Test your political I.Q.

Here. I got all 12 correct but lucked out on the question about how much Americans spend, comparatively, on health care costs.

- Thanks to my buddy Gus for passing this on.

Mr. Smarty Pants?

Well, I'd say so. Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. seems to have a reasonable grasp on the reality that surrounds us. (Warning: you must have at least a two year college degree to read these op-eds):

• Washington's Suicide Mission - Banks continue to fail at an alarming rate, the dollar is under assault, and Washington is looking at a future of trillion-dollar deficits. One might have guessed it would take a decade of Obamanomics to produce European welfare state levels of youth unemployment, but at 18.5% we're there.

• The Economic Uses of Al Gore - Notice, for instance, after a decade in which the earth appears to have stopped warming and even cooled, that global warming advocates have rushed to embrace a computer simulation that predicts this cooling (in retrospect, of course) and allows for indefinite future cooling, even while assuring that the world is destined to face disastrous warming anyway. Isn't this what forecasters of doom have done since time immemorial when their deadlines for doom haven't been met?

A Couple of Yuks...

Religious Zealot; A Fanatical Partisan

I live in an area of the USA that is populated predominantly by people of the Mormon faith. They are good people in general yet they have a reputation for being a bit odd. Perhaps it is because of their strict moral code which includes everything from modest dress to abstaining from sexual encounters (until marriage) and avoiding all things addictive, including caffeine and alcohol. But it is primarily the behavior of the zealots in their sect who insist on their right to live a polygamist lifestyle that gives them a bad name.

I was raised in an area of the USA that was populated predominantly by people of the Catholic faith. As a non-Catholic I felt they were basically good people but considered them a bit odd. Their strict dogma (especially the birth control thing), rosary beads and hail Mary’s, dashboard Jesus statues, no meat on Friday and their Pope’s fancy robes and hats all seemed somewhat strange to me. Yet ultimately it was the 'forbidden' sex rule imposed upon their priests which led to their penchant for molesting little boys that gives them a bad name.

Later I lived in an area of the USA that was populated predominantly by people of the Baptist faith. As a non-Baptist I felt they were basically good people but considered them a bit odd. In general they seemed a little on the fanatical side. I’ll never forget the grand white tent revivals with their healing preachers and their honest-to-God holy-rollers, and the occasional snake handler. Yet ultimately it was their racial prejudice and their zealots in white sheets that gave them a bad name. The dress and actions of these zealots and their isolated incidents of violence were intentionally sensationalized so as to bring their beliefs to the attention of all.

They did some horrible things and as a result were abhorred by all outside of their ranks. Subsequently, most realized the error of their ways and sought more peaceful ways to convey their message.

Now I find myself living in a world overflowing with Muslims, which I find odd because I don’t know any Muslims. My perception however is that this particular group of people is overrun with zealots. Dangerous, deadly zealots.

It seems like every time tourists are blown up in a resort hotel or a night club, every time an American embassy or military barrack or naval ship is bombed resulting in the death of young women and men, every time a suicide bomber shreds the flesh of innocent shoppers or worshipers in an open air market or mosque, every time a hijacked airplane is used in an unbelievable act of horror, every time a Dutch film maker is stabbed in the heart on a public street for expressing his beliefs, every time a writer or cartoonist is sentenced to death for his words or drawings… there seems to be behind it, the almighty Muslim God, Allah, who seems to trump all other Gods, and the Koran (Qur’an) which appears to me to be written under the guidance of the same entity who inspired the work, Mein Kampf.

I’m not reading about any Mormons or Catholics or Baptists or Protestants or Jehovah Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any other group of people murdering others in the name of their God, other than the exception of Muslims.

Can someone please explain this to me? Are there any moderate Muslims out there who do not believe in ‘death to the infidels’?

If so, why do we not hear your voice?

This latest incident at Fort Hood has once again been associated with a Muslim. Regardless, any individual who chooses to wantonly murder 13 individuals and wound another 31 in an attempt to end their lives deserves to have his life ended immediately and without mercy. The brave souls who confronted him and cut short his vicious and heinous act are hero's without question. Yet in a way they fell short for not treating their reaction as a mob execution and walking up to Nidal Malik Hasan's motionless body and pumping a few more bullets into his skull.

- 100% Me Self

I need more ZZ Top...

An interview with Billy Gibbons followed by a classic stage performance by the band.

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

If you're interested, this performance is even better. It's a little more polished of an act; smacks of perhaps, Las Vegas. NBC won't allow the embed code to be posted on YouTube so I can only provide the link.

ZZ Top has got to be one of the most original acts ever; unmatched by anyone and definitely the most bodacious 3 man rock band on the planet.

And then there's the following performance. It's over 8 minutes long and was back when the boys were young and very energetic. They hadn't pegged the act yet. Billy even looks a little Amish.



- Larry

An all too common wound...

I was five and you were six.

We rode on horses made of sticks.

You wore black and I wore white.

You would always win the fight.

Bang, bang you shot me down.

Bang, bang I hit the ground.

Bang, bang that awful sound.

Bang, bang… my baby shot me down.

Seasons came and changed the time.

When I grew up I called you mine.

You would always laugh and say,

Remember when we used to play?

Bang, bang I shot you down.

Bang, bang you hit the ground.

Bang, bang that awful sound.

Bang, bang… I used to shoot you down.

Music played and people sang.

Just for me the church bells rang.

Now you're gone I don't know why.

And to this day sometimes I cry.

You didn't even say goodbye,

You didn't take the time to lie…

Bang, bang.

Bang, bang you shot me down.

Bang, bang I hit the ground.

Bang, bang that awful sound.

Bang, bang… my baby shot me down.

- Some great lyrics written by Nancy Sinatra (modified from the original to be non-gender specific).

Gun Control

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The undeniable instinct of mothering...

The Defination of Tyranny

In the Federalist 46, James Madison wrote: "The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." THE VERY DEFINITION OF TYRANNY!

