JERKWATER TRAIN

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Humans will never cease to amaze me. Humans are the only animals who kill their own on a massive scale. They even taught dogs how to do it for sport.

People become the God they worship. Have you noticed that God has similar sentiments as, let us say, shady characters. I find those who preach ostentatiously about God are the least qualified to know about one. It's not that I hate God, it's the other way around. Religion is like meth: the more you sniff it, the more you want it. All religions are human inventions, except, of course, yours and mine. Adam and Eve were very lucky, they didn't have to date for a while before they had sex. God seems to be too needy, he needs all people to think they really need him. If God were a guy, I wouldn't want to hang out with him, for he's capricious and hard to please. People say, God is watching ... it's about time he stops watching and starts doing. Who officiated Adam and Eve's marriage, God?

Democracy in the Middle East? What a bloody joke. Is it plausible that the Arabs, most of them, will change their ancient ways of thousands of years (e.g., culture, values, religion) and embrace western democracy? Never. They're going back to the seventh century. And for a simple but powerful reason: Islamic democracy is an oxymoron. For instance, look at Tunis, Egypt, and Libya, where are they going? They want the fiendish Sharia Law: polygamy, amputations, lashings, denial of religious freedoms for their outclassed minorities, and more - not less - oppression of women. The Arabs haven't the slightest idea of what democracy means. Don't expect much from this so-called Arab Spring, a will-o'-the-wisp. Once the Arabs, most of them, dwell in the seventh century for another thousand years, they just might realize that no one else is still left here on Earth, so to speak, but themselves. And then they will, perhaps, figure out the meaning of democracy: freedom of ac...

I am at a loss of words, words to describe my fondness of women. Women, the scent of the goodness of this earth, are the vehicles of life and sustenance. The givers, the nurtures, the mothers, the sisters, the daughters, the wives, I cherish them all. They spend their lives giving comfort to others. It's time, had been time, for the men to do right by women.

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,   inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible."  -Franklin D. Rosevelt

These AARP guys got confused, mixing fiction and non-fiction: Trying out their script lines. I don't buy it. Here is the problem: The government, in its pursuit to keep us safe, has thousands of people looking for terrorists, but they can't find any; so, they go fishing, and when they find someone willing to taste the bait they hook him. Don't come after me now.