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November 20, 2012

Clearing The Air

Filed under: Blogging,politics,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 5:55 AM

Listen, we need to clear the air here on some things that are really starting to bug me.  Please stop sending me all this tripe on Obama, I get it, you don’t like the guy.  Your guy did not win, I get it.  The other guy was the best man for the job, Okay.  Now do me a favor …. Stop sending me all this crap about succeeding from the union and not being a paying member of the lower forty-eight.  Especially all of you who sucked off the Federal tit after Katrina.

I get it.

Here are a few facts of life.  Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.  You know that and so do I, what amazes me is a large percentage of you continue to re-elect the bozo’s and then you send all of these emails to me bitching about it.

You need to understand.  It is dysfunctional, it is out of control, there is very little that you as a citizen of this country can do about it.  Sending all of this tripe to me and loading me up with it, will do you absolutely no good whatsoever.

545 of them are controlling 300 million of you, and like it or not, every four years, you enable them some more by re-electing them.

One more time, try and understand this concept.  You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.  You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.  You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

 Not one guy (Obama) and certainly not me.

You want to make waves, you want a change, why aren’t you sending this to the people who are sticking it to you?  It sure as ___ aint me.

Ask those 545 human beings who spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. Those who cooperate in this common con, this Federal Ponzi Scheme of untold proportions, regardless of party.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.

It is also a mystery to me why folks continue to send me this “politically charged material” to me here, when this site is known for not being political anything.

Send it to some one else.  We are tired of it.

OOO

November 15, 2012

Thursday Backwater

Filed under: Blogging,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 5:01 AM

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE:  A Wyoming legislator has introduced a bill to prepare the state to issue its own currency and restore order when the nation’s economy and social structure collapses.  He says he wants Wyoming residents to be protected from “catastrophic events, noting that things happen quickly.”  For instance, take a look at Egypt and the guys in Libya or down there in California, just across the bay in Oakland.

PAYBACK:  A man in Cincinnati Ohio who complained on Facebook that his estranged wife was an “evil, vindictive woman” was ordered by a judge to post daily apologies for a month or go to jail.  Not much of a choice there.  He is complying with the order, but says only his friends could view his complaints, and that the judge violated his freedom of speech, which is really hard to believe in this day and age of airport searches, wire taps and covert surveillance.  Tell me it isn’t so?

BAD NEWS IF YOU ARE UNDER SIXTY:  Everyone on Earth under age 60 may have a problem.  Astronomers detected a 460- foot wide asteroid that might hit our planet in February 2040.  (I wonder … would that be a Monday?)  Now here is the good news, they are not all that sure of the asteroids path.  By the time they are, our illustrious general staff will have invented a missile to take it out, that is, if the right lane is not closed in 1500 feet.

LIVING ON LESS:  What do you eat on $4.06 per day?  A local food bank issued a challenge to the mayor of a Nevada city to live for five days on the food stamp allowance for a single person.  Breakfast was Cheerios, lunch canned soup, and dinner tuna sandwiches or macaroni and cheese.  No fruit on any meal.  Healthy food tends to be more expensive than processed food   So if you find yourself down and out in this Great Country, figure on a lot of tomato soup.

TUNED IN:  A Minnesota man was arrested after he allegedly hobbled out of a store with a 19-inch flat screen TV in his pants.  A cop noticed the guy shuffling slowly and strangely through the parking lot, and found a large rectangular shape in his pants. It turned out to be a TV.  Police say he was also carrying a remote control, power chords, and bottle of brake fluid.

SAFE HARBOR:  Most people do not know this, but the suicide rate in New York City is about half the national average.  City officials say the low rate is primarily the result of the city’s strict gun control laws. Only 12% of the suicides in New York involve firearms, where as the national average is 51%.  Then there is the matter of this national dismal economy where it has been proven that it is almost impossible to kill yourself jumping out of a basement window.

TAX FREE:  35 agents of the IRS are assigned fulltime to ExxonMobil headquarters in Houston, where they conduct “non-stop” audits of the company’s tax accounting.  In 2009, Exxon paid no U.S. Income taxes on profits of a paltry $19.3 billion, receiving instead a $156 million credit.  The company did pay $15.2 billion in foreign taxes.  Must be nice … I would like to get a credit for something … anything.

