Well, It might. The font on Apple is shit, but i have NO idea how to change it, so you just gotta live with it it.
No you don't. I'M not going to live with it! Apple sucks! And I'm offically giving the ipad to the blind woman I live with becuse one of the resons I bought it, is that it will talk to her. So now it's all hers.
I bought a new, little, 14 inch screen lap top that will work in any country we are in, unlike this piece of shit, and I'm going back to Windows.
Good bye Apple I know your NOT A COM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Joe Paterno Is Evil. And So Are The People Who Think HE'S The Victim In This
Anyone turning over a truck, tearing down a light pole, or threatening Mike McQueary back in Pennsylvania is an idiot and doesn't really understand what just happened back there.
Joe Paterno should rot in Hell. This right wing, Republican, Christian, family values guy who was not at all shy about his support for the most right wing, law and order, Republicans let a pedophile prey on Pennsylvania's children for an extra ten years (and how many before? Just asking...) to protect the reputation of his football team! This is an outrage.
And the people of, "Happy Valley" who are rioting, and expressing their love for the coach who they think is the victim in this whole thing, are out of their minds!
One of the players told ESPN tonight, "On Saturday, we're playing for Joe!" Really? Who's playing for, or thinking about the victims?
Yeah, I know, "JoPa" didn't screw any kids himself. But, as they say at the Police Academy, he knew or should have known, about the problem, and he did nothing about it for 10 years! How do you do that and expect to keep you job? Or as he said in his statement, "the board shouldn't waste even a minute worrying about me". I wanted to finish that sentence for him. It would have read, "because I'm hoping they let me bail out of this by retiring at the end of the season, the winningest coach in D1 history, and not fire my ass for being an incompetent enabler who allowed a bunch of kids to get sexually abused."
And all these talking heads from Penn State who hope he'll be remembered for his long service, 409 victory's and his outstanding graduation rate? Fuck you. That's the college football equivalent of, "Hitler gave us the Autobahn, so what's you problem?"
And the latest revelation in this whole thing, assistant coach, Mike McQueary, who witnessed the rape of a young boy in 2002 and reported it to his head coach is getting threats! WTF? Kill the whistle blower? Really?
Yeah, he was a 28 year old, former college football player at the time. He could have beaten the offender into the tile and held him on the shower floor until the Cops showed up. Why didn't he?
I'll tell you why. He was scared to freaking death!
He was a 28 year old, former college football player, who was working as a graduate assistant. Hoping to become a college football coach himself one day, and he just witnessed the guy who had been, "JoPa's" right hand man when HE was playing for Paterno, screwing a kid in the shower. And I'm sure he knew it was wrong, but I'm just as sure that at that moment? He didn't know whether to shit or wind his watch.
So by all accounts, he called his father, told him what he had witnessed and asked for advice. And his dad told him to go to Paterno with the information. As he should have.
This is a crime committed in a work place, by a coworker. He didn't witness this on the street where calling the Cops is the default option.
He went to his boss with the information, and keep in mind, his boss was the most respected coach in ALL of college football at the time. I'm pretty sure this young, graduate assistant would have sought out the advice of his mentor no matter what he had just witnessed.
And I'm also pretty sure that when he told Paterno what he saw, it was not the first time Paterno had heard a story like this. And even if it was? I'm betting what McQueary heard was, "Thanks for letting me know, son. I'll take care of this. You did the right thing. Don't tell anyone else about this. Let me handle it."
And how did Paterno handle it? He told his boss, as he should have. But, at 74 years old, when no Cops show up to speak to the former defensive coordinator, or the young graduate assistant who gave you the information within a few days, aren't you old enough to know that the guys you told about this haven't done the right thing? And that you should have?
After all, YOU are not a 28 year old graduate assistant to the greatest college football coach ever, hoping for a future in the business. You're old enough to know, not only better, but that the right thing was not going to be done.
No one is responsible for Paterno's ruined legacy but, Paterno.
So rioters? Knock it off! JoPa got what he deserved. He covered your University's reputation in shit and scandal. And lay off Mike McQueary. He did what he thought was the right thing ten years ago and I bet if you ask him? He'd have done it differently if he had it to do over again. JoPa sat on the information for ten years, and how many MORE victims?
McQueary can no longer coach at Penn State. That's pretty obvious. But he should NOT be fired! He did nothing wrong, except trust Joe Paterno to the do the right thing. And any one associated with that University who will say they wouldn't have done the same thing in the same situation is a lying son of a bitch.
Joe Paterno should rot in Hell. This right wing, Republican, Christian, family values guy who was not at all shy about his support for the most right wing, law and order, Republicans let a pedophile prey on Pennsylvania's children for an extra ten years (and how many before? Just asking...) to protect the reputation of his football team! This is an outrage.
And the people of, "Happy Valley" who are rioting, and expressing their love for the coach who they think is the victim in this whole thing, are out of their minds!
One of the players told ESPN tonight, "On Saturday, we're playing for Joe!" Really? Who's playing for, or thinking about the victims?
Yeah, I know, "JoPa" didn't screw any kids himself. But, as they say at the Police Academy, he knew or should have known, about the problem, and he did nothing about it for 10 years! How do you do that and expect to keep you job? Or as he said in his statement, "the board shouldn't waste even a minute worrying about me". I wanted to finish that sentence for him. It would have read, "because I'm hoping they let me bail out of this by retiring at the end of the season, the winningest coach in D1 history, and not fire my ass for being an incompetent enabler who allowed a bunch of kids to get sexually abused."
