Stone Age: Revisited

I was prepared to not have any Net access during vacation. Being 'unplugged' is a good thing. Now that I find I can, I don't really have choice, but I have to use AOL or MSN.

I gleefully abandonded dial up a long time ago and wasn't sure my ill laptop could handle any install, let alone an invasion from AOhelL. But the laptop has been remarkebly stable (could have been the power supplly all along) and I am confident in my uninstall abilities.

So I walk outside, look up, and an AOL install disc, with eleventy billion free hours, falls at my feet (slight exageration). I install it, start it up, cringe as the modem chips away at the stone tablet that is the phone line, choose a screen name (AsbOaudLx), give my credit card and...wait.

And wait...

And wait...

...

I have since turned off images and style sheets and it's still too slow! I'm back to clicking the link before the page has finished loading! A 3mg PDF took 8 minutes to download!!!

And I'm back to typing messages in Notepad before logging on to keep the charges down. The resort charges 50 cents for a half hour, which ain't bad, but it's still too much like your teacher standing over your shoulder as you try to finish your paper. There will also be no images this week, with the possible exception of my Friday Cat Blog.

I'll be happy to be back on my fast, always-on, broadband internet connection, but I may need to buy some Depends on the way back.

Thanks for reading.
Colonel Kernel

Friday Cat Blogging

I have things that need doing, but I thought I would start my Friday Cat Blogging with this.

This is my cat, Scout and I love him to pieces, but I hurt him in a way that I will always regret.

I fell in love with him when he easily fit in the palm of my hand. But I procrastinated and procrastinated in getting him neutered. By the time I eventually did, he had already learned to spray.

Unfortunately now, he spends much of his time in this kennel. He never fights me when I go to put him in there and often walks in willingly. I wish I didn't have to do it, but he makes it easier. For this, I am very, very grateful.

So to you, who ever you are and where ever you're reading this from, please get your cat neutered as soon as you can. Please don't let your relationship be affected the way mine and Scout's is.

I'll post happier photos in the future.

Thank you for reading.

BTW, while I'm on vacation, he will have a room to himself and I will deal with whatever surprises I find when I get home.

"...my parents went away for a week's vacation and..."

...I'm going with them, along with SISs 1, 2 and 2's beau, or whatever she's calling him this week.

I expect to have no computer or internet access, so I figured I would actually get down the concept for this new government.

I've named it, but have yet to buy the domain, so you'll have to wait for that.

Instead, here's the gist with some setup -

Generically, I see the Democrats as Pro Individual and the Republicans as Pro Business. The Democrats are socially more liberal and the Republicans more conservative. The Republicans seem to have claimed the military and the Democrats the environment. Again, simplistic, but not untrue.

I say let the Republicans have the businesses. I really don't' care about businesses, in and of themselves. I just get pissed off when they stomp all over people to squeeze every damn penny out of them.

I'm also really annoyed the Republicans currently in power, or NeoCons, who pretend to be for the people to gain enough control of government to give more to the corporations who already have more than they could need, at the expense, and this is the point, of everyone else. That the definition of evil.

If the NeoCons were at least honest about it, I wouldn't mind. But then, of course, they wouldn't win. And wanting what they want without any bothersome morals to get in the way, I understand why they lie. But winning isn't the goal. Everyone can't win.

Anyway, this is one of those Phantom Menii or problems currently plaguing society. And like many people, I've thought things should be different. Well, those ideas began to gel while I was dreaming up the back story of that SciFi idea I mentioned when I announced the general topic of this blog.

For this future world government, I created a branch of the government specifically for businesses, both large and small. That would legitimize their complaints of having to pay people enough money to live on. They will still look like assholes, but at least they will be doing their jobs.

There was another branch of the government to represent just the people. Your representative could be either liberal or conservative, but at least you would know he was just for you.

The third branch of this government consisted of, well, the government. That is where the social services and what-not are maintained.

And that's about as far as I got. Having ADD, I never got back to further develop that part of the story.

Since joining Billionaires for Bush this spring, I began to realize that this concept would work for my country, The United States of America, in the year 2005. I don't think I said much of this to anyone else, but it colored the concepts that I argued with.

And now I have decided to flesh it out here and you get to be the victor/victim.

Now I began to expand the previous idea. To recap: One branch for the People, another for the Businesses and a third for the programs that serve the country, or Services.

I don't think I ever got around to conceiving how and where the military would work in this story, but I soon realized that it would be far away from the Business Branch of this new and now government. That shored up the role of the Services branch.

I also realized that the FBI and CIA were a little like the military, in that they took action on their own against threats to the country at home and abroad. And that's another part of the puzzle that is George W. Bush, et al. His connection to military and (ironically) intelligence through business terrifies me.

So I decided to pull the intelligence gathering side of things away from the other three branches, making it's own entity, but not giving it any powers. This is where the name that I can't reveal just yet comes from.

