More Things That Don't Make Sense To Me
by
Robin Hall
This will be updated as long as my life makes less and less sense. I have no idea why any of the following exist AT ALL. If you have other ideas, do drop me a line and I will add them, with full credit, or maybe you can blog them on your space.
1. A-cup bras. Really, what is going on other than the bra makers are scamming their customers?
2. Crotchless panties. The most logical use of underwear, to me, is for sanitary purposes. After a bathroom experience there is a chance of a drop of some liquid. Cotton works well here. Shear synthetics do not. Crotchless panties really do not.
If you are up for unexpected sex, go without drawers. Problem solved and more power to you, like in the sea grapes on Lantana Beach with Phyllis.
3. If a man can afford bespoke clothing: "What side do you dress to?" is pretty silly under 6". Be honest with your tailor.
4. Now this one is so outrageous it makes me mad. Why would anyone drink caffeine free diet soda? Duh. Water.
5. Cleavage annoys me. Not having it of course, but displaying it THEN chastising people who look and its not just men.
6. I think women's fashion and clothes are so often demeaning. Its like just being a woman makes them beauty objects, not equal people who dress funnily / amusingly or dress to please themselves, really.
I will never be a woman, cannot know where their clothes tastes came from but some of these things just don't make sense to me and this one goes beyond fashion to a few notes on sex "hygiene":
a.Wearing those dresses with cleavage and a swooping neckline in the middle of winter. They cannot be comfortable.
b. Who thought them up, early on, and who keeps high heels a fashion item? Orthopedists with heavy investments in the shoe industry?
c. I have never understood those silly hats. However if you really do, ignore this note.
d. What's up with make-up? Yuk. It really doesn't make you look better. Different yes. Better, no. Plus it tastes bad if you are having full contact oral sex.
e. What's up underarm deodorant / antiperspirant? Yuk, plus they, too, taste bad if you are having full contact oral sex. Its the aluminum for one of them.
Ditto for "feminine hygiene" deodorants and REALLY ditto for the taste bad part. Sweetie, if we are 69, I do not want a synthetic strawberry smell in my mouth. It lasts way too long.
Hygiene is being clean, not coating yourself with cover-up smells. This is not to say a FINE perfume tactically placed cannot go beyond
If you pee in an interlude of sex, wash with a light soap, rinse and come on back to bed. I will be happy you thought of me.
I don't think I am alone in saying I don't like the taste of pee.
Ditto and more for #2 in the loo.
A brief suggestion. Just be clean. Take showers regularly. At work, maybe rinse underarms on a long day.
Research suggests the antiperspirants don't really work that well anyway.
f. Do you really need a $150 hairdo to feel attractive?
g. Or a $150 manicure / pedicure?
h. Or a $10K spa weekend?
All of us are pretty, plain or ugly and all the "treatments" in the world won't change this. We can do our best is all.
7. A $100K+ sports car in America. There is simply no where to drive it, its at high risk for theft and sale in Russia or South America and it really won't make you a better lover.
8. A $50K + SUV UNLESS you really do go off-road a lot and need one. Hunters, photographers, campers sure, why not if you have the cash. The rest of the car buying public can be much more comfy in other vehicles.
9. Two million dollar mobile homes / travel vehicles. What are you thinking about?
10. Why is everything a war today? Pizza wars, NY vs. Chicago. Iron Chef challenges. Throw downs. BBQ wars. Power eating challenges. Why are there no cooperations rather than all those wars?
11. Why don't Americans have health care for all?
12. The Olympic "sports" of banner waving and organized swimming. I am sure power eating and poker are coming up. See below.
13. Why is power eating considered a sport and on ESPN? They should be ashamed OR go a step further and have power drinking, power crack smoking and power cocaine snorting too.
14. Why is poker also considered a sport and on ESPN? How's this, have a gambling channel and put all the casino games on it ! There is little in the way of sport in any of them. Skill, yes, sport no.
I consider no-limit hold'em poker fully equal in difficulty, skill level to bridge, chess, checkers and go. These could also be on the gambling channel if played for money.
15. Why is pot illegal and both cigarettes and alcohol are? There is a profit motive at work here and the hordes of religionists don't want anyone to have fun. Maybe they designed the crotchless panties as an attempt at titillation. But why?
16. Why are so many teens funneled to college when they could do much better heading to work, trade school, the military, police, fire department and so on.
Go to work. Later if you find you need college, go there with the money YOU earned.
17. Why do people use air fresheners? Just get more air from the source. Its already fresh.
18. Roulette and craps. These confuse me. People put money on squares or the like, a ball is put into a spin or dice are tossed. Its gambling but how could it be fun? You know you will lose. Why not attempt poker? At least there is a chance to win. Not much. A chance. Do learn how to play first however. The pros will take your money, any amount and thank you for it. Some are rude and will laugh at you.
19. Gossip. There are folks in my seniors building who will sit for hours at a time, outside in hot weather, make noise, squawk, cackle, say nothing, laugh and that is their day. I tried it once and lasted 10 minutes.
20. Taking a bath rather than a shower.
Consider. Here is a bath tub. Did you actually clean the tub first? You fill it with fresh water. Here you are dirty.
There are parts of you that are dangerously dirty and check out the research on e coli.
There are parts of you that are seriously at risk, like your eyes that have a direct tube to your nasal cavity which could lead to your lungs or stomach,
Now, you step into the bath. Your feet, ripe with fungus and whatever else pollute the water immediately.
Next you sit. Folks you just infected the water with E. coli and who knows what else, along with various bacteria, fungus, pollen and even virus that has collected on your skin.
You may wash your head first. Guess what you are washing and rinsing with, bath water. Your eyes are under attack.
Your privates are also subject to the polluted water. I suspect your urethra is under attack and how many women have constant bladder and urethral problems due to the bath soup of infections and some men too.
IF you actually wash all over, how many of you rinse under the shower after a bath? I suspect few use the shower. They just dry off and wonder why their skin is a mess. YUK.
Just take a shower. All the problems go down the drain, you are healthier and life goes without worries from cleaning yourself.
If you like a bath, just get in, relax then take a shower after to actually get clean and don't immerse your head in the bath. Your eyes don't like problems.
21. Six pound hamburgers. Now this would make a fine meal for a basketball team but not any one person.
http://www.offroaders.com/album/clearfield/clear06092006/index5.html
This confuses me. Only one person so far has won this challenge for a free meal. A small 100 pound woman of 19 downed the 6 pound burger in under 3 hours.
