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There is a nifty article about Cary Grant and LSD on the web now. It seems Mr. Grant, the onetime Archibald Leach, had a few issues. Duh. Married five times. Widely rumored to the the bf of Randolph Scott. A talented actor, but a mess in the real world.
In 1956, Mr. Grant was with third wife Betsy Drake, who had a tough summer.
“It was an open secret between cast and crew alike that the married Cary Grant was sleeping with Sophia Loren during their filming of The Pride and The Passion. Drake had flown to Italy to be by her husband’s side during the shoot only to find Grant ignoring her. Distraught, she fled on what was to be a quiet voyage on the SS Andrea Doria. On July 25, 1956 her quiescent journey turned into a nightmare. The ship collided with a Swedish ocean liner off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, sinking to the bottom of the Sea and claiming fifty-one lives.2 Betsy survived but was traumatized. The incident, coupled with the estrangement of her husband, haunted her in her sleep.”
Betsy Drake had a friend named Sally Brophy, an actress. Miss Brophy also received help from a psychiatrist, which included taking LSD. Eventually, Cary Grant started to go see this doctor.
Taking a legal trip, in a Hollywood doctor’s office, is not like going to a rave. It was seen as therapy, a way of learning how to deal with your problems. According to Cary Grant, it worked very well. He talked about it to a reporter, and then confirmed that he wanted this to go out to the public.
“The shock of each revelation brings with it an anguish of sadness for what was not known before in the wasted years of ignorance and, at the same time, an ecstasy of joy at being freed from the shackles of such ignorance … I learned many things in the quiet of that room … I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite … it releases inhibition. You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream I shit all over the rug and shit all over the floor. Another time I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship … I seemed to be in a world of healthy, chubby little babies’ legs and diapers, smeared blood, a sort of general menstrual activity taking place … As a philosopher once said, you cannot judge the day until the night ..”
The only problem was, Mr. Grant had a movie coming out, “Operation Petticoat”. The studio “tripped out” when it heard the star of the show was praising LSD in the press. Mr. Grant had a share in the profits of the film, and was persuaded to call the reporter and recant on the interview.
Not everyone was impressed by the doctors that Mr. Grant used. “Aldous Huxley had encountered the clinic prior to his death, but had sought his LSD experiences from the parallel practice of Dr. Oscar Janiger, the other acid doctor to the stars. Huxley witnessed Chandler and Hartman’s work and was unnerved by their approach. “We met two Beverly Hills psychiatrists the other day,” he wrote, “who specialise in LSD therapy at $100 a shot – and, really, I have seldom met people of lower sensitivity, more vulgar mind! To think of people made vulnerable by LSD being exposed to such people is profoundly disturbing.”
In any event, LSD became criminalized, Doctors Chandler and Hartman got in trouble, and Cary Grant got married two more times. While Grant never renounced LSD, he refused to use any other illegal drug, even marijuana. He was a conservative old fogey.
Maureen Donaldson was the lover of Cary Grant in the seventies, and was a friend of Alice Cooper. She finally persuaded Mr. Grant to go to an Alice Cooper concert with her. He wore sunglasses, gold chains, and dressed like a “seedy agent”. He sat through the entire show, wearing earplugs, hating every minute of it.
As Miss Donaldson recalled the evening “Driving back to Los Angeles, I congratulated Cary for being such a good sport … He’d made an extraordinary effort to please me … [I asked him] ‘You really hated it, didn’t you?’ ‘It’s…’ he said, struggling for words, ‘you know what it’s like? Remember I told you about the time I took LSD in my doctor’s office and shat all over his rug and floor?’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Well now I know how that poor doctor felt.”
Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost

