What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
- Jeph Jacques
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
- Willem de Kooning
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Morality is an old-fashioned concept?
I have to wonder how much women's lib has REALLY helped the fairer sex.
Personally, I like being treated like a woman and enjoy having doors opened for me and being treated like I am the gentler sex and could not survive a spewing forth of profanities in my presence. Unfortunately, the worst x-rated vocabulary seems to come from females these days. I hear these young woman using the 'f' word like every day language and have to wonder what they are thinking. If being a male's equal is talking like a person lacking real adjectives reflecting education, I'm not for it. Hey, being equal can mean lowering down standards. Any time you take a step down, isn't so much as declaring your equality but your desire to blend in with the scum of life.
I look at the 'chick-a-fication' of the world and the only faction that I can see which has benefited from women's lib are the young, single (Probably some married one, too!) males. Without a basic respect for themselves in the name of liberation, so many females are now offering free sex to relative strangers because they are 'free'! It's practically an every day, sordid theme park for males without any liability. What have women gained?
Personally, I like being treated like a woman and enjoy having doors opened for me and being treated like I am the gentler sex and could not survive a spewing forth of profanities in my presence. Unfortunately, the worst x-rated vocabulary seems to come from females these days. I hear these young woman using the 'f' word like every day language and have to wonder what they are thinking. If being a male's equal is talking like a person lacking real adjectives reflecting education, I'm not for it. Hey, being equal can mean lowering down standards. Any time you take a step down, isn't so much as declaring your equality but your desire to blend in with the scum of life.
I look at the 'chick-a-fication' of the world and the only faction that I can see which has benefited from women's lib are the young, single (Probably some married one, too!) males. Without a basic respect for themselves in the name of liberation, so many females are now offering free sex to relative strangers because they are 'free'! It's practically an every day, sordid theme park for males without any liability. What have women gained?
Got that right!
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner
- Jane Wagner
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Where did Christmas go . . .?
It seems that ever since that first spash of water came through our ceiling two days before Christmas, the holidays took a backseat to visits from insurance agents and men crawling all over our roof and writing up estimates. Not to be left out, Sue and Sam an obviously loving and fertile couple of termites took up residence in our closet and they are facing termination of their homesteading rights this week. My best-laid plans for spreading Christmas cheer didn't go according to plan and now it is almost Valentine's Day! I imagine I have more than a few people who wonder at my 'absence' this past holiday season but it works both ways in that more than a few people didn't even notice we were 'not all there' this year! Hey, it is a good way to pare down the Christmas card list for next year. Always a silver lining is every situation!
Today, I spent the majority of it cleaning out the closet that needs the termite treatment. Brain storms struck and I decided that I should take the six boxes of correspondence from the last 28 years and sort them out according to author, need to keep, etc.
Oh, in working with the termite guy that the one major thing to never, never, NEVER do is use ant or bug spray on termites. As in NEVER, according to him because regular ant sprays don't bother them, they just move on to another part of your house and await eventual discovery there.
Also found out that roofing companies look at things differently even among the same profession. The first company gave us an estimate of almost $2,000. What put it up was repairing 70 tiles on the roof. They said just that repair would be $750. We decided to do some looking around although, in our innocence, we thought they were giving us a relatively fair price. We got another estimate and the man almost apologized because repairing many more than 70 tiles plus putting down double lining, repairing the gutters, cleaning them out, and taking down our old antenna would cost . . . $800 total. You have to wonder about the first company and how much they would have actually done as we don't often stroll about on the roof of an evening to check things out!
I have a new crocheting pattern that is interesting to work. In fact, it took me three tries to fully understand the instructions! Going to have dinner and have some lazy time this evening.
Today, I spent the majority of it cleaning out the closet that needs the termite treatment. Brain storms struck and I decided that I should take the six boxes of correspondence from the last 28 years and sort them out according to author, need to keep, etc.
Oh, in working with the termite guy that the one major thing to never, never, NEVER do is use ant or bug spray on termites. As in NEVER, according to him because regular ant sprays don't bother them, they just move on to another part of your house and await eventual discovery there.
Also found out that roofing companies look at things differently even among the same profession. The first company gave us an estimate of almost $2,000. What put it up was repairing 70 tiles on the roof. They said just that repair would be $750. We decided to do some looking around although, in our innocence, we thought they were giving us a relatively fair price. We got another estimate and the man almost apologized because repairing many more than 70 tiles plus putting down double lining, repairing the gutters, cleaning them out, and taking down our old antenna would cost . . . $800 total. You have to wonder about the first company and how much they would have actually done as we don't often stroll about on the roof of an evening to check things out!
I have a new crocheting pattern that is interesting to work. In fact, it took me three tries to fully understand the instructions! Going to have dinner and have some lazy time this evening.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade . . .
On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: "If man's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order, which serves to ensure the inviolable goods of man. Among those goods, life occupies the first place." (JPII, Poland, June 8, 1979)
Friday, January 21, 2011
Words to live by!
“The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.” ~St. Basil
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