Russellville, ARSouped Up CB’s Only With Video
Anyone remember the days of CB’s, Citizen Band Radio’s limited to mere 4 watts of transmitting power and whatever kind of antenna and/or tower you wanted to put together. CB’s were in just about every home in the country and mobile cb’s in just about every vehicle on the road. Everyone had their favorite channels to talk on and breaks would come fast and furious over the public airways. Profanity happened on occasion although it was frowned upon by the FCC, and for few years it was all the rage. On a good day during heavy skip you could sometimes even reach as far away as other states and on a very good day even Australia. Like all fads though CB’s have mostly died out and went to CB heaven although a few are still in operation. All of that changed with a computer and broadband replacing the old CB in almost every home. Now you can video chat (live video and audio) with anyone in the world that has a computer, web cam and internet connection.
And it didn’t stop at the computers in the home, moved right on into the tiny little cellular phone barely as big as a credit card and only a few millimeters thicker. In the old you had to pull the map out of the glove department to keep track of where you were and which route to take to get to your destination. These days just punch in the destination on the trusty lil ole cell phone and through the magic of GPS (Global Positioning Satellite), have a visual display of the route displayed on the tiny little screen and voice turn by turn directions as well.
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Little Rock Arkansas avoid it and stay away If you smoke:
Little Rock Arkansas sure is becoming a damned fine place to avoid and stay away from. Nothing but wacko Anti Smoking crusaders there taking the basic rights of those in it. A case in point The Little Rock Housing Authority
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=96933&catid=2
Can’t smoke on the hospital grounds, can’t smoke on the bus’s, can’t smoke on the planes, the city parks or even the trains, can’t even smoke in your own apartment when you move into Cumberland Towers or receive rent assistance through The Little Rock Housing Authority. I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t go or move to a place where I couldn’t smoke in my own apartment (in fact I wouldn’t even go there on a short visit). I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t visit any city or place where I couldn’t light up and on the rare occasions I do have to go to as unwelcoming a place as Little Rock has become I make it as short and brief as possible. I as a smoker sure as hell wouldn’t have dinner in a place or even a hamburger (regardless of how 5 star rated it is even if I had the money to do so) where I couldn’t light up after a meal to enjoy with my coffee. Tourism is down, Revenue, is down and tobacco taxes are through the roof, Anti Smokers regardless of how bitter the pill and lead ball it is in their stomachs have to shoulder a large part of the blame for lack of Tourism and lost Revenue and all of the blame for Tobacco Taxes going through the roof. The state surplus has fallen far short of the projected amount generated by increased Tobacco Taxes, but cold hard reality can and is sometimes an extremely harsh teacher and plays favorites among no one.
From TodaysTHV:
Americans increasingly unhappy with their work
It used to be that people could light up and get rid of some of the job stress through smoking and brief social interaction with co-workers now they can’t even do that because of the Anti Smoking crusaders force feeding their stinking rights down everyone throats. Some of the job stress can be directly traced back to sub-conscious resentment, tension and anger towards anti smoking crusaders in job place.
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Problems faced by gay veterans In Arkansas:
Problems faced by gay veterans In Arkansas:
Posted 11/27/2009 11:05 AM CST on TodaysTHV.com
I’ve tried the contact page at the White House web site to contact President Obama on three different occasions and not once did I even receive a confirmation let alone a follow-up reply.
Openly gay veterans have never been and never will be welcome in the VA on any level especially so in Arkansas, in fact openly gay people are harassed on all levels of the work force in the VA. With the number of claims topping 1 million on the backlog books, unless you know high-ranking VA officials, or have a lover that graduated from Harvard Law School at the top of the class, or courting and/or smooching up to the right people in the VA or have around 10 thousand dollars to drop on an attorney’s desk it isn’t going to happen.
The VA is full of slimy, nasty, greedy thieves who think it is their duty to deny vets rightful benefits so richly deserved by serving their country and nowhere is that more obvious or prevalent than at CAVHS and The VA Regional Office in Little Rock/N Little Rock, AR. I’ve been through the mill on more than one occasion up to and including a personal hearing through closed circuit television with the VA in Washington, DC and the most recent denial being in early 2003.
