Joke Of The Day

A crusty old biker out on a long summer ride in the country pulls up to a tavern in the middle of nowhere, parks his bike and walks inside.

As he passes through the swinging doors, he sees a sign hanging over the bar:

COLD BEER: $2.00

HAMBURGER: $2.25

CHEESEBURGER: $2.50

CHICKEN SANDWICH: $3.50

HAND JOB: $50.00

Checking his wallet to be sure he has the necessary payment, the old biker  walks up to the bar and beckons to the exceptionally attractive female bartender who is serving drinks to a couple of sun-wrinkled farmers.

She glides down behind the bar to the ole biker.

"Yes?" she inquires with a wide, knowing smile, "may I help you?"

The ole biker leans over the bar, "I was wondering young lady," he whispers, "are you the one who gives the hand-jobs?"

She looks into his eyes with that wide smile and purrs "Why yes, yes, I sure am".

The ole' biker leans closer and into her left ear whispers softly, "Well, wash your hands real good, cause I want a cheeseburger".

How typical .......

Listening to the news tonight nad I heard the single thing that just blew me out of the water. They were talking about the reorganization of Chrysler and a representative from the local dealer's association. They were talking about the outrage of closing dealers and wanting to let the open market sort it out versus closing dealers. What in the world are they talking about, most of the American automotive industry is taking bailout money BECAUSE they were unable to be efficient nd survive the open market. I stand by the federal government should of let them filed bankruptcy because they were not being competitive. I always thought America was based on being able to be profitable and more lean than your competitive. More lean meaning being able to work with more for less.

But instead we are having the bailouts continue and people are now upset that the government is making people be responsible. Granted they should have been doing this on their own all along, but since they haven't now they are being forced to do so. And now they aren't liking being held accountable for what they do, but since they couldn't make their own way now they are hating being corrected. So it comes down to either be responsible and capable on your own or let us help you.

Sometimes ........

I have addressed this issue previously but this last weekend it has reared its head again. 

Thats the fact that despite how we are raised and what we are told growing up, life doesn't always wind up the way you are told it will happen. I was raised being told that we would grow up, parents would grow older. Then eventually we would find someone to love and get married, and spend the rest of our life with them. Well I blew that one out early on when I was alot younger and got divorced after a short marriage. Well now that time has had a chance to disrupt what I was originally taught earlier it disturbs me even more. We were always told our parents would always be there, but now its just not so. 

Now that my parents are getting older I can see that my father despite surviving alot of ill health in his later years, may be there physically but he is slowly leaving us mentally. He has to fight harder and harder just to maintain a day to day life. Let alone if you are watching anything that is a mystery or suspense, he is just lost. Not to mention that my older brother is following directly in his footsteps of the way he handles things. 

The saddest part of it all is that I fear I will be following in there footsteps, and that really does scare the hell out of me to think I will follow that same path. I have been active and trying to change things, but I'm not sure if I am or if its jsut an illusion of pacifiying myself. 

Breaking News ...... kinda

 ....BREAKING NEWS!! To save the economy, the Obama government will start deporting all of the weird old people in order to lower Social Security and Medicare costs. 
 
 
I started crying when I thought of you.
 
RUN, My Friend, RUN !!!!?     

Well....what can I say....someone sent it to me, and I'm not going alone!!!!

How much more ....

Well, Sat I spent sometime here at the house working on resurrecting the yard. Not only did we spread and reseed the front portions, we also built a new flowerbed/retaining wall. Let me attach a pic and let you decide .....

Just found this one ......

Folks please remember this is political satire- NOT a personal attack. But it has tons of truth to it.

Psalm 2008-2012

 

Obama is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He leadeth me beside the still factories.

He restoreth my faith in the Republican party.

He guideth me in the path of unemployment.

Yea, though I walk thru the valley of the bread line, I shall not go hungry.

