picture !

No particular reason why this picture is here. Kathy has just helped me to put pictures on the blog. It seems very complicated.
This is from Hawaii over a year ago. The geeky kids also showed my how to unload pictures from my camera. I didn't know how and still don't. There were 180 pictures accumulated and are now on my Picasa file.

Irritating things

I wonder what could have possesed the secretary of defense or army chief of staff some years ago to decide that the neat caps worn by US troops for many years needed to be changed. The neat caps were outlawed and the current berets were put in their place. The original order, 5,000,000 berets were put out for bids and China won. They cost $5.00 each. Now the heroic American troopers look like the French army.I find it embarrassing.

One might wonder why fortunes are made by skillful people for hitting a ball with a club and putting it in a little hole. Golf is fun, even for lousy players.
But really large fortunes are made by profesional golfers for playing a game which they would play for nothing anyway. I don't think they are contributing much to society. Same goes for baseball players (One semi-literate player just signed a contract for $200,000,000 {two hundred million}). Ridiculous! Steroid stuffed morons
also make big bucks for football and basketball.

Not only am I irritated, I am also jealous.

Old blogs need to be looked at

We mentioned our blog address on the DXCM this year and hope that some of our numerous family, friends and other admirers will access the messages and respond.
It is interesting to point out that there are many older blogs of sterking quality which I wish everyone would read. In particular I like the three part CIVICS 101 which can be found by going back to August the 14th and 15th. On the left hand side are dates to look up the older blogs.
I am also proud of the ECONOMICS 101 three part series posted after the Civic
series.
Don't be shy. All comments are welcome. This is a wonderful way to keep in touch.

No more MR. Nice Guy

Everyone knows what kind of a person I am: Friendly, affable, helpful,
understanding, reasonable , etc.etc. So why did I get into an unfortunate
confrontation with a Kroger checker? Well, it turns out she was rude and unhelpful.
She was also ugly and stupid. Instead of punching her out I left in a huff
but very angry.Now I can't stop being mad and I think I should take it out on
someone. Aha! I think I have it.

I am a bit less than pleased with Islam. I never thought it was a good thing.
I am the only living person that thinks the Crusades were great. We should do it again. Now that the Moslem countries seem to have all our money they are beginning to act up in ways that seem completely illogical. Outside of oil, they have produced nothing in about 600 years. The population is unusually ignorant, having been raised by the unfortunately illiterate women. The poor Moslem women. No education, peculiar
clothing, denied in some places any rights whatsoever. What schools they have seem to concentrate on the Koran above all else. And they are restricted mostly to the males.

There, now I am over my anger at the poor clerk and feeling much calmer. I do plan on punishing Kroger for the next few weeks by withholding my trade.