My Two Cents

Space Cadet Newt

2012-01-29T13:21:00.002-06:00

Just when you thought the candidates couldn't get anymore frightening, along comes Newt claiming that in his waning years of his SECOND term in Office, they'll be bases on the moon.

Really, Newt? And is that where you plan to make Sarah Palin the Empress Supreme (when she's not under your desk, that is!)

"To stupidity... and BEYOND!"

Hippocratic versus Hypocrisy

2012-01-28T10:14:00.017-06:00

This is an issue that's been chomping on my ass for a while now. I know that people loved Oprah and became her sycophants (myself excluded), and every person she had on her show as an expert is now under that 'royal' umbrella of needing sycophants, Dr. Phil being the biggest winner after kissing Oprah's ass... but another one has risen from the dust and he frightens me even worse than Dr. Phil... Dr. Oz.
This guy is the Addams Family all rolled up into one (and I apologize to Charles Addams for insulting his fantastic characters with that comparison).

The few times I've passed over his show I have been mortified as to what I've seen. The first time I saw him discussing diet pop with a dietician and when Dr. Oz asked if diet pop was okay to drink, the dietician said yes and Dr. Oz became an advocate. Please, please, PLEASE read about aspartame before you start drinking it regularly. It could save your life.
The second time I passed over it he was talking to a plastic surgeon, you know, one of those ass clowns who is rich beyond belief because he makes women look like this------

This is Lisa Renna, the last is after yet MORE plastic surgery, because these quack-in-the-bushes will continue doing so as long as the stupid client like her keep paying. My god... those hideous lips, those fucked eyes... she likes this? Harry Hamlin likes this? Good grief.

Okay, so Dr. Oz approves of this, too. Hey, don't tell me he doesn't. When he has it on his show and he's a booster, then he's for it. He approves of the flu shot. Again, when you're injecting latex into your bloodstream... PEOPLE, it's NOT A GOOD THING!!

Last week though I happened to pass over the show and there he was talking about how great having your stomach stapled is. My god, really? Really? This is a doctor, people, a medical doctor who's supposed to be making sure he lives up to the Hippocratic Oath of: First do no harm.

I don't know if you've read the horrors stomach stapling has caused, but when it includes death, I don't understand how someone who's taken that oath can be a booster for it...

Or can I?

Years ago my doctor had to get out of the business because he wouldn't do things the HMO way, meaning, he wouldn't give people drugs they didn't need, he wouldn't send them out for bullshit tests and he wouldn't kowtow to a megalomaniacal industry that wanted 'world' domination. I lost my doctor to the bullshit of HMO's. And now I see that 89% of doctors out there are feeding this monster... who kind of looks like this...

Vaal, from The Apple, original Star Trek. Only this is what doctors are now supposed to do with the insurance machine... whenever it rings the bell they have to feed it. How often does the bell ring? Well, every single time a patient sits on the examination table. And what makes the bell start ringing? Example: Johnny goes in for a sore throat because the flu is going around. What does Dr. Dick do? Dr. Dick looks down Johnny's throat, sees it's red and says that Johnny has to have this test, that test and then another test, all the while consuming three different drugs and then in five weeks lets see how Johnny is doing. Because you know, it may be something complicated and Dr. Dick would hate to misdiagnose Johnny, because heaven for fend, it can't just be a sore throat due to the flu. Did you get your flu shot, Johnny? Oh, that means I have to pump you full of latex, too! Roll up your sleeve.

When I went to Dr. Mengele for my eustachian tube disfunction, he didn't listen to one word I said. Hell, he didn't even introduce himself, but he sure did want me to have tests up the ass. He sure did want to scare the shit out of me by telling what I could possibly have... like a brain tumor or MS, which three other tests could check for. Would he listen when I said I was in the steroidal issues of menopause? Oh hell no. This pompous ass told me to stop diagnosing myself. Really? I should? Really? And you say that why... because I don't know my body? The body I've lived with now for 50-some years, I don't know it and should just fall blindly into your care, even though you haven't heard a damn word I said? I think he was the one with the eustachian tube problem!

But that's how the bulk of doctors are today, kowtowing to insurance monsters and of course, most likely getting kick-backs for sucking the right dick at the right time. Do they even care anymore about the patient, their 'good' name or their oath? According to Dr. Oz apparently not. They'll pander to any conglomerate who's willing to buy them a summer home in Vienna.

The most seditious thing about this is that all the sycophants who follow these people, believing that everything they say is the gospel truth, will most likely go out and do what the doctor said was okay to do. And when disaster befalls them they'll be standing there, in the middle of their nightmares, without that pompous ass there to help them, or even acknowledging what he said about it being a 'good thing'. Don't try to slap any lawsuits on him, boy! His ass is covered three ways to hell.

And if after knowing the grotesque side effects of something you do it anyway, then it's 100% on you. You have no right to sue. People: Read, study, learn about what you think you want done and then make your own judgment call. Stop putting your judgment in the hands of ass kissers! It will save your life.

Joke of the day...

2012-01-28T09:41:00.002-06:00

The Winter Carnival 2012

2012-01-26T21:13:00.002-06:00

The gorgeous Ice Palace they made at Phalen Lake one year... I only wish they could build one like it again.

Oh, I forgot, bullshit wars and bailing out banks cost a lot of money, so there's no cash for beautiful things!

And again...

2012-01-26T20:24:00.003-06:00

The GOP Theme Song

2012-01-25T08:39:00.008-06:00

*Please sing to Limbo Rock

Every Slimy boy and girl
All around the Senate World
Gonna do the Loophole Rock
All around the Loophole Cock

Rick, be greasy! Mitt, be slick!
Newt, go under Loophole dick!
All around the Loophole Cock!
Hey, let’s do the Loophole Rock!

Seig Heil!

2012-01-25T08:32:00.004-06:00

State of the Union

2012-01-25T07:58:00.001-06:00

I watched the entire thing last night. I like watching them, to me they're very important. Now I realize that he might just have been campaigning for his reelectability come November, but I really thought the speech was a great one, except for one flaw... he mentioned not taking any crap from Iran. Iran, who's done nothing to us and that frightens me that he's going to allow the fat asses in Washington to dictate yet another bullsh't war that will kill hundreds and cost taxpayers billions. Otherwise, he touched on everything he needed to and he even went so far as to sound like he was challenging those who disagreed with him to wake up and get the job done. If I had to choose today between Ron Paul and Barack Obama, after last night, I don't know which I'd choose. Probably Ron still, but Barack would be a close second. I just hope he keeps his balls handy so he can live up to the things he was saying. I give his speech an A+.

The last State of the Union I heard this well spoken and adroitly addressing the key issues was the second one Bill Clinton ever gave. Yes, I've been watching them that long.

Brain trust of the day...

2012-01-25T07:51:00.000-06:00

A glaring misspelling on a street sign outside a Manhattan high school has some laughing that the mistake’s gone unreported for months and stauncher critics condemning what they perceive to be a symbol of the “dumbing down" of American society.
The painted pavement on Stanton Street outside Marta Valle High School reads "SHCOOL X-NG."

And once the kids get inside the school they're taught by treachers.

Mitt Romney's Tax Returns

2012-01-24T12:59:00.002-06:00

Mitt Romney’s campaign released hundreds of pages of tax documents on Tuesday morning, providing an inside glimpse into his sprawling investments, both in the United States and abroad, in an effort to dampen the attacks on his wealth that have become a central focus of the Republican presidential nominating battle.
Mr. Romney and his wife, Ann, had an effective federal income tax rate in 2010 of 13.9 percent, paying about $3 million in taxes on an adjusted gross income of $21.6 million, the vast majority of it flowing from a myriad of stock holdings, mutual funds and other investments, including profits and investment income from Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mr. Romney retired from in 1999.
That rate will rise to 15.4 percent for 2011, when the couple expects to report an adjusted gross income of about $20.9 million.
Both rates are much lower than the rates paid by either President Obama or Newt Gingrich, Mr. Romney’s Republican rival, who released his tax returns last week. Mr. Romney’s own tax proposals would cut his federal income taxes by about 40 percent — but Mr. Gingrich’s proposal, which would abolish capital gains taxes, would almost entirely eliminate them.
The documents were posted on Mr. Romney’s Web site on Tuesday morning after days of escalating political pressure on Mr. Romney from the other Republican candidates, Democrats and even his own supporters, some of whom blamed his loss in South Carolina’s Republican primary last weekend on Mr. Romney’s shifting and tentative responses to questions about his wealth, tax burden and overseas income.

And he said in the debate last night that if it wasn't for his Capital Gains tax, he would have paid ZERO taxes. I love these candidates... because they don't know dick about the people!

Heavenly Hosts

2012-01-23T18:56:00.001-06:00

Taken from SpaceWeather.

What's old becomes new again...

2012-01-23T18:48:00.003-06:00

Years ago my mom and dad would get all dolled up and go out on the town for an evening. Mom would wear something beautiful and dad would wear a black suit and his black shoes. I remember one night he asked if I'd shine them for him. Shocked he'd request it, because normally anything of a boy nature I'd broach with him, he'd tell me that wasn't for little girls... but this... I was so excited I said yes. As he brushed his hair and readied his tie, he was giving me step-by-step instructions on what to do and how to do it. One time, that was all I needed, and once I learned he never had to ask again. When he and mom went out, I got out his shoe shining kit, exactly like the one seen here, and shined his shoes. He actually complimented me on the job I did, too! I was always quite proud of that connection to him and I knew he valued my work.

All this came flooding back to my memory tonight when I was shining up Kurt's shoes for his gig. I don't have a shoe shine kit, which I should really get, but I do a damn fine job with what I have. Every time he goes out to play his trumpet his shoes look damn good and I know, just like my dad all those years ago, Kurt appreciates the intense effort I go through to make sure he looks as good as he sounds.

America's stupidity...

2012-01-22T16:25:00.003-06:00

Imagine if Lewis & Clark had stopped at the Rocky Mountains and decided not to go any further... isn't this exactly what we're doing with the manned space missions? Of all the insulting, degrading let-downs to those in the space program who've given their lives for it... to know we'd rather wage bullshit wars than explore space.

Darwin really was wrong... we'll NEVER evolve.

Several things...

2012-01-22T11:38:00.012-06:00

First... him. My dear friend, Kenny, whom I lost eighteen years ago. I finally have a picture of his handsome face, which grew more so out of high school.

I miss his wit, his charm, his sense of things that were outside the box even back then... and his phone calls where we'd sit and talk to one another for hours on end.

The first gay friend I ever had and I so looked forward to being the Best Man at his wedding, a day which never came.

Kenny, I adore you.

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Today in Dear Abby someone from the fast food industry was asking drivers to please know what they want to order before they get to the window. Corporate mucky mucks have them timed and they don't like them to be over that 'allotment'. And to that I say... Hey, I'm not in the drive-thru to please the corporation, I'm there for them to provide me with their service, which I PAY FOR. If I need to look at the menu then DEAL WITH IT and the corporation can kiss my lingering ass! Would they rather LOSE my business instead?

