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  • 20081102-Discriminating Change

    C – HANG – E

    WE CAN [MAKE] BELIEVE IN

    This is what I see with the word CHANGE. Take out the letters ‘C’ and ‘E’ and the word becomes HANG. Now in order to ‘[make] believe in this change’, someone or something must ‘hang’. That could be giving up your freedom of speech or even the right to keep and bear arms for a measly $1,000.00 tax credit, which will of course be taxable, right? What is a measly forty-eight cents ($0.48) per hour in one year compared to the ‘basic minimum rate (per hour)’ of $8.00 in one year for the state of California, for example? The gross amount would be $16,640.00 instead! And that, my friends is much more than these empty promises of ‘free hand outs’ by ‘Barry’, the presidential candidate of the United States.

    As mentioned in my previous blog, people by nature are too stubborn. I’ll use myself as an example based on certain characteristic:

    • Sex: I cannot CHANGE my sex. I was born as a female.
    • Age: I cannot CHANGE my age. I am born to live and then die. I have not ‘gone under the knife’.
    • Race: I cannot CHANGE my race. I am born as an ‘Asian’ of mostly Malayn origin.
    • Religion: I cannot CHANGE my religion. I was born and raised a Catholic.
    • Family status: I cannot CHANGE my family status. I am born into the ‘working class’.
    • National origin: I cannot CHANGE my national origin. I am a U.S. citizen since birth!
    • Military status: I cannot  CHANGE my military status. I would have signed up with the ROTC during high school and have decided NOT to be owned by the government in this sense.
    • Sexual orientation: I cannot  CHANGE my sexual orientation. Although I act ‘just like one of the boys’, I prefer males. Yum.
    • Disability: No comment.
    • Body size/shape: I cannot  CHANGE my body size/shape. I am athletic and average, which means if I could fit into a bathing suit, not a bikini because I’m too hairy.

    Now the above examples are physiological traits. But those who want real change, that would mean changing mind-sets and attitudes, like working hard and not depending on ‘big brother’ for free hand outs. I believe people will be lazier and lack creativity when government controlls every aspect of our lives. Thus, this would dampen the creative forces behind our free market (or capitalism).

    Change won’t happen overnight. It has been done slowly since the hippie era around the 1970’s. It was brought forth by liberalism. And now our family units have been destroyed by the nasty upstarts, who would dare talk back at their elders and move on with their lives to live happily ever after and independently. And now the ‘prodigal sons’ are crawling back to their ‘parental units’ for help. Waah! That’s not change, that’s karma.

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

  • 20081009-Voting Material

    On Thursday, October 9, 2008, the three of us received our ‘Official Election — Balloting Material’ from the ‘Registrar of Voters — County of Santa Clara’. Included in the envelopes were the ‘Vote by Mail Instructions’ with a detachable sticker showing the American flag to the left of the words of ‘I Voted’ and the two cards with its own numbered ballot stub , which ‘shall be removed and retained by the voter’.

    As mentioned in my previous blog somewhere via WordPress.com, I didn’t get a ‘receipt’ when I voted in person and used that ‘Diebold’ electronic voting machine. By being a ‘Permanent Vote by Mail’ voter, I could avoid wasting gasoline, waiting in long lines and get my damn receipt!

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And she flat-out said to me, “I can’t vote for that black boy.” (Per CNN Newsroom transcript on ‘Race and Presidential Election‘).

    Anyway, I voted on the candidates for President and Vice President, State Senator, Member of the State Assembly, ‘School’ and ‘County’ sections. Although I was affiliated with another party, this time I voted on the other party based on recent presentations about the shady past and associations of one candidate. Some ‘old souls’ are adamant that he is wrong for this high level of office. That’s all I’m going to add for now.

    There were measures for high-speed train, standards for confining animals, children’s hospital, waiting period and parental notification prior to abortions, drug, police and law enforcement, victims’ rights and the environmental issues of renewable energy, alternative fuel vehicles, and veteran’s bond. I voted ‘No’ on most of these measures because that would mean higher PROPERTY TAXES as one form of paying for these HUNGRY BONDS!

    We signed and dated the outside of the blue envelop on that same day. It is funny how the opening of the envelope is located on the bottom. I wonder if the glue sealing the envelope would come undone during processing in the mail system and the contents of the balloting material would come out as a result.

    On the following day, Friday, October 10, 2008, we delivered out voted ballots directly to the inside box of the ‘Registrar of Voters’ Office’. At the same time, the three of us switched parties. Our views for the longest time have been opposite to the ‘Demon-crats’. We didn’t realize that belonging to this political party wasn’t conservative.

