Redneck vs Inbred Person blog

The term "Redneck" tends to be synonymous with "Inbred person" in many people's minds. They see southern people as ugly and lacking fashion sense. However, the definition of inbred is basically where people who are in the same immediate family sexually reproduce within that same group of people. On the contrary, Rednecks are not inbred. Rednecks are just southern folk that have a simple way of life, whether it be plowing the dirt to get ready for harvesting fruits/vegetables for the family to eat, or going to the industrial mill to work to provide the big money for his family. Redneck actually was a derogatory word that portrayed southern folks as poor in financial stature and not having alot of knowledge about newer technology. The truth is, is that the term "Redneck" has actually has become less derogatory, thanks to the Comedian Jeff Foxworthy. He actually embraced the "Redneck" inside of him, uses it all in comedy, and found a way to boost the morale of all rednecks and fully embrace that they work harder than most to earn their pay. In this essay, i have broken down what each term of what "Redneck" and "Inbred Person" are and now you as an audience will know that there is in fact a difference.

Week 10 College Football Blog

Well, its week 10 and Auburn is 1-7 for the season. After getting manhandled by Texas A+M 63-21, this tiger season will for sure be a bowl gameless season, and im quite sure that some coaches are gonna get fired. Ugh. The worst season in 60 years, and Auburn won the BCS National Championship just two years ago. How did they fall soo far? Once again, ugh. And there is the University of Alabama, (Auburn's archrival) sitting uptop as the best team in college football. It would take an act of God for Auburn to win this year's IronBowl @ UA.

Now to a different subject, because AU is just too depressing to continue talking about.

How about that Notre Dame @ Oklahoma game this past saturday? My goodness those Fighting Irish looked pretty good on Defense. The Middle Linebacker for Notre Dame (named Manti Teo) had a great performance, and if Notre Dame goes completely undefeated for the whole season, he would be my favorite for the Heisman. Which it would be pretty cool for a defensive player to win the Heisman because that hasn't happened since Charles Woodson won the Heisman. Manti Teo has had soo many challenges in his life this season as his grandmother and girlfriend died on the same day, in such a short amount of time. He had to overcome alot for his team, and he has found a way to be an inspirational leader for the Notre Dame team. His ability to overcome soo much has him pegged as my favorite for the Heisman this year.

The Case for Torture Blog

In his essay, "The Case for Torture", Michael Levin argues that if law enforcement/military is put into a situation where if the only way to find/stop a terrorist from attacking and killing many people, that they should be able to torture him if he refuses to tell the information needed to stop the attack. He goes on to talk about the points of views where it can be rationalized to torture the terrorist, and the other point of view where he reasonably argues against someone refusing to let the terrorist be tortured.

I for one fully agree with Michael Levin in this essay. If i was the one that had to make the call on whether or not the terrorist needed torturing, i would easily say "yes, torture is necessary". Not saying that it wouldn't be a difficult decision, but i would much rather torture one evil man to a near point of death vs letting millions of innocent people die. Quite frankly, it seems like a no-brainer to me. Unless you don't have a conscious and you could live the choice of letting all of those innocent people die.

My toe blog2

My toe looks much better after the 6th day outta surgery. I have been putting bandages/polysporin on it everyday, and wore sandals a few days (im sure everyone appreciated smelling my feet), lol. But yeah, my toe is gettin better all the time, so it wont be long. This will probably be my last toeblog, but who knows.

Goodbye to the Work Ethic

In her essay from the late eighties entitled, "Goodbye to the Work Ethic," social critic Barbara Ehrenreich asserts that, yuppies (quite frankly she didnt even explain what yuppies are) work too hard and make everyone else look bad because everyone else doesn't work as hard. She just goes on and complains more about "work ethic" and time periods that maybe work ethic actually came to be. She also talks about motherhood among things that strikes as Work Ethic.

Although I disagree with an overwhelming majority of what Ehrenreich says, i only agree to her final standpoint where everyone should just get there job done, and no one should have to complain about other people not pulling there weight. She just seemed so incredibly disagreeable to me in this essay. Its great to have a good work ethic. Work Ethic puts money in our pockets to put food on the table. I think i just said enough.

