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January 8, 2018
Smart Phone Addiction and the Lord of Creation
In spite of the painful impact of two personal tragedies, I would have to say that I had a dreamworld childhood. I grew up in a community transitioning from its farming heritage where vestiges of the open America landscape still survived unscathed.
On one side of our little street, I had access to the wonders and stimulation of a burgeoning state university while to the West I had endless woods and fields filled with wildlife and a great river to meander along with my dog. I found peace in silence. I adore silence. I can sit for hours in a wood listening to the trees softly sing the praises of the Lord of creation.
You could say that half of me grew up off the grid. The better half. I do not like being attached to the grid by today's nagging umbilical cord. My flip phone sleeps in the glove box of my car in the off position in case of emergency. Some days, I turn it on to check my voice mail. Most days, I do not. My family knows how to find me.
In today's headlines, two of Apple's biggest shareholders are now urging the company to address children's addiction to the company's flagship product as well as its effect on mental health.
http://www.computermagazine.com/apple...
Mental health? My advice? Find a resting place in the woods and listen to the towering tress softly singing the praises of the Lord of creation.
On one side of our little street, I had access to the wonders and stimulation of a burgeoning state university while to the West I had endless woods and fields filled with wildlife and a great river to meander along with my dog. I found peace in silence. I adore silence. I can sit for hours in a wood listening to the trees softly sing the praises of the Lord of creation.
You could say that half of me grew up off the grid. The better half. I do not like being attached to the grid by today's nagging umbilical cord. My flip phone sleeps in the glove box of my car in the off position in case of emergency. Some days, I turn it on to check my voice mail. Most days, I do not. My family knows how to find me.
In today's headlines, two of Apple's biggest shareholders are now urging the company to address children's addiction to the company's flagship product as well as its effect on mental health.
http://www.computermagazine.com/apple...
Mental health? My advice? Find a resting place in the woods and listen to the towering tress softly singing the praises of the Lord of creation.
December 3, 2017
The First Sunday of Advent
For many Christian families, today is the first Sunday of Advent when they begin preparing for the celebration of, as Pope John Paul II phrased it, "that moment when God enters human history as a baby."
Merry Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFz...
Merry Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFz...
November 22, 2017
Men Behaving Badly
The intolerantly incorrect totalitarians in the media are suddenly frothing at the mouth over men behaving badly in Congress, Hollywood and inside the boob tube aquarium for screeching brill.
This is news?
Hmmm…what about a registered sexual predator like Bill Clinton? The IITs have given the white trash Billy Willy Dilly a free pass ever since his heydays with Monica Lewinsky. He still enjoys immunity. Yes, Billy WIlly Dilly is a pig, but he is the IIT's pig and that was then and this is now.
Bonjour Amigos is not condoning powerful men behaving badly by using their influence in exchange for sexual favors. As you already know, we despise the political class of both parties as well as the bush league talent ruling Hollywood as well as those whining wankers in the media.
However, we are mildly concerned that this latest cultural lava flow will spill over from the boob tube aquarium into the real world, hunting down and persecuting all those working class stiffs who make a clumsy pass at the opposite sex after a few too many beers.
Give us a break. If it were not for the male sex drive, the specie might die out. Do you think men wobble out onto a dance floor because they enjoy being there?
Will some woman take advantage of this new climate of howling persecution and use the threat of sexual accusations to advance their agendas?
This is America, Baby! What do you think?
This is news?
Hmmm…what about a registered sexual predator like Bill Clinton? The IITs have given the white trash Billy Willy Dilly a free pass ever since his heydays with Monica Lewinsky. He still enjoys immunity. Yes, Billy WIlly Dilly is a pig, but he is the IIT's pig and that was then and this is now.
Bonjour Amigos is not condoning powerful men behaving badly by using their influence in exchange for sexual favors. As you already know, we despise the political class of both parties as well as the bush league talent ruling Hollywood as well as those whining wankers in the media.
However, we are mildly concerned that this latest cultural lava flow will spill over from the boob tube aquarium into the real world, hunting down and persecuting all those working class stiffs who make a clumsy pass at the opposite sex after a few too many beers.
Give us a break. If it were not for the male sex drive, the specie might die out. Do you think men wobble out onto a dance floor because they enjoy being there?
Will some woman take advantage of this new climate of howling persecution and use the threat of sexual accusations to advance their agendas?
This is America, Baby! What do you think?
November 8, 2017
Madame President One Historic Year Later
As universally expected by insiders and outsiders alike, Hillary Clinton demolished Donald Trump in an historic landslide victory to become the first female President of the United States of America.
Madame Hillary easily defeated the real estate trust-funder punk, reality boob tube booby star, rude narcissist and sexual predator. Voters never gave serious consideration to a man so completely out of his depth for such an important job in comparison to the former First Lady and Secretary of State who admittedly is more corrupt, dishonest, self-serving, deceitful, sleazy, slimy, mendacious and perfidious than Richard Nixon.
