NAKED JESUS's LONG WALK THROUGH THE CROWD

Nude man yells he's 'Jesus', causes 5-car accident!
READ ALL ABOUT IT!

naked

means

not wearing any clothes.

nekkid

means

ain't got no clothes on and yer up ta no good.

What I didn't like about this story is the fact that most every one's attention is on that "crazy nekkid man";

be the one to blame for this mess.

I see something entirely different.
Do not believe this "crazy nekkid man" to be responsible.

For starter, quite possibly a cellphone!

These days, that's the first thing that comes to my mind with a distracted driver.
As we live in a crazy world, do we really need another distraction?

(that's not  even getting into the time "clock in" with this distraction!)

"Whoa! What happened there?"  Weird how our phone conversation got off track.  

(should mention that I do not own a cellphone; amazing how many people think my phone is broken or I gave them the wrong number or they wrote the number down wrong, all because they weren't able to text message me)  

"You know how it is, when talking and driving at the same time," my friend answered.

"Then WHY did you call me while driving?  You should know better than that!"  Could of made better use of that time: Both of us!

His answer,

"I was sitting at a red light."

"Jesus Fucking Christ!" 

("They shoot horses," my mother would say, but not exactly what I was thinking.)

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The article did use the word "catalyse" and stated that the man has "yet to be ticketed"; a pretty straight forward, unbiased article if you exclude the attention grabbing headline.

But, 

I know people.

So does the "liberal" media.

(newspapers worthless if no one buys one; nothing learned if no one reads; headline's forgivable as long as article's unbiased)

Sadly, most will come away from this article clueless, if not defensive or in denial (guilt or lack of?), to the lessons needed to be learned from other's misfortune.

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Reminds me of a time traveling back to LSU from Tallahassee on I-10.  The four of us, about to graduate from veterinary school, had just taken the Florida Veterinary State Board exam.

In the middle of no where, we got stuck in a traffic jam,
one that was creeping along;
really, Really, REALLY...... creeping along! 

I was exasperated upon discovering the cause; the cab of an eighteen wheeler on top of a car....all of it, the car included......in flames....."I see dead people!".....(believed we all did!).......the other side of the interstate!

People were slowing down.  Some even pulling over.

Because they had too?

"WHAT WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE,"
Monica screamed, having rolled down the window!

No.......just to

"check it out"!

What I see is a lot more car pile-ups in our future!

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Word Origin & History

schadenfreude

"malicious joy in the misfortunes of others," 1922, from Ger., lit. "damage-joy," from schaden  "damage, harm, injury" (see scathe) + freude , from O.H.G. frewida  "joy," from fro  "happy," lit. "hopping for joy," from P.Gmc. *frawa-  (see frolic).

"What a fearful thing is it that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one such a word is found. ... In the Greek epikhairekakia,  in the German, 'Schadenfreude.' " [Richard C. Trench, "On the Study of Words," 1852]

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"I'm not crazier than anyone else.  I just got caught."
-Julia Sugarbaker's brother on Designing Women; having just been release from a psychiatric hospital-

ORDINARY PEOPLE

Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere. Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a group.

Ordinary People is Judith Guest's first novel. Published in 1976, it tells the story of a year in the life of the Jarretts, an affluent suburban family trying to cope with the aftermath of two traumatic events.

Although it won critical praise and awards upon its release, it is best remembered today as the basis for the 1980 film version, which won several Academy Awards including Best Picture. It is also assigned in many American secondary school English classes.

The novel begins as life is seemingly returning to normal for the Jarretts of Lake Forest, Illinois, in September 1975. It is slightly more than a year since their eldest son "Buck" was killed when a sudden storm came up while he and their other son Conrad were sailing on Lake Michigan. Six months later, a severely depressed Conrad attempted suicide by slashing his wrists with a razor in the bathroom. His parents committed him to a psychiatric hospital from which he has only recently returned after eight months of treatment. He is attending school and trying to resume his life, but knows he still has unresolved issues, particularly with his mother, Beth, who has never really recovered from Buck's death and keeps an almost maniacally perfect household and family.

His father Calvin, a successful tax attorney, gently leans on him to make appointments to see a local psychiatrist, Dr. Tyrone Berger. Initially resistant, he slowly starts to respond to Dr. Berger and comes to terms with the root cause of his depression ... his identity crisis and survivor's guilt over having survived when Buck did not. Also helping is a relationship with a new girlfriend, Jeannine Pratt.

