8 YEARS LATER - THE SAGA CONTINUES - U.S. HISTORY... AGAIN...

(This is a continuation of my post on February 3rd, 2005, entitled, "Back to U.S. History")

 When we left our heroes, the were struggling with the problem of massive numbers of big, strong, rightfully resentful, and angry slaves about to overpower their soft "Masters" regardless of the Masters' monopoly on firearm possession.  To make matters worse, the obvious solution of capping the slaves' population number was ruled out due the ever increasing need for MORE slaves as our heroes maintained the economic growth necessary to maintain their lifestyles, increase their national and international power, and continue their assent to world domination - i.e. finally they'll be safe and secure.

So WTF?  Right?  Our heroes are damned if they do (grow slave population) and damned if they don't (maintain economic growth).  What to do, what to do?  ...   Let's consult with our European roots and history and see what lessons we can learn to help us overcome this mighty obstacle.  Ah hah!  A class based society is a start.  That way you can have slaves but don't have to call them slaves.  Then some unsung hero suggested combining that with paper money and we'll have in effect merely changed the language of slavery and enslaved all the poor (and middle class) white people while announcing a triumphant end to slavery.  What a brilliant concept!  Free Slaves!  All we have to do is print up money for them to play with so they can pretend they have gold.  We'll let them have jet skis and shiny rims and we'll have jets, skis, and shiny satellites.

A message to the Religious and Spiritual (a comment I leaft someone on a CNN article)

Whatever your religious belief - wake up - We've out grown supernatural-based control systems, or at least we should have. There is no God. Yes there is organization in the universe, but that's a matter of gravity and time on a scale we can't even conceptualize. Of course there's more to existence than what we know. But the omnipotent being(s) thing is plain retarded at this point. A Trinity? Son of God? Really? To coin a term, Jesus Christ! Are you kidding me? Original Sin? Have you seen a baby lately? How they sell this stuff is beyond me. Back to deconstruction... The concept of an afterlife is nothing but a crutch to make us feel better when people we like die, and to make dying not so scary. Grow up. You have one shot at life. Take responsibility for yourself and be the best you can. Stop accepting mediocrity in the now because that Heaven you dream of after your death isn't coming. Your only shot at Heaven is right here, right now. Do something new. Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Hippy-ism, etc, etc... all been done. Do something NEW. Because money sucks (unless you have more than your fair share :-)

Always gotta f__k with the niggers and beaners.

Dealing with Law Enforcement and the Legal System SUCKS ENOUGH as a middle class white guy.  My heart goes out to all the black and mexican (S. Am...) guys out there.  You're getting fucked.  I am whitey and I apologize.

Out of all the possible combinations and whatnot, have you ever noticed that it turned out to be Pres. Lincoln on the only 'colored/dark' coin we have?   And OF COURSE of all the coins we have ever had, it is worth THE LEAST.  Man, will they ever stop hasslin' niggers?  It's just so fucked up.  I NEVER see a cop car pointing the wrong way, crooked, half on the sidewalk, lights goin, with A WHITE GUY with his hands behind his back standing between the headlights.  I see black guys in that predicament all the time.  I got pulled over once because the NHP guy thought I was mexican.  Boy was he surprised when he walked up and looked in the window! lol  I was drivin a newly painted, grey Taurus station wagon, lowered, with black rims, blacked out windows and a license plate that said "PAPUH".  He was so confused that he actually said, "You know, it's raining out here?"  ...and it wasn't.  Then he wrote me a ticket for windows that were too dark! lol

Incredible! I actually remembered what it was that I couldn't remember for yesterday's post!!! SPIN!!!

When I say spin, I DON'T mean news spin or political spin.  I mean spin like a top.  It has occurred to me that what ever IT is, it has something to do with spinning.  The motion of spinning is so fundamental and pervasive in the universe at every level that it's got to have some uncommon significance. The key to something.

Galaxies are spinning.  Solar systems are spinning.  Stars are spinning.  Planets are spinning.  Weather systems are spinning (hurricanes, tornadoes, obviously, but really all weather systems spin), Water drains spin, like toilets and sinks, etc.  Wheels spin.  Generators spin to create electricity.  All engines spin.  The earliest toys - tops and yo-yos both spin.

When we spin, we get dizzy!

Molecules and atoms spin.

So what's the deal?

About God and something else I can't remember right now?

You know that demonstration of the unreliability language where a phrase is whispered person to person throughout the class.  Once the phrase reaches the last person, you compare it to the original phrase and it's all f'ed up?  Well, that's sort of what happened with God.  Have you ever wondered about God's real name? YHWH?  Kind of "consonanty" eh? Well there's a reason.  YHWH is breathing.  YH represents the inhale and WH, the exhale.  Say them as you breathe.  Say them correctly, don't go stickin in vowels that aren't there.  See, God is life.  The breath of life.  "And He breathed life into it..."  The primary function that ceases when one dies is they stop breathing.  Conversely, you prevent someone from breathing and they die.  God is life.  Breath.  YHWH.

Then some religious jerks came along and fucked the whole concept up.  On purpose; saying someone (life) is God isn't a very effective means of controlling them.  A scary, judgmental, & nosey man in the sky is much better.

Now, what was that other thing....  ? I can't remember right now.  Well...     I made up a knock knock joke today...

"Knock, knock..."
                                "Who's there?"
"Jesus."
                                "Jesus who?"

LOL!

This next one I didn't make up:

If a man says something in a forest and no woman is there to hear it, is he still wrong?

Enough SPIN. Here's the deal with North Korea... by the way, it's OUR fault.

Years ago, North Korea decided they wanted some respect and equal footing in negotiations amongst the world powers.  So they initiate a nuclear weapons program.  They've since completed 3 underground tests.  Concurrently, they've been developing delivery systems as well.  While impressive, the whole thing still has quite a bit of duct tape and chewing gum involved and needs work.

What has the U.S./R.O.W. reaction to all of this been?  I'm sure initially we mocked them behind closed doors.  When real shit started happening, with each new test/event, we slapped butt loads of economic sanctions on them.  In order to pressure/strong arm them into doing what we want them to do.  Kind of like world-gangsters.

Guess what?  The sanctions have worked like a muthafucka!  North Korea is collapsing into widespread poverty and possibly starvation as a direct result of us kicking them out of our sandbox.

"Sorry, only 2nd graders and above can play with Bey Blades.  You're just a punk-ass kindergartener.  Give me your Bey Blade! ... Oh, you won't will you?  We'll see how you do when we take your lunch money every day. ...  Still no?  Well, my Dad just fired your Mom from her reception job at the law firm.  Hope you really like Top Ramen.  ...  Still no?  Guess who goes to our church?  That's right, Bob Grocery.  Oooooohhh, looks like your Dad just lost his grocery bagging job.  ...  Oh yeah, and we've closed down the Unemployment Office.  Have fun suckin on blankets, bitches!"

What do people do right before they fight?  They start bouncin' and gettin' amped up so they're ready for the adrenaline rush when the physical conflict begins.  Not too unlike what North Korea's doing right now.    Sort of, but Michael, the 95 pound, Jew from Encino, CA isn't gonna start bouncin' around in front of Bubba, the lean, 210 pound, 6'2", black kid from Compton, CA.  No, Michael is gonna sit down and shut the fuck up.