It is AMAZING that the political party pushing Obamacare cannot say what part of the Constitution grants Congress the power to force every American to buy health insurance. And WHY NOT? Because they HAVE NO AUTHORITY to do so. NONE of the enumerated powers afforded to Congress by the Constitution support them forcing an individual purchase mandate.

An individual political liberal idiot, Senator Baucus, when asked about their Constitutional authority to force this on Americans called it, "a novel question." GEE! YA THINK!? In reality, the forcing of a health care mandate on us is nothing more than a tyrannical enforcement of power, which is a view 180 degrees OUT of what the Framers’ vision of the our government's limited and enumerated powers.

If we allow this to happen what will stop them from forcing us to, say, buying ugly hybrids fit only for neutered liberal men to drive? We're too fat? Why, Congress can mandate that we join health care clubs, run by their buddies, to burn off the fat. We can even be fined for failing to lose the blubber! Not eating enough broccoli according to the Health Czar? Not a problem.

Our fine politicians can mandate that each of us must choke down a certain amount of broccoli each week or face a fine! They can even create a new bureaucratic office to ensure we're good little sheep and grazing on that broccoli. (Kickbacks from the broccoli farmers can go directly to the Congress) Talk about your "shovel-ready" jobs.

At the bottom line is that this behavior in BOTH Houses of Congress and in the White House, is seriously un-American, it bypasses State's Rights, it trashes the Constitution, and it ENDS individual liberty and many, many Americans are sick and damned tired of it!

- The 'Gunny'

Basic Laws of The World Wide Web

Here's a few important laws you need to be aware of when surfing the web and especially when reading blogs:

• Skitt’s Law - Expressed as "any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself." It is an online version of the proofreading truism of Murphy’s Law, also known as Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror."

• Pommer’s Law -Proposed by Rob Pommer on rationalwiki.com in 2007, this states: “A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.”

• The Law of Exclamation - First recorded in an article by Lori Robertson at FactCheck.org in 2008, this states: "The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters." It is reminiscent of the claim in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels that the more exclamation marks someone uses in writing, the more likely they are to be mentally unbalanced. According to Pratchett, five exclamation marks is an indicator of "someone who wears their underwear on the outside".

They shoot bloggers don’t they?

I should shoot myself in the head for this post.

There’s nothing worse than being called a racist, except for maybe being called a pedophile or a sex offender.

Nobody wants to be called a racist.

Which is exactly why the minorities in this country use the accusation to promote their agenda and silence their opposition.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton realized this a long time ago and have perfected and massaged the technique into very lucrative professions.

Yes it can be said that whites, of generations past, due primarily to a disparity of numbers between the races (people abuse people everywhere) have abused blacks. Yet no people anywhere have done more to lift up blacks than white America.

America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known, anywhere in the world, even today.

The pendulum swings? Who exactly are the racists in America today?

I’ll say it. Primarily the blacks, and many Hispanics are foolishly following suit.

The largest group of illegal immigrants that ‘get it’ and are thus capable of showing respect for independence and personal freedom while working their way out of the shadows are the Asians. Perhaps it is because no race has been slaughtered in more significant numbers by dictatorial and oppressive governments than the Asians.

I can honestly say I’ve never met an Asian I didn’t like. Both Blacks and Hispanics should take note.

On the other hand, as an innocent adolescent I lived in the south and learned first hand that there was a marked difference between regular black folks and niggers. Niggers gave all black folk a bad name. Same as trailer trash and ‘crackers’ gave white folk a bad name, as well as white whores and drunk Irish thugs and Italian gangsters gave their race or heritage a bad name. In fact, where I grew up there were white folks we called niggers.

Yet for the reason I state above you can’t call a nigger a nigger anymore. Go figure.

I lived in the south, and later lived in the San Francisco bay area. As a result I’ve know and been friends with a lot of black folk in my life. I liked most all of them, they added a new perspective to my life and thus enhanced it. They all had a sense of humor no matter their situation and they all loved life in general. Based entirely on my personal experience I view them to this day as great musicians, dancers, athletes and thinkers. And that’s saying something. Again, as the numbers go, I’ve met a lot more ignorant, bad, stupid white folk as I have black folk.

Top of my list of niggers:

• The 'Reverend' Jeremiah Wright
• The 'Reverend' Al Sharpton
• The 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson
• The tax cheat Charlie Rangle

Ever see one of those guys dance, make an athletic move, sing, play a musical instrument, display a sense of humor or even think? Me either.

I could go on but I’ve already said too much.

- Me Self

P.S. - For the record I do not know the etymology of the word “nigger” so I may be out of line here. On the other hand, maybe not. The meaning of words change from generation to generation.

I have a beautiful sand covered campground with an awesome natural rock fire pit on my property with a creek running on its edge and all of my daughter’s twenty-something friends refer to it as “sick” because... they love it.

Also, there's three sentences above I plagiarized from a Pat Buchanan op-ed because he said exactly what I was thinking.

Why reading this blog improves your brain function...

Research has shown that mental stimulation similar to the stimulation that occurs in individuals who frequently use the Internet may affect the efficiency of cognitive processing and alter the way the brain encodes new information.

Mental Age Assessment

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake.

The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat..
12. This is seconds cat.

Now, to reveal the true intent of this study go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.

- Thanks to my Uncle Lee for this enlightening bit of knowledge. Or maybe it was Gus. Crap, I can't remember.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

• They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody.
• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris knows where Carmen Sandiego is.
• If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
• Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer.
• Chuck Norris invented water.
• Chuck Norris knows how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
• Chuck Norris CAN divide by zero.
• Chuck Norris never learns. He knows.
• Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
• Chuck Norris can watch "60 Minutes" in 20 seconds.
• Chuck Norris let the dogs out.
• When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he doesn't just push himself up; he pushes the Earth down.

Traditional Americans Are Losing Their Nation

In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from the schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.

