OK then   Listen up ‘n pay attention to what the Old Lady sez or I will find you and bite your butt………vierstehen sie??
You  got that?

I have decided I am going to give the world a break and see if I still got me a *blog* somewhere in this creaky old carcass of  mine.   I have no idea what to write about but what the heck. I’m sure something will show up.   But I need to take a quickie break first,  the old tattered  brain cells are kind of  rusty and frayed at the edges.         WHOA !~!~!!! —-   I think I just found something. 

This *whatever it is* was just laying around on a page in my Wordpad files.   Gotta see if it fits into the space allotted for me here.   On my WordPress thesis..   Where I’m typing this as I speak.  At this moment.  OK then.   Harumpff!   *cough*    Ready?  

Peter Walker [American space physicist; researcher at Rice Univ;
contractor for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Space Science Div.]
quotes —

“…..The supreme arrogance of religious thinking ~~ that a carbon-
based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust
around a boring dwarf star in a minor galaxy in an
underpopulated local group of galaxies in an unfashionable
suburb of a super cluster would look up at the sky and declare,
“it was all made so that I could exist!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well, there you have it.   Another human who believes in reality and
knows no invisible deity could  [or did] *create* anything,
much less an entire planet plus a few members of an imaginary dysfunctional
“family” which grew from that small group in “The Garden of Eden“ to the seven billion
humans we now have using up Earth’s resources at an  appallingly rapid pace.  How any human
can believe there is some kind of supernatural being  residing in an endless Universe,
who people worship–for who knows what  reason– (this “god” fellow never, EVER did
one single thing to facilitate the liberties of homo sapiens “He” supposedly also “created”)
When are human beings going to grow up???  Children are allowed to have invisible friends,
but I’m pretty sure kids know the difference between their invisible “friends” and real
ones……..grown-ups need to accept reality by acting like responsible adults—-and give up
the vain hope that “praying” to their invisible deity will make those prayer supplications actually
work out somehow—-they won’t work, prayers never do,  they will always fail.

Most of the problems of the world are, and always have been, caused by religion.
For example, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, 9/11, gay bashing, and family
planning clinic bombings in the USA.  Then there were the crusades, the inquisition,
witch burnings, the suppression of women, and the dark ages.  Get the idea?

“Humanity will never truly be free until the ugly black yoke of religion is lifted
by the clear light of truth, reason and rational thinking.”   John Adams,  4th
President of America said that.  He was also credited with the statement that
REALLY ticks off the self-righteous Rethuglicans—– “This country
was in no way founded as a Christian nation”

And last, but certainly not least, a few months ago?, the ridiculous bellowing and “Much Ado
About Nothing” by the “Council of Bishops Gang” whining about their “religious liberties”.,,..whatever the heck that’s supposed to mean….Come on folks!!!—-what other humungous money-making business(“religion”) gets to keep every cent it takes in without one penny paid in taxes, like real businesses   (plus, are these “religious” entities EVER required to account for any of the huge piles of money about which no-one ever seems to ask what and WHERE (philanthrophy) the “church” dispenses it?). 

What an astonishing *con game* the assorted religious entities  of America are allowed to
manipulate for their own benefit !! 

Just read an article today on an online News site that the collective *holy roller* businesses in our country pile up a tidy $17 Billion in “profits” yearly  —- or whatever all that loot that’s put into collection plates (and holy investments?) is called ??  Who knows?  *Religion* does just about anything it wants to do—no questions asked? 

Why do churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, et al get a free ride in our society, anyway??

The most willfully ignorant “believers” live with the biggest fairytale of all……….Creation.  I just
can’t wrap my mind around any human being actually believing our planet was *created*  by
a non-existent superhero (who never, ever did SQUAT for Earth’s inhabitants, so of what use is
this “god” to anyone, anyway?)  How did the so-called “superior” species on this planet ever get
the screwy idea Earth was created in one big swipe of a “godly” invisible wand ??
—–and this supposedly awesome *magic trick* has culminated in the extraordinarily bountiful
planet named “Earth” ??  Yikes, that really IS some kind of pipe dream!

And yet, there are still gullible humans who believe the fiction of *Creation* should be
taught in America’s public schools !!!  “Sawdust for Brains” Sarah Palin was an advocate for
classes in “Creation” to be taught to real live children…..in an actual school of *learning*.—–Oy !  (Sure
would liked to have seen what kind of mumbo-jumbo curricula for *Creationism*  she would
have [tried] to come up with ……… Whew.)

Well, I think I have vented long enough.  I hope a few people, anyway, will read this very
lengthy rant/rave.   I know I feel better now, thank you very much.  

Oh Yeah!…..read my lips. —  I don’t know much about EVOLUTION, aka *Natural Selection*
 but I do know *IT* occurred on this planet and it is absolutely ludicrous to believe an invisible
“deity” slapped it all together, threw in that dysfunctional “family” I mentioned and voila` —-
 there it was.  NOT LIKELY!  It would take a lot of time to find the answers to the route taken
that ultimately produced the fragile hominids who are  supposedly the “superior”  species~~~~
but I bet it’s an  interesting story !!  

