OK, I didn't site my source for the, "Praying the President Dead" thing. My bad. But I spent less than five minutes finding it tonight. And found that the person who sent it to me, and was a former, Partner at work, who I trust and love, and would take a bullet for, was right about it. So I was right to trust her. And she later left a post about how she thought it was just a joke, but it could be conceived as a threat, and disowned it. Good for her.
She still doesn't like, The President, which is her right. But she's also sane enough to know, even if it's in retrospect, that that kind of thing is wrong.
As an old, high school debater, I learned that, he who asserts, must prove. And it's true. I should have sighted my source. And, actually I think I did, when I sighted, Keith Olberman. But the, "wing nuts" will call him a liar. He's not. He's a news man, who labels his commentary, "Commentary" when he says it. He tells the truth, and backs up his facts.
Faux News, on the other hand, is entertainment for the Right Wing. It's not fair, or balanced, or even TRUTH for that matter. And last month, Glenn Beck admitted it in an interview with GQ magazine when he said, "We aren't a news channel. We're entertainment." And if you want more of a source site than that? Go buy the fucking magazine, you lazy ass!
Now, if you only get your news from, Faux News, Newsmax, and, Glenn Beck, and, Limbaugh the drug addict, you will, without doubt, be unarmed in a battle of wits. If you read newspapers, even one as dumb as, The Deseret Morning News, and magazines, and listen to NPR, you might have a chance to know what's really going on.
Sarah Palin was asked what she read by, Katie Couric, and couldn't answer the question. Later called it, "attack journalism" WTF? How assaulting is the question, "What do you read?"
So, if you doubt what I say, and you think that I should prove it? After all, I'm, Truthstick, just go ahead and tell me so. But if you want to debate, you better have done your homework, and bring your, "A" game. I've done mine.
Friday, April 30, 2010
You want, "The President" to die? Really?
Today, there came out an email, and I'm not sure where from, that was supposed to be on, FB. About these, "Christians" who were PRAYING to, God, for, The President to die.
Something to the effect, "God you took my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, my favorite actress, Farah Fawcett, my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite... etc. And I want you to know my FAVORITE President is, Barack Obama! I hope you're listening!"
How fucked up is that? If you wrote this, and posted it on FB, or anywhere else and said you wished that someone would SHOOT, The President, you'd be in JAIL! It's treason. Punishable by death. But you PRAY for someone to die? Really? You, PRAY, to, GOD, for someone you just disagree with, politically, to DIE!?
That, assholes, is NOT, Christian. I know, I used to be one. I hated, "W" with every fiber of my being. But I didn't show up at his appearances wearing a gun! Or wish his death, just his defeat in an election!
OK, I lied about that. I DID show up at one of his appearances with a gun. The opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, I was assigned to work with the FBI (long story, but one local Cop pared with one, Federal Cop was the plan. Ask me later) and he drove right past me, about four feet away, and waving in the limo. Even if I'd have shot at him, it wouldn't have worked. Armour platting. But shooting, "The President" never even crossed my mind! I hated him, but I wouldn't have shot him!
Now, we have, alleged, "Christian's" PRAYING for his death! I'm praying for them. That they die. Morons.
Something to the effect, "God you took my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, my favorite actress, Farah Fawcett, my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite... etc. And I want you to know my FAVORITE President is, Barack Obama! I hope you're listening!"
How fucked up is that? If you wrote this, and posted it on FB, or anywhere else and said you wished that someone would SHOOT, The President, you'd be in JAIL! It's treason. Punishable by death. But you PRAY for someone to die? Really? You, PRAY, to, GOD, for someone you just disagree with, politically, to DIE!?
That, assholes, is NOT, Christian. I know, I used to be one. I hated, "W" with every fiber of my being. But I didn't show up at his appearances wearing a gun! Or wish his death, just his defeat in an election!
OK, I lied about that. I DID show up at one of his appearances with a gun. The opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, I was assigned to work with the FBI (long story, but one local Cop pared with one, Federal Cop was the plan. Ask me later) and he drove right past me, about four feet away, and waving in the limo. Even if I'd have shot at him, it wouldn't have worked. Armour platting. But shooting, "The President" never even crossed my mind! I hated him, but I wouldn't have shot him!
Now, we have, alleged, "Christian's" PRAYING for his death! I'm praying for them. That they die. Morons.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
White outs, brown outs, and guns.
Ok, for the record, I'm not a racist. Never have been. But I made a note the other night on FB, that I thought it was ironic that five days after Arizona signed into law a racist, illegal, and unconstitutional law, that the, Phoenix Coyote's would hold a, "White Out", for game 7 of their series with the, Redwings, where everyone in the stadium would wear a white, Coyotes shirt to support their team.
And I said that I wasn't sure if they meant to, "White Out" the stadium, or the whole state! And later commented, and I was being sarcastic, that, "They should have held a, "brown out" to save electricity and get rid of, "Those pesky, Mexicans at the same time!"
I think that's funny stuff. I MEANT it to be, funny stuff. If, Carlos Mencia had said it, he'd have gotten a laugh.
But one of my oldest, and dearest friends posted to my wall, "Wow, Stick? A racist? Really?". It hurt my feelings. I was TRYING to point out the absurdity of the BS in Arizona (White hockey fans in white shirts, filling the stadium with white in a state that just passed a hateful law to oppress, Brown people). I guess I just can't do satire.
Maybe the only reason I noticed was that I pay a LOT of attention to politics, and the Redwings. Had a cousin who played for them in the 70's, so they have always been, "my team". My wife has even bought me tickets to see them on the road and in Detroit as, Christmas/Birthday gifts. Yes, WITH the airfare. She's awesome!
So, if anyone thinks I was insensitive, or racist, or, even for that matter, just really bad at being funny, I am sorry. It was not my intent.
Lisa Landry once asked me (on line, we don't hang out, just on FB. I don't have celebrities in my neighborhood...) why I didn't just go to an open mike night and try it since I like comedy so much? Well, this is why. I was not afraid to kick in a door in a meth lab, but I'm seriously afraid of not being well received trying to tell jokes.
Which brings me to my other topic. Guns. A FB friend asked me, since I've mentioned them, if I owned some, and actually used them. Good question. I do own a few. Well, an 800 pound safe full of them, so a FEW!
Well, I do use them. I took my son shooting a few weeks ago when I bought a new .357 Magnum, and traded in my fathers old guns. But here's the thing.
I loved to shoot, and even reloaded my own ammo when I was in college. Not much of a hunter, but loved guns. Like to shoot. Then, I spent 23 years having to put one on every morning, and wondering when I should carry one off duty.
It wasn't required, but after the, Trolley Square shootings, every Cop in Utah was totally happy that they hadn't decided to go to dinner there that night WITHOUT their gun, and then had to answer questions about why they couldn't step in and stop it.
Now? I carry sometimes. I have a permit good all over the country since I'm a retired, LEO. I carry when I travel, and when I'm in West Valley City and Magna because that was my, "beat" as a PO for most of the last 15 years of my career. And I'm afraid I might run into someone who recognizes and doesn't like me, but I don't remember.
Truth be known, that's happened a bunch of times, and without exception, the guy/gal has always come over to shake my hand and thank me for helping to change their life. It's always been a positive experience. But I can't always count on that, can I? I pack.
So, I'm a gun carrying, non-racist, hockey fan, who, it appears, cannot tell a joke. As, Popeye said, "I yam, what I yam". Hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
And I said that I wasn't sure if they meant to, "White Out" the stadium, or the whole state! And later commented, and I was being sarcastic, that, "They should have held a, "brown out" to save electricity and get rid of, "Those pesky, Mexicans at the same time!"
I think that's funny stuff. I MEANT it to be, funny stuff. If, Carlos Mencia had said it, he'd have gotten a laugh.
But one of my oldest, and dearest friends posted to my wall, "Wow, Stick? A racist? Really?". It hurt my feelings. I was TRYING to point out the absurdity of the BS in Arizona (White hockey fans in white shirts, filling the stadium with white in a state that just passed a hateful law to oppress, Brown people). I guess I just can't do satire.
Maybe the only reason I noticed was that I pay a LOT of attention to politics, and the Redwings. Had a cousin who played for them in the 70's, so they have always been, "my team". My wife has even bought me tickets to see them on the road and in Detroit as, Christmas/Birthday gifts. Yes, WITH the airfare. She's awesome!
So, if anyone thinks I was insensitive, or racist, or, even for that matter, just really bad at being funny, I am sorry. It was not my intent.
Lisa Landry once asked me (on line, we don't hang out, just on FB. I don't have celebrities in my neighborhood...) why I didn't just go to an open mike night and try it since I like comedy so much? Well, this is why. I was not afraid to kick in a door in a meth lab, but I'm seriously afraid of not being well received trying to tell jokes.
Which brings me to my other topic. Guns. A FB friend asked me, since I've mentioned them, if I owned some, and actually used them. Good question. I do own a few. Well, an 800 pound safe full of them, so a FEW!
Well, I do use them. I took my son shooting a few weeks ago when I bought a new .357 Magnum, and traded in my fathers old guns. But here's the thing.
I loved to shoot, and even reloaded my own ammo when I was in college. Not much of a hunter, but loved guns. Like to shoot. Then, I spent 23 years having to put one on every morning, and wondering when I should carry one off duty.
It wasn't required, but after the, Trolley Square shootings, every Cop in Utah was totally happy that they hadn't decided to go to dinner there that night WITHOUT their gun, and then had to answer questions about why they couldn't step in and stop it.
Now? I carry sometimes. I have a permit good all over the country since I'm a retired, LEO. I carry when I travel, and when I'm in West Valley City and Magna because that was my, "beat" as a PO for most of the last 15 years of my career. And I'm afraid I might run into someone who recognizes and doesn't like me, but I don't remember.
Truth be known, that's happened a bunch of times, and without exception, the guy/gal has always come over to shake my hand and thank me for helping to change their life. It's always been a positive experience. But I can't always count on that, can I? I pack.
So, I'm a gun carrying, non-racist, hockey fan, who, it appears, cannot tell a joke. As, Popeye said, "I yam, what I yam". Hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Anger Management
I threw MYSELF out of a soccer game yesterday afternoon.
I've become quite the mellow parent over the last few years. I'm a pretty big guy, and I have a really loud voice, so when a, Ref got pissed off at a game, I was usually the guy he would try to throw out, even if I didn't say anything. When we did search warrants, I was always the guy who would stand outside and yell, "POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT! GET ON THE GROUND, NOW!" Because I could be heard in the whole neighborhood.
So now, I limit my comments to stuff like, "Nice hustle, Murray! Good shot, Danny! Way to go, Jaden, good job! Stay with him!" Never anything negative.
Yesterday, I was doing the same, and my son scored a beautiful goal to give his team a 0-1 lead at home. And I thought the officials were doing a pretty good job, but I guess I wasn't seeing things the other parents were. They were getting on one of the, Linesmen for not calling offsides on the other team, as much as they thought he should be. This, Linesman, maybe about as old as our boys playing, really had radar, because he heard everything, and at one point, after halftime, ran out and told the official.