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Rick Perry pulled out of the GOP race. Awwww, that's too bad. Seems not everyone wants a world where illegal immigrants are given free college, don't require an ID card or a world where twelve-year old girls are forced to receive the HPV shot. Now he and his drunken swagger can go back to Dallas and pretend he's JR Ewing, riding around Southfork. (Rolling eyes)

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Okay, so here's my assessment of "Red Tails". I give it a C. The acting was superb! The attention to detail wonderful... but the plot was weak and in places stupid. When you have an important TRUE story like this you don't embellish. The editing was horrible, whoever did the music was crappy. Here I expected to hear Ella, Dinah, Billie and Count Basie coming from the radios, but never once did I. Why? If you want to see an outstanding movie that shows the true story of The Tuskegee Airmen then rent the movie with the same name, starring Laurence Fishburne. Excellent that!

The movement of Dirty Energy through Pure Energy

2012-01-20T14:41:00.003-06:00

The graph to the left demonstrates Dirty Energy's movement through Pure Energy.

The silver bar-like structures are constantly vibrating at a high rate with large gaps between groupings, spread throughout the universe in just such a pattern, leaving plenty of space in which Dirty Energy can move about, but DE does so in a very slow, cumbersome and awkward manner, always colliding and slamming into the boundaries of Pure Energy's envelopes.

Now, all I have to figure out what Pure Energy is comprised of and then movement through it should be relatively simple.

fg. 6 Shows that when DE confronts what is essentially a fork in the road of it's navigational advancement, whichever way it's 'bouncing' the most stringently is the way the energy will continue.

America's 2012 Presidential Election

2012-01-20T10:50:00.000-06:00

---- THIS ----

Is exactly what it's becoming.

Nothing more.

A heaping pile of garbage and EVERYONE involved is jumping right into the stink.

What in hell happened to NOTA?!

Purity Balls

2012-01-20T10:18:00.001-06:00

Read here

These things are the latest craze to sweep the country. A 'ball' with fancy dresses and the whole works, where a dad takes his daughter and she pledges that she'll keep her legs shut to any boy who wants otherwise. Now while these things may sound like a good idea I have issues with them.

For one, it's purity for girls ONLY... so where are the little horny boys who's loins are throbbing to get into her skin-tight jeans? Why don't they have a Purity Ball with their mom's and pledge their purity? Fathers who rally for this like to claim there are events for boys primarily the same... but no they're not. The boys are not going to Purity Balls and they're not pledging their purity to their mothers. Why not?

When I was seventeen I started having sex with Kurt. At first sex sucked, but as we grew into it it got better and better. It's taken thirty-five years but wow, now sex is extraordinarily wonderful. Would I have pledged purity to my dad? No. Absolutely not because I think sex starts with a kiss, a simple kiss... and I loved Kurt and he loved me. We knew from the second we started dating that we were going to be with one another forever. Most kids don't know that. Most kids bounce around from one bad relationship to another and though sex is sometimes included, sometimes it's not. Some kids today believe that oral isn't sex. Some kids believe that anal isn't sex. Some believe that if he doesn't cum in her it isn't sex.

When a kiss is followed by a tongue... IT'S SEX.

I find myself just creeping out when I see things like Purity Balls. Why do others need to know? To me it's like a Gay Parade. So, you're queer, so what? Live your life and be happy, but why do you need to march down the street and have a parade over it? It'd be like me having a parade because I'm in menopause. No one needs to know that... only Kurt and I do... no one else. Why are dads so hot to make sure every horny teenage boy knows their daughter has pledged purity? Because they remember when they were horny teenage boys and don't want those kids of boys around their daughters? Great double standard, dads!

At some of these events they have young girls dancing around a wooden cross, for God's sake... a cross. To me it borders on cultish behavior and these fathers all vying for the role of Warren Jeffs.

Shame on anyone who believes that those who have sex are less pure or unclean. I had sex with one boy/man my entire life... I'm no different than someone who is a virgin, or someone who's had handfuls of partners... it's the person inside, not the crotch. Granted, remaining abstinent can keep the girl from getting an STD, AIDS or pregnancy, but should her sexual behavior define who she is inside? Do these parents tell their daughters that if they're 'giving it up' to a boy then God is angry at them?

God created man. God created the sexual organs. God created the sexual organs for man to have sex with. I think God knows damn well that sex is coming, especially since He's the one who provided us with the means to do so... So why do these cultish movements want young women to believe that not having sex keeps them closer to God? I'm pretty close to God and I have sex. I LOVE sex. I hope there's never a day that Kurt and I are ever without it. Is it everything in a relationship? No and it never should be... but never should one look around it as if it no longer matters, because it does. Sex between two people is one of the most beautiful things in the world and any parent who isn't teaching their child to respect and enjoy sex (when it comes at the proper time) is foolish. Teaching a child that sex is bad is like teaching them that milk will rot your teeth. Bullshit.

When kids as young as 6th graders are having sex it's time someone step in and find out why a 6th grader feels compelled to have sex, since it's painfully obvious they're missing something or have been sexually abused... but to make a girl grow under the umbrella that she'll be chaste simply because it makes her closer to God or so her dad will approve...

*cough cough

What a load.

The lovely teal beaded necklace...

2012-01-19T23:09:00.001-06:00

A very long time ago, when I was about ten, my wonderful mother had a beautiful teal beaded necklace. It looked similar to the picture posted here, except the beads were tubes, not orbs, but it had about the same amount of strands and was very lovely. I used to take it into my bedroom and play with it on my hand, as if my hand were a woman's head and the necklace was her long hair. I had quite the imagination and can remember playing with that thing over and over again. I think it was the fact that it was my mom's drew me to it, but she knew I played with it and I think she always got a kick out of me doing so and using it for 'hair'. Over the last several years this has become the color I seem to be embracing strongly and in doing so I just happened to remember that lovely necklace of mom's. I could even smell her Chanel #5 on it.

My thoughts on SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-19T10:38:00.005-06:00

I realized, after reading all the stuff on this yesterday that this site and my forum could be shut down without prior notice because I have pictures, sayings and articles on there that I didn't ask permission to use, if these two bills are to go through.

What really boiled my blood is the fact that... well, if you guys watched the video I attached with the SOPA and PIPA addition, then you know.. that YouTube had to take down an adorable video of a baby bouncing in her walker because there was a 'pop tune' playing behind the baby (the mother was listening to the radio I guess) and posted that video without that artist's authority.

I stand back and ask myself... geeze, is this how shitty this singer's musical career is that they have to troll YouTube to make sure no one is using their stuff illegally, I mean, really? Seems to me the days of what artists consider pirating is here to stay. I mean, I'm sure when the first caveman stood up to draw something on a cave wall another caveman saw it, thought, cool, I want to do that to my cave, and drew it. Was the first caveman offended? We'll never know, but ever since music was first put onto LP's, there's been easy manipulation of the media and it's only getting worse, meaning, more clever.

I can understand the angst and anger if someone takes the stuff and makes billions of copies to sell on the street corner, but come on... how many make a profit doing that? And with how taboo bootlegging is today who'd want to buy from them... but when you have an industry that continually changes the media, forcing Joe Sixpack to purchase and repurchase new equipment in order to play said media, something he probably can't afford to do... what do they think is going to happen?

Are you like me? Do you remember the days when you used to listen to the coolest radio station for our age, which for me was KDWB. I had my radio going at age 13 and I swear I didn't turn it off until I started dating Kurt. But I used to record songs off the radio. According to SOPA I was now committing a crime and could go to prison. Or when a show I loved was coming on TV I'd crank up the old VCR and record it. Uh oh, watch out... that's a jailable offense. I wonder how many years I'd get for all the original Star Trek's I recorded so I could have every single one? There is a total of 79 (if you count the episode Menagerie, which came in two parts). So that's 79/80 counts of piracy. Jailbird Charlie!

But how long is the industry going to take until they get around to the WORST offender of them all... the LIBRARY. Here this institution has the temerity to LOAN things for FREE. Not only do I take some of them home to WATCH, but I will sometimes SCAN books, burn movies or copy songs I can't find elsewhere. I mean, isn't that the biggest offender according to the SOPA and PIPA mandates? Libraries, under SOPA and PIPA, would fall under the pirating restrictions and then ordered to be SHUT DOWN.

You can tell me until you're blue in the face that America isn't turning into a communist country, but I beg to differ. We have red journalism, eminent domain, a Fascist government and more people starving/homeless than ever before... but why not? Why not allow the government one more heavy hand to our freedoms, since it needs to remove everything in order to create that all-important Neo-Nazi Regime.

Good going, guys. You're succeeding on a grand scale, which I'm sure was your Stalinesque plan all along!

SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-18T09:29:00.000-06:00

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. Detailed information about these bills can be found in the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act articles. GovTrack lets you follow both bills through the legislative process: SOPA on this page, and PIPA on this one. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.

Stop American Censorship

If I wanted to live in Communist Red China I'd move there, but this is America and things like the Internet aren't supposed to have the creepy, freedom-removing fingers of the government in it!

Stop SOPA and PIPA. Sign the Censorship protest form today!

Mitt... are you for real?

2012-01-17T18:47:00.000-06:00

I found out today that Mitt Romney only pays about 15% in taxes when all is said and done, while you and I, you know, the hard-working schmoes, pay 33% of our paychecks to taxes.

He even said he won't hand out his tax information until AFTER April. Hmmm, me says (rubbing my chin curiously)... me wonders why that could be?

Drugs and the gullible

2012-01-17T06:53:00.000-06:00

Watch out here, because odds are great you're not going to like this entry...

I've been watching drug ads for years and I'm fed up with all the nonsense of them. There's a drug for restless leg, bad eyelashes, fat, arthritis, sleeplessness, depression, belly aches, this, that and fifteen million other things that have suddenly become 'ailments treatable by a drug'.

Well, what a load of horseshit that is.

Yes, in some cases drugs are absolutely necessary, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the gullible out there who don't want to take responsibility for what they do, how they live, what they eat... so much so that they'll take a magic pill and think the problem will go away.

IT WON'T!

Not unless the idiot changes their lifestyle. Period. Perfect case in point: Gout. This is caused by too much uric acid in the body, which rests in the bottom of the body, i.e.: the feet, and causes great discomfort. Why does the body produce too much uric acid? Because people eat things like liver, kidney, brain and need I go on to the other entrails that weren't meant for human consumption? Pick an organ, any organ. I'm sure if some fancy restaurant in Europe claimed they had the best dish in the world and all the pampered went to taste it and loved it... even if it was made from cow anus, they wouldn't care... because it's fashionable. Yeah, well, the pain gout brings isn't very fashionable, but taking a drug to get rid of it is? Do you know what gout medicines warn one of the side effects of taking the drug are? GOUT! Yes, one of the side effects of taking gout medicine is getting gout.

Okay, if you take gout medicine are you stupid, incompetent or just so gullible as to believe anything your doctor says? And really, why in hell do you insist on eating garbage like that to start with? Isn't your body precious to you or is eating an animal's heart more important?

But when I think of the people who line up like trained pigs in order to get injected with latex, the same chemical in condoms, house paint and many other modern day marvels, I want to cringe. What? You say you'd NEVER get injected with latex? Really? Would you chew it? Or... drink it?

Well, if you get a flu shot, chew gum or drink diet pop, then guess what? You're getting a healthy dose of latex, a rubber compound. You know what that does to your kidneys and liver? And you know the most absurd thing about getting a flu shot? By the time your poor body gets adjusted to that poison now inside of it, called the flu shot... the strain of 'flu' it was trying to conquer has now morphed into three other strains and your 'shot' is no longer viable.

