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Mark,
Were you the class clown? Love it....

Kevin,
Love the politician remark.

Jack,
Let me know if you see another pink pig. I'll want what you're having! LOL!


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Tom,
I agree that we should all be thankful for what we have...especially if we have a nice home, wife, puppies and a kilt!

But, there are times when you just gotta get stuff off of your chest, ya' know? So, I thought I'd create this little "thread haven" for just that purpose. Keeps all the ranting in one place so those who want it, know where to find it...and those that don't, know where not to visit! LOL!

I'm sure you've got a few puppy rants.....? Maybe where one bit your kilt?


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Hey all,
It's getting hard to keep up with you! I know you don't need a personal acknowledgment from me for each of your posts, but I kinda like to be a good thread host. So, I will try to get to you as I can.

Hope the ranting helps to take the edge off a bit!

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Originally Posted by Jack Swain
What exactly is the Australian Pink Floyd?
It reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons when Homer accidentally released Peter Frampton's inflatable pig smile

Hi Jack, hope this answers your question Australian Pink Floyd Show

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The smoking bans DO suck...I have a friend ,who a few days ago was given a warning(next time fines will be imposed),for smoking IN HER CAR with the windows rolled UP,because she was in the smoke-free hospital parking lot.I've heard that laws are being put into place about smoking in cars if you have a passenger under the age of 18(not that I think we should blow smoke in our kids faces),but what's next...soon I'm going to be told that I cant smoke in my own home(although I only smoke in one room in my home(away from my children).The government is being allowed to gain too much control...I was wondering if I could claim that I smoke for religious reasons,if that might make a difference?


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Ahh...smoking bans - the universal outrage of the western world!

As an ex-smoker, I find the smoke free bars and restaurants of Ireland and the UK a delight. What I find less pleasing is that the streets are now choked with smoldering litter bins, which now all come fitted with their own ashtray. And there are the poor frozen smokers, all hurriedly puffing away during breaks, making every alleyway and covered shop front seem like some sort of fumigation chamber. I don't miss being a smoker (I gave up long enough ago that it seems a slightly ridiculous activity), but I do think the demonisation of smokers is just an example of picking on folks who can't really fight back (being a minority, not because they're out of breath) - although in hundred years from now, smoking might seem as bizarre as the Victorians taking laudanum and cocaine pills for aches and pains...maybe...

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Folks, sometimes I'm so shameless I amaze MYSELF!
Since the smoking ban rant has taken on a life of it's own check out my new video on Youtube to my new song "Smoker's Blues" www.youtube.com/bcushing


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OMG, Heidi, that is the best avatar! grin

The Van Buren sisters must be rolling in their graves!! laugh

I'll see if I can dig something up for ya! cool

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Dear Aunty Rantie:

My beef , and I could easily just grab a hold of those already posted and go to town, are those individuals who call me up, usually at dinner time or later on in the evening, to try and get me to give them money for something. (I.e., Charities)

Here in Quebec WE, the government, spend money on everything else but what is needed. Every time we turn around they want more. What do they do with the money they collect from me continuously? Let me see??

- put it into our crumbling schools? Nope.
- put it into our crumbling roads and water systems? Nope.
- how about our hospitals? Nope. (Great health care but do not, I repeat do not, get sick here.)
- Social services, the homeless problem, poverty, police force? Nope. (Want to commit a crime? Do it here. Statistically you will not get caught. That is a fact.)

What do WE, the government ,spend our money on? Let me see??

- Referendums. (Spilt from Canada, keep the money and military) Or don’t and…well there is no and.
- Should Muslim women be aloud to wear the head scarf? (After months of study and a cost that was out-there the answer was …YES!)
- Should Indian Children (not North American Indians) be allowed to carry their ceremonial daggers? (Inquiries, forms, meetings etc…MONEY!!!!). Yep!
- Investing in Hydro Quebec that made over something like 30 billion dollars profit, and being a dividend paying stock paid out to US, the government, something like 26 billion. (Mean while Hydro Quebec wants to raise my rate.)
- The League du Le Langue du Francais. (That is French for, wait for it, the Language Police!!!!! Their job to go around and measure English letters on signs, all signs, to be sure that the French is bigger and to follow up on complaints if the person behind the counter says terrible things like, “Hello.” or “Have a nice day.” or “Go to he//!!” (Well not that.)
- and a S//t load of other stupid stuff.

