His Point of View

“What you know cannot really hurt you” That is a quote from a book I started reading this morning. The strange things is that I was trying to write this post last night but I tossed it in the recycle bin as I lost interest half way through writing it. I was surprised to open a new book to be greeted on page xx(page 20) of the prologue by almost the same words I wrote last night. I suppose that means I need to finish composing my thoughts on this subject.

The post I was attempting to write last night was about how the course of one’s life can and does change unexpectedly. I would bet that if you think about the series of events that brought you to your current position in life you would have only a handful of critical decisions or a handful of days that  didn’t unfold as planned, for better or worse. Most of the things we plan tend to fade into obscurity (continue reading…)

I was browsing blogland, when I came across this absolutely useless blog post.

Step one of this blog post about how to clean a Duvet cover is below:

“1) Read the care label. If the duvet is dry clean only, take it to your dry cleaners! Washing a dry clean-only duvet can result in shrinkage, and it will no longer fit over your existing comforter.“

I know that we bloggers should update our blogs daily, but c’mon if you have nothing to type about just sit back and take a loss for the day.  This is the primary reason I don’t post every day and the other is that I am often too busy.  For all of you who are not familiar with how blogging works (continue reading…)

I came across the video below of Scott Dunbar singing what appears to be a “freestyle” song about a timber mill in Canada which was destroyed by a suspicious fire.

We all have day jobs, and we all have bills to pay. But those things should not stop us from growing.  We must all find time, even if only half an hour a day to spend on self improvement.  If you work for someone else for 8-12 hours a day, you should make time to work for yourself 30-60 minutes a day as well.  Family is important, but you will be of more value to your family when (continue reading…)

2009, has been the year of infidelity: ministers, politicians, athletes, singers, and pretty much every other type of celebrity has been exposed as having cheated on their spouse this year alone.  Is marriage as important as it used to be?  Do people value the concept of marriage as they did decades ago?  I am not saying that people have not cheated since the idea of monogamy sprouted… but it seems as if it were handled in a more civilized manner in years gone by.   The other man/woman stayed in their lane, and families were not as disposable.   It might be true that in the past women stayed with a cheating husband because they were less educated and unemployed, or maybe it was because the milkman was delivering

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It has come to my attention that some women are making a conscious effort to avoid doing any thing that might be considered ‘woman’s work’…by this I mean cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, etc.  I have even been told by some women that their refusal to do housework is the result of their mother’s teachings.  Apparently some mothers have taught their daughters that they do not have to do housework…. or at least that’s what these young ladies interpreted their mother’s message to mean.  Although I understand the intent of a mother teaching a daughter that there is no such thing as ‘woman’s work’ I do not think that lesson was meant to teach young ladies to be filthy creatures.

Why am I discussing this issue?  Do I want women to be barefoot and pregnant?  Do I expect women to cook and clean for me while I lay around and drink beer and watch football? If you asked me any of those questions I would say (continue reading…)

I have lived in the metro Washington, DC area for just over a year now, and yesterday was the first time I actually saw a Presidential or Vice Presidential motorcade on the streets.  In fact I saw it twice in the course of 2 hours.   I am not sure which motorcade it was, because I could not see inside any of the vehicles… but it was still interesting to see the rolling roadblock in action on 14th Street.  The part of the motorcade which caught me by surprise was the ambulance that trailed behind all the black SUVs with agents standing through the roof, the vans, the truck and the dozens of police cars and motorcycles.  I did not have a camera with me at the time, so I searched the web and I found the photo below (on FLickr.com) which shows a part of some  motorcade, including the trailing ambulance.

I immediately thought about how the President and Vice President must be reminded constantly of fact that their job as leaders of the nation causes a state of  imminent danger of actions by US citizens who disagree with their ideas, and from foreign powers who seek to cause turmoil.  Imagine what it might be like to go out for dinner with your wife after work, and an ambulance was required to follow you around…just in case (continue reading…)

I came across this video the other day, and its was a pretty interesting find.  Even if you are innocent, the ability to plead the 5th amendment is an important tool to use when you face an interaction with the police regarding a possible criminal act.  I am not endorsing criminal activity, but if you watch you will hear how failure to invoke the 5th amendment right  can land innocent people behind bars…or worse.  Even innocent people say things which can be interpreted as evidence against them, as you will learn about in the video.  My advice to you is to plead “the one, two, three, fo’,  fiiiiif!!!!’ (that’s plead the 5th for the slow people) , as Dave Chappelle so famously proclaimed.  Repeat after me… “The 5th amendment is your friend.”

You know…, I have always wondered about what a post operative trans sexual male looked like….and now that I know I am certainly can say that the rumors were correct it looks pretty real.  I mean these former men look a lot more like women than I had ever imagined.  I know I had heard that some people who have this surgery can fool a doctor and I kind of thought that was an exaggeration, but no more…

The link that is contained in the next sentence is absolutely not work safe….(But I know you want to open it anyway… LoL ) If you want to see for yourself click here and read about the procedure if you want the down and dirty details of how they do it, apparently there are 2 ways…one being more disturbing than the other.

I am not for or against any particular type of sexual preference, as long as you don’t try to force me into your preference group… so if you’ve got the money laying around and this is your thing… go for it.  I understand that most trans-sexual people have no intention of fooling a straight person into being in a sexual relationship, but the similarities between what I see on the site I linked to and the real thing, cause me to realize that there is always a possibility.  That does cause me some concern.

OK people under 40, its time that we take control of the issues that will be relevant for the rest of our lives, we can’t allow these people who have been in office since we were born make our lives miserable from now untilthey are ushered off to their retirement community.  John McCain some how woke up and decided to introduce a bill concerning net neutrality.  This is a man who has admitted to not using computers or the Internet.  Would we let a person who can’t read be a librarian? I think not…if you don’t use the Internet you don’t understand it. If you don’t understand the Internet and you are responsible for writing & voting on laws you should sit down somewhere and leave this task to those who are well informed.  Not only should you not introduce bills related to the Internet but you should take a day off when its time to vote on such topics. 

If you don’t use computers or the Internet you have no business trying to write policy/law concerning what is best for millions of Internet users.  If the people who are affected by these ridiculous bills/laws don’t stand up and let their voices be heard we will continue to be subject to the will of the companies that fund campaigns and lobby politicians to get what they want.  I am pretty sure that John McCain could care less about what’s best for the future growth of the Internet, why should he care if he does not use it? 

Whether you are for or against net neutrality you need to have some input on the future of the Internet.  We can start with net neutrality and then tackle health care and Social Security (since this health care thing probably won’t get solved this year & and even if it is there will be fights to un-do whatever is done for many years to come).  These old folks don’t know how to get the job done in 2009… we need to step up and show them that more (well informed) action and less partisan arguing is what we need. 

If you are a politician determined to stay in office for the remainder of your working years/life you can not be fully committed to doing what’s best for the people you are supposed to be in office to serve. 

You can not be more concerned with re-election than you are with making a better future for the people you serve.

That’s all I have to say about that…

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