2012: End of year thoughts.

Okay.

I admit it. I procrastinated and didn't really think of much to write, and now we're only a few hours away from 2013, and there won't be much thought or insight to what I say here and now.

Oh well. Aren't I quite the motherfucker?

So instead I'll give you something a little shall we say different.

2012 was all-and-all a mixed bag for me.

• The country dodged a bullet here in America somewhat by once again choosing the lesser of two evils in the recent election.

• I made zero progress in my career. Okay let me re-phrase that - I made strides in building on last year's accomplishments to achieve more and be more respected (which unlike last year, I take great pride in), but none of that translated into any kind of increase in compensation or level or title increase or promotion. Yay me and my family.

• I did make some contacts on a number of initiatives and learned a whole lot. However I still need to put it all together and deliver something which really gets the impact I'm looking for.

• I played a couple of shows where it's clear I should either put on a wig or a mask cause people really don't need to see how fucking stupid I really look. I think as I get older I'm going to ignore all the ugly looks, as well as the ones who point and laugh.

• A couple of financial disasters and ongoing mental health problems continue to plague me. It's not a fun thing when pretty much every day I leave the house in a state of anger, and returns home automatically be put in a foul mood, yet it's not the day away that causes it.

• I did complete writing another rock album. That's two in the last two years.

• I did manage a year of finding a fairly good muscle-building workout that takes only 10-15 minutes a day and doesn't involve using free weights. Although I'm not completely happy with the way I look, I can honestly say I look and feel a lot stronger and fit than when I was in college.

I'd like to say older and wiser, but really just older I suppose. I'll elaborate more on (as opposed to moron) this along with some planned changes for blogging in 2013 in one of my first posts in the New Year.

Take care and see you in a few.

Why the NRA comments are irrelevant.

Yeah, see how the NRA views everything in a child-like way? Good guys and bad guys and all that crap?

What a reaction to a horrible act.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/coming-drone-attack-america

Combine the drones with weapons, facial recognition technology, and GPS, and effectively the Iron Triangle can override every right US Constituion citizens have.

Of course there's no 'loaded gun'. But it's still election fraud.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/11/pol-elections-calls-court-case-council-canadians.html

You wonder why the CBC fails to call it such.

Oh ... you don't think so?

"But Shrybman on Tuesday walked the court through documents he says support the applicants' allegation that there was a campaign to suppress votes and that it benefited the Conservative Party.


The most recent — and possibly most important — documents are two production orders seeking phone records for Shaw and Videotron customers. They show that Elections Canada is looking into complaints in 56 ridings. The documents were released at the end of last month."

Amazing how it all benefits one political party?

Amazing how that party is now in power?

Amazing how they don't call it what it is - election fraud?

Posting is gonna be light the rest of the year.

It turns out I reached my quota of 260 posts a little while ago.

So expect there won't be too many more the rest of the month.

Don't worry SoG readers, I'll be back before the end of the year with some thoughts.

Gangs in my home?

You don't say?

Took them this long to figure this out?

See? The Israeli right-wing doesn't want peace.

"The first act of Operation Pillar of Defense was to murder Ahmed Jabari. Aluf Benn, editor of the newspaper Haaretz, describes him as Israel’s “subcontractor” and “border guard” in Gaza, who enforced relative quiet there for more than five years.

The pretext for the assassination was that during these five years Jabari had been creating a Hamas military force, with missiles from Iran. A more credible reason was provided by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, who had been involved in direct negotiations with Jabari for years, including plans for the eventual release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Baskin reports that hours before he was assassinated, Jabari “received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”

A truce was then in place, called by Hamas on Nov. 12. Israel apparently exploited the truce, Reuters reports, directing attention to the Syrian border in the hope that Hamas leaders would relax their guard and be easier to assassinate."

Courtesy Noam Chomsky and Alternet (and thank you Mound of Sound).

The Israeli right-wing want things unstable. It's by design. Keep them (the Palestinians) barely alive till they eventually die off or give up and leave.

Of course the problem the Israeli right wing has is that the rest of world knows that they (and not the residence of Gaza) are the bullies. Those nasty videos and photos of dead males and females (old, young, and in-between) they cannot censor or block on the Internet.

Genocide. Apartheid. Terror. War. They are all the same in their drive for destruction based on hate, revenge, bloodlust, you name it.

Portrait of an asshole driver.

This guy and his co-hort cut me off as I was crossing the street on 27-NOV-2012. They turned right without batting an eye lash, but I managed to get a picture of them. I think I wrote down the license plate, and once I dig that up, I'll put it in the Dangerous Driver section shortly.