Which brings me back to the beginning of this rant. Since WE, the government, have so much money to play around with, (that money doesn’t include the profits from the lotteries either but that could be a whole other rant) then why am I being asked continually to give money to this charity and that charity?? Why don’t they call their representative? Apparently ’they’ have all kinds of money to spare.

And don’t tell me that without my contribution the charity will falter. That also is BS. And if it is true well then they are going to suffer. I am a charity on to my self.

Douglas (Wow! I do feel a little better.)


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Holy Cow, Stan!
You just summed up all our economic woes! I find these trying times very interesting in that sometimes one can see a hole to crawl through while most others are screaming about the situation.

What I mean by that is when the majority of people are focused upon what cannot be done, there are a handful that look for opportunities which only present themselves in times such as these.

Look for those rare opportunities right now if you feel so inclined. There must be a "Wonderland" in need of clocks somewhere. There must a gimmick in which clocks can be involved.

You are a very creative soul. Can you make musical clocks with people's songs put in them? Those might be a great gimmick for bands to sell.

Come on, Stan. I know you can think of something!

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Heidi, I have another rant. It's about symantics and those who twist stuff just to suit themselves. Take recent media bashing of Carrie Prejean, Miss California.

The pageant officials asked her a question. It was mandatory she answer it. She was trying to be forthright about her beliefs and SLAM-the judges backhand the hell out of her for speaking her mind. A person does not have to be homophobic to prefer traditional marriage between a man and a woman.

I can't stand beauty pageants because ALL the girls are beautiful in their own way. Mostly, the term "beauty" is 99% subjective anyway.

Now, the great state of California (you know, the state she represented in the Miss USA pageant) may resend her crown there because of a broken contract clause that says she denied being photographed nude or semi nude before entering the state pageant.
Seems she was photographed semi clad as a teenager. By that definition, being photographed in a swimsuit is semi-nude, is it not? Of course it is.

They need to leave her alone. If I were her, I'd give the title back to them.


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Originally Posted by Sam Wilson
Which maketh no sense.

So, does that universal appeal for the smoking ban that is implied in your commentary about Ohio, exist nationwide?
Aren't there some states that haven't raised taxes yet, or do we need to visit a reservation to get our smokes?

As for the bars, I suspect that the owners of the places had at least some idea of what they were doing, so that's on them.

And, last but not least, the people themselves refused to honor their promises?!?!

Most people who drink, also smoke, why don't these whiny little non-smokers invest their money, pool it together, and open their very own smoke-free bars that suit them, with their own money?

That's what the smokers had to do if they wanted to open up a bar.


Sam, here's what happened...EVERY (or practically every) bar owner was against the ban. The clever lawyers put the language in such a way that people didn't understand exactly WHAT it was they were supposed to vote, "yes" meant "no" and "no" meant "yes". My own boss passed out flyers to vote "yes" (when it should have been "no") because she didn't understand the wording. Her bar was always ALL SMOKING, and the restaurant area too. WE LIKED it that way! So did all of the customers. Towards the time for voting, we had people coming in pretending to be on oxygen machines, when the place was practically EMPTY, going "Oh, someone's smoking a cigarette, we can't eat here!" and leaving. Funny how those people never returned after the ban.


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Think I'd rather bitch than work tonight...heh...so...let's see...ahhh:

This Digitalization of America's TV Industry...couldn't come at a Worse Time for the Country's Consumers. Shed your Analogue TV..OR gotta subscribe to Cable/Dish IF ya wanna SEE anything much. (I know because I'm TOO Cheap/Poor to go BUY a Nice Big Flatscreen & prefer my Ol' Big-Tube Analogue. But NOW...hadda order two Gov't Discount Cards for the Converter Boxes...which STILL set us back $20-apiece. Hooked up to our Set-Top Rabbit Ears, now augmented with Aluminum-Foil "Boosters" (To get the FULL Trailer-Park Effect) we get perfectly LOUSY Pictures on this set that USED to deliver 12-15 Decent Channels in days gone bye-bye. NOW it's just ABC & FOX...& a few Wimpier Stations I just view The Simpsons & South Park on. The rest: Crappola. And..of course..ALL Gone by June Somethingth.

