Tough

Man was last week at work very tough. Very busy and the beginning of this week will be exactly the same. Some big bids that are major dollars are in the pipeline. The phones are also ringing off the hook. Everybody was glad when the end of the day rolled around Friday.

We got hammered again with rain yesterday. Another 2 1/2 to 3 inches. So we got 6 inches this week. It looks like the heat will still be here with temps in the upper 90's as the week ends.

Watched a couple DVD's yesterday. One was "The Cove" and the other called "Earthlings". The Cove was excellent and very well done. Earthling, not so much. They both deal with the same theme. Man's inhumanity towards animals. While "The Cove" was focused on the capture and slaughter of dolphins in Japan, "Earthlings" was focused on mans inhumanity towards animals overall. The video footage in "Earthlings" was totally unsettling and showed the absolutely most disgusting, horrible and vile things one ever wants to view. While in general I would agree with much of the movie I found its self righteous attitude to be a bit much. The movie was so shocking that there was no way in hell that the movies intended audience would ever sit through more than 20 minutes of it before turning it off. The movies producers attempts to use shock value ultimately is a turn off.

Watch out for our lovely gov'ts attempts to pass the "Internet Kill Switch" bill. Can we really trust anybody who is running the country to use this with any measure consistent with the "Bill of Rights". I hardly think so. Remember that China, Iran and other countries that we are politically opposed to use this all the time for things they find to be inconsistent with the views of their government. Do you really think once this bill passed that it would not get used by our government to shut down things they opposed. Add this to the Patriot Act as another attempt to slowly whittle away our freedom. Do you think they would only use this in case of cyber attacks against the United States? I suspect that the hackers who would launch these attacks are already so far ahead of these kill switch attempts anyhow. I fear where we are going. Libs, Dems, Tea baggers, Repubs are all the same. You all want control, not freedom.

The picture of the cat is from Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia. He came wandering up to my campsite from the woods like he owned the place. I gave it some milk and after drinking it up he/she wandered back into the woods.