Two years ago today, this report was making the rounds. “Yesterday I was talking on the phone with Yanar Mohammed from Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (one of my clients). She told me of a horrific event this week in Iraq in which a large number (over 20 as I recall) of gay men were rounded up, had Super Glue applied to their anuses and then forced to drink high powered laxatives. They have been hospitalized and at least some are near death. She sent a link for an Arabic paper with news of the horrific event, but, obviously, I could not read it. Although Yanar serves women’s issues, apparently a reporter from the paper interviewed her because there are so few people willing to take the risk of speaking out against attacks on gays”
PG suspected a hoax, and could find little corraboration. Two years later, it is time to take another look at this issue. When you google “Yanar Mohammed super glue”, the top four results are the Chamblee54 story from 2009. The fifth result is a forum , which repeats the original claim, with a few more details ( and no links). This forum was posted May 13, 2009. At the *bottom* of the page is this message: “Disclaimer: DON’T BELIEVE A DAMN WORD YOU READ ON THIS WEBSITE!”
The next result in this search is from Redacted News This site tells the story of a CIA plan to make a porn video starring Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Ladin. The plan was rejected, with the comment “Saddam playing with boys would have no resonance in the Middle East — nobody cares,” The story says that attitudes have changed in Babylon after the US invasion, and the story about super glue is repeated. When you click on the link to Al Arabiya , you get this message: “The requested URL /blog/2009/04/report-iraqi-militia-kill-gays-with-anal-glue-torture/ was not found on this server.”
Maybe the results will be better with a different phrase on google, like “sealing anus with super glue”. (408k choices). The top result is Bonsai Kitten . These charming people confine small cats to rigid vessels, so that they will grow to be the shape of that vessel. “The kitten essentially grows into the shape of the vessel! Once the cat is fully developed, it is removed (or the vessel broken to remove it!), producing the lovable, furry pet you’ve always wanted, but it remains in the shape you’ve always dreamed of! There is virtually no limit to the eventual shape of your pet.”
However, there are a few technical issues, where modern chemistry comes in handy. “Waste Removal. Left to its own devices, the kitten would quickly fill its vessel with its own urine and feces, leading to certain sickness and death, not to mention the inevitably unpleasant appearance and odor. The best solution is to seal the kitten’s anus with Super Glue prior to insertion, and then insert a waste tube through a third whole in the vessel. As the kitten’s body is still developing, a natural rectal diverticulum will soon form around the tube, which can be drained in any convenient fashion. It’s just like a kitty colostomy bag!”.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Chamblee54 does not recommend, suport, or encourage, the activities described in this post.

Stumbling through the archives for something to say on four twenty, PG found with a post titled Profanity or Hannity. It had nothing to do with the prominent whiner, but lots to do with cuss words.
Chamblee54 tries to be a low profanity blog. Sometimes a wirty dord slips in, but the idea is to keep a clean house. Some people take great offense at words referring to body parts and functions, excretion, and the eternal destination of your soul. Oh, and ethnic slurs, unless the slur in question describes you. When you post one hundred words, and one of them is a swear word, some people will forget the ninety nine clean words to focus on the one dirty word. When you want people to pay attention to your message, you should keep the medium clean.
The seminal post was about something called the cuss o meter. You enter the url of your blog, and the c.o.m. gives you a score. When Chamblee54 was tested three years ago, it got a zero percent. Today, if you click on the field, to enter a url, you are transported to a dating site. There is a current outbreak of malicious code on the internet, and PG left the cuss o meter quickly.
The blogger who directed PG to the cuss o meter was Renegade Evolution. She is a fun loving sex worker, and is not Irish. (Whether the cuss o meter is Irish, or Belorussian, is another mystery.) In her post today, she uses an onomatopoeic word for animal waste.
Many of the people who don’t like cuss words claim a religious justification. They see the choice of words as a moral issue. Some people believe that their religion tells them not to use certain words. (If you look in the original texts of the Bible, you will probably find every bad word imaginable.) The thing is, many of these religious people use words like “G-d” and “Jesus” to express their anger. They use sacred names to hurt others, in direct violation of the Third Commandment. Perhaps these people would be better off if they said *firetruck*.

