Poor Poor Millionaires

 

Read this NY Times articles about Millionaires not feeling like Millionaires. Now, I was very intrigued. "I wonder if these are stock millionaires on paper" I thot as I clicked on the link. Well, I was right and I was wrong. Some of the whiners in this article did have $1- 5 million in the bank but were still toiling away trying to maintain their lifestyle.

 

One person was quoted to NOT be able to maintain lifestyle if they stopped working whilst being a millionaire. I almost fell off my chair invoking the spirits of Stupidity to reach out and strike this man down. I mean, what kind of expenditures are u rocking that doesn't allow you to live off a couple million????

 

Yes, they live in Silicon valley but BITCH move!!!!!!! Come to Texas!!!  Sell that $750000 "dream" home and buy a $300000 dream place by the lake that has EVERYTHING u had in Cali but only bigger. Then u can use the ~half a million you have left over to DO WHAT THE F**K you want to do.

 

What is this some sort of gilded rat race?  They are in the 1% of the world's population in wealth and you are pulling 60 hour weeks and clocking in on weekends? WHY? For what? My problem is that there are folks making a quarter mill a year and living the Vida loca.

 

What is the point of having millions yet u spend 750000 on a house??? I swear, we are amazing creatures us humans. How we get used to so little and still survive yet folks have soo much and they still sound like they don't have enough.

 

there was an adjoining article that spoke more to what I was taking about. making do with $10 million. $10 million !!!!! This guy spoke of friends that spent a quarter million on a car but rarely takes it out cuz he is scared of getting a dent on it. Parks it miles away cuz he doesn't want folks to ding it. You would think that rich people like that would be smart enough to see that he could have bought 4 E class Mercedes with that money. Shoot with a quarter million. Buy one Mercedes and pimp it out so it has dent proof covering!  If u can put Purple ostrich skin covering on your car, you can get dent proof covering dammit!!

 

You know, the root of it all is vanity. Dat is all it is.  things you just GOTTA have..

 

A $500k house in the "right" neighborhood becomes a $4million place.

$250,000/yr in Mortgage

$50k in taxes

$100k /yr in private schools ( walahi!!)

$50k for private college.

$50k for Summer home.

$250k for country club fees- Dear God in heaven..

 

U know what? If this is what is to be rich then I don't want to be. This is scary how much money u have to spend to be among the elite.

 

now granted, not everyone rocks a million dollar home. If u go from 4 mill to quarter mill then u have spent a lot less but  u gotta wonder on where the sweet spot is. That point where u earn more than u spend and save enough. I don't know if there is a magic number of earnings. I think it is a matter of state of being.

 

I don't care who u are but with $5 million in the bank with 8% interest, you should not have to work again. Sell your million dollar (paid for!!) home and move to saner parts of the country.  Move to Austin where u can be just as snobbish and fake but for a LOT less money. Beat that!!!

Da Ringtone biz??

T-Pain told folks that he got a couple million from ringtones sales off his new album. Isn't that wild? I like the idea though. Hopefully, the artist gets a bigger chunk of the sales of the ring tone biz than the record biz. The issue is that the ringtone prices are crazy!!! $2.49 for a snippet of a song? i can BUY the song for $.99 and re-rip to mp3 and edit it to ringtones! Don't get me started on illegal d/ls.

Isn't it funny that rappers are bragging on their ringtone sales. Ringtones sales??!! WOW. I guess the music industry is changing somewhat. Of course, i dunno how much each artist gets for each ringtone but i will take any way to connect directly to the artist. Or connect closer to the artist.

So now, Common comes out with Finding Forever. I can buy the album for $9.99 or buy 4 ringtones for $10. Now which one makes Common more money? I wanna know. Right now, i am leaning on getting the album cuz I can't pay for a freaking ringtone. Especially when they are more expensive than Itune files.. they are crazy!!! As long Audacity is still open source.. and Windows Mobile phones use Mp3, I will never pay for a ringtone...... Again....

Kamikaze Shot blocker

Been a while y'all. A lot has happened since my last post. Actually, I was unable to blog for a while. What happens when you shatter your elbow. Yeah, shattered not broken not sprained or strained. Shattered.

How did it happen? All for defense baby. DEE-fense!! My friend went to the hole for an easy layup. So that little kamikaze voice in my head started screaming “ Block his shot !!! Block his shot for the motherland!!”

Like a good soldier I obeyed the call and went for the block. Now usually I go for the ball but that day I wanted to make a statement!! I wanted to block the shot out of the court and into another zip code!!

