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Cruise Ship Day in F'sted

Today has been a bit hectic so i had decided to re-print an old piece i got in my inbox this afternoon but it wouldn't let me add pics to it so i trashed it.

It was all about beer, an empty mayonnaise jar, rocks, pebbles and sand and how your life is filled up with all these things but you aren't seeing it. You are missing out by filling up your life with useless stuff instead of concentrating on the people around you. It was a strange mix of items but the beer at the end was a bonus when it said to enjoy one with friends or family.

Everyday i get stuff like that in my inbox...jokes, heartfelt poems about how to get along, missives that if you don't send them on something awful will happen by tomorrow(i hate these the most but i love that people send them it means they were thinking of you for a split second even if they want to bring the wrath of all the jumbies down on your head if you don't send it on). It's still the thought that counts haha.

Kentucky Fried in F'sted

Any way i read an article about what may have been a coordinated effort by Mayors in cities around the country to evict the Occupy groups from their respective parks. Apparently the mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan admitted to BBC to having a conference call with 18 mayors around the country just before the removals occurred. If the resulting seizures and evictions were just plain coincidence then you can believe that if you want.

Pictures of Police in riot gear clearing out peaceful demonstrators made me wonder why more American's aren't protesting this behavior. When the Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan, Syrian etc. police forces came out to clear away demonstrators we cried foul. We wanted them to stay in the streets and protest freely, but apparently we don't want those same guarantees here. What's up with that? If we are a democracy demonstrating 24/7 should not be a problem, isn't it written into our Constitution you know that bit about Freedom of Speech.

The ducks at Agriculture, they thought I was going to feed them.

 Something to think about:

 If i withdraw $100 from an ATM machine and pay $1 for the privilege my percentage is 1%. If a poor person withdraws $20 but gets charged that same $1 their cost of doing business is 5%. So who has an advantage here?