My son thinks the kid was the, Ref's son, but I have no confirmation of this. But from the, Ref's reaction, the kid was related, or the, Ref was his, Priest, and this kid was his favorite, Alter boy. Because the, Ref blew a gasket in his mind.
He came over and started yelling at the parents in the bleachers, that any more talk directed at his, Linesman would be met with ejection. And as soon as he did, the, Linesman, turned around to the bleachers and yelled either, "So SHUT IT!", or, "So SUCK IT!". I couldn't tell, but I had not said a word until then, and I looked at the yelling, Ref, pointed to his, Linesman, and said, "Who's inappropriate, now? You're going to let him talk to adults like THAT?".
The guy got COMPLETELY out of control. The veins in his neck were popping, and he was yelling at ME, "ONE MORE WORD, AND YOU'RE OUT OF HERE!" All the while, my friend, Alley is saying to him, in the most calm of tones, "Sir. May I ask you a question?" And about the 3rd time she said it, he threw her out of the park. Unbelievable!
He storms back onto the field, and one of the players mom's, turns to her friend, or it might have been a daughter, and says, not loud enough you could hear it if you weren't sitting within 10 feet of them, and totally joking, "That, Linesman needs a spanking."
The, Linesman herd it, and ran out to his, "dad", or whatever, and the, Ref comes back and demands, "Who said he needs a spanking!?". The woman who did it said, "I did." She wasn't thinking this asshole was going to throw her out. But he did.
Another parent in a lawn chair down the line said something to the effect of, "That's a little harsh." Ref threw him out, too!
By this time, the Murray guys are not in the game, they are worried about their mothers and fathers being thrown out of the game every couple of minutes, and end up losing, 5-1 by the end, but the game has gone from being about the kids, to being about this assholes ego being bigger than the park! Had I been the coach, I'd have just told the boys to go home, and made a complaint to the league, and let it stand as a loss. It was, at this time, no longer a soccer game, it was a zoo.
A few minutes later, the, Ref came over and gave one of our assistant coach's a yellow card. I don't know what, Andy said, but his guy didn't like it. So after scolding our coach, and giving him the card, Andy was being nice and said, "Thank you" to the, Ref, which I interpreted to mean, thank you for not throwing me out, and yelled at the boys, something to the effect of, "Let's go! Don't let this stuff distract you, get after it!" Ref gave him a red card. I shit you not, he threw him out.
By now, I've seen enough to know that this has become personal between this complete, Egomaniac who is officiating this game, and the entire town of, Murray. And he's going to make sure we don't win, and we feel so intimidated that we can't even root for our boys!
One of the other parents said something, and he threw THEM out, too! I've had enough, so I have to say something now. I wanted to punch this guy and is sissy boy, Linesman in the mouth, but I know better, so as the parent he's just, "tossed" is leaving, I got up and threw myself out.
I said to him, "Don't you EVEN think about telling me I'm thrown out! I'm leaving because I can't stand to watch you work any more. You suck! And your, Linesman? He's a whinny little bitch with, rabbit ears!" Then I walked about 20 steps to my car, and watched the rest of the game.
He didn't say shit to me. He knew he couldn't take me, and that I was about to try him if he opened his mouth.
I hate the fact that it has to come to this at a kids game. Yeah, some parents get on officials nerves, and they shouldn't. But if they aren't abusive, or nasty, and just disagree with the call, is that enough to throw them out? I don't think so.
And this group was calling, in my humble opinion, a pretty good game. You can always argue about the offsides call when you are in the bleacher's at the middle of the field, because you can't see what the, Linesman sees.
But the, Linesman needs to understand this, and just do his job. Not have, "Rabbit Ears" and get all upset. He's an official. Folks are not going to agree with him all the time. Get used to it, or get the hell out of the job!
For 23 years, I was a Cop, and as so, had to be held to higher standard. Like a, Referee. You know how many times I wanted to call someone, who had done something awful to a kid, or a vulnerable victim some name they deserved, but couldn't? Millions.
Now that I don't do that any more, I can say anything I want, as you've noticed if you read this blog! To ANYONE I want! Including former coworkers who don't get it. And I DO!
After the game, my son, who had come out just before I threw myself out and was on the sideline when I did, gave me a, "Faux News terrorist fist bump" because the, "Rabbit ears" comment made his teammates laugh. I'm OK with that. I stood up for him and his friends, and I didn't get in the guys face until he deserved it, and I didn't punch him. Which he deserved.
So, I might be the first, "Soccer DAD" to throw himself out of a soccer game, in history.
Now, since the, Ref wouldn't tell us his name, I'm going to the UYSA web site to find out who worked that game, and make a formal complaint. And this week, I'm going to buy a digital video recorder to tape all the games from here on out, so that if this happens again, I have a record of it.
It's a game. It's not about your ego. Get over it. And if you want to be in control of any situation, don't be a soccer, Ref. Be a COP! It's a lot harder, but you ARE in charge because you have the gun!
I've become quite the mellow parent over the last few years. I'm a pretty big guy, and I have a really loud voice, so when a, Ref got pissed off at a game, I was usually the guy he would try to throw out, even if I didn't say anything. When we did search warrants, I was always the guy who would stand outside and yell, "POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT! GET ON THE GROUND, NOW!" Because I could be heard in the whole neighborhood.
So now, I limit my comments to stuff like, "Nice hustle, Murray! Good shot, Danny! Way to go, Jaden, good job! Stay with him!" Never anything negative.
Yesterday, I was doing the same, and my son scored a beautiful goal to give his team a 0-1 lead at home. And I thought the officials were doing a pretty good job, but I guess I wasn't seeing things the other parents were. They were getting on one of the, Linesmen for not calling offsides on the other team, as much as they thought he should be. This, Linesman, maybe about as old as our boys playing, really had radar, because he heard everything, and at one point, after halftime, ran out and told the official.
My son thinks the kid was the, Ref's son, but I have no confirmation of this. But from the, Ref's reaction, the kid was related, or the, Ref was his, Priest, and this kid was his favorite, Alter boy. Because the, Ref blew a gasket in his mind.
He came over and started yelling at the parents in the bleachers, that any more talk directed at his, Linesman would be met with ejection. And as soon as he did, the, Linesman, turned around to the bleachers and yelled either, "So SHUT IT!", or, "So SUCK IT!". I couldn't tell, but I had not said a word until then, and I looked at the yelling, Ref, pointed to his, Linesman, and said, "Who's inappropriate, now? You're going to let him talk to adults like THAT?".
The guy got COMPLETELY out of control. The veins in his neck were popping, and he was yelling at ME, "ONE MORE WORD, AND YOU'RE OUT OF HERE!" All the while, my friend, Alley is saying to him, in the most calm of tones, "Sir. May I ask you a question?" And about the 3rd time she said it, he threw her out of the park. Unbelievable!
He storms back onto the field, and one of the players mom's, turns to her friend, or it might have been a daughter, and says, not loud enough you could hear it if you weren't sitting within 10 feet of them, and totally joking, "That, Linesman needs a spanking."
The, Linesman herd it, and ran out to his, "dad", or whatever, and the, Ref comes back and demands, "Who said he needs a spanking!?". The woman who did it said, "I did." She wasn't thinking this asshole was going to throw her out. But he did.
Another parent in a lawn chair down the line said something to the effect of, "That's a little harsh." Ref threw him out, too!
By this time, the Murray guys are not in the game, they are worried about their mothers and fathers being thrown out of the game every couple of minutes, and end up losing, 5-1 by the end, but the game has gone from being about the kids, to being about this assholes ego being bigger than the park! Had I been the coach, I'd have just told the boys to go home, and made a complaint to the league, and let it stand as a loss. It was, at this time, no longer a soccer game, it was a zoo.
A few minutes later, the, Ref came over and gave one of our assistant coach's a yellow card. I don't know what, Andy said, but his guy didn't like it. So after scolding our coach, and giving him the card, Andy was being nice and said, "Thank you" to the, Ref, which I interpreted to mean, thank you for not throwing me out, and yelled at the boys, something to the effect of, "Let's go! Don't let this stuff distract you, get after it!" Ref gave him a red card. I shit you not, he threw him out.
By now, I've seen enough to know that this has become personal between this complete, Egomaniac who is officiating this game, and the entire town of, Murray. And he's going to make sure we don't win, and we feel so intimidated that we can't even root for our boys!
One of the other parents said something, and he threw THEM out, too! I've had enough, so I have to say something now. I wanted to punch this guy and is sissy boy, Linesman in the mouth, but I know better, so as the parent he's just, "tossed" is leaving, I got up and threw myself out.
I said to him, "Don't you EVEN think about telling me I'm thrown out! I'm leaving because I can't stand to watch you work any more. You suck! And your, Linesman? He's a whinny little bitch with, rabbit ears!" Then I walked about 20 steps to my car, and watched the rest of the game.
He didn't say shit to me. He knew he couldn't take me, and that I was about to try him if he opened his mouth.
I hate the fact that it has to come to this at a kids game. Yeah, some parents get on officials nerves, and they shouldn't. But if they aren't abusive, or nasty, and just disagree with the call, is that enough to throw them out? I don't think so.
And this group was calling, in my humble opinion, a pretty good game. You can always argue about the offsides call when you are in the bleacher's at the middle of the field, because you can't see what the, Linesman sees.
But the, Linesman needs to understand this, and just do his job. Not have, "Rabbit Ears" and get all upset. He's an official. Folks are not going to agree with him all the time. Get used to it, or get the hell out of the job!
For 23 years, I was a Cop, and as so, had to be held to higher standard. Like a, Referee. You know how many times I wanted to call someone, who had done something awful to a kid, or a vulnerable victim some name they deserved, but couldn't? Millions.
Now that I don't do that any more, I can say anything I want, as you've noticed if you read this blog! To ANYONE I want! Including former coworkers who don't get it. And I DO!
After the game, my son, who had come out just before I threw myself out and was on the sideline when I did, gave me a, "Faux News terrorist fist bump" because the, "Rabbit ears" comment made his teammates laugh. I'm OK with that. I stood up for him and his friends, and I didn't get in the guys face until he deserved it, and I didn't punch him. Which he deserved.
So, I might be the first, "Soccer DAD" to throw himself out of a soccer game, in history.
Now, since the, Ref wouldn't tell us his name, I'm going to the UYSA web site to find out who worked that game, and make a formal complaint. And this week, I'm going to buy a digital video recorder to tape all the games from here on out, so that if this happens again, I have a record of it.
It's a game. It's not about your ego. Get over it. And if you want to be in control of any situation, don't be a soccer, Ref. Be a COP! It's a lot harder, but you ARE in charge because you have the gun!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
County Convention.
Went to the Democratic County Convention today. Civic duty, and all that crap. But I have some friends who are running, one unopposed, one in a run off. So, since it's usually pretty easy to become a delegate (this is the 3rd time I've done it) I decided to go.
Greg Skordos is a friend. He's one of the first Prosecutors I met as a young PO, and he was always very helpful. He didn't win today, but I went to vote for him, anyway.