Calvin, too, sees Dr. Berger as the events of the recent past have caused him to begin to doubt many things he once took for granted, leading to a midlife crisis. This leads to strain in his marriage as he finds Beth increasingly cold and distant, while she in turn believes he is overly concerned about Conrad to the point of being manipulated. Finally the friction becomes enough that Beth decides to leave him at the novel's climax. Father and son, however, have closed the gap between them.

Guest began Ordinary People as a short story, but found herself writing more and more as she explored the characters in greater depth, wanting to know more about their backgrounds. "Before I knew it," she says "I was 200 pages in". It took her three years to write, after she gave up her teaching job and decided to concentrate on actually finishing a novel.

It became focused on the psychology of the characters, particularly Conrad.

I wanted to explore the anatomy of depression — how it works and why it happens to people; how you can go from being down but able to handle it, to being so down that you don’t even want to handle it, and then taking a radical step with your life — trying to commit suicide — and failing at that, coming back to the world and having to "act normal" when, in fact, you have been forever changed.

Legacy

In the wake of the film version, the novel has been assigned in many American high school (and sometimes middle school) English classes due its young-adult protagonist. This has led to some challenges to its inclusion on reading lists and curricula due to not only the subject matter but a short scene near the end of the novel where Conrad and Jeannine make love. The American Library Association ranked it 59th on its list of the hundred most frequently challenged books in school libraries during the 1990s.

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LEGACY is the part that really got me fired up!

Books, any source of information, should never be censored in my opinion. Even literature full of profanity, or those inciting hate and violence.

As we do not live in a world that's benign; withholding knowledge helps no one to avoid harm.  It makes one more likely a target, an unprepared defenseless easily overwhelmed victim of prejudice and ignorance at the hand of others, if not overwhelmed by their own.

Every action performed (or inaction), every word uttered (or unspoken) has a connection to a deeper meaning; have consequences.

Which one would most likely be successful,

a) one who looks and acts politically correct in public; at work

or

b) one who does not,

if one aspires to become a murderer? a serial killer?

Who is more likely to be a victim of a mass killing,

a) someone who intervened/spoke up for someone during a taunting

or

b) someone who witnessed/did not get involved/maybe not even there,

at the time someone was being discriminated against?

It irritates me when I hear, "too much information," as one puts their hands up and walks off, when I mention something about myself. Or the indignation, "don't go there," if critical observation about them.

I'm grateful to have had parents that did not restrict access to information. Being hearing impaired, was already isolated to some degree. Had I not books to fall back on, I would have been more confused, unsure of what to do; would have felt even more alone. It may have been what kept me alive.

I was aware of homosexuality before I realized I was one. Although I do not remember ever feeling so helpless as to consider suicide, I can understand why one might. Aware of how my family might react, it helped being aware my problems were not unique to me; that I was not alone.

"You have a girlfriend....yet?"

(relatives)

"What's wrong with you boy!"

(having admitted to some college buddies that I've yet to have sex)

"If you wake up in the morning and find me dead, would you feel guilty?"

(on coming out to my mother)

"....I scrubbed the shower out, afraid your brother might catch something."

(in the letter I received 3 days later after leaving the following morning back to LSU)

"I can handle you dead easier than I can handle you gay!"

(my mom 2 year later)

"Is it wrong that I don't want my son to be gay?"
(my mother 25 years later)

"I hope you haven't been coming home to visit because of us."
(my sister on officially coming out to her after giving up on mother/senseless at 48 years of age, feeling I had to jump from behind bush to bush around my own family/felt it important she knew before I became completely dysfunctional)

"Can you imagine the relief I felt on hearing Dad just died?  After making arrangements to fly home, I actually went out dancing that night!"
(my response to my sister's reaction)

"We (her family) knew you where gay.  We just want you to be happy.  Mother doesn't need to know."
(my sister wrapping up my coming out)

"THANK GOD FOR THE LIBERAL MEDIA!" 

(unless maybe I should have committed suicide?  wish the anal retentive conservatives would make up their "GOD DAMN FUCKING" minds!)

