Hard to believe isn’t it?
The first month of 2010 is now at an end.
How are everyone’s New Years resolutions coming?
How is life in general going?
Mine’s good, thanks for asking … well you didn’t but I know you wanted to.
My resolutions seem to be going well also … again I know you wanted to know

So far 2010 hasn’t been that bad of a year.
Not a lot has changed, so not a lot to talk about.
Just sitting here listing to Johnny Cash sing ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’
Trying to think of hot topics to talk about, and or something important in the news.
Hum, politics have been kind of boring, news even more so.
I guess that leaves me with hot topics?

OK then, Hot Topics … how is it that we have a store for people trying to dress outside of the norm?
I mean, in most areas there is only the one store that sells stuff like that so how original are you when you buy something form there and go out in it.
Yes, to the other 95% of us we all look over and ponder how nice it must be to have so much excess money that we could go but clothing that no one else really wants.
If that is your ultimate goal, let me take you to ROSS and we can hook you up for less then $5.

I would like to think that I understand the Goths and some of the other sub-cultures in some way or another.
Even though they will say that I just can’t understand them because I have not been touched by the soul of Jim Morrison or the pain of the life lessons of some other singer.
That being said, you ever notice that most of these people these other people are looking up to don’t do the same things that they expect there fans to do?
(I think that sentence is right …)
Yes, some of the performers do get full body tattoos and piercing, but the majority of them don’t.
They also don’t shop at Hot Topic …
Why is it that we can’t convince people now and days that this is an act?
(Cough Pro Wrestling, cough cough)
This is what they do for a job.
I am pretty sure that when Amy Lee of Evenescene goes on vacation to spend our well spent money, she is not all upset and thinking about killing herself.
I mean as she is sitting there on a world tour drinking champagne looking over her vista of Paris.
Yep, that’s when I think I would think about killing myself.

I read a quote once and it has stuck with me veer since.
“I want to be different, just like everyone else!”
That’s what Hot Topic is to me.
A store for people to go and be different, just like all of there friends and idols.
All of this being promoted by big business and capitalism to help promote sadness and suicidal thoughts in our youth.
So, thanks big business!
The next time a musician dies, and then a child takes there life because they felt that this artist was the only one who understood them and is now gone because of the music you wrote for them and pushed a pone our society.
Well, I hope that you not only get dragged to the funeral to bare witness, but also into the court room to be forced to face your punishment.
Because something tells me that this worlds punishment would be better for you then the next life’s …

PS: I hate lobbyist‘s!

I am trying to come up with something to talk about.
That being said, I don’t think I will be able to.
I am to tired.
I stayed out with some friends last night for what seems like it might be the first of many ‘Worst Movie Ever Night’.
That kept me out till after midnight, then I sat down to work on Bar’s & Stripe’s and next thing I know it was 2am.
Then of course, my body not loving me that is, I awoke up nice and early as if I would have to go to work.
The worst part was, I thought I did have to work.
Imagine my joy as the first realization of I was not in fact late for work, but I had the day off.

So now I am awake, the dog has been walked, Bar’s & Stripe’s is updated, my Blog will be updated shortly and then I might just be able to go take a nap.
Aren’t naps wonderful?
As children we hated to take them, and now as adults we long for them.
Kind of strange how aspects from childhood change over time.
As children the boys didn’t want to be touched by girls, now they long for it … ok some boys anyway …
Girls wanted prince charming to come take them away, as adults they are pleased if a man doesn’t have alimony, child support and/or a police record.
We all wanted nice houses and cars, now a roof with A/C and a small car with good gas mileage is the goal.
School, O who wanted to waist our time going there, now we pay large sums of money to go to it … we still try and stay awake through it though because now we all have full time jobs to boot.
Hanging out with our friends was a great day, and don’t get me wrong it still is … but a nice night alone is such a wonderful thing now too!

We all had the world before us at one point.
Now, even though we still do, we sit back and settle with what we have and the lots we have been given.
It’s sad actually.
I have a job that will pay for me to take 2 collage classes a term.
If I only took 1 a term in the 10 years I have been there, I would and could have a full degree.
Even if I didn’t leave my job, they would pay me more just for having that degree.
So, knowing this, that’s why I try not to complaint to much.
I have a Job in today’s market.
On top of that most of the time I injoy it.
I have benefits and job security.
The only reason I am not doing better is simple because I am lazy … or like so many others possibly scared of change?
I did just take a big step doing the job change I did last year … wow over a year already since I came back to security.
At the same time though, I didn’t.
I know what I was getting into and knew I would be OK.
Yea, that’s why I will never be anything to big or special I guess.
I am happy doing what I do, having what I need and doing as I please when and how I want to.
I am so lucky!