For the motherland!!! For the....MOTHERF*** PAIN PAIN, OMIGOD so much PAIN!!!

According to bystanders, I got a gleam in my eye as I saw the player heading to the basket and I leaped into the air screaming words in Japanese! My amazing jumping ability propelled me from the ground so fast, I careened into the player. The player seeing my massive ups, cringed in horror and flailed to avoid the inevitable embarrassment that comes form trying o score on me. Or It could have been that i was screaming in Japanese.

The collision knocked my legs out from under me and my arm got pinned to my side. I landed right on that elbow and my hip landed on the elbow. It was perfect. All my weight on that elbow. Bystanders said that there was a snap but all I remember was PAIN PAIN PAIN.

I thot it was a bad sprain or muscle injury but I couldn't lift my arm. Naturally, I was not gonna play ball so I went home for some TLC from the Super Wifey. My arm was throbbing man.. couldn't move it much so we rolled to the hospital.

Now I had just hurt my arm and thot I understood what was pain. Every bump on the road was painful and turns sucked. I have never hated turns and curves EVER in my life. A lengthy 45 min wait, I got an xray.

Usually, an xray is a good thing but Not today. I can't understand why after SHATTERING YOUR ARM, the xray technician wanted me to place my arm in positions that require me to be healthy and pain free to do!! I was not having it. The tech needed to get another technician to hold me down. I was not happy about taking those xrays.Not happy? I was PISSED!!

The doc I saw, told me that I had broken my elbow. Put me in a sling.. PAINFUL!!! Couple weeks of rehab and I would be ok. She was very cherry too. Told me that this kind of injury really is great for arthritis for the rest of my life. I was like... thanks good to know.

Wifey felt a disturbance in the force when dealing with the doctor so we went to another one and they told me that I had a shattered elbow and needed surgery. SURGERY?? CRAP!!! how am I gonna pay for this? I got coverage but these sucker still cost!!!

All this for a blocked shot??

The Iphone is evidence that God loves gadgets..

If the Lord Jesus came back to Earth to reclaim it or die again for our sins. This is the phone that He will use to call God to complain about having to save us from our sins AGAIN. In fact, I think Jesus would come down just to sing a 2 yr agreement with AT&T to use His phone.

I have read all articles about this phone and remained skeptical but after watching this presentation, I am convinced.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/guidedtour.html

Jesus owns stock in Apple or Steve Jobs mortgaged his soul to Satan. I doubt the latter cuz this phone is too beautiful for man to make it. I believe that Jesus came up with this concept and choose Apple to bring it to being. However, the 5 yr contract with AT&T does give credence to the Satanic mortgage of Steve Job's soul.. eh..

This isn't the IPhone anymore. it is the Jesus phone. It is Holy. All imitators will be beheaded.

The price is still too much though but what do u expect from the phone given from the Most High? So I will sit back and trust that the Lord Jesus will bless me with the amount of money to purchase this phone. I will get it soon. The Lord loves me. Why use prayer when the Lord has given us the Jesus Phone.

All Praise the Jesus Phone.

Paris who?

I bet Paris Hilton will come out of prison with street cred and have a nation wide tour on her upcoming rap album. I mean, she acts stupid, bares all in a sex tape, gets paid to go to parties and act ”Hot”. Gets paid to be in a show where she slums with normal people.

Drives drunk twice while with suspended license and probation. Doesn’t read what her publicists give her to sign. Hasn’t seen a camera, she doesn’t like.

Goes to jail and now she changed??? B.S. the only change is that she doesn’t have access to the high end smack she is using while in prison.

You know what though? She isn’t the problem. We are. Society is. The only way that someone like her could be THIS popular is cuz folks ARE talking about her. Somehow she elicits a strong opinion. I blame myself.

Instead of hating her so virulently, I should simply ignore her. Act like she doesn’t exist. We all should. If the news stops talking about her and filling the front page with her shenanigans, I am pretty sure she will literally fade away to nothing..

Gay in saudi Arabia?? Don't they cut off penises for that?

I read an article talking about the vibrant gay scene in Saudi Arabia. Maybe not as blatantly obvious as the US or Europe but enough that one would wonder…

Now we talking about a country where men sit separated from women in public. Women have to wear that scarf thingie at all. No driving for women and no voting as well. Women are pretty much property it would seem.

Personally, if a woman had to endure all that restrictions and now her man might be participating in some butt plugging as well, I would be slightly peeved too. Like knife to privates peeved.