I don't WANNA spend another thin DIME on TV "Progress". The NEW Sets are Energy-Hogs/Cost a Bundle/my eyes don't CARE about HDTV..they're old..& I keep losing glasses as soon as I get a fresh pair. I'll probably blow the $9.95 a Month for Brighthouse's "Basic Channel" package rather than get disappointed by investing in a New Antenna..but $120 a YEAR (Plus City & Federal TAXES, too, I'll bet) for something I used to enjoy FREE! Talk about Progress!

Waal..Off to watch TV while I can still somewhat enjoy it.

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how about everytime i'm trying to record anything every little noise is amplified by like a million. the heater kicks on, the house decides it's time to settle, my wife comes home early, the neighbor decides to mow. it's always something. i need to rent a spot for my studio.. but then i'll be even more mad when i'm paying for that stuff to happen:)

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Bob,
Wow! It's been a while since I've played the club scene. But, the entertainment biz as a whole, is pretty much run by the corporate mentality now too.

It seems that artists are the most mis-understood and most unappreciated people until they are making somebody big money. It's a PR world, my friend. So, I just try to find ways to climb aboard that PR gravy train.

Until then, I keep putting on my "Cher" wig, high heels, false eyelashes and go out and perform like a trained seal so I can pay the bills. But, at least it's better than when I suffered for five hours a night in the bars or lounges. My hat's off to you and to anyone who still goes out into musical trenches for the love of the art.

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My rant today is the wage and price spiral, one trying to outdo the other. Back in the 70s and 80s you had to have a good paying job to make $10.00 an hour, that is minimum wage now. The past few years prices and wages seem to take some drastic jumps, driven mainly by the oil companies. They were actually bidding against each other to get tradesmen to work for them. Some were making $70.00 to $100.00 per hour, make no wonder oil products went through the roof. Nobody wins in these situations, but there are many losers. People that retire and are on fixed incomes, they could live on their pension when inflation was only two per cent a year, but now, even though the official inflation rate is still around two per cent, but that is not what I see when I go to buy any thing, it's more like two percent a month. Now that prices got driven up, mainly by wages, nobody can afford to buy anything. So now comes the big layoff, people are losing houses, cars, etc., things that they couldn't really afford in the first place, but bought them anyway because they were making highly inflated wages to pay them off with, but when you lose your job, there goes you fat pay cheque.

About the only thing you can get cheap now is music. When we were making $10.00 an hour, we though nothing about paying $10.00 for a cassette tape, but now we baulk at paying $15.00 for a CD, actually most people want their music for free. I can remember paying 50 cents for a gallon of gas, right now I'm paying 99 cents a liter, 4 1/2 litres to a gallon. The price I paid to build my house in the 70s can't get me a good car now. Maybe this recession is a good thing, it might bring wages under control, which will bring prices under control, so people on fixed incomes don't have to choose between eating or heating their homes.

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Two short rants (I'm a bitter little person today)

BANDS SUCK! My drummer went and joined another band, unbeknownst to US, and when our bass player quit (which was no surprise) we had an awesome female bass player lined up to step in....now, our drummer isn't very available. Says he'll play the gigs, but not available to audition bass players. What a backstabber, huh? We're starting to FINALLY get calls from club owners, after all this time, and our band is defragmenting. Well, we're holding it together, the guitar player and I, because we put too much blood, sweat and tears into this thing, over 2 years, and we're not quitting now. It's just more bullsh!t that we have to go through. If the drummer had just been honest, we could have been looking for someone else weeks ago.

And WHY does my cat always jump up on my lap when I'm bare legged? That's just not cool! Why don't they get that?


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Polly, this is not to offer a solution, just the Bill Clinton sympathy thing--"I feel your pain." I had the same thing happen last week with *two* bands. In both cases, it was the lead guitarists who went flaky and bailed (I devoted a whole issue of the blog to complaining about it), and in one case, the guy didn't bother to tell us until the day before the gig--by which time it was impossible to round up a replacement. And for that band, like you, I have gigs lined up. And I think I could get more--but I'm not anxious to try until we're "complete."

