- Dear Motorcycle Man – If you’re going to scoot out from behind me on an on ramp and get into the traffic lanes, please follow through and pass me before I get to the end of said on-ramp. Hanging back in my blind spot tends to make it hard for me to safely merge. Luckily for you, I saw you behind me when we started onto the highway, or something awful might have happened.
- Dear Bicycle Guy – Yes, it was a beautiful day Sunday to go out for a ride with your mates. But if you’re going to ride three abreast on a narrow, two-lane country road, please make sure you’re not riding your tires on the lane dividers, because I really don’t like having to pull two of my tires off the road so that I don’t clip you in the head with a mirror.
- Dear Louisville People – Really? You managed to shut down traffic on all three of my routes home due to accidents? Thanks. I love taking surface streets across town during rush hour.
- Today will go down in family history as the day that Girlie Bear had her head licked by a giraffe.
- She sometimes has a rough patch with the animals at the zoo. She had a swan try to eat her leg. She’s been urinated on by a snake. When she was little, an alligator snarled at her and she climbed me like a tree.
- I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
- Someone needs to tell my Labrador Retrievers that they are indeed water dogs, and being asked to stay outside for 15 minutes while it is sprinkling is not going to bring about a horrible death.
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on June 10, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 161
We have an expression in prize fighting: “Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.” Well my friend, you’ve just been hit. The getting up is up to you. — The Ghost and the Darkness
This is a cliche, but you’re not judged based on the amount of punishment you can take, but rather by the amount of times you can take the punishment and keep going. If you’re looking for an easy trip, you bought a ticket to the wrong ride. Life will kick you in the gut on occasion, and it’s how you deal with it that matters.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 10, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 160
Palmer Joss: [Ellie challenges Palmer to prove the existence of God] Did you love your father?
Ellie Arroway:What?
Palmer Joss:Your dad. Did you love him?
Ellie Arroway:Yes, very much.
Palmer Joss:Prove it.
— Contact
Faith is an intangible. It is not something that can be proven. It is something that you feel, not something you count and describe mathematically. Trying to impose a rational standard of evidence into something that is not subject to rational evidence is worthless.
On the flip side, faith is not science, and should not be a substitute for it. I can believe in my religion and trust in science at the same time, but they are separate fields of study. Science cannot model and describe the human soul and its interactions with God, but saying “God made it that way” when asked “Why does this work like this?” of “How did this happen?” is a cop-out.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 9, 2014
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It has to be both
I don’t watch beauty pageants. My main reason is that I’m a fat, balding 43 year old guy, and oggling 20 year old women in evening gowns and bathing suits would be creepy. But of course, reading the news this morning, I saw that there was a big national show in Louisiana this weekend. Apparently the young lady from Nevada won a new tiara to put above the family mantle, and she seems to have gotten a few backs up while she did it.
When asked about the problem of sexual assault on college campuses, Miss Sanchez replied that getting the problem out in the open and teaching young women to defend themselves are important. I tend to agree. No woman should be ashamed to come forward if she is attacked, and no woman should feel she has to be helpless in the attack. Women should be encouraged to get the training, skills, and equipment necessary to deter attacks, defend themselves, and get away from the attacker. Like Kathy Jackson says “If you have to fight, fight like a cornered cat.”
Now, it seems that some disagree that teaching young women that it’s OK to fight back and how to do it is the right thing to do. Some have taken to social media to decry Miss Sanchez and assert that if only men were taught to not rape, then we wouldn’t need to teach women to defend themselves against rapists. They’re correct, but I don’t think they live in the same world I do.
“If only we taught young men to not rape” is, to me, the same as saying “If only we taught people to not drink and drive” or “If only we taught people to not steal”. No matter how much you educate, remind, and threaten, there are always those who are going to jump right over boundaries and hurt other people.
But they do have a point. Young men need to be taught, preferably by people of both sexes, that a woman’s body is inviolate. They should be taught that there is no exception to that rule, and no excuse for breaking it. Men need to be a good example to their sons of how to think about women and act toward them. A boy who is taught to respect women, to protect them, and to treat them as at least equals is less likely to look at them as objects or toys.
We have to cover both bases. Our young men need to be raised up to believe that rape and rapists are abhorrent, and that they should never come close to the bright lines around sexual assault. Our young women need to be raised up to respect themselves, to demand that men not use and abuse them, and to defend themselves against those who either don’t get the message or disregard it.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 9, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 159
What shall we hang first? The holly or each other? – The Lion in Winter
You know, there’s something immensely satisfying about being catty every so often. Of course, you have to do it with someone who will return fire just as quickly and as accurately as you. Some of my best friends have been able to cut me down to nothing, and just for fun, I’ve returned the favor.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 8, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 158
The only way to win a war is to be as nasty as the enemy. — The Guns of Navarone
I can’t agree with this one. There has to be a limit to what you will do to advance your cause or defend your position. What the other side in a conflict does does not excuse bad behavior on our part. “They did it first” or “They started it” is for children, not for adults. Beware acting in the same way as your enemy. Eventually, you might find it hard to tell yourself from them.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 7, 2014
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One of Our Own Needs Help
Tin Can Assassin is going through rough times and could use a little help. I’ve been in a similar situation, and I’ll be giving him what I can. If you’ve got a little extra, please consider giving a member of our tribe a hand up.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 7, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- I love the smell of sour mash in the morning.
- Success goes not to those who innovate. Rather it tends to go to those who acquire the innovators.
- It’s uncomfortable to sit and listen to someone discuss automated data analysis techniques for business that you used to do for other purposes by hand.
- What’s good? Bourbon.
- What’s better than bourbon? Single barrel bourbon
- What’s better than single barrel bourbon? Free single barrel bourbon.
- There is a science and an art to making liquor, and bless those who practice it.
- If a master distiller is going to put his name on a bottle of vodka, who am I to not buy one so that I may try it out?
- Lightning bugs are very hypnotic.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2014
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Quote of the Day
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 157
My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried to live my life the best that I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that, at least in your eyes, I’ve earned what all of you have done for me. — Saving Private Ryan
If you ever get the chance, and I suggest that you find a way at some time in your life to do so, you should go to a place like Normandy. If you can’t get that far from home, I suggest going somewhere like Arlington, Antietam, or Gettysburg. If you’re feeling adventurous, go somewhere like El Alamein, Gallipoli, or Iwo Jima. All of these places have one thing in common: they all are places where men have placed their bodies between death and their homes. They are all marked with monuments and graves that remind us of the responsibility, which we all carry, to deserve what they bought for us with their blood and their lives.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2014
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