Sprink has Sprunk!

Sprinking merrily along, darned near drowning us! But, that's OK! At least you can see it's not snowing!

Well, unless you're a liberal, who can't see anything good in any coming season!

After all, we just went through the "Winter of their discontent", which, I think, is based on their disappointment at finding out John "F----in'" Kerry didn't win the election!
They've been on a downer ever since!

Don't bother offering them an anti-depressant! They LOVE the mood they're in. They get to tell all the lies they can think up!

When they had a kindred soul in the white house, they were happy as a rat who had just found a decayed bagel in the gutter! They saw him as their "LEADER". He cheered them up when they were down by recounting his amusing tales about what he did while sitting at his desk, talking on the telephone.

He was really a character, wasn't he?

Now they're unhappy, because the guy presently in the white house , hasn't sat at his desk long enough to have any interesting tales to tell!
Besides, if he DID tell any tales, his wife would be the first, First Lady to be convicted of murder--possibly!

So now they just blame him for their misery. Hurricanes? Blame it on Bush! He should have been able to wave his arms and dispel the storm.
Levee broke? Blame it on Bush. If he'd been there with his shovel, that democratic governor could have sat back on her butt and done nothing, while Bush reinforced her levees with his shovel.
Come to think about it, that's what she did anyway, isn't it?
--or was that Mayor Nagin? I can never get the two of them straight!

So now they're complaining about how the troops should be brought home and, at the same time, claiming they support the troops!

I guess they want them brought home, so they can support them up close and personal!

Their complaints include statements about our failure in Iraq. "Iraq is falling into civil war," they screech. "Our boys are being killed unnecessarily," they yodel.
The trouble is, the military keeps telling them they're not failing, but the liberals don't believe the generals. They think they know more about the military than either the commander-in-chief, or the generals!

I'd like to send a note to the terrorists. Why don't you direct your attacks against some of the liberals. That way, we'd be rid of some of the strident ones and you'd help convince the rest of the liberals that you actually mean business!
Who knows? If they ever get back into power, maybe they'll make a "deal" with you. You take over the country and we'll convert to the Muslim religion. That way, nobody gets killed and we look like heroes!
(What? You mean WE have to wear burkhas, too?)

On the other hand, even the terrorists look at liberals as dumb Americans! After all, they're doing everything in their power to help them!
Even that old bag, Jane Fondue, had to get into the act. You think she's going to be "out-traitored" by the likes of Kerry and She-hen?

Then, if you get tired of that nonsense, there's always the bit about how Bush is wire-tapping American citizens!
That these citizens are talking to terrorists in the middle east doesn't matter. "It's invading our privacy" ya' know!
"What? You mean Klintoon ackshully did the same thing? Well, that's OK--he was just checking up on republicans!"

Wanna' know who's going to be attacked next? Just ask Sen. Crochet-feller! He'll give you advance notice of any movement of our armed forces you'd care to know about. After all, he's a Senator, doncha' know? He's ABOVE the law!

He ought to be UNDER it--about 6 feet under it!
--And please! Take Chillery Klintoon, Shindy She-hen, J. "F------" Kerry and Teddy with you!

As I said, Spring is in the air--so the ground isn't hard any more. That way, "Fat Albert", the bore, can easily shovel the crap over 'em!

How Do You Spell, "R-e-e-l-e-e-f"?

OK, so I'm a lousy speller---but today, I don't much care. I've got at least another 10 years of life ahead of me!
HOO-RAW! HOO-RAW!


I received a call from my doctor today, telling me my X-rays came out normal--that the "shadow" they had seen on the earlier one, was just an "anomally"!
I almost fell out of my chair with relief!

Having smoked for 42 years, then quit for 22 more, I knew better than to believe the old doctor's tale about "after 10 years, you're chances of lung cancer are about equal to a person who has never smoked!"
To paraphrase an old King Cole song, "Y'er story's so touchin' but it sounds jus' lak a lie!"

