"PEASE SAY IT AIN'T SO...JOE!"

"I SMELL A RAT!"
an·os·mi·a   
[an-oz-mee-uh, -os-]
–noun Pathology .
absence or loss of the sense of smell.



 "YOU LIE!"

(Joe Wilson)

a·no·sog·no·si·a
(ə-nō'sŏg-nō'zē-ə, -zhə)
anosognosia

n.

Real or feigned ignorance of the presence of disease, especially of paralysis.

a·no'sog·no'sic (-nō'zĭk) adj.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary

BACK AT YA, JOE!

Couldn't help but notice how Obama kept his composure and went on with his speech.  Just because he didn't react viscerally to the interruption, doesn't mean he didn't recognize the disease that paralyzes him as well as the nation. 

Oh he's aware; as well as every minority of any color, any victim of sexual and/or gender discrimination,  anyone handicapped by physical disabilities,  etc., etc., etc.!

But what can we do?   We just have to put on the best face we can and keep going as if nothing happened, nothing is wrong; our fate "dependent on the kindness of strangers" not blinded by loyalty or self interests when witness to injustice committed by their own people.

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"A truly virtuous man 
would come to the aid of a complete stranger 
equally 
as he would a close friend.
Then again,
a truly virtuous man would have no friends."

(I'm beginning to see how we can get a wealthy man into heaven without killing a camel;  coming to the aid of no one in need and having a will leaving the whole camel to the wife.


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Uncle Tom

From Wikipedia

This article is about the racial term. For the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, see Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to the shift in the term's use.

In the novel the Uncle Tom character is a black Christian martyr, morally superior to his white owners in an antebellum fiction whose subtext was an argument that the institution of slavery was immoral. Numerous adaptations altered the depiction substantially, often rendering him feeble, servile, or a race traitor. These adaptations, along with critical distaste for the original character's passivity, contributed to the strongly negative connotations of the name in modern popular use

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Anosognosic’s Dilemma

A bit hard to follow, a difficult read, but very enlightening as to how our brain's handle conflicting data,  tricks us into believing our own lies, seeing a world different from reality, cluelessly leading to what should have been an obviously inappropriate behavior  .   How an act of self-deception can concurrently be beneficial, destructive, and necessary for survival;  all below the level of our consciousness.

Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is. Part 1

Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is. Part 2

"FATHERHOO.....!": OBAMA'S FATHER'S DAY RITUAL

Last year, more than 24 million children did not live with their biological fathers, census figures show. Among low-income children, the figure is two out of three.

"IN THE HOOD!"

Betcha CONSERVATIVES  didn't let him finish.

In what is becoming a Father's Day ritual for the Obama administration, the president on Monday will bring together children, famous dads and nonprofit groups that promote fatherhood to highlight the importance of fathers.

Twice as Loud

DOUBLE NEGATIVES

Two Be Expected

"IN THE HOOD!" "IN THE HOOD!"

Obama steps up fatherhood advocacy with new mentoring initiative

Obama will also ask Congress to move on his $500 million budget request for a Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund, which would give grants to nonprofits that support fathers and families, including job training programs and economic incentives for dads. The tightened focus on fathers and parental responsibility marks a steady shift from the George W. Bush administration's concentration on traditional marriage, said Chuck Donovan, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former executive vice president at the Family Research Council.

Obama's special interest in fatherhood has been a boon for groups that support fathers and have been working for years without much attention. "His leadership and using the bully pulpit has been important," said Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which was founded in 1994 and recently contracted with the federal government to produce public service announcements promoting fatherhood.

WOULD YOU WANT THIS GUY TO BE YOUR BUS DRIVER?

Glen Beck starts out the gate with, "false charges of racism against Joe Wilson", before going into:

"Where's your evidence........?"

"Where's your evidence.....?."

"I don't see any evidence!"

"Where is the evidence........?"


I have a question:


WHERE IS HIS  
PROOF 
the
'CHARGE OF RACISM' 
is

FALSE?

