DUHHHHHHHHH

You ever wonder why our government is so wasteful, it's because the people we elect are inept in all areas except getting elected. And now we get candidates that can't even do that right. It's gotten to the point that we vote for the candidate that can read, write, count, and TELL TIME the best (it's not something that can be taken for granted anymore). Poor Hillary. She's done and gone and showed that she don't know what is going on. I know that there will be alot of excuses but it's got to make you wonder: Who Is In Control Of Her Campaign and Is There Anyone There Who Knows What Is Going On? If this is the best she can do, hopefully she won't get elected. Hopefully............

Pharmacist

I had some prescriptions to be filled at this pharmacy. We don't use a big chain pharmacy(something about helping small businesses). But anyway. Some were refills and there were 2 that were called in for me. Brother Frank offered to pick them up after we got in from the hospital ( he goes with me to the hospital/clinic sometimes when no one else can). I said ok. It wasn't a big thing but pharmacies keep messing up or loosing stuff if you leave them there after they have been filled. I didn't really feel like going and it could have waited till Saturday when Mom was here or my Dad could have picked them up. But Brother Frank kinda insisted. So I called the pharmacy to get everything together so he wouldn't have to wait and to see how much it would be. So I wrote the check and he went to get them. When he got back, he had only one prescription. He said that was what they gave him.
I called them and they said that it was a mistake because the meds were in different bags and they didn't notice all of them. There was 2 other bags of meds. I told them if it was just a mistake, why did they charge me for all of them. There were like 5 different meds and the check was for the whole charge. But they only gave him 1 of the prescriptions. It just didn't make sense to me. And when my Dad got in, he was very pissed because Brother Frank was helping us (they had wasted his time and effort). It's real sorry service on their part. It's not the first time they have done stuff like this and it's a very good thing that they were closed when Dad got in. I'm glad Brother Frank wasn't here to hear Dad cussing the pharmacy and the people working there. LOL. Dem good ole boys sure can cuss. And it's a real real good thing my Mom wasn't here. Dem good ole girls will do damage. LOL. I think we're gonna change pharmacies now.

My Dad is funny when he's pissed. He is almost as quite as I am. But when he's pissed, he comes up with some of the funniest sayings (pearls of wisdom). My all time favorite is "your so full of shit, your eyes are brown" (he's told me that a few times). Some other favorites are:

• "somebody could get their ass whooped"


• "one of us would have walked out of there totin' an asskicking"


• "you'll shit and fall back in it"


• "that was dumber'n dogshit"


• "somebody should slap the dumb out his head"


• "doing what's right, never comes back to bite you in the ass unless your ass in is the wrong place"


• "touch her again and you'll be scratching your butt with your big toe"


• "he's shit in his cornbread"

Fun Fun Fun

I didn't, really!

I don't know the answer to steroids. It's more than a simple problem for a simple person to solve. There's too many people involved in sports, too much money, too much power, and too much fame. But it seems few can get past the simple fact that the impact of steroids is much greater than professional sports. It effects everyone, no matter if they follow any pro sport team because we all know someone who is involved in sports at some level. So, should we care if a pro baseball player is juicing? HELL yes! Because the kid in highschool is looking at that player and he/she understands that steriods and HGH can help him/her get to that point. It's a simple equation. But it's not what is focused on by pro sports leagues, the sports media, the mainstream media, or the public in whole. What is focused on by everybody is the impact on sports records, personal achievements, players standing in the sports community, how they are seen by fans, how the sport is viewed by the media and fans, etc.... But not how it effects us (the average person). We don't matter (even to ourselves) in the long run, short run, or any run. We just give our money, our admiration, our time, and our hope that the sport (and players) are something that can give us a sense, a feeling, a glimpse of a few moments of greatness to help us forget the average and sometimes below average lives we live. But it's not worth it. Because it's not only their lives they are destroying, but the lives of the kids and adults they influence into taking steroids and HGH. It's everything good about sports that is destroyed, not the bad parts. The bad part of sports will survive anything.

