Reasons South African World Cup will be a disaster.

1. Muslims.
Islamic extremists will be frothing at their mouths with so many infidels gathered in such close quarters. Obviously, South Africa is unable to thwart an attack.

2. HIV
11% of all South Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS. If I were going, which I wouldn't, but if I were, but there's no chance in hell, I would wear one of those full body condoms from Naked Gun

3. Xenophobia
"The word is that criminals want to make cash to spend during the World Cup. This is their chance. The attacks are picking up. Things are getting worse," he said. Foreign shopkeepers, most of them Somalis and Bangladeshis, have been murdered in their hundreds in South Africa over the past 10 years. In Eastern Cape, the Daily Dispatch has written amazing exposés about the fear in which foreigners live. I have heard young men talk about how vulnerable the foreigners are. Because many of them are in the country illegally, they do not have the paperwork to open bank accounts, the thugs reason. That means that they have a lot of cash on the premises. They are unarmed and the community around them is too scared to come out and help them." The thugs attack them because they are thought to have cash and because they are foreigners.
WOW....this sounds fun for innocent soccer fans!

4. Rape
According to a survey for the period 1998–2000 compiled by the United Nations, South Africa was ranked first for rapes per capita. One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by the Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency said they had been raped in the past year. More than 25 per cent of South African men questioned in a survey published by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in June 2009 admitted to raping someone; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person. Three out of four who admitted rape attacked for the first time during their teens.
South Africa has the highest incidences of child and baby rape in the world.

5. Racism
Nearly a decade and half after the end of apartheid, South Africans are beginning to face up to the fact that they have a present problem with racism in that country. This is not to say that most regular citizens of South Africa have not always been aware that they have a problem with racism.
What has brought the problem to the fore this time is a series of racial incidents that followed one on the heel of the other in February. One of the incidents is a racist video shot and distributed by some white students of the University of the Free State. The video showed the students’ ritualized humiliation of four black laborers employed by the university, including allegedly secretly urinating in food that laborers had to eat.

This should be an awesome World Cup.

It was just a matter of time...

About three years ago, Tom Cruise lost his mind on Oprah's couch. It was almost career suicide. Almost. Well he's back. Tom Cruise is simply one of those people that have "it". Even when you want to hate him, you can't. His new movie with Cameron Diaz will be a smash hit. HUGE. Until then though, he's gonna spend some time reprising his role as Les Grossman, from Tropic Thunder for the MTV movie awards. If you don't think this character is brilliant, you're a pitiful excuse for a human being.

MTV Shows

MTV Shows

Beach House

I'm In Love. With what - not sure, but sure of something akin while listening to Beach House.

HWY 301: Wide Open Road

An old video by the Triffids, a little known Australian group that surfaced in the early eighties and whose vocalist seems to have absorbed an obvious Brian Ferry M.O.

Also some recent photography of Highway 301 which runs through my hometown in Florida and up through North Carolina. These were taken in early May after my trip home, as I came back to Bragg as the sun went down. The video and pics seemed to go well together as a blog.


A singlewide and my shadow.

A red truck that reminds me of Leo in the early nineties series Twin Peaks.

Truck trailers.

The impressionistic solid center/outer smear effect in most of these pictures I discovered while in Iraq, taking shots of the landscape from the back seat of a speeding humvee. I pick a subject in the center and try to hold a point, moving the camera on an imaginary axis as I go by. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, this is one that worked well, a house and van along 301.

White house and white wild flowers on the lawn.

Distant fixture, swirling fields.

Yardsale

Powerline

Mile 33

Dog in the driveway.

A near empty BP station.

An All American Amber Field.

Steve Blake, I mean Robby Bostain, wins a championship

Robby Bostain, the taller, less predatory less lion-like brother of Chris Bostain, I think, according to the video at least, won a championship somewhere in Europe. The crowd is wicked excited, but unless you're one of the 7 people in the world that still speak Dutch, I can't understand a damn word this play-by-play guy is saying. Props to Robby though, despite what he's listed at (cough) 6'6", his realistic 6'4" seemed to rise into the rafters on that dunk. WHAT?!? NO?!?! Ok...maybe not in the rafters, but that's two dunks any way you slice em. Congrats to Robby and the rest of the Gasterra Flames for a great season. I'll leave you all with a little advice, though. Save your money. No seriously. SAVE. YOUR. MONEY. When playing ball tax free is over, Obama will take your money before you get through customs.

Less fortunate?

Please someone, tell me what less fortunate means.