I am not going to go to deep into anything because, well, this is my site and I don’t feel like it right now!
So, why not cover some things I saw, and thought over the week?

First, the Earthquake in Haiti.
Wow, have we ever seen such graphic footage of a disaster before?
Have the networks really made it so that we as a people are so unaffected by some of these pictures?
I personally don’t watch the news because it normally is very upsetting and I would rather watch things that make me happy.
That being said, I DO NOT watch the news to see a young girl face down in a pool of water missing a leg.
How have we become such a desensitized group?
Why do the networks think it is OK to show things like this as well.
If they truly think it needs to be seen link it to your website so people can see it.
Your little “The following scenes might be to graphic for some” doesn’t help when I turn on the TV after you have said that!
Is it possible for people to get PTSD from that?
If so I have something I need to talk to Mr. Turners attorneys!

Next, I was flipping thought TV and saw on the Tyra Banks show a strange story.
Brooke Greenberg is a 16 year old stuck in a 6 month olds body.
Her body for some reason doesn’t age correctly.
It is a sad story but made me think in a different light.
I do believe that we all have an expiration date.
The big planer has things we need to do, and we get to stick around until we have done it.
It doesn’t always have to be good, or even have to show it’s effect in a generation or two.
Things like Hitler, he was evil, but because of him we came so far in our medical knowledge.
Because of some of the serial killers out there and there horrific actions we have been able to see how others would and will work making them easer to stop.
So, to help me sleep better at night, I go back to this way of thinking that for the greater good these horrible tragedies had to happen.
So, back to the expiration date.
Was this little girl only supposed to live to 6 months?
Is her soul stuck in this broken little body because it has been forced past its expiration date?
She is happy though, and in a loving home, so that is all that matters.
It is an interesting story and if you Google her name you will find video’s of her.

Bar’s & Stripe’s seems to be doing well.
The people I have shown it to seem to think it is injoyable.
It is getting a lot of hits too.
Well, about 10 a day, but every day.
So I guess it is getting some advertisement, and that’s good.
Once I get a few months worth of strips up I will attempt to take it to the next levels.
Hopefully by then I will have a better grasp as to how to do work everything by then too.

I, like La Wife and so many others, have a three day weekend for Martin Luther King Day.
Would he be classified as a Martyr?
Also, isn’t it strange how people listen more to what someone has to say after they die?
Isn’t it strange how we can learn so much form the dead?

Lets go back to Tyra Banks for a second, wow she is a pretty woman!
Speaking of pretty things, we hade a cute puppy running around at the prison this week.
It was a mutt with a pit bulls face, a labs coloring and a weimaraner’s eyes.
I almost brought her home, but someone else grabbed her up because she was just to darn friendly and cute to not want.

I was also introduced to Mr. Keith Obermann this week.
Well, not actually what I mean to say is I had my eyes opened, and my ears too, to this gentleman.
I like what I have heard so far.
Google his ’Quick comment about Haiti, Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh’ on you Youtube.
All I will say is, I think I agree with him.

So, that’s what’s on my mind today.
I’m off to go injoy the rest of my long weekend with La Wife!
As it is Sunday, there is also a new Bar’s & Stripe’s up.

I know, happy Sunday Morning to you too!
What the heck is on my mind to bring up those two words as an opening ideal?
Maybe it is just a snag line like the TV news people use to make you watch something thinking it is important when in fact it isn’t?
Like yesterday on Good Morning America when they made a big deal about frozen diet meals not actually having the amount of calories listed on the box as was in the box.
OMG, tell me it isn’t true … a margin of error?
So it says it has 500 calories and it actually has 20% more then that that in it making it 600 calories!
Wait, that means that if you eat 3 of those a day that’s only 1800 calories.
That’s still less then 2000 …
Shouldn’t we be talking about how lazy you are if you eat 3 microwavable meals a day?
I don’t think that your obesity is because of this 300 extra calories a day?
I think we can fix this by you simply walking down more isles in the grocery store then jus the frozen one.
Or, just throwing this out there, cooking burns calories too!
I know, I know, who is this guy and is he actually saying I should cook … and walk?
No, I am over weight too and have been fighting it for years now too.All I am saying is go cook a home cooked meal.
It’s better for you, and tastes SO much better!
If you don’t know how to cook, E-mail me and I will break it down all real simple like for ya.
VEVA LA GRAVY!!!

