Women discrimination. (You can only blame the bible ladies).

1. The bible discriminates against women.

 Q. Yes way? No way?

 A. Yes way.

Case number one: On a fine Sunday afternoon, after working hard for six days creating the earth, the imaginary god of the bible was sitting in his reclining chair drinking a good cold beer when he looked down at his work and noticed that the Adam guy was displaying a fine penal erection and strange behavior, by sneaking up to that little white goat from behind. “Oops” he said to himself. “I gave the lion his lioness, the tiger his tigress but I completely FORGOT to give Adam his Adamess.” So, we’re told, he reached down and grabbed one of Adam’s ribs with one hand and a handful of soil with the other, made a ball of all of that and threw it back to earth and pop, woman was invented, after man of course. The story goes on to say that; “man is the fruit of god and that woman is the fruit of man.” And if you read a little further, in chapter five, it’s written that god told Eve: “and thy desire shall be to thy husband and HE SHALL RULE OVER THEE.”

Case number two: The old bearded, deeply complexed man or men who wrote the old testament of that book didn’t give Adam enough judgment to figure out by himself in which hole his penis went but instead pushed discrimination even farther by pretending that a virgin insisted to have sex with a man. A virgin to whom the pleasures of sex were totally unknown? That’s pushing things a little far, isn’t it? But it’s not the end of the story. Following their game of “legs in the air “ it’s written that god told Adam: “Control the woman”. Well girls let me tell you that the orthodox jews took those words seriously and decided that their women’s place is in the house in order to make it a pleasant home and to cook great meals and it’s still the norm today for those guys. On the other hand, some muslins flipped completely on their heads and made their women “prisoners” of their homes. Not to be outdone, the priests of the catholic church, from their pulpits during Sunday mass, used to tell women that they were not allowed to sexually refuse their husband and women are still prohibited from becoming and will probably never be able to become priests because they’re considered as second class citizens by that church. What do you think of this shit?   

Another fine example of discrimination is found when we’re told that Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was unable to give her husband a child. They don’t suppose that the ninety-four year old fart might have been impotent, no. They put the blame on her by saying that she couldn’t have babies, that she was sterile.

A little further in the story we’re told that, after running away from burning Sodom and believing that they were the only people left on earth, Lot’s daughters waited until their father fell asleep from drinking before having sex with him, in order to repopulate the earth. Has it ever come to some jew’s or christian’s mind that it’s a fact of life that physically, it’s totally impossible for a dead drunk man to have an erection? Should it instead have been written that Lot committed incest on his daughters? Does the bible say that he was punished for his vile actions? Of course not, the blame had already been put on his daughters.

Who was finger-pointed for cutting Samson’s hair, thus robbing him of his extraordinary strength at the same time? Good old Delilah of course. And the girl became known as the first lady barber in the history of man.

Guess who asked for John the Baptist’s head on a platter. You guessed right, a woman, king Herod’s niece.

    

Jazebel is simply called a whore and in order to make things a little different they called Mary Magdelene a prostitute. Both words are synonymous with instigation to illicit sexual activities.  Bad, bad girls.

The only women about whom the writers of the new testament didn’t say anything bad are Mary and her mother Anne. They wrote unbelievable things about Mary but although they didn’t write anything bad, as they did about other women in both testaments, they didn’t write anything good either. In fact, for a supposedly good woman and JC’s mother, they wrote very little about her.

Ladies perhaps you should reflect intensely on this article because one of the most read book, in the entire world, discriminates a lot against women and if you’ve had a lot of ground to catch up with, it’s entirely due to that book and to nothing else. That book of which we’re told teaches love and charity, in reality, teaches prejudice and nothing but prejudice. It blames women so much for sexual temptation that it puts her on the same level as the so-called satan, hence the control of man over woman from the very beginning. Except for Mary, the story has nothing good to say about every single woman who is mentioned in it.

