Friday is actually Tuesday !
Read down to the friday entery. While I started that post on Friday, and left it till Tuesday to finish blogger still post in order of start dates. So today's entery has got last Fridays date on it.
My Top 17 !
Thanks to the Jenny the 'Greekgodess' whom on her site today had her 40 questions. I was inspired to shorten that list down to seventeen (17), after all I am a working man today.
1. My uncle once: Put one bullet through his head, after hearing the news he had mouth cancer.
2. Never in my life: I have been in a actual loving relationship.
3. When I was five: Crashed my bike into the Christmas tree.
4. High School was: 'crappy' lost my father, and both uncles, realized my mother was a crazy
drunk(for real), worked full time, had first of three operations due to heart defect, etc.
5. I will never forget: the sheer insanity of my mother, the havoc it caused, how each my sister,
brothers, and myself have been damaged by her, and the forgivness we had for her.
6. By noon I'm usually: Struggling to stay awake, listening to Neal Boortz, and finnishing my
computer work. Or I'm wondering why I' am not ready to go to sleep.
7. Last night: I performed my Job ! (third shift)
8. if I only had : more money (same answer as the Greekgodess)
9. What worries me the most: as a whole, the loss of individual freedom, for society sake.
10. When I turn my head to the left, I see: The only piece of professional art work I own.
11. When I turn my head to the right, I see: my planning board, cork board, calender and wall.
12. What I miss most about the eighies: Not doing to Miss V.D.W. what I should have.
13. By this time next year: I will still be mean, and ugly for that's in my bones. But also lighter
in Community College perparing myself for my next career, at least part-time.
14. If I ever go back to school: Commercial/Journalistic Photography
15. If you visit my hometown I suggest: turning around, start running, and don't look back lest
you be turned into a pillar of salt.
16. A song I love, but do not have is: Tim McGraw "Drugs or Jesus" I normally don't like his
music, but his latest song does actually speak to my current disposition.
17. If you spend the night at my house: You'll sit on the porch till I get home from my third
shift job.
That's it ! Time enough !
The Last One From the British Ban Stand
As this week draws to a close, a week that seemed to be headed up by whats being banned in an attempt to "save" our lives. This week we learned that we can no longer be trusted with smoking, or enjoying happy hour. It is felt that we can't drive or motorcycles over the speed limit, or drive our four-wheel drives through town. But the social engineers aren't quite done yet, now they want to come into my kitchen and take a way my knives, or at least the ones deemed to be sharp.
Yes now thanks to a team of doctors from the West Middlesex University Hospital, have called for laws requiring knives to be made with rounded, blunt tips. It seems that a long with roasts, and spam, a few too many British subjects have been getting pricked by those pesky kitchen utinciles. This according to an editorial written by the 'ban-it' team in the British Medical Journal.
It is reported the violent crime rate rose18% in Britain between 2003 to 2004, and since the hand gun has allready been baned, the weapon of choice is the knife. The researchers even used a headline from a London tabloid "The Daily Express" in their medical report, which is an unsual action for scholary work.
"Britain is in the grip of knives terror-third of murder victims are now stabbed to death." Does this mean that 33% of all murders are commited by lone, rougue knives wondering the streets of the United Kingdom? No, it means that a third of all murders choose knives, and a 'knives' ban would mean that those murderers will have use a little imagination in selecting the next utensil to be banned. Heaven forbid the United Kingdom ban murderers, after all it's the 'instrument' which processes the hand of the innocent to commit murder. Therefore it's the tool which should be executed, not the murderer.
The crack medical team as come to the concusion that assults are impulsive, prompted by alcohol (remember the banning of happy hour). The kitchen knife will then make itself an all too availible weapon to the poor innocent crimminal, whom bends to the will of the kitchen tool, after having his will weakened under the influence of a "happy hour". Next thing you know it's the evil "Fork" that forced the murderer to drink and come under the spell of that murderous knife.