But when you see this word on ANY of your food, run the other way...

aspartame

It is evil incarnate and if you don't believe me, go look at what it's made of and then look at how many of the foods you eat it might be hiding in. You think you're eating something sugar free to lose weight? People... Wake up! This doesn't help you lose weight, it actually makes you gain weight! They vilify sugar just so that drug companies can make money hand over fist with shit like this. Stick to REAL sugar, people. It might save your life.

You just can't be that stupid this long... can you? With all the FDA warnings, I mean, do you really think that trash you shovel into your mouth, that has fifteen different letters in it it's safe or that a bullshit organization like FDA who approves drugs like Zoloft, which are now under heavy lawsuits, is going to care what you do to your body? Please... get a clue. Besides, did you know that most of these ridiculous drugs cause cancer, too? Isn't that special? Trust me, if you're breathing you don't want to take these drugs, so stop letting the dealers ruin your life: Drug Pushers.

You know what is the most insane thing about all this, is that if an 18-year old on the corner is caught with a bag of mary jane he'll most likely have to stand before a judge, get fined or jail time and then have a parole officer lurking over his shoulder for the next five years of his life... all for a little weed... but you have companies like Merck or Pfizer, who are systematically poisoning the world with their shitty drugs and no one is doing a damn thing to stop them... Not even our "Big Brother" the FDA.

That speaks volumes about our world, doesn't it?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2012-01-15T23:23:00.003-06:00

Can you say HYPOCRITE?

2012-01-15T19:17:00.005-06:00

Let's get down to brass tacks: Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Personhood Pledge-signing, Griswold vs. Connecticut-opposing, Mr. Ban Abortion in All Circumstances With No Exception for the Life of the Mother, believes that the actions of his own wife should be treated as criminal. Why? Because, back in 1996, his wife had a procedure that resulted in the deliberate death of her fetus, even though it was a matter of saving her own life.

Karen Santorum's difficult pregnancy and resultant life-saving, induced early delivery is no secret; in a 2004 interview with NPR's Terry Gross, her husband characterized the 1996 procedure as a harrowing but necessary. Karen, in her 19th week of pregnancy, received a risky surgery to save a pregnancy that doctors thought had little chance of survival. After the surgery, she came down with an infection, and doctors told Rick that unless the source of the infection — the fetus — was removed, his wife would die and his already-born children would be motherless. The doctor also told Santorum that his wife's fetus would not survive outside of the womb. According to Santorum, Karen went into labor as a result of the antibiotics, and then doctors gave her a drug that further induced labor. She delivered, and unfortunately the doctors were right.

Shortly after Santorum first talked to the press about his wife's pregnancy and their subsequent loss, rumors began circulating that Karen had actually had an abortion rather than induced delivery. Our Silver Ribbon goes so far as to assert that Karen Santorum did, in fact, have a second-trimester abortion.*

This from a man who likes to stand at the pulpit of the people and proclaim himself to be the purist of the pure, the creme de la creme... what a steamy load of shit.

*Taken from Jezebel

See THIS movie on Friday!

2012-01-15T15:12:00.000-06:00

Trailer for Red Tails

This is probably one of the most important movies you could ever watch.

Go Pack Go!

2012-01-13T21:19:00.002-06:00

Rude, self-important twits!

2012-01-13T07:50:00.006-06:00

A ringing cellphone disrupted a performance by the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday, prompting a conductor to abruptly stop the music. Mestro Alan Gilbert stopped the iconic orchestra during the final movement of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Gilbert turned his head to signal his displeasure when an iPhone's distinctive "Marimba" ringtone initially went off, but the ringing continued for minutes. Gilbert then asked that the phone be turned off before stopping the orchestra entirely. He then said to the phone's owner, according to WQXR's classical music blog: "You have a phone ... Fine, we’ll wait."

I can't believe how rude the world is becoming and with people toting their phones EVERYWHERE, they have the balls to wonder why they're stressed... well, DUH! You're supposed to get AWAY from the phone, not carry it with you.

The cell phone is great for emergencies, but beyond that it's a piece of shit and anyone, anywhere who believes themselves to be oh so important, or that flippin' phone call they think they're waiting for is oh so important, perhaps it's time for them to take stock of their life.

When I see fans at a football game, who've paid for a ticket and are there with COMPANY... and they have the temerity to be on the PHONE during all that, talk about some fucking rude, self-important assholes. Damn.

If you're the kind who's always carrying a cell phone, I'm sure you have a myriad of excuses as to why you do so: Work, kids, an important phone call... well, I hate to tell you this, but you're ADDICTED TO A FUCKING PHONE!! Chalk that up for the main reason you're stressed beyond belief.

Idiot.

But for cripes sake, when you go into a concert, movie, library or anything else that involves peace, quiet and RESPECT for the others there... TURN THE FUCKING THING OFF!

You're not the only one in the world, you know? And just because you think that phone call you might get is oh so important doesn't mean the rest of us want to be privy to the fucking conversation. And PLEASE, for God's sake, when you're being rude DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT have the impetus to glare at the rest of us for wanting you to SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

In the fabulous movie Inherit the Wind, Henry Drummond, a.k.a. Spencer Tracy, gives a magnificent speech about things we have to give up in order to have 'progress', but do manners and civility really have to be two of them?

Vilifying what kids love...

2012-01-12T08:19:00.005-06:00

These two adorable zygotes are Jack Jablonski and Jenna Privette, respectfully and both are currently hospitalized. Hockey players, they were both checked in the back, which caused them to slam into the boards and become paralyzed. Jack had surgery and the prognosis of him walking again isn't good, but Jenna's prognosis is very good and let us hope she's out of the hospital very, very soon. I would love to hope that both kids can be game ready for the upcoming High School Hockey Tourneys Minnesota has in March (if their schools make it).

Now, knowing this we'd all love to sit here and vilify the sport of hockey as being too dangerous or that checking from the back is not a nice thing... but truth be told, it's what hockey players have to do at times in order to acquire the puck and why do they acquire the puck? So they can score. And why do they score? So they can win. Doesn't seem like a good enough reason, especially when one or more kids end up in the hospital with the fear of being paralyzed? Granted... to a point I agree with that, but I'm not the kid or his parents. All of the parents knew the risks when the kid decided to join the team, but they went ahead anyway because they LOVE playing the game. Freakish injuries happen to some and not others. Just look back at the Daytona 500, 2001 when Dale Earnhardt's car slammed into the railing and killed him. Now I'd watched racing for years before this fateful accident and seen hundreds of similar crashes... so why did this particular one kill Dale? What did the others not kill their drivers? Fate.

These kids wanted to play the game, they knew the possibilities, but it didn't matter to them. Are we to tell them after these two kids had accidents that it's not prudent for them to play, or that checking in the back will cause this? Hell, I've seen checks from the front and side that did the same type of damage, but you don't see that changing... why not? Now I understand that if the opposing team member, if they were being particularly brutal or facetious, if they maliciously went after those opponents to hurt them, that's different, but to remove that hockey option of a back check from the entire sport is wrong. Again, freakish accidents happen and they will continue to happen as long as people play sports.

Don't let this make you hate the game or want the game to suddenly become lame because there's no more hits allowed. The fans would hate it, the game would be slow and the players would be bored.

Jack Jablonski himself, as he was waking from his surgery asked when he can get back out on the ice. And I'm sure when Jenna makes a complete recovery the first thing she's going to want to do is get in her skates. These kids aren't stupid, they know what they're getting themselves in for... that's why they want to play the game... because it offers excitement no other game does for them. And we think we should make the game so incredibly safe we all fall asleep from it?

Pray for these adorable kids... pray for their parents and families, but don't ask any of them to give up something they all seem to love so greatly... the rousing game of hockey.

The Jack Jablonski Fund
Jenna Privette, Facebook

A piece of shit wrapped in a pile of garbage

2012-01-10T12:57:00.002-06:00

I was considering making a fraudulent report on my next door neighbor, whom I hear from every other neighbor, that this man is receiving Social Security Disability benefits because he has a serious heart condition.
Yeah, well, for a guy in his upper 50's with a heart condition he sure can cord wood well, throw around pallets and rip out rooms in his house to build new ones.

More ridiculous yet, when I got to the fraudulent page to report the abuse, this is the kind of shit I read:

If you suspect someone is violating the law and is, in fact, fraudulently collecting disability benefits:

You need to know the reason why the person has been approved for benefits. If you are unable to determine this, research will need to be conducted to determine the truth before accusations are made.
You need to be aware that even though you see this person, you may not fully understand how the person’s impairment causes difficulties in daily living.
Some people receiving Social Security Disability suffer from mental or psychological disorders; these are not often easy to pinpoint as an outsider, and it may be difficult to judge how these conditions could interrupt the daily activities.

Or this:

Typically you would have to know someone quite well in order to determine whether or not he or she is taking advantage of the system. Making strong accusations about someone receiving disability benefits is touchy ground, and something that you would not want to do lightly. When in doubt, do not be afraid to ask questions and look into the actions of the person. This can greatly help you determine where the truth lies. If you do still truly suspect someone of committing a fraudulent act, you should consider reporting that individual.

Whereas my neighbor across the street who has at least five ailments that should make it 100% possible for her to receive these benefits can't seem to qualify. That, coupled to the fact that she's married to a dick head who tells her to go out and find a job! She's in her sixties.

What the hell is wrong in the world today? Why does a sprained toe get anyone SSI benefits? Worse than that, why do they make it next to impossible to report a fucking user who's using the system?

Forget it... Let the BM keep sucking money from SSI, but it's on his shoulders for defrauding the tax payers, but knowing him, I don't think he gives a shit, either.

Welfare whores of modern day

2012-01-09T08:00:00.017-06:00

Warning: The following thread may be offensive to some who still believe in Monarchies or that politicians are honest. And if you choose to read on, don't say I didn't warn you...

I'd like to talk today about modern day welfare whores. Now I know when we think of welfare whores we'll think of women who have too many babies, who continue having them just to keep on the dole. They never seem to have a real job and they don't even take care of the home they're in. They're typically lazy, sloppy, crazy females who believe they're owed because they keep popping out one child after another, without a father around, and expect the government to feed/house/cloth their brood, while they take vacations and actually get a tax REFUND. Yes, we all know women like that, regardless of race, religion or demographics, we all know women like that... but that's not the one's I'm referring to here. No, it's not.

The type I'm referring to today are governmental welfare whores, the kind that call themselves a politician or who sit in a castle in another country, sponging off the tax payer dole and have no real function in society.

Let's turn first to America, land of the black hole and home of the vacuum. No where do I find it more repulsive, these welfare whores, than I do in my own back yard. Senators, Congressmen, hell, even the main figurehead we call the President, they're ALL welfare whores, living off the dole and not giving a shit that they're supposed to be working for their 'children' and not against them. Those who take long lunches, who use jets, who buy fancy do-dads for their offices, who have security around them constantly... Like the aberrant welfare whore parent who does nothing for the child except teach the child how to become just like it's mother, politicians don't notice the people any longer because it's too much of a bother. They only know what they want, that they need it and they'll have a hissy fit until they get it. Or... if they don't get it from the tax payers, they'll turn to lobbyists, special interest and big business, like the slithering snakes in the grass they are, to get it. Whatever IT is. Just like a welfare whore who's on crack will spread her legs to get the drugs she wants. Fuck her kids, those drugs and that money are more important. Her kids are only a means to an end, nothing more.