WTF? Its 1/16th of her entire weight. Birds would be envious. YIKES. Why was there no video of this feat and the aftermath? What was she thinking? Did it kill her? Is she on ESPN now as a power eater?
This same place also has a 15 pound burger. How could you even cook a 15 pound burger? What would the spatula look like? "Denny's also has the "Beer Barrel Belly Buster" a monstrous 15-pound burger featuring 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers. On a bun."
Its a meal for 32 hungry middle income folks or 64 homeless souls. Are they expecting Paul Bunyan coming in for a snack?
22. There are words that don't make sense to me. Today's word is foolproof. Think about this. Someone competent designs a product and labels it foolproof in setting up, managing etc.
Weigh this against ALL the fools in the world. Someone is going to be a bigger fool than the product. Its statistics. There are some very focused fools.
Maybe the term should be almost foolproof. OR the company could hire fools to test products and state, this product is 87% foolproof.
This does not even include people like my ex-wife. She is not a fool by any means BUT she was born with the ability to destroy anything. I call her the Queen of Chaos. I am positive there are many like her in the world fully qualified to destroy most anything.
Companies should pay her great sums to test products. Pay the fools too of course.
They should come up with a product rating that blends chaos with foolery. This product is 87% foolproof and our Chaos expert PC took 4 months to destroy it. It took her only 3 months to destroy a Sherman tank.
Think about this. Really.
We do have a Sherman Tank. Penny destroyed it in 3 months. Well it was really 2 months but none of our technicians found out till we tried to start the tank after her visit.
Two days after Penny's visit, our best technician was there. She got inside the tank for a routine inspection. There was dog hair on the control panel. This WAS our very best tech, so she inspected further. Then she tried to start the tank. Nothing happened. She even had the key. Nothing happened. Other techs visited the tank to no avail.
We have since moved the tank to another location. Now its a very sturdy building shield. We drained the fuel. Top military advisers are still confused but this tank just won't work. Chaos at work.
The Queen of Chaos had visited. I rest my case.
23. Don't you think TinyURL should now be called medium sized URLS? Really.
24. After trying for years to find a companion online, I am now sure this makes no sense to me. We meet online. Do we? He could be a she and we wouldn't know. Photos can be sent that are not the person.
We can do video chat which is indicative. Regular voice or vidcam chat. Email. Find the right address and do google searches and then paid searches.
The more we do the closer to reality we get BUT a single day in person is worth more than all the chats, the words, the photos.
Make it real. Visit. DO NOT STAY AT THEIR PLACE. Get a m/hotel room when you visit and go on regular dates. Expect no more than a regular date.
Do not go to foreign countries looking for love or just to get laid. YOU WILL SUFFER.
Save sex for when you both exchange full blood tests for HIV, HHV, the 3 liver tests and all the STDs you never wanted to get.
If you cannot afford to do these things, you shouldn't be seeking a companion online who is not in your very own town or city. IF you search in your own town or city, don't forget the blood tests.
25. Raw flesh consumption confuses me. I call all of it sushi / sashimi, but raw flesh is OK too. It just doesn't look good on a menu. Five ounces of raw beef. Four ounces of raw sawfish, etc.
No, restaurateurs dress up raw beef and call it steak tartare, kitfo etc. Folks this is raw cow meat. Does your local cook Fred have the training or the microscope to KNOW WTF he is sending out the kitchen door?
Cooking doesn't take that long. Be patient and let the other restaurant patrons end up in the hospital.
Think about all the parasites, bacteria and even virus that flesh is subject to, the processing methods of butchers and fishmongers. How fresh their products actually are.
Imagine your insides. Then ponder this. Just how many chefs in the whole world are capable of absolutely KNOWING which raw flesh is safe for your insides and back this up with a health guarantee?
We don't see much pig sushi in local restaurants like Nam Mu Sod , chicken sushi, deer, horse or lamb sushi / raw flesh / sashimi meals on many restaurant's menu for the day?
Would you really want to visit a generic restaurant in Chattanooga, TN and order sushi? Would it be catfish from the Tennessee river? Is this wise? What could they offer that was fresh and safe?
Until I can afford the top drawer chefs who charge up to $100 for a single raw clam, more than $500+ for a meal and my insides have a fighting chance, I will have to stick to overcooked foods at the local RFC, MinnyDs, PancakesRUS and an OK Chinese restaurant.
26. Just what IS fat free sour cream OR fat free ice cream? They have been in the stores for years now. I never wanted to take them home. They are lies. Look up cream in your dictionary. There is no such thing as fat free cream.
Its worse than the W. C. Fields quote, "Its like corn on the cob without the cob."
There are other products like this, lies that we tolerate.
27. Why is the VA so willing to try to ignore veteran's claims? Is this a mandate from Congress, any particular sitting President or is it a government agency with no accountability, no professionals doing the right thing? Psychiatrists, podiatrists, osteopaths, internists and all the other specialists needed to do their homework and do right by the veteran?
From the time of our country's first wars, the government has found ways to ignore the needs of veterans. This continues till the present and will likely continue in future. This agency, the VA, is often in complete control of who gets served properly, treated properly, who gets the medical benefits they deserve at the level they are needed.
There does not appear to be a civilian review board of qualified professionals in the first paragraph who are paid to do one thing, their best, when reviewing claims AND after interviewing the veterans.
This civilian review board should begin now. They should be able to access ALL prior claims, act on them AND make recompense when their findings conflict with the VA's ill thought out previous decisions and do it NOW.
28. Most reality TV shows. There are just too many problems with these to go in to so I won't spend much time on them.
Now I don't consider a cooking show to be one of these. History, interviews, news etc. No, these is just aspects OF TV. I don't even mind the dance shows, talent shows or the like. They are entertainment.
Its when "reality" shows attempt to enter our consciousness as a new form of ritual or truth that they become annoying and offensive. Bridezillas is a fine example. The many quest shows.
Just take your own quest or go to some church or other for rituals. Go to EST, ISA, a football game or the like. I hate "reality" TV.
The above are just examples of how foolishness is hurting us. Like sports video games. You think you are doing something online or in a digital game. Say its a bicycle race.
Jack, or Jill, after mastering this sort of video game, enter a real world bicycle race and see how well you do. Buy the very best cycle on the planet, get out there in the air, the real world and start pedaling.
Oops, the digital world does NOT equal the real world. Bikes don't have joy sticks and you don't have the endurance, strength or the will to win IN the real world.
The word on old style pinball machines to describe a physical fault was TILT.
