One month after my near death
experience on the bike, I am mostly recovered.
My wrist is still cracked, my ribs still pain me some, but my bod is on
the mend and good to go.
One major result of the accident is
that speed-first has given way to safety-first. What little joy I gained from
the daily sixteen-mile sprints is mostly dead now as I simply try to avoid another
bad accident. Every day I am on the lookout
for everything and anything; all things, animate and inanimate, that share my immediate
surroundings I now see as potential enemies.
As per today.
As I approached a familiar street
crossing, one that I have crossed a thousand times, I spotted a car pulling up
to the intersection. Two months ago I
might have assumed that the driver
saw me and that they were going to stop.
I would have been wrong two months ago, just as I would have been wrong today. They never did see. Prudently, I had slowed almost to a stop in
just such an anticipation. Coming back
the same way fifteen minutes later, it was deja
vu all over again. Same scenario,
same result. Today, had I assumed
anything at the intersection in question it might well have been the last
assumption I ever made in my life.
And so, perhaps the accident last
month was a blessing in disguise. Whatever, I’ll take ‘em where I can get ‘em, I’ll
live and learn, I’ll live to fight another day, and I’ll try to lean on other tired
clichés in my quest to avoid the morgue.
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Federal
Shut Down?--Let me guess. Every creepy
nerd who is spying on us at NSA still has a job. . . . Every sadistic torturer
for the CIA is still sadistically torturing at the pain pits they 'work' in. .
. . Every man, woman and child in Israel will still get their welfare checks
for $7,756 this year. . . . Every U.S.
soldier can still mug it up and pose for the camera as he pisses on dead people
in Afghanistan. . . . but I bet our national parks are shut down, and I bet the
border guard on the Rio Grande has gone home until further notice, and I bet
that the lights are out at NASA. This,
of course, shows where “our” corrupt federal government's true priorities lie.
Personally, I hope Washington, DC never reopens. No more sending our tax dollars to Israel, no more American body bags filled for Israeli wars, no more wars and enemies created around the globe and thus no more people jumping out of burning NY buildings, no more U.S. tax dollars being recycled back to America in the shape of bribes from Israel to buy the loyalty of “our” elected reps.
Personally, I hope Washington, DC never reopens. No more sending our tax dollars to Israel, no more American body bags filled for Israeli wars, no more wars and enemies created around the globe and thus no more people jumping out of burning NY buildings, no more U.S. tax dollars being recycled back to America in the shape of bribes from Israel to buy the loyalty of “our” elected reps.
Before
this ugly federal monstrosity gained momentum, the various American states did
just fine caring for the people, keeping the roads open and the bridges up, and
taking but a pittance in tax to do it. Bring
back the state governments and let the corrupt federal government collapse
under its own rotten weight. Force the twenty
million useless federal bureaucrats to get real jobs for a change, honest work
like mowing lawns and digging ditches.
Also, incredibly, I note that the federal
government is actually seeking applicants for video drone operators.
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questions then we might be the right fit for you. If you are a high school drop
out with an IQ of 80 or below, if you have low self-esteem, if you feel small
and unimportant, if you feel this overwhelming need to hurt things without any risk
to yourself, then you should consider a career with us, USAWar, Inc., the
largest war making corporation on the planet. Applicants with 5-10 years experience of
playing meaningless video games preferred. Police record? No problem. Deviant sexual behavior?
No problem. No personality? No problem.
No ethics? No problem. No integrity? No problem. No conscience? Nooooo problem! In fact, we prefer you have none of those
annoying qualities.
1) If you think you might like targeting festive wedding parties in North Rockastan and killing everyone in sight. . . .
1) If you think you might like targeting festive wedding parties in North Rockastan and killing everyone in sight. . . .
2) If you think you might like
wasting every last mourner at a village funeral in South Wazoo. . . .
3) If you think you might like
blasting kids playing in a school yard in BFE. . . .
4) And if you think you might
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"We Are A Global Force For Good in The World."
