I found this & thought it needed to be brought up to the masses. It is basically a list of something to say to those that annoy after they invade you personal space. My favorite, and will be use @ Willy's is "What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?"

Some Useful Condescending Phrases: "You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication."

Some Useful Condescending Phrases

Some useful phrases to use as an Evil Overlord as given by Steve Meredith. These humorous cuts were originally listed as useful phrases to use around work but they probably only work well if you are a Evil Overlord(TM).

1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
13. No, my powers can only be used for good.
14. How about never? Is never good for you?
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

Blessed Be, and don't mess with my toys
Dr. Strangelove

BUSH HAS PROVED HE HAS THE MENTAL CAPACITY OF HIS SURNAME

I was sleeping. I was having a dream of GREAT times with my past life.

And then the phone rang............

"L", A friend of mine called me to let me know d'bya was having a press conference. And he was just pulling random shit out of his ass, stuttering, several times contradicting himself within less than finishing a paragraph of what he is saying.

So I woke up enough to turn the TV on, & we bid our good byes.

And after less than 30 seconds

I had to call my dad, & let him know.

Dbuya IS A FUCKING MORON!!!!!

Blessed Be, and for whatever your 'god' belief is, and I know it might be too late.

IMPEACH BUSH!

Dr. Strangelove

The Best Henry Rollins Interview I Have Ever Seen

OK, I know some of you from California, Louisiana, Chicago, and here in the local area have been bitching about my lack of original content.

BUT
HENRY ROLLINS
IS COMING TO SIOUX FALLS!

So, deal with it.

And now as I promised last night.
The best interview I have ever seen with him

SVT: Kobra - Interview with Henry Rollins, part 1

SVT: Kobra - Interview with Henry Rollins, part 2

SVT: Kobra - Interview with Henry Rollins, part 3

Blessed be, and please don't miss Henry Rollins if he come to your area.
His spoken word shows will make you think and laugh, about what we all are having to deal with today.

Dr. Strangelove

some how, some where. . . . .

I can't understand how I got a a reference from this site via Site Meter.

But in the spirit of the holidays, check out the videos of these guys.

I could not understand what they were saying. But that did not prevent almost blowing my beer through my nose from laughing.

God Jul Jul Jul och Gott Nytt GAS-år önskar Tomas & Thomas!

Henry Rollins Spoken Word, here in Sioux Falls

As I & others found out the Henry Rollins tour plans for early 2008, and it included The Orpheum Theatre here in Sioux Falls, SD, we all went into frenzy about getting tickets.

So as of 12:47am 12/16/07, this is the tour schedule:

HENRY ROLLINS SPOKEN WORD TOUR 2008
1-14-08 Lorensbergsteatern / Gothenburg, Sweden
1-15-08 Sweden Rival / Stockholm, Sweden
1-16-08 Muffathalle / Munich, Germany
1-17-08 Kaufleuten / Zurich, Switzerland
1-19-08 Mousonturm / Frankfurt, Germany
1-20-08 Schauspielhaus / Hamburg, Germany
1-21-08 Passionskirche / Berlin, Germany
1-22-08 Gloria / Cologne, Germany
1-23-08 Paradiso / Amsterdam, Holland
1-24-08 AB / Brussel, Belgium
1-26-08 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK
1-27-08 Colston Hall / Bristol, UK
1-28-08 Wulfren Hall / Wolverhampton, UK
1-29-08 Vicar St / Dublin, Ireland
1-30-08 Academy / Manchester, UK
1-31-08 Academy / Newcastle, UK

2-02-08 Music Hall / Aberdeen, UK
2-03-08 Theatre Royal / Glasgow, UK
2-19-08 First Avenue / Birmingham, AL -- etix.com
2-20-08 Hayes Theatre / Chattanooga, TN -- tickettracks.com
2-21-08 Lincoln Theatre / Raleigh, NC -- etix.com
2-22-08 Orange Peel / Asheville, NC -- ticketweb.com
2-23-08 40 Watt Club / Athens, GA -- 40watt.com
2-24-08 Bijou / Knoxville, TN -- knoxbijou.com
2-26-08 Sonar / Baltimore, MD -- Ticketmaster
2-27-08 Warsaw / Brooklyn, NY -- Ticketmaster
2-28-08 Warsaw / Brooklyn, NY -- Ticketmaster
2-29-08 House of Blues / Atlantic City, NJ -- Ticketmaster

3-01-08 Lupo's / Providence, RI -- etix.com
3-02-08 Le National / Montreal, Canada -- admission.com
3-03-08 Gig Theater / Kitchener, Canada -- ticketmaster.ca
3-04-08 Harro East / Rochester, NY -- tickets.com
3-05-08 Rex Theater / Pittsburgh, PA -- Ticketmaster
3-06-08 Egyptian Room / Indianapolis, IN -- Ticketmaster
3-08-08 New Daisy Theatre / Memphis, TN
3-11-08 Cains Ballroom / Tulsa, OK -- gettix.com
3-12-08 Rococo / Lincoln, NE -- etix.com
3-13-08 Val Air Ballroom / Des Moines, IA -- Ticketmaster
3-14-08 Orpheum Theatre / Sioux Falls, SD -- Ticketmaster
3-15-08 The Venue / Fargo, ND
3-16-08 Burton Cummings Theater / Winnipeg, Canada -- Ticketmaster
3-17-08 Odeon Events Center / Saskatoon, Canada -- Ticketmaster
3-18-08 Conexus Arts Centre Convention Hall / Regina, Canada

If you want updates goto his site at either:
http://21361.com/ - Henry Rollins' web site home
http://21361.com/website/news/index.html - Tour Schedule

And I just found a few videos of "literally" old Henry on YouTube.

This is a few of them:
Henry Rollins talking about Madonna on Cutting Edge April 85


Henry Rollins cruising down Melrose Ave talking about Watts


I laughed hard when I saw these two vid's knowing how Henry looks now.

Tomorrow, one of the best Henry Rollins interviews I have EVER seen.

Blessed Be, & if you have a chance to see Rollins.

DO IT!

Dr. Strangelove. [not Tim the pilot]

Who the hell Amy Winehouse? And why should I give a shit?

I have been reading a tonne of news on this person lately, not by choice. I have 2 questions:

1. Who is this bitch?
2. And is she a dark-side idiot bimbo clone of paris hilton?

I just ask because, aside from the fucked up shit she has been pulling.

Just what the fuck does this dipshit media whore actually do?

Tearful Amy Winehouse returns home after visiting husband in jail - and has to crawl under the gates because she's lost her keys | the Daily Mail

Blessed be, remember your keys, and wipe the coke off of your nose before leaving
Dr. S.