This though, I am afraid, is not a posting about the joys of gravy.
… I so want smothered pork chops right now …
This, as most of my posts, has something to do with the above aforementioned topic line.
I was listening to some news about how the terrorists said something that just kind of opened my eyes … well ears I guess more so then my eyes but I am sure you will get the ideal.
The leaded of this terrorist group said that they can win this war without firing a bullet.
How is that you ask?
Well, he said that every time America tries to leave an area they just fire off a few more rounds of ammo and run so that the troops keep looking for them.
He said that this was how they defeated Russia, and took full credit for destroying that country because they bankrupted there economy by forcing them to keep fighting and spending more money.

Yep, opens your eyes a little doesn’t it?
No, not the part of how they are using this very same tactic on us right now and it is working, very well I might add.
It’s the part about how they are going to win the war without firing a single bullet.
Then in the next sentence say that as we leave they will in fact shoot at us!
It just goes to prove one of two things to me.
1) They can not be trusted because they openly lied about there battle plans
2) They are not very smart to tell us there battle plans
3’ish) They are smart enough to have a plan that is in fact working

Basic IQ tests say that I am smarter then most … OK some … animals.
That being said, if I have a really cool gun, the best camouflage in the world, all of the tracking equipment to know right where that animal is, and years of training, I can still go out hunting and get nothing.
Then again, I can go another rout too.
I can have all this cool stuff and then try and go into a cave with a bear.
I am better equipped then the bear, smarter then the bear, and dead because the bear killed me as it was protecting it’s cubs.
O, that’s right, we can have all of this stuff but are missing one very important factor.
As the Kids who brought us Captain Planet showed us, we must have Heart.
If a person can lift a car when they hear a child’s screams from under it, or knows in there heart that if they do this one thing they will be sent to a better place because they saved others lives they do amazing things.
Every parent, grandparent and or anyone else who knew that there one action, even if it caused them great bodily harm and/or death, could save the lives of a person and/or ideal that needed support can and would do what was needed, and somehow find that strength to push on even after they shouldn’t be able too.
We are not fighting people, we are fighting an ideal … we can’t win.

I know how to fight an ideal though, lets prove it wrong!
I have said it before, it will not happen because to many White Wigs injoy that lobbyist money.
Pull our people back, set up and close the borders, tax imported cargo, tax companies who outsource, open up the factories again, stop giving out government aid (Except to Jerusalem that is) and help heal out selves.

That being said, what would it be like if we did that?
We would have jobs, money, our children back in the states, a government that was not as corrupt … OK that will never happen but I figured I would throw out at least one joke in here.
We would become a country that was self sufficient though.
We would shut down the middle east because we wouldn’t need there oil.
Causing them to go find the terrorists for us because they want our business back.
We would destroy China because we wouldn’t be buying anymore little plastic bobble head toys.
China would then of course want all of the property that they own, but we shut the borders and will right them an IOU like California is planning.
Then in 6 months, when they are broke we will offer them twenty five cents on the dollar for our land back because we are nice and wish to help stimulate there economy.
The only problem here is if we do tax the outsourcing of jobs, India will be shut down too.
They haven’t done anything bad to us, and are from what I have scene a nice enough people, so that will kind of suck.
We must break eggs to make a cake though … OK I know the saying is an omelet but I don’t like them … I also know that you can now make a cake without eggs but come on, they aren’t that good!

So evil terrorists, even though I try and see things through your eyes in an attempt to understand you, I shake the bottom of my foot in your general directions, but know that I will also offer you my right hand.
Not because it is a great insult, but because I still have hope that this can be resolved all of this before your home gets turned into a giant glass parking lot
Also, I have put up with your poo for so long now, what’s a little more on my hand?