    This means filling out a new registration form each a person changes political party. We inquired with a Latino lady, who softly explained and highlighted the areas to fill out. We sat out on the long white table and hurriedly filled out the form because someone needed to use the bathroom.

    After finishing, an Asian lady explained (very loudly, of course) that being a ‘non-partisan’ or ‘non-affiliated’ is not the same as ‘American Independent Party’. One should choose ‘Decline to State’ instead. We submitted our corrected forms by crossing out and initialing the errors to her.

    Now (hopefully) noone should be sending us those stupid, emergency or urgent fund raising materials by regular mail or visiting us at our door for any stupid donations. For heaven’s sake, these presidential candidates are rich! And they (or anyone running for office) shouldn’t be asking for money in the first place if they cannot afford to run for the sought after seat of office.

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

  • 20081010-News Actors

    Actors play fictional characters. They read and memorize their scripts penned by writers. Like actors, the news anchors on popular cable news shows like CNN, Headline News, CNBC, Fox News and MSNBC read their Teleprompters, which are comparable to actors’ scripts.

    I feel the news anchors are nothing more than voice pieces by the ‘controller’s. They ‘act’ like overpaid sports announcers describing the current events, no matter real or unreal. The ‘tell it like it is’, only favorable to their bosses, who hold their paychecks. But actors and news anchors are people, too.

    It’s better just to turn off the television and radio and live life — simply on essentials. If I didn’t have access to the internet or other forms of media, I wouldn’t know that there is a global recession, the stock market plunges, there is fraud in voters’ registration and elections and that illegal immigrant live in houses that they damn well afford to keep.

    Since I too have practically nothing to my name, living on revolving lines of credit (which is in part thanks to TPTB), I have no concern whatsoever if the economy tanks. I don’t have anything invested. All I have is my family to whom I am grateful for living rent free under their roof for forty years.

    My only possession that I’ve paid for while working are some clothes, three good pairs of shoes lasting almost ten years and a paid-off 1998 Ford Mustang. The rests belong mostly to my parental units (the house and furnishings), except for the donations from the twosome (like a free computer system, which includes a 15″ flat-screen monitor, a router, a DSL and some cables) and other miniature collection items.

    So in a sense, ‘TPTB’ owe my family more than moi. As a matter of fact, the news anchors owe people like us some shred of truth that we shouldn’t worry about the economy or which presidential candidate will win in the upcoming general election in November 2008 and that we have NOTHING to do with mess created by the politicians and their cohorts.

    As discussed during our meals with my parental units lately, if nothing changes in their numbers via regular mail, there is nothing to fear. If nothing changes with the employment status of workers, there is nothing to fear. I feel that this is a good time to get rid of the deadweights working in the Federal jobs and State jobs nationwide. It’s good for the states’ budget, too.

    Overall, the rich (i.e. celebrities, actors and television personalities like news anchors) will live through another day unscathed because they already have homes, more than enough luxurious food to feed their stomachs and could live on higher gasoline prices than the rest simply cannot afford.

    My only ‘fear’ is that the rich got their guns ready in case the starving, soulless zombies roaming the streets won’t end up looting their mansions. Now that’s a scary, sensational new coverage that noone will forget! Or will they remember what it is like to live in a Great Depression all over again. Nah! 

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

  • 20080923-Who’s Who

    Remember the Past, Challenge the Future (A quote from one of many stupid scams received today, Tuesday, 09/23/2008 at 10:27AM through my fax machine.)

    I certainly cannot remember the past. I certainly cannot predict the future. However, I could easily utilize my ‘call trace’ feature on my land line and have the authorities do their jobs. I could easily file BK and name some people but that’s another issue. I know I’ll have to laugh out loud. Everything is falling into place and according to plan.

    All I found out about this quote was a place called ‘Lake Forest, Orange County, California’. I typed two of the phone numbers on this page and found it was a scam. I thought the ‘president’ or his cronies had something to do with this stupid fax. I see a triangle on the upper right hand corner of this page and a sentence about reaching a ‘level of success’.

    As for the next president of the United States, the delegates (or Electoral College) already know who they want to install. The voters shouldn’t have a care in the world if their votes don’t get counted in this upcoming November 2008 general election. As a matter of fact, the voters should just stay home and enjoy watching the numbers go up for one candidate and then the other. It’s truly like a football game — Ballot Bowl 2008 (per CNN).