In my eyes woman is probably the prettiest and most sensitive of the earth’s inhabitants but the bible has taken away all of her incentive, dignity, self-respect and pride. Although it’s called the good book, it doesn’t impress me one dam bit in that sense. Keep on fighting for your rights as you’ve done in the past but please don’t act as enraged feminists do. I’ve always felt that acting nicely and in a civilized manner will get you everything that you seek and, don’t forget, men have been superbly brainwashed and extremely well programmed by priests, ministers rabbis and imams for so many years that you don’t turn that ship on a dime. Good luck girls all over the world.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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Take this with you.

Can you believe what people do in church these days?

I was in the church listening to the priest's sermon when I saw a guy smoking a cigarette.

I was so amazed that I almost dropped my bottle of beer.

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.    

Animal abusers. (Veterinarians are the worst culprits).

Veterinarians make your pets sick.

Q. Yes way? No way?

A. Yes way.

I was born in 1941 at a time when pet shops were a thing of the future and dogs and cats didn’t cost a penny. One day a child would walk into the house accompanied by a friend, a cousin or the neighbor lady who was holding a recently born puppy or kitten and the negotiating started with his mother. “Yes Mom I’ll look well after it, I’ll feed it and pick up after it and it won’t bother you at night, it will sleep with me. Can I, Mom, can I keep it? can I? Can I?” That’s simply the way that things happened in those days.  And using this method some families often ended up with two dogs, three cats and sometimes, a couple of white mice. Quite a menagerie you’ll say. Quite a menagerie it was indeed.

Those pets became, as they do today, outright members of the family. They sat with us at their preferred place which was normally someone’s lap, they ate with us whatever table scraps that we could feed them, including the food that we kids didn’t like and they slept with us. Those animals lived with us and vice versa. We enjoyed them and they enjoyed and appreciated us just as much.

In those days a veterinarian was, for us, a cow and horse doctor who lived somewhere far away, in the country. None of us had ever seen one. Our pets never saw one either in all of their lives and didn’t even receive so much as a rabies shot, let alone all the chemical shit that modern veterinarians inject in today’s domestic animals, your animals.

Our pets didn’t eat all the garbage pet food in existence today. At best there was one brand of canned cat food on the market if my memory can be trusted. In any way, cats and dogs were never meant to eat little balls of cereals or little balls of this or little balls of that. If the family had roast beef or roast pork for supper they had the same. Cats and dogs were always meant to eat natural animal meat products, carrots, potatoes, etc… just like us, in order to be healthy and strong animals. This has been the rule for thousands of years and should still be the rule today. Throughout those years pet animals have led long and happy lives doing just that.

Because there are absolutely no regulations or laws controlling the amount of chemicals that can be injected into animals the situation has become a free for all for veterinarians. At any and every opportunity that they have those guys suggest to shoot your pet with something that has a strange name and that is harmful to it. In order to exactly understand what I’m trying to make you aware of, you must first realize that being a veterinarian today means to be in business. To be in business means to reach a level of sales that guarantees the success of the enterprise. It also involves making sure that sales increase every year. A lady veterinarian who writes a weekly article in the local newspaper even incites people to bring their pet to the clinic once a year. DON’T DO THAT. If your animal looks OK, it means that it is OK. THOSE PEOPLE HAVE A LICENCE TO EVENTALLY KILL YOUR PET ANIMAL.

One veterinarian from around here was even able to convince a woman that tap water, the same that I’ve been drinking for years, can make her dog sick and suggested that she buy the bottled water that he offers for sale. He’s either a first class salesman or she’s the dumbest lady that I’ve ever heard of. I sometimes wonder as to how many others he has successfully convinced to buy that water that he probably takes from the tap and bottles himself.

If you want your cherished cat or dog to live a long and happy life without dying from cancer, I suggest that you keep it away from any veterinarian, for its own sake. It might not be a bad idea to seriously reflect on what you’ve just read and give your pet a chance at a good, long, happy and healthy life. Good luck.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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 Take this with you.

A businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, "Bill, I want you to promise me that when I die you will have my remains cremated."

"And what," his friend asked, "do you want me to do with your ashes?"

The businessman said, "Just put them in an envelope and mail them to the Internal Revenue Service and write on the envelope, "Now you have everything." 