Anyway, here is the article. It is long but riveting. It brings an interesting viewpoint to how certain cultures deal with homosexuality.


http://www.yawningbread.org/apdx_2007/imp-305.htm

Music, movies and Porn

Here is a wierd thot. Download as much music as u want and u stand the chance of being sued by the RIAA otherwise known as lawyers with a VIP pass to hell.

Download Movies and the MPAA (Monkey loving Hollywood lawyers) will sue ur succulent butt too.

But d/l Porn and the only thing that could sue you would be ur g/f for emotional abuse since she can't compete with women that ALWAYS want sex and the loss of millions of potential babies.

No question about it folks, the internet tubes are sticky with the sperm of millions of men wasting their time looking at sex.

What's the harm u say? Porn doesn't hurt noone. it is just fantasy. Bull.. Porn is hurting folks left and right and we don't see it.

Hell, Alcohol kills people daily yet it is legal to drink. DOn't get me started on cigarettes yet folks are lighting up all the damn time.

Porn is like crack. U want more of ur fix and u keep looking for more of it. Maybe in the old days when porn needed seedy stores, peep shows and magazines, one could waste away a paycheck or something but now... the Internet is rife with this stuff!!1 Movies, clips, snippets. Everywhere!!!

All it takes is the wrong clip and a 14 yr old can be introduced to sex that can fry his mind. What about the women even? the girlfriends and wives? How can they compete? I mean, why should they?

Porn is waging a mental war on our brians. Altering the chemistry of sex in our heads so that people prefer staring at a screen more so than their partners. We are killing our women with this stuff. Porn makes men selfish. Even violent sometimes.

Why the tirade u ask? I saw something today that upset me. I saw a clip of a woman being raped or acting like she was raped. Soon she started "enjoying" the sex. I could help but to think that somewhere there is a guy watching this stuff THINKING that women actually do get off at being forced to sex.

This stuff is dangerous and it is free. U gotta buy alcohol or cigarettes. Porn...all u need is a wifi spot and a computer.God help us all.

Iphone Porn

WHat else needs to be said that isn't said?? If this phone delievers, I will cancel my T-Mobile subscription and drink the Iphone koolaid.. that is sooooooooooo sexy!!! Perfect for me.

Given how much AIDs is destroying Africa...

We africanz be fronting about the amount of F**king going on.. I mean really..our people are a Horny bunch..

At least in West Africa, there is a strong religious base that a lot of people follow. More so than Europe and the US. Yet, we seem to have a significant trouble with sex promiscuity. Guess it is a humn thing.

We don’t have the sexual openness that Europe has or the sexual celebration love /hate that the US has. Yet, we simply keep spreading that HIV all over the place.

Zambia, Uguanda.. folk be dropping like flies over that diseases. Man, I can’t even imagine why it is soo strong in those areas. Is it infidelity? Lack of condoms? Bad condoms?

Hampton Visit

Just curious

 Why are video girls degrading to women yet porn stars are empowered sexually?

Why is it so easy to be a stupid person?

Why do we keep repeating the same relationship mistake over and over again?

Why do we spend so much time lusting after something and soon forget it after u have gotten it?

Why do men  sleep around and then expect to find an unspoiled virgin to marry?

Why do young women keep going for that bad boy train wreck waiting to happen?

Why do couples let themselves get so fat and lazy that the love atrophies so fast?

Why are waify, starved white women used as a fashion ultimate and big bootied, breasty brown ladies as rap/hiphop video/magazines e.t.c.

Why are minivans so emasculating to me?

Why do people demonize folks for spanking their kids?

Why do we buy a house, new cars, new stuff and total almost $400 000 in debt and call it the American Dream?

Why do we NOT have any  significant liquid savings?

Why do foreign Parents neglect to teach their kids their native language and expect them to marry from their people?

Why do arranged marriages seem to  work better than “love” marriages?

Why do we work so hard to earn more only to increase spending to return to the status quo?

the Irack!!!!

Sometimes you get a skit that truly puts things in a way that is just fun…

why is Imus using rapper to excuse his Nappy head Ho comment???

I guess since 50 cent says the nigga 300 times in his album, Imus think s that he can toss the word in now and then when a black man pisses him off.

If Imus wants to call someone a Ho, pls strap on a guitar, download some 70’s samples and make a rap song.

Even if he called the girls skanky bitches, we would still be having this problem.

$400 my ass!!

Man, I was pissed. That dumbass accountant had some nerve to lecture me then try to charge me $400 to do my taxes. In retrospect, I wish I could summon the power of the fireball and toast that accountant where he stood. Alas, my attempts to generate Streetfighter 2 powers have been almost all for naught. Except for a severe rash I can produce almost in cue, I am powerless.

Or am I?

