The MEDIA, who do you believe?

Hey! It's Thursday afternoon, Friday for me! I am glad. All I have to do for the next three days is cut a little grass, clean up my hamshack and do whatever my wife tells me to do.
But anyway, we're discussing the media. Now, you may not believe this but I know a little bit about our news and entertainment media. I have spent about one half of my 60+ years as a TV repairman and as an electronic technician. Now, as a tv repairman, I was forced to watch a LOT of TV. While watching all this tv, I soon discovered that the tv news reported WHAT THEY WANTED TO REPORT! Usually sensationalized blood and gore and bad news! Seldom if ever did I see a boy scout helping an old lady across the road, a fireman rescuing a kitten from a tree, a cop lifting some old man out of the bathtub from where he had lost consciousness, or any other of the trivial good things that good people do in the course of everyday life.
Instead, we see cops beating up poor innocent people, firemen driving recklessly, boy scouts turning queer. ANYTHING TO SELL AIR TIME!
This is the watchword of all media. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS.
The media is all out for your buck!
The tv genre is all slanted toward their individual viewpoints! The major networks are ALL pro Obama, because that's where the money is. Fox, is generally anti-Obama, cause that's where THEIR money is. But this is just the NEWS I'm referring to right now.
Let's talk about the "entertainment" programming. Every program I see is slanted toward pro-socialism, pro homosexuality, pro-murder, rape, mayhem. Where has the Andy Griffith show, the Leave it to Beaver, the Dick Van Dyke, the I Love Lucy shows all gone? All these shows promoted Christian, family values. They don't sell advertising time. Nowadays Barney Fife would be beating up Lucy Arnez for jaywalking while Dick VanDyke would be raping June Cleaver!
Turn off your TV, unplug your radio and play Scrabble with your kids! Please! Bring family life back and screw the media!

Monday, June 15 and I am Sick of Storms

It's 6:15 PM. I have put in a typical day at work. Nothing particularly stressful. Been watching the weather all day. Tending to a bit of business. Been looking at my friend the Grouch's blog and passing along a couple of comments. Now, I am out in the shack. That's my radio room to you non hams. Got the low band tuned to the low end of 80 meters, hoping to hear some of my buddies, but am afraid the weather aint gonna let me hear anything but static crashes. Had plans to cut grass this afternoon but the weatherman isn't going to let me do that. As I have said, I am a ham radio operator. Have been since 1960. I don't get all wrapped up into the hobby like some, but do enjoy rag chewing with my buddies. Rag chewing is just generally shooting the breeze. We send pictures over the radio usually, it is generally good fun, we take a lot of pix at Dayton and other hamfests, doctor them up, and send 'em out. All in good fun. There are also contesters on ham radio. They are usually Obama supporting scum. Then there are the do-gooders. These are the storm chasing, light flashing, siren blowing cop wannabees. Before ya'll organize a lynch mob, let me say that I was once also a do-gooder. One night, in the midst of having a heart attack from the strain of pulling a tree off a carload of drunks, I said "WAIT!, what am I doing? There are people getting PAID to do this shit I am out doing for FREE!" So, having lived thru the heart attack, I swore off do-gooding. Now, this being said, HAMS who provide COMMUNICATIONS during natural or homade disasters ARE NOT DO-GOODERS! They ARE THE BACKBONE OF HAM RADIO! I have nothing but respect for them. They have saved so many lives and provided vital information for so many, because landlines (telephones) or cell phones or any other form of communication were down, that I couldn't even begin to count. I have an agreement with my local EMS. If you need me to man radios, call me, if you need me to do the job of police, sheriff or paramedics, forget it! I am too busy.
I will give anybody that is interested some more info on Ham Radio again sometimes, but right now, I'm going for a COOLD 806!

Wednesday, June 10 and I am TIRED!

Hey folks.
I wasn't ready to post a blog today but I got to reading my friend, the grouch's blog and thought I would git on my soapbox a little. See grouch's blog at http://grouchatrighttruth.blogspot.com/2009/06/im-rich-white-confederate-flag-waving.html.
I am tired if black racism. I don't really see much "white" racism anymore. Folks, we need to put skin color bias (not racism) behind us. This shit is really wearing thin. I do not love all white people, I do not hate all black people, yellow people, red people. In my 60 odd years, I have learned to accept the human race for what they are. Merely specks of life on a rock whirling around the sun.
EVERYBODY HAS PROBLEMS! Such is LIFE! Live with it, adapt to it, overcome it! Nobody on earth was issued a guarantee of a fine, wonderful, trouble free happy life! It just aint so!
Back in my very much younger years, I actually attended a KKK meeting! These folks were talking about hating all Jews, blacks, chinese! I said to myself then, "Lets me get the hell outta here! They're talking about some of my friends!". And I did, much smarter in the process.
As I told kid funkadelic on the grouch's page, If you will judge your fellow man by his actions, not his race, occupation, religion, or what tv shows he watches, you will have more friends than you can shake a stick at!

It's Friday! I'm Mellow. Something a little Lighter?

This is no doubt the best "Nut Shell" account of our Economy to date...

It is a slow day in the East Texas town of Madisonville.

It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.

Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich tourist from the East is driving through town.

He enters the only hotel in the sleepy town and lays a hundred dollar bill on the desk stating he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

As soon as the man walks up the stairs, the hotel proprietor takes the hundred dollar bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to the supplier of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has lately had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel and pays off her debt with the $100 to the hotel proprietor, paying for the rooms that she had rented when she brought clients to that establishment.

