Remembering September 11

U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With   Humor about tragedy does NOT make me insensitive!

I woke up to the alarm radio, which kept repeating the news into the 30 minutes I was snoozing. At first I thought this was an Orson Wells type prank. Then I saw the Twin Towers destruction on TV happen over and over again!

At noon I had an errand to bring something to the Richmond store before heading to work in Alameda. I got there just as they were closing the store, saying all the Pearle stores nation-wide would be closed. Again not believing the severity of the tragedy, we brought my things inside and I attempted to call Alameda [I did not had not started using a cell phone yet]. Seeing other retail places closing as well, I went home to see any updates, only to see the Towers destroyed many more times than Tokyo had ever been destroyed!

There has been many conspiracy theories about this series of events. The most common recurring plot is that officials in the United States orchestrated it to justify a “war on terrorism.” That the passengers in the two planes were cadavers, the crew having bailed out during the radar blackout. That what hit the pentagon was really a cruise missile. The real casualties were “collateral.” It validated invading another country, and the Patriot Act.

“War is good for business” Just like the entry of the US into World War II, industry should have been boosted in a nation in a Depression [actually other nations were too]. Big business hoped to capitalize in the “rebuilding” of another country. Jobs here should have increased. But it backfired. Nine years and the “war on terror” is still running [officially it ended years ago]. Our troops can’t even be equipped properly because congress is quibbling over funding. Why did it fail? Simple. One, the ones we are ”liberating” don’t want us there. Two, The soldiers cant tell the enemy from the innocents. Sound familiar? This is not a war on terror anymore than Vietnam was a war against communism.

I strongly apologize for any I have offended with my views and comments; for opening up any wounds. I was not born yet in WWII, I was a child during Vietnam, and the 9/11 conspiracies I have only read about, NOT saying I believe in!
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A Dog And His Boy

Comet, my pointer mix was my best friend for many years. As a pup of a couple of weeks, he was brought along, with one sibling, to our house by my uncle. I was to make a choice. Laying them down on the living room floor, the first thing his brother Snoopy did was go for the snacks uncle brought. Comet decided to explore the house, knowing it would be his. Wobbling on stubby legs thru the dining room to the kitchen, he plopped down in what would be his corner for the next few years until he outgrew it. Coincidentally, it was at the foot of Dad’s chair in the kitchen. By the time my sister was born, we were family.
[I had named him after Supergirl’s horse in the comics- btw, he was once a man]

When we tell relatives and other people in the Philippines how we treat Comet, they say he is so fortunate. We never let him sleep outside. When Dad would come home from work at 2am, he would check on Comet to see if he was sleeping in his favorite spot and if he finished his food for the night. If not, Dad would calmly ask me in the morning what time I brought his food down. His subtle way of asking me if i fed him early enough. After Christmas, Dad brought home a prime rib leftover from the hotel he worked at, and put it in front of Comet. He looked at us and then down in his plate, then us again…looking for his usual meal of chicken adobo. He let it sit there for hours before eating it that night.

Comet was a friendly one, never hurt anyone. I would wrestle with him, hose him down for his wash, tug at his tail or trip him over. He would bark in protest, maybe. Even when agitated, and I would experimentally put my arm at his open jaws, he would never bite me. My sister, even as a baby was able to hug Comet with no fear. Anyone coming over could, even the young enthusiastic ones who almost choke him. His favorite spot in the house was next to my Dad at his kitchen chair. They would watch TV, along with a parakeet that flys to sit at Dad's soulder, or at Comet's back.  Classmates who came over to the house were well treated with a jump hug, after a few full speed kamikaze runs around you first. But never turn your back on him. He will jump and hold on to your y waist as you try to walk away. He makes a terrible guard dog, would probably catch you on the way out. But he will bark when there is someone around! His senses included the backyard [squirrels], the neighbor’s driveway, and the front door [acts like a second doorbell]. The whole back of the house [kitchen, basement, backyard] was his!