"The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly avialible at all."The research team called for laws to require knife manufacturers to redesign their products with rounded blunt tips. But you ask beyond buttering someone to death what can be done with such a knife, after all you can no longer slice your spam.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Female Genital Mutilation where any joker with a 'blunt knife' can enter the wonderful world of; clitoridectomy (removal of the clitoris), excision(removal of the labia minora), or the whole blunt knife kilbasa the infibulation (removal of the clitoris, labia minora and majora, and stitching together.
According to Amnesty International the preferred knife of the practioners of (FGM), is the very knife Drs. Emma Hern, Will Glazebrook and Mike Beckett want to place in the home of every British citizen.
"I was genitally mutliated at the age of ten. When the operation began, I put up a big fight. The pain was terrible and unbearable... I was gentally multilated with a blunt penknife... Afterwards, I hemorrhaged and became anemic. This was attributed witchcraft."-Hannah Koroma, Sierra Leone
While this action took place in Sierra Leone, let's not forget that these very same peoples are immigrating to the United Kingdom. Let's not forget that they will demand that Britian bend to their practices of cilivization, not them converting to the cilivization of their new host country. So the sharpe knife ban is welcome news to these immigrates, so blunt knife (FGM) will continue on. This time in the United Kingdom.
This is why I have come to the opinion that, the socialist thinking do-gooder groups do not want to actually save lives. If you want to save lives you give the murderer the death penalty, not ban the weapon he used to commit the crime. After all just think how many people we can save from drowning by banning pools, lakes, rivers, and any other bodies of water.
By banning sharp knives, you reduce the citizens availability to eat meat, forcing them into forced vegitarianism. Vegitarianism is the main goal of many left leaning socialist groups, but they have to con the citizen into thinking they are saving their fellow man into giving up knives. With each individual freedom given up in the name of society, is a step in turning our Constitutional Republic, where we have individual freedom into a world of a society of group socialism.
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." Khrushchev. Has been completed, we are nothing more than a group of sheeple serving our democrat dictator.
Lastly when Anthony Bourdain an American chef, and author of "Kitchen Confidential" was informed of the knife ban in the United Kingdom he had this to say. "This is another sign of the coming apocalypse." Comparing the British Drs. editorial to unpasteurized cheese he said. "Where there is no risk, there is no pleasure."
Freedom lies in allowing the individual to live a life free of overbearing personal restrictions. To allowing each person to accept which risks he is willing to take, and what risk he is not. Only then allowing government control to guilde his life, and to attempt to protect him from harm.
Smokes, Bikes, and Gulags OH! MY!
The forces of "group thought socialism" are marching on. One one front Amnest International has confused holding 540 military combatants at 'Gitmo', with the imprisionment of 25 million innocent Soviet citizens in their Gulag system. But two fellow bloggers say it better than me like the site
sticks and stones, or even look at the blog at
riding sun which have carried the ball much farther and better than me. Please go and have some good reading.
Next up comes from our fine fellows from across the pond. Once again they want to micro-manage the individuals. Just a day or two ago it was the ending of happy hour. Now it's installing speed limiters on all motocycles, which will prevent the cycle in exceeding the speed limit. I would guess that this speed limiter would recieve signals from a radio source due to differences in speed limits through out the United Kingdom. I think that I take the same stand as the fellow blogger riding sun and his
#2link that I have for him, that this is both dangerous for the biker's life and the continuation of individual rights. The excuse is that motocyles due to their lack of operator protection are dangerous when driven beyond the speed limit. I like to think of it more like since motocyles are both quicker in speed and control than cars, it's actually the intent of this law to restrict the speed of motorcycles not to save innocent lives, but to even the odds when a criminal chooses a motorcycle to commit a crime. My firm belief is that government does not want to save lives, but only to restrict lives.