Every human being shares 98.6% of their DNA with the world’s primates.  Coincidence?  I don’t
think so…….LOL  

 Instead of that meaningless slogan “In god we trust”,  it makes more sense to call it
“In reason we trust”  (not to mention the very cool quote by some old guy in our
collective past,  which I use a lot…… because it is so doggone To The POINT.  —

“,,,,,,,,,,Religions disperse, kingdoms collapse, but works of
science live on thru the ages.”

Now THERE is a catch-phrase every living thing created by our mutual “mother” (NATURE)  can be
relied upon as the reality of reasonable beliefs……………….

OK,  I’m done now. 

Peter Walker [American space physicist; researcher
at Rice Univ; contractor for the U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory/Space Science Div.] quotes —

“…..The supreme arrogance of religious thinking ~~ that a carbon-
based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust
around a boring dwarf star in a minor galaxy in an
underpopulated local group of galaxies in an unfashionable
suburb of a super cluster would look up at the sky and declare,
“it was all made so that I could exist!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well, there you have it.   Another human who believes in reality and
knows no invisible deity could  [or did] *create* anything,
much less an entire planet plus a few members of an imaginary
dysfunctional “family” which grew from that small group in “The
Garden of Eden“ to the seven billion humans we now have using up Earth’s
resources at an  appallingly rapid pace.  How any human can believe there
is a supernatural being  residing in an endless Universe,
who people worship–for who knows what  reason– (this “god” fellow
never did one single thing to facilitate the liberties of human beings
“He” supposedly also “created”) 

Most of the problems of the world are, and always have been, caused by religion.
For example, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, 9/11, gay bashing, and family
planning clinic bombings in the USA.  Then there were the crusades, the inquisition,
witch burnings, the suppression of women, and the dark ages.  Get the idea?

“Humanity will never truly be free until the ugly black yoke of religion is lifted
by the clear light of truth, reason and rational thinking.”   John Adams,   our second
elected President of the first 13 colonies said that.  He was also credited with the statement that
REALLY ticks off the self-righteous Rethuglicans—– “This country
was in no way founded as a “Christian nation“  (and it wasn’t…..haha)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And last, but certainly not least, a few months ago?, the ridiculous bellowing
and *Much Ado About Nothing* by the “Council of Bishops Gang” whining
about their “religious liberties”.,,..whatever the heck that’s supposed to mean….
Come on folks!!!—-what other humungous money-making business (“religion”)
gets to keep every cent it takes in without one penny paid in taxes?
(plus, are these”religious” entities EVER required to account for any of their huge
piles of money about which no-one ever asks what and WHERE (philanthrophy) the
“church” dispenses it?).  What an astonishing *con game* the assorted  religious
entities  of America are allowed to manipulate for their own benefit !!

Just read an article today on an online News site that the collective *holy roller* businesses in our country pile up
a tidy $17 Billion in “profits” yearly  —- or whatever all that loot that’s put into collection plates (and holy investments?)
is called ??  Who knows?  And gullible “believers” might think all that staggering amount of TAX-FREE income is all for the
“good works” the Roman Catholic empire dispenses???  Good Grief, how gullible and naive can human beings be?

Why do “churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, et al” get a free ride in our society, anyway??

The most willfully ignorant “believers” live with the biggest fairytale of all,  “Creation”.  ~~~I just
can’t wrap my mind around any human being actually believing our planet was *created*  by
a non-existent superhero (who never, ever did SQUAT for Earth’s inhabitants, so of what use is
this “god” to anyone, anyway?)  How did the so-called “superior” species on this planet ever get
the screwy idea Earth was created in one big swipe of a “godly” invisible wand ??
—–and this supposedly awesome *magic trick*  culminated in the extraordinarily bountiful
tiny planet named “Earth” ??  Yikes, that really IS some kind of pipe dream!

And yet, there are still gullible humans who believe the fiction of *Creation* should be
taught in America’s public schools !!!  Sarah  “Sawdust for Brains” Palin was an advocate for
classes in “Creation” to be taught to real live children…..in an actual school of *learning*.—–Oy !
(Sure would liked to have seen what kind of mumbo-jumbo curriculum for *Creationism*  she would
have [tried] to come up with ……… Whew.)

Well, I think I have vented long enough.  I hope a few people, anyway, will read this very
lengthy rant/rave.   I know I feel better now, thank you very much.

Oh …..read my lips……. I don’t know much about EVOLUTION, aka *Natural Selection*
but I know it had to have occurred on this planet and it is absolutely ridiculous to believe an invisible
“deity” slapped it all together, threw in that imaginary, dysfunctional “family” I mentioned and voila` —-
there it was.  NOT LIKELY!    

I read somewhere that every human being shares 98.6% of their DNA with
the world’s primates.  Coincidence?  I don’t think so…….LOL

Instead of that meaningless slogan “In god we trust”,  it makes more sense to call it
“In reason we trust”  —not to mention the very cool quote by some old guy in our
collective past,  which I use a lot—–because it is so doggone To the POINT.  —

“,,,,,,,,,,Religions disperse, kingdoms collapse, but works of
science live on thru the ages.”

