Unknown Origin

I ran across a blog entry having a link to another piece of information. On trying to find it again, I was unable and left trying to describe the post to spouseinbox. (Remember we are both nurses) The posting stated there was a cheaper much less invasive treatment for the dangerous side effect of viagra. I put spouseinbox to the test and asked what the side effect was. The correct reply came, that an erection lasting longer than 4 hours was hazardous and requiring medical attention. Correct. This blog has a link that could take care of the hazardous side effect without invasive procedure. Click the link and a picture of Hillary shows. Spouseinbox replied, “a picture of Pelosi would also work.”

 

Good morning – random thoughts

I woke up with a description of Bill Mahar on my mind – the verbal equivalent of being mooned. What’s with his million dollars? That was simply payment to the don for protection. We are now operating in Chicago politics writ large. Anything the MSP puts out from is propaganda and I consider all of them the propaganda of the socialist democrat party. Will I vote for Romney? When the time comes, of course. It’s not that I have any favor for him considering all of the things he has supported over the years, but at least he grew up in this country and is not a communist. Repeat – he grew up in this country and is not a communist. When the MSP (main stream propagandists) start vetting his associates, ask how many of these associates planted bombs, advised for overthrow of the Constitution, fomented violence, tried to force subsidy of murder. How many had ties to the KGB? If the best they can show is some teenagers cutting someone’s hair, I can live with that.

 

From an e-mail

Here is where Francis W. Porretto from Eternity Road went, and he has a very good post about:

The Julia Story

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One of the central points of 1984 is that in true totalitarianism, the State must displace the natural allegiances of love — romantic, familial, and brotherly (and, though Orwell might not agree — Love of God, too)– with a love of State.
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http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2012/05/julia-story.html

I thought this was interesting in that once one tries to rid themselves of God, they end up picking another god as a substitute -in Zero’s case, himself. The concept that environmentalists have that we are destroying the planet, is only logical if held in the idea that we are as powerful as God. We can control the seas, we can effect the sun, we can protect all wildlife, all everyone has to do is stop breathing. Yes, it’s carbon dioxide that is the problem, so if we stop breathing all will be fine. (eyes roll) I was sitting next to some female in chemistry class listeneing to the professor describe the formation and real-life orientation of the ozone molecule. It actually doesn’t exist as a three oxygen set, but rather as portions of radical molecules that trade off their electrons and subsequently pass of heat to nitrogen atoms nearby. The power for all of the activity was the sun and the presence of oxygen. I noted this little fact to my seatmate and was informed that we were destroying the atmosphere. Uhhh, what did the prof just say? All that is required to produce ozone is oxygen and sunlight. Period. End of sentence. We have to get rid of one or the other. Only God is able, and I’m not applying for that job. Yet we have mindless tape recorders running around spouting off talking points without the slightest sense of what they just said violates reality. Orwell – down is up, up is down.
For some reason, the superhero came to mind and I had to check out the origin and rise of the superhero. To my interest, the superhero comics started their rise in the mid 30′s. Why is that important? Well, that is when Roosevelt was starting the dismantling of the Constitution. Consider how the country was founded and what kind of individuals would be there. The second amendment mentioned the well regulated militia. There were no police, no armies, no coast guard, no immigration officials. It was up to each individual to defend themselves, their home, and band together to defend their communities. Each person was responsible for their own defense. What if a superior force showed? The original communities would band together. The superhero was to provide the mental concept against that mindset. Do I believe that is why they created them? Of course not. They created them to sell the magazines and produce a profit. I do, however, believe that the concepts presented had some association with the politics of the day and desire for socialists, progressives, liberals, etc to get a foot hold on the minds of free men. So when the force comes that is larger than the individual can handle, instead of banding together and fighting, we now have the community saved by an indivudal with super strength, super powers, or whatever other special characteristic he has that on one else possesses. The people no longer save themselves, protect themselves, or band together to the betterment of the group.
They have, in effect, picked a mini god. Then you get the effects like this. The salmon have been around for how long? Sea lions have been around for how long? Who is trying to be god? I can guarantee it won’t work because that job has already been taken, and no one here is qualified, no matter how big their ego. (You can put your hand down, Zero)