And all these talking heads from Penn State who hope he'll be remembered for his long service, 409 victory's and his outstanding graduation rate? Fuck you. That's the college football equivalent of, "Hitler gave us the Autobahn, so what's you problem?"
And the latest revelation in this whole thing, assistant coach, Mike McQueary, who witnessed the rape of a young boy in 2002 and reported it to his head coach is getting threats! WTF? Kill the whistle blower? Really?
Yeah, he was a 28 year old, former college football player at the time. He could have beaten the offender into the tile and held him on the shower floor until the Cops showed up. Why didn't he?
I'll tell you why. He was scared to freaking death!
He was a 28 year old, former college football player, who was working as a graduate assistant. Hoping to become a college football coach himself one day, and he just witnessed the guy who had been, "JoPa's" right hand man when HE was playing for Paterno, screwing a kid in the shower. And I'm sure he knew it was wrong, but I'm just as sure that at that moment? He didn't know whether to shit or wind his watch.
So by all accounts, he called his father, told him what he had witnessed and asked for advice. And his dad told him to go to Paterno with the information. As he should have.
This is a crime committed in a work place, by a coworker. He didn't witness this on the street where calling the Cops is the default option.
He went to his boss with the information, and keep in mind, his boss was the most respected coach in ALL of college football at the time. I'm pretty sure this young, graduate assistant would have sought out the advice of his mentor no matter what he had just witnessed.
And I'm also pretty sure that when he told Paterno what he saw, it was not the first time Paterno had heard a story like this. And even if it was? I'm betting what McQueary heard was, "Thanks for letting me know, son. I'll take care of this. You did the right thing. Don't tell anyone else about this. Let me handle it."
And how did Paterno handle it? He told his boss, as he should have. But, at 74 years old, when no Cops show up to speak to the former defensive coordinator, or the young graduate assistant who gave you the information within a few days, aren't you old enough to know that the guys you told about this haven't done the right thing? And that you should have?
After all, YOU are not a 28 year old graduate assistant to the greatest college football coach ever, hoping for a future in the business. You're old enough to know, not only better, but that the right thing was not going to be done.
No one is responsible for Paterno's ruined legacy but, Paterno.
So rioters? Knock it off! JoPa got what he deserved. He covered your University's reputation in shit and scandal. And lay off Mike McQueary. He did what he thought was the right thing ten years ago and I bet if you ask him? He'd have done it differently if he had it to do over again. JoPa sat on the information for ten years, and how many MORE victims?
McQueary can no longer coach at Penn State. That's pretty obvious. But he should NOT be fired! He did nothing wrong, except trust Joe Paterno to the do the right thing. And any one associated with that University who will say they wouldn't have done the same thing in the same situation is a lying son of a bitch.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
A Democrat Talks About Guns
I grew up around guns. My dad hunted. Every time I smell, Hoppe's #9 gun cleaner, it reminds me of Fall. Because about September, my dad would start cleaning guns in the house. The .20 Gauge for Pheasant season. The 35 Remington with the 6X scope for deer season. It was a pump. The same kind of gun the guy used to shoot a bunch of people from the Texas Tower back in the 60's.
And this brings me to my point. If you don't know about guns, you can't really know about American history.
Good, bad, or well, to tell the truth, MOSTLY good. Even though there is some bad in there, we are who we are, and WHAT we are based on our relationship with guns, in this country.
Had the Colonists had to take on the British with swords, instead of figuring out how to hide behind trees during battle, we would not be an independent country. The British would have had WAY more troops than we could have taken on.
When I took my kids to, Battle Green in he summer of 2010, and we toured the Inn where the Revolutionary War started (Someone tell, Michele Bachmann that's in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire) I actually stopped the tour guide, who insisted on using the words, "musket" and, "rifle" interchangeably. They are NOT the same weapon. The Revolutionary war was fought with muskets that had a smooth boar and were not very accurate. The Civil War was fought with rifle's which had rifled barrels, and could be accurate to 1000 yards or more.
I also used that opportunity to show my son a three edged bayonet. And explain to him why they were outlawed by international agreement after World War One, because they caused TOO much damage to be easily repaired by surgeons. After 1918, your bayonet or military knife could only have TWO sharp edges.
Back to the Civil war. Mini balls, rifled barrels, cannons loaded with, "canister". You have to know what those things are, our you can't really understand what happened there.
The Colt .44 Peacemaker. Won the west. They used to say, "God made all men. Coronal Colt made them EQUAL!" And a hundred and twenty years later, Steve Earl wrote, "My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt. Shoots as fast as lightning, but it loads a might slow. Could get you into trouble, but it could not get you out." Well, that was true. So what did American ingenuity come up with next? Repeating firearms.
We went from fast burning, Black Powder, to slower burning, Smokeless Powder that was much more efficient at moving bullets, metal cartridges that were impervious to water, pistols that would accept six rounds at a time, and lever action rifles that would hold as many as nine rounds at a time! Sorry Indians. Manifest Destiny, and all...
Then, the military needed a good sidearm. And in 1911, John Browning, a Utahan from, Morgan invented the semiautomatic handgun. The Model 1911, .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol. Called that because, Browning, a GOOD American did NOT charge the Government for the patent. He felt that if his government needed this, he should just give it to them! And most of those guns were first made by, Colt. During the war years of the first and second World Wars they were also made by folks as diverse as the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and Maytag. Who might have made your washer.)
Contrast THAT attitude of Mr. Browning with today's Tea Party, destroy government folks.
