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Migration Commencing!

thebobofiles — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:23:00 +0000

If you have attempted to use any form of the domain THEBOBOFILES.COM you will noticed you can’t get to this site and hopefully you arrived here either by typing in the whole “thebobofiles.blogspot.com” URL or you were able to find me again through a search.

In any case, just wanted everyone to know that the domain name itself has been moved to a host server in order to begin the process of updating and upgrading this blog. Please bear with me as I get through this. Just remember to use the blogspot url to get here in the meantime!

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What is up with these Anarchists, anway?

thebobofiles — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:00:00 +0000

Wow, my first guest post, ever. Thanks BoBo, this is different. I’m used to hosting conservatives on my site, not the other way around!

I’d like to let you in on my secret for consistent Anarchist rantings. I drink a lot of coffee, then I listen to Micheal Savage or drop in on pacifists when they post about how bad it is to be mean or some other such nonsense. There is nothing like blogging while hopped up caffeine and irritation, it’s that masochism that keeps me going. But enough about my sex life…

I can already hear the questions…Anarchy? What the hell? And what does Anok mean anyway?

Anok is loosely translated to mean “Without Master”. Meaning that we, as individuals being of sound mind do not need masters in our lives telling us what to do, how to do it, and whom to do it with. We are perfectly capable of making these decisions on our own, and we don’t need a government or religious appointed nanny to help us out. In many ways, this is a similar ideology that many (true or classic) Conservatives have, at least with regards to limited government.

But politically speaking, Anarchists are actually apolitical. Not that we aren’t political, because many of us do become so, but that our “political beliefs” are off the political barometer. We are neither left nor right, nor moderate. Generally speaking this is because we have no use for any government, also referred to as the “State”, as a whole. We oppose government, in general. So it’s hard to be political when you don’t support (government) politics.

And yet we are, because the world is political, and thus we are too.

Many Anarchists are little bit Right, a little bit Left, a little bit Independent, a little bit Green and a whole lot of Attitude. I personally just stick with the attitude. That said, I have blogged extensively on the finer details of the various ideologies of Anarchism, activism, movements, theories, ideals, etc but I would like to keep my post on BoBo’s blog brief. I’m brevity challenged as it is, and getting into all of that could take days, if not years. Feel free to poke around however.

I think I’ll just talk about some general ideas, for a moment. Personally speaking I see no need for man made laws, I loathe Capitalism, and feel that all governments are corrupt. I only have respect for those who earn it, meaning a political position or economic position of power means approximately zip to me, unless the person in it has done something worthy of respect.

I firmly believe and support the idea of self sufficiency, personal responsibility, and self defense. It takes a lot of work to be an Anarchist. We are not lazy buggers. (OK, maybe a couple are, but they’re posers anyway), not Hippies, not Pacifists, and yes, I bathe. Many of us are trying to operate in a world that supports ideologies and lifestyles that we do not, or cannot support ethically speaking. There are various ways of going about this, and you can ask me, but I’m keeping it general.

Sheesh!

“So what do you mean you’re an Anarchist, why does your blog talk about US politics so much?”

The short and sweet answer is, because I may be an Anarchist, but I still live under a government. Ergo, I talk and debate and discuss the world I live in, not the world I dream of. My observations of US and Global politics is, of course seen through an “Anarchy filter”. They are on sale now at Hot Topic! No, but seriously, I do the best I can to take my experiences, my opinions, and my observations and apply them to real life situations (in politics) and attempt to change other’s perceptions by suggesting Anarchist alternatives.

I challenge the status quo, as it were.

There is something else that needs to be defined here, however. Anarchy does not mean “chaos”. Anomie means chaos, Anarchy is simply an ideology that opposes the State or any oppressive structure that controls and dictates our actions. It also does not mean we can do as we please. There is something called natural law that every living thing must adhere to. Many Anarchists also recognize legitimate authority, even if on a temporary basis. Legitimate authority can be interpreted differently, by different people, however I feel that it is any authority that works collaboratively with, is intrinsically tied to and part of, a collective group on a small scale and uses that authority to further the survival of said group. This authority is typically rooted in natural law and common sense, and isn’t at all arbitrary.

I also have respect for Leaders as opposed to people in positions of Power. The difference being that Leaders do not seek to possess power, and use their skills to enhance the society, or group by teaching the group how to accomplish whatever task the Leader is leading. Essentially a Leader is a teacher, who is part of the group, rather than a strict Authority whose power was bestowed to him or her.