Critical Thinking versus Political Blindness

I got to thinking about Al Gore and Global Warming, because of Bri's post "the importance of critical reading" (I don't know why Gore popped into my head, maybe because of the Nobel Peace Prize). I decided to check out what Gore preached and how he lived. I ran upon this article about his electric and gas bill for his home. For the most part, it's simple. You can run out phrases about "Carbon Footprints" all day long and it's still hugely wasteful. You can use double talk, stretch the truth, flat out lie, throw out statistics, twist numbers, and fall to the floor crying "I'm being picked on by conservatives" all you want: but it is what it is. It's bullshit.
I truely love it when someone tells me to live a certain lifestyle but they can't follow their own bullshit sermon. His one year electricity consumption is probably 20-25 years for my family. And his natural gas bill is crazy. This is Tennessee. It's not Maine. A gas bill like that along with his electric consumption, is Hypocritical BULLSHIT!
See I do think there needs to be major changes to the way we live on this planet. But I truely believe that we need to be led by example. There is NO EXCUSE for this and I can't believe that anyone would excuse his lifestyle. See if the people crying "change" are part of the problem, then who can you trust? It's just typical political crap. It's crazy for someone who is living a life of excess to tell me to conserve. And he talks a real good game for someone who's "Carbon Footprint" is that of 100+ people (I don't care how many solar panels they have, how many energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs they use, if they cut their air travel down to 3 trips a week, if they only allow one SUV full of guards to follow them, if they only heat their pool to 78 degrees, only cool their house to 68 degrees, only heat their house to 78 degrees, etc).

New Evangelical

I heard about the New Evangelical Churches that are starting up around the country. For the most part, they sound good. But the one that was on the news was in like South Carolina or North Carolina. In Mississippi it's tougher to start things like that, especially in the Northern Part. There's still churches that use snakes around here. It's major Baptist around this part of the world. But that church sounded good. They place more on the positive aspects of being Christian and leave the name calling to the more restrictive Churches. I kinda liked what I saw and I wouldn't be against going to one of those churches. But I really have to wonder how long it will be before it changes? Once it has a building full of people, will the church still be this way or will it change? For the most part, the people who attend this is young. The preacher was young. When they get to be middle aged, will they still be like that or will they start with the "Fire and Damnation" stuff? Will they start picking groups to terrorize and demonize? Will they still be preaching love of fellow man or will it be more like the repressive judgemental religions we have now? I'm sceptical.

Ben Stein

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees; Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of the year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we shoulc worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worshop God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government, and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mails and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely throught cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it...no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Amen

Someone emailed this to me and I just don't know what to make of it. It's angled to get a certain response from whoever reads it. There's alot that I agree with but it's just a one-sided view from the religious view. It's just as easy to justification be against Christmas or anything religious. But it's too easy to say I agree or I disagree when religion is the topic. For the most part, there's too little tolerance involved in any discussion of religion, mine included. Tolerance isn't a popular thing with religious groups and non-religious groups alike.

My Head Hurts Now!

I think that there's this pressure on society from different influencial groups (especially religious groups and law enforcement) to keep certain things hidden. If it's hidden, it's not a problem. If it's not a problem, then everything is great. But that never works. And the result is that instead of making our lives safer, we are less safe. And I think because of this, society places more importance on these things, they become so much more. They become sexual, which really bothers me. Everything has become sexual. Innocence is lost early because we are slapped in the face daily with every form of sickness relating to every part of our life at every point in our life: nothing is Innocent anymore. It bothers me that a closed minded government along with an open minded pop culture clash because of the Internet age, and society is caught in the middle struggling between the 2 radically opposing factions. So what happens is that the government becomes more radical and manic in their stance, while pop culture continues to push the envelope. And all of this is at the expense of society and social values. Throw in religious view points from different competing religious and anti- religious groups, it's a mine field of mis-information, mis-interpretation, and mind control. All of this is so The Elite in power can hold some sense of control over a society that is slowly falling into a pit of self-abuse without even understanding it's all being orchestrated by Our Handlers, so we will give up all semblance of freedom for our own "protection".

We are the Sheep heading to slaughter!

You'll Understand When You Get Older

You'll understand it when you get older, wait till your an adult, etc.........I'm sick of hearing it. It means nothing to me. Most of the time, it's a justification of adults actions or away to minimize a kids activity. I understand it well. Thankfully I don't hear that from my parents because it's an ignorant statement.