    I heard over the radio this morning while on our way to the doctor that some names (like ‘Dick Tracy’ and ‘Mary Poppins’) are signed up as registered voters. Yet, although the callers cannot verify if the names are legitimate, the roster must be submitted anyway. I feel that the younger voters are entered in this ‘political’ system as another way to gauge how the country would vote. This registration process also weeds out anyone who may be illegal immigrants, too.

    Anyway, election and voting are scams where stupid celebrities (like the lesbian Sandra Bernhardt, the skin-head Howie Mandel and SNL (via NBC) guess host James Franco) rear their ugly, plastic heads (and bodily parts) and spew public defamations that presidential candidates should rightfully sue. The best way to bankrupt these well-paid, unprofessional (obviously nasty) jokers is not to watch their horror movies, attend their darkly-lit stand ups or sit down to expensive dinners of dead foodstuff. Don’t buy Oprah’s stuff, either.

    I cannot believe how Sarah Palin is described as a porn star and as ‘disabled’ by Heather Mallick and Rep. Charlie Rangel, respectively. I am disgusted that Barack Obama does not stand up for more positive campaigning, not unless he too is a negative entity. If these ‘entities’ are able to downgrade their own ‘kinds’, like Hillary Clinton, they are able to attack some good folks, like Sarah Palin. I’m sure y’all know I’m not joking here either, right?

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

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  • 20080920-Dream Journal

    I drifted in and out of sleep due to ‘Kali’ listening to the loud radio and I awoke around 09:00AM.

    Dream one:

    I was inside a house with simple furnishing. There were people indoors. I see lots of books lined up along the side of this white wall, mostly to my left field of vision. The books were being arranged, starting from in front of me in a counter clockwise position. Immediately to my left was a darkened area, probably fake plant. These were at eye level while sitting down. But I was standing up the whole time.

    Dream two:

    Then I found myself walking with Hillary Clinton to my left field of vision. We were talking and I couldn’t tell her in time that we wanted her for president of the United States and that ‘Kali’ would have voted for her. We were walking in this very dimly lit building with very high ceiling. I am not sure if the place would have echoed since we were the only walking. I then mumbled under my breath, thought to myself or mentioned loudly to her something about the planet and people. She might have held my hands or touched me in assurance and said to me either: ‘We are here to save’. ‘We don’t destroy’. She smiled widely as she said this to me and we laughed out loud together. I responded to her: ‘I know: THE LIGHT’. And I pointed upward with my right index finger very slightly that she might not have seen this gesture. We then passed through a door located to my right field of vision.

    Dream three:

    I then found myself going from one dimly lit room to another dimly lit room, from left to right in my left field of vision. I saw some words were written mostly in orange or brown on the bottom part of white paper as big as my small computer desk. Some more words were written towards the top but I’m not too sure about the middle portion. There may be a glass separating my dream self as I watch myself in action.

    Dream four:

    I remember being outdoors and there were lots of tall trees. There were activities going on. I was looking out the distance of mountains as if above the tree lines. Below I see some water that is partially filled, mostly in the middle.

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

  • 20080918-Speed Save

    An open letter to ‘Mike’, ‘George’, ‘Condi’ and ‘Robin’ meant to humor y’all.

    Greetings:

    Could y’all please speed things up a bit? The very expensive, red tape is long and overdue! I have some people to take care of over here at the home front and they are starving to the point of being homeless but not hopeless, of mostly being nasty and some being nice, though thankful. I didn’t wait over eight slong years for my personal ‘war’ with each of your agents, who continue to drag my patience towards to the next ‘damn tool’, whoever he/she/it may be for all of us. I will not ‘be nice’ and put up with more deceits, betrayals, lies or whatever transparency y’all happen to create out of thin air. This decision is not voluntary. I did not take up my place to be fooled any longer. I am prepared to make some stinky, smelly ‘poop’ as soon as my organic milk works its wonders on my digestive system.

    Sincerely,
    Evil Kitty

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

  • 20080914-Supporting Roles

    Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor. He was so popular that he was voted as Governor by the people of California. He did clean house, not with a broom but with a rotor tiller and messed up big time. Now Barack Obama has celebrities and actors supporting his cause — the enslavement of liberals. Choosing these kinds of people is a VERY, bad move (as per an actor). These people have problems from addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex and divorces (like Oprah Winfrey). This tells me that the youth are especially more impressed with superficial images than straightforward answers to issues of this particular presidential candidate.

    All presidential candidates must be presentable for the time. And the ugly ones don’t even make the list for publicity. Like the lies spewing from any politicians (especially from ‘Barry’), the glamorous lives of celebrities and actors must keep up appearances from expensive, designer clothes, perfumes, hair and makeup. This means most are made up to be and act fake in the form of plastic — from veneer teeth, plastic breast and buttock implants and all in the price of money-making for the paparazzi.