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.   

Accelerated climate change. (Deep oceanic earthquakes could be the reason.)

Strong oceanic earthquakes could be responsible for climate change.

Q. Yes way? No way? Maybe-way?

A. maybe-way.

After the strong earthquake in the Indian ocean in December of 2004 that created a tsunami that killed almost one quarter of a million people in southeast Asia, I heard, only once, on television that some scientists said that the earthquake formed a mountain at the bottom of the sea and that the earth was moved on its axis by as much as one degree.

 Following the earthquake that shook the land in Chili, in 2010, and also produce a tsunami I heard, only once, on television that the earth was moved by as much as one degree on its axis.

 Just recently, after the earthquake that really shook Japan and caused another devastating tsunami, I read in the newspaper that some Italian experts affirmed that it was strong enough to displace the planet by four inches from its axis and that the Japanese coasts had been permanently moved from their previous position by over six feet. Man, those are major changes happening to our big ball, don’t you think? I’ve had the opportunity to see the Rocky Mountains and I know, after seeing them, that the earth is quite capable to show us much bigger moves although I don’t really care to see any of them. They must be very scary.

 The thing that puzzles me however is that those statements that I mentioned about the earthquakes of 2004 and 2010 were not followed by other comments or confirmations. You’d have a tendency to believe that such major happenings to our planet deserve to be investigated and analyzed in order to confirm the statements and to estimate what the repercussions of such important changes could be for humanity but the silence of scientists has been remarkable. Don’t you find that very strange? I do.

 It was about two years after the 2004 strong earthquake and tsunami that Al Gore, ex US Vice- President, published a report by a team of scientists that had gone to the Canadian north in order to investigate and report on the state of ice melting in that area. The results of that trip were in fact very alarming and devastating for anyone who cares about earth warming. It mentions that the melting of the ice cap and surrounding glaciers, which started some ten thousand years ago, was happening at a never seen before speed.

 A few years later, in 2008 to be exact, there was a report about ice breaking away from the Antarctic ice pack and I’ll let you read something official about it which I borrowed from Wikipedia encyclopedia.

 “In March 2008, a chunk of Antarctic ice, about seven times the size of Manhattan, suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut was "hanging by a thread" as of March 25, 2008.[13][14]”

 For such a phenomenon to happen to such a vast area of ice is, in my mind, impossible to have been caused by the earth warming conditions created by man’s day to day habits. There had to be a triggering factor that happened a few years before that contributed to the ice break. Why do I say this? Allow me to tell you of a situation that happened to me about fifteen years ago which forces me to reason in this manner.

 Driving on a gravel road I met a truck and a small rock was thrown on my windshield by its tires. It didn’t break the windshield in a manner that it had to be replaced but rather left a small spot, at about four inches from the bottom, where it was visible that the glass had been broken. Quite a few months later, maybe eight or nine, I arrived home from work, parked the car and turned the engine off and became a witness to a very strange thing. Because the break in the glass was right in front of my eyes when sitting in the car, it was also the last thing that I looked at before I exited it. That afternoon was no different from the others and when I looked at it, a line started to run from the broken spot right up to the top of the windshield. It didn’t happen in one instant. It must have taken some five to six seconds for the break line to reach the top while I was attentively following its course. I sat there and was completely fascinated by what I was seeing and when I read about the March 2008 ice breakaway, my memory instantly recalled the windshield event and I naturally made a comparison.

That ice break happened four years after the Indian Ocean strong submarine earthquake that caused a big tsunami in South East Asia. When a phenomenon like that is created, the wave leaves the point of origin in all directions of the compass. Did that wave go as far as the Antarctic, hit the floating ice pack and did it cause a small break to appear in the ice in the same manner that the small rock did on my windshield? Did the ocean movements contribute to emphasize a small original break that resulted in the breakaway of that enormous quantity of ice?  It’s not easy to affirm and you can only draw your own conclusions.

