Sick

I'm just sick to my soul.

Lots to do out there and so much of it would be pretty easy with a little cooperation. The Planet's isn't fragile, but we are. Earth is gonna survive as soon as it takes care of the viruses and parasites that are killing it's livable surface; us.

There are lots of solutions and, like I said many are simple.

I understand and I sympathize with the people who just don't know about what's going wrong and how to make it right. However, there's a special place in hell (if they believe in it, like they claim they do,) for the leaders who are in a position to enlighten these people with the TRUTH and yet they choose to fill them with willful lies to further their own agenda (usually money or power).

When The Police sang, "I hope the Russians love their Children Too." they never considered the greed and corruption of the Corporate Politicians. Gimme, my money now, and screw the world (Often in the name of Jesus).

They did it with the the mortgages and the stock market, they're doing it with the environment, and they SO VERY MUCH want to do it with Healthcare.Let's try not to let them.

I'll be the first to admit that I like money too.

But not to the detriment of my soul.

Please, please

I think the real reason that the Repugs are pissed off at Obama, is that He got elected before they got a chance to Destroy the economic structure of the US. Without Dem intervention it would have continued to tank and, I'm afraid that was their plan.
Steal every last penny from the middle class, then they'd impose their unique style of Socialism (Indentured slavery) on all of us and they'd get a huge influx into the Military to fight their WARS, the only US export we have left.
The economy is actually starting to turn around and all they can say is, "Is not!"
Now it's time to get some real healthcare change going and put the country back into the hands of the people. With the country and their futures in their hands the people won't have any room or any need for guns in their hands

Archived Outrage

Let me get this straight. Nixon goes to China, makes up for his being the worst (at the time) President in forever. Clinton goes to N Korea, gets 2 American Journalists released and somehow he's destroyed US foriegn relations. Why do they still put Bolton and Buchanan on TV? Are they afraid they'll lose the "Yosemite Sam" demographic?

Well we've finally dumbed-down the country to the point where the movie "Idiocracy" was a wild-eyed-optimistic-vision-of-the-future. We've traded in discussion and debate for Ultimate Fighting with fat, ugly people.

I just got back from the Stout St Clinic (Colo Coalition for The Homeless) where DeGette and Pelosi will be today. They're Shoring up to be protected from the astroturf protesters. I'm afraid that one of these MORONS will pull one of their conceal-carry guns and start shooting. Over Healthcare!! They'll probably sue the victim over getting blood all over their pretty bullets. I'm sick to the soul. Please Stop. Enough.

I'm done with outrage for the day. Everyone strip naked. We'll either all be too revolted, too amused or too turned-on to fight.

SAD

I feel sad for America. Really sad. Especially for the people who profess to be Christians and yet they follow the teachings of the ultra capitalists. We used to be so much better than this.


I was raised Christian (Catholic) and went to Catholic schools for 12 years of my education. And there I learned about Jesus and his teachings. He seemed, to me, to be a humble, un-imposing, likable guy who was loved by many. And he loved many. He hung out with the whores and the lepers and the poor and the folks out on the fringes of life. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember anyone that Jesus didn’t love. Seemed like the type of guy that I’d like to hang out with.


I do remember some of the things that Jesus didn’t love, though. He really didn’t love when people wouldn’t help others. He talked about it a lot. He thought that all people had an obligation to help those who were less fortunate than you were. He said that was the route to heaven.
Boy, oh boy, did he not love the rich. He explained how difficult it would be for them to get into heaven, presumably because of the fact that they shirked their obligation to help those less fortunate then them, which would have been basically everyone. He singled out the rich guys who made a big display of praying in public, (everyone look at how holy I am, I’m a member of the C Street club!) because he knew that the one’s who carried on like that where the ones who had no respect for the lord. It was all for show. The real work of the lord is in the doing, the helping.


The only time Jesus went nuts was when the money changers (you know like the banks today) used the temple to conduct business, thereby tacitly implying that your doing business with them, was linked to religion. He sort of made the case that it was not.
The one thing, the biggest thing, he hated was greed. How can I explain greed? The love of money (profit) over people.


For example, let’s say, your job is a lifeguard at a pool. You’re supposed to watch over the people swimming and help them. In return you get paid from the fees that the people pay to use the pool. They agreed, you agreed, everyone’s happy. Now, this company approaches you that has developed a cool new drowning resuscitation machine, that can bring people back from the dead once they’ve drowned for an additional cost direct to the person treated. It is a great boon to the people who accidentally drown. This company approaches you and says, “In order for us to make a profit and to be able to charge more for the use of our machine, we have to demonstrate how it works on a certain number of occasions. The more the better. All you have to do, is not do your job quite so well for a period of time, allowing more “accidental” drownings. We’ll pay you a hundred thousand bucks.”


