Various musings update

Here is a post from 2006, which was an update of a post from the year before....
I will put ^^ in front of the new updated comments. (or in red)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2006

Various musings update

Here is a post from last year... Now to update it.

Things accomplished over the weekend.
1. Pulled weeds from slope.... slope sucks, must find a good groundcover to protect the slope..... did half of it.... filled green "bio" trash can so will do the rest next weekend..... lovely.
Have not done the slope yet this year, its time it is done, soI will start it tonight....still no groundcover.
^^ Slope looks like shit, need to pay garner to whack it.  click the link, this is about how it looks. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en

2. Advanced another level and a half in the online game "City of Heroes".... level 34.6 right now... Also did certain tasks to give myself extra endurance..... cool game, lots of fun.... ultimately though after playing for hours you wonder where all the time went....
Play the game less, but still where does all the time go?
^^stopped playing this a long time age, found out today they are shutting it down...

3. Steam cleaned the carpet.... in family room.... this carpet is basically on its last legs..... wife is still looking to find someone to tile our house...
No tile, wife just cleaned the family room two nights ago. Nice change, no added expense of tile, and wife does the carpet. a win-win.
^^House is tiled, except living room and three bedrooms, master bedroom is tile with different style tile.

4. Work... Went to work on Sunday, spent 5 hours catching up on work and preparing for Monday..... yea, Happy Easter to you too!!!
Changed shifts at work, but back to working just 4 days a week.

^^ Same ol shit at work,
5. Sleep. Got some.
Just got some sleep, feeling pretty good.

^^ plan on getting some soon.
Things still on the horizon.
1. Paint interior of house.... done
2. Tile house done
3. Weed slope, find ground cover. nope
4. buy car. still have the 2005 magnum, now a 2009 charger
5. buy couch - done
6. buy refrigerator. - done
7. buy sod and sod backyard. uh no.
8. Fix Brothers Fence. nope
9. sleep. alittle

Good to see I have a lot of things I could do... Why put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever?

Huh?

A far left relative just posted this on Facebook.  Am I the only one to look at this and think how oblivious to reality one has to be to think this is even slightly true?  It just amazes me how people have such a distorted view of reality, and/or how they must demonize the people they do not agree with.

Let's not stoop to their level.

The Occupiers are nothing compared to the Tea Party, so we shouldn't lower ourselves to their level.  I guess requests like this are interesting and just, but I like the dramatic differences between the two "groups"

Ramblings of an old man.

Today I turned 45.  Nothing special happened, and that is alright.  I am very lucky to have my beautiful wife and family. Today though, I want to talk about fairness.  I am a political animal, and often I am labeled a hateful person.  Many on the political left make me, and people who think like me to be greedy, selfish individuals.  While it pains me to hear or see them call me that in print or in person I must learn to brush off such talk, as I know it is nonsense.  Early in life my mother told me I was a Libra, and therefore I had certain traits...  The sign of Libra is the scales - and that Libra's are big on fairness.  I do not know about the value of astrology - Am I all about fairness because I am a :Libra, or did I tell myself to be about fairness because someone wrote it was a trait of mine?  A first glance many on the left would laugh about what I just said, as I am opposed to welfare and other governmental handouts, "where is the fairness in that"!!  In reality, I am all about personal responsibility and fairness - on the individual level.

A case in point that drives me nuts.  Have you ever noticed the amount of shopping carts littering our streets?  We all know how they got there, someone took the shopping cart out of the shopping center and most of the time took their groceries home, then pushed the cart back out into a "common" area.  Who picks them up and returns them to the grocery store?  I asked my local store, and the manager there pays $3 a cart when someone brings them back, and says there is a man she deals with who brings them back by the truckload sometimes several times in a day.  While this man makes a good living driving all over town picking up shopping carts where is the fairness, the justice in this situation?  How is it fair that the store has to pay for the return of their own property, that was stolen from them?  Some cities will pick up these carts and return them free of charge to the stores, but then the city taxpayers have to foot the bill.  I have seen where cities spent over $80,000 a year to have this done.  Some cities do a combination of the two, having the stores pay some part for the return of their carts.  I am sure all these costs get passed on to the consumers...

The real villains in this story are easy to spot, but society often turns a blind eye to it because they are poor.  We as a society need to hold all of us to account for our actions.  If a policeman sees a person leaving a shopping parking lot with a cart he should stop them.  Warnings, citations, tickets should be issued.  I suggest that the onus be put on the person taking the cart.  If they are honorable they can talk to a store manager and get permission to take the cart home, as long as they bring it back, or even if they are willing to pay $3 to not have to bring it back.  Then if the person is stopped by police he can show his "permission slip" for taking the cart home on that day.  I know the chances of this happening are slim to none, but I hope this shows you how I look at things.  I do not blame the poor for taking the carts, but I do blame them for not returning them.  Why is  it someone elses job to return the cart?