    I believe that is why women are so attracted to ‘Barry’ due to his ‘metro-sexual’ side. It may be he does represent liberals in a very subtle but narrow way. After hearing how he responds to these alleged political attacks from the ‘opponent’ and from what women calling in to radio stations have said, ‘Barry’ does whine and complain like a girl! I know because an ‘old soul’ has this beautiful face yet emasculative way of responding to people, which gives me the willies whenever I see ‘Barry’ trying to hug people.

    I would like people to observe this behavior and anything related to his alleged homosexuality, which I believe exists at the higher levels of positions. So after hearing more crap spewing from these slaves of liberalism (especially Whoopi Goldberg) and how she and others (like Matt Damon) are spreading ‘scary’ comments on Sarah Palin’s lack of experience, I feel that the supporting roles of these sort of people doesn’t represent the will of the voters. I don’t watch these shows by women and noone should look up to the celebrities and actors as role models either.

    What voters need to learn is that there are people (most of whom are anonymous) that do not need recognition or publicity like those people who read scripts and Teleprompters and act as if they are very intelligent and beautiful enough just to get their messages across to the rest of the Americans. If people are sizing up the candidates based on appearances only, then there are always accomplishments to compare between ‘Barry’ and ‘Michelle’ and ‘John’ and ‘Cindy’. We know that life goes on after the election and no sought-after title would ‘change’ good folks to bad ones. And noone needs due credit to know better.

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

  • 20080910-Screwed Up

    She is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America. And, quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. (Joe Biden while campaigning At a town hall in Nashua, N.H.)

    Wow! I suppose this is a wake up call that the ‘Barry’ should have chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate instead of Joe Biden. After seeing a twenty percentage point drop between ‘Barry’ and ‘John’, I would prefer not to worry if gender choice has any bearing on this difference in spread. I would like to suggest that if the Democratic Party ‘really’ wants to win, then maybe ‘Barry’ could dump ‘Joe’ in an unprecedented ‘change’ to campaign for the president of the United States with Hillary Clinton as his running mate instead.

    I would like to forget his skin color, his shady past and religious affiliations and the fact that ‘Barry’ stammers (like when GWB doesn’t speak from the heart) during tough interviews. I would like to forget the past misdeeds and mistakes from either side of the party, including that noise behind the trooper investigation going on with Palin’s husband. Noone is perfect. Noone is experienced enough to hold office this ‘high’. Noone should feel attacked for being on the ‘unpopular’ side of any issue.

    Anyway, I cannot reasonably predict who will be the next president of the United States and if the choice of Vice Presidents would make any difference on campaigning. I do know that beauty bears more weight regardless of talent, experience and knowledge. For the sake of example, ‘American Idol’ on a televised programming had lots of talented singers and not one of the few finalists are buck ugly. This is the truth. This is the reality that charismatic figures will make history. It’s sad, really, that ‘who y’all know’ matters more than ‘what y’all know’.

    All I ‘know’ is that the Electoral College has everything under control and that the over glamorized version of a popularity contest won’t matter in the end. Once again, Hillary Clinton won the popularity vote; yet the Electoral College voted for Barack Obama instead. I know Hillary is not that ugly although she does possess knowledge and explains issues better than ‘Barry’ during the debates. It’s entertainment to me to hear the bickering both on cable programmings and on the air waves.

    So once again, I know the voters are not dumb. I know that the voters are not fully informed. If everyone were rich and if everyone knew the loopholes, there would be this ‘ideal’ unity and less divisiveness brought about the ‘changes’ by the most liberal thinkers of the times. I’d save my pennies for rainy days in the here and now instead of worrying about the future, the economy, the war and other issues that don’t seem to affect my immediate station in life.

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

  • 20080909-Old Farts

    ‘You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink after eight years.’ (Barack Obama while campaigning in Lebanon, Va.)

    OMG! Now old men are smelly! Well, I’d have to say this is true. But that is the ‘status quo’ for y’all. If it ain’t broke, there is no fixin’. Perhaps, ‘Barry’ meant that John McCain’s policy might continue where GWB left off. But I highly suspect that this trend is false, considering that the P.O.W. has military experience and the fact that troops leaving the region too early might destablize all their hard work. I believe (after listening to Rush Limbaugh on our local 560khz (AM station) the other day) that the terriorist activities are nothing in United States since the pre-emptive strike too place. I feel that our nation is more secure. I feel GWB did a good job (or rather his advisors did what we don’t really know is all about energy — oil).

