It Seems To Me That I have To Make Up Less & Less

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Its Seems To Me That I Have To Make Up Less & Less Silliness In Order To Write About My Foolishness

I read recently where there is a whole bunch of legal maneuverings, protests and appeals of prior court rulings because the FDA has not yet conclusively ruled whether or not the new compounds used for Criminal Executions are safe to kill people.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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Shouting At My Car’s Radio

Back in my youth (when I was swashbuckling) while I was in the U.S. Army’s Flight School and I was told...

Flying Is Hour Upon Hour of Sheer Boredom ... Punctuated Intermittently By Moments of Stark Terror

I never experienced the boredom part but can personally testify to the stark terror part.

Yesterday I drove 10 hours to get home from my 103 year old aunt’s funeral. Here is what I intermittently experienced during the drive...

Hour Upon Hour Of Sheer Boredom ... Punctuated Intermittently By Episodes of My Having To Shout At My Car’s Radio

In June 2007 I tried to fix a problem in our society but during my boring drive I found out that my fix did not fix anything.

Several times I found myself shouting at my radio because one of the best holidays we have in the Good Ole USofA was repeatedly referred to as Turkey Day by my radio.

Sometimes I think no one out there listening to me but that could not be... Or could it?

Please click here: http://forii.blogspot.com/2007/06/pet-peeves.html

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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There Must Be A Better Word

A headline in my local newspaper today 11/22/13...

Dallas prepares for JFK Anniversary

I realize that, in the strictest sense of the word, “anniversary” fits...

“An anniversary is a day that commemorates or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same date of the year as the initial event.”

The Smartfella thinks (there I go again) that we ought to be able to find a better word. He does not see evil intent in calling JFK’s Assassination an Anniversary but Anniversary sounds more like a celebration than a commemoration.

I’m not celebrating today.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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George Washington Ain’t Worth Much

If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the question. That is why I’m not going to email every person in the Good Ole USofA to find out how many of them know who George Washington was. I don’t want to know the answer.

It is sad that my fellow Americans might not know who Ole George was. It is even sadder to contemplate how many of them might think he was related to George Brett or George Harrison or George Clooney or George of the Jungle.

Remember a few blog posting back when I told you about how Already Been Chewed Chewing Gum Chewed by Gene Simmons had been auctioned off for $246,602? It is now obvious that Ole George can’t hold a candle to Mr. Simmons.

Christie’s Auction House just offered a rare document signed by George Washington Proclaiming Thanksgiving a National Holiday and no bid was offered for this awesome piece of history.

As I said in the Subject above... George Washington Ain’t Worth Much.

On the other hand, if Curious George had chewed and spit out a piece of Thanksgiving Turkey Meat and Christie’s had offered it for auction, that once juicy morsel would have caused quite a bidding frenzy.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you want to again enjoy (I hope) what I had to say about Mr. Simmons and his Chewed Chewing Gum, click the link below:

http://forii.blogspot.com/2013/10/look-down-there-is-gold-down-there.html

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It Would Be An Endangered Species, If It Were A Species

There was a time in the not too distant past where people took the time to Stare...

• After signing in to a doctor’s office we sat down with a Worried Stare.
• After signing into the DMV we sat down with an I’m Never Going to Get out Of Here Stare.
• As the passenger in an automotive vehicle we Stared at the Road. (Actually I wish drivers would return to staring at the road.)

How things have changed. With very few exceptions we no longer stare at anything. We now pull out an electronic device and we peck away in our own private World of Distraction.
If Staring were a species it would be on the verge of being placed on the Endangered Species List. Actually it will probably never make the list. It is going to go direct to the Extinct Species List in the not too distant future.

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There is a good kind of Staring that appears to be alive and well. Have you ever noticed how parents Stare at their babies? At some point the babies probably start thinking about why those people who are constantly staring at them are not pecking at their devices.

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As the economist said after giving sound economic advice about a sound economic course of action, “On the Other Hand”...
On the other hand, pecking at a device just might be a form of Staring. I came to this realization while I was in church recently.
Sister Mary Grinyon taught us that is was a Mortal Sin to not go to church on Sunday.
I certainly understand that Mortal Sins were placed on the Extinct List years ago but there were 3 children in the foyer of our church that would have been on the precipice of an Awful Mortal back in the old days.
I had occasion to be in the foyer of church for an extended period waiting for someone. Please understand that the foyer is a long way from what is going on in the church itself. The whole time I was back there these little “worshipers” in the picture below were curled up in three easy chairs staring at and pecking at their smart phones...

When their parents returned from their weekend trip to the mountains and asked if they had gone to church, their children would have looked them straight in their adoring eyes and said, “Yes we did”. Their parents would certainly be proud and content in the knowledge that their little darlings were growing into the strong Catholics that they had always hoped they would be.
Parents are easily fooled but Sister Mary Grinyon would have known the truth (she always did).
If these 3 “churchgoers” were all killed in the same car wreck, they better hope their lawyer was in that car with them. That way, when they got the Pearly Gates, he will be there in order to argue their case for immediate entrance and get them into heaven on a technicality...

Your Honor, it’s Peter, is it not?, my 3 clients were in church. If they were not there, they would not have been there but they were physically not present so they were technically there. Open up!

Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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Senators Worried About Re-Election

Those of you who are against Obamacare are tickled pink that a bunch of Democrat Senators are fighting President Obama about his signature legislation. You feel this is real neat. You see light at the end of the tunnel for your hopes to see Obamacare stopped!...

You are not very good at seeing the whole picture, are you?

Have you taken note that this bunch of senators is up for re-election and that’s why they are getting “brave”?

Do you think it just an accident that the people lining up against the president are all up for re-election?

What’s that you said? Did I hear you really say, “Yes, Smartfella, I think it is an accident”? Well, as I said above...

You are not very good at seeing the whole picture, are you?

It is no accident. It’s entirely predictable. Our Congress is all too often (always?) looking out for itself and this is all too sad.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you have not had enough of me for today, go to the link below and see how I touched on this subject in a slightly different way in January ‘10...

http://forii.blogspot.com/search?q=election+year

Going Out On A Limb About What “They” Are Telling Us ... Again

The Lanternfish is a very small glow in the dark organism with huge eyes that is making news because it eats tons of Ocean Plastic. The Smartfella thanks these little fish for being Ocean Litterbugs but he also quibbles with the number of them we are told are out there gobbling up that awful plastic.

I read that there are 660 Million Tons of Lanternfish. Ever skeptical the Smartfella asks, “How do “they” know there are more than 659 Million Tons of Lanterfish?”

Then there is the question of the reported capacity of the stomachs of these 660 million Tons of Lanternfish? “They” estimate that the Lanternfish have eaten 970,000 Metric Tons of plastic. I find this hard to believe also. Even if it is true, how do “they” know the amount eaten is 970,000 Metric Tons? Golly gee, these little fish only grow to a length of up to 6 inches!

On the other hand, 660 million tons of anything could probably accomplish amazing feats of whatever they set their minds to feating about.

Next thing we are going to be told that these little fish glow in the dark by producing light that is given off by tiny organs known as photophores which cause a chemical reaction inside the photophore that gives off light in a chemical process known as bioluminescence.

I’m sure glad “they” did not tell me that... Or did “they” not?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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A Modern Question Of Protocol

We have seen this time after time... There is a guy with a gun in a Business Office, a School, a Public Park, an Airport, a Theatre, etc. and the reports come in on the nightly news about how everyone ran for cover as soon as the gunfire started. Running and Ducking and Covering & Getting the Heck Out of There is the order of the day in the Good Ole USofA.

I read in my newspaper a few day ago where things may be starting to change. Some guy started shooting in a gym and the people in the gym took a new course of action. Here is what the Police Chief said in an interview...

Four shots were fired in the gym and several witnesses took cell phone photos of the shooter in action.

The subject of this posting says this is about A Modern Question of Protocol. Don’t you see it?

The question is, if you are present when the shooting starts and you have a gun in one hand and a cell phone in the other, what is the proper course of action?...

Should you take your gun and shoot the sucker dead or should you make a video with your cell phone and put the video on You Tube so that we can all observe the carnage as it is actually happening?

You can see that this is one thorny issue. I can see the lines being drawn as I peck this out. Many a Discussion Group, Focus Group and Blue Ribbon Committee will be held before a consensus is reached on this one.

(There I go showing how old my thinking is by using the word “consensus”. Is this word still in the dictionary? There is a pretty good chance it has fallen out of Webster’s due to lack of use. I am certain it is no longer in the Congressional Dictionary.)

At first blush most of you would say that the video takes precedence because you are a creature of the times you live in but I have a sense that times are changing in this country. The best example of why I feel change is afoot is the School Prayer Signs that are springing up across the Fruited Plain...

The sign with which we are so familiar reads:

“Prayer Is Not Allowed In This School”

In many school districts the sign has been changed to:

“Prayer Is Not Allowed In This School Until After The Third Shot Is Fired”

Our being allowed to again pray in school, under certain very limited circumstances, is our society edging its way back toward Religious Tolerance.

The Founding Fathers just may stop turning over in their graves after all. I bet they are tired.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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Bullying Has Limits ... Or Has It?

Bullying is in. We are seeing more and more stories about this unsettling phenomenon in our daily news reports.

When we were coming up it was Butch and he was king of the recess period. He was feared. He was avoided. He was followed around by his “friends” as he hurried about the school yard performing his daily task of making the rest of us hide and scurry away from him.

Regarding his “friends” mentioned above. They were not real friends in the truest sense of the word. They aligned themselves with him in order to avoid the shame of having to become Scurriers and Hiders themselves.

Now my newspaper tells me about a new type of bullying victim I thought I would never see. The newest victim is an NFL Football Player. This shows how far the Art of Bullying has progressed since Butch’s reign of terror at St. Anthony of Padua in the 1950s.

I personally think this is an impossibility. I do not think it is physically possible to bully a person who weighs 312 pounds and stands 6’ 5” tall but that’s what we are being asked to believe has happened to a certain Miami Dolphin Football Player.

If you read my blogging on a regular basis you know I do not have much respect for our News Media. This proves that it does not have any respect for us. They think we will believe anything.

Next thing we know they will be telling us that the manufacture of Food Asbestos is not the largest industry in China.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

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