HAPPY B’DAY, DAVID........Turning 38 may seem like a normal course of events for you as that’s the way life is s’pozed to go.....everyone gets older one day at a time....
But it sure don’t seem like that to your mother & me.... it’s more like a warping of the space/time continium, first you’re here.......then you’re there.....& and all the days inbetween so blurred that looking back, looking back, I see snapshot moments & wonder where the time went......I’m pretty sure that time moves along at a constant speed and that it’s the same for everybody but it doesn’t always seem that way......time flies when you’re having fun & drags interminably when you ain’t.....all a matter of perception...like the importance we humans ascribe to moments in our lives....and a lot of the stuff that we tho’t was important at the time just faded into obscurity while the truly important events of our lives loomed ever larger & clearer with each passing day.....
Justin Other Smith
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Enuff is too much sumtimes..
About the blogs I write & a recent comment about one of them being too deep........I don’t believe that I’m a p’tick’ly deep thinker.....I mean, I bleeve that purty much what y’see, is what y’get with me....’n if you don’t understand what I’m saying in some of these blogs, maybe it’s ‘cause I’m not really saying anything, I’m just nattering on about something that caught my attention..
For example, concerning ADD.....(attention deficit disorder, for the uninitiated).....I’ve just been thinking that an awful lot of the kids that were so diagnosed are now of driving age and the rest of us have to share the streets & highways with a bunch of young people who can’t keep their minds focused on their telephone calls, let alone their driving.....
Christine Ferraro is accused of being a racist ‘cause she remarked that Obama wouldn’t have been taken as a serious candidate if he were white.....I think she’s prob’ly right & he’s only gone as far as he has becuz of his race.....Jerry Brown (remember him) was about Obamas age when he tried & he was a charismatic & eloquent proponent of change but was brought down by the nickname, “Governor Moonbeam.”......maybe there is something more to Obama, but he certainly hasn’t disclosed it yet.......
Eliot Spitzer is out of a job (big surprise)....maybe he c’d run for veep, he ain’t doing anything else at the moment..
good thing for him that he’s rich ‘cause being unemployed during a recession is a bummer.......on the proverbial other hand, it is prob’ly worse being out of a job during boom times.....If y’can’t get a job when ever’body else is working, you’re just a trifler.....
Oh yeah! Gas prices have reached record setting highs & will prob’ly go higher....perfect timing for our Dem Legislature to reccommend a tax increase to pay for more bread & circuses.......
Enuff already............Justin Other Smith
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For example, concerning ADD.....(attention deficit disorder, for the uninitiated).....I’ve just been thinking that an awful lot of the kids that were so diagnosed are now of driving age and the rest of us have to share the streets & highways with a bunch of young people who can’t keep their minds focused on their telephone calls, let alone their driving.....
Christine Ferraro is accused of being a racist ‘cause she remarked that Obama wouldn’t have been taken as a serious candidate if he were white.....I think she’s prob’ly right & he’s only gone as far as he has becuz of his race.....Jerry Brown (remember him) was about Obamas age when he tried & he was a charismatic & eloquent proponent of change but was brought down by the nickname, “Governor Moonbeam.”......maybe there is something more to Obama, but he certainly hasn’t disclosed it yet.......
Eliot Spitzer is out of a job (big surprise)....maybe he c’d run for veep, he ain’t doing anything else at the moment..
good thing for him that he’s rich ‘cause being unemployed during a recession is a bummer.......on the proverbial other hand, it is prob’ly worse being out of a job during boom times.....If y’can’t get a job when ever’body else is working, you’re just a trifler.....
Oh yeah! Gas prices have reached record setting highs & will prob’ly go higher....perfect timing for our Dem Legislature to reccommend a tax increase to pay for more bread & circuses.......
Enuff already............Justin Other Smith
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Utopia........
There was a land beyond the sea, a land that existed in legend, a magical land that ancient stories referred to as Utopia. It stretched from sea to shining sea, a magnificent land of primeval forests, of mountains and meadows, of prairie and desert; of wild rivers teeming with fish, and birds, so many they blotted out the sun; there were fantastic beasts of all shapes and sizes.
The humans that lived in Utopia were few. They were hunters and gatherers, travelling with the seasons. Content in a land of plenty, they lived lightly upon the land.
And to the land of Utopia, this land of legend came a race of men; adventurers, explorers, seekers of the wild, dreamers seeking fame and fortune, and found a land that surpassed their dreams.
In this Utopia they found that which had eluded the old civilizations. In their struggle, they found unity. And in unity, they found equality. The one thing that set them apart form the rest of humanity that inhabitied all the other countries of the world, a unique and abiding belief in the unity of themselves and of their new land, their Utopia.
