Changes

I've been dealing with some personal things recently and haven't felt much like blogging. So for the foreseeable future Right-Wing & Right Minded will be mainly used for Wednesday Hero and Music Czar Monday with maybe an occasional political post.

Music Czar Monday

Quite possibly my favorite song of all time. If anyone as ever wanted to know who I am, this song, this album, is me. One of the best outros ever, the one in this video and on the album. Don't know how good the quality of the video is but watch it in the dark, and on the biggest screen you can, to get the best viewing. Amazing. Or better yet, buy the DVD.


Comfortably Numb (Live) by Pink Floyd

Welcome To The New America

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

I can't be the only one this ruling scares the hell out of.

Wednesday Hero

Wednesday Hero has never been issued a warning before but I felt it necessary for this one. This post contains graphic descriptions of torture and brutality that some may find it difficult to read.





This weeks Wednesday Hero is dedicated to thousands of men who lost their lives in April of 1942 in what has become known as the Bataan Death March.

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Well I Done Got Old

So I turned 31 yesterday I've been kind of dreading it for some time. I know some of you are thinking "31? Please", but for me it's a significant moment. I can remember my brother turning this age, 15 years ago, and now here I am. Pink Floyd once sang "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun". I still feel like I missed that starting gun. Here I am an adult but I don't feel grown up. Perhaps that's the curse of my generation. And something else I've noticed. I've been saying "Back when I was a kid" or "Back in my day" a lot.

Anyway, on to the meat and potatoes of this post. I saw this story and, while it made me laugh, it also caused me to think of things from my past that "kids today" may have never experienced or even heard of.

Cassette tapes

Vinyl records before they were retro

Pre-GHz processors

Popples

Gas under $1/gallon

Rotary telephones

Bo Knows...

The Gulf War

Mr. Wizard showing me how to insert a needle into a balloon without popping it

Pogo Ball

Tupperwear parties

Sticker books

Windows 95

Seeing my first Compact Disk

Music Czar Monday

20 years ago this Friday the world lost one of it's most amazing talents. So this weeks MCM is dedicated to the greatest White boy to ever pick up a guitar. And since the name of his band was Double Trouble.... There are so many awesome songs to chose from, but I went with two of my all time favorites. I couldn't find the versions of these songs that I wanted. I wanted the tracks from the 3 disk SRV boxset, but I think the ones I picked should be okay. Oh, and Happy Birthday to me as well.

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Life Lesson #5

Be careful with those cans of compressed air you use to clean computers with.

Did something really stupid. I just bought a new can and took that straw thing-a-ma-jig from the old one. Thought it would be cool to see how much of the contents comes out of it without that straw thing-a-ma-jig. So I turned it upside down and let loose, away from me. Not realizing that I had done it behind my fan that was currently on. So the fan sucked it in and blew it right in my face. Now this stuff I have uses something called Bittergent to deter people from huffing it. It works. I can't get that crap off my lips or out of my throat. This sucks.

Big Brother Is Watching

Eco-fascism at it's best.

By issuing these tickets, it's helping us change the attitude or perception on how things should be set out

If people won't do it of their own free will, then we'll force them into it.

City government is starting do to things like that here as well. Trash will only be picked up once a week and they're "advising" us to not rake up grass clippings or water our lawns. They haven't forced us to recycle, yet.

Are You Gay Or Something?

I was watching a show on BBC yesterday about actor John Borrowman trying to find out why he's gay. Why no one else in his family is but him. In it he went all over the world to find factors as to why and as the show goes on he's finding different scientific methods and stats that may determine why someone might be gay or straight. Every one of these methods and facts, except one, say he shouldn't be gay but he is. And these factors and stats they listed say, scientifically, that I should be but I'm not. Keep in mind that these are just theories and haven't been proven but I found it kind of fascinating. If you believe that it's a choice rather than how you're born then you probably won't like it but if you get BBC America you should check it out. It's called The Making Of Me: John Borrowman.

Wednesday Hero

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Mike Golch

Sgt. David "Mad Dog" Dolby
May 14, 1946 – August 6, 2010


Mike has posted a piece on his blog about the Medal Of Honor awarded Sgt. Dolby which is a big help to me.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Music Czar Monday

I really like this song. A great dance track. Too bad the group didn't last.