This offer is an example of Greed. Accepting this offer is an example of Greed. This is how America has been run ever since Regan. See Big Pharma. See Big Oil. See Halliburton. See United Healthcare. See Wall Street. See Congress. Don’t be expecting to see any of these people in heaven.

Random stupid jokes

can't even think the word "Kundalini" without giggling inside a little. It sounds like pasta in the shape of...?

Why don't the homeless use those shopping carts with the little vehicle on the front for kids, that way they'd have a car to sleep in.

I'm gonna become an insult comic and call myself "The Burn Unit"

My colonoscopy was sucessful. They removed 3 Roves and a Cheney. Sure, it hurts but I smell MUCH better.

The Buddha walks up to a tofu-dog vendor and says, "Make me ONE WITH EVERYTHING" "Wait, hold the green peppers, they give me the gas.

I just saw a beautiful Barnacle. A face that lunched a thousand ships.

All I need to know is: How did Sotomayor rule on Portia deRossi?

More Stuff

I'm trying to make sense of it all. All the people who claimed they were the "Good" guys and were telling the truth, were lying. All the people who wanted to know the truth were lying, but it turns out really telling the truth. I just want someone to go to jail. George? You get 24 hour security in a federal facility. Dick? It's LIKE an undisclosed location.

W just wanted to PLAY spy and soldier and president and decider guy and big banker, but he didn't feel like cleaning up his toys when he was done playing. See? This is why mom tells you to clean up after yourself. (Well, not Bush's mom. Why should she trouble her beautiful mind?)

Random Thoughts (I still get em')

I suppose that if I keep paying attention to all the bu11sh1t, I'll become just as crazy as the rest of the world. Meditate. "Be still and know that I am god"

The republic(an)s currently hold places 1-10 in the Pillsbury Whacko-Off. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. (HSThompson)

Astronomy students can learn from Palin. Supernova, implosion, Black Hole.

Happy Independence Day! Remember the freedoms our brave soldiers fought for. The freedom for Goldman Sachs to rob the American people blind. (Or substitute Chase, Haliburton, Universal Health, Big Pharma, etc.) The freedom to have ALL of your corespondence monitored, and the freedom to start wars for no reason and torture people while telling the rest of the world what to do because we're moral. Peace

Wow. The future of the Republic Party has: Gone hiking in the bush in Argentina and gone running for the Mt McKinleys, to affect change from "outside the government". All that's left are Newt, McCain (where's my pudding), Gingrich, that Orange Guy, and Napolean Dynamite Cantor. Maybe Jindal will win on a game show and turn it all around.

One person can make a difference. One thought can make a difference. So, the thought of the day: Stop thinking once in a while.

Watching O'Reilly Rave about Al Franken is like sitting in the front row at a Gallagher show. When his head blows up,you'd better be covered by a tarp so you're not all covered with sh*t.

7 out of 10 republicans STILL say they'd vote for Sarah Palin in 2012. There are still 10 republicans?

When I took my dogs out this morning, they walk up to me and offer their necks for me to put on their leashes.Most natural thing in the world. I had a sad thought. Was (is) this the way people are conditioned in slavery? Happy thought: you can't chain anyone's mind. Peace

Thursday is Prince Spaghetti day and time to bike to work. Thinking about quitting my job to teach others not to be quitters, then off to hike the Appalgentinian trail to teach family values, then maybe off to a men's room in an airport to s*ck a d*ck to show my disapproval of the Gay-lifestyle, then some Prayin' to cure the "Racism" of MJ and Sotomayor. Then the sleep of the righteous.

Okay, I tried to ignore the stupid people and they didn't go away. Now What?

Head Spinning

It's just amazing. We need a whole new word. Hypocrisy doesn't even come close. HYPO-pocrisy?

You buy us (Congress) the single-payer healthcare that we loooove. But no way in hell are we gonna give you the same thing.

A Public Option? That would be competition for the insurance Giants, but we don't want competition in the open market that we are always espousing.

Gays getting married would weaken "traditional marriage" but a high profile affair on the taxpayer's dime will make their marriages stronger.

Pardon my French, but "We get single-payer pussy but it's too good for you. If a Democrat does it, it will destroy the Nation but if a Bible-thumpin-super-judgemental-ultra-christian-promise-keeper wants to get a little strange, No Problemo." WWJF?