They lived and loved and worked and played just like people everywhere; they had prejudices and disagreements and differences of opinion and they fought and died and in general, pretty much carried on like people everywhere. Which is to say that they lied and cheated one another every chance they got. Their courts were full of dissembling lawyers and crooked judges and Justice, being blind, was often sold to the highest bidder. So, as I stated, they were pretty much just like peope today.
This Utopia existed on the concept of equality of man; that all Utopians were created equal in the eyes of the Law; no matter that actual practice often differed completely from that belief; no matter that reality seemed a total contradiction of that concept; Utopians steadfastly believed that they alone kept the torch of equality burning through the darkest night.
Over the years, the Utopians were tested many times. And true to the adage that that which does not kill, makes one stronger, the Utopians survived every test, every assault on their blessed concept of freedom and equality. Tempered by the fires of dissent, they grew stronger and more powerful until they stood like a colussus supreme.
And all the peoples of all the world envied them. And wanted to be Utopians. But even Utopia has limits and there came a day when there was simply no room at the inn. Those who had managed to become insiders fought to keep the outsiders at bay. And to keep the outsiders out of Utopia, the insiders decreed that only Utopians could be equal before the law.
And found the only thing that had been necessary to tumble the colossus was the tinest crack in the foundation.
Equality before the law means equality for all. Especially the idiot fringe. Justin Other Smith
The humans that lived in Utopia were few. They were hunters and gatherers, travelling with the seasons. Content in a land of plenty, they lived lightly upon the land.
And to the land of Utopia, this land of legend came a race of men; adventurers, explorers, seekers of the wild, dreamers seeking fame and fortune, and found a land that surpassed their dreams.
In this Utopia they found that which had eluded the old civilizations. In their struggle, they found unity. And in unity, they found equality. The one thing that set them apart form the rest of humanity that inhabitied all the other countries of the world, a unique and abiding belief in the unity of themselves and of their new land, their Utopia.
They lived and loved and worked and played just like people everywhere; they had prejudices and disagreements and differences of opinion and they fought and died and in general, pretty much carried on like people everywhere. Which is to say that they lied and cheated one another every chance they got. Their courts were full of dissembling lawyers and crooked judges and Justice, being blind, was often sold to the highest bidder. So, as I stated, they were pretty much just like peope today.
This Utopia existed on the concept of equality of man; that all Utopians were created equal in the eyes of the Law; no matter that actual practice often differed completely from that belief; no matter that reality seemed a total contradiction of that concept; Utopians steadfastly believed that they alone kept the torch of equality burning through the darkest night.
Over the years, the Utopians were tested many times. And true to the adage that that which does not kill, makes one stronger, the Utopians survived every test, every assault on their blessed concept of freedom and equality. Tempered by the fires of dissent, they grew stronger and more powerful until they stood like a colussus supreme.
And all the peoples of all the world envied them. And wanted to be Utopians. But even Utopia has limits and there came a day when there was simply no room at the inn. Those who had managed to become insiders fought to keep the outsiders at bay. And to keep the outsiders out of Utopia, the insiders decreed that only Utopians could be equal before the law.
And found the only thing that had been necessary to tumble the colossus was the tinest crack in the foundation.
Equality before the law means equality for all. Especially the idiot fringe. Justin Other Smith
So there..........
What you got to do is imagine that a shopping cart is a chest of drawers on wheels.......& everywhere you go, why you take all your belongings with you. Why, you’re as free as the wind. You’re not tied to a mortgage. You don’t spend your evenings in front of a teevee & you never have to slave over a hot stove. If you’re a guy, you don’t have to shave anymore. You don’t have drycleaning bills & you don’t have to wonder what you’re going to wear tomorrow. Nobody is going to hassle you about unpaid bills & income tax is no problem. It’s no wonder that reg’lar, hardworking folk envy your freedom. Why, they just ain’t got the guts to let ever’thing go & embrace life on the street.
At least, that’s what I was thinking after someone near & dear told me that homeless people were homeless thru choice. Yessir! Opt for the freedom of the road & forget your worries.
Prob’ly the same kind of reasoning makes our prisons so popular. They are so overcrowded that there must be a waiting list to get in. I s’pect that the inhabitants of our prisons are much happier than the rest of us. They have all their needs taken care of by the rest of us. All they must do is sleep & eat, play sports & watch television. They don’t even have to think for themselves. Talk about the good life.
Speaking of vacation spots, wonder how life without Fidel is going to be down there in Cuba, ‘cause I’m pretty sure Raul is gonna be a ‘hole ‘nother kind of ballplayer.