When those strong oceanic earthquakes happen, do they change in any way the traditional trajectory of ocean currents which are responsible for many of the different weather patterns around the world? It might just be a personal feeling but it seems to me that there have been a smaller number of hurricanes that hit Florida and the Carolinas since the 2004 earthquake. Instead they appear to rather go through the Caribbean Sea in the direction of some very southern states of the U.S.A. such as Louisiana and Texas and to Central America and the northern part of South America. 

Are those earthquakes also responsible for the enormous changes in the climate of Europe and the U.S.A. that we’ve lately witnessed? In the last few years Europe has been hit by very dry spells, enormous storms such as hurricanes, big snow storms and inundations in larger numbers than was seen only a few years ago. Ditto for Australia. In the U.S.A., New York City was hit by at least three major snow storms this last winter and Texas has received much more than its fair share of snow as well. Again, on television news, I heard that, this year, violent storms were happening in the States in a larger number than in previous years.

I’m not trying, in this blog, to minimize the damages that man has caused and is still causing to the planet but is appears to me that every time that a special climate phenomenon happens, the passionate green people are very quick in pointing at man when they perhaps should evaluate the possible natural causes also. I’m a green people as well (my blog: Smoke silos) but I at least try to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to man what belongs to man. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions my dear readers.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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Take this with you.

A man walks up to the bar with an ostrich behind him, and as he sits, the bartender asks for their order.

The man says, "I'll have a beer" and turns to the ostrich. "What's yours?" "I'll have a beer too" says the ostrich.

The bartender pours the beer and says "That will be $3.40 please," and the man reaches into his pocket and pays with the exact change.

The next day, the man and the ostrich come again, and the man says "I'll have a beer," and the ostrich says "I'll have the same." Once again the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change.

This became a routine until late one evening, the two enter again. "The usual?" asks the bartender. "Well, it's close to last call, so I'll have a large Scotch" says the man. "Same for me" says the ostrich. "That will be $7.20" says the bartender. Once again the man pulls exact change out of his pocket and places it on the bar.

The bartender can't hold back his curiosity any longer. "Excuse me, sir. How do you manage to always come up with the exact change out of your pocket every time?"

"Well," says the man, "several years ago I was cleaning the attic and I found this old lamp. When I rubbed it a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever needed to pay for anything, I just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money will be there."

"That's brilliant!" says the bartender. "Most people would wish for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want for as long as you live!" "That's right! Whether it's a gallon of milk, or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there," says the man.

"That's fantastic!" says the bartender. "You are a genius! ... Oh, one other thing sir, what's with the ostrich?"

The man replies, "Oh, my second wish was for a chick with long legs."

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.  

God, speak, don't speak. He doesn't give a damn.

The god of the bible speaks to people.

Q. Yes way? No way?

A. No way.

In the old testament of the bible, we’re told that some superhuman, invisible and imaginary god, supposedly living somewhere in the firmament, spoke to some people living on planet earth such as: Eve, Adam, Abraham, Noah, Moses and who knows. Did you ever sit down and reflect on this, asking yourself if those statements are really possible or  impossible, or do you just accept them as being true? If you do believe them maybe you should attentively read, scrutenize and seriously analyze them on some dull Sunday afternoon and try to come up with a reasonable answer. Then and only then will you be apt to realize that situations like those are only possible in children story books where the ugly frog is magicaly transformed into a handsome prince. In the real life anyone of average intelligence can deduct that it’s totally, physically impossible.

However, in today’s real life, there’re individuals who claim (with a straight face) that god speaks to them and those people can be divided into two categories. On one side you find the person of a much lower degree of intelligence than the average people who will make such a claim and, sometimes, some of them even claim that the devil speaks to them as well and that could sometimes be dangerous because they honestly believe it. On the other hand there’s the religion businessman ( priest, church minister ) who might make such a claim for the sole purpose of bringing more money into his church business and there’re, very sadly, some people who’ll fall for that sort of shit and indeed give more money, even if they’re moneytarily poor, to their church because they honestly and sincerely believe the crap that they're told by those frauds.

