Questions To Ponder

What is a Black Hole?

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying.
- nasa.gov/ -

What is a Quasar?

A massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies.

- Oxford Dictionaries -

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. It was launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Hubble orbits about 547 kilometers (340 miles) above Earth. It is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble travels about 5 miles per second: That is like traveling from the eastern coast of the United States to the western coast in 10 minutes. Hubble is solar-powered.Hubble takes sharp pictures of objects in the sky such as planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble has made more than one million observations. These include detailed pictures of the birth and death of stars, galaxies billions of light years away, and comet pieces crashing into Jupiter's atmosphere.
- nasa.gov/ -

Why the three Questions and Answers?

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found that Markarian 231, the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about each other.

The finding suggests that quasars—the brilliant cores of active galaxies – may commonly host two central supermassive black holes, which fall into orbit about one another as a result of the merger between two galaxies. Like a pair of whirling skaters, the black-hole duo generates tremendous amounts of energy that makes the core of the host galaxy outshine the glow of its population of billions of stars, which scientists then identify as quasars.
- Robert Gutro, Goddard Space Flight Center -

What does that mean for you?

Well,

nothing.

Unless you live forever.
Because the
"Milky Way Galaxy"
and the
"Andromeda Galaxy"
are going to collide!

It won't happen for another 4 billion years,
so stop your worrying.

I doubt people will be living on the Earth,

they'll probably be living elsewhere in the Universe,

and I doubt they'll even look like we do.

They will have evolved into a different looking species.

Most likely,

less then half organic,

and more graphene like material.

Something like they do with

MOFs

(Metal-Organic Frameworks).

That's an awful example.

Think Cyborg,

but with advance materials.

Why did I write this Post?

Because I find everything about

"Space"

fascinating!

I was just talking to my friend,

"Zeta Reticulans,"

who really needs to get out in the Sun more,

(Don't tell her, but she is really Grey.)

 about all the information we have about the Universe.

She just laughed at me
and then teleported the heck out of here.

How rude!

This is,
The Babysitting Alien Kids,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians.”

- Jarod Kintz -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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P.S.

Zeta Reticulans are supposedly the race of small Grey Aliens from the Star system Zeta Reticuli. Which is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. From the southern hemisphere the pair can be seen as double stars. Based upon parallax measurements, this system is located at a distance of about 39 light-years from the Earth. Zeta² Reticuli is orbited by a circumstellar debris disk. Both stars are solar analogs that share similar characteristics with the Sun. They belong to the Zeta Herculis Moving Group of stars that share a common origin. So now you know!

Links

Some good links,

some bad links,

but no sausage links!

twobuckhowie                                      

 BuildEasy.com/Tardis  
  
You Tube.com/building a Tardis           Kepler
                    
Kelly Blue Book                   Better Business Bureaus

Kick Starter                                            Space.com

Khan Academy                                       Discover Magazine

Live Science                                           Canonical

Indiegogo                                               Red Hat

Bruce Campbell                                     Make 

Planet Claire                                          Inquisitr

The Huffington Post                             Webo Pedia

Wiki Pedia                                             Wiki Leaks  

Political Dictionary           Information Sharing Environment

Psychology Today                                 Library Of Congres

CIA                                                        Download.com 

Defense Tech                                         Instructables 

Engadget                                                The Tardis Library

The Independent Publishing Magazine   Bleacher Report  

The Academe Blog                                IMDb 

ARS Technica                                        Soompi TV 

Indian Space Research Organisation   Scientific American 

Molecular Expressions                         Space Foundation

Cambridge Archaeological Journals    The Sun-Herald  

Federal Election Commission              Business Insider 

Crunchy Roll                                         Funimation  

The Guardian

These are just a few that help me research the fun facts I tell you each day.

This is,
The Weary Bleary Starry Eyed,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.”

- John Green -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Don't Take The Children Music Video

I made my first music video of one of the songs the rock band,

"Two Buck Howie With The Exact Change,"

wrote and performed.

The song is called,

Don't Take The Children.

Of course,

this Link will always be up,

but instead of searching for this Post all the time

to listen to such a great song,

you'll see the name of the song under the Heading,

"Check These Out & Be Rewarded By Karma."

Just click on the name of the song,

"Don't Take The Children"

and it will always take you to the music video on
Youtube!

This is,
The One Time Lead Singer Two Buck Howie,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The only truth is music.”

- Jack Kerouac -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Billionaires Are Leaving

Are Sci-Fi Movies telling us the Future?

From Imagination comes Reality my friend.