Hold on though, Michael also has a lot to lose.  He's fixin to take over his Dad's dental practice someday and make butt loads of cash.  If he didn't have any teeth himself, he might not make quite as much money as he would have otherwise.

On the other hand, suppose Michael's entire family is killed in a bizarre banking accident and he ends up in an abusive foster home, with a foster father who's a bit too "lovey-dovey".  To make things worse, Bubba gives him a DEEEEEP wedgie and takes his lunch money everyday.  In a word, Michael's life sucks,  Under these circumstances, it becomes believable that one day, Michael decides, "Fuck it.  Why not?  I'm hungry as fuck." and starts ampin up as Bubba is approaching with his daily wedgie...

The sanctions are driving North Korea to a point of "fuck it" desperation.  They need some wealth and food, and there's a ton of both, right over there in Seoul, South Korea...    Fuck it...

And someday, we're going to drive Iran into fuck it mode as well.

Now, I know it's lame to criticize without giving solutions, but I don't feel like typing anymore, so you'll just have to wait.

It took us Homo Sapiens 150,000 years to get our shlt together? Yeah, right...

I was just doing some casual Google research and discovered these "facts":

1.  The earliest evidence of human civilization dates back to about 6000BC, or roughly 8,000 years ago.  To keep numbers round, let's say humans have been making buildings for about 10k years.

2.  The earliest evidence of human beings existing in our current anatomical form dates back about 200,000 years,

3. It is said that we have been behaviorly stable for about 50,000 years.

Some quick math reveals that it took humans 150,000 years to get our shit together, though we had essentially the same biological resources we have now.  AND this is as far as we've come in 50,000 years? My ass.  I don't know what the truth is, but this is not it.

Waaa! Waaa! Politicians are all rich! Waaa! Why do we elect them?

Reeling it in from yesterday's philosophical musings, today I bring you a more practical topic. I've been trying and forgetting to write this entry FOR MONTHS!  So I'm thrilled to be doing it and I hope it's been worth the wait...

Yes.  Politicians ARE rich.  And so often it is asked why do we keep electing these rich cocksuckers who have nothing in common with us as a people and basically don't give a shit about us.  They don't care.  So why? Why do we do it over and over again?  Consider this example:

Dave is the primary mechanic at the Chevron down the street from my house.  Dave is handsome, funny, charismatic, and an excellent mechanic.  Dave is also very bright, well informed about local issues and their factors, and has a very practical but deeply insightful approach to problem solving.  Dave would be a great leader; An ideal State Assemblyman for our district.

Then why do we always elect that Nat Yesrough guy? (By the way, that's "For Satan" backwards.)  Who doesn't even live in our district?  Dave would beat that guy in a heartbeat!  Maybe he would.  But Dave, like sooooo many of us, lives paycheck to paycheck.  If he got sick for one or two weeks, his finances would be devastated.  So how the hell is he supposed to take off a few months to campaign?  How is he supposed to do the initial marketing of himself in order to then raise funds for the campaign?

He isn't.  And he won't.  Because you have to have some serious funds if you want to have the necessary resources and free time to market yourself prior to even having a real campaign of any sort.

THAT'S WHY POLITICIANS ARE ALL RICH.  BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE.  IF THEY WEREN'T, THEY'D HAVE TO BE AT WORK, NOT OUT TRYING TO BECOME A POLITICIAN

THERE IS NO GOD. THEISM IS WRONG.

It's just been so long.  Sooooooo long.  I mean fuck.  No human being can gain an inkling of understanding, just how long it has been.  Lets get some perspective as to why I'm placing this so far beyond our imagination's limits...

Imagine if you will...  how long it must take random dust particles, blown out in every direction, to start pulling together, against their initial momentum's direction, to start pulling together due solely to their mutual gravitational pull/attraction.  I'm talking just to make something with ANY shape to it whatsoever; a universe sized dust blob.  It would take forever.  Now tack on the dust blob in one tiny cubic centimeter area to have enough dust collect - on gravity alone - to make a thing; A BIT of matter.  The size of a pebble, but with less density than a dirt clod.  Again, it would take forever.  OK, so now we're at 2 x Forever and we have one pebble sized dirt clod of matter.  The Universe is ORGANIZED into HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of GALAXIES, each containing HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF STARS.  That's a lot of pebble sized dirt clods.  That's a lot of pebble sized dirt clods amassing in amounts great enough to collapse in on itself due to GRAVITY ALONE, to the point that atoms begin to crush and start a nuclear chain reaction and create suns. Our sun is one of the little ones.  Really little.
OK OK.  Enough babbling about shit we have no hope of grasping in our little brains.  The point is...   OF COURSE!!!  OF COURSE shit is organized.  OF COURSE shit seems planned out.  OF COURSE IT APPEARS TO US THAT THERE'S SOME BEING OF SUPREME INTELLIGENCE WITH A FUCKED UP AND SIMULTANEOUSLY HILARIOUS SENSE OF HUMOR!  We're just perceiving a tiny bit of how organized the universe is after existing for so long.  OF COURSE WE EXIST.  EVERYTHING IS INEVITABLE.

As I explained earlier today, this sense of "I" that we have is NOTHING.  It's a necessary side effect of being able to self stimulate  your sensory organs.  I look down, I see my legs.  I have to have some way of assimilating that into my overall perception of what's around me - So OF COURSE I have "self-awareness".  If you can see and touch yourself, YOU HAVE TO!

It's just been a really long time, and coincidences are bound to happen.  Coincidences that cause more coincidences, and so on...  until some loser says, "I've got it!  There's a God setting all this shit up.  ...BOO!"  It, I mean HE is a spooky God too.  But I'll protect you from him if you give me that loaf of bread.  Is it a deal?"

DUMMIES!

THERE IS NO GOD.

IN FACT, THERE IS NO "YOU".

JUST TRY

TO THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND

(I KNOW IT'S KINDA DISCOURAGED,

BUT DO IT ANYWAY!!!)

IT HAS BEEN A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME, OF COURSE SHIT HAS STARTED MAKING SENSE EVEN TO US ASSHOLES.

OF COURSE... 

A dog's special licking ability is no gift.

I've heard it many times, "Dogs are so lucky.  I'd just lay around and do nothing too if I could lick my own dick.  They've got it made!"
No, they don't.  It's a frikin nightmare.  Even though they can get their head down there, they can only give themselves shitty blow jobs.  All they can do is lick - not suck.  Think about your last shitty blow job.  Probably a lot of licking and very little sucking.  Certainly no serious or deep sucking.  Dogs live tortured lives.  They've been given the flexibility we sadly lack, but they can't use a straw...

Precursor to There is No God. We are not different than amoebas just more complex.

(There is No God is the second post ahead...)