The text that follows is an extract from an unpublished manuscript called:  “The legend of Jesus “, © 2008 by Jean-Paul Gosselin.

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God, speak, don’t speak.

During the course of the story in the bible it’s claimed that some invisible and superhuman god, supposedly living somewhere in the firmament, spoke to some guys living on the planet hearth such as: Eve, Adam, Cain, Abraham, Noah, Moses and who knows.

On the other hand what answer did that so-called god bother to give the young, eight year old, African boy whose belly was swollen to the extreme because of acute malnutrition and whose body was covered whit ulcers when he asked him: “ God why do you do this to me? “ Nothing.

What reply did he give the young, eight year old, girl who had witnessed her parents being killed in Auschwitz, by gas poisoning, and their bodies burned and whose turn it was to be executed when she asked him: “God why do you do this to me? “ Nothing.

What was his answer to the young, eight year old, Pakistani boy whose entire family was dead, buried under the stones of the family shack, following a massive earth-quake ( act of god ) when he asked him: “God why do you do this to me? “ Again nothing, ALWAYS NOTHING.

Do children have so little importance or are they too insignificant in his eyes that he just doesn’t give a damn about answering them? Don’t they deserve an intelligent reply to their simple question? YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT THAT THEY DO but they can't because god only exists in the imagination of the person who believes that he does.

Can the god of the bible really speak to human beings?

It’s for you to judge Pauline. 

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Take this with you.

A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.

He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's in there, the husband tells his wife:

"Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck." If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you."

To which his wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too"

 Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.  

  

 

Say what you mean, mean what you say

The right words should be used.

Q. Yes way? No way?

A. Yes way.

The English language is well thought of as are other languages used around the world. Words are initially developed to mean one thing, action or situation. As times goes on other definitions are added to a word by language experts and are eventually included in the dictionary and that’s quite all right as long as the new definition doesn’t infringe on the initial one. At other times additional definitions to a word are decided by journalists, radio and television news readers and other people and that’s where I definitely object, in some cases, because the definition just doesn’t match the word.


The following is an explanation of what I feel that, sometimes, certain words are very badly used to qualify certain things, actions and situations.


The first word that I want to deal with is: star. Initially this word was created to define a brilliant object in the sky that can be seen at night. At one time the word became used to describe a person who delivered brilliant performances in such fields as stage, television or film acting, in sports and other fields. In most cases those people who are called “Stars” have either gone through many years of study or/and many years of practice and hard work and ounce they’ve been recognized by their peers or the public and have received recognition of some sort for their efforts, they deserve to be and should be called “Stars”.

Where I object is when a person who participates in the action of pornographic films is referred to as, being a star. I personally have nothing against such films but I don’t consider that those people accomplish any brilliant performances and therefore no one has any business to call them “Stars”.


The word “hero” is one that can be used in order to qualify a certain sort of people that you can’t find by knocking on just any door. A “Hero” is a person who makes the instant decision to help and to sometimes save the life of someone who is in a situation of peril. When a person takes such a decision, rarely does he or she take the time to analyze and even less think of the dangers that he or she could be facing should the situation become complicated and I’m proud to take my hat off to them.While there are only few people who can be called “Heros”, there are, nevertheless, a lot who are potential ones and who wouldn’t, if the occasion arose, hesitate to risk their own lives in a similar situation.


What burns my ass however is when I sometimes hear someone call a rock performer or an athlete or an actor/actress “my hero” and, I’m sad to say, some radio and television sportscasters are sadly, very guilty of doing it. I just can’t take that. What can I say? It’s me and I’m not one to screw around with my feelings and beliefs.


For anything to be called: ”super” it has to be extraordinarily big, good, efficient or whatever it is, it’s supposed to be but when I hear television news readers or others refer to a clothes model as “Super model” it does bother me very much. What do those women do in fact? They walk in front of people, wearing a dress, a coat or a bathing suit. So what? Billions of women around the world do exactly the same thing every day of the year on city streets, at the office and on beaches but they’re not called “Super models”, or Super whatever because of it. So please, all of you people who use that term, drop it from your vocabulary. It’s just not appropriate. A clothes model is a clothes model, period. There’re no women who deserve to be called: “Super model”.


