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bachelor party

So I had my bachelor party this weekend. I'm not even so sure it was a bachelor party as much as it was an epic weekend of excess and consumption. I was in the dark about the whole thing and knew nothing up until the time that we arrived at our destination.


Eric and Mike rented this insane 10 bedroom lodge in the middle of nowhere PA. It had 10 bedrooms, a hot tub, game room, huge deck, 3 grills, 2 kitchens, like 8 bathrooms and the list goes on. Apparently a game of paintball was on the agenda but by time everyone got there on Saturday we elected to just drink instead. Zach cooked an insane dinner and we ate and drank until we could do no longer of each. The night was capped off with a few late night visitors from a classy establishment in the Pittsburgh area.

The next day we woke up and went to ohiopyle for some white water rafting. For some reason at the last minute we canceled our guided trip and rented two rafts and took on the lower Youghiogheny by ourselves with practically zero experiance and as hungover as you can be. We were a bit nervous at the beginning but by the end we were paddling backwards down class four rapids as fast as we could with out looking what was coming. Perhaps not the brightest idea we have ever had but we survived dimple rock and the other rapids that consistantly kill people there every year.

All-in-all it was an insane party that was better than I ever had imagined. I cant thank Eric and Mike enough and cant wait until the get hitched so that I can attempt to return the favor.

You can see some pictures of the event here. Not all pictures are available to the public.

The wedding is in like 5 days and it has become all consuming. Im not nervous about the actual marriage part but I am terrified of the actual day. I dont think im that confterable having all those people staring at me. I think Ill drink some beers before hand and hope that takes the edge off.

We have a Situation..

I posted some comments on a friend of mines blog about the current political situation going on the US at the moment. I thought I would write a quick post about what really ercks me about some of the social views of an certain undisclosed political party. I'm not gonna touch on any real politic issues (health care, Environment, War's) perhaps Ill save that for a later rant, but instead the social issues that have managed to creep there way out of the bible and into the spotlight of American politics.

1. Abortion- Listen, nobody is arguing that this is a glamorous thing. But here's the deal, If you don't like it than don't have one. Its that simple. If its against your morals than that's fine, but it may not be against mine, and last time I checked I was entitled to my own moral beliefs, so back the f@#% off.

2.Stem Cell Research- I will preface this by saying that both current candidates for President are for stem cell research to some extent or another. But there are a ton of people within party X that cant seem to grasp the fact that this could one day save the lives of someone they know or even themselves. This has got to be the most ignorant view in the history of the world. These cells can be harvested from embryos that are already in clinics and have no life associated with them what-so-ever. The U.S. as a nation has the resources to advance the current medical research in this field to levels that rival any other country in the world. But we have zero federal funding to help labs. To this end we are not only hurting ourselves as a country but we are truly doing the world a disservice.

3. Creationism- I take back what I said earlier, this indeed is the most ignorant view in history. Everything in the world was created in six days (resting on the seventh). I cannot possibly understand how people can not look and this and just chuckle. We have skeletal remains of humans, monkeys and everything in between. We see evolution happening everyday in every species and yet some people choose to ignore all the scientific data and say that "they read in a book that god created the world in seven days and that's just how it is". Even worse than that is Young Earth Creationists that on top of all the other ridiculous shit believe that the world is 5000 years old. Never mind Carbon 14 dating, the geologic record or any other REAL science. I would not send my child (that i don't have) to a school that taught any of that garbage and if they ever do teach it in schools I will probably leave the country.

I could go on and on but I feel like I'm rambling and I'm getting mad just thinking about it. I would like to believe that if anybody just really took a step back and thought about any of this for two seconds they would see how ridiculous it is, but I think that would be giving some people to much credit.

Read about the issues and VOTE!!!


On a lighter note we can now all shit in the woods like civilized human beings, thanks Uncle Booger. Introducing the Bumper Dumper.

Breaking News!!!

John Edwards is the father of Sarah Palins daughters baby!

ha, now that would be gold.

News Overload!!!

Man I am having a news overload. There is a hurricane, the republican national convention started today (kinda), and Sarah Palins daughter is pregnant. What a day, I wish I had two tv's and an additional laptop to take it all in. To top it all off Palin may also have been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) which is some radical group thats motto is "Alaska First" (so much for country first). They also believe that "the vote for statehood of Alaska was invalid because the people were not presented with the range of options available to them" and that "the federal government has since breached the contract for statehood on numerous occasions in over a dozen serious and substantial instances." They also believe that there should be a vote on Alaskan secession.

Man this stuff is Gold. Hey whats up with the name "Trig" anyhow??

By the way, hows that "abstinence only" thing working out for ya Mrs. Palin?