29. Flash Gordon and Dr. Who. Such wooden acting, writing and production values? Who watches this drivel?
30. There is " virtually " nothing here that makes sense to me. Not that the article was inaccurate, just what it was about:
" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR2007081100351.html "
Why would anyone pay so much money to play an online game? The amounts involved in buying digital real estate, houses, avatars, sex movements and more simply startles me.
What? Lawsuits over " rights, " or "thefts" of digital items inside the game? This is worse than a scam, its a travesty.
Buy low, sell high? How high do you have to be to buy digital real estate? I am always drunk. I used to be always stoned. I NEVER bought digital rights nor did I think one could sell nothing for more than nothing.
DUH. Check the ads and try flipping.
I suspect this game is SUCH an improbable scam that few realize what is happening to them.
Its sort of like what happens with religions and we all know how that works out. Oops, most don't actually know what IS happening to them.
What is next in Second Life? A digital godlike figure similar to L. Ron Hubbard, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, the angel Moroni, and is no one else disturbed by an angel only an i away from moron?, the founder of EST and so many more "religions" whose the members have to pay to worship?
Why are there no full scholarships to scientology for instance?
And what was up with Bhagwan and Sushila and why did Bhagwan actually need more than 5 Rolls Royces?
Inquiring minds want to know. Will the digital gods require you to buy their particular choices of cars, houses and stereo systems?
Will the payment scheme TO worship these 0&1 gods, these digital gods, be monthly dues or a HUGE lump sum? Will you win the lottery when you pray to 0&1 gods?
Will your life be better, your reality life family be better? Will you be able to get a refund if its not? Same for regular world based religions. A refund if not satisfied?
Why do so many wish to give so much to so few for so little just TO worship something that is not really there but they wish was there?
All these things confuse me.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Does this make sense to anyone?
Does this make sense to anyone?
by
Robin Hall
From the NY Times today. "The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq."
Contend? Sell arms to Arabs? Neighbors?
This seems insane to me. We are arming our enemies as always for big business to thrive. Then we go to war with these same enemies. Then we pay them for war damages. Then they have money to buy more arms from us.
I KNOW I have missed somethings here, but what?
Follow the money and what do we see? Who gets paid off? Shouldn't these people be tried for treason?
by
Robin Hall
From the NY Times today. "The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq."
Contend? Sell arms to Arabs? Neighbors?
This seems insane to me. We are arming our enemies as always for big business to thrive. Then we go to war with these same enemies. Then we pay them for war damages. Then they have money to buy more arms from us.
I KNOW I have missed somethings here, but what?
Follow the money and what do we see? Who gets paid off? Shouldn't these people be tried for treason?
Friday, July 27, 2007
Corporate Greed 3: Guarantees
Corporate Greed 3: Guarantees
by
Robin Hall
Words used to mean something I think. Someone says, "I guarantee," he or she meant it. Some folks took this responsibility seriously. Some were less serious.
Today most guarantees seem meaningless.
Take a single example, fans, Patton fans. My last purchase of an Industrial Grade model cost about $30 at a local HugeMart. The box clearly listed a 10 year warranty for the 20" model.
Not so long ago the box listed a 25 year warranty which Patton actually honored.
The trick these days is that the fine print is in the manual in the box. I could read it if there is a problem but only after opening the box.
Sure, the HugeMart would take it back within a month or so and in this HugeMarts are honorable and consistent. I appreciate this.
I didn't read the new warranty manual. I should have and then taken the fan back because about 13 months after purchase the fan died and I was left with a large paper weight.
You see, while the fan was guaranteed for 10 years, the warranty stated that I must pay two way shipping to the factory. Cost? About $30.
This seems like one of the more clear cut instances of corporate greed I know of so far but I will keep looking.
by
Robin Hall
Words used to mean something I think. Someone says, "I guarantee," he or she meant it. Some folks took this responsibility seriously. Some were less serious.
Today most guarantees seem meaningless.
Take a single example, fans, Patton fans. My last purchase of an Industrial Grade model cost about $30 at a local HugeMart. The box clearly listed a 10 year warranty for the 20" model.
Not so long ago the box listed a 25 year warranty which Patton actually honored.
The trick these days is that the fine print is in the manual in the box. I could read it if there is a problem but only after opening the box.
Sure, the HugeMart would take it back within a month or so and in this HugeMarts are honorable and consistent. I appreciate this.
I didn't read the new warranty manual. I should have and then taken the fan back because about 13 months after purchase the fan died and I was left with a large paper weight.
You see, while the fan was guaranteed for 10 years, the warranty stated that I must pay two way shipping to the factory. Cost? About $30.
This seems like one of the more clear cut instances of corporate greed I know of so far but I will keep looking.
Foods
Foods
by
Robin Hall
Its not easy saying your favorite things to ingest are all troubling: butter, tequila, Southern Comfort, Drambuie, most nuts, most nut butters, sour cream and taters, sour cream and chocolate powder, sour cream, Breyer's Vanilla, potato chips, popcorn, the crispy corn curls, creme de cassis, cream, clean pj and maybe clean ? with the right, you know. Just read between the lines.
Then there is chocolate. Pies of all sorts of course. A. B. Toklas brownies. Carrot cakes. Other cakes and I bet you NEVER heard of psyllium chocolate cake and if you have I will exchange recipes and maybe we should meet. Lets make it soon at Jackson Square near smiling Andy on a horse.
Next we move on to most breads, many pastries like elephant ears, raised donuts, many cheeses, a fine hamburger and wouldn't you really like a fillet mignon hamburger too?
Lobster served with a good melted butter in Maine. Alaska king crab legs in Alaska. Thin fried catfish and crayfish etouffee in Louisiana plus a tour of Louisiana's best other treats like: summa dem' po boy sammiches from New Orleans with Dixie Beer on a hot afternoon. Chile, yaint had dis, yaint had a sammich. Seriously. Go visit.
Kahlua soufflé. Hawaiian Delight ice cream from Dallas.
I want there to be more items in my list of foods. A week at elBulli for instance would get me started. A week of traveling with Anthony Bourdain, a week with Andrew Zimmern. Whole weeks each dining at restaurants run by Flay, Chiarello, Emeril, Batali, Thomas Keller, the Do Wa in NYC.
Lessons from Wolfgang, Michael, maybe Tyler. A close up of Giada in her dressing room.
