Life, death, taxes....'n Spring rain...

YES~ti'day I had a pro-cee-jure….prob'ly the last such procedure I shall ever have to undergo….(the ubiquitous 'they' tell me that colonoscopies are reserved for youngsters)…that's alright with me…the worst part of the 'hull damn thing wuz the preceding waterboarding where ya gotta down 8 ounces of flavored water ever' ten minutes 'n I won't bother with the details of that p'tick'lar action….suffice it t'say that I had to get up very early in the morning t'finish the damn waterboarding 'n then off to Kaiser for THE PRO-CEE-JURE....when I got home afterwards, I napped…off 'n on for the rest of the day, napping 'n waiting for the rain….Mark Finan said it wuz gonna rain around 8 o'clock 'n at 8 o'clock, it wuz raining…Mr. Finan wuz pleased as punch when he did the evening news, God's in his heaven 'n all's right with the world...weathermen crack me up…sort'a like racetrack touts, back in the day when they had racetrack touts…all up front 'n positive when their pick wins 'n nowhere t'be found when they're out of the  money….whenever a teevee weatherman (or woman) hits the mark...give credit where credit is due...they will casually remark that, of course, with the aid of science, they predicted that very occurrence but when the weather don't co-operate, they don't ever mention that sumtimes, science falls a little short….

Secularists loooove science…it's the new black, which I keep hearing tho' I'm not quite sure of the meaning...p'haps, new paint on an old barn maybe….the Bible, of course, 'n in this country, it's the Christian Bible, is full of contradictions, 'n myths, 'n the most absurd stories that 'ud make Davey Crockett (or Bill Clinton) proud….why, Paul Bunyan 'n Peco's Bill don't hold a candle to some of the stories in the Bible…but, I digress…

Science, unlike the Bible, is fact-based!  That's a fact!  You c'n take it to the bank!  It's factual! And, if somewhere down the line, science finds out that a previously acknowledged 'fact' is in error, why they simply change it….sort'a like hindsight, don'cha know? 

"Ahh, but the strawberries…that's where I had them.  They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt and with…geometric logic…that a duplicate key to the storeroom did exist." Phillip Queeg, Commander, USN…

Anyhow, the pundits talk about a secularist new world where Science is the new religion 'n the prophets are all called scientists 'n they get their degrees in Prophetology in taxpayer funded State schools where they insist upon an unbridgeable gap t'ween Church 'n State 'n the only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy.  Of course, the repentance of a hypocrite is in itself hypocrisy.

Y'gotta luv the 'Net….I c'n set in my little swivel chair in front of the computer 'n check out newspapers from all around the world…'course, I don't read all of 'em, I just scan 'em for what happens to catch my eye in the moment…I like to read the news 'n I like watching television news…it don't make me any smarter, Science knows, but parrots like to talk whether they know what they're saying or not...

I don't  know how many channels are actually available on the various cable networks but there are a number of news channels…well, that call themselves news channels…I mostly find m'self vacillating t'wixt FNC 'n CNN with the edge going mainly to Fox but there are a lot of other channels to fill the day 'n ease the conscience of not getting the yard work done….