I read this article about European women who go to Africa for sex, The New Sex Trade. It's incredible what people do. Especially since HIV is so rampant over there. This is Really Really Really Dangerous behaviour and it doesn't matter how old I am, I won't understand this.

Then I read this article. I don't understand it and never will. It's about a man who went to Asia and spent 90 days molestion children. Its disgusting. He was arrested when he entered into the U.S. for his crimes. Sick.
But for the most part, I don't understand alot of stuff adults do. I don't think I will ever understand why adults seem to think their actions don't influence the people around them, especially children. It's become too easy to condemn other people's behaviour while hiding sick acts that are not really hidden. Is it a sign of adulthood when you become so possessed and obsessed with sex that anything is fair game? And what's more disturbing is that it seems that anyone without some instance of sexual indiscresions is only because of the fact they haven't been caught yet.
Sex is everywhere and it's not just simple sex. It's weird freaky violent sex. It's domination. It's submission. It's sadism. It's animal sex. It's having sex with little kids. It's sex on film. It's sex in airplanes. It's sex with an audience. It's sex with dead people. It's group sex. It's rape fantasies. It's death sex. It's sex with your mom/dad. It's sex with your brother/sister. It's sex with anyone and everyone. It's gotten to the point where there's nothing that's taboo. Nothing is out of the question. If someone dreams up some sick act, there's always someone who will join in.
But in our society, teen sex is a problem. P-L-E-A-S-E. Teens having sex is one of the least offensive things going on in our society. ADULTS, please look at yourselves before you try to blame societies woes on teens. We learn how to act from our adult role models. We are the future adults, kind of like a mirror image. If adults would/could control themselves, kids wouldn't have the first hand knowledge of these things. It's sad that kids learn this sick crap. It's sad that people expect kids to only follow the good in their role models: it's a childish view in my opinion. It's selfish and immature to expect children to ignore their parents and adults bad acts because they are so important in their social development. But that's something I see in alot of society, IMMATURE ADULTS feeding their twisted desires at any cost.
I'm lucky. And I know that I'm always saying how great my parents are, but they are that great. I'm not saying they're perfect, cause only I'm perfect. LOL. But they are the best parents I've ever seen or heard about. They know when they are wrong and they are not afraid to admit it. They always try to do what's right even if it's real hard to do. They are willing to change something about themselves when it's pointed out that there's something they do that's wrong. But I'm sure there's things in their lives that I don't know about but it's hard to believe there's anything sick they're involved in. They always try to be involved with each other, and with me and my sibs. They spend almost all of their free time with us or with eachother. They like being around eachother and being with us. They don't have secret lives away from home because they're always pretty much at home. Believe me when I say they're always around, it's a major pain. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
And I really do mean this: My Parents are my best friends and my role models. Everybody should have them as rolemodels. The world wouldn't be such a sick place then.

Farters of the world unite or ignite

So I ran upon this guy's blog and I started reading it. This particular entry caught my attention. It was probably the cool name "Pool Pee". It was a pretty good read but I don't agree with him completely (what's new, I never agree with anybody). LOL.
I don't know about everybody else but for the most part if I fart in the presence of another person, it's not some form of male bonding. It's not some weird form of straight/gay guy flirting. It's just a matter of I need to fart. Simple. I know that some people see farting as a nasty disgusting thing that should be done in private. That's fine when you have the option of going to a seculed spot but when that option isn't available, I let 'er rip where ever I'm at. And I expect other people to do the same. On the list of horrible, nasty, disgusting, hurtful, painful, obnoxious, and/or irritating things: passing gas is not that bad. There's alot of things that I see, hear, smell, and taste daily; that to me is alot higher on that list. Some of them being: irritating ring tones, loud talkers, people who bath in perfume, people with shit breath, people who pick their noses in public, people who cough and sneeze without covering their mouths, people who don't bathe, people who belch in your face, people who don't use deodorant, people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, etc. See in the run of things, a fart is not half as bad as alot of things. I can handle a bad smell alot better than someone scratching their butt and balls, sneezing, picking their nose, etc while they are preparing my food. I can handle the smell of a fart better than the ideal of shaking someone's hand that didn't wash them the last time they used the bathroom. But that's just me. I'm weird that way.
I know that some people are hyper about eating anything that will give them gas. I remember some friends of my sister who wouldn't eat at our house because of what we normally eat. I'm sure there are guys that are like that too. I know that my Dad and my Mom won't eat certain foods because of different problems that occur (ulcers, and stuff like that). I have somethings I can't eat at times. But if it doesn't actually hurt me in some way, I'm gonna eat the foods I like. If I fart alot, so be it. That's life. I've had times when I could hardly eat anything. There's been times when nothing tasted good because of treatments and stuff. There's been times when I couldn't eat certain things because of my treatments (stuff with high acid especially). So when I can eat, I eat. Having the farts has no part of what I will eat, ever.
To me, it's just a normal body function. NORMAL. I do think there are people who don't want anybody to know they fart or shit, or anyother bodily function. LOL. But it's just part of normal life. I'm not bashful about things like that. I may not talk alot but if I got gas, you will probably know I'm around especially if I can't go somewhere else. If I got to take a crap, I take a crap (I had rather do it in private but when it has to happen, it happens). But I don't care who knows I took a crap. If I got to pee, I pee. I don't care who knows it. It's all part of life. I've peed on the shoulder of the interstate before in a traffic jam. I had to gooooooooooooo. LOL.

