2013

May everyone have the year they have always wanted in 2013 and the world have some peace and love for your fellow man.

Check engine

John wrote this song that we all know as the massive hit by Glen Campbell.

Cold and windy today.

Summer got groomed yesterday. She looks so pretty with her hair all neat and orderly.

The "check engine" light came on in the truck Friday night. Hope it is nothing.

Off the the store for some supplies to make a cheap Pez display shelf.



Not painting it today as it is too cold. But the rest should be done as long as I do not get sidetracked.

R&R time

Off until the new year. Five days off to end 2012. Saving a couple days worked quite well.
No real plans except to visit Lowes and look for a belt sander and figure some pricing on paint.
Time to get the house completely repainted on the inside. Good winter project. I'd really like to redo the kitchen floor. It needs to be stripped and refinished since that would make the kitchen complete but that is not in the budget at all.

Might as well do some extra house cleaning and start the new year fresh.

That is it this morning.

Peace.

May your family have a peaceful and joyful Christmas.

Covered

This post is called  "Covered" since Bob Seger covered this song.

I actually should call today's post stolen. I was doing some simple google searches on some of my Flickr photo's last night and came up with several but there are two that really piss me off.

Look at this link. http://georgiamarijuanalaws.org/georgiamarijuanatrafficking.html

The picture of the police car is my picture and these lawyers actually have enough nerve to us it with no permission, , no compensation, no acknowledgement, no nothing. Then if you look at the bottom of the page they have a copyright notice. Nice.

Then here is one that really frosts my ass. Look at this link. http://www.jamienewsonsmith.co.uk/gallery/

The first picture of the soldier with the quote is my picture. Yes the soldier is my picture and this photographer has the f'in balls to put it on his site and sell it. Really dude. How can you claim this as your own work.

I will be contacting both of them to either take them down or send me compensation.

There were others used in generic blogs and I did not have to look hard to find those. I am sure a little more investigation would reveal more disturbing things.

Some bit of history

Neat little video for the Christ in Christmas crowd.

The gun nuts are out in full swing. This week the store will have one of its best weeks in 26 years. It would be the best if we had anything in stock.

Little fun video about Instagram.



Have a great Thursday amigos.

The reason

A little Gaither concert for the season.

Ventria is a company producing rice with human genes in it. Want some cannibal rice.
They will be producing 30 acres worth in Kansas this year.

 http://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com/genetically-modified-food/heres-names/ventria-bioscience/

http://www.naturalnews.com/035745_GMO_rice_human_genes_Kansas.html

Is Obama caving on the fiscal cliff?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/obama-social-security-fiscal-cliff_n_2319850.html

Have a  lovely Christmas.

Imagine

Imagine people actually tried to live this song.

Now we hear from many that we have to have
armed police in every school. If that is an acceptable answer we are doomed.

We hear talk of the culture of violence from our leaders yet we have killed many innocent children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and grandparents in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries in the war on terror. If all this death and destruction is acceptable to our government how can we expect them to be our leaders in this situation.

Maybe we need to stopped the drones and killing of human beings with guns and bombs because they were born someplace other than the United States. If this is the example we set for the rest of the world is it any surprise that these events are becoming a common occurrence here.

As we weep

As we weep as a nation today we need to look with ourselves for some real answers. The numbers above are so staggeringly disproportionate I find it hard to understand how anyone can look at those numbers and not be morally outraged.

The NRA will have you believe that if more people had guns and carried them there would be less gun violence. Lets tell the truth here. That is complete and utter garbage. To believe that is completely delusional.
They also like to cloak themselves with the flag and God. The flag issue really is a false flag argument. As for God I only ask this. Would Jesus Christ and his disciples have used guns to murder Judas or the Romans and Jews would who urged Pontius Pilate to hang Jesus. I think the answer to that question is no. Jesus was preaching peace and love. Go back and read your bible for what it is, not what you want it to be.

Why do we as a nation just accept the glorification of violence in our society?

How many Americans who are crying today even care that events like this go on in Iraq and Afghanistan on a regular basis with weapons or materials made by corporations based in the United States.

In the Mood

Time to start getting in the mood. First post of Christmas music this year.

Work is intensely busy. Crazy busy in fact.

Coldest morning this winter. 27 degrees. Going to be 50 today. nice tomorrow. Rain on Sunday.

Did you watch the 12-12-12 concert. Some good music. Some not so much.

Going to finish Christmas shopping tomorrow. Have not bought much and will not get much tomorrow.
No money as usual.

Have a fun Friday.