Arrogant Jerk

From near the bottom of the dregs of society, Frank White of Dallas, Texas, proves to us that you don’t need to be a fat politician or snooty upper class citizen to be an Arrogant Jerk of the worst kind. Yes, Frank, you are a disgusting low life Arrogant Jerk.

Here’s the story…

Apparently, a young man named Andrew Bow, who is one of our uniform-wearing defenders of freedom (a young ROTC student, to be exact), was at a Greyhound bus station waiting for a bus. While there, he experienced some kind of debilitating seizure that put him on the ground and into convulsions. My own sister’s boyfriend died under similar circumstances, so I assure you Mr. Bow was in dire straits, and in need of immediate medical assistance.

Enter Frank White, a 33 year old man with so little capacity for human compassion that it is hard to describe him without literally comparing him to a mollusk. Allegedly, (come on, they’ve got the whole thing on video) Frank thought this would be a good opportunity to rob the young man of his wallet. So he did.

I could not find any information online to indicate whether Frank White tried to lend a hand at any point, but by the accounts I have been able to dig up, he didn’t. He simply walked over to a man in trouble and took his wallet. This is simply disgusting human behavior. I didn’t really want to qualify Frank as an Arrogant Jerk, because in most cases being one implies that there is a sense of superiority on the part of the offending Jerk.

Frank White demonstrates to me that you do not have to be a pious upper statesman to exude Arrogance. Frank’s complete and utter disrespect for human suffering shows that he considers his fellow being to be beneath him. So much so that pain and suffering were given second consideration to scoring a quick buck or two. Literally; our soldier could not have had more than a few bucks in his wallet.

Fortunately, the entire thing was caught on video, and Frank White will get to spend a little time in the slammer for being such a Jerk. Stealing someone’s wallet is a low life crime. Doing it while the victim is in need of medical help deserves some special attention from the courts. This guy needs to do some hard time at a labor camp working for one of those loudmouthed chain gain bosses who thinks he can work a man straight.

It is a shame we have to share our air with these kind of people. I hope Andrew is doing all right.

Ted Turner said in a recent interview with PBS that he has “always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease”. Mark this down as one of the few times I can agree with him.

I seriously look forward to a day when I have so much money that reality just doesn’t matter. Of course I could probably just buy some weed on the street corner and achieve the same level of dementia for just a couple of bucks. Get this…

According to Ted, in 30 or 40 years Mother Earth will be eight degrees warmer, and we will all be cannibals because “basically, none of our crops will grow”. Seriously; he said that. With a straight face. I thought I was previewing the Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. Ted Turner is a Ridiculous Arrogant Jerk.

Don’t worry about being eaten just yet; Ted also explained that most of us will be dead by then. He also suggested that the reason the Earth is warming is because there are “too many people using too much stuff”. The solution he suggests is that we all voluntarily limit the number of children we spawn to “one or two”. Kind of like all those Hollywood tree huggers who voluntarily drive hybrid vehicles… as their third car! Yeah, that seems to be working. But wait, aren’t we jumping the gun here;

Global warming, as scientist are learning, is a seasonal pattern that occurs every century or so. Our Earth has experienced periods of warming before, and also periods of cooling. In fact, evidence is shaping up to show that we are heading into a cooling period as we speak.

And will eight degrees really destroy all our crops? I am pretty sure eight degrees in my high mountain region will actually enable crop production during specific times of the season. I really cannot imagine a world full of cannibals, so I am hoping he is wrong.

Perhaps Ted has been watching too many of those old zombie movies from the Turner Network Archives.

I read more of what Ted had to say in his interview with PBS and was quite surprised at his level of absurdity. He sounds like a guy who has been reading too much conspiracy theory, and believes it. He needs to get out and walk around a bit. Feel the grass, breath the air, spend a couple bucks on one of those Chicago dogs.

We’re still a bit chilly here in the mountains; eight degrees would make things just about right. Rest assured, I am certain that no one will want to eat you come August when temps soar above 100. Extra crispy?

UPDATE: No sooner did I post this than did the BBC publish an interesting article about ‘global warming’. The article, titled Global Temperatures To Decrease, can be found here. Somebody tell Ted, before he gets too hungry.

I believe Heather Mills is such an Arrogant Jerk that she doesn’t comprehend what she is doing to herself.

