Trouble Sleeping

I am too old and too feeble to get the "giggles."

But last night, while trying to go to sleep, I got the giggles.

You see, Tuesday afternoon I had surgery for the excision of a scrotal mass. That is part-and-parcel to the cancer that is trying - with some success - to bring me down (to ashes).

Well, before they roll you into the OR, they prep you in pre-Op where 5 or six others are also being prepped for other surgeries. These days, they not only wash and shave you, they mark up your body with the location and type of procedure and then do the IV thing.

The fellow on the other side of the curtain, we will call him "Cowboy Doofus" for the sake on anonymity, was asked his medical history by the anesthesiologist for obvious reasons... (e.g. how did you respond to mild sedation?; spinal tap?; general?...)

Cowboy Doofus took it as an opportunity to tell his life story - through his own distorted (and short-sighted) perception...

I tried to keep him "tuned out" with limited success.

One of his fables went: "Well, everyone was out drinking one weekend..." (EVERYONE? that diminishes his responsibility and or stupidity???) and I was in the back seat of an oldsmobile cutlass...



Three days later, I woke up in a coma... (he might have meant woke up FROM a comatose state)...

That's a little like "graduated high school" instead of "graduated FROM high school." My sister was horrified to learn that born-and-raised Americans sometimes take ESL because their English Proficiency Placement Tests indicate that they are not yet ready to take Remedial English in College.

Many, but not all, of these students are home-schooled with all the trappings of Biblical Parenting.

Then Cowboy Doofus tells the Anesthesiologist that he has an "intimacy problem" and needs a younger doctor to give him some new answers.

At that point, I wanted to get out of bed - IV and all - walk over and say:

"Cowboy, the tires on that wrecked Cutlass are harder than your dick is ever going to be and those tires are going to stay harder longer!"

Then I went out for the LONG 10 count.

Propofol (Diprivan) slows the activity of your brain and nervous system.

Propofol is used to help you relax before and during general anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures.

After it was all over, I was taken home, had a cup of soup for dinner, and was put in bed.

And then, just THAT above mentioned thought of a less than artful movie montage returned to my head and gave me the giggles. All night.

Then, in recovery, I found out he was in to get arthroscopic orthopedic surgery for a wrist repair. Maybe that REPAIR will solve his intimacy problems!

Or maybe the injury is the RESULT of his intimacy problems.

Read about it TOMORROW

Tomorrow is the 25th. 10 days, and it rots.

I want to make it very clear. I am not talking about religion. I am talking about PEOPLE!

For a LONG time, I have said: "It's a gay life in the Vatican."

Really! This has been going on for centuries but it is denied by the truly faithful.

I applaud those in the faith who obediently donate to the various and sundry charities.

I think the obedient faithful also deserve "a thank you letter."

Even if they don't spend $250,000 fixing up the old 2600 sq/ ft. apartment!

Heaven forbit that someone step forward and tell the truth!

Gay Marriage is EVIL.

If you don't believe me, ask a Roman Catholic.

Around 2 decades ago, the mother church (e.g. Mary's Church) dropped the "Roman" from "Roman Catholic." But if it walks like a "Roman Catholic," and it talks like a "Roman Catholic," and it dresses like a "Roman Catholic," then there is a reasonable probability that it is a "Roman Catholic."

One of my five best friends EVER died from AIDS complications. I was never certain that he was gay. That never came up. That never mattered.

When he was gone, I missed him. There were 100 things I never had the opportunity to say "thank you" for... Brunch at Liverpool Lil's, after work dinner at the Down Under, meeting so many TV personalities when, as a kid from Reno, he had a decade of television experience in the San Francisco/San Jose markets and I was new to the business - less than 2 years out of college. More than anything, he was my guardian angel and kept me from being fired a couple of different times because I was outspoken and honest - and not very reserved. We worked at 420 Taylor Street from 1973 until I WAS fired in 1975! KBHK hired the first two female broadcast engineers in San Francisco - I got to know them rather well - in the biblical sense. Both complained to the boss... and "You don't get your tail where you get your mail" was his comment. The following Monday, I worked at KQED (4th and Bryant). That was all long before I was married. And long, long before I was gifted with terminal cancer.