But we have spines and brains.  We are self-aware.
Those are just necessary developments enabling greater complexity.  It'd be pretty hard to get stuff done without a skeleton wouldn't you say?  Dealing with the intricate manipulation of fingers would be pretty tough without a brain, yeah?  As for self-awareness...
The mundane nature of self-awareness just dawned on me a few minutes ago and is why I'm writing this post.  Self-awareness is nothing but a side effect of increasing the magnitude and accuracy of sensory perception.  The sensory input received by an amoeba is pretty limited.  It is likely impossible for one to bend in such a way as to stimulate its own perception.  Plants are also similarly limited (with some exception, but sensory processing limitations are also a factor).  Then we move up the ladder to say, fish.  Again, bending in such a way as to stimulate its own sensory organs is difficult at best.  Reptiles - a little more self stimulating, but still very limited along with very limited processing.  Birds - a little more.  Mammals - quite a bit more.  In fact the move to mammals represents a huge step in life's ability to self stimulate.  Human beings are the most gifted self stimulators so far.  One might say we're the best jerk offs on the planet.  Hopefully, this perspective shows you how self-awareness is nothing more than a necessary element of self-stimulation and  exists in lesser or greater amounts depending on how much self-stimulation the organism is capable of and the amount of processing the organism is able to apply to the self generated stimulation. All animals have self-awareness at some level.  It doesn't amount to a fundamental difference, just variation in magnitude.  We're not different or better, just more complex i.e. It's just easier for us to masturbate.

This man left me staring at the screen, slack jawed, and unthinking.

At this very moment, I still can barely form complete thoughts.  This is so far from my day to day existence.  To engage in an act (e.g. war) that regularly has consequences of this nature and often much worse (If death is worse than this. I'm not sure,) really has no means of justification in the absence of preexisting, direct aggression by the opposition.  I think this gentleman must be of extraordinary character or something of that nature.  You'll see...

Kenneth and Charles

"Wow" kinda stuff, yeah?

Well Gun Control is Back in the Headlines... One more time:

Gun Control.  I'll be short and to the point; you know... like a handgun.  Gun control will keep guns out of the hands of ONE group of people - average, law-abiding citizens.
The issue is long over.  We bought into the gun thing LOOOONG ago.  Firearm distribution in the U.S. is so vast there's little reason to even discuss the issue.  The people who REALLY want guns AND are most likely to USE THEM ON PEOPLE (psychos and stupid criminals) will be able to easily obtain guns under the strictest of gun control policies, and they forever will.  There are too many guns out there already, so just fuckin' get over it.

Really??? You don't think BJ, the career drug dealer won't be able to carry his Glock 9mm because you can't buy them without an extensive, 2 month long background check?  If you're even considering arguing about this, go fuck yourself.

Furthermore, it contributes population control.

Lincoln, Kennedy, King, Lennon, etc. all would still have been killed by guns.  The powers that be will always be armed.  Don't just lie down for them; I don't care if they give you a doggy treat or not.

What kind of ignorant, selfish, retarded, ayehole people...

As I was saying...  What kind of ignorant, selfish, retarded, assholerized people shit all over a man who wants nothing more than to be a good Dad to his kids?  And however much he has been allowed, he's done exactly that - been a good Dad.
SO WHAT THE GODDAMN FLYING FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE POWER TRIPPING, PSYCHO, PARANOID, EVIL BITCHES?!?!?!
Ya know? What the fuck?
Why would anyone fuck with a father who actively, with no nudging or prodding whatsoever,  a father who wants to provide his children with love and attention and be involved in their lives?  Their complete lives.  Not playing with them for a couple 3 hour visits per week.
THAT'S NOT BEING A DAD YOU STUPID CUNTS!!!!!!
THAT'S NOT PROVIDING THE KIDS THE LOVE, SECURITY, AND GUIDANCE OF A FATHER!!!
ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING RETARDED?
DID YOUR DAD FUCK YOU WEARING A GARFIELD MASK OR SOMETHING?
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?!

I'm sure that's it.  They had shitty fathers.  And now they're like, "I had a shitty Dad, or basically no Dad and look at me.  I turned out fine."
NO! NO YOU DIDN'T! YOU'RE FUCKED UP...  AND FUCKED UP BAD.  You have massive control, power, and security issues.  You have no social skills to speak of.  Your relationships with men (and women for that matter) are ALL fucked up or non-existent.  And you are obsessed with ignorant, hard-line christianity which you wield like a sword and hide behind like a shield (more like a castle wall) in your daily battles with obvious truths that you are too insecure and fearful of to accept.  Did I mention the unfathomable control and power issues?  Holy fuck.  Do you even see some of this shit I'm talking about or are you just in complete denial?
Damn it.
Respect is earned, NOT enforced!
Fuckin' idiots...
Your family is blessed with a gifted father for your children and grandchildren and all  you do is disrespect and shit on him.  You are disgraceful.
God Damn It.
or Bless It.  Whatever will straighten these damaged bitches out.

I've Had It With Advertising On CNN!!!

O.K. so I see a tag line in my daily news list from CNN that interests me.  I click to it.  It's a video.  Great! Don't have to read!  So they run a short ad that I usually can partially skip after a countdown.  Fine, everyone has to make their money.  Then the next video in the series associated with the first begins.  And....  another ad.  And the ads generally SUCK!  Really?  Before EVERY video?  Really?  It's not like you're ALREADY a billion dollar corporation or anything.  Do you really need to make even more money by subjecting us to MORE advertising than we endure every second of every day? I mean, before the first video, sure.  When we switch to a new set of videos, o.k..  But every frikin' one?  Ooops, my bad, I almost forgot...  Money Over Everything... sorry bro.

Who Owns Your Home, For Real? I Think YOU Do And Here's Why...

Before someone from Chase Bank reads this and decides to screw me on my refi-, let me say that within the current system of mortgage lending, Chase has been a good lender to me and done a number of things to help me through these trying economic times.  That said, here's the truth...

I signed a stack of documents so I could provide my children a stable place to call home - as my parents did for me.  It could have been a suicide note and I would have signed.  $130,000 (now worth $80k): 4 tiny bedrooms, two mold filled bathrooms, a pool with much more mold than the bathrooms, and a "birthday-cake pink" front door.  It was and is my dream home.  I love it.

On three occasions last year, my home was 24 hours away from being auctioned off on the steps of some building downtown.  Apparently, if I fail to pay Chase $1k per month for the next 30 years, they'll kick me out of my home and let someone else have it.  Apparently, THEY own my home.

Yes, I understand the economics and legalities of the situation.  For a change of pace, how about we take a look at the REALITY of the situation? ...And henceforth, I rant:

If Chase owns my home, where were they when the shoddy aluminum wiring caught fire in the living room? Or a month later in my bedroom?
If Chase owns my home, where were they when it was raining in the entryway and kitchen due to sagging spots in the roof?
If Chase owns my home, where were they when raw sewage was filling up my shower and bathtub?  Or when the heat went out in December?  Or when the pool pump burned up? Or when the backyard flooded? 
Why didn't they help paint that god-awful front door? Or assist me with remodeling an entire bathroom on a $60 budget?  Do they even know what color my bathroom is?  Or what color the HOUSE is?  Has a single person associated with Chase ever even SET FOOT on this property?  Does one Chase associate have a single, honest care about this home?

Maybe I'm crazy, but to me, Chase does not appear to be the owner of this particular home.  How about yours?

This system is dysfunctional at its very core.   We don't need change.  We need a whole new system; or perhaps, no system at all.

Truisms to Keep Learning, Thinking, and Earning.