We never put him through formal training, and was too lazy to do tricks. I said he was lazy. Not entirely true. The backyard is too small for him to use his full potential. Once in a while Comet would start to walk around the perimeter of the backyard. After a few sniffs at the tomatoes and other plants, he would sprint and eventually come to a full run around the yard. I was the lazy one. I didn’t walk him daily. So out in the street with the leash in hand, he would show his excitement by dragging me to his favorite front yards around the block. Sometimes Comet would end up missing. Jumped the back gate. It was my job to find him. We have a very long block, near level on one half, incline on the other. Here’s the routine. I come close enough, he runs away, I chase him until I can’t run anymore. Comet stops and comes back to within ten feet of me. Repeat. End only if he comes back within five feet. I grab him and drag him home. One time I wasn’t there to chase him. I was at school. Came home to see him with a cast and a metal post in one leg. He had run across Park Blvd to greet Mom after she got off the bus from work. During the after work rush!

I said my goodbyes to Comet and the family after graduating high school. Left for the Philippines for seven years. A few years out, I got the inevitable news. He died of age. My sister had cried, I heard. I mourned while showing relatives pictures of time past, eyes red in those photos from the flash…realizing later that meant his eyes were really deep, emotional. They mourned with me, having got to know Comet from our letters including him in family stories. He is buried in the yard he loved. Under the tomatoes he loved the most. Beneath an awning of grape vines. Next to Dad’s tool shed.
 
RIP Comet, the lazy shooting star.

Religion was invented by man (and other tales from the crypt)

In the past I have posted many things regarding religion. I am a Roman Catholic by Baptism at birth. Meaning I didn't choose it, but I have no reason to change it. I must point out that the word "religion" is only mentioned four times in the KJV Bible, and refers mostly to its higher hierarchy/clergy.

Religion was invented by man [and I DO mean this in a gender-specific way] primarily to keep their culture together. Moses used [created?] it to keep the Twelve Tribes from separating. Although religion should not be confused with Law, all governments past and present have tolerated it's local religion to its ends. Constantine put together a religion to justify his Roman Empire. The then Pope kissed up to Charlemagne for rescuing him and gain protection for future generations of Popes. Even religions have tolerated each other. Jews were not persecuted by the Vatican because they could lend money to kings and nobles, whereas the Church forbids the holding another to repay a debt, creating what will be the banking system as it is today. Groups have called themselves religions to exempt themselves from certain laws, past and present, ie, Freemasons to Scientologists. The State is not innocent of interference either. Marriage was generally performed by ANY religion’s ordained minister [except at sea]. But the government(s) wanted a piece of the action, even recognizing who was considered married by deciding differences in rights, financially or otherwise.

Religions in Europe led to war, the suppression of peoples and intellect, secret societies, and the separation of peoples. It supported Hitler to maintain “neutrality” and should have apologized to the world instead of just recently the Jews. And he was the most prominent advocate of ethnic cleansing. Not the only one. Every religion, not faith, has its own atrocities in history AND in the present. Proselytizing to “keep us in check” and to say anyone else will “burn in hell” is to me an insult to my superior intellect. I have only pointed out the Roman Catholic Church because that is the one I am most familiar with. As to the actual faith and practice of the Church, well I have posted that else when here. I see a political cartoon where the personifications of War, Famine, and Pestilence say "Thank You" to Jesus labeled as Religion.

Sorry if I sound harsh. I am not bitter, but see it as an observation.

Anything you post is subject to comment

The Bitch is Back


“I can bitch the best at your social do's"
Anything you post on FaceBook is subject to comments. As is mine…please do! My entries may be deleted, edited, and re-posted as I see fit. I can change my mind, I don’t see why my comments can’t do the same. If I violate any form of social etiquette, please let me know. I am not here to piss any one person off [ my long-term goal is to piss everyone off ! ].

“I entertain by picking brains”
I will comment to elicit a response in any of your posts. I may disagree with something you say. I may even PRETEND to disagree, just for you to explain further. Call me a Devil’s Advocate; I take nothing at face value. I value your opinions...although trying to change my point of view MAY meet some resistance!