Great pick...for a Socialist.

In a June 2009 interview in Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick was asked: "Critics of CER (Comparative Effectiveness Research) have said that it will lead to rationing of health care."

He answered: "We can make a sensible social decision and say, 'Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit [new drug or medical intervention] is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds.' We make those decisions all the time. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care--the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."

In the same interview, he also said, “The social budget is limited—we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t.”

Berwick also talked about his romantic view of Britain’s socialized health care system on page 213 of a report he wrote entitled, “A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60,” published on July 26, 2008.

“Cynics beware: I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it,” Berwick wrote. “All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.”

In the same article, he wrote, “The NHS is one of the astounding human endeavors of modern times. … It’s easier in the United States because we do not promise health care as a human right.”

He further wrote, “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized, and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate.”

FACT: Nat'l Health Service is a failure
FACT: Private clinics are growing rapidly all across England to help meet growing demand for quality health care.
You see, national Health Service is 60 years old this year. It's bankrupting England, but you don't have to take my word for it:

Express and Star
Sad tales of NHS failure
Thursday 3rd July 2008, 10:45AM BST.

This bright and fantastic initiative to allow everyone access to free treatment was, of course, brilliant and necessary in it’s infancy but 60 years down the line and the NHS is seriously over burdened, under-funded and riddled with problems----

My mother and myself have had nothing but a complete catalogue of errors because it seems very much to me that unless you go to the doctors/hospital with something obvious and are a man, no one takes you very seriously.

I went back and forth from doctors and various hospitals between the ages of 5 to 24 with a painful urinary complaint which I had suffered with from birth. The mistreatment, misdiagnoses, horribly rude consultants and errors experienced during those years would fill several blogs!

I decided that I had experienced enough and it was better to just suffer alone than continue with the NHS so I didn’t see a doctor about my problems again for 6 years. The pain has become increasingly difficult to manage of late and my husband persuaded me to try again this year and after a six-year wait I was full of hope that things may have improved.
I was so wrong.

After waiting six years, the consultant spent four minutes with me at my first appointment and was so abrupt I left the room and sobbed.

I returned for my second appointment and waited over an hour while the consultant saw everyone else in the waiting room. When I was the only person remaining, he left the consulting room, walked through the waiting room and disappeared.

My husband and I presumed that he had just gone for a quick break but the registrar called us through and explained he had been called to an emergency.

Rationing---Check
Doctor Shortage---Check
Increase Health Care Costs---Check
Complete and total Government dependence---Check

America is watching our President select, one after another, Socialists to run our country into the ground. If you're not furious after that story, which is one of thousands in Europe, please do me a favor and move there. For hundreds of years the world has aspired to be as great as America. Countries have grown and dissolved trying to prove our capitalistic republic wrong. Now we're lucky enough to have a President join in the demagoguery. Empires like the United Soviet Socialist Republic left their people devastated in poverty by adhering to the idea of income redistribution and socialistic programs. Communism doesn't work. Socialism doesn't work. Fascism doesn't work. History is the only indicator of the future and Europe has spent the last 20 years digging themselves out of the suffocating wake of socialism governments. All over Europe countries are moving to a more fiscally conservative, individualistic government, while America is doing the complete opposite. Supporting wealth redistribution is admitting to individual weakness, laziness, and failure. Opportunity is awarded to everyone. That's the founding principles of this great nation. The incentive for success is being wiped away one progressive czar at a time. November elections will be a reckoning, but I'm afraid it's too little too late. Health care reform will cripple this country, but rest assured, Obama and his Socialism goons will do it first.

How you know God has a sense of humor...

Audrina Patridge is just one of the many chicks that defy the laws of celebrity. She has no talent, she basically has no job, and she is an epic butterface. Even though my friend Chris would characterize this as, "Smoke", I'm pretty sure this is why the term butter face was brought about. I guess her face isn't awful, it's just her body is sooo good, her face pales in comparison. She better enjoy it while it lasts because in two years, instead of getting paid for guest spots at Palms Hotel and Casino, she'll be forced to show her breasts for entrance into The Golden Nugget senior pool. I'm angry she's been famous this long. I see hotter girls three times a week, minimum.

Can it really keep getting better...

This cat was sent to the clink for child molestation and being in the country illegally. Don't let the democrats hear about this one though; After all, immigration laws are meant to be broken.

People Never Cease to Amaze Me...