AVAST YE SWARLY LUBBERS!

My pirate name is:

Black John Kidd

Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

A Family X-mas

I came across this short film by Warren Eig on Reel-Exchange, which is a site that various artisans of media can post a demo reel of work that they have done.

Reel-Exchange: A Family X-mas: "A Family X-mas", is a twisted view of the whole holiday "night before X-mas" story. But it redeems itself at the end. It is funny, twisted, and definitely N.S.F.W.

So before watching this, make damn sure the kids are not around. It may visually warp the whole holidays thing for the rest of their lives.

The summary of the film is:
A FAMILY X-MAS is about a mob boss, Johnny Guccianno, who accidentally wakes up one Christmas Eve to discover Santa Claus. Johnny doesn't believe in Santa Claus, but after some convincing he realizes he's captured the real Saint Nick. Unfortunately, Johnny's not a big fan of Christmas.

And for something special, watch the credits for the cast list. I giggled at the casting/character irony.

Mr. Eig, I solute you. Here is the YouTube embed.


Blessed Be, and as Jean Shepherd would write in his book & movie A Christmas Story

If you get a BB-Gun, you are just going to shoot your eye out.

Dr. S.

And you might think YOUR thanksgiving was bad?

Now for a video about having a "healthy" holiday feast:


Blessed be, and pass the meat.
Dr. S.

Speeding Ticket Taser - THIS PISSED ME OFF!!!!

I found this video on Shoutwire. I clicked the link & was totally appalled by the conduct of the officer. And some people wonder why so many others are scared shitless by cops. From the time I watched the video, [approx 10:30 CST], to the time I went to comment, the view count went from 240,000 to over 250,000 in a span of just 20 Minutes!

I'm sorry but the actions of this officer need to be dealt with by his department by his immediate dismissal, with no compensation, retirement & benefits fully revoked.

And he should not EVER be allowed to work with people,
even as a restroom attendant.

The text from the YouTube description reads like this:

UHP (Utah Highway Patrol) tasers man in front of pregnant wife and baby over an alleged speeding ticket. Outraged? Call the Vernal, Utah UHP Office and let them know!

The contact stuff from the UHP site reads as such

• Utah Highway Patrol - Vernal, Utah
• Address: 152 East 100 North, Vernal, UT 84078
• Office: (435) 789-3111
• Fax: (435) 789-8575
• Hours: M-F 9am - 5pm
• Contacts:
• Bureau Commader - Captain Bruce Riches
• Section Commander - Lt. Jeff Chugg
• Web Site: http://highwaypatrol.utah.gov/

And, now for the video:


Blessed be, have a great Thanksgiving,

And try not to piss off the asshats that work for the Highway Patrol. This video proved that some are the bottom feeding mouth-breathers of law enforcement. But, at least now we know where all of the muscle-headed bullies from school go if they cannot get a job as strip club bouncers!

Dr. S.

The next step in the squirrel war

O.K. I promised certain others that I would not carry on the whole squirrel thing. But there are people out there that actually search for squirrel news.
{odd, but true}

So until I can get the squirrel news web/blog site set up, you will have to deal with it here.



Blessed Be, and bow down to your lord & master......... Foamy

Dr. S

I'll fix the links later so that you will all enjoy the furry fun of squirrels.

Why I still support IATSE, just not here

I found out about this, read several different stories, and . . . I am not happy.

This is the bullshit spewed from http://www.livebroadway.com/

And my comments on this will be in RED.

Local One, IATSE, the stagehands union, has shut down Broadway. They left the negotiating table and abruptly went on the picket line. They refused to budge on nearly every issue, protecting wasteful, costly and indefensible rules that are embedded like dead weights in contracts so obscure and old that no one truly remembers how, when or why they were introduced. The union wants you to believe they are the victims, the little guys.

We have the highest regard and respect for our stagehands. But, they are not, as the Union leadership characterizes them, the typical "little guys" as far as compensation is concerned. Their "average annual earnings," in salary and benefits, is more than $150,000, with many stagehands earning more than $200,000.

*They are professionals and should be well paid, and will remain the best paid in this industry in the world. We simply don't want to be compelled to hire more workers than needed and pay them when there is no work for them to do.

For example:

# It takes a few minutes to move a piano, but we are forced to pay stagehands for four hours of work. YOU AGREED TO IT, SO DEAL WITH IT! STANDARD SHOW UNION OR NOT HAS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS TO THOSE THAT TAKE THE TIME TO DO THE WORK!

As a result, over the course of a year, many stagehands add another $50,000 dollars to their six figure salaries from moving pianos or mopping floors. I HAVE YET IN 37 YEARS OF WORKING IN THEATRE MET SOMEONE MAKING $50,k MOVING & MOPPING

# Head Electricians earn a six figure salary, but their contract only permits them to work a total of 80 minutes a week. THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE WORKED AS AN M.E. AND I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS THIS STIPULATION.

# A flyman making $160,000 annually in salary and benefits is required for all productions, even when there is no fly cue in the production and no flyman is needed. AGAIN, YOU AGREED TO IT YEARS AGO, JUST FUCKING DEAL WITH IT YOU PANSIES!!

# We are required to keep the same number of workers loading in a show as hired on day one for the entire load-in process regardless of how many workers are subsequently needed. O.K. YOU GOT ME THERE

# We have offered a significant raise in wages, but the union says there will be a cut in wages. The only explanation is that this would be the result of fewer people being paid for not working. W.T.F.???? I WANT SOMETHING FROM YOUR STASH, CHARLOTTE!



These issues can only be resolved at the bargaining table, not on the picket line. We remain prepared to meet 24/7 until we reach an acceptable agreement.

Charlotte St. Martin
Executive Director
The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO BROADWAY PATRONS

Due to a strike by Local One, IATSE stagehands, there will be no performances today at many Broadway theatres. Off Broadway shows and several Broadway productions, including CYMBELINE, MARY POPPINS, MAURITIUS, PYGMALION,THE RITZ, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, XANADU and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN will perform this week according to their normal schedules. For information about Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre, please visit DuranDuran.com. However, the rest of the Broadway theatres are dark.

If you purchased tickets via credit card to a Broadway show that is not performing, in most cases your card will automatically be credited. If you purchased your ticket with cash, please return to the point of purchase.

Visit ILoveNYTheater.com for detailed information about cancelled shows and refunds/exchange.

And a reminder: When buying Broadway tickets, it's a very good idea to make your purchases through well-established, primary sources like Ticketmaster, Telecharge, ILoveNYTheater.com, theatre box offices, and the Broadway Ticket Center.

We encourage you to continue to place orders for future performance dates and to purchase replacement tickets for those automatically refunded.

