak my blogpost and that would be posted for me from any where. I’m not sure if this is something I’m going to keep doing, but at least to set up there if I want to try it. listen

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I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in like 2 weeks now. It’s so hard to find the energy to put up with everything without snapping. I got caught up on sleep two Wednesdays ago just in time to put in late nights on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I didn’t get to sleep in on Sunday like I usually do because we had our top 10 poker game at 2pm so I was going on like 5-6 hours of sleep and then I was at my store until early morning watching the game.

Then, Monday night I get off at a “reasonable time” (10PM) but Mom and the kids are in town so out of my obligation to visiting family and having my priorities not completely fucked, I stayed up with them on Monday and Tuesday night. I don’t know what happened on Wednesday night but I didn’t get to bed on time then, either… so then gets back to Thursday and Friday and late, late nights again.

But, now it’s Sunday and I got a good 10 hours of sleep and I felt better than I’ve felt in a few weeks.