Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Month: September 2008

  • 20080902-Tweaking Again

    First, thanks to ‘dark ones’ of TPTB, I’ve nothing else to do except perfect my weblog site, which hardly gets anymore visits nowadays. After attending daily mass at our local church and blogging at WordPress.com for over one year, I finally got my web pages in their proper order.

    I modeled my ‘pages’ after this Christian publication. I liked the layout so much that in two days I figured out what the missing ‘page’ was: a cover sheet for my ‘web-book’! Originally, I had placed the elements of a typical book under the parent page of ‘Home’ but felt something wasn’t right.

    I already had a ‘web-book’ page but didn’t know what to do with that one and had deleted the page last week. Now that the ‘web-book’ page is located at the end of my ‘Main Pages’, the Manage > Pages section is cleaner and more logical.

    Without the < !– nextcode — > code, I would not have been able to consolidate the many individual pages of my ‘web-book’ from over five dozen to twenty-four published pages. They are located under three ‘matters’: two fronts, one body and two backs.

    These ‘pages’ are supposed to be static and outside the normal blogging activity. Although I came across responses from some forum members of WordPress.com about not liking static pages (like my front, ‘Home’ page of Dante’s illustration), I like the option. The rests are ‘posts,’ which still contain my rants unfortunately.

    Second, I felt something else wasn’t right with my pages. Yesterday, I had re-created the ‘About’ page to describe this weblog site. But this was not a satisfactory decision. Because my ego is strong, I really wanted to ‘About’ page to describe me, Fluffy von der Flynn.

    I decided to move the ‘author’ data from the ‘Body-matter’ section to the ‘About’ page, which is similar to the ‘FAQ’ page of questions and answers, and then finally created a ‘Profile’ page, which contains a descriptive list view of moi.

    Third, after already creating a longer page describing this weblog site from the ‘About’ page, I decided to paste that data onto the ‘Site map’ page instead. This page is for those readers who click my weblink on the only one referrer, a dedicated blogger.

    Fourth, I had to re-do the non-updating weblinks contained in the static ‘pages’ all over again after moving the ‘web-book’ pages away from the original location of the ‘Home’ page, which now stands alone.

    I think I’m finished messing around with the static, non-updating ‘pages’ of my weblog site after re-creating four vital pages: ‘web-book’, ‘profile’, ‘about’ and ‘site-map’. For those interested in cycling through the logical process of reading my ‘web-book’ (which is by clicking the ‘Next‘ link), below is the series so far:

    Home > Pages > Book > Front stuff > Front matter > Body matter > Back matter > Back stuff > Site map (repeats to Home)

    Home page: This static, front page shows a photo of a couple looking at point of light surrounded by angels. This was inspired by a more colorful version on one website by ‘Madam Mews’, by the way.

    Pages: The numbered list is exactly the way it appears under my Dashboard > Manage > Page section. I’ve discovered the convenience of that vertical line (located above the ‘Enter’ key of my keyboard) to separate weblinks within one line. This page really should be entitled ‘Contents’, which has a letter ‘s’ at the end, unlike my ‘Site map’ page which doesn’t.

    Book: As with some of my other pages, this time I used a clipart image of a smiling, brown-colored books from Microsoft via the word document program. A thought about this page came to my mind while attending this morning’s mass.

    Stuff/Matters: There are lots of articles to read. I get too wordy sometimes. So if y’all have the patience to take a gander, that’s fine with me. Only the ‘Back matter’ is pending.

    Site map: It really should belong to an ‘Index’ page and not a ‘Content’ page but I didn’t bother letting the one and only referrer know because I reckon he’s too busy. By clicking on the two angel image, this takes the readers to the ‘Home’ page.

    Note: There is always the weblinks located somewhere on the bottom navigation bar of each page. By placing the cursor over each weblink, a description is provided.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080901-Newbies Change

    According to an ‘old soul’, Barack Obama feels like a wolf in sheep clothing – the appearance of a savior for the black people and minorities. He is a closet Muslim (per Stephen Colbert). We know that is the truth, period. And by default once a Muslim, always a Muslim, right? The denial of his association with Muslims is an insult to his ancestors – flesh and blood, his own family and relatives and friends. Converting to Christianity is never going to be the same in my opinion. I know because a Buddhist is going to marry into a Catholic family.

    There is no denying where he came from – a broken family — noone from Obama’s side to speak on his behalf during the Democratic National Convention. It’s sad and I’ve read in other conspiracy sites that he ‘lied’ to get into the ‘system’ from his alleged fraudulent birth certificate to his position as council member in Illinois. Just ask people, the eyewitnesses, their testimonies. Everyone knows that in order to get on top, one has to climb over others from the bottom. And there are bound to be people hurt as a result.

    I feel that if this country needs this alleged change Barack Obama should have not chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden has been around for a long time, which to me represents the status quo. Without capping on the age discrimination, I know that change doesn’t require someone with experience. Most of the candidates running for the presidential office don’t have experience. We know that experience cannot be learned strictly by the book (albeit academia) and comes from ‘on the job’ training – hands on, if y’all will try to understand. I know because it took me more than a year to learn anything well enough to feel comfortable with my assignments.

