Growth…

Continually murder the predictable. Find ways to combine things that don’t seem to go together. Discover the new and exciting hiding within the familiar.

Or…

Just stay in your comfort zone and join in the mundane majority who “silently live lives of quiet desperation”.

So I’m pretty much minding my own business and ask someone if tomorrow (Friday) is a holiday. I thought I heard someone say something about it earlier on TV. What happens?

I get my friggin head chewed off for not knowing about “Good Friday”. And “People don’t work on GOOD FRIDAY!”.  Don’t I know my holidays? What’s wrong with me?

Here’s what’s wrong with me…

The list is too long and boring to publish. That’s what’s wrong with me.

So my new favorite word is “Whatever”. It works in virtually any situation.

“Don’t you know your holidays?”

“Whatever”

Mmmmmmmm!

I  have a couple email addresses that I don’t check very often. Well, this morning I logged into one of them and the good Lord is smiling on me for sure. Someone named “Katrina” sent me an email with the subject line “I love you…”. And a couple emails below that? A brand new male enhancement product that will make me the size of New Jersey.

So, yea. It’s gonna be a good day.

After much deliberation, which in my world is usually just a passing random thought, I’ve decided to sell my identity. The whole sordid thing. It can be yours for the reasonable price of….

I have no effin’ clue. But people go to great lengths to steal identities, so I would think that a 100% legit identity, all yours, should fetch a decent sum. However, I am NOT doing this for the financial rewards. It’s a spiritual cleansing, man.

Some people get “Born Again” at church. I use eBay.

13:   “How about her liver?”

Taub: “How about her big toe? Oh. Sorry. I thought we were picking out random body parts that have nothing to do with her symptoms.”

I know. Three posts in 30 minutes. Unheard of.

But this is important, if you have an interest in knowing your TRUE weight. According to studies done on real people and published on late night infomercials, if you are reading this post (or even if you’re not), you are very likely carrying around 4 or more pounds of fecal matter. In some cases, the study has found people with upwards of 10 pounds stored away somewhere.

So next time you weigh yourself, just subtract 4 lbs to get your true weight. I went to the doctor recently and they weighed me. As the nurse was writing down my weight I mentioned to her to be sure to subtract the 4 pounds of fecal matter I was carrying. I think she smiled, I’m not really sure.

Anyway, if you want to get rid of this, there is brand new technology called “colon flow” that will grease the sluceway and clean things up (actually, you have to do the final clean-up, but the colon flow does the “heavy lifting”).

Personally, I like to kill two birds with one stone and just go to Taco Bell.

Thought this was a nice bagpipe arrangement of “Amazing Grace”

As I write this, there have been exactly 563 (make that 562, not counting myself) visitors to this page since I opened the polls on my 2011 theme song. I have received 1 vote via comment and 3 email votes. I have to throw the email votes out because you didn’t follow proper voting procedure as clearly stated in the post. I also have to throw out the 1 Comment vote because, even though I can determine the voter’s intent, the format of the vote was not correct. Rules are rules.

So, I appreciate you all leaving this important decision in my hands. I’ll sleep on it and decide tomorrow. Just got my repaired Boss ME-50 back today, so that could very well influence the decision.

“Turn on, tune out, plug in” or whatever the hell Dr Leary said.

Considering 1 of the 4 songs below as my 2011 theme song (final decision January 31, 2011). Once the choice is made, I will master the song on both keyboards, plus electric & acoustic guitars. Then I will annoy my neighbors at all hours with unnecessary and disturbing practice sessions (Note: “RC” means “Release Candidate”). Please include which RC and Why.

My Theme Song (RC1)

My Theme Song (RC2)

My Theme Song (RC3)

My Theme Song (RC4)

Mr. President,

It’s time to face the reality of our country’s efforts in Afghanistan. It has become (actually has been for a while) a pointless futile effort.

The financial cost is staggering…

But the cost in American soldiers lives is disgraceful. How many people in your administration have sons or daughters in Afghanistan? How many members of Congress have loved ones over there? The citizens of this country are not “invested” in this war.  For example, how many people do you suppose know that on December 27, 2010:

Sgt. Garrett A. Misener

Hometown:Cordova, Tennessee, U.S.

Age:25 years old

Died:December 27, 2010

Unit:Marines, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

…gave his life.

And for what? Do you seriously think that this country can tame a part of the world that defeated Alexander The Great, Genghis Kahn, many other imperial powers, and of course the Soviet Union?

I am about your age. I can vividly recall watching the Vietnam “body count” each Friday  night at 6:30pm on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.  Can you? Do you ever remember thinking why we were there? Why 18 year old young men were dying? I remember.

Your administration’s “draw down”, “exit strategy”, whatever you’re calling it this week is a joke.  And the American people aren’t laughing.

Begin leaving in 2014? Crunch the numbers. That’s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American lives wasted, and many billions of dollars as well.

That is what you are asking the American people to buy into. I’m not buying it. And I’m not voting for you in 2012. And I hope the numbers of people who feel the same is as big as the numbers being racked up on your watch as President and Commander In Chief.

“War of Necessity”? Not any more.

Stop The War.