Is the United States slowly preparing the
"World's Population"
for the real truth about
"Extraterrestrial Life?"

On July 8th, 1947,

the Roswell Daily Record,

the local paper,

reported the

"Capture"

of a

"Flying Saucer."

When the
Roswell
incident happened,
the end of World War Two wasn't even 2 years old.

With all the Countries of the World winding down from being on 24 hour Militarily Alert,

the World's Population now has to worry about
"Beings"
from another
"Planet?"

I think not!

Says our Government.
It all has to do with a radio program.

On October 31st, 1938,

CBS Radio Network
aired the radio drama,

"The War of the Worlds,"

with no commercial interruptions.

The widespread panic which ensued,

thoroughly convinced the United States Government that,

if
"Extraterrestrials"
were ever discovered,

the majority of the Public could not comprehend the truth of the situation

and would start to panic.

So they quickly denied finding a Flying Saucer

and did a thorough cover-up.

Knowing,

eventually that the general Public must become aware of life beyond our World,

the idea came about to
"leak"
a little information here
and there while our technology advances in leaps
and bounds.

People are so inundated today,

by all the different kinds of Media that say
"Aliens"
do exist,

that when they are finally revealed to us,

no one will be surprised.

We'll all just say,

"The Government was hiding this secret to protect us."

Are Billionaires,

which all have the

"God Complex"

in the first place,

moving off this World to live in
"Space,"

leaving the rest of use to die on a dying
"Planet?"

Well,

yes,
of course they are!

Eventually.

Movies like
"2012,"

where the

"Powerful & Filthy Rich"

are saved by collecting money from the

"World Leaders"

to build arks to save those individuals,

with the

"Necessary People"

to rebuild

"Civilization."

Leaving the average

"Joe & Josephine"

to perish,

without them lending us a helping hand,

is not so far fetched.

The Movie,

"Elysium,"

depict the

"Rich & Powerful"

living on a man-made

"Space Station"

while the rest of the population resides on a ruined

"Earth."
You might have seen the movie
"Kingsman."
Where a
"Billionaire"
tries to kill off the World's Population,
ensuring only the
"Rich & Powerful"
survive.

Do you think these things could never happen,
that they are far fetched?

Not according to the
Daily Mail.

  
- PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-market capitalism - that he's trying to make its title a reality. The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute, an organization that aspires to launch a floating colony into international waters, freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals. -

(The Filthy Rich.)

- Mr Thiel recently told Details Magazine: "The United States Constitution had things you could do at the beginning that you couldn't do later. So the question is, can you go back to the beginning of things? How do you start over?" The floating sovereign nations that Mr Thiel imagines would be built on oil-rig-like platforms anchored in areas free of regulation, laws, and moral conventions. The Seasteading Institute says it will "Give people the freedom to choose the government they want instead of being stuck with the government they get." Mr. Theil, the venture capitalist who famously helped Facebook expand beyond the Harvard campus, called Seasteading an "Open frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government."
After making his first investment in the project in 2008, Mr Thiel said: "Decades from now, those looking back at the start of the century will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step towards encouraging the development of more efficient, practical public sector models around the world." "We’re at a fascinating juncture: the nature of government is about to change at a very fundamental level."
Mr Thiel and his colleagues say their ocean state would have no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons. Aiming to have tens of millions of residents by 2050, the Seasteading Institute says architectural plans for a prototype involve a movable, diesel-powered structure with room for 270 residents. The long-term plan would be to have dozens and eventually hundreds of the platforms linked together. Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who is working on the project told Details that they hope to launch a flotilla of offices off the San Francisco coast next year. "Big ideas start as weird ideas," Mr Friedman said.
He predicted that full-time settlement will follow in about seven years. But while some Ayn Rand acolytes may think the idea is brilliant, it's not without its critics. Margaret Crawford, an expert on urban planning and a professor of architecture at Berkeley, told Details: "It's a silly idea without any urban-planning implications whatsoever." Mr Thiel told an audience at the Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009 that: "There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late." -

This is just the beginning for the
"Haves"
(The 1%.)
and the
"Have-Nots"
of the World to end up like one of those movies I've mentioned.
Or,
if the 1% come to their senses,
it could end up completely different.
Say,
like Gene Roddenberry's idea of a
"Co-operative Society."
"Benefiting all Mankind!"
And why would we want to stop you,
Peter Thiel?
Unless,
of course,
you have a
"God Complex"
and you plan on ruling the World!

Did you notice that sentence where Mr. Thiel says there would be,

"Few restrictions on weapons."

