Veteran’s Day

In honor of Veteran’s Day, I’m posting two pictures – one of my dad and one of us together.  He served over 20 years in the Navy.  I was only around for 8 of those years.  He missed my birth and my first birthday in order to serve his country.  The first man I ever called Daddy was a black, Navy Chief who wore a uniform like my dad’s.  It’s the price our military fathers (and, maybe mothers) pay serving our country – because they’re gone so long, their children can’t remember what they look like.  I know what he looks like now.   He fought in Vietnam and he’s my hero.

When I heard that the troops in Iraq will be home for Christmas, I wondered how many of them have little girls and how many of those little girls were missing their fathers, like I remember missing mine.  My dad retired from the Navy when I was 8, so I was very young, but I still have those memories of him not being there.  I hope all those daughters (and sons) really do get their fathers (and mothers) back this Christmas.  I hold every one of them in my heart and prayers.

Happy Veteran’s Day!

Dad and me - July, 1968

Dad - I think in 1958

iPhone 4S

I’m not one to knock another’s person’s purchases. I don’t want anyone telling me how to spend my money, so I usually don’t tell people how to spend theirs. I do have an exception to this: I will give advice when asked.

However; I’m going to make a second exception: The iPhone 4S.

I went to Sprint’s site to check out new phones. I’m eligible to upgrade in a couple of months and it will take me that long to pick out a phone. While I was there, I checked out Sprint’s iPhones. They are really expensive! The highest priced phone costs $800! Why is anyone spending $800 on a phone?

Yes, I realize that spending is what keeps the economy going, but $800 for a phone?

Okay, I’m done ranting now.

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New Poll – Video Games…

Battlefield 3 – Open Beta

Last night, I spent a half hour getting my butt handed to me playing the Battlefield 3 Open Beta.  Let me tell you it was absolutely fantastic!  This game is a marvel.  Now, I certainly can’t tell you everything by only playing in two missions, but what I can tell you is that Battlefield 3 – Limited Edition is the most beautiful video game I have ever seen. Maybe, beautiful isn’t the right word. I’m am discussing a war zone with torn up streets and people shooting at you.

I was standing in front of this huge hole in the ground, as I was looking around and it dawned on me that depending on where I stood, the sun looked different.  Not just different, but realistic.

The Beta is opened from now (actually started September 29) until Monday, October 10th.  I had already pre-ordered my copy of Battlefield 3, but playing just the Metro map on rush has convinced me that I did the right thing.  I can’t wait for October 25th to play the full version.

Facebook’s Bad Idea

I opened up my browser this morning, clicked on the link for Facebook and saw crap. Instead of being able to see the most recent posts, I saw the “top stories”. Well, that’s just great. There is no longer a button to switch to most recent.

Did the developers for Facebook ever think that some of us do not want to see just the top comment getters from our friends?

I know I can’t read every update from every friend, but this is nuts. Bless their little hearts, but some of my friends have the worse taste in what they like.  They’re apt to like a YouTube video of a jackass doing a dumb stunt and there goes my being able to check on how my cousin’s baby is doing.

Facebook needs to change this back – or at the very least, let us opt out of the most popular posts. Because, that’s what it is; a popularity contest.

And, I don’t like popularity contests.

Glad I’m on Google+! Now that it is opened to the public – come join me.

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Two and a Half Men

If you have not seen last night’s show, please do not read any farther.

Hilarious!  I laughed so hard that I nearly peed my pants!  From the funeral home filled with ex-girlfriends making rude comments about Charlie to the appearance of John Stamos and his bad memory to Charlie ending up in a dust buster, the show made me laugh.  Even the poignant goodbye that Alan gave Charlie’s ashes was both sweet and chuckle worthy.

Ashton Kutcher is a funny actor and he doesn’t deserve the hating he’s been receiving by the “I won’t watch it now” crowd.  Quite frankly, I hope the show is a great success and Charlie Sheen learns a very valuable lesson about not biting the hand that feeds you.

There was one moment which was both a highlight and a let down was when Jenna Elfman (Dharma) and Thomas Gibson (Greg) appeared.  The moment was fantastic, because I never thought that I would EVER see the two of them together again.  That said, making them be edgy and snippy with each other – “Someone needs to file for a divorce.”  Come on, Chuck, why do that to all the Dharma and Greg fans out there?  Why not let us have our moment that Dharma and Greg rode off into the sunset and they have a bunch of kids and are happy?

Okay, I’m done whining.

The episode did teach me not to ever piss off Chuck Lorre.  I’m kidding.  I’m not even an actress, what could he do to me?  What I did learn is that the show will still keep its edge and be funny without Charlie Sheen.  He wasn’t the whole show – the acting talents of Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Conchata Ferrell (the funniest woman on TV) and Holland Taylor are what make Two and a Half Men what it is – a very funny sitcom.  Ashton is going to bring more dimension to the show and allow the rest to shine.  He already did in the very first epidsode.

HPV Vaccine

Michele Bachmann and her uneducated minions seem to think that giving your daughter a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease is a bad thing.  I wrote the below comic to show just how bad it could be.  Consider it a public service announcement…

How the world would work, if what Michele Bachmann says really came true.

God and Michele Bachmann

God wonders.

Matthew 25

A Sad Jesus

In fact, the entire GOP has apparently not read Matthew 25:31-46. Just listen to them when they call Social Security and Medicare entitlements. They act like we the people are getting rich on the backs of the taxpayers, but the only ones getting rich are the so-called “job creators”. A vote for a Republican is just going to put more money in the pockets of those who least need it, while the “job creators” continue to layoff our working brothers and sisters.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Pray Away…

I drew most of this by hand.  However; when I scanned it in, I lost some stuff.  I realize now that my handwritten wording couldn’t be read, so I re-did it in Paint.

Anyone else tired of the so-called religious right commandeering our loving, forgiving and patient God to spread their own hate-filled messages?  Michele Bachmann and her “straight” husband are the worse of the lot.  I pray that Jesus has mercy on their souls, but I fear that they are goats and Jesus is looking for sheep, so there might not be any hope for them.  Like the last comic I posted, click on the image to see a larger size.

Praying...