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Take this with you.

LITTLE GIRL ON A PLANE

This should give you a chuckle!!!!! smart little girl!!!


A member of Congress was seated next to a little girl

on an airplane so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk?

Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."



The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger,

"What would you want to talk about?"

"Oh, I don't know," said the congressman. "How about global warming, universal health care, or stimulus packages?" as he smiled smugly.

"OK," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first.

A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass.

Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a

flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"



The legislator, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says,

"Hmmm, I have no idea."


To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss global warming, universal health care, or the economy, when you don't know shit?"


And then she smiled and went back to reading her book.



Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.

Surface water acidification. (...and air pollution as well.)

Surface water acidification can be prevented.

Q. Yes way? No way?

A. Yes way.

It’s funny how sometimes your mind isn’t programmed to register what’s presented in front your eyes. Like most people I had seen television reports and read articles on the evil of factory smoke stacks and their negative and destructive effect on clean air and water but they had only managed to make me aware of the situation rather than to make me concerned about the negative results that they generate on nature around us, our nature. I must however admit that air pollution paints a very abstract picture that, for many of us, can’t be caught on the first throw. If it were colored black, dark green or bright red, I’m convinced that the majority of the population would have readily noticed it and would have immediately been concerned about it, as you’ll be able to realize a little further. In my case, grey was the awakening color.


The smoke emitted from factories isn’t, of course, the only factor that contributes to air pollution although it’s easily identifiable as one of the culprits and besides that it’s one of the main contributors responsible for the acidification and eventual killing of our beautiful lakes and, in some years, of our oceans. Carbon dioxide found in the smoke plus rain water = carbonic acid (acid rain).


On a warm and sunny summer afternoon, last year, I was driving on a country road towards a highway. Nearing my goal I noticed a factory located at the crossroads and stopped the car on the side of the road for a few minutes.


The reason that made me stop was the amount of smoke coming out of the smoke stack adjacent to the factory, it fascinated me. The structure must have measured one hundred or one hundred and ten feet and a fair estimate of the size of its mouth, from where I was, could be around five feet in diameter. Very thick grey smoke was shot in the air at a rapid rate of speed and at about five or six feet above it, was blown to one side by a strong wind, in the direction of a major size city located perhaps five miles down the road.


On that day air pollution ceased to be an abstraction for me because the spectacle that was unfolding in front of my eyes was the pure and harsh reality of it and it also has an identifiable color for me now, grey. I also thought of the millions of similar situations happening all around the world every day and I finally realized as to how enormous the problem really is. I then recalled the television images that I had seen and couldn’t help but think that the real image is worth one thousand television representations of the situation.


After a while I turner my head to the left side of the road where I noticed a farm and all its buildings, including two circular grain silos attached to a well painted large barn. At that moment a flash hit me as it sometimes happens, perhaps ounce and rarely twice in a person’s life, the type of flash that you just can’t ignore.


In my imagination I moved the smoke stack away from its base and replaced it with one of the silos, increased its diameter and its height, installed a water sprinkler system on its ceiling and directed the smoke from the factory furnace into it. Bingo, problem solved.


At this point some of you are wondering: why has this crazy blogger installed water sprinklers on the ceiling and I’ll gladly explain. Many of us live next to a large city and we’ve often looked at it on a sunny summer morning only to notice that there was a grey smog cloud sitting right on top of it. Later in the day clouds moved over it and there was a rain shower. After the clouds had gone away and the sun had come back, the smog cloud was gone. Where did it go? It went on top of the buildings and houses, on the streets, the grass areas, the trees and, whatever else you find in a city. That’s where it went. Hence, the sprinkler system would eliminate part of the air and water pollution problem at the source and what’s encouraging about the idea is that the conversion from smoke stack to silo wouldn’t cost companies a fortune.