Rethorical Martial Arts

I'm pretty far off kilter right this minute and I need to get re-centered.
I really should learn to shut up and butt out, but, well, you know...
I got into it online with a couple of Right-Wingers, who used their Whacko/Psycho jujitsu on me. No matter what you say they turn it around (how clever), sort of like, I know you are but what am I?
Anyway here's the way it works.
I say, "Two Dogs walk into a bar."
The response is,
"What do you have against dogs? You must be a closet dogist!
"And by walk into a bar do you mean that they are unattended by their owners? What are you implying? You dog-owner Hater!
"Or are you anthropomorphising the dogs and they are walking in on their hind legs? That's against the Bible and Creationism. Dogs cannot walk or talk. Only Snakes. You pagan heathen. "Or are you implying that the dogs can open the door to the bar, or that someone's enabling them to drink even though they are obviously under-age, since no dog lives to be 21 years old. "Just like you lefties, contributing to the delinquency of minor dogs, probably so you can get them drunk, rape them, and then perform an abortion on them. You are beyond contempt!"

Not really. I feel plenty for you right now.
For the sake of common decency, I'll leave their names out of it, a courtesy I doubt that they'd extend to me.
I'll be over here trying to get my head back together.
Kisses.

Incredible

Newt says Obama has already failed. I guess we're supposed to take his word for it since he's an expert. Can you say disgraced former speaker...?
I'm curious, what kinda chick thinks that grey haired has-beens are good cheatin' material?
Apparently it takes three wives to make a man see the light and become a Catholic. WFT???
Now Newt's praising Palin. I guess he wants to keep up a high level of competition for the next Prez race. Sorta like keeping the losers on the island in Survivor.
You can cut the irony with a handgun in church.

Karma

Busy week, I actually rode my bike from work (about 7.5 miles) At first I thought I'd bitten off too much, but then it became fun. My bike needs some adjustments.
Baby sitting for a friend's Italian greyhound, Sammy. He's a handful. He's made a couple of circuits of Cheeseman with Big and I. He likes the excersize. I'm a responsible owner and I pick-up after my dogs (with a bio-bag) and while I'm retrieving the doo, I find there are a lot of owners not quite so responsible. I usually pick up a bunch of their shite at the same time. Maybe it will help them learn, more likley it will just clean up the stuff.
I'm calling it "Pooing it Forward".

Here Kitty, Kitty...

I’ll say it again. Cowards. There’s no other word for it.

None of these idiots actually Believe that Sotomayor is a racist.
Not one of them.
And yet, they will sing that song at the top of their big ole white lungs because they don’t have the courage to tell the American people the truth. They don’t even particularly care if she’s a brown woman. (Remember Alberto Gonzales? She was a brown woman.) They just oppose anyone who they don’t have a 100% guarantee of how they are going to rule on any given case. You know, like Alito or Roberts, both of whom straight-up lied to congress during their confirmation hearings. Outrage anyone? Given her record, the chances that she will side with the right are about 50-50, but that’s not good enough for the Corporate He-Man Woman Haters Club. Activist Judge means, non-compliant.

BTW, Rove says lots of stupid people went to Yale. Name One! I dare you!

I believe it's called "Projection"

Let's see. Tancredo calls her a Racist. Limbaugh calls her a Reverse-Racist. Anyone wanna go for a full-twisting, half-in, full-out, double secret probation racist? I believe it's your turn, Newt.

Farewell to May and racing at Indy

A long weekend. Or at least long-er.

Thursday and Friday I was slammed. That’s what seems to happen when I drive. Lots and lots of work to do. It gives you great perspective. Heavy rests the head that wears the trucker’s cap. That part of the job is weighed heavily on lifting and also heavily on customer contact. What could be better? Problem solving with the Zen of hard work makes a day worth living. Solving problems on the run, really tests your mettle. So the best advice is: “Just keep walking.” Am I making any sense? I seem to be going on in something of a stream of consciousness or whatever you call it. Biggles’ head would be rocking back and forth as he stared at me in total fascination and confusion.

Friday, apparently Murphy’s Birthday. Challenges abound. All you can do, is all you can do. (Cliché much?)

Spent the weekend just kinda chillin’.
So did the weather.

Finished preparing my worm bins. Watched “Flow: for The Love of Water.” A documentary on global water rights which was chilling.
Tidied up around the house, primarily the balcony (which Janie has commandeered as her own personal toilet) while Collene and Jen went to Sunflower for supplies (back-bacon and bullets).
The Newlyweds came by for dinner and to watch Biggles Dad on the TV. TiVo and old video tapes.
On the Memorial Day holiday I watched Abraham-Hicks and tried to absorb what I could.
I’m learning my lessons of being-in-the-moment. My downstream story is: The world is a better place than today, people are becoming more and more enlightened and I’ve gotten thousands of them to start cleaning up the planet and our environment. Yummy food, not tainted by poisonous additives used to raise corporate profits. Living happily and healthily (are those even real words?).
Join me and my ilk. Jump into the stream and let’s go for a ride.