But I think there are too many people who are hyper sensitivite to bodily functions. Too many people in too much discomfort. Maybe it's time to just let it all out and breath a little easier. Maybe if people would fart when they need to, pee when they need to, and crap when they need to; there wouldn't be so many people with a stick up their ass.

WHAT THE HELL?

There are some completely stupid stuff that happens in this bizarre world: things that are beyond a normal person's understanding. This is one of those things.

This is just stupid ignorant BULLSHIT. There are people being robbed of their life savings. There are people being beaten for no reason. There are kids being abducted. There are kids being molested and killed. There are people suffering violent deaths all over the country and other things that are truely horrible, but our judicial system and law enforcement agencies feel the need to police our bodily functions. Now we have " The Fart Police". I'm completely lost. If farting is a crime, I'll be serving multiple life sentences or maybe even the death penalty. They would probably give me the gas chamber. LOL.

How can this be a matter of public safety?

Why didn't someone in that town said something about this stupidity?

And where is the common sense of our "Public Officials"?

No wonder this world is going to shit!

The Drew Bitch Project

This is completely messed up.

I read about the girl who hanged her self because someone she liked online said she wasn't a good friend.

Sure it's a twisted and pretty sick thing that this Drew woman did. She played a teenage boy online, so she could see what this 13 year old girl was saying about her daughter. She and a few other people, cyber stalked this girl. Played mind games with her and really messed her up. All of this was going on with the girl's parents monitering it. This was a horrible mess started by adults who didn't want to act like adults. And it was made worse by parents not wanting to act like parents. It was tragic because the girl was emotionally "troubled" to start with but I think that is something all parents teenagers have to deal with. It's not an uncommon thing in teenagers I don't think (just ask my parents). It's just a fact of life that teens have emotional issues and to throw that out like it's the reason for something is too easy. It was so much more than that.

First the families were neighbors and some what friends. The 13 year old girls were friends at one time. I think when the Meier girl went to another school, their friendship ended. Then ex-friends being what they are, there were things said about each other. Before long, they were not only NOT friends but were enemies. Just typical teenagers, friends one minute, enemies the next. LIFE.........

But then the stupid Drew woman got involved in something she didn't need to be involved in. She created a profile of a teenage boy who just moved into the area and targeted the Meier girl. Then she (as the boy) started chatting with the Meier girl. She wanted to find out what the Meier girl was saying about her daughter. And she wasn't the only person playing this role. I think there were 4 different people including the Drew girl playing this boy. What could have been going on in the heads of those adults to think this was something they should be doing? Beyond stupid!

The second point is that the Meier girl's parents supposedly were monitering the girl's internet usage. Only a little detective work would have shown this as a scam. Supposedly they were worried about her because of her threat to commit suicide. With this situation the way it was, there should have been atleast a token effort to see who this boy was since he wasn't known to them. But sometimes parents are just too busy to do the simple things. But it's easy to blame the end result on the craziness of the world, and ignore the lack of parental supervision and common sense. There was alot of bad parenting going on and way too many bad decisions.