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Hello all,
My my, have we been griping! Yippppeeeee!

So far, many of you are ranting together on the smoking ban issue. From what Bob said, he feels the problem may stem from the non-voting of the smokers against the voting of the non-smokers.

If that is true, then a petition from the smokers may shift the minds of those politicians who want to win the next election. If some smokers actually took up the cause and placed it on the proper channels, then something might be done about it.

Just a thought to all you smokers out there. It does take effort to change things. Maybe if enough of you "ban" together on the net, you could get a national petition signed. Anyone want to start a web site for this purpose and work on it?

That's my "two-sense" (spelled that way on purpose)

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Stan,
On the mandatory seatbelt issue....the law is there because there must be a statistic which shows that more injuries or deaths occur because of not wearing one. So, in essence, they are enforcing the wearing of seatbelts because it will save more lives.

What that says to me is that more people are scared of getting fined the $75 than they are of the possible injury or death.

When people do not take care of themselves, then the government feels they have to step in. It's just the way of the world. People are given the opportunity to govern themselves until stats show that something is not working out. Then, justice has to take over in some form.

Sorry that you find the seatbelt thing annoying. If you look at my new avatar, you can see that I can't even fit into a car anymore! I have to ride a Harley and that helmet law causes my hair to go flat....

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Yeah, as long as weed is illegal, the police/courts/feds will be constantly skimming off the top of the dealers and incarcerating the users, while charging them exorbitant fees that the poor unfortunate tokers can't afford to pay because they were locked up and lost their jobs.

So many politicians at all levels of government have been pro-legalization, but have also been silenced before they could act on the issue.
Obama said something to that effect, but does he have the support of anyone who has lots of money and power?

I sincerely hope that SOMEONE somewhere gets wise to that sh*t, and makes the necessary changes soon, regardless of how much it might hurt the judge's gambling/drinking/prostitution habits.

Non-smoker's paradise, they finally got what they wanted.....but if you think about it for once, the same money that we used to spend on a carton of cigarettes would be better spent on weed.

So goes the collective opinions of many, many people who have lived beyond the government's concentrated attempts to frighten everyone into believing that marijuana is the same as heroin.

Legalize it completely, and you'll see a great change in the way that people conduct themselves, a signinficant decrease in the use/abuse of other drugs, including alcohol, to some extent.

Tax it, just like everything else, and use the money for improving life for us common folks, who just so happen to have been supporting the whole thing to begin with.


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Is it my current avatar to which you were referring in your post, or my "Cher" avatar? I tried to change my avatar days ago, but it just showed up on my computer as being changed yesterday.

Both pictures are of me. The one you see now is just more appropriate for ranting. LOL!

Oh, and what appears to be a motorcycle handle is actually a walker with Harley parts welded onto it! Ha!

Yes, Ann and Abbey are most likely rolling in their graves, but I hope they get to rocking as well!

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Hello Doug,
Man, do I fully understand your rant! My husband and I do as much charity work as we do work to pay our bills! It's like we are living the lives of ten people.

What I might suggest is that you actually choose a charity that truly aligns with some cause you wish to support. Then, do what you can to help that cause when you feel you can do so.

Then, when other charities call you, just tell them that you have YOUR charity and to please take you off their list!

There are several great charities out that that do amazing work to rid this planet of things which make it harder for all of us to live on it. Contributing to something you believe in is a great feeling. But, fielding all the calls...well...that totally sucks!

I screen all my calls now. It's also a pain, but I'd rather do that than to spend my entire day telling someone why I don't want to help them.

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Dear Tricia,
Again, it's always the way of the media to twist things in a negative slant. It's their M.O. because bad news sells.

It is a reflection of our society. If good news sold, then we'd have communication slanted in a more positive direction.

For you to desire the more truthful, positive approach puts you in a welcomed minority! LOL!

But, even though the press had a field day with Vanessa Williams for her past photo shoot, she did fine!

I have a saying that I love to repeat. It goes, "if you drop a glove in the mud, the mud does not get glovey!" Well, the press is like mud and that's just the way it is.

People have to clean off the mud by putting the truth out there somehow. And, the truth will always blow away the lies. Have faith and stay away from the mud!

