2001-02-06 - 18:44 MST

February 6, 2001

In Passing

In our Colordo State House there are wags and maybe even wigs and wags that wiggle and giggle. You know old man, anything for a laugh. I guess they comeup with some of their funnies to escape dying of boredom.

The eggheads are fussing about whether to eliminate front license plates on cars -- say what ? Waste time pooping around about something like that ? Big, hairy, important stuff. And I can't see a Republican conspiracy on this little item.

Anyway, a direct quote from a comment made by Rep. Richard Becker (R)Fountain, Colorado. "Can you support my bill to add a license plate underneath a car so that legislators can ID the vehicle after they have been run over ?"

A yes or no on the subject should do it. Regardless, there is no way I will stand in front of a moving car to read its license plate. If I need to I will try to read the back one after the car has passed me. A no brainer here. Sheesh, my tax pennies go on stuff like that

Whoever hangs around the State House employed by the paper to pick up these gems, manages to come up with a good one every day. Damn, maybe the networks should make a sitcom out of the activity at the seat of government.

The traditional greeting in the Masai tribe is, "And how are the children ?" The traditional answer is, "All the children are well." Meaning that peace and safety prevail, that life is good and that the struggle for existence, even among a poor people, does not preclude proper care for the young. That was another gem from the pages of The Rocky Mountain News. It makes too much sense to be civilized, doesn't it ?

I read tonight about a couple whose home had been vandalized and pilfered buying a gun for protection. Yeah, you know the outcome don't you ? She got up during the night and the paranoid husband, instead of feeling for her in their bed -- opened fire and shot her several times ? Could that be so ? In this day and age after things like this have been talked about in gun safety promotions and classes ? Sadly, I guess so.

I believe that every citizen has the right to bear arms (privately for their own protection) whether a six gun or a howitzer. Man imagine a howitzer by the bed. Stubbing your toe on it every time you have to go to the bathroom in the night. Maybe accidently tripping over the firing lanyard and putting a shell through all the houses on your side of the block. There is a wholesale, "To whom it may concern," action if there ever was one. So, what does the guy say in his defense ? "I tot I taw a puddy tat ?"

I have a 25 automatic stored and locked away some where. I have never been able to figure how to have it within reach without possibly causing a tragedy, either by my actions or someone else's. And I have an untrained person's fear that through ineptitude the damn thing could be wrenched out of my hands and blow one of us away. But away in locked storage, with no time to dig it out and load it I guess I will have to use the most lethal weapon at my command --- my feeble brain. That being the case there will be no headlines in the morning paper, "Alleged thief injured by a misfired brain." Heh - - - -

Geraldo going on with someone on TV tonight about one of the Survivor bits. I must risk the displeasure and scorn of the public when I say I think that the idea of a group of people on a survival attempt, surrounded by a Camera crew and a producer and assorted gofers is one of the most pointless things that has been thought up yet - - - - so artifical and hokey. And they want us to believe implicitly that this jazz is on the up and up. I wonder how many rehearsals they go through before they tape it ?

Now, I know for sure the whole world will hate me. But to make it even worse, I would rather watch golf or bowling on TV or even a chess tournament than sit on the edge of my seat over each episode of Robinson Caruso and supporting cast !

Awwww, shut up old man and let us play our own game. . . . .

Oh yeah, the drug war. Has anyone thought that the reason drugs are pouring into this country is caused by our own addictive frame of mind and the higher prices caused by all this hooha by our law enforcement activities. Man, there is money in this, real money. Make more schools for law enforcement, train the men and women, send them out to hunt. Establish more courts, judges and auxiliary personnel. Build a prison here and one over there and hunt up personnel to keep watch on these dopes who paid fabulous amounts of money just to attempt suicide. Bureauocracy gains more and more employees and it snow balls as it goes. Looks as if they are having as much luck as the people who are coming unglued about violence on TV and in books -- claiming that is contaminating our poor innocent young . . . . . .Wonder how they are going to ban the King James Version of The Holy Bible ? It is all in there, violence, sex, betrayal, cupidity ----- every thing, and we nasty boys knew all the good parts and the gory ones too. Yet who dares risk the wrath of the politically correct to take that one off the booksellers shelves ?

I see tonight that challenges to books deemed unfit for the young now include the Harry Potter series, Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ---- the other books on the list I haven't read, but if they are of the same caliber as the ones already mentioned, to make them unavailable to the public, young or old would be a tragedy.

Dammit, I will say again teaching begins at home at Mom and Dad's knee, from the ground up - - - then even though the young ones read the books and enjoy them, they will know the difference between right and wrong. We did -- like I have said before, we kids waded hip deep in blood and muck as pirates, cops and robbers, cowboys and indians and World War 1 imitations. BUT we knew the difference between, "for real" and fantasy.

Let's see, is there any group that I have not offended tonight ? If so, my most humble apologies, I will try to do better next time.

The mindset nowadays seems to be twisted and people think that if drugs are around our innocent young will seek them out and become addicted, say what ? Not if they are taught right at home. That seeing violence on TV or reading it in a book will make them abusive killers. Damn, the movies I saw as a kid and the books I read had all the violence there too, BUT we knew the difference ! ! ! ! And for all the restrictive rules, laws and downplaying, we learned about sex, about what went where and why and what the complications could be. You know what ? Porno often came from Dad's bedroom stash, or Uncle's, I know, I was there. The tired same old thing foisted on the young for centuries, "Don't do as I do - - - do as I say," doesn't work any better now than it did then.

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