Foods and more.
by
Robin Hall
Its not easy saying your favorite things to ingest are all troubling: butter, tequila, Southern Comfort, Drambuie, most nuts, most nut butters, sour cream and taters, sour cream and chocolate powder, sour cream, Breyer's Vanilla, potato chips, popcorn, the crispy corn curls, creme de cassis, cream, clean pj and maybe clean ? with the right, you know. Just read between the lines.
Then there is chocolate. Pies of all sorts of course. A. B. Toklas brownies. Carrot cakes. Other cakes and I bet you NEVER heard of psyllium chocolate cake and if you have I will exchange recipes and maybe we should meet. Lets make it soon at Jackson Square near smiling Andy on a horse.
Next we move on to most breads, many pastries like elephant ears, raised donuts, many cheeses, a fine hamburger and wouldn't you really like a fillet mignon hamburger too?
Lobster served with a good melted butter in Maine. Alaska king crab legs in Alaska. Thin fried catfish and crayfish etouffee in Louisiana plus a tour of Louisiana's best other treats like: summa dem' po boy sammiches from New Orleans with Dixie Beer on a hot afternoon. Chile, yaint had dis, yaint had a sammich. Seriously. Go visit.
Kahlua soufflé. Hawaiian Delight ice cream from Dallas.
I want there to be more items in my list of foods. A week at elBulli for instance would get me started. A week of traveling with Anthony Bourdain, a week with Andrew Zimmern. Whole weeks each dining at restaurants run by Flay, Chiarello, Emeril, Batali, Thomas Keller, the Do Wa in NYC.
Lessons from Wolfgang, Michael, maybe Tyler. A close up of Giada in her dressing room.
Foods and more.
Death With Honor
There is no shortage of organs available to the organ banks.
There is a shortage of good legislation however.
Simply legalize suicide and let it work like this: If life is intolerable for anyone, they would need a single half hour session with a death counselor. A one day wait after that will be fine.
Next, the person wanting suicide enters a hospital where blood and organ tests are done.
After the tests to find out how much can be harvested, a full harvest is performed. The agreement signed would absolve the hospital from liability AND require them to do the harvest even if nothing is useful.
Obviously, the person dies. That is the point for them.
Why shouldn't this be the law? Why should anyone be required to suffer? Prisoners facing a long sentence, sure. Folks living in daily terror from abuse, yes. Terminally ill, indeed. People living with any pain that is unrelenting whether of the body or of the brain, like depression, of course.
Let those who do not want to live help those who do.
Simple. Death with honor. Suicide that helps the living. Pain is ended for the one on the table and life continues for the ones they help, the ones who want to live.
That is all. Forever after there would be no shortage of organs. It seems logical and simple to me.
I will cue up first. My blood type is A+.
This is an ongoing note / commentary about suicide.
There is a shortage of good legislation however.
Simply legalize suicide and let it work like this: If life is intolerable for anyone, they would need a single half hour session with a death counselor. A one day wait after that will be fine.
Next, the person wanting suicide enters a hospital where blood and organ tests are done.
After the tests to find out how much can be harvested, a full harvest is performed. The agreement signed would absolve the hospital from liability AND require them to do the harvest even if nothing is useful.
Obviously, the person dies. That is the point for them.
Why shouldn't this be the law? Why should anyone be required to suffer? Prisoners facing a long sentence, sure. Folks living in daily terror from abuse, yes. Terminally ill, indeed. People living with any pain that is unrelenting whether of the body or of the brain, like depression, of course.
Let those who do not want to live help those who do.
Simple. Death with honor. Suicide that helps the living. Pain is ended for the one on the table and life continues for the ones they help, the ones who want to live.
That is all. Forever after there would be no shortage of organs. It seems logical and simple to me.
I will cue up first. My blood type is A+.
This is an ongoing note / commentary about suicide.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Boozed
Boozed
by
Robin Hall
I wonder how much alcohol I can drink? Daily I express this wonder in fact and daily its more. Today's 38 oz. of vodka is an example of me doing my best to figure this out. Its a lonely and endless quest.
Well, not endless. One day I will find an answer. I won't be writing any more after that. Likely that is good for all.
Folks, don't try this speculative behavior at home, at a bar or anywhere. You will lose as I am.
by
Robin Hall
I wonder how much alcohol I can drink? Daily I express this wonder in fact and daily its more. Today's 38 oz. of vodka is an example of me doing my best to figure this out. Its a lonely and endless quest.
Well, not endless. One day I will find an answer. I won't be writing any more after that. Likely that is good for all.
Folks, don't try this speculative behavior at home, at a bar or anywhere. You will lose as I am.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Who Stole the Beauty?
Who Stole the Beauty?
by
Robin Hall
In my lifetime the beauty has been stolen many times from the rest of us.
I cannot visit the beautiful island of Cuba that is only 90 miles from the US. Why?
Communism stole the beauty. Everywhere communism has been, beauty has been stolen, cheapened or destroyed. The people are drained, to the glory of the so-called state.
Everywhere. Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam. Everywhere communism, the perversion of the human spirit has taken root, beauty is destroyed.
The Cultural Revolution? Get real. There was no revolution, cultural or otherwise. It was nothing more than the death dealing communists killing, stealing beauty and becoming their own religion.
We think that only nazis stole the beauty early in the 1900s and ignore the fact that communism's proponents, champions like Stalin, and was that his REAL name?, killed more people than the entire WW II. Really.
Take the former jewel of the Mediterranean, Beirut. Within my 62 years of life it was considered a PREMIER tourist destination. The muslims ruined this. Billions in tourism lost to terrorists. Imagine.
I am sure a top notch accountant could work out the figures. Money lost by the entire world due to muslims ruining just this one city. Then add in the negative costs of the religionist's attacks on others.
Further, just what do all these criminal muslims do for work? Who supports them versus what money they make from work.
This has troubled me for decades now, what do all those terrorists do for work? Does killing people pay well?
The religionists cost each and every one of us money and beauty.
Everywhere in the world that beauty is stolen, NOTHING is gained. Billions are lost in tourism alone. Death reigns.
The religionists have ruined so much of the world in so little time. You think communism wasn't a religion? Dig deeper in the dictionary.
Its time for decent people to take back the world from religionists, to reclaim beauty. Let your voice be heard. Reclaim beauty.
by
Robin Hall
In my lifetime the beauty has been stolen many times from the rest of us.
I cannot visit the beautiful island of Cuba that is only 90 miles from the US. Why?
Communism stole the beauty. Everywhere communism has been, beauty has been stolen, cheapened or destroyed. The people are drained, to the glory of the so-called state.
Everywhere. Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam. Everywhere communism, the perversion of the human spirit has taken root, beauty is destroyed.
