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If You Were A Kid Between 1930 and 1970…
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930′s, 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We brushed our teeth with toothpaste from lead tubes.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms……. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
Square Testicles…
An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.
After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president’s office.
The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, ‘$165,000′.
The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replied that she made bets.
The president was surprised and asked, ‘What kind of bets?’
The elderly woman replied, ‘Well, I bet you $25,000 that your testicles are square.’
The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.
The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and said, ‘Would you like to take my bet?’
‘Certainly’, replied the president. ‘I bet you $25,000 that my testicles are not square.’
‘Done’, the elderly woman answered… ‘But given the amount of money involved, if you don’t mind I would like to come back at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness….”No problem’, said the president of the Bank confidently.
That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive that no one could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there was no way he could lose the bet.
The next morning at exactly 10 o’clock the elderly woman arrived at the president’s office with her lawyer and acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the day before that the president’s testicles were square.
The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her lawyer could see clearly.
The president was happy to oblige.
The elderly woman came closer so she could see better and asked the president if she could touch them… ‘Of course’, said the president. ‘Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure.’
The elderly woman did so with a little smile… Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall… He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she replied,
‘Oh, it’s probably because I bet him $100,000 that around 10 o’clock in the morning I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Canada !’
Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Flatt & Scruggs – 1948
A Little Shit- Kickin’ For To Get Your Saturday Off Right…
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Hugging Tigers… Not Smart But Exhilarating!
I’ve got a picture around here somewhere of me doing this… In Fact It Was On The First Date I Went On With My Wife… No Wonder She Married Me! Brave and Stupid!
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Chinese Spy ‘Slept’ In U.S. for 2 Decades…
Doesn’t This Remind You Of The Movie Telefon ?
So there you go Mr. Bill Gates… Lets Get Some More B1-B visas rolling here… Let’s fill those high tech jobs with foreign engineers!!
Chi Mak
From the Washington Post
Prosecutors called Chi Mak the “perfect sleeper agent,” though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night.
Eventually, Mak’s job gave him access to sensitive plans for Navy ships, submarines and weapons. These he secretly copied and sent via courier to China — fulfilling a mission that U.S. officials say he had been planning since the 1970s.
The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official likened to an “intellectual vacuum cleaner,” has deployed a diverse network of professional spies, students, scientists and others to systematically collect U.S. know-how, the officials said. Some are trained in modern electronic techniques for snooping on wireless computer transactions. Others, such as Mak, are technical experts who have been in place for years and have blended into their communities.
“Chi Mak acknowledged that he had been placed in the United States more than 20 years earlier, in order to burrow into the defense-industrial establishment to steal secrets,” Joel Brenner, the head of counterintelligence for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in an interview. “It speaks of deep patience,” he said, and is part of a pattern.
Read More HERE
Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men…
I can personally vouch for this theory… When I’m walking about with my other half… We get the strange looks that say…” This Guy Sure Got Lucky!”
But I will admit that my motives were a bit selfish… I figured if I could land someone that would age well… I wouldn’t have to ultimately settle for boinking some wrinkled old prune.
A Match Made In Heaven?!?!
From LiveScience
Women seeking a lifelong mate might do well to choose the guy a notch below them in the looks category. New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other match-ups.
The reason, researchers suspect, is that men place great value on beauty, whereas women are more interested in having a supportive husband.
A group of trained “coders” rated the facial attractiveness of each spouse on a scale from 1 to 10, with the perfect 10 representing the ultimate babe. About a third of the couples had a more attractive wife, a third a more attractive husband and the remaining partners showed matching looks.
In couples with more attractive husbands, both partners were less supportive of one another. McNulty suggests wives mirror, in some ways, the level of support they get from husbands.
“The husband who’s less physically attractive than his wife is getting something more than maybe he can expect to get,” McNulty told LiveScience. “He’s getting something better than he’s providing at that level. So he’s going to work hard to maintain that relationship.”
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Six Nasty Diseases…
See Them HERE
Our George III Has Finally Lost His Mind…
What kind of coincidence is it that England’s George III succumbed to madness and the government did backflips trying to hide it… And now America’s George III wanders off to celebrate the founding of a nation and indulges his wild apocalyptic fantasies by waving the spectre of one A. Hitler around in order to bash a fellow American?… This guy is off his meds and somebody’s doing a poor job of keeping him on the reservation.
It’s Bloggers Unite For Human Rights Day… In My Own Warped Way…. I’m Putting My 2¢ Worth In…
I just heard about this on CNN this morning… I’m afraid I’ll probably not get a decent Rant or Essay up in time because I’m too addle brained to rush something intelligent together without thinking long and hard on it first… But I want to show my support ASAP.
HERE GOES…
I’d like to point out the damage being done to the USA’s prestige, reputation, citizens and Karma by keeping open a place like Guantanamo… I know that some folks are gonna squawk about how we need a place to find out about the threats to this nation… And I agree that we as a nation should be able to ferret out dangers to ourselves.