The war years of World War One gave way to Prohibition. From which, it appears with as much money we spend trying to arrest and imprison everyone using Marijuana, and for that matter ALL drugs, we, as a Nation learned, NOTHING!
The Thompson Sub machine Gun was made for the military in WWI. It ended up being the weapon of choice in the Gang Wars of Prohibition. Came in .45 Cal. Same ammo as the military side arm. But when you could push like, 1400 of them a minute through a barrel of a gun, could cut a car in half. Pretty hard to hide from behind your, Buick.
Up steps Mr. Browning again. And he gives us the B-A-R! Browning Automatic Rifle. The gun that finally brought down, Bonnie and Clyde!
Well, now it's the 1930's and the Government, decides that there should be some, "GASP", GUN CONTROL! The average American shouldn't be able to own a machine gun. And the average American agreed. They didn't want that kind of fire power in the hands of bandits and gangsters. Just the military and police. Whew! Glad THAT'S over!
Not so fast. Police decided that the standard, .32 Cal was not strong enough to stop bandits. Especially if they were, Negros, and on cocaine! Out comes the .38 Special. The standard gun for all police forces until the 1980's when the 9mm semi auto replaces it.
From the .38, we get the .357 developed by hunters that wanted a more powerful handgun for killing stuff like bears. Next? The .44 Magnum, developed FROM the .44 Russia, but with much higher pressure, and a longer cartridge to keep you from blowing up your .44 Russian by putting the wrong cartridge in it. Same size BULLET, but more, "poop" behind it.
What does all this have to do with anything? Well, it's history! It's OUR history. It shows our fears, and by doing that, it shows us why, sometimes, we as a people, did what we did!
Southern Cops were so afraid of Black people on cocaine, they needed to come up with a BIGGER gun? They could have just become better shots, but no...
I understand why some folks like assault rifles. By all accounts, they are fun to shoot. I understand why ranchers want, Ruger Mini 14's to protect their livestock from Coyotes and other predators. But I have a hard time understanding why anyone not in law enforcement needs a magazine in ANY gun that holds more than 10 rounds. If you don't hit the Coyote in ten rounds, I'm pretty sure you're a shitty shot, AND you have scared him off.
I've shot assault rifles for work. They were loud and should only be used by SWAT team guys. In MY line of law enforcement, if I was going to get in a gun fight, it would have been over a kitchen table. Less than ten feet apart. The rifle would NOT help me.
So I have a BUNCH of handguns. My friends at work bought me my Glock 23, .40 when I retired. I like that gun. Good concealed carry gun.
I still have my mom's gun. A Ruger .22 my dad bought for her in the 50's when we lived WAY outside of Keyser, West Virginia, up in the hills. I heard this story later, because I was too young to remember it. One night, some prowler was trying to get into the house and my mom was home alone with me, and dad was still at work (or more likely, out with some girlfriend. He was an asshole) and my mom picked up the party line and hollered for help, and a neighbor came up from a mile away and scared the guy off. It's a sweet little semi auto.
I had my first .357 in college. I bought it while I worked at Zinick's in Fashion Place Mall. Any one remember, Zinick's Sporting Goods? I used to backpack a lot and bought the Ruger with a six inch barrel. I sold it years after because I wanted something else, or we needed something, and I couldn't use it for the job. But I sold the gun I paid about $300 for, for about $110.
A few years ago, I traded in my dad's 35 Remington for a new Ruger. Stainless Steel. Four inch barrel. Great gun.
And since my son still plays soccer in West Valley and Magna, where I spent MOST of my career putting people in jail, I bought a five shot, .38 Special with a two inch barrel a few years ago. It has a laser sight in the handle. It's worthless when shooting it, but I hope that if I put in on someone who wants to do me harm, it might keep me from having to actually, shoot them.
And this year, I finally bought the gun of my childhood. The model 1911, .45 I always wanted. And after I did, I understood why this gun was never considered for the law enforcement jobs I had. Big, clunky, SINGLE ACTION! NOT a good gun for modern law enforcement.
But fun as hell to shoot! Kicks like a mule.
When guys MY age were kids, we played, "Army". And this thing was the gun you got in your, Marx Play Set with the fake, .50 Cal machine gun! It was always green, and you didn't know what all the shit on the side of it was, but you didn't need to! It was SO much cooler than the German Luger.
Let's talk about hunting. I'm not anti hunting. I used to hunt. But now, I'm more like, Ron White, the comedian. I don't want to get up early, it's cold and I don't really like the taste of game. He said he could HIT a deer at 50 miles an hour in his van and kill it just as dead as if he got up at, "O dark thirty" in the cold and had to sit around for hours before he shot it...
He's right.
So, I'm a Liberal who likes guns. Thinks people who are not mentally ill or convicted felons should be able to buy, own and shoot them.
I have mixed feelings on the assault rifle thing.
But, I buy handgun ammo by the case. So who am I to judge? I'll still vote for the Liberal every time. Hope you do too.
And I assure you, R's. The D's are NOT coming for your guns. So lighten up.
And this brings me to my point. If you don't know about guns, you can't really know about American history.
Good, bad, or well, to tell the truth, MOSTLY good. Even though there is some bad in there, we are who we are, and WHAT we are based on our relationship with guns, in this country.
Had the Colonists had to take on the British with swords, instead of figuring out how to hide behind trees during battle, we would not be an independent country. The British would have had WAY more troops than we could have taken on.