More Cowards

Listen, hear that?
That's Hannity wetting his pants.

"Let Pee-dom Ring!"

Cowards

It's kinda embarassing watching the former Vice-President (I didn't vote for him)running around doing whatever he can to try to affect "jury nullification". You can almost see him pissing his pants over it. That's the way these cowards operate. There's no other word for it.
Cowardice. Period.

"Sure it's repugnant and disgusting and completely against everything that this nation stands for but it got results.
Just because I kidnapped young babies (under one year old, or it's not effective. Oh, and by the way, it only works with blonde or redheaded babies.), and processed them through a Vita Health Master Juicer while they were still alive; smeared the resulting pulp all over my face and poured the juice over the Constitution, it was completely justified because it worked.
America has not been hit by an Asteroid (except those little teeny ones, but they don't count because I say so.) and I stand on my results.
Because I've learned the lessons of NINE-ELEVEN (patent pending).
Ooops, I just pissed myself, again. Mommy!"

Cowardice. No other word for it. Nice work Dick!

Here's an Idea. Set up a detention/gaming facility in Las Vegas. What happens in Gitmo stays in Gitmo.

Catch Up

Since its Thursday, I'll try to get tuesday and wednesday covered now so's I can pretend that I'm current.

I realized on Tuesday when I got to work at 7-ish, that I had a meeting of the GSBA at 8. Just general talk of the Stapelton Recycling Drive on June 30th. Last year we collected 24,000 pounds of E-waste recycling. Suck it, Executive Recycling!(they were the poster child for 60 Minutes this year) Maybe we'll see you there. Look for the Pedro's Planet truck.

While at that meeting I realized that there was a meeting downtown at the City, Re: working with the city. I buzzed down there and got my fill of bureaucratic employee-ese. We'll see how valuable that is in future.

Brush fires, emergencies and just plain, "oops, I forgots" filled the rest of the day. Since I'm sorta the face of office recycling the message leaks out everytime I'm at one of these events. Not exactly celebrity but, hey, whatever.

Wednesday. Again with the Brush fires. I had to drive way down south. I was so far south that they were speaking Portugese. Yuk, yuk. Ordered my worms today. Oooh, I'm so excited. It's like waiting for Santa only less red-suit quasi-christian and more, um, wormy. Yum.

Watched "Fast Food Nation" last night and I think I'll probably gag every time I look at a burger from now on. Ahh, with age comes wisdom. And Nausea.

Tomorrow I drive Pete's route while he enjoys the splendifitude of Yellowstone National Park. Don't drink the yellow geyser water.

I've got two quarters a nickel and three pennies. Change I can believe in.

Another Day, Another Three-fiddy.

I'm just a couple of days behind. Still trying to do two or three things at once. I believe the youngsters call it multi-tasking.

Therfore and Whereas, I will continue to try and get the Pedro's Planet message out: Try to do all you can to improve the planet's chances of survival and I'll be there to assist you in making the recycling part easy. To that purpose I went to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless "Bridges" to pick up a bunch of cardboard from Erica Winslow. That's a bunch more that's NOT going into the landfill. If we throw stuff into the landfill, the terrorists have won.

This (Monday) evening I went to an open house at the Wellington Webb building (City and County of Denver) for the OED ( Office of Economic Development) Small Business Assistance thingee. Very nice.

Please enjoy this lovely Video.
Thank you, Enjoy your dinners.

con respecto a Domingo

Sunday. A good day as always. Starts with a morning walk with Big Stuff and we almost always meet up with David Sipos to stroll around the park and discuss things trivial and profound. Okay, trivial.

The discussion of the 17th, concerned fidelity of movies to the book that sired them.
We allowed that "To Kill a Mockimgbird" was very faithful ("I was to be a ham.") and David offered that, except for the very last scene, so was the "The Grapes of Wrath".

My counter-example was one that disturbed me, which is ironic because the movie in question is one of the most disturbing I've seen. Now, the progenitor was a film, not a book, but the change of the ending, changed a seriously disturbing film, "The Vanishing" from Holland or some other Scandanavian country into Hollywood's "The Vanishing", in which the ending completely negated the original's ending. (I've been Disneyfied!)

Later we went to see the new "Star Trek" in IMAX and I was to be a ham.