I imagine this means a

"flotilla of refugees"

would be blown out of the water before these

"Utopians"

would let them dock on their

"Private Little Island!"

I wonder who will blow them out of the water first?

"North Korea"

or

"Terrorists?"
I'm hoping it is
"Anonymous,"
and they just shuts down their toilet facilities!

This is,
I Have To Figure Out A Get Super Rich Scheme Quick,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

- Shelby Foote -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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P.S. Did you see that line,

"From Imagination comes Reality my friend."
That's my line.
I am sooooooooooo Philosophical!

Isabella

You want to see something beautiful?

Follow this link,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cf49c_WjE

and watch an 8 year old girl receive a
3D Printed Arm
that really works.

3D Printing for Body Parts is not something new.

People who have Skull Fractures or have had part of their Cranium removed for medical reasons,

have received 3D Printed replacements.

Isabella was gifted a 3-D printed arm by a man named Stephen Davies. According to Chris Loterina at Headlines & Global News,

Mr. Davies created the

3-D printed arm

that can be used to help people who are missing part of a limb.

Davies gave his creation to 8-year-old Isabella last month,

and the arm has really changed her day-to-day life.

Stephen Davies himself is a recipient of a 
3D Printed Hand 
from the company,

"e-Nable."

He was so thankful by the gesture that he wanted to

"Pay The Kindness Forward."

He became a volunteer at

e-Nable

and created the arm for Isabella.

This shows that,

great things can happen with today's technology,

when good people get to use it.
e-Nable 
is a wonderful site.
Please check it out.

This is,
The Touched,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place, because we become better people in it.”

- Jodi Picoult -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Start Your Own Super PAC

On every
Election Day,

you sit home,

wallowing in self pity,

saying to yourself,

"My one Vote doesn't matter!"

 Well,

of course it does,

but the only thing that can get your ass off that couch is,

to find some way that you can influence the

Election!

 So,

why not start your own

"Super PAC!"

 Yes
Boys & Girls,

anyone can start a

Super PAC,

and you can do it for

Free!

 Thanks to the
Supreme Court.

Those 
Justices
are always looking out for the little guy,

aren't they?

OK,

the first thing you need to do,

is figure out what your

Super PAC 

is all about.

Do you want to raise money for a particular

Political Party,

 a particular

Candidate,

 or raise awareness on a particular

Issue.

You need to be specific on why you're raising this money.

Being vague doesn't rally the troops.

People want to give up their hard earned dollars to

Political Parties,

 Candidates,

and
Issues

 they believe in.

You need to find people who are passionate about the same things you are!

Now,
that you have a cause,

you need to name your

Super PAC.

And don't pick a name like

Six PAC.

If you do this right,

you'll be asking
Corporations,

Unions,

Political Action Committees,

Big Business Men,

Local Business Men,

Neighbors,

Friends,

and
Family Members
to donate to your cause.

If you sound like a joke,

no one will give you their money.

They might think you are going to buy
Beer
with the money!

Now,
all you need to run your

Official Super PAC 

is a
Bank Account, 
to put all that wonderful money you collected into.
A
 Dynamic Personality,

to raise all that money you want to put into that
Bank Account.

Somebody

Trustworthy,

to serve as your official

Treasurer.

To keep track of your

Super PAC's Fundraising & Spending.

They will need to file accurate

Spending Reports

 with the

United States Government,

don't you know.

Oh,

I almost forgot.

Don't forget to fill out a

Statement of Organization,

with the
Federal Election Commission.

Check box 5(f) under

"Type of Committee,"

so you can say you are a

Super PAC.

Make sure to include on your

"Statement of Organization"

your name,

address,

contact information,

and the name of your

Super PAC 

and its

Treasurer.

Write a cover letter to the

"Federal Election Commission,"

making sure you tell them that your new group will be a

Super PAC.

The
fec.gov

even supplies a sample form you can use.

Then send everything to:

Federal Election Commission

999 E. St., NW

Washington, D.C. 20463

Now,

go ahead.

Get your butt off that couch

and

"Raise Unlimited Amounts Of Money!"

Then you too can influence the next

Local,

County,

State,

or Federal Election!

Go have some fun with this!
You know I will.

A word of caution though.

Say you want to back either

Donald Stump

 or

Hillary Chimpton

in the next

Presidential Election.

You can spend all the money you have collected for that cause,

you just can't work directly with either

Candidate

 or their

Organization!

One more thing,

the money is not yours to keep,

that would be

Fraud

and you'll go to

Jail.

This is,
The Ever Fun Loving Political Activist,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.”