    It’s the accomplishments, the quality and not necessarily the number of goals achieved that would define someone successful enough to be a candidate into a high office of this great nation. I find that someone progressive would not look to the past to reasonably predict the future events. We know that the hurt from racism won’t be forgotten. But for heavens sake, if the perpetrators didn’t personally come after the descendants, there should be no more of these hurt feelings of revenge on and behalf of the ancestors, whose very African kings sold their own people to westerners, right?

    It’s done and over with and it’s time to move forward. I am expecting people to keep an eye on (or at least teach) their children and that if there is going to be change, hatred must end. Forgiveness is possible but over a very, slow timeline. I know because it’s hard to let go of past sentiments brought about changes in the young upstarts whose own free will to be heard is change in the making.

    And I have to let go too and overcome that part of me that is dark and seething with the fear of losing again. I’m afraid that in order to get rid of the ever present ‘evil’ is not only to fight back with love and light (yuck!) but to work out the creases with an iron fist and the will as strong as titanium or something stronger. So yeah, let’s cut out that old lard and find something worthwhile instead of hiding the truth about unity among differences.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080901-Jump Girl

    Jump! Yeah, I remember jumping to the song by the American rock group, Van Halen, back in my head-banging days. One of their songs was an opening theme for the announcement of John McCain’s running mate, Sarah (van?) Palin. Who is she? She is the governor of Alaska. I like her. She’s smart and she rocks! She sure is pretty (from being a second runner up to a beauty pageant). Her introduction to the whole world convinces me that she would make a great vice president for the Republican Party. Plus, the policies of that political party happen to jive with my opinions despite my current voter’s registration as a Democrat or Independent, whichever I cannot remember but will change appropriately.

    I find her background very good: PTA, school council, mayor, NRA, etc. She does come across as a normal person, who is portrayed as a soccer or hockey mother from a small town, but also strong enough to handle a firearm (like moi). I’m not going to play upon sexism or feminism but I will mention quite honestly that women primarily run the household. And since Palin knows how to balance commitments to both her family and her country, I see no reason why she is more qualified than Barack Obama to run the Natives’ land.

    There is no reason to believe that her responsibilities to a daughter giving birth would in any way impede that ability of Palin to do her job as running mate to John McCain. I would like to see a female as either President or Vice President of the United States. Most democratic nations have at least one leader who is female, by the way. I’m sure the Divine Mother would be pleased, too, if the United States had its first female Vice President. Besides, she is Catholic (like moi, but confirmed). I liked how she closes her acceptance speech with the blessings of and by ‘God’ to America and the American people means a lot to me, really.

    What really matters to me is the value of life. I like her conservative views on abortion and how she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy with downs syndrome. I’m sure if anyone asked a person with downs syndrome (perhaps with higher function) they would like have lived. As a matter of fact, the other day, I’ve heard a beautiful voice singing. He was tall with light brown hair and he had downs syndrome. He was coming out of the van (parked on the disabled parking lot) to my left while I waited inside the Mercedes Benz E430 for my parental units to finish shopping for lunch at the self-serve section of ‘99 Ranch Market’. The Filipino attendants were there to assists the other patients in the van. (But I’m still wondering about the technological availability to allow the more free-willed persons, who choose the convenience of removing non-viable babies over the beauty of life in all).

    The fact that Palin’s hardworking husband works in and around oil related activities and that Palin does fight for the people of Alaska and against the status quo of big oil companies is good enough for me. We all know that petroleum is our current technology unless something more advanced is introduced into our society. Nuclear technology may be cleaner, according to an ‘old soul’. But the clean up is most definitely messy. And the effects of depleted uranium (DU) deform babies, by the way. Hybrid cars running on batteries are only good for short commutes and definitely not safe for airliners, which is the most polluting vehicle known so far. For the sake of example, I have an electric shaver that is water proof. But it could only hold a charge for one day. Replacing and discarding old batteries is costly and not as renewable a resource as expected, unfortunately.

    Although Palin surprised everyone, I am hoping to learn more about Palin in the upcoming days. We all know that John McCain was a P.O.W. and that Sarah Palin has a son serving over at Iraq; while Barack Obama does not have military experience. As far as I understand, most presidents of the United States have served in the military. The United States is known for its might from ‘the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli’. And I have a feeling that McCain won’t let our troops down by letting them stay in Iraq all that much longer.

    Although my rants would be liberal in some sense (or way out there for some sensitive readers), my worldviews are rather conservative if not borderline moderate. Actually, I’m in the middle (which is typical of a free-willed, ‘windsurfer’) and don’t care in taking sides of any issues. I do know where my vote is going despite the lack of sufficient air time allotted to the Republican Party and Palin but more to the stupid news reports spinning about tropical storm Gustav, over and over again.

    We know that the news spins lies about how former Governor Nagin of Louisiana told everyone to evacuate years ago and how people didn’t loot. News of deceit like these are getting annoying because inquiring minds would like to know also how the people at Sichuan, China are doing with more recent earthquakes, by the way. So it’s up to people to listen to the substance of the speeches and find out which politicians will help lead the country to more lies or reform, like Palin has done by far.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.