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Friday, January 06, 2006
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I'm trying to return....
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Sunday, November 13, 2005
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| I heard this one recently in the news from George W. Bush. Have I heard this phrase historically?
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln |
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| I'm just in the sixth grade. Is it time for recess? Let's have some fun.
I study some history. Some recent news has suggested that 37% of our population is in favor of our president. Really? I'm just a kid. Let me try some configurable things....There may be some arguments. Bring 'em on. I'm very polite to anyone and I have a few more on my team these days. The 37% re-elected Bush. Now We're all stuck with him.
When I was a kid I used to watch a guy named Johnny Carson late at night. I remember some things that he said. If you ask any ten people's opinions you'll definitely receive at least 15 answers. Johnny said, "Anyone that is polled(sic) might be painful." I'm not sure in my time what his line meant.
I have borrowed the following partial ranking list of American presidents from |
| Authors of "RATING THE PRESIDENTS: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders, From the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Corrupt," they polled hundreds of academics and historians throughout the U.S. and Europe and rated presidents in terms of leadership, political skill, appointments, accomplishments and crisis management and character and integrity. |
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" —George W. Bush |
| Possibly Popular Historical American Presidents |
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Abraham Lincoln |
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Franklin D Roosevelt |
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George Washington |
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Thomas Jefferson |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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Woodrow Wilson |
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Harry S. Truman |
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Andrew Jackson |
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ETC. |
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ETC. |
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ETC. |
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George TW* Bush | |
Someone who is a military expert out there please tell me that this guy with four stars on his shoulder is not Joseph E. Martz. That couldn't be but if it is then this long-time picture is going to General Fargo. |
| I might advance to the seventh grade. I've heard the following news:
Almost six in ten now say that Bush is not honest, and a similar number say that his administration does not have "high ethical" standards - whatever that question really might mean. During his re-election bid in 2004, Bush skillfully wove the public's trust of him and faith in his handling of the terror threat into a winning campaign over Democrat John Kerry.
I've heard from my friends that maybe Kerry made a lot of mistakes too during his own election. Trust me - I'm going to listen to my friends a little bit closer. Maybe I'll vote for someone who is better whatever you might imagine that that means?
Am I afraid of our country being attacked by Bush's so called Iraqis terrorists? Those people never attacked us in our entire history. Did we attack their country - and who might be responsible for this act of monstrosity? I'm just a kid. Can anyone answer this simple question?
I have put Bushie in the number 43 position in the above table. In our next presidential election Bush will drop to number 44. I hope that that decreasing statistic will continue infinitely folks. |
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Friday, November 11, 2005
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Welcome Back Chefs |
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Thanksgiving is Away Awhile |
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But What in the World is Dracaena Fragrans? |
| I usually entertain others as well as myself for writing multi-part blogs. When I write another book maybe this blog will stop - just not today.
I have asked a few friends who claim to be chefs or as least "cooks" to bake me some Poaceae Triticum. Some, if not most, fail with my simple intent to be successful. |
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Horses won't go down stairs nor will they venture down corn plant rows - horses are just that simple. (I'll tell you more about them maybe later. I'll tell you how to approach these relatively large creatures if you desire.) We will start this story much simpler.
Awhile back I did what I despised from anyone on any farm. I'm an old locksmith and you can't keep me out by trying to prevent me with anything called a lock. On this particular property I didn't pick any locks. There was just a simple chain on the gate that I desired to get through - and passed the "No Trespassing - Private property sign". I would have probably been shot. |
| I cantered down at the base of the Waianae mountains riding a white mare (lio) and met the corn farmer in an old truck who had extended his arm out of his window saying something to the extent of, "Whoa Paniolo!"
The good guys always rode the white horses.
My employees have seen you up here before. "Do you know that you are trespassing?" (Later he spoke entirely in the Hawaiian language.)
"Ae, ike mau (yes, we know)" There is no thievery involved here (ka 'aihue; I responded to him speaking entirely in Hawaiian as well.).
"What do you want?" he asked.
I reached for my miserly wallet and retrieved a total of the three dollars that I had with me and offered those three dollars to him. "My horse loves the stream up there." I said motioning to the Waianae mountains." There's a dollar for our trespassing and the other two are wanted to pay for some corn to be eaten at my party today".
This local man went back to his nasty older truck and brought forth his brown bag lunch. He said to me, "Stick around." From his own lunch he offered his very own apple to my horse. She loves those things and strangely, he knows it too. He knows as well as I do to watch those horse's teeth near his own fingers.
The horse licked her lips just then. "Does that mean she likes apples?"
