Yes, once again it's Caturday.

I've had a crap week health wise so not much commentary today. Enjoy the LOL cats for this Caturday.  If I feel up to it, there may be more commentary from me in the coming week. Not a promise, just a maybe.
Now, this Caturdays LOL cats. Enjoy.

That's it until next time. Until then, just try and be nice to each other. 

My take on absurdities and atrocities

This is my take after reading the article I linked to the other day. Yes, the one I asked yo to read that dealt with absurdities and atrocities.

This was my reply to the author of the article. 

We, all of us living today, are bound up with these absurdities and the attendant atrocities.  Yes, those who can make you believe absurdities WILL make you commit atrocities. Holy crap, the Marines dod that to me and my fellow Marines in Vietnam.
Now they did tell us before we Left to go there to be prepared for a culture shock. The Vietnamese didn't have indoor plumbing, well mot out of the big cities, which I never got to. They didn't have what the Brits used to (may still do) call "mod cons".  That is modern conveniences, like electricity at the flip of a switch and other things we who were being sent there had grown up with. Actually, for me there was no great culture shock when I got to Vietnam.  No, for my buddy Chief, he really was a Native American (related to Ira Hayes in fact) and myself, the big culture shock was coming back to 'Merikkka. We landed at Travis AFB near San Francisco.  After we cleared customs and were looking for the bus to get to the airport, we saw "regular" people in civilian clothes and I still remember Chief yelling "Holy shit charlie! Round eyed women!".  Of course we got all sorts of nasty looks from nearly everybody in the building.
We had been force fed absurdities and yes, we had committed atrocities. We had been to war as active participants. I promised myself before I'd been in country less than five months that I'd never use physical violence unless it was to protect those I loved from great harm or death. My violence has been verbal ever since I got back to the US of A in September of 1971.
I don't take and will not accept any pride in that fact. I just made a promise to myself that I have kept, though at times I have been sorely tempted  to break it. We have been fed absurdities what passes for elections since we were kids. Many of us have gone on to commit atrocities, gone off to some damn fool war. I really wish we could stop buying all this crap and just TRY, honestly try, to treat all the people we meet each day the way we want to be treated. So simple, so easy, and yet it seems damn near impossible to get others to even try. If I wasn't so close to my own end, I'd be quite sad by this seemingly impossible task. And yet, it IS so bloody damn easy. Why so few even try….that is the big mystery I'd like to solve.

Since you had to slog through this post, I feel I should try and lighten things up a bit. So, here are a few extra LOL cats, just because.

OK, until next time, just TRY to treat others the way you want to be treated. Yeah, yeah, I know I said I wasn't going to ask you to do that any more. Well, I'm not asking you to do it any more, but I am also not asking you to do it any less either. Come ON people, just TRY to do it. You may make some other person feel better and you may feel better for having done it. Unless or until you try, you'll never know.

Happy Caturday!

Before I get to the Caturday LOL cats, one small request. Please  check the following linked article. It isn't very long, but oh man, the author says so much in it. 

The game of absurdities and atrocities

OK, I got you to read, I hope you read the article, and maybe even to thinker a few seconds. It made me think seriously for much more than a few seconds.

Now, the reason you stopped here today. Yes, it is Caturday, so time for more LOL cats.

Well, that is all from me for now. I hope all of you are in good health. I do wish you all will read that article I linked to above. I am sure it is well worth your time to do so. Hopefully, it will make you stop and think. 
As for the LOL cats, well, if I made you smile, then I'm happy for having done that. If you actually laughed out loud, well, don't let me know, I might get to feeling special and that just won't do.
Until next time, please try to be nice to each other.

Just because

Just because it is Sure Happy It's Thursday (s. h. i. t.) I decided to post some extra LOL cats. Hey, we can be happy and enjoy sure happy it's Thursday every now and then. Why, this could even catch on and on Thursdays folks may even greet each other by saying s. h. i. t.———yep, Sure Happy It's Thursday.
So, without any more from me, some extra LOL cats. 

OK, until the next post I hope all of you good people are well and at least have some happiness in your lives. If these photos and silly captions made you smile, then great, I've done a good thing. 

Some fun links from the Onion and maybe even Babylonbee.com

I suppose I could go off on a rant about how really screwed 'Merikkka is with the orange haired rodent nominating Pompeo  to be Secretary of State and how he wants to put a nasty female type as head of the CIA. Yes, I did write female type as opposed to woman. Why? Because I do not think any decent woman would have ever been involved in the crap this female has done during her career. She supposedly was in charge of a secret CIA prison in Thailand for crap sake. Oh, and to top off the shit storm, we may see that total asshat Bolton again. Yeah, he may be making a come back of sorts in the State Department of all places. Jeebus H. Christ  he should have been retired permanently to the rubber room years ago.
Well, it seems these old neo-cons never go away. Will we have to endure Mr. 5 deferments Cheney again as well? Oh, Cheney is from Wyoming. When I was in the Marines, a buddy of mine who was from Colorado had a saying about Wyoming. He used to have to go to that state to fix broken trucks later after we both left the Marines.
His saying about Wyoming was; Wyoming, where men are men. Women are scarce, and the sheep are scared. Take that Dick! Hope his pacemaker goes nuts.

OK, now for some fun things. Yes,it IS satire, deal with it, to not. Your life, your choice.

Furiously spinning White House door

Oh come ON, it IS funny. Has anybody kept a count of the number of people who have quit the current POTUS? I haven't. I sort of thought about keeping a count of those who left/quit, but by then end of his first few months in office, well, the numbers were getting too high and I have more to do than keep count of the losses.

Facebook reminds users
Hey, if you still use farcebook ,well, you signed up for this crap.

Facebook algorithm mortified
Wow, even the programing code is feeling like crap over what it has done. The people who run farcebook? Um, not so much.

Researchers find decline in Facebook
Of course you could try this yourself and see if you agree with the researchers. Just a thought. Again, you life, your choice.

OK, this one is not quite so funny. It deals with these driverless cars that Uber and others are unleashing on us all. Yes, I know, a woman was killed by one of these things recently. The Onion decided to do this next story any who. Read it or not. It is not quite funny, but it is a bit creepy.

As you can see, they are quite harmless says Uber rep

Well, that is more than enough from me for now. I'll try and be back for Caturday. I've found some new LOL cats that I really like and you may also. See you on Caturday, if not sooner, and we'll all see.

Until next time, just try to not be mean to others. Oh, who am I kidding? You will all do whatever the hell you want to do. Yeah, I'm not going to ask you to treat others the same way you want to be treated nor will I ask you to just try that not even going to ask you to be nice to each other. You are all tired of reading that and I'm past trying to make a difference. I DO think it would be a much nicer world if we all did just TRY as I have been asking since the early posts here, but hells bells, it doesn't seem to have any positive effect, so, I won't ask any more. (hears the readership cheering wildly).

Happy Caturday

Hey folks, it's Caturday again. So, here are some LOL cats for your Caturday enjoyment.

OK, that's all I have for this Caturday. Enjoy the day as best you can. Oh, as always, please try to be nice to each other.