...oops my mistake, this is a citizen's private stash of garbage.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Dudes!
Joseph Frederick’s - Bong Hits for Jesus –
Folks you gotta pull you head out of whatever hole they are currently in. If the Supreme Court rules that the school has the authority to censor Frederick’s speech, then it opens the door (widely I might add) for all sorts of judgment on what can and can’t be said. Fredrick was breaking no laws. He was simply expressing a statement which the principal of his school judged to be offensive. The principal’s judgment and actions are not acceptable and neither is limiting the freedom of our speech regardless of its quality.
Folks you gotta pull you head out of whatever hole they are currently in. If the Supreme Court rules that the school has the authority to censor Frederick’s speech, then it opens the door (widely I might add) for all sorts of judgment on what can and can’t be said. Fredrick was breaking no laws. He was simply expressing a statement which the principal of his school judged to be offensive. The principal’s judgment and actions are not acceptable and neither is limiting the freedom of our speech regardless of its quality.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Bong Hits for Jesus - Bong Hits for Justice
Remember Kenneth Star of Clinton and Moinca Lewinski fame? Ever wonder what he is doing now? Check this out!
After reading this article, it appears that the Bush loaded supremes are indeed right. That is, right (of center) favoring limitations free speech. So remember, next time you are protesting, don't write anything on your banner that is con traversal!
Confidential to Johan Museeuw: Your interview in the April, 2007, issue of Cycle Spot reveals what a tool your are!
After reading this article, it appears that the Bush loaded supremes are indeed right. That is, right (of center) favoring limitations free speech. So remember, next time you are protesting, don't write anything on your banner that is con traversal!
Confidential to Johan Museeuw: Your interview in the April, 2007, issue of Cycle Spot reveals what a tool your are!
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Sly Stallone, Holyfield, medical marijuana… I must say who the hell cares.
In the case of Stallone, he’s a rich old man. Who gives a rip if he is pumped up on ‘roids. Evidently the Australian Customs officials do, because he was popped in the airport the other day for carrying something like 48 vials of human growth hormone in his suitcase. Perhaps it was his vacation supply. What a habit. Of course if he was attempting to import it himself, I ‘gotta’ say, Sly, have you ever hear of FEDEX or some sort of high priced, discrete drug mule?
Then there is Evander -cruiser weigt to heavyweight-Holyfield who, as it turns out, is under investigation for being on the gear for some of those later heavyweight fights in his career. “Holyfield admits to taking a drug from the pharmacy, but says it was for a "hormonal problem." Holyfield claims Tyson was juicing as well. Again, I gotta say who cares. This is two men beating each other. If you have to pump up a little to get through having your head clanged for a couple hours, so be it.
Finally, there is medical marijuana. – San Francisco, “A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was her only shield against excruciating pain or death.” Good job feds. REALLY bully to you. Stick it to the sick pothead who just wants to be pain free.
So here is the tally: We have one old man who the entire universe knows is on steroids busted for being on steroids. (Confidential to those police folks: good investigatory work, I had no idea Stallone what using. What a revelation.) We’ve got a heavy weight busted for juicing against a crazed, tattooed ear-biter. And finally, the courts upheld the authority of the government to prevent sick people form using THC. The funny thing is, all of these folks will continue to use, but it’s the sick and tired who are trying to deal with maladies like glaucoma, chemo side-effects and pain, who will be prosecuted for their use.
Then there is Evander -cruiser weigt to heavyweight-Holyfield who, as it turns out, is under investigation for being on the gear for some of those later heavyweight fights in his career. “Holyfield admits to taking a drug from the pharmacy, but says it was for a "hormonal problem." Holyfield claims Tyson was juicing as well. Again, I gotta say who cares. This is two men beating each other. If you have to pump up a little to get through having your head clanged for a couple hours, so be it.
Finally, there is medical marijuana. – San Francisco, “A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was her only shield against excruciating pain or death.” Good job feds. REALLY bully to you. Stick it to the sick pothead who just wants to be pain free.