I was surprised at how many people I knew there. Old friends from college, my neighbors girlfriend, folks from my neighborhood, friends of friends, one of the kids on my son's soccer team's father is a Legislator. I guess I HAVE been hanging out with the right people all along.
But this process is boring. And it takes too long, and before I knew the results of the vote, I had to leave for my son's soccer game. This thing should start at noon, and be done by four o'clock! The State one is in a few weeks. I hope it moves faster.
Many years ago, when I lived in West Jordan, I went to the caucus with a guy who was my partner at the time at work, and lived in the same neighborhood. We both became Democratic delegates. A few years latter, he's running for, Sheriff as an, "R". Either have some convictions or don't. He lost big time. Serves him right.
Get involved in the political process. I don't care if you're an, "R" or a, "D". Just do something. It's easy, and it only takes a couple of days of your time. And you can have in impact. At this level, your vote REALLY counts! I went one for two today, Holly Mullen moved on. I feel bad for my friend, Greg, but I'm convinced that, Sim Gill will do a fine job as DA. But, I got to participate in the process at a level better than just giving candidates money, or voting in the general elections. And I feel good about the way I spent my day.
Greg Skordos is a friend. He's one of the first Prosecutors I met as a young PO, and he was always very helpful. He didn't win today, but I went to vote for him, anyway.
I was surprised at how many people I knew there. Old friends from college, my neighbors girlfriend, folks from my neighborhood, friends of friends, one of the kids on my son's soccer team's father is a Legislator. I guess I HAVE been hanging out with the right people all along.
But this process is boring. And it takes too long, and before I knew the results of the vote, I had to leave for my son's soccer game. This thing should start at noon, and be done by four o'clock! The State one is in a few weeks. I hope it moves faster.
Many years ago, when I lived in West Jordan, I went to the caucus with a guy who was my partner at the time at work, and lived in the same neighborhood. We both became Democratic delegates. A few years latter, he's running for, Sheriff as an, "R". Either have some convictions or don't. He lost big time. Serves him right.
Get involved in the political process. I don't care if you're an, "R" or a, "D". Just do something. It's easy, and it only takes a couple of days of your time. And you can have in impact. At this level, your vote REALLY counts! I went one for two today, Holly Mullen moved on. I feel bad for my friend, Greg, but I'm convinced that, Sim Gill will do a fine job as DA. But, I got to participate in the process at a level better than just giving candidates money, or voting in the general elections. And I feel good about the way I spent my day.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Political Fairy Tales
A friend of mine posted this to her wall today, and I initially just blew it off with a comment about how, Roosevelt actually put people to work, but the more I thought about it, the more pissed off I got. Read it and weep.
"Moses said to the children if Israel, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land." Then about 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the promised Land." Now, Obama has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels and bankrupted the promised land. Copy and paste if you agree."
I DON'T agree, and I'm about to tell you why it's wrong in so many ways. It would be easy to dismiss this as just some, silly, Internet BS, if it weren't so demonstrative of the stupidity of the, "Teabagers" and right wing idiots in this country, who don't know history, and don't do any research, and just publish this kind of garbage without really knowing what they are saying.
I'll start at the top. The, Bible is fiction. So your, Moses quote doesn't need to be addressed except to say that for the sake of argument, we'll pretend it happened.
Let's next address the legacy of FDR. He was probably the greatest President this country has ever had. He took over during a terrible depression that was caused by unregulated banking (which we have reinstated, starting with the, Reagan Administration and ending with, "W", that lead to the closest thing we've had to a depression since then. After, Roosevelt, we had 50 years of economic stability, which we had never had in the history of our country). He gave us, "The New Deal" which gave us Social Security. Most people don't know that, "The New Deal" originally included a National Health Care Plan, but that part he had to give up to get the, Republicans to vote for it. The, "R's" have spent the last 60 years trying to repeal, "The New Deal".
His policy's lead to Civil Rights legislation and Medicare/Medicaid being passed in the 60's. The, "R's" opposed this, too.
And as for, "laying down your shovels"? WTF? Have you not read a history book? Did your parents not live through the depression? The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the, Works Progress Administration (WPA) put hundreds of thousands of out of work Americans BACK to work. They created the, Tennessee Valley Authority to electrify rural America. Brought power to the Indian Reservations, and created the roads and facility's we use to this day in our National Parks! Those people picked up some, DAMN SHOVELS!
My Grandfather was a railroad engineer for the B&O, and lost his job, in rural West "By God" Virginia. My mom told me the WPA was all that kept them alive. They didn't call it the WPA, they called it the, "PWA", for, Papa Works, Again! Shovels were, indeed, picked up.
Now, onto the, "criticism" of our current, President. I fail to see how he has stolen your shovel. HE isn't the one who got us into the current financial mess. It started with, Reagan and his deregulation, and continued through, "W". Clinton didn't oppose deregulation that happened when he was, President, which is a disappointment. But when he left office, we had a Federal SURPLUS! Which, "W" blew in eight years with unnecessary wars and, "no-bid" contracts to his friends at, Halliburton. You can't blame this deficit on, President Obama. No way, no how. He inherited it, pure and simple.
"Taxed your asses". 90% of the people in this country got a tax DECREASE in the last year. 90%. The only people seeing an increase in their taxes are people making over $250K a year. I'm so rich, I retired at 47, I have taken my children to, Paris, New York, Chicago, Washington DC just because I could. I paid $1200 for meal at, Charlie Trotter's in Chicago last summer, just so my kids could say they have had the experience. I just bought a $43K sports car for shits and giggles, so I can drive it on nice weather weekends. And I DON'T MAKE $250K a year! How was YOUR year, "Teabager"?
Between November of 2007, and January of 2009 I saw my portfolio lose 1/3 of it's value. Almost made me cancel my annual trip to, Belize to see, Jerry Jeff Walker in a little bar, on a tiny island. And I don't make $250K a year! And yet in 2008, and 2009, I paid over $2000 in Federal Taxes at the end of the year, after paying over $500 quarterly! I don't even want to tell you what the, "R's" in the STATE did to me!
This year, with, President Obama in the White House, I got back $179 form the Feds. I owed the fiscally conservative, State of Utah, over $600 of my pension they wanted back! While decreasing school funding, and services for the poor. Very, Christian.
Now, this is the part that REALLY pisses me off. The, "raised the price of, Camels" part. I quit smoking cigarette's about 8 years ago, after 20 years as a nicotine slave. But I still enjoy a couple of cigars a week. And have some friends who own a cigar store/gift shop. No Federal legislation affecting, tobacco has been passed while, Obama has been in the, White House. So, HE didn't raise the price of, Camels, but I'll tell you who DID!
The, Republicans in Utah! After promising, "No new taxes" this year, spineless, idiot, Governor, Gary Herbert allowed a new tobacco tax to become law without his signature. Sure, now he can say he didn't SIGN it, but he let it happen.
Adds a dollar a pack to those, Camels. And my friend who owns the cigar store? She has to come up with, $90K the first of July to pay the new tax on her stock of cigars, or lose her store! The oldest tobacco shop in town, Jeanie's Smoke Shop on State Street is just going to close down, because they can't afford to stay in business. I know these folks, and in an interesting twist of irony, I've been told, they are, Mormons! I never ask, I just bought their cigars.
If you don't know what, Roosevelt stood for, and you don't know about the tax cuts, and you don't know who REALLY raised the price of your smokes, and why there is a deficit instead of a surplus, but you just post this stuff anyway? You are part of the problem with the way things are in this country.
"Defriend" me if you like. I don't care. But this kind of BS cannot continue to go unchallenged. It's the reason we had, "The Bush Administration" People not paying attention. Oh, and for the last time, we, "D's" are NOT coming for your guns. Relax.
"Moses said to the children if Israel, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land." Then about 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the promised Land." Now, Obama has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels and bankrupted the promised land. Copy and paste if you agree."
I DON'T agree, and I'm about to tell you why it's wrong in so many ways. It would be easy to dismiss this as just some, silly, Internet BS, if it weren't so demonstrative of the stupidity of the, "Teabagers" and right wing idiots in this country, who don't know history, and don't do any research, and just publish this kind of garbage without really knowing what they are saying.
I'll start at the top. The, Bible is fiction. So your, Moses quote doesn't need to be addressed except to say that for the sake of argument, we'll pretend it happened.
Let's next address the legacy of FDR. He was probably the greatest President this country has ever had. He took over during a terrible depression that was caused by unregulated banking (which we have reinstated, starting with the, Reagan Administration and ending with, "W", that lead to the closest thing we've had to a depression since then. After, Roosevelt, we had 50 years of economic stability, which we had never had in the history of our country). He gave us, "The New Deal" which gave us Social Security. Most people don't know that, "The New Deal" originally included a National Health Care Plan, but that part he had to give up to get the, Republicans to vote for it. The, "R's" have spent the last 60 years trying to repeal, "The New Deal".
His policy's lead to Civil Rights legislation and Medicare/Medicaid being passed in the 60's. The, "R's" opposed this, too.
And as for, "laying down your shovels"? WTF? Have you not read a history book? Did your parents not live through the depression? The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the, Works Progress Administration (WPA) put hundreds of thousands of out of work Americans BACK to work. They created the, Tennessee Valley Authority to electrify rural America. Brought power to the Indian Reservations, and created the roads and facility's we use to this day in our National Parks! Those people picked up some, DAMN SHOVELS!
My Grandfather was a railroad engineer for the B&O, and lost his job, in rural West "By God" Virginia. My mom told me the WPA was all that kept them alive. They didn't call it the WPA, they called it the, "PWA", for, Papa Works, Again! Shovels were, indeed, picked up.
Now, onto the, "criticism" of our current, President. I fail to see how he has stolen your shovel. HE isn't the one who got us into the current financial mess. It started with, Reagan and his deregulation, and continued through, "W". Clinton didn't oppose deregulation that happened when he was, President, which is a disappointment. But when he left office, we had a Federal SURPLUS! Which, "W" blew in eight years with unnecessary wars and, "no-bid" contracts to his friends at, Halliburton. You can't blame this deficit on, President Obama. No way, no how. He inherited it, pure and simple.
"Taxed your asses". 90% of the people in this country got a tax DECREASE in the last year. 90%. The only people seeing an increase in their taxes are people making over $250K a year. I'm so rich, I retired at 47, I have taken my children to, Paris, New York, Chicago, Washington DC just because I could. I paid $1200 for meal at, Charlie Trotter's in Chicago last summer, just so my kids could say they have had the experience. I just bought a $43K sports car for shits and giggles, so I can drive it on nice weather weekends. And I DON'T MAKE $250K a year! How was YOUR year, "Teabager"?
Between November of 2007, and January of 2009 I saw my portfolio lose 1/3 of it's value. Almost made me cancel my annual trip to, Belize to see, Jerry Jeff Walker in a little bar, on a tiny island. And I don't make $250K a year! And yet in 2008, and 2009, I paid over $2000 in Federal Taxes at the end of the year, after paying over $500 quarterly! I don't even want to tell you what the, "R's" in the STATE did to me!
This year, with, President Obama in the White House, I got back $179 form the Feds. I owed the fiscally conservative, State of Utah, over $600 of my pension they wanted back! While decreasing school funding, and services for the poor. Very, Christian.