Factors that increase the risk of suicide among teens include:

•a psychological disorder, especially depression, bipolar disorder, and alcohol and drug use (in fact, approximately 95% of people who die by suicide have a psychological disorder at the time of death)

•feelings of distress, irritability, or agitation

•feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness that often accompany depression (a teen, for example, who experiences repeated failures at school, who is overwhelmed by violence at home, or who is isolated from peers is likely to experience such feelings)

•a previous suicide attempt

•a family history of depression or suicide (depressive illnesses may have a genetic component, so some teens may be predisposed to suffer major depression)

•physical or sexual abuse

•lack of a support network, poor relationships with parents or peers, and feelings of social isolation

•dealing with homosexuality in an unsupportive family or community or hostile school environment

Everyone has a threshold. Would be foolish to think not. To take all the credit for not having crossed it. To believe not responsible for someone who has.

WATERMELON MAN

"What is your fascination with the "underbelly" of life?"
-from a play about a directionless gay man feeling his way through life-


It's impossible finding people willing to listen to destructive criticism (my style of debating).  Finding that any show of weakness on my part is seen as a vice, not a virtue.   Finding people willing to have a honest debate.  Finding people willing to even try imagining walking in someone else shoes. 

Even when I share information about myself, information most people would not share, an attempt to lower their defensive posturing, it ends up being used against me.  They think I'm being self depreciating, have low self esteem, when I'm actually trying to get them to come down off their pedestal.  It ends up with me kicking the pedestal out from under them eventually, and my testamonial use against me.
I'm about ready to give up.  Nothing but a lose/lose situation for me.

Had a dream once, that I was playing a game of Tug-a-War....trying to pull eveyone to the left, only to fall down and get run over by a stampeed.  After standing back up, dusting myself off, found everyone to my left......far, far left.  That's right!  Just me!  As far right as one can get!  You couldn't find a beach front property with a better ocean view.  Too bad I didn't get to use it much before the tsunami hit!

That will never happen, but I could move to the right of everyone, politically.  Be the one to profiting from selfishness while benefiting from the blood, sweat, and tears of other.

I wonder how far I could go before they complained?
Not far I'm sure.

HYPOCRITES AIN"T THEY!
Be fun to pity them for a change!

em·pa·thy 

[em-puh-thee]

–noun
1.the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

2.the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self.

—Synonyms

1. concord, understanding, rapport, affinity.Sympathy, compassion, pity, empathy all denote the tendency, practice, or capacity to share in the feelings of others, especially their distress, sorrow, or unfulfilled desires. Sympathy is the broadest of these terms, signifying a general kinship with another's feelings, no matter of what kind: in sympathy with her yearning for peace and freedom; to extend sympathy to the bereaved. Compassion implies a deep sympathy for the sorrows or troubles of another coupled to a powerful urge to alleviate the pain or distress or to remove its source: to show compassion for homeless refugees. Pity usually suggests a kindly, but sometimes condescending, sorrow aroused by the suffering or ill fortune of others, often leading to a show of mercy: tears of pity for war casualties; to have pity on a thief driven by hunger. Empathy most often refers to a vicarious participation in the emotions, ideas, or opinions of others, the ability to imagine oneself in the condition or predicament of another: empathy with those striving to improve their lives; to feel empathy with Hamlet as one watches the play.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

POP(pa's) GUN

THIS PRIEST COULD TAME A RABID DOG

I always hate it, want to spit on them, when someone offers to prays for me.

Had I not volunteered,

"I'm atheist"

the "sweet gesture" would never have happened. 

A missionary priest becomes a master builder in a booming Bolivian metropolis - CSMonitor.com

I cannot imagine this man spitting or condemning me to hell.

Anyone, really.

Just reading about his work made me feel ashamed enough.

 Cannot even see him saying to someone,

"I will pray for you."

That would imply,

there are people whom he has not.

*****

Jesus Fucking Christ!
Don't get blindsided by it! 
He's still a man!
Keep an eye on him around them kids,will ya!
With theA.I.D.S. epidemic being the wrath of God,
last thing us faggots need is another kid victimized who was blindly place in the trust of a priest sworned to celibacy, but allowed to keep his balls!
You can't get any morestupid than that!


Jesus Fucking Christ!
It's not possible for gay parents to be anyworse!

***

It's like the priest sent to counseling by the Church, because he kept getting  women pregnant, on why he didn't just use a condom?



