Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Once again
Once again the blog of interest today is the Dilbert blog, so just pop over there for a thoughtful thought experiment. Besides, I have a dental appointment that is going to take up most of the morning so I haven’t got the time to write something right now.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Pursuit of happiness
What is happiness? Like any other emotion it is just a gauge is it not? But what do people need in order too feel happy? Some people need very little, a dry shelter, some food and water, a little support from others and they are very happy. The lady that lives next door to me for example, has very little and is the most well adjusted woman I know. Too her happiness is a candy bar or my mowing her lawn or taking care of her firewood. Or doing what she can for others.
Other folks always seem to be seeking more twisted forms of happiness and never seem to find anything that lasts, they seek expensive things and trips and such. I’ve had women tell me that they have experienced extreme happiness at times, and they seem to be seeking that level of happiness all the time, as if nothing else is good enough anymore. A rather foolish way of looking at things if you ask me. People always seeking extreme happiness must have other things lacking in their lives and are not looking at the simple little things that should be making them happy.
What makes me happy? A good joke or cartoon that makes me laugh, at least inside. An hour or two spent at the beach, a hike to the hot springs. Sometimes just a pleasant time spent with a friend not doing much of anything. Things like that and those things don’t cost much and are easy to achieve. Anyone wanting more than the simple things are just expecting too much and it isn’t likely they are going to find happiness in other ways no matter how much money, time and effort they extend trying. Extreme happiness only lasts a few minutes, or moments, and is often random and unexpected, unplanned. Any moments of extreme happiness I have experienced happened just that way so it is rather foolish to chase it
What makes me unhappy? My personal life is pretty good so it is the way the world is.
Other folks always seem to be seeking more twisted forms of happiness and never seem to find anything that lasts, they seek expensive things and trips and such. I’ve had women tell me that they have experienced extreme happiness at times, and they seem to be seeking that level of happiness all the time, as if nothing else is good enough anymore. A rather foolish way of looking at things if you ask me. People always seeking extreme happiness must have other things lacking in their lives and are not looking at the simple little things that should be making them happy.
What makes me happy? A good joke or cartoon that makes me laugh, at least inside. An hour or two spent at the beach, a hike to the hot springs. Sometimes just a pleasant time spent with a friend not doing much of anything. Things like that and those things don’t cost much and are easy to achieve. Anyone wanting more than the simple things are just expecting too much and it isn’t likely they are going to find happiness in other ways no matter how much money, time and effort they extend trying. Extreme happiness only lasts a few minutes, or moments, and is often random and unexpected, unplanned. Any moments of extreme happiness I have experienced happened just that way so it is rather foolish to chase it
What makes me unhappy? My personal life is pretty good so it is the way the world is.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Creative genius
I stopped at a friends shop the other day, he is a creative genius. He does expensive custom upholstery jobs on expensive custom cars and trucks. And stays just sober enough to actually get some work done, as long as the customers aren’t in any hurry. He is well known enough that he is always booked a couple of months in advance and doesn’t advertise.
I was telling him that I had tore a camper in my yard apart and now I couldn’t stand behind it to take a leak when out in the yard. "Oh hell" he said "That isn’t any problem, you can take a leak anywhere you like. Even take a bucket out and take a crap if you want to, just put a sack over your head so that no one recognizes you." Ha, ha, ha.
I was telling him that I had tore a camper in my yard apart and now I couldn’t stand behind it to take a leak when out in the yard. "Oh hell" he said "That isn’t any problem, you can take a leak anywhere you like. Even take a bucket out and take a crap if you want to, just put a sack over your head so that no one recognizes you." Ha, ha, ha.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Be careful
Be careful how you state wishes, the universe has a wicked sense of humor. Click on the grapic to make it larger.
Sunday
It’s Sunday, and while there is plenty that I could say I’m not going to say it. I’m just going to slide along easy today. Have a good day all. BBC
Saturday, May 27, 2006
The Problem With Tolerance
The Problem With Tolerance.
A poster on Scott’s Dilbert blog said: The problem isn't "religion" or even "different religions". The problem is a lack of tolerance, which is preached by certain religions. There's no need to eliminate religions; just brainwash everyone to be tolerant. I don't know if that's easy, but if you destroy religious faiths, they still want to bomb other people.
Right, brainwash everyone into being tolerant, like that will ever work. I’ve been places where that was preached, in fact it is preached a lot of places, and it doesn’t even work there. The folks sit around talking about their views and the rest sit there thinking that the speaker is a frigging idiot and at times I have gotten in some pretty heated arguments with some of them. They may be peaceful about it for the most part but they really aren’t being tolerant other than in a silent way. The problem with accepting others religions and beliefs is that it hasn’t worked for fourteen thousand years, give or take a few years.
Ever since the first two groups of people discovered each other this has been a problem. They may get along just fine and do a little trading and such but then they start trying to tell each other about God the next thing you know they are picking up clubs and going at each other. After they have killed some of both sides off they decide to try to be tolerant of each other. Then they start talking to each other again, then pick up clubs and start swinging again. Religious talk always puts a little insanity in people.
Maybe all governments should just make a rule that no one can talk about religion, as in just shut the fuck up. It’s difficult enough just talking philosophies with others without getting into disagreements. Maybe this is why some bars have a rule of no talking about religion and politics. It’s stupid to think that there is an omnipotent God anyway, or to fear him. But Mrs. God, there is something to fear and try to understand.
Off the grid
Some folks just do not absorb what you tell them. I told one lady that I am capable of living off of the grid so she apparently thinks that I do. But that isn’t what I said at all. Of course I’m on the power grid, it’s more expense and work to make your own electricity, I just have the things needed to make my own power in case something happens to the grid. I stock water (lots of it), food, firewood, have a solar panel and twelve volt system and such.
She seems to think that everyone that is as prepared as possible for a natural disaster (or a war) is a selfish bastard, or bitch, seeing as I know some women that also are. Why anyone would think that I don’t know, unless it’s because it of all the medications she is on.
A Big void
I’ve torn an old pickup camper apart because June 11th is free dump day and I can get rid of all the scrap that I can’t recycle then. It sure seems to have left a big empty space in the yard, I have a much better view of the street now. Hum, maybe I should tear this other camper apart next year. The down side is that I have one less thing to hide behind when I’m in the yard and have the urge to take a leak.
Rain today, a good excuse to not work in the yard but go to the beach instead.
A poster on Scott’s Dilbert blog said: The problem isn't "religion" or even "different religions". The problem is a lack of tolerance, which is preached by certain religions. There's no need to eliminate religions; just brainwash everyone to be tolerant. I don't know if that's easy, but if you destroy religious faiths, they still want to bomb other people.
Right, brainwash everyone into being tolerant, like that will ever work. I’ve been places where that was preached, in fact it is preached a lot of places, and it doesn’t even work there. The folks sit around talking about their views and the rest sit there thinking that the speaker is a frigging idiot and at times I have gotten in some pretty heated arguments with some of them. They may be peaceful about it for the most part but they really aren’t being tolerant other than in a silent way. The problem with accepting others religions and beliefs is that it hasn’t worked for fourteen thousand years, give or take a few years.
Ever since the first two groups of people discovered each other this has been a problem. They may get along just fine and do a little trading and such but then they start trying to tell each other about God the next thing you know they are picking up clubs and going at each other. After they have killed some of both sides off they decide to try to be tolerant of each other. Then they start talking to each other again, then pick up clubs and start swinging again. Religious talk always puts a little insanity in people.
Maybe all governments should just make a rule that no one can talk about religion, as in just shut the fuck up. It’s difficult enough just talking philosophies with others without getting into disagreements. Maybe this is why some bars have a rule of no talking about religion and politics. It’s stupid to think that there is an omnipotent God anyway, or to fear him. But Mrs. God, there is something to fear and try to understand.
Off the grid
Some folks just do not absorb what you tell them. I told one lady that I am capable of living off of the grid so she apparently thinks that I do. But that isn’t what I said at all. Of course I’m on the power grid, it’s more expense and work to make your own electricity, I just have the things needed to make my own power in case something happens to the grid. I stock water (lots of it), food, firewood, have a solar panel and twelve volt system and such.
