Snarky Anger Makes Me Laugh

I blogged about my predictions regarding tonight's debate and posted it this morning. I mentioned how Newt has a large ego and Mitt has attacked him and vice versa. This is more than my opinion, it's fact and it's historically true, and it's part of the campaign process that seems to have morphed into a verbal confrontation amongst candidates. It happens on both sides and for me, it's unfortunate as I would rather see an intellectual exchange based on policies, rather than ad hominem attacks based on truths, half-truths, and lies.

But someone named "Anonymous" attacked me for "playing psychoanalyst" as I mentioned that I played one, in jest, when, in fact, I worked for over 20 years as a psychotherapist, using cognitive-behavioral techiques. I specializing in depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, particularly Panic Disorder, with and without Agoraphobia, as well as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Social Anxiety. I have since retired from this field, not to manage a McDonald's as my attacker suggested, but to write and do photography. I have done both successfully like, I imagine, Anonymous has attacked others successfully. How sad AnonyMouse has to do this to make herself or himself happy--I'm not sure of the gender, but while the word usage sounded masculine, the method of attack sounded feminine-feline.

I briefly touched upon Ron Paul, who I believe would lead America down a self-destructive path with his foreign hands-off-Iran-Can-Build-Whatever-It-Wants policy, and his anti-Zionist sentiments. I suspect Anonymous is a Ron Paul fan and the word 'fan' comes from 'fanatic,' so you know where I'm coming from. If he is not a Ron Paul fan, then I have no doubts he's a liberal-socialist-Marxist-Obama-tingler.

Anyway, I love making people like AnonyMouse rant and rave because they think they matter in the final analysis. But the truth is, in the final analysis, nobody who rants and attacks others for their beliefs from a safe anonymous position, has done anything to build America. In fact, they would do what they could to change America (sounds a little like the O-Man?), but fortunately, they are impotent to change anything, including their clothing without their mommy's help. 

American core values should never change, which is why we should respect the Constitution--and why Ron Paul is half right, because he does, in his own funny way. But it was interesting, this attack on me, saying that I should go back to my job managing a McDonald's, as if this mouse who roared thinks she could manage anything at all. I apologize to all restaurant managers, and all of us who actually work for a living. 

For you, Anonymous

The only thing she was able to manage, was to get me to laugh at her feeble attempt of insult and pseudointellectual banter, disguised as criticism. I honestly feel sorry for her, or him, or whatever. Closet attackers have no courage, which is why they do nothing to build the nation, only try to tear it down along with those who love it. 

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How the Main Stream Media Bites the Big One

One can go to work during the day, come home, have dinner, and then curl up with your spouse and watch the news. If you're a man living in an Islamic country like Saudi Arabia, you can curl up with your four wives, some of whom can be as young as 13, and watch the news. I suspect that if you're living in the US of A, the news will be "cleaned up" as much as it would be in Saudi Arabia because there is nothing you will see on the news that will beg you to question what is going on with your government; something you wouldn't dare do in the land of King Abdullah, where even our president, Hussein Ubama, bowed to their Islamic leader.

To wit, some Yemeni guy went ballistic on an airline, went up to the pilot's cabin, pounded on the door shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" loudly and probably quite frighteningly to anyone who might have a working knowledge of the Arabic phrase and can connect it to terrorism. And let's face it; we are at war with terrorism, not the terrorists, who happen to be of a religion that wages jihad. But the MSM, or Main Stream Media, never once mentioned the fact that the guy was yelling out "God is great!" because, heck, you might think he was doing it because he is a Muslim.

I am not, I repeat, not implying that a) all Muslims are terrorists; or b) that all terrorists are Muslims--just most of them; or c) that Islam is not a religion of peace, as GW Bush and Barack Hussein Ubama said. Islam has been interpreted by moderates as a peaceful religion and by the more orthodox as the only real truth in religion and all the others suck and should be annihilated from the face of the earth. But those people are only following some of what is in the Koran--you know, Surah 9 in particular. They fail to mention the peaceful Surahs such as the one that says: "There is no compulsion in religion." There are other Surahs that are nice but they have all been abrogated, or made subordinate by Surah 9 because they came earlier and don't count anymore. Allah abrogated them because, as perfect as he is, he must have made a typo.  So the earlier Surahs that only say how bad the Jews are, and how Christians got it all wrong and  are going to hell with the Jews and unbelievers, are considered the peaceful ones, but the not-so-peaceful ones that have you cutting off heads and hands and feet, well, they count.