Not only was the attorney’s right to represent challenged by the VA legal coach for a full thirty minutes at the hearing, but also the VA had even thrown away the power of attorney submitted by the attorney. Straight veterans aren’t keen on associating with or assisting openly gay veterans and the number one reason being, their guilty of being gay by association excluding those who feel gays are sick and perverted.
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Finally Respectable Homemade Chocolate Milk
I finally managed to find a decent way to make chocolate milk and with surprising good results. Started off by dumping 2 teaspoons of Nestle Toll House Cocoa into my 2-cup measuring cup. And then added 2 tablespoons of sugar followed by a couple of heaping scoops of non-dairy creamer and blended. Then I added about just enough milk to make a thin paste and the whole affair turns into one big grainy affair. Then I popped the whole kit and ka buddle into the microwave and nuked it’s lil buns at full power for a minute and ten seconds, pulled it out and got this velvety smooth chocolate syrup. And at that point it’s a simple matter of dumping a spoon full or two into a cup and adding milk for hot chocolate or to a large glass for a cold glass of chocolate milk.
And surprise it actually turns out tasting similar to what I would buy in the store.
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Another Dead Assed Nite In Morrilton
Well actually in Morrilton every nite is a dead assed nite, and the weather is calling for an 80% chance overnight thunder storms. Ok so I’m a little bit on the rag tonight, it’s another one of those low keyed sinus headache nights with nothing to dope it up with but aspirins and BC’s and my glass’s only aggravate it and Citalopram for the blue funk which barely holds it’s own in this flea bitten mud hole little nowhere town. My social life is outright zero and has been since my return in early 2003, and medical care is almost non-existent and what doctors are here doesn’t know their ass’s from a hole in the ground. One of my nephews went to the emergency room a few months back for chest pains, they told him he had laryngitis. So he went to Conway to get a second opinion and was told he wasn’t having anything but a panic attack.
Chronic allergies in this part of the state are a constant battle and I used to use Mobigesic until it was pulled from shelves and in Morrilton you walk around all of the time feeling like your head is in a bucket. It’s one of those wonderful little over the counter med’s that comes along that fights headache pain, allergies and includes a muscle relaxant. I don’t worry to about Mormon missionaries coming by anymore or other church people either for that matter, not since I started handing out a one page letter in a sealed envelope telling them what they can go and do. Which is what all solicitors that come to my door these days get. I hoping all of the I promise the moon, I deliver nothing and I deny everything political campaigner’s come around so I can pass out one to them to. Got a whole stack of sealed envelopes right next to the door just waiting to be handed out lol. I felt a little weird the first two or three that I handed out, but after that it was pretty much old hat business.
See Morrilton is controlled by a Dixie mafia mentality and black list anyone who is openly gay and opposes the barn yard pecking order here. Well since all of the years gone, all of the dreams and most of my family along with them I couldn’t care less how much this stinking town and it’s closed minded mentality black list me. In fact I pretty much live in virtual seclusion owing to a lack of personal transportation and by choice because I have utterly no desire to socialize with anyone in it. Didn’t even bother to renew my Louisiana drivers license’s when they expired, because I flat out do not care to have an Arkansas driver’s license.
Morrilton will force it’s stagnated little time bubble down your throat whether you want it or not, if you were feeling reasonably good when you came to it, Morrilton will rip it to shit and send it to hell in a hand basket in about month’s time. Thinking of Morrilton, then picture a giant spider’s web that ensnares and slowly sucks the life and will away and you’ve got a very good idea of Morrilton. Or think of Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood and his description of the town where it happened and you’ve got another good idea of Morrilton.
Owing to the energy of youth the young have some immunity to it although it’s noticeable none the less, but as the years go by it grows increasingly stronger as the immunity factor grows increasingly weaker. I suppose this might be due in part to the fact Morrilton is at the low point in the Arkansas River Valley and surrounded by low mountains as such all of the ground poisons including air pollution settle here.
