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Morning thoughts - #1
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on February 15, 2013 - 6:24am.Any thing that does not exist, can't be proved or disproved.
Faith in that which can not be proved or disproved is a falsehood.
All religions require faith, there fore are based on that which does not exist.
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Discuss?

Super Bowl XLVII = Boring
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on February 4, 2013 - 6:44am.I know there will be others that disagree with me, but I haven't been this bored with a Super Bowl since <pick any> the Buffalo Bills lost four in a row during the early 90's.
While some will say the game was exciting when it came down to the final minutes of the final drive, I for one dislike the poor calls from the referees. Blatantly obvious missed calls which at this level of the game should never happen.
I would have preferred to see the game tied up leaving it up to the kickers and even sending it in to overtime; that would have a lot more exciting to me.
I will forget this Super Bowl in a few years, unable to remember who played in it or what the score might have been.

Good bye friend
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on January 30, 2013 - 12:33am.I got a call from your wife today. At first I thought it was you letting me know you were out of the hospital, but when I found it was her calling I knew the worst had happened.
I tried to contact you when I heard you were in the hospital, but they didnt have you on the list. I thought you had gotten better and gone home. I figured that I would get to see you again, sitting on your back porch, trimming bonsai and complaining about Obama. Ha-ha!
I got busy with work as we all seem to do and the moment to talk to you one last time slipped away. Those moments slipped away several times over the last eight days and I didn't know how bad things were. I think you knew then the cancer had won the last time I saw you, but you didnt say anything. I think you didnt want a long sappy good bye.
It's strange really. I've only known you for a few years but it feels like Ive known you for longer. Knowing you are gone now seems to have hit me harder than when my grandmother died, which is the strange part. Maybe it was because I still had so much to learn from you. You were a master of your art and every time I hung out at your house I learned something new about bonsai.
What was it you were trying to tell me before you left? I am tearing myself up inside thinking that you had one last lesson for me, but I was too damn busy to put a little more effort in contacting you. So many other things I wanted to say to you. So many thoughts and so few words.

Subway Trains
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on January 25, 2013 - 12:00am.After three deaths in New York with people falling on the tracks it makes me wonder why engineers can't come up with a bunch of sensors which will slow and stop the oncoming train. I mean serious? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that sensors in the landing area would detect movement then send a signal to the train telling it to slow down. Then as they train comes in to the station, sensors on the front of the train would stop it completely if a person or object was detected.
I thought this was such a good idea I sent off an email tot he Mayor's office of NYC and I got a typical response back "thanks, we will take it under advisement".

Toy Story: Live remake (amazing work)
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on January 15, 2013 - 6:40pm.Hope is not lost on the younger generation...

Save Linville Gorge
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on January 15, 2013 - 6:17pm.This is a petition to save a small area in North Carolina called Linville Gorge. Maybe of you don't really know the area, but it is a 200 sq mi park which the government wants to do a controlled burn in, but they haven't weighed all the pros and cons.
There are over 200 homes in the gorge which would be put in jepordy along with endangered species of plants and wildlife.
The only reason the government wants to do the burn is that want to kill off some of the plants and trees which do not belong there. They wish to return the park to an oak and pine area, but they would be better off just going in and cutting down and removing the plants manually (as they have done for decades).
If you feel up to it, please click on the link and sign. Also feel free to post this link at an other sources. We need 499 more signatures!
www.change.org/petitions/stop-u-s-forest-service-proposal-to-burn-the-linville-gorge-wilderness-response-to-scoping-letter-file-code-1950

Comets to look for in 2013
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on January 14, 2013 - 7:24am.
Girl mystified at why she got fired?
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on November 12, 2012 - 6:15am.Stupid as a stupid does..
http://now.msn.com/denise-helms-defends-her-racist-threatening-obama-comments?ocid=ansnow11
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/woman-fired-over-obama-facebook-post-i-am-not-racist.html
I'm all for people having their opinions but saying what this immature idiot said is one of those things you keep to yourself. You don't go on Facebook and blurt it out, "I hope is gets assassinated". Comments like these are immature and racist; she deserves to be investigated and she deserves to lose her job.
The hate coming forth from this country is ridiculous even if it is a minority voice. White people need to get a grip and realize that they will soon be a minority. They will soon be on the short end of the stick. If they are not careful they will soon be living a life like in the movie "White Man's Burden".
Time to take your heads out of your asses and realize that their is no place in this world for hate; hate stalls progress and is a regressive emotion.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is a...
Submitted by digitalbeachbum on November 7, 2012 - 4:02pm.I was searching Google for information on Sen. Mitch McConnell and I found the following... the first one is actually (douchebag)..






