I suppose it comes with the territory, getting older, that is. But it sure is annoying!
It takes all my will power to even get up and move lately, I just seem to be more and more tired. The past three days, I've felt a bit like I'm coming down with a flu, aching all over, throat kind of sore. Seems to get worse as the day goes on.
I'm taking some vitamins, seeing if they might help me do better. Time will tell.
We've had a major earthquake in Japan and have launched another 'military action' in Libya since I last posted. Amazing how much changes in just a month, isn't it. Add to that the race to pass legislation by northern states to give governors the power to declare any town or county in a crisis and thereby appoint someone to run it, with no election or input from citizens, and you have to wonder, what the heck is going on?
Well, I know what I suspect is going on, though I doubt most people who eventually stumble across this little blog will have a real clue. Which is sad, to be honest. I've watched the patterns for years, and all the 'clues' are there, in your face.
I suspect a lot of things are about to happen. Time will tell. The only advice I can give is to prepare the best you can, then just enjoy your life. No need to pull your hair out over things you cannot control.
God bless, all.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Catching Up
Haven't posted in a while, because I finally got a new job and it has taken up a lot of my time. Got stuck on a thirty hour shift, which nearly did me in! I'm too old for those long hours! lol! I'm working for a home health service right now, something I did for over ten years up until about ten years ago. I don't know how long I will be able to do this, but I'm hanging in there for now.
Not much choice with the job market like it is....
I haven't even played WoW for almost a month now. Between the new job tiring me out and the frustration players face with the new expansion, I don't know how long it will be before I go back. Love the game, but honestly, Blizzard is definitely catering to young kids who are obssessed and have hours upon hours to play. I don't, so it's on the back burner for now.
I finally got a new stove! A beautiful, full size one! I also finally got my upper cabinets for the wall where the stove is, so I now have a lot more room to store things. It actually looks like a kitchen now, instead of a half finished afterthought! lol!
It's the last big purchase I'll be making, though, as I now have to watch every penny I spend. With the overseas insanity being used to justify jacked up gas prices that were going to go up, anyway, (gotta luv how they don't miss a trick on spinning greed!), and since I'm going to have to have enough gas to get to client's homes, I cannot afford to blow my money on anything.
I have a lot I want to say about politics, but I'm planning on making a video for my youtube channel, which will be far easier than typing out a long diatribe on the insanity that surrounds us! So I'll be linking that once I make it.
Now to do some boring housework, then see what I can do about making a decent video...wish me luck!
Not much choice with the job market like it is....
I haven't even played WoW for almost a month now. Between the new job tiring me out and the frustration players face with the new expansion, I don't know how long it will be before I go back. Love the game, but honestly, Blizzard is definitely catering to young kids who are obssessed and have hours upon hours to play. I don't, so it's on the back burner for now.
I finally got a new stove! A beautiful, full size one! I also finally got my upper cabinets for the wall where the stove is, so I now have a lot more room to store things. It actually looks like a kitchen now, instead of a half finished afterthought! lol!
It's the last big purchase I'll be making, though, as I now have to watch every penny I spend. With the overseas insanity being used to justify jacked up gas prices that were going to go up, anyway, (gotta luv how they don't miss a trick on spinning greed!), and since I'm going to have to have enough gas to get to client's homes, I cannot afford to blow my money on anything.
I have a lot I want to say about politics, but I'm planning on making a video for my youtube channel, which will be far easier than typing out a long diatribe on the insanity that surrounds us! So I'll be linking that once I make it.
Now to do some boring housework, then see what I can do about making a decent video...wish me luck!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
HAARP ... Scary Stuff
Get educated on this, follow the links, and prepare to be shocked when the ramifications of this really hit home.
Most people still haven't heard about HAARP, or if they have, they don't realize fully what it is, what it can do, and what it may have already done.
How many disasters have taken place that really weren't natural, but were a direct result of the actions of HAARP?
This nightmare technology can do so much more than you can dream of, it is like watching a sci fi flick in real life, where technology has advanced so far beyond common sense that the human race destroys itself in using it.