Never Show Magic to Kids

OOO

November 14, 2012

Hump Day

Filed under: Blogging,Life,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 12:25 AM

Took a day off yesterday and kind of floated one for a change of pace.  I would like to tell you that it was a productive sort of day, that I got a lot accomplished, and that things, were just peachy.  But I didn’t do any of the above, I just took some time to reflect and relax.

Mailbox has been winding down a little since the elections and that is good news, a steady diet of negative material isn’t good for one to consume on a daily basis.  Not that politic’s is not in the news, it is still there, just yesterday I read of a woman who was so disgusted with her husband for not voting that she ran over him with a car.

My Dad was a lot like that, whenever he got really mad at me in my youth, he would look me in the eye and then say … “Go stand in the street until I can get the truck started.”

There is new threat on the horizon, it is called the Fiscal Cliff, sounds exciting and mysterious doesn’t it.  Trust me, it is bad news.  Now you have something different for conversation on the cocktail circuit, instead of talking about the new bear cubs at the zoo.  You can lead off with:  “Now that I know exactly what the “fiscal cliff” will cost me personally, I’m suddenly much more interested”

Not all of the email is bad, we got this one yesterday and it was a hoot.

 An elderly man was stopped by the police around 2 a.m and was asked where he was going at that time of night.  The man replied, “I’m on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late.”

The officer then asked, “Really? Who’s giving that lecture at this time of night?”

The man replied, “my wife.”

 Detroit and Oakland are in the news again.  Oakland California has gotten so bad on the crack-head robberies and such, that most of the fast food chains are moving out or have left the area completely.  Yesterday I read where they actually robbed a news crew of their camera equipment.  Pay particular attention to what type of “get-away-car” the thieves were driving.  Evidently crime does pay in Oakland.

Do you think that it is acceptable for a waitress or waiter to be rude?  You can read all about here and actually vote your opinion.  I can always tell when they are hacked off at me, they bring my tomato juice to the table and they have their thumb inside the glass.

Scientists found 2,300 different species living in (A)  Amazon rainforest.  (B)  Coral Reefs.  (C)  Your belly button.  Take a shot at it here.

Tomorrow we will discuss why people pay for one newspaper, but when the door opens up, they grab several.  No good huh?   Okay, “How about people who pick their nose in the car?  Do they really think they are invisible?”

I mean really … What do you want for free.

OOO

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November 7, 2012

I Will Follow Him

Filed under: Blogging,Life,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 8:33 AM
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They say that history has a bad habit of repeating itself.  

Might be more to that than people can believe

Baracks House

Creative Endeavors January 2009 

OOO

October 23, 2012

You Win Some And You … Well, Y’know.

Filed under: Blogging,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 6:18 AM
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“I am so happy.  Finally caught a break and did something right for a change, that is a good thang.”

Bought some gasoline for my old truck today, it cost me $57.11 to fill it up, which is a lot of money to most people.  In Egypt they are paying .16 cents per liter, this translates to about .65 cents per gallon U.S..  Every day in this country, huge tankers, filled to the gills with this product are leaving the country and we are paying $3 per gallon?

Something just isn’t right.

Things are not good here in River City, the resident Mayor of BoogerTown lost eight stories that he had written for the website over the weekend.  I inadvertently moved them to the trash along with some old photo’s, did not notice this and then emptied the trash.  Man, that is so disappointing, all of them spell checked, formatted and ready to go and it all went south.

Now it appears that I will have to go back to working for a living.  Computer errors are so unforgiving and at the same time, they often gut you like a fish.  I had over a period of time, worked each one of these, and had them all ready to go, now they are in hard-drive heaven.

Received a new remote for the Dish Network, got it to operate everything with a min. of hassle (actually they were very helpful and that is a refreshing change of pace).  Somewhat timidly, I pointed it towards the box and told it to record, then at the TV, same deal, and everything worked.

I am so happy.

Finally caught a break and did something right for a change, that is a good thang.  If I was doing any better than I currently am, I afraid I would have to pay an amusement tax.

Might be hope for me yet.  I feel as if I am getting more mellow with age, I know this might be hard for some people to understand, but it is true.  This weekend for instance I hit two winning tickets on the lottery, the amount wasn’t all that sizable, about $162 for both tickets.

