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A friend of mine sent me a picture of bureaucrats pouring whiskey in the sewer in the prohibition era.

Hello, I’m from the government. I’m here to force my personal view of the world on you. I don’t give a damn about your rights or personal preferences.

Respectfully submitted,

Donald M. Heavrin,

A man who despises bureaucrats making decisions about personal preferences.

Christian Worker Quits (486)

A person who said he was a Christian quit his job, because his W-2 form was stamped with the numbers 666. His position was that he could quit work or go to hell. He said if you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil.

There’s nothing for the rest of us to worry about, he is not allowed to vote, drive a car, drink a beer or own a gun. So we should be reasonably safe.

Respectfully submitted,

Donald M. Heavrin

Your Servant of Truth of the Garden of Life

(485) Gun Control Laws

The Proof that there are a lot of mentally ill people in society is evidenced by the number of random shootings.

Witness the political frenzy over guns. The various proposals (some will pass) are less than a band-aid.

In Los Angeles, where gun control is very strict, the city has one of the highest murder rates in the country. Meanwhile in Idaho, where almost everyone carries a gun on their hip, the murder rate is almost zero. Thus establishing that gun control proposals are nothing more than feel-good legislation. If 98% thinks that we should have stricter gun control, it is still smoke and mirrors.

Respectfully submitted,

Donald M. Heavrin

Your Servant of Truth in the Garden of Life

HO, HO, HO!

HO, HO, HO!
2012 By Donald M. Heavrin

2001 Revisited

I vividly remember a nursing home trip I took with my mother when I was about five years old.  A friend from another city sent my mother a Christmas gift and asked her to deliver it to her mother in a nursing home.  Mother’s friend could not get to Louisville until after Christmas and she wanted her mother to have her gift on Christmas day.

The castle invented in the fertile mind of Mary Shelley would have been a vacation resort compared to the nursing home.  There is an eerie consistency in the reports of people who visit nursing homes.  Everyone talks about the smell and other than the desperate plea of Mrs. Heartfelt; the smell is what I remember most.  Faces leered out from soiled beds and the air was filed with the sounds of suffering and despair brought about by the isolation and illness of old age.

An eternity later, we arrived at the space occupied by Mrs. Heartfelt.  She was sitting in a chair and after my mother identified herself, she shone like the sun.  Mom gave her the gift and they talked about Christmas, the weather, and nursing home food.  When we tried to leave, Mrs. Heartfelt grabbed my mother’s sleeve and said, “Please come back and see me again.  No one ever comes to see me.”  I don’t know what was in the package, but I know our visit was the best gift.  If I land in the nursing home and I’m not comatose, don’t send gifts.  Come often and shine like the sun.  I’ll do the same for you if you beat me to the nursing home.

It took me years to realize that our visit was the real gift.  The fact that we were there was an acknowledgement that Mrs. Heartfelt was alive, her life had value, and someone cared.  Give me health, humor, and a stimulating conversation and I will be in hog heaven.

I can never talk to Dan Davis, Foster Jones, Joe Ray, or Ken Tharp again.  Before your friends are beyond reach, pick up the phone and let them know you are thinking about them.  Happy Holidays!

Sincerely your,


Donald M. Heavrin
Your Servant of Truth in
The Garden of Life
DMH/hdn

(483) Right Again

I hate it when I am right.

The country is resilient and we may be able to overcome the Obama policies, but probably not. A country cannot survive with trillion dollar deficits.

The Romney advisers, who predicted a win, were using witchcraft instead of math. Romney had a feeling he was going to win, and only prepared a victory statement. When you are using witchcraft, you should be disqualified. You should not hold office. This is akin to Ronald Regan using astrologer to set his schedule. These people are batshit crazy.

It was not all bleak. The idiot in Indiana who said that if a woman was raped and impregnated as a result of the rape, it was god’s will. It should be a lesson to not mess with god’s will, because it was his will that the brain-dead republican got beat.

The media was talking about how close the election was to keep us listening.

Romney ran a really stupid campaign.

1.    He was stomped in the second and third debates. He sat there stone-faced and never attempted to make a significant point.

2.    He never made a point of discussing the serious mistakes that Obama had made.

3.    It was a battle of platitudes, and Romney was out-platituded (probably not a word).

I heard someone who was certifiably stupid on one of the morning shows, that Obama was the man for the job, because the stock market had gone up. This idiot failed to mention that gasoline prices, the national debt, and medical costs have also gone up.

Respectfully Submitted,

Don 

Donald M. Heavrin

A Casual Observer

(482) It's Election Time...