Now, this is the part that REALLY pisses me off. The, "raised the price of, Camels" part. I quit smoking cigarette's about 8 years ago, after 20 years as a nicotine slave. But I still enjoy a couple of cigars a week. And have some friends who own a cigar store/gift shop. No Federal legislation affecting, tobacco has been passed while, Obama has been in the, White House. So, HE didn't raise the price of, Camels, but I'll tell you who DID!
The, Republicans in Utah! After promising, "No new taxes" this year, spineless, idiot, Governor, Gary Herbert allowed a new tobacco tax to become law without his signature. Sure, now he can say he didn't SIGN it, but he let it happen.
Adds a dollar a pack to those, Camels. And my friend who owns the cigar store? She has to come up with, $90K the first of July to pay the new tax on her stock of cigars, or lose her store! The oldest tobacco shop in town, Jeanie's Smoke Shop on State Street is just going to close down, because they can't afford to stay in business. I know these folks, and in an interesting twist of irony, I've been told, they are, Mormons! I never ask, I just bought their cigars.
If you don't know what, Roosevelt stood for, and you don't know about the tax cuts, and you don't know who REALLY raised the price of your smokes, and why there is a deficit instead of a surplus, but you just post this stuff anyway? You are part of the problem with the way things are in this country.
"Defriend" me if you like. I don't care. But this kind of BS cannot continue to go unchallenged. It's the reason we had, "The Bush Administration" People not paying attention. Oh, and for the last time, we, "D's" are NOT coming for your guns. Relax.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Really? Are You Shitting Me With This? Part Deaux
NPR reports that surveys say, Americans are more distrustful of our Government NOW, than ever before! REALLY? Even when the, Bush Administration was tapping our phones with out a warrant? REALLY?
More so than when the, Bush Administration waged a war on, Iraq, who had no weapons of mass destruction, and didn't attack us on, 9-11-2001, but 19 Saudi Arabians did? REALLY? And we had a chance to capture, Osama Bin Laudin in the hills of, Afghanistan in the fall of 2003, but our soldiers were ordered to NOT catch him, because it would hurt the, Bush Administration's war effort? REALLY? You want to stick with that? REALLY?
You, REALLY believe that the current President was born in, Africa? REALLY?
You believe that the, Democrats are coming for your guns? Based on WHAT?! I'm a Democrat, and I have a SHITLOAD of guns in a safe in my basement, because I like them. I don't hunt, but I like to shoot. And I'm a retired, COP. I HAD to learn to love guns, it was a business decision. But I loved them before that.
I don't hunt because I'm, "anti-hunting". I agree with, Ron White: "It's early in the morning, and it's cold, and I don't want to get up". I don't hunt, because I don't like the taste of, Venison. But I like my guns.
I don't LOVE my guns, because that would be bizarre. They are interesting machines. Love to shoot them. Shooting is fun. All American fun.
And being on the, Democrats, "Mailing list", and being a delegate to the, County, and State Conventions for this, "Gun Grabbing" party, I have not gotten anything in the mail (regular or electronic, you paranoid, idiots!) that says we're coming for your, or my, gun. And if you believe so, you also believe that, Sara Palin is smart. Truth be known? She's a MORON! Don't listen to her, or anyone with a tea bag on their hat. They are as dumb as she is.
Had anyone shown up at a, "Shrub" rally with a loaded rifle, the right wing would have gone right wing nuts. But because the, "D's" elected a, BLACK guy, the images of killing/lynching a, Black Man is OK? You racist bastards! You should be ashamed of yourselves.
And to hold your rally on the memorial of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City? After that terrorist memorialized it for the killing of Federal Agents in Waco? You, Tea Party, Right Wing, Nutballs are racist, immoral, delusional, sick, and, if I wasn't rational and normal, I'd be saying something like, "shot on sight".
But I'm rational and normal. So I don't advocate shooting you. Like you do doctors who provide abortions. Which are legal. Blowing up Federal Buildings, and shooting doctors is not. So I'll just say, you people are nuts. Totally crazy. Out of your minds.
I have my guns, you have yours. I bet one of you will try to use one of yours on someone like me, before I try to use one on someone like you (which I would NEVER do! I am NOT going to shoot anyone). And I bet you try to use it on my family, too. Just because I don't believe like you do. You believe in, God, but you don't believe in, "Thou Shall Not Kill". Which way has, God spoken to you? Let us know, will ya?
More so than when the, Bush Administration waged a war on, Iraq, who had no weapons of mass destruction, and didn't attack us on, 9-11-2001, but 19 Saudi Arabians did? REALLY? And we had a chance to capture, Osama Bin Laudin in the hills of, Afghanistan in the fall of 2003, but our soldiers were ordered to NOT catch him, because it would hurt the, Bush Administration's war effort? REALLY? You want to stick with that? REALLY?
You, REALLY believe that the current President was born in, Africa? REALLY?
You believe that the, Democrats are coming for your guns? Based on WHAT?! I'm a Democrat, and I have a SHITLOAD of guns in a safe in my basement, because I like them. I don't hunt, but I like to shoot. And I'm a retired, COP. I HAD to learn to love guns, it was a business decision. But I loved them before that.
I don't hunt because I'm, "anti-hunting". I agree with, Ron White: "It's early in the morning, and it's cold, and I don't want to get up". I don't hunt, because I don't like the taste of, Venison. But I like my guns.
I don't LOVE my guns, because that would be bizarre. They are interesting machines. Love to shoot them. Shooting is fun. All American fun.
And being on the, Democrats, "Mailing list", and being a delegate to the, County, and State Conventions for this, "Gun Grabbing" party, I have not gotten anything in the mail (regular or electronic, you paranoid, idiots!) that says we're coming for your, or my, gun. And if you believe so, you also believe that, Sara Palin is smart. Truth be known? She's a MORON! Don't listen to her, or anyone with a tea bag on their hat. They are as dumb as she is.
Had anyone shown up at a, "Shrub" rally with a loaded rifle, the right wing would have gone right wing nuts. But because the, "D's" elected a, BLACK guy, the images of killing/lynching a, Black Man is OK? You racist bastards! You should be ashamed of yourselves.
And to hold your rally on the memorial of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City? After that terrorist memorialized it for the killing of Federal Agents in Waco? You, Tea Party, Right Wing, Nutballs are racist, immoral, delusional, sick, and, if I wasn't rational and normal, I'd be saying something like, "shot on sight".
But I'm rational and normal. So I don't advocate shooting you. Like you do doctors who provide abortions. Which are legal. Blowing up Federal Buildings, and shooting doctors is not. So I'll just say, you people are nuts. Totally crazy. Out of your minds.
I have my guns, you have yours. I bet one of you will try to use one of yours on someone like me, before I try to use one on someone like you (which I would NEVER do! I am NOT going to shoot anyone). And I bet you try to use it on my family, too. Just because I don't believe like you do. You believe in, God, but you don't believe in, "Thou Shall Not Kill". Which way has, God spoken to you? Let us know, will ya?
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Religon: Part, "Deaux"
Boy, did I get some shit for my post last night, where I quoted, Richard Dawkins. He's a scientist. So he tells the truth.
I've, "lost it" from, "sapper". And even my friend, Chris got on me for saying I know better than millions of people who believe in a, "faith". Yeah, I do. Just because millions of people believe in something, does not make it TRUE! Where is the evidence? "It was all taken back to Heaven" is not a defense to this question! It's a bullshit answer to try to prove your side of the argument.
One of the first things they teach you in debate class, and I assume, Law School, although I've never been THERE, is that, "He who asserts, must prove." If you say it's true, you need to be able to provide some evidence that it is. Where is the evidence of, Jesus? Where is, Buddha? Where is, Mohamed? You can SAY that the Bible, The New Testament, or, The Koran is the word of, God. Which ever, "God" you believe in. But where is the proof!
The, "Dead Sea Scrolls"? How were these NOT written by men? How were they written by, "God"?
Gutenberg's Bible was the word of, God? Yeah, like the middle ages didn't provide enough evidence that religion was the root of all evil? Remember the, "Inquisition"?
You know what the SECOND most popular thing printed after the, Bible is? Pornography! Every new outlet for media, of any kind, spawns a rise in the distribution of, Porno! You think the Internet was born to transfer, religious information? Good luck with that. Check the hits on, "Jerry Falwell" vs. the hits on, "Big Naturals". The woman who started, "Big Naturals", Danny Ashe, is rich beyond your wildest dreams. Jerry Falwell is dead.
Religion is total, unabashed, BULLSHIT!
Just because a lot of people believe it, does NOT make it true!
Treat people the right way, because you should! You don't need your imaginary friend, "God" to tell you to help the poor, and take care of your family. It's the right thing to do, because you're a human being! Just do it!
I've, "lost it" from, "sapper". And even my friend, Chris got on me for saying I know better than millions of people who believe in a, "faith". Yeah, I do. Just because millions of people believe in something, does not make it TRUE! Where is the evidence? "It was all taken back to Heaven" is not a defense to this question! It's a bullshit answer to try to prove your side of the argument.
One of the first things they teach you in debate class, and I assume, Law School, although I've never been THERE, is that, "He who asserts, must prove." If you say it's true, you need to be able to provide some evidence that it is. Where is the evidence of, Jesus? Where is, Buddha? Where is, Mohamed? You can SAY that the Bible, The New Testament, or, The Koran is the word of, God. Which ever, "God" you believe in. But where is the proof!
The, "Dead Sea Scrolls"? How were these NOT written by men? How were they written by, "God"?
Gutenberg's Bible was the word of, God? Yeah, like the middle ages didn't provide enough evidence that religion was the root of all evil? Remember the, "Inquisition"?
You know what the SECOND most popular thing printed after the, Bible is? Pornography! Every new outlet for media, of any kind, spawns a rise in the distribution of, Porno! You think the Internet was born to transfer, religious information? Good luck with that. Check the hits on, "Jerry Falwell" vs. the hits on, "Big Naturals". The woman who started, "Big Naturals", Danny Ashe, is rich beyond your wildest dreams. Jerry Falwell is dead.
Religion is total, unabashed, BULLSHIT!
Just because a lot of people believe it, does NOT make it true!
Treat people the right way, because you should! You don't need your imaginary friend, "God" to tell you to help the poor, and take care of your family. It's the right thing to do, because you're a human being! Just do it!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Religion. By, "Richard Dawkins."
If you live in America, the chances are good that your next door neighbours believe the following: The Inventor of the laws of physics and Programmer of the DNA code decided to enter the uterus of a Jewish virgin, got himself born, then deliberately had himself tortured and executed because he couldn't think of a better way to forgive the theft of an apple, committed at the instigation of a talking snake. As Creator of the amjestically expanding universe, he not only understands relativistic gravity and quantum mechanics, but actually designed them. Yet what he really cares about is "sin" abortion, how often you go to church, and whether Gay people should marry. Statistically, the chances are that your neighbours believe all that- and they can vote!
He goes on much further. Relgion is silly. It's Bullshit. It's what we had to rely on to explain the world, before we had an understanding of science! Now? Not so much.
