...You're Listening to Barry Paul's "Child is Dreaming!"
Friday, September 29, 2006 I just heard a quote from Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney, Egyptologist, Stanford University, and I'm blown away by what she said because it proves my whole stance on belief, faith, if you will. She said, "As a Christian or a Jew, you shouldn't need scientific proof to be a person of faith." Oh my god! Note that the "g" is not capitalized! Let me translate that for you non-gullible/non-believers. What she's saying is that believing something did or didn't happen based on ZERO facts is okay. Now let me say this right here; I'm a citizen of the U.S. and I believe you have the right to believe anything you want. I'm not saying that the "faithful" should be thrown in jail until they admit that they are wrong, although it would be nice, I'm just saying that no one should encourage ignorance. I don't think you can say that it's okay to believe that "Honest Abe" was a child molester just because someone told you that he was. The same you can't believe something that there is absolutely no proof of what so ever and base you decision on the cop out crutch that is to call yourself "faithful." Which by the way means to believe with out knowing. Does that make any sense? Believe without knowing? That's like telling someone that your car wouldn't start because someone stole your engine in the middle of the night instead of looking at the gas gauge and KNOWING that you are out of gas because your dumb ass forgot to fill up the tank! I also would like to note that the context of the quote above was, at least how I took it, from a documentary where it seemed that the Dr. was trying to disproves the book of Exodus, in which it states that the Jews crossed the parted Red Sea to freedom. Note: The original Hebrew text, before it was translated by the Greek, stated that they crossed the Reed Sea not the Red Sea. Big difference, considering the Red Sea is much deeper and wider while the Reed Sea was a very small and shallow lake if not a reed filled swamp. There goes the miracle of the crossing of the Red Sea, huh? Well at least those of you reading this without your heads in your asses will understand me. If you don't believe me check it out for your self. I've been researching this stuff for years and I ONLY believe what I have "scientific proof" for.
Thursday, June 30, 2006 I live in Wisconsin. Until now, I thought that there really wasn't any major difference between Minnesota, where I was born and raised, and my new home town of Superior, WI. I've recently learned that there is a difference! In fact there is quite a few little differences I've navigated along my eight month journey into becoming a Wisconsin citizen. But, in my mind those were to be expected while this new "bump" in the road was quite a surprise. I, like all of you reading this, am a working man. Meaning I work for every cent I receive. So when my new employer told me that I could work all the overtime I wanted I naturally jumped at the chance. Hell, why not make one hundred and fifty percent of what I normally make for being there anyway, right? So I worked as much as I could stand nearly everyday. I ended up working twelve and a half hour shifts as this would allow the right amount of time off between shifts for sleep and food. Imagine my surprise less than a week later when I receive my pay check only to find out that my overtime had been taxed at fifty percent, as is normal for WI, I learned later, and the overtime had bumped me into the next tax bracket! Now, I'm not rich! Far from it! Obviously if I'm talking about paying TOO MUCH in taxes, I'm more like, poor. In fact, according to the government, I am poor. I make less than ten thousand a year, so at the start of every year I get to reclaim my money from the government. So, yes, I will be getting my money back next year but for the time being I have to accept this fact; If you work overtime in the great state of WI, you make less per hour during your hardest worked hours, i.e. your overtime hours, than you do during your first forty hours! Nice! Now that's what I call rewarding the working man! Not only is that counter productive to the economy it's a lot like kicking the working man while he's down! If someone is working overtime, they obviously need the money to begin with or they wouldn't be so willing to put in the extra time at the end of the week, so how is it fair for the government to take fifty percent of the money that we hard working blue collar citizens make?! In fact, after taxes, during overtime, I make less than minimum wage!!! Can you fucking believe that?! We in WI, the harder we work, the less we make! I have no choice but to have my employer change my withholding status to three or four dependants. That's what I'll be doing...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 I just saw one of the scariest things I have ever seen or even heard! I was watching VH1's Behind the Music of Pantara. I remember when it happened and I'm sure you do too, but to actually see the video of this wacko jumping on stage with a 9mm and shooting and killing five people, including shooting Dimebag Daryl five times in the head, scared me shitless! I think before this happened and even after, until I finally saw the video, it had never occurred to me that this sort of thing could happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone! Yes, I know Dimebag was famous, but to that I say, "Sure was! He had a lot more security guards at his shows too! Did him a lot of good, huh?" I hate to sound so sappy but it just goes as a reminder that every day, every show could be your last guys. So when you rock, make it worth while!
Sunday, April 09, 2006 I'm sure some of you after reading my Political Blogs! feel it's necessary to call me a caveman. I've decided to agree with you. I am a caveman. I live by cavemanism. There are three main areas of CMism.
1. Cave, simple huh?
2. Cave Food, little tougher yet.
3. Cave Women, toughest!
There is one rule in CMism. Don't mess with the three areas of CMism! Most of the time if you treat someone with enough respect as to not mess with their home (house, family, and possessions), their food (job, money, and their beer, i.e. their right to enjoy themselves), or their woman (their sexual partner), you won't make anyone too pissed off. Think about it, under anyone of these categories, if you even look at it wrong or for too long, CMan is red hot and in your face, right? Right. So, try to remember these three areas of CMism and everything should be alright. I hope I have enlightened you on the way men behave. Men are simply Darwinian.
Saturday, April 08, 2006 Well, here we are again... Today's props go to Real Player for making a player that I can watch NFL network on in the corner of my screen while I write this! Lol! It's not that amazing I know, but still, it's cool enough that I want to mention it.
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