Does anyone actually~~~go back into a person’s archives and putz around in there? Like, would any visitor be so enamored of anyone’s old blogs to actually rummage around–like the one kitchen drawer most of us have that’s just full of stuff–looking for a gem? Sometimes I regret deleting a blog on this page ‘cos I think it’s pretty cool. (It’s hard to be humble). But then, old stuff really needs to be taken off the page or it gets moldy after a while.   Perhaps even more revolting than that forgotten cucumber in one’s veggie crisper??—-now THAT is one retching, pukey discovery.  EEeeeeuuuu.

I heard a commercial couple days ago that got me to thinking. Now I do not take “thinking” lightly, this is a pretty big deal for me. Anyway, the ad extolled the virtues of a construction company and at the end, the guy says “And this is a Christian-based company”. What the hell is that supposed to mean?

In other words, can we assume that other companies who do not make this declaration are not as reputable? Should they also say, at the end of the ad, “And this is a Jewish-based company” — “And this is an Wiccan-based company”.  Is a Christian-based company more trustworthy? Anyone out there—-YOO-HOO—-have an
opinion?   Hmmm,  well,  since I have an opinion just about everything,  I certainly have one in this case, also.  I think you may have a clue what I think of that company bozo.   I leave you with this entertaining little placard, sign, whatever one calls these things………………..it reminds me of a certain political party that has lost its way, which is undoubtedly a very good sign for MY party.   hahahahahaha

Ummmm, and so spake this unworthy, disgusting non-believer in fairytales and committed~~~wait for it !!   WAIT FOR

IT!!~~~~~~~Aaaaeeeeeeiiiioo ~~~~~  ATHEIST …..Me! –    

who, according to millions of believers, somebody supposedly dispenses love and a whole lot of Bull$heet about a “hereafter” in an imaginary kingdom called Heaven  (Or Hell, if you are especially naughty).  The world would indeed be a much better place if there were no such thing as *religion* messing with human beings’  heads !!  Ah, but then who–or what–would clueless human beings use as excuses for their rotten behavior towards each other, the gut-wrenching cruelty to innocent animals both wild and domestic……and just about every living thing on this itty-bitty planet that stupid, stupid  homo sapiens  are so determined to destroy?  (Breeding like rabbits and filling up the planet with even more human beings for no reasonable reason…….with the planet’s resources like WATER,  FOOD and even FRESH AIR to breathe, slowly but inexorably fading, fading —GONE!  and other important *things*going belly-up that we will not be able to function without.  Ya think no?   These items are slowly but surely disappearing and once those….admittedly……rather important resources are about kaput, so will the human race be extinguished.   The non-humans, like, say…..animals?….well, they will already be gone, gone  GONE.

But Hey!  Don’t worry, be happy……all Washington D.C.  mentally challenged  “leaders”   will happily help the planet on its inevitable death march by chanting their theme song….**Drill Baby Drill**….. What does it matter if precious Arctic Seas wildlife is eliminated forever,  who cares if~~no, when another horrifying oil drilling catastrophe occurs…..the Arctic oceans are NOT amenable to human beings charging in and totally devastating that fragile,  critical to the whole eco-system up in the frozen tundra  (and we do mean frozen…cold beyond belief) — not to mention what damage could occur in the ANWR, the drilling will be close—too close—to America’s last pure National Wildlife Reserve.   How sad, how pitifully SAD.  America is falling apart!!

My mind, what’s left of it,  feels like it’s filled with cotton balls.  Dumb, useless cotton balls.  But I’ll wake up, I usually do, eventually. Oy. And  that is the goofiest  intro for this, admittedly, useless “blog” that I hope will be of some mild interest to someone, a few adventurous readers….maybe?…   I feel it in my creaky bones, especially in my right knee which is a total mess, but that is another story.

Actually, I could be wrong, but probably not since I am usually right about almost everything,  [it's hard to be humble]  but I don’t remember any totally stinky times during the years I was aware of what was going on in my country.   But then, almost with no warning,  everything today is such an enormous, gigantic MESS !   It is really frightening and a tad scary, also.  Yeah. It really is.   Well, maybe there’s one or two bright spots on the horizon, or whatever, ya think? I admit it.   I waste a lot of time piddling around at this infernal machine.   I “cyber-shop”  (like window shopping “in the olden days”).   I pour a cup of coffee and  putz around sipping on that while messing around reading political Tee-shirts.  One day I wasted more than an hour “reading” cutesy stuff on T-shirts, sweats, whatever……wanna read some of those I read?  and liked? —- Nah.  Probably not.   There’s lots of funny ones, for both sides of the fence.  All ritey then, I believe I am finally awake.

Perhaps I am, after all, stretching my luck…… being an eccentric old crone isn’t very interesting to anyone,  anymore.   Well,  I may just have some rag-tag remnants of  not-too-boring tales of my days as a “wild child”  (T/Sgt L.J. B, USAF)……looking so fine in my impeccably neat Air Force dress uniform, struttin’ down a Wiesbaden downtown strasse in my uniform, and still after all these years — not a clue as to where I was going or what I was going to do that day.

Well anyway,  moving right along here.  Sheesh I really AM deteriorating faster than I thought.   When I started blogging  just about 10 years ago,  it was so darn much FUN.    The kidlet—-(the daughter who is a *grandma* for crying out loud……MY daughter is a grandmother??)   GASP   I think that means I must then be the GREAT-grandma of this one-in-a-million, exceptionally cute, smart and totally ready to run for president in 2045 girlie-girl—- acquired her first domain then and created an entire tutorial website and called it “Full Moon Webs.com”.  It  did very well attracting a bunch of novices to the “net” and inviting them in so they could have a personal blogpage, an e-mail account, and claim it as their very own BLOG!!”