A wise man once told me, "Life my friend, is like a box of donuts...   no, wait, no it's not."  Wise men acknowledge their mistakes.

The charge of Government is to PROTECT and UPHOLD the citizens' rights, NOT to RESTRICT them.

Pursuing adolescent dreams of making a difference isn't adolescent.  Giving up is.

Breaking the rules isn't dishonest.  Lying about it is.

Frailty of character can be gauged by the amount of difference between who a person is and who they want to be.

The purpose of government is to prevent one party from impinging upon the rights of another.

Do not hoard. There's enough for everyone.

We only want for that which is denied us.

Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.

Mass is resistance to Motion.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!

The object of true love is not experienced as an opportunity, but a responsibility.

Genuine responsibility is a desired obligation.

Anything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.

Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.

Scale is the real life representation of variability within a set.

Dimensions are the stepping stones of the universe.

True dimensions occur at prime numbers.

Truth & Honesty are not the same. One can tell the truth while being dishonest.

Be honest & life will be easy.  ...No. Wait.  My bad.  Scratch that.  Not necessarily.

When one truly has something, it is given away without the need for self-consideration.

The notion of implied meaning is the most common root of misunderstanding.

Racism - The belief that the members of a race exhibit specific characteristics or abilities more frequently than another race or races; thereby distinguishing one race from another.
vs.
Racism - The belief that all members of a race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race; esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Varying accent is an emerging means of conveying context & comprehension.

When presented with a choice, to elect 'not to choose' ensures a path devoid of creativity, which may be destructive by definition.

The absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures conflict.

If you discover an individual truly hating you, rest assured they have already done you wrong.

The commission of an injustice precedes the harboring of hatred.

After 15 (mostly good) years, today I filed for divorce from Verizon Wireless.

Oh god...  back to the cellular dating scene...  smokey bars, watered down drinks, fake laughs, bad breath, and sagging tits.  Maybe I should just...     NO!  I'm ending the abuse now! Here!

In a very short amount of time, two years?, Verizon Wireless has gone from being the model, premiere cellular service provider to the leading example of a corporation raping its loyal client base for every nickel they can suck out of 'em before... We'll just have to wait and see.  That's just how the future works.  Nothing I can do about it.

I was so bent out of shape and disappointed after becoming convinced that Verizon's plummet to the "AT&T Service Level" was not just a few incidents, but a calculated (incorrectly) change in Verizon's general business strategy, that I felt I had to express myself fully and honestly before I'd ever gain some closure on this shocking failed relationship.

I present for your contemplation, my "Dear John" to Verizon Wireless...

I have been a Verizon customer since what seems like the dawn of time (about 13yrs).  I currently have 3 lines, all of which are due for contract renewal/upgrades.  My primary line also has a $50 loyalty discount. I've been researching iPhones (4s&5).  I had the 1st with AT&T but the service downgrade from Verizon was so unbearable (& I needed a physical keyboard) that I had to abandon my iPhone dream (I still had 1 or 2 lines with Verizon).

I cough up around $250/mo. for my phones.  As a result of this plump monthly average, my long relationship with Verizon, and my eagerness to buy new products (until recent $ issues), Verizon has always gone the extra mile to give me special discounts and extra deals on my phone upgrades. While +/- $50 isn't going to break Verizon's or my bank, it's the gesture and "extra perk" that makes me feel valued and special.  From the beginning, it was this type of customer service that placed Verizon alongside customer service legends like Geico and Apple (well, the old Apple).

My experience of late has not followed in this tradition in a number of specific ways:

1. The discontinuance of the Unltd. Data package AND EVEN WORSE are the coercive means you are using to force people off the plan.  You even rub our nose in the raw deal being jammed down our throats when you place the old plan and the new plans side by side during the phone upgrade process.  To see Unltd. Data - 29.99 right alongside 2GB - $30, 5GB - $50, 10GB - $80 is really quite audacious and offensive.  It's even more so when considered in light of your competitors' pricing for Unlimited Everything.

2. Giving me discounts beyond those online and getting free phones every two years (usually sooner) have been two of the primary hooks that made me look the other way when it comes to Verizon's higher pricing.  The iPhone 4s is being offered to me for $50.  That tells me I can get it free if I ask for it and maybe get help from a Supervisor.  NO IT DOESN'T.  Not anymore.  Verizon would rather me not renew than give me a $50 break.  Fine.

3. The iPhone 4 is being offered free, maybe I should go that route instead...  NOPE.  There are no free phones with the "$30 upgrade fee" tacked on there at the bottom.  WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!?!  An upgrade fee?  Really?  For doing what?  Does the CEO's nephew need a new Porsche?  What happened to "free upgrades"?  Sugar coating your attempts to milk your customers for every last dollar doesn't veil your (not YOU, but Verizon's) ...doesn't veil your aggressive, greedy, money grabbing.  It's repugnant.  Oh yeah, isn't there some other five or ten dollar charge? I can't remember, but I think it puts the cost of a "Free Phone" up around $40. [...retch..]

4.  What's the big secret/problem with Pix Place?  Why is it next to impossible to get to the website? In fact, given the bright, creative minds there must be at Verizon,  why is the Verizon site so poorly organized/laid out?  Of course a good portion of it makes sense and can be efficiently navigated, but too much of it seems designed by a 'C' Student that types with just his index fingers.

5.  Thank you for continuing to insult me by offering your sophisticated "Account Analysis" tool (yes, this is dripping with sarcasm).  Analysis?  How can you offer a tool that looks at a client's 1400 minute psychic prediction but has a monthly average usage of 500 minutes and concludes that I am on the right plan and no change is necessary...  So the less expensive, 700 minute plan isn't a better fit based on my usage?  Really?  Moving on...

6.  The final issue isn't new, but it is in the spirit of Verizons new corporate attitude.  This has burned in my heart for quite some time and I'm dying to get an answer.  What purpose is served by having me make a psychic prediction each month about the coming month's usage amount?  I don't have to do that for a land line?  or my electricity? or natural gas & water?  Why? Why can't we be billed like any other utility (I know, but soon cel phones WILL be a utility).  Ah Ha!  That's what problem #1 is all about!  Getting the psychic prediction ripoff, I mean billing method, in place for data usage because someday, voice and text will be phased out by the internet and the sooner it's in place, the less likely consumers will make a stink about its ridiculous, unfair nature and simply accept it as normal.  ...Dirty...

Anyway, if you would like to hire me to fix ANY of these problems and create corporate structures to prevent such misdirection in the future,  feel free to submit an offer to my gmail account.   Regardless of that, I look forward to your response.

Thank you for your extended time and effort,

Eric Parslow

You owe it to your life to see this 10 second clip...

For Lisa (no, not my kids' mom):

Oh god. It's been how many years and this still brings giant tears to my eyes...

Aaak!  My side hurts...

WHOA! Is it me, or did I just get "Re-phuked" when I saved my home with a loan modification??? Take a look...

So, let's explore this example of what I'm talkin about:

My original mortgage was for 130,000. I was supposed to pay $1000 per month. Say of that $1000, $100 are spent on bills and the other $900 went everywhere except the mortgage co. This goes on for say 6 months, and I accrue a debt to the tune of $1000 for payment and $100 in fees (to keep it simple) each month for a total of $6600 owed. So my mortgage company and I agree to new terms and a plan to get me current. i.e. my interest rate is dropped very low, and my accrued debt is tacked onto my principle along with another $1400 in fees and penalties. Fair enough, at least I still have my home.