HOLY SMOKES ! individual man, you may no-longer be able to smoke inside of a restaurant! In my wonderful 'work state' of North Carolina, the General Assembly is considering banning smoking in restaurants.
Back when Socialism was still using, military take over by force tactics. It was still safe in the state of N.C. to seek a job at one of the four tobacco manufacturers.
But the point is that the General 'Ass'embly of N.C. is considering banning smoking in restaurants. And a local news station asked it's opinion poll to reply. I will give the current vote, then my reply, then 4 for the ban, and 4 or more against the ban.
The Vote Total:
For the banning of Smoking 161
Agaist banning Smoking 60
My reply: "This is a bad idea, it's not the general assembly's job to ban smoking. The government should not be looked at to solve such problems on restricting where a legal product can be used. I watched a report on t.v. where a restaurant went smoke-free, according to management their sales increased 14%. But it was their choice as a business to do so, it should remain up to the owner of the business to give service to the customers of their choice, and to refuse service to the people of their choice." I have to speak gentle to this outlet for they reserve the right to edit, or disallow my true comments, but ironicly I can't edit theirs, or those whom support the station's veiwpoint.
Here are some ofthe opininons from some of the pro government side: "the sheeple baa' baa' baa." The names have been X-ed out to protect the liberals.
"Second hand smoke has been shown to be more damaging than first hand smoke. I think it is a great idea that when a person eats out that their health should not be in jeopardy because of some one elses unthealthy habits. I agree that smoking should be banned in restaurants." XX
"Smoking indoors should be banned everywhere (like NY, CA, etc) not just restaurants.....nothing is more annoying than 2nd hand smoke..." Miss xxx
"Thank goodness they are finally going to do this! People without self control (smokers) need to learn that not everyone wants to shorten their lives by this filth. Smoking is unattractive, makes you wrinkle, smell bad, and it gives you nasty teeth and breath. Who in their right mind would smoke? Ban all public smoking." xxx
"excellent idea! way should people that don't want to die of lung cancer have to suffer. Smoking if not good for anything, it has no health benefits and in fact even secondary smoke can lead to lung cancer, and astma in children." xxx
*I've tried to stay true to their quotes as written, they are as they are, or the best I could copy.
As for the citizens whom vote NO! against the ban, as I do. (The People speak)
"It's not about smoking. It's about a select group of people who want to control our daly lives. These people have found that "what the people want" has little to do with the results they intend to get by legislation. These "people of the law" force their ideas on us by having politicians make laws that deprive our rights. Most grown people can make very good decisions and do the right thing. These people, daily , are eroding your ability to decide what is right for your family. Wake up! xxx (I would like to think 'X' is talking about the state)
"Here we go again. I don't know if its purposely made-up "facts" or just plain ignorance, but second-hand smoke has NOT been proven to be worse than first-hand smoke. There is evidence that 2nd hand smoke can be bad for you, but the question here is about government control, not whether smoke is bad for your health." xxx (hear, here my friends)
"Owners should be allowed to operate their establishments, both restaurants and bars, as they see fit. They should be able to allow smoking if they choose, taking their chance of losing customers. I am a former smoker who doesn't want to be around it but the government should leave business owners run their business." xxx (that's it)
"If they ban smoking......I will quit going out to eat. Hey, looks like I will save a couple hundred dollars a month."xx (better save it, for the state wants to raise the taxes to $0.75 cent a pack)
"It's just another tool for the government to control peoples lives." xx (perfect)
We need individual rights back! Let us the the 'individual' have the right; to drive a vehicle of our choice, to the rate of speed as we choose, to consume our food in the resturant of our choice.
I was reading "the gun toting liberal" yesterday and came across this little quiz. It's designed to compare your ethical philosophy with the "masters", the great thinkers of the world. My top six scores are as follows:
1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%)
3. Thomas Hobbes (78%)
4. Ayn Rand (70%)
5. Prescriptivism (66%)
6. Cynics (63%)
It's a nice little test, it's something to do. How correct it is who knows. To take the test
http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHYTo go to the decscription page of the philosophers go to
http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.htmlThere you are.
