Big Surprise in this Election? No not at all, more like Vengence!

Ok, first things first! The Election…..Big surprise the Dems win? And to be honest I realy don’t care, I guess what bothers me is the speed at which Obama was placed in that position? It is not him that scares me, it is the people behind him! Anyone with a Brain should be able to figure out that there are some dark forces behind Obama. This man was accelerated into the seat of President faster then an old lady with crutches at a Church!

Anyone could have figured out that the Democrats were going to win this time! There was way too much anger in everything they said and did. And to be honest, GW didn’t do a steller job? But the Dems were anger from back when old man Gore was edged out! I have never heard a larger bunch of cry babies in my life! I look back on my notes from those election periods and OMG, it was like someone just stold $8.00 out of the church plate and the Church needed a new roof! That was all I heard on all of the msg boards was how upset every union worker and Democrat was about the election, and then when ol’ GW won the second time, you could hear the oil brewing, (no pun intended). I mean every democrat I could find would talk about every thing that the Republicans did wrong. How they cheated and how all Republicans were going to hell…….

So there was no way on this earth that a Republican was going to win this, not even if God cam down and told all of the Democrats that he was running under the Rupublican ticket & if they didn’t vote for him that they would go to hell, every Democrat would still just out of spite vote for who ever was sitting in the Democrat seat! And I think this is what makes me saddest about this whole election, it really had nothing to do with right or wrong, it all had to do with spite, it had to do with doing anything you can just to get a person in the office! If you don’t believe me look up that group called “Acorn” these guys were registering everyone in site, no matter who they were or where they lived. One kid for example was registered 87 times in a month. Yep, I am thinking that this whole election was based on the idea of Democracy!

What I am not saying is that the Republicans are perfect, because for God’s sake they are not! Their just as Fucked up as the rest, or I mean the only other party! It is a trade off every few years, the key is that it doesn’t matter who wins, who sits in the seat or who is the figure head, because the country has nothing to do with the Guy or Woman that sits there! It is a much deeper and Darker force then simple elections. I don’t know all of the details, and to be honest if I did, I wouldn’t tell! But I do know, that in the future I care less and less about these things then I once did! Which in too many ways too sad! Our Country means more then this to me, and I cannot even care about something that is supposed to mean so much in our country!

I will take this over other countries, but it will only get worse!

Somedays Like an Old Bear……..Quietness….

Too often these days I look and feel like it is me that fell off the log! So much has gone from my life it makes it difficult to even pretend that I have a reason anymore. I want the smile that others possess I want the laughter I hear in the distance. But, there are too many days where I fear it will never be again? I wake up and I ask myself who is going to take care of this old Bear? As that is what I feel like, an old Bear in the woods that can no longer provide itself with food, let alone a family. An old Bear that is caught in the woods fighting off the younger bears for the cave I used to call home! At other times I feel like the person watching the Discovery Channel and I see this old Bear who has fought for its area and ruled its terrain with vigor. I start to see this bear who ran everything with a ruling fist, who has now become an old tired worn out raggidy Bear who is possibly showing signs of dementia and his coat is wearing thin, along with his heart.

This is how I feel these days, and I don’t want to, it is just the way I am for the time being! Maybe a new spring will come along and I will be able to rise up again, and then I will have my land back, and my coat will fill in like it is supposed to and during this time, this old bear will reign once again! (But, sometimes I fear in my heart that this is just one of those summer dreams that we all have from time to time, and I will wake up and my fur will still be messy, and I will still be hungry, and I will slowly come to realize that it might just be my time.)

Yes, this is how I feel more times then not, and I wished I didn’t!

I know I have been away for quite some time, the pain has grown stronger and the fear is still behind the corner waiting. I just don’t know what else to do? I will be back asap. Thanks to those who have found me!

Jah Love!

Sometimes fast, too often slow

Well, obviously not too exciting over here these days? My time has been comsumed with shall we say “other things”? And I was it was the good “other things”, however it has all, or at least most of it been fairly negative things?

Most of the stuff outside of the “Other negative” things have involved getting in touch with old friends, (It was good to hear from Guernsey jr.) I am glad to hear life is looking good for him and all his hard ward is starting to pay off.  Otherwise I am thinking of new places to live and of course how am I going to arrange this? Like all of us do, I suppose?

Well, I just wanted to drop a note here because I have been away from this board for a while. I have been on the other board, but this one is a bit more upbeat shall we say?

