No Muslim ever called me Mick

Enemies are expensive, so the best way to deal with them is probably to get someone else to pay for them.

The very rich and powerful of the world were not democratically elected, you probably know their names, they don't go through airport security (because they have their private jet planes) and they travel to vacation destinations you couldn't pronounce -- let alone find on a map -- because they are private.

Your purpose is to work. Their purpose is to enjoy life in excess. They keep massive amounts of money to themselves and their families.

To maintain their vast fortunes, sometimes they have to invade a country. One thing they cannot do on their own is invade a country, so they get you the worker to do it. If not you, then your children.
They pick a fight with some dictator in the Middle East and concoct a story to make you believe that he is your enemy, that he is a threat to your children and your future. Whereas, in fact, he has no quarrel with you whatsoever.
And so, you get suckered into fighting -- and paying for -- a war that has nothing to do with you.
When Muhammad Ali claimed no vietcong ever called me nigger, he knew he was being duped into fighting someone else's enemy.
Today, powerful interests are at the same old game. They want to exploit the resources under someone else's country so they get us ordinary folk to fight the war for them.

Never let someone else pick your enemies for you.

Top 10 Ways to Annoy People on Facebook

Top 10 Ways to Annoy People on Facebook:

♦ Use a profile picture with two or three, heck 20, people in it. Let everyone guess which one is you.

♦ Use a picture of your pet instead of you.

♦ Use a profile picture of you and your husband and/or wife so everyone can ooo-aaah about how damn happily married you are.

♦ Post pictures of your dinner half way through eating it. Say things like "yummy" and describe how you cooked it. Everyone needs to know. There's nothing like a cell-phone-quality picture of blackened liver-and-onions on a black plate to get everyone excited. Especially, if you are behind it, with bits of liver stuck between your teeth, making the V sign.

♦ Post a new photo album to your account. Call it "my pictures" to make it REALLY OBVIOUS what the photos are about. Make sure most or all of the 700 pictures are blurred and/or sideways shots of you and your friends. Don't add captions, so everyone can be left wondering "who the f##k are all these blurry sideways people?"

♦ If you always go to Scotland for your vacation, post hundreds of pictures of Scotland on your Facebook. Add lots of captions like "I love Scotland" and "Scotland forever" all over them. Keep the photos consistent by having you and your same cheap handbag in every last photo. Think of a signature squint or frown you can display in each photo.

♦ If you follow a team - Seattle Seahawks for instance - regularly post your feeling about the team on your Facebook wall. E.g. "The Hawks let us all down last night!!!! Arrrggghhh . I hate them now!!!!". Most people in the world think Seattle is in Canada, so "Seattle Seahawks" means diddly-squat.

♦ Start a public conversation with a friend in a way that no one else could possibly know what you're talking about. Like "yes, Dave, I'll make sure I get that package to you" to which Dave responds "make sure you have that other component you promised in it."

♦ Photograph all the pieces of junk and furniture around your house and post them all. Don't forget to add captions, "the carpet", "the wall"so people aren't confused. Title the album "fun with my new camera".

♦ Post a picture of your dog, and tell everyone you have the most intelligent and handsome dog in the world. Yes, your pet is special. Just like every other pet.

♦ Respond to a FB app that works out "how long is YOUR large intestine?" and share the results with all 475 of your friends.

♦ Use a profile picture of you standing 2 miles from the camera. So far away that it could be Saddam Hussein or Mohammed Ali standing there and no one would know. Or simply post a picture of George Clooney if you're a guy or someone from the Victoria's Secret catalog if you're a woman.

When your dog smells better than you do...

I rescued a one year-old Australian Cattle Dog about eight months ago. For decades I have wanted my own dog and only last year did the circumstances come about to make it practical. For six months up to the rescue, I was visiting the pound twice weekly. Eventually, Buddy picked me.
So, I've been on a steep learning curve with all things doggie.
Starting with human shampoo, I eventually moved up to dog specific products and settled eventually on DERMagic's Shampoo bars. The one I got was the Tea Tree Oil and Peppermint one.
What struck me was how, once Mr. Dog dried off, he had absolutely no scent whatsoever. Even with one more expensive shampoo I used previously, there was also some however vague shampooy-type scent residue. With the DERMagic shampoo bar, the dog was scent-free.
I also loved the freshness of the air in the apartment right after the doggy's bath.
I understand that the solid bar is the way to go because there is no need for additives to control the viscosity of it, so that might explain why there was no scent residue.
These days, Buddy sleeps on my bed and the breed is sometimes called the "Velcro Dog" because it wants to be forever by your side, so I found it worth my while to invest in a shampoo that really kept dog smells out of the apartment.

