top ten mini rants

With religion ranted out for the time being, I expect I shall move along to "things I don't understand" in general. Let me list ten for starters. 1. My wife got a "Kindle" the other day. You read books with it. You can read books with a laptop. Reading books is an "app" on a smart phone isn't it. My question isn't "Why do we need Kindles?" It is "Why doesn't the Kindle have a camera?" 2. My computer screen shows the time of day in the lower corner. Why doesn't it show the date? 3. Modern chemistry has come so far. Why is my oral medication for Diabetes 50 year old technology? 4. French fries taste great. But why are they the standard side dish. Do they taste better than all the others? 5. If you look at the label of any laundry detergent such as "All" or "Cheer" you will find it difficult to tell what the product is. To find out that it is in fact soap, you must look below the brand name and find in very tiny and faint script, the word "detergent" as if it is a secret. Why is this? 6. In the home bathroom, "guest towels" are used for guests. They are usually very nice and put out for the guests to dry their hands on. The guests apparently "share" the use of these towels. Aren't you glad we don't have "guest" toilet paper? 7. Windmills have been around for centuries. Satellite dishes on the roof for decades. Small generators in cars for decades. Why can't I go to Lowe's and buy a windmill for my house, for say a couple hundred bucks and put it up on my roof myself, and plug it into my wall? 8. During the seventies and eighties Japanese cars took over and almost wiped Detroit out. We were told to buy American. Why didn't GM just buy a Toyota Corolla and take it apart piece by piece and copy it exactly and build that car as their own? 9. NASA is going to fly this one last "Space Shuttle" mission. Then we should be saving money and lives by going unmanned. And moving to a newer and better series of space vehicles. Why not take Atlantis to the museum now and put the money toward newer and better stuff? 10. Most restaurants don't serve their breakfast menu all day. Or their lunch menu. They deny their faithful customers something that they could prepare for them. Why would this be good business?
OK that's ten of say a thousand.....remember I'm pullin' for ya. Keep your stick on the ice. LLITTY :::::":::::

it's the caffeine talking, part 115

I wrote and posted a nice big geezer rant about religion. A few hours later, I pulled it down and deleted it. It was so severe. My brother explained to me that that kind of talk/thinking is not societally sustainable. I want people to like me, and I don't want to offend anyone. So it's maybe not a good idea to bash peoples beliefs. I would like to convert a hateful rant into innocent questions. There are many things I just can't understand. Why don't I just tell you what my questions are? 1. Why is it that some people consider the legends in the bible to be real historical accounts? 2. The "rapture" and the end of the world is a big scary scenario. Why do the ones who are "saved" feel happy about this, when the majority of the poor wretched souls will have a tortured fate? Being happy, in the face of that, even though you are safe, would that be sadistic? 3. Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. She is therefore a God. Father, Son, Mother. Why do they call Christianity a monotheism? 4. The Christian religion has lots of sects. And a huge divide between Catholic and Protestant. Before converting the non believers of the world, why doesn't it agree first on what it's own beliefs are? 5. Are Mormons Christian? 6. The Bible is pretty hard on women. Why would women want to be involved in the faith? OK that's enough for now. Enough questions. One more thing before I get off religion. Some say we are in the "end times".. Some say the world will end Dec. 23, 2012 two years from now. Based on the Mayan calendar. But the present day Mayans don't believe that at all. One of the most devout and renowned bible answer men in the world, Harold Camping, predicts the the world will end on May 21, of this year! 4 months from now. Just Google that date! I can't wait. LLITTY :::::+:::::

"I know I look a fright, 2"

The room at home that I hang out in is a pig pen. A shambles. I haven't returned phone calls. I haven't posted here on my blog. I was a Grinch through the holidays. My laundry is on the floor. I've watched a hundred old movies on TV. My dog Jaker has been hanging out with me. He likes this current lifestyle. We can learn about my life from the lyrics to the song "countin flowers on the wall". I make no excuse or apology for this laziness. But I feel a bit guilty about just hanging out in my room. And it's bad for one's health to lay around and watch TV. Sometimes I get a headache from doing that. It can be cured by simply walking a half mile. The temperatures all through December and now in January have been 15 degrees below average here on Delmarva, so it's not fun outside. I should probably get a treadmill. I hate exercise and exercise equipment. It's a bit too early to think about spring. Groundhog day is three weeks away. Then I can think about spring. I have closed off two rooms on the first floor of the house to save on heating costs. I have put plastic and straw against the north wall. My wife has a heating element in the bird bath. She feeds the wild birds every day. Our two barn cats are thriving and finding warm spots to sleep. The horse and the goat are turned out every day and safe in their stalls at night. Our four dogs live in the house with us. Hence we have no nice furniture or carpets. My dog Jaker is here with me as I type. My son is here visiting from California so wife and I are not an empty nest. His visit will be way too short for us. We come alive when he is here, as all you parents know. I am glad the holidays are over. I think the reasons I don't really like Christmas are: 1. I no longer believe in the spiritual part of Christmas. (don't get me wrong--I strongly believe in good will toward men and peace on earth) 2. I don't like the commercial gift exchange. Gifts with a deadline. I have a Christmas tree and it's still "up" because it's a lighted outdoor blue spruce. It's got those old kind of big light bulbs on it. Had no indoor tree this year. After Christmas I bought a very nice artificial tree that has lights built in and is pretty high end. It retailed for well north of $300. But after Christmas it was 75% off, and I had a coupon for another 10%. It's still in the box, and still in the back of the Jeep. So I'm looking forward to having a nice tree next year. That's if I have enough Christmas spirit to set it up. Happy half way to half way through the winter, groundhog fans.