Tim Curry was born sixty five years ago today. It would be quite a while before April 19 was known as got a minute day. Mr. Curry is an actor, singer, and all around phenomenon. The role that made him a star was Frank-n-Furter in ” The Rocky Horror Show”.
Mr. Curry is best known for playing a flamboyant transvestite. His wikipedia page does not discuss his personal life. If you go to google, and type “is tim curry” the top five results are gay, married, dead, alive, died. A visit to some of the sites listed gave no definite answers. One of the sites tried to slip a *trojan horse* into this machine. Some things are better left a mystery.
After Dr. Furter went back to Transylvania, Mr. Curry made rock and roll albums. In 1978, a tour was put together to promote his vinyl debut. The first show in the United States was at the Agora Ballroom in Atlanta GA. PG was in the audience.
Riding into town on the 23 Ogelthorpe bus, PG got to talk to some ladies who were in town for a conference. They were worried about the crime. PG tried to reassure them by telling a recent news story. This lady was having breakfast in a downtown hotel, when she put her purse down on the floor. A handgun her husband had given her went off when the handbag hit the ground. The ladies breakfast companion was hit and killed.
Mr. Curry walked onstage eating a banana, grabbed a stool and turned it upside down. He appeared to be a bit tipsy. This did not affect his performance. Mr. Curry did most of the songs on his album, along with “Celluoid Heroes” by the Kinks. The latter song featured a Garbo impersonation.
Whoever put the band together for this tour had a lot of money. The guitar player played with Lou Reed on “Rock and Roll Animal”. The keyboard player, and musical director, was Micheal Kamen, formerly of the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble. (A song on the Curry album, “Sloe Gin”, was a NYRRE song, “Fields of Joy”, with new lyrics.)
The only song from “Rocky Horror” that Mr. Curry did was “I’m Going Home”. A few people were upset that he did not do “Sweet Transvestite.” He played another Agora show a couple of years later, and reportedly did perform “Sweet Transvestite.”
Tom Waits was scheduled to perform at the Agora the next night. PG was wandering through the balcony between shows, and saw Mr. Waits sitting at a table. A bodyguard was standing by, who said that it was just someone who looked like Tom Waits.
After the show was over, PG went to a nearby bar, and was talking to a friend about the show. A lady who was with the friend stood in front of him and screamed “What color are your eyes? They are brown, because you are so full of shit”. Pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress.

Every once in a while, the list of bookmarks gets too long. Some can be painlessly deleted. Others go into storage, on the chance that they will be useful someday. Some might be fun to visit often, and are moved into an appropriate folder. Today, we will look at some of the fun sites that Chamblee54 has stumbled onto lately. If you choose to follow these links, make sure your anti virus protection is updated and running. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Banned In Hollywood seems to make fun of hetero losers, while appealing to them at the same time. This is not as weird as you think, when you consider the radio whiners who praise tax cuts for the wealthy, for the enjoyment of a blue collar audience. The pic at the top of the page shows a sofa load of people sucking face, while one guy drinks beer, by himself, in the middle. An everyday feature is the photo dump. It has dozens of fun images, some of which are safe for work.
Not Always Right is the dark side of customer service. As some of you know, when you say hello to a customer, you don’t know what you are getting yourself into. There are some dialogs here between sales help and those who alledgedly pay their salary. Here is one of the stories:
(A customer buys a medium popcorn and then spills it in the theater. We don’t usually give refills on mediums, but since he spilled it, we tell him we’ll refill it.) Customer: “I left the bag in the theater.” Me: “That’s okay, we can refill it. Just bring me the bag.” Customer: “Okay. Wait, do you mean a bag of weed, or the popcorn bag?” Me: “Uh, the popcorn bag will do.”
GINAA is a longtime favorite here. If you don’t have a high speed connection, this one takes forever to load. This site is like a drop of gasoline, in a bucket of water, that keeps spreading and turning rainbow colors. If you like to see the world in a grain of rice, you can waste serious time here.
La Boite Verte has no english text. For those who like to read our fine tongue, there are other places to go. There are lots and lots of pictures here. Art, history, and German barflies from 1967 are represented on the top page today. France’s BFF Germany contributes Das Kraftfuttermischwerk, another splendid waste of time and brain cells.
Cats That Look Like Hitler is what it says it is. The use of photoshop is suspected. As with many other sites, there is advertising here. A showtime feature called “The Borgias”, Caring Kitty Cremation, and Printable Cat Coupons are cheerfully promoted on this site.
Black And WTF , Buzz Feed, and Brain Pickings all start with B, and represent a lot of hard work by somebody. How much weirdness can you enjoy before you want to go watch a tennis match on tv?
Post It Notes From My Idiot Boss is another example of fine technology, used for less than steller results. A few years ago, people would set their VCR to record soap operas, so they could watch them when they got home. This is similar…the groundbreaking technology of self attaching note paper, used to deliver messages like “How often do we get the quarterly reports?”.