See this is the kind of stuff I can only post on my blogs, because the editor of the local newspaper wouldn’t print it in a letter to editor. The local newspaper is biased concerning what is printed about Morrilton in the paper, in short if it isn’t ass kissing stuff, (e.g.) I’d like to take this opportunity to thank such and such for this or that, although to the paper’s credit I do manage to get some letters printed on gay marriage and related gay issues, and I have read a few complaints about public officials so can’t run em down to badly. Letters to the editor however are limited to 300 words, so it really has to be condensed and to the point and with literally no straying from the main topic.
Well OK enough of my ranting while on the rag.
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Powerball Is Finally Here And I’m Glad
I thought I was going to have to wait until Tuesday to buy as Powerball lottery ticket, but my oldest sister bought a pack of Bugler rolling papers for me and threw in a Powerball ticket alone with them. Now before all of you Boy’s in the Blue Department rev up the old drugdar, and thinking about hauling me up on possession of Drug Paraphernalia they’re to go with my Prince Albert Roll your own tobacco, courtesy of our greedy governor Mike Beebe, Robbie Wills and the Lawmakers. I mean I used to smoke them high dollar Tucson and Basic store bought ready rolls and over the counter Midnight Special, but after Robbie Wills, Mike Beebe and the lawmakers got through I couldn’t afford them anymore. And yes Mr. Wills that is a dirty, filthy, stinking ashtray behind the Powerball ticket in the New Orleans, LA mug, which was also given to me by my oldest sister. Two bad your don’t have to sit in a whole room full of dirty, filthy stinking ashtrays Mr. Wills, you Mike Beebe and that, that woman Dr. Jennifer Delliha of the Arkansas Health Department to boot.
All right if anyone is wondering what kind of computer I run, it’s a nifty 3.20 GHz that I bought from eBay back in July and for a neat little price tag I might add. I’ve had an account through eBay almost since eBay has been doing online business. In all of the times I ordered from them, I’ve only gotten one lemon, well it was another computer. What did I do, gutted it and dumped the rest into the dumpster and went searching on eBay again. And that Powerball ticket showing in the New Orleans mug, well it’s signed and filled out on the back, so don’t forget if and when you do buy a Powerball ticket sign it and fill in your address on the back. I t would be nice though if I didn’t have to use a magnifying glass to be sure of what spaces I am filling in on the back though, but when your like me and can’t afford new glass’s you kind of have to make do with what you got. So am I going to thank the Lawmakers and the Governor for the lottery, not just a no, but a hell no. This one goes to the voters of Arkansas and the Lt. Governor of Arkansas, which I feel he should run for Governor of Arkansas and adding this to his campaign platform.
My oldest sister came by and visited with me this afternoon, and the only person that does come and visit to speak of, and we talked about the Lottery and that crazy woman Senator Sue Madison wanting to repeal it. In fact neither my sister nor I talked about the things either of us would do should either one win. To me it’s not so much in winning, but the mere fact lottery tickets are now legal in Arkansas. And I feel that Bill Halter has done more as Lt. Governor to bring Arkansas into the 21st century than Mike Beebe and all of the lawmakers put together.
A few typo’s most likely again, so just read past them. Yeah that’s what you can do.
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Writers Block
I had thought about writing up something for my blog, and By God I flat couldn’t come up with anything to write about. Were this New Orleans instead of a stagnated little hole in the wall town there would be tons of things to be writing about. The good thing to come along since my return in early 2003 is the Arkansas Lottery as there have been several big winners just in the opening days of the scratch offs a lone. Alright so I haven’t been one of them, but that’s not to say that I want be and given the fact I’ve only purchased in the neighborhood of around 9 tickets since the lottery began it could still happen. Powerball will be coming to Arkansas on Halloween and tickets go on sale the 31st of this month.
I’m real glad to see thumbnails are back with the movies at Free To Be Gay Vets.com, even if they do have to be converted to flv format first. For a long time I wasn’t successful in uploading any kind of movie, no matter what extension it carried and from what I was advised no one else could upload movies either.
So apparently I’ve recycled back from the vampire cycle (my term for sleepless all nighters) onto the day cycle again.