Obama has anointed my income with taxes

My expenses runneth over my income

Surely, poverty and hard living will follow all the days of his term.

From hence forth we will live all the days of our lives in a rented home

With an overseas landlord

I am glad I am an American

I am glad that I am free

BUT I wish I was a dog

And Obama just a tree

Today's Quote: "Americans grew tired of being thought to be dumb by the rest of the world, so they went to the polls and removed all doubt."

Sometimes

I was just looking over the web and seeing people griping about the temps and what they want them to be versus what they are now. So I decided to take time to open up the house and get some fresh air in it, aka get rid of day care germs, only to find its a great day out. 

Yes it might not be 80 with a beach right down the road or hot enough to go out into the pool. But it feels like its low to mid 60's and with an intermittent breeze. Yeah I would rather be running around barefoot and in shorts, but this is a whole lot nicer than the winter we just came out of a lil bit ago. I mean did y'all forget the sub zero windchills and foot's worth of snow already????  Lets talk about people that are just being ungrateful now. 

So here I sit outside in the back swing waiting on a call from a neighbor( need a ladder) and enjoying this beautiful, but breezey, afternoon. If I wasn't being so lazy I would head downstairs and grab the "new" camera and take a pic of the view. OK, so I might do it anyhow- just remember to check back.

What in the world .......

This is the question that constantly comes to the forefront of my mind as I watch the news on a daily basis. Supposedly we have elected our fifth biracial President, but I would say from the sound bites coming out of Washington that he is still on the campaign trail. I mean he is still making sure the proper sound bites come out, and that he is seen the proper way. 

But the reality is that he is wasting alot of time and resources by making sure the dog and pony show we call press keep up with him. And if you take time to look worldwide at how President Obama is percieved, he has made America a joke as far as how people percieve our strength and wisdom. America was starting to recover, slowly but surely, then it was wiped out by yet another stymulus plan. So now anyone that has any personal wealth- or clout- is left wondering do we use it to advance or just wait for another stymulus plan. Afterall, both books of Mr Obama advocate socialist ideals but he was elected anyhow. 

So now comes the other question further yet, how is it that the man that can write two books for personal gain but never a law is fit to serve as President? Over that his primary advising attorney, lets remember where he comes from. His most famous case was when he was working on behalf of the Cuban government to get Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. And since then his more recent exploits are on behalf of former detainees of Guitanamo Bay, but now he is advising the President? Does that not ring of almost a mercenary? Someone that just works for the highest bidder and does whatever they want? 

Yet he was elected President, despite the heavy leanings towards socialistic ideals and open relations with people that trample human rights for their own benefits. And even more than that he openly admitted it in the inauguration speech his strategy for ANYONE that opposes him. Afterall, look how he has went after those that openly oppose him. They make Rush a public target, let alone others like Beck or Hannity. 

So if you see me disappear then you know what happened, I opposed and was put down for it.

Life and Everything

So here I am today fighting with the Coupe again and just in general wondering what to do next and where to go now. I have many things going thru my head including the lack of any type of intimate relation. Let alone about my job future and what to do next. 

Because right now thats a huge question on my mind. I am left wondering what exactly to do with myself. I kinda want to try to publish on the web as another friend of mine has been doing some challenges on here and Michy seems to be doing good overall. But I am also left to wonder if my writing skills are good enough to do it in passing as extra money, let alone take it more seriously to work at it hard enough to make real money doing any writing. I love to write and have lots of personal stuff thats on my puters. But just wondering if that transitions over to being good enough for others- let alone publishing. So I'm going to take sometime this week and decide what to do.

Speaking of Michy, I need to also get an unsent letter submission going. I have a few million on the puter, I'm sure at least one will be good enough or presentable enough for a submission. Anyhow, just wanted to check in and let everyone know I wasn't dead. 

Also wanted to say hi to all my anonymous fans that are out there. I hope if you call my sister about this one you at least tell her the truth and the whole story.