Election time prediction:

Obama will win going away.  I don’t think that Romney is going to be stomped but I think the beating will be sound.  Obama has promised more governmental benefits to more people than Romney has promised, and therefore it will be difficult if not impossible for a challenger to overcome the promise of benefits.

In addition to believing that Obama will win the election, I also believe that it will be a major disaster for the country. Deficit spending will increase. Medical care will decrease. Retirement funds will decrease, and in the end this could be the death nail. However, the USA is resilient and hopefully we will survive the coming ordeal. Obama said he was running on change, and we've gotten change. We have gotten the largest deficit in the history of the country, nonsensical medical programs for the populous, and war is continuing on a daily basis. If this trend continues, the results could be catastrophic.

Yours for more credit,

Don Heavrin

George McGovern, Missing Paintings, and the Election

(481) A museum in Europe was robbed of seven renaissance masterpiece paintings. Anytime a theft like this occurs, I am amazed because there is nothing that the person who stole it can do with it, except to hang it in their living room and enjoy it. Art work cannot be sold to museums or to any private collector, anyone receiving the paintings could be prosecuted for receiving stolen property. Also, all missing art work is reported to the Art Loss Registry.

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George McGovern died. Years ago, when he was running for president, I thought that he was a lunatic, because he opposed the war in Vietnam. It turns out that he was right and Iwas wrong. He was a great voice of freedom, and I am sorry more people never heeded his word.

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You may have noticed that we are facing a presidential election; it says here that Obama will win in a runaway. Romney has some interesting issues that he has not explored; for instance, it doesn’t seem logical that if you don’t buy health insurance it becomes a crime. This is a sell-out to the insurance companies and the collectivists of the world. Why hasn’t Romney mentioned this horror?

I know it has been a while since I have written anything, but stuff happens.

Sincerely yours,

Donald M. Heavrin

Your Servant of Truth

Olympic Basketball 1972

Basketball Olympics, 1972

 

The United States won the game but was cheated out of the victory by some bureaucrat who gave the Russians two chances to win the game. You may remember the United States refused to accept the silver medal and they are getting together this week to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the game that most exemplifies the true Olympic spirit: You’re screwed when you least expect it.

Methamphetamine

(479) Methamphetamine

I just read that the Penske Racing team cut Allmendinger from the team. It seems he tested positive for a banned amphetamine. I wonder if taking amphetamines made his car faster?

Respectfully Submitted,

Donald M. Heavrin

Your Servant of Truth in the Garden of Life

Memorial Day

(478) Memorial Day

The newspaper carried the obligatory picture of the grief stricken parents holding a picture of their dead son. Dead because of another stupid war.

In Washington there is a long black wall with the names of thousands of dead soldiers who died in Vietnam. The war was full of sound and fury, and signified nothing. Nothing except 55,000 tragedies of life.

Remember that most people are only capable of doing system one thinking. There is no critical thinking, only reaction. For some reasons that no one, including me, can cipher. John Q. Citizens gets an idea in his head, such as we have to install democracy in Vietnam, or the Middle East, or Korea, or Easter Bunnyville. After that everything that happens proves the premise vis-a-vis without democracy in Easter Bunnyville, the USA will be at great risk. By killing a few thousand of our finest young people and upsetting a few dictators here and there, we are much safer than we were before. The day after Memorial Day there was another story proclaiming that almost half of new vets seek disability. Good for them, they deserve it. Obviously the costs of war will be exceeded by the costs of taking care of the returning vets. The second half of the equation would never have happened if there wasn’t a war. When will they ever learn? Just ask the Republican standing next to you and you will learn how important it is to keep on fighting.

Meanwhile, back at the Vatican, the Pope’s butler wrote a book. The Pope has condemned the book. The nuns have condemned the church for its anti-woman stance.

Some nut case in some country protested loud enough that Lady Gaga canceled a concert. The protestor asserted that she was an instrument of the devil.

Linus Pauling once observed that before you can make a fact based decision you must have all of the facts. That premise served us well for decades. Now, not so much. For instance, the World Trade Center truthers pick up a new tidbit and instantly incorporate it into their sickness. The more facts there are, the more certain they become.

In Syria, the world is ablaze. The U.N. condemned the actions of the dictator. Whoop de do. Meanwhile thousands are dying. If there is any reason to worry about Syria, then we need to stop fooling around with the U.N. and get our Air Force, not Nato’s but ours, in the air, and kill the bastards or we can just stay at home.

Sorry I have not written in a while I have been in court.