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Stinking Computer Restores
I had to do a re come store on my 370 and it was not any fun, my monitor fought me all the way but I was patient and persistent (I didn’t say I was completely calm), I said I was patient and persistent. My monitor didn’t fight me it was getting my desktop back to the resolution that I wanted that that caused the entire headache. Now when you don’t have tech support on a product, live a lone and the only ones you associate with don’t know anymore than you do or not even as much (wellllll your pretty much screwed) and/or left to your own devices. Goes without saying you don’t have the money or the desire to take it to a computer shop and let them do it either. So what you do is log onto the Internet and track down a few support forums where you can find a good starting point and then take it from there. Fortunately, I have all of my data on three separate drives including program downloads and CD’s so nothing was lost other than the programs on C drive.
What it all boils down to is flashbacks to Vietnam days, when it was scrounge and more scrounge and throw it together with spit and bailing wire and bubble gum and that all goes with poverty. Now even if you manage to get everything working the way it’s supposed to be working and some smart A comes along and says to you, that you didn’t need tech support in the first, smile and turn around and walk away from them. Because that Smart A probably doesn’t have as much smarts as you in the first place. Still the point being that when technical things go wrong it would it would sure as hell be nice to be able to pick up the phone and call tech support and have the problem cleared up in a few minutes as opposed to muddling through the problem for a few days or weeks on your intelligence.
Anyone that says well you were smart enough to figure it out, so fine yes I was smart to figure it out after about three or four days when it should and could have taken only a few minutes to maybe a half an hour at the most with a live software technician. I had the same problem trying to install McAfee after subscribing, fortunately live chat was available and it took the technician maybe twenty minutes to walk me through the steps for resolving the problem and McAfee went through it’s installation procedure just like it was supposed to.
Well I hope you reading this doesn’t find to many typos and if you do be kind and just read past them, it’s been a hectic past weekend and start to the new week.
Soooooooooo Dilly Bop, Dilly Bop, Dilly Bop, Dilly Bop Bop Bop and one more Bop to make sure I got enough.
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PalTalk
This is PalTalk, a groovy grub worm (anyone remember that old song The Groovy Grub Worm) program for cam to cam, adult content, chat room rated from g to r to adult. Registration is free as are all of the chat rooms but you can also take a one year subscription at any time. You can also create your own chat rooms and groups. Also got my router and 2 gig’s of ram on order.
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My Letter To The White House
Well Mr. Obama another campaign promise proved out to be another ball face lie. Apparently politicians will tell any kind of lie to get to be president. Well Mr. President you’re the freaking commander and chief of all military forces as such you give the orders and the Joint Chiefs of Staff follow them not the other way around. As such it’s a simple matter of signing an executive order repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, that’s all nothing more nothing less. Bill Clinton made the same promise and then turned pussy coward and backed down before the Joint Chiefs of Staff and apparently it appears like you’ve done the very same thing.
This comment was posted me a short while ago on another story about homosexuality and I can promise you every word of it I stand behind because not only is every bit of it true but it would appear it will continue until the time of my death. Just a small part of what this asinine Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy is responsible for serving in silence creates. Just some of the problems and shit that you could wipe out with the stroke of a pen. Larry Craig had the opportunity as Chairman of Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs to right tons of wrongs for gay and straight veterans alike but chose to turn a blind eye to all of the problems faced by veterans.
Well thank you a whole hell of a lot government of Mr. United of America.
By *** ******* on 2009-08-16 09:43:41
Then be happy for them, as for myself serving in the military in silence and repressive sexual contact created a lifetime of sexual impotence and traumas. I suppose that made a hell of lot of the closet queers and all of the straights happy, but for me its been nothing but a lifetime of unhappiness, lost opportunities because of the impotence and rejection both socially and by the Veterans Administration and I have become a virtual social recluse. And that is the real tragedy of what serving in silence causes and what rejection creates.
Not once has My Country ever been proud of me and it sure as hell has never been grateful for my sacrifice.
Non-Compensated Gay Vietnam Veteran
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