She seems to think that everyone that is as prepared as possible for a natural disaster (or a war) is a selfish bastard, or bitch, seeing as I know some women that also are. Why anyone would think that I don’t know, unless it’s because it of all the medications she is on.
A Big void
I’ve torn an old pickup camper apart because June 11th is free dump day and I can get rid of all the scrap that I can’t recycle then. It sure seems to have left a big empty space in the yard, I have a much better view of the street now. Hum, maybe I should tear this other camper apart next year. The down side is that I have one less thing to hide behind when I’m in the yard and have the urge to take a leak.
Rain today, a good excuse to not work in the yard but go to the beach instead.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Blog of interest
Today’s blog of interest is the Dilbert blog where Scott is discussing God again. So just pop over to his blog for some thoughtful dialog.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Argh
Argh
I have a dental appointment this morning. I know I will be there about three and a half hours. That is a long time to set in a dental chair letting people mess around in your mouth.
Huffington Post
If you submit a comment containing a personal attack on any member of the HuffingtonPost.com community, you will be banned from posting further comments.
That is what they say on their site when you are attempting to post a comment in a blog string. The Huffington Post acts as if they are a liberal site but they will not allow you say that the commentator might be a fool or an idiot. You might hurt a precious little ego over there because they think they are so special and always right. But how liberal is that? Even though at times they call others idiots, I conclude that there is a bunch of pussy’s over there. The Dilbert blog at least is liberal in that respect. At least Scott allows us to call him an idiot at times, as he at times calls us idiots.
I have a dental appointment this morning. I know I will be there about three and a half hours. That is a long time to set in a dental chair letting people mess around in your mouth.
Huffington Post
If you submit a comment containing a personal attack on any member of the HuffingtonPost.com community, you will be banned from posting further comments.
That is what they say on their site when you are attempting to post a comment in a blog string. The Huffington Post acts as if they are a liberal site but they will not allow you say that the commentator might be a fool or an idiot. You might hurt a precious little ego over there because they think they are so special and always right. But how liberal is that? Even though at times they call others idiots, I conclude that there is a bunch of pussy’s over there. The Dilbert blog at least is liberal in that respect. At least Scott allows us to call him an idiot at times, as he at times calls us idiots.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Waste of money
MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A demolition company on Wednesday will start pulling down a barn at a horse farm that is the focus of the FBI's renewed probe into Jimmy Hoffa's death.
What a waste of taxpayers money, does it really matter what happened to Hoffa or where the remains might be?
Speaking of money: Currency is a problem on this planet the way it is set up. It is one world, it may have many countries on it but it’s still one world and we are one peoples. It’s time to progress to one world currency, I think that would solve a lot of problems. It is not progressive or productive to have many currencies anymore.
A quote: Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
What a waste of taxpayers money, does it really matter what happened to Hoffa or where the remains might be?
Speaking of money: Currency is a problem on this planet the way it is set up. It is one world, it may have many countries on it but it’s still one world and we are one peoples. It’s time to progress to one world currency, I think that would solve a lot of problems. It is not progressive or productive to have many currencies anymore.
A quote: Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Giving back
My property isn’t much, therefore it isn’t worth much. Still, I ponder at times what should be done to it when I die or can’t live on it anymore. I’m thinking that I should just give it back to the natives that my ancestors took if from.
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. That was a great movie that Helen and I watched this evening. About a girl that dived into a tank on a horse to entertain people, even for eleven years after she became blind. It was emotional, I like movies that can touch me.
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. That was a great movie that Helen and I watched this evening. About a girl that dived into a tank on a horse to entertain people, even for eleven years after she became blind. It was emotional, I like movies that can touch me.
Monday, May 22, 2006
The De Vinci Code
I don’t like going to movie theaters but about once a year there is a new movie that comes out that I would like to see right away instead of waiting for it to show up at Star Video so I can rent it and watch it at home. So when I mentioned to Helen that I would like to go see The De Vinci Code she jumped right on that as she loves to go to the movies. (Helen for those of you that don’t know her is a wonderful old lady of eighty-three that is my neighbor. She wants to die in her home of sixty years so I take care of her and the things that need to be done there hoping that it will allow her to do just this, I’ll write more about her at some other time)
The movie was great I thought, it followed the book pretty well. They call it fiction but I think it is closer to the truth than the bible and all of its fiction. Jesus was just a regular guy that got spiritual, and it got him killed. Not so much because he got spiritual but because he was fussing at the established power and money mongers. Jesus and his band of merry drunks where a pain in the butt too them.
Some of the action was very fast and intense and the scenes where short, it would have been better were it a longer movie without things moving along so fast. The lady backing her car through a busy street to get away from the police was pretty intense and exciting and even though it was staged it was still a pretty cool scene. The scene where her parents get killed in an automobile accident is short and unexpected, it jumps right out at you and is pretty graphic. It’s not a scene for the weak of heart.
The theory that Jesus was married to Mary and that they had offspring has always been something that I have believed for a long time. It comes from something I was taught at a very young age, but they are just vague memories, I really can’t recall where I got that training at. I don’t think that there will ever be anyway to prove this but I suspect that there are a lot of people on this planet that has the DNA (bloodline) of Jesus and Mary flowing through them, maybe millions. But I don’t consider that royal blood as the movie and book states. It’s not the blood that flows through people that make them important to the rest of the world, it’s the spirituality that flows through them that is important and that spirituality can flow through anyone of any race. It’s an evolving spirituality that still has a long way to go and I call it God. And that is why I keep stating that we are God in evolution. Never mind that Jesus thought the spirit of God flowed through him, the problem is that the spirit of God doesn’t flow through enough people these days. It’s stupid that they just allow themselves to follow religions. The cosmos told me that this is so and I fully believe it even though I haven’t figured out how to convincingly present it to the rest of the world in a way that they will believe it. I’ve written so many documents about it that it may take someone else to go through them all and sort it all out into something more coherent.
Anyway, as I said, great movie even if the Christian world is against it. It will be discussed on a lot of blogs I’m sure. It was a good day, after the movie we went to the Cornerhouse Café for dinner and then stopped at Reggie’s (a tavern) to see what was going on there. I sat next to Judy, she is always a lot of fun to sit by, great sense of humor. She, her partner Roger and I hiked up to the hot springs last Saturday, it’s a 2.3 mile walk from the end of the road. She got to talking about that and how much they enjoyed it and was glad that I had invited them along. I always invite others to go with me as company always makes the walk more enjoyable and it seems to go faster than when I go alone.
But she isn’t in the best of shape even though she is over ten years younger than I am. She told me that she really admired how I was able to make it seem like the hike was easy and that it was very hard for her to keep up. It really is an easy hike but I didn’t mind that we had to stop a few times so she could get a bit of rest, we wasn’t in any hurry anyway. She said that she wanted to stop more often but that she was determined to keep up with the old fart, that was kind of funny but I’ve got great genes and have just held up well even though I’ve often been hard on my body.
I only stopped for one beer or two and to chat with friends for a bit but a band came in and started setting up and Helen wanted to stay (she doesn’t drink but she loves music and bullshit) and listen too the band so we stayed for a while longer, I don’t think much of the band but they did one love song that a lady that was there wrote and it was pretty good. The lady’s name is Janie, if I spelled it right, we used to do karaoke together and she is a lot of fun, she wrote a pretty nice song. Yup, it was a good day.
Big in the news is the story about the horse that got hurt and now has no chance at the Triple Crown. Big deal, cry me a river. It’s just one horse when hundreds, maybe thousands of horses get hurt everyday. It bothers me that they make a big deal out of one horse when there is twenty thousand people dying of starvation everyday, what about them? Human’s !! Their narrow minds have more compassion for one horse than they do people. Some anyway, most people on this planet could care less about that horse. In a few weeks all those people will be excited about some other horse. Race horses aren’t so hot, good only for short races, there are thousands of horses on this planet that can run them into the ground.
So it won’t race again, that isn’t the end of the world, it was only being used for the entertainment of humans anyway, it can still serve a useful purpose being a stud, or hamburger, or dog food. And before anyone blows up about what I just said I want to point out that this is exactly what happens to hundreds or thousands of horses everyday. They serve a useful purpose by being part of the food chain, dogs and people have to eat also. It’s life on this planet and the bleeding hearts should just get over it. Yeah, bury a broken horse, starve a dog or person, how much sense does that make?