- Pat Buchanan

When tempted to over indulge, reach fo a Lucky Strike instead...

Yes folks, in the 1950's it was claimed that nicotine was a physical stimulant that would lead to exercise and thus fitness. Just as cocaine was in the late 50's - early 60's, with the added benefit of increased brain power. All true, and believable even by researchers until empirical data began to show the substances caused the body and mind to crash and burn.

Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, as each individual is born, they need to learn this on their own. Therefore, no legislation or prohibition will ever change the scenario.

Raise your child in a convent or in a crack house and they might unexpectedly go off in a different direction.

Click on the graphic to the left to view the amazing facts in a more readable size.

-Larry

Cloud computing…

I've never been sold on the idea. What fool would entrust their vital medical records and family photographs to the Internet, where they might be lost or tampered with?

Keep your current hardware in tact and in tune. New devices are leaning heavily towards 'the cloud.' Floppy drives disappeared years ago and now hard drives are beginning to disappear.

50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again

This is good. Simple ideas that make a big difference in your food budget and help save resources too.

Some great marriage advise...

This has always been one of my favorite quotes:

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree.

For if by ill luck, people understood each other,

they would never agree."

- Unknown

I never realized what a poignant statement that is until just recently when I started to think about my upcoming 25th wedding anniversary (gotta plan ahead for such an event).

The twenty-five years is an ‘official’ date. Cathy and I have actually been together for twenty-eight years. I attribute the longevity of our relationship to the fact that during our entire time together we’ve never heard a single word of what the other has said.

Thank God.

My advise? Try not to be too precise when communicating with your spouse.

- Larry

A Message to My Daughter

Ignore the social mores in which you are encased.
Disassociate yourself from and resist all who govern.
Turn away from those who “claim” they love you.
Ignore what you have been taught.
Throw away your religion.
Break free, emancipate your being.

And you will land in a realm of searing inner conflict.
A realm which will force you to recognize two worlds:
Good and Evil.

A realm which will force you to understand that you cannot live in both worlds at once and... to prevail in one... requires vigilance against the other.

My heart fears that you will be like the young Antelope, who is not lost but feels the need to venture into the vast unknown, alone, and then is torn apart and swallowed by the Lion.

- Dad

Sadie's First Thrill Ride

Hooooooooly shit!!

David's Spider

I would of given David a discount on his bill for at the very least his effort. Hell, I'd of forgiven him of the entire debt for his tenacity and humor.

Since David eventually gave up do you think he was just trying to buy some time here?

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 10-Sep-2008 10:07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 16-Sep-2008 12:37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 21-Sep-2008 10:07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 28-Sep-2008 10:32am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
Can I have my drawing of a spider back then, please?

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Friday 2-Oct-2008 11:42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David,
You emailed the drawing to me. Regardless, here it is, copied and pasted from your original transmission and embedded below.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 9-Oct-2008 09:22am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Whose spider is that?

Dear Jane,
Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 12-Oct-2008 11:03am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David,
Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th. David your account is still overdue by the amount of $233.95. Please make this payment as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 23-Oct-2008 11:08am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Hello, I have read through your emails and accept that despite missing a leg, that drawing of a spider may indeed be the one I sent you. I realize with hindsight that it is possible you rejected my drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb omission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 26-Oct-2008 2:51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David,
As I have stated, we do not accept drawings in lieu of money for accounts outstanding. We accept personal checks, bank checks, money orders, credit and debit cards as well as cash. Please make a payment this week to avoid incurring any additional fees.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 30-Oct-2008 3:17pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

I understand and will definitely make a payment this week if I remember. As you have not accepted my second drawing as payment, please return the drawing to me as soon as possible. I am disappointed that you do not understand nor appreciate the value of my drawing of a spider.

Regards, David Thorne

The 'Nuge' for President!

Next election for POTUS I'm writing in 'The Motor City Mad Man' Ted Nugent.



"Not in all my years in Florida have I known of a gang attack by raccoons on an individual." That being said, had this woman been packing your basic squirrel gun this never would of happened.

Over at Reason, they reason about gun ownership. The comments following the article are as interesting as the article itself.

Credit to my sometimes brilliant friend Billy Bob for inspiring this post.

Good-bye Summer

Click on the photo for a full sized view.

I took this photo of my front porch on the 21st of September, 2009, the last day of summer.

Yesterday I tuned up my furnace, put away the lawn mower and the power washer and wound up all of the yard hoses and raked up some leaves. If you're viewing this photo today, Sunday, October 4th, 2009 it's almost certain I'm in some flannel pants sitting in my overstuffed leather chair with my feet up watching some football. It's Fall and I love this time of year. Nothing to grumble about today.

Life is good. Hope you're having a great day also.

- Larry

Yes, It's True

Dogs love The Beatles too.

- from freakingnews.com

The Wisdom of a Grandfather…

Today, most of the American populace thinks it improper to spank children. My own father used to beat me with a belt and I really didn’t think too highly of the technique. Ultimately I don’t think it had much effect on my behavior (unless of course I knew he was in town) so I used other methods to control my own children (and now my grandchildren) when they became or become unruly.

One method that I’ve found to be quite effective is for me to just take the child for a ride in my car.

I’m not sure if it's the vibration from the car, or the time away from any distractions such as TV, video games, computer, IPod, etc. One thing that I have noticed in particular is that their placement in the vehicle is important. Don’t put them in the back seat or anywhere else where they can avoid eye to eye contact. Eye to eye contact seems to be a very important component of this ‘therapy.’

I have found that almost without exception they usually calm down after only a few miles on the road together.

I've included a photo below of one of my sessions with my oldest grandson, in case you would like to use the technique yourself.

Thanks to my Uncle Lee for passing on this knowledge to me.

A Word to The Wise

In the late 1400’s there were some trees, some cotton, some hemp, some metal forming technology and the wind and the water. It all came together one day and people began to sail away from the European continent and discover new ‘worlds.’