Wait, I said this was about Communism too didn’t !?
Remember I mentioned Russia before?
What, you don’t think that’s enough to mention it into my topic line?
Fine, how about this then …

Yea, I am not all Red or anything, but doesn’t Communism look good on paper?
It really is the fault of man, and the greed in our souls that makes it not work.
People all over the world say that it doesn’t, but look into smaller locations like villages in Africa, Native Americans and Eskimos.
Yes they have a leader/king/priest who speaks for the them, but look at how they run.
Just saying, in places where the people care about each other it seems to work.
Isn’t Communism just like a giant family structure?
I mean in the 50’s style family that is.
1 person goes to work, 1 stays home and takes care of the house, 2 children work at being better then there parents, so that when there parents can’t take care of themselves any longer the children can then take care of them, as they took care of them when they where younger?

Sounds kind of nice like that doesn’t it?
Makes you almost wonder how in a country of Christians that doesn’t seem to work?
It almost seems like it should be the way America is no matter what form of government we elected to have?

Then again, it didn’t work in Russia.
Mainly because it was negative degree’s thought out most of the year and everyone wanted the other guys parka and vodka in attempts to stay warm.
It works in China, but then again we all know that it isn’t Communism there either.

I have gotten phone calls, e-mails and messages asking what is going on and why I haven’t posted in so long.
Well the short answer, I didn’t want to.
After the raving reviews I got from the Thanksgiving Blog I just didn’t feel like wasting my time anymore.
I figured when it was all in my head, people couldn’t say anything negative about it.
Once I put it into a visual word, people could take it the wrong way, and then say what they wanted.
People seem to forget that I used to be the guy who would tell you how it was, I guess I need to go back to being that jerk again?

This little break did give me a chance to get my comic strip up and going though.
It isn’t good, and God knows it still needs a lot of work, but it is up and going none the less.
I also sent off an ideal I had to a patent company.
The guy called me laughing at and loving the ideal and couldn’t wait to talk to me more about it.
I guess that’s a good thing?
So, I guess something positive did come out of all of this in the end?

Christmas has come and gone, it was a good one BTW, and now it’s New Years.
I am going to be the better person and I will forgive and try and forget some of the things that have happened to me over the last year.
As most of you know I, like so many others, didn’t have the best year.
Started the new job, problems rolling over from my old job, bills and just normal life.
That being said, I have it GREAT!
I still have a new house, 2 working vehicles with both having radios and A/C, I am in an enjoyable marriage, I have friends and I have family, I have enough money to pay all of my bills, then even enough to go out once and a while, I have satellite TV and internet, I even have little vacations once and awhile, but one of the big things is … I have a job to complain about!
All of the problems that other people are having in the world right now, well, I for one am not going to forget how good I have it and the blessings I do in fact have.

So, what do I have to complain about, right?
Yea, some people said some stuff that upset me.
Guess what though, I wonder how much of it was based from other peoples own guilt?
I am just saying, I normally don’t get offended or upset when someone says something negative and it has nothing to do with me.
So guess what, if it did upset you, that more then likely means that there is some thought of guilt within yourself, making you feel like it was about you, when in fact it might not have been.
We all lash out at others when they say something to hurt us though.
It is human nature after all to not wish to get hurt.
Well, human and animal … and vegetable too.
I mean plants do grow away from negative environments, and then also toward positive ones.
Hum, all this time I have been trying to figure out how to be more like a dog.
Yea, let me throw a little more into that dog comment real quick, they love unconstraint and forgive in a heartbeat.
We should all long to be more like dogs in my mind.
I have said in the past, (Yes I know I did not say this first) I only hope to some day be the person my dog thinks I am.
Now though, I am wondering if I need to be more like a plant?

So, I am going to wrap this up.
This is the last I am going to say about the Thanksgiving issues.
You say I am petty, I say you are guilt ridden, we can only agree to disagree.

It’s a new year, and guess what, I forgive you all.

For those of you who think I need to be apologizing, I have in E-mail, over the phone and on this very Blog.
We all have flaws, we will all upset each other some times.
The other person I tried to talk to and apologize to, well, they never called me back so if you still read over my site, that’s the best you are going to get I guess?
So, as I have been told of late, I WILL BE childish!
I will remember what they tried to teach me in school.
Forgive, forget and play nice.

Bar’s & Stripe’s Goes live 1/3/2010, so please go take a look at … and forgive the first strip, I know it sucks!

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