As was common in the late 19th century South, Florida had imposed legal racial segregation under Jim Crow laws, requiring separate black and white public facilities and transportation. Blacks and whites created their own community centers: in 1920, the residents of Rosewood were mostly self-sufficient. They had three churches, a school, a large Masonic Hall, a turpentine mill, a sugarcane mill, a baseball team named the Rosewood Stars, and two general stores, one of which was white-owned. The village had about a dozen two-story wooden plank homes, other small two-room houses, and several small unoccupied plank farm and storage structures. Some families owned pianos, organs, and other symbols of middle-class prosperity. Survivors of Rosewood remember it as a happy place. In 1995 survivor Robie Mortin recalled at age 79, "Rosewood was a town where everyone's house was painted. There were roses everywhere you walked. Lovely."

THE ROOF!  THE ROOF!
THE ROOF IS ONFIRE!



WE DON'T NEED NO WATER
LET THE MOTHER FUCKER BURN!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot. Racial disturbances were common during the early 20th century in the United States, reflecting the nation's rapid social changes. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings in the years before the massacre, including a well-publicized incident in December 1922.

Rosewood was a quiet, primarily black, self-sufficient whistle stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Spurred by unsupported accusations that a white woman in nearby Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a black drifter, white men from nearby towns lynched a Rosewood resident. When black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred whites combed the countryside hunting for black people, and burned almost every structure in Rosewood. Survivors hid for several days in nearby swamps and were evacuated by train and car to larger towns. Although state and local authorities were aware of the violence, they made no arrests for the activities in Rosewood. The town was abandoned by black residents during the attacks. None ever returned.

Although the rioting was widely reported around the country, few official records documented the event. Survivors, their descendants, and the perpetrators remained silent about Rosewood for decades. Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived in major media when several journalists covered it in the early 1980s. Survivors and their descendants organized to sue the state for having failed to protect them. In 1993, the Florida Legislature commissioned a report on the events. As a result of the findings, Florida became the first U.S. state to compensate survivors and their descendants for damages incurred because of racial violence. The massacre was the subject of a 1997 film directed by John Singleton. In 2004, the state designated the site of Rosewood as a Florida Heritage Landmark.

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Haven't we enough proof of rascism, without insisting on evidence against Joe Wilson?

(Blew their chance with Bill Clinton, our first black president, I recall; not only am I not straight, not even black; amazing what republicans say when  think they be alone!)
In other words, when it's too late! 


It's the same story line as that of
Joran Van der Sloot.

wikipedia: FOR MORE ON ROSEWOD MASSACRE

PROPOSITION 8 WITH .....

Orange Marmalade

"Oh look!  We're going to have a wedding!"

I couldn't believe the look Tom gave me, thought it terrible that I added, "Or a commitment ceremony!" She never once acknowledge the fact that he was walking a few steps behind us every where we went that day. He even gave her a jar of his homemade orange marmalade! Can't help but wonder what Mom did with it?

"There is someone I want you to meet."

We had just entered the rose garden section at Atlanta's Botanical Garden when my mom got excited at the sight of people setting up chairs and decorating the gazebo. Funny coincidence, as it was kinda the reason I waited until Mom's plane landed; why so anxious about this visit.  

Charlie Anderson: “Do you like her?”

Lt. Sam: “Well, I just said I…”

Charlie Anderson: “No, no. You just said you loved her. There’s some difference between lovin’ and likin’. When I married Jennie’s mother, I-I didn’t love her – I liked her… I liked her a lot. I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her. I still do… still do. You see, Sam, when you love a woman without likin’ her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun.”

 

At 37, finally had someone to call my own. 

Don't think anyone, Tom included, understood the significant of this moment.  It was the first and only time I have ever wanted to introduce anyone to my family.  My two parallel worlds were on a collision course.  The only unknown variable was the angle of impact.  The uncertainty of the outcome; either one of the them!

Habits are hard to break!

Tom's view on relationships was about as traditional (conservative) as a gay man's could get.  Was always picking a fight with me, about me; making me out to be the bad guy.  Would rant and rave; with his friends taking his side, as well as some of mine.

Didn't let it faze me. Made it quite clear on our second date: I don't follow conventional rules.  Being the non-traditional one, felt it only fair to be patient with him, give him time to come around to a different way of thinking, some room to fuss without me getting angry.... adding to the problem.  I could see he was trying. 