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

  • 20080909-Miss Piggies

    ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.’ (Barack Obama while campaigning in Lebanon, Va.)

    OMG! The message is clear. Women are pigs. At first glance, this is how I interpreted what Barack Obama said in what appears to be an attack on Sarah Palin. Then I listened to the morning talk show with Rush Limbaugh on our local 560khz (AM station) that day. This is an old political phrase, which I thought had something to do with pork-bellied earmarks and wasteful spendings. As a lay person to the going ons with current events, if I were a Muslim woman or anyone who does not include ‘pork’ in their diet, I would take this remark from the next president of the United Stats as an offense. But I know what this ‘teacher’ is trying to tell us: It’s all forgiven. Let’s laugh off anything uncomfortable as ‘Barry’ has been doing and move on to the important issues. We need to hear how both parties address important issues from the economy to worldwide affairs and from free-will to security-sake.

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

  • 20080908-Still Spinning

    ‘They think you are stupid.’ (Barack Obama in response to the GOP as the agent of change)

    Unlike the whistle blowers (who are committed to mysterious suicides, such as the DC madams, prolific writers and honest journalists), the spin doctors live yet another day. Why? Because they are on a payroll to present lies to the public, the dumb voters for all I care. These liars are the well-paid kinds that won’t tell the truth about Barack Obama, for example.

    And for whatever odd reasons, the media cannot seem to dig dirt on the guy. He is a mystery to me and I don’t like him for the one of many reasons that I told to ‘them’ a couple of weeks ago: ‘The blacks will only vote for their own kinds’. Why? For all I know, Barack could have some support from certain radicals or liberals. I guess the bottom feeders would get angry if they don’t get their way, basically.

    And recently, Rev. Jesse Jackson has gotten food poisoning per the brief data from the running ticker located at the bottom of the screen while watching the spin doctors present their lies through the personalities of the newsworthy, cable programmings that one day. I’m seriously suggesting that those who speak even an ounce of honest truth (no matter how hurtful and unpopular or biased) would get a warning, just like the recent food poisoning.

    Is this why the spin doctors don’t fully investigate who is really Barack Obama and where and if this presidential candidate really is a naturally born citizen of the United States? Isn’t it convenient that the State of Hawaii (another state for the potential secession from the federal government) doesn’t disclose birth certificates for public scrutiny? Moreover, isn’t Hawaii a dumping ground for criminals (like some Japanese and Filipinos, like Imelda Marcos), just as Australia was a wasteland for British prisoners?

    I guess the media mongrels are afraid of certain groups of people for pulling their puppet strings. Unfortunately, I know Barack will be the puppet to the ‘status quo’, who happens to be Joe Biden, a clean up crew for the mess left behind the current administration. I know that the ‘advisors’ will be behind the scenes for making Barack Obama appear as another fall guy, just like GWB. I could see how ‘they’ spin the blame on these guys. It’s sad and only my opinion, of course, duh!

    Barack Obama’s acceptance speech as the nominee for the Democratic Party went well enough. I liked the fireworks, fine. If the items he mentioned in his speech is possible, fine. But I know the ‘status quo’ won’t like all those possible ‘ideas’ from Barack’s ‘speech’ because there is too much at stake with lobbyists, special (Ahem!) interest groups, especially the fat ones with their greasy palms on the pork-bellied, earmarks.

    Another spin on recent newsworthy events are the stupid weather reports on these tropical storms that didn’t reach hurricane levels. It’s a waste of viewing time and full of air, rushing around and spinning everywhere. It symbolizes how the media is able to get away with presenting untruths to the dumb voters and bottom feeders alike. I find the recent bail out of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is a scam to the poor people.

    Have y’all wondered why the government created these two entities? It’s to get payment of interest from the debt-holders of mortgages. Chaos has been created because all of a sudden the poor folks can’t seem to keep up with the payments. Moreover, the ‘status quo’ is making it harder for people to get away with filing for bankruptcy and paying their debt, which the fools cannot afford to pay off in a lifetime. Now the government has to take back their puppy and become the savior to the stock market, the rich folk’s version of a gambling casino.

    So, those who easily believe whatever the spin doctors tell y’all, good luck. I like positive campaigning. But we really need to listen to the substance of the speech and figure out if the direction of these politicians is truthful enough for the interest of the people of the United States. The issues could go both ways. I prefer freedom-will with secur-unity. I wonder if that’s possible.

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