This is a double repost, from april of  2009. It deals with the dominant religion of our culture, Jesus Worship. This is a religion of beliefs, not practices. There is a love of argument, and attempts at conversion. Jesus Worshipers believe that their ideas about life after death justify this abuse. Sometimes, the death part starts a bit sooner than necessary. Pictures today are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”
The other day Father Tony posted a video at Bilerico (ba LAIR i co) about how to argue. He acknowledged that he is a venomous person.  FT used to be employed by the Catholic church. That is how he got his handle. PG thought on this for a while, and saw a connection. A little more thinking, and PG pondered that crowd pleaser, the religious argument.
Jesus Worship is a religion of beliefs, rather than practices. One of their key beliefs is the notion that you should convert those who disagree with you. If these people don’t agree with you about certain things, they go to hell. This lust to “evangelize” leads to a lot of arguments.
One of the rules for living/arguing that Father Tony expresses is that, yes, you are going to argue. This is especially true for romantic partnerships, but includes all sorts of human relating. How does this relate to religion? If you believe in a religion, does this mean you are compelled to argue with those who you disagree with?
Religious belief can be a source of strength and comfort to those lucky enough to be in the loop. For many of the rest of us, Religion (especially the Jesus Worship variety) is a source of venom. The endless arguments that believers loudly put forth spoil whatever benefits these beliefs can have. It is enough to make you wish you would never hear the word Jesus again.





PG got wound up today about a report involving super glue eight time zones away. Meanwhile, an 11 year old man, who stayed a few exits down the perimeter, hung himself.
The story was that the other kids at school gave him a tough time. “They called him gay and a snitch,” his stepfather said. Jaheem Herrera was from St. Croix in the American Virgin Islands. The picture shows that he had light skin. Dunaire Elementary School is on South Indian Creek Road in Stone Mountain. The area is predominantly African American.
PG does not know any of the kids who bullied Mr. Herrera. He suspects that many are Jesus Worshipers. The Jesus Worship Church has preachers that verbally abuse the congregation. The Jesus Worship Church has a book which teaches the hatred of homosexuals. They call it “The Word of G-d”.
The Jesus Worship Church has a phrase…”shame the devil”. PG wonders if “devil” was one of the things Mr. Herrera was called, along with gay and snitch. He looked different than his abusers, and was from a different place.
PG worked for seven years with an abusive professional Jesus Worshiper. He clearly remembers the time that “Pastor” streaked in front of him.
“Pastor” shouted down and humiliated PG one day, in the name of Jesus. After the mugging was over, “Pastor” got a phone call. He picked up the phone and screamed ” I never felt better in my life”.
Jesus Worship is an aggressive, angry business. Sometimes the results are fatal.