Whoaaaaaa! Um, I'm a horse's ass... Look at what just REALLY happened:
I now have a principle of 138,000. 6600 of that 8000 are payments on the original principle. Now those payments have been tacked onto my loan amount. You see? I now have to make those payments twice. Once I get the loan down to 130,000 (in 5 years lol) I am then paying the original loan payments... Wait! Didn't I just pay those?

But the Love Making doesn't stop there. By refinancing, I restart my amortization schedule as well. This means I go back to 90% of my payment going to interest and 10% going towards principle. That's the oldest, tried and true method of derrier pounding that lenders have been giving home buyers since the dawn of time, without any struggle or opposition I might add.

Go learn about amortization schedules and see what size balls it takes to charge a penalty for early payment on a loan. Corporate America, be it banks, or cellular companies, or paper plate manufacturers, or gas/oil companies, or the federal government, corporate America is slamming a giant, male, copulatory organ into every person's alimentary canal every minute of every day. And you know what? They have to. Because without massive profit margins, they couldn't keep their doors open for a week. People don't realize how expensive it is to run a business. I am amazed by mom & pop businesses that are still succeeding. Then you tack on massive executive salaries and bonuses. Of course they have to fuck the citizenry. Because ultimately, capitalism doesn't work. Eventually, the 1% suck the life blood completely out of the 99% and they're stuck standing there with no one to haul away their garbage. We have to work to save the group as a whole if we want to save ourselves. No one can go it alone.

A Final Message to Gerald W. Hardcastle, Clark County Family Court, Las Vegas, Nevada

Dear Mr. Gerald W. Hardcastle,
    I want to apologize for the base name calling in my previous two letters.  I don't take it back, but I do recognize the counter-productive effects and inappropriate nature.  It was a way for me to release my pain from the injustice your ruling caused.  I haven't seen my children in 2 weeks.  I call everyday but have been allowed to speak to them once.

    Funny how when I have had custody (for 1 year when Leo was 2 - custody which ironically, you granted me - and the last four months) there are no visitation disputes or problems.  I go out of my way to maintain my kids' relationship with their Mom.  As questionable as she is, she's still their Mom and they need her.  When in their Mom's care, getting to see my kids is like pulling teeth.  If she could find any reason to deny me time with my children, I didn't see them.  And now, what do you know?  When under their Grandmother's care, on rare occasion I can contact them on the phone and I can forget about actually seeing them.  Hmmm... just like when their Mom had custody.  Isn't that strange?  You think Grandma might have anger management issues too? 

On that note, it's one thing if their Mom spanks them.  They're her kids.  I respect her right to make that choice.  But no other person has the right to hit my children -- as I already know their Grandma does.  But then again, I have no authority over her actions or her treatment of my children.

  Understand, that the removal from our home is with no transition period whatsoever, after living with me for a year and a half.  For the last four months I have been with Ahlia every waking hour she had.  Except for when in school, I was with Leo every moment that he was awake as well (also except Mom visitation.)  My nanny has the easiest job in the world - she does nothing!  Because I don't need one - at least not a court ordered one (I would have one regardless of any order).  Then, poof!  Their father and home are ripped out of their lives completely.  Wow.   My poor children.  This isn't the first time the court has done this to my son either.

    Imagine your feelings and reaction if, when your daughter's meth addiction was discovered, the parenting police came and said, "Ah ha! You have proven yourself to be a failure as a father!"  and then they took your daughter away from you and took your parental authority and left you with nothing.  You'd be pretty upset wouldn't you?  You'd cry out about the insane injustice right?  Well that's what you have done to me, except I don't even get to fail or try or even more likely, succeed.

    So, I suggest you find a way to fix your error before the damage to my children becomes serious.  I say this because I have to find a fairly large amount of money before I can fix your mistake for you.

Sincerely,

Eric C. Parslow

Another open letter to Judge Gerald W. Hardcastle, Family Court, Clark County, Nevada - Las Vegas

(I know I just wrote one, but I've got to get this shit out of my head before it kills me.)

Dear Mr. Hardcastle (I've stopped using titles & conventions that are misnomers),

You barely skimmed the final written page of my statement.  Unfortunately, that was the part where I stopped touting myself and pointed out that we learn how to parent from our parents.  Therefore, when you find a shockingly poor parent, you can pretty much rest assured that their parents SUCKED as well.  Not a tough puzzle to put together.  Little too tough for you it seems.  Since you just gave my children to the Mother of an insanely abusive Mother.  WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK SHE LEARNED THE ABUSIVE PARENTING BEHAVIORS?!?!?!?!  You asshole.

Let's look at the case at hand and your ruling.  Four months ago, to the elation of my children and myself, Judge Teuton made a temporary ruling giving me full physical custody of my children.  This came following a 5 year progression which began with me having 1 hr of visitation with my children, once per week, at Donna's House and joint legal custody.  I sucked it up and jumped through each hoop placed before me.  While my ex- slowly discredited herself with each step, I gained credibility.  When at last Judge Teuton began to realize that I am not the garbage my ex- claims me to be but I may in fact the be the good father I claim to be.  So we have a test four months until the evidentiary hearing,

The four months go by without drama.  Finally the kids got to live a life without manipulation and head games,  where screaming, yelling, and fighting are not being modeled for them on a regular basis.  They finally saw that effective communication and understanding can be a two way street for a parent and child.

Then came the hearing of Monday, Feb. 11th, 2013.  Judge Teuton has taken on new responsibilities and you are assigned the case.  At the hearing, the only substantial new evidence is the recordings of the abuse.  Everything else has been said before a million times.  A hearing to make the final ruling is scheduled for that Friday.

So what do you do?  On Friday, you elect to throw aside Judge Teuton's orders.  A colleague's decision, based on 5 years of experience handling the case is completely ignored in favor of your opinion, grounded upon a single 3 hour hearing.  With the exception of some disturbing recordings of the mother, i.e. with no new evidence, you decide that the children should be removed from my home and placed under the full physical AND legal custody of my ex-'s mother (i.e. maternal grandmother - Nana) and I am to have 4 hours of supervised visitation twice per week.  WHAT?!?!  BASED ON WHAT?!?!  What EVIDENCE do you have to support placing such massive restrictions upon my relationship and parental authority with my children - in TOTAL OPPOSITION to the order made just four months prior?  NONE.  You have none, nothing but your personal assumptions, prejudices, and bias.  Three unavoidable influences which every Judge tries to minimize, NOT BASE ONE'S ENTIRE RULING UPON.  My children's lives are at stake and you are spewing your emotional baggage all over the courtroom.  You're a disgrace to your position and peers.

