Tuesday, 14 May 2013

  • Come in, relax, sit down and let us talk....

     

    >....I didn't say drop your guard....happy

    > Always have a reasonable doubt....laughing

    > Do not speak harshly to anyone; they that do will be answered in kind; angry speech brings pain, as do the blows that follow....stunned

    > Trust only what you know....whatevah

    > Be Nice,  'til it's time to be not nice....silly

    > It always pays to watch ones own back, and those of some fellows....pleased

    > Some people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.... Nightcrawler shocked

    > Don't let the age fool you or put you off....winky

    > I am grateful that I'm not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me...laughing

    > I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else's fault....pleased

    > Joan of Arc heard voices too.shy

    > If it is all the same to you I won't be coming in to work. The voices told me to clean all the guns today.shy

    > Taking an 'objective' point of view, it is not clear why the use of high explosive for tearing men apart should be regarded as more humane than burning or asphyxiating them to death."    martin van creveldshocked

    > Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve....    t. reznor >silly

    The wise learn many things from their enemies.   aristophaneslaughing

    > The times they are a changin'.....  bob dylanstunned

    This is from an earlier blog I used to keep before management shut me down for no contact for 60 days.... As soon as a permanent job rears its head, I'll pay for premium personal.... But until then Peaceclueless

    Interests: 


    Varied far n wide; social contacts, new acquaintances, conversation about issues such as the rights of responsible firearms ownership and use, freedom of speech and expression of self, due process (if it still exists...) among other things....    laughing

    Expertise: Social conversation/interaction,debate.... Government invasion of privacy....

    Also weps, tactics , strategy....whatevah

    Occupation: Operations and transportationsurprised

    Industry: Otherwtf

  • Old Cherokee wisdom....

    > One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

    > He said,  "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all:

    []  One is Evil.   It is anger,  envy,  jealousy,  sorrow,  regret,  greed,  arrogance,  self-pity,  guilt,  resentment,  inferiority,  lies,  false pride,  superiority,  and  ego.

    [] The other is Good.   It is joy,  peace,  love,  hope,  serenity,  humility,  kindness,  benevolence,  empathy,  generosity,  truth, compassion  and  faith."

    > The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:   "Which  wolf  wins?"

    > The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

     These days, we need to watch what we do and say to and about others, as the above tale says.... If we speak about others from the skin of the first 'evil' wolf, we may find ourselves in a fix that we cannot remove ourselves from, especially one brought on by speaking before thinking, i.e. arrogance and jealousy and envy or even regret..... If, however, we speak from the skin of the second good 'wolf', with benevolence, empathy and generosity, we may find ourselves in a state of joy and happiness as well as serenity and kindness.... some thoughts, just a few, without tapping into theology....

       {}  Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

    Anonymous

       {}  By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

    Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

       {}  Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

    Henry David Thoreau(1817 - 1862)

       {}  I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

       {}  Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

    Still more to think about, een if only for a bit.... Peace to all, while we still can afford it....

Sunday, 28 April 2013

  • A minor miracle of sorts....

    Orphaned Baby Tiger, Hyena, and Lions Rescued by Hotel Owner

    ..By Melissa Knowles | Trending Now – Fri, Apr 26, 2013.

    An unlikely bond has been formed among five baby animals. The mothers of three lions, a tiger, and a spotted hyena abandoned them -- leaving them with a bleak chance of survival.   Thankfully for the cubs, Layla Cajee, the owner of Akwaaba Lodge in Rustenburg, South Africa, took them in at birth and has been raising them together ever since.   Cajee said all the animals were born in the lodge and explained that she had to adopt each one after it was rejected for being the runt of its litter.   The orphans share the same living enclosure and interact during mealtime. Cajee said they fight over food and that the dominant one will sometimes take food from the others. After mealtime, they have been known to cuddle together for a nap.   But, just like any other pack of siblings, each cub has its own unique personality.   Five-month-old Bella, the tiger, is the leader of the pack. The three lions -- Delano, Romeo, and Maximus, who are the same age as Bella -- are all shy. Six-month-old Milika, the hyena, is the most mischievous in the bunch.   The cute and cuddly cubs will eventually grow into predators and will be placed in separate enclosures.

      > Isn't this a sweet change from reading in the different journals, websites and such about someone STEALING cubs, pups and others, and abusing same or killing their parents.... No sarcasm here, intended or unintentional. Just good news for a change. It will be of interest as time passes to see how they fare as they grow together.
    Everynow and then the powers that be, whereever you believe, do something good, good for the Animals, for a change.... and so....