"Well, yes she does but that isn't what a horse means by doing what she did. It's psychological - and that one is a good one." "That's a beautiful Quarter. How did you get passed the gate?" he asked.
I responded using gestures with my hands indicating that she just jumps over...."Her name is Mist. (Two of the letters in that name don't exist in the Hawaiian alphabet. 'Ohu was the best that I could manage for the farmer.)
How many in your party today?" he asked.
"Only six." "Wait a minute." he said and promptly pulled out one of the relatively larger pocket knives that I've ever seen. He walked into his own rows and came back with an ear of corn which he promptly chopped into three pieces on his old truck hood.
"Try this one." he said while handing back my own three dollars. "Go get whatever you want in my rows. You can come to the stream any time you want to." |
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| We each ate a third of that corn ear raw and they were delicious. The proportion of sugar to starch in new raw corn is 80%-20%. In three or four days that exact proportion is exactly reversed. I cook these things about three minutes - that's it. Some people like salt and butter. Would you like to try what I term corn mush? Drop in on any Kentucky Fried Chicken and have some of their corn. |
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Lunch Break |
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Let's Make it a Party |
| I can present myself in a number of ways. There have occurred a few republican future election contenders who have my attention.... Following my last blog, today's blog will calm down to a slightly more comfortable version.
I'll work toward keeping this one a little bit more edited or shall I say - compendious.
I have worked in a place called the PACOM. Originally I met two or three others who had joined me from somewhere else. We all worked as janitors. We just swept up and cleaned the bathrooms after the military folks occupied various locations.
I recalled that as a child, any of us once appropriated various societal based "clubs". Even to this day, these clubs are commendably very popular. Occasionally we call these strange customs "card game parties" even today for example.
I originally joined my military unit a few years ago. Someone conjured a thought of joining one another at a Friday lunch meeting. Any consuetude of brown bag lunches was intended to be flushed.
We went everywhere for lunch in Hawaii. Originally we three participants were very popular. A lot of people were desired to be included in the "boys" Friday "lunch party". Everyone seemed to need for an excuse to alleviate tedium.
"Let's get out of "the office" for at least once a week".
A certain charisma among employees prompting personal conversation in a comfortable "consuming" environment was always welcomed. Custom popularity became kind of a problem. The population of our little weekly lunch "club" increased uncontrollably.
I was very comfortable regardless of any so-called problems. We were comprised of mostly mature adults. We made our own club habit of eating at "nice" places. Not McDonalds. When people ordered something for $13.95 and an iced-tea then they generally just tossed in a Jefferson. Simple. The waiters always welcomed us back the same way. No bill ever came up financially short.
I advise to make that same lunch-club popular in your own company. This may sound bizarre but in a certain way it is an example of the same societal advances by 1954's William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
This was all beautiful if I was forced to live one way or another....Lets work to make our employment schedules a little more enjoyable.
In my opinion, it was just fun - whatever "worked out". Occasionally in our world we call this exercise "team development".
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Sunday, November 06, 2005
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What does the Combination of Sex and Booze Mean? |
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Or Anything? We Call it Advertisement |
| Lately I have been having a little bit of trouble on my whole blog deal. Regarding my blog, Was there ever any contract which required anything from me? I don't recall ever having been paid. Never mind anyway. This one was very difficult for me. I have never declared nor politically themed either Republic or Democratic (or any other Party). That really was not my point today. My gripe is something that I consider a little bit simpler and, in some ways, in my opinion, a little bit more embarrassing for me. Perhaps this whole deal is kind of embarrassing for most people. I honestly don't know.
I've been doing a lot of my usual investigation but today I think I'll cut the scientific facts back quite a bit. In blog cases I've discovered that emotional openness is actually a lot more popular. I've looked at some psychological or even neurologist papers that are available wherever you want to look at the subliminal effects on anyone's brain. Believe me, there is a lot of this kind of thing out there. Scary too! None of us can escape what comprises our minds. We can eliminate anything that annoys any of us by simply ignoring them. That's a joke isn't it? The business of advertising is making anyone a fortune.
We have an intuitive view of perception that is simple and compelling. We assume that energy from our environment tickles our sensory organs, which then just deliver it as images to the brain. The objects exist out in reality, so we see them. Then we think and feel and act based on what we perceive. A word called "television" was first used in 1900 (originally from the circa 1830's). Imagine the changes possible in our environments?