I had downloaded a tax prep program a while ago on a whim. It was free so I figured, why not? I started doing research on filing online or using a computer and i found out that my program was a pretty good program. Granted, folks rated turbo tax better than taxcut, it was not by much.

So I sat down last night and start going thru our stuff. I put all the information in and 1.5 hrs later.. I was done. I had a nice lil refund coming to me and I was being charged $16 to file for both my wife and I. $16??!!!!!

Dumbass acct wanted $400, the other guy my wife scheduled was asking for $200 and I did it for $16?? Man, that is incredible!!!

My refund has a big screen TV written all over it!!!! Or additional saving for my house. Damn, my savings ways..

Condescending accountant!!!!

We went to an accountant to do our taxes.  I am used to getting money back every month from my taxes. So Tax day has been  a good day for me.  Wifey had an impression that he would know what new fangled tax breaks and exemptions that  we could use. So mo money for me right??? Let’s go!!

Now we drive to the place to this small town near by. Nothing special but it has this old town feel. The tax office was in an old skool colonial house  converted to office. Very old, very “ not used to negros” kinda feel. Maybe it was me but the receptionist asked who we were here to see. We told her and she promptly told us that he was busy right now and asked us to have a seat. Now she never checked a sheet, looked in on any person in that office. There were at least 2 rooms full of people. How did she know he was busy? Never mind. No biggie. I brought a book.

We sit to read then the “busy” guy comes out.  Now we are sitting on chairs, wifey is on my left. She is closest to the door that the man comes from. The guy walks across past my wife, straight to me to shake my hand.  If wifey hadn’t put her hand out there, I don’t think he would have shook hers. Why that strange? U ask?

SHE called him.

SHE arranged the appt.

SHE confirmed the appt.

Why shake MY hand? He doesn’t know me. He has met my wife and talked with her. Why shake my hand??  Now I know I am making a lot of this but it gets better.

We get into the office. I notice that he doesn’t close the door. I dunno about u but that struck me as weird. As he sits down and asks for our information,  I realize that I am not getting  a good vibe from this guy. Mannerism is slightly off. He is giving off the “ I would rather be doing something else” vibe to me. I chalk it up to my suspicious nature and ignore it.

As we hand our papers to him, I make a comment that I would be upset if I have to pay taxes this year. Like I said before, I usually get money. Paying more taxes is new to me.  I don’t  know if that was what caused the guy to go nuts inside or it was the straw that broke the camel’s back but the rest of the hour was highly unusual to me.

He took a lot at our papers and announced that my wife was gonna owe taxes! I was surprised! First that he figured it out in 2 minutes and that he seemed happy to let me know about it.  I was confused and this idiot proceeded to wave the papers we gave him in front of him like we were children. He gave us this dumped down explanation of how we most definitely were going to owe taxes. In retrospect, he was right about how the taxes were calculated but his technique was highly insulting.

I felt like he was trying to teach calculus to morons and he was beneath having to do so.  All of this to an open door so everyone out there was hearing this guy berate us and divulge our earnings and stuff. I was silent but I was fuming right now. This guy was seriously pissing me off.

So we look over my stuff and he concludes that I will get a return on my money. So all in all, we will get money back.  My return would be more than enough to cover the taxes my wife owes. Good news right? By the time he told us that, I was too pissed inside to care.  Any attempts for explanations were replied in a clear condescending manner that made me wonder if this was racial.  I can’t say of course. If he had been clear cut enough to call my wife, a nappy headed ho, I would be sure that he was a racist and one that would have a bruised face.

Ok, u are thinking, “ this isn’t so bad right?” I wish u were there, he was rude. Not outright rude but just enough to hear the underlying” U are not on my level” tone in his voice. To add insult on injury,  after he finished his paper waving tirade, he looked over the papers and told us that he would do our taxes for the same price that was done last year. He said it like he was doing us a favor!! 

We paid $400 for our taxes last time but we got more than 10 times more so no biggie. This guy is telling us that we are getting a third of what we got last time and he will do it for the same price. THANKS u lil bitch..

Now I didn’t remember how much we paid. I asked and he said that we paid $198 each. So I said” So bottom line, you will do it for $400?” And he replied” I dunno the exact number, let me calculate” he PULLED out his calculator and added $198 +198. WTF??  That is 4 buck short of 400. I don’t need a calculator for that!!!! YOU freaking shouldn’t.

So we bounced. We told him that we need to go home and dream up more deductions.  I should have told him that he was a dickwad and we will tell everyone that he had child porn portraits on his wall and he kept staring at my shoes and touching himself the entire meeting.