But atleast the community has stepped in. Instead of ignoring it, the community has showned that this is not something that will be ignored. Sure there's gonna be some people that will go overboard because it's an easy thing to blame bad behaviour on an injustice (there are some people that come out of the woodwork in these situations, just to cause trouble). But for the most part, the community has spoken and they don't like what went on.

So is it a good thing that the community is involved when the law can't do anything?

I think so. I think the law in the form that we have, is a tool and nothing more. It's just punishment thru the government. But punishment thru governmental agencies is so impersonal and sketchy. Most of the time, the people in the community has no part in any of it. Everything is portioned out to someone else, so there is a barrier between the problem and the people in the community. So I think this adds to the lack of community policing. People, instead of noticing bad behaviour from neighbors, just ignore it or don't see it at all. Then we get communities where no one knows anybody else and few people stand up to misbehaving neighbors. Communities where everybody has privacy fences (to keep the community from seeing into their world and to keep from having to see what is going on next door), 2 car garages (never have to be involved in the community if all they see of it is from the windows of the car) , 2 working parent households, tv, large homes with too many private spaces, too many "toys" for kids and adults, daycare, single parent households, etc.: all of this adds to the lack of community. You have to actually be involved in the community to be part of the community. And lack of community adds to lack of family because extended family in alot of places is the community. With lack of family comes more crime because no one is saying."That is not allowed here". So yes I think the community standing up and saying to this woman, "we think you are a criminal, even if the law doesn't", "We as a community can show our displeasure with your actions" is a good thing. The law is what it is, but it is nothing compared to a community willing to enforce their own standards/values. It's easy to be an outsider in a community of outsiders. It's not that easy to be an outsider in a close knit community where everybody knows everybody else.

Day to Day Injustice

I DON'T understand this. In a time of more substantial leaders, this would not be thought of as an adult crime because a kid at that age of development doesn't have the mental capacity of an adult. Just because a kid copies adult action doesn't mean he's an adult. In just about every part of our society, children are treated as children. Except in punishment. Then suddenly because of something the kid does, he is labeled adult. Stupidity. But typical.

But at the same time that those boys are being looked at like adults, this man will get a sentence that is nothing resembling murder and will not carry the stigma of "sex offender" or even "murderer" (in his case) with him the rest of his life. And he actually took a life. He'll just be the poor drunk guy with an illness who had a accident. Go figure.

I don't know why things like this happen but I don't think it's as simple as the police or anybody else want to make it. Why is it so important to confront aggitated people when there is no rational need? I think the real question here is if there was so much danger to those officers but no one in direct danger from him, why didn't they fall back to access the problem instead of firing a barriage of bullets? More than likely, the police were looking for a confrontation and got what they wanted, even if it wasn't actually the dangerous situation they were looking for. They made it a dangerous situation by their actions, as they probably do on alot of occasions.

Then I read about this. What could be going on in this guys head? There are some twisted people in this world. What is wrong with these people who do this to babies?

Then I watch Bill O'Reilly and I hear this. I actually agree with some of what was said but everything is so "Black and White" with him. Everything with him is either all GOOD or all BAD. And only his way is right, no exceptions. He has a way of twisting things, spinning them to favor his view. He want's religion in every part of life but only his religion. If it's somebody else's religion that he doesn't like, then it's bad. Same old song and dance. Typical media whore preaching to the converted.

Finally this little tid bit. It isn't earth shattering but it matters to me. This is the university that I want to attend. I would never expect something like this to happen at Ole Miss. Can anybody say, "Coach Ed, Your Fired"!

This is just a small sample of the crazy stuff this last week, most of it in the last couple of days. The world is going crazy stupid!

Sadly. What It Looks Like, Is What It Is.

I found this article in The Memphis Commercial Appeal. It shows just who is being represented by the officials of the Great State of Mississippi. It's too bad about the timing of this article, it's a couple of weeks too late. Gov. Haley Barbour has already been re-elected to another term. The "Country Club Set" should be real pleased and the insurance industry is in great shape for another 4 years. They have their "Champion" administering the billions of dollars given to the state for recovery after Katrina.