So it's been a week and I've seen my children for two hours, playing on the floor of Nana's sterile home.  Now I've been informed I WILL NOT SEE MY KIDS until after she has a copy of the signed, written order.  She has also determined that the only acceptable person to supervise my visits is my 73 year old, handicapped mother who lives in Summerlin (I'm on eastside and Nana is in Henderson).  How thoughtful and considerate of her...  My kids have lived with me UNSUPERVISED FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF WITHOUT A PROBLEM.  I've dealt with supervised visits for five degrading years and elicited nothing but comments about what an outstanding father I am, and YOU still decide I'm not to be trusted with my children.  Blow me.  My son has been pulled out of his school and will be flung into a classroom of strangers for the THIRD time since September.  He's in Kindergarten.  I went to a TOTAL  of 3 schools K-12.  It's his FIRST FUCKING YEAR!  I'm very excited about some of the Public Charter Schools and want to take advantage of this great resource.  I can't even get their mom or Nana to bother looking at one of the web sites.  Now I don't even have legal authority on paper! (I've only had it in practice for the last four months).  I won't even go into the the psychotic Voodoo-Christianity prison you've thrown my kids into...  My father is Born-Again, I know what that's about.  These people are out of their fucking minds.  You, Mr. Gerald W. Hardcastle, have made a terrible error and my children are paying dearly for it.

I may be down, but I'm not out.  What's a few more months and thousands of more dollars?  Very little to you, but a cruel & painful blow to my family.  But I will continue.  I'm appealing.  I will pull the money out of my ass. I will correct your failure.  And my children & I will win.  Fuck you.

Holy 5hit!!! Who the Fuhk are YOU?!? An open letter to Judge G. Hardcastle, Clark County, NV, Family Court

Really? Who T F are YOU, Judge Hardasshole?  I'm the gaddam plaintiff!  I've been fighting for my right to be a Dad for FIVE shiddy years, proving myself to a reasonable and fair minded Judge Teuton.  Finally earning full custody 4 months ago.  Then you stroll in and with your 3 hours of experience with this case, decide you know everything there is to know and chuck Teuton's ruling (based on 5 years of experience) in the trash, set me back 5 years and give my kids to a proven, two time loser (as far as successful parenting). And you do so with a holier than thou, self-righteous air.  All but saying, "You are going to raise two drug addict kids." AS IF YOUR OWN DAUGHTER ISN'T A WHORING, TWEEKING, METH ADDICT.  So what the fuhk do you know?

Maybe drug habits are evidence of a deeper short coming in parenting than you can admit.  Maybe your inability to accept and understand your responsibility and failings is precisely what left the gaping hole in your daughter's life that meth so readily fills?  Maybe.  The point is, I don't know.  And neither do you.  So rather than making massive, growth stunting decisions based on stereotypes, assumptions, and villainization of illicit substances, perhaps some research into the individuals and history of the case at hand with an open mind might be warranted?  How about a DROP of humility?  After all, family attorneys pay $200 for a new judge when they see your name - More often than ANY other judge in the state.  Hmmm...

How is it that when I care for my kids, I receive no financial assistance.  Which is fine.  There are plenty of ways to be a good parent other than shelling out cash.  Of course Mom in this case doesn't do either, but whatever.  Now, when Mom has custody of the kids, suddenly she needs an extra $600 per month from me.  Kids just got way more expensive?  In many cases that's not much so I shouldn't bitch.  HOLD THE FUHK UP.  If someone makes $6000/month, yeah, $5400 is still a fair amount to live on. But the rule is actually 25%, so it's down to $4800.  Leaner for sure, but dude will survive. BUT if you make $3000/month and drop to $2400 per month.  That's gettin' tough.  Hmmm... $1000 mortgage, $250 electric, $150 phones, $100 gas/water, $100 net&tv...  I'm already down to $800 left and haven't done fuel, hope you don't smoke?, do you eat? or wear clothes? oil change? Ooooohh! Need brakes! You're sunk!  and don't even think about DOING something if you actually get to see your kids.  Whoever made up the 1 kid = 25% and 2 kids = ?30%? not sure?  But whoever it was was making like $10,000 a month and could make it on $7000.  Not $3000 and dropping to $2100.  It's called relative impact. You people are idiots.

Fuck you Hardcastle.  Cause you give custody to Nana - the proud mother of two -> a "whatever I can get right now" addict (meth) and a heroin addict.  Both with emotional issues (not sure about the heroin addict...).  AND now the cost of kids goes up again!!! Nana needs $950 a month to raise them. $200 from her daughter and... nope, not $600 anymore, $750 sounds good in Hardcastle's court.  In your 45 second assessment, you know better than the investigation of the Child Support Division.  And she doesn't need $600 like her daughter (I might have been able to afford $400 - double of Mom, but reasonable given limited income) But no, now the Custodian needs $950.  Funny how the previous 4 months I didn't need a fukin penny, but overnight, $0 becomes $950.  I am in my 2nd loan modification.  I haven't been able to pay my mortgage in 6 months.  The bank is helping me out, I'm in the critical trial period and you slap a new $750 a month bill on me like it's reasonable.  Fuck you.  Especially when I have been providing a wonderful home for my kids, and am capable, ready, and willing to continue to do so for the next 14 years.  No, this is better, give the kids to a proven shitty parent, not the loving father with the Psy. MA degree, that works at home so he can be the great Dad he is.

It's retarded to fling bovine insults like "Fuck you." and what not.  ...Maybe I am retarded...  and you're a piece of shit.  See you after my appeal, dick.


Unrelated thoughts...
Lee Sawyer Path
Leonardo Shon Parith
Leonardo Sean-Philip Parslow

Ahlia Rachel Smile
Ahlia Rachel-Elise Parslow

How can you connect God with Life Insurance?

Most life insurance policies have a number of exclusionary statements regarding circumstances under which they aren't going to pay out;  Like if you die, or whatever... In just about every policy you will see the policy will not pay beneficiaries if the death was due to "an act of War or God."  An act of God?  What does that mean?
Well, the best open ended definition I could find was, "An event that directly and exclusively results from the occurrence of natural causes that could not have been prevented by the exercise of foresight or caution; an inevitable accident." Really? What if there is no God? Then do my kids get paid when I get caught near an eruption and torched alive in molten lava while vacationing in Hawaii? What if the Gov't is using HAARP to manipulate the weather? Does my family get paid then? When Chaney and old man Bush are getting crushed playing poker with some Palestinians and have to send a massive storm to lay waste to Israel. Meanwhile, I'm IN Israel, celebrating the death of Christ and killing Christian babies. Suddenly hail starts to fall from the sky. As the hail's intensity grows, so does the size of the hail stones. OUCH!!! Then my skull is split in half by a stone the size of a softball and I die. Are Leo and Ahlia millionaires? Or has the Gov't just screwed them AGAIN? Or, Ooops! Tsunami! 100,000 Die! Thousands of refugees and orphans. Buuuuuut, conveniently, no payouts! Sorry people. Suck my dick. An Act of God. ...Don't you mean Lord God? Oh, nevermind.

A (not so) Clear Explanation of Cellular Mafia: As Consumers, we are a bunch of pussies.

For roughly a decade and a half, we have quietly allowed cellular companies to rape our asses with a business model devoid of logic or reasonable fairness, and they've done so without any stealth or covert action.  They've done it right out in the open; in front of God and everyone.