HAARP can do exactly that.
Watch the video. Then think about what this means.
Mubarak Losing Face, Protests Continue
I think we Americans need to understand a basic concept, expressed as honor in the Middle East and as 'face' in the Far East, as in 'saving face' or 'losing face'. We Americans have no definitive cultural expression for this, just a general knowledge on whether someone is respected or not.
But for these other countries, it is so deeply embedded in their culture that it can cause someone to go to great extremes that are even self destructive, just to preserve their honor or save face, even at the expense of a whole people. By our standards, it is expressly stupid, yet by their standards, it can even be expected.
A good example is the second original Karate Kid movie,,,if you recall that one, there was a great emphasis placed on Myagi's friend losing face just because he did not face him in a battle. We don't truly understand the depth of the importance of that, because it simply does not apply in our culture. But it does apply in the cultures of other countries, even to the point of death.
This is where real diplomacy comes into play, understanding what motivates others based upon their beliefs, not yours, and trying to work with those others in respect of their culture, because we cannot force the world to act according to our own cultural beliefs.
Mubarak has lost face. He is humiliated. If you watched the reaction of the protestors the night he aired his speech stating he would leave in September, and saw them take off their shoes and wave the bottom of their shoes at that screen in anger, you were watching him being dishonored to a level we cannot really understand unless you step outside of American culture and view from their cultural view.
It was the equivalent, I'd say, of a million plus Americans dropping their drawers and mooning an American president.
It did not help that his own goon squads that included a large number of criminals along with police out of uniform that were set loose on the protestors to disrupt the protests also attacked the journalists, something that was documented for the whole world to see and that turned a lot of people against Mubarak.
I think they may have expected that the attacks would scatter the protestors and end the protests, but it backfired on them, in a huge way. If anything, it strengthened their resolve to keep taking their stand for democracy and for Mubarak to leave.
At least the violence has died down, limited more to skirmishes on the side streets, and the military is trying with a bit more effort to limit the confrontations. But it is still up in the air on how this will end, how long it will go on, and how strong the resolve is of the protestors to stick it out.
But for these other countries, it is so deeply embedded in their culture that it can cause someone to go to great extremes that are even self destructive, just to preserve their honor or save face, even at the expense of a whole people. By our standards, it is expressly stupid, yet by their standards, it can even be expected.
A good example is the second original Karate Kid movie,,,if you recall that one, there was a great emphasis placed on Myagi's friend losing face just because he did not face him in a battle. We don't truly understand the depth of the importance of that, because it simply does not apply in our culture. But it does apply in the cultures of other countries, even to the point of death.
This is where real diplomacy comes into play, understanding what motivates others based upon their beliefs, not yours, and trying to work with those others in respect of their culture, because we cannot force the world to act according to our own cultural beliefs.
Mubarak has lost face. He is humiliated. If you watched the reaction of the protestors the night he aired his speech stating he would leave in September, and saw them take off their shoes and wave the bottom of their shoes at that screen in anger, you were watching him being dishonored to a level we cannot really understand unless you step outside of American culture and view from their cultural view.
It was the equivalent, I'd say, of a million plus Americans dropping their drawers and mooning an American president.
It did not help that his own goon squads that included a large number of criminals along with police out of uniform that were set loose on the protestors to disrupt the protests also attacked the journalists, something that was documented for the whole world to see and that turned a lot of people against Mubarak.
I think they may have expected that the attacks would scatter the protestors and end the protests, but it backfired on them, in a huge way. If anything, it strengthened their resolve to keep taking their stand for democracy and for Mubarak to leave.
At least the violence has died down, limited more to skirmishes on the side streets, and the military is trying with a bit more effort to limit the confrontations. But it is still up in the air on how this will end, how long it will go on, and how strong the resolve is of the protestors to stick it out.
I Hate Colds
Cold, the flu, whatever, it is never fun.