The Cultural Revolution? Get real. There was no revolution, cultural or otherwise. It was nothing more than the death dealing communists killing, stealing beauty and becoming their own religion.
We think that only nazis stole the beauty early in the 1900s and ignore the fact that communism's proponents, champions like Stalin, and was that his REAL name?, killed more people than the entire WW II. Really.
Take the former jewel of the Mediterranean, Beirut. Within my 62 years of life it was considered a PREMIER tourist destination. The muslims ruined this. Billions in tourism lost to terrorists. Imagine.
I am sure a top notch accountant could work out the figures. Money lost by the entire world due to muslims ruining just this one city. Then add in the negative costs of the religionist's attacks on others.
Further, just what do all these criminal muslims do for work? Who supports them versus what money they make from work.
This has troubled me for decades now, what do all those terrorists do for work? Does killing people pay well?
The religionists cost each and every one of us money and beauty.
Everywhere in the world that beauty is stolen, NOTHING is gained. Billions are lost in tourism alone. Death reigns.
The religionists have ruined so much of the world in so little time. You think communism wasn't a religion? Dig deeper in the dictionary.
Its time for decent people to take back the world from religionists, to reclaim beauty. Let your voice be heard. Reclaim beauty.
Getting Old Stinks
Getting Old Stinks
by
Robin Hall, age 62
I have written several notes on getting old and this is another. Its almost a tautology, sort of, maybe.
The thing in my family that was just wrong was that no one prepared ME to get old. There were no OLD lessons. No one wanted to mention what they were going through.
This was wrong. We need lessons on moving through the stages of life. We don't usually get lessons. This stinks.
Anyway, when I was young I observed old folks all around me. I observed my own family's members.
Observed. I had no understanding of what they were going through. Now I do.
It stinks and literally at times. Just wait till you poo your pants in public the first time. It stinks, its embarrassing and you will NEVER get over it even if it never happens again.
For me, the first understandings of getting old included pain from arthritis. It took longer to wake up, longer to prepare to go outside.
There was less hair and what was left was the wrong color. My knees hurt too and there were odd pains that came and went.
There are now stomach pains, other aches and my shoes don't seem to fit. I don't see as well. I don't care as much about anything.
Did you know that old folks can be really alone? Yes, no friends or family to visit with. None to tend to them / us when this is needed?
Do you have even the slightest clue how much insurance costs that would actually pay for good senior care / assisted living? You start when you are 22, put in $400 a month till you are 63 and MAYBE you will earn decent care but just maybe.
The monthly rental amount for assisted living in this area ranges upward from $2500 and that is not a private room.
I have nothing more to add here. Getting old stinks.
by
Robin Hall, age 62
I have written several notes on getting old and this is another. Its almost a tautology, sort of, maybe.
The thing in my family that was just wrong was that no one prepared ME to get old. There were no OLD lessons. No one wanted to mention what they were going through.
This was wrong. We need lessons on moving through the stages of life. We don't usually get lessons. This stinks.
Anyway, when I was young I observed old folks all around me. I observed my own family's members.
Observed. I had no understanding of what they were going through. Now I do.
It stinks and literally at times. Just wait till you poo your pants in public the first time. It stinks, its embarrassing and you will NEVER get over it even if it never happens again.
For me, the first understandings of getting old included pain from arthritis. It took longer to wake up, longer to prepare to go outside.
There was less hair and what was left was the wrong color. My knees hurt too and there were odd pains that came and went.
There are now stomach pains, other aches and my shoes don't seem to fit. I don't see as well. I don't care as much about anything.
Did you know that old folks can be really alone? Yes, no friends or family to visit with. None to tend to them / us when this is needed?
Do you have even the slightest clue how much insurance costs that would actually pay for good senior care / assisted living? You start when you are 22, put in $400 a month till you are 63 and MAYBE you will earn decent care but just maybe.
The monthly rental amount for assisted living in this area ranges upward from $2500 and that is not a private room.
I have nothing more to add here. Getting old stinks.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Condoleezza Rice Should Never Have Had Her Two Major Postings in this Administration
Condoleezza Rice Should Never Have Had Her Two Major Postings in this Administration
by
Robin Hall
OK, call me silly but putting a bright to brilliant woman into her two postings in this administration just seemed wrong to me. We are fighting seriously damaged men and women of islam.
Only the men really matter in the milieu of islam. In no way that I can determine would ANY of these fucking criminals of islam, honor the qualities and output of a fine mind that was female.
Yet our president thought, what? I will appoint a female who is a lot smarter than I am to deal with men who have no respect for females and will balk at even talking to our National Security Adviser, Secretary of State. I am confused.
Why didn't our president Bush appoint this very capable person to a well paid advisory position, a puppet master of the highest order, with the understanding that when a position in government comes up that does not have direct contact with the men of islam who hate women's freedom notions, she would get this position?
More, should Dr. R. wish most any posting in the civilian world she was qualified for, she would get that at the end of her National Service.
But no. Our president, feeling unworthy? but in a position of power chose the most qualified person and ignored the facts of islam.
Well, that is my view. Silly me.
by
Robin Hall
OK, call me silly but putting a bright to brilliant woman into her two postings in this administration just seemed wrong to me. We are fighting seriously damaged men and women of islam.
Only the men really matter in the milieu of islam. In no way that I can determine would ANY of these fucking criminals of islam, honor the qualities and output of a fine mind that was female.
Yet our president thought, what? I will appoint a female who is a lot smarter than I am to deal with men who have no respect for females and will balk at even talking to our National Security Adviser, Secretary of State. I am confused.
Why didn't our president Bush appoint this very capable person to a well paid advisory position, a puppet master of the highest order, with the understanding that when a position in government comes up that does not have direct contact with the men of islam who hate women's freedom notions, she would get this position?
More, should Dr. R. wish most any posting in the civilian world she was qualified for, she would get that at the end of her National Service.
But no. Our president, feeling unworthy? but in a position of power chose the most qualified person and ignored the facts of islam.
Well, that is my view. Silly me.
The Fellow Down the Hallway is Me, He is YOU: The Need for Nationalized Health Care
The Fellow Down the Hallway is Me, He is YOU: The Need for Nationalized Health Care
by
Robin Hall
I live in public housing, just like "Jim", the fellow down the hallway. I will soon be his age. He has recently become unable to realize he is peeing in his pants, or worse.
There is no one to tend to "Jim". No family or friends because sometimes we outlive them all or they don't want us.
There is no nurse or social worker either to guide "Jim" as he passes through the very natural stages at the end of his life.