Man, I was pissed. I didn’t realize how upset I was til I got back to work.  I don’t remember the last time I had someone treat me or my wife that way.  Shit, I am gonna see if I can do my own taxes and see what I get from it. If I get a decent amount, I will simply file it myself.  Screw any self absorbed idiot that thinks I am doing them a favor.

If u aren’t busting ur butt trying to get me the most money for me, I am not contributing to your BMW monthly payment fund. Kiss my ass.

**this tirade doesn’t conclude any personal friends or fam that are accountants. My brother is an accountant and he has not been an arrogant self absorbed jerk since he was 13. Electro shock therapy DOEs work.  Luv ya bro.. ;)**

2003 Speech by Robert C Byrd

http://byrd.senate.gov/speeches/byrd_speeches_2003february/byrd_speeches_2003march_list/byrd_speeches_2003march_list_3.html

This stuff is scarily prophetic. What are the current ONGoing cost of the war?

Dear God in heaven,

 I saw this car online and I believe my words were “Sweet Mother of God!!! I am in lust”. I have finally found a car that will make me hand over my credit card to drive. A 438 hp hybrid??  Enough talk.. look at the pics.. Do ur research. Don’t’ fight the feeling. It is a good thing.

This car is so fly that I would buy it and not CARE if anyone ever sees me in it. It is too cool. I want one.

http://www.lexus.com/2008lsh_prelaunch/main.html

How hard have u worked in ur life?

I asked myself that question. What have I worked hard for in this life? What have I been the most proud of?  If I am to chart my career life span, what am I most proud of?

What are u most proud of? Are u working hard every day? What are u working for? R u simply working hard at ur job and that is it or are u working towards something?

What am I working towards?

I have found myself worrying more about life than usual. I worry cuz we have talked about buying a house and deep inside my heart, I am concerned. Somehow I have gotten used to spending my money on rent and can’t get my head around the argument that house payments come back to u. the market is slowing down and if I buy now, will I be able to get my money back or a good profit? I worry about providing for my family.  Possibly a child. I worry too much. What is God for I have to worry about everything I can’t control?

I am beginning to dislike Stargate Atlantis.

After finding out that the DVR chained me to a couch as I desperately tried to watch and delete enuf shows from my computer so that my DVR could record more, I got rid of my cable. The so called time saver made me a bigger couch potato. Imagine going from missing the occasional show to catching EVERY Law and Order show on TV at any time.

U can't watch all of that in a weekend and God forbid u have a life outside ur apt. U will come back to find out that rectifying the tv show backlog becomes.. a chore.

Another side effect is that u start to see the formula that each TV show has and unless u are SERIOUSLY DIALED into the show, u will grow to hate it. i have found sometihng worse.

I was given DVDs so vile that I wish i could go back and return this dark discs of power to it's owner. It was chuckful of Stargate seasons. Not shows, SEASONs. I have sat thru ENTIRE seasons of Stargate SG1 and SG Atlantis. the problem is that I can't stop. I have to finish it.

So I have in my possession 4 seasons of Stargate. I am committed to finish them. One way or the other, I will either hate these shows or love them. the love them parts is cool. It is the hate them part that I ... hate. I tend to deeply despise them.

Now if the series is engaging then I am in heaven. As I enjoyed Season 9-10 of SG-1. I happen to like Teal, Carter, O'Neil and that annoying new leader that jumps into alien shit without a thot. Why would u assign a reckless hot head to lead a team?? Ratings? Anyway, SG-1 has a better story line and much more depth to it characters than Atlantis.

Atlantis is beginning to PISS me off. they ALWAYS find themselves in some crappy situation and rely on an obnoxious cowardly scientist get them out of it. He has been annoying for 20 episodes so far and I am tired of it. I can't beleive noone has punched him out yet?? I mean come on...

Rant aside, i have seen the formula and I am tired of it. create impossible situation with a time crunch. Shot at bad guys with bullets while bad guys HAVE to take u alive and thus use stunners. One dimensional characters that always act the same way.

Mysterious female leader with awesome six pack. Usually a bad ass in combat at the base but ALWAYS get captured alive.
Bruiser of the team. slightly retarded but at peace with himself. Always bruising. always a flesh wound.
Scientist , gibbering yet has time to berate people that save his ass all the time yet noone takes him to tash cuz he is SOO smart.

Hot head leader that deadpan almost anything and trades corny banter til obnoxious scientist figures out how to rescue them and they scurry off to safety. Rinse repeat.

I still need to finish the series but if I ever see that scientist, i will have to kill. I will do it for all humaniTV.