Now I want to turn my attentions toward the UK and the Royals, who have an equally sinister problem over there... their welfare whores known as the Queen and so on. Seriously, what purpose do those people serve? Curiosities? Are they a good tourism trick? It seems to me that's ALL they are, is a good instrument for their tourism trade, but for anything else, pft, they're welfare whores. They sit around in Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court or Kensington Palace, plan extravagant weddings where the meal costs $3,200 for a plate of airline food, have outrageous vacations all the while doing little more than waving their hands from their carriages when out in public... and to me that is the epitome of a welfare whore. These Royals live off the country, do absolutely nothing in return, and yet so much money gets repeatedly sucked out of UK tax payers checks to fund them.

I firmly believe that at one time, during the Renaissance a King was needed and hopefully a noble creature who deserved the title and I must admit that even as late as the 1930's King George VI deserved to wear the title, after having served in the British Navy and then reigning over the UK much against his will... but he was the last who deserved the title and the perks therein.

Sorry, but when I see people losing their homes... starving... living in the streets... having no jobs and no hope of jobs in the immediate future... libraries closing... schools cutting staff... food shelves needed more than ever... funding/sponsoring wars that mean dick...

To have President Obama flying to have lunch with another Premier utilizing Air Force One at a cost of $182,000 an hour, or to have Kate Middleton's wedding dress cost a whopping $50,000... please don't tell me these people are nothing more than welfare whores. And any fool who thinks our governments aren't behaving in a Socialist or Communistic manner best pull their head from the ass.

Finally, for those of you in the UK who are offended at what I've just written about your Royals ask yourselves this...

If you didn't have your Royal welfare whores to feed, house, clothe, lavish with ostentatious weddings and send on extravagant vacations, do you really think your petrol would be costing you $8.70 a gallon? The myriad of heaped on taxes are funding those whores, guys. Wake up and smell the oppression.

It's a sad day in the world when places like the White House and Buckingham Palace charges it's people to see inside of them (when they're the ones paying for it), while just on the other side of town children are starving to death because their parents no longer have jobs, got evicted from their homes and now live on the streets. They turn an angry eye toward these austere buildings wondering why those inside don't give a shit about their plight, when that's supposed to be their one and only JOB, the PEOPLE!

A lovely picture...

2012-01-08T21:46:00.002-06:00

One of my favorite photos from when I was a child... my dad and I, with both of us doing what we did best, laugh together.

Vermin Supreme for President

2012-01-08T10:09:00.002-06:00

His platform?

Mandatory tooth brushing.

Federal funding for time travel.

Zombie preparedness.

And a pony for every American.

With the boot on the head, the man has my vote if he can make it past the New Hampshire primary.

At least he's not hiding the fact that he's full of shit.

Website

7Jan12 GOP Debate

2012-01-07T22:27:00.004-06:00

I'm not going to write about the candidates individually, unless it's a comment they made specific to them, but this one takes the cake. Never think for one second as I bash these mutton heads that I like Obama. Hell, I can't stand that guy. Not putting his hand on his heart during the Pledge... fuck that, but when I hear these candidates talking all I can feel is a certain fear rising in my soul. Either or, we're fucked people.

Here is a litany of beauties said tonight...

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*They all commented on how terrible it is in the steel business, but they never commented on who made it as such... G Dubya when he put an embargo on steel in his first year of terror.

*Most agreed that the Founding Fathers never intended to have the Constitution sliding all over the place in the definition of marriage, which is why they want to be the good little ass kissing Christian and make damn sure it reads marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Wow, I bet there's a reason the Founding Fathers didn't define it... probably because several of them were GAY!

*Most took to dumping on China. Yes, I agree, trade should be fair, but again it was a Republican in office who let it be lopsided from the get go. Sitting here, long after the fact and vilifying China now, the country too many greedy American businessmen are doing business with for a healthy bonus check... wow, that's really pissing in the wind and hoping you have an umbrella, isn't it?

*Newt crassly said that Obama was working hard to change America into a Socialist state. No comment on Obama's asinine ways or Newt's big fat mouth.

*Mitt knows he's going down as he follows his predecessors by committing two no no's: Obama bashing and flag waving. Hey, Mitt, say hi to Timmy, Michele and Herman for us.

*Where in hell do they get the figure that 'middle class' makes an average of $250,000? Of all the people I know, even with both working, they don't even make $100,000, so exactly what orifice are they pulling their figures from?

*Contraception, they say, shouldn't be enforced, or put into the Constitution, but declaring what marriage is should? And abortions, you gotta know it's a Republicans' business to make sure every single unwanted fetus has a decent life! Jeeze, keep your fucking hands out of my crotch!

*Santorum, Mr. Sex Slurry, believes Iran is the enemy. We need to bully them. We need to lay down the law with them. We need to keep our troops in Afghanistan, we need to fund the war machine. We can't get out now and anyone who says we need to is a damn idiot and if they want to fight Santorum, then hell, you're a commie bastard. Can you say Senator Joe McCarthy?

*Santorum said and I quote, "We don't use classes in this country." (Furrowing brow) Really? Then where do those Republican pundits keep getting their average medium income scale from, dipshit?

*Newt said the sanctity of marriage must be preserved, which is why the Constitution has to define marriage. Yes, here's the spokesperson for the 'sanctity' of marriage, being that he's on his third he's had a lot of experience at it!

*Gays can't get married, you know? It's an abomination, don't you know? It's not Adam and Steve, you know? Besides... that will make the candidate's lobbyist buddies who are peddling the influencial bicycles for the insurance companies nervous if they have to put out all that money for those AIDS drugs, you know?

*And here is the piece de resistance... Mixing of church and state is a no no, right? I mean, isn't that what they're always drilling into our heads when it suits them? Yeah... well then tell me why it is our government gives money to the Catholic church?

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If they believe Obama is moving toward a Socialist goal, which he may very well be... the GOP party is definitely marching backwards in time and before you know it it'll be 1692 all over again with witches being burned at the stake by the puritans.

I am frightened. This is the ugliest campaign yet and I can't imagine who'll I'll be voting for in November because, frankly, they all scare me.

Three Lovely Things...

2012-01-07T19:39:00.001-06:00

First...

A Happy 60th Anniversary to Bob and Barb, my incredible parents!

I love and miss you every single day.

Second... Happy 9th Anniversary to Corry and Dakota.

And Third... Happy 52nd Birthday to Skinny Lynnie. I hope you're doing great!

A rare beauty indeed!

2012-01-06T10:33:00.001-06:00

Help Sites for Veterans and Soldiers

2012-01-06T10:06:00.002-06:00

The Iowa Caucus

2012-01-03T23:33:00.001-06:00

Well here's where the nightmare really begins, folks.

Funny... but Michele Bachmann said that there would be a miracle in Iowa tonight. Yeah, the miracle is that she got 5%!

Idiot.

In the news...

2012-01-03T18:22:00.004-06:00

The obesity rates in Georgia have become so high that they've taken to running ads such as this in order to help. Um, er... okay, I want to know how this ad is going to help obese children? You mean it will make them happy when they see how different they are? You mean it will teach their stupid parents something? You mean it will raise their self-esteem (that their stupid parents obviously don't give a shit about)? You mean it will stop the teasing?
Please... Georgia needs to get real. The only ones who are going to help obese children are the parents who turn off the computers/video games/computers/cell phones and push the child outside to play. Then when the child is hungry give them decent food, not shit. But nooooo, let's run an ad campaign that will only make the problems worsen.

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Here in Minnesota another brilliant thing is about to happen... A needed program or 'act' is about to lose funding. What's that 'act'? Violence Against Women. Yes sirree bob... we can fund a fucking war, but help women in need... fuck them anyway, you know?! (Rolling eyes laboriously)

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The Minnesota Vikings get a new General Manager, Rick Spielman. Wow, who knew Zygi was so damn dumb? He can't see the forest for the trees, or, I mean, he can't see the festering sore for all the scabs. Someone best sit him down and say, "Um, Zygi, the problem in the team lies in it's coach, not it's GM."

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Crashed Ice comes to Minnesota. Looks pretty damn cool to me!

Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar

2012-01-03T09:56:00.003-06:00

It’s another new year and time to remember to write new dates again. While it might take a few weeks to remember to do it right first time, Johns Hopkins Scholars say our traditional calendar needs a major overhaul. By utilizing computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of Engineering, have devised a new calendar where each year is identical to the year before it… and the year after.

Dubbed the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, there would be no problem remembering dates. For example, if your birthday was Thursday, May 10, it would remain Thursday, May 10 throughout eternity. Can you fathom holidays always being on the same day of the week? Or a weekend date always remaining the same? All the same… Always.

“Our plan offers a stable calendar that is absolutely identical from year to year and which allows the permanent, rational planning of annual activities, from school to work holidays,” says Henry, who is also director of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium. “Think about how much time and effort are expended each year in redesigning the calendar of every single organization in the world and it becomes obvious that our calendar would make life much simpler and would have noteworthy benefits.”*

And why would any of us wish a calendar that was so damn boring, so damn predictable and didn't allow the days to move and flow as time is supposed to? Why is it that every scientist thinks he is going to change the entire face of the world by doing something that DOESN'T NEED TO BE DONE?

Just look at poor Pluto... demoted to a dwarf planet simply because someone else was bored and couldn't think of anything better to do, like figure out what Dark Matter is (see my Pure Energy thread to know). But someone who had nothing better to do decided to demote Pluto and say we have other planets here... those funny little rocks we're supposed to call planets, you know... Ceres, Eris, Haumea and let's not forget planet Makemake. Pft.

Okay, okay, granted... maybe this is precisely how people have acted through the ages when it's come to changes of these type, but this isn't the Dark Ages and enlightenment is coming from NEW findings, not rehashing old ones... Jeeze. Get a life, guys and discover something new, not how to fuck up the old.

*Full Story

A New Year's Present...

2012-01-01T09:51:00.003-06:00

Welcome 2012!

2011-12-31T20:54:00.001-06:00

The Vortex Actual comes close to fruition!

2011-12-31T20:41:00.010-06:00

Tonight I was reading a book called “The theory of almost everything” and in it I wanted to see if the guy raved on about E=MC2, which, eventually, he did. Well, I can’t read anymore of it because as the Vortex Actual will show that theorem is very antiquated as it’s 100-year old creation will prove. It is based on energy and mass, which supposedly creates heat, meaning nothing can move faster than the speed of light: 186,000 miles per second. Now I realize that to us humans 186,000mps sounds incredibly fast, but in relativity to the continuum it is very slow. But then we have to return to the principle of the sun- or heat produced by energy. The sun shines (giving off energy), it meets a car seat which gets hot, again, giving off energy. In this equation all the energy produced gives off heat- which in turn means the more energy produced the more heat conducted, but that is the biggest fallacy of E=MC2, since it is only a specific kind of energy that gives off heat. And this is where the Vortex Actual plays out and also the other spectrum which must be located. It is inside that spectrum where we will find ‘Pure’ Energy. Pure Energy is one that causes no heat to be given off by its action or reaction. The spectrum is as follows-

Dirty Energy – which gives off heat.