Random Ramblings

Just a few random thoughts for the day:

- If we drive on a parkway and park in the driveway, then what do you do on a lane?

- If there is a Presidential order- why is it he has to have someone else explain it to him at the press conference?

- If the book that the President wrote that stated he was half black Kenyan and half Hawaiiian, why is it since he has been elected he is now only Black ?????

- Why is the media so blind to the fact that Obama is the fifth President that is biracial, not the first black President

- Has the media lost its ability to be objective in fear of the censorship that was promised by the President in the inaguation speach ?

- Has America lost so much of its ability to think independently that we cna only believe what the press brings to our attention as news?

- If you know that everyone is going thru alot of stress and trauma in a relation, does it make sense to smother them?

- If people have multiple items going on simultaneously, is it fair to try to pigeon hole them to only one type of work at a time?

0- Why is it so hard for people to believe that change starts from the inside and shouldn't always be acted upon until the process has proceeded far enough to be cohesive and have a positive outcome ?

Just a few thoughts for the moment ......

Yet another thought- or two

So in comes another round of snow and all I hear from people is complaints about snow and how others don't know how to drive in it. My thought follows along this line, the same ones that complain about how others drive in snow are the same ones I have witnessed that are the most dangerous when there is no snow on the ground. All the same I am used to being told I am a danger to the driving public because people don't understand a driving style. But this goes beyond a driving style, this is just to common sense ability and observing the rules on the road. But overall, central Ohio is still the most dangerous place to drive that I can think of in all the places that I have driven in my life. Ohio drivers are, in general, the most dangerous drivers in my opinion. Not because they're not educated or anything along those lines, but more so because they know the laws and they know how to drive- they just blatantly choose to not do so.

What is a loss or gain?

I'm sitting here thinking about the weekend that I just survived and the schedule for the coming week when something came to mind. I mean things are always changing, thats a given. But I have often heard about progress, but the other portion of that is what do we sacrifice to move forward? I mean I remember growing up and what we used to do for the holiday season overall. It wasn't perfect, but it was not bad either. But now a days, we are always so busy and running so much that often you want the holidays to be done just so you can slow down. I mean you have things that others think are mandatory, but really are optional. I mean lets face reality, no kid needs more than two or three outfits and a few toys. I mean really what child needs dozens of toys and clothes. Its already bad enough that the current generation doesn't understand the true difference between need and want. Let alone to continue to feed the delusion by soothing guilt at Christmas by spending money we don't have to get presents the kids only want because they see it on TV. It just irks me that people wonder why America is in the present state, but continue to do everything in excess. I mean, we are the world's best and worse nation. We are the best as far as overall healthcare and lifestyle. We are the worse as far as just abusing everything by using it to the excess. I know I'm only adding to the whine of it all, but, maybe after we finish falling finanically will we as a nation see the light.

Random Thoughts

So here I sit, wondering just what is really going on. I mean lets put it this way, do you ever think about the big picture and what we know that the government doesn't want us to know? I mean the more research I do on the web, the more I see we are getting ready to repeat history- again. Meaning the last time we were in this situation was quite a few years ago. Hoover was dealing with the first round of Black Monday, and the nation voted for change in the name of Mr Roosevelt. What he did was doubled down on what Hoover started.

That wound up being a great short term fix, but not something that would last. That also started the trend that has now spread to the masses. And that is to spend more than what we have, afterall- look at our national debt and tell me that it hasn't magnified. I mean here we are promising all this money to other nations, some industries, and even to our financial institutions. I mean most of these people and companies are in the spot they are because they have not been efficient or effective in their practices. On one hand the best thing the government could do to rectify the situation is not bail out the industries. At the same time that is also the worst thing they could do for the situation.

But I still feel that they need to make those that ran these companies into the ground, also responsible for there part in it as well. I mean you have companies that were struggling to cut a profit, but the top execs recieved about 10% of the raw income as pay and benefits. I understand paying someone that is effective at their job, but the companies have went down the toilet. So obviously they have not been effective in what they are doing. So lets make them pay for the lack of job performance by helping them realize where they have failed.