In simpler terms there were boats and water and that’s how new land was discovered, new countries were created and how they were connected to one another.

Then came mining, electricity, the telegraph, lights, the telephone, automobiles, refining oil, chemistry, medicine, the industrial revolution, flight, plastics (light weight speed boats), aluminum (light weight jet airplanes) and a whole bunch of other mind boggling stuff including fiber optics and lasers. Maybe not in that exact order but now, as a result… everybody seems to be in the same boat.

You’re looking at China when you watch American Idol. You’re pulling Viet Nam (yes, Viet Nam) up to your waist, one leg at a time when you put on your pants. A good part of your breakfast came from Brazil and you drove to work courtesy of the hard working folks in Japan. Your after dinner drink came from Ireland, Mexico or Sweden and if you had any tech or financial issues earlier in the day you probably talked to someone in India.

That’s why you need to be concerned about Iran and Afghanistan and Iraq and Jews and Arabs. They are all right in your backyard.

- Me Self

Couric / Beck

I missed this when it was originally aired. You can find it all over the web but I’m going to post it here for myself as a matter of convenience, so I can come back and find it with ease because, I am going to watch it again.

It’s about a half hour long and Katie asks Glenn some tough questions...



...and he doesn't cry, even once (I cried for him).

Note: the audio on this video is not so good. I have searched various sites, including YouTube and they all seem to be the same. So, it's not your computer.

Regardless of who you think Glenn Beck is, to date, he’s had a huge impact on awakening the apathetic and stimulating a much needed debate in our society. Why else would Time Magazine put him on their cover? We’ve all been asleep for far too long.

Forget what Katie is asking this man, forget his answers. For conquering his own demons and having the courage to speak his own mind I see him as an incredible individual, at the very least an inspiration.

I'm an amoeba in the blogosphere. I have a verifiable audience of about 150 people and I’m getting hate mail just for playing around on my computer and venturing into the public with some of my thoughts and opinions. I can't even imagine what Glenn Beck has to put up with. He must spend hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in legal retainer fees alone and even more gobs of money for the personal protection of his very life for simply speaking his mind.

A sad comment concerning our society?

It is people like Glenn who risked their very lives to form this great nation. I take my hat off to him.

To all of you who want to criticize me for assisting in spreading Glenn’s wacko opinions let it be known I also take my hat off to Bill Maher for his courage to also speak his mind, even though I think he is a living, breathing oxymoron - a brilliant idiot:

“Beck's a bimbo and he's a crazy one. I'm telling you - it is not that long before we're going to find Glenn Beck dressed as a woman or playing with his feces or something." - Bill Maher

If you have some time to waste here's some more on Maher.

Don't be too judgmental. He appears to be in it for the money and that's OK by me. And, don't forget, first and foremost he is a comedian.

- Larry

More unbelievable meddling by government...

A DHS spokesperson would not comment on the specifics of the case but says they have no choice but to comply with state law, which is designed...

...wait for it...

...to protect Michigan children.

10 + 8 = -2, bad math or an evil plot?

Okay, so summer is over and I've put my grill away and have started raking the leaves from my yard. So I'll put this behind me for now. But come next spring, if things don't change there's gonna be trouble.

If only I had a gun...

I frequently get emails alerting me of outrageous bills being presented in Congress. Many of them are indeed, outrageous. However, the more outrageous they are the more likely they are to be DOA.

Here's a good article explaining why these bills exist and a good place to keep track of them.

The Evolution of 1 and 0 and A/V

About 7 years ago I purchased a computer with a TV tuner and DVR built into the video card. As far as TV went, I was interested in only a few sitcoms, the History and Discovery channels, the NFL and NASCAR and the news, but I felt like sitting in my living room or lying in bed and watching was a colossal waste of time. I figured if I could watch TV on my computer I could work at the same time.

I was right , I could do my finances, pay bills, do work I brought home from my job (even extra credit stuff), check and respond to personal as well as business emails, keep up my personal journal and continue to educate myself with things related to my life by doing research on the web.

That’s when I started using two monitors. If you don’t use two monitors you don’t know what you’re missing. Even when NOT watching TV on one of them. It’s like you’re in college studying for a test and you’re in the library and you have multiple books open and spread across the table. You can have several programs and/or windows opened up at the same time on each monitor. So the ease at which you can bounce from one reference to another or one application to another increases your productivity.

The TV? Well I could open it up in a separate window and size it in the corner of one of the monitors.

But then came HD and the idea of watching movies while I worked.

So now I’m at three monitors. One dedicated, when I wish, to entertainment as I work.

As things have evolved in my digital experience now comes along online or internet, world wide web video and ‘on demand’ television viewing.

Remember when MTV first debuted? We were all mesmerized. Nonstop eye candy coupled with music with NO commercials or any other interruptions, 24/7.

I stumbled upon this video web site last night, as I did in 1977 with my discovery of MTV and couldn’t stop watching for over 2 hours: www.isofa.tv.

Make some popcorn and check it out. Simply amazing… give it at least 15 minutes. You’ll see some fascinating stuff.

I’m betting it won’t be long before it’s riddled with commercials.

The 10th Amendment

The federal government has no more authority to compel the states or the counties to do anything, no more so than the Prime Minister of Canada has.

This separation of the two spheres is one of the constitution’s structural protections of liberty. Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.

An Incredible SAND Animation

This is one of the most incredible pieces of performance art you will ever lay your eyes on. Kseniya Simonova is the artist, she’s portraying the German invasion of Ukraine in WWII.

Alice in The Army

Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Bubba that being in the the U.S. Army beats working for old man Billy Bob by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Bubba all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay, practically nothing.

Men get to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Bubba you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Bubba with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting back at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges, they come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that 'thug' Jordan from Baltimore, Maryland. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6' and 130 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Bubba to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter,

Alice

Two Old Masters

- From freakingnews.com

Sunday Morning Humor

What's wrong with this picture?