It was an extraordinary achievement, she even provided a wide variety of graphics (her own designs)  and displays for newbies to use.  It was awesome!………In fact it has evolved into a real live business and she has been doing quite well the past few years.   The actual business name is –  http://ink2art.com.  ~~~~Ummm,  not that it matters (except to me of course, Hah)  but my first blogpage was called Ta-Dah!— “The Mousetrap”

I just happen to have a dog-eared copy of a book titled “The Quotable Atheist”  —  it is sooo-o-o-o interesting.  Not just the quotes in it with a gazillion different musings about atheism but the extraordinarily fascinating list………from A to Z……of people (generally famous names and all that) who snapped out such pithy, funny,  (and serious) opinions  about Atheism and mostly recognizable by the writers’  awesome intelligence. —- well, maybe not always that awesome, but more brains than most of us.  I suppose.   Even humans who lived *B.C.*  and *B.C.E*  (what the helk is that?)   had something to say about the invisible entity named whatever was fashionable at the time, and questioned “ITS” existence, just like this 21st century.  Imagine that.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*  I’ve been thinking….and boy did that hurt!!….if this so-called deity called   God in many parts of the world and also other names (is it the same deity with different looks & wardrobes in those other countries?)  claim their religion is the only one that their “God” will pay any attention to (no matter how many human beings those weird Arab sects slaughter in *his* name, will that add *Good* points to American politics and force impotent Republicans to stop their manic dream of ruling American women  like the Arabs rule *their* women??

Sheesh, this Tommy Jefferson dude must have had precognition
or somethin’ like dat, eh??  How could he have known?
Easy to see why I love dis guy??

Yeah.  How about that?  Ain’t this something, though?   I never thought I would ever find this place again,  was I lost or WHAT?

What?…..me lost?  Well maybe not actually lost, like in not knowing where I am or anything silly like that —— I may have taken a wrong turn a while ago and fell into a really deep hole and for some reason I couldn’t get out of it.     Very bizarre.

I don’t have a clue why it’s been so long since I have tossed my usual mishmosh of words onto this machine.  Not gonna worry about it though.  Why bother?  No matter what I write it won’t make any sense anyway.   That is what is so nice about this senile dementia thing,  I can use that as an excuse for just about anything stink-o I write about.  Good deal, eh?  Har Har

Never a dull moment on Planet Earth, though.   Got my usual quota of  email pleas to send each of those (admittedly) good & dedicated organizations who are still hopeful those inhabitants who actually believe what scientists, astronomers, new outer space discoverers, biologists, geologists,  all engineering disciplines,  and so on and on…….. fan the small spark of interest by humanity to acknowledge the pathetic, but going to happen!!,  death of  this itsy-bitsy planet pretty damn soon.  If not sooner. 

Just about everything that points to Planet Earth’s demise, along with all living organisms on it, has been noticed by CONCERNED, INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED, DEDICATED, HOMO SAPIENS all over the world.    Let’s just say, for now anyway, that the general consensus of way too many people is that *stuff* started about 2,000 years ago.    This, of course, makes absolutely no sense but I ain’t gonna argue about fairytales right now (Like “Creationism”,  what a joke on any human being who actually believes in that senseless, willful ignorance of belief that  something  has “created” this planet and set it down in a teensy corner of the 15 Billion Year Old Universe === (since the Big Bang.)  Ya know?….I hate to admit it but I do not have a clue what the heck the “Big Bang” was supposed to be all about.   Does anyone?

I’m  just gonna go right on out on a limb.  Of course it will have to be a very strong limb,  I ain’t no Twiggy, fer shure!

Oh-Oh.  Someone  —-something?  Is a-knockin’ at my door.   I suppose I should mosey on over there and see what/who is there, eh?  Nah, they’ll go away sooner or later.  Hell with it.  It’s past 3:00 in the afternoon at the moment.   I have not eaten any solid food for many hours.  Well, a couple of hours anyway.  Heck, I don’t remember.    Only joshing about the knock-knock.   It was just the UPS delivery person.   I am a tad addicted to shopping online,  it’s so easy.    Paying for a shopping spree?……..not so much fun.

This is my cat.   Her name is Snickers.   She already had that name when I adopted her from our Humane Society shelter, and since I knew she would resist having to learn a different name,   I decided I didn’t want to go thru the bother of rearranging her limited brain cells to accept something “new”……..    [actually she's quite intelligent].  She’s 98%  Maine  Coon]    So it’s Snickers.  Guess I’ll be her obedient servant as long as we both live.   Ummmm, don’t tell Snickers I said this, but I would actually prefer  a Golden Retreiver than this spoiled feline but alas!   — a small apartment is no place for a big ol’ clump of a dog….*snif*  Boo-Hoo

I am going to get me something to eat right now.  Sure hope something yummy crawled into the refrigerator while I was piddling around all morning doing absolutely nothing — neither for me nor the cat.    THEN I am going to really make a  dedicated effort to publish something (using actual words and stuff like that).  I shall return.