Urged on by the intolerantly incorrect totalitarians in the media and academia, the docile American voters obediently aligned themselves with Mrs. Clinton who had discarded her party's nearly century-old alliance with working class Americans to embrace the fashionable identity politics artfully crafted over the last eight years by Barack Hussein Obama, a former community organizer more intellectually suited for the subtleties and nuances of three dimensional chess, at least according to his adoring fanboys in the PC media wanking before the utter perfection of his Colgate smile. Those media wankers apparently decided to abridge Martin Luther King's motto and rather than judge Snoop Dogg Barry, a tireless anti-semite, by his very flawed character, they put on black face en masse, got on one knee and sang, "Obammy...Obammy...Obammy..." in a relentless Al Jolson falsetto and gave Snoop Dogg Barry the official PC reconciliation pass because the color of his skin snuggly fits into their PC Party line. Sorry, MLK! What does character matter in the age of identity politics?
The voters paid absolutely no attention to the millions of dollars in pay-for-play donations to the Clinton Foundation from the Saudis and the Uranium One deal that allowed Mrs. Clinton and her faithfully unfaithful, white trash husband to live large in the Hamptons among the trust-funder pipsqueaks.
Usually weeping with objectivity, the American media celebrated this landslide election with euphoric jubilation, pledging undying allegiance to Madame Hillary, the 45th President of The United States of America and the world at large.
In return, Madame President immediately dismissed the scurrilous assertions emanating from the usual dark sources that the media and academia are the single biggest threat to freedom of speech, shaming and ridiculing any citizen who does not salute the official PC narrative.
Those accusations, said Madame President, "are either silly nonsense or nonsensical silliness - take your pick! It's not like freedom of speech is the oxygen of democracy or anything! Besides, what does it matter now?"
Madame Hillary easily defeated the real estate trust-funder punk, reality boob tube booby star, rude narcissist and sexual predator. Voters never gave serious consideration to a man so completely out of his depth for such an important job in comparison to the former First Lady and Secretary of State who admittedly is more corrupt, dishonest, self-serving, deceitful, sleazy, slimy, mendacious and perfidious than Richard Nixon.
Urged on by the intolerantly incorrect totalitarians in the media and academia, the docile American voters obediently aligned themselves with Mrs. Clinton who had discarded her party's nearly century-old alliance with working class Americans to embrace the fashionable identity politics artfully crafted over the last eight years by Barack Hussein Obama, a former community organizer more intellectually suited for the subtleties and nuances of three dimensional chess, at least according to his adoring fanboys in the PC media wanking before the utter perfection of his Colgate smile. Those media wankers apparently decided to abridge Martin Luther King's motto and rather than judge Snoop Dogg Barry, a tireless anti-semite, by his very flawed character, they put on black face en masse, got on one knee and sang, "Obammy...Obammy...Obammy..." in a relentless Al Jolson falsetto and gave Snoop Dogg Barry the official PC reconciliation pass because the color of his skin snuggly fits into their PC Party line. Sorry, MLK! What does character matter in the age of identity politics?
The voters paid absolutely no attention to the millions of dollars in pay-for-play donations to the Clinton Foundation from the Saudis and the Uranium One deal that allowed Mrs. Clinton and her faithfully unfaithful, white trash husband to live large in the Hamptons among the trust-funder pipsqueaks.
Usually weeping with objectivity, the American media celebrated this landslide election with euphoric jubilation, pledging undying allegiance to Madame Hillary, the 45th President of The United States of America and the world at large.
In return, Madame President immediately dismissed the scurrilous assertions emanating from the usual dark sources that the media and academia are the single biggest threat to freedom of speech, shaming and ridiculing any citizen who does not salute the official PC narrative.
Those accusations, said Madame President, "are either silly nonsense or nonsensical silliness - take your pick! It's not like freedom of speech is the oxygen of democracy or anything! Besides, what does it matter now?"
October 18, 2017
Time To Get Nervous, VERY Nervous.
Researches have found that the German insect population, including our invaluable helpers, the pollinating bees, has declined by 76% over the last twenty-seven years. The main suspect is agricultural pesticides.
German language article:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ins...
English language summation:
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-three-q...
German language article:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ins...
English language summation:
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-three-q...
October 2, 2017
I Live in Las Vegas
I live in Las Vegas. After every major terrorist attack in every remote corner of the world, I would hear poker players and casino workers wondering aloud when such violence would eventually visit itself upon Vegas with its multiple, crowded venues lined up every weekend like sitting ducks. It was inevitable, was it not, or was the secret Vegas security protecting this billion dollar tourist economy really that infallible?
Given that fact that nothing major had threatened those sitting ducks in the sixteen years since 9/11, I quietly made the mistake of assuming that the security boys were really that good.
Then, the worst mass-shooting in US history occurred with relative ease in Las Vegas by the hand of the most bizarre breed of lone wolf. Not a man indoctrinated into pathological insanity by a demented ideology, but a crazy man without any ideology whatsoever. A sick man. A very sick man and apparently, a very angry man. Angry with himself? Angry with others? Angry with everyone and everything?