Given the prominence of cel phones, why hasn't there been public outrage?  Let's take a look at what I'm talking about.  I subscribe to a cellular plan. By agreeing to pay x dollars at the end of the month, I am allotted y minutes of use of my phone.  In the event that I use more than y minutes, I am charged per minute at an extremely high rate.  Save for the Sprint (or AT&T?) exception, the minutes of usage remaining under y are simply lost & forgotten at the end of each billing cycle.

Would someone please explain to me what the utility of my psychic usage prediction is?  Clearly it's not useful to me except letting me know when Verizon is gonna start fucking me harder (can't really stop using my phone...)  So how does forcing me to make this guess help their ability to provide their service?  I'll tell you how it helps.  It is a covert means for them to charge me higher rates for my phone usage than I expect to pay.  For example:

I use 800 minutes per month.
Plans are tiered at 700 min - $63 or 1400 min - $84.  Overage minutes are $0.15 per min.
If I choose 700 with my average 100 min overage, my monthly is $78.  For $6 more, I can have 1400 minutes and not sweat it every month; 'cause if I go 900 min one month, my bill will be $93 - Fuck! Shoulda gone with 1400...
So I choose to eat the $6 and not worry.  $.06 is far more reasonable than $.09 or $.15 anyway.
WRONG!  I normally use 800 min and am paying $84.  That's over $.10 per minute!

Now, if you insist that I'm paying $.06 then I'm purchasing 600 minutes each month that at the end of the month are being taken back and discarded.  So each month I'm being cheated out of $36.  I've been with Verizon over 10 years.  As a fair estimate, that's $436 a year or at least $4,500 that Verizon has ripped me off over the years.  The real amount is considerably more.

There is NO reason for cellular service to be billed as it is, other than to veil the fact that the public is being ripped off.  There is no reason cel phones can't be billed just like a regular land line phone or ANY OTHER UTILITY.  Cellular service, like land lines, should be considered a public utility at this point and not be allowed to function as a cartel, ripping off the public every month.  I WANT BACK ALL THE MONEY THEY'VE STOLEN FROM ME AND THEN SOME.  THEY'RE NOTHING BUT SOPHISTICATED CRIMINALS.

An open letter to cardiologist, Dr. Chauncey Crandall

To: pr@ChaunceyCrandall.com

Re: http://www.newsmax.com/MKTNews/four-signs-heart-failure-crandall/2013/01/18/id/472136?promo_code=122C6-1&utm_source=taboola

(wonderful, now I'm giving him free website traffic... oh well...)

Please pass along to Chauncey the message that he's a piece of shit for using his chosen marketing methods .

I'm certain the phrase, "How the hell am I going to pay my mortgage this month?" was foreign to C.C.'s mind beginning long before his internet marketing strategy was even possible.  So is it really necessary to play on people's health concerns and fears and lure them into joining a group effort to make C.C. "fabulously wealthy" instead of just "very rich".  He lured me in with his "4 signs your heart is quietly failing."  I was so disappointed when he launched into his nauseating marketing monologue; never providing the information he had lead us to expect.  Instead he changes his 4 Things from "signs my heart is quietly failing" to "that happen right before a heart attack." THEN he proceeds to manipulate his victims AGAIN by only providing 2 of the 4 things, and provides only partial information at that.

I'm sure Chauncey is an outstanding doctor; which makes his descent into the worst depths of capitalist marketing all the more dlsgusting.  Dangling life-saving information in front of people like a carrot in front of a donkey.  He then subtly changes his bait into something more honest but less luring,  and then fails to provide even HALF of this new information in some adolescent, unethical attempt to further bait & manipulate his reader.  He's like a sociopathic girlfriend.

So this is how our professional, medical elite see their role in society.  Nice.  Well when the economy collapses and prison rape gangs roam the countryside, I can only pray they come across Chauncey on a warm spring day, strolling along a Florida beach...  They say, "Hi."  He says, "Hello."

Admittedly, I envy his financial success, but that doesn't make him any less of a piece of shit.

The Wash. Post: Mexican drug cartels killing children

This is a two year+ old post, but no one saw it, and I happen to like it, and it's my blog, and I'll cry if I want to!

That's right. Drug crazed maniacs, running the streets in Mexico, brandishing their weapons, searching for children under 10 to kill as symbols of their evil hearts. That's right. Little children. ...Evil bastards. See! A Mexican gets a little bit of money and what does he do? He starts killing children. Yeah, I think it's best we just leave them in their cardboard boxes...
NO, YOU DUMBFUCKS! It's the only reasonable and humane course of action under the given circumstances. Think about it. Man and his wife are working for a cartel. DEA offers them a bunch of money to be informants. The get a bunch of guys killed and thrown in jail and eventually get discovered. So, appropriately, the cartel goes to their home and kills them. Since there was no time to get a baby sitter, the couple's 5 year old witnessed the murder of his parents. Needless to say, he was a bit bothered by the event. So what do you do? Let the kid stay there with his dead parents for a while and eventually grow up a massively scarred and emotionally damaged individual? No, you show a little mercy and responsibility and kill the kid too. The guys didn't enjoy killing the child. It was a nightmare for them no doubt. But it was the right thing to do and they "manned up" and did it. My condolences to all involved. Yuk. But news people: WISE UP!

Does your gut support Chris Dorner? (The Cop Killer in California, idiots)

Clearly, the killings are immoral and wrong.  But that's after we've applied reasoned morality to the events and situation.  What about before we give it any thought.  I may just be bitter or disillusioned, but before my mind puts in it's two cents, my gut roots for Dorner.  I'm not saying this is right or good, I'm just being honest.  Does anyone else have this type of simultaneous, contradicting reactions towards this GREAT ENTERTAINMENT!!!  lol but really, anyone else have the gut impulse to cheer for Dorner? or am I just a crazy sick fuck?

Quick, clear explanation as to "Why The Bible is Bullshit."

The Holy Bible is Bullshit.  How do I know this?  It's quite simple really.  The Bible is supposed to contain  the words of God, His messages to humanity.  If that's the case, why all the vagueness?  Why do we need to interpret everything?  Why all the contradictions and riddles?  Why?!?!! Because it's the word of MEN!  NOT GOD!  If God had something to tell someone or anyone or everyone, surely he could do so in a clear, succinct way, that was easily understood by all. Right?
 HE'S GOD YOU IDIOTS!!!  GOD DOESN'T HAVE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS!!!

Cultural Faillure: Immediacy being used as an excuse for poor Accuracy

I am speaking in the most general terms.  This is an occurance in every American's (maybe "Human's") life, nearly every hour, of everyday, and we don't even notice.  This is using Immediacy as an excuse for poor Accuracy.  i.e. doing a poor job in the name of getting the job done quicker (or often, "at all".)  This issue is not just a labor type matter.  It is pervasive throughout every aspect of our lives. 

Communication is a prime example.  Look at our speech and language.  So many people are just too lazy to bother with basic enunciation of their words.  Over time, as hard consanants fade away,  common phrases mutate into colloquialisms, making communication between persons outside the local community more and more difficult.  Literacy is also a contributor to the enunciation problem.  When a person doesn't know how to read and spell, they have no reference for the words they hear and learn from other people's speech.  Relying exclusively on hearing to decipher communications makes for countless errors and misunderstandings, which if common enough, make their way into the language, further reducing the accuracy of language.  For example, look at the difficulty encountered when saying individual letters over the telephone.  The point is, "Accuracy precludes Immediacy."