Please check back with this page or visit www.ILoveNYTheater.com for updates on the work stoppage.

* * * *

The League of American Theatres and Producers is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Our members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in New York and more than 240 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and on tour across the U.S. and Canada.

This site provides information on special Broadway events and programs. For information on and tickets to shows in New York City, visit ILoveNYTheater.com. For information about shows in other cities across the U.S. and Canada, visit TouringBroadway.com.

I'm not sorry for being an ass about this, but these people are
sisters and brothers to me over the years. They need
the respect that is due to them, and not treated as just people
that push things, flip switches, make sure people look good,

And that they are seen & heard by the other people that paid over
$100 to see the show

I am REALLY pissed about this

Blessed Be,
as long as you are not a member of The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.

And Charlotte St. Martin, I hope you never meet an unemployed stagehand, designer, or writer.

For my blessings, DO NOT apply to your deamon twunt ass.

Dr. S.

Here is an easy quiz for you all.

I found this and thought, "Lets test the brain power of those that come here".

And then I realized that would be cruel to some of you.

Then again, why waste bandwidth with another stupid video from YouTube?

The answers are at the link @ the bottom of the quiz to avoid some of you lemurs from cheating.

Not to say lemurs are dumb. Aside from Mini-Lops, and three toed sloths, I like them quite a bit.

So, now on with the:

World’s Easiest Quiz

(Passing requires 4 correct answers)

1- How long did the Hundred Years’ War last?

2- Which country makes Panama hats?

3- From which animal do we get cat gut?

4- In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

5- What is a camel’s hair brush made of?

6- The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

7- What was King George VI’s first name?

8- What color is a purple finch?

9- Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

10- What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?

Feeling pretty confident are you? You only need 4 answers correct to pass the test.

To get the answers, click on this line & scroll down.

Blessed Be, & read a book to learn something gnu.

Dr. Strangelove

O.K. I know this is stupid, ......

But it is cute & safe for work.



I love Kate Bush. Hell I just like bush, {not Bush, I prefer bush}

But I hope you all enjoy the silliness of this video.

Blessed Be, and just be goofy sometimes, it is good for you
Dr. Strangelove

Batman, Adam West, and long time friend Wally Wingert

When I was in school back in the 80's I made friends with a guy named Wally Wingert, who had this passion for dressing up as different characters, as well as impersonating them vocally. I used to shoot publicity photos for his portfolio, and back him up as a "cohort in grime", [read my "Aluma-Man & Leather Lad" post], while doing gigs.

Now he is one of the very rare people in the performing arts that actually makes a living off of his passion of entertaining. You may not know him by name. But if you have ever seen Family Guy, or watched PAX TV, [he is the voice on the network id's], you might know his voice. And he has done way more than that. His site is http://www.wallyontheweb.com/ Check it out.

But I wax poetic. This is a video that Wally did that a friend of mine sent me who also knew Wally from his radio days here in Sioux Falls.
Please be entertained knowing Adam West was not only one of Wallys idols, but is now also a friend of his.

Just to show that sometimes dreams do come true.



Blessed Be, and follow your feet to get where you want to go.
Dr. Strangelove

And now for a blast from the fun past

I found this & thought to share with you all another one of my favs. from my youth.

It goes along with what I found back in March with "The Yip Yips meet the telephone"

So, without further ado. . . .
Classic Sesame Street - Yip Yip aliens discover a radio



Blessed Be, and be "happy happy, boing boing" as much as you want to
Dr. Strangelove

HOLY SHIT! NO WONDER I'M SO HAPPY!

I found this article on TechRepublic & thought I would spread the word:

Workplace profanity boosts morale

• Date: October 25th, 2007
• Author: Toni Bowers
• Category: Workplace, Coworkers, Company Culture
• Tags: Workplace, Morale, Leadership, Management, Toni Bowers
  

Profanity can boost morale, according to a new British study, published in the current issue of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal, called “Swearing at work and permissive leadership culture: When anti-social becomes social and incivility is acceptable.”

Couple of points about this: A) Is that the longest title of a study you’ve ever heard of or what? and B) If they’re counting words muttered under the breath, I have the potential to be the happiest person on the face of the earth.

According to the study, “frequent swearing can reinforce solidarity among staff and enable them to express their feelings, such as frustration, and develop social relationships.” I guess until you turn to the person in the cubicle next to you and call her a $%$$#%. Then morale kind of plummets, at least for one person.

And I’m not extremely familiar with British law, but in the U.S. you can bleep your way to the highest realms of good morale…until one person finds it unacceptable and takes you and your potty mouth to court for creating a hostile work environment.

The press release on the study did quote a Professor Yehuda Baruch as saying that abusive and offensive swearing “should be eliminated where it generates greater levels of stress, rather than helping to relieve it.” How exactly you’re supposed to determine that I’m not sure.

Baruch admitted that finding that “happy medium” is a tough proposition for supervisors. “Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing. The challenge is to master the art of knowing when to turn a blind eye to communication that does not meet their own standards.”

Really and truly, I don’t think if I were the head of a company, I would trust anyone to successfully learn that “art.”

I still f**king hate VIsta, Pt deux {I.E. VISTA SICKS}

I found this video on WWW.BLIP.TV. And could not embed it directly. So, if you want to see the original click on WWW.BLIP.TV.

UPDATE: I found an embed on YouTube. So click the video below to maybe save some time.

ENJOY!

Blessed be, and tear down the Gates of suckage!

Don't buy into the evil Bills of usurping us computer users.
So sayest I, and so sayest the spaghetti monster.

Dr. S.

I just have to do this

I found this on Break.com through a friend and absolutely could not resist posting this video. It is a great spoof of all of the lame "entertainers" that we all have had to suffer through the past few years. I can't the embed code from Break, so I found it on Youtube.com

I Wanna Be A Pop Star

Blessed Be, and don't have a drink in your mouth while watching this.
{You may ruin your keyboard & screen.}
Dr. Strangelove.

Germaine's Webcam

I am a big Foamy the Squirrel, Jonathan Ian Mathers & IllWillPress.com fan in general. I thought this was funny & deranged in so many ways, & needed to spread the word of our "lord and master".



Blessed Be, and stop staring.
Dr. Strangelove

National Squirrel Awarness Week

This is courtesy of www.scarysquirrel.org/
Click the link above to goto the original text, and working count-down counter.

Fall is harvest season, and October is the harvest month in the northern hemisphere. It's the time for harvest festivals, county fairs, Halloween, and that last plunge in the ol' swimmin' hole before winter sets in.

