Who are we kidding?

Isn't it funny that we have a TON of rules and Laws for how we SHOULD do things, but we don't!

Everyone knows that Fresh vegetables are good for you, but they eat McDonalds for lunch. Everyone knows the speed limit, but just use it as a General Guidline when driving. Everyone knows that watching too much TV is bad for you and your kids, but still watch about a billion hours a week.

For instance. You should brush and floss after every meal. We lie to our dentists and say we do, but in reality....well.....

I just ate my lunch. Leftover hamburger helper, soda, Jello, and a box of Hot Tamale Candy. Yummmy....I'll probably die of a heart attack, but Do I care? Do you think I'm going to the Restroom at work to Floss, Brush, do 50 situps and think happy thoughts? No way!

My day consists of constantly ignore what I SHOULD be doing and then doing what I should NOT be doing.

Yet, we all lie to ourselves and eachother. "You know, you should never trust a car dealer." EVERYONE knows that! But I would guess that if every one of us went to a car lot, we'd be all like "OOOO! Shiny!" and drive away with a car we can't afford, and didn't really need anyway. Not to mention that I KNOW you didn't read all 150 pages of contracts you signed! You simply scanned them, said..."hmmm, yes, this looks good to me..." and just pretended to read it. Don't lie!! I know you! Like the salesman really believed that you read that whole novel, and found it to your legal satisfaction!

Who are we fooling?

Oh yes officer, I couldn't have been doing more than 50! What? 85 you say? NO! I would never do that!

We tell our kids not to lie.... What if we told the truth?

You clocked me doing 85? You must have caught me after I slowed down! I gunned it around that slow old lady, and then punched it up to 90 to beat that stupid red light. I've got to get to Target before they close you know! I just got a Target card, and the limit is $500 and I can't WAIT to see how fast I can max it out!

I'm sure it's just me. None of you would EVER lie right?

I'm sure you had a nice lunch of plain salad then flossed, brushed , and stopped at the gym to work out, then drive 40mph home, with your seatbelt on, never talking on the phone, paying very close attention to traffic, used your signal, then spent quality time with your children, taught them a second language, made a nutritious meal of berries and nuts read them each a novel, and then went out and changed your oil, wiper blades, and smoke alarm batteries......right?

A post on Politics? Oh No he didn't!

So here is how the build up to war went down.

Politician #1: "We don't need to go to war. We won't go. They've done nothing to us, plus we have enough problems of our own.

Politician #2: "But sir? Just a little show of force, a few bombs, and he'd back down! He doesn't REALLY have all that much power right now! We could fight a little war and do it CHEAP!"

Politician #1: "Nope. It is none of our affair! So he wants to have a bigger Army, and more weapons. Fine. Let him have them. Who are we to say no? We have weapons, let him have weapons? Plus, the people of this country just want peace. Besides invading a sovereign country is just not something that promotes peace"

Politician #2: "Once again Sir, I MUST advise you to do something. This could get really bad, really quick. If we do something now, we can do it cheap. If we wait, then it will be nasty and bloody."

Politician #1: "Fine. We will get with other countries and send them a strongly worded letter. Will that be enough for you? I will NOT go to war, just because you think some guy in another country is bad. Geesh. You are always looking to take this country to war. You probably want to line your pockets with money from defense contractors."

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1 year Later
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Politician #2: "Excuse me sir, I hate to interrupt, but your letter didn't work. He said he would stop, but now he is massing his troops on the border of 2 neighboring countries. We need to stop this NOW! Please!"

Politician #1: "That will be enough from you. I have spoke to this man, and he said he is only providing troops to help with their civil unrest. Who are we to call him a liar? Besides, the people have spoken. The don't like war, and don't want to go to war. I won't send troops against a guy who has not attacked us. We are a peaceful country!"

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1938
Sept 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain (Politician #1) appeases Hitler at Munich.

Oct 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.

1939
March 15/16 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

Sept 1, - Nazis invade Poland.

Sept 3, - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

1940
Winston Churchill (Politician #2) becomes British Prime Minister
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Killed in WWII
382,600 British soldiers
407,300 American Soldiers

Total Human Loss of Life: 72 million people.





Once Hitler started making the claim of taking over the world, he should have been stamped out immediately. The war could have been quick, done cheaply, with a minimum loss of life. Instead, while trying to "stay out of it" Neville Chamberlain ensured that by the time the British had no choice, BUT to go to war, that it would be a HUGE, bloody mess.


A neat history lesson. What can we learn from it today? We'll we've lost around 3,000 American soldiers. Overthrown a nasty government with the least resistance and lowest cost to life of ANY military conflict in history. History shows us that just ignoring a problem, and appeasing a psycho dictator makes things worse in the long run. Thousands of years of military strategy teach us that striking early, rapidly, and fiercely, can eliminate a target before it becomes too strong to take down.

Seems like it was a wise decision to take on Iraq & Afghanistan. Maybe should take on Iran, and Syria while we're at it.

Nah! We shouldn't be at war! We should stay home. If Iran and Syria want nukes, why should we interfere! And when Hitler wanted to build bombers and tanks, who has the right to tell him no?