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Auntie, I love the glove-in-the-mud line.

A couple thoughts:

Smokers have, I think, two problems that get in the way of effective political action. First, I think most of us feel guilty about smoking (which I guess means all those campaigns have been effective). Second, we're in a minority. It ain't like the '50s, when everybody was supposed to smoke. Stripped of the anti-smoking aspect, what we have here is a frank tyrrany of the majority--one of the built-in dangers of a democracy--and I don't see people being concerned about where it's going to go. like ol' Pastor Niemoeller said in Germany, "First they came for the Jews..."

Sam, you might want to keep an eye on the State of Oregon. I think they're going to do the legalize-weed thing. Oregon state government is dependent on an income tax for revenue, and you know what happens to income taxes when people aren't working. It's bad, and going to get a lot worse. The main reason alcohol is legal in Oregon (which had had statewide prohibition since 1905) was desperation for money in the *last* Depression. They made hard liquor a state monopoly, and put a 94% markup on the stuff which still exists. My main worry is that state government will be so money-hungry they may peg the markup on marijuana so high people won't pay it, and will just continue doing things illegally. But watch--it could get fun.

And seatbelts. I was a city manager when the whole seatbelt thing came down in Oregon. Personally, I have been a seatbelt fan ever since I was in a Close Encounter of the Guardrail Kind, but I detest anybody telling me I *have* to do it or get fined. The political deal was that the auto manufacturers didn't want to put passenger airbags in their cars, and were told they didn't have to *provided* they could get every state to make seatbelt use mandatory within a specified time. So they did. (And passenger airbags got required anyway. So much for trusting the gummint.)

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Wow, Joe!

I didn't know about the seatbelt/airbag connection. Very interesting data. Thanks for telling us.

As for the majority rule concept...well, that's just the definition of a democracy, I guess. Is there a better alternative? I don't know.

I still think that smoking sections which are glassed off would be a great solution as long as air vents pulled the smoke out of there.

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Originally Posted by Heidi Thompson

I still think that smoking sections which are glassed off would be a great solution as long as air vents pulled the smoke out of there.

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Many things COULD work out for everybody, but the question is, will anyone allow this to become reality, at least once?

Democracy? Whose definition are we hiding behind today?

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Sam,
In any group, there are those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that complain about things.

So, the question I always ask myself whenever I don't like something is this: "What part of this situation can I be responsible for?"

If more people actually took some responsibility for things, we'd have a much better planet. But it seems as though a lot of people are either sleeping, robots, lazy, apathetic or angry.

Anger is at least an emotion with an impulse toward taking action in the direction of change. But, even anger only changes things with fists, bullets, knives, etc. Anger rarely changes anything within a peaceful means.

So, how does change actually occur to make things better? It takes an organized effort of some type. But, most people are not willing to organize anything let alone put out any effort.

And that is why we have non-optimum situations in the first place. It's the product of the symptom.

I know you've taken organized action to help the hungry. That's very cool.

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Listening is free, contrary to popular belief.
Comprehension is a result of listening, and is still free, too.

Cigarettes, alcohol, weed, politicians, aren't free.


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Sam,
I'm not understanding your answer. What does the idea of things being "free" have to do with making changes on the planet?

There HAS to be some sort of exchange for things or no one would be able to eat or pay bills.


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Not all who wish to help share that mantra. That is a symptom of a manic of some sort and is confined more to the not-so-sane. Unfortunately, sanity (if you look at the definition as an ability to reason for the greater good of all) is not an apparent asset on this planet.

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Auntie, some of us can't eat or pay bills *right now*, despite the exchange thing.

On t'other front, to borrow a line from the hated (but in my opinion, too liberal) John Birch Society, we're not supposed to have a democracy in this country. Instead, we have a representative government, like the ancient Romans (though we confined their Chicago-style voting practices to Chicago). The idea was to prevent tyrranies by the majority such as we have now. I was always fond of Oliver Wendell Holmes' mantra: "My right to swing my fist stops at the end of your nose." We have unfortunately gotten far away from that. People who don't agree with you or me have rights, too.

