About the Crap

One of my good friends once told me, “Dude, I wish that someone would make a TV show just following you around.”

Well - that’s basically what What The Crap has become.What the Crap is about just that; Stuff that makes me (or you) think, “Wow, what the crap?!?”

Hopefully the stuff I present here will be either humorous in nature or simple food for thought. One thing is for sure - Don’t trust me, Look it Up! Here’s all my personal junk from Facebook:

Activities:Making Fires, Fighting Injustice, Saving people from Fires, Doing Butt-kickers, Roping Steers, Nintendo Wii-ing.

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Interests: Rescuing Children, Making crap - cool, Web development/nerdfest, Running guns to Nicaragua, Blogging, Logging, Machine Gunning, Studying Philosophy - then making fun of it, Wasting people in Four Square, Building Forts, Grilling Meat, Slapping meat at the supermarket, Hitting Drums, “Warrshing” my “Baig” in the “Crick”, Mining for Ore, Rowing with Oars, Enormously Phat beats, Biking and bike-seats, Shredding tasty licks on Guitar, Running (for fun - not from fights), Backpacking (NOT Frontpacking), Talking like a Pirate, Camping (firing some bons), Falconry with Brother Jesse, Bestowing blessings, Scouting for danger, Prancing around.

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Favorite TV Shows:House MD - As Metallica puts it, “nothing else matters.”Fine, I guess Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Man Vs. Wild, the Office, and Firefly qualify as well.

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Favorite Movies: Black Hawk Down, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars 4-6, Braveheart, Gladiator, Luther, The Matrix, Oceans Eleven, Minority Report, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Hook, Serenity, Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, Casino Royale

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Favorite Books: Miracles: C.S. Lewis, Give Me a Break: John Stossel, Mere Christianity: C.S Lewis, The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Holy Bible, America Alone: Mark Steyn, Getting Real: 37 Signals (http://gettingreal.37signals.com/).

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Favorite Quotes: “Yo Hooch, Why you Trippen?” -Josh Hanson

—”Uh…had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh,everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?” -Han Solo

—-”Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.”Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.”-C.S. Lewis

—All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it…and that is an encouraging thought…-Gandalf the Grey

 

—Taste that food! Dong! - Taco Bell

—[A Series of Quotes]—

Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

The chinaman is not the issue here, dude. I’m talking about drawing a line in the sand, dude. Across this line, you DO NOT… Also, dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here!

Yeah, well. The Dude abides.

Ulli doesn’t care about anything. He’s a Nihilist. The Dude: Ah. Must be exhausting.

The Dude: And, you know, he’s got emotional problems, man. Walter Sobchak: You mean… beyond pacifism?

[I] do mind. The Dude minds. This will not stand. This aggression will not stand, man.

-Big Lebowski

—Budapest. -Dan Sinclair

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“…confidense, you know what I’m saying. So -Yeah, we gonna do it big, (yeeah) all day, all night - do it huge. You guys have no idea what I’m talkin’ about when I’m sayin’ dat, but you, but, but, but my boyz know. The Gata’ boyz know what I’m talkin’ bout. Gatasgonna know what I’m talkin’ ’bout…”-Joakim Noah

—”If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you’d hate the America they portray, too.”-Mark Steyn

—”Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them.” -George Washington

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Ok fine - here’s some serious stuff (….boring!)

Personal Crap…because having a ‘totally objective’ viewpoint is impossible - I will try to clearly define where I stand so you can make your own judgments. Just so you know, I guess.

Politics: My political thoughts so far are as follows:

• I believe that personal faith, values, and convictions influence my political decisions and not the other way around. Also - let me make this crystal clear - I DO NOT make political decisions based on what my pastor tells me or simply based on the ’stance of the church’. Rather - I evaluate decisions in a situation by situation manner. In other words - I don’t vote ‘party’ or ‘ticket’, or because all my friends are - and never will.
• I believe in smaller government. Mainly because government has no bottom line. What happens when they run out of funds because of poor decisions - they ask for more money. This is a critical problem because government is the only entity that can actually force you to pay them money.
• I believe the free market is the best economic trading solution man has yet developed.
• I believe that you are kidding yourself if you think gun control will limit the number of guns (and violence) in the hands of criminals. There are hundreds of ways to commit violent acts with anything - not just guns. If bad dudes actually had to worry about being shot, rather than respectable gun owners worrying about losing horse crap lawsuits for shooting someone who broke into their home - crime would go down.
• I believe that there is a right and wrong and they can be known. Feel free to disagree, but then don’t complain the next time someone steals your seat on the bus, cuts you off in traffic, kidnaps your children, or pees on your rug (even if it really tied the room together).
• I believe that we as humans are called to be good stewards of the earth.
• I believe that the assertion that we (humans) are causing Global Warming is based not on fact, but junk science and the idea is highly politicized to fool the reasonable minded. Really - the Jury is out on this one still - regardless of what Hollywood would like you to think.
• I believe that a fetus is a living human being.
• I believe that private property is an absolute necessity to reward (and encourage) hard work in a free society yet I do not think gaining property to be the ultimate end, goal in life, or necessary at all for general happiness/success.

I am sure I will add many more things here soon. Leave a comment if you care!