MAY 19--Meet Joshua Dawson. The Arkansas man, 24, last week allegedly arranged what he thought was going to be a sexual liaison with a 13-year-old girl he had met on the Internet. During an online chat (Dawson's Yahoo handle is 'biggoo76'), he "exposed himself using a web cam and offered sex" to, of course, an undercover officer with the Mayflower Police Department, according to investigators. After arranging to meet the girl, Dawson stopped at a Walmart to purchase condoms. When he arrived at the meeting location, Dawson was arrested by cops, who found the condoms and Google driving instructions to the meet-up spot in his vehicle. They also discovered that Dawson has the worst taste in message t-shirts (especially for someone plotting sex with a minor). Dawson was named in a May 14 felony information charging him with Internet stalking of a child.

No that being a pedophile isn't creepy enough, but wearing a shirt like this upon your arrest is beyond words. It's almost so ballsy, it's funny. This guy will leave prison with his anus being 9X's larger than the day he arrived.

May 20th is Draw Muhammad day!!!

Don't draw Muhammad because some 20 something middle class middle eastern man will track you down and do his best to kill you...but don't profile. I'm 5'10 205 lbs of twisted steel with blonde hair and I'm quite sure people that put bombs in cars in Times Square, fly planes into buildings, and sneak bombs into their shoes don't look like me. In fact, they look a lot like this. Islam is about as peaceful as hungry genital crabs. The fact that our country apologizes for a religion that despises "Infidels" and everything else we stand for is disgraceful. On second thought, draw Muhammad...and make him eat pork.

14:57, 14:58, 14:59, DING!

Like I've been saying for at least a year, Megan Fox's insufferable behavior has finally been reigned in by someone. When I say reigned in, I mean fired and when I say someone, I mean the only man responsible for making her famous, Michael Bay. Megan Fox is attractive, but there's thousands of hotter girls in Hollywood willing to do ANYTHING for a chance at Michael Bay blockbusters...and by the way, they're undoubtedly infinitely more talented than this dumbass. She's horrible. Her career is O.V.A. Jennifer's Body, despite massive promo, was an absolute box office embarrassment. Yet instead of promoting her failing movie, Fox continued slamming Bay for his "Hitler-Like" directing style on the set of Transformers during her press junkets. Directors and studios really love that btw. When you're so self absorbed and clueless that you spend another studio's money to consistently talk about the movie you just wrapped and made like a gazillion dollars. I guess it doesn't matter. The point of this post was essentially for no other reason other than, "I told you so." Megan Fox sucks so bad she makes my eyes and ears bleed. I would rather join the Taliban insurgency than spend one day filming a movie with this bimbo. RIP Megan Fox.

Fast Forward 6 Months...who's career will be less significant? Megan Fox or Lindsay Lohan? Inquiring minds want to know.

Kelly Brook caught deciding whether my face is an adequate seat for her

I'm not sure what it is, but British women are so hot they'll make you sacrifice babies. I guess Elizabeth Hurley led the way in the 90's, but her hotness has been dwarfed by girls like Kate Beckinsale, Cheryl Cole, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Abigail Clancy, Keira Knightley, Billie Piper, Danielle Lloyd, Jennifer Ellison, Sienna Miller, Gemma Atkinson, and Keeley Hazell.

Anyway, here is Kelly Brook doing what she does best...punishing me by her insane hotness and natural ability to wear lingerie like no one else in the world.

You're hot...wait, who are you again?

Amanda Seyfried has been in big movies for a while now. I just realized like three weeks ago, she was in Mean Girls. I mean, that was made so long ago, Lindsay Lohan was famous. My point is this: who in the hell is Amanda Seyfried? I'm not sure who she is, but I'm quite sure why she's famous. You see, there's something very marketable about young, vivacious, blonde chicks that have no reservations about taking off their clothes "for the right role" or if it "develops the character". To further my point, two movies ago no one besides her mother even knew this chick's name. That all changed though in Jennifer's Body, where she created a stir by kissing Megan Fox. Then, Amanda threw caution to the wind and starred in Chloe, opposite Julianne Moore, with whom she had a myriad of steamy nudity-filled sex scene. It's not that she's all that hot. Sure, she's attractive, but what young twenty something in Hollywood isn't. She's barely above average if you really 1-10 her. The point is she took her clothes off and got famous. Really Famous. She's basically like the "IT" girl now. She's got scripts flying at her left and right. That's Hollywood for you. It's not that this is the first time nudity brought chicks to the promised land of the Silver Screen: Halle Berry in Monster's Ball, Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, Kate Winslet in, well, every movie, but you get my point. Hollywood is very easy to figure out if you're a young attractive female. Get naked=Get Roles. Sexist...yes. Unfair...maybe. Being young and attractive and taking your clothes off is the male equivalent of playing the mentally challenged and earning critical acclaim: Tom Hanks=Forrest Gump, Sean Penn=I am Sam, Daniel Day Lewis=My Left Foot, Dustin Hoffman=Rain Man, Leo DiCaprio=Gilbert Grape, Russell Crowe=A Beautiful Mind. Call me insensitive or crazy, but you can't call me a liar. Ironically, a group of liberal elitists that pride themselves on social acceptance for all people are the single most exploitative group on the planet. If you're gonna charge me 12.00 per movie, you better at least give me something exciting. Hey, at least I'm honest about wanting to see girls take their clothes off.