-and-

Pure Energy – which gives off no heat.

Seen in the figure below.

Dirty Energy is what the sun and other special bodies produce because they require so much of their mass to do the work- but Pure Energy requires no mass to do the work and thereby it involves no friction and subsequently no heat.

Pure Energy does not respond to inertia as well.

The spectrum is there in Pure Energy versus Dirty Energy and if scientists continually bury their heads in the relative sand they will never discover that spectrum.

When one considers the cold vacuum of space as this being the basis of Pure Energy is- and when it interacts with Dirty Energy- say the light from the sun… it slows down. You cannot mix Dirty with Pure and believe you’ll make the dirty pure in the doing. Pure simply moves out of the way for a time.

“Dark Matter” is Pure Energy. It’s forceful, in motion and has tremendous energy yet radiates no heat. There is no force in the universe more powerful than Dark Matter or Pure Energy and yet there is no heat or friction created in all that power. That alone shows the fallacy of E=MC2. And I don’t even think Albert would dispute that.

When a gaseous cloud comes together the more compact it is, the more it bands or bonds together the more “Dirty” Energy is created in the gathering. It is no longer Pure, but Dirty as it’s light slows, it’s mass becomes ponderous and it moves into the realm of energy that is now at the speed of light or visible to the human eye and thereby create it’s own heat and light.

If you were to step back from a nebula, moving into the darkness of space imagine what is really going on in that realm of Pure Energy…

And going from there… it proves that a black hole is the galaxies kidney, if you will, filtering the dirty blood and exchanging pure blood back into the bloodstream. Black holes eat the waste or “Dirty Energy” and convert it back into its original state of purity.

Seriously?

2011-12-30T13:21:00.001-06:00

I know here in Minnesota we're asked to eFile and save the state a lot of time and paperwork, but when I noticed that it's going to cost me money to do so, I thought... fuck them and fuck that. I'll force the paperwork right up their asses and spend .44 on a stamp, er, I mean .45, thank you.

And the government wonders why it's people hate and despise it so... PFT!

Iran threatens to close oil shipping lanes...

2011-12-29T16:09:00.003-06:00

The U.S. has insisted that it will not allow Iran to choke off one of the world's busiest shipping routes in revenge for sanctions imposed on the country over its secretive nuclear program.
Last night an American military official said that 'any disruption will not be tolerated' in the Strait of Hormuz, which is used by 40 per cent of the world's oil tankers, and where Iran is currently holding a 10-day war games training exercise.
And a Pentagon spokesman warned that Iran would destroy its own 'economic lifeline' if it disrupted the international oil trade.
Tensions rose after Iran’s top naval commander bragged that shutting down the Gulf to oil tankers would be ‘easier than drinking a glass of water.’
And they have continued to escalate today, with Iran revealing one of its surveillance planes has recorded video and photographed a U.S. aircraft carrier near the area it is carrying out the drill.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079287/Iran-threatens-close-key-oil-shipping-lane-Strait-Hormuz-US-sanctions.html#ixzz1hxpeHar4

And these baby steps aren't a prelude to war? Pft... sorry, I no longer buy it anymore. I suggest we all start preparing our soldiers and Veterans who believe they can finally remove their boots, that they better not, because they're going back!

It just hit me...

2011-12-27T18:24:00.000-06:00

I'll tell you the dangers of getting rid of the manned space missions...

What if -because NASA had to stop them due to budget cuts- a child never again gazes upon this blessed sight and yearns to know what's out there, beyond his little grasp, at the ends of his imagination? If we as a society ever reach that day we might as well destroy ourselves.

Sears and Kmart close 120 stores

2011-12-27T09:35:00.002-06:00

Shares in US retail giant Sears have fallen 19% after announcing plans to close up to 120 Sears and Kmart stores amid poor figures.

Sears Holdings, the department store group which owns the two major retail chains, blamed falling sales.

In the eight weeks to Christmas Day, sales at Kmart fell 4.4% and by 6% at Sears.

The company, which has 2,200 outlets in the US, says the closures should raise up to $170m (£108.5m; 130m euros).

It added that it expected fourth-quarter earnings to be less than half of last year's amount.

Both Sears and Kmart have experienced a decline in demand for consumer electronics, amid fears of another US recession.

Kmart has also reported a decline in clothing sales over the same period.

Well, let's see here, except for Craftsman, their products suck. And this is in the throes of what economic pundits are referring to as a healthy recovery?

Wow, a bankruptcy bailout doesn't go very far anymore, does it? And whoda thunk it that five years ago when the Bush Administration asked farmers to stop growing so much cotton that it would HURT the clothing industry by raising prices so high no one wanted to buy clothes anymore?

Well... DUH!

My beautiful pictures of the day, from Como.

2011-12-26T18:29:00.000-06:00

For the rest of the photos taken today, look here...

Kurt's Mistresses...

2011-12-25T22:43:00.000-06:00

Ask yourself... Am I THIS stupid?

2011-12-24T09:53:00.017-06:00

Though it is true, for now, an end of an era has come... The end of the American Manned Space Missions... which saddens me (We can fund wars but not something that will advance man's knowledge? {furrowing brow unhappily}) I found myself thinking this morning of the few numbskulls I've come across who've had the gall to say to me that the manned moon missions were fake. I try to look past these idiots, but when I discovered that they're usually of the same imbecilic breed who thinks the Holocaust also never happened I now have a tendency to dismiss them altogether, as if they aren't worth the air they breathe.

What an outrageous insult to so many when some dipshit says those missions never happened, like say the astronauts, men such as...

Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, men who died in a capsule on a platform while getting the Saturn 5 ready.

Or...

The fresh young face of Yuri Gagarin, the first human being into space.

But the insult goes far deeper than this.

When I think of everyone from the designers of the crafts: the rockets, the tanks, the flight plans, the manuals, right down to the guy who screwed in the bolts... what an insult comments like that are. They're just offensive, rude, thoughtless and frankly, ignorantly moronic.

For myself I find it so incredibly stupid when someone tells me they believe it never happened because once upon a time they saw the movie "Capricorn One" and now believe that everything NASA has every done is phony.

Yeah right... THIS is phony!

But to me the most heinous thing of all when nitwits say this is the pain this would cause the 'man' in my life at the time... my dad. My dad was 6'4", 230lbs and he turned into a small boy when things of the NASA world came into his living room. I remember distinctly as Apollo 8 swung around the moon on Christmas day, broadcasting back to the earth. Dad had the TV on that night and even though I was playing with the box my huge doll came in, because it was cooler than the doll, I could hear NASA talking to the astronauts, but I remember seeing the childlike look on dad's face.

But when this happened...

My dad was like a kid in a candy shop. He set up his 8MM on a table before the TV and started recording every minute detail. He sat before the TV never moving, never speaking, he just watched, in awe, every second of the landing and when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface that big man did something I've only seen him do three other times... Once was for his brother who died in WWII, another was letting me go at my wedding and lastly when he held my son in his hands... He cried. Like this guy...

I don't know if my dad's reaction got worse from watching Mr. Cronkite's constantly pinching of his eyes and nose that night, but my dad started doing the same thing, pinching his eyes and nose.

Still today when I remember seeing my dad so excited, so thrilled about these lunar landings I remember the passion behind his eyes, the excitement in his heart and the hope he had in his soul. Always the hope for a better tomorrow...

So, if anyone who crosses my path ever wishes to tell me that the lunar landings never happened... please, tell it to someone who can comprehend your level of stupidity... a brick.
You're too idiotic for intelligent people to communicate with!

(And my apologies to all bricks, because I believe they're inherently more intelligent than those who believe the missions never happened!)

Walking in a winter wonderland...

2011-12-23T15:54:00.001-06:00

Gorgeous pictures of spacial events

2011-12-22T22:34:00.000-06:00

Comet Lovejoy in the early morning hours over Australia.

Comet Lovejoy from space.

The moons Titan and Dione are photographed with rings and Saturn in the background.

From my house to yours...

2011-12-22T22:31:00.001-06:00

The greatest story ever told...

2011-12-22T09:35:00.000-06:00

And there were in the same country shepherds watching over their flocks by night when lo an angel of the Lord appeared and the glory of the Lord shown round about them and they were so afraid. The angel said, "Fear not. For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior, which is Christ the Lord and this shall be a sign unto you and you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, laying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts saying, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men."

It's the holiday season...

2011-12-22T09:31:00.002-06:00

This is a wtf WTF!

2011-12-21T14:05:00.004-06:00

Ladies, have you been waiting for that special man to come along? That one who believes he's talking sexy to you? Who thinks he's saying what you want to hear? Well, here he is, hot off the pen pal press... As for myself since I prefer a man who can read, especially since this line is part of my profile ~ Finally... I really am happily married. Please remember that when writing.~ I'll stick with my adorable, intelligent husband, but I'm giving you this one-time opportunity to have at this sucker. Somehow the email web address seems to suit him, Yahoo...

Enjoy...

Hi Pretty,
On a warm and passionate person looking for a loving and committed relationship? am looking for a special woman to adore me and treat me like a king and you thrive on treating my special woman like a queen? I enjoy being active and visible sweat and cuddling on the couch with my wife to a great film? I like to spoon? I love to show my inner you in so many ways that I take care for others? I'm not afraid to occasionally have healthy argument and I am looking forward to our relationship with them? I am just as excited about important things in my life to teach, as I am about your friends? I love to laugh, but I also know how healthy it a good reputation here and there is release? I am a great kisser ....@};-

liverpoolezekiel@yahoo.com

You better watch out, you better not cry...

2011-12-21T08:51:00.001-06:00

Something I recently found... And love.

2011-12-20T13:40:00.000-06:00

This young man is well worth the listen: A political pundit who doesn't bore me to sleep.

The David Pakman Show

And yet another farewell...

2011-12-20T12:35:00.001-06:00

Jason Kubel, who just signed a $15 million, two-year deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

#16 will be missed.

Thank you, sir.

(This is what you get when your organization gives money to a Princess, a.k.a. Joe Mauer, who can't perform worth dick and then leaves no money in the till for the REAL players!)

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-20T09:41:00.000-06:00

Happy Hanukkah!

2011-12-19T18:21:00.002-06:00

Week long holiday love...

2011-12-19T12:45:00.000-06:00

Farewell...

2011-12-17T21:41:00.001-06:00

I just wanted to make mention to one man who, for his 11 seasons with the Twins, was a lot of fun to watch- Mr. Michael Cuddyer.
Though I am sad to see him go I understand perfectly. I hope you have great success with the Rockies!

#5 will be missed.

Thanks!

I'm skunked again!

2011-12-17T21:38:00.002-06:00

Once again the stations in Minnesota will not be broadcasting the Packers game tomorrow, 18Dec11. I don't know why they do this and I think it's a pretty shitty thing to do, especially since the Vikings couldn't win a game if they paid off the refs to make sure it happened!

Shame on the stations here. Why not let us see a winning team, then watch yet another Sunday when the Vikings seem like they're going to win, but only prove how much they suck, suck, suck?