“Sometimes all I want to do is have a little mindless fun with the years that are left in my life.” /// There was a popular song once, “Girls just want to have fun”. Cyndi Lauper was so unusual./// “There are so many better things for you than to see your feelings sold as magic lanterns to somebody whose body casts no light.” /// When your feelings take up half the space in your house, you don’t care who buys them as long as the check doesn’t bounce. /// “Where I come from it’s just another carrot in the patch. Where do you come from, stranger?” /// Where you come from is about as important as where you are going. What really matters is not getting pulled over by the police while you are going there. /// “There are days when our cat becomes the doors and windows of the house. To go into the bedroom I must open a wooden cat”// Love is seeing your cat across the street and calling his name and he comes running at full speed. /// “Birds happen music / like clocks ticking heavens in a land where children love spiders, and let them sleep in their hair.”/// PG spent a few months living in a *hostel* in Seattle WA. There was one shower for a six story building. One night, PG put his towel on top of the sheet metal wall of the shower. Someone had put some used chewing gum on top of the same shower stall. This abc gum stuck to the towel. PG did not know this until he had dried his hair./// “Someplace in the world a woman is sitting under a beautiful tree, and she is shelling peas, and she is thinking only of beautiful things”/// In the words of a constipated fly, I spect not. /// “He went UMMM-good, smacked his lips and rolled his eyes like the octopus ride in a cheap carnival.”/// When Lorena Bobbitt comes bob bob bobbing along, when Lorena Bobbitt comes bob bob bobbing along /// “I love that dark bird you hold in your arms.”/// As much as you love the flesh colored bird I shoot from my fingers? /// “These are just fragments. Parts of lines and single words that remain from the original poems written 1,000s of years ago.”/// the first copy of Rolling Stone the PG bought had a record review of the archies greatest hits. They said that it was twelve convincing arguments against capitalism. /// “Too many perhapses in the world and not enough people.” /// Мы вот уже много лет занимается улучшением офисов, комнат, загородных домов и еще ни разу нам не поступало от наших клиентов ни неприятных отзывов, ни каких-либо жалоб. /// “Every horror in the world was at my back, at my sides and directly in front of me and they were all without names” /// so high, you can’t go over it. so low, you can’t go under it. so wide, you can’t go around it. you’ve got to go through the door. /// “Dreams are like the wind. They blow by. The small ones are breezes, but they go by, too.” /// To have a dream interrupted by a buzzing alarm clock is the equivalent of cutting a krystalburger fart. /// ‘The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.’/// There is a church group in Brookhaven trying to raise money by selling bundles of pine straw. Around here, that is like trying to sell an eskimo snow. /// “She could invent whole lifetimes for herself and it was as if she had lived them in a kind of dreamy telescope way.” /// Invention is the mother of necessity. Frank Zappa was going to call his band the mothers, but some fuddy duddy made him add of invention to that. /// “Two guys get out of a car. They stand beside it. They don’t know what else to do.” /// So they get back in it and start to drive. They don’t know where to go, but they need to go somewhere. There were no parking spaces empty at the mall. /// “Trout Fishing in America Shorty stared after her as if the space between them were a river growing larger and larger.”/// He moved to da ATL and became Trou Fishin in Amerika Shawty. /// “The sea is like an old nature poet who died of a heart attack in a public latrine. His ghost still haunts the urinals.” /// Paintstainsbrains named all the stray cats on his block. They are assadopolis, assbergers and zombie. That could be a law firm. /// “What I meant by grace was a more realistic approach to the process of living to arrive at perhaps some tranquillity”/// We used to sing “Amazing Grace” in the sweat lodge at Crazy Owl’s . We would say “that saved a wretch like me”, and Owl would get upset, and say it should be life instead of wretch. /// “She wants candles married to her womb by the color of a telescopic saint, so that all her children will be adventures in light.”/// Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet. Frank has gone to a distant planet. /// “Thinking hard about you I got onto the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for 2 transfers before discovering I was alone.”// PG would like to thank the Ghost of Richard Brautigan for the green comments. 

Everybody says he is honest, but how many really mean it? As befits a word whose first two letters are HO, there are lots of quotes about honesty. Mr. Google shows a lot of lists of honesty quotes, of which this blog only got around to one and two . Does purchasing a better listing on google count for dishonesty? How about page two , which had an ad for turbo tax at the bottom. Tax and honest should not be used in the same paragraph. (In the quotes below, a ~ before the author indicates source two) (Of the credited authors below, only one…Emily Dickinson…is a woman) (This is a repost)
“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time” Dave Von Ronk /// “The first two letters of honest are HO.” PG /// “You should not use honesty as a blunt weapon. Just because something is true, does not mean that saying it out loud is a good idea.” PG /// “You do not increase the truth of what you say by saying it louder. You just make more noise. ” PG /// “He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware” author unknown /// “Honesty: The best of all the lost arts” Mark Twain /// “Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense” author unknown /// “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916 /// “Who lies for you will lie against you.” ~Bosnian Proverb /// “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ~William Blake /// “Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.” ~Josh Billings /// “Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.” ~Mark Twain /// “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~Winston Churchill /// “The truth is more important than the facts.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright /// “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” ~Richard J. Needham /// “Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” ~Author Unknown /// “Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.” ~Emily Dickinson /// “Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.” ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 /// “Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?” ~Patrick Sky /// “Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” ~Slovenian Proverb /// “Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.” ~Author Unknown /// “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~Mark Twain /// “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.” ~Winston Churchill ( PG wonders who really said it first.) /// “It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.” ~Homer Simpson /// “There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook. ” ~Groucho Marx