Now here is the rub.

When I go to cash in the tickets, the girl says to me, “We cannot pay this ticket, it is too much.”  Which is contrary to the rules of the lottery.  The lottery rules clearly state that retailers are NOT allowed to sell tickets unless they can keep a min. of $500 in their respective stores to pay all tickets when presented for amounts less than $600.  So here I stand at another juncture in time, “Do you want to be right or do you wanna be happy?”

Oh yeah, one more thing, I tried a new store for my tickets.  At this store (one I do not usually frequent) there is a sign and it reads:  ”This store sold a winning Powerball Ticket for $40,012.00.”  So I asked the clerk, “did they come back and give you a tip?” and she replied, “Yes they did.”  So I said, “How much” and she got this sour look on her face and said, “He gave me a twenty dollar bill.”

What kind of piker does that, when Lady Luck smiles on him like that?

As I clearly do not have an idea as to what the answer might be, I will wrap this up for the day.  I have my own problems to work on … like finding a way to do something about this Libido thing … if I could fix that, I would have it made.

Some folks would of course, see that video as kind of sexist, but I see it as a celebration of the female form.  Anywho, comments are open, take your best shot.

See you at the water cooler.

OOO

October 13, 2012

The Big Yawn

Filed under: Life,Oklahoma,politics,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 8:04 AM

Allow Me To Reiterate Senator

(It takes a little bit to load, but it is worth the wait)

OOO

October 11, 2012

Hard Row To Hoe

Filed under: Blogging,Life,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 6:15 AM

Life is what happens when you are not paying attention.  Don’t cry over the past.  It’s gone.  Don’t stress about the future, it has not arrived.  Live in the present and make it beautiful.  

This year has been especially trying for me, it has for lack of a better word, been a miserable sort of year.  Everything that could possibly go wrong, it seems has.  Last week a friend of mine took a pistol and killed two of his neighbors and is now incarcerated and awaiting trial.  For all intents, Martin’s life is now over, only thing remaining is the sentence or the punishment   

This year, I have attended more funerals than weddings.

This week, I have learned another hard lesson in life. 

All of us, in our day to day workin’s take far too much for granted.  

Unfortunately a close friend passed this week (Tuesday) and I am having a real hard time dealing with that.  It is hard to imagine that you will never again hear their voice, that their actions and mannerisms will not light up your face and make you smile, you will never hear their raucous laugh.  You look for them even though they are gone … The week started off with promise, a holiday.  And then it sort of went south for me, it unraveled.

The only thing in this life that never takes a holiday is death.  

I now find a huge hole in my life and do not know how to fill it.  

Right now I am dealing with some very real heavy duty depression and acute sadness.  All this means, I am wrestling with some weighty issues, and it is going to take some time for what has recently transpired to heal or go away.  

In order to deal with this, I am going to have to find something that has meaning in my life, that gives me time for work and not so much time for reflective thought, and I need to immerse myself in it.  Creative Endeavors has always given you a little taste of the sweet and some of the sour … A little salt and a little spice … A little of the sublime and some of the outrageous or ridiculous.  

Presently I feel I have to take some time away from it and I have shut it all down.    

This is what I do know, its going to be a long hard row to hoe.  It might take a little time to rebound and get back in the groove … That is the plan.  It ain’t much of a plan, but baby, it is the best I got.  

If I miss a day here and there, or if you do not feel that the daily offering was not all that uplifting after reading the page.  

You now know why.

OOO

Photo courtesy of Tau Zero

What folks have been reading this week at Creative Endeavors:

Home page / Archives
Bikinis (The reason men are pigs)
Drop The Soap (audio)
The Worry Tree
Clear Blue Sky
The Bear Facts
Wood Ice Chest
Guitar Hero
Goin With The Flow
Baracks House

Please feel free to browse the archives during my occasional absences or our new routine.  Comments has been disabled on this post.

