From Headline News(TM)...BoB Dole, 02 Sep 1996: "Drug abuse is wrong, and won't be tolerated anywhere in America!" Way to go, BoB! That's 50% of the voters you just alienated... not that they weren't already, anyway...

Next on the list: Free-thinkers, atheists, Other People Who Don't Attend The Church Of My Choice Every Sunday Morning and Wednesday Nights... Am I getting paranoid here? Jeeze! Excuse me, that expression is a contraction for Jesus, the mythical, fictional (OK, I realize the redundancy!) Xian Martyr... midwest kids use it because their mothers and fathers beat them if they say "Jesus".

OK, you're sitting here saying "Doug has lost it... what's the connection between drug use and Xianity?" If you are saying that, I congratulate you. It took me a while to figger it out, too. The answer, IMHO, is chilling: Mind Control!

So, once again, I'm on an anti-Xian rant! OK, I have been reading through my atheistic links, and yes, I'm pissed. Because I live in a society that wants to... no, needs to, control my mind. An Xian society. "Why," you say, "We're a Free society, everyone has the right to worship wherever and whatever they want to!" And you're right, absolutely right. In exactly the same way you can say that we have justice and freedom for all, especially if you're white and go to a judeo-xian church. Then you get better justice and freedom. And if you happen to have a lot of money, then you can get the Best justice and freedom.

"Well, DUH!" sez you. "You figgered it out! So Why Are You Pissed?"

Let me explain. First off, "DUH!" is not an expression I allow to be used on this site without permission and a damned good reason. OK, that's settled. Secondly, I'm fifty fucking years old, and I just got it figgered out! Mind control? Got me again! Fifty years worth, anyway.

That reminds me of a story. I had just finished xray school and I allowed myself to be drafted in the US Army. I went to Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. I was a very pacifistic guy. In eight weeks, I was totally convinced that I should go out and kill people for the good 'ol US of A. I am really amazed, looking back on it. They did their jobs well, those Basic D.I.'s. Another related story: When you go in the military, they ask for your religious preference. I told them atheist, and the guy looked at me and said "Your mother will see this, you know..." so I told him to put down "no Preference". So that's what my dog tags said. Which meant that absolutely anyone could perform any "religious rites" that I "needed". Comforting thought. My mother didn't really mind, though...

Anyway, if I would've had a lick of sense or any anti-war buddies, I would've gone to Canada instead of being drafted. I was really naive, then. Now, however, I'm probably classified as "Stupid" instead. You give up the right to naivete when you pass your thirtyeth birthday...

To return to the subject, we have never had a non-Xian president. Or an non-xian senator. There have been a few non-xian reps, though, but I'm not sure who they were. And of course, JFK was a Catholic... but still an Xian. We live in an xian society, that allows xians to vote in a block. Which xian should you vote for? The liberal xian or the conservative xian? The xian who will put you in jail for using "illegal" substances to alter your mind (But who thinks it's great to have a preacher or Jim Beam do it for you), or the one who shrugs it off? The one who is for "family values"(boB Dole's family values) or the one for "Family Values" (Bill Clinton's family values)(neither of which are your or my family values?

See what's happened? I said I shouldn't talk about politics! See what happened! Actually, seeing BoB on Headline news did it, he didn't need any help. Don't blame yourselves! I appreciate your input! I'll take all of the blame... like anyone would ever think any different...

In other related news... I'm still not in bed yet, and tomorrow is the last day I'll really be able to get stuff done before I go back to work, so I gotta get some sleep now but I just ain't tired. Twelve hours of sleep today, and I'm not tired. Strange, but odd.

Speaking of the Texas Boys, JD and Tyler, they're both back in school, and JD will be turning 21 on the 6th of September. And, on the very same day, I'll be 50 1/2... anyway, sent him some birthday email, his address is stdjdf12@unx1.shsu.edu. you'll surprise him and he'll appreciate it! Or maybe he'll just get confused...

OK, that's it for now... more later! Be sure to reload this page if you come back!

As a by-product of the move, I have two trashed rooms. The one the computer's in, and the one the computer came out of. So my work is far from being done. Most of the stuff I left upstairs I'll put into storage... all my DOS stuff, for example. I got a bookcase full of that. And my win31 stuff, too, might as well put it out of sight too. I got too much JUNK! All of it very valuable, of course. Really neat junk. I've got an imaging system out of an old fluoroscopic machine, excellent resolution, B&W of course, wonderful if you want to look at an object less than 3 cm in diameter at a distance of 4 cm... I thought I'd hook it up to a telescope some day. I've had it twelve, thirteen years now.

Anyway, I'm proud of myself, actually doing something! Now I gotta make this place livable... carpet on the floor, coffeepot, flowers, naked women... wow, where did that come from? And I did get my weight set put up, too. In just a matter of time I'll have the treadmill and the Aerodyne Bike and the Rowing maching and the ECG machine set up, and I'll no longer have any excuse for being fat and outta shape, will I?

I'm going to go to sleep for four or six hours now. I won't do any more 'til way late tonight or tomorrow morning.