tao1776

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF I win...you lame blogger arses.....those that have taken moments of their precious time to read/comment/e-mail me......you're all going to have an all expense paid (plus) trip to NEW ENGLAND (better than the original) to Eat, Drink and Be Merry. I will make it work. And YES, Cape ....you WILL be there!

As I stated previously, my oldest daughter and my granddaughter have moved home. You know the story. Bad relationship gone bad. She needed to pull back and get the proverbial shit together. We have been telling her for months that the door was open. I know that this has been a stressful decision for her. She has had a run of bad luck. Moved into a bigger place. Took a new job ( off the books ) at the insistence of her boyfriend; who then proceeded to leave her. After she paid her bills, she had less than ten dollars left and a little one to care for. Also, she bought a 1996 Neon last spring with her income tax refund only to have the head gasket go and make it non drivable within a few days. She has been without a car since. Because she bought it from a dude in New Hampshire, there was no lemon law to protect her. She had it fixed and made payments until it was paid ($1300 on top of the $1500 she paid for the car) so that she could take it home. Once home, it would not run. I checked t...

I was thinking about Elvis today. I know that the anniversary of his death was a week or so ago. But today, for some reason, I thought about where I was when I first heard the news of his passing. I just moved back in with my parents after having explored the possibility of my having a career in the Christian ministry. Instead, in Martin Luther form, I went to prepare a place for me and my soon to be wife. In my early twenties and feeling the angst of perhaps going against my calling for the love of a girl, I moved home, found a job and as is always the case, I seem to stand out like a sore thumb. I am an individual. Never follow the crowd. And not unlike Elvis perhaps, I have had some copy my personal trends. Don't forget. I am the inventor of the mullet! I didn't attend my graduation of high school or college because pomp and circumstance makes me ill. So, I started this job at a furniture factory and smoked pot for the first time in several years. I had just stapled my left...

We took the four plus hour ride back from mid-state Maine leaving shortly after noon. I knew that the roads would be busy. I'm never afraid of a little traffic but this was ridiculous. A four plus hour ride turned into a six plus hour ride. I know that people are on vacation. My foray into Maine was family business, wrapping up the estate of my wife's grandparents home. Knowing that what we experienced on I-95 and 295 and 495 was being repeated in just about every major state highway system in the country is rather sad. Gallons and gallons of gas and millions of cubit feet filled with carbon monoxide. There were back ups for miles. Even when the highway opened up and returned the masses back to their 20 mph over the actual posted speed limit, it was still one large moving parking lot for as far as the eye could see. Travel is good. I don't discourage it. But there are wonders right in our own back yard that are worth seeing, that for many often go undiscovered. I'm pla...

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop." Ah. My arrogance is showing again. But I say, "It takes one to know one." Its always been about the power. Kings and Popes; Business and Politicians. How blindly men follow and die for the cause. Raise the royal banner! The framers of the Constitution knew very early that their idealism was more an experiment than a reality. Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” (Thanks, Dr Franklin) Beat down, assimilate and Christianize the Red man. Check Flood the country with cheap Opium, addict the masses, Christianize the Yellow man and exploit all available resources for their own good. Check The stage is set. The ground is fertile. Is there anything we cannot do? We forgot George Washington's warning about "entangling alliances." The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and some...