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Usually on Monday you have to force yourself to be all happy and bubbly. I like to greet everyone with a big sloppy crap eating grin and a loud and boisterous “Happy Monday!!”( Happy Mondays Logo T-Shirt Size : Large ). I think it actually cheers us all up, kind of like the grocery store clerk and customer complaining together about the prices. It’s a relief valve. But this Monday I had a bit of extra help actually cheering me up. Not only did I get my Amazon order in one week instead of two, I had a care package from a loyal minion. A cash donation to take the wife out to a meal ( normally it would have been a $7.77 steak special at the casino but we’ve discovered a much better local restaurant ) which makes both of us happy and even better, a book I’ve been lusting after but never got around to getting. “The Biggest Lie Ever Believed” by Michael Folkerth ( The Biggest Lie Ever Believed ). Thanks a million to Idaho Homesteader.

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This weekend I constructed my solar heater ( Solar Heater Collector with 10 Vacuum Tubes Complete ), which made me all hot and bothered about finishing another step away from propane reliance. After three hours I tested the water and it was too hot to the touch. Unfortunately it was so hot it shattered one of my bottles. The wife was pretty excited about the project since I was using clear beer bottles. She got to drain the bottles before use. I was bummed when the bottle broke since I had to clean up the water, she was bummed when it became clear I wouldn’t be using beer bottles anymore. I guess they are too thin of glass. Perhaps it was just a bad bottle. But now I’m going with Mason jars ( Jarden 60000 Ball 1/2-Pint Mason Jars, 12 Pack ). Today is the first test run with those and hopefully the thicker glass isn’t so thick the water doesn’t heat enough. I wanted a heater that was sturdy and long lasting, not a cardboard box with tin-foil. I took a trash picken metal medicine cabinet as my box and took two scrap pieces of plywood for the bottom and top ( the sides were insulated by leftover strips of foam ). The plywood was that pressed chip crap so I was able to hammer a hole in the middle of it to cut away a square. I painted that and then with a leftover tube of Liquid Nails ( Macco Adhesives LN903 Liquid Nails Heavy-Duty Construction and Remodeling Adhesive ) I placed a sheet of glass on top of it ( the glass was free from leftovers from a coworker ). I removed the chrome trim to expose the holes on the flared metal strip around the side, attached a two by four on one side to attach the hinges to make the top a door. Inside I took a strip of aluminum sheet ( from trash picken ) and used one shiny piece as backing with a smaller black painted piece to lay under the glass containers. I’m guessing it is about two by three feet and about six inches deep. It can hold a lot of bottles and one of these days I’ll try cooking bread or something in there. Cost was under five bucks.

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As a reward to myself, I went to the movies. The wife wanted to gamble so I dropped her off at the casino. We each got $15 to spend since our year of coin sorting yielded $30 ( quarters are for laundry, I save nickels and pre-82 pennies, so it was just dimes and new pennies ). I bought the super size bucket of popcorn and ate it all, which made for a nauseous evening. But you can’t go to the movies without eating popcorn. And the movie was far better than my expectations. I would definitely urge you to see “The Town” ( The Town ) if you are thinking about going to the theatre. A little action, a lot of thought behind the characters ( not just cartoon cut-outs ) and the story. Staring and directed by Ben Affleck. The FBI guy was the usual scumbag, threatening the gal with taking her kid to get information, but he was also portrayed in a sympathetic light to some degree. Which gets at the heart of this article which is propaganda desensitizing us to torture ( Torture: A Collection ) and cops behavior.

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Friday night was the premier of a new TV show, “Blue Bloods”. A NYC cop show with Tom Selleck ( Tom Selleck Western Collection ) I like the actor so we stayed up past my bedtime to watch it. What a hunk of dog crap! I thought the story and acting was less than stellar, and then they dropped the “T” bomb on me. That ruined the show and I stopped watching it halfway through. Cop dude thinks the suspects story is suspect so he starts holding the guys head underwater in the toilet bowl, then beating his head against the porcelain. After information leads them to find the kidnapping victim, a little girl is saved. The end justifies the means. This has been the TV propaganda ( Propaganda ) for many years and it infuriates me. This is the road to a dictatorship and a police state. I understand we are already there in some aspects, that isn’t what hacks me off. That is to be expected in a resource down, empire eroding scenario. What pisses me off is the mental retards that refuse to think for themselves and slurp up this crap with glee, making for a population that supports, condones and encourages torture. It is one thing to threaten to use existing laws to punish you for non-compliant behavior ( such as threatening to take your kids away ). That is bad enough, but at least you know the rules of the game and can decline to play to a certain extent. I understand a lot of times you didn’t do anything wrong and it happens anyway ( I had to pay a lawyer to get back my kids from the state when a current boyfriend of the ex was accused of abuse, then helped pack them up to leave the state immediately ). But at least everyone is playing by the rules ( however unjust the laws are ). With torture, we have descended into good little Nazi’s protecting the Vasserland from dirty Jews. I don’t care if the accused is a drug dealer, a child molester or a serial killer. He is ACCUSED. He is not tried or convicted. Am I the only one who remembers the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”? ( Guilty Until Proven Innocent )

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I don’t disagree with vigilantes ( Vigilante ). They might violate an individuals rights and hurt an innocent. But they are not entrusted with the law. However much bad they do, it doesn’t compare with the law enforcement officer that violates the law ( and I include the Constitution so that unlawful orders will be disobeyed ). The government must abide by its agreement to protect the citizens in exchange for recognition or they are nothing more than a protection racket. Torture is not part of the equation. No matter the end. No matter the justification. No, I don’t care if a nuclear bomb ( Office of Civillian Defence (Nuclear Bomb Attack) Art Poster Print - 24x36 ) will kill a million people if the terrorist isn’t forced to reveal its location ( for simplicities sake, assume he is a citizen rather than a foreigner ). Once torture is justified, far more will eventually die in the concentration camps. The line has been crossed. And those foul twats that help push the propaganda that it is all right are just as guilty as those minions of the state that waterboard or invoke unnatural entrances with nightsticks. Because “Blue Bloods” and its brethren cop shows actively push this crap, most people will look blandly on as you and I are rounded up for being enemies of the state. We will become “the disappeared”( The Disappeared (2008) ). And as long as your neighbor gets to keep watching the e-circus and gets his free bread, your fate matters little. Welcome to the Freest Country On Earth.

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