“Sell my soul by dropping names”
I might post a link to your site. I avoid mentioning names outside of FB for your privacy. I might mention your first name, or your initials. I might state a situation with you in mind. I will even misquote you just to prove MY point. Again do not take it personally!
As a side note: FB is the only social network that nearly everyone states their REAL name, not a tag.

“I don't like those, my God, what's that?”
If there is something I don’t agree with, or need further clarification about, I will ask you. If it is a touchy matter, it will be by FB messaging, not an actual post. I NEVER want to embarrass anybody.

“Oh it's full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back...o o oh!”
I am only human [ Mutant Registry Act 2006 approved ]. If I make a mistake, or say something you feel is offensive, tell me IMMEDIATELY! Call me out on it publicly if you need to.

Rod's Log of Everything

My Cyberbrain 2.2

The following is a Blog pretending to be a Web page...see also My Worldwide WEB [which is also archived] due to GeoCities having been sold to Japan 2009.

WEB Log… Dated Items  /  WEB Pages of Interest  /  FB Related - usually just f 'n  /  Personals - yours and/or mine / Notes to Self  /  News at 11  /  Searches and Keywords - see Wikipedia and Google /  Images /  Previously - also Updates  /  Quotes and Ponderables  /  Vids...OK, YouTube   /  Data Dump
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Begin Stardate 11500.0 [12 am July 1, 2011], a Friday
+  WEB Pages of Interest  \
+  FB Related - usually just f 'n  \
+  Personals - yours and/or mine \
+  Notes to Self  \
+  News at 11  \
-  The Daily Planet soon to be updated
-  WikiPedia always has the latest information and manageable links
+  Searches and Keywords - see Wikipedia and Google \
+  Images \
+  Previously - also Updates  \
+  Quotes and Ponderables  \
+  Vids...OK, YouTube   \
+  Data Dump  \
-  Previously...

Geocities Home pages Re-Creation Project

My Den 
Virtual REFerence Desk WWW Virtual Library eLibrary Bartleby eBooks Oxford's Shakespeare Book of Quotations Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Britanica Encyclopedia.com Encarta by MSN InfoPlease Encyclopedia Columbia Encyclopedia FreDictionary-pedia Wikipedia Smitsonian Encyclopedia CIA Factbook & World Atlas Frommer's NEW Law References The Holy Bible National Geographic Scientific AmericanPopular Science Gray's Anatomy Merck's Medical World Desk References by DK Bartender's Guide

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News of the day "Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World"

...more news...The Big Bang to Humans (pt 1)  / .the last 4.5 Billion Years  /  FaceBook in History  /  And on the Future front

My favorite news sources...

The Onion... America's Finest News Source  / Sign of the Times  / More Alternative Headlines  / The Funniest Headlines...more... Slate

TV Shows I am Watching has an Updated page of its own as of the last week of September, 2010

Music Top 100s Radio by Category or by Year

Movies

The EX [note: I have not watched this yet, so don't know how or IF it ends, or hangs] 

YouTube

“When Life Gives You a Bad Romance, show everyone your Poker Face, buy a new Telephone, call Alejandro, and you guys Just Dance!”

...music playlists...
Ghost in the Shell  ending  /  Rihanna  /  Bitch   /  Pink!  /  Damn  /  Radio Ga Ga - Queen   /  Princes of the Universe   /  The Wall   /  KISS  Symphony Alive IV /   I Got The Music In Me  /  Savage Garden  /  Golden Years  /  Illusion  /  Celtic Woman  /  Sylvester and other '70s tunes /  Culture Club plus  / 

Previously, from my April 2010 FB Notes...