When I took my kids to, Battle Green in he summer of 2010, and we toured the Inn where the Revolutionary War started (Someone tell, Michele Bachmann that's in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire) I actually stopped the tour guide, who insisted on using the words, "musket" and, "rifle" interchangeably. They are NOT the same weapon. The Revolutionary war was fought with muskets that had a smooth boar and were not very accurate. The Civil War was fought with rifle's which had rifled barrels, and could be accurate to 1000 yards or more.
I also used that opportunity to show my son a three edged bayonet. And explain to him why they were outlawed by international agreement after World War One, because they caused TOO much damage to be easily repaired by surgeons. After 1918, your bayonet or military knife could only have TWO sharp edges.
Back to the Civil war. Mini balls, rifled barrels, cannons loaded with, "canister". You have to know what those things are, our you can't really understand what happened there.
The Colt .44 Peacemaker. Won the west. They used to say, "God made all men. Coronal Colt made them EQUAL!" And a hundred and twenty years later, Steve Earl wrote, "My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt. Shoots as fast as lightning, but it loads a might slow. Could get you into trouble, but it could not get you out." Well, that was true. So what did American ingenuity come up with next? Repeating firearms.
We went from fast burning, Black Powder, to slower burning, Smokeless Powder that was much more efficient at moving bullets, metal cartridges that were impervious to water, pistols that would accept six rounds at a time, and lever action rifles that would hold as many as nine rounds at a time! Sorry Indians. Manifest Destiny, and all...
Then, the military needed a good sidearm. And in 1911, John Browning, a Utahan from, Morgan invented the semiautomatic handgun. The Model 1911, .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol. Called that because, Browning, a GOOD American did NOT charge the Government for the patent. He felt that if his government needed this, he should just give it to them! And most of those guns were first made by, Colt. During the war years of the first and second World Wars they were also made by folks as diverse as the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and Maytag. Who might have made your washer.)
Contrast THAT attitude of Mr. Browning with today's Tea Party, destroy government folks.
The war years of World War One gave way to Prohibition. From which, it appears with as much money we spend trying to arrest and imprison everyone using Marijuana, and for that matter ALL drugs, we, as a Nation learned, NOTHING!
The Thompson Sub machine Gun was made for the military in WWI. It ended up being the weapon of choice in the Gang Wars of Prohibition. Came in .45 Cal. Same ammo as the military side arm. But when you could push like, 1400 of them a minute through a barrel of a gun, could cut a car in half. Pretty hard to hide from behind your, Buick.
Up steps Mr. Browning again. And he gives us the B-A-R! Browning Automatic Rifle. The gun that finally brought down, Bonnie and Clyde!
Well, now it's the 1930's and the Government, decides that there should be some, "GASP", GUN CONTROL! The average American shouldn't be able to own a machine gun. And the average American agreed. They didn't want that kind of fire power in the hands of bandits and gangsters. Just the military and police. Whew! Glad THAT'S over!
Not so fast. Police decided that the standard, .32 Cal was not strong enough to stop bandits. Especially if they were, Negros, and on cocaine! Out comes the .38 Special. The standard gun for all police forces until the 1980's when the 9mm semi auto replaces it.
From the .38, we get the .357 developed by hunters that wanted a more powerful handgun for killing stuff like bears. Next? The .44 Magnum, developed FROM the .44 Russia, but with much higher pressure, and a longer cartridge to keep you from blowing up your .44 Russian by putting the wrong cartridge in it. Same size BULLET, but more, "poop" behind it.
What does all this have to do with anything? Well, it's history! It's OUR history. It shows our fears, and by doing that, it shows us why, sometimes, we as a people, did what we did!
Southern Cops were so afraid of Black people on cocaine, they needed to come up with a BIGGER gun? They could have just become better shots, but no...
I understand why some folks like assault rifles. By all accounts, they are fun to shoot. I understand why ranchers want, Ruger Mini 14's to protect their livestock from Coyotes and other predators. But I have a hard time understanding why anyone not in law enforcement needs a magazine in ANY gun that holds more than 10 rounds. If you don't hit the Coyote in ten rounds, I'm pretty sure you're a shitty shot, AND you have scared him off.
I've shot assault rifles for work. They were loud and should only be used by SWAT team guys. In MY line of law enforcement, if I was going to get in a gun fight, it would have been over a kitchen table. Less than ten feet apart. The rifle would NOT help me.
So I have a BUNCH of handguns. My friends at work bought me my Glock 23, .40 when I retired. I like that gun. Good concealed carry gun.
I still have my mom's gun. A Ruger .22 my dad bought for her in the 50's when we lived WAY outside of Keyser, West Virginia, up in the hills. I heard this story later, because I was too young to remember it. One night, some prowler was trying to get into the house and my mom was home alone with me, and dad was still at work (or more likely, out with some girlfriend. He was an asshole) and my mom picked up the party line and hollered for help, and a neighbor came up from a mile away and scared the guy off. It's a sweet little semi auto.
I had my first .357 in college. I bought it while I worked at Zinick's in Fashion Place Mall. Any one remember, Zinick's Sporting Goods? I used to backpack a lot and bought the Ruger with a six inch barrel. I sold it years after because I wanted something else, or we needed something, and I couldn't use it for the job. But I sold the gun I paid about $300 for, for about $110.
A few years ago, I traded in my dad's 35 Remington for a new Ruger. Stainless Steel. Four inch barrel. Great gun.
And since my son still plays soccer in West Valley and Magna, where I spent MOST of my career putting people in jail, I bought a five shot, .38 Special with a two inch barrel a few years ago. It has a laser sight in the handle. It's worthless when shooting it, but I hope that if I put in on someone who wants to do me harm, it might keep me from having to actually, shoot them.