So here is the tally: We have one old man who the entire universe knows is on steroids busted for being on steroids. (Confidential to those police folks: good investigatory work, I had no idea Stallone what using. What a revelation.) We’ve got a heavy weight busted for juicing against a crazed, tattooed ear-biter. And finally, the courts upheld the authority of the government to prevent sick people form using THC. The funny thing is, all of these folks will continue to use, but it’s the sick and tired who are trying to deal with maladies like glaucoma, chemo side-effects and pain, who will be prosecuted for their use.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Surge spurge
So, i guess the surge is more of the same from bush and co. Isn't bait and switch illegal?
Friday, March 09, 2007
Mail Bag
Dear Crow, I ride an adult tricycle. I don’t feel comfortable writing into all those cyclo-clique blogs. However, I feel as though I have some of the same issues. Sincerely, “TriC-onfused”
Dear T-C. While I’ll never understand the need for three wheels when clearly two will do, I do have some experience with tricycles in the form of those plastic big wheels. As a child, I believe I destroyed a few of my own and likely my neighbors doing awesome skids and jumps on my family’s dirt driveway. Anyhow, do not concern yourself with second rate cycling blogs or the minutia perpetuated by them. I suggest spending the time you would have spend on two-wheel blogs shopping at your local thrift store for some keen pedal pushing pants to go with your third wheel. – CROW
Dear Crow, I’m young and I fear that I’ll develop cervical cancer. I hear it is real common after an HPV infection and that lots of women and men get this HPV. Sincerely, Fear
Dear Fear, cervical cancer, as with all cancers, is a scary thing. However, Fear, there is hope which may alleviate your fear while frustrating you at the same time. The stats are something like 90 percent of women will have been exposed to HPV by the time they are 30 making it the most common sexually transmitted infection in men and women in the United States and, up to 70 percent of all cervical cancer is directly related to HPV infections. The bright spot in all of this is that now there is a vaccine, which has proven to be highly effective against HPV (nearly 100% effective in clinical trials.) However, enter frustration, abstainers and the Christian-right don’t want to vaccinate young girls because they fear that cervical cancer has been the one barrier that has kept hoards of little girls from being sexually promiscuous. CF, I hope you haven’t had sex yet, because it might be a while before you can get this vaccine in you, and it’s only effective prior to exposure. PS, go see you doctor.–CROW
Crow, what do you think of low riding pants? - Pants down low.
Dear PDL, I’m Kinda up in the air on this issue and likely sexist at the same time. I’m not into (and don’t wear) pant that expose my ars. However, on the right woman a pair of well-suited, low-rise jeans is really nice. Think Lost’s Evangeline Lilly. –CROW
Dear T-C. While I’ll never understand the need for three wheels when clearly two will do, I do have some experience with tricycles in the form of those plastic big wheels. As a child, I believe I destroyed a few of my own and likely my neighbors doing awesome skids and jumps on my family’s dirt driveway. Anyhow, do not concern yourself with second rate cycling blogs or the minutia perpetuated by them. I suggest spending the time you would have spend on two-wheel blogs shopping at your local thrift store for some keen pedal pushing pants to go with your third wheel. – CROW
Dear Crow, I’m young and I fear that I’ll develop cervical cancer. I hear it is real common after an HPV infection and that lots of women and men get this HPV. Sincerely, Fear
Dear Fear, cervical cancer, as with all cancers, is a scary thing. However, Fear, there is hope which may alleviate your fear while frustrating you at the same time. The stats are something like 90 percent of women will have been exposed to HPV by the time they are 30 making it the most common sexually transmitted infection in men and women in the United States and, up to 70 percent of all cervical cancer is directly related to HPV infections. The bright spot in all of this is that now there is a vaccine, which has proven to be highly effective against HPV (nearly 100% effective in clinical trials.) However, enter frustration, abstainers and the Christian-right don’t want to vaccinate young girls because they fear that cervical cancer has been the one barrier that has kept hoards of little girls from being sexually promiscuous. CF, I hope you haven’t had sex yet, because it might be a while before you can get this vaccine in you, and it’s only effective prior to exposure. PS, go see you doctor.–CROW
Crow, what do you think of low riding pants? - Pants down low.