The movie was great I thought, it followed the book pretty well. They call it fiction but I think it is closer to the truth than the bible and all of its fiction. Jesus was just a regular guy that got spiritual, and it got him killed. Not so much because he got spiritual but because he was fussing at the established power and money mongers. Jesus and his band of merry drunks where a pain in the butt too them.
Some of the action was very fast and intense and the scenes where short, it would have been better were it a longer movie without things moving along so fast. The lady backing her car through a busy street to get away from the police was pretty intense and exciting and even though it was staged it was still a pretty cool scene. The scene where her parents get killed in an automobile accident is short and unexpected, it jumps right out at you and is pretty graphic. It’s not a scene for the weak of heart.
The theory that Jesus was married to Mary and that they had offspring has always been something that I have believed for a long time. It comes from something I was taught at a very young age, but they are just vague memories, I really can’t recall where I got that training at. I don’t think that there will ever be anyway to prove this but I suspect that there are a lot of people on this planet that has the DNA (bloodline) of Jesus and Mary flowing through them, maybe millions. But I don’t consider that royal blood as the movie and book states. It’s not the blood that flows through people that make them important to the rest of the world, it’s the spirituality that flows through them that is important and that spirituality can flow through anyone of any race. It’s an evolving spirituality that still has a long way to go and I call it God. And that is why I keep stating that we are God in evolution. Never mind that Jesus thought the spirit of God flowed through him, the problem is that the spirit of God doesn’t flow through enough people these days. It’s stupid that they just allow themselves to follow religions. The cosmos told me that this is so and I fully believe it even though I haven’t figured out how to convincingly present it to the rest of the world in a way that they will believe it. I’ve written so many documents about it that it may take someone else to go through them all and sort it all out into something more coherent.
Anyway, as I said, great movie even if the Christian world is against it. It will be discussed on a lot of blogs I’m sure. It was a good day, after the movie we went to the Cornerhouse Café for dinner and then stopped at Reggie’s (a tavern) to see what was going on there. I sat next to Judy, she is always a lot of fun to sit by, great sense of humor. She, her partner Roger and I hiked up to the hot springs last Saturday, it’s a 2.3 mile walk from the end of the road. She got to talking about that and how much they enjoyed it and was glad that I had invited them along. I always invite others to go with me as company always makes the walk more enjoyable and it seems to go faster than when I go alone.
But she isn’t in the best of shape even though she is over ten years younger than I am. She told me that she really admired how I was able to make it seem like the hike was easy and that it was very hard for her to keep up. It really is an easy hike but I didn’t mind that we had to stop a few times so she could get a bit of rest, we wasn’t in any hurry anyway. She said that she wanted to stop more often but that she was determined to keep up with the old fart, that was kind of funny but I’ve got great genes and have just held up well even though I’ve often been hard on my body.
I only stopped for one beer or two and to chat with friends for a bit but a band came in and started setting up and Helen wanted to stay (she doesn’t drink but she loves music and bullshit) and listen too the band so we stayed for a while longer, I don’t think much of the band but they did one love song that a lady that was there wrote and it was pretty good. The lady’s name is Janie, if I spelled it right, we used to do karaoke together and she is a lot of fun, she wrote a pretty nice song. Yup, it was a good day.
Big in the news is the story about the horse that got hurt and now has no chance at the Triple Crown. Big deal, cry me a river. It’s just one horse when hundreds, maybe thousands of horses get hurt everyday. It bothers me that they make a big deal out of one horse when there is twenty thousand people dying of starvation everyday, what about them? Human’s !! Their narrow minds have more compassion for one horse than they do people. Some anyway, most people on this planet could care less about that horse. In a few weeks all those people will be excited about some other horse. Race horses aren’t so hot, good only for short races, there are thousands of horses on this planet that can run them into the ground.
So it won’t race again, that isn’t the end of the world, it was only being used for the entertainment of humans anyway, it can still serve a useful purpose being a stud, or hamburger, or dog food. And before anyone blows up about what I just said I want to point out that this is exactly what happens to hundreds or thousands of horses everyday. They serve a useful purpose by being part of the food chain, dogs and people have to eat also. It’s life on this planet and the bleeding hearts should just get over it. Yeah, bury a broken horse, starve a dog or person, how much sense does that make?
Sunday, May 21, 2006
What a hoot
So I’m going to talk about the Adventures In Disasters lady, the Drama Queen at http://adventuresindisaster.blogspot.com/
I’m going to copy/paste what she put on her blog about me and put my comments inside of brackets.
So there is this really weird guy that came to the blog awhile back. (I went and read some of her blog because we seemed to have something in common at first as she complained about some of the same things I do) He seemed like a harmless old fart so I replied to a few of his comments. That was my mistake. I wandered over to his blog God Uncensored and realized wow, guy is a fruitcake (To her anyway) so I tried to ignore him but he wouldn't stop with the comments. His comments started getting mean and personal and I told him to get lost. (She has deleted the comments, that both of us made, so anyone that wants to see what they where in case they want to be the judge of that will have to go into the Google archives to see them)
No one needs some nut hanging around bitching about your television choices right? (All I said what that she watches to much TV and she even agreed with my statement)
Well..he wont go away..GO AWAY! (That isn’t true, I won’t be leaving anymore comments after the last one I left)
So I am clueless..how do you get rid of some bitchy thousand year old friendless, familyless whiny lurker? (Geez, I don’t know, offer me money? *lol* Or try asking nicely instead of being a bitch) I am being JUDGED by my gramma on the internet and it's freaking me out! (What is a gamma? And I’m pretty sure that a lot of things freaks this woman out)
This guy Billy prides himself on the fact that he has run off his entire family, he hates women with a scary passion and I think he believes he is God... (This very judgmental Drama Queen, that doesn’t know me doesn’t know that I don’t have much family left because most of them have died off, or that I get along very well with those of them that are left. I did mention that my daughter had as much as ‘divorced’ me but I’m okay with that as she is a woman that thinks everyone should support her no matter what she thinks and does, she doesn’t like me telling her that she should grow up some and change about how she thinks about some things. It’s true, I do think that I am God but everyone keeps missing my very important point that God is a spirituality and not an actual being. They keep missing my point that we, all of us collectively, are God in evolution. I just understand and accept it better than others. Mostly others don’t want the responsibility of being God. And it’s not true that I hate women even though I don’t like how many of them are. And my best friend happens to be a woman but she is heads and tails above most women on this planet. The Drama Queen wouldn’t make a pimple on my best friends butt)
I got really lucky with my nut didn't I? (That reminds me of an old ditty. Everyone loves a nut, the world loves a weirdo… Something like that).
Anyway I reported him to Blogger. (Oh? Like Blog Spot is supposed to get worked up about what a couple of people with blogs that are in a bit of a pissing contest are saying to each other? Blog Spot is owned by Google, king of the Internet and defender of a wide open, no holds barred forum where anything can be said. If they even look into it I’m sure they will be amused. And it appears that she never pays any attention to Scott Adams [I know she reads his blog] when he points out that if you are going to have a blog that you have to be able to take some crap and criticism, we rip into people all the time there. She clearly does not like criticism even though she likes to dish it out).
I also tightened up the comments thing which pissed me off... (Smirk, she sure gets pissed off a lot) I never get any comments anyway so why should I now have to moderate them? (She is right, she never gets any comments so why is she whining about having to moderate a few, I was the only one that ever left any there. It isn’t likely that anyone even reads her blog and her dramatic comments about her TV dramas because it all gets rather boring, and fussing about her medical condition, that I suspect is more psychological than medical. But I’m not her doctor or her shrink so I really don’t know. But if you read this my little Drama Queen, go ahead and enable comments on your site again, I won’t leave anymore comments, promise. Really, if I have something to say about you and your stupid blog in the future I will just say it on my blog, you can report it to Blog Spot and we can all get a good chuckle out of it).