Animusic  /  Garbage - Stupid Girl  /  Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl  /  Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple  /  Eve Of Destruction  /  Clap for the Wolfman + '70s tunes  /  Too Late... + '70s and '80s  /  Cover of the Rolling Stones  /  Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina  /  Bowling For Soup - 1985  /  Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy  /  The Breakfast Club ending  /  Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me  /  Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy  /  Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London  / A Horse With No Name  /  Blue Man Group -  The Complex Rock Tour  more   /  Three Dog Night 80+ tunes /  Doctor and the Medics  /  Buffy- The Musical  

Tagalog-  Bathroom Dance   /  Hindi Ako Bakla  / vs Rey Valera  /   Napakasakit...  /  Anak   /  Wow Wowee  /  Prisoners Dance  /  Kar Wash  / channel Wowowee  /  channel Eat Bulaga  /  Jeproks and more Mike Hanopol  /  Pinoy Biscuits   

Naked Funny  /  SexyCam  /  Pay attention to your GF  /  The AXE Effect  /  Old Spice  responses  /   Improv Everywhere  /  Scare Tactics  /  Achmed the Dead Terrorist  /  George Carlin on Religion,  on War, and  Life is Worth Losing 2007  also  Baseball vs Football  /  Robin Williams and more  /  from The Gospel according to John, Paul, George, and Ringo  /  Rambo II  /  Head to Toe  /  Chemical Dance  / funny Indians ...go fwd to 3:00  /  A Knight's Tale  /  Eureka - She Blinded Me with Science  /  SyFy- Imagine Greater  /  Myka & HG  /  small apartments  /  Everything Gonna Be Alright   /  Psych, Outtakes, in Hindi   /  FFwd to 3:45  /  SciFi plots  /  Everybody Look What's Going Down  /  Warriors and other '80s movies  /  SI Swimsuit ed. 2009  /  Miss Universe 2010

Star Trek-   TOS react to ST 2009  / Star Trek XI's "accidental" similarity to Star Wars  /  ST 2009 High School Never Ends, We Used To Be Friends  /  Spock vs Q  /  ffwd to 3:33  /  Enterprise No Bloody A...  /  "These are the voyages..."   /  "Klingon" cultural tutorial  /  Klingon Honor Guard  /  Q in "Borg"  and more  /  "Of Gods And Men"  /  Classic episodes

Full movies, etc...
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Personals on FB
"Growing Up Without a Cell Phone!!! by JD /  "7 Deadly Sins of Social Media: Sin 1 – Being Somebody Else" by SMD and other Social Media Design links /  Maribel A's Wall

Personals and Blogs from FBies and Others
Catherine Tripp  more   FinGalSF / Steve Moyer  /  JiMbO James  other site  Que Car BQ Place  /   Pleasant Dreams  /  Sherry  /   Mark of Oakland  / Local East Bay Express  /  OHS Memorial Class of 1976  /  Cheryl 5.0  /  Sonia  /  Redhead Rants  /  Elaine  /  Natalie's channel  /  Emotion Machine  /  Social Times  /  All FB  /  Working Chronicles  /  SM Experts Daily  /  Gizmdo  /  Replayed  /  Byte Knight  more 

Dead Links  Lori's Notebook * /

I Googled Myself...
Imperium

Calendar Date Converter
Julian, Hebrew, Persian, Islamic, Mayan, Bahá'í, Indian, French Republican, ISO-8601, Unix () time value, and Excel Serial Day Number
Tarek's, Darian, Erisian, and Stardate

WEB Pages of Interest
My Laptop; old one  / 1984 First Mac commercial  /  and the Internet  /  15 funny apple ads - Big and Small /  Mac Wiki  /  Official  / NEW Mac Book Air
Idea Labs  /  Smartphone Comparison  /  State if the Internet by Jess3 /  Three Minute videos  /  RSS in plain english  /  How To Wikis  /  for Web Designers  / What is the Social Web? /  You Might Be Saying Wrong  /  Death + Taxes  /
 The Future of [Virtual] Money  /  Next 5 Years...  /  WEB Strategy  /  Mashable  /  The Oatmeal  /  Tremendous News  /  Gauge Media  /  FB and South Park  /  10 FB Tips /  What They Know - chart 1 - chart 2
FML2  /  Oakland Crime  /  Daily Videos  /  Why You're Fat  /  Nom Nom Girls  /  Rolling Stones
Map of On-Line Communities and Social Network  /  The Most Colorful Colors on the WEB  /  Map of Brand Icons  /  Stand Alone Complex explained

My oldest FB post topic and later updates Sugar's Power and Sugar versus high fructose corn syrup  and the Conspiracy  - a Follow-up

Previously, from my April 2010 FB Notes...

