"All that I need is the air that I breathe
And all that I need are things I don't need
And nothing really matters but what matter to me-hee-hee
And who are you, like me?"
Blind Melon
What a shame that this band isn't around anymore because they certainly kicked ass and were just hitting their stride as far as churning out good music. But I digress since it isn't really the point.
I woke up this morning to a mini-flood in my basement. Nothing catastrophic & hopefully unrelated to global warming, it's just the grind of home ownership. Due to the heavy rain, melting snow and unknown events my gutter had come undone. Quick fix and some wee towels later I was on my way.
However, on the way to work I can't even stand to listen to the radio because everything is depressing and I forgot the cord to my FM transmitter...
I forgot to bring water or anything to drink and subsequently suffered a bout of historic cotton mouth on my daily drive from peace to chaos...
I want a dog and my wife doesn't want to get one...she's allergic and the only dog I can get is a froo froo dog that is hypo-allergenic. I love my wife so I'll suffer this indignity too but it is what I thought about on my way to work.
I'll leave the being at work portion of my day out of this because it is far too boring and I think you probably got the point. Life sucks sometimes. It's hard enough so why make it harder. Why dwell...
Turn on some music...not to be like a myspace page but right now I am listening to the Killers. It's the little things that get us through...keep that in mind.
Realize how kind people can be...I was watching "Bullshit" last night and they did a piece on pets. Specifically the piece was poking fun at Americans for the money they waste on animals. I see it differently. In other countries, like some we are at war with (or close to being at war with) they regularly shoot unmarked animals in the street. They openly beat them and refuse to let them ride in cars or be indoors (even seeing eye dogs). In China and Korea (this isn't urban legend) they regularly eat dogs, cooked alive, the thinking being that they retain their taste better this way. But not in America...what other country is as kind to animals as the people of these United States. I'm not trying to be PC or all PETA on you, I eat meat. I'm just saying that you need to look for these things...
As we enter the High Holy Days of St. Patrick, I like to try and remind myself of all the great things about being alive. Feel blessed for what I have and not what I don't have...
I can't control the fact that my governor is trying to use short term gimmicks to correct the deficit created by years of political corruption...corruption that has made my taxes higher than pretty much anywhere else in the country.
Fagetta Bout It! Just an aside but when New Jersey was trying to find a new motto I voted for, "New Jersey, You got a problem with that?"
It ain't me, babe. If you want to drop negativity don't bother today. I'll just turn up the volume.
For it's the High Holy Days...I want to be "pos-uh-teev" because I am pretty sure during the next few weeks I'll do something without thinking, "What would Jesus do?"
It'll be bad, I'll probably be naked painted green in handcuffs in the back of a squad car thinking, "I don't want to hear another thing about Anna Nicole unless she's naked and giving out lap dances." Yeah, that's right, I want a lap dance from Anna Nicole's dead corpse or at least that's what I'll be thinking.
If I punch your girlfriend in the face, try to remember that this is a cultural thing. Remind yourself that liberals are willing to change our national language to Spanish so if I want to tell you to, "Mama La Pinga" you best forgive me. I'm just being cultural.
Green beer aside, tonight my St.Peter's Peacocks take on the Canisius Golden Griffins in the first round of the MAAC tournament. Please root for St. Peter's as they aren't very good. Say a little prayer for them...Rock out with your 'cock out, if you will.
And don't be so negative. Do what Bob Marley said, "sometimes you must be positive...be nice."
And everything will be okay.
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Considering that you are one of the last true believers, Im surprised that you dont have a MD car stereo. Perhaps you should look into that to avoid future tuneage outage.
And do me a favor... if thats freeedom rock...louderer it dude!
Louder it...now there's some bad grammar. I can dig it.
Is it okay to say "same difference?" I suppose it is but something about it seems wrong.
Like the pigs the other day 'bro...I actually have one pig and can't find the other (the horror). Someone needs to come up with a pigs in a box game so this never happens to anyone again...ya' know the bigger picture.
Twice today I heard mention of the liberals that want to change the national language to Spanish but nobody has identified who these people are. Any leads, guys? Are they involved with the Garden Gnome Liberation Front?
The pet thing is a good point fly, my friends spend forty bucks a week on gourmet pet food and get puppy manicures. Just not my thing I guess.
But why is it bad for Asians to eat dogs but ok for Americans to sledgehammer a cow in the head? Or snap the neck of an animal? Or skin it alive because it makes a better pelt? Or boil it alive on their anniversary at their local chain restaurant?
I dont think using "cute" to determine animal abuse is sound logic. Animal abuse happens everywhere, and what people eat and what they abuse is culture based. A cat or a cow, an animal is an animal. A pet or an entree is in the eye of the biased beholder.