PG found a delightful film, which is embedded above. Tim Minchin has been a favorite since “The Pope Song”, which sets a new standard for f word usage. (HT to Sola Ratione. )
The film is narrated by a poem, about a dinner party gone awry. A lady named Storm says a few goofy things, and sets Tim off. He makes a little speech about science, and how he gets to live twice as long as his great great great uncles and aunts. It is interesting that his belief is in science, and not in the statistics that purport to measure science.
PG heard something once about life expectancy, which smelled like the truth. There have historically been plenty of old people. The increase in life expectancy  is because of reduced infant mortality.
There is also the nature of statistics. The word “average” is a red flag. It can be either the mean, median, or mode. Any one of these measurements can be significantly different from the typical number, and yet can be called average. You can lie with numbers just like you can lie with words.
A co worker of PG heard on the radio that people in China live an average of ten years longer than people in the USA. His next statement was, “Why do you think this is?”. PG had a lot of questions, none of which were answered. Even if there were accurate statistics for the estimated 1.2 billion people, how would you crunch the numbers to get an “average”?
Getting back to Mr. Minchin, there is the chance that he is correct, that he can expect to live twice as long as his long ago relatives. There is also the chance that he would have been someone who never saw his first birthday. In times gone by, a typical family had ten children, but only four of those would live. The life expectancy of those who survive, until five, is very close today to the old times.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The pictures today are soldiers and sailors, who typically cannot expect a long life.

PG got an email today. It was a chain email, with the tasteful title “TO PEE OR NOT TO PEE”. It has a couple of paragraphs of text, a cute animation repeated seven times, and a disclaimer. If you print it out, it is five pages long. Holy dead trees, Batman. Here is the message:
I thought you’d like this. We’d probably lower our national def. a whole lot if we put this plan into play. TO PEE OR NOT TO PEE . . . I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes & the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, in my case, I am required to pass a random urine test (with which I have no problem). What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. So, here is my question: Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt – doing drugs while I work.
Can you imagine how much money each state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? I guess we could call the program “URINE OR YOU’RE OUT”! Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t. Hope you all will pass it along, though. Something has to change in this country – AND SOON! P.S. All politicians should have to pass a urine test too!
The information contained in this communication and all accompanying documents from Coilcraft may be confidential and/or legally privileged, and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this transmitted information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and destroy the original message or accompanying materials and any copy thereof. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender.
There is soooo much that could be said about this. PG is detoxed from all drugs except Kroger Coffee, but is mightily offended by drug testing. It encourages alcohol use. It does not discriminate between soft and hard drugs. ( Marijuana is stored in fatty tissue, and is the substance most affected by drug testing.) The war on drugs has filled our prisons, cost trillions of dollars, ruined countless lives, and yet is diligently pursued. Bumping people off welfare might make a few people happy, but will probably benefit few people. ( Except for the owners of drug testing companies.)
Maybe we need to criticize the medium, and not worry about the message. Here we have a 245 word message that takes five pages to deliver. This is typical of message emails. People, only show your animated man one time, pack the message into paragraphs, and you can tell your story in one page.
Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t. Does anyone else think this is RUDE? When you send an email, you invade personal space. You ask a person to look at something, without knowing how busy this person is, how they are feeling, or whether they are interested in your silly little message. It is a shame email is so cheap, if it is going to produce garbage like this.
The icing on the cake is the disclaimer at the bottom. This message is now, in effect, owned by the Coilcraft company. This makes this company look rotten to a lot of people. If you send out message emails at work, please take off the disclaimer. Or, just send the message from home. Or, the best answer of all, don’t send the damn message.
Black and white pictures are from The Library of Congress