Although he had been out of the closet longer than me, I was the one who had never been in a relationship.  Let's be realistic, even married straight men can't keep their dicks in their pants.  He once told a mutual acquaintance, "never met someone as sexually uninhibited!"  It's not something I asked to be; just worked out that way over time.  Then along came Tom.

Take it or leave it.

What was so frustrating; was always the same argument, monogamy!  I knew better.  If men are pigs, then what we got here, a relationship between two men, gonna be a pig farm.  Even Tom admitted he could only be ninety percent monogamous.  As I've compromised enough;  I stood my ground at eighty percent less.  The difference was his problem.

"I hope you fuck each other and give each other A.I.D.S.!" 

 

That one was easy to fix;  just introduced the two of them.

Jesus Fucking Christ.....all over ten percent less pork!

He knew what he was getting into.  I broke no promises.  Made it possible for him not to break a promise he never would of kept.

To make a long story shorter, Tom's history.  "Although the best three years of my life, had I a crystal ball, would not have wanted them had I known it wasn't to last."  Said this to Tom couple of years later, our paths having crossed. Guess the point trying to make; not until after you experience the intimacy, will you truly understand the difference between being alone and being lonely.

Could never be in a relationship with someone I wasn't attracted to.  That point aside, sex is over rated.  More hormonal for men, instrument of survival with women; with attention definitely being addictive.

Anyway, whoever he's with in New York, I wish him well.  Never had reasons to believe he lied to me.  At least he did fight....... proof enough to believe genuine.

"You gotta know how to fight and you gotta know how to fuck," Tom once said. 

Fighting wasn't so bad after all.



***

"God created Adam and Eve! Not Adam and Steve!"

Someone did!

"DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE.....YET!"


"Woman! You're out of order!"
 " ADAM,"


(bitched slapped)!
"...then Eve."


Ever wonder why? 
Maybe God wasn't a "real" man!



I can't help but laugh when I hear that homosexuality is a choice.  Certainly sounds like straights are having a tough time getting along with their correct choices.  They certainly spend more time with friends instead of their spouses.

Proposition 8 closing arguments to begin in San Francisco - latimes.com

Jeff Zarrillo, who came to court with his partner, Paul Katami, said: "All we're asking the court to do is make sure we're protected under our Constitution like everyone is supposed to be."

But attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund, which supports Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage, argued in front of the courthouse that allowing same-sex marriage would be an "extreme interpretation of the Constitution."

"The focus for it is whether we still live in a democracy," said Austin R. Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the group, "whether a single judge is going to trump the voices of over 7 million Californians who heard both sides of the debate and cast their votes accordingly."

The paragraph in red....

then what's the point of having a body of government that is not elected and gets to serve for life?

And this comes from the same party that thinks we've strayed from The Constitution. 

JesusFUCKINGChrist! 

Compassionate conservatism

is what killed him!

And that was democracy....in it's 100% pure form.....briefly!

HIGH MAINTENANCE

Geetha, 32, came to the UK in 2004 with a family friend looking for work, but he confiscated her passport and forced her to work for him unpaid. He also regularly insulted, beat and raped her.


"He forced me... every day... he wanted to sleep with me. He said, 'If you don't sleep with me, I kill you'."

She eventually escaped after nearly four years, but when she was assessed by the authorities, they didn't believe her and said she could have left much sooner.

"I don't know any person. I don't know anywhere to go. So how can I go?

"They say, 'You don't have any witness'. What can I say? How can I give a witness? Why do they not believe?"

Geetha tried to commit suicide and says she now feels enormous anger for her captor.

"I can't marry anyone. I lost my body. This man.......
spoiled my life."

I was reading an article about immigration reforms in UK when I came across this testimonial.  It was the last sentence....especially the last three words....that struck a cord with me. 

Not entirely sure why.


Although I won't deny life could be better, a bit bitter not where even I wanted to be this point of my life, at times seemingly unfair......

still feel I'm living a priviledge life.

I've benefited from living in a world that's......unfair.


"Spoiled my life" cuts both ways when you really think about it.

As a species,
we're pretty high maintenance .

PRICE OF IGNORANCE: PUS

"arrested adolescence"

(One researcher's conclusion summary regarding homosexuality.)

vs.