Dear PDL, I’m Kinda up in the air on this issue and likely sexist at the same time. I’m not into (and don’t wear) pant that expose my ars. However, on the right woman a pair of well-suited, low-rise jeans is really nice. Think Lost’s Evangeline Lilly. –CROW
New Counter
Really, the counter is old news but new to this site. PS, don't get the rather large 400 billionish number to the right confused the hit counter.
NEWS
I happened to be scanning the news today. Here are the highlights and my sardonic comments:
The rich stay rich, and acquire more riches at a younger age. The top two mega-billionaires of the Forbes list…Gates and Buffet. So what?
Airbus forces European conglomerate EADS to slash profits 86%. I guess that’s a group of aristocrats that won’t be getting richer or younger. I sense some real production of gray hair. Of course, it’s the European working stiff that really took it in the shorts. Something like 10,000 jobs have been cut at Airbus.
More blather on the whole HPV vaccine debate. It really comes down to this. Boys are circumcised for health reasons all over the world. The procedure is generally completed within several weeks of birth to prevent infection and other penile peril later in life. While circumcision is widely excepted for it’s protective measures later in life, it’s blatantly unfair that a vaccine that has proven to be nearly 100% effective against HPV and subsequent cervical cancer in clinical trials would be resisted on the basis that the target population (young girls) may perceive a message from society or parents of sexual permissiveness. Is the Christian right really saying boys, we believe that snipping you is good for your reproductive health later in life but girls we aren’t going to vaccinate you against the most common sexually transmitted infection because we fear what message it sends to you?
I’m heading in to the weekend. The cherry trees are starting to bloom. Let’s hope there in no more snow down in the lowlands.
The rich stay rich, and acquire more riches at a younger age. The top two mega-billionaires of the Forbes list…Gates and Buffet. So what?
Airbus forces European conglomerate EADS to slash profits 86%. I guess that’s a group of aristocrats that won’t be getting richer or younger. I sense some real production of gray hair. Of course, it’s the European working stiff that really took it in the shorts. Something like 10,000 jobs have been cut at Airbus.
More blather on the whole HPV vaccine debate. It really comes down to this. Boys are circumcised for health reasons all over the world. The procedure is generally completed within several weeks of birth to prevent infection and other penile peril later in life. While circumcision is widely excepted for it’s protective measures later in life, it’s blatantly unfair that a vaccine that has proven to be nearly 100% effective against HPV and subsequent cervical cancer in clinical trials would be resisted on the basis that the target population (young girls) may perceive a message from society or parents of sexual permissiveness. Is the Christian right really saying boys, we believe that snipping you is good for your reproductive health later in life but girls we aren’t going to vaccinate you against the most common sexually transmitted infection because we fear what message it sends to you?
I’m heading in to the weekend. The cherry trees are starting to bloom. Let’s hope there in no more snow down in the lowlands.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
snow job
For those of you wondering, this tree is just outside my house. It was a 15 second exposure. I waited for the moon.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Mailbag
And now, Crow’s mail bag…
Crow, I’ve noted that the photographs you post of yourself never include a full face shot. Why is this?
Sincerely, NEED TO SEE FULL FACE.
Dear NTSFF. How astute of you to notice this about my site. I have intentionally intended to limit my exposure due to un-authorized use of my image for marketing purposes. You see, I am everyman. In that capacity, I potentially have the appeal of well…every man, and thus, my face has a tremendous influence on the markets of the world. It’s just too much of a burden for me to bear. - CROW
Why don’t you like cats?