Each and every one of us here at Chester C. Powell Apartments and all the other public housing units around the country is a heartbeat, a small stroke or coronary event away from the grave or worse, a low rent nursing home.
When we are young and sometimes prettier, this part of life is easy to ignore.
Few of us understand the need to save the enormous amount of money we will require for our own care as a senior. Few have the money TO save, especially the disabled, like me.
Especially too, the working poor.
Even active middle income folks usually ignore this desperate failing in our medical and insurance systems.
We need decent nationalized public health care. We need it now. Keep this in mind when you go to the polls: its YOUR future you are voting for.
"Oh shit, Robin, its too fucking expensive to vote in Health Care for all."
Well, Jack or Jill, unless you are a close relative to Bill or other rich folks, its going to be your turn one day and it could be sooner than you think.
A tiny stroke, a drunk driver, some exotic bird disease or the like and you will be needing what you just voted NOT to have.
We do not have to make decent health care perfect before its voted in.
Think this through, vote it in and keep making it more efficient over the years, till YOU need it.
Our President Bill Clinton tried to make this happen. Today others are trying. Let them have their way.
Vote FOR national health care for ALL of our citizens before its too late for "Jim", or Robin.
Vote FOR national health care for ALL before its YOU that is the fellow down the hallway with no one to care.
by
Robin Hall
I live in public housing, just like "Jim", the fellow down the hallway. I will soon be his age. He has recently become unable to realize he is peeing in his pants, or worse.
There is no one to tend to "Jim". No family or friends because sometimes we outlive them all or they don't want us.
There is no nurse or social worker either to guide "Jim" as he passes through the very natural stages at the end of his life.
Each and every one of us here at Chester C. Powell Apartments and all the other public housing units around the country is a heartbeat, a small stroke or coronary event away from the grave or worse, a low rent nursing home.
When we are young and sometimes prettier, this part of life is easy to ignore.
Few of us understand the need to save the enormous amount of money we will require for our own care as a senior. Few have the money TO save, especially the disabled, like me.
Especially too, the working poor.
Even active middle income folks usually ignore this desperate failing in our medical and insurance systems.
We need decent nationalized public health care. We need it now. Keep this in mind when you go to the polls: its YOUR future you are voting for.
"Oh shit, Robin, its too fucking expensive to vote in Health Care for all."
Well, Jack or Jill, unless you are a close relative to Bill or other rich folks, its going to be your turn one day and it could be sooner than you think.
A tiny stroke, a drunk driver, some exotic bird disease or the like and you will be needing what you just voted NOT to have.
We do not have to make decent health care perfect before its voted in.
Think this through, vote it in and keep making it more efficient over the years, till YOU need it.
Our President Bill Clinton tried to make this happen. Today others are trying. Let them have their way.
Vote FOR national health care for ALL of our citizens before its too late for "Jim", or Robin.
Vote FOR national health care for ALL before its YOU that is the fellow down the hallway with no one to care.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Corporate Greed 2, Toast
Corporate Greed 2, Toast
by
Robin Hall
My last note about corporate greed mentioned something like a paradigm change in rechargeable batteries. Paradigm is a bit large for this but its accurate.
Today's observation concerns bread and toasters. Not that many years back, most bread was about the same size. Toasters could then be made the same size. The economy of scale which is a wonderful part of our US economy and keeps our prices down kept our toaster prices down too.
Toasters last a very long time. There is no need to replace them until they die.
I think manufacturers came up with another way to sell more toasters. Convince bread makers to make bigger bread that didn't fit in older toasters. Toast eaters got tricked and bought bigger toasters rather than regular sized bread.
However, the bread makers saw a flaw. Bread was bread, more or less. SO they began to offer dozens of types of bread, even to local stupidmarkets.
How many of you toast eaters noticed, rebelled and kept buying regular sized bread? Raise your hand.
Bigger bread needs bigger toasters. More toasters are sold. More types of bread are sold. Almost everyone wins.
Several snags. Toasters must be bought when they are not needed. The bread, being bigger, adds calories to our diet.
What became of our old toasters? The junk yard. The junk yard is filling up. More junk yards are needed. There is not room for more junk yards.
We spend more on both bigger toasters and bigger bread. We eat more bread. We get fatter.
Big business is making us fatter. How many of us are able to observe the bigger bread slices, cut them in half or so and eat that sort of sandwich?
I mean, really, a sandwich is a sandwich isn't it? AND we like two slices of toast with breakfast or a BLT. Its just bread, isn't it? Isn't it?
by
Robin Hall
My last note about corporate greed mentioned something like a paradigm change in rechargeable batteries. Paradigm is a bit large for this but its accurate.
Today's observation concerns bread and toasters. Not that many years back, most bread was about the same size. Toasters could then be made the same size. The economy of scale which is a wonderful part of our US economy and keeps our prices down kept our toaster prices down too.
Toasters last a very long time. There is no need to replace them until they die.
I think manufacturers came up with another way to sell more toasters. Convince bread makers to make bigger bread that didn't fit in older toasters. Toast eaters got tricked and bought bigger toasters rather than regular sized bread.
However, the bread makers saw a flaw. Bread was bread, more or less. SO they began to offer dozens of types of bread, even to local stupidmarkets.
How many of you toast eaters noticed, rebelled and kept buying regular sized bread? Raise your hand.
Bigger bread needs bigger toasters. More toasters are sold. More types of bread are sold. Almost everyone wins.
Several snags. Toasters must be bought when they are not needed. The bread, being bigger, adds calories to our diet.
What became of our old toasters? The junk yard. The junk yard is filling up. More junk yards are needed. There is not room for more junk yards.
We spend more on both bigger toasters and bigger bread. We eat more bread. We get fatter.
Big business is making us fatter. How many of us are able to observe the bigger bread slices, cut them in half or so and eat that sort of sandwich?
I mean, really, a sandwich is a sandwich isn't it? AND we like two slices of toast with breakfast or a BLT. Its just bread, isn't it? Isn't it?
Sunday, July 15, 2007
A Quote from Today's News
A Quote from Today's News
with
Robin Hall
A partial quote from today's news: "L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $660M for Abuse LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's largest Catholic archdiocese has settled its abuse cases for $660 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press has learned. The Roman..."
Isn't this special? Can you even feature what GOOD $660M could do, the people it could help, yet the saintly religionists continue to pay for their own sins while ignoring decency?