Case in point - This article.  I'm rushing just to get it done.  So it's not as engaging and thought provoking as it could be.  If you've made it this far, I'm lucky.  But if I just took some more time and did it right, I'd have more repeat readers.  Oh well, fumble...  try again...  Cheers.

Here is the reason Airport Security & the TSA look RIDICULOUS.

You never know... That's one of their favorite excuses for patting down a 93 year old woman, bound to her wheelchair.  Comedians and social commentators have grown fond of pointing out the insanity of the security searches, etc.  And they ARE ridiculous.  Louis Black speaks of a woman traveling with 2yr old twins who is told to fold her stroller up and run it through the x-ray machine.  He expounds upon the impossible nature of that woman being a terrorist.  She has 2yr old twins - for starters, where would she find the time?

TERRORISM IS NOT THE REASON AIRPORT SECURITY IS RIDICULOUS.  TERRORISM IS THE EXCUSE!

They are not looking for bombs in the old lady's wheelchair or in the woman's stroller.  They are looking for kilos!  But you can't just do "random" drug searches on every traveler without severe backlash.  But you CAN do so in the name of fighting terrorism, and upholding FREEDUMB!!!

It's all just an excuse to fight unethically and immorally in the War on drug.  The US Govt are just another cartel.  They don't want to eliminate the illegal drug trade.  They just want to monopolize it.  Control it.  And take all that money for themselves!!!

PEOPLE SUCK.

Dear Cocks Communications... my latest email to them,

AND I've finally cut ties with their satanic asses.  This was my comment entry in their "post site usage" survey:

Your business practices (especially re: reduction or cancellation of services) are manipulative, monopolistic, and unethical.  In my 43 years of life, only ATT and Sprint have managed to evoke such absolute disdain for a faceless corporate entity. I can only hope that Cox's policy makers lose everything in some unforeseen and tragic turn of events, Cheers.

In light of his reputation, Eric Clapton sucks donkey balls.

I've been listening to and seeing Eric Clapton my entire life. Throughout, I've held him in high esteem. However, I did so because everyone, everywhere said he was a guitar wizard. I mean, there was grafitti in london saying, "Clapton is God" sure he was pretty rockus in Cream, but for the most part, save a handful of admittedly great songs, he was a pretty lackluster guitarist. On the other hand, the reason I'm writting this is to give him props.a few yeas ago,a Hendrix tribute album came out called "Stone FreeN. Clapton did Stone Free as his contribution. He did a good job,but he stepped out of himself and delivered a powerfful solo, well above his usual level. Nice work Eric, if you were ever going to play up to your reputationthis was a good time and you did. Thanks E.

Some pieces of BS from the English Language

Here are a few things that have been buggin' me:

Shouldn't protest and contest be opposites?

If there is one word that CANNOT be used to describe apartments, it's APART.

Why do we continue using silent letters?  Why have them in the FIRST place?  There's no goddam "r" in Colonel!   ... See?!?  We don't need the stupid "N" in "goddamn"!!!

Whoever set this place up was an asshole.

... Again!!!  Why do I have to waste my energy trying to figure out if it should be "Whoever" or "Whomever"????  WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?  Like I couldn't be doing something better to benefit the world...

Gun Control? Really? O.K., lets go with, "You NIMRODS!!!" this time...

Gun Control.  I'll be short and to the point; you know... like a handgun.  Gun control will keep guns out of the hands of ONE group of people - average, law-abiding citizens.
The issue is long over.  We bought into the gun thing LOOOONG ago.  Firearm distribution in the U.S. is so vast there's little reason to even discuss the issue.  The people who REALLY want guns AND are most likely to USE THEM ON PEOPLE (psychos and stupid criminals) will be able to easily obtain guns under the strictest of gun control policies, and they forever will.  There are too many guns out there already, so just fuckin' get over it.

Really??? You don't think BJ, the career drug dealer won't be able to carry his Glock 9mm because you can't buy them without an extensive, 2 month long background check?  If you're even considering arguing about this, go fuck yourself.

Furthermore, it contributes population control.

Lincoln, Kennedy, King, Lennon, etc. all would still have been killed by guns.  The powers that be will always be armed.  Don't just lie down for them; I don't care if they give you a doggy treat or not.

These are only words, but you're still f'in stupid!

GOD BLESS IT! We, as a country, as a world, have such vast resources and we are just squandering it via a backwards assed, fear based philosophy/worldview; commonly referred to as capitalism or oppression. You're a bunch of blind niggers, living in fear of pussy ass masters who are doing nothing but mind fucking you and playing u as a retard; a role you repeatedly and willfully accept. I shall end this rant in what is becomming my favorite close: Fuck!

Oh shit! By the way dummies...

THE WORLD ENDED 5 DAYS AGO!!!

...and nobody even noticed...

Life is the Dynamic, Creative Edge of Reality; Revisited.

 Wingin' this one a bit.  Work with me...

The nature of reality is guided by the amount of mental energy directed toward given, but broadly defined thoughts/concepts.  This is unlike the actual content of reality, while in accordance with the dominant thought/concepts, is not under our specific determination.

It has been said that we attract what we fear.
While this often appears true, were it so, there would be many more snakes in our cities

The specific content of reality is dictated by a process or intelligence beyond our immediate awareness.  However, the general emotional experience that results from the content ultimately realized is predicated by the mental energy we place into broad concepts and expectations - whether they be fear or love inspired.

We appear to attract our fears because of our societal predisposition towards worry and grave concern.  Thusly, such experiential outcomes receive the energy necessary to command "the outer force" to manifest actual content to bring about the energized general experience.  Hence the social predisposition for focusing on fears manifests a reality in accord with the emotional expectation
 
The events of 9/11/2001 presents an intriguing backdrop for consideration of this model...



Sum:  We dictate the general nature of the future and reality, but the actual path taken is decided elsewhere.

I Expose The Hidden Kings Of Corporate Ripoffs And Greed

Zoom just below and right of center and you'll see my worthless record of one of the three 'alien spaceship' type sitings I had that year.  But this has NOTHING to do with my actual post...

That's right, they sit around f'ing us every day, all across the country and we just look the other way.  Even if we notice for a second, we quickly shove it to the back of our minds and pretend it isn't possible.  So, who are these evil swines??????  Paper plate manufacturers.  Every other plate sticking seamlessly to the one above it is NOT an unfortunate, unavoidable part of the proper manufacturing procedure.  It's fucking bullshit is what it is.  It's corporate America preying on the retarded citizens of our society.  75% of paper plate users never even notice that they are using 2 plates EVERY time they think they're using only one, thus burning through their supply twice as fast, but the packaging sizes are large enough that the proper length of time a bag should last is indiscernible.  So, for however long, 40? 50? 60? more? years, these corporate assholes have basically doubled their sales & profits by blatantly hustling their consumers.  And nobody gives a flying fuck.  As usual.  Americans are fags.  Alright, to be fair...  MOST  Americans are fags.  If you live near a paper plate manufacturing plant, do me a favor and burn it down. Fuck.

Please get this thing out of my ass!

love and hate shall stand hand in hand at hells gate, peering up at the aases of truth and honesty as they stride thru the gates of heaven.