Beautiful picture for the day

2011-12-16T10:02:00.000-06:00

15Dec11 GOP Debate

2011-12-15T23:41:00.001-06:00

This bloviating bunch of blowhards think they understand it all, when from where I'm standing, they don't understand dick. This was by far the worst debate yet, as you could tell all of them, even Ron Paul, were trying to out bitch slap the other in order to win the Iowa Caucus. They didn't answer questions, they ran over their time and they have bents in their political agendas that make them sound as if they'll be bringing goosestepping to American troops as soon as they're sworn in, but hey, what will those young men and women care cause after fighting five tours in Iraq they'll be so mentally fucked they'll never know.

After tonight I don't want any of them.

*And my sincere apologies to the products/movies I used in order to achieve my desired 'look' for each candidate but it was necessary to embellish how I saw them tonight.*

Fascinating photo of the day

2011-12-15T12:27:00.000-06:00

Please take notice, on the photo, the shape of the earth when five different shots are put together. Hence the reason for the lunar eclipse. Wonderful shot taken from the site Astronomical Picture Of The Day.

The new Pandemic, or at least it should be.

2011-12-14T07:55:00.003-06:00

Have you heard that the largest pest problem in the world is now bed bugs? They are spreading at an alarming rate and it doesn't seem people can keep up with their burgeoning numbers.

Makes me never ever ever ever EVER want to sleep in a hotel again! Although they don't spread disease the bites they take off human flesh are none too pretty.

Think Motel 6* will use this for their next TV campaign?

"Come on in, have an interesting night's sleep. Get WAY more than you paid for! Not only that, act now and you'll be taking some of them home with you in your luggage!"

Hotels like to claim they're on top of this problem, but I don't think so. Here's a website EVERYONE who travels needs to commit to memory...

BedBug Registry

I remember when my mom used to talk about these critters when she was a little girl, what a horrible problem they were and how she remembers them crawling on her at night. Nasty, nasty, nasty...

And why is it I can't stop itching after writing something like this? lol

*I only use Motel 6 because it's a well known chain, nothing more. It's problems are no different than any other hotel/motel infested with the little buggers.

Wreaths Across America

2011-12-12T18:27:00.000-06:00

Forgive me for not knowing what this was on Saturday. It was the first I'd ever heard of it.

Wreaths Across America

A public service announcement

2011-12-12T14:43:00.006-06:00

This is a message on the dangers of drugs. I wish I could say it's only things like illegal meth or crack, but today that's not the case and I don't think it has been for a long time. Drugs are the most seditious, ruthless and violent acts a human can do to their bodies. Now whether it's 'needed' or not, drugs, prescription or illegal, can only manifest in a terrible way once the person consuming them becomes addicted.

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Here are some prime examples of when drugs go bad...

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These are what I refer to as the Bright Flames - people that we watched explode onto the screen/page, entertain us so much and then all too quickly get snuffed out from what we like to say was an accident.

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Here we have the What The Hell Happened Flames. People who were so incredibly gifted in what made them famous only to have their lives snuffed out by something that we still find ourselves saying... huh, what?

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And lastly the Hell Bent Flames, those sparks who grew so intensely bright they themselves couldn't stand to be near the flame any longer. They lived a short, fast life, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of their demons.

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In your own family you may have one of these three types and you see them consuming an alarming amount of drugs: Whether accidentally, suspiciously or purposely. They can be something as commonplace as Valium or Pradaxa, but whatever it calls itself it is a drug and most likely dangerous to the person taking it, more dangerous than the ailment they were put on it for.

Before your loved one becomes one of the statistics above, see if you can help. If you can, do it. If that doesn't work then you're going to have to let them 'go' and hope for the best.

Again I reiterate, drugs are a seditious beast who crawl inside the human psyche and take it over. Peter Tork of the Monkees once said, "Doing drugs is like having sex with a gorilla, you never know what it's going to be like or when it's going to end."

Amen to that.

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Drug Addiction Hotline
Drug Help
Resource Center
Phoenix House
A Better Tomorrow
Talk to your kids
Narcotics Anonymous

10Dec11 GOP Debate

2011-12-11T19:56:00.005-06:00

Candidate by Candidate...

Santorum - He is so boring he makes Lawrence Welk seem exciting and that wouldn't be so bad if he'd stop talking about things as if they mattered to everyone. They don't Rick. Why don't you go over, grab Michelle's hand and both call it a day.

Perry - His impersonation of a drunken Dean Martin is getting old, really old. He looks as if he's slurring his words, forgetting what he says one minute to the next and then trying to act like he gives a shit, but truth be told, I don't think he does. He doesn't even have fight in him anymore. Rick, go back to kicking cow pies in Texas.

Romney - Oh my, if this guy said, "I've worked in the private sector" one more time I thought a repetitive sniper was going to rise up and ping him in the noggin from the repetitive stress it was giving the audience. The guy doesn't understand homelessness, or being hungry, since he's never been either. Mitt, go back to Massachusetts and take up fishing, huh?

Gingrinch - He sounded good, didn't waste a lot of time with bullshit, except, to me, he made the critical error of Obama bashing, something he hasn't done up until now. He must be feeling pretty confident. Now is the time one of his aids should pull him aside and whisper the name of Herman Cain. Other than that, the only other gaffe he made was him trotting out Iran to be the enemy, thereby assuring all American citizens that when he gets into office he's going to get the overtaxed Veterans, who've served five tours already, into Iran, because, dammit, we need more wars, since they make his wealthy friends fat and happy. Maybe someone should have forced him to one of those Wreaths Across America gatherings and let him experience, first hand, what utter and horrible loss of your military child is like.

Paul - Again, the only one of them I trust and even that is still on the table. He makes the most sense, seems to want to discuss the issues and doesn't waste valuable time at the mike dumping on the President or bloviating on crap that Americas don't give a shit about. The saddest thing is realizing that since he's moved from the Independent ticket to the GOP, once he's out and Newt, the next war monger, is voted in, Paul can't even run on the Independent ticket. They've cleaned that potential mess up nice and neat, haven't they?

Bachmann - I can't believe she's still showing up. Someone needs to tell her that we're not impressed with her bashing of Obama. Yes, truly, he sucks, but you don't think the entire United States of America is aware of that!? The highlight of her talk was her verbalizing more than once that she lead 40,000 people to protest on Washington... Yeah, her family? Isn't she the one who always claims she has more kids that the Duggars? Well, what a convenient way to form a flash mob, to invite her own clan. Oh look, Michelle, there's Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman and soon to be ousted Rick Santorum waiting in the wings for you to join them on the trail of tears back to nowhereville! Make sure you say hi to Sarah Palin when you get there!

Two other notes of interest about that debate last evening:

1. Diane Sawyer looked as if she was drinking from the same bottle Perry was. She was confused, disoriented and didn't understand the questions she herself was asking.

2. The audience was picked by the GOP party. Well, surprise, surprise! If they really want to have the debate be worth it's salt then why not invite a room full of Democrats so the candidates can impress the argyle socks off them!

Intrusion or something people need to see?

2011-12-11T11:12:00.004-06:00

Meeting Doc

2011-12-10T18:48:00.002-06:00

Doc Severinsen came to Schmidt Music today and we listened to him talk about playing the trumpet. Kurt loved it.

At the bottom here is the picture I drew that I gave to him. He was so very quiet and then told me he loved the thoughtful pose. I told him that's why I chose it. But as it the tissue paper was gently torn away some folks in the audience oooh'd and aaah'd and then they clapped. I was so embarrassed. Sadly since we were at the end of the line and he had to get back to Orchestra Hall I couldn't get a picture of him and Kurt together, not one that came out clear anyway. But Doc came over to me, his look at me was intense as he shook my hand and say, "You do fine work. Thank you."

This is a very nice man.

Here's what the Internet can do for dating!

2011-12-09T14:51:00.006-06:00

Again, this is an actual ad.

Somehow I can just hear her saying -as she snaps her gum-, "Gee, I'm so hot. Supposebly Jesus is hot, too. Do you think if He is He would find me hot? Because I am. I'm so hot. How could Jesus not find me hot? I am, you know? I'm so hot that any guy would love to date me, even Jesus. But He would have to be hot, too, because I'm too hot to date just any guy, pacifically one who's not hot."

Farewell, Mr. Morgan

2011-12-07T18:58:00.001-06:00

Mr. Harry Morgan

April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011

I realize most people will remember you for M*A*S*H, but to me you'll always be remembered for 'Olly Perkins' in Support Your Local Sheriff.

Thank you, sir, you've been a pleasure.

Four kinds of brains

2011-12-07T09:49:00.012-06:00

There are four kinds of brains in the world, meaning four trains of thought:

Logical
Analytical
Chaotic
Judgmental

What does this mean, you ask? It means that each human has one of these trains of thought and this is the kind of brain they have. What is the difference? Well, let's use this intersection as our guide...

Now look at it for a moment... What do you see?

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If you have a logical mind you see cars stopped for a red light, cars going for the green light and pedestrians crossing where they should.

If you have an analytical mind you see cars stopped because they have to because the light is red. You see the cars moving before them because the light is green and it's their time to go. You see a lot of people and wonder if they're going to stop when the light turns green for those now stopped.

If you have a chaotic mind you see bright yellow taxis, what looks to be a cloudy day, a lot people walking with you wondering where they're going and you ruminate on where you're going to eat lunch.

If you have a judgmental mind you see a dirty street, litter everywhere, too many rude drivers in cars that aren't going to stop when the light turns yellow, people that aren't watching where they're walking and angry with yourself because you forgot your umbrella and it looks like rain, again.

Which brain do you have?

Lunar Eclipse December 9th/10th

2011-12-06T19:36:00.000-06:00

Totality will be over Hawaii, but we here in Minnesota may see some of it coming and going.

Talk about subliminal bullshit!

2011-12-06T13:57:00.000-06:00

This is an actual poll that came from a website I frequent. After I saw it I had to take it and when I got there, and read this subliminal nightmare I thought... are you kidding me or what?

Not only is this subliminal and deceptive, but down right evasive and ignorantly pervasive, as if it has to gear the numbskull directly to the answer.

How insulting. It's insulting to the website who put it up, insulting to someone like me who believes love crosses sexual boundaries and insulting to the millions of children being raised in wonderful single sex parent homes.

But you bigots, who think that cross shoved FAR up your asses makes you right, go on ahead with your stupidity and arrogance. It seems to be your only goal in life... to remove the rights of others. Keep thinking you're doing the Lord's work... but someday He's going to whap you upside the head and ask, "What about loving one another don't you understand?"

Temerity, Moxy and incredible balls.

2011-12-04T14:56:00.004-06:00

This is an ad the Vikings took out in today's Sunday Pioneer/Press, 4December11:

Why A Lousy Economy Can Be A Good Time To Build A Stadium.