I also don't get why people think they can cut and paste your blog and then reproduce it on theirs..I am copyrighted..isn't that illegal? (She is copyrighted? Well I’ll be dipped in shit, guess she can just sue me then can’t she? With the advent of the Internet the whole copy write scene is going to change as the world knows it anyway. Everyone is doing copy/pastes of all sorts of things on the net. They copy/paste news stories and things from Wikipedia and share all kinds of cartoons and editorials, it’s going to become impossible to try to uphold so called copyrights other than maybe technical manuals and such, it’s a changing world folks and that is a fact. If however others do not want others to copy/paste what is on their sites and blogs they should include code that doesn’t allow it).
Go away creepy Billy..I don't care what you think.. (Then you should stop over reacting to what I say) Go hate someone else. (Never once did I tell that woman that I hated her but she made it very clear that she hates me, my impression is that she is one hateful woman. Yeah, I’ll go away, at least I won’t leave anymore comments on her blog. I think she would get along with my dysfunctional daughter pretty well though, but maybe not, I sense that she doesn’t like Christians and my daughter is one).
(Anyway, that was all pretty interesting what she put on her blog, to bad others don’t read it or I might have picked up a few more readers on my blog).
I’m going to copy/paste what she put on her blog about me and put my comments inside of brackets.
So there is this really weird guy that came to the blog awhile back. (I went and read some of her blog because we seemed to have something in common at first as she complained about some of the same things I do) He seemed like a harmless old fart so I replied to a few of his comments. That was my mistake. I wandered over to his blog God Uncensored and realized wow, guy is a fruitcake (To her anyway) so I tried to ignore him but he wouldn't stop with the comments. His comments started getting mean and personal and I told him to get lost. (She has deleted the comments, that both of us made, so anyone that wants to see what they where in case they want to be the judge of that will have to go into the Google archives to see them)
No one needs some nut hanging around bitching about your television choices right? (All I said what that she watches to much TV and she even agreed with my statement)
Well..he wont go away..GO AWAY! (That isn’t true, I won’t be leaving anymore comments after the last one I left)
So I am clueless..how do you get rid of some bitchy thousand year old friendless, familyless whiny lurker? (Geez, I don’t know, offer me money? *lol* Or try asking nicely instead of being a bitch) I am being JUDGED by my gramma on the internet and it's freaking me out! (What is a gamma? And I’m pretty sure that a lot of things freaks this woman out)
This guy Billy prides himself on the fact that he has run off his entire family, he hates women with a scary passion and I think he believes he is God... (This very judgmental Drama Queen, that doesn’t know me doesn’t know that I don’t have much family left because most of them have died off, or that I get along very well with those of them that are left. I did mention that my daughter had as much as ‘divorced’ me but I’m okay with that as she is a woman that thinks everyone should support her no matter what she thinks and does, she doesn’t like me telling her that she should grow up some and change about how she thinks about some things. It’s true, I do think that I am God but everyone keeps missing my very important point that God is a spirituality and not an actual being. They keep missing my point that we, all of us collectively, are God in evolution. I just understand and accept it better than others. Mostly others don’t want the responsibility of being God. And it’s not true that I hate women even though I don’t like how many of them are. And my best friend happens to be a woman but she is heads and tails above most women on this planet. The Drama Queen wouldn’t make a pimple on my best friends butt)
I got really lucky with my nut didn't I? (That reminds me of an old ditty. Everyone loves a nut, the world loves a weirdo… Something like that).
Anyway I reported him to Blogger. (Oh? Like Blog Spot is supposed to get worked up about what a couple of people with blogs that are in a bit of a pissing contest are saying to each other? Blog Spot is owned by Google, king of the Internet and defender of a wide open, no holds barred forum where anything can be said. If they even look into it I’m sure they will be amused. And it appears that she never pays any attention to Scott Adams [I know she reads his blog] when he points out that if you are going to have a blog that you have to be able to take some crap and criticism, we rip into people all the time there. She clearly does not like criticism even though she likes to dish it out).
I also tightened up the comments thing which pissed me off... (Smirk, she sure gets pissed off a lot) I never get any comments anyway so why should I now have to moderate them? (She is right, she never gets any comments so why is she whining about having to moderate a few, I was the only one that ever left any there. It isn’t likely that anyone even reads her blog and her dramatic comments about her TV dramas because it all gets rather boring, and fussing about her medical condition, that I suspect is more psychological than medical. But I’m not her doctor or her shrink so I really don’t know. But if you read this my little Drama Queen, go ahead and enable comments on your site again, I won’t leave anymore comments, promise. Really, if I have something to say about you and your stupid blog in the future I will just say it on my blog, you can report it to Blog Spot and we can all get a good chuckle out of it).
I also don't get why people think they can cut and paste your blog and then reproduce it on theirs..I am copyrighted..isn't that illegal? (She is copyrighted? Well I’ll be dipped in shit, guess she can just sue me then can’t she? With the advent of the Internet the whole copy write scene is going to change as the world knows it anyway. Everyone is doing copy/pastes of all sorts of things on the net. They copy/paste news stories and things from Wikipedia and share all kinds of cartoons and editorials, it’s going to become impossible to try to uphold so called copyrights other than maybe technical manuals and such, it’s a changing world folks and that is a fact. If however others do not want others to copy/paste what is on their sites and blogs they should include code that doesn’t allow it).
Go away creepy Billy..I don't care what you think.. (Then you should stop over reacting to what I say) Go hate someone else. (Never once did I tell that woman that I hated her but she made it very clear that she hates me, my impression is that she is one hateful woman. Yeah, I’ll go away, at least I won’t leave anymore comments on her blog. I think she would get along with my dysfunctional daughter pretty well though, but maybe not, I sense that she doesn’t like Christians and my daughter is one).
(Anyway, that was all pretty interesting what she put on her blog, to bad others don’t read it or I might have picked up a few more readers on my blog).
Saturday, May 20, 2006
The Drama Queen
God always loves a good pissing contest so tomorrow I’m going to address some things that what a lady that I have nicknamed the Drama Queen said about me on her blog. I’m too busy to write about it today.
For now how about a few good jokes.
Albert Einstein arrives at a party and introduces himself to the first person he sees and asks, "What is your IQ?" to which the man answers "241." "That is wonderful!," says Albert. "We will talk about the Grand Unification Theory and the mysteries of the Universe. We will have much to discuss!" Next Albert introduces himself to a woman and asks, "What is your IQ?" To which the lady answers, "144." "That is great!," responds Albert. "We can discuss politics and current affairs. We will have much to discuss!" Albert goes to another person and asks, "What is your IQ?" to which the man answers, "51." Albert responds, "How 'bout them Green Bay Packers?"
Three nuns in church on a hot day decide to remove their robes because of the heat. Not an unusual habit on a hot day. So about a half hour later, the door bell rings while their robes are slumped over pews clear across the huge chapel.They ask who it is. "The blind man," a voice replies.The three nuns decide to simply open the door because the man is blind. He walks in, looks at the nuns and says, "Nice tits! Where do you want me to install these blinds?"
For now how about a few good jokes.
Albert Einstein arrives at a party and introduces himself to the first person he sees and asks, "What is your IQ?" to which the man answers "241." "That is wonderful!," says Albert. "We will talk about the Grand Unification Theory and the mysteries of the Universe. We will have much to discuss!" Next Albert introduces himself to a woman and asks, "What is your IQ?" To which the lady answers, "144." "That is great!," responds Albert. "We can discuss politics and current affairs. We will have much to discuss!" Albert goes to another person and asks, "What is your IQ?" to which the man answers, "51." Albert responds, "How 'bout them Green Bay Packers?"
Three nuns in church on a hot day decide to remove their robes because of the heat. Not an unusual habit on a hot day. So about a half hour later, the door bell rings while their robes are slumped over pews clear across the huge chapel.They ask who it is. "The blind man," a voice replies.The three nuns decide to simply open the door because the man is blind. He walks in, looks at the nuns and says, "Nice tits! Where do you want me to install these blinds?"
Friday, May 19, 2006
Some Things
Things never change in some ways it seems.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Contry Wisdom
Don't name a pig you plan to eat.
Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.
Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.
Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
Meanness doesn't happen overnight.
To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.
Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal; it just ain't helpful.
Teachers, Moms, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.
Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
Two can live as cheap as one, if one doesn't eat.