- David Axelrod -

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I Admit, I Got It Wrong

I must apologies to my readers

and to Yaz129 on a mistake I made in my Post,

 "To Yaz129."

In July, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled that it was

"Unconstitutional"

to limit a Person's contribution to any

"Political Party"

or

"Candidate."

They call it

"Dark Money."

- In the politics of the United States, dark money is a term for funds given to nonprofit organizations—primarily 501(c)(4) (social welfare) and 501(c)(6) (trade association) groups—that can receive unlimited donations from corporations, individuals, and unions, and spend funds to influence elections, but are not required to disclose their donors. -

I did not try to mislead anyone in my explanation of
American Politics
in my Post,

"To Yaz129."

When I wrote that story,

I thought I new the answers,
right off the top of my head,
but like everything in life,
changes happen all the time,
if you realize it or not.

I forgot my rule,

and that is:

Get as much information as you can on a subject,

before you write about it out here,

on this Blog.

Do the research first.

The Supreme Court also ruled that

"Super PACs"
could not be limited either on their contributions.
What's the difference between a
Super PAC
and a traditional
Political Action Committee?

- The most important difference between a Super PAC and traditional candidate PAC is in who can contribute, and in how much they can give. Candidates and traditional candidate committees can accept $2,500 from individuals per election. That means they can take in $5,000 a year - half in the primary, and half in the general election.

Candidates and traditional candidate committees are prohibited from accepting money from corporations, unions and associations. Federal election code prohibits those entities from contributing directly to candidates or candidate committees. Super PACs, though, have no limitations on who contributes or how much they contribute.

They can raise as much money from corporations,unions and associations as they please and spend unlimited amounts on advocating for the election or defeat of the candidates of their choice. -

 Why do they call it

"Dark Money?"

Because
Billionaires
still don't want the
American Public
know that their
Government Officials
are just
"Puppets!" 

At least I got that part right!

This is,
The Hoping For Political Reform Advocate,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."

- Theodore Roosevelt -

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Thanks for reading.

Thanks Yaz129,
for continuing to read my Blog,
and for all the Comments!

My Point Of View Or What I View

When I was growing up,

the only people who talked to themselves,

were the people who were nuts!

Now,

everyone with a

"Blue Tooth Device"

is nuts.

Watch the Road!

I once heard a 2nd Lieutenant,

in the Marine Corp,

say to his troops,

"Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can."

 Later,

I saw the same 2nd Lieutenant talking to another
Ranked Officer
 in his barracks,

telling him,

"I never promote the harder workers, or my best soldiers.
I need them to make me look good so I get promoted."

People who want money

and only money are never happy.

Because there never is enough

Money!

A person can never force a

"Change In Luck"

by just sitting there.

But they can change the

"Machine"

they are on.

Get it?

When will we ever hear,

from one of the

Avengers,

"Feel The Power Of My Heuristic Algorithmic Viral Defense!"

People who live in

Glass Houses,

can see their surroundings.

Never tell anyone what you paid for something.

Because there will always be somebody who says,

"What a great deal."

Then the next person will say,

"You've been ripped off!"

It's always funny how the

Guy

who can get you all these great deals,

never has any of those items!

Going to

Church

once a week,

doesn't mean you can be evil,

to your fellow man,

For Six Days!

This is,
The Viewing,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."

- Lillian Hellman -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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P.S.
"K"

That story about the 2nd Lieutenant is true!
So stop asking,
and start believing!

Insulting

"Anonymous,"

then she called herself

"K,"

finally coming out from hiding in the closet

and signing her Comments as

"Kathleen,"

has the audacity to call me a liar.

To my face no less!

It seems,

"Kathleen"

read my Post,

"Good News"

and was expecting to see the

Classic Cadillac DeVille

I had talked about,

in my driveway,

yesterday.

Now,

if she would have read the words I wrote closely,

she would have seen my statement where I said,

"That I didn't have the money at this time!"

Even though my friend bought the car on my behalf,

he would be very foolish to give me the car before I paid him one cent.

I wouldn't expect him to give me the car until I made my first payment.

What if I had the car before the

Release of Liability

was sent in
and I totaled the car.

Why would I pay him then?

Of course

I would have anyways,

because

My word is my bond in a situation like this!

I don't think less of him for holding onto the car until I can make a payment,

I think highly of him because he bought a car on my behalf

and is holding it until I can afford it.

The reason I'm writing about something so silly is because she also said,

"I must lie on a lot of my Posts."

She is basing this on her misunderstanding,

of not having all the information.
The sad part of all of this is,
she stopped Commenting on my Posts.