I’ve chosen a farm type silo as an example but it could as well be a square or rectangular building varying in size in accordance with the amount of smoke that is spewed by different size furnaces and what’s also nice about this type of operation is that the water at the bottom of the silo can be reused again and again. If desired, of course, acid in the water and gases that might not have been brought down by the water and are floating in the air, in the silo, can be destroyed but I’ll let chemists deal with that, because a chemist I’m not.


I feel that it’s very important to deal with air pollution and the death of our lakes and eventually our oceans now if we love our children and want to leave them with a planet that they can enjoy as much as we do, in our lifetime. I realize that factory smoke isn’t the only air polluting factor but it could easily be the first positive action taken in order to accomplish our goal of having clean air and to prevent the eventual death of our lakes and oceans by acid rain.


If you’re concerned as I am and honestly think that this solution makes sense, now is the time to write or talk to your elected government representative and to rattle his/her cage a little, if you have to, so that he or she takes the proper action in other to head in the right direction. Your children will thank and love you for having taken this decision. Good luck to all of us.

© 2012 Jean-Paul Gosselin
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Take this with you.

There are three things that an old guy like me should never do.

1- Never walk past a toilet without stopping.

2- Never overlook an erection, and

3- Never underestimate a fart.


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.

Mass murderers. God is greatly qualified for number one.

Mass murderers are obsessed with killing.

Q. Yes way? No way?

A. Yes way.

Did you ever ask yourself as to what it is that drives a person to become a mass murderer? I have, many times, and the only realistic and satisfying conclusion that I’ve been able to come up with is the love of, and passion for killing, without necessarily displaying any feelings of animosity or hate towards the victims. How can a mass murderer hate a person that he doesn’t even know and who has done nothing to him that could result in such an action? In most cases hate is used as an excuse but the deep, basic elements remain, love and passion for killing.

As we are all born without feelings, we seemingly develop a variety of them as we grow up. For some it can only be a liking, for others a love and for others it becomes a passion, which in fact, is one small step from love, the line between both being very thin. In some cases a person’s energy is directed towards learning, research, love, sex, money, gambling or others and sadly, some opt for killing human beings.

Through history and not legend we have learned of their names and of estimates as opposed to true amounts of the number of their unfortunate victims. The true numbers would surely turn out to be higher that the estimate in every case because anyone whom, at one point in his life, takes the sad decision to kill people in industrial quantities, looses count of the amount.

As sensible, well adjusted, and life loving human beings the thought of taking this course of action at one point in our lives would never cross the mind of most of us but, as in anything in life, there’s always the element of exception which I try to show you in this article by listing the following realities.

The facts that you’ll read next come from an extract from an unpublished manuscript called: “The legend of Jesus “, © 2008 by Jean-Paul Gosselin. In the list you’ll realize that mass murderers can be anybody and come from anywhere.

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Joseph Stalin.

During his reign of terror as dictator of Russia and of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin has enjoyed destroying life and killing people.

Russian writer Vadim Erlikman for example makes the following estimates:

Executions: 1,500,000

Gulags : 5,000,000

Deportations: 1,700,000 (dead during deportations, for lack of food) and,

German POWs and civilians: 1,000,000. Added to the preceding figures we must not forget the genocide of six to eight million, and possibly more, victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in the Ukraine. ( Holodomor meaning murder by starvation.)

Adolf Hitler.

Adolf Hitler was another monster for whom killing was a passion and who was only surpassed by Stalin because his life was shortened by suicide after his defeat at the hands of the allied forces.

His concept of racial hygiene or purification led to the planning of the Holocaust where people of the Jewish faith, non-Jewish Poles, communists, members of resistance groups, homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, Soviet prisoners of war, groups of people in cities and villages of German occupied countries and others were coldly and systematically executed using various methods of death application.

Idi Amin Dada.

After the granting of independence by their colonizing European countries some African states became open torture and death chambers. Uganda was sadly one of those countries where under the guide of dictator, Idi Amin Dada, 500,000 people including, soldiers, members of ethnic groups, religious leaders, journalists, lawyers, intellectuals and in some cases entire village populations were killed simply because they didn’t think in the same manner as he did.

