The bank.

I give it to Sarah. She takes all the money anyhow and there will still be a chance that I could use it or at least get treated to dinner.

Danny, Champion of the World brings me back

I can still remember what shelf this book was located on in my elementary school library.

I was very close to my father growing up as was the main character in this book and I suppose I always associated myself with him.

Pheasant hunting!

I demand Christi's Pizza

Christi's Pizza
Sausage, mushroom and onion. Cause I am hungry.

Propel
I need to wash this pizza down with some peach propel.

Zombies!

Lock and Load! Let's put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner! Ye Haw!

That's right, while Sarah and the rest of you are locked away with canned goods in the basements hoping the zombies just "go away" I'll be waxing that zombie boot-ta!

It's always Slutty when it isn't me!

When it's me or with me, it's sexy... When I see someone else doing it, most defiantly slutty!

Making out in Chillicothe, Ohio

Had me bound in knots for 11 years!

My bucket list Smucket list....

Be a Great Great Great Grandfather.
Because it means I have a lot of life left to live.

To be the oldest man on the planet earth.
Because it means I have a lot of life left to live.

To be King of the World.
Because I got the fix!

Ride the Trans-siberian rail.
That just sounds cool.

Prove myself sane.
The voices know why.

You do not need this flying car

I heard this story on the radio, didn't they make a car that was also a boat than didn't work either?

I am not a salesman, I don't want to sell anything especially something a useless as this.

macbook air.

MacBook Air - thin and crispy by dan taylor

Got an iphone (when do we get a plinky app?) Need me a new macbook air!

I love my truck.

BECAUSE ESCALADES ARE RIDICULOUS!

I doubt I'd drive a prius either. I'll stick to my pick-up.

The breakup

I think the worst, and this goes both ways, has been my classic "I'm out". This means they never see or talk to me again.

'God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian' will make you LOL

This book is fun, just for a laugh.

The athlete in me

Fanatic shows why a Buckeye is a Nut!

I'll spend my golden years in Jerusalam

This is the spot!

Seat me next to the quiet starer, please

I have a lot of fun making conversation with people who are not prone to talking. Plus, I have a fondness for creeps, being I am one.

Fool me twice, shame on lucifer

DORÉ, Gustave Lucifer 1866 by carulmare

The best trick (prank) ever pulled was by the Devil. The day he convinced man he didn't exist.

Just don't kill yourself.

A Fond Farewell by Elliot Smith

Elliot Smith committed suicide after making this album during an argument with his girlfriend. He stabbed himself twice in the chest with a kitchen knife when she locked herself in the shower. This song allowed me to see that things are not always "that bad".

She'll Come Back to Me by Cake

Optimism in the face of adversity.

I Know It's Over by The Smiths

Listen to this song over and over and over, if you don't slit your wrists, things will be OKay.

I miss the Pacific NorthWest.

Six years I spent, in her loving embrace;
Seven years I've longed, to get back to this place.
Eight people I knew, still call me here;
Nine times as close, as when I was there.
Ten reason I think, why I never returned,
One regret:

Best city in the world.

To: Orders Lots of Stuff From Amazon... Next Question Please!

HeWhoDoesTooMuch. or some may say, HimWhoIsAroundTooLittle.

Rotting maggots.

I went to the john at a placed called "The Grandview Weekend Outlet", which is sort of like a disorganized Odd Lots, and it smelled like rotting maggots. How I wish I was back in my humble privy. Thank heavens I just had to go #1!

Stand back! I'm gonna hypnotize some chickens!

I change lives, fool!

Even a Bear in the Air!

A bear, fo-sho, if it's got a badge.

OKay, that means if the "bear" in question was Sheriff Buford T. Justice.

BEWARE THE DREADED TELEMARKETER!

Sleeping beauty by EDgAr H.

Never really been tempted to buy anything from an infomercial and a recent story relayed to me from a friend has solidified my lack of confidence in these infomercials.
For Christmas he bought his wife a "Snuggie" and ever since he has been getting phone calls from telemarketers at work trying to sell him something else. I definitely don't want that.

This one got me!

I think (I can't find the quote) it was Winston Churchill who who actually said "If by 20 you are not a liberal you have heart, if by 30 you are not a conservative you have no brains." Can anyone help me find the original quote?

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?"

Christ would set this country straight

Jesus Christ - Christus Statue by midiman

Jesus Christ.

expelled from the dictionary.

can't
As in "I can't do it". You can, I'm sure, but you won't.

I don't know
You do, you just don't think.

This book turned on the lights, kicked me in the butt and gave me and reason to live!