Farewell to Happy Hours! Sober Socialism Draws Nigh.
It has started, the free individuals right to pursue happiness. For this week in the United Kingdom 32,000 of Britain's 59,000 pubs have taken away a time honored tradition. Nolonger can the working class of Britain can walk into a pub after a long work day and get even one hour of happiness. Nolonger can groups of people gather together order a brew, and converse to their neighbor in a social setting. Why? It has been deemed that gathering together in Pubs during happy hour is actually 'antisocial behavior' which must be stamped out. So happy hour is now banned in just over half of Britain's pubs, "We need a voluntary ban before the Government takes steps to introduce other measures."
Why the crack down? It has been determined that 30% of men, and 20% of women exceed the recommended weekly guildlines of 21 units for men, and 14 units of alcohol respectively. It's self evident that there are individuals consuming more than their fair share of alcohol, and the British government feels that this alcohol is being consumed during 'happy hours'. And drinking and gathering together during happy hours is actually 'antisocial behavior' which must be stamped out, anti socialist behavior is more than likely the true reason. But there is a little common sense still left in the minds of our neighbors across the pond. For when Sky News took a poll about the ban the result was; "More than 80 percent of viewers said banning "happy hours" would be ineffective." Bully for them!
Now there will be no more "women drink free" hours, or drinking games, or offers of drink all you want for the cost of the 'door' price. Why I feel it's more of a socialist plan to strip rights from the individual, in favor of the social dynamic are these two quotes. "The Government welcomed the ban but said the key priority was working towards a [fundamental change] in the drinking culture." Funny I did not know of any drinking culture? Hey let me know who you are so you can buy me a round. "The ban is a step in the right direction. Making alcohol less available and less affordable will encourage people to drink less." So that they will good little socialist citizens and pay their government more money. No more individualism just groups of socialist sheeple in the goal.
Now for something even more barbaric and sinister from socialist China! They have banned sushi from being served on naked bodies. I kid you not! This ban comes from sheer naked socialist control over the individuals right to consume a meal on the flatware of his choice. This would be quite similar to the federal government shutting down all the "Hooters" because consuming chicken wings in the vicinity of women in tank-tops leads to depleting the world supply of 'hot sauce'.
The cause of this out rage stems from a restaurant which for $120.00 each per meal, the customers would be served sushi, on a woman adorned with flowers, shells, rocks, and things. But since there was no formal dress on these ladies, the Chinese government said that this type of food consumption was to quote; "insults people's moral quality," and "spreads commercial activity with poor culture." Dogwash! The only thing spreaded was capitalism, that restaurant made money for the entrepreneur and the Chinese government could not stand for it.
For the two women in question were university students whom calmly laid on their backs as the customers ate. This would not have happened if there was a restaurant where you would consume "pulled-pork" off a naked Rosie Odonnell look a like, that I can assure you. In fact people may be forced to eat in that kind of place as torture. In a related story the babies of Changsha in the Hunan province will also have to endure some hard ships. Since this ban of consuming nourishment off exposed women is country wide, the town's "meals on breast" program has been discontinued for even the youngest citizens.
A whole lot of truth, mixed with a little satire, these things are actually happening. There are people in this country which share the same plans for us, if we allow it.
A must read, please link through the title, or click the "Riding Sun" on the side bar. I corrected the header to the article, the sidebar takes you to his site, Read-On! I will edit in a comment later. EVERYBODY WHOM LINKS THROUGH BLOGEXPLOSION MAKE THE LINK ! PLEASE READ THE NEWSWEEK: AMERICA IS DEAD article. thanks!
Shoes, Panties, and Nothing Else
While pictures of Saddam in his tidy whiteys circle the globe, and the talk masters spectulate of greater tenisons I am reminded of a new commercial.