It's like the old guy who applied for a job. When asked what his greatest strength was, he said "honesty."

When asked what his greatest weakness was, he said "honesty."

When told: "I don't think "honesty" is a weakness, he said: "I don't give a rat's ass what you think!"

REMEMBER? (Bakker went to prison for fraud)

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries from 2008 to 2011

Swaggart wanted me fired (wrote a letter demanding it) in the 1980s - it didn't happen.

RANT!

Ted Haggard - "W's Spiritual Advisor."

I want to make it very clear. I am not talking about religion. I am talking about PEOPLE!



Full Movie - Scandinavian subtitles

FYI - I have been married to the same dutiful obedient (pun) Japanese girl for 34 years, we have no children (we figured out WHAT CAUSES them), and have a family altar with a collection of pet ashes.

Remember, god is dog spelled backwards!

Dog is watching you!

I want to make it very clear here. I am not talking about a religion. I am talking about a DOG!

DOG is LOVE.

Render unto Cesar a Cesarean delivery

Because of "religious exemption" laws, its Catholic Hospitals may sometimes violate the law and refuse to provide pregnant women with emergency medical care.

I worry about organizations that hide Altar boy buggering and claim "ethics."

You KNOW various Catholic Hospitals have been 'sold off' to pay for the sins of the fathers (Some, listed A to Z).

Dignity Health today signed an asset purchase agreement with Prime Healthcare Services for the sale of Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. The sale ensures that the hospital will remain open, offering all current acute and emergency care services to the Reno community. Saint Mary's sponsoring congregation, the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, has approved the transaction, which is expected to be finalized by June 30, 2012.

But did you know so-called "Hospital Ethics Committees" may be loaded with representatives from the Spanish Inquisition?

O.K., I am kidding about the inquisition, but not about the torture.

"Whatever you do, if anything happens, don't take me to St. Vincent's." Those were the words my friend uttered to her husband regularly throughout her pregnancy years ago, when St. Vincent's, a Catholic hospital serving lower Manhattan, was still open. Even though St. Vincent's was the hospital closest to her home, she knew the risks of going to a Catholic hospital with a pregnancy complication. She knew that her care could be compromised – that Catholic hospitals adhere to religious directives issued by the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops governing Catholic health services.

"A psychotherapist who treated troubled clergy, Sipe drew on about 500 case files for his 1990 study of celibacy, “A Secret World.” Another 500 priests were also interviewed, plus an equal number of lay people who had been sex partners — as adults or children, willing or unwilling — of Catholic clergy.

His conclusions: At any one time, no more than half of priests are practicing celibacy. Most of the others are engaged in sexual relationships with women or men, but Sipe found that 6 percent prey on minors. (After further research, he revised that figure from 6 percent to 9 percent.)

Selling off hospitals to fund settlements is PART of the issue.

Private entities have taken over LSU hospitals in New Orleans, Lafayette, Bogalusa, Houma, Shreveport and Monroe. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge has become the home for LSU medical education programs and patient care. LSU hospitals in Lake Charles and Alexandria have closed and private community partners have taken over under special reimbursement deals. ($332 million of the [taxpayer] funding guarantees that those PRIVATE CORPORATIONS will turn a profit).

Extensive research, herein reviewed, shows that for-profit health institutions provide inferior care at inflated prices.

And, more often than not, for-profit health institutions are underwritten by taxpayer dollars!

The poor subsidize the rich an many, many ways.

What can we do? Take it to the Supreme Court?

A poll conducted last summer revealed that one in 10 adults think Judge Judy is a Supreme Court Justice. TIME

Educate yourself.

Educate your children. Choose schools that promote critical thinking.