Once you've damaged your lungs, they STAY damaged and you have to hope the tar that dwells in your lungs, inside those enveloping scars, doesn't blossom forth into monstrous cancer cells!
--And you'll note the doctor's never say your lungs "return to normal"--just your chances are ABOUT equal!

So I escape once again, the shady demon from hell--who will get me next time around for having emphysema, instead!

Well, you have to have SOME kind of punishment for being stupid, don't you?

Ending Life, As I Know it--

Much as I hate to admit it, I'm afraid that's where I'm at--ending my life as I know it. Seventy-seven years old last November and probably not going to reach seventy-eight!

I started smoking at 15 and continued for the next 42 years, quitting when I was 57. So I 've been free of smoke for almost 22 years. Not a bad record, huh?
Hah!

I received a phone call from my doctor on Thursday last, telling me they had found a "shadow" on my upper right lung. They wanted me to return for another X-ray of that section.
"You suspect cancer," I asked?

"No," said my doctor. "you were a smoker for many years and I suspect what we're seeing is scar tissue in your lungs."

Well, I thought. That's ONE way of getting around a direct answer!

So Friday, I hied myself to the local radiologist and had the requisite three X-rays made: One front; one back and one side.
That night I expected him to call me back, giving me the results of the tests, but no call.

The weekend passed slowly for my wife and I. One minute I was depressed; the next I was--if not normal, at least functional. I told her, "No news is good news," even though I didn't believe it!

Monday passed with no word.

I couldn't stand it any longer so today (Tuesday) I called the nurse and asked her if she would read the results of my X-ray for me. I didn't want to have to wait for the eventual letter from the doctor.
After being on hold for a very short time, the nurse returned to explain, "The doctor doesn't have the results back as yet. When they come in, he'll call you with the results!"

After hanging up, I started thinking---something you become good at during times like this! The nurse had said, "He'll call you with the results!" He's never done THAT before! Apparently, they aren't really optimistic, either!

Well, all I can do is wait and learn my fate. I'm going to expect the worst, that way, if the news IS good, I can really celebrate!
On the other hand, if the news is bad, I'll try to continue my thoughts on this page, as things progress.

Is there a moral to the story?
Yes! Doctors are lying to you.
If you smoke--even for 10 years and quit-- your lungs will NEVER recover from the damage done to them. They'll always bear the scars of your stupidity.
But doctors don't like to tell you that, because if they did, you might not quit smoking and that's a SURE death sentence, even sooner.

Yep! Quitting smoking is hard, but it's the only way to prolong your life. Continue smoking and you won't get past your 60's!

My Hard Drive Ain't Hard No Mo'!

It's true!
My hard drive gave up the ghost!

One minute I was intending to defrag the darn thing and the next it just, well--defragged!
It just froze in place.

I couldn't believe it! One minute it was doing fine; the next it was locked up tight and I was staring at a defrag command that never got to run--Poor thing!

So I hit the usual "Cntrl-Alt-Del" key and got--zilch! Not a damned thing!
I tried it again, adding a little more emphasis; "Cntrl-Alt-Del", dang ya'!
Nothing moved.

OK, sez I to myself. If you won't move, I'll just "off" y'er butt and restart. Windows always knows how to come back.

No, it doesn't. Oh, it fired up OK, but it wouldn't access Windows at all. Instead, I got an error message that said, "you can either start in Safe mode, or in Normal mode--click on your choice!"

So I did--clicked on "Normal" and I can tell you it definitely is NOT normal, 'cause when it came back, it said the same stupid error message!
No matter how many times I tried, it did the same thing! Not even in safe mode!

"AAAARRRRGGGHHH!" I screamed. "Honey, I fried my hard drive. It won't work any more!"

"It hasn't worked in years," she answered, unsympathetically.

I just couldn't handle TWO major problems at the same time, so I sat while all the air went out of my sails.