It still amazes me to boot that after America voted for change, the first thing that our soon to be president has done is back down from what he said he was going to do when he was campaigning. So between this and the way our government is giving money we don't even have to everyone- how are we supposed to have faith in our government? I mean if O'Bama gets his way and they repeal the law that allows the media to speak freely- that will also limit what we can blog here as well. I know they claim that wont happen, but in fact they will do it- he has already said as much.

So if you look at it from another point of view lets go look at Germany pre World War 2. First thing Hitler did was get elected, then he restricted free speech then he took away guns. Am I the only one seeing a pattern on this one??? I pray I am wrong, but if not then I will do what I have to for survival.

The realization of Taoism

I have been riding a streak of luck lately that has been completely unexpected. It seems that for the last few years I couldn't catch a break in most areas of my life. Yet when I would sometimes apparently get a break, it wound up costing me even more before all was said and done. The longest line has been employment, but so far this occurance has been held at bay.

It used to be I would think that I found a few things that had gone the right way and yet in the end it was vastly to the opposite. My life has been a long line of direction and misdirection. Today has been that way as well, polar opposites and lots of in between all in very little time. But sometimes life is that way for ya. All you can do is let it happen, evaluate- then react after that. And thats what I have been doing as of late. Let life happen, see whats the reality of it and go from there. If you are a frequent reader at all, you know I think this country lost its mind recently. Or at least the electorates did the losing of the mind. At any pace, it was not a good choice. But the future will bear that out for sure.

All the same I have had to rely on the fact that I am a Taoist more than ever before. I know people are used to relying on their religion. And I know I was raised to be that way as well, but life has taught me that the church can't be trusted at all. I am not against religion at all costs, but I do believe there are alot of people that wont be in heaven. That sad fact alone will take many by shock, and I still think there are alot that will show their true colors by the result of where they wind up. But the biggest fact that people need to remember is that in life all that comes around goes around. Just it seems that lately alot has been going on, its made me look back to the past and try to improve what I do for the future.

Oh- the holidays.....

Well I have officially survived the first of the yearly disasterous trio of holidays. And somehow, I came thru it relatively unscathed. Partially because I had a better than normal outlook thanks to a new possibility of romance.

But also just because of all that going on in the world this year, it seems to have grounded alot more people than in the past. Maybe we need more of these rough times to remind people of what matters in life and whats important to people in reality.

All I know for sure is that its great to see alot of people understanding and getting the holidays for what they were meant to be. A celebration of the people that get together, not everyone trying to one up the other. I can only hope that it carries over into the other two holidays as well.

Yet Another Joy ........

As Americans we all enjoy alot of optional things and have come to see some of those as mandatory things for life. But it seems that some of us have differnt priorities than others do even when comng from a common background. That what even some raised in the same style, or family, will differ in the ways they live day to day.

I mean in our family alone if you look at how religion plays a role in our lives- its widely disparaged. Let alone when you look at what each of us see as what we need or want for us to live day to day. I find this quite humorous on some fronts, other fronts its quite bothersome. But as differnt as our lifestyles and choices have been we stil tolerate each other for the sake of the ones that we call Mother and Father.

Otherwise I'm sure that quite a many times, at least personally, I would have just walked away and been done with the others. Because they think the majority of life is always negotiable. I still think that no matter what people want to think its the common event that will kill America as a whole. That event will not be finding common ground or a compromise to get along. But rather a majority sale of life or wholesale sell of beliefs just so a group or person can think that it makes them more appealing to others.

Why not do something because its what you want to do? I mean other than the obsessive nature of Americans as a culture to want and need the best while only putting in a mediocre at best attempt to reach the same level. We as a nation have become to whiney and dependent on hand outs. And it needs to stop before it does cause the entire collapse of America.