Well, Patriots, what was once a carefree time of year has been co-opted into a season of skwerlien debauchery. For, as many of you know, the second week in October was declared National Squirrel Awareness week in 2000 (England proceeded the States with its own National Red Squirrel Week in 1998).

We're not quite sure who to blame for this commemoration. Also note that the starting date varies from year-to-year, place-to-place. For example, there's seems to be disagreement as to when the second week in October starts. Some say it begins on the Sunday after the first full week. Others begin festivities on the first Sunday of the month (unless the first Sunday is the first day of the month...). It's confusing, but the week's timing and who's responsible for it isn't as important as what to do about it.

Sure, we could intiate a campaign to do away with this national embarrassment. Or, perhaps we should promote Skwerl Awareness Week as a time to drive the bushytails back into their forest hovels where they can gambol around with all their skwerlvert eco-terrorist friends. Then we could release an army of famished wolves into the forest and... well, you can see where we're going with this...HEY! THE NEXT NAT'L SQUIRREL AWARENESS WEEK BEGINS:

OCTOBER 07, 2007

Blessed Be our furry little friends!
Dr. S

So, you wanna see something REALLY SCARY?!?!

I saw this & thought back to when I was working for 'Disco On Wheels', when I got sent out to babysit the kelo dj's. But there was one night I had to drive & setup a gig for some dance at either Harrisburg or Canton, and the DJ, Wally Wingert, {who now does a butt-load of voice work, [i.e. Family Guy], & other stuff, and is still a good friend of mine}, and myself had both just seen the movie

"Twilight Zone"

[UPDATE 07.10.14: Thanks to 'The Mut', I corrected the movie from "Tales from the crypt"]
So, to top it off I had an aluminum splint on my wrist like a bad captain hook & Wally was dressed in all leather. For the whole night during the gig we referred to each other as "Aluma-Man & Leather Lad".

Mind you, Wally doesn't imbibe in anything, and I was totally dry. {yes, there was a time that I was responsible}

And as the night closed, & we bundled up all of the gear back into the truck, & we hit the highway to head home.

Imagine a full moon that you can drive & see EVERYTHING. It was a "I wear my sunglasses at night . . . . " moment.

We are still chatting back & forth about various things, and then it happened.

Headlights about two miles away.

I turned to Wally and asked "Do you want to see something really scary?'
He picked up on where I was going, and we both went into movie mode. Dialog & everything.

So here we are driving down a rural 2-lane highway, in a box-truck that has no equal for forward lights, {I forgot to mention that our boss rigged the panel van with a light package that would impress/blind people, why?, just because}, and there is someone coming at us.

So, I shut off the headlights, & there was mention of 'there might be nun's out there!!!', 'rocks must have taken out the headlights', etc.

As we got closer, I flipped the switches for the auxiliary lights, and turned them all on at about 3/4 of a mile. And by our guess, the car left close to a 150 yard skid track.

That made our night.

So anyway, now on with the show:

Do not watch this if you are tripping on anything, 'Cause it might warp your mind, curve your spine, and may help to lose the war for the allies'. {George Carlin}
But it is still cool.



Blessed be the artists that can have the forethought, patience, {thirteen hours}, to do things like this.


Dr. Strangelove

Britney Spears - VMA 2007 - Gimme More

By popular request, {and this way I don't have to search for it again}, I'm posting the video of one of the most resent tragedies.

Just don't eat anything before watching.

Blessed be, and remember that spandex is a privilege, not a right
Dr. S.

Notes from the veranda Pt 1

So, as I sit out on the 'back porch" of my favorite pub, I am realizing it is actually a nice night to go camping. Unfortunately I have to be at work in about five hours to load the musical "Movin' Out" into my venue, babysit the show, shut our gear down,
drink, eat, sleep, baby sit show again, {read the label from any shampoo bottle and you will understand}

"Lather, rinse & repeat"

Anyway, I just felt it my duty to let you all in on a little secret. Promise to not tell anyone. Seriously, double pinky promise.

I killed a squirrel the other night.

I DID NOT MEAN TO DO IT! HE JUST RAN OUT & I SQUASHED HIM TO MUSH!

4400 lb vs 10oz [now ooze] what do think will win?

If you want to make contributions to the memorial fund for its family, send it to the Sioux Falls humane society;

And if you want to view the grave site, it is somewhere in the woods north of Rice, on Bahsen just shy of the bend to the east.
As an ordained pastor of the Universal Life Church, it was my calling to respectfully deal with the situation.

SO ANYWAY:

Physically or verbally, we all kill things, ideas, intentions, & love, without knowing that we have done so. And when we finnaly find out about it. It ends up too late to pick up the remnants & make good of the situation.

So, if you find yourself wondering in the trees & find a marker with foamy writen on it.

Please pay respect.

And if you find yourself wondering around going "WTF have I done? Where am I going?".

Take some time to enjoy what you have, & who you have in your life.
You may be surprised.

You asked for orignal material, you got it. Shit like this normally goes to my phantom site.

Blessed Be, & be respectful of others.
Dr. S.

Umm, words escape me on this.

Would he be 'slap-happy'?

Stoned Out of His Mind - Watch more free videos

Blessed Be, and pull your pants up
Dr. S.

And now for something completely different......

So, my friends & family. Several of you expressed concern from my last post. I am ok, I just needed to blow off steam. Is that not what weblogs are for?

So I bring you this.



Politically correct? NO!
Fun to watch? YES!
Pertaining to our current life in America? {sidebar, I misspelled america, & one of the choices was calamari, WTF?} HELL YES!!!

So, Blessed Be, & enjoy the calamari

Dr. Strangelove

Good people, just stupid choices

O.K.

Why is it that the people that I know make some of the most stupid-assed decisions without asking someone else "Is this a stupid-assed thing to do?'.

It honestly scares me.

To those I see on a nightly basis. I'm sorry for being a total prick this last last week. Shit

This was longer. I cut out the crap that I had written after proofing it.

In all, yes I finally lost it after the pub closed. After reproofing, I realized I had left out the point of this post.
And thought I should tell you that a friend of mine committed suicide a few months ago. I only found about it last week.

Right now all I can say is be yourself, believe in what you do, and keep buggering on. And if you suspect someone not doing the same.

get them help

Blessed Be, and follow what The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy says on the cover.

DON'T PANIC!

Doctor Strangelove, ULC

P.S. After reading this, I sound like a total idiot. But I still stick up for my friends. Alive or dead, I will still tell you that YAAFM for pulling this kind of crap on those of us that care about you.

"The Amazing Jonb"

Being alone, being lonely, and dealing with discrimination

Ok, some of you get on me about posting stuff that is not of my creation. Well, tough-sh!t, my place, my editorial commentary, and my rules. And when I find something funny, cool, or that I feel that others would enjoy in expanding the intelligense of ones brain. I will post it. My sandbox, my toys, my opinion. At least I give credit when I can to whomever is the author.