 Government Accountability Office and Official Document Libraries

 Federation of American Scientists and World Government Secrecy News

  look up Principia Discordia

About Games for the iWhatever

 The Latest Geek-related news  / Another Geek related site

 The Ultimate List of End of Decade Lists  /  Last Decade in Pictures [keywords and ideograms]

 Not just about post-Katrina New Orleans

 Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix

 Life is pretty normal today

 Humorous captions

 More Humorous captions

 Another FML [how many are there?]

 The Internet 1993 and 1321 more videos from CBC

 See a Smile everywhere

 And the sign says... Signs,  signs;   Everywhere there's signs Yes, I am still stuck in the '70s!

 Every Bro Has a Story

 Vids featuring celebrities, etc

  Connecting Bloggers

 The best of the Web, sifted, sorted, and summarized

 The Most Awesome Men's Entertainment Site On The Internet

 Relationships, Health, etc for Women

  A Little of Everything

 Weird and Bizarre

 Crazy Pictures posted on the Internet

 Do you shop at WalMart? Go in pajamas and you might find find yourself here!

 Connecting Authors and Readers

 Bakugan

 Real Artist

 a little Cosmology and other oddities

 The Improve Everywhere

Playlists of The Improve Everywhere on YouTube

 73 scenes one after the other of The Improve Everywhere

Jeff Dunham and Achmed the Dead Terrorist  /  Ricky Gervais on Fat People  /  Ricky on the Bible  /  Louis CK  /  Sarah Palin interviews

 Book-WEB for kids and teens  /  Digi-Book for adults

 Wargammer resources in print

 Heroes, Claire and Gretchen Kiss

Commissioned Aug 30, 2010 9:47pm
Updated Sept 9, 2010 12:05pm and Sept 14 to present                                                   END

My GrandDaughter Amariee Leah

This is my GrandDaughter Amariee

born just after mid-night morning of May the Fourth

- which makes her a Jedi baby "May the Fourth be with YOU!"

Kn>QB3

This is a temporary place for things I have collected but not categorized yet. This also functions as a Notepad...

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Notepad...

 

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[  ]  I google "[word] definition" as a crutch when writing. But only if I doubt a word. Spell checks in most write programs, auto-correct, and voice recognition on phones are just examples of algorythms that try to figure out what we are 'saying.'

[  ]  Dedicated to the fairest someone in 1978

[  ]  I an a facetious, underestinated, categorically knowledgeable entity [referred to as] Rodney

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Of All Things Facebook and Other Social Media
Captain's Log
Personal

The Universe is completely deviod of Life.
If there were life on other worlds, they would have made themselves known. If time travel were possible, we would have had visitors who would make themselves known. If God and angels in heaven exist, they would make themselves known. Not to just a select few. Not as mysterious sightings. Mars, our neighbor, shows no signs of life. Yet we want life to be there, even in the cold ice. At one time we might have inhabited that dead planet. Some half a billion years ago when our sun was hotter. Now what our earth will be like in half a billion years. Rust and carbon dioxide is all that remains of what was once a carbon based, water solvent, oxygen respiring form. By then Venus would hopefully be terrestrial enough for our descendants to live there. One planet at a time.
Life, therefore, is an abdomination!

That we exist is open to debate. There is another existence somewhere where what we do matters. Here on this earth... nothing matters. We experience life and social interactions. In everyday life we do not concern ourselves to the hardships of Africa or the Middle Ages. Why is that? We live and we die and nothing beyond that exists in the here and now. No proof shows otherwise. Literature shows that the gods and other supernatural beings "came down to experience life on earth." We are those beings! What we write is a genetic memory.

Time is not linear. But our limited senses percieve it that way. Cause and effect is a given. But the connections of events are just patterns that we want to see. To place Order to what would otherwise be Chaos.

