Loose Leaf

So I went to Wal-Mart looking for some filler paper for my binder recently and could not find any in the regular stationary aisle. Then an ah hah! moment and I went to the special "Back to School" aisles (there were two of them) and searched for my paper. I did not find it but did notice a Wal-Fart employee kneeling at the end of the aisle stocking something on a shelf. I asked politely if they had any loose leaf paper. "What's loose leaf paper?" he asked. I informed the useless dolt that it was paper to refill a binder. "Oh yeah, I think we had some over there" he said while he pointed to the shelf along the wall at the end of the aisle. He turned and craned his neck. "I don't see it now though," he told me, without another offer of assistance. I went to search again on my own, and just around the corner, in the main aisle, stood a giant cardboard display filled with loose leaf paper at just 50 cents a pack. I guess Mr. Employee of the World's Largest Retailer just didn't notice it. Good job Wal-Mart on your employee training! Or is it just that customer service is not cost effective? Must be, because everytime I need help in one your stores, I don't get any. I only shop there for the prices, which I guess is the whole point, 'cause there sure ain't any other reason to.

Another Form of Surveillance

Humans seem to have this innate sense to willingly surrender personal liberties, even in the form of a god. God is simply another form of surveillance to which we personally surrender free will. From childhood to adulthood, private to public life, we allow even our own minds (yes, personally created paranoia via the form of a god) to control us. From Liberty-Watch.

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I'd Rather Be Blogging

Everyday I want to just go home after work and blog, but alas I can not. I do not have internet available in my current, temporary location. I have items, timely ones, that I want to comment on, but again, my schedule and lack of computer will not allow it. I will try to add posts here and there, so check in often to see what, if anything, is new.

Barefoot In The Wal-Mart

Apparently some people are fascinated by the fact that you can get your feet dirty by walking around barefoot inside a Wal-Mart store. I do know they clean the floors at Wal-Mart on a nightly basis because I happen to know someone whose job that actually is. Is Wal-Mart a more likely place to get your feet dirty than other locales? Maybe it is, but if so only due to its popularity (more foot traffic down its aisles) leading to dirtier floors. If the floors are washed at night when the store is empty (or nearly so) then by the time most shoppers arrive later in the day the dirt has probably already been laid down by many dirty shoes. Thus, dirty feet if you dare to walk barefoot.

"They Took The Beach Away From Me"

I don't smoke and I've never consumed alcohol on the beach, but I had a conversation with someone who enjoys smoking and drinking while at the seashore. "They took the beach away from me," he said. How so? I asked him. "Well, I like to take a lawn chair, a pack of cigarettes, and an ice chest full of beer and sit on the beach listening to the radio." He then said he has stopped going to the beach because that was what he liked to do there. Was he harming anyone by his beach activities? I don't see how. He happens to be a fairly quiet, nice guy, who when he's not working enjoys growing tomatoes on his back patio. But because some people think, due to their personal preferences, that "there otta be a law," he can no longer engage in a leisure activity that was harming no one without risking being harassed, fined or possibly arrested by the police. Thanks Big Daddy government worshipers (you know who you are) for helping to ruin someone's innocent pleasures once again.
You see, alcohol and smoking have been turned into illegal activities at San Diego beaches. Someone might "get hurt" by, for example, second hand smoke, even though open air smoking doesn't even present an aesthetic unpleasantness the way smoking indoors does. Look at the words on the ridiculous sign in the photo above: "To protect the health and safety of residents and visitors, please keep City beaches and parks ... smoke-free." If it wasn't such a perfect example of the constantly encroaching Nanny State, it would be knee-slapping hilarious. Come to think of it, it is still pretty funny, and another example of politically liberal do-gooders run amok.

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

I was in the bookstore a couple of weeks ago and saw Vincent Bugliosi's new book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. I had remembered hearing him mention his next book during an interview about his last one, Reclaiming History, on the JFK assassination. He would not say what it was about, but that it would be on a very important topic. I was intrigued but heard nothing more until I saw the book on a table at Hastings. I was surprised as there had been no mentions of it or interviews with Bugliosi on any of the major media outlets (that I had seen anyway). Of course when servant of the almighty state/corporate establishment Tim Russert died, there was non stop coverage of the event. However, when someone of the stature of Bugliosi makes the case that we have a murderer in the White House, the "liberal" media is silent. Just as the evil Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table before the Demoncrats even took power after the 2006 elections, the big corporate rats media have pretended not to notice that a major work on the worst President in US history has been published.

I've felt much anger for a long time now that this man, George W. Bush, has gotten away with his terrible crimes. The injustice of it all made my blood boil, but no one seemed to want to make the case that Bush should be in prison. Until Bugliosi. After proving himself a man who cares deeply about truth and justice by writing on the Simpson murder case, the Supreme Court's Bush vs. Gore decision and the truth about the Kennedy assassination (news flash, Oswald did it and he acted alone) Bugliosi comes through with his most important work yet, because if this individual is not prosecuted then America is no longer worthy of being called a free country, or a nation that cares about truth and justice. The lying neocon hypocrite Dennis Prager, who pretends to care about those things, but in reality pushes an evil agenda of mass murder through the aggressive use of the US military, had Vincent Bugliousi on his radio show when Reclaiming History came out and wrote the following: Vincent Bugliosi's remarkable 20-year work on who killed John F. Kennedy has just been published. Containing about a million and a half words and thousands of footnotes, "Reclaiming History" is probably the most detailed examination of one moment in time ever written. He also wrote: I am deeply grateful to Bugliosi for the service he has rendered our country. But I also regret that he had to. I doubt the old white-haired fool will be saying the same about Bugliosi's new work, not after writing this: As for President George W. Bush, he did not "lie" us into war, but used the best assessments that nearly all Western intelligence agencies provided concerning Saddam Hussein building weapons of mass destruction. Listen to Bugliosi on that issue in the video below.

And on the media blackout:

God of the Gaps

God isn't an answer, or is he?

Boiled Peanuts

I started a new job a couple of weeks ago. It's okay and I'm getting used to it and the people I work with seem nice enough (though no one is ever really nice enough). On the Friday before last, I ran into Bobby in the parking lot before work and he said we were going to have boiled peanuts on Monday. I had forgotten this when Monday rolled around (well, not completely; something about peanuts and boiling was in the back of my mind all that morning) so when he came around with an open bag and asked "Are you allergic to peanuts?" I knew it was boiled peanut time. However, my first thought on looking into the bag was that these were chocolate covered peanuts due to the very dark, nearly black color of the objects I was presented with. I took one (only one) and it was wet and the shell was very soft, as were the peanuts inside. The taste was quite awful (to my taste buds) but Bobby seemed in love with them, being from Alabama and all. The woman coworker sitting next to me reluctantly took one of the poor things from Bobby's moist bag, but then declared her refusal to even consider eating it. Maybe some ham flavored ones would be more appetizing (everything tastes better with ham in it).

Where Have I Been?

I've been around, my friends, just not here. The air conditioner was finally fixed, but then I moved, away, away far, sort of anyway. Out of state. But my computer has remained here. Thus I write today, as I have traveled back here for the weekend to write for you and tell you that more is to come, soon.