That out of the way. I came across this article on Forbes that gives credence to what I as a single person have felt for many years. If someone married has a child or significant other that is sick, no-prob getting time off. However when the woman I lived with for over ten years calls up & I need to take her to the hospital, I get screwed out of PTO leave. If my pet, {that I considered my child}, got sick or died, I got buppkiss for sympathy from the corporate talking-heads that decide my monetary state.

But if I were married it is a whole different story. I would be allowed to come in late from dropping the kids off, leave early to pick E up from the clinic, and if the call came through that she had gone into labour, be ordered to leave the premises to attend my child's birth.

But I have seen too many of my friends lives ruined by jumping the gun early getting married before they realized how much they torque each other off when they are stuck together all the time. [what happened to me]

And remember kids:
Marriage is eight letters long.
And that makes it TWICE as bad as a four letter word.

If I get married, it will be to someone that I know I will be able to live with forever, die for, or die with.

Blessed Be, and . . . .
MY NAME IS DOCTOR STRANGELOVE, I AM SINGLE AND [almost] PROUD!
And be sure to check the link @ the end of the article.

This is the Forbes.com article

Best Cities For Singles
Stop Singlism!
Leslie Talbot 08.21.07, 6:00 PM ET

Listen up, singletons. If you've given up on the dating scene and resigned yourself to a lifetime of solitude culminating in a fatal fall in the shower and subsequent consumption by starving house pets, here's something else to fret about:

You're a member of the only minority subject to officially sanctioned discrimination--call it singlism.

As one of our nation's 90 million unmarried citizens, I've become inured to the social pressure to couple up--the backhanded insults and armchair psychoanalysis meted out by friends, co-workers, and well-meaning strangers at the bus stop whenever my marital status comes under scrutiny. And, believe me, I've heard it all. Selfish? Check. Immature? Check. Emotionally unstable? Check. Too picky for my own good? Check, check, and check.

But I've never bought into the prevailing notion that a perfectly fulfilling singular existence is little more than a karmic consolation prize. As far as I'm concerned, there's no more unfulfilling existence than one spent trapped with the wrong person. Take my word for it--a loveless marriage will sap your spirit and your sanity a lot more quickly than a lifetime of dateless Saturday nights. For me, then, and for many of the 41% of adults in this country who are single, singlehood is not merely the right choice. It is the responsible choice.

That's why I'm always so perplexed when confronted with evidence that the rest of the world believes otherwise.

From the workplace to the voting booth to your own backyard, the message to singles is clear, consistent, and omnipresent: Married:good! Single: bad! And, just to be sure you don't miss the point, there's no shortage of folks ready to pile on, just itching to remind you that, no matter how responsible and productive a member of society you think you are, without that "special someone" waiting for you at home, you are but a societal dilettante, unworthy of the rights, privileges and respect extended so enthusiastically to the coupled.

Single people make up a significant portion of the workforce, so you might think their employers would make at least a token effort to keep them happy. You'd be wrong. In their zeal to appear "family friendly," companies often overcompensate at the expense of singles, pressuring unmarried employees to travel more frequently, work more weekends and holidays, stay later during the week and refrain from taking time off during school vacation season, regardless of rank or seniority.

Not that all this extra work translates into a higher salary. A 2004 study by economists Kate Antonovics and Robert Town found that marriage increases men's wages by as much as 27%. All told, when pension, insurance and other benefits are factored in, married workers frequently end up out-earning their single counterparts by thousands of dollars a year.

Corporate America isn't any friendlier to singles on the consumer side of the equation, opting instead to shower their discounts on the wedded in the form of preferred insurance rates and "family" memberships at gyms and country clubs. And if you're considering a solo cruise or vacation to a posh resort or spa, make sure you've saved up enough to cover the "singles supplement" you'll be charged for daring to occupy an entire room by yourself. Happy trails!

Unfair, you cry? Don't look to the government for any redress, because they're in on it too. Anti-discrimination laws cover race, religion, gender and age--but singles go woefully unprotected at the federal level. In fact, when it comes to singlism, the government is one of the worst offenders, waving the tax code like a magical fairy wand of approval over married couples.

As a single homeowner, you can pay the same sale price, down payment, mortgage interest and property tax as that lovely couple in the identical house down the street--but should you choose to sell your home, you are entitled to only half the maximum capital gains exemption they will receive.

And, whatever you do, don't die--at least not if you have loved ones and want to leave stuff to them. A married couple can leave each other as much property, retirement savings and Social Security benefits as the surviving spouse can carry off, tax free. A single person's property, however, can be subject to all manner of taxes, or, in the case of Social Security payments, funneled back into the Federal trough in their entirety, regardless of total lifetime contributions.

For the record, I don't begrudge married people their due. And I will gladly pony up my share of the cost to keep the playgrounds open and public schools afloat. Contributing to the common good is the price we all pay for living in a civilized world, and if I can make someone else's life a little easier in the process, then, hey, more power to me. Besides, I'd rather have your children sitting in class perfecting their spitball skills than screaming in the restaurant booth beside me.

But I refuse to accept the idea that marriage alone should call for entitlements. After all, if single really is so bad, why are there so many of us? Why are we the fastest-growing demographic in the country today? And why, for every single deemed "unlucky in love," do I know a half-dozen more who deem themselves "lucky to have gotten out of that last nightmare relationship in one piece?"

The fact is, more and more Americans are deciding to marry when it's right and if it's right--not whether or not it's right. That's a state of affairs worth being thankful for. Now, if we could just get the singlists off our backs.

Leslie Talbot is the author of Singular Existence: Because It's Better to Be Alone Than to Wish You Were!

In the world of [in]-intolerants - - NSFW unless headphones

I found this blurp of a Jewish girl that pranked her {extreme} short fused parents via a morning radio show. The setup is that while at school she met an Italian & is dating him. What follows is what happened when she called her parents after her dad left a big rant on her voxmail triggered by one of the radio guys calling the home asking to speak with her.
Keep in mind mom & dad do not know the Jewish American Princess in their eyes, has a tap on her phone & the whole conversation is live, {though delayed thankfully}, and being broadcast as they spoke.


Jewish Girl Prank Calls Her Parents - Watch more free videos

Blessed Be those that find humour in the faults that they have.
And also blessed are those that do not have parents like this woman.
Dr. Strangelove

The 'Caerbannog Killer Rabbits' Await you all with great big nasti pointi teeth!

