Studs

Fraternize without Facebook?

"Importance" in a squirrel colony generally refers to "adult males that are putting out feelers for sex opportunities or...adult females that are experienced at mating and want to have their choice of a bunch of males,". (Discovery.com)

Male squirrel: "Hey, baby how you doin'? Wanna see my nuts?"

Female: "Sure, feel my bush....y tail?"

Happy Spring!

Drilling a Tight Hole

While it may feel good in the short term, is there any future in it?

tight hole
1. n. [Drilling]
ID: 1625A section of a wellbore, usually openhole, where larger diameter components of the drillstring, such as drillpipe tool joints, drill collars, stabilizers, and the bit, may experience resistance when the driller attempts to pull them through these sections. See: openhole, tool joint
2. n. [Drilling]
ID: 1626A well that the operator requires be kept as secret as possible, especially the geologic information. Exploration wells, especially rank wildcats, are often designated as tight. Unfortunately, this designation is of questionable benefit in keeping the data secret. See: wildcat

I'm pro-capitalism and making money, but I also feel that corporations have a social and environmental responsibility. Sustainable and renewable resources are the wave of the future and many do not require the rape and pillage of the natural world and other nations.

Survivalism by Nine Inch Nails:

I should have listened to her

So hard to keep control

We kept on eating but

Our bloated belly's still not full

She gave us all she had but

We went and took some more

Can't seem to shut her legs

Our mother nature is a whore(chorus:)

I got my propagandaI got revisionism

I got my violence

In hi-def ultra-realism

All a part of this great nation

I got my fistI got my planI got survivalism

Hypnotic sound of sirens

Echoing through the street

The cocking of the rifles

The marching of the feet

You see your world on fire

Don't try to act surprised

We did just what you told us

Lost our faith along the way and found ourselves believing your lies(chorus)(cut-up speech)All bruised and broken, bleeding

She asked to take my handI turned, just keep on walking

But you'd do the same thing in the circumstance

I'm sure you'll understand(chorus)You got your pacifism - I got survivalism (repeat)

Texas Tea

Come and listen to a story about a man named GW Bush

A poor mountaineer, with an alcoholic blush,

Then one day he was shootin at some food,

And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Well the first thing you know ol GW's a millionaire, Kinfolk said "GW move away from there" Said "Iraqi is the place you ought to be"

So they loaded up the truck and moved to Iraqi.

Holes, that is. No swimmin pools, or movie stars.

Well now its time to say good bye to GW and all his kin.

And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in. You're all invited back a gain to this locality

To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality Hillybilly that is.

Set a spell, Take your shoes off. Y'all come back now, y'hear?

War Song

It is war! It is war!
O God’s angel, keep it awayand intervene to stop it!
Sadly, it is war—and I do not want it to be my fault!

What could I do if
the ghosts of the slaughtered came to me sorrowing in my sleep, bloody, white and pale, and wept before me—what?

If hearty men who went looking for honor,
Maimed and half dead,
Waltzed before me in the dust and cursed me
In their dying need?

If a thousand thousand fathers, mothers, brides,
So happy before the war,
Now all miserable, all poor people,
Cried out in grief over me?

If hunger, illness and dire need
Gathered friend, friend and enemy into the grave
And crowed to me about honorsitting on a corpse?

What help would crown and land and gold and honor be?
They could not make me happy!
Sadly, it is war—and I do not want it to be my fault!

--Matthias Claudius (1740-1815). This poem was written in 1779 about the War of Bavarian Succession.

Atrocities in Iraq

Reasons to end the imperialist dynasty as stated by the IVAW:

*Corporate profiteering is driving the war in Iraq

*The occupation is a primary motivation for the insurgency and global religious extremism

*Our national “moral authority” is being undermined


Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey

Rape and murder of "Hadji girl"

My war

Why end strife when you can market and profit from it?

Personal stories

In the news

War is hell

Lobbies are too powerful," the most powerful being the ones wanting war. - Gunther Grass, Nobel Laureate

When Irish Eyes are Smilin'

There's probably a reason!

Every Sperm is Sacred

If you think I can be shrewish, you haven't met my catholic/Irish friend! My friend cusses like a trucker,has been known to bed down a few men in her day, and drinks like a fish. She would rant more than me (unbelievable I know) and scream like a banshee to get her way. She never set foot in a church outside of official functions like weddings etc. UNTIL---She met a tall,strapping marine (divorced btw) who happened to be catholic. They moved in together and engaged in quite the unmarried bliss--oddly without conceiving any children out of wedlock (birth control maybe?). Not only did her incessant screeching and temper tantrums subside after meeting him, she also became what I can only refer to as a born-again catholic. She attends church every Sunday, says grace before meals (the first time in 20+ years), and has charged full on into the catholic guilt phase ("I've always been a good christian girl"--she tells me one day when I was doing something questionable as usual).

She even believes that her fiance only has eyes for her and doesn't even look at other women. When I broached the subject that all men are visual and sexual beings and will always at least want to "see" many female forms, she chidingly told me that her man isn't like that and hasn't the least thought about other women! HA! I laughed at her and then shook my head.

So, anyway. I am embarking on a road trip to NV to celebrate her coming catholic nuptials by hitting all the casinos,partying,gambling, and drinking. I guess when you're catholic, everything goes as long as you say your sorry at the end of the day, say grace and go to church.

Presidential potential

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

LMAO! I did the test about 3x and still came out with JFK! I always thought of myself as more of a Marilyn! I should run for Prez!?

Networking Nativity?

"I am a follower of Jesus and it is my relationship with Him that motivates and informs all that I do."

This quote was the first line of an insurance sales lady's description on a prominent/international networking website. Seriously?

The most important aspect of you and your business is that you are a follower of Jesus?

Will He reduce my insurance rates?

Is He a good listener when I have an insurance claim?

How long will I have to wait while you consult Him on my coverage?

As your consumer, I don't know that I want to play second fiddle to your "relationship" with this guy.

Did He help you tie your shoes before He directed you to type your profile online?

Can you imagine how much business I wouldn't get if I stated that I'm an active agnostic (sounds like a tampon commercial--try today's active tampon for the agnostic on the run) who "believes" in scientific method and evolution? Christians don't hesitate to pull the "God" card in marketing and networking, but does it work so well for many other groups?

Pretentious Players

And their primates. When I first heard this headline: "Pet Lemur Bites 3-year-old boy", I thought "wow! How odd? How would a boy and lemur meet--the zoo?" Then my second thought was the exotic pet trade and I wasn't disappointed: Lemur story.

Leave it up to a professional athlete to use his mega paycheck to do something stupid. Jog my memory--when has something similar happened before? What possesses a parent to think one day "you know what will make an awesome pet for little Johnny?A quite possibly endangered primate with nasty pointy teeth. I'll take this wad of extra cash and flaunt my affluence by going down to the neighborhood Madagascar and purchase an exotic find!" *whistles* then *spits out tobacca*.

WTF? If you have some extra cash that you want to dispose of why don't you put efforts towards SAVING endangered species and EDUCATION?? I'm sure that pretty penny used to purchase poor Zoboomafoo would have done a lot better applied to his habitat and educating the world about the primate plight!

OR
at a minimum, buy me a new car or put MY kid through college.

(OK. Maybe I'm just jealous I don't have my own personal primate playmate. Shucks!)