Mother of all Battles

 "intelligent design"

 

Part of Speech: n

Definition: a theory that nature and complex biological structures were designed by intelligent beings and were not created by chance; abbr. ID

"The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."

ad·o·les·cence 

[ad-l-es-uhns]

–noun

1. the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.

2. the process or state of growing to maturity.

3. a period or stage of development, as of a society, preceding maturity.

(Can be confused:   adolescence, adolescents)

mat·u·ra·tion

(māch'ə-rā'shən)

n.

1.The process of becoming mature.

2.Biology

a.The processes by which gametes are formed, including the reduction of chromosomes in a germ cell from the diploid number to the haploid number by meiosis.

b.The final differentiation processes in biological systems, such as the final ripening of a seed or the attainment of full functional capacity by a cell, a tissue, or an organ.

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chrysalis

(krĭs'ə-lĭs)

Science Dictionary

1.The pupa of certain kinds of insects, especially of moths and butterflies, that is inactive and enclosed in a firm case or cocoon from which the adult eventually emerges.

2.The case or cocoon of a chrysalis.

c.1600, from L. chrysallis , from Gk. khrysallis "golden colored," from khrysos "gold," of Sem. origin, + second element meaning something like "sheath." Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

evolution

Word Origin & History

1640s, "an opening of what was rolled up," from L. evolutionem "unrolling of a book," noun of action from evolvere (see evolve). Used in various senses in medicine, mathematics, and general use, including "growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing" (1660s). Modern use in biology, of species, first attested 1832 by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. Charles Darwin used the word only once, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and preferred descent with modification , in part because evolution already had been used in the 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development (first proposed under this name by Bonnet, 1762), in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not found in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (along with brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists popularized evolution . Related: Evolutionary . Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Our Living Language :

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection assumed that tiny adaptations occur in organisms constantly over millions of years. Gradually, a new species develops that is distinct from its ancestors. In the 1970s, however, biologists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould proposed that evolution by natural selection may not have been such a smooth and consistent process. Based on fossils from around the world that showed the abrupt appearance of new species, Eldridge and Gould suggested that evolution is better described through punctuated equilibrium. That is, for long periods of time species remain virtually unchanged, not even gradually adapting. They are in equilibrium, in balance with the environment. But when confronted with environmental challenges—sudden climate change, for example—organisms adapt quite quickly, perhaps in only a few thousand years. These active periods are punctuations, after which a new equilibrium exists and species remain stable until the next punctuation.

KICK ASS, BOY! WASH YO MOUTH, BOY!

If you've followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you've heard the complaints that Obama isn't showing enough emotion.

But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history:  Many white Americans don't like angry black men.

 http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/08/rage.obama/index.html

POP QUIZ!

SOCIALIST(s)?

The interesting thing about being a  white male Socialist,
is hearing what Conservatives say when thinking they are alone.
So natural to them, don't think it even registers with them when they say it.

Lil' Miss FLUFFY-MUFFY gets Doc FUSSY-RUFFY!!!!

met·a·phor 

[met-uh-fawr, -fer]

–noun

1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile ( def. 1 ) .

2. something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol

"Of course he does.....YOU go-a-stick'n-em in the BUTT!"

I cringe every time a see a college age girl with a brand new pit bull puppy; this one growling ever since I've entered the exam room.   

It will end,
sooner or later,
one's gotta go,
sorry to say.

It will end,
sooner or later,
last one's left,
sorry to say.

I have nothing against pit bulls, except in the hands of stupid people.  Unfortunately, it's the breed that gets stuck with a reputation disproportionate to it's temperament.


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Connections are being drawn between animal abuse
and
other forms of violence animal abuse.

On a late May afternoon last year in southwest Baltimore, a 2-year-old female pit bull terrier was doused in gasoline and set alight. A young city policewoman on her regular patrol of the neighborhood of boarded-up row houses and redbrick housing developments turned her squad car onto the 1600 block of Presbury Street and saw a cloud of black smoke rising from the burning dog. She hopped out, ran past idle onlookers and managed to put out the flames with her sweater. The dog, subsequently named Phoenix, survived for four days with burns over 95 percent of her body, but soon began to succumb to kidney failure and had to be euthanized.