But we should do it in the light of day and in accordance with the way that we would expect our own troops and citizens to be treated.
If we’re going to accuse someone… We should stand up and do it according to our constitution… It’s what we’re fighting for… Isn’t it? How can we honestly say that we’re a nation of laws and rights; and crow to the rest of the world that we value rights and freedoms above all else… And then drag people we call suspects away in the night and put them under wraps isolated away from the very system that we’re crowing about?… Are we saying to the rest of the world that our own government doesn’t trust it’s own system to get at the truth?
This will come back to haunt us.
- We’ll see our own rights eroded by a government that’s gotten a taste of tyranny and finds it makes for easy “problem” solving.
- We’ll see our loved ones suffer when other countries begin grabbing Americans and treating them the same as we treat theirs… As they tell us “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
- We’re seeing our prestige as the “Shining Beacon of Freedom” being tarnished each and every day that we commit this travesty and continue to use weak and cowardly excuses to justify it.
- We will ultimately make ourselves less safe by offending more and more people… Eventually… We’ll create another Osama bin Laden who’ll have the wherewithal to strike at us again in a major way.
As I’m writing this I’m listening to G.W. Bush speak madness to the Israeli government by saying that “We should never talk to people that we suspect to be our enemies.”… And now he’s playing the Holocaust Card by invoking the “If we’d have blasted Hitler first!” rant”
Translation… Let’s blast Iran!… We don’t need to talk!… Let’s start WWIII now!..
When are people going to understand that the world mindset is much different than in the ’30′s and ’40′s? The world is too intertwined to go around with the attitude that we just won’t communicate.
Not to mention that weapon systems exist now that didn’t then that complicate things way out of proportion to the size of the countries or even organizations that we might run afoul of.
I pointed out in a Rant that I wrote a long time ago how we’re being stampeded and how and why a simple millionaire was able to put together a real, live, big time attack against us. This is a good time and place to drop in an excerpt:
When is the last time you had a truly malevolent thought? I mean something really nasty? Something that would result in someone’s death, doom or destruction? What kept you from following through? How close did you come? Did having to live with yourself play a role in your decision? More so than going to jail?
Try it another way… When was the last time you met a stranger? Did you fear for your life? I’m willing to bet… probably not. We’re surrounded by strangers every-time we walk out the door… Supermarkets, Gas Stations, Wal Mart, the movies… etc. Most of us make it home safe.
But… We’ve got politicians and other leaders fervently telling us that we are imminently going to be blown up and that evil hordes are hiding under your car, bed, couch pillows… you name it. We’re all goners if we don’t hurry up and learn to hate the “others” and authorize our leadership to blow the hell out of them… NOW!
And isn’t it funny that with all the traveling that Americans do around the world today… That relatively few of us return home with horror stories worse than a ripping case of diarrhea? We’re not being beheaded, robbed, raped, beaten, eaten, kidnapped or molested in numbers anywhere near approaching what it would take to justify our not getting on those planes, trains and automobiles, now are we? Passport applications are actually at an all time high.
Americans wander the earth in incredible numbers… It wouldn’t be hard to find one in most major cities if a person suddenly developed a hankering to do something nasty to one of us. And we can be found in bunches for anyone wanting to take us out in volume. Yet… It doesn’t seem to be happening at all on the levels we’re warned about are imminent. So… What gives?
So the question is… Who benefits from all of this terror! Terror! TERROR! business? I’ve been drunk, stupid and stoned in some pretty questionable neighborhoods in some pretty far flung places and gotten away clean. I’ve SEEN plenty of ugly american behavior in places all over the world where the offenders got away clean. So… If we can get away with provoking and inviting mayhem and it generally doesn’t happen… Why are we being told that we and our loved ones are doomed to be blown up as early as tomorrow? Why are we authorizing our leadership to go blow up and harass a population with a hell of a lot less means to get to us than we have to them on the premise that they’ll come over here and blow us up?
Seems to me that the population that we’re supposed to be so afraid of went directly over to killing each other; which is exactly what should have been expected as soon as their local tyrant was removed. That was the same as taking the lid off of a pressure cooker… And any cultural anthropologist could have told you so.
Bosnians and Serbs, Jews and Palestinians, Shiites and Sunnis… Anytime you’ve got folks that have been at each others throats for millennia… They’re always going to be more interested in killing each other than they will be to kill some newcomers on the block. Tito, Saddam, Amin, Suharto… Simply lids on the pressure cookers. They provided a threat greater than tolerable to the local combatants. Same thing happens in L.A. or any U.S. city where the cops take out the big drug king pin or gang leader… Mortality rate goes up until a new “lid” gets settled in. But it remains largely internecine warfare… Members of the general public get whacked usually as collateral damage.
Osama whacked the WTC in retaliation for U.S. attempts on his own life. He’s a millionaire who could afford to set that kind of personal vendetta in place. Your average muslim extremist is much, much more interested in killing off those horribly blasphemous neighbors of his that let their women folk walk around without burquas. And when he’s done doing that… He’s going to be too busy fending off the counter attacks by said neighbor’s clan to consider cooking up some sophisticated plan to get over here and blow up my wife and kids.