So much I don't even know where to start. In addition most would agree it's unfair. But it is fair to say the artist did an excellent job in getting across his point. I actually stumbled upon it after I composed the following:

When it comes to conflict between governments and their citizens the natural progression in ALL societies appears to me to be:

1. Discussion, debate.
2. Peaceful protest coupled with civil obedience.
3. Civil disobedience.
4. Violent protests.
5. Revolution and/or civil war.

In corrupt, oppressive and dictatorial societies, where the rulers have enough power, this progression is usually deterred somewhere between civil disobedience and violent protest or shortly thereafter. It is only when the people have enough power and the collective will to push back that the conflict(s) will erupt into a full blown revolution or civil war. After that, all hell breaks lose and the most powerful entity will prevail.

One of the methods used by evil leaders and corrupt governments to prevent this progression from even starting is to oppress their citizens and depress their economies to the point when just getting through a day takes up all of their time. The average man then has no voice or even the time for proper thought about such things. A good method of achieving this is through retaliation of speech and the redistribution of wealth and taxation. Suppress free speech or even more deviously, while lauding free speech, pass laws or use your authority to suppress at the very least, debate. Keep them down and certainly don’t let anyone get too rich to oppose you.

Enter Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

A Republican Congressman from Wisconsin wanted to put up a bill stating all of Congress subscribe to the same healthcare Obama wants America to have. Pelosi would not let the bill go to the floor. NO DEBATE ALLOWED.

A ‘Common Sense’ bill introduced into Congress referred to as the RTBA (Read The Bills Act) has to date been prevented from being allowed on the floor by Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps she is bewildered by the term, ‘fiduciary responsibility’. NO DEBATE ALLOWED.

Here is the proposed bill in PDF form.

Barack Obama has not had an honest discussion with any Republican Congressman or GOP group since April 2009 concerning the formation of a bipartisan health care bill. That’s mainly because the Democrats currently control all branches of the government and feel they don’t need any input from an opposing party. They, including The White House itself are no longer OPENED TO DEBATE.

Last week-end Barack Obama granted interviews to no less than five mainstream news outlets. Yet he shunned by far the most popular and most viewed one, FOX News because FOX admittedly and openly question his health care reform philosophy. NO DEBATE ALLOWED by Obama!

I predict the backlash on these people is going to be huge come the next election cycle. Unless they can create a diversion like many accused the Bush administration of doing by toppling a couple of skyscrapers and causing thousands of deaths in some American city.

- Larry

Everyone in the theater is quiet until the building catches fire...

Dear Billy Bob,

There is a time when unrest and civil disobedience is not only justified but needed. You should understand that yourself as you grew up in the 60's and are surely aware that it was the demonstrations and marches, the general protesting and unrest that ended the war in Vietnam and helped to improve the status of minorities and women in this country.

I'd like to point out that our representatives are elected by the majority of the people who vote and that these people are hopping mad because those representatives are not listening to those who elected them. Our representatives have become elitist who do and act as they please. They need to be yelled at. Many should be railroaded out of office. Some should be arrested and jailed and a few should be executed for treason (offensive language). They have allowed and even promoted a federal government that has become so large that it is on the verge of becoming uncontrollable; a behemoth riddled with waste and corruption.

I'm glad to see that there are people in this country who are not asleep, who are not afraid to stand up and point and shout at unjust people and policies. The SHOUTING and SCREAMING today is in direct response and in proportion to the amount of waste and corruption that exists in our government.

You can spend all day or an entire month or a year not listening to TV or the radio or reading a newspaper, a blog or a news site on your computer. You can go camping or fishing or stroll downtown, go catch a movie, eat out at a restaurant, drive across country, do whatever you want. But whatever you do and wherever you are (yes, of course there are exceptions) you can't help but notice how peaceful it is to live in this country.

There's a reason for that. People in this land have a history of not letting others push them around. And yes, before it's all sorted out there's going to be some SCREAMING and SHOUTING and even some DEMEANING behavior. It's only human nature.

Larry.

Another Key West Sunset

Two of my lovely daughters where I'd love to be right now. These photos were taken in June of 2004 and I merged them together about a year later.

Liberty Mule

Here is the original 'Mule'. A camping trailer I built in my backyard and unsuccessfully tried to market under the DBA, 'Liberty Mule'. This photo was shot on a test run in Sun Valley, Idaho.

My Great Grandma Houtz

I took this photograph in 1973 in Miami, Florida where I believe she spent her whole life. I have no idea how old she was at the time. I didn't really know her but what I remember is that she was a small, rugged and perky old woman. She was working in her garden when I took this photo; she was fun to be around. I was 23 at the time.

North Beach - San Francisco, California

It was about 2:00 a.m. and I was trying to photograph the couple sitting on the steps off to the right. As soon as I pointed the camera at them they got up and actually ran away.

The Broccoli of Logic

Makes me want to gag.

Mandated health insurance is now being compared to auto insurance. If you drive you must have auto insurance. I agree with that. Good idea. The flawed logic that follows is that if you are alive you must have health insurance.

This logic, 'spoon fed' to the masses by the Obama administration and propagated by the mainstream media, is like being forced to eat broccoli, or lima beans or in my case, asparagus. What's next, mandated life insurance? Burial insurance?

Many people don't even own a vehicle. Some who do never intend to drive them. Can you imagine the outrage of New Yorkers who walk, bicycle or use mass transit if they were forced to purchase auto insurance via a government mandate?!

Ironically, if you do own a vehicle and drive, your mandated auto insurance covers medical expenses for at the very least, someone you hurt in an accident (you can choose to exclude yourself).

The solid logic that follows the above is that not everyone needs or wants health insurance.