“FLYING HIGH” – This link won’t make any sense except to someone from my Facebook wall who discovered I was a  military enlistee  (because Facebook took it upon itself to broadcast that bit of trivia when I updated my profile)  then a new *friend* noticed that item and dropped in on me at FB.  SHE also was over in Germany about the same time as me.  Small world?  You betcha.

Well, this is it.  I guess I will finally have to concede that I am completely razzlefratzed at this moment.  At this point in time,  it is the next day.   The second day of  HOT.   I really, really hate HOT  — as in like, Summer Hot. Actually I hate Summer.    I  hate to SWEAT.   OOooops   Excuse the gaffe.   Horses—sweat.  Men—perspire. Women—glow.

Anyway!  What I am talking about, I think, is emblazoned in that ridiculous title I gave this blog entry.   When I check my site meter I’m always surprised at the number of  “visitors”  recorded for each day of the week.  Plus another chart below which displays “Number of pages visited” (and the lengths of the visit)  and so on blah blah blah.   But none of these “lurkers” have ever posted a comment for any blog I’ve slapped on my site.  Thus,  are you a lurker or just bashful??   Oh what the helk.   Who cares.   hahahaha

The world of  Blogging, where billions of people have poured their hearts out on their very  own website (usually designed by themselves or with help from platforms like WordPress and the rest of them…….has today been reduced to quickie sound/sight *bytes* on a gazillion topics and it’s name is FaceBook!   What a phenomenon, eh?   I don’t care a whit for Facebook, simply because I am way too overbearing and offend many people’s tender feelings by saying what I feel and WHY……….If I don’t see any logic or reasonable hypotheses for an issue others are totally glued to (and it doesn’t matter a spit whether what they *think* is right is usually way off into what I call the Land of La-La)…….if they are wrong because they are stupid or because they make no effort to LEARN  real truths about what *they* think, in no way can anyone truly contribute anything of  meaning to others.

My favorite “never happened that way”  feeling I always got whenever I’d hear a misguided (dumb?)  American citizen proudly announce  that  “This country was founded as a Christian nation“    Did these blockheads  not absorb ANY of the history of  how the  first 13 colonies turned into 13 of the very  first United States of America??  Good Grief.   —-  I’m a member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and what a grand and glorious feeling it is to finally admit, once and for  all, that I have not ever believed in some kind of invisible being who supposedly *created* this weenie little planet we call Earth and populated it with billions and billions of human being who apparently sprung from the original four people “He” created.   What a bunch of hogwash!   People should take a good long look around  http://nasa.org  and take a few trips with the Hubble telescope which has patiently been cruising around the universe for 20 years now….I believe totally in Science.   ‘

“The religions disperse,  kingdoms collapse, but works of science live on thru the ages.”   (some really old guy said this eons ago, and it’s still true!)

FFRF is an organization whose basic  purpose is to monitor the constitutional edict that “State and Religion”  shall always be SEPERATE.   It is a serious group of many freethinkers who are dedicated to preserving what the founding fathers knew……that *religion* has absolutely no place  in our SECULAR  government,  and the citizens of America should be eternally grateful that it remains this way.    There have been small  “well, let’s do this, no-one will notice”  things.  The latest being our president declaring a “National Day of Prayer”  ———————a total and complete violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.   President Obama should know better, or so one would think.  Prayer…..what a waste of time.  Prayer always fails. Whatever you want, babies,  or believe you deserve?  —Ya just gotta work for it yourself.

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Hi there!    It’s that sweet li’l old lady from the land of cheeseheads,  endless adoration of Saint Vince Lombardi. (and our beloved Green Bay Packers),  adorably cute dairy  cows gently chomping on whatever it  is they chomp on in their green pastures [grass, I believe?) — topped off in the state’s biggest city (Milwaukee)…..with its crowning glory,  Santiago Calatrava’s  Brisè  Soleil  at our lakefront Art Museum.  Which is, by the way, quite breathtaking.   If I do say so myself.   Which I just did.

I have come to a momentous decision~~~I have decided what I want to be when I grow up. Yup. Since there are probably thousands of other older faces in the  crowd and it certainly is no big deal anymore  — no matter who says so — I will just have to come out of my shy, withdrawn persona and claim the most meaningful title I can think of.   And by golly, what  else would there be?…………Well-l-l……… I guess I could always claim to be THE BEST  of the OLD BIDDY BLOGGERS, but I get tired just thinking about the tough competition hangin’ around the blogesphere. just waiting to knock me off the No. One perch, ya know?    Yeah, right..  Nah, who really cares at this point in time, eh?   Blogging isn’t the fun it used to be……now it’s that dumb Facebook thingie.  What exactly is the point of being “invited” to be someone’s *friend*, especially when it is someone you have no idea even existed on this planet before he/she asked to “be your friend”.   So silly.

I drop by there once in a while but tell the truth,  I kind of got really  bored looking at someone else’s family pictures*…..and how many ways can a person pen a comment on the unbelievable beauty and so on of someone’s baby/toddler/teenager/all pets/etc etc etc ???  OF COURSE YOUR BABY, TODDLER, TEENAGER, BLAHBLAHBLAH, is amazingly, incredibly gorgeous.  WOW!  All I regularly do is slap a petition or something similar on my wall to invite anyone accidentally falling into my space there, to take a look at my latest petition and SIGN IT,  for crying out loud !!!