Will things ever change and improve?
Things really haven’t changed a bit on this planet. I have some new neighbors, sort of, they like on the next block, behind Win, but I can see part of their place. They are young people, and they are just as nuts and unruly as I was when I was young forty years ago.
Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.
Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.
Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
Meanness doesn't happen overnight.
To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.
Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal; it just ain't helpful.
Teachers, Moms, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.
Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.
Two can live as cheap as one, if one doesn't eat.
Will things ever change and improve?
Things really haven’t changed a bit on this planet. I have some new neighbors, sort of, they like on the next block, behind Win, but I can see part of their place. They are young people, and they are just as nuts and unruly as I was when I was young forty years ago.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Ending poverty
I read an opinion (news article) that even though there has been much money directed towards eliminating poverty that there really hasn’t been much headway. One of the biggest reasons of course is the greed of the governments and organizations receiving the money and products. They just keep a lot of it for themselves and put the products on black markets. So yes, it is still a rotten world where twenty to thirty thousand people die of starvation everyday because they can’t get enough to eat for any number of reasons.
I fuss about poverty and greed all the time but It’s never been my objective to get rid of poverty. Some people are simply too lazy to work enough to rise above poverty, some of them don’t really care about a lot of material things. What I really fuss about is people starving to death, I don’t think there is any excuse for that. Everyone should be able to get enough food to get by even if they live under a tree. Maybe even a few clothes and blankets.
But I see no reason to give them more than that unless they are willing to work for more. It’s a shame though that greedy governments and people don’t at least see that all people get something to eat. I hate greed, it’s one reason I hate the stock markets.
I fuss about poverty and greed all the time but It’s never been my objective to get rid of poverty. Some people are simply too lazy to work enough to rise above poverty, some of them don’t really care about a lot of material things. What I really fuss about is people starving to death, I don’t think there is any excuse for that. Everyone should be able to get enough food to get by even if they live under a tree. Maybe even a few clothes and blankets.
But I see no reason to give them more than that unless they are willing to work for more. It’s a shame though that greedy governments and people don’t at least see that all people get something to eat. I hate greed, it’s one reason I hate the stock markets.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Retirement
I was semi-retired for eight years before I officially retired. Other than volunteer work I do very little work now, that is for money. Retirement is wonderful and working for others suck, it's really overrated.
Why I Like Retirement!!! (This is just a copy/paste of an email sent to me).
Folks, for those of you that are retired, you recognize a lot of truths here for those of you who could be retired - you're gonna hate yourself for putting it off for those of you that are too young - nanya nanya boo hoo!!!!!!
They ask why I like retirement....?
Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime? Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees? Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors? Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire? Answer: Underwear and tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies? Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire? Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage? Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch? Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement? Answer: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree? Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with? Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Share this one with all the retirees that you know. I'm sure they can relate to some of them!
AND, If you have not yet retired, look what you have to look forward too...!!
Why I Like Retirement!!! (This is just a copy/paste of an email sent to me).
Folks, for those of you that are retired, you recognize a lot of truths here for those of you who could be retired - you're gonna hate yourself for putting it off for those of you that are too young - nanya nanya boo hoo!!!!!!
They ask why I like retirement....?
Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime? Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees? Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors? Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire? Answer: Underwear and tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies? Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire? Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage? Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch? Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement? Answer: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree? Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with? Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Share this one with all the retirees that you know. I'm sure they can relate to some of them!
AND, If you have not yet retired, look what you have to look forward too...!!
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Happy Mothers Day Helen
This is dedicated to Helen Hall, my neighbor and one of the finest women this planet has ever produced.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
People sure think funny
Some people anyway. I know people that go to bars all the time, I go to one some myself just to relax and get a little loose at times. But it’s too expensive to go to them all the time. It doesn’t make sense to me to spend a lot of money that way when it can be better spent in other ways. Some people spend a lot in bars when they need to get their teeth fixed and things like that. Or they spend seventy-five dollars an hour for tattoos all over their body, I really don’t get that. Or they buy new cars and fuss that they can’t afford a home, I don’t understand that either.
I don’t understand how people that don’t even know me jump to conclusions about me either. I left a few comments on one ladies blog because we seemed to have some things in common as she was fussing about some of the things I do. But I guess I was wrong as after telling her some things about myself she just accused me of tooting my own horn, you know, making myself sound good. Hell, I was just telling her what I am.
Below is a few of the things she said to me. Thankfully, the universe doesn’t give a damn what she thinks of me being as my friends and the people I’ve helped see me differently. And she clearly doesn’t like OLD people, I’m not sure what she considers old though, maybe anyone five years older than her. It’s kind of funny really, considering her medical condition she talks about I am guessing that a lot of OLD people are in better shape than she is. I think she needs a shrink, she sounds like the hateful one. BBC
Damn you are a sanctimonious little shit aren't you?
You are elderly, hateful and condescending to every damn person you meet.
You aren't spiritual, you are a spoiled little shit that gets pissed when people wont lay down for you.
Don't comment any more, I don't like you at all. You are a mean little man. Nothing you believe in means anything, you are full of shit.
Keep stocking up for that earthquake you selfish ignorant OLD bastard.
Damn I really can't stand the geriatric set.
I don’t understand how people that don’t even know me jump to conclusions about me either. I left a few comments on one ladies blog because we seemed to have some things in common as she was fussing about some of the things I do. But I guess I was wrong as after telling her some things about myself she just accused me of tooting my own horn, you know, making myself sound good. Hell, I was just telling her what I am.
Below is a few of the things she said to me. Thankfully, the universe doesn’t give a damn what she thinks of me being as my friends and the people I’ve helped see me differently. And she clearly doesn’t like OLD people, I’m not sure what she considers old though, maybe anyone five years older than her. It’s kind of funny really, considering her medical condition she talks about I am guessing that a lot of OLD people are in better shape than she is. I think she needs a shrink, she sounds like the hateful one. BBC
Damn you are a sanctimonious little shit aren't you?
You are elderly, hateful and condescending to every damn person you meet.
You aren't spiritual, you are a spoiled little shit that gets pissed when people wont lay down for you.
Don't comment any more, I don't like you at all. You are a mean little man. Nothing you believe in means anything, you are full of shit.
Keep stocking up for that earthquake you selfish ignorant OLD bastard.
Damn I really can't stand the geriatric set.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Just a few quotes
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. – Herodotus
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
From 1945 to 2003, the US attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. - William Blum, Author of Killing Hope
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. – Herodotus
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
From 1945 to 2003, the US attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. - William Blum, Author of Killing Hope
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Puck it
Thinking that I would like to have a camp or tent trailer seeing as I have sold my big boat, I’ve been keeping an eye out for something useful. Something cheap that I can fix up. Yesterday a friend told me about a Puck trailer that a friend of his has so I went out to look at it.
I’ve never seen one and they sure are different, about nine feet long and six feet wide. And not tall enough to stand up in so they have a round dome on them that is about four feet across, looks kind of like a gun turret. Actually it is roomy inside for it’s size and should be easy to tow. I like the big windows on each side, it’s plenty for overnight camping or day trips to the beach.
The owner wasn’t home at the time he said he would be and after waiting for a half-hour longer I went home. I’m not sure if I will follow up on it and buy it as it needs a lot of work, but it was interesting to look at. There is a picture and history on them at the link below.
http://www.rvwest.com/features/vintage_rv/eriba_puck.htm
I’ve never seen one and they sure are different, about nine feet long and six feet wide. And not tall enough to stand up in so they have a round dome on them that is about four feet across, looks kind of like a gun turret. Actually it is roomy inside for it’s size and should be easy to tow. I like the big windows on each side, it’s plenty for overnight camping or day trips to the beach.
The owner wasn’t home at the time he said he would be and after waiting for a half-hour longer I went home. I’m not sure if I will follow up on it and buy it as it needs a lot of work, but it was interesting to look at. There is a picture and history on them at the link below.
http://www.rvwest.com/features/vintage_rv/eriba_puck.htm
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Deepak Chopra
You know, Deepak Chopra is just another big fake that has gotten rich writing and speaking nonsense. Nothing he has came up with has improved the world in any way. And his newer mutterings are just that, mutterings. I repeat, for all his claims, he has not made the world a better or more peaceful place. I’ll bet that he doesn’t even go to antiwar protests.