All Around The World (Punk Debutante) by Cooler Kids

A Political Demonstration

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Just Leave Things Alone

Anybody else seeing this on their Gmail account? First, leave it alone. Gmail is fine the way it is. Second, "faster Gmail and the newest features" most likely means it'll be HTTPS which takes FOREVER to load on dial-up. Third, "upgrade to a modern browser". What does that mean? I'm using Firefox 3.6. It's not like I'm still using Netscape or something. Why can't people just leave things alone? Why do they feel the need to "improve" everything that's not broken?

Happy Days Are Here Again

$165,000,000,000 deficit
Unemployment highest since February
Home foreclosures up 6% from last year

Thank God we were pulled from the brink.

SOWF

Special Operations Warrior Foundation

Wednesday Hero

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Greta

This weeks post is a little different from the norm. It's honoring the 13 Men and Women who were awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal. People like George J. Weiss Jr. A World War II veteran who has made it his mission to provide military honors to deceased veterans at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis. And Susan Retik who, after she lost her husband on September 11, 2001, started an organization called Beyond the 11th to help women in Afghanistan. And the person Greta wanted to honor. MaryAnn Phillips of Soldiers' Angels Germany who has made it her mission to help wounded service Men and Woman medevaced to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. You can read about MaryAnn Phillips's nomination here.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Someone Call Mr. Peabody, I Need His Wayback Machine

I want to go back to my childhood for a second. You probably won't find this interesting so just stop reading. I remember when you use to turn on wrestling and actually see wrestling. Back in the 80's and early 90's when WWF was king. Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, The Ugandan Giant Kamala, Andre The Giant, The Freebirds, etc... You could turn on Saturday Night's Main Event or Monday Night RAW and actually see guys wrestling. You turn it on now and what do you get? Maybe 40 minutes of wrestling in a 2 hour show and the rest is gimmick matches or talking. When my dad was alive he was the biggest fan of "grunt and groan" as he called it. I was right there with him. I loved it. I loved watching when Hogan was getting the snot beat out of him and would take his pill, as my brother would say, and nothing could phase him. He could take 100 guys on and beat everyone of them. When Sgt. Slaughter turned bad and sided with Colonel Mustafa during the Gulf War I was heartbroken. AHHHHHH.......What a RUSH. It was the ultimate. We even went to a show in Tulsa once. It was awesome.

Music Czar Monday

If you're from the South/Mid-South/Mid-West you have to like Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's the law.


FREEBIRD!!! (Live) by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Fake Patriot?

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.

True patriotism? The inference being that people who wore a lapel pin were faking their patriotism.

What...what's that he's wearing on his lapel during his recent visit to "The View"? Is that a sign of his fake patriotism?  Why, I think it is.  What's the point of this post?  There isn't one.  I was just bored and didn't have anything else to do.

Unable To Establish A Connection

So I've been having trouble connecting to the internets. It started last night and continued this morning. I was finally able to, thank goodness, but I'm not sure how stable it is or how long it'll stay that way. I might not be able to later, I don't know. And this got me to thinking. If I were to lose my connection for good, what would I do? Now I'm ass-u-me(ing) that most of you get your service through a large company. Cox, Comcast, AOL, etc... and really don't don't have to worry about them going under any time soon. I, however, get my service through a small provider called Address. And although I've had it for a few years now, it could very well decide to stop it's service at anytime. The economy isn't very good and small companies are going under all the time, so... Maybe I should start looking for alternatives just in case. I had Netzero at one time but they dropped me because their "unlimited" service wasn't so unlimited after all. I might want to get their info again just to be on the safe side.

Wednesday Hero

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Aaron

Lt. Dan Cnossen


Standing on his own legs, Lt. Dan Cnossen used to be about 5 feet, 9 inches tall. Now on his two mechanical legs, he is roughly the same height.

Somehow, though, he seems to stand taller.

That isn't what the Topeka man would say. But while this is his story, it is often his mother's telling, and she can't believe how far he has come. His latest feat came late last month when he walked a six-mile race on his prosthetic legs.

You can read the rest of Lt. Cnossen's story here.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

State vs. Federal

I got a question. The government is going after Arizona because they say immigration is a federal, not a state, issue. Ok, so when will they go after states that say people can smoke pot? Doesn't federal law say it's illegal? And as we've learned federal law trumps state law, so when will this administration target these places? My guess, the 5th of never. And now it looks like Virginia will be the next target of the government.

Music Czar Monday

For Spork(Tsesika) and T'Pol(Wiyoleti). Hope things start gaining some sense of "normalcy" again soon. This is actually a pretty good song. Enjoy.


(Can't You) Trip Like I Do (Remix) by The Crystal Method w/ Filter