Here's a very enlightening video from Reason TV illustrating how some people, by their own free will, choose to spend their hard earned money on other 'stuff:'



- Larry

The Ignoramuses Rule

The airport serves about 20 people a day, and the only flights are to Washington, D.C. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of news outlets covered this story of waste over the last several months, after the airport snagged an additional $800,000 in stimulus funds to pave a backup runway.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) proposed an amendment to stop the insanity. He sums the situation up (house floor video) tidily and bleakly. "This is something we need to stop. If we can't stop it, we can't stop anything."

The bill was DEFEATED!



- From Reason.com

I'm Being Tortured by Stories of Torture!

What's the big deal?

Here's a list of the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques as reported by ABC news:

• The Attention Grab torture.
• The Attention slap torture.
• The belly slap torture.
• The Long time sanding torture.
• The cold cell torture.
• The water boarding torture.

So far I've been lucky, I’ve never been captured by anyone for any reason and yet have endured much more torture than that which is listed above.

The following is a list of tortures I have endured:

• The silent torture (coupled with the I don’t hear you torture).
• The won’t shut up torture.
• The wash your own clothes torture (coupled with the make your own bed torture).
• The "don’t touch me!" (cold shoulder) torture.
• The "it wasn’t me" torture, and,
• The absolute mind breaking, over the line, demonic torture, delivered by hand picked, hardened teen-aged torturers, the 'I know more than you do' torture.

I have to admit, I’ve never been water boarded but apparently there must be some appeal or amusement involved with the process as two C.I.A. prisoners took the ride 266 times before they decided to 'open up' to their interrogators.

- Larry

'Rub-on Viagra'

Finally, the big pharmas are making some sense.

'Naked' Salad

Now before anyone gets upset, it’s only carefully placed food and it’s as risque as you’ll ever see on this blog.

Be careful how you word your reply the next time your waitress asks you what dressing you prefer on your salad. Here's what I was given when I replied with the single word, "naked."

No one at the table was upset or embarrassed. Perhaps because there were no women seated.

Anyway, it was delicious and matched the centerpiece, an ice sculpture of the Venus de Milo.

All were amused except Robert. He was more than amused. He carefully put his salad in a Styrofoam container and took it home with him. When I asked him why he replied, “It doesn’t come with any warnings about headaches, high blood pressure, dizziness or four hour erections.” ;-)

- From a small café in the art district of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Idiot Wind...

...blowing across your teeth every time you speak.

                                                                - Bob Dylan

Just after Obama's glorious victory somewhere I read an op-ed that seemed pretty logical. It stated that the best thing about America electing a black president was that race could no longer be used as an issue. America elected a black man and that in itself was a ringing endorsement and a clear sign that America had finally come of age and shed her racism.

Then came comments from more foward thinking people who feared that the race card would be played everytime someone disagreed with Whitehouse policy. If you are critical of Obama and his ideas, policy, leadership or anything else it is only because he is black and nothing else and you are therefore, a racist.

Enter Jimmy Carter, the Sultan of Stupidity trumpeting his latest "Idiot Wind" and Maureen Dowd apparently inspired by voices being channeled through her cat.

I can't link you to Maureen Dowd. You need to Google her yourself and see if you can find a source that doesn't make you register with a left wing newspaper in order to view her words.

- Larry

P.S. - I just discovered a back door link to Maureen's op-ed. It's at the bottom of this article.

U.S. Government-Management Track Record

It seems we are hung up in arguing about the details of government health care which always leads to partisan accusations and fighting. That keeps us citizens divided. Without needing to read a health care bill or arguing about the cost and details, the following are legitimate reasons we shouldn’t want the government involved in managing health care:

• Social Security - Broke
• Medicare - Broke
• Vietnam War - Failed
• Discover Weapons of Mass Destruction - Failed
• Postal System - Broke
• Katrina Relief - Failure
• Border Security - Failure
• Energy Independence - Failure
• Financial oversight - Failed
• Fannie Mae - Failed
• Freddie Mac - Failed
• Congress - Corrupt
• Judicial Branch - Politicized
• White House - Corrupt
• Budget Management - Failure
• Immigration Policy - Failure
• Medicare Fraud - Out of Control
• Modernize Air Traffic Control - Failed
• Deficit Control - Failed
• U.S. Dollar - Falling
• Alternative Energy - Failed
• Nuclear Containment - Failed
• Mustang Ranch in Nevada - Failed ...these folks can't even manage a Whorehouse and sell booze and sex and make money!

~ Health Care? ~ Please just give us all a BREAK, Hello!!!?

Credit to my friend DSG

P.J. O’Rourke on the automobile (and other topics)...

A very enlightening video interview from the legend himself (15:37 min.).

- Via Drew Carey and Reason TV

A Haunting in Congress

If you've ever watched the TV series, A Haunting, on the Discovery channel, whether you believe the stories or not they will creep you out; send chills down your spine.

Today, shivers ran down my spine as I believe The United States Congress has been themselves, overcome by evil. And so I find myself creeped out again, big time.

Under the guise of enforcing House Rules, under the guise of reprimanding a man for breaking decorum, they officially condemned a man for speaking his mind.

In reaction, Dennis Miller stated that Congress has been infected with a severe case of "sickophantis assinintis." It's worse than that. I believe the consequences of this action are so far reaching that it may forever change the face of politics and further erode our freedoms in this country.

Congress, a group of men and women who are supposed to represent our population and who each and every one took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States of America formally, officially and publicly rebuked a man for his right to exercise his freedom of speech!

He did not yell "fire!" in a crowded theater. He was not vulgar or vile and caused no harm to anyone. He was not publicly intoxicated. He did not incite a riot. He did not contribute to the delinquency of a minor. What he did may have been rude, he may have broken decorum in the strictest of minds but he broke no law and should not be punished.

In many people's mind he simply blurted out, in loud frustration, a two word truth; "You lie!"

He did not call the other members of Congress liars. He called one man a liar and immediately apologized to that man and that man accepted his apology. The demand that he apologize to all of Congress, and then be punished for his refusal to do so, is not only irrational but smacks on the wretched surface of stagnant and polluted waters.