 

But I digress.

I want you, gentle reader, to be very careful when curling up with your spouse(s) when you arrive home after a hard day of work. If you watch ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, LSMFT (just checking to see if you're paying attention), you need to take what you see and ask yourself, "Okay, what are they not telling or showing me?" Then say to your spouse, "I know, let's not veg out with this crap--let's go to the computer and check out the blogs," you will be feeding your brain a much higher quality brain food. The brand name of this brain food is called TRUTH. But even when you think what you're reading in a blog is true, be careful and do what Ronald Reagan said to do, "Trust, but verify."

It is becoming progressively clear that the reason newsstand dailies are going belly up isn't simply because readers are flocking to the blogs for their news. The reason is that the blogs are generally giving readers better brain food.

NaNoWriMo

Well, it's that time of the year again--my anniversary and yes, NaNoWriMo, or NationalNovelWritersMonth. It runs from November 1st to the 30th and all one has to do is write a 50 thousand word novel by midnight of the 30th.  The good news is that the novel can be a hunk of crap, lousy plot, weak characters, and all the typos you might have if you just wrote like a bat out of hell without checking yourself for errors. The whole idea is the word count--that's all that counts. I am the proud owner of not one, but two NaNoWriMo congratulatory certificates of completion of two rather awful novels.
But this year is different. Not only is my novel not awful, but my novel isn't going to be written by November 30th. I just will not subject myself to that burden this year; but next year will likely be a different story, literally and figuratively too. I have what I believe is a great idea for a novel and I am researching and writing, but I can't go forward fast enough to get that kind of word count without sacrificing quality.  Now I know they don't give a rat's hairy little butt about quality at NaNoWriMo, bit I do, and if I forge ahead too quickly, I'll lose my voice and my plotting.  My timing will suffer too. 
Also, I am not going to publish the title of my novel, or at least the working title (publishers often rip out your heart when they use their own title rather than yours), but I will say that it's clever.  Really.  I also believe the book idea itself is rather clever too, but that remains to be seen.
So I will leave you, dear reader (I use the singular "reader" to give a sense of familiarity and for the fact that I don't have that many readers of my blog to justify an ego-filled plural), with hopeful anticipation of my newest creation, my baby, my love.  I wish you all a good night.
Ho ho hoey

What I've Learned to be a Better Canuck

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Originally uploaded by Rob Hoey

So I've not written a word since the beginning of October and it's even NaNoWriMo month (National Novel Writer's Month) from November 1st to 30th in which one tries to write a 50 thousand word novel, good or bad, in order to receive a piece of paper that says you've done it--and I still have not written one word on my blog. Luckily however, I did write a few good pages of the book, and did a lot of hard research and outlining, which means I should be finished with my masterpiece within the decade, if I don't get off my butt and push.

But I did accomplish something really great the past two days--I registered Doug, my car, and even got him protection, in case he wants to fool around with girl cars. Well, actually, the protection is insurance. We're finally covered Canadian style. That's why I'm using a photo of downtown Ottawa to show cars and how Doug can now go out and make friends legally.

I've learned a lot in the process of making Doug legal. I can now convert miles into kilometers (Fun Fact: one mile = 1.6 kilometers) and I learned that some car insurance salespeople can be really decent individuals--I kind of knew the latter to be true, as I was a real estate person before coming to Canada, and I know how difficult sales can be. Did you know that Tom Clancy, of the Jim Ryan, submarine, incredible weapons system fame was also a real estate salesman too? I also learned other things since becoming a wannabe Canuck--a Looney and a Twonee are one and two dollar coins, respectively. The Rideau Canal is the longest free skating canal in all of the world (or Ottawa, at least). The Giant Tiger is a very good place to shop for many interesting items you find in such stores as Walmart and Value Village, and the food doesn't suck as much.

Well, that's the interesting fun facts for now. I hope you'll give me more to add to my repertoire of Canadian information.

I love Canada.