Like Bob, I hear the "if it saves just one life" argument a lot from the we-want-to-control-your-life-for-your-own-good people way too much. My standard response:

Q. In Africa there's a woman giving birth every ten seconds.
A. We have to find that woman and stop her.

Have a nice day, y'all.

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Joe,
I totally know what it is like to struggle to make ends meet. I also agree with our right to fight back. I do it every day on many levels. All I am saying is that it takes an organized effort to really make headway. I've been working on one particular issue for nearly ten years now and our group is just starting to get the problem resolved.

It takes what it takes. I don't like the "if it saves one life" crap either. It should be "is it the greatest good for the survival of the greatest number."

I think the bulk of most people's frustrations is that they don't know what to do about it and they think they cannot make a difference because they are just one person.

But, something can always be done about things. It just takes the amount of communication and effort that it takes.

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Whew.....I just read through all of this...so far. I know there'll be more...

But TOM YEAGER...I am SO with you on that!

CAN I HEAR AN AMEN???

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Hey, I'll say "A-men," even though it'll get me in trouble with the Politically Correct Police. Shouldn't it be, like, "A-person"?

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"Sam,
I'm not understanding your answer. What does the idea of things being "free" have to do with making changes on the planet?

There HAS to be some sort of exchange for things or no one would be able to eat or pay bills."

What!?!?!

Uhhh, somehow the wires got crossed, I thought that the issue I was talkin' about was tobacco taxes and the simple fact that now tobacco and weed prices are about the same.
Only trouble is, too many complete idiots in positions of power have absolute control over the legality of weed.
With very few isolated cases, such as Oregon's and Alaska's legalization, pushing the gov't. to universally legalize weed, we might see a change coming soon.....but I don't know.

Heidi, what I was referring to was this.....

"Sam,
In any group, there are those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that complain about things.

So, the question I always ask myself whenever I don't like something is this: "What part of this situation can I be responsible for?"

If more people actually took some responsibility for things, we'd have a much better planet. But it seems as though a lot of people are either sleeping, robots, lazy, apathetic or angry.

Anger is at least an emotion with an impulse toward taking action in the direction of change. But, even anger only changes things with fists, bullets, knives, etc. Anger rarely changes anything within a peaceful means.

So, how does change actually occur to make things better? It takes an organized effort of some type. But, most people are not willing to organize anything let alone put out any effort.

And that is why we have non-optimum situations in the first place. It's the product of the symptom.

I know you've taken organized action to help the hungry. That's very cool.

Auntie Rant"

I alone cannot make this aforementioned change, although relocation to places out West where I could join those already involved in pushing for said change, is a distinct possibility.
Not much interest for that kind of liberal horseshit here in Nashville.
Yes, many people may think that tobacco and marijuana are a complete and utter waste of money, both for the user, law enforcement, and gov't., but those people aren't me, nor I them....and neither of us care to hear the other.
Therein lies our difference of opinion, and our apparent lack of mutual understanding.

I have indeed tried to help the homeless, the hungry, and the disenchanted here in Nashville, to no real avail, although I will continue to be more active when the opportunity arises.


This thread be made for ranting, so I rant, but deep down, Auntie, nothing changes...deep down our friendship is solid and eternal.
Just wish that some, if not all, of these characters whose words and actions give us plenty of sh*t to rant about would get that same idea....


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Sam, I do agree--particularly about the frustration. I think one just has to keep going, though. I try to keep in mind the proverb of Bruce Vincent, a lobbyist I knew when I was a lobbyist myself, back in D.C.: "The world is run by those who show up."

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Well I'm sitting here miserable AGAIN! My rants are pretty simple I mean they have only been about the same two things my entire life the music industry for 30 years and the health industry for 13.

Now the music scene means little to nothing to me. As without your health in order nothing means anything

Okay RANT smile

1- I'm really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really
frustrated as to Why hasn't one single person been able to diagnose and or help me correct my disequilibrium balance problem. There are 13 "Really's" One for each of the 13 years of this BS!

2- I can't stand up straight long enough to take a shower never mind DO too much of anything else. But the guy up the street does everything everyone else does, Cuts the grass, goes on vacations, etc.... He GETS disability and I CAN"T.

3- I Have over 20 years working on the books. Why if you are born in this Country do you get overlooked so much!

