I hate catching bugs. Not the 6 or 8 legged (or even the 100 legged) kind. The other kind. Like I can't trust myself to drive due to the urgent need to visit the lou. These things happen. There is no good time for it. I find it depressing, but such is life. At least it is getting past every half hour now. I hope.
I wonder if this is because of the upcoming election. Might just my opinion of the options coming out.
Maybe.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Things happen and I don't understand.
I often see things and I don't understand. The how is usually easy, as I am a fan of physics. But the why of things escapes me faster than greased lighting. Coming back from Houston we cut through Deweyville,Tx and DeQuincy, La and this time we were delayed because a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and I am presuming killed. The ambulance had the body placed in it and didn't immediately leave which leads me to believe the impact was fatal. Not something you want to run into while you have a pair of sick grandkids in the car.
I am not one who is mesmerized by fatal incidents like this, but I do not display what I feel all the time. I have fallen while crossing a street and felt like my legs and arms had turned to lead when I tried to get up. A feeling of impending doom perhaps describes it. I have seen a helicopter crash on takeoff with no injuries to the crew but a "Yellow Shirt" died and an ASW jet land in the barricade of an aircraft carrier. (No mean feat if you know about that particular aircraft.) But in my life to date I have had no encounters with sudden death caused by uncontrollable factors. Every encounter with the "Grim Reaper" that I have a direct connection to (with the exception of age / physical condition, including "birth defects") have been preventable with certain precautions. Most of these occasions were created by man or were by mankind trying to defy set physical laws.
NCIS has given us "Gibb's Rules" so I figured to list a few of my own:
1. God is right.
2. Grandpa is probably right.
3. Gravity will always win. The best you can do is minimize the damage.
4. If someone say "Hey, watch this!" get out the 1st aid kit or your phone and start dialing "911".
5. Arguing with someone is a waste of time. You cannot unset concrete without completely disassembling it.
6. In regards to number 4; if you have time. get your video recorder going. America's Funniest is always needing new repeats of the same old mistakes.
7. Why the chicken crossed the road is unimportant. What is important is "spicy or mild".
8. Why am I here? is unimportant when compared to What am I doing while I am here?
9. What are you doing here??
A guy in Jacksonville Fl once made a tape "Dancing Across War-torn Europe" (I think) and in it he had a song about a list of things you should not ( my emphasis ) do including "never suck tobasco sauce into you lungs" and "never stick a knitting needle in your eye" and one of my personal favorites "Don't share your toothbrush with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir." Bye the way, the song was also on the "Theo" tape.
Not being a "list" person by nature or nurture my skill level with them is sub-par (inversely proportional I suppose. Isn't sub-par the objective of golf??). So take my advice here with a grain of salt, (sea salt, but limit your intake to the DRD) and work on a list of your own.
I am not one who is mesmerized by fatal incidents like this, but I do not display what I feel all the time. I have fallen while crossing a street and felt like my legs and arms had turned to lead when I tried to get up. A feeling of impending doom perhaps describes it. I have seen a helicopter crash on takeoff with no injuries to the crew but a "Yellow Shirt" died and an ASW jet land in the barricade of an aircraft carrier. (No mean feat if you know about that particular aircraft.) But in my life to date I have had no encounters with sudden death caused by uncontrollable factors. Every encounter with the "Grim Reaper" that I have a direct connection to (with the exception of age / physical condition, including "birth defects") have been preventable with certain precautions. Most of these occasions were created by man or were by mankind trying to defy set physical laws.
NCIS has given us "Gibb's Rules" so I figured to list a few of my own:
1. God is right.
2. Grandpa is probably right.
3. Gravity will always win. The best you can do is minimize the damage.
4. If someone say "Hey, watch this!" get out the 1st aid kit or your phone and start dialing "911".
5. Arguing with someone is a waste of time. You cannot unset concrete without completely disassembling it.
6. In regards to number 4; if you have time. get your video recorder going. America's Funniest is always needing new repeats of the same old mistakes.
7. Why the chicken crossed the road is unimportant. What is important is "spicy or mild".
8. Why am I here? is unimportant when compared to What am I doing while I am here?
9. What are you doing here??
A guy in Jacksonville Fl once made a tape "Dancing Across War-torn Europe" (I think) and in it he had a song about a list of things you should not ( my emphasis ) do including "never suck tobasco sauce into you lungs" and "never stick a knitting needle in your eye" and one of my personal favorites "Don't share your toothbrush with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir." Bye the way, the song was also on the "Theo" tape
Not being a "list" person by nature or nurture my skill level with them is sub-par (inversely proportional I suppose. Isn't sub-par the objective of golf??). So take my advice here with a grain of salt, (sea salt, but limit your intake to the DRD) and work on a list of your own.
