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March 5, 2009

Answer Up

Filed under: Oklahoma,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 6:57 PM
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I am reading The Daily Waffle this morning, Breakfast Blogging: Opinion(ated) Scribbling for No Apparent Reason and I see: “You are intelligent, witty, clever, and just a tiny bit cruel. You always seem to say the right thing at the right time. Your way with words is natural, effortless. Sometimes you can inadvertently insult people who aren’t used to your unique way of speaking. But don’t worry about them, I think you still kick ass.”

And for a small brief moment in time, I am thinking, “How in the world did my Email get over here?” but then I realize where it is that I am and I am okay.  By the way … If you are not reading this lady’s page, you ought to be.  White Painted Woman The Daily Waffle.

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Most of my Email this week has went unanswered and quite a few of my telephone calls too.  I am under the distinct impression that people are trying to tell me something.

Technology will always tell on you.  You don’t have to leave a message, call waiting tells them who it is, which come to think of it, might be the reason for no answer.

As for the email, well, you can send them out, no guarantee they will be answered and it is fairly easy to just state, “I never got it” which is kind of strange, because when someone wants to complain, they all seem to make it through the network just fine, don’t they?

Several emails sent out in the past week were not answered or acknowledged. Out of sight and out of mind I guess.  This also applies to family people who are of a consanguineous nature, it just doesn’t apply to friends only.

No easy answers for me it seems.  I suppose the sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.

As you know, having found a period of deep personal inner perspective and inspection, I have been desperately trying to turn over a new leaf in life.  Removing some of the negatives and trying to replace them with positive enforcement, and good stuff.

I do not do well in large groups of people, I do not know when to keep my mouth shut, I am too opinionated for my own good.  No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group, I have always been the radical member of the tribe.

The square peg in the proverbial round hole of life.  Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club association, neighborhood improvement committee, Oprah Book Club, I have found that my interest in same, wanes rather quickly.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, but always seem to end up with the short end of the stick in the end, and a feeling that I have somehow embarrassed them and myself.  Perhaps that is why they do not answer my emails.  In the end I find that I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to, and I suppose that they are glad that I dropped out and moved on in life.

It could be that I somehow embarrass them with my brash opinion or outright disdain for apparent items that are wrong.  As much as I would love to pattern myself after someone else, I cannot do that, it would simply waste the me that is me.

Recently I stumbled across some data that suggest that there is a pill that can erase bad memories.  A common blood pressure drug may help to provide emotional relief to traumatized soldiers, crime victims, and people with phobias. (which right now, this week, I would gladly fork over top dollar for a month’s supply)

Dutch researchers have discovered that the old-school blood-pressure drug propranolol has an alternate use.  It can rewire your memory circuits to get rid of anxieties and bad memories.  The drug is a beta blocker, which not only suppresses strong physical response to stress, but also appears to retrain the brain not to react to a bad memory and may actually weaken the memory itself.  There might be hope for people like me yet.  I will let you know.

In the meantime, I am considering a (communications) “hip replacement.”

Which is the process of introducing a formerly cool person to a product or idea that attempts to make them cool again.  Reinventing an individual’s public persona through association or action.  If you are interested or feel the need for one yourself, let me know, I will email it to you.

So for now I guess I will just mosey on down the road, doin my thang, and keep searching for my wandering star.

OOO


Yummy – Yummy

Filed under: Oklahoma,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 3:07 AM
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Police in Washington state said they’ve captured three people who bought Girl Scout Cookies with fake money.  Man, what is this world coming to?  When the scout leader took the receipts to the bank to deposit them she was told that she had two fake twenties.

Then, later on she found an additional $60 worth of fake bills in the cookie receipts of the girls for a total of about $100.  All of this occurred at a store west of Seattle.  Bad enough we are all screwin’ the pooch on this lousy economy but now they are down to the kids … what kind of statement is that on the condition of things in America these days.

An old man and his son are sitting at the table when the old man says to him, “Show me and your Ma some of thet college edumaycayshun we has been paying for.” So the boy thinks for a moment and then looks at his daddy and says, “Pie are square.”

There is a long drawn out hesitation in the room, it gets noticeably quiet, and then the old man looks at the woman who is across the room at a hot stove, fixin’ supper and replies, “See, I told you it was a waste a time to send him off to school.  Pie is round … cornbread is square.”

What you do not know, certainly will not kill you, is what my daddy used to say.  And I suppose to a certain point, he is right on that.  So if you are pregnant [Psychedelikat in Chicago] and with child, nursing or have a queasy easily upset stomach, you might want to hit forward and move onto something else .

This post concerns the consumption of unsavory items on a daily basis in America.  (sounds impotent doesn’t it?)

You are what you eat, that is what I hear, have heard it all my life.  You are what you eat.

Which brings me to this interesting article I just read that flatly states …. “the average adult in this country, will eat six spiders in his/her lifetime.“  Incredible huh?  According to this article this is a voluntarily act on your part also, you see, you are asleep in your bed and the spiders they crawl up onto your face, cross your lips and into your open mouth, and as a “voluntarily reflex” you start to chew.

Walla, no more spider.  (Now that I have sufficiently creeped some of you out to a point that is just beyond belief, I will continue)

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Look at this peanut butter thing, man is that bad or what, first the plant in Georgia was located and identified and now they have an additional plant in Texas that has been shut down.  Whew, and we are supposed to live in an advanced and progressive, ahead of the rest of the world country.

Have you eaten any maggots, insects, or excreta today?

Of course you sit there in your breakfast nook with your fresh cup of Folgers and shake your head … “no … Oh, no …. no, no, no.” And you declare out loud to no one in particular except the family dog or Mr. Puffy the ruling cat of the home …  “of course not!”  I would NEVER eat any of those things.

But you do.

The FDA those wonderful people in Washington DC brought to you by the leaders of the economic stimulus and the new administration of empire builders call these repulsive items “natural contaminants.”  Just stopping short of “they are good for you!”

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm …  They’re Great!  As Tony, The Kellog’s Tiger would say.

Tomato Juice for example may “legally contain” up to but not to exceed “10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams” per can.  Which is somewhat equal to a small glass or to put it another way, 5 or more fly eggs per 100 grams and one or more maggots.”

Um, yummy – yummy.

An 18 ounce glass of peanut butter, which is what got the ball rollin’ on this post to begin with, can legally contain 145 bug parts or five or more rodent hairs.  Now that was the good news, here is the bad.

In a normal year, using these supplied statistics, we find that you are eating six spiders, and probably ingesting 1 to 2 pounds of flies, maggots, and various mice parts each 12 month period “without your knowing it.”

But remember the FDA admonishes us to not worry about it, these are mere aesthetic issues.  What you don’t know, won’t make you sick most of the time.

If you live in India you have another added bonus, I almost forgot.

A Hindu nationalist group in that country is developing a soft drink made from cow urine.  They believe that the cow is a sacred animal, and that anything that comes from the cow, is good for you.  It will be marketed as much for its health benefits as for its taste (I can only imagine!).  They believe that it has been established that this nourishing drink of the Gods from a cow can cure even cancer.

Gotta run ….. Lunch Time!

OOO

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