I Think

Pure socialism is an ideal that could work, if all were in their heart socialists. Since about fifty percent of the people is non socialist, we would be at perpetual war to implement the wholly socialist ideal. Just as one hundred percent capitalism foments the same unrest. Totalitarians would force one or the other. An amalgam of both is a logical answer.

The "compromise" our leaders are about to foist upon us by year's end has the smell of another sellout.

I took my coworker to get the pool yesterday. It was too heavy for us. I brought home the pump and other accessories. I don't know how I am to get that thing over here. Perhaps I won't. A company charged my friend $800 to set it up for her. Ain't no oversize bathtub worth that kind of money.

I think your garden idea has more promise.

I'm done thinking about Mitt Romney. He is not likely to get the nod next time around.

I once served in the military with a man who in physical appearance reminded me of Oliver Hardy. Even had the same mustache. My man was not particularly bright and eventually was let go from service, because he was deemed a danger to the other sonar men. I had gotten in the habit of arguing about religion with a separate sonar man, something, I realize now, I practiced, because it garnered attention to myself - An otherwise shrinking wallflower. Separate sonar man involved Oliver lookalike in the argument, which set up a running feud of sorts between the two of us. The first time Lookalike set about explaining why there was a god he rambled in a long tortuous route of unrelated strings of mostly irrelevant information and anecdotes, finishing with a statement he thought tied the mess up in a neat package. I never formulated arguments to use on the man, because it was plain he would not process any new information. But I derided religion in his presence. Walked in on him deeply engrossed in the Bible. "What are you doing, Lookalike? Catching up on your religion?" "If you don't believe in it, don't mock it." With him I would not pursue it beyond that point. I don't know why he is on my mind these days. Perhaps it is the fundamentalists on this forum setting up a parallel for me. I don't know what to do with people that assert obviously wrong concepts, when it is apparent they will not accept any other avenue of thought. Let them fill the forum with it or challenge them? It seems hopeless either way.

This is what was happening in the Pet Peeves of English threads, Edgar. Once those folks saw that their nonsensical ideas couldn't be sustained, admittedly it did take some time, the thread died and those people have been much more reluctant to spread those falsehoods.

Same thing with folks bragging up the US. There's much less of that going on too. At the least, it helps newer generations to escape these old canards.

Well ed--you can't build a theory on what that guy said or did.

You can apply the same logic to the concept of "America". Scientifically it doesn't exist. It is a pure psychological concept just as God is. If you take the view that Nation= War then the concept of a nation is the cause of the problems which exercise your indignation. War is pursued by force (military action) or fraud (diplomacy).

You're willing a new type of human nature. Politicians and officials take the heat so that the rest of us don't feel like our hands are dirty. But they are.

The Bible is another matter. That's a literary work of art. How people read it and interpret it is neither here nor there from a scientific point of view.

What do you think Mr Kraft is actually up to in trying to bring NFL to London? Business as usual is my probable reason but I will allow that he might be enthused with the idea that it is unfair that the English should be deprived of the joys of your wonderful game. (Oh Yeah!!!). Tell that to Lookalike.

Advertising (money making) abhors a vacuum. I think Americans would love to sway enough Europeans to begin a football league just like America has.

They can love such an idea to their heart's content ed.

Why would you want to wish that on anyone, Edgar? The only thing worse is baseball and then basketball.

the future is HERE!








well... the past is here anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe

I didn't wish it. I merely made the observation.

The only chance they have is if they play naked and go to all female teams.

I was aware it had been tried already. But, like a Disney movie, it will be pushed as long as somebody thinks a nickle can be earned.

Noted, Ed.

I eat a breakfast that fills me with so much energy that I am able to work to near exhaustion five days a week. Then I spend the rest of those days recovering. It's a good feeling, mostly. Except, feeling spent that often saps my will to work on my writing. That makes weekends all the more important. Catching up as much as I can.

Commercial and media emphasis on Halloween and Christmas makes Thanksgiving seem almost incidental, these days. There is not a lot of money to be made from it. Sentiment be damned. I value Thanksgiving, because it has come to represent for me a taking of stock of the past year, a counting of the pluses in my life. Not to mention a wonderful dinner. And, so, more than a week early, I wish you one and all, HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Come over to our place, and I'll feed you a good breakfast for the remainder of the two days so you can work at our house - to burn off all that energy!

You could not afford me, CI.

Probably true!

There is the matter of transportation, housing, wages, compensatory pay for having to quit my Tomball based job - Whew -

People are asking where Romney went wrong. I am wondering where our country went wrong when such a person can be nominated and actually get enough votes to get as far as he did? I am constantly mystified that our collective values can be so sublimated that we place our dreams and welfare in the hands of politicians who do not perform to the good of the nation they pledge to serve.

My impression of Obama this past four years has been symptomatic of how I perceive the Democrats in general. Any time they have the upper hand, they appear to broadcast to the opposition, "Just wait a second, while I switch places with you. Okay, now I am negotiating from weakness. Let's get on with my capitulation on all but a few cosmetic issues." Today, the president is vowing to hold firm, re tax breaks to the 1%. But he does not seem to be standing up against cutting Medicare and Social Security. Every time those two get "fixed" we lose more ground.

What, no lunch needed?