As My Mind Turns and Puzzling Questions #1
The countries in which most Christians go to church every week: Nigeria, Zambia, Chad, Ghana, Liberia—in the 80 the percentile range. Less than 50% of Christians in the United States go to church every week. Does this mean Nigeria needs to send missionaries over here?
In 1971 there were 175 business firms with registered lobbyists in Washington. In 2016 there were 7,700 business firms with lobbyists in Washington. Be prepared to be flooded out when all the wealth trickles down. No rush, it hasn’t happened since the term started to be used over 50 years ago.
Who are Cathy Cardenas, Heather Mesalam, Doug Sanders, Knuja GAdson and David Walker?
Answer: Publicist, Manager, Brand Manager, Speech writer, and Body Guard for Terrell Owens. My cousin probably already knows this.
When I am at the register at a grocery store I am usually asked if I found everything ok. This puzzles me. If I say no, “I couldn’t find this chocolate candy bar I have bought here before—it has nuts and anchovies in it.” What happens next? Do they send someone to look for it while the others in line stand in place and wait? Or can they say” “Well I am not familiar with that so I can’t help you.” Or, “Well, next time look in aisle 3, that would be my guess.” Or: “There are a lot of things that are not always in stock, come back tomorrow and maybe your luck will be better.” Wouldn’t it be better to post a sign at the beginning of the line which says: “If you can’t find something please go to customer service desk and ask before you get in this line.”
Is it a social necessity to write down in a huge notebook, everything that is going on in our lives, carry the notebook with us in a cart—then, when somebody says “Hey Honschnivel, how is everything going?” we can answer their question more thoroughly?
I understand indecency laws when someone looks too sexy and therefore is an annoyance to those of us who don’t look very sexy no matter what we wear. Wouldn’t a ride on public transportation be more pleasant for the riders if only the good looking and fit were allowed to ride? And wouldn’t pick up bars be more efficient if everyone had to carry an identity card which classified us into one of three groups and we could only gain entrance to the bars in our own attractiveness classification? Maybe people should only be allowed to marry within their own attractiveness classification. Nah, that would put Melania and her fellow professionals out of work.
If the intensity of an orgasm is in direct relationship to the effort to seduce someone, doesn’t that mean sex with the very attractive will probably be a disappointment since they don’t have to put much effort in it at all (just smile at whoever will be sufficient prey to please them at the moment — they certainly have no need to please their newest insignificant other).
Remember when, if you wanted a good steak, you depended on the butcher to pick one out? Today, it is most likely that the ‘butcher’ waiting on you will be some snot-nosed kid (term used affectionately) whose highest skill is to able able to locate the steak you are pointing at and wrap it up.
Are other animals unable to laugh or is it just they have nothing to laugh about? Just as well, Sheebiejiebee stares at me a lot, laughing too would be annoying to me.
Life is messed up. It would be better for every young person to have a lot of money when young so they could race around the world, have expensive sport cars, eat at the finest restaurants, and sex the post midnight hours away; then when old, just have them rent a room in somebody’s home, watch TV, mumble away to their heart’s content, and with most of their taste gone, eat spam out of cans, be near the bathroom at all times, and be essentially twice a child.
Why doesn’t anyone have the honesty and decency to write an autobiography entitled From Dust to Dust and leave out the in between so as not to bore us?
It would be a better outcome if God really did put marriages together. On the other hand, what a downer it might be to find out who is the best match for us. A match made in Heaven doesn’t seem fair to those with not much going for us: ”Do you, Honschnivel from the downtown Newark projects and an ankle bracelet, take Lily of the Valley from the Congo Bush country with a homemade club, as your legally wedded wife…etc/“
Isn’t there a disconnect somewhere when we say, sincerely enough, that “I am worried about the world my grandchildren will grow up in?—when, in fact, it was our generation who borrowed money to engage in endless military conflicts, borrowed money to fund education, borrowed money to run the government so politicians could get elected by lowering taxes, etc. If we didn’t want to pay and sacrifice for these things, by what way of thinking do we expect our grandchildren to sacrifice and pay off these debts? They will have their own debts to run up. Doesn’t something have to give here at some point?
On what basis would a juror decide a date rape case? There was no one else there. We lost the evidence when chaperones disappeared. Sometimes, just to be a wise-ass, when on a trail out in nature and a young amorous couple passes me, I ask: “Where is your chaperone?”
On what basis does the guy who pushes a wheelbarrow around all day have to pay double the tax rate (or even more) compared to someone who uses inherited money and pushes paper around in speculative ventures to acquire more money? Really now, if 2-5% of our citizens own 90% of our wealth shouldn’t they pay 90% of the taxes? Bernie Sanders probably has the answer.
Currently 35% of Americans between 18-35 live with their parents. In New Jersey it is 47%.This is a huge cultural change in the United States. What does it mean? Is this ok? Now add to this that about 1/3 of Americans say they have never interacted with their neighbors. In the 1970’s almost 30% of Americans frequently spent time with their neighbors, and only 20% had no contact with their neighbors. What kind of ‘patriotic’ attitudes are likely to be held about others concerning these genetic cabals who have so totally circled the wagons around their immediate family. How much of this phenomenon is fueled by jobs which do not pay a living wage? How many of these ’still live with parents’ group are closely welded to internet groups as their ‘real family?.”
Apple is shortly going to offer a watch which monitors our heart constantly and alerts us when something abnormal occurs. Other companies are planning to have devices which monitor our blood sugar levels. Even monitoring mental states is in the works. It seems reasonably safe to assume that in maybe 5 years we can be walking around with apps and devices which will monitor all kinds of physiological activity in our bodies. Is this good? Will huge numbers of people head to the emergency room with ‘false alarms” and run up the cost of medical testing? How far will this go? Maybe it will make us all dizzy headed, anxious, and depressed waiting for the medical bad news of the day from our gadgets. “Doctor,we need to act fast—according to my Apple Medical App I became yesterday, at 4;10PM, no longer capable of an erection. Do something. Right now. Is there a licensed Blow Job Specialist at this Hospital?. The Real Me has died. The Nut is gone, only the shell is left.”
There you go, individual musings only a paragraph in length. Maybe I will take up tweeting next. Will Sheebiejiebee pounce on me if I tweet? When she was a feral cat, a tweet was synonymous to a dinner bell.