Finally I stirred myself and, admitting defeat, called for help.
Result?
$200 for troubleshooting.
$85 for a new hard drive (but a good one they said!)
$30 for recovering all of the programs and files on my old hard drive and transfering them to the new one.
$50 for additional memory.

So you can see it's sometimes pretty expensive to freeze the hard drive---no matter WHAT the wifey sez!
(I just wish the darn thing DID work---I'd show HER a thing or two! Hummph!)

Resolutions and Why We Should Ignore 'em!

Well, the New Year is under way and all my resolutions are "in the can"---for all the good it will do!

The sad part of resolutions is, unless you write them down and leave the paper in a place where you can find it, they become useless, because you forget 'em!
I forgot mine, after the first of February, last year!
I'll probably forget my NEW ones along about 1 February THIS year, also!

So much for improving myself!

Actually, I haven't much to improve upon. At my age, I've done all the "improving" I'm ever going to do! Why worry about it any longer?
So I have two mugs of coffee in the morning just to get started! So what?
And, if I like to rail at the MSM news channels in the morning because they're stupid, why is that wrong?
After all, it's not like I'm a democrat who loves "all things government"!


One of my resolutions this year is to ignore the screams of the liberal socialists in the country who want to slap free speech on the internet and on the radio/TV with regulations.
What kind of regulations, you ask?
Well, how about the one that says you can't say anything about a candidate for office after 60 days prior to election? You know, the McCain-Feingold law?

Talk about the destruction of free speech! There, we have a law that was initiated by a Republican and overwhelmingly approved by Democrats. Bush signed it because he was a chicken--he didn't want to PO McCain!
I would ENJOY POing McCain! That idiot seems to think he can do no wrong and, whatever he does, will be approved by the voters.

I guess it will, as long as we have uneducated voters, or voters who simply vote party lines!

You eventually get what you deserve, I guess.

As a result, I guess it's OK to ignore, or totally forget, your resolutions. You'll be too busy trying to defend yourself this year against the stupid laws our government is trying to suppress us with.

A good example of the way people are suppressed is the passage of the many laws infringing the rights granted citizens by the 2nd amendment.
There's never been a good argument made for the controls slapped on firearms and the real reason for those controls is control of the populace! Just one more suppression of the freedoms of the citizens.

Forgetting your resolutions is one thing---forgetting to defend your rights from government encroachment, is another.

Next year, it might be too late!

Just a quick note to say MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL and MANY HAPPY NEW YEARS, as well!

When Back Pain is Back, it's a Pain in the--

--Back (and the lower regions!)

Yeah, I'm a victim of back problems!
They started last summer; died out over the winter, than came back with a vengeance this past month!
I now walk and sit "tenderly"! In fact, I think the song "Tenderly"--you know--"The evening breeze, caressed the trees, tenderly--", was written by a man who suffered back pains!

How many people talk about their "back" problems to avoid doing anything strenuous? I couldn't count the number of those types I've run into in my lifetime.
Now I'm one of them!

Mores the worse, my wife can't use that as an excuse to get out of doing things for me---or maybe that's NOT so "worse"!

She, of course, like all good little wives, waits on me hand and foot!
Believe me, I don't belittle her. She's a godsend!

Oh yes, I've talked to my doctor---he says, "Tough it out until the end of October and we'll give you a shot then!"
I said, "Listen, doc! If I have to wait that long for a shot, I'm going to need surgery on my knees, because that's how I get around now!"

"Not to worry," he sez. "I know a good knee surgeon!"

This, obviously, is only the beginning of a long battle!

Anybody got a spare back?

The Platform of the New Traditionalist Party--

--As I promised (some time ago) to post for the formation of my Traditionalist Party.
And here they are:

TRADITIONALIST PARTY PLATFORM

1. We believe the people have been ignored for too long. Too many nominees have gained votes by making promises to the people which they never intended to keep, or, once elected, they've turned their backs on the people to line their pockets with money from special interest groups.
This party hereby publicly renounces all ties, or interests in special interest groups.
The party accepts legal donations from ANY citizen/citizens or groups of citizens, but we will NOT be beholden to ANY, other than the individual American citizen and the country as a whole.

