WE WAITED TOO LONG; MILITIAS IN THE us ARE ALREADY WELL ARMED

I'm assuming governmental authorities know where the militias are and have some idea of the amount of armament and ammunition they have stored.  They have been readying for years for a revolution.  If I know about it, it cannot be a secret.  While planning for some action to prevent the kind of gun murders and deaths we have observed, taking away the right to purchase new guns and limiting the ammunition gun enthusiasts can buy will not be a solution unless the hoarding is also tapped.

If any one saw the ex-Iraqi American soldier, James Yeager speak, it was rather frightening.  He is the CEO of Tactical Response (a weapons and training company), has had his gun permit suspended by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security after he threatened to “start killing people” in a video he uploaded to YouTube.  His rhetoric has toned down a bit at his lawyer's advice.

We send men, thousands of miles away from their families and friends to kill people who try to kill them.  On order to understand this man, you need to know the many people he has trained with firearms.  If we worried about the pilot training the men who brought down the World Towers and Pentagon had, this man sounds as though he has single-handedly readied a formidable militia to protect citizens from the Unites States governments.  Check out his curriculum vitae on the Internet.  Click here.

I can only hope our own army is prepared to meet his army before too much bloodshed is spilled.  We have had frightening  warnings for years and know our government has been aware of the militias all over our country.

REALISTS DON'T WIN FRIENDS

Chuck Hagel wasin the Senate for twelve years but did not win many friends.  When people like Rush Limbaugh decide who is fit to run for the Republican party, we can be assured that any chosen will not be realists!  However, some things that get done can be undone.  Alan Grayson who had not been re-elected in 2010 has been re-elected on 11-7-12. Click here for details.  With someone like the current Governor in Florida, there was no question he could not have been re-elected last time.  He is a realist, tactful, progressive, sympathetic to the people who are hurting, and is in office for the right reasons.  The Republicans cannot tolerate that.

Another Representative got voted out in Illinois.  He was NOT a realist.  I think he has a thought disorder, in fact, and there is much evidence to that when you YouTube some of his campaign activity. He is Joe Walsh who is advocating that people break the law.  I guess if you don't get your way with your peers in Congress, you advocate it is time for bloodshed every couple of hundred years or so.  Click here.

Knowing myself to be an optimistic person, I see very positive signs of positive change in our country.  Even the most brain-washed people against the Democrats can see that the current Administration is working hard for them and the Democrats are only for themselves.  The Republicans have used religion and other values hypocritically for far too long.  Reality is looking far more appealing that it has in years.May it continue to grow stronger with the coming months.

At this time of the year, when the roadblocks come up with great regularity, I would like to share a personal experience with my closest friends about drinking and driving.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for an evening with friends and had a couple of cocktails and some rather nice red wine.

Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before; I took a cab home. Sure enough, I passed a police road block but, since it was a cab, they waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise as I have never driven a cab before and am not sure where I got it or what to do with it now that it's in my garage.

 

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A friend sent  this is anonymous 'joke' to me. There were several thoughts that immediately made me associate to the Teapartiers.

      First of all, the writer must be a congressman because he shows attributes of the Congressional members, denial, obfuscation, making light of misbehavior, and total lack of awareness of consequences, to name a few., .

     Mistake number one:  mixing cocktails and wine

      Number two:  "I took a cab home" is a slight distortion of the truth.  It might have ended the story if he had told the truth, "I stole a cab to go home."

     Number three:  Illustrated easily  ignoring  rules expected for others to follow..  (Did it ever occur to the police that even a cab driver may drink or take drugs and be driving? ) After all, physicians and lawyers rate among the highest addicts in both categories.  I'm sure cab drivers are in there somewhere.

     Lastly, after making a mess, the person does nothing, hides the evidence in the garage, and tells a funny story about it all.

     Recognizing the story was likely made up for laughs, it even further reminds me of the current Congress.  Life, and the people they hurt, is not real to them.  He snuck by the police, while breaking the law in a stolen vehicle, brings no guilt,  (Stealing a man's cab causes no shame or concern nor force an attempt to find whose livelihood was stolen.