That's it. All my opinion. Like it, or hit the back button. I don't care!
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On a side note, I'm not sure our Military should be the ones entirely responsible for teaching 1,000 year old enemies to get along. They're taught how to shoot, not resolve "Domestic disturbances". They're not doing a bad job, but can't we send a bunch of counselors over there to get the Sunni and Shia to talk out their differences? Hmmm. OH!!! Send Dr. Phil!!!

No Dating till you are 40!

My daughter has taken an interest in all the teenager shows on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. She's only 8! Geesh! I'm not ready for this! She thinks Troy from High School Musical is CUTE! I can threaten local boys, but how do you defend against TV boys?

I suggested taking the TVs out of the house, home schooling her. But OH NO, the wife says

"Chill out, she's a girl, girls like boys. You can't stop it."

Well, if you've read my previous posts, you know. I am the smartest man alive. I'll keep her from dating until she's 40, or I die. Whichever comes first.

But how? They don't have good ole Convents like they used to. Chaining your child up in the shed is frowned upon....geesh.

I'm a boy, and I know how boys think! I need to keep her as far away from boys as possible! If only I could afford to move the family to the rain forest. Of course then she'd start getting all googly-eyed at native jungle boys! They hardly wear any clothes!

Does anyone know what the housing market is like in Siberia? I hear it's "crisp" this time of year!

I predict turning gray, and having a heart attack before she turns 12.

I tried searching google for a tutorial on building a moat. But OH NO, stupid building code people are so uptight!

The Smartest Man Alive and the Shack!

Ok all you people out there in internet land. You asked for more blogs, and here they are. But if I'm going to blog, you need to do something too. I need some advice from you. If you read this, then leave a comment below. (or else!)

First, you need to understand who I am. Putting all modesty aside, I am the Smartest Man Alive. Seriously, it's kind of creepy. I can absorb knowledge at a tremendous rate. Because of this, I can do anything. If you show me once, or there's a book on it, I can do it. I can understand Global Macroeconomics, build circuit boards from scratch, write code, sew, cook, build stuff, repair cars, write massive essays, etc. When my mother got her Masters in Counseling, I absorbed just about everything on Psychology I could get my hands on.

Why do I learn how to do all this stuff? I don't know, I can't stop! It's like a curse.

Anyway, on to my problem. I want a house. I make less than a part-time teacher, so buying a "big new home" for my family is out of the question, for now at least. I'm also going to school full-time to finally finish my degree. Oh, and I build websites for a side job. Plus I have 3 kids (one of which is a 6 month old). So to say I'm busy is an understatement.

Well, we found a house!! It is on 2 acres of land (in-town), 3000sqft, and has just about everything we want in a house. There's just one tiny little problem. Miniscule really.

The inside is not that great. It looks like a bunch of homeless guys got together and said, "Hey! Let's each build a shack, and hook them together!". I mean seriously, this place is a DUMP! The inside is a maze of add-ons. When we say something is original to the house, we mean original, like Thomas Jefferson probably built one addition! I'm pretty sure there are pre-historic petroglyphs on the foundation! I mean this place is a DUMP! (Did I say that already?)

Now the outside structure looks ok. So I could gut the entire house, re-do the drywall, carpet, make a new kitchen, new bathrooms, move a bunch of walls, redo the plumbing, redo the electric, rebuild 2 portions of the roof, and rebuild an exterior wall that is leaning. Do I know how to do all that? Am I a contractor? Nope. But I am the smartest man alive. I've read the building codes, and have a few books on plumbing and electrical. Should be pretty simple. For me at least. It may take a gallon of blood sweat and tears, but hey! Life isn't easy right?

We could easily have a $180-200K house for only $50K plus $50K of repairs!
Can I do it? Sure I can? (I may have trouble getting the covered wagon out left by the original owners!!!) Should I? That's a lot to put my family through though.....


NOW you see my dilema! I would be over there every night for 6 months, getting it good enough for us to live in. Is it worth the work?

I don't want to put my family through hell, BUT, I don't want to wimp out either......

Did Lewis and Clark say

"Explore the Lousiana Territy? Gee, I don't know, that's a lot of work, and we'd be gone for a long time, and it would take up all my evenings...plus, what if we get lost?"

Did the Eqyptians say

A pyra-what? Are you crazy? You know how long it would take?! When coudl we move in? After we die you say? Geesh, I don't know...

Did Hitler say

Invade Austria, Poland, AND France? Gee, that's a lot of work. I could invade one country, but three? At the same time? What if I invade France, and find out Belgium, the Netherlands, and who knows what else need to be invaded? When would I have time to finish my degree in Dictatorship?

Did Ross Say to Rachel

Gee, I'd love to start a relationship, but I just bought Ugly Naked Guy's house, and it needs some work, plus, I've got all these dinosaur bones to catalog, then I've got to get married 3 more times....I just don't know if I'm going to have time......

NO! These people actually accomplished something that was hard to do!!! Sure, they might have had a few setbacks along the way..(Normandy invasion, Russia entering the war, Ross thought they were on a break) BUT they actually tried!

Should I do it? Or just cave into to fear, and keep renting?

Your turn to answer now!