I am at the age where the people i know die at a pretty high rate.

The last couple of days news of friends dieing have been coming left and right.

And the first thing that happens my wife gets on the GD telephone and calls everyone she knows. And i am sure every one of them calls every damned woman she knows.

When and if i find out I am dieing no one including my wife will b e told. I would like to do one thing, just one, in my GD life peacefully.

Jake

Tags: dead
Current Location: South Park
Current Mood: pissed
Current Music: none

For you Mac nuts out there

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adf_1245828170

Tags: mac_uber_alles
Current Location: Buena Vista
Current Music: none

It would seem to me that pre-election promises, if broken should be impeachable offenses.

After all those promises as well as past performance are all people have to determine who to vote for one candidate or another.

Only two times in my life have I have voted for a major party candidate and then that candidate had actually won the election. In both cases I was very disappointed in the candidates, performance in office. Nixon and Obama were the candidates.

Why are candidates allowed to say one thing and do another? Why have we no remedy for such malfeasance, except to wait six years, to vote against them, and then they may not run again.

It would be nice if once before I die, I could not be ashamed the government! Of course this statement begs the question, is there a country where I could live and not be ashamed of the government? I don't know thr answer to that question, but I suspect that there may not be such a country.

Perhaps we have all been screwed by the dangling dong of evolution.

Tags: presidential_politics
Current Location: South Park
Current Mood: Mad and Sad
Current Music: None

How do you spell Big Brother again?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html?_r=1&hp

This is the same congress that recently gave the NSA more powers to monitor American Citizens in America. I wonder how many members of Congress or the Executive have actually read the Bill of Rights or at have read it recently.

Good Night Mr Orwell, where ever You Are.

Jake

Tags: nsa surveillance
Current Location: South Park
Current Music: NPR News Such as it is

I won a rifle, An AR-15 never been fired a couple of years ago. I fired it 4 or f times and found it not particularly fun to shoot so i sold it for $950, which was pretty good since I had bought $10 worth of tickets.

My wife about 10 years ago won a drawing at an Italian restaurant for a trip for two to Italy and fortunately she opted to take me along.

jake

Tags: writer's block
Current Location: South Park
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: None

I have been following the accident, Air France from Brazil to Paris.

As a Pilot and as someone that has been in both places, i am generally interested in these sorts of things.

I also regularly read several US papers on the Net as well as various Spanish papers on the net. I find that the news from The Spanish Papers is much more current than from those in the US. In general i find this true even for news originating from the US.

I wonder why we, the US, are so slow getting the news out.

Jake

Tags: news_slow
Current Location: South Park
Current Mood: perplexed
Current Music: NPR news

This is primarily for Edexter who I believe is in the land of Bitter Beer and Steak & Kidney Pie.

Are you going to watch the big game this evening, i would guess that Barcelona will chew Man U up and spit them out.

But it should be a good game, particularly since Manchester has been watching how the Spanish play football and have learned a thing or two. If we lived closer together I would bet a pint or two with you.

Jake

Tags: balon_pie
Current Location: South Park
Current Music: Jazz Charlie Parker

I have an invitecode for dream width if anyone would like it.

Jake

This a test, only a test, do not pass go, do not collect $200

Tags: test
Current Location: South Park
Current Music: Liberal Talk Show

Up where I live it get warm late and flowers don't begin to show their petals until May. This one of the first I have found these season. The bloom is shown larger than life and is only about the size of a nickel. It is found on small cacti about 2 inches in diameter

Tags: picture flowers
Current Location: South Park
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: none