I have recently hosted some European visitors and we've all had some wonderful experiences. Some people might incur some interesting or perhaps questionable questions in rich's presence. I have to admit that I don't spend a lot of time in any European countries but I did have a little bit of interest between our own country's difference in our own entertainment or perhaps commercial traditions regarding nudity. My questions were met with no affluence and my witnesses did disclose that nudity in European advertisements as well as anything else that I might name was not either common or uncommon.
I don't get much television at all. I don't get any European television at all. Too bad on both cases but I do believe ideas or conversation by my witnesses in this case. In my opinions I have not ever been offended by any European advertisements involving nudity. It's just that simple. I've had thoughts about some of their programs or advertisements that I felt were just "cute". There is no disrespect intended for the rest of my world. Somehow Americans have grown to be assumed prude-like basics. Well, we'll figure that theory of "realism" out shortly. |
Soften your own inhalations - Salem in 1961 |
We'll pretty much include some of out television history in my theme today. Do you remember these cigarette advertisements? All television cigarette commercials concluded on January 2nd, 1971. |
You could take this same commercial today, substitute a feminine hygiene product for the cigarette, and it would work perfectly as well. |
| Now that we have communicated my general theme, let's perhaps get interested in why my general blogs have been so slow in their own development? I think that if you might generalize rich P&S as a prude might be a mistake. Simplistically and/or not implicitly rich is just another bad boy! |
This protest didn't stop in 2001. It gets a lot worse. |
In December 2001, NBC was to become the first broadcast network to air hard liquor commercials. They had entered into a multi-million dollar contract with Guiness UDV to run four months of public service announcements about drinking before advertising a product on NBC. Guiness makes Bailey's Irish Cream (more later), Smirnoff vodka, Johnny Walker scotch, Jose Cuervo tequila, Captain Morgan rum, Crown Royal Canadian whisky and Tanqueray gin. |
NAAAPI mobilized organizations around the country to form a national campaign. The campaign, called "Stop Liquor Ads on NBC" includes, (CSPI), (PA-MADD), (BADD), (APHA), (PIRE), (PAUD), (NAEMSP) and (PDFD) among others from Berkley. |
| When I was fourteen or fifteen some of my girlfriends with "nice asses" viewed Levi's commercials that combined Levi's product with some form of sexual implicit actuality. Do you understand that Levi is still in great business? Let's continue from right there. Cute girls sell a lot of things. Can we get rid of any commercials or pornography that we object to? Yes we can - but doing just a simple thing like ignoring them is frankly impossible for our majority. You do know that don't you?
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| You can accuse me of reading too much into things and I guarantee that I'll get myself into trouble all of the time but when did porno directors start making commercials for Bailey's Irish Cream? Get real folks! Frankly, I'm disgusted with this deal. Can America be any more vulgar or sordid?
The other days I have caught commercials from this company's latest and I can't find a copy of the ad that I'm referring to. I have two theories; either this ad is very new or has been hidden on the net - you figure it out - not me.
The ad that I'm referring to features a party in which a man is about to throw out an empty bottle of Bailey's. But "No" says the gorgeous woman reclined sexily on the nearby couch together with just a seductive glance, she'll take that last drop. Are you catching on so far? Oh baby, will she ever. |
I couldn't find the correct commercial referred to. This is the best that I could provide for today's theme. |
The man positions his phallus (excuse me, "bottle") over the woman's eager open kisser. I know alcohol ads and sexual innuendo go hand in hand, but this one didn't exactly go for subtlety.
It couldn't have been more blatant had the potentially nude woman actually gotten down on her hands and knees to accept the "bottle's" creamy product. Don't try and explain this ad to your children - they'll learn eventually. Yep, whether you want it or not - it's coming - so to speak.
If you've read my story about porno and booze then maybe we can explain why a slightly smarter guy named Cheney might be elected next time. Do you know why? Please re-read this article for some details. | |
| Do you need a job? Do you produce the same quality product that I have just described? There are millions of companies lined up to pay you a lot of money for delivering similar products.
P.S. A previous sexy commercial from Tabasco was here as well. This one wasn't as bad. |
11:22:04 AM
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
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What is Halloween? |
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Is it Time? |
| I've recently provided my blog about a visiting friend from California. Now I'll see if I can't tie this story together with my last one. Is that weird? I have the same problem as most people do in Salonville; I can't make my mind stop working.
Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a celebration of? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Wait a minute.
The word "Halloween," actually began in the Catholic Church. By the way, where did Catholics begin? It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" - or "All Saints Day", is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. Let's go back a bit further than even Jesus or some vacation that we call Christmas.