HALO Legends - seven animated shorts [120 minutes]
The Babbysitter [18:08] or pt1pt2
The Duel (?)
The Package (2 parts) [11:30]
Origins
Homecoming incomplete
Prototype [5:29]
Odd One Out [5:08]
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Screen height = 30 lines at 115% (best); 35 lines at 100%; 28 at 125%' 23 at 150%

Battle Sisters - Google
Iron Man 2 Amazing interfaces and holograms - The Ultimate Review (Part 3 of 3)

 

My World Wide WEB

"All roads lead to Rome"                                 Click an Earth below to enter My Virtual World

I open WEB pages in this order...

How fast is your connection to the WEB? Mine is just below 5.7 Mbps

Check My e-Mail [Rodney1701@yahoo.com]

FaceBook with 850 million worldwide. How can I reach the other 6 billion ?!?
-  What everyone else is talking about
-    Note: If you do not have FB, you cannot see any FB content

Social Media Design by Lori

Wagner Writes by Claire

M J Chatter by Maumi

Mutare by Grace

Pinterest [new]

News I am following

My Cyber-brain 2.2 or Everything Else I Have Ever Linked To On The NET
...How I started this Blog
...Currently working on these, so not yet officially posted

My Calendar where I archive some of my activities

WikiPedia the Best Information Encyclopedia on the WEB

Google Favorite Search Engine, including Street view maps and Images

YouTube Videos from the people for the people, favorite music, TV shows, entertaining.
                 - Dec 2010   I did not know that I have a personal Channel!

 Shows I watch on TV, DVR, and on the WEB

Link or WEB Page no longer exists? It may have been saved in an Archive

Another Place in Time
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- Another GeoCities one from 2002
- EVERYTHING 1999 to 1/18/2004
Safari 5 -you MUST Download this!  Customized Features!

I can also be found here...
Added to LinkedIn May 31, 2011
Aug 31, 2010 NEW to WordPress currently Under Construction
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Friendster popular with Filipinos everywhere
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The Aughts

George Bush 43 as President and ending with Obama just starting. 9/11 began the War on Terrorism. Free trade and outsourcing, forclosures and credit crisis Leads to bail-outs, stimulus plan, and cash-for-klunkers.

Mad Cow disease, bird flu, and H1N1 become threats even as AIDS grows.
Katrina, Indonesian tsunami, and earthquakes in Kashmir and China, and a European heatwave were a few of the most destructive natural disasters.

We are now in the Attention Age with Broadband, WiFi, Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for news and information, commerce, and interpersonal communication.
Popular are HD and everything Digital. Flat screens and home entertainment. Ps2, Wii, WoW, and on-line gaming.
Hand-held and hands-free, GPS and G3. Smartphones, iPhone, to iPodTouch. Windows Me, XP, Vista and 7, and Mac OS X are released.
15 minutes of fame- where anyone can be on American Idol to Big Brother. TV commercials Mac vs PC, AT&T vs Verizon, Carl's vs McD- this used to be illegal, mentioning the other brand, but I think Pepsi taste test [vs Coke] started it all. Low cost plans, upgrade to this, 2 year contract, for new members only. Hundreds of channels, thousands of apps, free downloads for 99 cents each.
Thanks for listening, and if I bored you, click unlike and I will unfriend you lol!

1969

...I was Grade Five...then grade six...
Nixon, Arafat, ghadaffi, come to power. People's Park and the anti-war movement vs Gov Reagan and the National Guard. Vietnam War and the draft lottery comes to a peak. Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Jones are guilty. Manson Family and the Zodiac killer are a media thriller. The Jets and the Mets are champions. Woodstock and Altimont are a hit, 2 years after the Summer of Love. Apollo lands man on the moon. The 747 and Concord have their first flights. Popular are John and Yoko, Led Zep, The Godfather in print, and the Midnight Cowboy in film. Also Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, True Grit, Easy Rider, Love Bug, and Hello Dolly.. The birth of the Internet [ARAPANET], WalMart, Monty Python, and Sesame Street. Gomer, Peyton Place, the Avengers, and Star Trek is cancelled [boo hoo], replaced by Brady Bunch, Love American Style, Tom Jones, and Johnny Cash. Archie, Scooby, and HR Puff'n'Stuff were silly. Monty Python was...well...

