I Still Can't Find Anything

   This is going to give away my age but I don't care!

   I grew up during a time when reading was more important to a person than television. Of course we only had three channels and two UHF channels to watch back then. But we had access to hundreds of books through our local and school libraries.

   You never heard of UHF? That's because you needed an antenna or rabbit ears to receive the signal on your TV. That's where the PBS channels were located.

   Then came HBO, which I got immediately through a microwave signal, cable started giving us hundreds of channels, and then huge satellite receivers gave us channels from around the world which eventually turned into smaller receivers as more satellites went into space, and finally the internet came along which created its own kind of channels to watch.

   I might not be chronologically correct but you get the idea.

Then came all the streaming services.

I have the ones you pay for

and a lot of the free ones.

I could list them all here but,

let's just say I have at least 25 of them.

 When I had five channels,

six channels,

150 channels,

or now,

that I have 500 hundred channels,

I always seem to say the same thing!

There is nothing to watch on TV!

This is,

Why I Still Love To Read To This Day

James Hauenstein

 

And

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin -

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Why Did I Store This?

   Over the years I have accumulated a lot of Stuff, telling myself that I would use this thing that I stored, later. I'm not going to tell you that I am a hoarder, buuuuuut, I have been going through drawers, under beds, closets, cabinets, a crawl space, and my garage for about a year now.

   I think I have personally supplied Angel View with all their charitable goods during this time.

   I have recently been opening up boxes that I stored maybe 20 years ago? Give or take a decade.

   I would like to share with you something I found from 2009 and have no idea why I saved it. It was written down on a piece of paper.

*****

A police officer pulls over a blonde for speeding and asks the driver if she could see his license. The driver replies in a huff, "I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday a different officer took my license and now today, you expect me to show it to you!"

   A blind guy on a bar stool shouts to the bartender, "You wanna hear a blonde joke?"

   In a hushed voice, the guy sitting next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, I think you should know something. The bartender and the bouncer are both blonde. I'm six foot tall, 200 pound black belt. The guy sitting next to me is 6'2", weighs 225, and he's a rugby player. The fella to your right is 6'5", weighing in at 300 lbs, and is a wrestler. Now think about it. Do you really want to tell a blonde joke?"

   The blind guy says, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."

   A lawyer named Mister Impos Syble was shopping for a tombstone. After making his selection the stone-cutter asks for the inscription he would like on his headstone.

   "Here lies an honest man and a lawyer." Mr. Syble tells him.

   "I can't do that," replies the stone-cutter. "It's against the law to bury two people in the same grave in this state. I can put here lies an honest lawyer."

   "But people won't know who it is," protests Mr. Syble.

   "Sure it will," retorts the stone-cutter. "People will read it and exclaim, "That's Impossible!"

   When a person helps a criminal before he gets arrested, we call them, an accomplice.

   When a person helps a criminal after he gets arrested, we call them, a public defender.

 

   A man gets caught embezzling millions of dollars from his employer and seeks out a defense attorney.

   He tells his new attorney, "Please, I can't go to jail, I have money. Can you help me?"

   The attorney says, "Don't worry. You'll never go to jail with all that money."

   The lawyer was right. When the guy went to prison, he didn't have a dime to his name because of legal fees!

 This is,

Now I Can Throw Away One More Piece Of Paper

Jim Hauenstein

And

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ” - Will Rogers -

 

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Guns Don't Kill People, Stupid Politicians Kill People

With more than 20 People Shot last night at an Alabama birthday party, with only four deaths, and Two Deaths, with four injured in Louisville, I thought this Post from February 26th, 2016 would help explain on how I feel about Gun Control. And don't tell me about the bullshit lies where "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

This is playing right into the Republican's hand where they get richer and they have the poor killing each other over scraps so they can claim during election time that "We need more white supremacy type of cops to protect our streets so we can let them run wild and kill innocent civilians too! For a safer America!" Yes, it's my opinion. Yet here are some facts.

Anonymously Anonymous

Take A Test To Own A Gun

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police ...

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And when you thought people couldn't get any more ignorant, 

here comes the 

"Iowa Lawmakers, (Who) Approve Bill That Would Let Kids Have Handguns." By Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post.

I thought
Texas
had a bunch of

Jackasses

for

Lawmakers,

"Texas 'open carry' law passes, allowing guns in holsters on the street." The Guardian.

"Texas lawmakers approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation’s second most populous state on Friday, sending the bill to the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it and reverse a ban dating to the post-civil war era."