Sabado y Domingo

Oh, well. The Best laid plans and all like that... I gotr started with my worm bins but realized that I didn't have all the materials that I needed so I paused in mid-stream. Once I do get them built, then I have to get worms and it's pretty difficult. Ah the good old days, when you could get worms merely by eating tainted pork. Back to the worms later.

The Big Man (Biggles) and I took a walk on Saturday morning and decided to check out a new route. The weather was a little misty/drizzely and we wandered down to the creek bottom where they are putting some HUGE (20 in. I.D.) pipe that I have to assume is for communications. Back out of the creek by the country club and through the country club neighborhood. Conspicuous Consumption Junction. Range Rovers, BMW, Mrecedes, Porsche SUV's for god's sake,
not an American car to be seen. That's how the Rich support US industry. Unfortunately, I guess it's up to the middle class, (another species soon to be added to the endangered list) to try to get america back on its feet.

The boy and I took a couple of laps around Cheeseman and headed home after about 5 Miles. I will soon get rid of my Tweedle-Dumber figure (I hope).

Worm Composting

I'm gonna build my worm composter today.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/build-your-own-worm-bin.php

Let's see if I'm smarter than a fifth grader.

Hard Work

Ouch.
I just spent the day driving a Delivery (office products)/Pickup (recycling) Route. It's good to know how the other guys live. This way I'll never lose touch with the working man, or woman. When you give really good customer service, sometimes they want more. I had two different customers call with one of those, "I've got an emergency, do me first." situations.
Apparently, I can keep my head when all about me are losing their's. I just jumped into the flow and let it take me. First I delivered paper to someone who was out, then I had to go pick up a bunch of cardboard to recycle. Funny, their estimate was 15 or so broken down boxes. The Reality came back as "Holy Feces! That's a lot!" I spent 30 minutes or so loading the truck, burying the boxes I had to deliver. Sweet! It keeps you running, yeah. It keeps you running. Then another 30 minutes unloading. All this was for free, mind you.
At least it's out of the landfill, and on it's way to becoming something else, just like me.

Serendipity-Do

Interesting. I just went to Samaritan House, a new customer and a division of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. While there, I met Brother Augustine, a Franciscan Monk. I just saw a famous Fransiscan Theologian on that movie last night. How very weird.

"There's this lattice of coincidence. Suppose you're thinking of a plate of shrimp, and someone you says plate or shrimp or plate of shrimp. There's no sense looking for it."
"Did you do a lot of drugs in the hippie days?"
"And another thing..."
(paraphrasing Repo Man)

Cinema

Just watched a great documentary about spirituality and oneness, called "ONE". It's kinda fascinating seeing all of these great religious thinkers and scholars and practioners discussing spiritualism and saying in essence the same thing.

Slow down, you move too fast.
Got to make the morning last.
Kickin' down the cobblestones.
Lookin' for fun and feeling Groovy.
(Simon and Garfunkel)

Another Day on the Mud-ball

Lots of pessimism in the media on the economic and climate change front, but I'm opptomistic because I've met sooo many people lately that are not just commited but borderline obsessed with saving the planet.

These are really good people with some really good ideas or at the very minimum, a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Aspen Meadows Veterinary Hospital in Longmont, Colorado is in a building that is practically LEED. LED lighting, Dual flush toilets, recycled furniture, recycled office supplies (I'll take credit for that) and the whole nine yards. Very cool.

I was at the Denver Green Festival May 2 and 3, 2009 and was amazed by the exhibitors and the attendees. Thom Hartman, Van Jones, Laura Flanders and many many other spoke.
I gave and informational/comedy presentation called "All I need to know about Sustainability I learned in Kindergarten or from my Mother" which went over quite well. I also did a paper-making demonstration in the kids zone. If those crowds were any indication, we're on our way.
If you're not part of the solution, get outta the way! (I'm looking at you, Jim Inhofe)

The Master Plan for Earth Rescue and Rehabilitation

Baby steps.
I guess that's the plan for now. Even though I've been aware of the problems with our influence on the planet for a long time, I'm still learning what do do to help. Everyday's a new lesson. I used to think that man was a parasite on Earth, but we're more of a symbiot, so, give and take.

That's the reson I work for Pedro's Planet. We sell and deliver green office products to our customers and pick up their office recycling in the same trip. It doesn't seem like much, but by using the trucks in both directions, we save a butt load of fuel every year, fuel that doesn't get burned and turned into CO2. Plus trees (paper), and oil (plastics, toner cartridges), aluminun, etc.

So I'll just try to keep learning and keep passing on what I've learned. Knowledge is renewable power.