So our fantasy football draft is August 27th. And once again I am signed up to help fill the roster, once in a while to get a "WTF did you do to win that one?", from the guys who know player stats like idiot savants. However, where I am on the level of stats & my picks, is mostly part random luck & name recognition.

And speaking of names, I had to come up with a name for my team that was better than the generic one that commissioner Led created. Then I got to thinking "why not a logo too?".

So, after much consideration and research, here are the top five teams I came up with:

The first was something related to the plight of the mis-understood deadly squirrel.

-SIOUX FALLS PSYCHO-SQUIRRELS-

Then refined the name because I like the photo

-SIOUX FALLS SUPER-SQUIRRELS-

Then I thought of yet another furry favorite animal of mine, and came up with this name.

-ANTIOCH GRENADIERS-

Then I went to Camelot and got a real silly idea for a name.

-CAERBANNOG KILLER BUNNIES-

Then realalizing how silly bunnies sounded I left Camelot. I mean, REALLY, bunnies are not threatening! What are they going to do, nibble your bum?

And so I finally settled on

-CAERBANNOG KILLER RABBITS-

And the finalist logo is. . .

So . . . .

Blessed Be, and beware of not only the nasti teeth, but rabbits bearing switchblades.
Dr. Strangelove

A nice story about elephants

This is a flashback for me. I saw this when it first aired, and about fell off the couch laughing.
Thanks to Led, and the video he posted yesterday, I re-enjoyed some of the sketches from Carol Burnett. And remembered how damn funny Tim Conway was before the whole "Dorf" crap.



Enjoy. And for those of you old enough, look up the videos that made you laugh hard enough to almost laugh enough to make you snort, embarrass yourself, or projectile launch a contact lens across a room.

Then sit back & share with your friends what is truly funny.

Blessed Be, and happy Lughnasadh.
Dr. Strangelove

Let's not go to Camelot, it is such a silly place...

I cannot add anything to prepare you for what follows. Just beware of the beast.

Blessed Be, and the meaning of the grail will be yours.
Dr. S.

And yet again. MORE SQUIRREL!

I did not know the little buggers could be so talented.


Blessed Be, and feel the rhythm
Dr. S.

50s educational films - Part Three

This one comes straight from the Federal Bureau of Domestic Affairs.

So pay close attention guys!
For the life you save
may be your own.

Blessed Be, and be afraid, very VERY AFRAID!
Dr. Strangelove

50s educational films - Part Two

And yet another helpful cautionary film on ....

"How to
Spot Perverts"

Blessed Be, and always have enough tape handy!
Dr. Strangelove

50s educational films - Part One

Here is "a blast from the past":

"How to Treat
Lose Women"

Blessed Be, & follow closely
Dr. Strangelove

What the hell is a panini anyway?

Ok, some of you know my ravaging blood-lust against the politically correct bullshit that currently controls our lives.

Yet another thing that PISSES ME OFF to no extent is yuppie-bitch-marketing people, [not you Mr. Middlebrow], that make up a new fancy way to describe an old thing.

After careful & deep research I found out that Panini is just another way of saying......

A GRILLED SANDWICH!

Nothing more, nothing less. A couple chunks of bread, meat, cheese, and grill. THAT IS IT!

I did not know as a child, and continuing through the years of college, every time my mother, friend, or myself, made a grilled ham & cheese. We were making a 'gourmet delicacy'.

So cut the crap marketing people. Call a grilled sandwich, a fucking grilled sandwich!

And save us the cost of the bullshit ads that jack the goddamn price up of said sandwich.

Because I know many people that would rather pick up & eat a grilled cheese sandwich for $.50 than spend $5.00+ for the same damn thing that is called a name that nobody really understands.

Ohhh, wait, I finally see the ploy now. Not many people know what panini means, they just know it is trendy & that they gotta have it. Now it makes sense.

Blessed Be, And now I'm gonna go grill myself a panini on my George Forman waffle grille.
{note the 'e' on the end of grill? It makes it more trendy}
Dr. S.

inmate No. 28301-016 - prison sentence gets commuted

You may be asking "who the hell is "inmate No. 28301-016"?
ANSWER: Scooter Libby

After all of the Bullshit that has happened to try & sentence this mealy worm of a kiss ass to Dick Cheney, it was all negated by little King George. "I respect the jury's verdict," Bush said in a statement.

Yo Georgie, if you respected the verdict.
WHY THE FUCK GO AGAINST THEM?

The guy has been CONVICTED & SENTENCED! Again, like the Paris Hilton thing, those with money & connections get by with treatment that none of us in the vox-populi [sp?], could never dream of as a possible outcome of our wrong doings.

In the case of Scooter Libby, a.k.a. inmate No. 28301-016. [off topic, but anyone else remember the Libby's fruit jingle? I can't get it out of my head right now].

But he is getting no prison time for what he did. Where as you or I would probably be strapped down & executed like the Rosenburgs for treason & espionage.

This is yet another one of many of those "that shit don't fly with me" things that king George II has pulled. And Cheney is much worse from what little has slipped through the "I'm not responsible to anyone" net he has tried to construct around him. So click the link below to read the news story that set me off.

Bush commutes Libby prison sentence - Yahoo! News:

Blessed Be, question authority
Dr. Strangelove

P.S. also be very aware of big white or black vans with tinted windows & tons of antennas. For they and the occupants mean you great harm.

For all of you cubicle dwellers. THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!

One of my friends that is also an escapee of the cow god put me on to this.

ENJOY!

Whack Your Boss

Blessed Be, and always remember to call 'the cleaner'.

I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH MIKA BRZEZINSKI!!!

Many of those out there know that I have an EXTREME lack of affectation for the snotty bimbo media WHORE otherwise known as paris hilton. [no caps on purpose].

I have yet to get a legit explanation of "who gives a f\/{k about this twunt, and why does she get so much press?"

If you or I pulled the kind of shit that she has, we would not see a day of freedom for many, many, WAY many years. This spoiled cwat, {I prefer twunt, and if you are lost by these terms ask someone that watches Dennis Leary's show 'Rescue Me'}. But I digress.

Yesterday on the msnbc morning news show 'Morning Joe', Mika Brzezinski refused to read the leading story about paris hit-on. Why you ask?

BECAUSE IT IS NOT FUCKING NEWS!!!! More or less a lead story!

I was happy when the thing many refer to as paris, got her pampered ass thrown back into jail. It meant a lot for me and millions of others that do not give a flaming rats ass about this senseless, mindless, self proclaimed spoiled bimbo leach media-whore twunt.

Then she got released this week, mind you STILL NOT SERVING HER FULL SENTENCE!

And the news equivalent of spam started yet again.

But Mika, who was one of the main on-site journalists on the scene during the 9/11 WTC incident, and brought us many more [true] news stories. Finally had enough.