2. Recognizing the fact that this country is comprised of 95% religious citizens, we firmly believe and will actively strive to apply those principles to our every day activities. We also recognize the right of atheist citizens to disbelieve religious tenets but, while we cannot recognize, or sanction any one religion, by the same token we will not sanction, or recognize atheism, which is itself a form of religion.

3. We recognize the Constitution as our only guide to laws.
What the founding fathers have built, we will not break asunder.
We do not recognize "world opinion", or "one world government", when either of those conflict with our Constitution.
We will never allow any of our rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution to be usurped by any world, or state, government.

4. We do not believe in judicial activism. The only function of the United States Supreme Court is to review legislation initiated by Congress as to Constitutionality, or to decide those cases legally brought before it, using Constitutional yardsticks.
We believe one of the many functions of Congress is to oversee the legislative decisions of the Supreme Court. In the event that the Court determines a question cannot be answered by existing laws, then Congress may be called upon to legislate such required laws after full debate. We believe Justices actions maybe be subject to review by the Congress and articles of impeachment may be found warranted individually, or collectively, against the justices of said court if it has been determined they have rendered decisions based on other than Constitutional requirements!
We believe that to prevent party partisanship from occurring, United States Supreme Court Justices should serve a term of not more than 16 years.

5. It is the function of the Executive Branch to insure the safety of the citizenry. To that purpose, the borders of the United States must be secured from illegal trespass and all illegal entrants must be returned to their point of origin.
Immigrants may only be allowed to enter the country by legal means.
We believe penalties should be imposed upon those businesses that knowingly, or unknowingly, employ illegal workers. (There is no reason to NOT know the status of your employees!)

6. We firmly believe in States Rights. At the same time, we do not believe in allowing a state to infringe, or modify, ANY inalienable right of the people as described by the Constitution. To that end, we believe any state laws that counter Constitutional rights, must be declared automatically null and void and we will request Congress to so do.
As an example, we believe Roe vs Wade is unconstitutional, as is the abridging and infringement of the 2nd amendment by several of the states. We believe these infringements are unconstitutional and must be voided!
7. We believe in defending ourselves from any country that wishes us harm by any means at our disposal. We intend to use force only in the amount required for our own safety. We believe in the Geneva accords, and will observe them in various military actions, other than against terrorism. We believe terrorists forfeit their rights to trial by jury, or leniency, by their own actions and we will treat them accordingly.

8. We do not believe in socialism, therefore we do not believe it is the function of a Republic to provide health care for all citizens. We shall, however, provide health care to the needy.
We also believe it is the job of government to insure corporate institutions do not unfairly charge citizens for services, or profit unduly at their expense.

9. We believe the welfare of the people, in the context of a state of being healthy, well fed and comfortable in their lives and their belongings, is one of the primary concerns of a Republic. To that end, we support the creation of work programs for indigent peoples which will provide an increase in self respect, rather than the loss of self as brought on by degrading charity.

10. We believe in the law of Eminent Domain, except that it must be used only for the improvement of public facilities such as freeways, parks, and other items of public benefit. We do not believe in the use of ED for the benefit of a business that offers the payment of higher taxes.
The property of a citizen is exclusively his own and may not be taken, without a fair payment of market value as determined by independent assessors, for any reason other than those enumerated.

11. The Executive Branch shall have line item veto power. Upon veto by the president, the item(s) shall be returned to Congress who, by a 2/3 majority, may override the president’s veto.

The above are subject to change through editing, or addition.
I thought it would be interesting to see what some of the founding fathers had to say about our government and I've included the three comments, below.


"The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered ... according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption...." --Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority." --James Madison

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson

Hiroshima--Facts?

Indeed! Protestors would have us believe we deliberately "incinerated" 100,000 people in Hiroshima without regard for the damage done, or the lives lost.