Wasn't too happy hearing they tried to save this dog.  Not because it was a pit bull. 
Because there were so many healthy one being euthanized!

The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome

“With traditional law enforcement,” Sgt. David Hunt, a dog-fighting expert with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Columbus, Ohio, told me, “the attitude has been that we have enough stuff on our plate, let the others worry about Fluffy and Muffy. But I’m starting to see a shift in that mentality now.” Hunt has traveled to 24 states around the country in order to teach law-enforcement personnel about the dog-fighting underworld, often stressing the link between activities like dog fighting and domestic violence. “You have to sell it to them in such a way that it’s not a Fluffy-Muffy issue,” he said of teaching police officers about animal-abuse issues. “It’s part of a larger nexus of crimes and the psyche behind them.”

par·al·lel·ism
(pār'ə-lě-lĭz'əm)


n.

1.The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.

2.Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.

3.Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.

4.Philosophy The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

FASTER THAN A WOOPIE CUSHION: THE KISS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

Hate admitting this!

Couldn't help but sense while watching them kiss,

one plays nice a wee bit defensive,

one gives more than thought enough,

one stops with the other still wanting,

one seeming unflattered by semen cut short.

Last thing Conservatives need is more ammunition.

Like offering a bullet as a show of good intention 

and 

 expecting them to return the favor

.....and DO THEY!

 

Licensed to carry a concealed weapon,

 would they leave home without it?

License fee's a tax ain't it!

(loophole-ish kinda mentality way)

Al and Tipper Gore are separating!

THE KISS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD: THE VIDEO

LUV THAT SONG!

"JOURNEY, too!"
Remark once made by a college dorm resident.

"No one's ASKED me to turn it down!"

We didn't even room on the same floor.

Kinda funny really.


All I said
was,
"luv this band!"

STYX.
 

As we work,
happens quite frequently someone will say,
"I like this song!"

"Really!"
  Wasn't even aware the radio was playing. 

An eye opener to many as to,
"Just how impaired is his hearing?"

*****
The flip side.

If I  can hear it, while I need to listen, then it's interference.


Irritating having to ask
repeatedly,
   when there's work to be done,
for the radio to be turned down.
Amazing the offense some take to this request.

Is it possible for someone to love a song so much as to be that

insensitive?

 

The Angry Young Man

Lyrics by: Tommy Shaw
Music by: Tommy Shaw



Greatest Hits

 (1995)

You see the world through your cynical eyes
You're a troubled young man I can tell
You've got it all in the palm of your hand
But your hand's wet with sweat and your head needs a rest

And you're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it
How can you be such an angry young man
When your future looks quite bright to me
How can there be such a sinister plan
That could hide such a lamb, such a caring young man

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it
Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're killing yourself if you don't believe it
Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it.

But you don't say "it's not my fault." Ever.

Couldn't care less about car racing.

This article, however, turned out to be one of better lessons about politics I've ever read;

as well as the quickest at making a "GOOD" point!

Click here to find out , "What do you get when you put a woman behind the wheels of a race car?"

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Unscrewed!

"How many women does it take to change a light bulb?"  

I just had to tease Dr. R with this one. She was always fussing about Sam, her husband, her two boys, and me....men in general really.

"I give up. How many," she answers?

"Three!  One to screw the bulb in and two to form a support group!" 

I was laughing so hard; got her on that one!

"How many men does it take to change a light bulb?"  

Having stopped me laughing, she answers just before disappearing into an exam room, 

 "Three!  One to screw in the bulb and two to talk about the screwing!"

 You never would suspected her and her husband of  being pot smoking flower children in their younger days  had she not told  you herself. 

GOD I MISS WORKING WITH HER!

Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction

Freediver's breathtaking plunge into abyss part real, part fiction

DOUBLE JEOPARDY'S EVIL TWIN

"definitely do not believe in a Deity; not so sure about the Devil"

Joran Van der Sloot
EVIL
???

HIS VICTIMS
????

I'm willing to bet you, before getting this far, all republicans and most democrats that knew I was gay, have already thought, and will even share this opinion with anyone else..... but me,

"that faggot just want to get into Joran's pants!"