- Cat Lover
Dear CL. Have you ever met anybody, besides Siegfried & Roy, who wanted to hang out with a creature who wanted to eat them? - CROW
Confidential to Pixie – there will be no feline in the house. You’ll have to suffice with visiting Steve on his crappy blog. - CROW
Crow, please advise me on how to make a million dollars. – You Suck.
Dear YS. First, Blogging, as I do, is sure fire way to your first million. Second, I recommend sports like cycling and Nordic skiing as healthy ways to find vast fortune and fame! Example: One-balled, cancer survivor L Armstrong – millionaire bike racer turned playboy. Finally, perhaps you should consider a career as a professional heckler. I’m not sure of its cash potential but in the light of whole Michael Richards affair, it’ll certainly get you some deserved press. - CROW
Crow, I’ve noted that the photographs you post of yourself never include a full face shot. Why is this?
Sincerely, NEED TO SEE FULL FACE.
Dear NTSFF. How astute of you to notice this about my site. I have intentionally intended to limit my exposure due to un-authorized use of my image for marketing purposes. You see, I am everyman. In that capacity, I potentially have the appeal of well…every man, and thus, my face has a tremendous influence on the markets of the world. It’s just too much of a burden for me to bear. - CROW
Why don’t you like cats?
- Cat Lover
Dear CL. Have you ever met anybody, besides Siegfried & Roy, who wanted to hang out with a creature who wanted to eat them? - CROW
Confidential to Pixie – there will be no feline in the house. You’ll have to suffice with visiting Steve on his crappy blog. - CROW
Crow, please advise me on how to make a million dollars. – You Suck.
Dear YS. First, Blogging, as I do, is sure fire way to your first million. Second, I recommend sports like cycling and Nordic skiing as healthy ways to find vast fortune and fame! Example: One-balled, cancer survivor L Armstrong – millionaire bike racer turned playboy. Finally, perhaps you should consider a career as a professional heckler. I’m not sure of its cash potential but in the light of whole Michael Richards affair, it’ll certainly get you some deserved press. - CROW
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Shut up and talk
Yup, just talk about it. What ever it is open the door, swallow your pride, let it out and let it in. Oh, and try not to look like this.
Thanks to Extra Extra C and H-Bone for your thoughful thoughts.
Crow
Next week, Crow's mail bag.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Death
I've been out of town for the last few days...
Most days have been spent with my dying grandfather. Now you may be thinking, are we not all dying? To which I respond, Yes, but not in the way that I've observed over the last few days. We (fat Americans) don't all die by starvation or dehydration unless my readership (all two of you) now lives in a famine stricken third world, sub-Saharan country. No, in a "recovery facility" (think nursing home) not far away for our nation’s capital, my grandfather lies in a state of suspended death. He is a 93 year old man who really can't or drink for himself but doesn't want heroic measures which will sustain his life. Heroic measures are life-sustaining IVs for hydration, feeding tubes, or ventilation.
I certainly don't feel heroic when I spoon food in to his mouth...pretty much against his will.
However, that is how the laws and policies of recovery facilities, Social Security and Medicare want it. No warehousing of old folks and progress towards life. Life? Really? Because, the only progress my grandfather should be making at this point is toward death. Its sounds horrible, but Sir, as I call him, physically cannot bring spoon or cup to mouth.
The shit of the situation is that my grandmother, Mormor, lives just a parking lot away from the recovery facility where my grandfather rests. Ironically, the food and "progress" that is required at the recovery facility is not required at Heatherwood where my grandma lives. However, Heatherwood, for liability reasons, won't allow my grandfather to come home to die (not eat and drink in the comfort of his own apartment.) Liability? Yes. Heatherwood is concerned that my grandfather will die in a fire if he cannot escape, which he can't, because he is not ambulatory. In another twist of irony, Sir's wish is to be cremated.