Halo Blog- it finally happened

After many many years of dominating friends on the Halo game i talk about alot, i finally played someone last night who truly showed me that they were better than me. That sucked, but now i know there is room for improvement. I dont really have time for improvement since im in college right now, and she takes up alotta my time, so this might be the close end to my Halo Career. It seems just like yesterday i started out, but oh well.

Halloween

Halloween is probably my favorite holiday. Why? Because, i used to work in haunted houses and scare people. I find it very fun to scare people in that fashion. I mean c'mon, who doesn't love a clown chasing you around with a chainsaw? Well, for a few years at the Haunted Houses, i used to be a clown that just runs around chasing the frightened with a chainsaw. Its such a great sight to witness all that excitement on their faces. I did my best to make sure the scared people got their money's worth. I mean, yeah, there are gonna be plenty of people that go to Haunted Houses and just dont get scared, mainly because they know that nothing there would hurt them, or nothing there just doesnt scare them. I have worked at them long enough that i can go to other places and not get scared, but ill get very excited and it brings me joy to be there for that stuff. So, thats my halloween blog

Auburn @ Vanderbilt (college football blog)

My auburn football team played at vanderbilt last week and lost 17-13. Very dissapointing loss for my tigers. Now they are 1-6 for the year, but congratulations to a certain person is in order! The starting runningback for vanderbilt, his name is Zac Stacey, and he set the new all time rushing yards mark for Vanderbilt football with 2,660+  yards rushing for a career. He passed this mark during the 4th quarter vs Auburn. Why do i congratulate him? Because, Zac Stacey is from Centreville Alabama, which is currently where my home is (aside from staying on campus for the week). So, congrats on the new record Z-man.

Give me that old time feminism Blog

In  her 2006 essay for the Huffington Post, "Give Me that Old Time Feminism", New York Times bestselling author Barbara Erhrenreich asserts that, old time feminism is dying out and how some of the older feminism groups have started calling of the dogs and have given in to the new role for women in society. However, noting that there are still some old time feminists still out there ready to make a big deal about the mistreatment of women, and to fight pornography and fight for women's rights among many other things. Then she brings the point to the table about how Islamic culture treats women like chattel (property).







I dont necessarily think think that full-on feminism is the way to go, but i do agree with many points that she has in terms of how women are treated in the world today, and how they have been treated. I did start off reading it and it seemed extremely boring, but then i read to where she talked about Islamists, and i was like Yes ,that culture does treat women like crap, this lady has made an excellent point, thus making me somewhat interested. The way Islamic culture treats women is horrific to say the least. If any women think they have it bad here, they really would not last long in largely Islamic cultured countries.

My toe (dont read if you grossout easily)

I had surgery done on my big toe on my right foot friday, because it looked slightly infected. well, come to findout, i had an ingrown toenail, so whenever i went to the clinic thing friday, we just went on ahead and fixed it while i was there. Now i am currently taking meds for it and waiting for my toe's full recovery. Its not the first time i have had an ingrown toenail, on that same toe. I had the previous one worked on in 7th grade in middleschool.

(new) entitled to opinion part 2

I disagree, because his point of view on all of this is to basically try to be right all of the time. Being right all the time isn't worth it. We gotta lose sometimes. Honestly, i kinda drudged my way through reading this because it was a great deal of nothing but boring to me. But, that's just my opinion. And apparently, i'm not entitled to it. If we weren't entitled to our opinions and acted on them, no American would be American , because if the colonists hadn't decided to rebel from Great Britain (they weren't entitled to their opinion, but they still did what they thought was best, to separate from them) there would've been no revolution, thus we would probably be a great big colony for England to this day. Just food for thought "Mr. Thinker"
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(10-18-12)

In Patrick Stokes, Lecturer and Philosopher at Deacon University's Article, "No Your not Entitled to Your Opionion", the author claims that in order for you to be right, you must know what you are talking about. I agree to that much, but once again, i disagree with his attitude, because it doesnt matter if im right or wrong, i can still have an opinion. If you dont like my opinion, you stink! (Once again, me showing off my opinion skills, lol). I am in the half-and-half boat on this, because he comes off as arrogant to me, even though he might be correct to a certain point (like i mentioned earlier).

Transition of vehicles-Sheila to ?

