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Or what passes for thoughts.

There are no bad submarine movies. I don’t know if there even any mediocre ones.

Tiger Woods is in the rough right now. I don’t think he has a club that will help him out.

Doing Cocaine to cure “the worst headache of your life”, might cure it, but not in the way you figured.

Calling Obama inept is an insult to inept people. Speaking of which, what happened to all the “love” we were supposed to get from other countries because he was elected? I’m not feeling it.

I’m really starting to dislike Comcast. I pay a lot for Internet and email, and yet when I use their not so great webmail client, I get bombarded with ads for all sorts of crap that I don’t want or need. I sent them an message on their “Tell Us What You Think” page, but of course they didn’t respond.

The hardest thing in the word to do is throw out trash barrels. The trash guys won’t take them unless you’re standing their to tell them to. Their story (which I can believe) is that every time they take them, the home owner calls town hall and complains that they took their trash barrels.

75% of people are full of bull shit 90% of the time. They’ll promise to do something, but won’t follow through. I guess the adage should be “If you want something done at all, do it yourself.”  Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but when I tell someone I’m going to do something for them I do it or I have a damned good reason why I couldn’t.

The Soviets Russians are now chiming in on “Climategate”. Seems they think that the United Kingdom climate research scientists were fudging data too. One has to wonder if  the Soviets Russians know more about how the “stolen” data was obtained and released than they are admitting. As police detectives say, “Follow the money.” My guess is that the Soviets Russians don’t think much of the whole Carbon Footprint thing and want to drive a stake in it’s heart. Or that it will hurt their economy more than the United State’s.

It’s surprising how small an opening it takes to cause a big draft and make a room cold. And how easy it is to fix.


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I'm a retired paramedic who formerly worked in a largish city in the Northeast corner of the U.S. In my post EMS life I provide Quality Improvement instruction and consulting under contract. I haven't really retired, I just don't work nights, holidays, or weekends.  I escaped the Northeast a couple of years ago and now live in Texas.  I'm more than just a little opinionated, but that comes with having been around the block more than once. You can email me at EMSArtifact@gmail.com After living most of my life (so far) in the northeast my lovely wife and I have moved to central Texas because we weren't comfortable in the northeast any longer. Life is full of twists and turns.

12 COMMENTS

  1. There are no bad submarine movies. I don't know if there even any mediocre ones. "U-571". To call it "mediocre" is unnecessarily kind. It was bad.Calling Obama inept is an insult to inept people. Indeed. Not for naught do I call him "Barry Lackwit." Like Prince John Lackland, he had it once, and lost it by his own actions.

  2. Yeah, I have to admit that U-571, or the parts of it that I saw were pretty bad. I guess that's the exception that proves the rule. I don't know that Obama ever had much, other than a good line of BS. He doesn't even have that anymore. Now, he sounds desperate and angry.

  3. I beg to differ. Gray Lady Down was a horrible submarine movie! Poorly acted, contrived plot and re-used footage from Ice Station Zebra.I do, however, agree with the rest of your random thoughts… 😉

  4. I loved "Down Periscope." Have it on good authority that's a more accurate portrayal of submariners than your average SS Chief will admit. "U-571" was an amazing amount of fun to watch, in the theater, with a couple of submariners as my company. Rather a Mystery Science Theater 3000 vibe.

  5. I never saw "Down Periscope" so I can't comment on it. I read "Gray Lady Down" but never saw that either. I did see U-571 and if I knew less history, I'd have found it really exciting. Maybe I should change my thought to "I've never seen a bad submarine movie." I guess I just avoid the bad ones. 🙂

  6. Sub movies:"Down Periscope" was a hoot!Tiger Woods:I thought he LIKED being in the rough! Isn't that what got him in trouble to begin with?

  7. I can't disagree with most of your observations, but IMHO most submarine movies are some degree of bad. Many are god-awful. Crimson Tide pioneered a whole new spectrum of malicious retardation.Of course I don't know everything. The above assessment is based only on the submarine movies I've been somehow induced (or forced) to watch.Here's wishing you a quiet holiday season! 🙂

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