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July 4, 2007 by EmperorofIceCream
I'm an immigrant. I'll never be an American in the way that someone born, raised, educated here is an American. That's OK. There are pubs in Britain I know where you can have lived in the same locality for twenty years and you'll never be a 'local'. It seems to me that immigrants to a country have a perspective that the native-born will never, can never, possess. It may not be a more accurate perspective. It may not be a more detailed or comprehensive perspective. But it must, of necessit...
July 4, 2007 by EmperorofIceCream
Happy birthday, America. And thank you.
March 28, 2007 by EmperorofIceCream
What is happiness? Does anyone deserve to be happy? Can happiness be bought? What's the difference between happiness and misery? Does anyone deserve to be miserable? No one fully understands the life of another. No one can, merely on the basis of external appearance, judge whether another is truly happy or not. What is happiness? Is it found in external circumstance? For example, are the fabulously wealthy happy? Does the ability to buy whatever you want, whenever you want it, bring y...
February 27, 2007 by EmperorofIceCream
( Link ) This is a link to the image that currently graces my desktop at home (image insertion seems not to be working right now). And this is a link to the website of the creator of that image: ( Link ) You should look at his stuff, it provokes thought and that in itself, in this dumbed-down age of complacent fear and self-satisfied hysteria, is a dangerous act, almost a revolutionary act. The greatest threat to any State is not an armed populace. It's an armed populace that think...
January 19, 2007 by EmperorofIceCream
Link Below is the text of a comment I posted in response to the linked blog entry on CiF, addressed to the blogger (follow the link to see what CiF is). Wucker - What part of the word 'illegal' do you not understand? Il or legal? I'm a legal permanent resident of the USA. It's cost four years of dealing with bureaucrats and the better part of $10,000. It's a complicated, expensive, slow-moving process that will have taken seven years by the time I become a citize...
December 27, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
Everyone in JU (at least, those who have been here awhile) knows little whip. Everyone. And everyone who knows her in JU has an opinion about her, whether 'good' or 'bad'. She has her favorite victims, her good JU buddies, and the rest to amuse her, the vast sea of anonymous, mediocre, second-rate bloggers whom everyone ignores. And all who have, in any way, encountered her have an opinion about her. Allow me to tell you the truth. The very worst you can imagine of her, the cruellest and ...
December 22, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
I watch those TV shows about wine, occasionally. I watch them because I take a perverse pleasure in how much I hate the wine-babble of the people involved in them. I felt the same way about cigar aficionados - until tonight. Wine-speak I still despise, but no longer praises sung to the divine Cigar. My wife, bless her black little heart and her chromed-steel eyes, likes to give - and not just on Christmas Day. All this month she's been presenting me with presents because for her Christmas ...
December 11, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
Communism, as everyone knows, is dead. Except in Cuba and certain parts of Latin America. And if it isn't dead in those parts of the world it certainly ought to be - because, as everyone also knows, Communism is a delusion on a par with the contention that the earth is actually flat. Communism as practiced in the old Soviet Union was not the Communism theorized by Marx. 'Communism' in the Soviet Union was simply centralized control over the economy, bound up with the cult of the personalit...
November 29, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
I hate work. I hate it with a passion. Like the title says, the only thing I hate more is unemployment. It's a European thing generally, but it's also and particularly an English thing. One of the most alien (to me) attitudes I've encountered since arriving here is the American attitude to work. Any good working-class Englishman (which is what I am at the marrow - working-class and proud of it) will tell you that employers per se are the enemy of the worker. In part this attitude has ...
November 26, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
Let me make something plain to you all. Since coming to America my experience here has taught me that Racism is justified. I was at one time a European, and in this context that means that I believed that there was absolutely no basis for racial prejudice. I grew up in Great Britain, one of the most ethnically diverse nations on Earth. The Blacks that I knew, all of whom came from Jamaica, the West Indies (a great cricketing Nation), and Africa, all thought of themselves as British before ...
September 26, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
Yesterday a 17 year old girl in a wrinkled white skirt told me I was too smart to do the job that another office-bimbo-emptyheaded little Fothermucker had contacted me about at the weekend, gooing syrupy nonsense about an 'interview' Monday (yesterday) and being 'placed' by Wednesday (tomorrow). Despite my firm intention not to allow my hopes to be raised by these parasites (the contract I would have signed was not with the company wanting a CAD operator - CircuitCity - but with the staffin...
August 15, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
Sabrina's Dad, Travellin' Hobbs, Bill, William, has started his last journey. He has emphysema, and it's going to kill him. Not yet awhile, and only after after 71 years of life. A good innings, as the English say (the period of time one team spends at bat during a cricket match, the length of time - entirely variable - that it takes to get every player for that team 'out'). Ever since I arrived in America Hobbs has been a father to me, in every way that he could. I feel I am more his son ...
July 21, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
As some who write here might know my most recent contract of employment came to an end May 11th of this year - a little over two months ago. In those intervening months I've been busy. I have a couple of hundred job applications on file, for jobs in just about every region of the USA from California to Ohio to South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama (I'm willing to relocate). I've also had four face to face interviews (all for positions very well within my capabilities and experience). And I've b...
July 10, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
A word of advice, first. Your Author, Dear Reader, is unreliable. This account of my time in Nooooo Yawwwwwwk is not to be taken as a verbatim record of what happened - because nothing happened. I went to New York, I attended school for ten hours a day, I fought my way back to the hotel through the subway every evening, and was generally asleep by nine at night helped along by 'herbal sleep aids' and alcohol. In fact, indulging in such minor pleasures may have been the wickedest things I did ...
June 24, 2006 by EmperorofIceCream
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