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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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).

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?"

Some Things

Things never change in some ways it seems.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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.

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.

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...!!

Happy Mothers Day Helen

This is dedicated to Helen Hall, my neighbor and one of the finest women this planet has ever produced.

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.

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