More, can you imagine what this church's greatest perversion, its Spanish Inquisition [ there was more than one ], would have done to its own members being caught with their pants down? There are entire museums dedicated to the machines of torture these monsters used.
Has anyone checked today's headlines on perversion payoffs for the un-religious? Zero buck$. Religionists are out $660M, atheists are not.
Hmmm. This is just ONE church, the ever present and perverse catholic church.
I wonder what the methodists, baptists, CoC and Lutherans are up to?
Say, wouldn't that be an interesting study? Church by church. Which church has the most payoffs due to some priest / pastor trashing the life of some youngster?
In this light, I wonder what the Inquisition would have cost the catholics or how much their participation with the nazis in World War II would have drained their deep pockets? And don't forget Napoleon and the catholic church AND their ongoing connections to the IRA. Well now.
Next, figure in the damage muslims are doing in the name of their particular church. Don't forget other brands of christians and do not let the jews off either, they are not without "sin". YIKES. Are there other churches? Add them as well unless they are without "sin/s."
I just had another wondering. What perversions are muslims hiding in their secret ness? We don't know. And what perversions are those burkas hiding? Men traveling around as women? Ugly women? Ugly men? Terrorists? Oh, what an original a thought?
And just which god is this particular church serving? OR which demon?
Further IF there are various aspects of this church, why aren't its good parts finally bitch slapping the terrorists, UNLESS their beliefs are not that different?
There are enough people in the world today trying to hurt us. Do we really need gods, demons and churches to hurt us more quickly? Do we need the guilt these religions produce? And where is the good they are SUPPOSED to produce but are not?
with
Robin Hall
A partial quote from today's news: "L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $660M for Abuse LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's largest Catholic archdiocese has settled its abuse cases for $660 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press has learned. The Roman..."
Isn't this special? Can you even feature what GOOD $660M could do, the people it could help, yet the saintly religionists continue to pay for their own sins while ignoring decency?
More, can you imagine what this church's greatest perversion, its Spanish Inquisition [ there was more than one ], would have done to its own members being caught with their pants down? There are entire museums dedicated to the machines of torture these monsters used.
Has anyone checked today's headlines on perversion payoffs for the un-religious? Zero buck$. Religionists are out $660M, atheists are not.
Hmmm. This is just ONE church, the ever present and perverse catholic church.
I wonder what the methodists, baptists, CoC and Lutherans are up to?
Say, wouldn't that be an interesting study? Church by church. Which church has the most payoffs due to some priest / pastor trashing the life of some youngster?
In this light, I wonder what the Inquisition would have cost the catholics or how much their participation with the nazis in World War II would have drained their deep pockets? And don't forget Napoleon and the catholic church AND their ongoing connections to the IRA. Well now.
Next, figure in the damage muslims are doing in the name of their particular church. Don't forget other brands of christians and do not let the jews off either, they are not without "sin". YIKES. Are there other churches? Add them as well unless they are without "sin/s."
I just had another wondering. What perversions are muslims hiding in their secret ness? We don't know. And what perversions are those burkas hiding? Men traveling around as women? Ugly women? Ugly men? Terrorists? Oh, what an original a thought?
And just which god is this particular church serving? OR which demon?
Further IF there are various aspects of this church, why aren't its good parts finally bitch slapping the terrorists, UNLESS their beliefs are not that different?
There are enough people in the world today trying to hurt us. Do we really need gods, demons and churches to hurt us more quickly? Do we need the guilt these religions produce? And where is the good they are SUPPOSED to produce but are not?
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Words
Words
by
Robin Hall
There words in this news piece that should not be in the same paragraph in the writings of a sane society.
"Pakistani troops seized Islamambad's Red Mosque on Tuesday and attempted to flush out the remaining militants entrenched inside a women's religious school in fierce fighting that left at..."
Fierce fighting, militants, women's religious and school. How do these words relate, in a sane society?
I am not convinced the upcoming years are going to be our best ones.
The UK is suffering bombings that are not, more or less, home grown as with the IRA, a catholic organization or organization of catholics who were radical religionists.
Perhaps the real big bang the physicists speak of is just the regular blowing up that religionists do to society?
by
Robin Hall
There words in this news piece that should not be in the same paragraph in the writings of a sane society.
"Pakistani troops seized Islamambad's Red Mosque on Tuesday and attempted to flush out the remaining militants entrenched inside a women's religious school in fierce fighting that left at..."
Fierce fighting, militants, women's religious and school. How do these words relate, in a sane society?
I am not convinced the upcoming years are going to be our best ones.
The UK is suffering bombings that are not, more or less, home grown as with the IRA, a catholic organization or organization of catholics who were radical religionists.
Perhaps the real big bang the physicists speak of is just the regular blowing up that religionists do to society?
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Stand Up and Fight
Stand Up and Fight
by
Robin Hall
Can you even imagine the courage it would take for a muslim religionist society to have done this?
"Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday ruled out any compromise with the hardcore militants holed up in a besieged mosque for last five days and warned them to surrender or face death."
Salute.
by
Robin Hall
Can you even imagine the courage it would take for a muslim religionist society to have done this?
"Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday ruled out any compromise with the hardcore militants holed up in a besieged mosque for last five days and warned them to surrender or face death."
Salute.
Beer is the New Wine
Beer is the New Wine
by
Robin Hall
I am watching a Food Network or Travel Channel show, Epicurious. The chef is making food with beer AND connecting a particular beer afterward.
It seems that beer is the new wine as there are books about blending food and beer.
There needs to be new food research. Blending food with ones illness and stages thereof.
Beef bourguignon with anxiety, a light salad with a dark depression cycle, a milk shake with OCD etc.
I want to rant on about the silliness of something being the new something else, Beer is the New Wine, but its quite a popular current linguistic notion and I will use it too.
Blogging is good.
by
Robin Hall
I am watching a Food Network or Travel Channel show, Epicurious. The chef is making food with beer AND connecting a particular beer afterward.
It seems that beer is the new wine as there are books about blending food and beer.
There needs to be new food research. Blending food with ones illness and stages thereof.
Beef bourguignon with anxiety, a light salad with a dark depression cycle, a milk shake with OCD etc.
I want to rant on about the silliness of something being the new something else, Beer is the New Wine, but its quite a popular current linguistic notion and I will use it too.
Blogging is good.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Are Religionists Proud Of All Their Killing?
Are Religionists Proud Of All Their Killing?
by
Robin Hall
This note is triggered by today's news about suicide bombings in the UK.