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| The sky is smiling. |
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
The Louisiana Bayou Rat index page.
The Above mentioned link is to my homepage. I will occasionally update it with pertinence and other stuff.
The time has come for politics to raise its ugly head again. Presidential (and other) elections are about to get down and dirtier than my feet after a day of choppin' cotton. (Yes, I did when I was young.)
Who to vote for? What a question. I have long since had my fill of socialist rule, along with Big Brother. Reagan was the last one I could support, but he was an expensive date. I find it sad to say that the best we have had in my lifetime were a general, a California politician and a "not a crook". It is my feeling that the country is now lost and headed for a third or even fourth world status, degenerating further than man has the capacity to imagine into a fractured and fragmented society.
Who is to blame? Get real, there is no blame, just mankind following its "natural" pathology. The only way to fix this descent is by actually doing as the founders envisioned and applying it across the board. I seriously doubt any of our current so called "leaders" have a clue what I mean and my explanation would only be received as "blah, blah, blah"by most of them and completely ignored by the rest.
Well fellow Americans, if you must blame someone, blame yourself. We the people foolishly believed politicians and for the life of me I can't figure out why. This is the consistent end of our behavior. No governmental decree really "freed" anyone. The emancipation proclamation allegedly put an end to legal slavery but the slavery of before it remains with us today. People are still bought and sold all over the world under the various cloaks of debt and need. People who are on the federal/state "welfare" system are in reality now slaves of the government regardless of race, creed, or colour.
For many years now it is obvious to me that the allegedly democratic party has been on a socialist path while the allegedly representative party is doggedly on an industrialist megapower path. Both of these political parties have no interest in propagating freedom in the world because there is no money in it unless they can create another world wide war. By the time islamist garner enough power and unity start one, these two parties will have diluted and and diminished our capacity for self preservation sufficiently to make us an easy mark and the world will fall into chaos of the dark ages once again.
There are no layman terms by which I could explain the math to you but 2043 still has the highest probability for the unification and self destruction of both islam and the former USA. Anarchy is coming in about 30 years or so. Microsoft will contribute to its own demise in the computing world, Linux will rise and fall, google will fail spectacularly and the "greed" of the west will fracture all of the unified power structures from coast to coast.
As the man said: "Hold on to your hats boys. We're goin' for a RIDE!!!"
The Above mentioned link is to my homepage. I will occasionally update it with pertinence and other stuff.
The time has come for politics to raise its ugly head again. Presidential (and other) elections are about to get down and dirtier than my feet after a day of choppin' cotton. (Yes, I did when I was young.)
Who to vote for? What a question. I have long since had my fill of socialist rule, along with Big Brother. Reagan was the last one I could support, but he was an expensive date. I find it sad to say that the best we have had in my lifetime were a general, a California politician and a "not a crook". It is my feeling that the country is now lost and headed for a third or even fourth world status, degenerating further than man has the capacity to imagine into a fractured and fragmented society.
Who is to blame? Get real, there is no blame, just mankind following its "natural" pathology. The only way to fix this descent is by actually doing as the founders envisioned and applying it across the board. I seriously doubt any of our current so called "leaders" have a clue what I mean and my explanation would only be received as "blah, blah, blah"by most of them and completely ignored by the rest.
Well fellow Americans, if you must blame someone, blame yourself. We the people foolishly believed politicians and for the life of me I can't figure out why. This is the consistent end of our behavior. No governmental decree really "freed" anyone. The emancipation proclamation allegedly put an end to legal slavery but the slavery of before it remains with us today. People are still bought and sold all over the world under the various cloaks of debt and need. People who are on the federal/state "welfare" system are in reality now slaves of the government regardless of race, creed, or colour.
For many years now it is obvious to me that the allegedly democratic party has been on a socialist path while the allegedly representative party is doggedly on an industrialist megapower path. Both of these political parties have no interest in propagating freedom in the world because there is no money in it unless they can create another world wide war. By the time islamist garner enough power and unity start one, these two parties will have diluted and and diminished our capacity for self preservation sufficiently to make us an easy mark and the world will fall into chaos of the dark ages once again.
There are no layman terms by which I could explain the math to you but 2043 still has the highest probability for the unification and self destruction of both islam and the former USA. Anarchy is coming in about 30 years or so. Microsoft will contribute to its own demise in the computing world, Linux will rise and fall, google will fail spectacularly and the "greed" of the west will fracture all of the unified power structures from coast to coast.
As the man said: "Hold on to your hats boys. We're goin' for a RIDE!!!"
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