Sadly, I'm sure there were many who didn't bother reading any further as well.

Shame,
the only thing "we are agreed"......we share the same taste.
No denying....
Joran IS cute!
I can see that happening.

Not opposed to the idea of

"one night stands"

or even 

"meaningful overnight relationships" 

But DUDE.....This guy obviously likes it ROUGH!

I ain't that STUPID!

****

Having gotten that out of the way,

enough about me.

This entry isn't even about Jordan...or the two girls. 

It's about you!

(All THREE of THEM) 

And nobody else but you!

(BEING VICTIMS)

of   YOUR CRIME!

Boop-boop-a-doop! 

 

(I like to remind everyone,  "you" is plural for "you".  Thought I better tell some of  y'all.)

***

TRAGIC VISION
of
HUMANKIND

"Our brains evolved to suit a world much simpler than the one we now face."

 
“Believes in the existence of inherent limitations and flaws in the way we think and act and requires an acknowledgement of this fact as a basis for any individual and collective action.”

Perceptual biases that distort our thinking:

-our tendency to see data that confirm our prejudices more vividly than data that contradict them;

-our tendency to overvalue recent events when anticipating future possibilities;

-our tendency to spin concurring facts into a single causal narrative;

-our tendency to applaud our own supposed skill in circumstances when we’ve actually benefited from dumb luck.

DIFFUSION
OF
RESPONSIBILITY

(probably the most elusive perpetrator of crime known to mankind)

I read profiles. I read between the lines. I hang on to every word. I observe how people interact with each other.  I don't believe everything I hear (1st and/or 3rd person).  I pay attention to contexts.  I read body language. (etc,etc,etc)
But most important of all, I have a realist's sense of my
self worth/weaknesses/vulnerabilities!

Even with all that, life is still just plain outright....LUCK!

"AIN'T MY (OUR) PROBLEM,"
has no place in any conversation or debate.

I really believe, after spending 5 minutes with Joran Van der Sloot,  could of screamed,
"S.A.R.S!  S.A.R.S!"
(SHE AIN'T RIGHT SISTER!)



Life is all about seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, living up to the expectations set by others as well as our own, weighting the pro and cons of each and every move we make.

There's no way around it.....we have got to take risks.
We are going to have people who crack under the pressure.
We are going to have victims.

Two victims bad enough.....but THREE?

Just downright pathetic! To disagree with the math even more pathetic when you consider, blame for the last victim, fall squarely on society at large; everyone looking after their own interest.  We've all heard the principle behind "six degrees of separation".....same goes backwards from the scene of a crime.  So much for the simple math.


Moving on to
Calculus

The signs were there before the first murder; and it's not just his parents who should accept responsibility for their contribution to the crime, but the girl's parents as well.

There's blame enough to go around for all of us.

I'm not saying Joran should be set free.  I'm not even against the death penalty. We have a right not to ignore the threat of someone with a dangerous mind.  But to apply 'criminal'  and/or  'victim' to names,  punishes someone but not everyone responsible for a crime; only gives the false impression to most that blame for a crime does not apply. 

We have this way of seeing fines and jail time as punishment, a deterrent; death penalties as justice, bringing closure; believing a price should be paid to us for the pain we suffered, that we too were a victim of a crime instead of partly to blame; that a criminal can be turn out onto the street,
expected to pick up his life again where he left off, without addressing the underlying problems that led to the crime in the first place.

Helps no one....prevents not a single crime!
Just makes it worse.
Creating even more victims.

Joran may have committed the crime, but society is the one who created the criminal; however way you choose to do the math.

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Conservatives refuse to admit to this. 

They don't want to part with any their good fortune; just the minimum taxes needed to pay someone else to do all their dirty work, to die fighting their wars. 

Rather pay taxes to build jails instead of using that money to keep people out of jail. 

Anything that helps keep democrats (most likely).... from living longer....from getting a fair education......from escaping poverty....from being victims.....in other words.....from voting.
  
Would be a threat to their control on power if they did.