Pol Pot.

Pol Pot of Cambodia has killed an estimated 2,000,000 of his compatriots during a four year period in the mid-seventies.

Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein of Iraq was hanged for the massacre of one hundred and forty eight Shiites but before being stopped he succeeded in eliminating 180,000 people including an attack using mustard gas on Kurdish villages in the northern part of the country.

Radovan Karadzic.

Recently apprehended Serbian, Radovan Karadzic, is accused of executing, with rifle bullets, eight thousand Bosnian residents in July of nineteen ninety five.

Omar Al-Bashir.

A few days before the arrest of Karadzic, a warrant was issued by the World Penal Tribunal for the apprehension of president, Omar Al-Bashir, president of the Soudan who is accused of genocide in the Darfour region of that country.

Osama Ben Ladden.

For the next maniac in line we have Osama Ben Ladden and his merry murderers who already have quite a number of killings to their credit worldwide and, given time, the son of a bitch will manage to destroy many more lives.

God.

Every well-indoctrinated and well-programmed Christian knows that the god of the bible is the creator of the planet earth and of all its elements and proof is shown in the story that he can control them as he wishes. It is also said that he has complete control over sickness and diseases and there again certification is clearly given.

That god has however misused those elements and diseases to burn thousands to death in the fires of Sodom and Gomorrah and to drown millions in the flooding of the earth and, every year for the last two thousand years, he has damned this planet and its inhabitants for completely unknown and totally unexplained reasons.

1300s to 1720s

Bubonic plague-------Asia, Europe, Africa 100,000,000 dead

1556 Earthquake-----Shanxi, China-------------830,000 dead

1755 Tsunami---------Lisbon,--Portugal----------100,000 dead

1815 Volcano, Tambora, Indonesia-----------------71,000 dead

1881 Cyclone----------Haiphong, Vietnam-------300,000 dead

1883 Volcano, Krakatoa, Indonesia----------------36,000 dead

1887 Flood-------------China-------900,000 to 2,000,000 dead

1900s Smallpox,Worldwide--300,000,000 to 500,000,000 dead

1900s Malaria,Worldwide--80,000,000 to 250,000,000 dead

1907 Famine-----------China--------------------24,000,000 dead

1908 Tsunami,Messina----------Italy---------------100,000 dead

1918-19 Spanish flu,Worldwide-50,000,000 to 100,000,000 dead

1931 Flood---------------China-----2,500,000 to 3,700,000 dead

1958-61 Famine---------China-20,000,000 to 43,000,000 dead

1970 Cyclone-------------Bangladesh-----------------500,000 dead

1999 Torrential rains---Venezuela----------------------15,100 dead

2003 Heat wave---------Europe--------------------------37,451 dead

2004 Earthquake/tsunami----Indian ocean---------266,000 dead

to tell you of only a few of the recorded instances of destructive natural cataclysms which are recognized by concerned businesses such as insurance companies and Christian churches as being: “acts of god” (the insurance companies bluntly call them “acts of god” while the Christian churches’ priests or ministers use a more subtle expression and say: “god acts in mysterious ways”). Hum? And he keeps on killing.

Is the god of the bible the father of all mass murderers?

It’s for you to judge Pauline.

References:

Wikipedia encyclopedia: Joseph Stalin and others. http://nationmaster.com/encyclopedia

Natural disasters by death toll. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list

The holy bible : Authorized King James version.

What do you think?

Whether you agree with or have an objection to my blog, leave a comment. I’m open to favorable or unfavorable criticism and what you write might enlighten other readers or myself. Thank you.

Take this with you.

A woman goes to the plastic surgeon and asks as to how much it would cost to have chest implants.“Eight thousand dollars” is the doctor’s answer.

“I really can’t afford such an amount. Is there an alternative to surgery?” she asks.

The doctor says:” You can always try to rub your boobs with toilet paper”

“Toilet paper, are you trying to laugh at me doctor?”

“Absolutely not, look what it did to your butt”

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!----PROSPERO ANO NUEVO!----BONNE ANNEE!