Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Friday, July 26, 2019
Why I Like Whiskey: By The Help-Desk Guy
Because it is predictable and doesn't need to be updated. In fact, it improves with age.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
CuTRis Pushes Storm
CuTRis Pushes Storm
UnAssociated Press
July 24, 2019
Reports early today indicate that CuTRis may have pushed a storm that was moving into the Twin Cities. The storm is now planning to sue CuTRis for unlawfully preventing it from randomly destroying property. There is a protest planned for later today at the state capitol. When CuTRis was asked about the allegations against him, he pushed a TV camera and disappeared down a storm drain. No further information is available about the storm, the lawsuit or CuTRis at this time.
UnAssociated Press
July 24, 2019
Reports early today indicate that CuTRis may have pushed a storm that was moving into the Twin Cities. The storm is now planning to sue CuTRis for unlawfully preventing it from randomly destroying property. There is a protest planned for later today at the state capitol. When CuTRis was asked about the allegations against him, he pushed a TV camera and disappeared down a storm drain. No further information is available about the storm, the lawsuit or CuTRis at this time.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Friday, July 19, 2019
Quarry Park
This is an interesting and scenic place. It has a lot of steep cliffs and deep water so keep an eye on the kids. Swimming and trout fishing top the list of activities. On the hot July Friday we visited, it was extremely busy.
https://co.stearns.mn.us/Recreation/CountyParks/QuarryParkandNaturePreserve
https://co.stearns.mn.us/Recreation/CountyParks/QuarryParkandNaturePreserve
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Health Partners Legalized Theft
Health Partners and Health Partners Clinic is charging me for two clinic visits for a 20 minute preventative (supposed to be covered by insurance) appointment because the doctor talked to me about lowering blood pressure. How can they bill for two visits for a single appointment??? What other business can get away with this?
Update: Just 6 hours into my publicizing this all over social media, Health Partners (after first calling to say the charge was legitimate) just called to tell me the charges had been recoded and removed from my account.
Update: Just 6 hours into my publicizing this all over social media, Health Partners (after first calling to say the charge was legitimate) just called to tell me the charges had been recoded and removed from my account.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Trump's "Go Back to Where You Came From" Mentality
Our country is fixated on race when the problem of discrimination is much deeper than that. It's a great attribute of humanity to be able to discriminate between right and wrong, hot and cold. It's a serious shortcoming to treat those who differ from us poorly. Humans have a long history of doing mean things to others who they perceive as different.
The color of one's skin stands out and is an easy focal point for those who are not particularly intelligent. But if that difference doesn't exist, the lines will fall between ethnicity or country of origin. If everyone came from the same place, that small, timid kid is likely to get picked on. Humanity is not so different than it was when the fans cheered their favorite gladiator at the colosseum.
But now, there is a backlash in the form of political correctness. This too, is rarely practiced at a moderate level—which tends to push it further from reality.
In the case of Donald Trump, there may be a bit of racism in his rhetoric. This is simply because while he likes to marry immigrants, they are Caucasian and not from what he refers to as, "shit-hole countries;" which seem to be where darker skinned people historically come from.
So racism, is simply one single version of the larger category of discrimination. And here in the good old USA, people always seem to have difficulty accepting the newest immigrant group; whoever they are.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/behind-trumps-go-back-demand-a-long-history-of-rejecting-different-americans/ar-AAEn7LP?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20
The color of one's skin stands out and is an easy focal point for those who are not particularly intelligent. But if that difference doesn't exist, the lines will fall between ethnicity or country of origin. If everyone came from the same place, that small, timid kid is likely to get picked on. Humanity is not so different than it was when the fans cheered their favorite gladiator at the colosseum.
But now, there is a backlash in the form of political correctness. This too, is rarely practiced at a moderate level—which tends to push it further from reality.
In the case of Donald Trump, there may be a bit of racism in his rhetoric. This is simply because while he likes to marry immigrants, they are Caucasian and not from what he refers to as, "shit-hole countries;" which seem to be where darker skinned people historically come from.
So racism, is simply one single version of the larger category of discrimination. And here in the good old USA, people always seem to have difficulty accepting the newest immigrant group; whoever they are.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/behind-trumps-go-back-demand-a-long-history-of-rejecting-different-americans/ar-AAEn7LP?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20
Monday, July 15, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Why is Honest Communication so Hated?
Living in America, the land of the easily offended, you are not allowed to tell someone that they are behaving unreasonably and wasting your time. Instead, you should spare their feelings and allow things to get more dysfunctional rather than get things accomplished.
Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Follow the Mobile Toilet!
I was trying to get out of downtown. My usual way out on Eagle Street was full of cars! Maybe there was a train I don't know. Anyway I went around the block. And then I was trying to figure out where I had to turn so that I could bypass. Then I saw my answer! It was like an epiphany! Follow the mobile toilet!
Sunday, July 07, 2019
Proof Racism Still Exists
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/rapper-tiny-jag-pulls-out-of-detroit-music-fest-after-learning-white-people-pay-a-higher-ticket-price/ar-AADYSzV?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20#page=2
I'm not sure how this is even legal. I also don't understand how anyone could think it is okay to charge one racial group a higher price based on skin color. But certainly some people think racial bias/discrimination is still okay.
After all the progress we have made in this issue, it is a sad statement. I must commend the woman who pulled out of the concert on principle. Like me, she has a racially mixed family--and that is what ultimately will be the downfall of the bigots who continue to teach their children to hate.
Ask yourself what kind of uproar would occur if the colors were switched in this story?
Either way, it's wrong!
I'm not sure how this is even legal. I also don't understand how anyone could think it is okay to charge one racial group a higher price based on skin color. But certainly some people think racial bias/discrimination is still okay.
After all the progress we have made in this issue, it is a sad statement. I must commend the woman who pulled out of the concert on principle. Like me, she has a racially mixed family--and that is what ultimately will be the downfall of the bigots who continue to teach their children to hate.
Ask yourself what kind of uproar would occur if the colors were switched in this story?
Either way, it's wrong!
Saturday, July 06, 2019
Giant Mushroom Found in Blaine
Giant Mushroom Found in Blaine
UnAssociated Press
July 6, 2019
A huge white mushroom has been discovered near Highway 10 in Blaine. Once verified, it will likely take the record for world's largest.
Friday, July 05, 2019
Wednesday, July 03, 2019
Monday, July 01, 2019
No Band
Dad: "I'm not going to band tonight."
Son: "How come dad?"
Dad: "Because I'm going to the reading thing at your school."
Son: "And they're playing without you???"
Dad: "Yeah."
Son: "They aren't going to sound as good."
Dad: "Yeah."
Son: "How come dad?"
Dad: "Because I'm going to the reading thing at your school."
Son: "And they're playing without you???"
Dad: "Yeah."
Son: "They aren't going to sound as good."
Dad: "Yeah."