Sigh

I recently posted a facebook post ...  here it is;

i am so sick of Obamas class warfare approach to politics. OBAMA, I want the federal government to be smaller!!!! Dont tell me how the rich people can pay more,.... You live with the revenue you have!!!! move out of the way of these rich people and they will create jobs outside of government!!!!!

I had several likes, and then a few people willing to put forward a different view...  keep in mind I do not have alot of friends on facebook, so the sample will always be small.  Yet some of the points were interesting, here in an example - 

"Thanks for stoking the class warfare to even higher heights, Gary (um, I am not Gary, thats my brother). Please provide any actual statistics on how rich people create jobs, and government doesn't. It is just more voodoo economics from the right, since we all should know by now that cutting taxes leads to diminished opportunities and increased debt. And Lisa, your descendents were once "illegals" as you like to call real people. My head hurts thinking about the ignorance both you and Gary(please call me Thom or Kirbside) pulsate out to the general public."

I left off the wacko's name because I believing in protecting the silly.  Can you see the bleeding heart liberalism just oozing from his every pore?

Cutting taxes leads to diminished opportunities?  To increased debt?  How about the debt is only increased when you decide to spend more than you make? (tax)  The situation right now is a perfect example of why big government is such a danger to our society.  Every private sector company has taken steps to lower its costs in the last few years...  many have laid off people and either tooled back, or cancelled many programs, production lines, etc in this economic downturn.  Yet Government is growing and wants to continue to grow. Its tax revenues have dropped drastically...  Because of tax cuts, or because there is less production?  The answer of course is because there is less taxable things happening...  That is why they are looking to tax sugary foods and sodas...  Looking to increase and add fee's  to everything.  Government should have shrunk like the private sector did when the economy tanked...  that is how you live within your means!

He then mentions illegals and you can infer that he is an open borders nutjob...  "our people were once illegal to"  Friedman makes the case for why immigration now is different then when our ancestors came....

sadly illegals have found a work around on welfare...  have babies and they get the benefits of our welfare society through them....

anyway, back to my facebook post...  Obama is a class warfare expert and finger pointer...  Tax the rich, and it wasnt his fault, Bush did it....  and now the Tea party did it...  Shame on us for electing such a empty suit.

Sums it up

It reminds me of something the Brownshirts might do. But so does SB1070 and the Muslim community center uproar. Hate in America appears to be thriving in a climate of regular fertilization by RW media.

 This is a comment in response to the Glenn Beck Rally.  What happened on this day back in 1963?  Oh I know, a great man said something that the left has ignored ever sense.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."


Now look at the first quote in context of the second.  The left frame the issue of illegal immigrants on race and  on religion while the right looks for what is right, and what is wrong.


sb1070 - Not anti Hispanic, it is anti illegal immigration.


Ground zero mosque - Give me a freakin break.Do they have the right to build it?  Yes, but should they?  What is next?  Let them have their own courts and laws like the British has allowed them in the UK?

Sherrod

Everyone is looking at her full speech and are saying she is showing how she transformed from a racist, to a advocate for the poor of all colors.  Perhaps that is true, but I have my reservations.  My reservations are still valid after I have watched the entire speech.

Below is a transcript of some of her speech.  The bold type is what was on the big Government video.  look at the section where she talks about how the she knew the farmer was a racist.  She knows he is racist because he is "showing his superiority".

Really?

How about Sherrod is showing her continued racist ideas about whites more than 20 years after the event?  Watch the video and you tell me she doesnt smirk as the audience responds to her "knowing what he was doing".  While she might not be using her office to discriminate against whites, she certainly still holds racist ideas about whites.

[11:50] SHERROD: I made the commitment on the night of my father's death at the age of 17 that I would not leave the South, that I would stay in the South and devote my life to working for change. And I've been true to that commitment all of these 45 years.

[...]

[16:34] SHERROD: God is good. I can tell you that. When I made that commitment, I was making that commitment to black people -- and to black people only. But you know God will show you things and he'll put things in your path so that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people --

AUDIENCE: All right. All right.

SHERROD: -- you know. The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm. He took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me -- I knew what he was doing.

AUDIENCE: All right.

SHERROD: But he had to come to me for help. What he didn't know, while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough so that when he -- I assumed that the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me; either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture -- and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him. So I took him to a white lawyer that we had -- that had attended some of the training that we had provided 'cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer, so I figured if I'd take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him.

That's when it was revealed to me that y'all, it's about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white -- it is about white and black, but it's not -- you know, it opened my eyes, 'cause I took him to one of his own and I put him in his hands, and said, OK, I've done my job. But, during that time, we would have these injunctions against the Department of Agriculture and -- so, they couldn't foreclose on him. And I want you to know that the county supervisor had done something to him that I have not seen yet that they've done to any other farmer, black or white. And what they did to him caused him to not be able to file Chapter 12 bankruptcy.