I used to drive a Black 2005 Nissan Titan. She was my first vehicle. I had a name for her, "Sheila". She rode me all around and she was very good to me, she never gave me any problems, nor did she nag at me or back talk me. I loved her. But this past weekend, dad traded sheila in for a new car. A White 2012 Nissan Altima. truthfully, i always had a secret affair with Altima's behind Sheila's back. So basically, i turned my back on a lady that always trusted me (never a good thing for men to do). But now i have my new car, i have yet to come up with a female car name for her.

One great thing about my new car, is that she has 30 highway mpg and 27-28 town mpg vs my truck having 21 highway mpg and 17 town mpg.

College Football Blog 10-18-12

Well, here it is, another college football blog. Yeah, my Auburn tigers are 1-5 for the year so far, so not very good to be an Auburn fan right now. Auburn isnt even gonna make it to a bowlgame this year :( and here comes the archrival of Auburn being #1 ranked footballteam of University of "those that must not be named" strutting around like they own all of college football. But come the end of November, there gonna get theirs! War Eagle

Fear-My Halloween Blog

I used to work in a couple of Haunted Houses in Bibb County for a few years. I worked as a clown with a chainsaw for the past two or three years and i love to chase people around that are just terrified of clowns and chainsaws. The last three years i worked in one, our gang had moved to an old town multi-story jail, and i worked between the epic "Clown room" and "the outside" were people have to walk around for a minute and i could jump out and scare them. I liked the outside best, because i had a good place to hide in and surprise the people. But, in the outside area is an opening that goes to the basement of the jail. There is no door or anything, its just and opening where you can walk in and out of. Anyway i had someone tell me to go down in there and jump out to scare the people when they come by. That basement has such an eerie feeling to it, there was no way i was gonna hide in the opening to jump out, because i thought something in the basement would drag me in and i would never be seen or heard from again. That jail has had a good bit of history behind it enough to scare me for those reasons. One room they had called the Hanging room, because that's how they killed many prisoners. That floor of the jail is always creepy when your alone there. One night, i actually kinda want to "spend the night" at the jail, but i'm pretty sure that after an hour or so, i would be entirely too freaked out to stay, alone anyway, lol.

Paintball

I love to go paintballing! A few friends and I from church are gonna play soon, so i thought I'd blog about it. I have 2 paintball guns, plus one that really isnt mine, but i have been borrowing it for many years now. My 2 paintball guns are: Tippmann 98 Custom (best beginner paintball gun ever), and the U.S. Army Tippmann Alpha Black Tactical paintball gun, which looks similar to an M16. The gun i have been borrowing is a Spyder Victor 2, which is a good (speedball) play paintball gun gun. The first two i mentioned are better (Woodsball) guns.

No, your not entitled to your opinion blog

I disagree, because his point of view on all of this is to basically try to be right all of the time. Being right all the time isn't worth it. We gotta lose sometimes. Honestly, i kinda drudged my way through reading this because it was a great deal of nothing but boring to me. But, that's just my opinion. And apparently, i'm not entitled to it. If we weren't entitled to our opinions and acted on them, no American would be American , because if the colonists hadn't decided to rebel from Great Britain (being entitled to their own opinion to separate from them) there would've been no revolution, thus we would probably be a great big colony for England to this day. Just food for thought "Mr. Thinker"

Youngtower Library Scavengerhunt

 I had written down three call no. codes to look for three books, and unfortunately, i couldn't find one of them. It must have been checked out or something.



1)GV955.5.N35 N3

Title- The NFL's Official Encyclopedia History of Professional Football
Author- NFL
Publication Information- Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc.
                                         866 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022
                                         and
                                         Collier-Macmillan Canada Ltd, Toronto, Ontario
                                         Printed in Italy by Mondadori, Verona
                                         First Printing 1973


2) ML102.C7 S7 1997 (this is the one i couldn't find)
i dont exactly remember what the title of it was, but it was something along the lines of a country music encyclopedia

3) GV1113.N67 A3 1988
Title- The Secret of Inner Strength
Author- Chuck Norris with Joe Hyams
Publication Information- Copyright 1988 by TopKick Productions and Joe Hyams
                                         Published simultaneously in Canada by Little, Brown &
                                         Company (Canada) Limited