His answer......
Because the use of condoms was frowned upon
by
The Church.





Talk about being a magnet for a bunch of nuts! 

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prag·ma·tism
(prāg'mə-tĭz'əm)

n.

1.Philosophy A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.

2.A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.

prag'ma·tist n. , prag'ma·tis'tic adj.

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

Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side.... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588

A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults. ~Henry H. Williams

CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCKS OF TORAH AND KORAN

"Jesus Loves Me"

Written by Anna B. Warner
Published 1860
Language English
Form Christian hymn

Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn written by Anna B. Warner. The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of a novel called Say and Seal, written by Susan Warner and published in 1860. The tune was added in 1862 by William Batchelder Bradbury who found the text of "Jesus Loves Me" in a book, in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. Along with his tune, Bradbury added his own chorus "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me..." After publication the song became one of the most popular Christian hymns in churches around the world.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.

Chorus:
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
As He loved so long ago,
Taking children on His knee,
Saying, “Let them come to Me.”

Chorus

Jesus loves me when I'm good,
When I do the things I should,
Jesus loves me when I'm bad,
Though it makes Him very sad.

Chorus

Jesus loves me still today,
Walking with me on my way,
Wanting as a friend to give
Light and love to all who live.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He who died
Heaven’s gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! Loves me still
Tho' I'm very weak and ill;
That I might from sin be free
Bled and died upon the tree.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He will stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.

Chorus


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In one of my earlier posting, "Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do",  quoted Micheal Sandel from the first of 12 lectures given at Harvard;  lectures on philosophy, different models of reasoning, and how they relate to current events.

"Philosophy doesn't teach you something you don't already know.  It takes what you already know and presents it in a way that makes it seen different, almost strange."

Here go my attempt:

I want to first start off  saying that Jesus was Jewish.  Practiced the Jewish faith right up to his crucifixion.  In other words, never stopped being Jewish.

That Mary and Jesus are also in the  Islamic Koran.

In the Shi'a context, imam has a meaning more central to belief, referring to leaders of the community. Twelver and Ismaili Shi'a believe that these Imams are chosen by God to be perfect examples for the faithful and to lead all humanity in all aspects of life. They also believe that all the Imams chosen are free from committing any sin, infallibility which is called ismah. These leaders must be followed since they are appointed by God.

Now!

Imagine....


that Jesus, instead of dying and risen from the dead, he just went into a coma for all these years.  You know....Rip Van Winkle like!  When Jesus awoke, he finds himself on the border between Gaza and Israel as warplanes and gunfire were furiously laying destruction to one side of him, while the other side is relatively quiet with the shy line of a modern city not too far away. 

From a Christian's perspective of Jesus,  in which direction would he most likely start walking?  From a Jewish perspective (Jesus as one of their own)?  A Muslim's perspective (Jesus as Prophet in the shadows of Mohammad)?  How about from an atheist's perspective (Jesus as just a man, a product of years of polishing by the conservative media....both perspectives......the gossiping channel)? 

The Jesus I was raised to know would have immediately started walking in the direction of the destruction without giving any thought as to who they were or why they were being punished.

If you found yourself there alone with a man who claimed to be Jesus, even looked like Jesus, and that man started walking in the direction of all that hell, would you follow him?   Would the Pope or any preacher?  A Catholic bleeding heart liberal? A firebrand Imam?  A global warming skeptic?  A Sheik? A small business owner?  A farmer?   A neoconservative?  A  conservative pundit?  A secular Palestinian? A Red Cross volunteer?  A United Nations employee? A Red Crescent volunteer? An African American Muslim?  A Log Cabin Republican? A nun who advocates condoms uses? An anti-taxation Tea Party member? A christian Blue Dog Democrat?  An atheist volunteer with Meals on Wheels?  A "Muslim" community organizer fresh out of Harvard?


I'm not taking sides here. As a flawed primate, would have walked to the side of least destruction enemy or not; at least until the fighting is over.  Think all of us would have; then,  most of us would have jumped to side of their family, history; anything familiar. But there are a few remarkable people who risk their lives to help the less fortunate regardless of why.  Who understand that neither side can claim to be totally innocent.

Jesus as I've come to believe him now, a middle eastern man of long, long ago,not one of the poor, not one of the elite, who preached a message of hope, of humility, of an inner peace that comes with giving and forgiving unconditionally......a liberal really.....a socialist.

