So tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day which means we should remember to give thanks to what we have. Thank you!
I will be out of the blogging loop for the next few days because I will be away from any form of PC until Monday. So to keep you occupied until I get back, here is a set of pictures to keep you going.
So y’all have a nice, safe, and happy Thanksgiving.
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Okay, when I said that I was thinking about leaving the country I was joking… like who can afford to leave the country with the dollar so weak. Some people however have decided that it is better to leave for either financial or personal reasons. This article gives some of the reasons why so many people are seriously working toward leaving the country. I agree with the people who Dean Schabner interviewed, the U.S. doesn’t feel like home. It seems that we have become more polarized, less tolerant, and fanatically religious. What happened to the USA that cherished the individual, respected rights, and looked after the neighbors. We are becoming more and more a police state that overlooks the individual and caters to the radical minority, erodes the fundamental rights of all people in the name of national security, and persecutes the neighbors for them being “unpatriotic”. People we are in a really bad mess. The rest of the world looks at us as if we were criminal warmongers. We look like the very people that committing the acts of terrorism.
This is exactly what Osama bin Laden wanted to happen when 9/11 happened.
And things are not going to get better.
This is what I see happening…
- The return of the draft. Troops are going to have to come from somewhere and I don’t trust Bush not to re-instate it.
- Worsening economy at the price of the consumer.
- An attack on Iran. How else do you explain Bush’s reluctance to talk with Iran about nuclear proliferation.
- An all out ban on gay marriages and civil unions.
- Still in Afghanistan and Iraq at the end of Bush’s 2008 term.
- An attempt to further restrict the right of women to control their bodies.
- A continuing erosion of personal freedoms.
- More corporate-centric legislation and activities.
- Possible sanctions against us by the EU or UN and retribution by the US.
- The continuing increase in the number of workers giving up on finding a job.
- More people joining the ranks of the uninsured and the under-insured.
- Astronomically higher deficit.
- Impending collapse of Social Security and Medicaid.
- Even deeper division between political parties and people.
I hope and pray that none of this comes to be.
Of course you could just say I’m a doom-sayer and overly liberal person. Well, the Political Compass seems to verify the overly liberal part. I took this test that Eden mentioned in her blog and I received a bit of a shock with my results. Here is what it told me…
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00
And here is some of the results of world leaders…
I am further from center than Gandhi!
I’ll have to get back with you on the doom-sayer thing.
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The NCAA Division I-AA play-offs start this Saturday (November 27)! Did your favorite I-AA college team make it this year?(link is to pdf file) Mine did and I’m goin’ to be rootin’ for alma mater to go all the way. So don’t call me Saturday ’cause I’m gonna be in the loud house pullin’ for my team.
And for those of you who care about the NFL… the Falcons won again! My boys are 8 and 2 for the season and have a 4 game lead in the division. With six more games to go, the play-offs are on the horizon.
And don’t miss the Thanksgiving Day games Indianapolis at Detroit @ 12:37 p.m. on CBS and Chicago at Dallas @ 4:35 p.m. on FOX.
Don’t worry, college baseball is starting soon.
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Remember the Virtual Barmaid from Friday? Some very thoughtful person recommended two more words use….
Coyote Ugly
orgasm
Both of these are really hot, especially the big O one. Thanks KA.
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Tracy is to blame for me whittling away my afternoon on this virtual barmaid. Type in what you want her to do, or just a word.
Try…
shake
dance
ass
fight
pillow fight
jump
jiggle
dance
bend
spin
shirt
knees
belly
lick
beer
wet
makeout
tap
breasts
strip
banana
fuck
bottle
talk
phone
pout
laugh
sleep
tongue
box
hair
Have a good time, y’all. Yeah, I spent too much time on this site.
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If I were a carpenter and you were this week’s Friday Five, would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?
1. If you were a shoe, what would you look like?
Really old, really ratty, but comfortable and good sneakers.
2. If you were a t-shirt, what would you say?
“Beware of talking to this person. He may say really stupid things and act really crazy if you give him chocolate.”