The Daily Mail (not necessarily a beacon of trust) reports that Heather has now issued a statement demanding that court records be completely revealed. The reason she wants this, is because she feels that the partially revealed records vilify her as, well, an Arrogant Jerk. What she doesn’t realize is that it is her public behavior that vilifies her as an Arrogant Jerk, and nothing in the world will help that. Not even $50 million dollars, apparently.

The really Arrogant thing about her statement, and current rant, is that she is contradicting herself. Blatantly. In her professionally read statement (she didn’t read it herself; she has ‘people’ to do that for her. Glad she is putting the money to good use…), she says:

“With my head held high, I am very glad to be a strong woman and will use my wealth productively and continue my attempts to make a positive difference in this world. My strength and determination to move on and continue the work we started years ago is fortified by your support.”

YaWhah? Let’s get a few things straight Missy: Your head is not ‘held high’, and you are not taking the high road. You are a barking mad dog with no decent purpose. Please let it be and move to a quiet private island and spend some time with your daughter while she still likes you. And what’s all this about ‘my wealth’; come on, it almost sounds like you feel you earned that money. You didn’t. People who have done truly great things for this world will never see that kind of money. You stole it by pretending to be extraordinarily needy. Nice job.

The only ‘difference’ you are making in ‘this world’ is self condemnation. Please stop, this isn’t a good idea. We actually thought you were kind of cute once. Not any more. We actually enjoy publishing awful pictures of you to emphasize the point that you have become a raging mad dog (note the one on this post).

And let’s not get her wrong, people; the ‘work’ that she is so inspired to continue is not an admirable effort to save the children or the whales. No, the ‘work’ that she is referring to here is her attack on Sir Paul and her effort to get the courts to reveal the rest of the trial documents. Oh, but in the same breath she is quick to note that “As the record shows, I had no wish for these proceedings to be made public, but releasing them in part is particularly unfair“.

Probably. But I am not sure releasing the rest of the docs is going to help her cause. We already think she is an Arrogant Jerk. Does she now think that when we learn about when Paul called her an awful so-and-so way back when, that our hearts will melt and we will suddenly feel sorry for her and demand that Paul cough up another $200 million to match her original request? I don’t think so.

Whatever Paul called her, if he did at all, it is likely that we will all think he was being nice.

In a book about how to get the rest of the world against you, you might find a chapter featuring Heather Mills and her angst-ridden tirade against our beloved Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney.

The case study would start with a too-short courting period, followed by a fairy tale wedding and equally short marriage to one of the single most eligible widowers of our time. Then, and as if to throw salt on the wounds, the jilted woman would begin demanding absurd amounts of money and recompense for spending four miserable years living a life of luxury.

As many of us did, I grew up on Paul McCartney’s music. I can recite almost every Beatles song, and whenever I hear a Wings song, I am flush with memories of my adolescence. Pleasant ones. And so for this reason, I and many McCartney fans are voicing our disgust for what we collectively regard as an obvious case of an Arrogant Gold Digging Jerk gone wild.

No one can say we didn’t see it coming. In fact I knew things were awry when I heard somewhere that Heather couldn’t personally name a single Beatles song just prior to the wedding. Not even a hard working gold digger, she didn’t even bother to be remotely interested in what makes Paul The Walrus.

For several reasons, people are pointing to Sir Paul as The Fool on the Hill. And to some extent I might agree. But to his credit, and with a dash of empathy, we have to recognize that he was still ailing after the loss of his lifelong love, Linda, and he may not have been thinking straight. May Linda rest in peace, if that is even possible while this is going on.

Heather Mills finally had her day in court today, and walked away with about 50 million dollars. Not bad for four years’ work. If she lives to be 90, she will have to spend more than a million dollars a year to run it dry. So you would think that she would have little to complain about. Oh no; she apparently had plenty to complain about.

Reporters were reportedly appalled to hear her rant on and on after the court handed her a free ticket to ride. They even counted the number of words (about 33) until she mentioned her work with ‘charities’ (a running joke aimed at her propensity for self adulation in the name of the needy). She certainly didn’t seem grateful, and took the moment to make sure everyone considered her the victim.

So I will hereby recognize her as the ‘Arrogant Other’ for being a Jerk to Sir Paul, and for drawing the ire of everyone after droning on in complaint while tucking 50 million dollars in her purse. Not one penny of which she actually deserves. Sure, she says it’s ‘for Beatrice’, the daughter they had together. Yet, in the same breath she mentions that nannies are pretty expensive these days.

