{"id":1694,"date":"2012-12-30T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:34:45","slug":"been-trying-to-come-up-with-a-blog-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/12\/30\/been-trying-to-come-up-with-a-blog-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Been trying to come up with a blog entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve looked at the news &#8211; nothing I could say is positive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage24.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to make the last few blog entries of the year positive. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to go into 2013 with a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that with all the uncertainty about our government it&#8217;s difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Really, can I as a citizen now in the lower portion of income brackets say, \u00a0I&#8217;m going to have a higher tax burden? YEAH!!!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t pay my bills now, \u00a0much less having my taxes go up by 2 or 3 thousand dollars per year. And that&#8217;s not even considering what the idiots in Sacramento are likely to do to butt fuck us.<\/p>\n<p>Tough to think positively with that kind of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the stock market and you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;m not alone.<\/p>\n<p>I saw an article from France where their court system had struck down some kind of super tax as unconstitutional. Peppered throughout the article was a percentage of 75% being purported as the tax rate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not confirmed the information in the article and I believe less &amp; less what American Journalists say.<\/p>\n<p>However, if in fact the French tried to impose a 75% tax as the American news reported, I&#8217;m surprised there wasn&#8217;t a revolution. \u00a0Of course that kind of taxation would sure prevent anyone becoming wealthy so I guess burdensome taxation is in fact a great equalizer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage21.png\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should point out, \u00a0so is communism!<\/p>\n<p>LIke I said, it&#8217;s tough to be positive.<\/p>\n<p>I caught a youtube with Ted Nugent taking on Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Now that was funny! I have attempted to watch Piers Morgan on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In each instance I wasn&#8217;t able to watch more than a few minutes. I find Mr. Morgan not only on the opposite side of any subject from me but he&#8217;s with the\u00a0rabid frothing at the mouth opposition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage20.png\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In short I think he&#8217;s a pompous ass and I have no desire to waste my time listening to him interrupting his guests and preventing them from making their points if they don&#8217;t agree with him completely.<\/p>\n<p>I would support sending him back to England\u2026 But the English are our allies and it would be just wrong to send a weapon of mass delusion to our friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage19.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" border=\"0\" \/>The Nugent piece was great though\u2026 Ted, managed to talk over Piers anti-gun rhetoric and make his point. I got a laugh out of it when Nugent told Piers to suck his machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>One of my family called to ask if it was common to go swimming in a frozen lake here. I had no idea\u00a0what they were talking about. Then I found the news piece showing a bunch of people falling into a lake near here.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found a video on a town web site showing the whole sorry event. I guess it was a slow news day and the national medial used this video as a nice filler \/ fluff piece.<\/p>\n<p>The video is appearing and disappearing on youtube hourly. The bit of video the media is showing is not the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how the media may try to paint it as a &#8220;Tragedy avoided&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy isn&#8217;t that someone fell through the ice. The tragedy is that these people didn&#8217;t see a problem walking on the ice in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake in question isn&#8217;t completely frozen over so you&#8217;d think someone would have realized &#8220;Gee, this ice must be thin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nope\u2026 instead one person falls in and then like lemmings we have a dozen people in the water. Unlike lemmings they didn&#8217;t die.<\/p>\n<p>The whole video is actually 10 minutes long and you can hear people with common sense telling these other people to get off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s when the first person falls in, that you suddenly realize everyone on the ice is Spanish speaking and apparently realllllllllyyyyyyy stupid.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing from the longer video is Three Stooges Music or a sound track from Benny Hill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage22.png\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After I saw the long (10 min) video, I called my family member back and told them that had I witnessed this insanity I&#8217;d have walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you these idiots were sledding down a short hill and out onto a partially frozen lake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have called it Darwinian selection and figured that the survivors from the group of idiots remaining on the shore might have learned a valuable lesson.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lesson that most of us don&#8217;t need to learn by watching a family member drown \/ freeze to death but some people are apparently slower than the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>This is akin to early hominids learning it wasn&#8217;t a good idea to poke a saber tooth with a stick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Too bad about Ogg, I told him leave the saber cat alone but he wouldn&#8217;t listen, from here on out everyone in tribe avoid big cats with pointy teeth.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, I&#8217;ve seen an idiot on Catalina Island walk up to and try to pet a wild buffalo even when the people around them were saying &#8220;No, Stop, that&#8217;s a Wild Animal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was standing apart from the crowd with my camera ready. I was hoping to immortalize what happens to a genetically &amp; mentally deficient human when they interact with wildlife, and miss the obvious signs of agitation and aggression in an animal that outweighs them by a thousand pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage23.png\" width=\"257\" height=\"186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a park ranger stopped the moron before the buffalo got really pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get over the thought that some people really do need to be allowed to kill themselves due to their own stupidity. It would serve two purposes, 1) They&#8217;d remove themselves from the breeding stock and hopefully their defective genes too. 2) They&#8217;d be wonderful object lessons for others.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s really hard to stay positive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that some libation, masturbation, sex, porn, a good meal, and pretty fireworks, not necessarily in that order will make me feel more positive.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve looked at the news &#8211; nothing I could say is positive. I want to make the last few blog entries of the year positive. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to go into 2013 with a positive outlook. The problem is that with all the uncertainty about our government it&#8217;s difficult. 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