This commerical features an old man going into a shoe store and having the clerk go through a whole heap of shoes until the perfect one is found. I think that in the commercial they make the point that this perfect shoe is not in his size, or that he only needs one. The ad ends when we whom either old enough to remember, or were in school when history was still taught that the customer was none other than Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita was on his way to the U.N. meeting where he made is famous speech about opening up a chain of funeral parlors, and introduce a nation wide death insurance plan. It was known as his "we will bury you" speech, where he banged that infamous shoe on the desk to drive his point home.
Now let's take Saddam, and his now just as infamous panties. Just as we now sell products based on Khrushchev's shoe and his promise to murder almost each and every American. Don't forget Khrushchev also said "that the living shall envy the dead." We will one day be selling men's underwear staring a Saddam look a like in the market for panties, because he's on his way to military prision and he wants a nice pair for the secret photograph.
Now for just a moment let's look at all the people whom "up in arms", and are so worried about the panty pictures. I found another quote from the man of the night, which sums this Saddam in his panties perfectly.
"There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them." Nikita S. Khrushchev.
As Saddam stands before us in his dirty underdrawers, it seems to me that the liberals, and RINOs too are "fully erect" and at "stiff, moist attention" at the sight of them.
Attention Ladies ! Cover Your Ass While in Manhattan.
While in Manhattan the hand that strokes your buttocks, may not be guilty of a crime. That is according to a ruling handed down by Criminal Court Judge Richard Weinberg, reported in Wednesday's New York Law Journal.
The law in question is known as the Sexual Assult Reform Act, also know as the "forcible touching law" which was enacted after numerous women were groped, assaulted and stripped of their clothing during the 2000 National Puerto Rican Day Parade in Centeral Park. Since then it is now a misdemeanor for a male to place his hands on a female in a "forcible manner."
On Nov. 2, 2004 "election day" an incident happened where this law will get to be tested. On that day it was said that Mohammed Nuruzzaman, 35 an employee of a W. 40th St. fabric store approached a woman whom was not named and "placed his hand on and patted her buttocks." The compaintant then moved away where she was once again aproched by Nuruzzaman where he placed his hand apon her backside once again. This got Mohammed a charge of "forcible touching", also third-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree harassment. It was not known if any of the two had voted, or how many times.
Now in May of 2005 Judge Richard Weinberg makes his ruling first the charge of "forcible touching." DISMISSED !
Since the forcible law uses "squeezing, grabbing or pinching" to illistrate the kind of sexual contact that is probhibited, anything less won't make it as a violation of the statute. "something more than mere touching is required"
Citing the New Oxford Dictionary of English, he said that squeezing is to "firmly press from opposite or all sides", to grab is to "grasp or seize suddenly or roughly", to pinch is to "grip tightly and sharply between finger and thumb."
But patting which was what Mohammed was accused of, the judge had this to say. Patting means to "touch quickly and gently with the flat of the hand", or stroke gently to "soothe, caress or show approval," said judge Weinberg. So I guess according to the judge, Mohammed was just trying to apply his seal of approval on the buttocks of his customer.
As for the charge third-degree sexual abuse: DISMISSED !
The reasoning is as follows; "The...statute requires sexual contact for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire, a purpose not alleged," says the judge.
But all is not lost yet, Nuruzzaman still faces count three the "seccond-degree harassment charges." So the bottom line still remains beware of fingers on your fanny when shoppin in Manhattan. For as long as those fingers just go for a gentle walkin, you won't have much of a case for the perp's face.
The Ballbarians Storm the Gate.
Dateline 17/May/o5. "The Independent News" of United Kingdom.
"Workers at Land Rover's Solihull production plant were left choking in their early morning tea yesterday when 30 Greenpeace activists stormed the assembly line and began bolting themselves to half-built cars in a protest against "gas-guzzling" four wheel drives."