He goes on much further. Relgion is silly. It's Bullshit. It's what we had to rely on to explain the world, before we had an understanding of science! Now? Not so much.
Tea Bag This
50%+ of these nut balls are college educated, and many of them have ADVANCED degrees. MOST of them, almost 70% earn MORE than $50K a year? Really?
But 52% of them think that the problems of Black People in this country have been exaggerated. And 3% of them think our current, President was born in, Africa.
So, well educated, but ill informed, rich, white people think they need to wear guns to Presidential speeches, and take, "Their County Back". From who? The rest of us who DON'T EARN $50K a year, and didn't go to college?
I went to college. And how much I earn is fluid. Last year, probably more than YOU. The year before that? Not so much. But, my taxes went down this last year, along with 95% of Americans because of, President Obama's policy's of lowering taxes on lower/middle class Americans, and taxing the rich MORE! As it should be!
I'm so rich, that I go where ever my wife wants to go every year. We go to all the Utah road football games. We spent a week in, Grenada this February. We go to, Belize every winter to see, Jerry Jeff Walker do a couple of concerts in a little, bar over the ocean. Boston this summer. Red Sox with the kids in Fenway, and Jimmy Buffett just south of town, rented a three story, three bedroom condo in Boston.
And I didn't get a tax INCREASE! I actually got, $170 BACK from the, Feds this year! First time since I inherited my money when my dad died in 2006. Since then, until this year, I've paid over $2K in taxes every year!
Bush taxed the SHIT out of me! Obama? Not so much.
Now, the people who MAKE over, $250K a year, are going to pay their share. Good! They should! If you make more, you should pay more for what Government gives to you.
Oh, and by the way? My, States Rights, State of Utah, taxed me an additional $600+ after the taxes they took out of my pension they pay me every month. After 20+ years of serving them in Law Enforcement. And they took the promised retirement health care away from me just a year before I could retire.
I'm pretty sure I would be better off if there was no STATE, and just a FEDERAL Government!
But 52% of them think that the problems of Black People in this country have been exaggerated. And 3% of them think our current, President was born in, Africa.
So, well educated, but ill informed, rich, white people think they need to wear guns to Presidential speeches, and take, "Their County Back". From who? The rest of us who DON'T EARN $50K a year, and didn't go to college?
I went to college. And how much I earn is fluid. Last year, probably more than YOU. The year before that? Not so much. But, my taxes went down this last year, along with 95% of Americans because of, President Obama's policy's of lowering taxes on lower/middle class Americans, and taxing the rich MORE! As it should be!
I'm so rich, that I go where ever my wife wants to go every year. We go to all the Utah road football games. We spent a week in, Grenada this February. We go to, Belize every winter to see, Jerry Jeff Walker do a couple of concerts in a little, bar over the ocean. Boston this summer. Red Sox with the kids in Fenway, and Jimmy Buffett just south of town, rented a three story, three bedroom condo in Boston.
And I didn't get a tax INCREASE! I actually got, $170 BACK from the, Feds this year! First time since I inherited my money when my dad died in 2006. Since then, until this year, I've paid over $2K in taxes every year!
Bush taxed the SHIT out of me! Obama? Not so much.
Now, the people who MAKE over, $250K a year, are going to pay their share. Good! They should! If you make more, you should pay more for what Government gives to you.
Oh, and by the way? My, States Rights, State of Utah, taxed me an additional $600+ after the taxes they took out of my pension they pay me every month. After 20+ years of serving them in Law Enforcement. And they took the promised retirement health care away from me just a year before I could retire.
I'm pretty sure I would be better off if there was no STATE, and just a FEDERAL Government!
Shaving the kid.
Last night, my wife said to me, "Your son has peach fuzz on his face, and it's long enough that I can pull on it. He doesn't like that." OK, I can fix that. I asked him about it, and he said, "Yeah, I want it off. It makes me look like my upper lip is always dirty."
Not a problem. I told him after his soccer game tonight, that he should take a shower, and I would get him a razor and some shaving cream, and show him how to use it.
I'd spent the afternoon with him, buying him a new golf bag. Didn't notice. The things, dad notices (he's too tall for his old golf clubs. Maybe tall enough for his mother's old set. They don't say, "Women's Clubs" on them, just, Cougar Golf. I had women's clubs when I was a teenager and not tall enough for men's clubs. This bag sucks, need a new one) vs. what, mom notices (My son needs to shave! He looks horrible!) are worlds apart.
He's a smart kid, and I'm a Liberal parent. We have had, "The Drugs" talk. "The condom's" talk. "The, Your Father Drives You To School In An Audi And A New Camaro And The Girls You Go To School With Will Notice This, So Please Refer To The Condom Talk When Ever You Are Alone With One Of Them" talk. And I told him I'd beat his ass if I caught him and his soccer buddies taking my beer out of the basement fridge, "Talk".
But I realized tonight, that since he and I have always gotten up at different times because of, mostly MY schedule as a Cop, when he was a little boy, he never came into the bathroom in the morning and watched me shave! He's not unclear on the concept, he watches TV and has seen people shave.
But tonight, while I'm trying to show him how to do this, I had to explain that no, the shaving cream didn't need to go ALL the way up to his lower eye lid. Only PART of his face was involved in this process, unless he grew up to be, "Big Foot". And you just smooth it on. It's mostly just soap, anyway. Not a problem.
I might have committed a tactical error in not showing him how to do this on a weekend, where I might have brought him in to my bathroom, and done it WITH him, like I did with mowing the lawn, instead of just trying to show him. But you don't THINK of these things? My dad didn't show me. But I watched him numerous times.
I still have the same razor I bought when I was 15, by the way. When I told a friend that, he said, "The same blade?" No, you moron! I change the BLADE. The same razor!
Which I can still get blades for, but not the razor. My son's is an upgrade. Three blades instead of two.
Well, he got through it, no nicks, no cuts, no errors. I told him to always shave down, since that shaving up is closer stuff is BS, and just irritates your skin. And to always shave right out of the shower if possible, as you beard is softer then (Yes, I read, Playboy, and in the past read, Esquire and occasionally a copy of my boss', GQ Magazine. But it was pretty, Gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But I'm not. Just sayin..).
His hair is so long, that it was covered in shaving cream. Occupational hazard of a teenage soccer player I guess. Use the towel, don't get back in the shower, for crying out loud! You have to teach them everything.
I explained to him that cheap razor blades suck, and only last a few shaves. And that expensive ones, can last me a month or more a blade, so I save money buying them.
He asked me how often he should shave? I told him that eventually, it will be every morning, but if he wants to keep his lip clean at this age, he could probably get by with once a week. He's OK with that.
After all, he and I, and his mother, now understand that nothing looks worse than a guy who can't grow a mustache, trying to grow a mustache!
They grow up so fast.
Not a problem. I told him after his soccer game tonight, that he should take a shower, and I would get him a razor and some shaving cream, and show him how to use it.
I'd spent the afternoon with him, buying him a new golf bag. Didn't notice. The things, dad notices (he's too tall for his old golf clubs. Maybe tall enough for his mother's old set. They don't say, "Women's Clubs" on them, just, Cougar Golf. I had women's clubs when I was a teenager and not tall enough for men's clubs. This bag sucks, need a new one) vs. what, mom notices (My son needs to shave! He looks horrible!) are worlds apart.
He's a smart kid, and I'm a Liberal parent. We have had, "The Drugs" talk. "The condom's" talk. "The, Your Father Drives You To School In An Audi And A New Camaro And The Girls You Go To School With Will Notice This, So Please Refer To The Condom Talk When Ever You Are Alone With One Of Them" talk. And I told him I'd beat his ass if I caught him and his soccer buddies taking my beer out of the basement fridge, "Talk".
But I realized tonight, that since he and I have always gotten up at different times because of, mostly MY schedule as a Cop, when he was a little boy, he never came into the bathroom in the morning and watched me shave! He's not unclear on the concept, he watches TV and has seen people shave.
But tonight, while I'm trying to show him how to do this, I had to explain that no, the shaving cream didn't need to go ALL the way up to his lower eye lid. Only PART of his face was involved in this process, unless he grew up to be, "Big Foot". And you just smooth it on. It's mostly just soap, anyway. Not a problem.
I might have committed a tactical error in not showing him how to do this on a weekend, where I might have brought him in to my bathroom, and done it WITH him, like I did with mowing the lawn, instead of just trying to show him. But you don't THINK of these things? My dad didn't show me. But I watched him numerous times.
I still have the same razor I bought when I was 15, by the way. When I told a friend that, he said, "The same blade?" No, you moron! I change the BLADE. The same razor!
Which I can still get blades for, but not the razor. My son's is an upgrade. Three blades instead of two.
Well, he got through it, no nicks, no cuts, no errors. I told him to always shave down, since that shaving up is closer stuff is BS, and just irritates your skin. And to always shave right out of the shower if possible, as you beard is softer then (Yes, I read, Playboy, and in the past read, Esquire and occasionally a copy of my boss', GQ Magazine. But it was pretty, Gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But I'm not. Just sayin..).
His hair is so long, that it was covered in shaving cream. Occupational hazard of a teenage soccer player I guess. Use the towel, don't get back in the shower, for crying out loud! You have to teach them everything.
I explained to him that cheap razor blades suck, and only last a few shaves. And that expensive ones, can last me a month or more a blade, so I save money buying them.
He asked me how often he should shave? I told him that eventually, it will be every morning, but if he wants to keep his lip clean at this age, he could probably get by with once a week. He's OK with that.
After all, he and I, and his mother, now understand that nothing looks worse than a guy who can't grow a mustache, trying to grow a mustache!
They grow up so fast.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Hiding behind Face Book
Got into an argument with a guy I used to work with the other night. On Face Book. He didn't like my comment, and decided to send me a message and call me some names, and question my ethics, methods when I worked with him, and call me religiously intolerant because I didn't respect his LDS faith. OK. I expect that. I give as good as I get. No problem. Debate is healthy.
He doesn't get it. I don't respect ANY ONE'S faith! Mormon's always think it's about them. I'm not religious, and I don't see the need to respect anyone elses superstition past the point of not purposely going out of my way to offend them.
I grew up in a crazy church. The Presbyterians are Calvinist. And they told me that before I was born, God had decided whether I was going to heaven or hell. The die was cast, and no matter what I did, I couldn't change it by my actions on earth. But, God wants me to live a, "Christ centered life" anyway. WTF?
If I'm already slotted for a place in paradise, or a fire hole in hell, and nothing I could do would change that, why should I behave myself on earth? Why not party like, Motley Crue? Nothing I could do was going to change where I spent eternity.
Is that any crazier that believing in Golden Plates no one saw, or that, God lives on, Planet Kolob? And don't the Scientologist's believe in space aliens having something to do with what happens on earth, too?
So, I apologized to him, if I had truly slighted him, or he felt like I had said or done something to him on purpose, I WAS sorry. I have no intention to hurt your feelings. If your religion gives you comfort, or helps you cope with life, more power to you. I don't want to legislate religion away. Like, Republicans want to legislate THEIRS onto ME! I just don't believe it, and I won't show it the deference you think it deserves.
