OGD: Obsessive Golfing Disorder

Michael Ramirez

Matrix Runs on Windows XP

Thanks to Skye for pointing this out

Brutally Honest iPad Commercial

From Gizmodo

Interview with Andrew Ian Dodge

Pretty interesting interview with my friend Andrew Ian Dodge on CTN5.

Click on the pic for the video

We never stop thinking of you!

Unite or Die

A few years ago, HBO had a series about John Adams.   It was a great illustration of how our country came to be.   Citizens of the North American Continent went against England, one of the most powerful countries in the world.  There were many disagreements amongst the American colonists on what to do about the overbearing English.  But in the end they came to an agreement and joined forces to fight against the Redcoats.  The Independence that the colonists fought so hard for was also  independence for the individual, something unique for that time.

I am bringing this up because today we have infighting amongst ourselves on how to deal with a modern day threat – Socialism/Statism.  Other labels we hear are the Progressives, the Left, Liberals, but we face the same threat.  If those on the “Right” side of the aisle (Constitutional Conservatives as Vassar noted in a comment) do not unite, we will fail.    As with the movie 300, we are fighting a Beast.

That Beast has been around for over 100 years and is trying to transform our country from what the Founding Fathers had laid out in our Constitution.   We have been slowly, but incrementally moving away from the great experiment that is called the United States.  For decades the Government has been taking away our freedoms, but we have also been guilty of giving them up.  And now we struggle with a loss of faith in  the America that our Founding Fathers established for us.  The Government was founded to protect our liberty and freedoms, not to give out hand-outs, and have the citizens become dependent on the Government. A welfare state is being created from this dependency.

Too many in this country care more about who sleeps with whom in Hollywood, or who is the latest American Idol, than what is happening in DC.  But there are many that are finally awakening from the sleep and joining the few that were standing guard.  The Tea Parties and various other groups have made people look at what the Federal Government is doing.   A phenomenal awareness has arisen among the people, more than I have ever witnessed before.  The citizens are seeing incredible wasteful spending by their elected officials.  When they cry for redress, they are ignored.  It is almost as if Congress has forgotten they were elected by the people to work for the people.

The problem:  there is much infighting among the groups that want to stop the behemoth in DC; people cannot hear what each has to say. Too much noise. We have fiscal Conservatives fighting the Social Conservatives.   Libertarians fighting Conservatives and everything in between.   We are all in this fight for the same reason, to stop the Statists from transforming the United States into something similar to a European Socialist state.  We know we must work together, or separately we will fail.  Common ground must be found; focus on the goals.  What’s that saying, “Keep your eyes on the prize.”  The prize is our nation, as we have known and loved her.

Niagra Falls 1911

Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year.

She told the family that she and her neighbours woke up in the night feeling something was wrong It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise.

They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses..  Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.
Amazing pictures !!!  All most 100 years old.

1911 Photos of Niagara Falls ….

Golf

GOLF AND WHAT IT ALL MEANS

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer.

Golf! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing
left and the ball goes right The lowest score wins.
And on top of that, the winner buys the drinks

Golf is harder than baseball. In golf, you have to play your foul balls.

If you find you do not mind playing golf in the rain,
the snow, even during a hurricane, here’s a valuable
tip: your life is in trouble.

Golfers who try to make everything perfect before
taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot.

The term ‘mulligan’ is really a contraction of the
phrase ‘maul it again.’

A ‘gimme’ can best be defined as an agreement
between two golfers ..neither of whom can putt very well.

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how
badly you play; it is always possible to get worse.

Golf’s a hard game to figure. One day you’ll go out
and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss
every green. The next day you go out and for no
reason at all you really stink.

If your best shots are the practice swing and the
‘gimme putt’, you might wish to reconsider this game.

Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you.

Golf is like marriage: If you take yourself too seriously
it won’t work, and both are expensive.

The best wood in most amateurs’ bags is the pencil.

ROBOPLOW

I want one