She attempted to burn the story's script on air but was prevented from lighting it by a co-host. Later in the newscast, she subsequently tore and shredded copies of the story.

The video shows how asinine this crap has become, and how a very level headed true journalist gets pushed too far, and like in the movie Network, said "I'm mad as hell, and I will not take it anymore!"

That is why I have fallen in love.

That & I think she is a pretty intelligent, dignified, and smoking hot woman.
Too bad she is married, & her hubby is a cool dude.

Blessed Be, and don't stuff your dog in your purse.

It tends to really piss them off.

Earth To America! - Blue Man Group

Not only is this a fun video, it makes a good point.


I think everyone needs to be more careful of what we do while we are here on earth.

Because there really isn't any emergency exits to be found.

Blessed Be, and take good care of your mother on fathers day.
Dr. S.

That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!

Yes, I have not forgotten the great squirrel wars of the new century...

Evil Squirrel Attacks 3 Innocent People

Just when all seemed peaceful between man and beast, disaster arises in Germany as a sinister squirrel unleashes a furry frenzy on the defenseless populace.

Officials in Berlin reported an overly aggressive squirrel brutally savaging three people in a town before a 72-year-old man was able to bravely wield of its attacks with his wooden old-man cane.

The attacks began like so many others we have reported. An innocent 70-year-old lady sat quietly in her house, likely sewing or baking pie. Unbeknownst to her, a squirrel tenderly sneaked into her house, stalking her every move.

At the opportune moment, it sprung to life and before she could even react, it sank its teeth into her hand. Overwhelmed by the ferocity of the attack, the woman ran into the street, frantically trying to shake off the squirrel, according to police.

With the taste of human flesh fresh in its mouth, the squirrel continued its attacks. On a building site, a grizzled construction worker was simply tending to tasks in a building. With the blinding speed and raw power of an Olympian, reports indicate the squirrel leapt up onto the worker and attacked his harm. Shaken, and desperate, the construction worker lunged for a weapon -a measuring pole- and wielded it to try to ward the beast away from him.

Not phased after taking down two humans, the squirrel decided to go for the Hat Trick. He wanted a third victim.

Running on a 2-0 win streak versus humans, the squirrel spotted what he thought would be his next victim -a 72-year-old man- in a garden.

Not wasting a second, the squirrel lunged at the man and began its attack. A spokesman had this to say;

“…the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man’s garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh.”

Somewhere, somehow, this man was able to overcome the initial injuries and reach for his cane, well, crutch and fight back against the squirrel. He reached deep and was able to deliver an ultimate dose of ownage in the name of mankind. The man managed to kill the squirrel with his crutch.

Make no mistake, however, that spring is just starting and with this squirrel now being a martyr, this is likely the first of a new string of animal attacks on humans.

Sources
TV3
Reuters

Blessed Be, and keep The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch handy.

Dr. S.

Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart as you never heard it before

When I was is high school, the group I hung out with, {all theatre geeks}, listened to a lot of music. And when 90125 by Yes came out, it was almost like we discovered Nirvana. {note: not the shitty assed heroin addled grunge band, the god-like place the vikings goto in the afterlife}.

Every track on this album, which was a large plastic thing they used to play music on, was gold.
Anyway, this is a cool violin thing, And he finishes up with Smooth Criminal.



Blessed Be, and keep spinning those disks & rocking to the HI-Fi
Dr. S

Yet another thing that got fixed

Some of you know the hell I have gone through to get my shit back running on the new computer. One of the things aside from that was trying to get my template back after google/blogger kidnapped my template & dumbed down the interface that some idiot can edit the blog.

But not someone that has been using computers since 1978.

So I finally found out how to change things again, 'the old school way', and the sidebar links should open in separate windows like they used to, if you browse with internet exploder the warning should again prompt you to use Firefox. {you REALLY SHOULD! It is a lot safer for viruses, trojans, & other nasti things out there, and it is free!}.

AND IT NOW PLAYS NICE WITH THE E-VILE WIN-VISTA!

So, now I will be able to change shit around like I used to without the lame-assed interface that blogger forced down my throat.

Blessed Be, and remember "just because you have the capacity to do something, does not mean you should."

Memories of my musical past

I ran across this by accident. And as I watched it I immediately remember seeing it when it originally broadcast, [yes, I know I am dating myself]. They are both really kick ass songs, and brought back some really kick ass memories for me.



Blessed Be, & enjoy your lives. "Because no-one gets out alive"

Dr. S.

I FUCKING HATE WINDOWS VISTA !!!!!!!!!!

My main computer decided to take some acid, or eat some 'shrooms between the Vtime I was at my nephews graduation, [working fine], and getting home to send the video I shot to my dad, [Tom's Grandfather].

After going through the boot process, and after linking my camera to 'Duffy', I was presented with many colourful stripes, lines, & odd little cubes. At 1st I thought maybe I bumped my bag & screwed up a connection in the screen of my laptop.

Ohh, I was so wrong:

• Connect to TV - fun little squiggly lines.
• Connect to external monitor - same crap as what is on the laptop screen
• Thump it like I am playing bongos for Miami Sound Machine - I might get the screen clear enough to shut down without pulling the power & battery
  
• In the BIOS screen it will freak

So now I have an Acer [no I DO NOT RECOMEND THIS BRAND!!!!], with vista on it.

Within 3.5 hours of buying it, I had to reload the piece of shit twice.

And WHO THE FUCK WOULD SET ASIDE KEYS BY THE ARROW KEYS DEDICATED TO PRODUCING THE CHARACTERS € AND $???????

I do not give a rat fuck about using the 'euro symbol', and the fucking dollar sign is 'shift+4'!

I do not know of anyone THAT FUCKING STUPID!
[actually, I do, but they will remain nameless. Unless they decide to leave the range of the ankle bracelet detector].

Another thing is even though I have my external mouse plugged in, if I just slightly brush against the POS touchpad, I end up opening a ton a crap while I am typing, which begets more windows, which begets even more windows, etc, etc, and so on.

But, even Microsoft admits Vista sucks ass, & we will all have to "upgrade" again in 6 years.

Sounds to me like another Win ME/screw the pooch/take it in the ass situation for the minions of gates.

But, I really cannot return this bastard child of acer. I don't want to have to deal with porting shit over for a while.

That is, unless I find the dumb-fuck that designed this laptop.

Blessed Be, And don't buy into the bullshit that Mr. Bill tells you.

Take off eh, it's been a 2-4 since they started

Bob & Doug MacKenzie may be Canuks. But they are the funny part of my life in the USA.

They are still funny.



Blessed Be, and don't try the mouse in the bottle thing anymore.

