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I am getting dumber each day

  I signed up the other day for a Joomla! site.  It is on the cloud and they take care of a lot of things for you.  They do backups and will install a few things for you.
  You may remember I had a Joomla! site up for a few years.  I never did much with it… I was not smart enough.  It takes some study and some work.
  So I have not idea why I am spending $20.00 a month now for a site.  I am just dumb.  I also love playing with software and designing sites.
  The other day I spent 2 hours trying to make some changes to the new Joomla! site.  I got a new template installed and that was it.  I could not get a logo or masthead installed and I could not even embed a YouTube video.   That is two hours of my life I will not get back.

  Today I spent almost an hour trying to put a new toner cartridge in my printer.
I had to go to  Amazon and read the reviews of the toner that I got to see what I was doing wrong.  I got it working at last.

  I think my brain cells are dying fast.
  Before long I will need someone to feed me and change my diapers.  No, I don’t have anyone. 
I got married at age 26 and divorced at about age 40.  I don’t think my wife would have taken care of me.  I know my kids would not…   Truth is I would not want anyone to take care of me in that way….  Maybe getting a pacemaker was a bad idea.   When my heart rate went to 25 I was not feeling any pain.  Of course if I heart rate had gone to 25 and I fell down some stairs or fell out into traffic that would have hurt.

  Oh well…. I may have a few years left in me.. Problem is you never know.
  Is my mental condition OK today?

Texas ‘navy’ to patrol Rio Grande

“Texas is getting its own navy.

Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.

The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.

The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande…”

  See CNN story

 

  I was waiting for the punch line.  I could not believe that they were going to have a fleet of six gunboats and that they will have six machine guns apiece.
  That is crazy.  Are they looking to stop people from crossing the river or are they looking to fight a war with Mexico?

The Monkees’ Davy Jones dead at 66

“(CNN) -- Davy Jones, whose charming grin and British accent won the hearts of millions of fans on the 1960s television series "The Monkees," died Wednesday, according to the Martin County, Florida, sheriff's office. He was 66.

A witness told authorities he was with Jones in Indiantown, Florida, when Jones "began to complain of not feeling well and having trouble breathing," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Jones was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

A Martin County law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said Jones apparently suffered a heart attack…”

 

  I admit to watching the TV show “The Monkees” a few times.  You got to remember there was not much on TV back at that time.  So I saw Davy Jones and knew the name. 
 

“Death

On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones was found dead at his Indiantown, Florida home at the age of 66. His publicist, Deborah Robicheau, announced that Jones had suffered a massive heart attack in his sleep.^[12]Jones is survived by his widow Jessica and four daughters.^[13]”

Get Real! 1% tip receipt a fake

 

 

  OK another fake thing on the Internet. 
What is funny is how CNN is trying to cover their ass.  They and others, including me, got fooled. 
So I guess I have to change my position.  I am no longer calling for bankers to be hung from light posts all across the United States.  

  The news media needs to STOP watching the Internet, Twitter, FaceBook and everything else and do their job of covering the news and reporting on the news.
  I am not, by the way, news media so I may still be calling for bankers and Wall Street types to be hung. 

I will be 71 next month

  Next month I will be 71 years of age.  My grandfather (my father’s father) died at age 56.  He died in 1942. 
  My father died at age 65 in 1979.
  My father had 10 brothers and sisters.  He had a brother die at age 11 in 1935.  My father’s brothers died;  Leo (74), Joseph (71), Leonard (66), Lawrence (72), Vincent (71) and Richard (71).
  My father had three sisters and Mary died at age 79 and Rose at 81.  One of his sisters is still living.

  Well if you look at those numbers above being 71 years of age does not look like it is such a great thing. 
  But I am telling myself well all of them drank and smoked.  I have never drank or smoked.  Of course I worked as a welder for about ten years.

  I have a Texas Lotto ticket for tomorrow.  The cash value is $5,200.000.00 and it would be nice to win but with “only” $5 million it would be hard to give everyone all the money that I wanted to give to them.
  If I won the $5 million maybe the smart thing would be to take it in payments.  I would have get, I am guessing, $250 K each year for x number of years.  That would be a lot of money for me.  I could give out money to my family and friends each year.  I could not give out millions but I would have lots of money to help in little ways and then when I died my family would get money each year and they would split it.
  I am sure my kids and grandson would say take the lump sum and give each of them half a million or so but with taxes they would not get half a million. 
  Hell I want to win a big jackpot. 

  I should get before tomorrow a PowerBall ticket (cash value $25M) and a Mega Millions ticket ($69M). 

  We are going to have some good weather this week here in Fort Worth.  I have a doctor’s appointment for March 5th and I will get the results of my lab work.

Are rich people more unethical?

“(Health.com) -- Since the economic implosion of 2008, the news has been littered with accounts of questionable behavior in boardrooms, corner offices, and other gold-plated spaces. What's not clear from the headlines, however, is whether white-collar criminals like Bernard Madoff are bad apples or extreme examples of a widespread trend.

A new study may offer a clue to answering that question: A series of experiments conducted by psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that people who are socially and financially better-off are more likely to lie, cheat, and otherwise behave unethically compared to individuals who occupy lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder…”

 

  This study does not come as a surprise to me.  I do not think any of you are surprised by the findings.  We see it everyday. 
  That is why I think we should have the death penalty for white-collar criminals.
  
