I am CuTRis

So whose lives matter? Is it only black lives? Does it include the many black lives that are killed in black on black violence? Perhaps it is only about the relatively few who end up killed while in confrontation with police. Do the lives of police matter? Does it matter that a black man is accused of shooting and killing a Houston Texas deputy Friday night? Does it matter that a black man gunned down two journalists on live TV last week? Don't all lives matter? And I've said it before, but where is the protest for the 3-year-old boy who was beaten to death a week ago by his mother's boyfriend? Did his life matter? That is quite an interesting set of priorities that is being preached lately. When will we say "enough?"

When I heard Black Lives Matter was planning to disrupt the MN State Fair , I could only wonder how that was going to gain public sympathy. In fact, I imagined that such a plan could have been hatched by a preschool child in order to gain attention—without considering the consequences. Apparently the "largely peaceful" protest included marchers chanting, "Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon." That may have police upset, but this also sounds like a very immature person created it—so maybe we can chalk the whole thing up to a group that is run by people who have not yet matured emotionally.

Svedka vodka has an advertisement that is strange. "They" are boasting about being voted the #1 vodka of the year 2033. Currently, barring time travel, we are in the year 2015. I know this ad is different and that may be the point—but it is based on a false premise . Therefore, why should I believe anything related to this ad; such as that this product is a good one?

I'm not a racist and I'm not prejudice ; but I can and do discriminate between various things. In fact, I can tell the difference between hot and cold, up and down, blue and red and a whole list of other things! This is what makes humans so versatile and why we are capable of learning. Part of this learning, for me, has taught me that some people are more likely to be friendly than others and some are more likely to start trouble than others. Often this is distinguishable by how they talk or how they dress. I've found it isn't necessarily anything to do with race or sex or skin color. There are good and bad people of all colors. But there are people who all of us will eye suspiciously—based primarily on our past experience. This is not a bad trait. It is part of learning and part of gaining experience. Unfortunately, if the people within our experiences, tend to be a certain race, have a certain look or a certain set of characteristics, we will (and probably should) b...

We can stop violence, if we just have more guns!!! We can solve discrimination, if we just have more guns!!! We can fix the stock market, if we just have more guns!!! We can solve the energy crisis, if we just have more guns!!! We can have more guns, if we just have more guns!!! We can prevent murders, if we just have more guns!!! We can solve the national debt, if we just have more guns!!! Nothing is more important than, if we just have more guns!!! It doesn't matter how many people die, if we just have more guns!!! Think of all the good things that will happen, if we just have more guns!!! We can end all war, if we just have more guns!!! We can cure cancer, if we just have more guns!!! We can make a difference, if we just have more guns!!! We can all be safer, if we just have more guns!!!

Locally grown in my garden. I managed to beat the rain (mostly) to grill Saturday and made a stir fry with fresh vegetables (mostly) from our garden Sunday. Stir Fry Ingredients The Stir Fry! Don't remove the husk until I grill it! Grilled Chicken Thighs

Put this in a Google (or whatever search engine you like) search. child killed at home by stray bullet I was horrified by the amount of results that came back. I know it has happened (here) in Minneapolis more than once. Any responsible adult of any color should be horrified by these stories. If you aren't, then you ought to be. There are too many killers and too many guns and too many people pointing fingers at the police and not accepting the TRUTH. Any child killed by a "stray" bullet is too much. Yet this goes on and on and no one protests this senseless and tragic loss of life.

I'll hire this guy. On the news this morning a guy from Black Lives Matter was talking about a protest scheduled for the Minnesota State Fair. The MN Fair administrator said they don't allow such things but the BLM guy said they couldn't stop it. Later on the radio, an African-American journalist was talking about racism and police and such things. Even one of my old friends who typically can think for himself is under the impression that African-Americans are shot down in great numbers BY POLICE here in the USA. Meanwhile, a little girl in Ferguson was shot dead while doing homework on her mom's bed . No one is protesting this because it wasn't a white cop who did the shooting. In fact, when a black person is killed in Ferguson, it is nearly always another black person who did the killing. Yet none of these stories cause protests and few make the national news. Not hiring this guy. It seems that the agenda is more geared toward removing the responsibilit...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ferguson-9-year-old-girl-shot-dead-doing-homework-on-bed/ar-BBlUyfL?ocid=mailsignout This is so sad and it wasn't the police who did this! Where are the protesters now?

First you will need many buckets of money...

Regarding the presidential candidates for 2016... Seriously America, is this the best we've got?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/16/politics/donald-trump-iowa-state-fair/

The chopper flew above, surveying the wreckage leftover from the crash . The aftermath told the story. Likely it was excessive speed and carelessness that caused the wagon to overturn. Debris lay strewn across the scene. fortunately, no one was hurt in the incident.