On the homefront however, the game is politics. But, it ain’t politics as usual. Will Roger said he wasn’t a member of an organized party, he was a Democrat. I was a Democrat for a long time. Well, heck, I was born into a Democrat family in a Democrat county in a Democrat state. I didn’t know until I was grown that my Mother was a closet Republican and I ain’t saying that I was ashamed of that fact but I didn’t broadcast it. I don’t quite know how I ended up being a Republican myself but I don’t brag about it. ‘Course, I wouldn’t brag about being a Democrat this year. It’s almost embarrassing just watching the Democrats. It ain’t really a war ‘tween Dems, it’s more of a ‘police action’.......like the thing in Korea where we’ve now had troops since 1949. That, of course, is in reference to the Dems yelling about McCains remark that we might have troops in Iraq for a hundred years. Well, we’ve had troops in the Phillipines for more than a hundred years. And as far as the American Indians are concerned, we’ve occupied ‘their’ country for over 400 years.
‘Course, it ain’t really ‘their’ country, is it? It’s our country & our includes them for they are us. Or we are them. I think it might’a been Pogo who said, “we have seen the enemy and he is us.” The one really great thing about the US of A, the thing that sets us apart from almost every other country that has ever been, the thing that makes us unique is that we are all, every one of us, Americans. Whether we are white or black or brown or red doesn’t make any real difference. Heck! We could be polka-dotted & still be Americans. Entitled to fight & squabble among ourselves, to spit in each other’s eyes, to quarrel & call names as much as we want. That, by God, is our constitutional right.
So there!..........Justin Other Smith
At least, that’s what I was thinking after someone near & dear told me that homeless people were homeless thru choice. Yessir! Opt for the freedom of the road & forget your worries.
Prob’ly the same kind of reasoning makes our prisons so popular. They are so overcrowded that there must be a waiting list to get in. I s’pect that the inhabitants of our prisons are much happier than the rest of us. They have all their needs taken care of by the rest of us. All they must do is sleep & eat, play sports & watch television. They don’t even have to think for themselves. Talk about the good life.
Speaking of vacation spots, wonder how life without Fidel is going to be down there in Cuba, ‘cause I’m pretty sure Raul is gonna be a ‘hole ‘nother kind of ballplayer.
On the homefront however, the game is politics. But, it ain’t politics as usual. Will Roger said he wasn’t a member of an organized party, he was a Democrat. I was a Democrat for a long time. Well, heck, I was born into a Democrat family in a Democrat county in a Democrat state. I didn’t know until I was grown that my Mother was a closet Republican and I ain’t saying that I was ashamed of that fact but I didn’t broadcast it. I don’t quite know how I ended up being a Republican myself but I don’t brag about it. ‘Course, I wouldn’t brag about being a Democrat this year. It’s almost embarrassing just watching the Democrats. It ain’t really a war ‘tween Dems, it’s more of a ‘police action’.......like the thing in Korea where we’ve now had troops since 1949. That, of course, is in reference to the Dems yelling about McCains remark that we might have troops in Iraq for a hundred years. Well, we’ve had troops in the Phillipines for more than a hundred years. And as far as the American Indians are concerned, we’ve occupied ‘their’ country for over 400 years.
‘Course, it ain’t really ‘their’ country, is it? It’s our country & our includes them for they are us. Or we are them. I think it might’a been Pogo who said, “we have seen the enemy and he is us.” The one really great thing about the US of A, the thing that sets us apart from almost every other country that has ever been, the thing that makes us unique is that we are all, every one of us, Americans. Whether we are white or black or brown or red doesn’t make any real difference. Heck! We could be polka-dotted & still be Americans. Entitled to fight & squabble among ourselves, to spit in each other’s eyes, to quarrel & call names as much as we want. That, by God, is our constitutional right.
So there!..........Justin Other Smith
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Slo blogging.........
Haven’t blogged for awhile.....unusual for me t’ have nuthin’ to say but I guess, sumtimes ever’body has to shut up.......at least, temporarily......lessee.....got a new ‘puter.....a new Imac.....lot bigger screen, slightly different keyboard......thinner, so it feels funny.......
Frances came to visit for a couple days.....driving her l’il blue Fit.....S’a Honda & a little smaller than the Matrix but styled pert near the same.......
She & Millyrose wanted to go to Thunder Valley for the buffet lunch.....nice buffet, if you like buffets.....the only buffet I ever cared for was Jimmy’s Margaritaville
.....his cheeseburger in Key West was pretty ok too......
I guess w/this new ‘puter, I’ll be able to post a foto on my blog (soon as I figger it out)....& if I c’n decide whether or not I want my bald-headed picture t’ be seen by anyone curious enuff to check out my blog.......
later......Justin Other Smith
Frances came to visit for a couple days.....driving her l’il blue Fit.....S’a Honda & a little smaller than the Matrix but styled pert near the same.......