This book attacked it all! Religion, politics, cultures and even yourself. Robbins is amazing in all of his work but this book takes the cake. Honestly, I kept it beside my bed for about 9 years and quoted from it like the Bible.

My handiness knows no bounds

I just finished painting the bathroom.

I painted the bathroom....

Really nice day here in Ohio, sunshine, blue skies and 20 degrees. I always enjoy the colder weather. 

I finished up the bathroom, it is white now. Very white. The color, from Sherwin Williams, is "Extra White". Looks nice.

I lost a little weight after the big climb and three days of no movement. I'm going to work out. 

A reasonable argument on why we may become Socialists.

I was sorting out my recycling this morning thinking about how this little bit I do helps. While placing a milk jug into a plastic bag I thought, by recycling this we are lessoning our dependency on foreign oil. I gathered up my weekend newspapers and placed them in another bag and thought, now Jane Goodall will not have me to blame this week for destroying valuable chimpanzee habitat, inadvertently causing a "domesticated" chimp named Travis to gnaw off a friendly face.

A month or so ago, Sarah and I put forth a plan to become greener. It was on our dry erase board attached to our refrigerator for a week or so. We thought about recycling plastic 4's, 5's and 6's but the nearest place to do so was 25 miles away so it seemed a waste. The best thing we felt we could do was encourage others to recycle. So we researched a bit so we would have information to share. The only one who bought it was Sarah's parents who agreed to collect if we sorted and delivered.  We cheered each other for our efforts. 

I am not a tree-hugging environmentalist or anything. I do pick up garbage I see, I try to recycle, I don't litter (no matter how hard I try, thank you for showing me my errors, darling) but I think EVERYONE agreed that they should recycle but didn't want to mess with cleaning it out, sorting it, storing it or delivering it to a recycling station.

Down there, sorting out my garbage, I thought about the people who don't recycle and their endless lists of excuses. This is what America has become, even though we know it needs to be done, we pass it along for an excuse. We don't hire an attorney to read our home loan and advise us because we don't have the money, we don't read it ourselves because we don't understand it. We can't do anything about the stimulus bill or gas prices, or job loss so we complain or hope it doesn't happen to us.

There is no initiative in American citizens to just go out and take care of what needs to be taken care of. We all see it, it is obvious but we pass the buck in hopes that someone else will get it done, we will even pay them! The answers on how to fix things are all around us. We wonder why our children are getting a terrible education at the local school and we blame administrators for not spending money properly and teachers for not teaching and other children for being children and never what more we citizens could have done. How did you vote it the last school levy? How many dollars in box-tops for education did you throw away last year?

Now here we are, with failing systems everywhere because no one wanted to do their share. So we look for someone to fix the schools, and save the environment, find me a job, pay my home loan, make sure I have heat next winter, put gas in my car, babysit my kids, put me though college, give me more, my share, I want what's mine. So the government steps in to help out and they give money to get what you think you need. The three new teachers or police officers you voted against having in your city last election because you didn't want to pay the tax are now delivered to you from our Uncle Sam who has deep pockets and lots of candy.

I see the federal government restricting what we citizens can do so that we never get in this situation again. They type of house, furniture or car we can purchase will be mandated. To most americans this seems like a far fetched idea but to our founding fathers it was a very real reality that they tried to protect us from. 

Author Tom Robbins defined politics as "the science of domination". Thomas Jefferson said "a government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take everything you have".  I think we should be very carful of what we ask from our government and what we are willing to accept from them. The preamble of the U.S. Constitution says the function of the federal government is to "promote general welfare" not to provide it. I think by this standard the federal government has over stepped it's bounds. The idiom "give anyone and inch, and they will take a mile" means that when you allow someone to behave badly, they will behave VERY badly.

I would say the only way to take control of the situation that we citizens have found ourselves in, is to take control of our lives and create an environment that doesn't need fixing. Then I look at banks like J.P. Morgan Chase who did not give variable rate loans but were still forced to take bail out money. Now bankruptcy judges can change the rates of their loans when homeowners declare bankruptcy.  It seems to me that the federal government is interfering with free enterprise. It also appears that the federal government has put forth a measure that encourages or coerces citizens to declare bankruptcy without fear of losing their homes and keeping them at lower interest rated than they agreed to pay. John Stuart Mill defined liberty as the absence of coercion.

I am just trying to point out things within the last few months that make me think of the socialist road our government is taking us down. I do not think socialists are bad people, I think they really want to help. I just feel that they take away liberty of others in their attempts to help people. I think it is the job of our elected government to protect us from this, and I fear that has been forgotten. 

I will stand up when the question is asked "how did we come to this" and take the blame. It is my fault, I should have done more. I hope you take responsibility someday too.