Trillion dollar military with all the latest weapons of war at its disposal, leading all the world’s armies and holding the best technologies … and it’s afraid of holidays.

More like government and society is falling apart. When you have things as complex and difficult as air traffic control for thousands of aircraft every single day and you start firing people and threatening the workers that are left … you’re going to have a lot of problems.

It was easier to take apart and rearrange governments in the 1930s because systems, organizations and agencies weren’t that complicated … doing the same thing today and it will terribly disrupt every single system that relies on everything else and the work and cooperation of thousands and even millions of people to maintain.

Whatever you guys are doing south of the border (I’m in Canada) … I won’t be flying there any time soon and I’ll be encouraging my friends and family to do the same.

Easy … have a big fat funeral for myself, hand off everything I own to the people I had willed everything to. Tell them thanks. Say goodbye to everyone and leave myself about $1,000. Go off to my parents hunt camp and traditional lands and live out there by myself until the 31 days are over.

I’ve travelled the world, saw many things, did many things, had a great time but now I’m old and sore all the time and I can’t run around as fast or as much any more. I just like sitting, relaxing and enjoying some peace and quiet.

If someone told me I had a month, I want to just spend those last 30 days as quietly as possible looking at trees, water and being around absolutely no one.

Just step out 30 minutes, take a five minute walk to make an appearance, then walk back into the toilet and sit there for half an hour.

Repeat until your eight hour shift is done.

This would make a great pronoun or title attached to your name. Sign off every email with …

John Doe
Jesus Fucking Christ

It would be funny if you installed a water proof LCD in one of the tiles or a couple or a few of them. Don’t tell people what you did and when a friend or family member has a shower in there, they’ll think it’s interesting and suddenly the people in one of tiles starts moving or waving at them.

It looks like they carved out the building from the ground and lifted it all in once massive piece

Joe Palooka

I looked up that comic and found it very familiar … I’ve seen those before but I can’t place it. I’m thinking it was bubble gum wrappers or candy wrappers or something. But I’ve definitely seen those comics before in some small format in candy, popcorn, cereal or something. I’m up in Canada in Ontario and this was all in the 80s. I know the comic is old but I remember seeing this comic when I was a kid somewhere.

lol … as if you she knows how to read … and if she did, if she ever actually read a Christian bible

One of my favourite passages … I’ve memorized it and quote it often

People also talk about this one event as if it exists in a vacuum. No one ever discusses the events that led up to that moment in history.

Namely the fact that western countries, monarchs, corporations were more than willing to either help the German war machine or turn a blind eye to their expansion leading up to the first invasions and military incursions. They all watched or made business deals with the Nazi government for years beforehand as the German military, navy and air force built and expanded. Then everyone acted surprised and shocked when the Germans suddenly started attacking countries.

This is the equivalent of selling gasoline and napalm to a known arsonist and then acting surprised that they burnt down a church.

Love you too and I hope you have fun here, there, everywhere.

Welcome to the 10% of users and posters

I read a few years ago that the estimate in most social media everywhere is that 90% of all users are just lurkers and don’t post anything. Most people (like myself) just comment on things and seldom post. The conversations and content is all mostly driven by a core group of about 10% of posters. Sure many or most people might have posted something some time but the majority of all or most content is driven by a small group of dedicated posters.

Well done.

No one ever talks about who set the fire, who poured gasoline on everything, who gave the arsonist fire starter, who enabled the arsonist to get that jerry can of gasoline, who handed him the match, who gave him a ton of money to buy all that fuel.

Beautiful work … everything purring like a well tuned motor over here

Thanks!

I remember being in high school in the early 90s and a friend of mine and I snuck into one of the local bars one Friday night.

It was far scarier than wandering into Mordor. There was so much noise you couldn’t hear anyone … which always confused me because people were having conversations with one another. Dark and dim because the walls were black, the floor was black with dirt and beer, the ceiling was black and the furniture was black. The only light you could see was the bar and the band playing loud shitty music.

And smoke, so much smoke that you could swear the place was on fire. So much smoke you got high on the smoke in the air. Smoke so thick you couldn’t see ten feet in front of you. And in the smoke you saw ghouls, goblins, orks, giants, witches and warlocks speaking in weird tongues you couldn’t understand. The only way to survive in there was to be drunk out of your mind.

I remember boarding a short regional flight in northern Ontario in the mid 80s. We were placed in a non-smoking section, while the row behind us was smoking. I remember seeing those little ashtray drawers on every seat and every single one no matter smoking or non smoking had cigarette butts and ash in them.

And wherever you walked, malls, stores, grocery stores, banks, schools, hospitals, banquets, dinners, gatherings … everywhere, anywhere … someone or a few people were smoking.

People were considered weird or rude or just plain stupid if they asked someone not to smoke in public.

There’s a bucket on the floor

From now on whenever there is a disaster … don’t expect any comfort from your leadership, Americans are on their own now.