4- Six medical professionals in the past 3 years have told me that Cervical Spondylosis and my neck or back has NOTHING to do with my balance problem or dizziness.

A balance specialist way out in Long Branch NJ sends me this email reply TODAY

"Cervical spondylosis is highly correlative with dizziness. All of the ocular reflexes change as the neck becomes more arthritic. Don’t know who told you differently, but they were wrong. "

So Mike go see this guy!! Already did in 2005 Cost me $350 cash that day. Did not fix my problem but CARED very much.. unlike about 34 of the others.

5- Not allowed to go Bankrupt.. I don't "owe" enough. If I paid what I owe it would take me the rest of my life to do it. What other qualification would you need?

6- Finally, This friggin Music.. How GOOD do you have to be, or better yet how HARD to you have to work & try? Well usually you have to have some talent and APPEAL at something. BUt work" Try? How hard did a 15 year old girl try? The worst business you could ever choose to be in to make a living or future!

And I promised myself NO MORE complaining,:) Thanks Heidi lol

I do that every night. Wake up and start all over again only every time I wake up something else is missing from my life.

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Sam,
Nobody can be a "one-man band" when it comes to changing our society for the better. But, as individuals, we are either part of the problem or part of the solution.

The biggest out-point that I can see is people cannot approximate the correct estimation of effort needed to make any change. Thus, they start off with great intentions, but those intentions soon lower down into a failure due to not having and/or supplying the correct estimation of effort.

As for my take on tobacco or pot. Well, I used to use both of them. Gave up smoking after high school because it made it more difficult for me to sing.

Gave up pot in 1984 after learning that it adds to the very "stressful energies" that it seemingly released me from when I got high. I truly researched this for many months and then tried something else to release me from those heavy energies. That something else worked to get rid of them for good, whereas the pot only worked while I was high and I seemed to need more and more pot to get high as time went on. I guess it was because I was adding more and more "energy" to my negative space by even getting high. And so that is the very stuff from which addiction is made.

But, that doesn't mean that I feel no one has the right to choose what they want to do with their own body, mind and spirit. It's all about those choices and their resultant manifestations in the world.

The best way I know to ever overcome any suppression or negative energy is to flourish and prosper. How we accomplish that is the real task at hand. But, since we get that thing on which we place our attention, I'd much rather concentrate on the good rather than the bad. That's just me and I'm not preaching. Just stating my own successful actions.

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"Gave up pot in 1984 after learning that it adds to the very "stressful energies" that it seemingly released me from when I got high. I truly researched this for many months and then tried something else to release me from those heavy energies. That something else worked to get rid of them for good, whereas the pot only worked while I was high and I seemed to need more and more pot to get high as time went on. I guess it was because I was adding more and more "energy" to my negative space by even getting high. And so that is the very stuff from which addiction is made."

Thank You for your words, Auntie, you must know how badly we all need you by now... eek

As for the stresses? That's kind of the same reason I play til my hands are red and sore in a drum circle on Sundays, reaching for that release from everyday....and meeting people, tokin' up....The weed opens up the mind to just playin' with the rhythm, lets the mind wander about free and happy.........
But that's just me.

Which brings me to what you said about weed, I had never heard anyone tell me about a negative experience with weed like that before, thanks for sharing.


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O.K. I will rant a bit more..... Our values are screwed up.

In the town where I live, an 8 year old girl was killed by a punk with an AK47 who shot 50 rounds into her house. A day or two before, a frustrated guy walked into an immigration office in the northeast and shot several people dead. These events and hundreds of other similar ones make the paper for a day or two and then are never heard about again and there are still as many guns and AK47s out there now as there were before.

But when Janet Jackson spills her nipple or Britney Spears goes without underwear, we hear about it for months if not years and all the religious types come unglued because a body part that half the people in the world own is displayed for a nano-second.

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Mike,
I don't know of ANYTHING more frustrating than not having your health except for not having your health along with not finding any solutions. I totally feel for you.

I've seen numerous illnesses in myself, my husband and others that were either not understood by the medicos, or mis-diagnosed or even worse. That is not to say that I don't fully respect and admire the medical profession. I am merely stating that they don't have all the answers.