     So you see, when you begin to look beneath the laughter, there may be lots of people who are not finding life so funny...like the people hurt by Hurricane Sandy who have not been given help but have been left to be eaten up by the private 'lenders'. (Do you suppose there is a lobby who convinced the Congress they would take care of the problem so that no Federal money needs to be given?_

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHYSICAL PAIN KICKS IN ENDORPHINS: NEW USE IN SIBERIA BU [SUCHOLOGISTS

When we don't understand something that is out of our experiential range, we are quick to call it sick, aberrant, or sinful. None of those labels offers a reasonably prescription.  We do not think that sado-masochism is 'normal'.  Is normal a correct word or should it be that it is behavior in a vast minority.We know that there are people who cannot stop themselves from cutting themselves in order to feel some sort of relief.  There are those who belief the cutting and ensuant pain may well kick in endorphins

Doctors in Siberia have started something that sounds barbaric to our current lack of knowledge. .They are using beating an addict on the buttocks with a willow cane to kick in their endorphins.  (I always assumed sexual relief was a better choice to the goal)  An article in The Fix: Weird Science, describes this new technique which the psychologists using it claim is based on solid scientific thinking.  Click here to read the article.

OUR LIVES BEHIND THE INTERNET KEYHOLE

It always amuses me to hear people who have no real understanding of the Internet and how it or software works or what kind of information people gather from our use of it. Natasha Singer wrote a great article in the NY Times that explains much more than most of us might realize.  Click here    The title is:  Their APPS track you.  Will Congress track them?

For those of us who have used the Internet to shop for years, if we assume we will never win Megabucks, the odds are similar to our assuming we are safe on the computer.  Assuming of course that you have a fire wall, security software, virus protection, malware protection and scores of other 'protections'.  Naturally, none of these will really protect you from your information being lifted.because what is lifted does not leave traces on your computer.   It only protects you from what is dropped into your computer.  From all we read, that is not true for everyone and identities are lost. I never realized how many people are tracking us.  E-Z Pass tracks our routes;  Every store, restaurant  or shop we frequent tracks us if we use a credit card.  My image of an enormous, underground cave that has everyone's history and demographic profile saved.  I can't make money from my information, but someone who has no connection or permission from me, can sell it for profit to them.

That seems strange but I suppose, if it doesn't cost me anything it may be as harmless as school kids cutting across my yard to get home.  The problem is that I really don't know in what way this impacts me and I am old enough to have read 1984 and it smacks of Big Brother watching me.  I used to think it didn't matter as I am law abiding and have nothing to hide.  I wonder if it is accurate assumption.  I don't mind if people know where I have shopped but I deeply resent being bombarded with ads because I might have shopped for an item as a shower gift of no interest to me.Comcast seems to have finally fixed a pop up ad from England that came up when I started to type in the Google search bar.  I don't use Internet Explorer as my search engine and was told that i could only turn it off if I did use it.  Being dictated as to what I can use reminds me of very early days of computing at home.  A techy would set up your config file to run their program which worked fine while you had him on line (They were always 'local hims' in those days.)   Before hang up the telephone you checked and the program you just installed was working fine.  However, when you hung up and tried to open anything else, it usually did not work.  Problems are easier to solve today when you can see them.  It is what you can't see that is frustrating.  It is like having invisible people living in your house, using your things and moving them around,  

WHERE IS THE STOLEN MEDIA INTEGRITY BEING HELD CAPTIVE?

Is it that not much is happening with the world currently that we are subjected to show after show doing slideshow videos of 2012.  My sense is that the order is given to the production team, who then does an archival video search, picks out the juiciest, and instantly the show for today.  It makes me wonder when the media will go back to being journalists.  Will the 'check three sources' rule be honored  before they go on air?  We know that Fox News doesn't do that.

Seeing the 2012 clips so recently after we have watched them being replayed ad nauseum recently, it makes me wonder why they do not wait until people have actually forgotten the replays a bit and would see them as reminders.  Now that software to search archival material has been introduced to the media,   Now that the archives prevent people from assuming that people have forgotten about what they said years ago, we might assume that politicians are more cautious about what they utter.  Not so!  Romney continued to lie and deny what he clearly said before right up to his concession speech when the media stopped their interest in him.

Does Tagg Romney not realize that by saying his father never really wanted to be President that he is only confirming the reason for the Majority vote?

It was enlightening to watch Senator McConnell on Meet the Press.  He must assume that people have forgotten he wasted four years of the lives of many Americans while he pursued his notion that he 'would make Obama a one0term President'.  I keep waiting for him to come back to this universe, not that he will accept the consequences of the damage he did to the American people in obstructing progress as much as he did.

Now we can all hang from the edge of the cliff by our fingernails, waiting for those in office to realize that stopping government is really stopping all America.  They talk about over spending but what they are doing, not recognizing that we owe the bills the Republican Congress created during the eight years G.W. Bush was in office while we had a war going on that was put on the government credit card.  Perhaps those who caused the debt should be a bit more responsible in paying it.  Taxing lobbyists who trafficked in arms, and all the other service related to the wars and got rich over the action that killed so many, might be a place to start but it would be too sensible to be enacted, would it not?