WTH !!!!

I was taking time this morning and checking video feeds and such. When I came across something that I had heard briefly about on talk radio. It seems that even though this great country lost their mind long enough to elect Obama, lets add insult to injury a bit further. That would be that those closest to Obama are already holding press conferences to deflate the expectations. They have already had a press conference saying that when Obama takes office he wont have the recession or any other major issue taken care of by July 4th. Now I'm not sure when it was promised that it would be fixed by the 4th- that passed me by.

But what alarms me is that this is the SECOND MAJOR TIME they have had to reinvent expectations. First time was the Democractic convention, now even before he is in the office they are doing it again. This really does scare me and is why I was so concerned about the possibility of him being elected. BUT- now we are here and this does not bode well for the future of America.

I only pray to God that this is the end of this because anything more than this means that we will be fighting the next war for America in our backyards .... LITERALLY !!!

Gotta Love ......

In everyone's life there are certain things that you love to do. Then we have even more things that we have to do if we like it or not. That latter subject comes to mind as the Holidays come a running into our face for the end of the year. I often quip that our family puts the "fun" in dysfunctional, but as I sit here and deal with my family having returned home from "vacation" I see the truth to the quip. I love all of my family in moderation. but most days they beat that moderation to pieces. This is yet another one of those days.

Observations......

After having been on POF for a while and participating some and watching for the most part- thinking back something hit me. Everyone is looking for this perfect other person to enter their unhappy and flawed life that will magically make everything instantly better. I will agree there is someone for everyone out there; you just have to find them.

But there is no perfect person that will suddenly make life become all justified. I mean it’s just like anything else in life, would it be as rewarding if it was something easy to do? The easiest answer is that it would not be anywhere close. It comes down to something only turns out as well as the effort you put into it. Plain and simple. It seems that certain people don’t want to admit they have faults. Whatever has gone wrong in their life has always been someone else’s fault. Then they wonder why they are still alone and hurting.

It seems that most people on POF want someone else that is going to come into their life and make everything bad that’s happened to them just go away. That this other mystery person also holds all the answers to their future and financial issues. Not to mention the fact that this person will automatically and immediately love them for everything they are at that moment. Not to mention what they will become after all these solutions have come thru from the other person.

Reality is more along the lines of the fact that everyone has strengths and weaknesses in their lives and personalities. The key to making a relation work is finding that other person that offsets your personality- both the good and bad points. And that you accent their strengths and weaknesses as well. So that there is a sense of balance within you two at a natural level.

Otherwise, as you continue to get to know each other and the relation grows- it gets stale because of a lack of commonality. Meaning that besides the weakness and strengths and differences, there is nothing else to keep you together. After each other’s habits are no longer cute, but more of the lines of oh they did THAT again. You will eventually have to rely on the mental and personality compatibilities for the relation to continue to work. It’s not fun having to admit that factor, but it is a fact for a relation to last and be long term. Long term meaning more than just a year or so.

I guess what it comes down to is people want relations to be an easy thing that just happens. And like the rest of life, anything worth having comes with a good bit of work. It takes work, dedication, passion, determination, and most of all mutual love. And sometimes that means telling your “friends” that you appreciate their point of view, but you are doing what is best for yourself. It doesn’t mean to not listen, but it does mean you have to remember that they only see the outside and what you tell or convey to them about the relation. Then after all of that is considered you can decide if that’s how you wish to spend your life or not.

Who knew ...............

Its amazing the more I live life the more I figure out its more of a mystery than whats explained. I mean who knew that the line out of the movie Shooter was true when they are at the "gun expert's" house and he tells them the more you have life figured out the more it turns out to be more confusing lies.

I guess after being snake bitten for so long, I was gunshy the one time I shouldn't of been. Now it seems I have ruined what was the best thing in my life cause I thoght it was yet another trick.

Who knew ...............