They are on to that now

Dr. S.

clouds

I meant to do this earlier yesterday. But with the crap that came down on me, it just sort of killed my karma.


I was at work and went outside for a smoke & some fresh air, {yes, I know that is an oxymoron}, but I was in a thought pattern.

I actually was happy looking up & around.

It was not being happy, it was being peaceful.

As I sat & smoked my smoke, {marb lite 100}, I thought about the clouds above me. And it dawned on me that people REALLY TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY!

If you see a cloud the size of your car, it is most likely it is bigger than your neighborhood.

Clouds can look friendly with all of the white "fluffy" stuff. But the angry clouds are what you need to run away from.

And, it does not take long for a "happy" to become "extremely pissed off" cloud.

BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE RIGHT NOW

I guess as the drunk shit-heads around me perverse what I what to say.

They can't do it

I love being able to see the clouds pass by.

Blessed Be, and don't take life too seriously
We all die in the end

What ARE they actually saying in Yellow Ledbetter?

Just some silliness to post. I found this through Fark, & I know at least one person who will enjoy it.



Blessed be, and leave Bennigans

SSI Shredding Demonstrations

This is what us might visually could happen when your significant other leaves you. Ugly, but cathartic.

At least in the dumpee's mind.

SSI Shredding Demonstrations

Blessed Be, and hand me something to feed the beast.
Dr. S.

This is cool accordion music

I know many organ players & Toccata & Fugue in D minor is a byatch to play, but a fantastic piece of music. This guy does it on an accordion very impressively.


And Part two...


Blessed Be, and be an organ doner
Dr. S.

God for geeks

If you have ever worked on a true mainframe computer, you may enjoy this. Otherwise it a fun take on creation. It will take a bit of time to get through though, it is like an old teletype running at 300 baud.

Click Below.

God

Blessed Be, and pass the key-punch stack

Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps

This is proof of what I, my good friend Steve, and others call....

THE PUSSYFICATION OF AMERICA

Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps

Blessed Be, and have a merry Beltane
Dr. S.

So, maybe this is why I have been sick?

Since I started at Century Theatres, I have constantly been sick. I thought it might be my diet, [changed that]. I thought it might have been dealing with the toxic chemicals, [no ventilation in my workroom]. And then I just passed it off as stress, [work hours varied, mostly overnight when no-one else is there, and being 24/7 on call].

But, I found this article that made me think. I have dealt with more than 300 compact fluorescent light bulbs in replacing them while at Century. Most of which were cheap lamps that had broken away from the base. The only way to remove/replace them was to use a pliers & yank it out of the socket while standing directly below the fixture.

CFL's are great on energy savings.

But up until now, I didn't realize how bad for the environment, and ourselves, they are.

I personally will stick with buying a lamp that, if it breaks, I might cut myself cleaning up. Rather than while cleaning up the mess, I not only cut myself, but poison myself.

Blessed Be, & if you have a bad CFL, the toxic waste station is @ the bottom of the north Cliff hill, just off of the Sioux River. [I think that is ironic]

Dr. S.

This is from canada.com. The piece is written by Steven Milloy

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn't include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.

Sound crazy? Perhaps no more than the stampede to ban the incandescent light bulb in favour of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).

According to an April 12 article in The Ellsworth American, Bridges had the misfortune of breaking a CFL during installation in her daughter's bedroom: It dropped and shattered on the carpeted floor.

Aware that CFLs contain potentially hazardous substances, Bridges called her local Home Depot for advice. The store told her that the CFL contained mercury and that she should call the Poison Control hotline, which in turn directed her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges' house to test for mercury contamination. The specialist found mercury levels in the bedroom in excess of six times the state's "safe" level for mercury contamination of 300 billionths of a gram per cubic meter. The DEP specialist recommended that Bridges call an environmental cleanup firm, which reportedly gave her a "low-ball" estimate of US$2,000 to clean up the room. The room then was sealed off with plastic and Bridges began "gathering finances" to pay for the US$2,000 cleaning. Reportedly, her insurance company wouldn't cover the cleanup costs because mercury is a pollutant.

Given that the replacement of incandescent bulbs with CFLs in the average U.S. household is touted as saving as much as US$180 annually in energy costs -- and assuming that Bridges doesn't break any more CFLs -- it will take her more than 11 years to recoup the cleanup costs in the form of energy savings.

The potentially hazardous CFL is being pushed by companies such as Wal-Mart, which wants to sell 100 million CFLs at five times the cost of incandescent bulbs during 2007, and, surprisingly, environmentalists.

It's quite odd that environmentalists have embraced the CFL, which cannot now and will not in the foreseeable future be made without mercury. Given that there are about five billion light bulb sockets in North American households, we're looking at the possibility of creating billions of hazardous waste sites such as the Bridges' bedroom.

Usually, environmentalists want hazardous materials out of, not in, our homes. These are the same people who go berserk at the thought of mercury being emitted from power plants and the presence of mercury in seafood. Environmentalists have whipped up so much fear of mercury among the public that many local governments have even launched mercury thermometer exchange programs.

As the activist group Environmental Defense urges us to buy CFLs, it defines mercury on a separate part of its Web site as a "highly toxic heavy metal that can cause brain damage and learning disabilities in fetuses and children" and as "one of the most poisonous forms of pollution."

Greenpeace also recommends CFLs while simultaneously bemoaning contamination caused by a mercury-thermometer factory in India. But where are mercury-containing CFLs made? Not in the United States, under strict environmental regulation. CFLs are made in India and China, where environmental standards are virtually non-existent.

And let's not forget about the regulatory nightmare in the U.S. known as the Superfund law, the EPA regulatory program best known for requiring expensive but often needless cleanup of toxic waste sites, along with endless litigation over such cleanups.

We'll eventually be disposing billions and billions of CFL mercury bombs. Much of the mercury from discarded and/or broken CFLs is bound to make its way into the environment and give rise to Superfund liability, which in the past has needlessly disrupted many lives, cost tens of billions of dollars and sent many businesses into bankruptcy.

As each CFL contains five milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per cubic meter, it would take 16,667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL. While CFL vendors and environmentalists tout the energy cost savings of CFLs, they conveniently omit the personal and societal costs of CFL disposal.

Not only are CFLs much more expensive than incandescent bulbs and emit light that many regard as inferior to incandescent bulbs, they pose a nightmare if they break and require special disposal procedures. Yet governments (egged on by environmentalists and the Wal-Marts of the world) are imposing on us such higher costs, denial of lighting choice, disposal hassles and breakage risks in the name of saving a few dollars every year on the electric bill? - Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk-science expert and advocate of free enterprise, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.