It was at this point that everything had gelled, that my foundation had been laid, bedrock had been reached and a host of other analogies that add nothing to the statement.

Three branches of government with a little garnish on the side.

I've already taken this idea MUCH deeper, but this is the first that I've written about it.

More to come. Thanks for reading.

Colonel Kernel

Phantom Menii? New Hope? What Star Trek nonsense are you babbling about now?!

That's a Star Wars reference, actually. And because I'm much more of a Star Trek fan, I may change it.

It's an expansion of my topic from a few posts ago.

The Phantom Menii are the things that are plauging our country and society in general.

A New Hope is the new government I will conceive on these pages.

I'm trying to figure a way to easily sort for them.

I guess it's also a comment about how Episodes 1 - 3 of Star Wars largely sucked and 4 - 6 are better in most every way.

The toy gun post gets The Phantom Menii label.

Adult Themes

This is a gun.

This is a Beretta Something-Or-Other. At least that's what Google gave me.
Blame them if it's not.

All kids want to be an adults immediately. Hence, we have toy vacuum cleaners, tools, etc. Many adult items have been "toy-ed". Including guns.

This package even includes a toy grenade that
you can pretend to blow up the cat with.

A gun's purpose is to inflict damage, the intention, being, to incapacitate. One common target is people. One common result is death.

A very adult item.

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This is a dildo.

I don't know what brand it is, but feel free to blame Google for this, too.

People use it for sexual pleasure. ... Let's stop there.

Also an adult item.

Why haven't dildos and other sexual items been "toy-ed"?

I'm not wondering why violence is okay and sex is not, but the reverse.

Kids don't understand what it means to shoot someone any better than they understand sexual intercourse. Sex is, and should be, an adult topic that children are introduced to gradually, and only when the individual is mature enough to understand. So should guns and probably most weapons.

To clarify, children need to be told about sex and guns, to protect them. Both are equally dangerous to a child. Ending a life is just as serious as starting one. They need to be taught to fear them, to respect them, so, when they're older, they will use them properly.

When I started writing this, I was just making a joke. But I've come to a decision: a toy gun is as ridiculous as a toy dildo. They should not exist. My child (a long time from now in a life far, far away...) will not have one.

For those interested, I like guns. I think they're cool and I'd like to own a few. For me, it's about marksmanship. When that future child is old enough, if s/he wants a gun, I will gladly buy him/er one, making sure s/he learns how to use it.

This occurred to me while I was in a convienece store the other day. Many, many things "occur" to me, but now I have a blog.

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BTW, while I was searching for the above images, I also found this -


The word that found it...dildo.

Posting Schedule

New posts will only appear Monday through Friday, but, knowing me, that is no guarantee that any will appear at all.

I will not be posting on weekends, that is, after today.

I know what I want to blog about!

I created this not knowing exactly what I wanted this blog to be about.

I tried to create my own website in the past. Bought a domain and let it expire. My latest attempt is still up with Yachoo! GeoShitties, but I still haven't done anything with it.

Part of the problem, I think, is ease of posting, which this blog should solve. Blogger's Search feature should provide the organization that I want. So, in the future, if you want to see everything on a certain topic, just search for it. Supporting that, I will create a key-word footer for each post to aid in searching. This will also help/hurt my blog by including it on web searches as well.

You may have guessed that I'm new to blogging. Reading, posting or anything.

Oh yeah, about my blog -
I don't like my government. Especially now with Bush in the White House, but in general. I don't think my government works anymore. One group gets a one person majority and suddenly they get to run the whole show.

One fix could be to require 2/3 or 3/4 votes for most things, but that's a just a patch. I think the problem is systemic and should be scrapped. I may expound later on why I don't think it works, but I want to get to the heart of this post.

We need a new government and on these pages, I will conceive one. But who the hell am I to attempt such a thing? I'm very creative, for one. I've dreamed up several worlds and civilizations for my SciFi stories that never get written. Some of those non-existent places can get pretty detailed.

For one story still largely inside my head, set about a century in Earth's future, I began dreaming up a system of world government that I thought was more fair for all involved parties.

I later realized that it could work now, for our country. And so, last night or this morning, after creating this still purposeless blog, it occurred to me that I could use it to get these thoughts out of my head.

One thing just occurred to me: Scientology is the product of a SciFi writer and my concept would be the product of a wannabe SciFi writer. We both share that Red Flag. But, Scientology goes awry by claiming to be a religion. It's third strike is the extent to which they go to keep things secretive.

But I'm not trying to create a religion, nor am I keeping anything secret, so I've just got one strike against me.

So, on the posts to follow, you will be treated/tortured with the way I think things should be. At least I'm not that Flush Limbo guy.

Ciao,
   Bill, a.k.a. Colonel Kernel

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