I'm sure all the republican people living in

Iowa

were so upset by

Texas

beating them out on the

"Open Carry Law,"

that the only thing they could think of to do,

to be ahead of them in ignorance was to,

"Give Guns To Children."

"Children of all ages in Iowa would be able to lay down their toy guns and pick up the real thing under a bill that passed the state House of Representatives. Statehouse Republicans, including the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jake Highfill, said the the legislation was an issue of parents' rights designed to correct "an injustice in Iowa code” that now forbids children 14 and younger from handling pistols. Allowing people to learn at a young age the respect that a gun commands is one of the most important things you can do,” Highfill told The Washington Post on Wednesday. The alternative, he said, is “turning 18 with no experience.”

If we only had a system in place
that could teach someone how to handle a gun?

I know that setting up

Classes

at a

Firing Range

with specially

Professionally Trained Marksman

to teach people,

Under Age,

how to handle a firearms would start a whole new industry.
And who would train the
Professionals Trainers?

But we already have these moronic

Laws
in place with kids killing kids.

Couldn't the

Law

have specified,

before a youth was allowed to have a pistol,

even under parental supervision,

they would have to have these

Classes With A Professional

and then be

Certified

before they got a gun?

If you ask me,

most parents don't even know how to handle a gun.

I knew a few grownups who carried guns

and they didn't have a clue on the safety issues.

Some of them are in jail now

and the other is dead from a self inflicted wound.

Stupid people think you can carry a gun in their belt instead of a holster.

I wouldn't want their children carrying guns around if they were taught by their parents who thought it was cool just to carry one!

If you are thinking of getting a gun,

check these websites out

and maybe we will have one less accidental shootings.

National Handgun Safety Course

or

Education & Training

This is,

Raised In A Family That Respected Guns - And If Anyone - In Our Family - Older Than I - Saw That I Was Playing With Or Disrespecting A Gun - They Had The Right To Whip My Ass - Then Tell My Dad So He Could Whip My Ass Too

Jim Hauenstein

And

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” - P.G -

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Many Many Moons Ago

   Yes, many many moons ago there was (and still is) an annual herbaceous flowing plant cultivated throughout recorded history as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, recreation, medicine, and religious practices that I partook in. (Spiritually speaking.) It was also illegal to have traces of it in your blood system if you were in the military, applied for jobs, or, as in my case, got hurt on the job.

   I have nothing bad to say about the company I worked for because they were very good to me for twenty years. It was just a corporate policy.

   By this time in my life I had quit smoking this herbaceous for about five years. Except! (Of course there wouldn't be a story without an "Except.")

   Except at a party, on New Year's Eve, at my friends house. After a few beers, a few laughs, I thought, "What the Hell." So I smoked a little, or a lot. It was a party.

   In the middle of February, of that new year, I break my foot while on the job. After going to the hospital, getting a cast on, I went home expecting four weeks of playing video games while my kids were at school.

   After one week of relaxation I get a call from Human Resources saying I have to go to such and such clinic for a drug test. If I didn't go in I would be terminated.

   Being superstitious, I believed what every Rastafarian had said to me. That there would be traces of this herbal spiritual drug in my blood system for up to six weeks!

   I panicked.

   So I took the advice of one Rastaman and bought a box of

"Quick Tabs - Herbal Clean."

Which I just found stuffed way back in an old cupboard while doing some spring cleaning.  

   I bought them around 2001. (I wonder if they are still good?)

   I can't tell you if it worked or not. But I didn't have anything in my system to warrant termination. I worked for the same company for at least another seven years.

   Now, in the State of California, potential employers can't even test for it!

 

This is,

I Checked Out Their Website Today

And They No Longer Sell

"Quick Tabs"

For Cleansing Your System Of

Cannabis Sativa

Just Regular Detox Solutions For A Healthier You

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” - Carl Sagan -

 

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My Life So Far

Born, Love, Wonder, Feel

Taste, Cry, Laugh, Meet

Siblings, Play, Run, Talk

School, Away, Shy, Afraid

Friends, Awkward, Teachers, Lessons

Discover, Introvert, Girls, Immature

Music, Reading, Imagine, Enlighten

Move, Breakup, Use, Heartache

Rebel, Consort, Grad, Destructive

Work, Money, Travel, Explore

Musician, Reader, Poet, Writer

Split, Anger, Quit, Relocate

Employed, Encounter, Smile, Marry

Kids, House, Family, Home

Promotion, Recession, Retire, Bereavement

Writing, Hobby, Blogging, Fun

Novellas, Poetry, Fiction, Novels

Author...

This is,

My Life In A Poem So Far

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - Douglas Adams -

 

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