Pointless Announcements

I'll take "My Pain Over Yours" for $300, Alex!

Feel better, Shadow.

 

I'm kind of optimistic since I'm hoping this means it'll actually get fixed instead of just another cortisol shot.

 

My Son started showing me videos and articles of the dark world of conspiracy. The petro dollar, the federal reserve the 9/11 attack with the Bush administration. He seems completely convinced that there is a world operating system other than the one I live in. Some of it is starting to make me think about it while I'm running my machine. I am sure that the rulers of the world don't tell us squat. Central and world banks and the NWO New World Order. Now he's off on the illuminati. As far as I know he may be right and I could be the blind one.

 

In that way lies madness.
It's fun as a form of entertainment but the minute you start taking it serious you will disappear down down a rat hole never to be seen again by sane folks.

It's a given that the people at the top lie but I learned a long time ago to never give credit to malevolence what could just as easily be explained by stupidity and incompetence.

 

There are absolutely a great many unkosher goings on involving world governments, petrodictatorships, multinational megacorporations, and the like. The thing is none of them are particularly romantic conspiracies, it's all just run of the mill grift and embezzlement. Pay out a few million in "campaign contributions" and get a bill written by your in-house counsel removing some pesky regulations passed by congress, no-bid government contracts, a greater influx of petrodollars tends to lead to a lower human rights index in petrodictatorships, that sort of thing.

Fundamentally conspiracy theories are about meaning. Things don't just happen because a lot of people are independently corrupt and profit-hungry, they're being coordinated by a single group for a specific reason.
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There are absolutely a great many unkosher goings on involving world governments, petrodictatorships, multinational megacorporations, and the like. The thing is none of them are particularly romantic conspiracies, it's all just run of the mill grift and embezzlement. Pay out a few million in "campaign contributions" and get a bill written by your in-house counsel removing some pesky regulations passed by congress, no-bid government contracts, a greater influx of petrodollars tends to lead to a lower human rights index in petrodictatorships, that sort of thing.

Fundamentally conspiracy theories are about meaning. Things don't just happen because a lot of people are independently corrupt and profit-hungry, they're being coordinated by a single group for a specific reason.

 

I wonder if they could apply a blowtorch-type tool to heat them up for a short time.

 

We knew a couple back when we were active in our civic club. In August, with temps easily hitting 100F and higher, the guy did his entire roof by himself. And that included installing all new plywood. Their house was single story, probably around 2,500 square feet + the attached two car garage.

 

I did one roof with one other guy. Yep not again

 

Yeah, look what happens if you do it long term. *eyes @Fly and his dick-bong*

 

Lindsey Stirling is an incredible artist. She's grown so much as a performer and musician in just a few years and her choreography, production, and music are absolutely beautiful.

And she's an absolute sweetheart who gave the handful of us that waited around outside hugs and autographs at damn near midnight after her show.

 

I literally canNOT watch the new MacGyver TV show. It's so beyond ridiculous that it hurts.

 

I watch it, (I'm a glutton for punishment, it seems) but it barely resembles MacGyver.

 

My wife will & does watch just about any TV drama, no matter how totally bad it is; she has the ability to "put her brain in neutral." She likes the new MacGyver because of George Eads, a carryover crush from the original CSI.

My shit list of the top three network TV dramas matches my wife's list of favorite programs: Hawaii Five-O, NCIS LA, & MacGyver.

 

Seeing all my kids' little minions in their absolutely adorable costumes is making my ovaries explode.



Maybe I can borrow someone's next year. (kids. not ovaries.)

 

Relaxin'...