One that got a Messiah award for a bunch of speeches; didn't do anything.  One with a birth certificate that we never saw.  One who's mother gets all the credit;  father stayed out of sight.  One who claimed to be Jewish but believed by everyone to be Christian. One who was baptised by his beaten competitor, John the Baptist, to keep the movement intact. One who lost an election to a Jewish murderer of a Roman soldier, crucified. 



All due to an angry  crowd...... his own people .........too impatient to wait for the reward that comes with sacrifice.


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Rip Van Winkel

The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife.

One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. There he encounters strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he proclaims himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that the American Revolution has taken place.

An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter takes him in. Rip resumes his habitual idleness, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, with certain hen-pecked husbands wishing they shared Rip's good luck.

Someone who has remained oblivious to social and political changes over an extended period can be said to be 'Rip-Van-Winkleish'.

A similar story is told of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Christian saints who fall asleep in a cave while avoiding Roman persecution and awake more than a century later to find that Christianity has become the official religion of the Empire.

The story is also similar to the ancient Jewish story about Honi M'agel who falls asleep after asking a man why he is planting a carob tree which traditionally takes 70 years to mature, making it virtually impossible to ever benefit from the tree's fruit. After this exchange, he falls asleep on the ground and is miraculously covered by a rock and remains out of sight for 70 years. When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and that he has a grandson. When nobody believes that he is Honi, he prays to God and God takes him from this world.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Can BP stem the flow of oil and vitriol?

The next few days will be crucial for BP and the wider world, says George Trefgarne.

By George Trefgarne
Published: 5:43PM BST 26 May 2010

"The result is possibly the worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl. The effects grow like the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico daily. BP is the biggest holding in most people's pension funds and its shares have fallen some 25 per cent. The stock market believes its dividend is imperilled by compensation claims and if the company does not plug the leak in the next 48 hours – BP puts the probability at no higher than 70 per cent – then this could develop into a major international incident, with ramifications not only for the reputation of UK Plc, but for the energy security of the world."

"BP says recovery will be 'drawn out' as profits tumbleLike all catastrophes these days, the story gains momentum not only through television and newspapers, but through social media. Log on to US news sites such as the Huffington Post and you will see the coverage is laced with near contempt for BP and for Brits generally. Tony Hayward, the BP chief executive, has been working non-stop for four weeks to contain the spill and has not been home once, and yet is traduced for being plain speaking or optimistic."

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I can't stand it when, when someone calls me a Socialist. 

It's always some DUMBASS who didn't know it wasn't a bad word (a parrot ),

or someone wealthy business man who thought there was nothing wrong with cheap labor ("taking his business elsewhere hurts him more than it hurts you").

Does that make me an "optimist" , "pessimist", or "just need to lightnen up so we can go back to having a good time"?

House Votes to Allow Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Law

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE


Published: May 27, 2010


WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to let the Defense Department repeal the ban on gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a major step toward dismantling the 1993 law widely known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

TEXAS INVADIDA POR RANAS VORAZ!

Batalla del Álamo :

Bajo el Presidente Antonio López de Santa Ana, el Gobierno mexicano comenzó a desplazar lejos de un modelo federalista. Las políticas cada vez más dictatoriales, incluyendo la revocación de la Constitución de 1824 en 1835 temprana, incitó a muchos federalistas a la rebelión.  La región de la frontera mexicana de Texas en gran medida fue poblada por inmigrantes procedentes de los Estados Unidos. Estos estaban acostumbrados a un Gobierno federalista y a amplios derechos individuales, y estaban bastante vocales en su descontento en cambio de México hacia el centralismo.  América ya recelar de anteriores intentos para comprar Texas,  autoridades mexicanas culpó a gran parte de los disturbios de rebeldes sobre los inmigrantes estadounidenses, la mayoría de los cuales había hecho muy poco esfuerzo para adaptarse a la cultura mexicana.

(clic del ratón para alimentar a la rana algunas moscas)

"En boca cerrada, no entran moscas."
- Mexican Proverb -

Jesus Christ! 

Surely we can allow them to speak their own language.