Reminder! Gangs Are Bad will be protesting against crime, gang activity and disrespecting and not cooperating with police. Please show your support! Gangs Are Bad will not be stopping traffic and will peacefully obey all laws during this weekend's demonstrations across the nation. Thank you for your support!

Related to sheep, Takin are a goat-antelope found in the eastern Himalayas. There are four different subspecies: the Sichuan or Tibetan Takin, the Mishmi Takin, the Shaanxi or Golden Takin, and the Bhutan Takin. The Takin is the national animal of Bhutan.

VORTEX By Kevin J. Curtis             Reginald Vortex was the furthest thing from a superhero. He was smallish and slightly overweight. He wore glasses and had a rather prominent nose. Beneath this protuberance, was a thin line of a moustache that adorned his upper lip. Next-door to Reginald and his wife Twitchy, lived the Butt-Pollens; with whom Reginald did not get along well with. The family was crass and insisted on making everything their business—and shouting advice to Reginald at any given moment. “You ought to trim that bush,” barked Oscar Butt-Pollen; patriarch of the Butt-Pollen family. Reginald looked at the small, scraggly spirea and replied, “Yeah, maybe.” Oscar’s wife Ginger Butt-Pollen was hanging dingy underwear from an equally dingy clothesline. She added, “I’d paint that fence if I was you.” Reginald looked at the weathered wooden fence and replied, “Yeah, maybe.” The Butt-Pollen’s son Max c...

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/us/ferguson-protests/ Perhaps the people doing all the shooting are partly to blame???

I'm thinking about trying to get a permit to carry a sword . If people can carry guns in public places, I think I should be allowed to carry a sword. I might want to carry the sword when I attend the wedding of a polygamist. Some men on the Hmong side of my family, have more than one wife. Of course, they can only marry one of them legally, but they can marry more than one in the cultural ceremony. Now that same-sex marriage is legal, why isn't polygamy legal too? How do we know where to draw the line? We should also remember that since we must respect everyone's culture, that we should respect their cultural ideas regarding marriage as well. Perhaps all of these things will be figured out soon. It is all pretty easy to understand if you think about it. Take the Boy Scouts for instance. That organization has been pressured for years to be politically correct —and so they have allowed gays into the membership. That wasn't good enough though, and finally they...

I needed to stop by ALDI to get some 89¢ per lb. chicken legs. So I'm waiting to checkout and the woman behind me is leaning over looking at my food. Then she touches my chicken legs (near the price tag) and says, "Three dolla?" I reply, "yeah, three sixty," and I'm thinking STOP TOUCHING MY CHICKEN! She says, "On sale?" I say, "yeah," and I'm thinking STOP TOUCHING MY GROCERIES YOU DUMBASS.

Just before CuTRis discovered the bug. CuTRis Finds Large Bug on His Back UnAssociated Press August 6, 2015 Reports surfaced today along with a photo; that suggests CuTRis found a large bug on his back! The insect was more than half a meter long and weighed roughly six kilograms. CuTRis said he first noticed the hitchhiker while changing his shirt. "I had gotten some spaghetti sauce on my shirt," said CuTRis , "So I went to change it. That's when I first noticed the huge insect on my back! CuTRis said he was unharmed by the big bug, but that it was "unnerving" to find such a large specimen riding on his back! "It must have fallen from a tree or climbed onto my leg while I was in the garden," CuTRis added. When asked what he did with the bug, CuTRis said he let it go in hs backyard—and that his wife thought he should have killed it because it will probably come right back into the house now.

We went to the Minnesota Zoo yesterday. It was fun and interesting—though I believe the prices are a bit high ($18 Adult, $12 Child, $7 Parking just to get in the door).

Over the weekend I attended a funeral for a relative on the Hmong side of my family. He was 26 and (one story says he) was shot in the back of the head while out for a jog on the morning of July 5th. Today, a despicable piece of shit is expected to plead guilty to the murder of his own son—allegedly to collect insurance money. There is also the Minnesota dentist that uses his wealth to kill animals to satisfy his blood-lust. If you read my blog regularly, you might recall I had a guy in the midst of his road rage pull a gun while we were driving. Just this past Friday, I had another guy almost hit my car when he carelessly merged into my lane without looking. Again, this guy ended up ahead of me (after I had to slam on my brakes) and he started driving slowly and I got the eerie feeling that he was another nut-job with a gun. So when we began to move through an intersection, I slowed until he got through and turned to take a different route. So why are there so many homicidal peopl...