 

I woke up with a thought

This morning I woke up with an impression that seemed interesting. To set the stage, I lost dadinbox about 4 1/2 years ago and a fellow worker at church about a year later. To that fellow’s daughter, I gave the impression that our fathers were up in heaven hanging a door somewhere. It would fit they way they were down here. I couldn’t tell you how many projects the two of them tackled around the church or for others who needed the help.
When one reads Ecclesiastes, it is noted how many things Solomon attributes to him making. He built this, he built that, and I started thinking about the mechanics of that attribute and isn’t it interesting that the king takes credit for what he directs, but the workers are actually building the project.
I can see God directing and taking credit for the mansions built as the provider and director of the project, and dad and his friend happily hanging a door, getting ready for us to come join them. “I go and prepare a mansion for you…”

 

Random Thoughts

I know posts have been rather thin recently. Several things have kept life busy combied with viruses in the computer I normally use and wanting to practice as well as take care of family business. All this is to say, when the ladder of importance is examined to decide where time costly activities are listed, blogging is on the low end of the list and will be dropped. I still like to read and surf a bit when able, but note that writing does take up a bit more time and energy which I have been using other places. The other thing is probably because this idea has been churning in my head for a while and I don’t like the feeling of writing it. I believe it is applicable, and that’s probably the real problem. When writing on national issues, I am a hospice nurse charting the slow demise of the individual with a known end. Paying attention to these issues puts me in that position. I am old enough to remember getting cookies, popcorn balls, and apples from neighbors for halloween. I remember the change when it was broadcast across the news how a kid was cut by a razorblade in an apple. The rise of socialism was the destruction of safety and loss of social cooperation. There is a commercial that irritates me – the mom has a stressful moment as she has not seen her kid for about 10 sec. Since when was that stressful? Only if there is no trust of your fellow citizens. The advancement of the “melting pot” which I had in elementary gave way to the “multiculturalism” which is used to divide people since. The rule of law no longer applies in this nation. I have stated this before, and it bears repeating because there is a desire to remenisce things from childhood and that country no longer exists. We have an elected official who admits in court via his lawyers that his birth certificate presented to the nation is a fake. Fraud. Illegimate. And this official continues to run for an additional term in office and no one has raised an eyebrow to say, “Excuse me?” A law gets passed mandating everyone bow to the feds regarding health insurance. 1700 exemptions have been given so far. If it’s a law, it theoretically should apply to everyone. The fact it doesn’t illustrates that fact this was simply a means of extortion. Yes, extortion. The company that kisses the ring and receives an exemption has a much lower cost of business than their competition. The family farms from whom the pigs are being destroyed about whom Ted Nugent speaks. Is there anything allowing the government to go on private property and destroy an individual’s private property without compensation or recourse? I think that was covered in a certain ammendment. We can now have all of our transactions monitored by the government with anticipated use against us without a court of law. That was the law passed at the end of last year combined with the one just pushed through over objections and payola to the internet companies. Those two absolutely ignore the bill of rights and make it possible for the federal government to monitor private communications, decide they are not up to snuff, and put someone into prison for life without charges or chance to appeal to the judiciary. Speaking of the judiciary, our arbitors of common sense and truth, since when can a highest ranking judge use and properly administer the tenants of a document which she openly maligns in another country. In a sane, properly administered system, that would be grounds for impeachment.
I guess that is the reason I have not felt like writing recently. These thoughts have been churning and maintaining a less than stellar mood.