Parents are Leaders, with legitimate authority over their children. Royalty, the Super Wealthy, Presidents, and Elitists are not Leaders. They are, in my book, Power Whores.

Pffft. All you Anarchists are the same!

Well….There are several fractal groups of Anarchists that divide themselves up over specific ideologies. Anarcho-Syndicalists, Anarcho-Communists, Anarcho-Capitalists, Anarcho-Tribalists and so on and so forth. If I were to belong to any of the groups, it would be the last – an Anarcho-Tribalist. I believe in the Tribe, that is to say your group, be it family, friends, neighborhoods whathaveyou. I believe that by bringing self regulation back down to proper proportions, and forcing those who claim any Leadership whatsoever to live among those they plan on leading and work cooperatively with the whole tribe, you create a state of living that relies on natural law, and legitimate law and have no further need for man made or arbitrary laws.

In any case, many Anarchists do, or will occasionally side or sympathize with hard leftists, such as Socialists and Communists. But there is an inherent flaw to that strategy, in the fact that no matter what kind of government takes place of the old one, an Anarchist will always be a threat. Essentially, Anarchists and the Left are rather strange, and violent bedfellows. It’s exciting for a while, but the spark goes away when the Leftsts no longer want to play.

Oh will you please shut up already?!

Alright, alright, I’ll leave you with this thought. The next time you choose to do something, I want you to think about the governmental system you live under for a moment. Ask yourself if, when you choose an action, do you really choose the appropriate consequence? Do you actually have control over what happens to you? In an Anarchist world, your actions dictate your consequences naturally. If I choose to smoke pot alone in my home I am also choosing to cause possible brain damage, possible cancer, and eating too much junk food and getting fat. These are the natural consequences of that specific action. But under a government, that has arbitrarily made pot smoking illegal, I not only get the natural consequences of my actions, but I get possible jail time too.

And tell me, is making a person into a criminal in society’s eyes because they are fat, diseased and stupid an actual consequence of choice? What purpose, if any does that serve? (For the record I don’t smoke pot, but you can use the same equation for a great many of our laws).

For your reading enjoyment, when you have a spare decade, these posts address some of the topics I touched on tonight in greater detail:

Why governments don’t work
Do as you’re sold, the mindless mantra of America
Your vote is your voice
Unmistakenly Lawless
The Pansification of our World
Fair trade, for real.

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Coming Soon!

thebobofiles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:12:00 +0000

Hi All – just wanted to let you all know that I will be moving to a new place soon. I have my own domain www.thebobofiles.com – many of you probably have been accessing this site using that domain. However, it is currently on a “redirect.”

Holly has graciously agreed to host my new site and it will be a wordpress design and layout. I will be updating my DNS to use my domain only and it will not be tied to this blogspot.com domain. Once we have the new place up and running…I will be placing a “Redirect” page up here to let everyone know to use the domain exclusively and to change your bookmarks (for those of you that have actually bookmarked the page).

For those of you who receive this either as an e-mail subscription or as a feed item – since everything is actually through Feedburner right now…I’m not sure how that will affect you guys. You may or may not have to resubscribe – but – we’ll see. In the meantime, I will keep you guys up to date as we progress. I’m getting really excited about my new place already! The only downside to this is losing all the rankings I’ve achieved so far under this URL. I’ll just have to rebuild I guess to include backtracking to all the blogs that have linked to me and asking them to change the url address. Oh what a headache this could turn out to be – but – all in the name of trying to be a legitimate blogger – even though I am a clown! LOL

Wish me luck!

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Let the games begin! Okay – maybe not yet!

thebobofiles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:48:00 +0000

So – Hillary has announced that she will be announcing on Friday that she will be conceding her race for the Presidency. Is anyone else here waiting for the other shoe to drop? If she’s really going to concede the race, why is she waiting until Friday to do it? I know that Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi and Dirty Harry Screed have given a deadline to all the Superdelegates that they need to make a decision by Friday – does this have anything to do with it? Is Hillary still working behind the scenes to gain support from those Superdelegates?