I can’t think of a single mother who doesn’t dream of having a mere tenth of what Heather just received, longing for the chance to spend every lasting moment with the children. The fact that Heather Mills keeps mentioning a nanny makes me think that Beatrice was just a pawn in her bid to make a buck.

Yes, Heather Mills is the ‘other woman’ to Linda McCartney, who’s love and devotion continues to serve as an inspiration against the antithesis we know as Heather’s worldly example of marital convenience and charitable pandering.

Linda could name a Beatles song or two. Let’s hope his next love can, too.

Heidi Fleiss calls ‘Client 9′ an ‘Arrogant Jerk’, and so do I.

‘Client 9′, it is presumed, is actually New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer is rumored to be resigning today over a scandal involving himself, a string of high-priced prostitutes, and the ethical backbone of a slug.

To catch you up; Heidi Fliess, the former Madam, is held up as a subject matter expert in an unsealed investigation into prostitution spanning from New York to Washington DC. ‘Client 9′ is a person named in the court documents, presumably to hide his (or her) identity as a public figure. Currently speculation is running wild that ‘Client 9′ is really Governor Spitzer.

Based on court descriptions of ‘Client 9′, Fliess is on the record saying that she knows this type of client well, and that he is an Arrogant Jerk. I agree with Ms. Fliess, but for different reasons…

Governor Spitzer is an Arrogant Jerk for two fairly serious reasons: First, for cheating on his wife. Silda Wall Spitzer gets extra credit for standing by her man in his hour of desperation, even though I am sure there is plenty of well deserved venom being spewed behind the curtain. Cheating happens every day, but that doesn’t make it right, and it is an awful thing to do to someone who has stood by you while you climb the political ladder.

The second reason is equally troublesome and deceitful; Governor Spitzer has built his reputation on ‘cleaning up this town’. How can you clean up this town when you are literally in bed with the ‘enemy’?

I use the word ‘enemy’ softly, and still have a hard time understanding why prostitution is illegal in the first place. But it is, and that makes the governor a two faced Arrogant Jerk. Like so many evangelists and politicians before (and around) him, Spitzer was preaching one thing from the pulpit, and doing another in the closet.

He has sent people to jail for doing exactly what he does. Talk about a conflict of interest. I can just hear him in the break room saying ‘Hey judge, when you send this guy up the river for visiting a prostitute, see if you can get her number for me. …I, uh,… want to do a little research for my next public speech…’

Great job, Governor Spitzer, you are an Arrogant Jerk. Even Heidi Fleiss thinks so.

I enjoy a good rated-R movie every now and then, but there are those who would rather see a movie sans the swearing, nudity, or excessively creepy or violent scenes. I’m not here to argue the merits of creative license, or condemn those who might prefer to edit the content they choose to view. Frankly, I just don’t get the battle that put companies like CleanFlicks out of business.

Once I pay the $25 bucks for a DVD, I feel I should be able to watch or not watch whatever parts I want to.

And why the movie industry doesn’t just produce an alternate ‘clean’ version and throw it on the disk to reel in another 20 percent of the market really boggles my mind. They edit them to pieces for the airlines anyway; why not make a buck along the way? Back to our story…

While CleanFlicks has gone the way of the dodo, a handful of alternatives has cropped up in my conservative little town to help fill the apparently succeeding demand for edited movies.

Enter Daniel Thompson, former owner of a CleanFlicks-like business called Flix Club.

Daniel Thompson is an Arrogant Jerk. Why? I’ll tell you why; because he ran a business pretending to be all about good and clean morals while dealing in porn and exploitation. In fact, not only was porn found in the back room of his clean flick chop shop, he was busted for paying a teenager for sexual favors. Ouch! This guy is among the worst of them.

Daniel Thompson had the gall to pitch himself as a ‘defender of good’ in interviews and advertising, selling ‘cleaned up’ videos to people who thought he was on their side. There is just something a little disturbing to learn that you purchased something you felt was wholesome from someone who is clearly not.

Thompson was caught when the mother of the 14-year-old girl that he paid for sexual services questioned the young girl about where she got the money. The girl confessed and admitted to soliciting Thompson. The fact that he obliged has added to my growing paranoia and concern for the safety of my own children.

If you can’t trust the guy who edits the smut out of your videos, who can you trust? Not Daniel Thompson, this guy is a complete Arrogant Jerk.

Read the story here.