So he wrote back, and told me what a rotten person I was, and vented on me, as is his right. Like I said, if I give it, I expect to get it back. But then he did something so cowardly, so immature, it's unbelievable. He blocked my response. If you give it, take it back. You want to delete, unfriend, block me? Fine. I don't care. But don't yell, "I know you are, but what am I!" and then run into your house before you get the response.
Well, he was dumb enough to forget that as a public employee, he's on the State email system! And this isn't the first time dumb guys who work for the Department of Corrections forgot that I used to work there too, and I have a computer, and I know how to use it. So, I sent him my answer to his email at his State email address.
I did what my son and his soccer buddies would call, "Switch the field" on him. If all your opponents defenders are on the right side of the field, send the ball to the one guy you have open on the LEFT side of the field! They don't see that coming.
Here's his response, now that someone could actually look at what he's using the State email system for.
"Mr. Stickley (what? Not, Dear Jeff?), this is a formal request for you to not contact me in any fashion any more (So formal, when on FB, I'm an idiot and a bigot, etc?). I have saved all contact with you from these interactions (So? So have I) and you have now contacted me on my work email to make accusations and insult me, continuing something from a social networking site that has nothing to do with my employment to now using state resources to contact me because I blocked you on the networking site (run on sentences, Kyle. A good writer knows to quit when he's done). I consider these contacts harassment (Answering email you sent to ME is harassment? I hope you saved ALL the email of this last exchange, because you reached out to ME first) Please do not contact me personally any more and if you need anything professionally, please contact my supervisor David (I'll not include the man's last name, since he's a nice guy and I like him. And he's stuck with supervising guys who don't know you are supposed to put a comma before a proper name). Italics MINE. As if you didn't know.
This is sick and wrong for so many reasons. This guy started the fight because he didn't like a post of mine. But when he lost the war, he ran and hid, but he responded for a while until he realized that in a battle of wits, he was unarmed.
Then the, "harassment" stuff? Come on? I don't agree with you, but I answer your email anyway and it's harassment? Talk to some of the secretary's at Corrections. THEY can tell you what real harassment is!
And the, "nothing to do with my job" stuff? Please. If FB had been around when I was still working at DOC, and I'd been as insulting as this guy was to a citizen of this, "Pretty, Great, State", I'd have been facing a POST Review Board to see if I could keep my Peace Officer Certification! If you are a, COP in Utah, your off duty behavior is VERY much reviewable. You are told from the time you enter the Academy, that you are held to a higher standard. If you get busted for DUI off the job, you can still lose you Certification. If you are a total asshole on FB while still a, COP, isn't that the same thing? I think so.
And using state resources. No, I used MY resources. My computer. My connection. My power. And as a State citizen, I can send anyone who works for the State, email any time I want to. As long as I don't threaten them, I can say whatever I want, too.
His attempt to sound smart, and professional just falls flat. It's a lot like the, "Bevis And Butthead" episode, "Cornhollio". "Are you threatening me! I need TP for my, Bunghole!"
I am RETIRED from, Law Enforcement. I don't work for the DOC anymore. They can't take my pension, or my Birthday from me. I can say anything I want, to anyone I want. When you are still, "On The Job" you have to watch yourself.
So if you're going to be on FB, you should be willing to take what you give out. Sometimes you will lose an argument. If you don't want to, don't pick one!
He doesn't get it. I don't respect ANY ONE'S faith! Mormon's always think it's about them. I'm not religious, and I don't see the need to respect anyone elses superstition past the point of not purposely going out of my way to offend them.
I grew up in a crazy church. The Presbyterians are Calvinist. And they told me that before I was born, God had decided whether I was going to heaven or hell. The die was cast, and no matter what I did, I couldn't change it by my actions on earth. But, God wants me to live a, "Christ centered life" anyway. WTF?
If I'm already slotted for a place in paradise, or a fire hole in hell, and nothing I could do would change that, why should I behave myself on earth? Why not party like, Motley Crue? Nothing I could do was going to change where I spent eternity.
Is that any crazier that believing in Golden Plates no one saw, or that, God lives on, Planet Kolob? And don't the Scientologist's believe in space aliens having something to do with what happens on earth, too?
So, I apologized to him, if I had truly slighted him, or he felt like I had said or done something to him on purpose, I WAS sorry. I have no intention to hurt your feelings. If your religion gives you comfort, or helps you cope with life, more power to you. I don't want to legislate religion away. Like, Republicans want to legislate THEIRS onto ME! I just don't believe it, and I won't show it the deference you think it deserves.
So he wrote back, and told me what a rotten person I was, and vented on me, as is his right. Like I said, if I give it, I expect to get it back. But then he did something so cowardly, so immature, it's unbelievable. He blocked my response. If you give it, take it back. You want to delete, unfriend, block me? Fine. I don't care. But don't yell, "I know you are, but what am I!" and then run into your house before you get the response.
Well, he was dumb enough to forget that as a public employee, he's on the State email system! And this isn't the first time dumb guys who work for the Department of Corrections forgot that I used to work there too, and I have a computer, and I know how to use it. So, I sent him my answer to his email at his State email address.
I did what my son and his soccer buddies would call, "Switch the field" on him. If all your opponents defenders are on the right side of the field, send the ball to the one guy you have open on the LEFT side of the field! They don't see that coming.
Here's his response, now that someone could actually look at what he's using the State email system for.
"Mr. Stickley (what? Not, Dear Jeff?), this is a formal request for you to not contact me in any fashion any more (So formal, when on FB, I'm an idiot and a bigot, etc?). I have saved all contact with you from these interactions (So? So have I) and you have now contacted me on my work email to make accusations and insult me, continuing something from a social networking site that has nothing to do with my employment to now using state resources to contact me because I blocked you on the networking site (run on sentences, Kyle. A good writer knows to quit when he's done). I consider these contacts harassment (Answering email you sent to ME is harassment? I hope you saved ALL the email of this last exchange, because you reached out to ME first) Please do not contact me personally any more and if you need anything professionally, please contact my supervisor David (I'll not include the man's last name, since he's a nice guy and I like him. And he's stuck with supervising guys who don't know you are supposed to put a comma before a proper name). Italics MINE. As if you didn't know.
This is sick and wrong for so many reasons. This guy started the fight because he didn't like a post of mine. But when he lost the war, he ran and hid, but he responded for a while until he realized that in a battle of wits, he was unarmed.
Then the, "harassment" stuff? Come on? I don't agree with you, but I answer your email anyway and it's harassment? Talk to some of the secretary's at Corrections. THEY can tell you what real harassment is!
And the, "nothing to do with my job" stuff? Please. If FB had been around when I was still working at DOC, and I'd been as insulting as this guy was to a citizen of this, "Pretty, Great, State", I'd have been facing a POST Review Board to see if I could keep my Peace Officer Certification! If you are a, COP in Utah, your off duty behavior is VERY much reviewable. You are told from the time you enter the Academy, that you are held to a higher standard. If you get busted for DUI off the job, you can still lose you Certification. If you are a total asshole on FB while still a, COP, isn't that the same thing? I think so.
And using state resources. No, I used MY resources. My computer. My connection. My power. And as a State citizen, I can send anyone who works for the State, email any time I want to. As long as I don't threaten them, I can say whatever I want, too.
His attempt to sound smart, and professional just falls flat. It's a lot like the, "Bevis And Butthead" episode, "Cornhollio". "Are you threatening me! I need TP for my, Bunghole!"
I am RETIRED from, Law Enforcement. I don't work for the DOC anymore. They can't take my pension, or my Birthday from me. I can say anything I want, to anyone I want. When you are still, "On The Job" you have to watch yourself.
So if you're going to be on FB, you should be willing to take what you give out. Sometimes you will lose an argument. If you don't want to, don't pick one!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Almost, Heaven, West Virginia...
I didn't grow up in West Virginia, I grew up here. But I was born there. Both my parents are from there, and are graduate's of West Virginia University. Dad, the, "rocket scientist" was transferred out here in the early 60's when, Hercules moved their, "Naval Operations" (meaning the Nuclear Missile they launch from submarines) from, The Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory in WV, to the, Bacchus plant near, Magna.
I have no relatives who are or were in the Coal business. But it is West Virginia's Paycheck. No mines I knew of in my home of, Mineral County.
But the story of the mine explosion there last week really moves me. And not because of the loss of life. Mining is a dangerous business. But because of the absolute, negligence on the part of the Coal Company!
They were fined millions of dollars of the last few years for not venting their mine as they are supposed to, and other things. And yet payed only, $163K in fines while they dispute the rest of them, under rules implimented under the, Bush Administration.
Like the mine cave in that happened a couple of years ago in Central Utah that was caused by, "retreat mining", where the miners are taking the coal that makes up the pillars that hold up the top of the tunnel out as they leave. An extremely dangerous, and illegal thing to do. And people get killed. This was a bunch of death's caused not because of some natural act, or accident. It was planned! Poor people are easier to replace then ventilation systems, or bracing that will hold up the roof!
And they are a WHOLE lot CHEAPER to INSTALL! There are a shit load of them in West Virginia and Central Utah. You offer a guy in West Virginia, who has no other job offers, and no education because he can't afford it, $70K a year to go down in the mines all day, he's going to take it.
And since he doesn't have any education, he's going to believe the mine owners when they tell him they have state of the art safety equipment, and have done everything OSHA tells them to do. Even though they are paying fines for NOT doing what OSHA said they have to because it's cheaper than complying with the rules!
This was not a tragedy. It was a PLANNED tragedy! This was the coal company pushing it's non-compliance with regulations to the limit, until it gets caught. They gambled with the lives of the poor folks who have no choice but to work for them. They won. Saved millions. Killed a few poor folks in West Virginia. WTF. We don't care. And after they open the mine again, the poor bastards who live there will take the jobs again. Because they have to. They have no choice.
And there MIGHT be a ventilation system this time. Cause if there isn't? Well they got caught. They might have to actually pay the fines now.
The polygamists exploit the Mexicans in OUR, Utah mines. The, Murray Energy Company exploited the poor folks in, Carbon County. The Coal Company's of West Virginia have an endless supply of poor people who need jobs there. Yet, we keep burning coal.
Almost makes me mad enough to build a windmill! But, it appears, I'm the ONLY one.
I have no relatives who are or were in the Coal business. But it is West Virginia's Paycheck. No mines I knew of in my home of, Mineral County.
But the story of the mine explosion there last week really moves me. And not because of the loss of life. Mining is a dangerous business. But because of the absolute, negligence on the part of the Coal Company!
They were fined millions of dollars of the last few years for not venting their mine as they are supposed to, and other things. And yet payed only, $163K in fines while they dispute the rest of them, under rules implimented under the, Bush Administration.
Like the mine cave in that happened a couple of years ago in Central Utah that was caused by, "retreat mining", where the miners are taking the coal that makes up the pillars that hold up the top of the tunnel out as they leave. An extremely dangerous, and illegal thing to do. And people get killed. This was a bunch of death's caused not because of some natural act, or accident. It was planned! Poor people are easier to replace then ventilation systems, or bracing that will hold up the roof!