From the 5th century BC, Celtic "Ireland", began a new year on November 1st. The so-called holiday was called Samhain (pronounced sow-en). I have read one story that exists about the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year and who have come back in search of living bodies to possess for whatever reason. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living. Do any of we religious "embellished" people believe in this sort of idea anymore?
I came along in life a little bit after the B.C. epoch. Here is my paltry "Halloween" story.
I grew up as a member of a somewhat famous Methodist Church. The keiki (children) had a very special place in the rather large basement of that church. The kids built most of it in order to primarily exclude the attending of Sunday meetings - or sort of. We had a very special person that built a lot of the recording station downstairs - right amongst the pool tables, the coke machine and the duo-sex (or perhaps unisex termed) sleep along "parties". Do these occasions still happen in modern churches? We always had some nice visitors; The Beach Boys or Reggae famous Bob Marley. They and a lot of others were there too. I met them all. Maybe that's why I first picked up a guitar. Coming up, I met someone else there too.
She was a medical doctor - women M.D's were somewhat relatively rare employment in those days - but she did work in Africa occasionally. She brought to us some horrible medical-example films of people who she was treating in other countries. Can you frighten children any more effectively? (Probably not on any well-known vacations.) We had all met together prior to a Halloween occasion. The doctor suggested that we brought cans or miniature milk cartons. She gave us all an emblem sticker that enclosed our hand pieces. What we were looking or begging for were pennies or nickels in those days. Instead of any candy, we just collected the pennies which were eventually donated to a place called UNICEF (1946 - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). Well, that was that. No candy for us on any Halloween.
I did sort of grow up and went to a college called the University of California at Irvine. I spent a long time graduating that place with two degrees One of them was a pre-med called simply biology). I needed to enroll in what we called 26 quarter units for every quarter during what we might call college for each and every quarter. In order to do that legally I was required to obtain a dean's signature from somewhere.
During a strange year of our history I ended up investigating a brand new thing called the medical school at the UCI. The dean of that school was the same doctor that I had met many years before.
"I think I know you from somewhere. Is your name Richard (something)?"
Then she asked, "Why are you taking this number of credits?"
I replied that "I just work hard.". She said, "Hmmm".
Yep. I've used that phrase quite a bit. Sometimes people think that a person might just be preposterous thinking by including that vocal time-out in any conversation. Perhaps that in itself is an equally laughable thought?
My God. This woman knew me and still knows me. Does any realize how difficult getting into virtually any medical school is with whatever grades you're pulling with? Duh! I was good as enrolled! Does that conversation sound greedy?. Here's the deal for you or preferably your own children: 10% of your own worth is because of how smart or educated that you think or interpret that you are. In my opinion, the best 90% of our lives' experiences are the friends that we will or might know. Your friends know what the best parts of you are and they can help you get some important things that you do feel are important.
Ain't that great? Yep, I still remember this experience. Aid na keiki (the children) for having a wonderful Halloween this Monday. Neither they nor Halloweens last forever....
P.S. Yeah, I still play the guitar and paint a lot of things. I still own a professional pool table - bring your spare cash. I can still pick any lock in about three minutes or wire any electronics that you might dream up. Where in the hell did I pick up all of these ideas? |
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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Is Everyone out there on Vacation? |
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| One of my old friends who come from California has recently visited me here in Hawaii. It was the first time that she has ever been to Hawaii. Some from Hawaii will probably kill me but I will recommend the same thing to everyone.
Today's blog really isn't a major deal but here it is. If you ever want to be a tourist, don't be! Wherever you're interested in - go to someone that has your friends already there. Your friends know where all the cool stuff is. By hat route the so-called tourists will save a lot of bucks too. Can anyone show me anything that I don't know about your states? I believe that you are able to do that. Will you?
She was simply amazed by some of her own beach visits in Hawaii. She said, "she has never seen anything like these Hawaiian beaches anywhere in America."
Okay, her talks are just lies. Trust me. The beaches here are just horrible. Something else was something a little more interesting brought to me by her from my own backyard. This was a strange tree to her. She asked, "Can you actually eat these things?" |
My Backyard |
Oh yes! I mention fruits such as apples or bananas and everyone can buy them in their own grocery stores. Does anyone get these things in personal purchases or perhaps from your own backyards? |
My Dining Room |
| In Hawaii, we call these things Averrhoa carambola or perhaps "star fruits". They probably originated in Sri Lanka and the Moluccas, and have been cultivated in southeast Asia and Malaysia. Can you tell why we call these delicious fruits "five-pointed stars"? |
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| Special note: Folks with end disease renal problems - stay away from these fruits. I just pass on what I know. That's all. I love these fruits. Have a nice day folks. |
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