Least we could do in return for their cheap labor!

prov·erb   
[prov-erb]

–noun
1.a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
2.a wise saying or precept; a didactic sentence.
3.a person or thing that is commonly regarded as an embodiment or representation of some quality; byword
4.Bible. a profound saying, maxim, or oracular utterance requiring interpretation.

You say, "Chelsea." / I see "Chelsea boys"!

Clinton near wedding weight for Chelsea's nuptials

WASHINGTON — Chelsea Clinton gave her father strict orders to drop 15 pounds before her summer wedding — and former President Bill Clinton says he's nearly met that goal.
A noticeably thinner Clinton was at the White House Thursday and said he has just two pounds to go.

Clinton joined President Barack Obama for a meeting with the U.S. World Cup Soccer Team. The former president was recently named honorary chairman of the bid committee that's trying to bring the soccer tournament to the U.S.

Though the Clintons haven't announced the date of their daughter's wedding, the former president did let it slip that he has "more than a month" to achieve his goal.

(would of probably laugh along with them, if only the punchline, as usual, that I heard; but this one jerk.....joke..... heard it all!)

Right in the Middle of Arkansas!

Ever wonder what dinner with Bill and Hilliary might be like? 

I don't!

But can't help loving them anyway;  they be like family!

By the way, not from there no more; just a visting.


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CHELSEA BOY HOPS ON POP! 

"What do you get when you cross a draft dodger with a lesbian?
CHELSEA CLINTON!"
~(Brother-In-Law)~

Yep.  

Right in the middle of Thanksgiving Dinner.  Right in front of  my two little nieces.  Right in front of their mother, my sister.  Right in front of my mother, their Ninnie; his mother, their Nana, my....????....oh who gives a SHIT about that fat bigoted woman! 

Right in front of ME...their uncle! 

Like a scene right out of a movie,
GUESS WHO"S COMING TO DINNER...
"CUT!"

I don't know if they knew or not, although now I know they do, but don't know if they did back then, but if they did, I didn't, so how was I suppose to know whether or not peckerwood knew what he was doing or not, even though I already knew he didn't know much!  That last part did it for me. Whether they liked it or not, nobody was leaving that table without somebody, if not everybody, learning a lesson or not,

 at my expense!

"Did you hear about
 the husband who offered his wife two aspirins?"
~(Uncle Jim)~

All through the house, not a creature was stirring, except them damn dogs under the table!  

Figured that would happen.

"What these for?  Ain't got no headache"
 said his wife.

~(Uncle Jim)~

Sis don't talk nuthin like this but slight stuttering problem.

Betcha ain't gonna  notice  due ah running tad low them noodles. 

Eve'n she ain't none at-tal stil'a luv her to death.

"Good then," 
said the husband. 
"LET'S FUCK, Schuga Boog!"

      
Never heard him say "let's fuck,"  

Nor ever hope I do.

 Tell you this anyhow, 

Who doesn't, even if I didn't.

Of course they got mad, knew they would.  

Cause right in front of what I done, 

something said I shouldn't have done

something said they now wanna know

two little girls..... theirs and mine,

Conservatives can be so silly.  You would think it would be fun telling jokes like the one I told in response to joke told by my brother-in-law;  just watching how ridiculous they react to jokes far better than the one they just told.

BUT IT AIN'T!

Depressing.
Too damn many of the them!

What was improper about the joke?  We had a "HE" and a "SHE".   It was his wife.    No mention of condoms (Catholic approved).  He didn't raped her (wouldn't take no for an answer).   She's obviously a good wife (she going to do what she got to do).  And he offered here 2 aspirins (how sweet).  And you gotta admit, "LET"S FUCK" is the quickest way to hop to it.  Seems we need a verb  that isn't considered profanity.

Not to mention:
We all know our parents did it.  Like it or not, although it took some longer than others to figure out how, we were there when it happened.   Why can't they know they weren't delivered by a stork; why everyone pretends I'm not doing it because I was brought here by an airplane instead of a Stork;  taking poor Uncle Jim  to the airport, sending him back the same way he came, because he had purchased round trip tickets; and everybody knows you can only fly one way to be delivered by a  Storks.

Not to mention:
Just because I don't get bigger, doesn't mean I was never younger. Although we hate how fast they grow, wrong to believe we've done them good by pretending the worlds benign.  There once was a time I could not have served my country,  even if I begged to be drafted.   Today, men and women,  still not wanted that want to help make this a safer world.