Since moving to America he has become wealthy, lives in a nice home and drives a nice car and I’ll bet that he doesn’t send much money back to his home country to help those folks.
Balance
Balance is important, a little food but not too much, a roof over a persons head, but it hasn’t got to be fancy. Decent health care, work but not too much. Sunshine, friends, music, dance. Humor, that is very important. Why does everyone want so much? A lot of anything hasn’t got anything to do with balance. Ninety-five percent of the people I know want too much and are unhappy that they don’t have it all. I’m happy with what I have personally, what I’m not happy about is the greed all around me and the lack of world peace. BBC
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. -Charles Sumner
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -Aristotle
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine
Since moving to America he has become wealthy, lives in a nice home and drives a nice car and I’ll bet that he doesn’t send much money back to his home country to help those folks.
Balance
Balance is important, a little food but not too much, a roof over a persons head, but it hasn’t got to be fancy. Decent health care, work but not too much. Sunshine, friends, music, dance. Humor, that is very important. Why does everyone want so much? A lot of anything hasn’t got anything to do with balance. Ninety-five percent of the people I know want too much and are unhappy that they don’t have it all. I’m happy with what I have personally, what I’m not happy about is the greed all around me and the lack of world peace. BBC
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. -Charles Sumner
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -Aristotle
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
The speed of light
I think that there may be one thing faster than the speed of light.
A thought.
I’m not into playing games on my computer, I think computers are much too important for such trivial things as games. But I did discover the Windows Space Cadet pinball game and I play it at times. It’s great for exercising the eyes after working on a computer for hours. Watching the ball bounce around a lot seems to be good for them, and playing it just before I go to bed seems to help me get to sleep faster. Maybe because it takes my mind off of other things. I don’t care about scores but of the five high scores the game keeps track of, mine have gotten pretty good.
Lowest high score 7,660,250. High score 11,642,500
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
A thought.
I’m not into playing games on my computer, I think computers are much too important for such trivial things as games. But I did discover the Windows Space Cadet pinball game and I play it at times. It’s great for exercising the eyes after working on a computer for hours. Watching the ball bounce around a lot seems to be good for them, and playing it just before I go to bed seems to help me get to sleep faster. Maybe because it takes my mind off of other things. I don’t care about scores but of the five high scores the game keeps track of, mine have gotten pretty good.
Lowest high score 7,660,250. High score 11,642,500
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Life goes on
My remaining sister died this morning so I'm the only one left other than an ignorant brother that I don’t talk to, and my friends, the point being, make the best of every day and try to make a difference in the world as no one is assured of being here tomorrow. She was only sixty-five.
What is life about? What have you invested in? Memories, I invested in memories, not even realizing that I would be getting old, money is just an energy to be invested. Memories and love has more meaning than all the money in the world.
Say, have I ever told you about that gal I met while wandering through Arkansas……..
Or when I quit a trucking firm 2000 miles away from home and bought a used car and …….
Or that night in a Nebraska Keno club when I cleaned up on pull tabs and ran off with the cute bartender…..
Or the day I set the track fast time record and went on win all three races I was in that day……
Oh, and I have some fond memories of my sister also, she was a very sweet girl, not like me and always testing everyone. BBC
What is life about? What have you invested in? Memories, I invested in memories, not even realizing that I would be getting old, money is just an energy to be invested. Memories and love has more meaning than all the money in the world.
Say, have I ever told you about that gal I met while wandering through Arkansas……..
Or when I quit a trucking firm 2000 miles away from home and bought a used car and …….
Or that night in a Nebraska Keno club when I cleaned up on pull tabs and ran off with the cute bartender…..
Or the day I set the track fast time record and went on win all three races I was in that day……
Oh, and I have some fond memories of my sister also, she was a very sweet girl, not like me and always testing everyone. BBC
Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur is a regular commentator on the Huffington Post website. He makes a lot of sense to me so I’m putting one of his articles on my blog today, along with some comments by readers.
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right… By Cenk Uygur
As the song goes, "I got the feeling that something ain't right ... Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you." That's the feeling I get everyday as I listen to the leaders of Iran and America drive us further and further down the road of war.
The whole world must feel like we are stuck in the middle as Bush plays the clown on one side and Ahmedinejad plays the joker on the other.
Ahmedinejad, the so-called President of Iran, is either crazy or doesn't know how crazy we are. Either he wants to push Iran into war because he thinks it will help rally Iranians around his fundamentalist government because of nationalist fervor (which actually is quite rational, the part he's missing is the part where we hunt him down and kill his sons and find him buried in a spider hole). Or he thinks he can taunt us and push us around because we couldn't possibly be crazy enough to start a third war in the Middle East. Boy, he really doesn't know us at all.
Today, an Iranian military leader said Iran would strike Israel if it were attacked. I'm sure they would. And it would be a sound strategy in order to gain the sympathy and help of their neighboring Muslim countries. But saying that only aggravates the already far too aggravated situation.
This is only the 189th irrationally hostile comment the Iranian leadership has made in the last two months. If they don't want war, they've got a funny way of showing it.
On the other side, we have a slightly more irrational world leader who is even more volatile - the President of the United States of America. George Bush isn't about to lose a crazy-off with anybody. How sick is it that there is a legitimate debate about who's crazier, the leader of Iran or the leader of the United States?
If you don't think that's a legitimate debate, take this short quiz:
Was it Iran or the United States that committed these following acts of aggression?
A. Threaten nuclear war on another country.
B. Invade a country that did not attack it.
C. Occupy a country for over three years while claiming to give it "freedom."
D. Organize the violent overthrow of the other country's leader.
For all its bluster, Iran has never said they would consider using nuclear weapons, let alone any weapons against the United States of America. Whereas, George Bush steadfastly maintains that he will keep the option of using nuclear weapons against Iran on the table.
Iran did not attack Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. Iraq attacked, partly at our behest. And they eventually used weapons against Iran that Don Rumsfeld sold Saddam Hussein. Whereas we have attacked Iraq -- twice now. One was at least to defend an ally; the other was a senseless act of aggression against a nearly defenseless country (and by the way, we are now losing this war against a country that originally had no significant weapons when we invaded it - how incompetent does a Secretary of Defense (yes, that same Don Rumsfeld) have to be to get fired around here?).
Iran has not occupied another country in hundreds of years. Nor did they plan the assassination of William McKinley or JFK. But we have been occupying Iraq with our 150,000 troops parked in Iran's backyard for the last three years. And many years ago, we did depose Iran's elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh and replace him with a Shah (otherwise known as a King).
Yeah, those crazy Iranians. They're dangerous.
Any idiot wrapped around an American flag can yell and scream about how he is a patriot as he sends off other people's kids to die. He can shove a whole apple pie in his face and make out with a TV just to show how truly American he is. And he can get all outraged at the facts I just presented and call me anti-American. But it doesn't make the facts go away.
We're also the same country who came to the rescue of the entire free world when it was in jeopardy during World War II. We rebuilt our enemies and showed historic magnanimity through the Marshall Plan. We built the edifice of international cooperation when we set up the United Nations. We treated our enemies with respect and made them admire and ultimately emulate us. This is what made America the greatest country on earth. Not preemptive wars, not jingoism, not first strikes, not false pride, not arrogance and not acts of overt aggression.
We were made great by our silent acts of heroism and our graceful benevolence. And now the people who cheapen this on a daily basis have the nerve to call us un-American.
I am repulsed that we have a leader more unstable than the radical head of Iran. Iran, for all its boastful strut, has not threatened to attack us, let alone with nuclear weapons they don't have (and couldn't possibly have for another ten years). We're the local bullies on the block who are doing the majority of threatening.
The fact that we are having a serious discussion in this country about attacking yet another nearly defenseless country should sicken us to our core. Yet, we are unfazed. Two days ago, the Jerusalem Post reported that we have already asked permission of Turkey to use their airbases for strikes against Iran. This is not theoretical planning. This is real.
