Torque religion up a few notches and you have a cult. Torque a cult up a few notches and you have a militia. Torque a militia up a few notches and you have The Democratic National Committee. Okay, one too far, but you see where I'm going? Outer space on a UFO is where I'm going.When people, for whatever reason, cannot believe in themselves they externalize their hopes, dreams and fears by joining a group of similarly shaky souls. There are 39 fewer internet programmers in San Diego this week and who cares? I would eagerly suggest anyone with this fragile a grasp on reality to follow their lead. We need the parking spaces and god knows we don't need any more mediocre web engineers.
I checked out the Heaven's Gate site, right after they checked out. I'll give 'em one thing: only aliens would put graphics this huge on a website. I hope their heaven has a T-3 line. The only thing I can say for these folks is that you certainly can't call them nuts.
I'm not surprised Herff (aka Marshall, Do, My Favorite Martian) Applewhite, leader of the suicide cult attended CU in Boulder. Dig it--Applewhite performed "Oklahoma," "South Pacific" and "Annie Get Your Gun" right here in town!
Boulder is a community that takes UFOs, witchcraft and The Naropa Institute seriously. I don't. Anyone foolish enough to believe the rants of an aging, castrated, wide-eyed lunatic should take their last bite of poison pudding, pull their purple tablecloth up over their head and wait for the end. May the farce be with them.
The First Lady thinks it takes a village to raise a child. The United Nations thinks it takes a global village. (Wait a minute. . . these days isn't the word "lady" politically incorrect? Wouldn't it be "First Woman?" . . . well, knowing Bill Clinton, probably not.) There's big money in crocodile tear compassion for kids. Ask Hillary, she got a Grammy for it!
The Evil United Nations has found fertile ground: our children. The New World Order is recruiting kids as fast as Joe Camel. I heard a report on the radio that a version of the U.N.'s "Rights of the Child Treaty" can be found in select Kelloggs cereal boxes. We used to get a little plastic prize; these days kids get a manifesto.
"Mom, it says right here I have the right to stay up all night and watch teevee, don't make me call that Boot Toes Boot Toes Golly guy!"
Yeah. Invest in these futures like Hillary in cattle futures because military-industrial concern for children looks like a growth industry.
A hundred years before the internet our railways were the backbone of this new nation. I feel sorry for people who've never taken a cross-country train ride. (In Europe, that is.) America's version of rail travel, AMTRAK, has been struggling along for decades with scant Government support and a steadily decreasing number of routes and cities served.
Give me the clickety-clack of a westbound train, a bottle of champagne and a personal toilet and I'm good for the whole night. This kind of luxury can still be found in the U.S.--we should seek it out and support it!
Recently routes out of Denver to points west, such as Los Angeles, saw their last passengers. Now we are limited to overpriced airline tickets, our own cars, or (god forbid) a bus. (Whoever thought of putting a bathroom on a bus has never taken one across a couple of state lines. . .) It's a shame we've let AMTRAK go to seed because rail travel can be environmentally correct and energy efficient.
It would be sad if the future of the railways lay in the hands of wealthy and eccentric collectors. We should make modernized rail travel a domestic priority and fund it with abandon. All aboard.
Leave it to The Department of Education to figure out a way stoonts can ask for loans they'll never repay faster and easier online.
A relatively new, Windoze-based app (I guess Mac users are no longer attractive to colleges? Tax dollars for a Windoze-only approach?) called "Free Application for Financial Aid Express" allows the prospective applicant to register via their modem at home or from a kiosk.
The idea was to simplify and speed the process and eliminate the need for back and forth snail mailings. Guess what? Once a stoont's application is electronically processed at the other end of this system, it ends up being mailed back to the stoont anyway for a signature.
So lots of tax dollars were undoubtedly spent to "streamline" a system available only to Windoze users that doesn't really save any steps, but it created a lucrative contract for an outside computer company and a few more bureaucrats at The Department of Education. Which, in my view, was the original intent of this ridiculous scam in the first place.
A word about Spam. The real Spam. I feel sorry in a way, for the Hormel Corporation. They've been churning out this fine product for a respectable number of generations yet the scourge of the internet has glommed onto its name. (I feel that any serious discussion of Spam should contain a form of the word: "glom."
By the way, try a filling of a little Spam, shallots and seasoned breadcrumbs splashed with sherry rolled inside a chicken breast. Don't laugh.. Don't tell your dinner guests either. . .
Pork shoulder is one thing and my computer is another I'm being spammed to death and don't like it. Everything from get-rich-quick schemes to good luck chain emails. I get it and I get it everyday and I need it to stop.
We need a reasonable bulk email postage charge to the sender. Just like we need speed limits on the road. Cars are great. Email is great. Idiots inhabit our planet, have driver's licenses and internet accounts. We need speed bumps!
How about a 2 cent charge per post to email something in bulk? A 4 cent charge for something stupid and a 6 cent charge for anything vaguely religious. That won't hurt the normal web user. These clowns sending bulk email out to thousands of names they bought from a spam list dealer should be charged. Charged until flames come out of their heads.