Everyone doesn't have to agree with me on all issues,

but don't call me a liar when you don't have all the facts on a subject.

If she knew me,

really knew me,

she would have seen by now that

"Honesty"

is one of the biggest traits I've been known for my whole life.

So,

if anyone else thinks I'm lying on any of these Posts I write,

leave a Comment,

and we'll discuss it.

Because,

not having all the facts is not the way to make a decision,

on any subject in life!

This is,
The Honest,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"

- Albert Einstein -

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WikiLeaks Julian Paul Assange

Looks like one of the good guys has a small light at the end of the tunnel.

Julian Assange has lived inside the Ecuador Embassy,

in London,

for the last three years due to the (Donald) trump up charges of rape,

by the Government of Sweden.

Let me clarify something first.

He actually hasn't been charged with any crimes by the Swedish Court system,

he first has to be interviewed,

to hear his testimony to see if the accusations are valid,

but first he needs to be extradited from the United Kingdom.

Three of the four,

Sweden uses the word investigations not charges,

have been dropped because of their

"Statue of Limitations."

Or,

to say it bluntly,

it took too long to come to trial.

The British Government has kept a 24 hour Police presence over the Ecuador Embassy,

as if these countries were about to declare a

"State of War"

with each other.

Ecuador's acting minister of foreign affairs,

Xavier Lasso,

says,

 “The Republic of Ecuador will not take lessons from any foreign government, least of all those that are unaware of the institution of political asylum; its legitimacy, attached and enshrined in international law, and its humanitarian nature based on the sovereign equality of nations.”

My Translation;

"Stop telling us what to do because you
and the United States have egg on your face from spying on your Allies!
And all you can think of doing is prosecuting Julian Assange because you can't get your mitts on Edward Snowden."

Otherwise,

do you really believe the United Kingdom would spent £12m

or $18.8m US dollars on policing the Embassy if it was a London dock worker accused of raping two women when he went on vacation to Sweden?

The ambiguous so called

"Investigations"

against Julian Assange stems from the roundabout way

The United States

wants him extradited for the charges of

"Espionage."

First he gets sent to Sweden,

then United States,

and spends the rest of his life in jail because

the U.K. and the U.S.

hate that the World knows that they spy on their own

"Allies."

Read all you can on what Julian Assange has down for the World before you make up your mind on this issue.

Remember,

the U.S. has their spin on things to make them look good

and Mr. Assange has his spin on things to make him look good.

Hearing both sides of this issue,

will help you make an intelligent decision.

This is,
The WikiLeaks & theguardian Reader,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"A well-defined mathematical algorithm can encrypt something quickly, but to decrypt it would take billions of years – or trillions of dollars' worth of electricity to drive the computer. So cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organizations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. There is no other way for our intellectual life to gain proper independence from the security guards of the world, the people who control physical reality."

- Excerpt From;  Julian Assange: the fugitive, an article in theguardian by Decca Aitkenhead -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Good News

Looking over my last Post,

any new reader would think I am whining,

maybe giving up because I missed writing one day,

but like most people in life,

I have my ups and downs too!

The thing is,

I don't like to be down.

It's such a downer.

A bummer.

Does anyone say that anymore?

I don't like feeling low
or down because those feelings can perpetuate themselves into your everyday life.

Because,
two good things could happen to you,
with only one bad,
and you could be miserable the rest of the day.

I have forced my brain,

over time,

to turn things around after a fall,

and be positive.

Take my rejection email I got about my story,

that I talked about in yesterday's Post.

If I would have let it effect me,

past writing the Post,

I could have become more miserable when an opportunity came later in the day to buy a
Classic Cadillac DeVille.

I told my friend,

who called on behalf of a friend of his,

that I didn't have the money at this time,

I could then have become gloomier,
missing an opportunity like that.

Instead,

since I believe in Karma,
I told myself,

timing is everything and things happen for a reason,

and went on with the rest of my day,

happy.

Karma came around later in the day,

Karma is a Woman in my World,

and slapped me silly when I got a call from my buddy saying he bought the car on my behalf.

The clincher,
I can make a couple of payments to pay him back.

So Karma,

YOU ARE SUCH A "B" Word.

"Babe."

What did you think I was going to say?

Oh,

get your mind out of the gutter.

So,

to make this long story short,

right after I wrote my last Post,

I didn't let the rejection effect me,

I sent in another story to another Contest!

Wish me luck.

This is,
The Chipper,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!"

- Rocky Balboa -

One of the best motivational speeches ever written.
I wish I had written it.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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