And they are a WHOLE lot CHEAPER to INSTALL! There are a shit load of them in West Virginia and Central Utah. You offer a guy in West Virginia, who has no other job offers, and no education because he can't afford it, $70K a year to go down in the mines all day, he's going to take it.
And since he doesn't have any education, he's going to believe the mine owners when they tell him they have state of the art safety equipment, and have done everything OSHA tells them to do. Even though they are paying fines for NOT doing what OSHA said they have to because it's cheaper than complying with the rules!
This was not a tragedy. It was a PLANNED tragedy! This was the coal company pushing it's non-compliance with regulations to the limit, until it gets caught. They gambled with the lives of the poor folks who have no choice but to work for them. They won. Saved millions. Killed a few poor folks in West Virginia. WTF. We don't care. And after they open the mine again, the poor bastards who live there will take the jobs again. Because they have to. They have no choice.
And there MIGHT be a ventilation system this time. Cause if there isn't? Well they got caught. They might have to actually pay the fines now.
The polygamists exploit the Mexicans in OUR, Utah mines. The, Murray Energy Company exploited the poor folks in, Carbon County. The Coal Company's of West Virginia have an endless supply of poor people who need jobs there. Yet, we keep burning coal.
Almost makes me mad enough to build a windmill! But, it appears, I'm the ONLY one.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Susan Powell
Tonight the local news reported that they are going to have a big search tomorrow out by, Simpson Springs on the Pony Express Trail for this woman who went missing in December. Waste of time.
Her husband, who obviously murdered her, told the Cops that he took his two young children camping, near, Simpson Springs, on one of the coldest nights of the year, at the spur of the moment, late on a Sunday night. And when he left, his wife was still home.
Bullshit. She was dead, or about to be dead, when he left the house. And he didn't go camping. And he didn't go to, Simpson Springs. But he's been there before. So that's where he sent the Cops. And they are still going there! Dumb.
I was in Law Enforcement for 23 years. I was a Probation/Parole Agent. Most of the crimes I had to deal with, were committed right before my eyes. There was no, "investigation" involved. But I took all the classes the other, Cops did. And I had a few that took a little work. And I'm not stupid.
Susan Powell's husband murdered her, I have no idea why, then concocted a stupid story to throw everyone off his trail. The West Valley Cops KNOW this, so THEY didn't organize a search in the West Desert. They are waiting for lab results, and clinical analysis, and talking to people who know what really happened. Trust me, YOU haven't heard about these people, but THEY have.
So all of the para-gliders and ATV drivers who will descend on the, Pony Express Trail tomorrow are good people, who really want to do the right thing. But they are wasting their time.
If I killed my wife, and dumped her body in, oh, I don't know, The Uinta Mountains? Or some place in, The Book Cliffs. I'd sure as hell tell the, Cops I was camping in Wendover. And they should start looking there.
Lori Hacking was found only by the persistence of law enforcement, and the fact that HER murdering husband couldn't stand the guilt, and told the, Cops what he did with her body.
Susan Powell's murdering husband has no such compunction. He's going to keep his mouth shut. One day someone will find her body. But he'll be an old man.
I have a friend who was on the board of directors of a land fill here in the Salt Lake Valley for a while. And he would go to conferences around the country to learn more about the business. He said that in most of the country, where they don't pay attention, all you need to get rid of a body is a roll of carpet, and a pickup truck.
Sounds like something out of, "The Soprano's" but it's a true story.
Susan Powell's husband needs to come clean. No amount of desert searches are going to find his wife. And if you don't believe me? Guy's, has YOUR wife ever left the house without her purse and cell phone? I rest my case.
Her husband, who obviously murdered her, told the Cops that he took his two young children camping, near, Simpson Springs, on one of the coldest nights of the year, at the spur of the moment, late on a Sunday night. And when he left, his wife was still home.
Bullshit. She was dead, or about to be dead, when he left the house. And he didn't go camping. And he didn't go to, Simpson Springs. But he's been there before. So that's where he sent the Cops. And they are still going there! Dumb.
I was in Law Enforcement for 23 years. I was a Probation/Parole Agent. Most of the crimes I had to deal with, were committed right before my eyes. There was no, "investigation" involved. But I took all the classes the other, Cops did. And I had a few that took a little work. And I'm not stupid.
Susan Powell's husband murdered her, I have no idea why, then concocted a stupid story to throw everyone off his trail. The West Valley Cops KNOW this, so THEY didn't organize a search in the West Desert. They are waiting for lab results, and clinical analysis, and talking to people who know what really happened. Trust me, YOU haven't heard about these people, but THEY have.
So all of the para-gliders and ATV drivers who will descend on the, Pony Express Trail tomorrow are good people, who really want to do the right thing. But they are wasting their time.
If I killed my wife, and dumped her body in, oh, I don't know, The Uinta Mountains? Or some place in, The Book Cliffs. I'd sure as hell tell the, Cops I was camping in Wendover. And they should start looking there.
Lori Hacking was found only by the persistence of law enforcement, and the fact that HER murdering husband couldn't stand the guilt, and told the, Cops what he did with her body.
Susan Powell's murdering husband has no such compunction. He's going to keep his mouth shut. One day someone will find her body. But he'll be an old man.
I have a friend who was on the board of directors of a land fill here in the Salt Lake Valley for a while. And he would go to conferences around the country to learn more about the business. He said that in most of the country, where they don't pay attention, all you need to get rid of a body is a roll of carpet, and a pickup truck.
Sounds like something out of, "The Soprano's" but it's a true story.
Susan Powell's husband needs to come clean. No amount of desert searches are going to find his wife. And if you don't believe me? Guy's, has YOUR wife ever left the house without her purse and cell phone? I rest my case.
No nukes, is good nukes
In the 1980's, Ronald Reagan reached out to the Russian's and proposed a 1/3 reduction in nuclear war heads, and the eventual elimination of ALL nuclear weapons from the planet. He, or his Administration, crafted the first, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. For short, they called it, SALT. The SALT treaty expired last year.
He was hailed as a leader who ended, "The Cold War", and was a brave man who would lead us to a nuclear free world.
Today, President Obama signed a NEW, SALT, that pledges a reduction of our and the Russian's nukes by 1/3 and eventually the elimination of them from the planet.
In addition, earlier this week, he changed policy to say that we would not ever threaten to use, or use, nuclear weapons against someone who did not use them against us, or did NOT use biological weapons against us. The exception to the rules about nukes are that they use biological weapons against us, or they are countries who have not signed on the the NNPT. That's YOU, Iran and, North Korea.
Oh, for you, Republicans and people who only buy your books at, Costco, (if you READ books) the NNPT is the, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Most of the world has signed it. You listening, India?
Sara Palin and the rest of the Tea Party, militia, wing nut, right wing, Faux News idiots have called our, President, "Weak on defense".
Reagan does it, he's a hero. The, "Nigger in the White House" does it? Not so much?
Really?
The whole, Republican Party has caved in to the racist, uneducated, pissed off, Tea Party Loons! These nut balls have already flown an airplane into an IRS office. They carry guns to Presidential appearances. They love, "Ronny Ray-Gun" but when the, D's incorporate some of the, R's ideas about health care from the 90's (like MAKING PEOPLE BUY HEALTH INSURANCE!) and extend a treaty that their, "GOD" originally initiated, they think their country is being taken away from them?
No, the people who went to, "Universities" that have campus' instead of, Suite Numbers are getting OUR country back.
Glenn Beck is right when he told, Forbes magazine this week that he, "Doesn't give a flying crap about the political process. We're in the entertainment business". Yeah, you are.
Too bad so many people still believe that the most watched, "news" channel on cable is telling them the truth, when they admit they are pandering to the low life, trailer trash, uneducated, ignorant, morons who still think the, President wasn't born in this country.
Hawaii IS a state. He's black. Get over it. All you folks that live in, Herriman, Bluffdale, Riverton and Utah County (collectively: Glennbeckistan). You lost the last election. Now, some sanity is in charge in the good, old, USA. Get used to it.
He was hailed as a leader who ended, "The Cold War", and was a brave man who would lead us to a nuclear free world.
Today, President Obama signed a NEW, SALT, that pledges a reduction of our and the Russian's nukes by 1/3 and eventually the elimination of them from the planet.
In addition, earlier this week, he changed policy to say that we would not ever threaten to use, or use, nuclear weapons against someone who did not use them against us, or did NOT use biological weapons against us. The exception to the rules about nukes are that they use biological weapons against us, or they are countries who have not signed on the the NNPT. That's YOU, Iran and, North Korea.
Oh, for you, Republicans and people who only buy your books at, Costco, (if you READ books) the NNPT is the, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Most of the world has signed it. You listening, India?
Sara Palin and the rest of the Tea Party, militia, wing nut, right wing, Faux News idiots have called our, President, "Weak on defense".
Reagan does it, he's a hero. The, "Nigger in the White House" does it? Not so much?
Really?
The whole, Republican Party has caved in to the racist, uneducated, pissed off, Tea Party Loons! These nut balls have already flown an airplane into an IRS office. They carry guns to Presidential appearances. They love, "Ronny Ray-Gun" but when the, D's incorporate some of the, R's ideas about health care from the 90's (like MAKING PEOPLE BUY HEALTH INSURANCE!) and extend a treaty that their, "GOD" originally initiated, they think their country is being taken away from them?
No, the people who went to, "Universities" that have campus' instead of, Suite Numbers are getting OUR country back.
Glenn Beck is right when he told, Forbes magazine this week that he, "Doesn't give a flying crap about the political process. We're in the entertainment business". Yeah, you are.
Too bad so many people still believe that the most watched, "news" channel on cable is telling them the truth, when they admit they are pandering to the low life, trailer trash, uneducated, ignorant, morons who still think the, President wasn't born in this country.
Hawaii IS a state. He's black. Get over it. All you folks that live in, Herriman, Bluffdale, Riverton and Utah County (collectively: Glennbeckistan). You lost the last election. Now, some sanity is in charge in the good, old, USA. Get used to it.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
No Nukes, is good, Nukes
President Obama signed a new START Treaty today. Agreeing with the Russian's to reduce our nuclear arsinal by 1/3. It is a continuation of the START Treaty originally signed by, Ronald Reagan with the, Russian's to reduce the nuclear arsinal by 1/3
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
"Bitchin' Camaro, Bitchin Camaro! I ran over my neighbor..."
I can't remember if it was, "The Dead Kennedy's", or, "The Dead Milkmen", but one of those "Dead" band's did a song back in the 80's called, "Bitchin' Camaro" It might be because I worked in the Juvenile Court System then, that I remember, "Bitchin" being the equivalent of, "cool". Like, "Bad" meaning, good back then. Michael Jackson's, "I'm Bad" did NOT mean he couldn't sing. And, "Bitchin" didn't mean the, Camaro would not start. Trust me.
I got the new, Camaro, and I just don't think the, "U of U" plate, B209H does it justice. This car almost screams out for a personalized plate.
I've been looking at the state's data base for personalized plates. With the, "U of U" plate, I only have five spaces to work with. So the natural would be, "STICK". The one I had in high school and until I was 30. But after 20+ years as a PO, and trying to stay undercover and giving it up, someone else has it. So be it.