You don't go to the extraordinary step of asking permission from a neighboring country for their cooperation in air strikes unless you are deadly serious about actually carrying out those strikes. It is not a small diplomatic favor. This is far from the standard planning that the Pentagon does for any contingency. This is the revving up of the war machine.
In ironies that know no ends, we apparently offered Turkey a nuclear reactor if they helped us to get rid of Iran's nuclear reactors. Yeah, that's just what we need, another country in the Middle East with a nuclear reactor.
I'm a Turkish-American. So, the fact that Turkey is an ally is not lost on me. That being said, it would be insanity to put a nuclear reactor in Turkey to avoid one in Iran. Does anyone on this administration think? Which dumb idea contest did this jewel win?
It must have been hard to unseat previous dumb idea champions like: 1. Painting a plane in the UN colors and hoping Saddam shoots it down. 2. Considering an attack on the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, a news organization in the middle of a civilian city in an allied country. 3. Using white phosphorus against Iraqi cities after we said we invaded Iraq because Saddam used chemical weapons against Iraqi cities.
There were so many honorable mentions that space limitations don't allow for me to list them all. But among all these horrific ideas, George Bush - again - wins the prize. He's going to give a nuclear reactor to another country in the Middle East if they allow him to bomb the non-existent nuclear reactors that are not yet built in Iran. And possibly carry out this attack with nuclear weapons.
They've broken the irony meter.
Luckily, Turkey isn't nearly as dumb as we are. It turned down the request. But you remember what happened the last time it did that. We carried out the attack anyway. If George Bush goes through with this foolhardy and barbaric idea, he will go down in history as one of the biggest warmongers of all time.
We often talk about the warlords in Afghanistan or Africa. But we have the ultimate warlord here. He's started two enormous wars already and he's just getting warmed up.
With fundamentalist clowns to the left of us and Bush administration jokers to the right, I feel like we are all stuck in the middle together. The people of Iran might not be able to stop their crazy leader, but we're supposed to live in a democracy. We're supposed to have power over our leaders. What are we doing to end this madness?
And here are a few comments by readers:
Bush is the worst American of all time, period.
Cenk: American people, more specifically, hard-core supporters of President Bush are in a deep denial stage of just how dangerous he is... sort of like when a person is diagnosed as having potentially terminal cancer and they wish to deny it away until the symptoms overwhelm them and they succumb to the ravages of the disease. Bush has spread a cancer throughout US policy, causing sky-high and going higher oil and gasoline prices (profitable for some, including the Bush and Cheney families), the lasting historical damage of 9/11, NSA spying and the incompetence of Katrina relief... and now creating Iran as an outside enemy of the US to further distract domestic US attention of the ongoing important real issues facing America.
So how do we - ordinary people with ordinary lives - stop this fascist war machine? That's the column I want to see.
Always keep in mind that madness trumps everything else. You can't talk to, negotiate with or mollify madness. That being said, America needs to find a way to banish the NeoCon cabal which would keep America in war for entire 21st century in its efforts to dominate and reshape the world in some nightmarish version of a benign dictatorship ruled by ignorant, arrogant son(s) of the overprivileged.
Is it really a question of what are we doing to end this madness, but more of a question of what CAN we do? The base of the right, coupled with the 32-percenters still cheer on their King unconditionally, because he speaks to them on their level, the lowest common denominator.
Awesome Cenk! Keep the good work coming. To point out the madnesses of King George is what patriotism is all about. How shameful it is to have a president that compares in craziness with his Iranian counterpart.
This is a great analysis of this corrupt, crazy very dangerous administration. Send it to every elected official. They need to see the real facts written in plain English.
Cenk: Nice piece. You go. No more war. It's all a hype today. Where's the Secretary of Peace? Hasn't anybody looked at the pictures of Hiroshima lately?
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right… By Cenk Uygur
As the song goes, "I got the feeling that something ain't right ... Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you." That's the feeling I get everyday as I listen to the leaders of Iran and America drive us further and further down the road of war.
The whole world must feel like we are stuck in the middle as Bush plays the clown on one side and Ahmedinejad plays the joker on the other.
Ahmedinejad, the so-called President of Iran, is either crazy or doesn't know how crazy we are. Either he wants to push Iran into war because he thinks it will help rally Iranians around his fundamentalist government because of nationalist fervor (which actually is quite rational, the part he's missing is the part where we hunt him down and kill his sons and find him buried in a spider hole). Or he thinks he can taunt us and push us around because we couldn't possibly be crazy enough to start a third war in the Middle East. Boy, he really doesn't know us at all.
Today, an Iranian military leader said Iran would strike Israel if it were attacked. I'm sure they would. And it would be a sound strategy in order to gain the sympathy and help of their neighboring Muslim countries. But saying that only aggravates the already far too aggravated situation.
This is only the 189th irrationally hostile comment the Iranian leadership has made in the last two months. If they don't want war, they've got a funny way of showing it.
On the other side, we have a slightly more irrational world leader who is even more volatile - the President of the United States of America. George Bush isn't about to lose a crazy-off with anybody. How sick is it that there is a legitimate debate about who's crazier, the leader of Iran or the leader of the United States?
If you don't think that's a legitimate debate, take this short quiz:
Was it Iran or the United States that committed these following acts of aggression?
A. Threaten nuclear war on another country.
B. Invade a country that did not attack it.
C. Occupy a country for over three years while claiming to give it "freedom."
D. Organize the violent overthrow of the other country's leader.
For all its bluster, Iran has never said they would consider using nuclear weapons, let alone any weapons against the United States of America. Whereas, George Bush steadfastly maintains that he will keep the option of using nuclear weapons against Iran on the table.
Iran did not attack Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. Iraq attacked, partly at our behest. And they eventually used weapons against Iran that Don Rumsfeld sold Saddam Hussein. Whereas we have attacked Iraq -- twice now. One was at least to defend an ally; the other was a senseless act of aggression against a nearly defenseless country (and by the way, we are now losing this war against a country that originally had no significant weapons when we invaded it - how incompetent does a Secretary of Defense (yes, that same Don Rumsfeld) have to be to get fired around here?).
Iran has not occupied another country in hundreds of years. Nor did they plan the assassination of William McKinley or JFK. But we have been occupying Iraq with our 150,000 troops parked in Iran's backyard for the last three years. And many years ago, we did depose Iran's elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh and replace him with a Shah (otherwise known as a King).
Yeah, those crazy Iranians. They're dangerous.
Any idiot wrapped around an American flag can yell and scream about how he is a patriot as he sends off other people's kids to die. He can shove a whole apple pie in his face and make out with a TV just to show how truly American he is. And he can get all outraged at the facts I just presented and call me anti-American. But it doesn't make the facts go away.
We're also the same country who came to the rescue of the entire free world when it was in jeopardy during World War II. We rebuilt our enemies and showed historic magnanimity through the Marshall Plan. We built the edifice of international cooperation when we set up the United Nations. We treated our enemies with respect and made them admire and ultimately emulate us. This is what made America the greatest country on earth. Not preemptive wars, not jingoism, not first strikes, not false pride, not arrogance and not acts of overt aggression.
We were made great by our silent acts of heroism and our graceful benevolence. And now the people who cheapen this on a daily basis have the nerve to call us un-American.
I am repulsed that we have a leader more unstable than the radical head of Iran. Iran, for all its boastful strut, has not threatened to attack us, let alone with nuclear weapons they don't have (and couldn't possibly have for another ten years). We're the local bullies on the block who are doing the majority of threatening.
The fact that we are having a serious discussion in this country about attacking yet another nearly defenseless country should sicken us to our core. Yet, we are unfazed. Two days ago, the Jerusalem Post reported that we have already asked permission of Turkey to use their airbases for strikes against Iran. This is not theoretical planning. This is real.
You don't go to the extraordinary step of asking permission from a neighboring country for their cooperation in air strikes unless you are deadly serious about actually carrying out those strikes. It is not a small diplomatic favor. This is far from the standard planning that the Pentagon does for any contingency. This is the revving up of the war machine.
In ironies that know no ends, we apparently offered Turkey a nuclear reactor if they helped us to get rid of Iran's nuclear reactors. Yeah, that's just what we need, another country in the Middle East with a nuclear reactor.