Later, FIM

Friends, Honesty and Time

I was kind of jotting down ideas on another blog, and I thought that I would use the idea from that blog and post it here. For no other reason then I thought it was a fairly good idea/post. So here goes.

Sometimes, probably like a lot of people out there? We encounter people in our lives that turn out to be something special. It isn’t anything exactly that you can pinpoint, but there is a feeling that you get from them a sort of an honest emotional conveyance that you don’t get from other people. As if they have something in there heart that makes them a special person and of the few that I met that were like this, I don’t think any of them really knew that they had this “quality”? In a lot of ways, I sometimes think that they don’t even know how great they really are, or how much their friend ship can mean to someone.

I have been luckier then most people, I have met a few people like this, and as I look back on these people I now realize that I honestly had no idea how lucky I really was? These were people that opened their soul to me and they were kinder to me then I can ever remember most people, (including most family) members. I guess all one can do is look back on your life and be thankful that that you had the chance to meet and experience these types of people.

So if you get a chance to meet someone like this, or if you already know someone like this, make sure you appreciate what they have to offer. Because like I said, they usually don’t know that they are like this, and if they did maybe they would be a little different? Who knows? But if nothing else, just remember to say thank you to them once in a while!

FIM

Like those old time Movies, everything fits somewhere…

Well, after a few years she enters again. Looking as beautiful and as peaceful as anything that has the right to walk the earth. Her eyes are the calmness that I seek. Her voice is the raspy tonal quality of an old time black and white film. Her understanding and similarities are the items in the bag that I know, that I remember from that one time when I snuck a peak.

There is no way this is real! There is no way that smile is nothing other then my mind doing what it can to play a trick upon itself. Sometimes even the sanity of my insanity likes to be nice to me!

Like an episode of Twilight Zone, where I sit in my Rocking Chair and I tell stories like Scatman Cruthers, it’s all in my head! Yes, it’s all in my head!

With the Pixies playing in the back ground softly……….”all in my mind, yea all in my mind”……

Insanity runs like water down a Mountain River

I have known it all my life, it wasn’t so much that I needed a Dr. to tell me there was an issue, I always knew there was a problem. I, like much of you have always viewed things a little different, and I have always thought about things a bit different. It usually just trickles at first, and at this stage it seems to be a little more then some curiosity. But as the oddity in my head builds I begin to see the flow of strangeness like a leaf tossed into a running river. I can see my ideas bouncing off of one rock and then to another. Sometimes they change colors, and sometimes they break apart into much smaller pieces, but mostly they just carry them self down the river like most of my thought, with out an answer and with out a reasonable hope for an answer.

The tangents usually precede them, kind of like a fall day’s wind, and the wind that blows the leaf into the water. It is the tangents that are the real cause of some of my life’s problems. Problems; that are more like questions that no one normally asks? Questions that are based on an idea that for some reason makes sense to me, but for those that are not aware that it is fall are more like a quarter that is stuck to a bottom of a rock that no one has taken the time to turn it over yet? The question is there, it is just that for some reason no one ever asks? And for some reason those are the questions that get the oddest looks from others when I ask them.

So you ask why is insanity like water that is flowing down a Mountain River? Mostly because no one has taken the time to turn over that rock to see what is stuck to the bottom of it! And if you did, you’ll find I was already there!

Politicians are just a necessary evil, they always have been, and always will be!

I started writing a note here about how tired I am about hearing all of the whiners complain about what is going on in the current administration. But I started thinking about all of these people doing this, and how much time they spend doing these sorts of things. And it hit me, What if these people spent this much time working on themselves? I mean we live in a country where obesity is out of control, where personal health is on a giant down swing, and because of that health care is getting more and more out of hand. If you take good care of yourself, and eat right and exercise it is likely that you will spend less time in the hospital, and more time feeling better. (Obviously there are exceptions.) But I would be that most of these people who are doing most of the whining are not taking care of themselves as well as they could be. I mean if you are sitting around all day, focusing on everything that you look at in a negative way it has to rub off on your mental state, which then goes to your physical state!

Look we all know that there are problems with the Government, I am sure this isn’t a news flash for anyone. As long as there has been vermin such as politicians there has been someone who is unhappy! But would you honestly want to live anywhere else? I mean hands down we live in the best Country there is! (Of course I am sure someone will come up with something? Just to have an opposed voice. Great go ahead?) But, given the choice of a reasonable person, this is the place to be! If it wasn’t there wouldn’t be so many people trying to get in to this Country!