Not to mention:
If they didn't stay home and serve tea and cookies,  they were likely to be called lesbians. 
Rather they stayed in the home where women belonged.
Chancing abuse; not able making their own choices.
Chancing abuse:  not able standing on their own whenever need arises.

Not to mention:
   For someone raised by a draft dodger and lesbian, how is is possible she turn out so well.
It only adds up,
that somewhere, somehow, someone is wrong.


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Squirrel Fight: Nut? What Nut?

"researchers who study gray squirrels argue that their subject is far more compelling than most people realize, and that behind the squirrel’s success lies a phenomenal elasticity of body, brain and behavior."

Basics - Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive - NYTimes.com

Gray squirrels use their sharp, shaded vision to keep an eye on each other. Michael A. Steele of Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues have studied the squirrels’ hoarding behavior, which turns out to be remarkably calculated and rococo. Squirrels may be opportunistic feeders, able to make a meal of a discarded cheeseburger, crickets or a baby sparrow if need be, but in the main they are granivores and seed hoarders. They’ll gather acorns and other nuts, assess which are in danger of germinating and using up stored nutrients, remove the offending tree embryos with a few quick slices of their incisors, and then cache the sterilized treasure for later consumption, one seed per inch-deep hole.

But the squirrels don’t just bury an acorn and come back in winter. They bury the seed, dig it up shortly afterward, rebury it elsewhere, dig it up again. “We’ve seen seeds that were recached as many as five times,” said Dr. Steele. The squirrels recache to deter theft, lest another squirrel spied the burial the first X times. Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, the Steele team showed that when squirrels are certain that they are being watched, they will actively seek to deceive the would-be thieves. They’ll dig a hole, pretend to push an acorn in, and then cover it over, all the while keeping the prized seed hidden in their mouth. “Deceptive caching involves some pretty serious decision making,” Dr. Steele said. “It meets the criteria of tactical deception, which previously was thought to only occur in primates.”

FAR LEFT....with EAR PIECE!

PHOTOS: Boy Scouts' 100th anniversary - latimes.com

Check this out.

That's me...far left!

Wearing earpiece!

COOL!

Proud Mama Oral Lee Brown Sends Neighborhood Kids to College

"I'll ask a kid, 'What do you want to be?' and no one has ever told me, 'I want to be a dope dealer'," Brown told NBC. "They want to be somebody; they want to be something."

Proud Mama Oral Lee Brown Sends Neighborhood Kids to College

Nun Excommunicated For Abortion Decision To Save Mother's Life

"H"hypocrisy



Jesus loves me... Why can't you ???

"We always must remember that when a difficult medical situation involves a pregnant woman, there are two patients in need of treatment and care, not merely one," he continued. "The unborn child's life is just as sacred as the mother's life, and neither life can be preferred over the other."

"H"umility

In a letter to the The Arizona Republic on May 18, Dr. John Garvie, chief of gastroenterology at St. Joseph's, called Sister Margaret "the moral conscience of the hospital" and said "there is no finer defender of life at our hospital."

"What she did was something very few are asked to do, namely, to make a life-and-death decision with the full recognition that in order to save one life, another life must be sacrificed," Garvie said. "People not involved in these situations should reflect and not criticize."

For more on this story click here.

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 "Natural" Pesticide
Is it possible, just possible, God  IS trying to kill us ?

The chief ethics official of the Phoenix diocese, Father John Ehrich, agreed that it was a difficult decision. But in a two-page statement on the diocesan website, he argued that "the child is not that which threatens the life of the mother, rather it is the pathology or illness (cancer, premature rupture of membranes, hypertension, preeclampsia, etc.) which threatens the mother's life."

"When we try to control every possible situation in life, we end up playing the role of God."

What an understatement!
At least he's on the right track,
but still,
quite a ways to go!


Reminded me of a poster I once saw in college,

"Everytime someone masturbates,
GOD 
KILLS A KITTEN!"

That's a lot of kittens!

as well as

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!

Wish I didn't feel this way,

but as a veterinarian,

honestly can say it's possibly the best proof I've seen,

for the existence of a

GOD.

Even more so with the recession; 
shelters filling up with pets people can no longer afford or even a home themselves.

i.e.
Critical Thinking!

i.e.
“The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.”

oh!

No kitten!