It's time to drain the swamp.

- Larry

Gasping For Air

It was enthusiastically reported today that the recession is over, based in part because of a 2.7% surge in retail sales in August.

I bought some stuff I didn't need last month. Even I need to come up for air once in awhile.

But I'm going right back into my foxhole until Christmas. And then back in again, I'm guessing, until... next spring?

More Famous Quotes

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

- Bill Clinton

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

- Lee Iacocca (chairman of the Chrysler corporation)

"Solutions are not the answer."

- Richard Nixon

And two from my top ten list:

"My main hope for myself is to be where I am."

-Woody Harrelson

"They misunderestimated me."

-George W. Bush

Right Wing Talk Shows

The following is a list of all of my objections concerning Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, O'Rilley and all other "right wing" talk show hosts.








Followed by my rants against Maher, Franken, Maddow, Maloney, Olbermann and all other "left wing" talk show hosts.








;-)

- Davey Kilban

Women

I’ve been surrounded by them my entire life. As my father’s only son I had four sisters. I’ve been married twice, both times to women. Like my father, I had one son and four daughters. My mother was a woman as were all of my aunts and even my grandmothers and mother-in-laws.

When I was in grade school, during recess I used to chase them. Once I got in trouble for kissing one of them after a successful ‘catch.’ Thus, my first ever pang of guilt was felt because of a soon to be woman.

Oh, make no mistake; many of them are evil, all are annoying. Estrogen is kryptonite to any real man.

It’s said that behind every great man stands a women. What they don’t say is that behind every man’s fall, everyman’s most insane and stupid act stands a woman. Remember Delilah and Pandora’s Box?

Yet they are nice to touch and easy on the eyes. Adorable and loving; intelligent and strong. In the end they level the scale and are indispensable.

I’ve often toyed with the idea of ‘dropping out’ by becoming a mountain man. Then it hits me; I’ve got to find a mountain woman first. So far I’ve been unsuccessful.

- Larry

An after thought: I think it was a good idea, attributed to God, to leave the decisions and actions of 'war' to men.

Babies Who smoke Cigarettes

There’s a growing body of work that indicates a relationship between our health as adults and our early diet, and even our mother’s diet. This research shows for the first time that our early childhood diet may have a huge impact on our health as adults.

This research dovetails nicely with the previous studies which showed that:

• Babies who smoke cigarettes are more likely to develop lung cancer.
• Babies who do shots of tequila with their parents are more likely to become alcoholics.
• Babies who drive automobiles without wearing a seat belt are more likely to be involved in traffic accidents

Seriously, as a result of such direly needed research a ‘sin tax’ on soda and sugary foods has gained momentum in the press and in some political circles.

When I grew up, we ate doughnuts and candy and drank a lot of soda. Not diet soda because it hadn’t been invented yet. And we stuffed our pie holes with, well…pie; hot pie. And hot dogs and Twinkies (anything with the word ‘Hostess’ on it) and put plenty of sugar on our cereal which we covered with whole milk and sometimes even cream; real dairy cream.

When I look around me today I don’t see kids riding bicycles anymore. In fact the only people I see riding bicycles are middle aged men wearing brightly colored spandex and teenagers participating in X-games. Our kids are all speeding around on solar or micro-gasoline engine powered scooters or other such self propelled devices. Parents shuttle them 6 blocks down the road to their friends house (apparently the cut off for walking is 2 blocks) in SUVs and they throw tantrums if you restrict their time viewing TV/DVD or playing with their computer controlled ‘virtual word’ gaming devices. Apparently at some point in time, these tantrums became so serious it became necessary to install these devices in the head rests and ceilings of SUVs and install miniature wheels into the soles of their little shoes!

When I was a kid we played outside most of the day, even in the winter. We ran and jumped and pedaled our single geared bicycles up and down hills and played baseball in an empty lot or in the middle of the street with a real bat and ball. As a result, most all of us grew up ‘mean and lean.’

There is nothing wrong with downing a 44 oz. Mountain Dew on a hot summers day, eating a 1,200 calorie burger at Carl’s or sitting in a big over stuffed chair with a bowl of sugar coated Coco Puffs watching a great movie or spending some quality time playing with your Wii, especially if you can afford a big flat screen to watch it on.

Government taxation on anything we consume or choose to do in our spare time is like a speed trap. It’s an unnecessary intrusion (and even more so an annoyance) into our personal lives, unfair most of the time and is usually the brain child of some career politician or some power grubbing authority seeking a way to pay for another one of his or her hair brained, unnecessary and intrusive projects or policies.

If government insists that somewhere in our constitution it states it is their responsibility to look after the weight of our children then what they should do is offer an income tax credit to parents who submit with their tax return a certificate of education, provided by free enterprise, of the successful completion of a class on ‘Parenting; the Proper Nutrition and Exercise for Children and Adolescents.”

Now there’s an economic stimulus that would benefit everybody.

- Larry

God’s Gift to Me

When geologists and archeologists fan out and search the globe they don’t find electric generators, windmills, solar cells, batteries, electric wiring, transistors or integrated circuits anywhere.

What they do find is cellulous material which equates to wood, coal, volcanic and geothermic steam vents, dinosaur bones, tar pits, natural gas and oil and an occasional encounter with static electricity and lightning. All of which were formed and in place long before man was present here on our earth. Modern science has declared it so in books. So it must be fact.

Yes, God put all of these things in place long before he created the Garden of Eden because he knew Adam and Eve’s offspring would eventually need to consume all of these resources, in one way or another, in order to energize the mechanical devices they would invent to make their lives easier (after he tossed them out of the garden) and which would ultimately enable them to overdevelop out of control technologies that would, as planned, bring them back to him. God knew all there was to know about carbon, in all of its forms.