Now, if I only took care of myself half as well...
Liam

What is a Republican?

Many of us progressives have stood in disbelief as the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Savage, Beck and others continue to draw a substantial and loyal following of die-hard Republicans.
What gives? Won't these Republicans ever wake up and smell the coffee? Can't they see that they are being used and enslaved by corporate interests?
And then there's the whole discussion of Health Care. When you look at any other industrialized country, you see that a single-payer system works, but in the US, oh no, we can't learn anything from other countries. We have to invent EVERYTHING from scratch, as if these problems have never been solved before. Ever. We discuss health care ideas as if none of it has ever been tried before.

In the United States, when an employee gets, oh, let's say, cancer, and the cancer progresses despite treatment (covered by their employer's health care), they lose their job (because they've not been turning up to work). That's the point at which they discover, they never really did have healthcare; their EMPLOYER had healthcare.

OK, so back to what a Republican is....

People prefer certainty to uncertainty. In the US, it's "every man for himself", which means you are responsible for your own life. Scary. And full of uncertainty.
It's much easier to hand over control to someone else. A church, a boss, a parent, a politician; just ANYONE who will make the decisions for me so I don't have to deal with it.
Republicans are like that. They just want someone else to make the decisions and they will follow along like sheep. They're big on command-and-control because it relieves them of the responsibility of thinking for themselves.
And the more these Republicans are in control, the more they catalyze the problem that makes them fearful in the first place.

God help us all.

Ads from the Fifties

The Sensitive Man

The Sensitive Man

A woman meets a man in a bar.

They talk; they connect; they end
up leaving together.

They get back to his place and as he shows her around his
apartment., she notices that one wall of his
bedroom is completely filled with soft, sweet,
cuddly teddy bears.

There are three shelves in the
bedroom,with hundreds and hundreds of cute,
cuddly teddy bears carefully placed
in rows, covering the entire wall!

It was obvious that he had taken
quite some time to lovingly arrange them
and she was immediately touched by the amount of thought he had
put into organizing the display.

There were small bears all along
the bottom shelf, medium-sized bears covering the
length of the middle shelf,
and huge, enormous bears running
all the way along the top shelf.

She found it strange for an
obviously masculine guy
to have such a large collection of
Teddy Bears,

She is quite impressed by his
sensitive side, but doesn't mention this to him.

They share a bottle of wine and
continue talking and, after awhile, she finds herself
thinking,
'Oh my God! Maybe, this guy
could be the one!
Maybe he could be the future
father of my children?'

She turns to him and kisses him
lightly on the lips

He responds warmly.

They continue to kiss, the passion builds,
and he romantically lifts her in
his arms and carries her into his bedroom
where they rip off each other's
clothes and make hot, steamy love.

She is so overwhelmed that she
responds with more passion,
more creativity, more heat than she
has ever known.

After an intense, explosive night
of raw passion with this sensitive guy,
they are lying there together in
the afterglow.

The woman rolls over, gently
strokes his chest and asks coyly,
'Well,how was it?'
The guy gently smiles at her,
strokes her cheek,
looks deeply into her eyes,

and says:

'Help yourself to any prize
from the middle shelf'

best Valentine's Day gift ever

I really nailed it this morning.
What with the recession and all, I thought it was best to get creative w/r/t the gift I would get my wife this Valentine's day.
She likes antiques (after all, she's married to one) and is a top notch homemaker.
I found this great combination of antique and utility on eBay.
It's a heavy duty iron for the real professional ironing person. You've got COMPLETE control over the steam output with a full set of dials that can be tweaked to produce the perfectly ironed business shirt and/or cotton y-fronts.

What a surprise she got this morning when she opened up the package. It brought her to tears! She said "I CAN'T believe this!" and that I was "incredible".
And she's been on the phone all morning telling her friends about the unbelievable present I got for her.

So, there you are, men. Keep your eyes open for next year's special gift for your loved one!
Show her that you care with something from eBay. They have everything.