The Hate Mongers Take Aim at Elena Kagan

Though I have been a student and teacher of American History for some years, I have to confess that I am not a political junkie. nor do I following the daily reports about the workings of our Supreme Court. Like all citizens, I am interested in those men and women who are nominated by the President to a lifetime position on the Court.

Prior to her nomination, I had no idea who Elena Kagan is or of her history of work within the academic field of law.

We all knew that the retirement of Justice Stevens would be taking place relatively soon. I believe that Justice Stevens has served the Court with honor and dignity. His retirement is well-earned and it has been my sincere hope that his seat would be filled by another honorable person.

When President Obama announced Dr. Kagan's nomination to the Court, I knew that the political pundits would start to their pro and con posturing regarding Dr. Kagan's qualification.

What has surprised me the most about the various responses about Dr. Kagan's nomination has been the campaign to label her as a lesbian. Some of our homophobic bloggers have incorporated in their own blogging rants, cartoons of Dr. Kagan with "lesbian overtones" as vile as how the Nazi's once did cartoons and drawings of the Jewish people.

These behaviors are simple examples of the ever growing social and moral illness that encourages hate and rage against someone when there is nothing of worth to critique and review.

I am interested in learning about Dr. Kagan's professional qualifications to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

Anything else is a waste of our collective time - no matter how many thousands of words are spewed with hate and ignorance.

Sincerely Yours,

+James Alan Wilkowski
Evangelical Catholic Bishop for the Diocese of the Northwest
Chicago, Illinois

http://www.evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/northwest.htm

My life is complete.

Starlight Entertainment has hit the home run of home runs by hiring this guy. I would bet three grand he's either from the Jersey Shore or Philadelphia. Then again, he could be the lead singer of the band from Old School and The Hangover. The acute transition from "The Conga Line," to "In the Air Tonight" is simply brilliant. If you don't watch this video at least 5 times, I hate you.

He's better than anyone on AI right now.

If this kid is even interested, he'll get more ass than a toilet seat.

Maxim Magazine has their finger on the pulse of the American Man.

Nothing on earth, besides Beyonce, Tyra Banks, Sean Hannity, and Meryl Streep, annoys me more than Maxim magazine. Actually, it's any mens magazine for that matter. How out-of-touch can you be with your target audience. It's almost like the editors of mens magazines are getting consulted by the Republican Party because neither have a clue to whom they're marketing. I don't have one ounce of homophobia, but I'm pretty sure every editor for Maxim, Playboy, Esquire, FHM, GQ are gay. It doesn't matter to me because I don't buy those stupid magazines anyway. But if I did, I certainly wouldn't have Katy Perry at the top of 2010's Maxim's Hot 100 List. That's just re-damn-diculous. She's not the best looking girl at a drag show. Case in Point:

Katy Perry-->#1
Alessandra Ambrosio-->#63

Katy Perry-->#1
Kelly Brook-->#89

Katy Perry-->#1
Marissa Miller-->#10

Katy Perry-->#1
Blake Lively-->#4

Are those numbers jokes? Does higher numbers mean a better score? Is this a golf or bowling hotness score? There's no way you can convince me that these magazines are trying to move copies, let alone, sell to men. I wouldn't purchase Maxim Magazine if you held a gun to my head while you fed my dog an anti-freeze smoothie. These people are so clueless they couldn't sell sexual fantasy unless it's wrapped in size 14 high heels, Adam's apples, and dancing to Reba's Fancy or anything by Cher. It's not that I care, just don't hand me an apple and tell me it's a pear. That's insulting. Also, that's why you can't sell magazines.