The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs, after inspecting the rooms.

He picks up the $100 bill and states that the rooms are not satisfactory...... Pockets the money and walks out the door and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However the whole town is now out of debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today.

If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what will.

Healthcare? I think not!

I have a good friend, http://grouchatrighttruth.blogspot.com, who is a doctor. He is a good doctor. His bedside manner sux, but you can't hold that against him. I do value his opinions sometimes.
However, I'm not blogging for him. I am telling you all, that as a rule, healthcare sucks!
Wait! Read on before you chastise me.
As little as 40 years ago, if I were sick, I would call the doc, tell him I was sick, and he would be at my house in a short while. He would examine me, maybe pull some pills outta his bag to give me, tell me what was wrong with me, and stay for supper. He might charge me 10 or 20 bucks for a house call. This was the good old days.
Now we live in a modern, high speed, high tech world. You wake up feeling sick, call the doc's office and they tell you you can get in to see the doc in about 45 days. OR, they tell you the doc will call you back and he never does.
Or, you get in to see some quack who is running an insurance mill. He don't really give a shit what is the matter, who you are, or anything else for that matter, as long as YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE!
Is this the doctors fault? NO! The real doctors are all over worked, overbooked, and have to live in fear of some quack lawyer launching a malpractice suit. Malpractice insurance costs more than health insurance!
But this same doctor is really seeing emergency room patients, who are mostly on welfare, who didn't WANT to make a doctors appointment and wait. Since they arent going to pay anyway, they will call an ambulance to carry them to the ER and let the rest of us pay for their visit! They will sit in the ER, get seen pretty soon and then have an ambulance ride home! These are mostly Obama supporters. Sorry, if you can't take the heat, stay outta the kitchen.
How do I know these facts? Am I a doctor? No. But I HAVE been a police officer! I have witnessed these goings on. Been there, done that, as the saying goes.
Why is OUR healthcare so costly? Because we are paying for 20 deadbeats for every one of our doctor visits. But again, this is a Democratic society, isn't it?

Not ALL Obama's fault

OK,
here's one you oughta bookmark, cause I prolly won't ever say it again.
We are in a world of shit! It aint ALL Obama's fault. It aint all Bush's fault. It aint all slick Willie's fault.
It is ALL OF OUR FAULT!
We as Americans love to sit back and watch the world go by. When things are good, we are pleased and happy and satisfied. When things turn to crap we like to point a finger.
Willie could go on tv and give a speech and make ya think everything was good, even his blow jobs.
Poor old George could get on tv and you'd know there was something stinky. After all, he declared that the war was over 6 years or so ago.
Poor old Barrack can get on tv and you automatically know he's full of shit.
Face it folks. We, as voting, laid back, apathetic Americans have voted for what has been offered to us for MANY YEARS!
It is time for us to take a stand. We kicked out the Brits for much less bullshit than what we are putting up with now!
Me, myself, I am a poor working Redneck! I don't know all the answers. But I do know and realize that we have GOT to take control of the Government back. Remove it from the hands of the Govt itself and put it back into the hands of the working majority, not in the hands of Oil, Pharmacuticals, Unions, or even the NRA or AARP. WE NEED TO CONTROL OUR OWN DESTINIES!
Furthermore, we need to try to keep our children, grandchildren and even more future generations from having to put up with Government Tyranny and exhorbitant taxes!
HOW?
Vote these SOB's out! This is the "DEMOCRATIC" way!
Shoot em all. This is the Anarchistic way! (BTW, this aint my first choice)
Sit back, wring your hands and eat cat food! This seems to be the AMERICAN WAY!
What would have Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, George Washington or for that matter, John Wayne have said?
I think you all know what they would have said.
What do YOU say?
Lemmee hear, you WON'T hurt my feelings.

Medical Doctors, Not All, Just Some

I went to a local MD a couple of months ago, because my feet were numb and tingly. I explained my symptoms to her, and in her defense, she did exactly what I would have done in her place. I told her I didn't think I had a sugar problem, of which numb tingling feet, aka neuropathy, is an indication. However, on examination, she said she couldn't feel a pulse in my feet and was going to order an ultrasound on my feet and legs. Good call, since I HAVE had bypasses. She also drew blood to do lab work. Lab work came in fine, no diabetes, no anemia, no gout, good B-12. Everything FINE with my blood. Ultrasound said I had perfect circulation in my legs and feet. She said I probably had neuropathy and reccomended a neuropathist. Then she said since I was taking Niacin for vertigo and good cholesteral, that might be causing it and told me to lay off the Niacin for a while. I didn't much believe this, but it was an easy try.
Three weeks later, feet still tingling, so I made an appointment with a podiatrist. Gitting close to Dayton and I wanted some relief. Told him up front I didn't have sugar. He looked at my feet for a few minutes and decided to send me to a neuropothist (probably spelled wrong)
This WAS A TRIP. They wired me up, jolted me with electricity, stuck needles in my feet and immediately told me I HAD BLOOD SUGAR! Told him about doc number 1 He didn't care! I had sugar, no matter that he hadn't tested my blood or anything else medically!
The podiatrist called me 5 days later and told me I had blood sugar. Told him I did not have sugar, so he wanted to know if I wanted him to make me an appointment with some nerve doc that my insurance doesn't cover. I told him thanks anyway, that I thought I would see a chiropractor, which I did. He hasn't fixed my feet, but at least HE DID LISTEN when I told him my problems. He has gotten the feet feeling a little better, but the saga of the aching feets continues.