I've been battling this chest cold for a week, and it is backwards from every other one I've ever had. Normally, I get a head cold that evolves into a chest cold. This time, I got the chest cold first, and NOW am having the head cold.
Weird.
But still miserable.
At least I'm not alone in my misery, and misery does love company, they say...my daughter in law is dealing with it now! lol! Ahh, the joys of being human! :D
I've been battling this chest cold for a week, and it is backwards from every other one I've ever had. Normally, I get a head cold that evolves into a chest cold. This time, I got the chest cold first, and NOW am having the head cold.
Weird.
But still miserable.
At least I'm not alone in my misery, and misery does love company, they say...my daughter in law is dealing with it now! lol! Ahh, the joys of being human! :D
Obama At Prayer Breakfast
I'm posting this here because there have been arguments raging for a long time regarding whether or not Obama is a closet Muslim, who might be seeking to move America into the ranks of Muslim countries.
Now, I cannot say whether or not the man is lying or not. I'm not God, and I cannot see into his soul to determine the depth of truth he is speaking. But he is stating here definitively that he accepted Jesus Christ as his lord and savior, and goes into some detail with a bit of humor on his dependence on his faith in God and in prayer.
And I will say this, that his statement of faith is far more convincing to me than any line of generic BS that Bush Junior spewed. There is a legitimacy to what Obama is saying about his apparently real faith that was always, always lacking in any reference Bush made to praying and being a Christian.
I still have serious questions about this man's legality of being president due to the questions of whether or not he is an American citizen by birth or not. But I will leave it to others and to God to determine the truth of what he says here regarding his faith.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Mubarak's Rent-A-Mobs Strike
In spite of the efforts of the Egyptian people to maintain a peaceful protest for democracy, Mubarak has resorted to enlisting the services of his rent-a-mobs to fight back against them.
In spite of pleas from other countries to exercise restraint, this dictator is so determined to maintain his stranglehold on Egypt that he is apparently willing to burn Cairo down around the heads of his people.
It's the rent-a-mobs who are attacking CNN reporters, throwing molatov cocktails into the crowds of peaceful protestors, ganging up on individuals and beating them with clubs and machetes, and in general turning a peaceful protest into a destructing, living nightmare, all on behalf of the Mubarak regime. No one has any doubt whatsoever who is behind this.
Only time will tell if the protestors back down, or if this will escalate into a full blown war between the people of Egypt against the Mubarak regime. And I wonder if any democratic nation will stand with the people against the tyrannical actions of this dictator, who is obviously determined to hold onto power until his last breath.
If we don't, then the door will be open for extremists to leap in and fill this void.
President Obama needs to take a hard stand, now. Mubarak has made his choice clear, to hold onto power at all costs, regardless of the will of the Egyptian people to be free from tyranny and the requests of allies to exercise restraint. He has pretty much flipped a bird at his own people and the world.
Will our U.S. government take this stand? I doubt it. But we will see.
In spite of pleas from other countries to exercise restraint, this dictator is so determined to maintain his stranglehold on Egypt that he is apparently willing to burn Cairo down around the heads of his people.
It's the rent-a-mobs who are attacking CNN reporters, throwing molatov cocktails into the crowds of peaceful protestors, ganging up on individuals and beating them with clubs and machetes, and in general turning a peaceful protest into a destructing, living nightmare, all on behalf of the Mubarak regime. No one has any doubt whatsoever who is behind this.
Only time will tell if the protestors back down, or if this will escalate into a full blown war between the people of Egypt against the Mubarak regime. And I wonder if any democratic nation will stand with the people against the tyrannical actions of this dictator, who is obviously determined to hold onto power until his last breath.
If we don't, then the door will be open for extremists to leap in and fill this void.
President Obama needs to take a hard stand, now. Mubarak has made his choice clear, to hold onto power at all costs, regardless of the will of the Egyptian people to be free from tyranny and the requests of allies to exercise restraint. He has pretty much flipped a bird at his own people and the world.
Will our U.S. government take this stand? I doubt it. But we will see.
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