 

Round-Up

Good morning from my computer in Texas.  Life has maintained its interesting flair, with my help, of course.  I am wishing to say another song is finished, but can’t.  I only have the melody line as of now, so a bunch more work there.  Another activity keeping us occupied is the result of me wanting to take advantage of a sale.  Kidinbox is in to animals – hundreds of fish, turtle, bearded dragon, etc.  I received a call from kidinbox that Local Pet Store was having a sale on fish tanks – a dollar a gallon.  There was one 55 gallon tank and it wasn’t going to be mine.  Oh well.  I settled for a 40 gallon tank.  Now this decision was sight unseen, and I assumed the normal dimensions for a 55 gallon tank minus the width for 15 gallons would provide me the 40 gallon tank.

Wrong.

When the tank made its way to my box, I discovered someone in design was enjoying themselves with an evil chuckle – I’m sure.  This thing was twice as deep – from the front as the 55 gallon tank.  In other words, I couldn’t cheat with the $25 stand at the local cheap mart and put a small board on the end.

Joy.

By this time, spouseinbox had decided a location for this tank in the living room and I was asked to measure and confirm that it would fit there.  Persuasion tip from being on the back end, if you want someone to get something somewhere, have them decide that it will fit.  So the fish-tank process has begun and we are most of the way to finishing the structure, only requiring some work on the finish before installing the back piece.  So, (drum roll) here is the fish-tank stand in its unfinished glory:

We used tabletop board for most of the structure, 1×2 for the corners and a piece of angle iron under the top for a bit of extra support towards the front as I believe this tank will weigh about 400 pounds once filled.  The other nice thing about this project is enjoying time working together on something.  I can say I’m blessed to have someone who will not only coerce encourage me to start a project, I will have someone there with hands on through the procedure.

Another project that is now completed is a new projector install at church.  This was started last year – makes it sound more impressive doesn’t it – and required quite a bit of patience as the seller used the cheapest transportation possible and had no tracking, meaning the purchase didn’t arrive for a month.  Don’t forget this was for church, meaning that I was being asked about the replacement projector as well. “Umm, I ordered it and am waiting for it.  Sorry, that’s all I can say.  The seller said they shipped it.”  Well, it finally arrived (I didn’t give feedback, I didn’t want to get into a spitting war) I started playing with the unit and confirming operation.  The unit worked well, and even had a lens adjustment for height apart from the automated controls.  Interesting.  The unit was designed to operate from a computer control and that was my next task.  As there was no manual, I had to search the web to finally find the manual which had instructions about the cable design and no link for the software to control it.  That was another search.  Oh well.  Anyways, spouseinbox assisted measuring and then let me solder the ends in place – 7 wires with 3 crosses.  The cross means that number 3 pin on this end needs to match number 2 pin on the other side, etc.  The amazing thing was that when this cable was assembled, it worked.  First time.  Yehaa!  Then the trick of getting it into the ceiling commenced.  This was done with spouseinbox and friendfromchurch.  About 3 hours in the church was spent getting the wire into place and now the lyrics get a brighter presentation.  About 4000 lumens worth.  For comparison a 100 watt lightbulb – now no longer available puts out about 750 lumens.  (If memory serves me.) So this projector is running about the equivalent of 5 – 100 watt lightbulbs.  Nice.

I was listening to the talk radio the other day and the subject of the marines urinating on a dead Taliban was discussed.  I find it amazing the difference between their presentation and the 4 workers killed, cut up and hung upside down from a bridge.  How about a little understanding here.  By understanding I mean understanding war.  It. Isn’t. Pretty.  Period.  Just a couple off the top of my head, I believe it was G. Gordon Liddy who talked about General Patton who urinated in the Rhine river in WW2.  There was the 7th army who were fighting the Japanese in the Pacific and took heads of the deceased to adorn their tanks.  Had I my preference, these dead Taliban would be covered with bacon.  Imagine the poor souls burning in hell.  A demon comes over to them and challenges, “Well, what do you think?” “Uhh, I thought there were supposed to be 72 virgins for me to molest.”  “No, sorry, the marine who sent you here placed bacon on your corpse.  Allah isn’t as strong as bacon.”