Consequently, the post-massacre debate making the media rounds this time is not about a whack-a-doodle cult serving a demented prophet, rather, the majority of the outcry is focussed on the American obsession with guns. A tiny minority is mentioning that this senseless massacre that devastated hundreds of families is about a man without any God whatsoever. A warning sign of a very different America from the one many of us grew up in that has long since ceased to exist.
Once again, I find myself among the smallest of minorities.
Given that fact that nothing major had threatened those sitting ducks in the sixteen years since 9/11, I quietly made the mistake of assuming that the security boys were really that good.
Then, the worst mass-shooting in US history occurred with relative ease in Las Vegas by the hand of the most bizarre breed of lone wolf. Not a man indoctrinated into pathological insanity by a demented ideology, but a crazy man without any ideology whatsoever. A sick man. A very sick man and apparently, a very angry man. Angry with himself? Angry with others? Angry with everyone and everything?
Consequently, the post-massacre debate making the media rounds this time is not about a whack-a-doodle cult serving a demented prophet, rather, the majority of the outcry is focussed on the American obsession with guns. A tiny minority is mentioning that this senseless massacre that devastated hundreds of families is about a man without any God whatsoever. A warning sign of a very different America from the one many of us grew up in that has long since ceased to exist.
Once again, I find myself among the smallest of minorities.
September 30, 2017
You Will Never Turn the Vinegar into Jam, Mein Herr
Der Spiegel has published a very short and succinct analysis of the German election results which brings most foreign observers up to speed with the results. I am passing it along for two devious reasons:
1. You will no longer find such unbiased political analysis anywhere in the American media.
2. Would not America be better off with the checks and balances of a multi-party system rather than being bilked by the Republican or Democratic crime families?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/g...
This is the fundamental journalism of who, what, where, when and sometimes how, that died in its sleep quite some time ago in the States. Compare it to the silly talk you hear from the twerpy, boob tube bobbleheads from CNN to Fox News to PBS.
One surprising nuance that jumped out at me was the addendum to Der Spiegel's description of the AfD as being a right-wing populist party with "more than a few right-wing radicals in their ranks." Until recently, the intolerantly incorrect totalitarians in the Deutsche media would have branded the entire AfD as rabid, right wing radicals. Apparently, gaining Bundestag representation as the third-largest party has given the AfD a little cache. Democracy is a bitch when the people get in the faces of the ruling elite, is it not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRs6...
1. You will no longer find such unbiased political analysis anywhere in the American media.
2. Would not America be better off with the checks and balances of a multi-party system rather than being bilked by the Republican or Democratic crime families?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/g...
This is the fundamental journalism of who, what, where, when and sometimes how, that died in its sleep quite some time ago in the States. Compare it to the silly talk you hear from the twerpy, boob tube bobbleheads from CNN to Fox News to PBS.
One surprising nuance that jumped out at me was the addendum to Der Spiegel's description of the AfD as being a right-wing populist party with "more than a few right-wing radicals in their ranks." Until recently, the intolerantly incorrect totalitarians in the Deutsche media would have branded the entire AfD as rabid, right wing radicals. Apparently, gaining Bundestag representation as the third-largest party has given the AfD a little cache. Democracy is a bitch when the people get in the faces of the ruling elite, is it not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRs6...
August 22, 2017
Mr Flying Trump Monkey Enters the Fray...
Not one to walk away from a useless fight, Mr. Flying Trump Monkey has entered the bitter fray, challenging the intolerantly incorrect totalitarians' grip on the black hole of stupidity.
While the totalitarians are busy hysterically pissing their panties over park statues, the deep thinker from reality television is expanding America's military presence in Afghanistan, a worthless, shit-hole country on the other side of the globe from where the American people live out their everyday lives.
While the totalitarians are busy hysterically pissing their panties over park statues, the deep thinker from reality television is expanding America's military presence in Afghanistan, a worthless, shit-hole country on the other side of the globe from where the American people live out their everyday lives.
August 19, 2017
The Mass Hysteria Bubble in the Time of Dilbert
For those of you unfamiliar with Scott Adams, the creator of the erudite comic strip DILBERT, here is an introductory snippet. You might also check out his bio.
http://dilbert.com/
Now that you have been primed, the real reason I am bringing Mr. Adams to your attention is his eye-opening blog on the Mass Hysteria Bubble and the times we are living in:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/16429762...
http://dilbert.com/
Now that you have been primed, the real reason I am bringing Mr. Adams to your attention is his eye-opening blog on the Mass Hysteria Bubble and the times we are living in:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/16429762...
August 16, 2017
The Very Exclusive Club of Jefferson Davis, Obama and Trump
It took Snoop Dogg Barry Obama nearly eight years of hard work to claim the title as the most racially divisive President since Jefferson Davis. At the rate he is going, Mr. Flying Trump Monkey may reclaim that distinction for white folks withn his very first year in office.