One has to wonder just why she’s waiting until the end of the week if she’s already announced today that she will concede. Just what the heck is she waiting for? Perhaps she’s just holding her delegates as ransom – either make her the VP candidate – or she continues the race until the convention and does not give up her delegates. Obama has only narrowly clinched the nomination. He does not officially become the candidate until all the votes are tallied and delegates awarded at the convention. There has been enough negative news about Obama to come out in these later months that the earlier voters had no knowledge of. The latest elections give Hillary a strong argument as to why Obama is not the right candidate for the Dems and the fact there was very little scrutiny of Obama at the outset. The mainstream media completely failed the people who voted at the beginning of the primary season by not outing Obama for who he REALLY is sooner.

Technically, Hillary could still take the nomination away from Obama at the convention if she continues to work behind the scenes. According to the way it works in the Democratic party the so-called “pledge delegates” are not actually pledged until they say so at the convention. Hillary can still take those awarded to Obama through the primaries and caucuses away from him. I know, leave it up to the Dems to make their whole process so convoluted that it makes no sense at all. A candidate can win enough delegates and the popular vote to clinch the nomination, but, come time to the convention, all those delegates can “switch” their votes to a different candidate than what the people chose.

So – in the meantime – I’m waiting to see what happens on Friday and whether or not that other shoe ever drops. Why won’t she give us a definitive time-table for her withdrawal?

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Anarchy in the U.S.A. – Or at least at The BoBo Files!

thebobofiles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:06:00 +0000

Well – not that anyone here at The BoBo Files is committing any anarchy or that someone here is trying to take over! Afterall, it’s just me – but then again – I guess one of the multiple personalities could always make an attempt at it! [No they wont] (Yes, we will) – See!

In any case, this is an announcement to let everyone know that this week’s guest blogger is none other than Anok – the self-proclaimed Anarchist – from Identity Check. She’s left a few trinkets here and there on some of my posts. I’ve reciprocated on some of her posts. I don’t really know what she’s going to post about this week – hmmm – Anarchy maybe? Or maybe she’ll let us in on just what the heck an “Anok” is (for those who don’t like to look up words in the dictionary or on google).

Just make sure you all drop by this Friday and see what she has to say!

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One down – One to go? Maybe.

thebobofiles — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:05:00 +0000

So, Obama clinches the nomination and Clinton indicates that she wouldn’t mind being on the so-called “dream-ticket” as the VP. Wow! So, she didn’t really concede, she just accepted the fact that Obamarama has the most delegates.

Does anyone else here think that she might continue her fight at the Democratic Convention? Just saying…when was the last time you ever heard this power-hungry witch give in to anything? We’ll see! In the meantime, if Obama is stupid enough to put Hillary on the ticket with him – as much as I hate to say it – I might have to vote for McCain. With Hillary on the ticket – this will definitely bring in all the Democratic votes to their side. I have my principles – but I would hate to see a marxist and a socialist take over this country and drive it in to the ground.

Besides – there are still rumors floating out there that someone somewhere has a tape of a racist rant by Michelle Obama. If the rumors are true and the tape does eventually get released – do you think the people will really want someone like that as a First Lady? If there really is a tape – do you think the Clinton’s are behind it? I sure do! Again – as stated up in the first paragraph – the Clinton’s are power-hungry and would do anything to obtain it and keep it. Considering there was no concession – I’m not holding my breath and I’m certainly not accepting Obama as the November candidate at this point!

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Check This Out!

thebobofiles — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:51:00 +0000

If you all remember, I had mentioned that I was contemplating doing a redesign of this site and that I was commissioning Holly Ord from Menstrual Poetry to do it. She was also one of our guest bloggers over here. Anyway, she has completed a new logo for me. Personally, I think this looks great. Based on this design, I’m getting excited about what she will do for the whole site! Here it is…I’ve also added a poll. Either vote in the poll or leave a comment. What do you think so far?

Click the link to take you out to The BoBo Logo Poll and vote!

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A Tale of Two Clowns

thebobofiles — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:03:00 +0000

Okay, so here we were, me and my buddy Pennywise over there, after a long hard and arduous day at Evil Conservative Clown College. We were bone tire, grease paint smeared, BoBo noses and goofy clown hair all disheveled from our grueling evil conservative clown exercises. Man, Prof Jingles is a freakin’ slave-driver!