Personally, I would be honored to buy these marines supper.  They are out there risking their lives killing these savages in another country so we don’t have to shoot them from our own windows.  And if the image of these marines takes some fight out of the terrorists, by golly, post it on billboards around the Mideast.   Let’s take this war seriously and allow our military to do what it is trained to do.  This war is more than just killing terrorists.  There is also the psychological side where we have to place something in the vacuum we are creating by removing this influence.  Unless we fight this second battle, the first is going to fail.  Take that MSP.

 

Comment that caught my attention

A president who promised to bankrupt the coal industry is in no position to gainsay Romney’s record of job creation at Bain Capital. Romney created at least 100,000 jobs in private life; Obama created none. Then Obama entered office and racked up a record of job destruction that would give even the most reckless corporate raiders pause.

From here.

I still can’t forget the absolute denial of the rule of law, ignoring the Constitution, and cover by the MSP that would make Stalin jealous.  The amount of impeachable material is incredible, and yet the congress isn’t taking the appropriate action – impeachment – which would have been called for two years ago had anything even close been done by a Republican.  My only thought is that our congress critters have spines made of cartilage and are waiting for voters to do their job.  In the mean time, the rule of law and our heritage continue to have chips removed until their original forms have become unrecognizable.  My candidate will have the will to remove obammacare from our lives, actually defend our borders, and reestablish the rule of law.  Past that, my list would be a candy dish of thoughts, but I consider these the essentials for this country to have a future.

 

 

Diversions

I have been rather busy as of late trying to get several songs recorded for Christmas, making bread for coworkers at work, and finding information about drilling a well and placing a septic.  I was looking for soil testing facilities and found an interesting site: http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/texas_spiders to acquaint you with our local arachnids.

 

Announcement

to the kids in the car that pulled out in front of me on the access road this afternoon I have one thought for you to consider.  It appeared by your facial expressions that you enjoyed the thrill of the adrenaline rush of ignoring proper etiquette on the roadway.  Realize that thrill will be long gone when you have to be worked on in the ER by one of my associates who is trying to keep you breathing with the cracked ribs and punctured lung after your car wreck.  The tubes in your veins to keep hydration and BP at proper levels combined with the chest tube to remove the fluid and air from the trauma I’m sure will offset any adrenaline rush previously experienced.  Just saying.

 

philosophy

Hank Williams had a most enjoyable reply to the controversy with ESPN. From the lyrics, I note an interesting account of what happened.

It may seem like the problem is the government,regulations, and other stuff causing the problems this country is experiencing. However, I would like to take a step back and note that those are simply actions that have a basis in philosophy.
Ayn Rand wrote a book “Philosophy, who needs it?” The book has an interesting compilation of thought processes including money and loans. I will offer that for anyone wanting to explore this subject in detail. The point is, the philosophy of an individual is the driving force of their behavior. If one changes their philosophy, the behavior will subsequently change. The child that learns the curling iron is hot has just had a change in their philosophy. You might chuckle and say they simply had a hot experience and learned, but consider what that learning did. They went from the idea that this stick had an interesting shape and mommy used it in her hair, to touching the end of that hurts. The thought process has changed and subsequent behavior changes as a result.
I can’t find the reference, but there was another illustration regarding sex education. The author stated that if presenting the basic facts of sex were the intention, a single class of short duration would be sufficient. The only reason for 12 years of sex education is to change the teaching of the parents.
The reason for extended instruction in a subject is to change one’s philosophy. The free sex 60′s crowd are trying to legitimize their actions by increasing the rolls of their supporters as much as possible. As the picture stated “5000 naked people can’t all be wrong.” The philosophy behind that one is simply that the group’s actions legitimize one’s personal actions. Think back to the Clinton era and their defense “they all do it.”
Well, no we don’t. Some of us believe in the rule of law. some of us believe in personal responsibility. Some of us believe that a criminal should be tried, convicted, and punished – note I said punished, not reformed. The punishment is the action that is to provide the change in philosophy, not a saccharin sweet training course – hard life experience causes the greatest change.
I have to go to work. Real life, you know. Have a pleasant day.