It seems that cast off electronics from China are being resold to North Koreans who are beginning to glimpse that the grass really is greener on the other side of the DMZ. This proves one thing: Military might is not the only tool for the spread of democracy.
What kind of parent would leave a loaded gun accessible to a young child? How blase are people toward handguns in the presence of a seven-year-old? This boggles me.
“C’mere, son. Let me show you my gun collection. Someday you, too, can be stupid enough to show off firearms to impressionable children.”
Me? I refuse to own a gun of any sort. Gun ownership is a sign of weakness, of giving in to the culture of fear perpetrated by the news media. To own a gun with the excuse of protecting one’s family is to expose said family to new dangers, as is evidenced by this story. It also shows, on a spiritual level, a washing-of-hands, giving-up attitude toward mankind; as in:
“I’m buying a gun because, although I live in a good neighborhood with good schools, I walk in fear of my neighbors. I pack a gun when I drive because so I can be the first to shoot in a road rage incident. I leave my gun lying around the house for easy access. You never know when it will come in handy.”
In evolution, the strong eat the weak. For too long, no one has been eating our weak. they’ve been allowed to breed to the detriment of the species. Expect this to be a recurring theme here.
Greed kills. Cold-hearted and selfish humanity, grubbing for money and defying laws, destroys lives. Humanity is killing off its own food chain from the bottom up. when will we wise up? (link)
In Mexico, illegal logging in these protected forests has shrunk the monarchs’ habitat and forced the insects to higher elevations, where they are vulnerable to the cold. The government protects the forests with armed federal agents during winter, but large logging operations have continued to eat away at the dense stands of Oyamel fir trees here.
Satellite photos compiled by United States scientists show that vast numbers of trees in the 140,000-acre Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve , 75 miles east of Mexico City, have been logged and carted out, often by armed gangs who pay off the authorities, people tracking the fate of the butterflies say. The northeast face of Cerro Pelón, one of the mountains in the core of the reserve and a former winter home of butterflies, is stripped of trees now.
In other news, another god-fearing soul murders. Its’ true what they say: nothing is sacred.
Our favorite shrubbery has bankrupt the country with two wars while giving the fat cats several tax breaks, now tighten your belts, middle class – it’s time for us to pay for all this.
Meanwhile, at the politburo …
Ok. I’m new at this blogging stuff, but I’m blindsided by this: i’m just minding my own, clicking the Next Blog button and I come upon this. WTF? What’s with the blog marketing? Does this person think we’ll give her money just because she has a method of spamming blogsites? It amazes me the new depths of greed the American culture can inflict upon its members. Get a life! Is someone paying her to become a scumbucket spammer? The money can’t be that good. What, did she sell her soul? Might as well have. Just gotta ruin the fun for the rest of us. Sheesh!
…pant, pant, pant…(catching my breath)…Phew!
Sorry. I lost myself there. I’ll be OK in a minute. Where’s my Welbutrin?
I’m still wearing my newby blogger shoes, and I can’t help toying with the templates, searching for blogskins, and tinkering with them, too. My old copy of Dreamweaver 3 (big bucks when new) can’t blog easily enough for me. My other sites are built with Trellix, which works only sometimes (rude noises). I need to create something uniquely Tannish. Expect to see this blog change clothes from time to time. I’m off to brush up on CSS…
Values can sometimes be better evaluated in the negative. Sometimes you can get a better picture of a person or group by viewing what they are unwilling to do or by which problems they choose to ignore. GWB seems better defined by looking at the issues he won’t face: the environment (here and here ), the declining dollar(here and here ), and of course our gargantuan deficit, single-handedly created by our favorite shrubbery, which may very well become the hallmark of Georgie’s tenure.
People and presidencies are measured by their choices. Choosing to do nothing is still a choice, after all. Time to get your house in order. How does our president want to be remembered? Jumpstarting the democratic process in the Arab world is a worthy achievement if he can do it (I’m still skeptical), but at what cost to the American people?
I’m tannish, what color are you?
Wait! Before you go off, consider this: our concept of race is wrong. There is only one race, and its first name is Human. White, Black, Red and Yellow are just colors. To use colors to denote genetic traits is belittling, inaccurate, divisive and crude. I, for one, know I can mate with and produce children with any female on this planet fool enough to partake. From Central Africa, Southeast Asia, the Amazon Basin or Western Europe, anyone can meet, mate and perpetuate the species with anyone, provided requisite genders are represented. So how are we different? I look at people everyday, and I see a infinite spectrum of tannish people, all living lives full of vibrant color and infinite possibility. The old school way of thinking of “people of color” is dying; we’re all the same color. Grouping people as minorities is becomes meaningless if you look upon humanity as a whole and see it for what it is: an endless variation of genetic possibilities within a framework of common functions.
That’s what a person is, that’s what humanity is – it’s tannish!
I cannot honestly say I support our war in Iraq, but…
…this I agree with.
Just a pointer to my other blog where I post longer material.
Are you a Destro?