3. If your house caught on fire and was burning to the ground…what is the one thing you’d save and why?
My family. I replace most everything else, but I can never replace my family.
4. If you were a book…would you read yourself?
Hell yes! Who else has this many fantasies and wild dreams and still can be called normal.
5. If you could do anything at all (without consequences), what would you do?
Oh boy, loaded question. If my wife read this blog I would have the answer that I am about to give. On second hand, she already knows about this. I guess I would have really hot unfeathered no-guilt sex with a lot of hot, beautiful women…. then I go bath in chocolate sauce.
Do your Friday Five.
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He: “Can we have sex now?”
She: “No.”
He: “Howabout now?”
She: “Still no.”
He: “Is now a good time to have sex?”
She: “No!”
He: “Is it a good time now?”
She: “I said no!”
He: “So now is a good time?”
She: “I said no and I meant it!”
He: “So you’re saying that now is a good time for sex?”
She: “You ask me again and I’ll split your head with this book!”
He: “Okay.”
Long silent pause….
She: “Let’s have sex!”
He: “I’m not in the mood.”
She: “But I wanna have sex!”
He: “I’m not in the mood I said.”
She: “You were a few minutes ago. I want sex now!”
He: “Okay, when the commercial with Cindy Crawford comes on we’ll have sex.”
Slightly longer pause…
He: “Do you think this sketch is stupid?”
She: “Yes. It has no punchline and it just drags on and on.”
He: “Maybe we should tell Michael to quit typing.”
She: “I agree.”
Both: “Okay Michael, the joke is over.”
Slightly less longer pause….
He: “Can we have sex now?”
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This song by Stephen Stills from his Buffalo Springfield days came on the radio this afternoon and it is very apt for our times with all of the governmental erosion of our rights and the threat of terrorism. This song was based on a Sunset Strip mob scene that involved an incident of police brutality against a group of hippies. The song morphed later into a statement against the Vietnam war, the Kent State shootings, and the assassination of Martin Luther King. I am surprised that no contemporary artist has not made a cover of the song since 9/11.
It gives one pause to think that the United States may have come full circle to the Vietnam war era with the Iraq war.
What do you think?
For What It’s Worth
Stephen Stills
There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
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Did someone start filming The Mummy III without telling me? It seems that Egypt, Cairo to be exact, is overrun by a plague of locusts. This may seem like an omen that the world is coming to an end, but apparently this happens more frequently that we thought since Egypt has a locust eradicating teams to handle this situation. So don’t go running for the bomb shelter even though Putin did announce a new type of nuclear weapon. No that is something I don’t understand. Who is Russia gonna launch these missiles at? Us? Like we are a threat to them. Terrorists? Like blowing up the house to get rid on one cockroach. Iranians? Come on, one well place conventional warhead would take out their nuclear weapons. Europe? Napoleon did long ago, so no threat of invasion there. Aliens? Well maybe, if they don’t have those shields like in ID4 Monsters? You have Blade and Van Helsing for that.
Maybe they just want to protect those beautiful redheaded Russian women from us capitalistic Americans.
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Posted by: Yoggie in News
This ZDNet AnchorDesk article on P2P litigation is a disturbing look at what the RIAA’s attempt to shut down music piracy by making P2P illegal can lead to the erosion of more of our rights and to the eventual downfall of the Internet. On the surface it sounds like a lot of doomsaying and overreacting, but the author makes a valid point and I have heard that this could come to pass from other sources. Now the chances of the RIAA getting any more power is slim, but with Supreme Court seats becoming vacant soon, Bush may load the bench with pro-industry judges much like he loads his cabinet with same.
Now don’t let this article get you too down, there is a way for the music industry to slow down piracy with the new types of copyright that is discussed in the article, if only the RIAA would stop thinking about its pockets and start thinking about the artists and the consumers.
And there is a cool link to free music by Wired magazine in the article as well.
Reminds me of an offhand observation by an NPR reporter that Bush’s administration is chocked full of pro-business people and that consumers are being under-represented and being ignored with businesses come in conflict with consumers. A reminder to the present administration, businesses need consumers, consumers don’t need businesses.
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