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We all begin as innocent children who go on to have unique experiences that shape who we are as adults. Some of us learn quickly and easily in nurturing environments how to get it "right." Others are not so lucky. Some suffer sustained physical and emotional abuse and thus fail to develop skills to function normally, which affects all their relationships. If they survive, they often repeat the only behavior they have known. We judge them worthless and feel they "deserve" to die if they commit murder. The fact is, at a very deep level, they have already died.

The most important human feeling, self worth, has already suffered a very slow and painful death from abuse they did not deserve. We should ask ourselves how we feel about repeating the disregard for human worth aimed at people who have lived this message for much of their lives.

The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963

THE UGLY BUG BALL

Spider's and their webs have always fascinated me.

Unless I accidentally walk through one,
I let them be,
 tend to their craft,



as I watch,
admire,

yet another
work of art.


( collected as a kid, killed, as most eventually died)


Then I go back inside;
as my heart bleeds,
feels,
even for a struggly bug.

Monet's Water Lilies with KOIS

HARD CANDY

Father's fury
over children's 'pornographic' sweet wrappers

Read More About it: Click here

A father-of-two has spoken of his disgust after spotting fruity cartoon characters appearing to have sex on SWEET wrappers.

Simon Simpkins was buying Haribo MAOAM sour candies for his children when he noticed the 'pornographic' illustrations of limes, lemons and cherries romping with each other.

Mr Simpkins, of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, said: 'The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter.

Fruity: According to Mr Simpkins, the lime has a 'particularly lurid' expression on its face during its encounter with a lemon

Debauched: The lime enjoys a similarly smutty experience with a willing pair of cherries

'The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face.'

He said: 'I demanded to see the shop manager and, during a heated exchange, my wife became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park.'

A spokesman for Haribo said the 'fun' packaging of the sweets was introduced in Germany 2002 and added: 'This jovial MAOAM man is very popular with fans, both young and old.'
 

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

Click here to test your multitasking skills.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html

PSST! PSST! FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

SPOOR

SPOHR

noun;

1. A track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game. verb:

1. To track by or follow a spoor.

Quotes:

In all cases, however, a spoor is to be worked out like a problem, and requires as much brain- work as many equations, and far more original talent and observation.

-- William Chambers and Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal, Volumes 39-40

There are occasions in a hunter's experience when a spoor begins hot and true and then fades.

-- Wilbur Smith, A Sparrow Falls

Origin:

Spoor derives from the Afrikaans word for trace

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Typical Anti-Socialist Email

Conservative's

Media of Choice 

We, in Arizona, know you're boycotting us -- but you really should come out here and see our Beautiful Sonoran Desert.  It's just gorgeous right now! We know you'd love it and maybe you can share what you saw with the rest of the country so they can love it too!(Does the Arizona Chamber of Commerce know you're doing this?)

This is on an 'illegal super - highway' from Mexico to the USA (Tucson) used by human smugglers. This area is located in a wash, approximately 1.5 miles long, just south of Tucson, Arizona. If a flood came, (Are you a global warming skeptic or not?  Make up your fucking mind!) all this would be washed to the river and then onto the sea! (Ever wonder where  your pee goes? What's all in it before you reach for the flush?)

It is estimated over 5,000 discarded backpacks are in this wash. Countless water containers, food wrappers, clothing, feces, including thousands of soiled baby diapers. (Made in China.....?  How bout a diaper change station.  About time we did something useful with those in men's restrooms.) And as you can see in this picture, fresh footprints (And you let him get away! ) leading right into it. (I would of gone around it!)

As we kept walking down the wash, we thought for sure it was going to end, but around every corner (I'm beginning to think, you're lost,  pecker-wood!)was more and more trash! (isn't that the way trash works?  It was my understanding takes trash works that way.) And of course the trail leading out of the wash in our city, heads directly NORTH to Tucson, then leads to your town tomorrow (past this itinerary along the Office of Homeland Security,please!). They've already come through here. (My mother would of made me pick it up like she did the cigarette butts my father's patients dumped in his gravel parking lot as they waited for the doctor.  I had to wait until they passed through, also.)

 Isn't Arizona just beautiful, America?  (All of America is beautiful!   Well.....what's left of it anyway.  Even that's at risk due to the fickle nature of the American electorate.   Not the same America Columbus discovered.)