Fly what the f? did you give up weed for lent or something? You're depressing.
that was a really excellent post, mookie. (ignore rhino, seems you are the only one here with a heart).
here's a nice thing that made me feel good today: i've been looking around for a brother/sister (or brother/brother or sister/sister) pair of cats to keep me company in my new "country" house and to replace my recently, but dearly, departed kitty.
so, i found the sweetest little kittens and put myself on a waiting list to get them (their names were 'chip and dale' or 'ozzie and harriet' or some goofy thing like that.
but anyway, the issue with these kittens was that they had tested positive for feline leukemia, and the owner of the cats wanted to make sure the cats had a second test to confirm whether or not they really were positive or not.
well, the cats had the second test and they were deemed "positive." BUT the bottom line is that when that was discovered, NO ONE took themselves off the waiting list, AND a couple of people ended up offering the cats' owner money for them ... which the owner did not want, she wanted to just find a good home for them. AND despite the owner's rejection of money, a BIDDING WAR erupted over these little kittens with leukemia!!
i'm told they will be going to a neighbor of the owner, who it turns out is a veterinary assistant anyway, so a better home could probably not have been found.
so, you are right. sometimes everything does turns out ok. people are not all heartless and cruel.
well, at least such was the case for these sick little kittens.
There is a town in Central NY that is infamous for eating cats during WWI and the deuce. Nobody considered this to be an urban legend but rather took it as fact. The only difference -- it was the europeans that were to be blamed, namely the Tyrolians and Italians; so those were the restaurants to avoid.
I used to eat at a Chinese joint in town a few times a week as they had a killer all you can eat for $5. Never thoght twice about until I picked up the morning paper one day to images of hanging cats in the restaurant's freezer.
Obviously they were shut down, but opened up a year later and me and my friends were the first ones in line. Always got a kick out of ordering the cat lo mein thereafter and the panicked reaction of the waitress when I did so.
If I ate cat, which odds are that I did....then it was delicious.
that is just SO disgusting.
Lily, Anita and Donkey sort of made the point I was trying to make. It's not whether or not torturing animals is the case but the fact that it's even an issue, an argument, a conversation. This is what makes America great. Do you think in a poorer country if they could raise cows for the duration of their lives in small pens and feed them with golgi apparatus, they wouldn't? Do you think they'd care? No, but Americans do...they care either way because we are a better place to live...the best place and that's what made me feel better today.
I am trying to not be depressing, Rhino...sorry buddy.
PS - No, I didn't give that up for Lent or anything else.
You didn't give up anything for lent?
I'm not catholic, but if i was i would give something up! In fact, maybe i'll give something up right now. Any suggestions?
I wasnt trying to make any political or moral statements but rather that cat in a spicy garlic sauce tastes pretty frickin good.
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Im currently reading King Rat and the King and gang are at the point where they are breeding rats to sell as meat unbeknownst to their customers, and Ive found myself debating in my head whether I would be able to eat rat in a non POW situation; and I dont think I could bring myself to do so considering their rep as disease carriers -- although if presented with the opportunity to eat cat again I would do so without hesitation.
Didnt Ms Fly say she ate dog on her last China trip?
rhino, you're not catholic?
hmmm ... i wonder what made me think you were.
Nope i'm not catholic. But i'm willing to give something up. I have a friend who gives up smoking cigarettes every year but i don't smoke (anything) i don't want to give up drinking because although i'm not a big drinker i'm visiting some friends next week who are big wine drinkers and i'm a social drinker. Or is that the point? It's supposed to be tough right? Anybody have any ideas or examples of things people give up for Lent?
I don't think i could eat rat unless i was desperate. Great book though.
Arent you always complaining to me that knitting has started to dominate your time, maybe you could give that up.
Anita you thought that bcuz he is a spic.
I don't think I've eaten rat but I have had White Castle so who knows?
I didn't say i didn't give anything up...I just didn't give that up...
"I'm so high, you so high. I be getting blunted til the day that I die."
Anyway, I gave up fast food. I tried to give up the "N" word but it was just too hard. Sorry God...
I would give up the N word except that the government is trying to force me to give it up now so i'm thinking i'll start using it to spite them!
well, how about just not eating meat on fridays. tater tots and fish sticks for dinner.
... oh, and aren't all hispanics catholic?
I don't eat meat on Friday's but I eat more chicken than any man ever seen.
I didn't go to mass on Ash Wednesday this year so I just waited until my wife fell asleep and I rubbed my forehead against hers in a sign of the cross like motion.
Fly your point is whatever you say it is as you are the writer of the post but my point is just that its weird to judge eating cats in another country if people eat things here-same thing,just perhaps people are not emotional about pigs like they are about kitties.
I guess in between the finger wagging I missed the patriotic leit motifery...
I thought Rhino was a Catholic too perhaps the type who says it but treats it like a buffet. Take what you want, ignore whats problematic. Make a big fuss about things that involve parties. Like my Irish Catholic relatives who all married Italians and have to rent a stadium for a kid's First Communion.
Rhino, give up carbons.
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