She & Millyrose wanted to go to Thunder Valley for the buffet lunch.....nice buffet, if you like buffets.....the only buffet I ever cared for was Jimmy’s Margaritaville
.....his cheeseburger in Key West was pretty ok too......
I guess w/this new ‘puter, I’ll be able to post a foto on my blog (soon as I figger it out)....& if I c’n decide whether or not I want my bald-headed picture t’ be seen by anyone curious enuff to check out my blog.......
later......Justin Other Smith
Monday, March 3, 2008
Leaps & bounds.........
watching the dogs this morning.......Trudy, when she runs, not so often anymore but some days, anyway when she runs, she flows.......looks like Lassie coming to the rescue or sumthin..... hair streaming behind her & you can ‘t see her legs moving......Rusty, on that proverbial other hand, is just a poodle.....and a miniature poodle at that....he leaps and bounds, or he hunkers down & runs when he chases the DC from the yard.......he’s a little ambivalent
about the DC anyway.....often he ignores them completely.....
I guess it’s Spring...feels like it......altho’ the ubiquitous ‘they’ say that we’re due for more rain & snow during the month of March.....whatever(shrug).......Yogi Berra said, “Predicting anything is tough, especially the future.”
I think the pollsters & pundits are finding that statement to be true as Hillary & Barack seem to be neck & neck down the stretch.....Some of ‘em seem to have given up altogether & are making predictions about the coming general election.....they all seem to have annointed McCain as the inevitably defeated (make the sign of the cross here) Republican........Pore Ol Huckleberry! Thy name is not quite legend.....not quite up there with Perot, let alone Nader........
Speaking of Ralph...he helped kill off the execrable Chevy Corvair....Unsafe at any speed, he called it........Pore ol dumb me....I once took a Corvair Spyder convertible down Winding Way (before all the stop signs & traffic) at about 70mph.......& I tho’t it was fun.
‘Course it was prob’ly just that a lot of things were more fun before I became this old stick in the mud.......
Ahhh! Youth ain’t wasted on the young.....it just don’t stick around long enuff.........Justin Other Smith
about the DC anyway.....often he ignores them completely.....
I guess it’s Spring...feels like it......altho’ the ubiquitous ‘they’ say that we’re due for more rain & snow during the month of March.....whatever(shrug).......Yogi Berra said, “Predicting anything is tough, especially the future.”
I think the pollsters & pundits are finding that statement to be true as Hillary & Barack seem to be neck & neck down the stretch.....Some of ‘em seem to have given up altogether & are making predictions about the coming general election.....they all seem to have annointed McCain as the inevitably defeated (make the sign of the cross here) Republican........Pore Ol Huckleberry! Thy name is not quite legend.....not quite up there with Perot, let alone Nader........
Speaking of Ralph...he helped kill off the execrable Chevy Corvair....Unsafe at any speed, he called it........Pore ol dumb me....I once took a Corvair Spyder convertible down Winding Way (before all the stop signs & traffic) at about 70mph.......& I tho’t it was fun.
‘Course it was prob’ly just that a lot of things were more fun before I became this old stick in the mud.......
Ahhh! Youth ain’t wasted on the young.....it just don’t stick around long enuff.........Justin Other Smith
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Luv'ly day.......
Saturday, 1st of March .....luv’ly Spring-like day......got the door open, soft breeze, sirens in the distance..... Heck! There’s almost always sirens in the distance & the traffic noise sounds like rushing water....helps to soften the incessant crowing of those darn chickens....
But ya get used to it......when I was boy in Beattyville, we lived next to the railroad track.....after awhile the trains rushing by became just background noise.....I experienced my first earthquake in Japan.....I was sitting in the barracks, a huge two-story building about 50 yards from a railroad track.....there was a train passing & the bldg was shaking when it dawned on me the trains in Japan were much smaller than I was used to & it wasn’t the train that was shaking the bldg......end of 1st earthquake story & ain’t ya glad?......
Anyway, it’s a luv’ly day for saying, “It’s a luv’ly day!.......
Hope it is for you too........Justin Other Smith
But ya get used to it......when I was boy in Beattyville, we lived next to the railroad track.....after awhile the trains rushing by became just background noise.....I experienced my first earthquake in Japan.....I was sitting in the barracks, a huge two-story building about 50 yards from a railroad track.....there was a train passing & the bldg was shaking when it dawned on me the trains in Japan were much smaller than I was used to & it wasn’t the train that was shaking the bldg......end of 1st earthquake story & ain’t ya glad?......
Anyway, it’s a luv’ly day for saying, “It’s a luv’ly day!.......
Hope it is for you too........Justin Other Smith
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