So.. back to the question of who, what, why and where. Who… have we as a nation offended so terribly that they can afford to turn their back on their own treacherous brethren to come after us? What … evidence besides the isolated incidence of the WTC do we have that anybody gives enough of a fig about destroying us to make a real effort at it? Why… are not americans being slaughtered in significant numbers in places where we’re easy to get at… Like Europe… the Caribbean? Where… did we go wrong at letting our elected leaders stampede us headlong into terror color codes, profiling, Guantanamo-ing, wiretapping, take your shoes off, no bottled water, don’t question authority, Bill O’Rielly and Shawn Hannity loving, Islam hating, paranoids?
I think the answer lies with we as americans being so fat, dumb and happy that we willingly leave any mental lifting to whomever claims it. Statistically… we are unequivocally among the fattest, dumbest, and happiest of people on good old mother earth. What is it going to take for us to wake up and realize that we’re victims of the old Kansas City Shuffle? Our attention is being directed one place while we’re being robbed blind of our jobs (outsourcing)… security (Homeland), educations (cuts), health(genetically engineered crops) and welfare. We will wake up to discover that the American empire only lasted a little over 200 years and ended the same way the Roman Empire did. Bread and Circuses (McDonald’s and American Idol) Non citizens running the empire (illegal immigration) Declination of the ruling class(see G.W. Bush) Outsourcing of vital operations to foreigners(China, India)
What this all boils down to folks… Is that the USA needs to stand in the broad light of day and make it’s accusations as well as it’s intentions known to all the world when it comes to fighting terror… And we’ve got to be willing to take a first strike. There’s only one truth we need to make clear about our willingness to take one on the chin… And that’s that once you take your best shot Mr. Terrorist… We get to take ours… But we’ve got to have the cojones to hit back hard.
Would we still be looking for Osama if we’d immediately responded with a low yield nuke precisely at the location were we knew him to be right after the WTC attack? Would there be near as many casualties as there have been in Iraq and Afganistan had we responded with the might that a superpower has at it’s disposal?
Oh!!! That’s horrible!, you say? That’s barbaric!, you say?… Seen any pictures of the destruction we’ve wreaked up until now?… And do we have the folks responsible for the WTC bombing?… Do we have the WMD’s? Which is more Barbaric?
Would not Iran and South Korea get the message if we made it perfectly clear that we would consider any unprovoked attack with weapons of mass destruction upon anyone, anywhere… Grounds to target their home country with Complete Assured Destruction?… Knowing full well that we may have to do it at least once… In the meantime… Got Beef? Let’s talk.
And when it comes to individual terrorists and organizations… We should not shy away from putting them into the system and openly using medicine based means of extracting the truth (Versed, Anyone?) and then using that truth to send dedicated Death Squads for pinpoint take out… While we won’t completely eliminate innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire… It will certainly be less than taking over and occupying an entire country with it’s attendant collateral damage.
But we will be doing things honorably and openly and setting the example that Human Rights are paramount.
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Worst Kind Of Spam?… Chain Letters!
I know there’s a special place in Hell for all the jerks and hucksters trying to make my pee-pee bigger and cure my every ailment… And I don’t worry about them so much because my spam filters work pretty OK… But what about my close friends who forward me those obnoxious, bullying chain letters that promise riches and good luck beyond belief; but death, doom and destruction to anyone foolish enough not to forward it to at least eight people?
You know… It takes a sick megalo-maniac type of personality to concoct something that is purely designed to scare people into doing what you want. In the legal world… It’s called Blackmail and carries jail time.
And I’m not going to sit here and say that I haven’t fallen prey to some of them. Sometimes they’re just so damn on the money that I feel like I can’t possibly take the chance! But I’ve got one ground rule… If I realize what it is before I actually read the words “You MUST Forward This”... Then I’ve got the right to delete it.
Oh… I don’t blame my friends… Thats what friends are for… To get you out of a jam. And these folks that dream these things up must all be Psych Majors… ‘Cause they definitely know which buttons to push. And I don’t complain to them either… Just like they don’t complain to me when I fall victim and just HAVE to forward one to them.
But God help you if you’re just a casual acquaintance or a cold sender! Then I blind forward it back to everyone on the usually long CC list… And then block the sender. And if anyone is dumb enough to put “Forward to 10 people” in the subject line… Well… That’s why Apple puts that handy “Bounce” button on their Mail application.
Have you figured out that I got one today? Forward to at least 20 people it says… Took me 10 minutes to decide to trash it.. If I die tomorrow … I want a Hero’s funeral.
Apparently… This person is fed up too
I Can Drive A Bobcat… But Not Like This!
This guy self loads his Bobcat skid loader onto a truck in less than a minute… Don’t try this at home kids!
Bobcat auto loading
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