Educate your close friends. (Ask them if Michael Savage is a Jew or Gentilia). Forget Hannity.

Ancient Greeks and Romans believed bay leaves symbolize wisdom, peace, and protection.

Remember your protection.

Recycle - and save!

For well over a century, scholars have recognized the Xtian gospels (e.g. Matthew, Mark, and Luke) are a retelling of older Buddhist ~ fables.

Around 1900, Albert J. Edmunds proposed that the early Christian movement grew at least partially out of the influence of Buddhist missionaries send to the Levant by Ashoka. (Edmunds felt that there was sufficient literary evidence to support the thesis that Ashoka (or Asoka) sent Buddhist missionaries to five Greek (and Macedonian) emperors, including Antiochus, Ptolemy and Alexander (Macedonian), between 262–258 B.C.)

Alexander's general, Menander I (Macedonian), may indeed have first supported Buddhism. see: "The Greeks in Bactria and India", W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press.

There remains the possibility that Menander II, rather than Menander I, was actually the Buddhist Greek (Macedonian) king referred to in the Milinda Panha.

So (Macedonian) Buddhism begat Xtianity.

But Roman Xtianity (a child of Byzantine Xtianity) begat Islam!

"Pope" Gregory's humiliation in very public debate with Eutychius also had the background of Byzantine emperors in whose shadows the Romans could only aspire to hide. The "Eastern Empire" was - by far - greater than the so-called "Roman Empire" or Western Offspring. They were not even siblings! Popular books were not written to tell the truth (e.g. several historical Greeks - like Cleopatra - were actually Macedonian). To bring about the end of Byzantium, Gregory I (Bishop of Rome) needed an army attacking the flank of the Byzantine Empire. That army wound become Mohammad's!

Byzantine Iconoclasm constituted a ban on religious images by Emperor Leo III and continued under his successors. Rome was littered with Icons of the old Gods = Jupiter becoming St. Peter, and so on. Iconophiles - icon lovers vs. Iconoclasts - ikon destroyers was the debate of the day! (εἰκονολάτραι)are normally known as "iconodules" (εἰκονόδουλοι), or "iconophiles" (εἰκονόφιλοι). Iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons; the statue was decapitated and its remaining parts were smashed into rubble.

Buddhism (pre-Christian) and Islam (post-Christian) share ONE point.

In fact, "Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and several [varieties of anamism] spoke against idolatry and polytheism." SOURCE [a PDF]

So, plastic Jesus is recycled plastic. Christianity is recycled Buddhism. Roman Cotholicism is Christianity with Idolatry. And Islam is recycled Gregorian Romanism reprocessed by Iconoclasts.

The Old Testament borrowed from BOTH Egyptian and Sumerian sources - as well as those found locally in the Levant.

So what?

Believe whatever you want to believe - if you have a believing mind. Think whatever you want to think - if you have a thinking mind.

Either way, don't loose sleep over it. We will all have a LONG SLEEP soon enough.

To-morrow,
and to-morrow,
and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace
from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted [for] fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!

Life is but a walking shadow,
a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:
It is a tale
told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, [yet]
Signifying NOTHING.

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5.

Is nothing sacred?

Yes.

NOTHING is sacred!

Wiki on MU



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Vel, vel, velveweta

SATURNALIA has past and you can put away your Phrygian Cap for the winter. Notice the one on Attis.

Did all the popes in your family celebrate the return of the sun?

Remember, there is a Discordia! And, I mean that in the same sense as 'there is a Santa Claus' and there is an "Easter Bunny."

Chaos is all inclusive.

There are GREAT TRUTHS to be discovered by the adventuresome!

Be not timid. Falter not on the path before you. One step leads to a great stumble.

The way is the Tao and with the Tao in tow the toe you stub will be a stubby toe.

The path is illuminated, not by the illuminati, by your inner illumination. Do you buy that? (Leave a tip.)

But there is something cheesy lacking.

Better, now?