Michael Kindt's Blog, page 59

"Money flows from people who do not manage it to people who do. The rich get richer and the poor get..."

“Money flows from people who do not manage it to people who do. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Yep, cuz the rich keep doing rich people stuff and the poor keep doing poor people stuff. If you’re a poor person and you start doing rich people stuff, you get to be rich eventually. If you’re rich and you start doing poor people stuff, you get to be poor eventually. The habits and decisions you make with money determine whether you have some or not. Adults devise a plan and follow it. Children do what feels good.”

- Dave Ramsey

Bisexual Bathrooms

Actually, the sexualization of toilets is a pretty recent phenomenon. It began in the late 1800s, the Victorian Age, with its repression and tight corsets and sexual neurosis. Before that, men and women (and people who wanted to switch teams, presumably) pretty much shat and pissed in the same pot.

So don’t go telling me that bisexual bathrooms are normal and the way it’s always been.

As an aside, I am assuming you are familiar with North Carolina’s recent “Bathroom Bill”. The legislature in my home state of South Dakota passed a similar measure in February, but the governor vetoed it. The override attempt was unsuccessful.

Just think, we could’ve missed out on a Bruce Springsteen concert! Bruce is a champion of working people, unless those working people happen to live in North Carolina, I guess.

And PayPal. PayPal isn’t doing business in North Carolina because of the “Bathroom Bill”–although they still gladly do business in countries where homosexuality is outlawed and in some cases even punishable by death.

Way to not be a giant, flaming hypocrite, PayPal.

It’s actually terribly inefficient to build two of everything just because some of us have cocks and some of us have cunts. In the days of racial segregation were there four of everything? Black cocks pee here, white cocks pee there….

It’s bizarre.

Now, I don’t know if I believe in space aliens or not, but I’m pretty sure if they do exist, they are avoiding us like the plague.

When the media, the Democrats, and even your own party hate and fear you, yet you still lead all the polls,

you’re the right person for the job.

Trump versus Bernie!

It’s gonna make Batman versus Superman look like yet another stupid comic book film.

Oh, wait…

I do miss the coast. The boats especially.

I am a pirate.

I rode up here on a boat. Really the only pictures I took were of boats. Boats with jobs, werking for a living, hauling shit.

I am unimpressed with pleasure craft. “You got a boat? Oh yeah? What’s it do?”

Now that I’m in the “Interior”, boats are far and away.

I miss them.

The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot“Does...

The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes?”

What have you got planned tonight Diana? -Merle HaggardOne of...

What have you got planned tonight Diana? -Merle Haggard

One of the million non-hit Merle songs. I particularly like it these days because it mentions my adopted homeland :)

Here’s a bulker, as opposed to a tanker. These girls haul dry...

Here’s a bulker, as opposed to a tanker. These girls haul dry stuff, like coal and iron ore. Each of those seven hatches should be secured and independent of the others–a direct result of the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald wreck in Superior (by maritime law, even).

If one takes on water, it won’t screw the whole damn boat. The Fitzgerald was a bulker, too, hauling iron ore out of northern Minnesota to Detroit for which to make cars out of. Gordon Lightfoot sang brilliantly about it, probably his best song. The one ship you guys really should see is the natural gas tanker. It’s kind of like a floating steel balloon. Very cool. Odd-looking, even kind of funny, like a giant breast implant.

Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel and the future. When you go to charge up your Tesla Model 3, feeling all green, you will still be using a fossil fuel to do it, most likely. Probably even coal these days, but coal is dying. Natural gas is the next big thing, due to how clean it burns. It still produces see oh too, though.

One day we will figure out a truly economical way to generate clean energy, without fadishness and politics, but I think it is a ways off. We need to get rid of the fadishness and politics to see our way clear. Hydrogen?

Who knows… I personally find conspiracy theorists so annoying. I mean, they are so annoying they make me almost violent.

“We didn’t really go to the moon!”
“We did 911 to ourselves!”
“Chemtrails!”
“The oil industry is suppressing clean fuel options!”

Bullshit. Fuck you paranoid guys who can’t fathom randomness. The conspiracy theorist needs his conspiracy because he can’t accept randomness. He is afraid to grasp how a dozen crazy-as-fuck Arabs can change human history forever. He NEEDS to see structure behind it, a ‘scheme’, and when there is none, he invents it. You know, there is such a thing as evil in this world. Duh. I invest in oil and study these companies closely. They are doing all they can to survive right now. They ain’t got the time or money to suppress anything.

A low oil price does not help green energy, at all. If oil is cheaper, it will be used. This whole world is tooled for fossil fuels. Non–carbon based fuels–wind, solar–have yet to show a consistent profit. They have yet to show consistency at all. We need our phones charged up all the time. We need to be able to drive anywhere at all at anytime. We need to be able to watch The Walking Dead at 4 in the morning.

For this, you need constant, reliable power. If I hear about another millionaire celebrity flying across the country in his private jet just to tell us peasants we’re using too much energy, I swear to God I’m going to fucking scream…

If you like eggplant, you should try any other food. It’s much better.

California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now...

California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants an Exemption

LOL. I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!

This article is a few months old. I wonder if they got their exemption? Fifteen bucks says they did. It’s the “People’s” Republic of California, after all.

Silly rabbit, socialism is for the masses, not the socialists!

What do cookies and porn have in common?

They’re both better when they’re homemade.