My petitions will always be from the  kinds of  activist organizations who honestly give a damn about our country/our citizens/everyone’s animal welfare guardianship/our slowly dying planet, blah blah blah.  No surprises.there, for sure.

There is, apparently, some kind of very special wedding ceremony going on in a couple of days.   Over in the *Mother Country*, which is inhabited by many folks just like us “Mericans.   Except they are British, you see.  In fact, the groom, in this case, will one day be the British peoples’  KING.   And his wife will be, I suppose, the QUEEN?  Is that how it works?   This ain’t gonna happen, however, until the current Queen (think her name is Elizabeth or something like that) is gone from this earthly realm.  Lizzie is, I believe, 84 years old now so I’m sure she has a few good years left, eh?  She is in pretty good shape…….my goodness, and why not!  I can’t even imagine the pampering and care she must get 24/7, right?

Anyway!   I haven’t heard a peep from the so-called “blogger friend”  who lives over there.   He is probably embarrassed to contact me since he obviously had no intention of inviting me to accompany him to the royal wedding and the swingin’ party afterwards.   Shame on him.   Oh well.   Doesn’t really matter.   I  don’t have anything to wear, anyway.  In any case I would be very bored  — I recall, very vividly, how really, really bored I got watching Diana and what’s-his-name  (the duke of something) come  tippy-toeing down that long, endless aisle  towards the altar……..Diana’s wedding dress’ train was so long I fell asleep way before the couple finally arrived in front of the altar where the official whatevers were waiting to commence the ceremony.

Of course there is the possibility the old coot who lives quite some distance from my town wasn’t invited to the Big Par-tay and he just didn’t want to embarrass himself by telling me this.   OR he is attending the royal shindig with some cutesy English lassie.  *snif*   Well.  Ask me if I care.   Ha Ha.            Ha Ha. Þ

*Images of my incredibly gorgeous great-grandaughter are, of course, always the most adorable…….teehee.

   Just been browsing thru my messy files and spotted this little thingie.  For reasons known only to the invisible force that told me, in no uncertain terms, Hey You Old Bag!!…..Get yer lazy arse over to your WordPress link and put something down in print.   Been a long time since I’ve wandered into this little corner of my ‘puter.   You know how that goes, right?—
Like………*Time flies when you’re having fun*  or so “they” say.

-Well, lemme tell ya, that is one large load of  krapola.  Time does NOT fly when you’re having fun, or in my case, not having any fun at all.    So if I kvetch a little I have every right to do so,  I mean what the heck…..this is MY blog, ain’t it?  — And if I want to moan, groan, kvetch and just generally act like a horse’s patoot,  well,  ……that’s the way it is……..Uh Huh, Uh Huh, I like it….blah blah  (from the song whose words I do not know)

I had a total knee replacement a while ago.   It seems like a very long time since that momentous occasion, but I think the actual dirty deed was done July 2009.   ???   Well, that’s my big news for tonight.   Ain’t nothin’  real exciting to talk about, actually.   What I really want to discuss is  [drumroll please]…….my coming out.   Finally.   I am finally, and for real from this day forward,  a true-blue, dedicated and happy ATHEIST.   Whew, what a load off my back……LOL.    Been feeling that way for years and finally said to myself — “Myself!– Get with it, you know you  do not believe by any stretch of the imagination, in an invisible, never seen, never heard,  big old guy who supposedly *created* this weeny  little planet called Earth and for a couple thousand years homo sapiens have “worshipped” this entity.  Before that, though, hominids quit dragging their knuckles and swinging from a banana tree and finally got up on their two feet and wandered around in search of a warm cave………..”Hey, I think we’re kinda on our own, Barnie Stoneman, got a match so we can make a fire?”  I have no clue how these Neanderthal humans*  discovered fire or even discovered icky-looking critters tasted better cooked than raw??   [note:  y'all know that us speshul mammal-type "humans" share 98.8% of our DNA with the current primates, don'tcha??  They be our brudders and our sistahs, don'tcha know?]  Hahahahaha

*Scientists, for reasons known only to them (I certainly don’t know),  have decided the last of the “caveman”  homo sapiens “Neanderthals”  went kaput only 30,000 years ago, which is a very small drop in the bucket considering it’s known by every brainiac on the planet today that  Earth was probably smashed together approximately 50+ BILLION years ago. Atheism is nothing new but its popularity for millions of people in this 21st century now is good news………means  more and more people  have realized LIFE and LOVE and HAPPINESS,  along with contentment and so on…………has absolutely nothing to do with the myth of a ”being” having been responsible for slapping this  little planet together, complete with flora, fauna and, for starters,   actual HUMANS.    Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lilith (Adam supposedly turned that gal into dust, though.  Nasty guy!)  I just found out that people who cling to their choice of religion don’t seem to notice, or care?, that even the Christian bible is a confusing mish-mosh of fairy tales and nonsense!  