And this year, I finally bought the gun of my childhood. The model 1911, .45 I always wanted. And after I did, I understood why this gun was never considered for the law enforcement jobs I had. Big, clunky, SINGLE ACTION! NOT a good gun for modern law enforcement.
But fun as hell to shoot! Kicks like a mule.
When guys MY age were kids, we played, "Army". And this thing was the gun you got in your, Marx Play Set with the fake, .50 Cal machine gun! It was always green, and you didn't know what all the shit on the side of it was, but you didn't need to! It was SO much cooler than the German Luger.
Let's talk about hunting. I'm not anti hunting. I used to hunt. But now, I'm more like, Ron White, the comedian. I don't want to get up early, it's cold and I don't really like the taste of game. He said he could HIT a deer at 50 miles an hour in his van and kill it just as dead as if he got up at, "O dark thirty" in the cold and had to sit around for hours before he shot it...
He's right.
So, I'm a Liberal who likes guns. Thinks people who are not mentally ill or convicted felons should be able to buy, own and shoot them.
I have mixed feelings on the assault rifle thing.
But, I buy handgun ammo by the case. So who am I to judge? I'll still vote for the Liberal every time. Hope you do too.
And I assure you, R's. The D's are NOT coming for your guns. So lighten up.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Let's Talk About Religion. Or Lack There Of.
If you've been paying attention, you know I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, or Heaven, or Hell or anything that isn't science.
That does NOT mean I'm ANTI-RELIGION! Well, yeah it does. But not like you're thinking. I'm against religion playing a part in our society.
If someone made me King Of The World tomorrow, I would not, under any circumstances, make a law that would outlaw anyone practicing their religion. If it makes you feel good, and you really believe in it and it is a part of you life? And it's not hurting anyone else? Why would any government outlaw that? Makes no sense.
Even radical Islam. You can BELIEVE it all you want. You fly a plane into a building and kill people? We are going to kill you back. Ask, Osama if you can find his dead ass in the ocean.
I'm the only Liberal I know that hates, "hate crime" laws. Well, me and, Jim Canto who put this on my wall so I expect he's OK with me posting it. If I punch you in the nose, no matter what I'm thinking, the crime is punching you in the nose. It doesn't MATTER what I'm thinking when I do it!
So, from a guy who was SO into his religion that he actually thought of becoming a Presbyterian Minister when he was in High School, I have to say, religion is bullshit. It causes too much hate and discontent in the world.
It's all a lie. It's not true. And yet, it causes normal, usually right thinking people to do crazy shit.
It causes people who work for a living to vote for Republicans because of their fear of gun control and abortion. When they really need to worry about health care and pensions.
Jesus has screwed the working people for SO long with the help of the Republican Party! Yet, the guys working for an hourly wage still keep voting to help the rich. I can't believe it. But it's still happening.
Look folks. If you believe in Jesus. And you believe what he said about the meek inheriting the earth, and the the money changers being wrong. And you WORK for a living. You earn an HOURLY wage, and you still vote for folks who make millions, you are out of your mind.
If you WORK for a living, instead of having a living HANDED to you? You're a Democrat.
That doesn't mean you can't believe in God. But it does mean that the Republican's don't OWN the, "whole God thing", OK?
That does NOT mean I'm ANTI-RELIGION! Well, yeah it does. But not like you're thinking. I'm against religion playing a part in our society.
If someone made me King Of The World tomorrow, I would not, under any circumstances, make a law that would outlaw anyone practicing their religion. If it makes you feel good, and you really believe in it and it is a part of you life? And it's not hurting anyone else? Why would any government outlaw that? Makes no sense.
Even radical Islam. You can BELIEVE it all you want. You fly a plane into a building and kill people? We are going to kill you back. Ask, Osama if you can find his dead ass in the ocean.
I'm the only Liberal I know that hates, "hate crime" laws. Well, me and, Jim Canto who put this on my wall so I expect he's OK with me posting it. If I punch you in the nose, no matter what I'm thinking, the crime is punching you in the nose. It doesn't MATTER what I'm thinking when I do it!
So, from a guy who was SO into his religion that he actually thought of becoming a Presbyterian Minister when he was in High School, I have to say, religion is bullshit. It causes too much hate and discontent in the world.
It's all a lie. It's not true. And yet, it causes normal, usually right thinking people to do crazy shit.
It causes people who work for a living to vote for Republicans because of their fear of gun control and abortion. When they really need to worry about health care and pensions.
Jesus has screwed the working people for SO long with the help of the Republican Party! Yet, the guys working for an hourly wage still keep voting to help the rich. I can't believe it. But it's still happening.
Look folks. If you believe in Jesus. And you believe what he said about the meek inheriting the earth, and the the money changers being wrong. And you WORK for a living. You earn an HOURLY wage, and you still vote for folks who make millions, you are out of your mind.
If you WORK for a living, instead of having a living HANDED to you? You're a Democrat.
That doesn't mean you can't believe in God. But it does mean that the Republican's don't OWN the, "whole God thing", OK?
Monday, October 24, 2011
Collage Am Hard! And I Should Not Have To Study To Get My Degree!
Interesting article in the Salt Lake Tribune this morning. A Professor at, Utah Valley University, which was a community college a few years ago, and is now a, "university" was fired because his student evaluations said his classes were too tough.
No shit? Steven Maranville, who was a tenured Professor at the University of Houston was offered a position at UVU and told, according to the article, that his one year probation was just a, "formality" and he would be teaching there with tenure. And then when his evaluations by his students didn't rate well, he was fired.