That is why my husband and I, along with many of our contacts have turned to other means of healing with stellar results. If you should ever be ready to explore another avenue, send me a PM. I'd even be willing to personally help you.

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Polly,

Girl, you are cracking me up! Between the teens, smoking bans, bars, DUI traps, bands, idiot drummers, and psychotic cats..

Of course, if you have a dog or cat, they never seem to puke anywhere but on carpet or furniture. You could have hardwoods, tile or whatever throughout your home, but where is that animal going when there's something to cough up? That's right..to the only piece of carpet (or new leather sofa) you own. Basically anywhere in your home where you've spent money on something nice.

But my rant is, if we have to put up with reality TV, and we have to have shows about washed up rockers, why can't we have a female rocker? Who wants to watch Ozzy or Gene Simmons? I want a Joan Jett or Stevie Nicks reality show. I mean, come on..network gurus are you stupid or what? Maybe they will do a show about the lives of the Runaways, since I hear there's going to be a movie coming out about them. Wish.wish..I'd probably watch it too.


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Polly,

Girl, you are cracking me up! Between the teens, smoking bans, bars, DUI traps, bands, idiot drummers, and psychotic cats..

Of course, if you have a dog or cat, they never seem to puke anywhere but on carpet or furniture. You could have hardwoods, tile or whatever throughout your home, but where is that animal going when there's something to cough up? That's right..to the only piece of carpet (or new leather sofa) you own. Basically anywhere in your home where you've spent money on something nice.

But my rant is, if we have to put up with reality TV, and we have to have shows about washed up rockers, why can't we have a female rocker? Who wants to watch Ozzy or Gene Simmons? I want a Joan Jett or Stevie Nicks reality show. I mean, come on..network gurus are you stupid or what? Maybe they will do a show about the lives of the Runaways, since I hear there's going to be a movie coming out about them. Wish.wish..I'd probably watch it too.


Okay Wendy...it was a tough...long weighed out decision...but I'LL DO IT!!! I'll be the washed up female ROCKER (Oh, wait, no one knows who I am...does that matter?) grin Hey at least I'm not losing my hair like Brett Micheals. I don't HAVE to wear a bandana or a cowboy hat all the time, but I can iffin I want to just because I'd look cute! The only thing is, I wouldn't want a bunch of guys in a house competing for my affection...just ONE...his name would be "Andy", he'd be from Scotland, and, once we met, there really wouldn't be much they'd be able to broadcast on t.v. *wink* I guess it would be pretty boring for the viewers (but awesome for US! :D)

Sam, I'm with you, pal. LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!! What the Hell? It's like, past the millineum already! Why can't America just get with the program? It's way past time to legalize this sh!t!

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I always love the "legalize pot" rants. They are funny to me. I can just see everybody who grow pot in their basements, in the woods,under their houses in glow light rooms, volunteering to come in to collect and pay taxes. That is the same thing as they said when music downloading started. "Sure" tax it. Yeah right. They would not collect enough revenue from pot growers to even cover the administrative costs. Those people are simply not going to go in and volunteer to pay money. Not ever going to happen.
I have nothing against people who want to smoke pot. But to think a bunch of stoned people going to their local dealer, to pick up donuts and Mountain Dew, are going to tack on another $10-$25 bucks per purchase of pot? Be serious. I don't mind decriminilizing it, but if you think that is going to bring in any significant revenue, look at the music business. The day that "anybody could do it, CD burners, Pro tools recording studios, I pods, the Internet, people being able to get it for free, the ability to make money almost has ended. Pot growers are just not going to go legit.
They can legalize it all they want to. When everybody can grow it on their own, the tax base on that never materializes.

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I LMAO at that, Barnette! You're right, stoners are the LAST people to care about paying taxes. Okay, it's all clear now, THAT'S why the government hasn't legalized pot...because stoners can't be held accountable for paying the taxes on it.

What I say is, treat it like any other weed, dillweed, basil, thyme, oregano...I mean, it IS just a plant, for God's sake, and yeah, people might get stoned off of it, but it's short lasting, it isn't like it's dreadfully harmful, it's just A PLANT and people SMOKE IT, like they do in EVERY OTHER CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD.

Let pot grow. So groweth pot, so groweth people. I have spoken. (don't know how much good that did)

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