There’s a woman — a missionary, no less — who absolutely insists that we all sit up and pay attention to her every post, her every new self-promotional effort. I’d can the feed if I could, but I can’t because there are good things happening in the group and there are good people in it. But every time I get another notification with this woman’s name on it, I just get this indescribable urge to hunt her down and stuff all her spam-bytes back down her throat. It’s bad of me, I know, but, gawd, some folks just have no manners whatsoever. Problem is, despite the misery she causes with her bloated self-infatuation, all these “nice” people fawn all over themselves telling her how she just floors them with her energy. It ain’t the energy that’s flooring them, tell the truth, though. It’s the audacity! She’s a missionary, remember, guys? So she can handle the truth, right? (Yeah, yeah, we know she can’t, but, hey, tough, I say.) So, guys and gals, quit your fawning and tell it like it is. Tell her to shut the f— up if she ain’t got something other than her own horn to blow!
Category: Grimace & Giggle
Social Networking Fools
Is it something in the water? Are there really that many folks out there in the real world who have nothing better to do with their lives than “tweet” on Twitter or send instant messages, text messages (cell phones) and generally blather and blah? How in the world do you concentrate on “doing” if all you do is blather? Productive get-togethers are one thing, but this “social networking” is for what? To try to win folks over to partake of your…what? Seems to me it’s just another way to make mouth noise just because. It’s the lonely hearts club trying to find friendship and love…or something. Who knows. What I know is that it’s human white-noise, and I have no use for human white noise. It’s a waste of time and life. Go DO SOMETHING!!!
Means Provide Opportunity, Only
I get a lot of requests from folks who want to “make a go of it” on their own. And I can do that. I do it well. But. Providing the means doesn’t provide the self-incentive needed to achieve the desired goals. Providing the means can’t provide the motivation to do the work needed to succeed. Providing the means only creates the tools and functions necessary to get there if someone is willing to apply themselves and do the work.
Reality? Most people want you to do it for them while they, doing nothing, reap the benefits. I don’t sanction that kind of attitude or that kind of behavior. I certainly won’t enable it.
One Thousand Raindrops
I sit outside at morning twilight and listen to a thousand raindrops. It’s quiet, except for the raindrops…and the wind (I think). But, wait, there is no wind, no movement in the treetops. Is it, then, the lake, its waves? No. That underlying roar is raindrops hitting a thousand roofs. One thousand raindrops each upon a thousand rooftops while humans mostly sleep. Good morning.
Boxing Up Our Children and Delivering Them to McDonald’s and Burger King.
When the public education system goes out of its way to indoctrinate our young children, promoting McDonald’s and Burger King in songs and ditties to Kindergartners, when junk food laden with sugar, produced by Beatrice under all its various labels is proliferated as healthy in school classrooms, hallways and cafeterias, promoted as good eating by teachers, one really must wonder. Where have I witnessed this from firsthand experience? A mom whose child was enrolled at Washington School, Sandpoint, Idaho, that child since removed from said school and placed into the Idaho Virtual Academy instead, which is proving itself first-rate as a good, solid education, and not promoting corporate interests and the dumbing down of our children that is now rampant throughout the public school system in the US.