Somebody been eatin' deep fried pasta cake

In 2007, Elisha Cuthbert played a porn star in Girl Next Door, where she moves in next door to a dorky high school kid and falls in love with him. Most importantly, in 2007 she looked like this:

and like this:


As you can tell from the picture below, Elisha must have moved because the girl living next door now is fat. I just don't get girls in Hollywood. Basically, the only thing they have to do is exercise, eat right and continue to look good and they guarantee themselves tons of money. That must be harder than kicking black-tar heroin because it seems every female celebrity becomes a sea donkey at some point. Elisha, lay off the carbs.

Jesus v. Bloggers

While I don't wish to become preoccupied with the matter of anonymous trash bloggers soiling the Internet, I was thinking - during my drive from my residence to the 3:00 PM Mass at Holy Family - about the endless grief Jesus would have had to endure had anonymous bloggers been around to trash him on the Internet.

I can imagine the Blog Headlines:

Illegitimate Son of Carpenter's Wife Son of Satan

Road Bums Grift for Food and Lodging

Jesus Gets Hot Oil Rub-down From Whore

You all get the idea? I bet you can picture some loon sitting at their computer to shrieking their hatred onto the net - just for the sake of doing so and knowing that they can hide their true identity and avoid moral responsibility.

I have been saddened to watch a colleague-in-ministry undergo a hideous series of vulgar attacks by an anonymous blogger. He and I have spoken about this exercise in sickness and I have been impressed with his attitude - "the truth will always break through the darkness of evil."

We both agree that if Jesus begun his public ministry in this time in history - the sickness of some bloggers would make the passion of Jesus pale by comparison.

It at time that I believe the best course of action to take is to deeply take into heart the words of Jesus himself: "Father, they do not know what they do."

Sincerely Yours in Christ,

+James Alan Wilkowski

Evangelical Catholic Bishop for the Diocese of the Northwest
Chicago, Illinois

www.evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/northwest.htm

A Reminder to British Petroleum: Clean Up Your Mess

I realize that I am speaking to the choir when I say that the disaster created by British Petroleum has caused great harm to the safety of our planet.

I am not an expert in the field of oil drilling. I would hope that the experts in their field can come up with a solution to cap off this well and stop the oil for flowing into our ocean.

BP has been very quick to say that they wish to take responsibility for the disaster - but only to a certain limit.

I am sorry to point out that BP cannot hide behind "limits."

They are the cause of this mess and it is their mess to clean up. No matter how much it takes.

Sincerely Yours in Chirst,

+James Alan Wilkowski

Evangelical Catholic Bishop for the Diocese of the Northwest
Chicago, Illinois

www.evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/northwest.htm

Jennifer Anniston is an effortless beauty

Jennifer Anniston should wake up every day and thank her lucky stars that Brad Pitt got drunk one night and decided to love her. If it weren't for him, she would be David Schwimmer or Matt LeBlanc. It's no wonder she can't get over him and orchestrates herself to cover magazines that he might read like, Architectural Digest. Remove her rhinoplasty and she's this: (UH OH).

Ch...Ch...Ch...Chia

Socialite, make-believe actor, and notorious butter-face, Audrina Patridge, has finally realized her stock should be shorted and has settled for a relationship with her male unfamous counterpart, Ryan Cabrerra. At least she knows her place on the evolutionary ladder of reproductive fitness. Every single time she leaves her house, I bet she refers to her Post-It note attached to her fridge: Accentuate expensive drips of golden silicone honey to divert attention from Chia Pet boyfriend. Hollywood has become a complete joke. Imagine Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Grace Kelly, Carey Grant, or Mae West hanging out at a Hollywood Party with the cast from the The Hills or Jersey Shore. I hate Hollywood more than Whitney Houston.

Am I the only one that doesn't get it...?

First if all, I have no effing clue who Christina Hendricks is...seriously. Second of all, if she was some smoking hot girl, I wouldn't care because I could still appreciate hotness within the enigma of anonymity. Except honestly, I've never seen this chick once unless her GINORMOUS breasts were accentuated up to her chin and her ridiculous red hair colored to a red found only in Crayola 128. She's just a walking hyperbole of what a woman should look like, which ironically, just doesn't work. Any one of the things she has going for her would typically work, but all in unison, FAIL. She looks like the Bride of Frankenstein and that freaks me the F out. This is exactly how I know that monthly magazines have "Jumped the Shark". When Esquire makes this chit Sexiest Woman Alive, I want to rip off my genitals and send them to Esquire. This chick, in the real world, wouldn't be the hottest chick on third shift as a roller skating server at Sonic. Just another chalked up reason why Hollywood sucks more than Cancer.