As the old saying goes here we go again, while yes it's in Europe, it's a clear case of a socialist thinking group of do-gooders forcing their will and plans on the individual citizenry. Whatever happened to living by example? If their lives are so wonderful then, throngs of people should be joining Greenpeace on a daily basis. But as we can see it does not and they have to stoop to tricks, just like the American military recruiters tried to do but got caught. And today Tuesday the 17th, of May is a day for recruiter retraining, and no one will be joining up today, if you are one of the the happy then oorah! to you. Back to the article.
"The jump-suited environmentalists ran in at 7am, shortly before work began. "This is a warning to 4x4 manufactures and drivers that things must change." said one protester Mark Strutt, who remained chained to a hand brake for seven hours."
"Activists said that they would only leave when Land Rover agreed to produce more fuel-efficient cars. Assembly resumed mid-afternoon, however, when firemen cut the protesters machinery."
Most of the article was concerned that due to aggressive marketing of 4x4s, the urban citizen now feels the need to drive in the larger vchicles which in turn go against the socialist edict of Greenpeace. And just like any church, or political movement wants to increase it's funding so does Greenpeace, and to do that they need "minions" or in their case less Land Rover drivers, and more "mini" drivers although I think they won't be satisfied until the vehicle of choice is a little more Russian, or even the bicycle. The ultimate goal to put the Range Rover employees out of work as environmental criminals.
"Mark Foster, a spokes-man for Land Rover, denied that the company was a "climate criminal". Speaking to reporters outside the plant gates, he said: "We accept that the petrol Range Rover will do just over 12mpg in urban areas but the majority [65 per cent] of Range Rovers we sell are diesel and do 20mpg."
"We are in a tough industry-you only have to look at Longbridge [the closure of Rover] to see that-and in a free society people have the right to choose what car to drive."
The last sentence says it all the goal of Greenpeace is to put people out of work, and to destroy what's left of the United Kingdom's "free society."
Now that I am back, though I never went a way. I'm am just on a happy trip, and maybe as a whole I could stand to be a little happier, as long as it isn't "ASS" whole. But anyway I was a little lost on what to post and I visited "Hammer and Nail" where the habitatgirl holds court, and on her site today she had a nice little quiz which is to determine my "World View." If you wish to take this little test please visit habitatgirl at "Hammer and Nail" by linking the title, or if you wish
http://www.habitatgirl.com take the quiz and leave a comment. According to the quiz this is my World View may the supreme being of your choice have mercy on your soul.
You scored as a POSTMODERNIST !
Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.
the breakdown is this:
Postmodernist 100%
Existentialist 94%
Cultural Creative 88%
Materialist 75%
Modernist 56%
Romanticist 50%
Fundamentalist 25%
Idealist 13%
So there you are, what does this mean? For today it was a nice little quiz and fodder for an entery. I also have a link to the habitatgirl on the side bar too. But anyway I will post again soon. take care. Also the previous two enteries are new!
Are the Hardy Boys Next !
Down in Alabama, State Representative Gerald Allen(R) is working to save their children from the influence of words that may prey apon their young minds. Mainly "homosexual" words either by plot, or the hand that spawned them. Gerald Allen is sponsoring a new bill that states that, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.
"I don't look at it as censorship," says the state represenitive, "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."
So that books like "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker will have to go, because of the lesbian characters, and books by; Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, or even Tennessee Williams will have to go. The worst part of this is that some groups of people are mistakenly trampling the records of Tennessee Ernie Ford, and wondering what the homosexual message was contained in his slogan "it's pea pickin good."
That now leads us to the "Hardy Boys," what about them? What will Gerald Allen do when he is faced with this information I'm about to release to you. I myself have never read one of their books, or seen one of their t.v. shows, of which research shows it's been on the air at three different decades from the 1950's to the 1970's.