  I think we should even change traffic laws.  If someone is speeding we should charge them more if their car cost more.  So the person that owns a cheap car and is doing 50 in a 35 mph zone would have a fine of say $150.00 and a person that has a brand new car that cost a lot of money and is doing 50 in a 35 mph zone pays a fine of $600.00 and spends 30 days in jail!

  If you do white collar crime you should get the death penalty and you should die by hanging.  The guy that kills a man, woman and child and gets the death penalty should get a injection.

Five Stupid Things for February 27, 2012

Son of Robert F. Kennedy has “clash” with nurses

  I have said it many times. I think this  is more proof of it.  The sons of the rich and famous are total losers.  Sure there are rare exceptions to the rule but not many.
  As Americans we should learn that we should never expect anything good from the son of the rich and the famous.  The father may have been a great man.  The father may have been elected President of the United States or ran to be President.

  There is something about being the seed of someone that was great.
We should never ever elect, to any office, the son of someone that is rich, famous or a VIP.

  We expect these people to be like their fathers and they never are like their fathers.  They are always spoiled brats.

  I do not think it is always the money that causes these boys to be bad.  It might be the money but I think it is the fact that people give them things and treat them special because they are the son of someone famous.

  Take George H W. Bush as one example…He tried his best as President he had a handicap and that is that he was a Republican but he was a good, decent human being.  Then look at George W. Bush the worst President the United States has ever had in our entire history. 

  I could go on with the list but I think you all know that it is true.   Rich people that are in the 1% look down on us like we are serfs and slaves.

“New York (CNN) -- Robert F. Kennedy's son, Douglas, faces misdemeanor charges over an incident at a New York hospital last month in which he knocked down a nurse while holding his newborn son, attorneys for both sides say.

He was arraigned Thursday on harassment and child endangerment charges, both attorneys said.

Kennedy -- a Fox News contributor -- was trying to take his newborn son for a walk "to get fresh air" outside Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, when two nurses intervened to prevent him from leaving, they said.

Kennedy, who was accompanied by a hospital doctor, allegedly twisted the arm of one nurse to move her away from a door and kicked another after she approached him on January 7, according to Elliot Taub, the attorney for both nurses…”

 

 

 

  It sounds like the two nurses did their jobs.  I feel sorry for them however because the hospital is going to put pressure of them to drop the charges because of the PR and because Kennedy has the name and is rich.
 
  Also I want to point out that the story says there was a “doctor” with him.  That does not mean that he was a doctor on the hospital staff.
  Plus I have had to break up fights between doctors and I had to deal with drunk doctors.  I had a doctor one time damage a car in the parking lot because he did not like the way the person had parked his car.

  I am going to make a YouTube video about this incident.  My blood is boiling right now.

 

Banker leaves 1% tip on $133.00 lunch bill

  I have said that I think we should have bankers hanging from street signs all across the United States of America.
  Read the Huffington Post story about the above incident to see why I feel that way. 

“A banker left a 1% tip in defiance of 'the 99%' at a Newport Beach restaurant the other week, according to his dining companion and underling who snapped a photo of the receipt and posted it to his blog, Future Ex Banker. (Update: the blog is now offline.)

In posting the photo, the employee gave some background on his boss and the receipt:

Mention the “99%” in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a “tip” of his own.

The "tip" of his own in this case was to tell the server to "get a real job."…

update on Terry Lakin

  I blogged and made YouTube videos about Colonel Terry Lakin. He refused to do his duty because he object to the man who was his Commander In Chief – The President of the United States. 
  Colonel Lakin was a birther i.e. a racist that did not believe that President Obama was born in the United States. 

  Well Terrence Lakin was kicked out of the Army and spent five months in prison.  He lost all of this pay and allowances (and if I remember right it was about 18 years worth of benefits). 
  Of course from day one even before his court martial he had a web site up collecting money for him and the site is still going.

  If you remember the story “Lieutenant Colonel” Terry Lakin was also a doctor.  Well the state of Kansas denied him a medical license. 
  Of course the right wing birther nuts say that the State of Kansas denied him a medical license for political reasons.  They say it was because he was standing up to President Obama.  
    I would think the board would refuse to give him a license because he was a felon.  It seems the board ruled that he should not get a medical license in the State of Kansas because of his “refusal to follow orders to render medical care” or something like that.  
  By the way he is an osteopathic doctor and was trying, of course, to get an osteopathic license in Kansas.

  I would like to make a point about the site that is trying to raise money for him…. His photo in his uniform as a Lieutenant Colonel is all over the site.  Anytime any mention is made of him he is called “Colonel” and I think that is wrong.

  The Terry Lakin Action Fund is a “family trust” to directly support LTC Terrence Lakin and his efforts.  So your not putting food on table for him you are supporting his efforts to keep up an attack on the President of the United States.
 
  Of course you can order a book “Officer’s Oath:  Terry Lakin’s Story of Sacrifice.”  It is a pre-order thing and the site says the book will be out in January of 2012.  It is not out yet.  I suspect the pre-orders are not going very well.
  I am not sure how many birthers  are out there.  I do not think there are many. 
  I also got a feeling that birthers are not going to want to pay out $21.95 for the book. 
 

  If you do not want to buy a book you can, of course, by posters, hats, shirts and other things ALL of them with his photo in uniform on them.  I think they should sell items with his mug shot on them but I guess they do not agree.

  I think we will hear a little more about the “Colonel” until after President Obama is elected for his second term.  I am sure he can find some state that will let him be an osteopathic doctor.  I would not want him treating me however.