The Year That Changed Everything    another video montage    on WikiPedia

$20

Merry Christmas, Happy Winter Solistice, and New Year! Congratulations on recieving the Gift of Gifts! Really, you don't have to thank me :) Knowing that you don't probably wear or remember getting anything worth less than $20, it wasn't easy.

OK, I didn't know who this would go to. BUT it is something I could go for! Think of it as a Wish List inventory of every gift you could have had and some you would have never used.

In the days of high-tech, low connect items, I hope this brings an occasional smile to you, the family, and whoever you play this with. And always remember the Rule of Acquisition 1B "No returns, no exchanges"

Always (except this Sunday)
Rodney

Favorite Quotes

Personal Quotes...and a few I stole

No matter where you go, there you are

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"
So my Dear, neither going through my pockets nor stabbing me in the back will help you in any way.

"Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you"- Mae West
- The new motto for the TSA
More wisdom from Mae West, George Carlin, Marx, Socrates and nearly eighty others

Now that I have your attention...leave me alone!
I am in complete control of my emotions. It's yours that I have a problem with!
God has a sense of humor, He's a comedian! You just don't get the joke!
The optimist [Erin, A's fan] sees the Colesium as full; Raiders fans see it as half empty.
"The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. " Ferengi Rules of Acquisition about sales people
"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!"- Homer Simpson


Ponderables...
Did you know Ponderables is not a word?
Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?
Why did God give men nipples? [answer *1 below]
If I break the laws of Physics do I go to jail? [*2]
Is laughing stock cattle with a sense of humor?
Does a laughing cow have milk come out its nose?
"I love you more today than yesterday; I'll love you twice as much tomorrow"- Really? Should I be angry that you loved me less yesterday? So you're saying that you're holding back now?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word lisp to have an s in it?
If 7Eleven is open 24 hours a day, why are there locks on the doors?
Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
If it's a "no brainer" does it mean it's stupid? or a knee-jerk reaction?
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?  -  Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Why do phone companies give you a number to call if your phone doesn't work? *3

*1 Actually woman was created first, capable of self-insemination. Then men were cloned with a specialized tool.
*2 Yes, banished to another dimension. Can be temporary, as in at warp.
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Scotty: Thank Heavens.
Spock: Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.
Dr. McCoy: Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears! As long as it worked!
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Phone snippets...
"Thank you for calling Suicide Hotline. Hold please!"
*3 "Sorry I couldn't help you get connected [to the Internet]. You can always go to www.att.net/help."
"If this is not an emegency press 1...[ 4:46 later ] if this is an emegency press star 16. If you would like to hear these options again press star 0."
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 AFI Top 100              Another list                    Star Trek Quotes...see the complete list

Stuck in 1973

1973 Oakland, California to be precise! The McChesney-Oakland High hub. Up and down the Park Blvd, bus 18 route; and later, the new East Bay section of the BART line. Most of my FB posts of the past few months have centered around re-remembering those times with a few "old" classmates. I was born and raised in Oakland, have lived "up" Park Blvd 1963 until 1976. Graduated from OHS early [missed all the good stuff of the Fuorth Year]. In the Philippines for college until late 1983. Lost touch with everyone! Only recently re-connected with Clarice, James, Wayne, Claire, Steve [goes back to Glenview], Steve, Andy, Mayumi, Catherine, and Tom.

Oh, I am back at Park Blvd again this year since living on the Fruitvale side of Dimond Park since 1990. My two kids, Angie 24 and Paul 21, went to the same schools I did.

For those I went to school with in the '70s...Anyone else, you just wouldn't understand
Clap for the Wolfman- Guess Who

For all you students and non-conformist out there! You know who you are!
Smokin In The Boys Room- Mötley Crüe, but originally recorded by Brownsville Station in 1973.

http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/1973%20Top%20100%20Songs/2180725 Top Hits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_television
- I didn't really go to movies this year. I sooo wanted to watch The Exorcist, but my parents wouldn't let me! I didn't even get to enjoy Jesus Christ Superstar until I was in the Philippines 4 years later!

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The Most Dangerous Song of All Time- December 1974