So here is the deal: My grandfather is a dying 93 year old man who doesn’t want heroic, life sustaining measures taken and is being forced to eat mushed food and thickened water. He is, at most, two weeks away from death but is forced to make progress towards life so that Medicare (which he has paid in to for 60 years) will cover his "recovery." He wants to die at home with his wife of almost 70 years, but can not because of liability at his apartment concerning his inability to get up and escape a fire on foot. In the end he wants to be cremated, which is exactly what Heatherwood fears will be their liability exposure.
Folks, I contributed to all of this in that I handled the spoon and cup, which brought the sustaining food and water to his mouth. I don't regret what I've done. But, I do recognize that there is a very fine line between the spoon and the IV. The fine line between spoon and IV exists between his recovery and my desire to prevent loss; life and death, and death and dignity.
Most days have been spent with my dying grandfather. Now you may be thinking, are we not all dying? To which I respond, Yes, but not in the way that I've observed over the last few days. We (fat Americans) don't all die by starvation or dehydration unless my readership (all two of you) now lives in a famine stricken third world, sub-Saharan country. No, in a "recovery facility" (think nursing home) not far away for our nation’s capital, my grandfather lies in a state of suspended death. He is a 93 year old man who really can't or drink for himself but doesn't want heroic measures which will sustain his life. Heroic measures are life-sustaining IVs for hydration, feeding tubes, or ventilation.
I certainly don't feel heroic when I spoon food in to his mouth...pretty much against his will.
However, that is how the laws and policies of recovery facilities, Social Security and Medicare want it. No warehousing of old folks and progress towards life. Life? Really? Because, the only progress my grandfather should be making at this point is toward death. Its sounds horrible, but Sir, as I call him, physically cannot bring spoon or cup to mouth.
The shit of the situation is that my grandmother, Mormor, lives just a parking lot away from the recovery facility where my grandfather rests. Ironically, the food and "progress" that is required at the recovery facility is not required at Heatherwood where my grandma lives. However, Heatherwood, for liability reasons, won't allow my grandfather to come home to die (not eat and drink in the comfort of his own apartment.) Liability? Yes. Heatherwood is concerned that my grandfather will die in a fire if he cannot escape, which he can't, because he is not ambulatory. In another twist of irony, Sir's wish is to be cremated.
So here is the deal: My grandfather is a dying 93 year old man who doesn’t want heroic, life sustaining measures taken and is being forced to eat mushed food and thickened water. He is, at most, two weeks away from death but is forced to make progress towards life so that Medicare (which he has paid in to for 60 years) will cover his "recovery." He wants to die at home with his wife of almost 70 years, but can not because of liability at his apartment concerning his inability to get up and escape a fire on foot. In the end he wants to be cremated, which is exactly what Heatherwood fears will be their liability exposure.
Folks, I contributed to all of this in that I handled the spoon and cup, which brought the sustaining food and water to his mouth. I don't regret what I've done. But, I do recognize that there is a very fine line between the spoon and the IV. The fine line between spoon and IV exists between his recovery and my desire to prevent loss; life and death, and death and dignity.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Shameless Anna Nicole Smith Blog
Ok, Ok, I know it's just poor form and shameless to pull this now dead media whore in to this blog to boost readership, but what the hell. If it's good enough for CNN then it's good enough for me.
Of course, I don't have any shameless photos of her... oops I guess I lied.
Still, the spending tick by in Iraq. Perhaps this was just a skillful hit planned by the CIA to move the attention away from all the crap going down in the Middle East.
Just thinking about this whole situation, I was wondering if in the first several hours of former President Fords death received so much media attention?
HHHMMM, I can't write about any of this stuff anymore.
Of course, I don't have any shameless photos of her... oops I guess I lied.
Still, the spending tick by in Iraq. Perhaps this was just a skillful hit planned by the CIA to move the attention away from all the crap going down in the Middle East.
Just thinking about this whole situation, I was wondering if in the first several hours of former President Fords death received so much media attention?
HHHMMM, I can't write about any of this stuff anymore.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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