This is a double repost, from this time three years ago. The first part is pretty much forgotten. BHO was secretly taped at a fundraiser, and his comments was media fodder for a few days. He went on to be elected, and is either a disaster, or pretty good considering everything.
The second part is thoughts about driving. Why is safe driving  not considered a moral issue? This is something that affects us everyday, with devastating consequences if things go bad. How many proud conservatives are flaming liberals behind the wheel? What good does it do to save a baby from abortion, only to have him maimed by an SUV in a hurry?If one accident is prevented by posting this list, then it is worthwhile. Drive like hell, and you might get there sooner.
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothings replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not… “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Unless you live under Iraq a rock, or have right wing ideas on permanent brain block, you have heard about that comment from BHO. Quite possibly, you have heard more than you appreciate.If you are looking for a reason not to like BHO, you haven’t heard enough. Well, if you are in the first category, just scroll through the text and enjoy the pictures. If you are in the second group, you might not like what I am going to say. You can still like the pictures.
1- This was a secretly recorded speech made at a fundraiser. The fatcat party was in San Francisco, a factoid that delights the hate-O crowd. What sort of person donates to a campaign ( using possibly another person’s money), so he can go to the pig party and secretly record his comments? And then take the “snippet” and release it to the shocked internet.
2- My first reaction when I read this was that the smalltown folk have felt that way for a long long time. They loved guns and Jesus back when the factories and steelmills were wide open.
3- It is not just small town Pennsylvania that is “bitter”. ( Folks seem to have a special problem with the word bitter. One “consultant” was quoted as saying it would have been better if BHO had said frustrated.) ( I write this in Georgia, where the tea is sweet and the people are bitter) What about the guys that did a high five behind Jeremiah Wright when he screamed “G-d Damn America”? If anyone has a right to be bitter, it is the folks on the south side of Chicago, or any ghetto in America. And yes, they do cling to Jesus and Guns, as well as other nasty things.
4- It is not just America that is bitter and turning to religion. The people of Palestine and Iraq are in the same boat. They feel like forces are working against them, and they just might be right. They are turning to religion and violence as an answer to their anguish. They are being led down that wretched path by cynical clerics who exploit their unhappiness, and offer a solution through G-d. Of course these clerics seldom strap on a suicide vest, just like Jeremiah Wright does not live in a housing project.
5- This is not going to hurt BHO that much. The people who are upset are not going to support him anyway. A lot of people see the truth in what he says, and just might appreciate the fact that he was unslick enough to say something with a rough edge. He just might have known that Judas with a tape recorder was in the house.
6- Batter Better Bitter Botter Butter. The only vowel that doesn’t work in that progression is O.

Many of us spend a lot of time driving. Here are a few thoughts.
1- Find another way to show how bad you are. This is mostly a masculinity thing, but it just might apply to a few ladies. Driving hard and fast is the easy way to prove your toughness. All you do is push the gas pedal. You don’t have to go to the gym, have lots of sex, or go into battle. Just drive fast, and with no concern for your neighbor.
2- Slow down. There is no need to go so fast. When you go somewhere, allow yourself enough time to get there. The faster you drive, the less reaction time you have in an emergency.
3- Stay far enough behind the car ahead of you to stop in an emergency. This will be less stressful for the person in front of you.
4- Pay attention to the road. This is where the cell phones become a problem. You should be focused on the road ahead of you, and not what your phone mate is telling you. Your minutes will be just as good when you get to your destination.
5- The three rules of the workplace apply here….show up, stay awake, and don’t kill anyone.
6- Keep your car in good condition. The tires and brakes are key items, but also keep the engine running smoothly. This will also help you to use gasoline more efficiently.
7- Keep your temper. Driving while angry is a cause of many accidents, especially when combined with alcohol. Your problems will still be there when you arrive.
8- At the risk of saying the unthinkable, I don’t think a bit of alcohol is that terrible. Of course, when you drink your judgment of how high you are is distorted, so it is tough to tell when too much is too much. The law takes a much sterner view of this.
9- Use your turn signals, and common sense. Preferably at the same time.
10- Show concern for the well being of your neighbor.

PG got this email today: Hey PG. You know better than me about people like this, but this made me split my side: From the Neil Bortz show this morning: “Nancy Pelosi was sitting on a stage with the Pope at a large Catholic gathering. He turned to her and said, ‘You know, with a small gesture of my hand I could create wild, rapturous joy throughout this crowd.. And not just a fleeting joy, but a sense of deep, lasting contentment.’ Pelosi looked at the nearest camera, and responded, ‘I don’t believe you. Show me.’ The Pope then slapped her.”
The following reply was sent: 1- One zero is not enough for neeyull. His name is spelled Boortz. 2- Another radio whiner talked about the time Miss Pelosi marched in a gay pride parade with Harry Hay. He then described Mr. Hay as a supporter of Nambla. Thus, Miss Pelosi was a friend of a child molester. 3- Miss Pelosi could probably generate the same response by slapping the pope. This would also indicate that she is no friend of child molesters.
Still pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress. The animation is from GINAA.