I can't wait until tomorrow. I got up at 5am today after waking up with my whole left leg cramping at 3am. It's a bitch to have your heel touching your ass and you can't straighten it out. Thank god for Absorbine Jr. Horse liniment cut to a quarter strength, who cares if it is highly flammable, it works ... as it is right now as I am rubbing it on the same damn cramp again.
It's time for bed!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Do people still watch?
Does anyone actually still watch this "news channel"? Much less believe anything they say.I mean other than the cabal and their loyal troglodytes, that is!
Bumper Sticker
I saw this bumper sticker recently:
I may be Schizophrenic , but at least I have each other!
A Funny
A man walks into a bar and tells the bartender to give him something cold and full of gin.
The bartender looks at him and says,
"You want something cold and full of gin?
Here, take my wife!"
The bartender looks at him and says,
"You want something cold and full of gin?
Here, take my wife!"
He could have said it today!
It is a common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty.
~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
36th President of the United States of America
Though he uttered those words in response about North Vietnam forty odd years ago he could have said the same thing in reference to our own 'government' today!
36th President of the United States of America
Though he uttered those words in response about North Vietnam forty odd years ago he could have said the same thing in reference to our own 'government' today!
Nude Presidents
Both John Adams the 2nd President of the United States of America and Lyndon Johnson the 36th President of the United States of America were skinny dippers.
They are but two of many of our presidents (and first ladies), who enjoyed being nude.
Thoughts on being a naturist ...
Less laundry bills.
Less stress.
More peace of mind.
Better health and well being.
More friends.
Open and meaningful living.
At ease in the natural world.
Yep, being a naturist sure helps with daily life.
So, take your clothes and cares off and enjoy life!
Wrongful Convictions
Ontario, Canada:
In another story of a wrongful conviction being over turned (see the Actual Innocence posting for the other story), the conviction of Steven Truscott for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl when he was but a 14 year-old himself was over turned today in Ontario, Canada.
Truscott was convicted and sentenced to hang on September 30, 1959, but his death sentence was quickly commuted to life in prison because the nation feared what the image of them hanging such a young boy - the youngest sentenced to hang in Canadian history - would be to the rest of the world.
Now at 62, Truscott, who has been living and raised a family under an assumed name since his parole after serving ten years in prison, has his name back and cleared due to new evidence.
Sometime justice does take a while.
In another story of a wrongful conviction being over turned (see the Actual Innocence posting for the other story), the conviction of Steven Truscott for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl when he was but a 14 year-old himself was over turned today in Ontario, Canada.
Truscott was convicted and sentenced to hang on September 30, 1959, but his death sentence was quickly commuted to life in prison because the nation feared what the image of them hanging such a young boy - the youngest sentenced to hang in Canadian history - would be to the rest of the world.
Now at 62, Truscott, who has been living and raised a family under an assumed name since his parole after serving ten years in prison, has his name back and cleared due to new evidence.
Sometime justice does take a while.
And I Quote
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
~ Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States of America
39th President of the United States of America
And I Quote
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune and misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Actual Innocence
Goldsboro, North Carolina:
Dwayne Allen Dail is a free man after spending 18 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.
He was wrongly convicted and imprisoned in 1989 of child rape for the rape of a 12-year-old girl in 1987. He was convicted on the girls mistaken identification of him as her attacker and hair samples found at the crime scene "consistent" with his.
In 2001 his lawyer pushed for new DNA testing and the tests proved he was not the rapist but that another man already in prison was the man guilty of raping the 12-year-old.
The District Attorney asked that the conviction be reversed and Wayne county Superior Court Judge Jack Hooks Jr., set aside the conviction.
Dail's lawyer plnes to seek Governor Easley's pardon and erasure of the conviction and the $20,000 for each year Dail spent in prison wrongfully convicted.
What I want to see is his name removed from the sex offenders list as well ... but I think that will be the hardest part.
Dwayne Allen Dail is a free man after spending 18 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.
He was wrongly convicted and imprisoned in 1989 of child rape for the rape of a 12-year-old girl in 1987. He was convicted on the girls mistaken identification of him as her attacker and hair samples found at the crime scene "consistent" with his.
In 2001 his lawyer pushed for new DNA testing and the tests proved he was not the rapist but that another man already in prison was the man guilty of raping the 12-year-old.
The District Attorney asked that the conviction be reversed and Wayne county Superior Court Judge Jack Hooks Jr., set aside the conviction.
Dail's lawyer plnes to seek Governor Easley's pardon and erasure of the conviction and the $20,000 for each year Dail spent in prison wrongfully convicted.
What I want to see is his name removed from the sex offenders list as well ... but I think that will be the hardest part.
Greek Fire
Having been extremely busy over the past few days I haven't caught all the news but the snippets I have heard about the fire raging in Greece haven't been pretty.
First, I heard it had burned through Olympia, site of the original Olympic games ... which is a tragedy in and of itself from a historic and cultural perspective.
Second, I heard it was burning "over literally half that country" ... which is a horrible tragedy for the people of Greece and their lives and their livelihood.
Third, I heard that the fire was deliberately set ... which is so heinous that the one(s) guilty of doing so should be publicly beaten with a cat-o-nine because a: it would be severely painful, and b: they could never be made to make full restitution.
Sorry, but firebugs are firmly planted as one of the top social malcontents on my shit list.
Fourth, I heard that the fire was so massive it can be seen from space ... an achievement that should be of note but here is just another facet of the tragedy.
It is as if this Greek Tragedy has reached into the sublimely nebulous etherworld to become a Greek Comedy.
Forgive me but the pun was so open and as they say if there is an opening go for it, besides you have to laugh to keep from crying.
First, I heard it had burned through Olympia, site of the original Olympic games ... which is a tragedy in and of itself from a historic and cultural perspective.
Second, I heard it was burning "over literally half that country" ... which is a horrible tragedy for the people of Greece and their lives and their livelihood.
Third, I heard that the fire was deliberately set ... which is so heinous that the one(s) guilty of doing so should be publicly beaten with a cat-o-nine because a: it would be severely painful, and b: they could never be made to make full restitution.
Sorry, but firebugs are firmly planted as one of the top social malcontents on my shit list.
Fourth, I heard that the fire was so massive it can be seen from space ... an achievement that should be of note but here is just another facet of the tragedy.
It is as if this Greek Tragedy has reached into the sublimely nebulous etherworld to become a Greek Comedy.
Forgive me but the pun was so open and as they say if there is an opening go for it, besides you have to laugh to keep from crying.
Mark of a Successful Man
The mark of a successful man is one who has spent the entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.
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