Technology Blog- Halo

Halo- halo is a video game made only for the Xbox consoles. The original Halo Combat Evolved however, was also made for the p.c., but every game in this series since has been purely made for Xbox/Xbox360.  In the campaign of Halo-Halo 3, you assume the role of Spartan 117, a human enhanced in battle armor designed to help the UNSC (United Nations Space Corps) fend off the Alien race known as the Covenant. There are ring worlds, called "Halos", that the first 2 games revolve around. The Halos are super weapons, that were designed to eradicate all sentient life in a galaxy. The Covenant religiously believe that these Halo's are not a super weapon, but a path to a "Great Journey" were when all covenant go through, they believe themselves to become Gods. John (Spartan 117) with the help of Cortana (an Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I.) must do all he can to stop the covenant from achieving the covenant goal of starting the "Great Journey", otherwise all of humanity is doomed.

A couple of my favorite famous people

Actors:

Chuck Norris- Most people know him from his role in Walker Texas Ranger as the protagonist character Cordell Walker. What most people don't know is his life story. He has written a book called "Against All Odds" which is his life story. It consists of the struggles he has faced and how he came to stardom and how he has faced life's adversities, against all odds. I would recommend this book to anyone, because we all may not have the same struggles, but all humans have to face adversity.

Bruce Lee- A man that has made a whole worldly impact through his life's work, but not just by acting in famous movies like Enter the Dragon or Way of the Dragon, but he has impacted through his philosophical studies as well. Unfortunately, he died of a brain aneurysm, living a young life up to the age of 32 in 1973. He was one of the all time greatest martial artists and probably would've been the greatest movie star ever had his life not been cut short.

Movies

I love movies. They are a wonderful source of entertainment. Quite frankly, i have multiple favorite movies. So basically, i am just gonna list my favorite types of movies and examples of those.

I like Comedies, Action/Adventures, Science Fiction, some Horrors, and i am an absolute sap-sucker for Superhero movies

And here are my favorite movies:

1) The Dark Knight
2) Talledega Nights (the Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
3) Marvel's The Avengers
4) The Expendables 2
5)  Most of the Rocky and Rambo film series except Rocky 5 and Rambo 3
6) Die Hard film series
7) Godzilla (1998)
8) The Halloween Film series except  Halloween 3
9) Gran Torino

Wierd day in the workplace

I actually do not have a job, but i have friends that do, so, im just gonna tell you about one time that my friend had a weird day on the job, but i was there for that weird day. My friend Erica that works at the gas station, usually has some pretty interesting customers and at times, some of them are scary, and you have to be aware for when they are around. There is a dude that's usually in town named "Tim" who is one of those guys we gotta look out for. Whats so bad about Tim you ask? Lets just say, the guy has alotta tattoos and he is skinny from his "familiarity" with drugs. Luckily the dude is kinda my short height, so i know i could take him if i needed to in case if he tried to stir up some trouble. Anyway, the story itself starts here. One night i am hanging out with Erica at the gas station, and its just the two of us, then Tim walks in the store to buy some stuff and he gets ready to checkout and starts flirting with Erica. But when i say flirt, he is using some vulgar language, so she is getting fairly nervous, and you know what i'm doing in the middle of all this? Being distracted by a football game. Erica tried desperately multiple times to make eye contact with me, but no woman dare come between a man and his watching a football game, lol just kidding. Unfortunately, she never got my attention, and eventually he stopped being vulgar and she basically got him to leave on her own. If i would've known all that was happening, I would've wiped the floor with his face and drug him outta the store from unconsciousness. But eventually, with police involvement, he came back the next day and apologized, So in the end, it was best that i didn't do anything, this time anyway.

College Football Predictions-Preseason and Week 6 changes

Before this college football season started, i had predictions for the winner of the Heisman Trophy and who would play for the National Championship. My preseason National Championship game would be played between Univeristy of South California and University of Oklahoma, which USC would win. Now looking in to week 6, i change my national championship picture to the game being played between the University of Alabama and University of Oregon, where Alabama wins it's 2nd straight National championship and The state of Alabama wins the last 4 straight National Championship games. Preseason, i had University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball winning the Heisman by a rockslide, but now that Wisconsin is not playing well at all. I change my pick @ week 6 to be West Virginia's quarterback Geno Smith, who is an extremely talented quarterback that has accounted for 20 touchdowns, no interceptions, and we are only halfway through the season. Now with that being said, lets see if i get any of this right.