So, I'm thinking, "BITCN", for the song, "Bitchin Camaro". But it's still available because I'm sure the prude's at the state won't let ANYONE have it. It's, "naughty".
I ran through some other choices. "1080" is still there. As a former, Cop I know that 10-80 is Police, ten code for, high speed chase. And as a former, Cop, I'd never get into one, but the car is fast. So you have to see the humor in that. And, "1042", which is 10-42 meaning, ending tour of duty, since I'm retired.
My son is a good soccer player, but I don't think he'll make the high school team as a 9th Grader or Sophomore, so he'll be playing for the Murray Max club team for at least a couple more years, and their colors are orange and black, so maybe, "MAX11"? It's available.
Deb and I are, "Parrot Heads" so maybe, "PRTHD", or, "MGV" for, Margaritavill. Both, still available. But, "1700" for, "It's Five O'clock Somewhere" is already taken. So is, "FINS". In the 70's my buddy, Fuddley had a 1957 GMC Pickup truck with the plate, "A1A", which was the title of a, Jimmy Buffett album. That's gone, too.
I could go with my badge number, "2055", still available. Shortly after I got hired, they quit putting numbers on the badges. Too expensive.
Or, "357MG" after my favorite gun? Nope. Too late, already gone in the, "Gun Rights State". You can have a gun license plate, but not a, "naughty" license plate? By the way, "40CAL" is still available, but, "GLOCK" is not.
I'd be willing to bet that the folks at the DMV would not let me have, "NONMO", or, "NOTMO".
"FAST" is gone.
Maybe, "BTBCS" for beating the BCS system by the Utes would fly. I don't know if anyone would know what it meant. Or, "NOBCS"? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't ok, "YSUKS". But I might get, "34312" as in, Utah wins 34-31 cubed. NO ONE would figure that out!
Maybe I should go with, "A362" since my call sign was, "Thirty eight Alpha 362", and when we called in in the Salt Lake Valley we just said, "Salt Lake, Alpha 362" and they knew who we were.
We really like it in, Belize, so maybe, "BLEZE"? I'm a delegate to the County and State Conventions for the D's, so I could get, "DEM48".
My good friend, Terri told me that, "MHS77" was, "too girly, and not you". I thought it would be cool, but I'll listen to her advice.
Deb hates, "BITCN", but if they give it to me? I'll win car shows with that plate. And she went to a, "Dead Kennedy's/Milkmen" concert with her nephew in about 1987 where she heard that song, because her brother lived in Utah County and wouldn't take his son to this concert in Salt Lake County, but wouldn't allow him to go unsupervised. "Aunt Debbie" volunteered. She can't say shit about it! She experienced it! I have her there!
I got the new, Camaro, and I just don't think the, "U of U" plate, B209H does it justice. This car almost screams out for a personalized plate.
I've been looking at the state's data base for personalized plates. With the, "U of U" plate, I only have five spaces to work with. So the natural would be, "STICK". The one I had in high school and until I was 30. But after 20+ years as a PO, and trying to stay undercover and giving it up, someone else has it. So be it.
So, I'm thinking, "BITCN", for the song, "Bitchin Camaro". But it's still available because I'm sure the prude's at the state won't let ANYONE have it. It's, "naughty".
I ran through some other choices. "1080" is still there. As a former, Cop I know that 10-80 is Police, ten code for, high speed chase. And as a former, Cop, I'd never get into one, but the car is fast. So you have to see the humor in that. And, "1042", which is 10-42 meaning, ending tour of duty, since I'm retired.
My son is a good soccer player, but I don't think he'll make the high school team as a 9th Grader or Sophomore, so he'll be playing for the Murray Max club team for at least a couple more years, and their colors are orange and black, so maybe, "MAX11"? It's available.
Deb and I are, "Parrot Heads" so maybe, "PRTHD", or, "MGV" for, Margaritavill. Both, still available. But, "1700" for, "It's Five O'clock Somewhere" is already taken. So is, "FINS". In the 70's my buddy, Fuddley had a 1957 GMC Pickup truck with the plate, "A1A", which was the title of a, Jimmy Buffett album. That's gone, too.
I could go with my badge number, "2055", still available. Shortly after I got hired, they quit putting numbers on the badges. Too expensive.
Or, "357MG" after my favorite gun? Nope. Too late, already gone in the, "Gun Rights State". You can have a gun license plate, but not a, "naughty" license plate? By the way, "40CAL" is still available, but, "GLOCK" is not.
I'd be willing to bet that the folks at the DMV would not let me have, "NONMO", or, "NOTMO".
"FAST" is gone.
Maybe, "BTBCS" for beating the BCS system by the Utes would fly. I don't know if anyone would know what it meant. Or, "NOBCS"? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't ok, "YSUKS". But I might get, "34312" as in, Utah wins 34-31 cubed. NO ONE would figure that out!
Maybe I should go with, "A362" since my call sign was, "Thirty eight Alpha 362", and when we called in in the Salt Lake Valley we just said, "Salt Lake, Alpha 362" and they knew who we were.
We really like it in, Belize, so maybe, "BLEZE"? I'm a delegate to the County and State Conventions for the D's, so I could get, "DEM48".
My good friend, Terri told me that, "MHS77" was, "too girly, and not you". I thought it would be cool, but I'll listen to her advice.
Deb hates, "BITCN", but if they give it to me? I'll win car shows with that plate. And she went to a, "Dead Kennedy's/Milkmen" concert with her nephew in about 1987 where she heard that song, because her brother lived in Utah County and wouldn't take his son to this concert in Salt Lake County, but wouldn't allow him to go unsupervised. "Aunt Debbie" volunteered. She can't say shit about it! She experienced it! I have her there!
Monday, April 5, 2010
59-61. So close, yet, so far away.
I have to hand it to, Duke. They're great. But, Butler did us all a service tonight. Can you imagine how much fun we could have in football if we used the Bowl Games as playoff games in December, starting them the second week in December in all the WARM cities where they happen. 16 teams, the 11 that WON their Conference, and five at large teams. 16, 8, 4, and 2 that play in the Rose Bowl every New Year's Day? Would that be awesome, or what!?
We can do this, people. Write your Congressman. Utah would have had two National Championships in the last five years! LIGIT, Championships. Not, "mythical" championships. Like, Florida and Alabama have had lately. Alabama? Really? You couldn't beat, Utah in your own back yard in 2009, but you took that trophy home? Really? You should ship it to us, because you suck! And you're winning it because you're in the Eastern Time Zone. Fuck, "Bama". You don't deserve it. We kicked you to the curb.
In front of 70K of YOUR fans! Live with it.
Only five months until college football. We will be beating, Pitt to open the season. And to the guy from, Oklahoma who was sitting behind me last May at the, Jimmy Buffett concert in Las Vegas who was telling me that Utah wouldn't have been a National Champion the year before because our conference couldn't compete with HIS. I have to remind him that, BYU beat his, Sooners last September and broke his quarterback's leg. And the, Sooner's sucked last year.
As I told him, "The folks from, Texas are right. You can't spell, "cocksucker" without, "OU"! Suck it BCS. You're a joke.
We can do this, people. Write your Congressman. Utah would have had two National Championships in the last five years! LIGIT, Championships. Not, "mythical" championships. Like, Florida and Alabama have had lately. Alabama? Really? You couldn't beat, Utah in your own back yard in 2009, but you took that trophy home? Really? You should ship it to us, because you suck! And you're winning it because you're in the Eastern Time Zone. Fuck, "Bama". You don't deserve it. We kicked you to the curb.
In front of 70K of YOUR fans! Live with it.
Only five months until college football. We will be beating, Pitt to open the season. And to the guy from, Oklahoma who was sitting behind me last May at the, Jimmy Buffett concert in Las Vegas who was telling me that Utah wouldn't have been a National Champion the year before because our conference couldn't compete with HIS. I have to remind him that, BYU beat his, Sooners last September and broke his quarterback's leg. And the, Sooner's sucked last year.
As I told him, "The folks from, Texas are right. You can't spell, "cocksucker" without, "OU"! Suck it BCS. You're a joke.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Final Four
I'm unhappy that, The Mountaineers lost. Since both of my parents went to school there (no, they weren't related before they got married. So keep your West Virginia stereotypes to yourself! My father was a Rocket Scientist). But I was glad my 76 year old mother was able to stay up long enough to watch the game. Those, Duke boys can shoot the 3. They're a great basketball team. And now I'm going to tell you why I hope, Butler beats them like a rented Mule on Monday night.
Nothing personal, Duke, but this game on Monday is just another example of why the BCS sucks in football. Butler has already proved it, but if they win on Monday, mark my words, you will see the, "Major Conferences" come up with a way to keep guys like, Butler OUT of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The BCS exists because of, But Your Uneducated winning a mythical national championship in football in 1983 (or was it 1984? Oh, I forgot. I don't give a shit). And if, Butler pulls this off, it will be the same as, BYU winning then. The networks, the big schools, Disney/ESPN will all blow a gasket, and start planning a way to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Can you imagine how much fun this would be in football? use the Bowl Games as playoff games. 11 Conferences play Division 1 football, so you have a 16 team playoff. It starts in warm weather states the second weekend in December, and ends on New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl? Awesome!
If that were in effect since the BCS crap was forced on us, Utah would have been National Champ twice in the last five years! LIGIT, National Champ!
The only downside to, Butler winning would be the endless references to the movie, "Hoosier's" since they are from, Indiana. I'm betting anyone who watches network news, especially the morning shows are going to hear it a hundred times next week if they win.
So, Duke fan's, don't take it personally that I am rooting for you to lose. You have a great team, and by all accounts, a great school. But the best thing that could happen to college FOOTBALL fans, who's school's don't belong to BCS Conferences, would be for you to lose, and lose big.
Nothing personal, Duke, but this game on Monday is just another example of why the BCS sucks in football. Butler has already proved it, but if they win on Monday, mark my words, you will see the, "Major Conferences" come up with a way to keep guys like, Butler OUT of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The BCS exists because of, But Your Uneducated winning a mythical national championship in football in 1983 (or was it 1984? Oh, I forgot. I don't give a shit). And if, Butler pulls this off, it will be the same as, BYU winning then. The networks, the big schools, Disney/ESPN will all blow a gasket, and start planning a way to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Can you imagine how much fun this would be in football? use the Bowl Games as playoff games. 11 Conferences play Division 1 football, so you have a 16 team playoff. It starts in warm weather states the second weekend in December, and ends on New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl? Awesome!
If that were in effect since the BCS crap was forced on us, Utah would have been National Champ twice in the last five years! LIGIT, National Champ!
The only downside to, Butler winning would be the endless references to the movie, "Hoosier's" since they are from, Indiana. I'm betting anyone who watches network news, especially the morning shows are going to hear it a hundred times next week if they win.
So, Duke fan's, don't take it personally that I am rooting for you to lose. You have a great team, and by all accounts, a great school. But the best thing that could happen to college FOOTBALL fans, who's school's don't belong to BCS Conferences, would be for you to lose, and lose big.
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