Renegade Blogger

The Renegade Blogger is proud to announce the official launch of The Other Terrorist List, this document is a list of who I think we should be watching at home, rather than going on a goose chase overseas. I’d love to hear input about this and am also open to other companies/people to put on it, so please send me an e-mail letting me know. You can get to this list by clicking the link at the very top of the page or the one in this post. This page was inspired by the John McCutcheon song “Ashcroft’s Army” especially the lyrics listed below. I highly recommend to everyone the album which this came from, entitled “Hail to the Cheif and other songs with a short shelf-life” released in 2003. I’ve been listening to McCutcheon’s work since I was a kid, and have now come to appreciate his more political work.

“I wanna be in Ashcroft’s Army
But still I’ve gotta wonder
Where was all this spying
When Adelphia went under
When Enron ran off with the loot
And Worldcom went right down the chute
Some terrorists wear pin-striped suits
I wanna be a spy”

I hope everyone enjoys it, well, yeah, and again,  I’m welcoming any and all feedback!
~The Renegade Blogger

What do Mark Mays, Rupert Murdoch, Bruce Rohde and H. Lee Smith have in common? They’re all coming to Renegade Blogger! Yes, you heard me right these white guys will all be coming to the Renegade Blogger website in the near future as part of a new section here. I’m currently working on typing up their bio’s and some tidbits about them and will have the information published here shortly!

So apparently Mass Media isn’t that big a waste of time after all, I guess she is teaching us something in there. For example, we were informed last week by way of video that newspapers have changed dramatically in the last decades, those that have survived. According to this video the reason that newspapers have added big, splashy color picture, more advertising and shorter articles is because of T.V. news. The news we see on tv  only shows us the bloodiest stuff, and compacts all of our news into brief to the point statements with little or no details. So this got me to thinking in class today (dont really remember what she was talking about) does this apply to blogs to. For example is a post that is short, sweet and contains really nothing special, no in depth views or opinions more likely to get comments and be read than the longer, more though out posts? And if people do tend to comment more on posts that have, well, less to say what does that say about us? Does that mean that we’ve succumb to the networks media, are we addicted to blood, gore, disaster and tragedy? Think about it, when you see a post that is a bit long winded, what do you do, gloss over it, move on? How many of you actually read those long posts?

I’m exhausted. Totally and completely. Last night, whoa man, last night. Did I really drive around with three friends’ head banging…to classical music?! I’d like to think that we made somebody’s night, we certainly got some smiles…or were those odd looks? I’m not really sure what happened after we left the football game, something about getting food, playing classical music really loudly and, well, some rope, hair gel and the three other guys deciding that they needed to wrastle each other…again. I arrive home, after playing chauffeur to a good friend, one you can talk, well, philosophy with and the two love birds whom…ahem, maybe another time and am in bed at one.
My alarm wakes me up at 7:30. Its Saturday morning, and everyone in my house is up. Oh man. My dad and I have volunteered to be the coarse designers for a Score Orienteering event.

Orienteering: a sport involving navigation with map and compass. Participants have a map, usually of an area with which they are unfamiliar, and a compass. They attempt to visit, in sequence, control points that are indicated on the map, as quickly as possible.

Score: Competitors visit as many controls as possible within a time limit. There is usually a mass start (rather than staggered), with a time limit. Controls may have different point values depending on difficulty and there is a point penalty for each minute late. The competitor with the highest point value is the winner.

So, we get to the park at 9, I drop my dad off and he walks off to set the upper half of the course. I get to set the lower. By, 11:15 I’ve set all my controls (hung them from trees) and am back at the start, the event director is they’re waiting for me and I hand over master maps. After another hours wait my dad trots in and people can finally leave. We set a pretty good course, only the really good Russian guy was able to get them all, in what took the two of us a combined 4 hours 90 minuets. Needless to say, walking through the woods, going up and down etc is hard work. Couple that with the fact that school kicked my ass last week I’m exhausted. Maybe I’ll go to bed…

Congratulations, your share of the national debt as of 22 Sep 2005 at 11:42:23 PM GMT is…$26,677.04. Great isn’t it. You ready for this, the gross national debt is $7,929,401,711,724.33 did ya get all that?
So wait, your probably asking what that “your share” part is up there. That means that if every man woman and child in the US paid that much money, we would be out of debt. Great isn’t it?
So were in debt, big deal right? Well, yeah it is. Consider this: The estimated cost of rebuilding St. Louis is 200 billion dollars, that’s a lot. But what’s even more stunning is that that’s more than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have cost thus far. Think about that for a minuet. Suddenly we have all this money to rebuild a city below sea level but a few months ago we didn’t have enough armor for our troops.
Now consider this (a lot of considering, I know) in August bush signed the infamous highway bill, a bill allotting a whopping 286.4 Billion dollars, for well, not a lot to tell you the truth. It’s filled with projects to create jobs for senatorial constituents, like a bridge in Alaska to an island with about 50 people on it. Now, this isn’t some dinky bridge either.
Anyway, this got me to thinking, where the hell is all this money coming from. Taking into the effects of inflation and what not our country has never been in worse debt.
Look behind the curtain people, what’s going on?

This school year is turning out to be incredibly frustrating. Today our symphony teacher explained, through tears, that when she’s mad and frustrated she cry’s. Last nigh symphony performs for curriculum night, it’s a disaster, we sound awful and some of the dumb ass people are being, well, dumb asses. Today, for a 45 minuet period we play for 10 minuets and get the big long lecture in which she’s telling us…common curtsey, and that she’s now going to be demanding it if she’s not given it. Well, good it’s about damn time.
Kids are disrespectful, teachers are plain out irritating, one thinks that she’s always right, no matter what and doesn’t take opinions from the class very well. It often ends with her telling everyone to be quiet. One likes to pause the movie when something exciting is about to happen and say “what do you think is about to happen?” he claims its for educational analysis. Sadly the two aforementioned teachers are first or second year teachers at heights, used to…a lower level class than what these are. My parents tell me to think of them as easy classes and to just do the work and relax. What the hell is that?! Contrary to popular belief I actually want to get an education.

I’ve been working on getting a scholarship application together, hopefully it’ll be postmarked shortly, it asks for a biography, and I decided to share some of the…highlights.

·Student Conservation Association Conservation Crew Member serving in Cumberland Gap National Historic Park during the summer of 2004.
·Student Conservation Association Conservation Crew Member serving in Theodore Roosevelt National Park during the summer of 2005.
·Volunteer Trail Monitor with the Cleveland Metroparks.

Can you tell I’m into the outdoors?