I'm a Turkish-American. So, the fact that Turkey is an ally is not lost on me. That being said, it would be insanity to put a nuclear reactor in Turkey to avoid one in Iran. Does anyone on this administration think? Which dumb idea contest did this jewel win?
It must have been hard to unseat previous dumb idea champions like: 1. Painting a plane in the UN colors and hoping Saddam shoots it down. 2. Considering an attack on the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, a news organization in the middle of a civilian city in an allied country. 3. Using white phosphorus against Iraqi cities after we said we invaded Iraq because Saddam used chemical weapons against Iraqi cities.
There were so many honorable mentions that space limitations don't allow for me to list them all. But among all these horrific ideas, George Bush - again - wins the prize. He's going to give a nuclear reactor to another country in the Middle East if they allow him to bomb the non-existent nuclear reactors that are not yet built in Iran. And possibly carry out this attack with nuclear weapons.
They've broken the irony meter.
Luckily, Turkey isn't nearly as dumb as we are. It turned down the request. But you remember what happened the last time it did that. We carried out the attack anyway. If George Bush goes through with this foolhardy and barbaric idea, he will go down in history as one of the biggest warmongers of all time.
We often talk about the warlords in Afghanistan or Africa. But we have the ultimate warlord here. He's started two enormous wars already and he's just getting warmed up.
With fundamentalist clowns to the left of us and Bush administration jokers to the right, I feel like we are all stuck in the middle together. The people of Iran might not be able to stop their crazy leader, but we're supposed to live in a democracy. We're supposed to have power over our leaders. What are we doing to end this madness?
And here are a few comments by readers:
Bush is the worst American of all time, period.
Cenk: American people, more specifically, hard-core supporters of President Bush are in a deep denial stage of just how dangerous he is... sort of like when a person is diagnosed as having potentially terminal cancer and they wish to deny it away until the symptoms overwhelm them and they succumb to the ravages of the disease. Bush has spread a cancer throughout US policy, causing sky-high and going higher oil and gasoline prices (profitable for some, including the Bush and Cheney families), the lasting historical damage of 9/11, NSA spying and the incompetence of Katrina relief... and now creating Iran as an outside enemy of the US to further distract domestic US attention of the ongoing important real issues facing America.
So how do we - ordinary people with ordinary lives - stop this fascist war machine? That's the column I want to see.
Always keep in mind that madness trumps everything else. You can't talk to, negotiate with or mollify madness. That being said, America needs to find a way to banish the NeoCon cabal which would keep America in war for entire 21st century in its efforts to dominate and reshape the world in some nightmarish version of a benign dictatorship ruled by ignorant, arrogant son(s) of the overprivileged.
Is it really a question of what are we doing to end this madness, but more of a question of what CAN we do? The base of the right, coupled with the 32-percenters still cheer on their King unconditionally, because he speaks to them on their level, the lowest common denominator.
Awesome Cenk! Keep the good work coming. To point out the madnesses of King George is what patriotism is all about. How shameful it is to have a president that compares in craziness with his Iranian counterpart.
This is a great analysis of this corrupt, crazy very dangerous administration. Send it to every elected official. They need to see the real facts written in plain English.
Cenk: Nice piece. You go. No more war. It's all a hype today. Where's the Secretary of Peace? Hasn't anybody looked at the pictures of Hiroshima lately?
Saturday, May 06, 2006
In the news
Looking at the news everyday reminds me of one thing. Mankind is stupid, greedy, wasteful scum.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Love
Love is what is left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed. The last woman I was interested in was pure selfishness though, a real brat, everything was about her. So of course there was no love left for me, she is so small that I’ve never even heard from her again even though I did nice things for her after she blew up with her little tantrum. And she wonders why she has been alone for thirty years, and so unhappy and lives alone. But she deserves to be alone, no man deserves to be stuck with her, that is for sure. There was a lesson here for me, I will avoid these kind of women in the future. I should post her name so other men can avoid her using them, but I won't, karma will take care of it. BBC
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Something that flows through me
People just don't understand that when I am bitching and insulting, complaining about how they think and do things, that it is just something flowing through me. Flowing through me, get it? As a human I could care less about most of the problems on this rock because all in all I have it made compared to how many others have it.
But if something that is flowing through me is pissed then I have to allow it because as hard as I try it won't leave me alone, won't allow me to ignore it. So there you go, it is a higher authority that is doing the ranting, unhappy with how things are on this planet.
So don't think of me as doing the ranting and insulting, I swear, it's just something flowing through me. And believe me, it's a pain in the ass from my perspective. Yadda, yadda, yadda..... BBC
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. - David Brin
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. - Lord Macaulay
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. - G. K. Chesterton
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
But if something that is flowing through me is pissed then I have to allow it because as hard as I try it won't leave me alone, won't allow me to ignore it. So there you go, it is a higher authority that is doing the ranting, unhappy with how things are on this planet.
So don't think of me as doing the ranting and insulting, I swear, it's just something flowing through me. And believe me, it's a pain in the ass from my perspective. Yadda, yadda, yadda..... BBC
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. - David Brin
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. - Lord Macaulay
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. - G. K. Chesterton
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Jokes
Three priests are chatting when the first priest says he's going to give up red meat for lent. The second priest thinks for a minute and says he's going to give up sweets for Lent.
The third priest's attention had wandered to a passing woman wearing 4 inch heels and a tiny skirt when the first priest asks him what he was going to give up for lent. After regaining control of himself he returns to the conversation and replies, 'Celibacy.'
A guy goes on vacation to the Holy Land with his wife and mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law dies.
They go to an undertaker who explains that they can ship the body home but that it'll cost over $5000, whereas they can bury her in the Holy Land for only $150.
The guy says, "We'll ship her home."
The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here."
The guy says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."
The third priest's attention had wandered to a passing woman wearing 4 inch heels and a tiny skirt when the first priest asks him what he was going to give up for lent. After regaining control of himself he returns to the conversation and replies, 'Celibacy.'
A guy goes on vacation to the Holy Land with his wife and mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law dies.
They go to an undertaker who explains that they can ship the body home but that it'll cost over $5000, whereas they can bury her in the Holy Land for only $150.
The guy says, "We'll ship her home."
The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here."
The guy says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Persistence
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
American’s are working in just about every other country on this planet, so why are they fussing because others come here to work? How many Americans are working in Iraq for example, taking jobs away from Iraqis? How many are working in Mexico? Americans are sure a bunch of whiners.
American’s are working in just about every other country on this planet, so why are they fussing because others come here to work? How many Americans are working in Iraq for example, taking jobs away from Iraqis? How many are working in Mexico? Americans are sure a bunch of whiners.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Fuck it
I’m not in any mood to be philosophical or benevolent today. So I will just say it straight out, this world is shit because people are all a bunch of shit !!! And if I had the bombs I would kill most of you off because I’m sick and tired of the whole lot of you and your bullshit and your beliefs and how you use each other. And Mrs. God would do the same if she had bombs.
Let's talk about the Sudan and Darfur dammit. Lets talk about murder, rape and genocide. GENOCIDE. What the fuck are you people doing about it. Nothing!! That’s because you are shit !! And yes, the UN is shit also. And that is just one area, things like this are happening all over the planet.
And what are American women doing about all of this? Not much, because for the most part American women are crap that live in nice homes and drive nice cars and take nice trips, they don’t want to screw with their status quo so why should they care much about others somewhere else dying. I have very little respect for most American women.
Yup, it’s a good thing I can’t reach down with a big hand or I would wipe out seventy-five percent of the people on this planet and start over again. How would you live if you where more spiritually advanced? BBC
Let's talk about the Sudan and Darfur dammit. Lets talk about murder, rape and genocide. GENOCIDE. What the fuck are you people doing about it. Nothing!! That’s because you are shit !! And yes, the UN is shit also. And that is just one area, things like this are happening all over the planet.
And what are American women doing about all of this? Not much, because for the most part American women are crap that live in nice homes and drive nice cars and take nice trips, they don’t want to screw with their status quo so why should they care much about others somewhere else dying. I have very little respect for most American women.
Yup, it’s a good thing I can’t reach down with a big hand or I would wipe out seventy-five percent of the people on this planet and start over again. How would you live if you where more spiritually advanced? BBC
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