I watch a soap opera every day.  I have for 30 years (“All My Children”)   But when a fairy tale like the Christian bible declares that EVE was the mother of all, and her sons Cain & Abel married their sisters, and so on, it surpasses any corny soap opera on  television in this century.  The goofy story of Noah’s Ark.  Good Grief!!   For ANY  rational human being to believe such a ridiculous  story leaves me speechless…..Whew!

There are at least half-a-dozen very large, well-organized  Atheist organizations, etc  all over the Internet.   Millions of perfectly normal, sane, obviously thoughtful people reject the notion that planet Earth was *created* by a mysterious entity called God.   I don’t know a doggone thing about other kinds of  “religion”  around the world, but if that’s what makes them happy,  what the heck………..go for it.   Just don’t think that being a *Christian* makes YOU any better a human being than ME.    I believe in ME.   For ME there is NO HIGHER POWER than my own conscience,  my own morality and my own pursuit of happiness.    The only result of your praying to an invisible deity for help or for whatever reason will be solved only by YOU and your own personal moral authority.    

   Putz.  I like Prez JFK’s comment, just need glasses to read it, though.  Bummer. 
He is saying — “I believe in an America where the separation of church and
state is absolute”       —- Gosh I sure did love that man!!
His wife, not so much.   lol 

Hellooo der.   Guess who’s back.  Oh shucks, you guessed, didn’t ya?   I am amazed, every week,  at the “hits” I’m getting of lurkers stopping off at meandthecat while they’re going thru the gallery of WordPress’ Thesis blogsites.  Many even stopped in at a few blogposts.  Cool.  But yeah it’s the loud, squawky, complaining, (aka bitchin’) old crone.   This blogpage operates under the domain of meandthecat.com but although I have been blogging since 2001 I sure couldn’t create a site like I have right now.  Started long ago with Blogger.com, then WordPress came along and it was love at first “site” (so to speak).  Then the WP brought out WordPress Thesis…….and what a platform that is for imaginative blogsite creators to *create*.   Alas, as talented and clever as I am and always have been  [it's hard to be humble] I never could have come up with the astonishing blogpage I have right now!   My kidlet designed this blogpage for me,  she operates under the name kitty@ink2art.com and is a whiz at website design.

Anyway, enough about other people.  I have stuff simmering on the back burner that’s been charred and tossed in the garbage ’cause the “news” I was bringing to this  page got too old to blog about.   Did I mention my home state is, Uh, Wisconsin?  Milwaukee, actually.  Our newly elected Governor decided to make himself the shining example of how a  rightwing thought process would make Gov. Walker a hero in the eyes of private sector workers (by balancing the state’s really stinky budget)………..as opposed to the public workers who did not have to pay one single penny towards their health insurance or their pension benefits.   Thus the power of the [cold shiver down the spine]  Unions.   So  the public workers got a very unpleasant kick in the pants when, much to everyone’s surprise,  the Unions agreed to remove collective bargaining from the rules of warfare between corporations/municipalities and their members. (public workers)

I tried to imagine a scenario where, while in the sweaty, panic-striken mood of being interviewed by a *Human Resources* bunny for a job I really would have liked ………..
Get the preliminary “experience” and “what a wonderful, compassionate, dedicated worker you would be if lucky enuf to be employed by TidyWipe diaper service, right now.
No bickering about “collective bargaining rights”,  you’re offered a salary and if lucky,  a package of decent benefits like health insurance?—-Take it or leave it.  I took it.  Worked out just fine.  Did it all without a Union chief breathing fire down everyone’s neck.  The private sector of business generally doesn’t condone any conflict….they need a worker to do a job, they will pay XXX number of dollars, provide decent health insurance and that’s that. Take it or leave it.

But I gotta say.  I am very, very proud of our citizens…..not only in Wisconsin…..but in all our states.   The protests that went on 24/7 for such a long time (I know I was sick of watching the news, which of course went on and on and on.  Even when there was nothing to say.  The talking heads on our local stations just kept on moving their jaws like cows in a pasture, chewing on a cud since there was usually nothing new or exciting going on most of the time.   *YAWN*    The only tragedy was the mess inside the Capitol building.  The marble and granite surfaces were riddled with “tape” (protest signs) and I can just imagine how the bathrooms and everything else looked and smelled after a whole lot of healthy, robust and bratwurst eating citizenry got thru grazing from their picnic baskets.   EEeeeeuuu.  Oh, and many people slept inside the building, here and there.  Would someone please pass the
Febreze, please?  Yuck

But doggone it, bless all the protesters’ sincere,  dedicated and peaceful demonstrations.  Not a single gunshot was heard.  No fisticuffs from opposing viewpoints of people.  I am and even more so now,  so happy to be an American citizen…..Born in the USA.    Democracy still works, now if we can just find a few REAL people to run for elective office who share the same commitment to our Republic, For Which it Stands……..and make some sane, reasonable and decent concessions from both political parties.

First thing on the agenda, however? — The Republican Party and every one of those hypocritical, nauseatingly righteous, tight-assed beyond belief,  smug.
women-hating  (and quit spitting out nonsense, as one Senator did, that “women should stay home and take care of the kids”)   What a total horse’s tushy!

