Yeah, all those homosexuals in the Israel army have made them a bunch of sissies...I mean, damn, ya'll.

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This next image got me thinking about how people just keep doing the same old things, just because that's the way they've always done them.  I was painting a mural in the heat of the summer and I would get up at 4 AM to get a jump on the heat.  During the drive across town there was not one single car anywhere, but I still stopped at the red lights and waited.

Then there was the new bride who on her first Thanksgiving asked her husband to cut the turkey in half.  He asked why and she said, That's the way my mother did it.  He asked why she did it and so she called her mother, who said, That's the way your grandmother did it.  So the young woman called her grandmother, who said, Because a whole turkey wouldn't fit in my oven.

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The Amazon River has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years. This Peruvian ship yard has been left high and dry.

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My dislike of bullfighting isn't so much about the poor bull.  I just don't like the idea of people getting a hard-on watching that shit.

Interesting image this...

My wife is a peacenik (is that still a word?).  I am of the opinion that people will always find a reason to hate other people enough to want them dead.  Further, I worked on nuclear weapons once.  These weapons kept us out of a world war for 50 years.  Mutually assured destruction is a very powerful deterrent.  I also like to think that if a potential thief assumes (correctly) that I am armed, then maybe it will keep peace in my house. 

Speaking of weapons...that is an AIM-9 Sidewinder.  Since it has no exhaust, I assume that it just fell off the jet upon landing on the aircraft carrier.  Once in Germany an AIM-7 Sparrow's rocket motor fire while the aircraft was on the flight line.  It streaked across the runway, hugged the terrain until it "ran out of gas" and crashed into a field.  When they called the manufacturer to tell them of the incident, the engineer said, "That's impossible", which, under the circumstances, I found rather humorous. It was the first Sparrow to do that and the last Sparrow to do that, but it scared the holy shit out of a bunch of people.

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When I first saw this picture, I mulled jokes about this man's...aroma.  Then I got to thinking about the way Americans have been convinced to bathe everyday.  It started with radio.  The primary early sponsors were soap companies.  Over the years just about every single American thinks there are medical reasons to use up all that soap every single fucking day...like lemmings falling off a cliff. 

I don't bathe every day.  Oh, if I get dirty or sweaty I will, but normally I just sit around and see no need for it.  No other part of the world washes themselves like us gullible Americans. Oh, and by the way, they have a two for one sale at the 80,000 Calorie Meal Barn...until Tuesday

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I was asked one time what costume a woman I knew should wear to a costume party with a nautical theme.  I suggested she wear normal clothes and tell everybody that she was dressed like the Bermuda Triangle because she swallowed a lot of seamen.

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I went to a website concerning these two artists and their shoes reminded me of a black tie affair at the local museum to honor Jamie Wyeth.  I managed to borrow a tux, but then wore a black T-shirt and brand new black and white Converse high top tennis shoes.  Then when the famous artist appeared, he was wearing a denim shirt and blue jeans...THE EXACT CLOTHS I HAD JUST CHANGED OUT OF.

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apodyopsis: the act of mentally undressing someone.

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My art professor brought a nude model into the drawing class one time.  We were practicing very fast sketches...like one minute, then thirty seconds, then twenty seconds.  The point of the exercise was to not look at your paper, but rather let your eyes trace the form and allow your pencil point to follow your eye movement.  The model had to change her pose at least 30 times and I was doing great until she sat down and spread her legs directly in my direction.  I was like a deer in headlights.

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PUBERTY: The hardest time of a  young man's life.

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My liver called to say he quits.

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BP seems to be doing a pretty good job with the mess.  I once heard calls to boycott them, but that would only lead to bankruptcy and no hope of settlements.

There is an old saying that goes something like this: No matter what path of life you choose, you will die wondering what if you would've choose a different path.

I don't think so.  I opened two bars in my life for the precise reason that I knew I would always wonder if I could make a go of it.  The same for trying to be a full time muralist. Neither one of those ventures panned out, but at least I know.

I have talked young men into doing things by telling the stories.  One young artist toyed with moving to New York City in an attempt to make it in the big time.  After giving me all the reason he shouldn't, I told him that, of course, he knew he had to or he would regret it for the rest of his life.  You get what you settle for, boys and girls.

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Go to You Tube and in the search window type in "A hunter shoots a bear".  Follow instructions.  It's a hoot.

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When I first started fucking around on line, I thought LOL stood for Lots of Love.  I learned better when I emailed a friend "Sorry to here about the death of your husband. LOL."

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Speaking of death...
No American has died of old age since 1951.  That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.
During the railroad expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
Eighty percent of Americans die in hospitals.
More people commit suicide in NYC than are murdered.
An estimated 100 billion people have died since humans began.
The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen.
Burials in the US puts 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid in the soil each year.

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If you say "gullible" very slowly it sounds like "oranges".

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Damn, guys, I was going to explain to you in detail how it disgusts me that the people in power (the left or the right) want to strip away my rights. If everyone had their way, we would have to ask the government where to build a church.  I would be denied my right to defend myself.  I would have no access to stem cell research.  Homosexuality would be treated like a disease.  I could not smoke or ingest whatever I wanted.  I couldn't ask my doctor for heavy weight sleeping pills if I had a terminal painful disease.  I couldn't burn a flag in protest of government policy.  I couldn't use the word cracker, nigger, kike, spick, etc.  I couldn't divorce my wife without waiting a year.  I couldn't buy certain products on certain days.
Anyway, I gave up because it is just too fucking late for us to make a difference.  We are so fucking fucked that nothing can stop the right promoting government intrusion in our lives for what they think will get them votes, and the left doing the exact fucking thing.
I say if you want to burn a fucking Quran, a flag, a bible or one of your fucking mother's apple pies, then JUST FUCKING DO IT!  
Freedom is ugly, boys and girls.  With freedom comes shit you personally abhor.  People get their feelings hurt...well, just get over it.  But without freedom, what good is it?
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