       {}  If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

       {}  God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

       {}  Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

       {}  The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

    Kahlil Gibran   

       {}   We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

       {}  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

       {}  The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

       {}To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

    Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

    And another week comes to a close, so peace and goodwill to all who will accept such things and remember, in spite of our personal beliefs, opinions, (chemically induced or otherwise) we are only HUMAN after all!!! Ciao

Saturday, 20 April 2013

  • Home for China's 1st aircraft carrier introduced Central News Agency

    Home for China's 1st aircraft carrier introduced

    2013/04/19 19:43:28

    Taipei, April 19 (CNA) China's first aircraft carrier has been given a permanent base in the eastern port of Qingdao, and some of the special features of the harbor built to contain it were introduced Friday by a Hong Kong media outlet.

    TVB News said the harbor took five years to construct and had to overcome more than 40 major technical problems, including the installment of two specially designed giant buoyancy tanks to ensure that the carrier, the Liaoning, remains moored safely.

    The fuel, water and electricity requirements of an aircraft carrier are several dozen times greater than those of regular military ships, so a station has been constructed in the middle of the wharf that will provide electricity and fuel oil for the Liaoning.

    The harbor is also equipped with specially designed vehicles, including crane trucks that can lift cargo weighing more than 1,000 kilograms onto the decks of the carrier. Oil transport vehicles can also deliver fuel oil though an extended pipeline.

    Reports said that the facilities of the military port are being further improved.

    The Liaoning is undergoing various training regimens to upgrade its combat capability, including takeoffs and landings of its carrier-based J-15 jet fighters.

    Since its delivery to the People's Liberation Army Navy last September, the Liaoning has undergone a series of sea trials and will conduct further deep-sea, and carrier-borne fighter combat training this year, according to the report.

    The PLA Daily, the Chinese military's official media outlet, also ran a two-page special report on its first carrier, in which it introduced the daily operations of the ship.

    It noted that the vessel boasts cafeterias, its own TV stations, post office and supermarket.

    At 67,000 tons, it is so large that its crew often get lost trying to find their way to the 3,000 cabins. The Liaoning is a refurbished Soviet-era carrier purchased from Ukraine in 1998.

    (By Su Yen-fong and Lilian Wu) 

        >  This carrier platform is of NO threat to American Forces in the Pacific, simply because it took the U.S. navy more than 10 yrs to work up the necessary skills to operate an Aircraft carrrier safely and effectively. It is admirable that they acquired one, but notice that Big Brother Russia gave it up as unworkable for them. The costs alone are huge and the factors that make  one workable are mountainous compared with a standard surface naval vessel. It will be interesting to watch them deal with the items in  question as time goes by...... (giggle, snicker, giggle, behind hand over mouth....) Frustration doesn't even cover it!!

       {}  Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

       {}  Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.

       {}  He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

    Unknown 

       {}  We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

    Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

       {}  I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

    Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Sunday, 07 April 2013

  • More trouble, or a relief from......?

    China warns against "troublemaking" on Korean peninsula

    By Ben Blanchard and Jane Chung | Reuters

    BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China warned against "troublemaking" on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula.

    The North, led by 30-year-old Kim Jong-un, has been issuing vitriolic threats of war against the United States and U.S.-backed South Korea since the United Nations imposed sanctions in response to its third nuclear weapon test in February.

    Pyongyang's anger appears heightened by U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises. But most analysts say it has no intention of starting a conflict that would bring its own destruction and instead is out to wring concessions from a nervous international community.

    The North told diplomats late last week to consider leaving Pyongyang because of the tension, but embassies appeared to view the appeal as more rhetoric and staff have stayed put.

       >  Hagel: B-2s Not Intended to Provoke North Korea.... was a part of the previous by-line, but it appears that this intention was a miscalculation by the Obama administration, and has since be reconfigured to appear less agressive.... I had heard on the news, this morning, that the North Korean people still percieve the heavy bombing they recieved back during the '50 's was as if it was yesterday, or have been hammered by the Jun regime in North Korea with, for the last 60 years... No wonder they would feel alittle uptight!!! Perhaps we can step back from the precipice of nuclear battle, but the North Korean government wants to continue with the rocket launch, perhaps to prove a point?? I know not, but can guess that Jun may not know the monkey with which he plays, and that his general staff may under estimate their adversaries and bring about something that no SANE person would want.... WE will see shortly, that is sure.....

       {}  An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

       {}  Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

       {}  Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

       {}  Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

    Cindy Chupack 

       {} If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. When in doubt, tell the truth.

    Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

     Still more  food for thought, if  some of you folks can pull yourselves away from that special purpose pipe or bong, that is.... Peace while you can afford it....

     

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