He had us doing all kinds of shit like profit-taking; digging our way out of global warmongering propaganda; pushing down taxes; exercising our 2nd Amendment rights by continuously breakin ‘em down, hookin ‘em up, then locking and loading our Glocks – over and over and over again before we were allowed to take target practice on Islamofascist silhouettes. If I didn’t know any better, I would say that he was personally responsible for the welfare cuts! Damned!

Anyway, we were both just plain dog tired, thirsty, sweaty, and just wanted to get the hell outta there. So, we hop in the ol’ BoBo-Mobile to get us some suds at the local brew-house. It’s only about a couple miles from the Evil Conservative Clown College – so – we figure – what the hell – let’s floor this thing and live dangerously! Pennywise sticks his head out the window as we’re flying down the Interstate doing about 15mph! If you’ve never seen a clown stick his head out of a window of a clown car as they’re speeding down a highway at break-neck speed – you haven’t seen anything! OMFG! I thought Pennywise was gonna shit a bucket of confetti!

Now – I’ve got the pedal to the metal – we’re flying past all the pink flamingos in the ponds (could barely make them out we were going so fast) when all of a sudden, some asshole comes flying up behind us – gets the nose of his car right up on my BoBo-Bumper and lays on the horn! Well – me not to mince words – I give him the patented BoBo Finger out my window.

Not to be outdone – ol Pennywise pulls his head in, flips around, undoes all the big fuzzy clown buttons from his costume, removes the oversized clown gloves, and then sticks his lilly-white clown ass out of the window! That clown just cracks me up! Get it..”cracks” me up? Uhh…okay…evil clown humor. Anyway, the Florida love-bugs start smacking his ass – you can hear them hitting – thwap thwap thwap! But, this asshole behind us just continues laying on his horn! So, Pennywise just continues to shine that big ol’ moon of his out of the window. Just as Pennywise could hardly stand the bugs smacking his crack any longer – the dipshit behind us decides to pull along the side and pass.

It was right about that time as that freakin’ sonuvafemaledogloving asshole was sidling up along the passenger side of the car when Pennywise got the urge – I could see it in his face – eye’s bulging – getting bloodshot – grunting – hmmpph hmmmph -

All over the side of this guy’s car! And – what made it worse was this ass-hat had his window rolled down and was yelling all kinds of profanity that no clown should ever experience! Needless to say, he shut his mouth REAL quick after Pennywise got that last loaf-pinch in there! The driver of that other car was not looking real happy at this point in time! I thought clowns were supposed to make people laugh?!?!?! Bwahahahaha.

So – this guy speeds up, swerves in front of us, and immediately hits his breaks! HOLY SHIT! I could barely slow the BoBo-Mobile down and we almost tapped his back end there. As I sat there, a bit stunned, I saw them! All over the back end of his car. Then it all made sense:

Freakin’ Obamarama Kool-aid drinking racist terrorist loving asshole! Now my BoBo dander was really up! Pennywise threw his costume back on in a hurry – slid the coveralls back up over his lilly-white ass, fastened all the fuzzy buttons, put his over-sized clown gloves back on, and we proceeded to get out of the car to give this asswipe a piece of our minds (well, actually, it was meringue pies, but who really cares about semantics here anyway?). I got out on my side, Pennywise got out on his side – then – it started happening. I forgot – it was the BoBo-Mobile. All my friends started coming out of trunk:

Simple Simon – The Pie Man

Sausagehead – (This guy is really whack!)

Lionel – (He once bit the head off of a rubber ducky)

And they just kept piling on out. I can’t possibly list them all here – I’d run out of bandwith! There must have been about 20 clowns pop out of my car~ You should have seen the look on the marxist bastard’s face! Well, this guy was like most typical liberals – he started getting all bad ass at first calling us retards, idiots, clowns (Duh!), and mostly tried to say something about our intellect or lack thereof – I don’t know – I didn’t get it – perhaps it just was above me!

In any case, when push came to push, we started hitting him with everything we got – confetting, silly string, water, pies – you name it. He fell to his knees and just started bawling like a baby begging us to stop! Starting saying things about being a pacifist and lets make peace not war. He didn’t really mean any of those things he said as he passed by us. Started offering us carbon-credits! Like, what the freak do we need those for? It’s not like they’re really worth anything! My BoBo-Mobile runs on pure Eco-friendly Hydroflourocarbons and gets like 5 miles to the gallon. Why would I need carbon-credits? Who the hell would take them and for what?