So, all I am saying is, it’s ok to vent from time to time, we all need that! But to spend almost every waking moment in a negative state is only going to lead to problems. Try to focus on the good things that we have, because after all, if you could you honestly say that there is a better place then the U.S.A. then you should just go there.

Just a few thoughts on School Uniforms

I saw a post somewhere the other day regarding school uniforms for kids. And I was amazed at the people’s arguments who were against the idea of school uniforms? The entire argument was premised on the idea that what a person wears is the basis for their individuality? The first thing that “popped” into my head was, “how in the world can a person’s individuality be based on what everyone else is wearing?” Meaning, if everyone is wearing ripped jeans and cut off T-Shirts, where is the individuality? They went on to say that if students were made to wear uniforms in schools that this was taking away their/our freedom? There is a very slight element of truth in that idea that I won’t go into right now, but I believe that these people were more then just a little off course?

Individuality is based on what we are inside, not what we wear outside. The real basis for freedom is what we do with our minds; it is not what we are wearing! Only a shallow buffoon would believe that what we wear is what defines us a person or even makes us who we are! School is about learning it is about educating ourselves to make ourselves and our society a better place. It isn’t about a fashion show, if you want proof that it isn’t what you wear that makes you who you are look at some of the great minds through out the ages. Their cognitive process’s made them some of the great thinkers, not what they were wearing?

We live in a world where so many people want to believe that just because a celebrity has a lot of money, and a shiny new car and they are having their picture taking all the time, that these people are being individuals. And even worse, they believe that these denizen’s of the glam and glitter land are independent thinkers and, if we do all of the things they do, we’ll be free and independent thinkers! They wear whatever someone tells them to wear when they go to the Oscar’s, or Emmys, or whatever pseudo contest that they attend. It has nothing to do with who they are, nor what they are as a person! This is where everyone has seem to forgotten who and what these people are, they are just people like you and I, they just have different jobs. The follow the trends like most everyone else, and most of them are no more individual thinkers nor are they representative of individuality then kids in any school U.S.A.

Individuality is based on what we are inside, not what we wear outside. This is the real basis for freedom and what we do with our minds; it is not what we are wearing! School is about learning it is about educating ourselves to make our society a better place. I am all for uniforms and I believe that if uniforms were the norm, then we may be able to benefit from at least two things. One – Our children would learn to focus on mental growth, and Two – It is likely that many of our social issues would at least fade away if not entirely go away. I understand that it would take a lot more then just uniforms, but think about this. If children were made to wear uniforms, think about how many potential “Body image” issues we may have? The idea of Anorexia and Bulimia are based on the idea of self image. If we lessen the idea of how one looks and focus on how one becomes an independent thinker, ideas as image morphing may begin to fade?

Business ideas can sometimes go astray?

So I’m chatting with my Dad earlier and he tells me that he just got a call this morning from a company called Merchantcircle.com. I say “I have never heard of them, what do they do?” He says that he “thinks that they ‘help’ link small companies together, so they can work with one another and meet one another more efficiently?” Hmmm, Sounds like a good idea?

So I do a little ”research” on this Company and there are some interesting things out there regardong these guys. From what I was able to find out with a simple yahoo search was that these guys made a few people kind of unhappy with the way they ran their business model. (I will give them the benefit and say the way that they “used to run their business model”). Rather then sit here and rehash what I have found on these guys, I will simply give you some links and this way you can read what you want into this company.

http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/strange-goings-on-with-merchant-circle/236/

And from what I can tell by briefly reading this person blog, she seems to be someone that merits more reading in the future.

http://www.sugarrae.com/merchant-circle-can-kiss-my-consumer-ass/

Why you ask am I bringing this up? Well first let me start out by saying this, anyone who really knows me knows I have a serious problem with advertising and marketing people. And it seems to me, from what I have read thus far, (More then just those two links I wish to note.) these guys seem to be the epitome of what I dislike about “A&M types”.  Small business have a difficult enough time without some a potential scam artist trying to trick them into buying a service that they really don’t need. I know, as I have not only run, but owned a small business or two of my own.

That being said, here is a little less provoking trivia: 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

One Minute in a day…

Somedays it seems like my brain has too much material, and I could sit here and write and write, but other days it seems like my brain is full, and I almost cannot put a subject together?

Life goes on!

Here’s a bit of Trivia:

The book The Art of War has been in existence for over 2,500 years.

What other books are that old?