In these challenging economic times, it's not easy to find a political consensus on much of anything. Except this - We need jobs.
We need to put people back to work and grow the economy again.
Building a new multi-purpose stadium definitely creates jobs. Real jobs.
Jobs you can see. Jobs you can watch transform a 430-acre Superfund site in Arden Hills into one of the mation's finest sports facilities.
How many jobs? An estimated 13,000 full and part-time jobs, including 7,500 construction jobs. And nearly an estimated $300 million will be paid out in salarais to those construction workers over a 3-year period.
With unemployment rates for Minnesota's construction industry at a disastrous 20-30%, it's easy to understand why the State's trade unions strongly support this new stadium.
As lousy as this economy is, there are other reasons it actually makes sense to build a new stadium now - interest rates are at historic lows and construction costs are at bardain prices.
However, the cost of building this stadium is only going up and it could increase by as much as $50 million just by waiting one more year. That's serious money.
Combine these significant cost savings with the creation of thousands of real jobs, and the negatives of this economy turn into positives for the State.
the Vikings are ready to make a $425 million investment to get this fantastic new publicly-owned facility underway in Arden Hills. That's the 3rd-largest private contribution in NFL stadium history.
Now we need the go ahead from the State Legislature. That's where you can help. Please call your state senator and state representative today and simply tell them, "The time has come to create jobs and build the stadium."

Considering that half a page ad in a newspaper costs $96,900 dollars, wow, what they won't go through to try and slut their way right into the site at Arden Hills. And considering that it's now been shown that stadiums do NOT prove to be job makers, what a load of shit that sentiment is. And the construction statement, considering that the industry is down $20 million across the board they use that as their hot button issue?

With the painful fact, for Vikings fans, that Zygi bought a Park Avenue penthouse for $19 million I'd say the man already has a great big 'sold' sign tacked onto this team's back and yet he's still allowing all these fools to carry on in such a fashion? What a guy.

The saddest thing about this ad... it was HUGE, took up half the page, but there's an ad for Veterans next to it, which is about the size of a business card.

When do things become insane? Well, we're there.

Can you say... 'what'?

2011-11-30T12:06:00.006-06:00

Zygi Wilf just purchased a $19 million dollar condo on Park Avenue, thereby showing Minnesota residents he had plans to sell the team long before the stadium became an issue.

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McDonald's wants it's San Francisco consumers to pay for their Happy Meal toys. I'm sure San Franciscans are saying, you know what you can do with your toy! Of all the greedy, selfish... Last year McDonald's, in an ailing economy, still made $2.6 BILLION dollars... but let's charge the guy making $30,000 a year .50 cents for a fucking Happy Meal toy. Assholes. But if you get the bright notion to Occupy McDonald's, I have a better idea... DON'T EAT THERE! Remember the good old days of boycotting? Me thinks it's time to revive this practice.

Once again it's time for WTF!

2011-11-29T12:39:00.003-06:00

Michael Jackson's doctor got four years, but because of overcrowding he'll do his time at home. Does anyone else think it's a seditious world we live in when a 'star's' would-be murderer actually gets sentenced and the President of the United States' murder, that would be JFK, is still a cold case?

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A ten year old boy in Ohio was taken away from his parents because he was overweight. Yeah, nothing says I'm going to become healthy away from my parents than getting abducted by a group of adults who think they know what's best for the child. Can you say Daniel Hauser?

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The three bankers who are said to have won the lottery didn't win for themselves, but for someone else ~who didn't want to come forward~ because he's their wealthy client. They had a spokesperson tell the press that they were sending most of it to charitable organizations. Yeah, right... to his Boca Raton mansion, his Viennese mansion, to his St. Moritz mansion and so on and so forth...

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Ginger White comes forward to say she and Herman Cain have been getting down and dirty between the sheets for thirteen years, but he only just ended it several months ago and, of course, Herman denies it. "I did not have sex with that girl. And if I did have sex with her, then I'm saying now that I did not have sex with her at all. It all depends on your definition of having sex, which I did not. What is your definition of sex? Whatever it is I didn't do it!"

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And finally, the coup de grace... According to GQ, Fmr. Governor Tim "Mr. Boring Himself" Pawlenty was voted as the least influential person of the year.
Well... DUH! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Chain of Souls

2011-11-29T07:25:00.012-06:00

This is a chain and I'm only using it here as a demonstration to emphasize my meaning, nothing more...

Long have I know about our personal "Chain of Souls" and now I wish to explain it thoroughly so as to have no more misunderstandings regarding it. And, for the purpose of this entry I shall refer to it as COS instead of writing out Chain of Souls.

For years I have heard people say that they've felt as if they been somewhere before or that they're experiencing deja vu, or when they meet someone for the first time they feel as if they've known that person for a very long time. The reason behind all these supernatural meetings is very simple... our COS.

What the COS is is this... Let us presuppose for a moment that Adam and Eve were actually the first people here. When they passed their spirits came out of the body and connected to infants that were being born, thereby giving that infant a Guardian Angel ~someone to be with them constantly, to watch over them, to teach them and to help them grow... from within. When that infant grew and eventually died then it's spirit (which now comprises of itself and Adam) connect to another infant and that process has continued throughout the eons of time, putting on another soul with each passing human.

Let us hypothesize on this for a moment... Say man has now been on the earth for approximately 10,000 years, and in that the average life span of a human is, oh, 80 years. 10,000/80 = 125. That means there have been 125 generations since, supposedly, Adam walked the earth. 125 generations ago Adam was all our of great (name your own count of greats here) grandfather.

Here I sit, at fifty-two years of age and have approximately 125 extra souls with me that date, in the chain, all the way back to Adam. Very cool.

Some we can sense, some we cannot. Why? The ones we can sense are our Guardian Angels, the ones who stand out more than the others to guide us, teach us, safe us and make sure we're headed in the direction. Not all 125 souls will do that, since some of them are sharing two or more chains. I have felt several people who have Mark Twain with them, my husband being one of them, but for my husband Mr. Twain isn't a dominate guide, so his 'work' is elsewhere. Souls can do that, be two places at once... it's called heavenly divide. Why divide a soul? So that more lives can be touched by the one element God chose to give to that infant. Mark Twain probably came to Kurt to give him a great sense of humor, which he has... but that was the extent of Mr. Twain's involvement in Kurt's development. Mr. Twain is with others, helping them to write, getting them published, making extravagant homes and so on. Each facet of the gift a soul gives is relative to that particular person only.

The souls that are set apart from the rest of the chain, Guardians, are necessary in the nurturing of who and what we are. While they do this though, they tend to dump a lot of who they were inside of us, making us wonder where we got 'this' knowledge from, or love of 'that' thing, or afraid of 'this' object and so on. When I first discovered my Mari, a Holland Jew who was in Ghent, Belgium going to medical school when the Nazi's invaded, forcing her to Auschwitz to 'help' Mengele with his gruesome experiments, I had no idea she was there until one night I found myself scratching, horribly bad, at my left forearm while hearing a voice telling me to 'get it off, please, get it off'. When I looked down and realized what I was doing I started talking to her and finding out all about her. Now my youth and some of it's incidents make perfect sense. I used to hate knives, I hate operations and the thought of them makes me sick. I can't stand hospitals, I refused scholarship after scholarship in high school... many such incidents, which I now realize were Mari coming through me, keeping my life course straight.

For someone my age, I would have approximately 125 souls in there, but I only truly know of three, as it's the only ones who've come forward to let me know they're there, but as for the other 122, nope, I don't know who they are... but I do know that when I have knowledge of things I shouldn't... or when I see a human I shouldn't know, but do, it's because they have in their COS a person who knew someone in my COS. We may not know the person, but someone in our COS does.

Some like to call this reincarnation... which it isn't. God does not reuse souls for a brand new infant, but He does connect ones who've been here to those infants, as a spiritual airbag, if you will. Always there for protection if needed.

You can look at your COS as either a good thing or a bad one. The choice is up to you, but think of the wealth of information you can give yourself if you open up to some of those spirits in your chain and begin conversing with them. What a font of knowledge they can give you!

11-0... Go Pack GO! (update)

2011-11-21T12:57:00.001-06:00

And here's to the pundits who said that since they won last year's Superbowl they'd just come out this year sitting on their laurels...

You guys don't know dick, do you?

*Raspberry to you then!*

Only five more games, baby.

Minnesota blackens out the Packers Game

2011-11-21T08:10:00.002-06:00

I find it intolerable that Minnesota thinks so little of the people from Wisconsin residing in it's borders that they can't broadcast a game the Packers were playing, 20Nov11. What was the reasoning behind it? Because the Packer's were 9-0 at the time or the fact that the Vikings have become a horrible team? Besides threatening to move if they don't get a new stadium, now the organization is denying people like myself the chance to see the Packers go 10-0... why? Perhaps if the Vikings were doing anything substantial not only would they rally support, but deserve a stadium as well. Until then, can't I at least watch the Packers win?

A hug from dad

2011-11-20T09:59:00.002-06:00

Yesterday while watching our shows that we DVR and save until Saturday, on Blue Bloods the family's patriarch had a heart attack and in it Tom Selleck's character was quietly distraught and when he hugged another member of the family it brought me back to the times when I'd get a hug from dad.
There was nothing so great as that incredible hug from dad. He was a tall man, built like a bear and truly lived up to the task of bear hugging. When he'd wrap little me in his arms I suddenly felt there were no problems in the world, nothing I couldn't handle and for that pristine moment, nothing in the world that mattered other than getting that hug. Dad was never one for saying a simple 'I love you', nor did he readily show sentimentality... but when it came to giving good hug, boy did he. I guess that's why the hug he gave me as he walked me down the aisle thirty-three years ago means so much to me now, because in that splendid moment not only did dad and I have a loving moment no one else could share, but the love he had for me (along with his tears) covered me like the warmest, softest blanket I shall delight in forever.

Find someone you love and give them a hug they'll never forget. It's well worth the time.

Dedicated to the one I adore...

2011-11-17T12:03:00.001-06:00

Happy 33rd Anniversary to the most incredible man I will ever have the privilege to not only know, but to call my own.

Pedophiles must be having a field day.

2011-11-15T14:04:00.001-06:00

This exact ad is on a site I go to... this exact ad.

Now you tell me, is she over eighteen or is she like the Chinese girl Gymnasts in the last Olympics who claimed they were over sixteen, but only had a 'birth certificate' to prove it?

Wonder no more why perverts, freaks and weirdos are multiplying in number. Look at the infants they can find on the Web!

Sweetie, um, where are your parents?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other!

2011-11-15T12:12:00.002-06:00

You remember that the government wants gruesome, graphic images put on packages of cigarettes to keep people from smoking, you know, photos of cancer patients, lungs filled with cancer and others equally horrifying, which is okay with me, but I have to ask... why then aren't alcohol producers forced to put photos of innocent victims who've been killed by a drunk driver on the every can of beer, box of wine or bottle of liquor sold? Seems to me tobacco tends to kill the one, but when someone drinks and then drives, they tend to kill others... the innocents.

According to the CDC smoking kills 443,000 people per year and alcohol related crashes kills 13,000, but every other minute someone is seriously injured by a drunk driver. In numerical terms, that's 1,048,320 people seriously injured by a drunk driver per year.

What's fair here? Why does the tobacco industry have to follow a gruesome guideline, but not the liquor industry?

How about this image on the cans of Miller, Pabst and Coors, or slapped to a nice bottle of Chardonnay?

Can you say "One for the road" to her?

Exquisite picture of the day

2011-11-14T23:40:00.000-06:00

Finally, some television worth watching.

2011-11-13T14:36:00.015-06:00

Here are the shows that seem to be tickling my fancy lately...
And with good reason, they're INTERESTING!