This information is provided by Maxim magazine from August of 1998. They have unearthed the possibility of homoerotic dialog contained in several of the books. They are as follows:
From Hunting for Hidden Gold:* Frank managed to back close to his brother, and with his fingers, work at Joe's wrist bonds. "We sure pulled a boner," Frank said grimly...
* Inside the tunnel mouth the passage widened, giving the boys room to mount...
From the Secret of Skull Mountain:* Joe had supplied the unhappy Chet with shirt and pants which fit him like a sausage skin...
From What Happened at Midnight* Eventually the clock struck the hour of midnight. The Hardy boys looked at one another. "Remember Joe, what happened the last dance we had?"
From The Missing Chums:* "I've got a ride for you boys." One of the young boys smiled at Frank...
* At this juncture the rear of [the acrobat's] trousers was presented as a tempting mark to the waiting Chet...
From The Mystery of the Flying Express:* "I shall come to the point at once. My name is Bumper. I understand you young gentlemen are from the East." Frank felt himself stiffening.
From The House on the Cliff:* Gently, the boys helped remove his clothing, and with warm water and a sponge the farmer bathed his wound... The farmer listened thoughtfully. "Queer!" he observed. "Mighty queer!"
* "There's something mighty queer about all this, and don't you forget it!"
And I can't help but wonder if faced with the above information would Gerald Allen sweep the Alabama schools of the Hardy Boys books. Was he himself a reader of the Hardy Boys? Maybe this is why he feels the need to sweep the schools, for once when he was a young lad, these satanic verses entered his mind and tried to lure him off the path of righousness. Thank goodness that at the young age of nine I was lurking in the basement of my neighbor's house. For at that time their son, and my brother were serving in Vietnam and he kindly left behind his "Penthouse" magazines for me to study. Without them perhaps I would have come under the clutches of those Hardy Boy's and in the words of that farmer I would have turned "Queer!", "Mighty queer!"
Bloggin'
A friend of mine gave me a piece of information this week, and I came to the realization that I have been making some mistakes. Over the past week I've been reading the '25 Pieces of Advice for Bloggers.' I've realized that over the past several weeks I have been committing several mistakes. They are as I see them as follows:
- #23 Advoid blogging angry. It may save you a lot of grief. "With trying to upgrade the system, and dealing with work details, and the neighbors I've been very angry latley. I'm now trying to take a break and relax."
- #8 Keep your chin up when the post you're sure is going to pull in tons of trafic completly bombs... "this has happened to me, and since I was angry at my world at the time it hurt my site."
- #4 On the week-ends expect your traffic to drop 40% whether you post or not. "This also took awhile for me to notice, and accept."
- #16 Set a minimum level of acceptable content on your page each day and make sure you meet it(barring unusal circumstances) each day..."this week it was; Computer problem, Chevy problem, Subaru problem, the Weiners at the job problem, all fixed but taken as an day by day affect hurt my blog work."
- #17 Even if you only have 7 people reading, work like you have 7000 readers. Because if you don't work hard when you have no readers, you're never going to 7000. "true, very true this is what I am working on."
As I noted there are 25 tips, and I noted a few of my own personal mistakes. I hope to be correcting them even today, for I am not angry even though I had to wait an hour or two to post. But I was able to contact "habitatgirl" and leave her a comment so all is not lost. I hope soon to be making some advances in my blog soon, but right now as long as I can post my take on the world as I see it, without being angry at my corner of the planet then I am doing what I need to be doing.
the site is http://www.rightwingnews.com
you may have to scroll down to read the information, but anyway give it a look if you wish.
The Last of the Dogmen.
I want to ask again for forgiveness. I have again let my passion run away from me. But when I hear that we as a people need to; "love chickens," "have rear seat riders be belted," "must be 12 to ride a ATV." I just got to say where is the reality! I say this is the real danger. I say that the evil empire came to the realization that conquest by force would not work, but slow regulation, by regulation creeping socialism is the way to go. There is almost not one thing left from my childhood which is legal anymore. It seems that with me I was always one step ahead of the new laws, and I grew up the old way, while those just a few years younger got the socialized version. A socialism which is growing worse everyday.