No more prying into a woman’s totally PRIVATE reproductive life, it is none of ANY backward-thinking politician to inflict THEIR very narrow ideas of how the FEMALES of this country, who, by the way, outnumber the weaker sex, who are stronger than men (mentally, anyway), and are not ruled 24/7 by their tatas as men are obsessed with their gidgets.  Last but not least, for the love of Heaven….Rethuglicans!!! —- Stay out of my doctor’s office  I mean it.

Who are YOU to decide if a woman should have an abortion or not?  Who are YOU to decide whether young or adult females shouldn’t have access to birth control?

Whew. I worked myself into a frenzy, but I think it is just hunger pangs.   I have been so busy ranting and raving I forgot to eat anything since some cereal about eight hours ago.  Well !!  No wonder I am feeling faint with hunger.  I need to correct this situation right now.

Ummmm, actually I don’t really have a  “sweet baboo” —-  In what’s left of my senile mind, I call people and things I love my  “sweet baboo” —  No, it doesn’t make any sense, but do I care?  Of course not.

Oh Joy! Oh Bliss! Oh Happiness!  —–well, not really.   Shocking news.   OK, only to me, but of course since I am of the opinion that I AM the most important person in my life,  I have to go with my gut instincts…..I AM the most important human being I’ve ever known. And that is a fact no-one can ever dispute.   Correct?  Of course I’m correct and 100% right also,  I generally am.

OK then, now that it’s definitely been established that I have just lived thru the most horrifying, frustrating, boiling mad week of my life (as far as I can remember, there may have been other disgustingly horrific events I have endured in my very long march thru life, but this atrocity……this abomination and destruction of one’s very humanity…….what happened to ME in the last couple of weeks?? —- Oh the misery.  The pain.

My life, my heart, my soul (if there is such a thing, which I doubt) and every other nasty thing I can think of……all wrapped up in just a few words.  Words I can only hope I will never have to hear again.

MY COMPUTER FIZZLED OUT ON ME.   WITHOUT ANY WARNING.   YES,  IT GOT REALLY UGLY and even the cat knew enough to stay out of my way.   I don’t really believe I would have kicked her across the room and  withheld her evening ritual of getting a little nosh of “kitty cookies” as her treat of the day.   Felt like hitting something, though.   What I really needed to vent my anger and frustration with anything electronic, cordless, wireless, blah blah……..is an effigy of Sarah Palin* so I could beat the stuffing out of that and not suffer any consequences (I don’t own a gun, don’t ever wish to own one,  much less use one), — now that may have alleviated a whole lot of my frustration and bitter feelings towards that guy named Bill Gates.

*You may have heard of that person…..Sarah Palin?  “aka Sawdust for Brains” ??  “Don’t retreat, Re-load”   (Such a cutey, eh?)  Someone sent me a link to a website selling T-shirts, signs, posters–ad nauseam–online.  All Sarah Palin, with pithy little silly sayings on the shirt/posters.   Unbelievably vulgar so I won’t pass along the URL for that stinky site.

Oh nertz.  I haven’t blogged for so long I have all these words just running around in the big empty spaces in my skull and not getting to the point.  Oh well.  Anyway!   Long story short.  I did what any reasonable person would do when *things* go kaflooey.   I did a simple “Restore”,  have done it before thru the years and it always worked just fine.  Not this time.  (My new computer came bundled with Windoz 7 which I loathe with a passion I never knew I had anymore….hahaha.   Sure wish I had my Windoz XP back.)   *snif*    Oh yeah,  I even took the final step and did a System Recovery.   It got worse.

The kidlet  has so often helped me thru crises like this, but in this case the death of the computer (tower)  was beyond her help.  All I had left was “Games” and spent five days not  eating, didn’t sleep, didn’t do nuthin’ !! — but play Solitaire.  I tried two of the other games on the big menu of games listed, but they were too hard to me to comprehend.   And that definitely did NOT sit well with my ego at all So it was back to Solitaire.  Did I just say I wasn’t eating during this miserable time?   I only wish.   hahaha  Nothing keeps me from my regularly scheduled rounds to the cupboards and refrigerator daily to see if anything good re-appeared since the last time I looked into the freezer, et al.

Well, this blather is getting much too long, so in as few words as possible,  I will wind it up.   I mean, who really cares anyway, except ME, of course.   It does show however, how much I depend on having  Internet access at my fingertips 24/7 since I renew animal advocacy orgs’  memberships online,  get my bank biz online, buy stuff online, communicate online with people,  stay in touch with several leftwing liberal websites and hope they’re trying their best to print more truth than just being irresponsible and yapping about things that have no connection with reality…………..[kind of like another political party I know, the one I was always too poor to belong to.  They're called Rethuglicans]

Oh yeah.  The computer.   Was going to take it in to Best Buy,  I’d had a member of their “Geek Squad” come to my home once and he did a wonderful job straightening out a mess I made when I blundered (as usual) into ‘puter mysteries I had no business blundering into.   Now I know better, no more sneaking into the “basement” of the Windoz totally non-intelligible directions about Diagnostics and Whirlybirds and ummmm, Windows Configuration and Constipation,  and a brief diagram showing the progression of  the dreaded  “Diarrhhea Error,  How to Track and Heal”   —– Dat Billy Gates, he don’t miss a trick when it comes to his Windoz and dat stuff.

Except for Windows 7.   Excuse me while I throw up.