And why didn't they rate well? Because he made his students STUDY! And meet outside of class, to do work on what he was trying to teach them!
They were put into groups to discuss and learn about topics that he was trying to teach in class. Oh, THE HORROR!
One quote from the article is really telling about what anyone going to Utah Valley, "University" is really trying to do. "Students told me they had never been asked to do this kind of work before and weren't about to do it now. They have families and jobs and don't have time to do this, " Maranville said.
So you have time for family home evening, but not for actually, LEARNING!?
And you are going to tell your professor how he should run HIS class? So it fits YOUR schedule? THAT is not a UNIVERSITY education.
The University education you SHOULD have got, Utah County Republican Mormons, is the one you didn't get while you where on your, MISSION. And, I might add, NOT in the Military. Even though you are pro war, and pro Republican. Just sayin..
So now, you want to HAVE the degree, but you don't want to WORK for the degree. How Utah of you.
I worked with a lot of folks who got a, "Degree" from some diploma mill like the, "University" of Phoenix. Or some place downtown CALLED, Columbia, "University", but it wasn't actually affiliated with THE Columbia University in New York. And someplace called, Strayer, "University". And all these places have a, "campus" on the second floor of some office building.
If your, "University" has a Suite number, and not a campus? It's NOT a University, and you're a dumb ass.
So, this is what the students of Utah Valley, "University" want from their chosen educational institution. No studying. No HARD work. They just want to read the book, take the test, preferably on line, so they don't have to actually go to class, and then they get a degree.
How fucked up is that?
Well, Utah normal is how it is. This state has a culture of, "something for nothing". Our current Governor dropped out of BYU after one semester, but he has no problem being Governor, and making TV commercials for, The Western Governor's University (the ULTIMATE DIPLOMA MILL) telling folks how important an education is!
Look, if you didn't go to actual classes, at an actual University, and spent the time to do so? YOU ARE NOT EDUCATED! And you don't own a BS or MS degree. You bought one.
A few years ago, I got something in the mail. Boston University was offering me a Masters In Criminal Justice, and they would consider my experience in the criminal justice system in lieu of class time. All I had to do was send them $20K. To their campus in Florida.
I have forgotten more about working in Corrections than these losers could ever, "teach" me. But I worked with a LOT of people who would fall for this.
Collage IS hard. And if you can't take the heat, or commit to the time? Fuck you. You don't get to say you have the education.
That UV"U" professor was right. Students don't get to decide the curriculum.
Going to college is hard. It's tough to get through. That's why, when you DO it, you get more credit on a job application than some guy who didn't. Or some guy who did it at some, "University" on the second floor of an office building downtown.
No shit? Steven Maranville, who was a tenured Professor at the University of Houston was offered a position at UVU and told, according to the article, that his one year probation was just a, "formality" and he would be teaching there with tenure. And then when his evaluations by his students didn't rate well, he was fired.
And why didn't they rate well? Because he made his students STUDY! And meet outside of class, to do work on what he was trying to teach them!
They were put into groups to discuss and learn about topics that he was trying to teach in class. Oh, THE HORROR!
One quote from the article is really telling about what anyone going to Utah Valley, "University" is really trying to do. "Students told me they had never been asked to do this kind of work before and weren't about to do it now. They have families and jobs and don't have time to do this, " Maranville said.
So you have time for family home evening, but not for actually, LEARNING!?
And you are going to tell your professor how he should run HIS class? So it fits YOUR schedule? THAT is not a UNIVERSITY education.
The University education you SHOULD have got, Utah County Republican Mormons, is the one you didn't get while you where on your, MISSION. And, I might add, NOT in the Military. Even though you are pro war, and pro Republican. Just sayin..
So now, you want to HAVE the degree, but you don't want to WORK for the degree. How Utah of you.
I worked with a lot of folks who got a, "Degree" from some diploma mill like the, "University" of Phoenix. Or some place downtown CALLED, Columbia, "University", but it wasn't actually affiliated with THE Columbia University in New York. And someplace called, Strayer, "University". And all these places have a, "campus" on the second floor of some office building.
If your, "University" has a Suite number, and not a campus? It's NOT a University, and you're a dumb ass.
So, this is what the students of Utah Valley, "University" want from their chosen educational institution. No studying. No HARD work. They just want to read the book, take the test, preferably on line, so they don't have to actually go to class, and then they get a degree.
How fucked up is that?
Well, Utah normal is how it is. This state has a culture of, "something for nothing". Our current Governor dropped out of BYU after one semester, but he has no problem being Governor, and making TV commercials for, The Western Governor's University (the ULTIMATE DIPLOMA MILL) telling folks how important an education is!
Look, if you didn't go to actual classes, at an actual University, and spent the time to do so? YOU ARE NOT EDUCATED! And you don't own a BS or MS degree. You bought one.
A few years ago, I got something in the mail. Boston University was offering me a Masters In Criminal Justice, and they would consider my experience in the criminal justice system in lieu of class time. All I had to do was send them $20K. To their campus in Florida.
I have forgotten more about working in Corrections than these losers could ever, "teach" me. But I worked with a LOT of people who would fall for this.
Collage IS hard. And if you can't take the heat, or commit to the time? Fuck you. You don't get to say you have the education.
That UV"U" professor was right. Students don't get to decide the curriculum.
Going to college is hard. It's tough to get through. That's why, when you DO it, you get more credit on a job application than some guy who didn't. Or some guy who did it at some, "University" on the second floor of an office building downtown.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times. Football Wise.