Some low grade bombs where only the suicide bomber dies, that is dangerous and upsetting enough but what if these insane people finally hire a good bomb maker? Will the UK's reaction be the same? Unlikely. Would our reaction in the US be the same? Unlikely.
The difference between a dud / low grade bomb to serious explosive could be a half pound of some substance or other or just a more knowledgeable bomb maker.
Now I fully support suicide. No rational society should MANDATE its citizens cannot die with dignity.
That said, I also support suicide bombing as a social statement BUT not with the purpose of killing anyone but oneself, otherwise the phrase, suicide bomber, is just wrong. I have no good choice here. Hmm. Insane, perverted person wanting to kill others who is so alienated from society that s/he REALLY JUST WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BUT CLOAKES THEMSELVES IN RELIGION TO FEEL BETTER Bomber? OK that is too long.
Here is my suggestion. Call a press conference in a very open stadium, field or the like. Make your statement to the press while you are at a safe distance from everyone and either set yourself on fire or blow you and you alone up.
For myself, I would really listen to someone willing to do this for their cause. I would want to know what their grievance was. I would listen to their message. I would write my government's officials if that was the request for a better world.
Only one person gets killed. A HUGE message goes out.
However when these murderers slaughter others, the group members should simply be put down like rabid dogs. Period.
Next, their keepers, their "cell," everyone involved in the sort of tragic upbringing and training that would produce these rabid murderers, ALL of these people should be put down too.
Maybe then some healing can happen. Its my contention as well, that these murderous groups should be dealt with by whatever over-religion is involved. Muslims clean up their own. Christians clean up their own etc. Something in the over-religion caused their own militants to slaughter. Its time for them to take out the trash.
Can you even imagine a culture / religion which is so alienated / deluded / perverted where a doctor, among the wealthiest of technocrats in any country, would plot the destruction of society rather than work to make the world better? AND most of the time there is simply no statement involved like, hey, leave our country or we need food, help us.
Its beyond me. I maintain that religion per se is at fault in the destruction of the world today and that it could ruin everything decent we have worked so hard to build.
The christian catholic IRA, the American separatists / skinheads and others wish to claim "spirit in the sky" acceptance of THEIR views. Can all the religions lay claim to acceptance of THEIR view and be sane or correct?
And isn't it men's writings rather than some divine intervention that really is the cause? Some men get together, write stories about how to live, maybe have some food edicts for their era, health items really, then they foist the stories, edicts and a religious hierarchy on to everyone and state this is how to live OR ELSE. The OR ELSE for some religions is death to you if you don't bow down to THEIR spirit in the sky notion.
No modern terrorist attack has been claimed by atheists and no brand of religion has had its main group even try to control the so-called radicals in its midst. One wonders if the radicals only expand on what the main body of religionists really feel?
Society in general is under attack by religionists. These religionists actually run most of society in the civilized world. What are we to learn? My view is that religion is dangerous. Religionists are dangerous.
Perhaps its time to collect ourselves and click the delete button on religions or put the brakes on it: stop all government subsidies TO churches, that is churches pay tax on income like any business.
Actually separate church and state. Encourage all to take part in the world regardless their age, sex or other items and IF a faction of some religion starts blowing people up, start taxing their church to pay for the damages with restitution to families.
Folks, religion is killing us. Think about that.
by
Robin Hall
This note is triggered by today's news about suicide bombings in the UK.
Some low grade bombs where only the suicide bomber dies, that is dangerous and upsetting enough but what if these insane people finally hire a good bomb maker? Will the UK's reaction be the same? Unlikely. Would our reaction in the US be the same? Unlikely.
The difference between a dud / low grade bomb to serious explosive could be a half pound of some substance or other or just a more knowledgeable bomb maker.
Now I fully support suicide. No rational society should MANDATE its citizens cannot die with dignity.
That said, I also support suicide bombing as a social statement BUT not with the purpose of killing anyone but oneself, otherwise the phrase, suicide bomber, is just wrong. I have no good choice here. Hmm. Insane, perverted person wanting to kill others who is so alienated from society that s/he REALLY JUST WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BUT CLOAKES THEMSELVES IN RELIGION TO FEEL BETTER Bomber? OK that is too long.
Here is my suggestion. Call a press conference in a very open stadium, field or the like. Make your statement to the press while you are at a safe distance from everyone and either set yourself on fire or blow you and you alone up.
For myself, I would really listen to someone willing to do this for their cause. I would want to know what their grievance was. I would listen to their message. I would write my government's officials if that was the request for a better world.
Only one person gets killed. A HUGE message goes out.
However when these murderers slaughter others, the group members should simply be put down like rabid dogs. Period.
Next, their keepers, their "cell," everyone involved in the sort of tragic upbringing and training that would produce these rabid murderers, ALL of these people should be put down too.
Maybe then some healing can happen. Its my contention as well, that these murderous groups should be dealt with by whatever over-religion is involved. Muslims clean up their own. Christians clean up their own etc. Something in the over-religion caused their own militants to slaughter. Its time for them to take out the trash.
Can you even imagine a culture / religion which is so alienated / deluded / perverted where a doctor, among the wealthiest of technocrats in any country, would plot the destruction of society rather than work to make the world better? AND most of the time there is simply no statement involved like, hey, leave our country or we need food, help us.
Its beyond me. I maintain that religion per se is at fault in the destruction of the world today and that it could ruin everything decent we have worked so hard to build.
The christian catholic IRA, the American separatists / skinheads and others wish to claim "spirit in the sky" acceptance of THEIR views. Can all the religions lay claim to acceptance of THEIR view and be sane or correct?
And isn't it men's writings rather than some divine intervention that really is the cause? Some men get together, write stories about how to live, maybe have some food edicts for their era, health items really, then they foist the stories, edicts and a religious hierarchy on to everyone and state this is how to live OR ELSE. The OR ELSE for some religions is death to you if you don't bow down to THEIR spirit in the sky notion.
No modern terrorist attack has been claimed by atheists and no brand of religion has had its main group even try to control the so-called radicals in its midst. One wonders if the radicals only expand on what the main body of religionists really feel?
Society in general is under attack by religionists. These religionists actually run most of society in the civilized world. What are we to learn? My view is that religion is dangerous. Religionists are dangerous.
Perhaps its time to collect ourselves and click the delete button on religions or put the brakes on it: stop all government subsidies TO churches, that is churches pay tax on income like any business.
Actually separate church and state. Encourage all to take part in the world regardless their age, sex or other items and IF a faction of some religion starts blowing people up, start taxing their church to pay for the damages with restitution to families.
Folks, religion is killing us. Think about that.
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