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February 14, 2005:
Halfway Houses:
Here is a reality about halfway houses and homes for indigents.
No good citizens of a stable neighborhood will want people in
their neighborhood who cannot afford the whole cost of living
there. This is true of any stable neighborhood.
A bikers prayer:
Our faddar who bikes in Heaven.
Harley be yer name.
Da king will come.
Den hogs we'll run,
On oith an in Heaven.
Statistics:
According to some survey I read about, 85 percent of the whiskey
consumed is consumed by 22 percent of the drinkers. How do they
know that? Maybe it's just pulled out of someone's ear. Everyday
on the news we hear someone tossing off numbers. We ought to
start asking them where the got those numbers. Then they will
tell you some authority or other told them. Is it really from
an authority? I think it's mostly bull.
For Shame:
It is a little known fact that Henry Ford stole the idea for
the Model T ford from his black nanny. She sang to him about
a car when he was but a tad. He wrote it down and after she died,
he built it and took credit for it. All that money the Fords
have belongs to that black nanny's descendants.
Computers:
Bit whackers float along like large brown blobs in the sewer
of boolean logic. They are unable to communicate with us mortals
on the shore who are desperately trying to keep our feet dry
in the tidal wave of digital doggerel. They would like to reduce
the entire universe to a zeros and ones.
Peacekeepers:
In the Congo there are allegations that the so-called peacekeepers
are abusing the people they are supposed to be protecting. There
are charges of abuse and rape. The UN big shots say they are
putting a stop to it. Even as they were saying that the news
people on the scene were showing us it was still going on. Why
am I not surprised?
Winter:
This winter has served to remind me that I am no longer a vigorous
young man. Mother nature has brought to my attention, in a very
powerful way, how very fragile and vulnerable I am. This is a
lesson, not to be ignored.
Politicians:
I believe in my soul that all politicians are evil. My task is
to figure out which ones are most evil. Then I will know who
to vote against. At this point in time, I have concluded that
it's Republicans I must vote against, right across the board.
I must point out that Democrats are not that far behind them.
In fact, not to many years ago I was voting against Democrats.
It swings back and forth, but no one ever gets honest. The cost
of liberty is eternal vigilance. The guy who said that was talking
about external enemies. The truth is, our most dangerous threat
to freedom resides in Washington DC.
Let's realize that Jesus or Gandhi would never win an election
in the United States. If the people wanted moral candidates,
candidates would be moral. The fact is, these swine who run for
office are exactly what the voters want. They want a dishonest
person who will be dishonest in their favor. That's the bottom
line.
George:
Now he says he cannot understand why older people are against
his meddling with Social Security. He says, he is going to give
us old folks our share. It's the younger people he is going to
muck with. Why aren't we happy? I suppose, given his morality,
he just cannot conceive of grandparents who would give a damn
about their grandchildren.
Search and Seizure:
It seems there is a lot of underage drinking these days. The
news media is deploring it and making a big thing of it. It seems
some of the kids are buying booze using fake ID's. One local
parental advisor who was featured on ABC 12 News has advocated
that parents should frisk their kids periodically for fake ID's.
I suppose we could just wait at the door, grab them, slam them
up against a wall, and shake them down. After all, they are just
kids. They have no rights. Why shouldn't they be presumed guilty?
I need to report something here. The alarm over kids drinking
is greatly exaggerate. Teenage drinking has not increased since
I was a kid. If anything, it has decreased. When I was a teen
every kid I knew drank. Booze was even easier to buy then than
it is now. Some kids did get drunk and stupid. Most did not.
It's the same now. Most kids do not abuse alcohol.
The other thing is, you cannot stop it. If kids want booze,
they will get it. It would be much better to provide a home environment
where kids learn to act responsibly. I respectful suggest that
treating your kids like criminals is not the way to do that.
If you have a teen who behaves badly, it is probably already
too late. Bad behavior is an acquired pattern that begins before
the child begins school. It comes from the parents.
Beyond the Pale:
The anti-smoking fascists have put on their jackboots and are
ready to start kicking down doors. Channel 12 ABC local news
tells us people are no longer going to be allowed to smoke in
their own home. A man's home is no longer his castle. This is
typical of the insanity of our culture wherein we take a good
thing and carry it to such an extreme that it becomes a bad thing.
Madness knows no bounds.
Puzzles to Ponder:
Here is an important question which needs to be asked. Why are
people crappy when they could just as easily be good? Why can't
we leave other people alone? What is it about the human psyche
which causes that behavior? Can we change that? How?
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