One of the subjects I want to communicate by this blog-site is that we had more individual freedoms just a short time ago. And that the past 35 years, from my experience and perhaps since the L.B. Johnson era, we have just given away our individual freedoms over to the government one by one. It is my true belief that on the whole the American citizen had more individual freedom in 1967 than they do now. Freedoms have been removed from the individual to "save the children," when I was a child back in 67' the good ol' government wasn't worried about children then. It was the parents job. That's the way it should be now. Since that time the individual American has slowly lost individual rights. I like to use 1967 as my bench mark for thats the first year I become aware of my self, and in 1968 was the first year when side marker lights required on American automobiles, and the first year the parking lights stayed on with the headlights. As some might remember most automobiles made in 1967 and before the "parking lights" turned off when the headlights came on. This was changed because of the first steps of government regulations, the only good thing was that I knew when my mother was comming home. In 1974 due to that law I could indentify my mother's 1963 Ford from a the end of the road due to that change in the law. My father worked for the county and was issued a 1970 Chevy Bel-Air, a model was once the cream of the crop, but just 13 years from it's zenith the Bel-Air line was reduced from the best Chevy of 1957 to the most plain cop car of 1970. The only induring feature of the Bel-Air line is that it had a 140 mph speedo. So this is why maybe I do have an anger of whats going on. It just seems that the American public started to give up individual freedoms starting in 1968, and now we as a nation are giving up freedoms to an ever increasing socialist world.
A Law too Far
One of the things I like to do is go to opinion polls and make my statement. That desire and habbit one day helped me to find blogger, and to make this site. The rest is history as they say. As for the poll which can be found at the News 14 Carolina web-site the question of 05/03/05 is this.
"Should the state require passengers to wear seatbelts in the back seat of the car?"
This is my retort!
"No! I was brought up in a time when cars did not even have lap belts, it was an option. My mother often drove drunk, and fast and me and my brothers and sister all survived. We do not need this kind of law, the state can make a suggestion but it should always be up to the individual. We'll all will get to die, some die in auto accidents, some by cancer, and a lucky few die in wells when Lassie is taking a break. Let's save some individual rights from their deaths."
To give you an even more current example of why this type of law is crap is this. I own a 1988 Subaru wagon, GL model, 5 on floor, fuel injection, silver-blue in color. I have shoulder belts for the front buckets, and lap belts for the rear.
My neighbor owns a 1989 Subaru wagon, identical in style, with some changes; automatic transmission, maroon in color, automatic front shoulder belts, and "manual shoulder belts for the rear seats." My concern is this if the state passes this kind of law I may be subject to be pulled over by the law by some ingnorant law enforcement official since it may appear that my rear seat occupants are not wearing their seatbelts. And we all know once we are pulled over and prove that we are not guilty, that officer will still take a look at the ID, and run the plate before letting you go. I feel this is just another excuse to pull someone over, for maybe I'm late with my plate, or my inspection, maybe the cop decides I need new tires, whatever. If the law wants to charge you for a minor infraction 9 times out of 10 they will find something.
These are the laws which are a destroyer of our civil rights, just as random road checks are, but that's another topic for another day. There are just too many regulations which restrict my life, thanks to this law I won't be able to die quickly from a brain injury at the age of 45. But perhaps to linger in pain for years with Cancer and die at the age of 57, so thank you now. I personally would rather die at 45 quick and clean, but the "dogooders" would rather see me suffer for years, so that their egos can be massaged thinking they saved another soul from a traffic death. Well to heck with you, and the life of the chicken you'll save on 05/04/05, by going vegan on International Respect a Chicken day. As for the above example that's what it is, maybe the seatbelt will save me from a brain injury, but it should be my choice to wear one. The "dogooders" need to live their life and butt out of mine.