This might just be the worst football season the Utes have had to endure since before Ron McBride rode into town and made us respectable. And yet, it's the best football season EVER at the, "U"! How can that be? Because we now belong to the PAC 12!
And being 0-4 in the PAC 12 beats the shit out of being 4-0 in The Mountain West! Hoping you can go undefeated, and MAYBE get a BCS Bowl game at the start of every season is not any where NEAR as cool as knowing that if you win your conference, you are GUARANTEED a BCS Bowl game. And you don't even need to go undefeated to do it.
Yeah, right now it sucks to be us. It's obvious that our second stringers can't play at the BCS level. And we have a bunch of injuries. But football is a game of injuries. And as we have more time in this league, we will be able to recruit the kind of guys who can step up and play here. Look at what Oregon has done. They lose two, "All World" players in the last few weeks, and they still kick ass. Being in the PAC 12, we now have the ability to do that, too! And it's going to be great to watch it happen.
And I'm not just talking about the talent in Southern California. It's not going to take long for any kid in Utah, regardless of his religious upbringing, to realize that if he has ANY potential at all, he wants to be on a team that's playing Cal in late October, and not Idaho State.
By the way. Did tsds win that game today? Never mind. No one cares. Forget I brought it up.
So, Ute fans, we just got to take this season, every drubbing, every turn over, every, "Damn, we COULD have won that game!" moment and realize that this is the price we have to pay to move up in the world, and leave the folks we used to hang out with, behind.
Change is hard. Every behavioral science major can tell you that human beings seek pleasure and try to avoid pain. And that change, even from a totally lousy situation is harder than sticking around and enduring it, because you know how to deal with it. It's why addicts stay addicted, and why abused spouses don't leave.
So we are going through a period of growth right now. And it's going to hurt. A lot. I honestly don't think we will win another game this year. Maybe OSU and/or Colorado. But that being said, I HOPE we do! I HOPE we win three more and end up in a Bowl Game. I HOPE we can turn this around, and some guys will step up and deliver for us.
I'm not holding my breath.
But I can't wait for what we can become with this new conference affiliation. Yeah, we're getting smacked down now, but we've beaten Cal, and Oregon, and UCLA, and OSU, and Washington State, and Arizona, and Stanford all since, Ron McBride took over in the 90's. And we are capable of beating them again. Regularly.
Of course, beating them when you have to play all the OTHER teams in the PAC 12, instead of Wyoming and New Mexico, or Idaho State on the alternate weeks, is going to be tougher.
Any of you read, Douglas Adams, "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"? What was the first rule? DON'T PANIC! So, Ute fans, don't panic. This is NOT our season. But, at the same time? It's a GREAT season, because we have joined the elite in college football. And it's only going to get better from here.
I just have to remember to hide all my guns before next Saturday so I don't shoot myself when we lose again. Going to be a long fall. But a great decade! Trust me.
And being 0-4 in the PAC 12 beats the shit out of being 4-0 in The Mountain West! Hoping you can go undefeated, and MAYBE get a BCS Bowl game at the start of every season is not any where NEAR as cool as knowing that if you win your conference, you are GUARANTEED a BCS Bowl game. And you don't even need to go undefeated to do it.
Yeah, right now it sucks to be us. It's obvious that our second stringers can't play at the BCS level. And we have a bunch of injuries. But football is a game of injuries. And as we have more time in this league, we will be able to recruit the kind of guys who can step up and play here. Look at what Oregon has done. They lose two, "All World" players in the last few weeks, and they still kick ass. Being in the PAC 12, we now have the ability to do that, too! And it's going to be great to watch it happen.
And I'm not just talking about the talent in Southern California. It's not going to take long for any kid in Utah, regardless of his religious upbringing, to realize that if he has ANY potential at all, he wants to be on a team that's playing Cal in late October, and not Idaho State.
By the way. Did tsds win that game today? Never mind. No one cares. Forget I brought it up.
So, Ute fans, we just got to take this season, every drubbing, every turn over, every, "Damn, we COULD have won that game!" moment and realize that this is the price we have to pay to move up in the world, and leave the folks we used to hang out with, behind.
Change is hard. Every behavioral science major can tell you that human beings seek pleasure and try to avoid pain. And that change, even from a totally lousy situation is harder than sticking around and enduring it, because you know how to deal with it. It's why addicts stay addicted, and why abused spouses don't leave.
So we are going through a period of growth right now. And it's going to hurt. A lot. I honestly don't think we will win another game this year. Maybe OSU and/or Colorado. But that being said, I HOPE we do! I HOPE we win three more and end up in a Bowl Game. I HOPE we can turn this around, and some guys will step up and deliver for us.
I'm not holding my breath.
But I can't wait for what we can become with this new conference affiliation. Yeah, we're getting smacked down now, but we've beaten Cal, and Oregon, and UCLA, and OSU, and Washington State, and Arizona, and Stanford all since, Ron McBride took over in the 90's. And we are capable of beating them again. Regularly.
Of course, beating them when you have to play all the OTHER teams in the PAC 12, instead of Wyoming and New Mexico, or Idaho State on the alternate weeks, is going to be tougher.
Any of you read, Douglas Adams, "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"? What was the first rule? DON'T PANIC! So, Ute fans, don't panic. This is NOT our season. But, at the same time? It's a GREAT season, because we have joined the elite in college football. And it's only going to get better from here.
I just have to remember to hide all my guns before next Saturday so I don't shoot myself when we lose again. Going to be a long fall. But a great decade! Trust me.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The Cancer. More Info, But It Needs A PG Rating. Just An Update
Went back to see the Doc today. I was a lot sicker than I thought. In all fairness to him, he might have told me everything he told me today, after I had surgery. In all fairness to me, I was on DRUGS and dont' remember any of this.