What the authors of the Bible (and subsequent historians) missed was that God had given Adam, in the Garden of Eden, a book of matches. God knew most of these natural resources which he had so cleverly provided would need to be consumed by fire.

So, God made certain to create and add an atmospheric buffer around the globe that was adequate enough to protect the ozone layer (which he originally set at 500’ above sea level) from the effects of burning these resources.

Earlier in the week God made a bunch of other miscalculations but managed to correct them all, to absolute perfection, on Saturday.

You may think I’m joking but I’m not; drill, mine, funnel, process, refine, concentrate and burn. The only way to exist in our God given environment is to consume it!

It is what it is and no form of governmental control or regulation is ever going to change it. Period.

- Larry

Note: If you are interested in exploring this issue in detailed and complex terms read this excellent (and lengthy) article titled, ‘The Socialism Implicit in the Social Cost of Carbon.’

As always... the key is in the illusion.

- Davey Kilban

More evidence of government ‘propaganda’ through The National Endowment for The Arts (NEA)

Leveraging federal dollars (holding back financing). This is the problem with marrying issue specific topics, like health care and energy, with any group that is assisted or funded by tax dollars; it increases the potential of taxpayer-funded propaganda. It is precisely the reason many wise State Governors refused to take money from the Federal stimulus package.

If you don't have time to read the article (it is lengthy) here is the bottom line:

The government gives you a grant for you to produce or assist you in the production of your artwork and then later comes in and threatens to stop funding you unless you produce artwork related specifically to subject matter of their choice.

Moon Dog

ABIGAIL MEETS THE FULL MOON

One of my early attempts at digital art.

- Larry

Now That It's Over, Uncle Jay Explains Recess

Almost exactly 2 years old but still applicable. I've posted it the last two years before the recess but it slipped my mind this year. Until now.



- Larry

Dennis Carl Wilson

On the evening of December 28, 1983 he dove off of the side of his yacht moored at Marina Del Rey and never resurfaced.

Divers found his body the next morning and seven days later he was buried at sea.

Dennis was the only real surfer in the band and as the drummer was rarely given the opportunity at lead vocals. He was their drummer and was 39 when he passed.

I shed a tear when he died and will remember him forever.

Treat your ears to Dennis' vocals.

- Larry

Halloween? Not!

I took this photo 12 years ago. Two of the girls are my daughters (the good looking ones) and the other two are their friends. They were experimenting with "beauty masks" and I pointed my camera at the mirror.

It worked. They are all now beautiful young women!

- Larry

New Element Added to Periodic Table

It’s official. The heaviest, and admittedly most inexplicable element yet known to science, Gv has been added to the Periodic Table.

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 sub-neutrons (estimate), 88 nano-neutrons, and 198 idio-neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of +/- 312.

These +/- 312 particles are held together by an also newly discovered force tagged as “moronTic” and are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles referred to as aPathetic indiv-entities.

Governmentium has no electrons and is therefore inert; yet can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. Even trace amounts of Governmentium can delay reactions that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to ‘forever’ to complete. Contact with Governmentium has been determined to be unavoidable, thus the initial alarm was sounded in the scientific community (these people are so smart) with the connection to the formula; time = money.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years x infinity. Remarkably, it does not decay, but instead undergoes an oxymoronic process in which it decays and then replicates itself into a complex and ”chaotic” rotating cluster of nano and idio-neutrons.

Many scientists are deeply concerned. While concentrating on the integer in the equation, “chaotic,” they discovered the basic building block of Governmentium is in fact idio-neutrons or what is now commonly referred to in the scientific community as idiotrons.

Further distillation of idiotrons reveals an even more basic element, IDiot.

The fear is that the force of moronTic coupled with the element IDiot will infect humanity with an irreversible and perhaps fatal state of IDiotocrasy.

Should such an event happen, it would take you about 6 months to read this post.

- from the musings of my Uncle Lee and the scientific portion of the left side of my very small brain.

- Larry

I actually remember seeing this 49 years ago...

CREDIT TO: FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS - A MUST VISIT LINK!!

Life's gettin' pretty freakin' complicated...

Davey Kilban

Rock me momma like the wind and the rain...

I'm not sure why but this song reminds me of my friend, and trucker, Andy.

- Keep on truckin' - Larry

It can't be said any clearer than this...

This video needs to be posted on it's own. Pay particular attention to the end, the part about energy, automobiles, light bulbs and windows. Yes, it's a republican speaking but first and foremost an intelligent American. Regardless of who he is he's hit the nail on the head and this video should be passed around ad nauseum.



- Larry. Thanks to DSG for passing this on to me.

Some excellent health advise...

- Davey Kilban (the other Gary Larson).

"How Open-Minded Are You?"

Open-minded equates to stupidity.

An open mind is what you hear when criteria goes down the toilet. When someone says they are open-minded, they are waving the white flag, for there is no way a human being can defend a decision, if he forfeits the framework for making one.

Yet, university professors and the media tell us that being open-minded is good! But try it in the real world. Imagine being open-minded using power tools or pit bulls — it would only end in tears. Just ask my good friend Jim who only has one hand (he was born with two) and Michael Vick. Worse, being open-minded is a refusal to identify evil. That's because defining morality is seen as close-minded.

I think it's time we declare a war on open-mindedness. It is a costume of fake intelligence, a way to undermine all of us who make real decisions each day.

The next time someone tells you to be open-minded, hit them. If they get angry, simply tell them they're being narrow-minded. After all, they should be open to violence, especially if it allows you to grow as an individual. Then, take their wallet.

Credit: Greg Gutfeld

The Liberal Disease...

I find these two videos very disturbing. I have to wonder who is applauding in the first video as Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) celebrates a murdering tyrant. You may think the second video is an isolated incident. I don't, there's too many such videos out there on the web. Even if it is, my good buddy's Melanoma started out with just a few tiny, isolated cancerous cells.

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

Don't forget, use the slider at the bottom of the window to change videos. Hover your mouse over the video for controls.

- Larry