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Person of Interest

Never mind the 'eye candy' named James Caviezel, but the premise of the show is fantastic.
Very taut, very dramatic.

A+

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Blue Bloods

No gratuitous body parts, no moving camera, only great acting with a solid family core.
Tom Selleck has the same kind of determined, heartwarming classic mystique my father had.

A+ (One naked ass, I'm outta there)

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Harry's Law

After last season I knew they had to change the format to survive and they did, making Kathy Bates prove why she's one of the best actresses going.
The only downside is Mark Valley.

A+

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Once upon a time

This started out slow and weird, but it's gained momentum and the plot is coming along rather ingeniously.

B

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Terra Nova

Fascinating premise, but it sometimes spends way too much time on the kiddy situations and I'm not a kid, so I FF during those scenes. Stephen Lang makes this show well worth the watch!

B-

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p.s. It's great to have a DVR. We record them all week and then watch them at our leisure on Saturday afternoons. It's fantastic!

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Jeers to CBS who had a phenomenal show like Chaos and cancelled it.

Chaos

Four Black Ops men, completely different, who's talents worked well together.
Excellent and shame on CBS for shitcanning it!

A+

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11-11-11

2011-11-11T07:26:00.002-06:00

To Master Sergeant

William Roy Block~

Killed May45 over Kyushu, Japan.
Tail gunner aboard the Sally Delle, a B-29 stationed in the Mariannas.

Jeers to CNBC

2011-11-10T14:41:00.001-06:00

For not live streaming the 9Nov11 GOP debate!
I watch these every time and I heard this was a particularly good one with Perry stumbling around trying to remember his ass from a hole in the ground.Rick Perry can't remember what in hell he's doing. And he's running for president? Seriously?
Video

For shame, CNBC... for shame. To watch him go down in flames would have been well worth it.

Beware: College kids are getting stupid!

2011-11-10T13:49:00.005-06:00

A recent poll of college graduates found that 1 in 3 might not take a job with a company if there was no access to media websites.

40% would take less money at a job, just so there is access to media websites, such as Facebook.

And 56% definitely would not take a job if not able to access social media websites.

Unless you own the company, what in hell happened to, when you're at work do your damn job?

Bravo and I say Bravo!

2011-11-09T17:54:00.001-06:00

Cheers to Brides Across America, an organization who gives free dresses to military brides on their most special day.

Yet another WTF moment!

2011-11-08T08:57:00.001-06:00

Yesterday in their continuing search to be the dumbest professional team in all the playing field, the Twins Organization decided to fire Bill Smith and bring back Terry Ryan as General Manager.
Um... isn't that a bit like putting a padlock on the barn door once it's burned to the ground and all that's left IS the door?

I don't think the General Manager was the problem here...

*How about a pitching coach who has consistently SUCKED at his job for over ten years?
*How about a manager who looks as if he's about to fall asleep at every game, when he isn't trying to revive his shitty managing by walking out onto the field in order to get thrown out of the game so he can go into the back and sleep on a cot?
* How about the prima donnas getting WAY overpaid and not doing DICK?

But Jim, you go ahead... fire those 'players' who aren't really doing anything in way of making the team viable because it makes you look like you know what you're doing and reminds us all that you're in charge.

(Rolling eyes)

We're going to lose Twins!
We're going to stink!
We're going to lose Twins!
Watch that management dink!

Crack out the needed ones!

Keep all who suck!

Paychecks and prima donnas, WTF!

Zygi's Ambition

2011-11-07T14:13:00.005-06:00

Lately the only news in Minnesota is that the Vikings need a new stadium or they're going to be sold. Now aside from the fact that I doubt there's many here who want this to happen (the stadium or the selling), because, hell, look what a new stadium did for the Twins... THEY SUCK... thinking about the Vikings and their wants suddenly makes me consider the Saints. In 2005 when Katrina blasted into Louisiana the only place the ill-prepared city had to send it's flooded refugees was to their Superdome.
Ah... the Superdome...

Where people had to sleep, the toilets flooded, shit smell everywhere, oh yes, let's not forget about the rapes that occurred inside and all the other gruesome happenings during that time.

When the people were finally forced out did the city of New Orleans tear down the House of Sin? No. They revamped it to accommodate the Saints... and apparently it worked. Imagine that! A place where people were raped was cleaned up and still utilized by a major sports team. Hmmm.

So here the Superdome still stands, revamped, the fans loving the game, loving the team... loving New Orleans... And yet here in Minnesota we have a perfectly wonderful dome that Zygi Wilf doesn't want and like an infant, threatens to move/sell the team if his demands aren't met... while claiming he'll toss in 400 million of his own money to make sure that new stadium gets built in Arden Hills! ... but... he won't put out 400 million to get a perfectly good dome revamped.

Hmmm... one is the house of rape and shit, while the other only had a collapsed roof.
Hmmm... doesn't make much sense, does it?

You know what my solution is?
GOODBYE VIKINGS!

Spacial Transmitter

2011-11-03T19:14:00.002-05:00

This is the latest component God has shown me regarding the Vortex Actual and it's the primary device that makes the space travel possible. He told me to refer to this as a spacial transmitter. He never seems to tell me what the exact composite of the structure is, perhaps I'm supposed to figure that out myself, but I can tell you what it's primary function is...

It is a device, very, very small, that is cloistered together with millions of others, working in tandem with one another, moving throughout the universe(s) and transporting things from one place to the other.

Now how it works is this... the jet of light are fingers, the digital fingers, if you will, which find the object ready for transportation, feel it with it's millions of sensors and in each one of these spacial transmitters is a designated code and that particular code is sought after in the thing it's sensing. Once that particular code is found for each transmitter that is the part of the item it brings through -to wherever the vortex actual is taking it. So if a human were standing there, allow millions of these illumination jet fingers to fully sense it, then when it got sucked into the vortex actual each different molecule would go in through the different jets, keeping the information not only clean, but pure as well. And because there is only one molecule moving per one spacial transmitter then there is no friction, which then results in never having to be concerned with the problem of heat.

Pretend you're looking at a picture on a Paint Shop program... you put your cursor on one particular pixel and down at the bottom of the screen the computer tells you the exact declination of that pixel, while to the right you're given the exact color it is. This is precisely the same function or principle of the spacial transmitters... one to each molecule, that records the information purely and transfers it to it's new destination without damage or concern of friction/fire/burning.

Now, if I could only figure out the composite of it then I'd be sitting pretty!
Transparent aluminum, baby!

Banks wise up!

2011-11-02T09:45:00.003-05:00

Story

Banks thought it would be a good idea to charge customers a fee for using their debit cards and they were serious. That's like charging me to use my own money! They don't want us to use checks anymore and then they assumed charging us fees per transaction was a good idea?

They claimed they tried it because of the shitty shape they're in. Yeah, well, when they finally stop with the Bernie Madoffs and Ponzi schemes, then they'll be functioning better.

Can you imagine what a catastrophic situation the customer base could have sent the banking industry into (over these fees) if everyone at the same time would have yanked all their money out? Now that would have been worth the show!

Have a very happy...

2011-10-31T07:05:00.003-05:00

Tell me lies tell me sweet little lies... tell me lies...

2011-10-27T08:06:00.014-05:00

Remember after Georgie Porgy started the bullshit wars and then promised there would be no price gouging... and yet somehow even with our useless C-in-C lip serving us... it still happened?

Perfect case in point: All the packaging that now proclaims you get 25% more. WTF. Why don't they just go back to the original package's size and give us the price we were once buying it for? Wow, what a fucking concept... Honesty in marketing! But no... since companies have literally cut down their tissues, toilet paper, cereal, chips... you name it, when the greed of Bushonomics took over practically every business was doing it... shrinking their packaging and charging more. But now since they see Bushonomics isn't flying too well in the face of the American public they're trying to use catchphrases like "25% MORE" as if that will entice the consumer to not only purchase their product but to make that same consumer somehow absentmindedly forget the continual BUTT FUCKING they're taking from it's cost.

Get real, companies. We're onto you and it no longer plays to the house.

Either shape up or go under.

Out of Reach

2011-10-26T13:41:00.012-05:00

Does it ever strike you as the epitome of WTF when you think about how the church and some preachers have been teaching God's children that His voice is too much for our ears, or that His countenance is too much for our eyes? Why does it seem like their job is to make sure man stays as far from God as possible? That God is too obnoxious to hold court with and He'll kill us by the sound of His voice or the look of His face... Hogwash.

Ever think that maybe God just doesn't want to reveal Himself for fear of what His children will think when they get a good look at Him? What if He looked like a water buffalo, a shrimp or had the same malady as the Elephant Man? Who would respect that face then? So, instead of trying to figure out, by asking Him, what He really looks like the church decided that it's better to pose a frightening concept of the being to assure the sheep would always seek the help of said church in order to reach that frightening being.

We will naively accept all the regurgitated blather we're fed about God and never question Him because some 'church' told us not to, but we'll endlessly harangue a useless politician for having kinky sex that was none of our business to begin with?

How disappointing we must be to Him. So lead by stupidity and ignorance.

My Two Cents

Space Cadet Newt

Hippocratic versus Hypocrisy

Joke of the day...

The Winter Carnival 2012

And again...

The GOP Theme Song

Seig Heil!

State of the Union

Brain trust of the day...

Mitt Romney's Tax Returns

Heavenly Hosts

What's old becomes new again...

America's stupidity...

Several things...

The movement of Dirty Energy through Pure Energy

America's 2012 Presidential Election

Purity Balls

The lovely teal beaded necklace...

My thoughts on SOPA and PIPA

SOPA and PIPA

Mitt... are you for real?

Drugs and the gullible

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Can you say HYPOCRITE?

See THIS movie on Friday!

Go Pack Go!

Rude, self-important twits!

Vilifying what kids love...

A piece of shit wrapped in a pile of garbage

Welfare whores of modern day

A lovely picture...

Vermin Supreme for President

7Jan12 GOP Debate

Three Lovely Things...

A rare beauty indeed!

Help Sites for Veterans and Soldiers

The Iowa Caucus

In the news...

Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar

A New Year's Present...

Welcome 2012!

The Vortex Actual comes close to fruition!

Seriously?

Iran threatens to close oil shipping lanes...

It just hit me...

Sears and Kmart close 120 stores

My beautiful pictures of the day, from Como.

Kurt's Mistresses...

Ask yourself... Am I THIS stupid?

Walking in a winter wonderland...

Gorgeous pictures of spacial events

From my house to yours...

The greatest story ever told...

It's the holiday season...

This is a wtf WTF!

You better watch out, you better not cry...

Something I recently found... And love.

And yet another farewell...

Merry Christmas!

Happy Hanukkah!

Week long holiday love...

Farewell...

I'm skunked again!

Beautiful picture for the day

15Dec11 GOP Debate

Fascinating photo of the day

The new Pandemic, or at least it should be.

Wreaths Across America

*A public service announcement*

10Dec11 GOP Debate

Intrusion or something people need to see?

Meeting Doc

Here's what the Internet can do for dating!

Farewell, Mr. Morgan

Four kinds of brains

Lunar Eclipse December 9th/10th

Talk about subliminal bullshit!

Temerity, Moxy and incredible balls.

Can you say... 'what'?

A public service announcement