Why would you boycott us???
(Jesus Fucking Christ!  I haven't even wanted to go there yet!  Those pics certainly didn't help any!)

Our desert has basically been turned into a landfill. (and may I ask where your trash goes?) The trash left behind by people illegally crossing our border is another Environmental Disaster to hit the USA. (First BLAME BP?  NOW MEXICO....?  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Thrash by ANYONE should be illegal, PERIOD!  Blaming a company we licensed to destroy our environment should be illegal, PERIOD! Blaming CHEAP LABOR we are more than willing to hire should be illegal, PERIOD!)

If these actions had been done in one of our Northwest Forests or Seashore National Parks areas, there would be an uprising of the American people(didn't we whip their redskin-ass and move them onto reservations).....but this is the Arizona-Mexican border. (What does the Mexican side of the border look like? They not have a mother like mine to make them get off their lazy butts and pick up the litter.... either?  On the positive side, they are the cheapest source of illegal drugs at the moment.   When you are on a budget, every little help is a blessing.  Last thing America needs is another grandmother who thinks she misplaced her meds again.  Not all of them stay; some  actually boost our economy by legally purchasing guns .....here.....to kill each other as well as innocent by-standers once they get home.....the OTHER side of the border.) 

You won't see these pictures on CNN, ABC, NBC or the Arizona Republic Repugnant newspaper. (Tell you what.  To make it up to ya,  I'll forward this to everyone I know.) Nor will they mention the disease (What!  No SWINE FLU....?)  that comes from the uncovered human waste (not to mention what one can get from stepping in your dog's shit) left in our desert.(I'm against fencing the complete border, but after seeing these pics....I suppose I could be talked into a short one now that we have a pretty good idea where to build it.   Until then....a PORT-a-TOILET or two..?  Hire a few illegals to pick up the litter?  Stop making it so easy for criminals, at least not  from America , buying  guns to maintain monopolies over smuggling routes?  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!  Help us out a little...will ya!)

However, with respect to CNN, ABC & NBC, they do offer us "Special Reports" on cheating celebrity spouses....(Supply and demand, sweetie.  Supply and  Demand!  Make it sound like FOX-NEWS was the only channel to broadcast the Monica Lewinsky scandal?  Can't think of  finer examples of  America's appreciation for CAPITALISM.)

This information needs to be seen by the rest of the country.  (Like we've never seen trash before!  Maybe this person needs to be check out!   PeopleofWalmart.com)

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You can't deny,  if the vast expanse of the ocean didn't deter our ancestors from risking their lives at a chance for a better life in America, then a wall won't be enough to stop someone determined to come to America for the same reason.
 
It does bother me that so many manage to get in illegally, although believe most are innocent.  It provides a target too easily victimized and used by those on both sides of the border, as well as a cover/distraction for those who truly wish America harm.
 
I'm not going to deny that I get frustrated dealing with immigrants, illegal or not, at times.
 
Once, after getting the crew started replacing my roof, a foreman just up and left me alone with a bunch that couldn't speak English.  I ain't exaggerating either.  We had to call the foreman, when I realized the original vents weren't being replaced with the one's I requested. 
 
After we got that taken care of, couldn't help but notice, as I worked in the yard,  how often they broke out in laughter as opposed to before our crisis with language barrier.  They knew I couldn't speak Spanish.  What they didn't know, wouldn't have made any difference had they known how to say in English; unless I make an effort to read lips, which I sometimes do.

Pretty good idea...I wouldn't have been amused.
 
It's not paranoia.  Trust me. 
 
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What do fat women and a ton of bricks have in common?
They both get laid by Mexicans!
 
How come Mexico doesn't have an Olympic track and field team?
Those who can hop, skip, and jump are already here!
 
What the national anthem of Cuba?
Row, Row, Row you boat!
 
What's the difference between AIDS and Herpes?
Herpes is a love story; AIDS is a Fairy Tale.
 
Did you hear about the spectator who's daughter was competing in the Paraolympic javelin throw?
He couldn't see where she threw it either!
 
A black woman  just had her tenth baby boy an named it "George";  the same as the other nine.  "How you going to tell them apart," asked the doctor? 
"By their last name," the woman answered.