Being cruel people, we deliberately destroyed a city and left radiation within it's boundaries which contributed to the deaths of an additional 70,000 people.

Sounds terrible, doesn't it?

There's an old saying---"War is hell"! And now we, and the Japanese people, know what Hell is actually like!

You see, I remember well the 2nd World War. I remember who started it and how it was started! I also remember the treatment of our prisoners. We foolishly expected the Japanese to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, forgetting the Japanese were one of the countries who refused to sign the accords, thus declaring their intention of handling prisoners as THEY saw fit.
So they did.
The list of atrocities is long, beginning with the Bataan Death March, where Allied prisoners who had been marched for hours, or days, without food or drink were bayonetted when they fell out of line because of their weakness.

The list of atrocities in China were even longer and are available to any who care to look up the numbers.

But those were not all the reasons why we used the bomb at Hiroshima. No!
It was the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, while continuing negotiations in Washington.
It was the suicidal Kamikaze attacks on ships.
It was the resistance to the last man at Iwo Jima and Tarawa.
It was reports of the arming of the citizenry, with every indication that the Japanese would fight to the last man on their mainland---which they have admitted they would have done.
And, finally, It was the refusal to surrender unconditionally, which demand was made weeks and days before the Hiroshima bomb was dropped.

It would have cost 1 million lives if we had invaded Japan.
It would also have meant the total destruction of Japan, because, having air superiority over the mainland, we would have systematically destroyed ALL of the major cities through conventional bombings just as we did in Europe.
Remember, the allies had destroyed eight major cities in Germany, creating fire storms that raged for days, killing over 800,000 people! Where's the outrage over that?
Apparently it's OK to kill nearly 1 million people--as long as you do it by conventional methods!

Over 100,000 people died in the initial conventional bombing of Tokyo.
What would the loss have been if we had continued and destroyed the whole city?
--Or if we had continued and destroyed ALL major cities in Japan?
Does "1 million" sound familiar? Would it have approached 2 million? And all of this could have been accomplished BEFORE one American set foot on the mainland!

Assuming the forgoing had already happened, when the Marines and their Allies finally landed on the mainland, how many would have died, due to the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier? How many Japanese would have died, due to the materiel superiority of the Americans and their allies?

No, to complain about the dropping of the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is to deny the reality of what war WOULD have been like WITHOUT the bomb!

Americans should never feel shame for ending a war that had already claimed more lives than any war in the history of the planet!

Think about this--Germany was within 6 months of developing an Atomic bomb, when the war ended.
Does ANYBODY think there would have been ANY hesitation about using the bomb on England, or the U.S.? We already have Hitler's words of impatience at the slowness of it's development.

The world should be grateful the United States developed the first Atomic bomb and USED it to END a devastating war!

Warnings for Family and Country--

This site is turning into something other than what I intended!
It was to be a chronicle of my events, for the information of my family.
Thus, I could pass on items that should be of great interest to them, whether they concerned me, or our family.
Instead, I find I've included other events I deemed necessary to their knowledge as well.

A few of my posts have mentioned things which I believe the family needs to take note of---things like the recent Stupid Supreme court decisions! Also, the continual and annual hullabaloo over the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings! Abortion practices and Gay marriages as well as loss of religion from our institutions!

The major events occurring now are something every family should take note of. Unfortunately, too many of us go our merry way doing our daily routines--commute, work, commute--collapse, so that we hardly have time for our own families.

The threats to the country are extreme and immediate! Socialists have been joined by communists (who now call themselves "progressives") and, between the two, have taken over the Democrat Party, along with the many fools in Follywood!

The Democrats, who used to be dependable for their leaders, now do nothing but nominate, or appoint idiots who spit invective and invidious comments into our airwaves and then have the nerve to expect us to vote for them!

So, on those occasions where I see threats to our country, or to our family, I'll be posting my warnings, accordingly.

(Posted 8/22/05 from original draft!)