Bad News In River City

Filed under: Blogging,Life,Oklahoma,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 5:25 AM

Some idiot in Florida (who would have guessed this?) has died from eating cockroaches in some kind of off the wall contest.  Now who in their right mind would do such an idiotic thing like that?  And then I came across this item and the information contained there was quite disturbing.  Then if you look further down the page you will find:

A computer mouse up your rear, now I bet that was amusing in the ER.  ”Well son, do you want to remove it or just change out the batteries?”  And folks wonder why I don’t like the news, why I seem to be cranky and out of sorts, always in a bad mood.

 Wait, it gets better.

After pouring myself a cup of luke warm coffee.  I walked in here this morning, sat down in the chair and opened up my email, right across the top of my email-webpage was the statement “You have been unfriended by three people.”  Immediately I thought to myself, “What is wrong with this picture?”

 You see, I didn’t know I had any friends.

And to be un-friended on Facebook, when you have NEVER opened a Facebook account, well that is something.  Now on a certain bus board, I am currently being ignored by four people, I don’t know if that is the same as being unfriended or not.

 There was a time when I came really close to the saying un-friended.

One particular Mail Call while in the service comes quickly to mind.  I received a letter from my girlfriend when I was in Viet Nam and I was pretty sure after reading that, she had unfriended me.  Some folks call it a Dear John, but it sure as hell had my name on it.

There I sat, some 19,000 miles away from home, occupying a small corner of the flight deck, all forlorn, rejected and very much alone.  It was if I had lost my best friend in life.  As I read each word, my soul ached and all I could think of towards the end of the dirge was … I wonder if the chow hall is open right now, I sure could use a good cup of coffee.

Here is the bottom line boys & girls.  What you feed your mind or your soul, will eventually poison your mind and spirit … A steady diet of negative news is not a healthy attitude in life.  Take a lesson from nature … You can find it here.

OOO

October 8, 2012

Take Your Pick

Filed under: Blogging,Life,Oklahoma,politics,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 3:42 AM

Oh My Gosh …

A friend of mine, she uses that saying or expression a lot, as a matter of fact, a great deal.  “Oh my gosh,” is her favorite word of description for just about everything.  She will drop something in the kitchen and she will exclaim “Oh my gosh.”

Now when I do that I usually exclaim “Oh shoot” (which is the other word really … only that one doesn’t have two o’s and you spell it differently.)

“OMG!” 

It is her blanket endorsement of everything from Thermal Nuclear War to the torn hangnail on her ring finger straight down from thumb on her left hand … “OMG”  Curious word phrase, it can apply to just about anything, if you stop and think about it.

  • You win the lottery, there before you, the five winning numbers you have searched for, and the bonus number on top of that … “OMG”
  • You get the bill from the I.R.S. on your winnings … Uh huh … “OMG”
  • The end of the stick turns blue …. “OMG.” (It is a female thing guys)
  • Yes, I am washing my face with Dial soap … “OMG!”
  • Running hard and fast thru the Oklahoma Panhandle, and you pass one of the many hog farms that dot the landscape.  Your wife turns, gives you “the look” and then exclaims … “Oh my gosh!” (Hog farms smell horrible in case you didn’t know or have never been around one)
  • Stumbling in the dark, you nail your big toe on a chair … “OMG.”
  • (On some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed, trust me)
  • One time on a lonely stretch of highway in Utah, just a little north of a small town named Moab.  I noticed a great deal of what appeared to be steam or smoke coming out of the back of the bus.  Pulling over in the first wide spot I could find, I walked back and opened the hood, and there was my piston, sort of lying there, like a dead animal of sorts, halfway out the side of the engine.
  • At that point …. I thought to myself ….. “This is really ungood man.”
  • (Got you there, didn’t I?)

Now my Mother her favorite expression was “Oh my Gawd.”   But Dad he was different when it came to me, what my Dad thought, well let’s just say that this is somewhat of a family site, so his primary response is not printable.

If you have hung around this long, there is one more.  (There is always one more)

All the Media Talking Heads this morning, they are saying that we have a distinct possibility of re-electing a lame duck president and the guy in there now could possibly win a second term to the highest office in the land.

All I could think of was …… “What the hell?”

(But we probably spell it differently)

See you at the water-cooler.

OOO

October 7, 2012

Sweet Dreams

Filed under: Blogging,humor,Life,Oklahoma,Recent — ldsrr91 @ 12:47 PM

Sleeping Dogs

OOO

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