Bring it on.  We’ve seen worse.  We heard it all after Katrina.

Remember Chicago, 2006?

I was pissed off about that then.  Now, I’ve just grown used to it.  I heard all the “Why rebuild in a flood zone?” idiots in Atlanta.  I let it eat me up inside.

Not anymore.  You want to taunt us with the Federal Flood?  Go right ahead.  We took it for the past five years, and we will keep on taking it.  In that typical New Orleans way, we will wear it with pride:

In other news, I am so fucking excited about the Super Bowl that I am totally mentally crippled.  Can’t focus, can’t concentrate, can’t sleep.  I just sit and think of new things about Saints football.

PS: Raheem Brock, go fuck yourself.  Thanks for the motivation.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

No, it doesn’t bother me.  In fact, I kind of like it.  If you know me, you will know that I enjoy having a uniform of sorts.

The sooner everyone accepts this, the happier I will be.

From: Christian Greenwood <dirtiestm13@meyertv.com>

Reply-to: dirtiestm13@meyertv.com

To: buggs@elbuzzard.com

Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:47 PM

Subject: best

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Message text:

your life is crap

I had no idea he was even sick.

I have always believed that Al Copeland invented the spork, but I have no idea if that is true or not.  I have faith.

For an entire year, I hoped that I would get the chance to see Joey out and about in Atlanta, but no luck. i was going to tell him to keep his chin up. Now that chance is gone…

I know a team who’s in the market for a backup QB. The Saints were looking at almost dead Trent Green. Stay away from Green and give Joey a spot on the bench!

It’s a neat little website that lets you organize to-do lists, notes, and reminders online, and then (the really cool part) lets you share them with other people. Leslie and I use it to keep a to-do list of what needs to get done around the house. We both can edit the list, check things off as done, and leave notes. I use it at work with other people who are working on the same projects as me. It’s also got an RSS feed option.

It’s like having a dry-erase board that you can access anywhere. I don’t know how many of you are surrounded by computers all day, every day, but for those of us that are, Backpack is incredibly useful.

1. Reservoir Dogs – The only good Tarantino movie ever made.
2. Donnie Darko – Creepy awesome good. Patrick Swayze rules.
3. The Terminator – #3? Seriously?
4. Clerks
5. Monty Python’s Life of Brian – Thank goodness it was this Monty Python film that made it, and not The Holy Grail.
6. Night of the Living Dead
7. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
8. The Usual Suspects
9. Sideways – Somehow I think this one creeps up the list because its recent. But then again, I’ve never seen it.
10. Mean Streets
11. Bad Taste
12. Eraserhead
13. Memento
14. Strange Than Paradise – Down By Law, Night on Earth, and Mystery Train are all better than Stranger Than Paradise.
15. Blood Simple – I love the Cohen Brothers, but Blood Simple? What about the Hudsucker Proxy?
16. She’s Gotta Have It – Do the Right Thing. End of story
17. City of God
18. Withnail and I – Uncomprehensible British crap.
19. Lone Star
20. Slacker – I know that there is the school of thought that sometimes it’s what the movie does (and this one blew the doors wide open for cheap indie films), not what the film is. I don’t subscribe to that school of thought. This movie was terrible. I don’t care how influential it was. It was poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly filmed. Put Dazed and Confused on the list, if you have to have a Richard Linkletter film on here.
21. Roger and Me
22. Nosferatu – They mean the original, not any remakes (although the Klaus Kinski one is great)
23. The Evil Dead
24. Happiness – Bad people doing bad things to each other. I didn’t like this one at first, but it grew on me.
25. Drugstore Cowboy
26. Lost in Translation – Can you believe I’ve never seen this movie?
27. Dark Star
28. In the Company of Men
29. Bad Lieutenant – If you haven’t seen this movie, and don’t mind obscenity and violence, see it now. Make sure you get the version with the gansta rap version of a Led Zeppelin song. Seeing this film with Brent Joseph is one of my most favorite memories. On a side note, the Blockbuster-edited version of Bad Lt. is the reason I refuse to give them my business to this day.
30. Sweet Sweetback Baadassss’ Song
31. Pink Flamingos
32. Two Lane Blacktop
33. Shallow Grave – Christopher Eccelston is amazing in this movie.
34. The Blair Witch Project
35. THX-1138
36. Buffalo ’66 – Welcome to Dullsville.
37. Being John Malkovich – Never seen this one either, believe it or not.
38. Grosse Point Blank
39. The Passion of the Christ – Chickenshit Academy nominated this film for three Oscars: Cinematography, Music, and Makeup and it didn’t win any of them. I loved this movie. It deserved so much more.
40. The Descent
41. Dead Man’s Shoes
42. Swingers
43. Shadows
44. Amores Perros – One of the most difficult to watch films I’ve ever seen, especially if you have any love for dogs.
45. Mad Max
46. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
47. Blood Feast
48. Cube
49. Run Lola Run
50. El Mariachi- My peeve with this movie is that everyone talks about how little money it took to make it. I wonder how much money Quentin Tarantino spent on post-production after it had already been released when he discovered it?