So – Pennywise kicked the asshat in the head with his big soft clown shoes (Ever heard the funny squeaky noise when a clown shoe hits the forehead of a liberal ass-hat?) Actually, I wasn’t sure if it was Penny’s shoes or the libtard that was squeaking! In any case, we all turned around, piled back into the BoBo-Mobile and left that crying weasly wimp laying in a pile of clown confection. He was saying something about being sorry and that he would plant a tree in our honor?!?!? WTF? Oh well, at least we’ll have something else to piss on!

Despite all our troubles, those suds sure as hell tasted much better after that!

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Nope! No Liberal Blogger Friday this week!

thebobofiles — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:09:00 +0000

I know! I’m a slacker! I get it already! Actually, I’ve been so busy this week that I totally forgot to send an e-mail out to the individual I had hoped to “lure” over here. I promise, there will be a guest post next week.

In the meantime, for those of us who have some brains in our noodles and are actually not buying in to this whole global warmongering hoax – I have some good news – not that it will help anything immediately, but it is a start. Newt Gingrich has started a petition drive over at his website American Solutions. The petition drive is called “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay less.” Go quickly, sign that petition! While you’re out there – get this cool button for your website:

Get the word out there and tell everyone you know to sign this petition. Here’s some of the background info I found on the website:

* The average price for a gallon of gas is now $3.94, this is $.74 higher than a year ago.

* The U.S. Congress has acted, but in the wrong direction. Last week, the Senate voted narrowly against reversing a moratorium on oil-shale development.

* Federal officials and industry experts estimate that up to 1.8 trillion barrels of oil is trapped in the region’s oil shale, or three times the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia.

* Laws and policies that restrict access to America’s abundant energy drive up the price of fuel and electricity. They cause widespread layoffs and leave workers and families struggling to survive, as the cost of everything they eat, drive, wear and do spirals higher.

There is also an embedded YouTube video out there where you can watch Newt explain the whole thing. So – I urge everyone to go out and sign the petition and then let others know!

Once you’ve done that – Go check out Vulcan’s Hammer’s site and see what a Cap & Trade bureaucracy will look like if the Lieberman-Warner (formerly the McCain-Lieberman) Bill passes

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A BoBo "Told you so" Moment!

thebobofiles — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Perhaps you all remember this post I made a while back: Contains 10% of Ethanol or Less! What Crap! Perhaps you might recall one of the statements I made during that post was that I refuse to stop at any more gas stations and fill up if I see this sign because I have no idea what it might do to my engine since I have a 2005 Scion tC that was built prior to this whole ethanol thing. I was having one of these moments:

Well…here’s my BoBo Told You So moment from the KHOU Channel 11 Website- – -

ETHANOL FUEL MAY BE HARMING YOUR VEHICLE!!

By Leigh Frillici / 11 News

HOUSTON — It is bad enough that gasoline is hovering around $4 a gallon, but the ethanol blend of gas pumped into many cars – containing up to 10 percent of ethanol – is also causing problems.

Which was concerning news to motorist Lakesha Lewis.

“Actually, I thought it was supposedly better,” said Lewis.

Experts 11 News spoke to said, not necessarily.

Consider a car sitting in the David McDavid Nissan’s repair shop.

The driver had problems starting it and that did not surprise mechanic Billy Deremer.

He said the ethanol-blended gas does not burn as well as fuel without the additive. As a result, the vaporous residue has gunked up a good car. (emphasis mine)

“It doesn’t break down as good, so more carbon deposits are inside the intake (valves),” said Deremer.

And fixing it isn’t cheap. Deremer said the cost to get your engine back up and running after the gunk could be $650 to $1,000.

Then there are the high-end cars serviced by Silvio Bucheler. He said the ethanol-blended gas is wreaking havoc with BMWs, Mercedes and Audis that he services.

“It just dirties up the oil quicker, therefore you have to change to oil more often,” said Bucheler.

And if the oil isn’t changed?

“You get that sludge build up. It clogs the lube ports, the ventilation system,” said Bucheler. “It can ruin an engine.”

And no one wants that, especially from a fuel that was supposed to help us all pay less for gas.

So – don’t ever say that The BoBo didn’t warn ya! Instead of saving us money – which it really hasn’t if you read the previous post – it will cost you a helluva lot to repair your engine if you use this crap that they’re trying to force down our throats and engines!!!

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