The cancer I had, while not the WORST of all bladder cancers, was really aggressive. So, this is going to take a while to deal with.
He told me that I would need six weeks of, "chemo therapy" after the second surgery, so I was prepared for that. And they called me a few days after the second surgery to say that there was NO cancer in the samples taken from that.
So, recovered from the second surgery, and expecting to have six weeks of, "chemo", I'm almost done with this, right?
Not so fast.
After six weeks of chemo, once a week? I get six MONTHS of chemo, once a month. Then, "scoped" twice a year for two years and once a year for three years.
So, the cancer has moved out, but the lease is not up. I gotta keep paying the rent.
And the chemo therapy is not really even, "chemo". It's called, BCG treatment. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin. It's a bacteria that was intended as a Tuberculosis vaccine, but it didn't work for that. It does, however, trigger an immune system response if you put it right on the spot you took the tumor off of.
Sounds easy. Scope, drop some in, rinse and repeat, right? No so much.
When they fill me full of this stuff, I have to do my best to hold it in my bladder for two hours! They will send me home, so I don't have to spent two hours in the doctors office. So I got THAT goin' for me.
He didn't say if I had to spend ONE hour standing on my head, and the OTHER hour standing up right, so we make sure every part of the bladder is given an equal exposure, so I guess that's what I'll find out in November. Being a cancer patient is tough.
And then, since this is a LIVE bacteria, when I finally do get to pee? I have to put two cups of chlorine bleach in my toilet and let it sit for 20 minutes before I flush it. Every time I pee for the next SIX HOURS! And I can't let anyone else in my house use THAT toilet!
This shit is so infectious, that it could harm my whole family, but it will CURE me?
How sick WAS I?! AM I?!
The really funny part of this information they give you, is that they tell you how to have sex, safely after this procedure. They don't want to you give your partner TB. God forbid.
Let me tell you something, guys. If you want to have sex within WEEKS of having this stuff shoved up your Junk? You're ten feet tall and bullet proof. I salute you. It's all I can do to pee in a straight line, and your unit hurts just sitting still. You want to put it to WORK? Good luck with that. Really.
I know there is an end to this. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel got longer this morning, and it's just so discouraging.
So, guys if you smoke? STOP IT! I stopped nine years ago, and it was too late. If you spend a lot time in meth labs, like I did in the 90's? Go get checked before you start to pee blood when you HAVEN''T been in an MMA fight, NHL or NFL game, or boxing match the night before this starts. You really, really, don't want to go through this.
And if you're in the neighborhood in the next six months and need to use my bathroom? Don't use the one in the master bedroom.
Geez. If you can't laugh at this shit, you would have to go nuts. This too shall pass, right? I can't wait until this lease is up.
The cancer I had, while not the WORST of all bladder cancers, was really aggressive. So, this is going to take a while to deal with.
He told me that I would need six weeks of, "chemo therapy" after the second surgery, so I was prepared for that. And they called me a few days after the second surgery to say that there was NO cancer in the samples taken from that.
So, recovered from the second surgery, and expecting to have six weeks of, "chemo", I'm almost done with this, right?
Not so fast.
After six weeks of chemo, once a week? I get six MONTHS of chemo, once a month. Then, "scoped" twice a year for two years and once a year for three years.
So, the cancer has moved out, but the lease is not up. I gotta keep paying the rent.
And the chemo therapy is not really even, "chemo". It's called, BCG treatment. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin. It's a bacteria that was intended as a Tuberculosis vaccine, but it didn't work for that. It does, however, trigger an immune system response if you put it right on the spot you took the tumor off of.
Sounds easy. Scope, drop some in, rinse and repeat, right? No so much.
When they fill me full of this stuff, I have to do my best to hold it in my bladder for two hours! They will send me home, so I don't have to spent two hours in the doctors office. So I got THAT goin' for me.
He didn't say if I had to spend ONE hour standing on my head, and the OTHER hour standing up right, so we make sure every part of the bladder is given an equal exposure, so I guess that's what I'll find out in November. Being a cancer patient is tough.
And then, since this is a LIVE bacteria, when I finally do get to pee? I have to put two cups of chlorine bleach in my toilet and let it sit for 20 minutes before I flush it. Every time I pee for the next SIX HOURS! And I can't let anyone else in my house use THAT toilet!
This shit is so infectious, that it could harm my whole family, but it will CURE me?
How sick WAS I?! AM I?!
The really funny part of this information they give you, is that they tell you how to have sex, safely after this procedure. They don't want to you give your partner TB. God forbid.
Let me tell you something, guys. If you want to have sex within WEEKS of having this stuff shoved up your Junk? You're ten feet tall and bullet proof. I salute you. It's all I can do to pee in a straight line, and your unit hurts just sitting still. You want to put it to WORK? Good luck with that. Really.
I know there is an end to this. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel got longer this morning, and it's just so discouraging.
So, guys if you smoke? STOP IT! I stopped nine years ago, and it was too late. If you spend a lot time in meth labs, like I did in the 90's? Go get checked before you start to pee blood when you HAVEN''T been in an MMA fight, NHL or NFL game, or boxing match the night before this starts. You really, really, don't want to go through this.
And if you're in the neighborhood in the next six months and need to use my bathroom? Don't use the one in the master bedroom.
Geez. If you can't laugh at this shit, you would have to go nuts. This too shall pass, right? I can't wait until this lease is up.
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