Just One Day and So Many Fools April 1, 2014
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March went out with a short squirt. April 1st is chilly.
I imagine most cogent people have some sort of love/hate relationship with the Internet. I do. In our 15 year romance we have spent far too much time together. I have found and met many people I would like to know better. I have shopped online and thus no longer cruise the shops in general (sort of sad too). I play far too much Angry Birds. But the downside is the information and lies I find everyday. And I have figured out that it is possible to know too much about everything because everything known is not always knowledge. (Bet you wish you had used that one Rummy).
Having been a Luddite spin doctor in the 80’s I know the value of the media and I also know how it is manipulated and used to make or break almost anything. Put another way – the Internet has turned this mechanical spinning into an acid trip. We can eliminate the word “discovery” from our reality (assuming this is one) because there is nothing unknown under the sun or if there is you will know it in a second. If this were coming from people with any sense of proportion or vestigial dignity – it might be okay – but it is a tabloid covered world. And we are all susceptible to it. If you say you are not you are probably deluding yourself. Be careful – someone with take a picture of you in this state of mind and upload it somewhere and your dilemma will soon be the object of worldwide ridicule. Viral.
Full disclosure: I watch TV and I like TV. I am torn between really enjoying the dramas I like but then wondering if they are actually training films for a specific audience. I know I will not be quite as squeamish about autopsies. “Victim or perpetrator – it seems we are being watched.” This does not come as a shock to me but I wonder why it comes as one to so many others. As a species we are not a very nice lot. The Internet is a dream come true. We covet and envy and want what is usually not easily available to us. Technology, countries, oil, money in large amounts, sex. As the ability to “spy” gets better and better and easier and easier – we have embraced spying with a vengeance. But, in the words of Tom Lehrer – “always be sure to call it research”.
Do the terms beta version, beta testing, focus group slink by you so often you no longer pay attention? Not a good idea. We are being made part of a global family of guinea pigs. Every time a bank or grocer or credit card gets a swipe from your “rewards” card – believe me they first reward themselves. None of this comes to me as a shock. Occam’s Razor – usually the simplest answer is the right one. If any of those aforementioned places really wanted to reward us they would give better interest rates, sell goods at much better prices and dispense with the little plastic cards. Businesses, the governments of the world, religions, arms dealers and even nice folks are finding out things about you that you thought were secrets locked in your own head. Wrong. We can fight it or yield to it but we have become so delighted to have these little perks that they will continue. We will no longer be as surprised as we once were and we will soon eliminate naiveté from the world. It still exists so enjoy it while you can. There is a preciousness to it – it’s in the eyes of a newborn creature but it doesn’t last very long. In a not too distant future it will vanish and as we look back and try to regain the feeling it gave us – we will realize that for the last 15 years or so – everyday has been April Fool’s Day.
China Thinks Jews Control Everything! March 31, 2014
Posted by voolavex in Social Issues.Tags: China, Democrats, Expulsion, Iberia, Jews, Mad Tea Party, March, War on Women
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From their mouths to God’s ears. Another round of bubbemeisses that asks the question: if that’s true why are we still fighting for a sandy little schnip of land in the desert? It’s not so much that Jews control everything – it has to do with survival and nowhere to go. Today is the 622nd Anniversary of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain. This opened the door for what we now call (and overuse) the Diaspora. I suspect if the Jews had been left alone in Iberia and subsequently the known world; we might have simply gone about our business, enriched Europe and the world could have been a much sweeter place in general. But nooooo. From 1492 until 1968 the Inquisition was on the books; the 1517 mishegass at the Diet of Wurms gave us horns and tails and we were cast out, into the world. We did pretty well all things considered. So what Jews control – in my opinion – is the circumstances of own own destinies. Being a Jew is an endurance test. The universal concern by others about what we do and don’t control shows us ahead in the polls. Without armies or soldiers or rights we do what we can and we learn to do it well. Maybe the real mistake was letting us play with the kings in the counting houses.
March cannot decide how to make its exit.
Here is what has become tiresome lately. The Democrats (my party) has taken to tabloid emails. And I am very tired of them. Since I don’t get GOP emails I suspect this is the done thing but enough. I will not chip in $3. Hint: Ask rich people for much more money.
I am beginning to understand “The War on Women“. Beginning to?? Yes – about the only group left that is not a color or culture or religion is women. Sonofabitch – we are everywhere and so who better to descend upon and try to control. Clearly the Mad Tea Party has decided if you limit the rights – sorry – eliminate the rights of women – you will have a superior sense of control that will help you get past the fact that there is a man of color in the WHITE House. They cannot move past it – so they are stuck in a briar patch of their own creation. Who’s left? Wimmin. And they must sit up nights thinking about things to do to shut down everything but menopause. And they simply don’t make sense – but if they can exert some form of control then it must soothe their outrage and bolster their own sense of purpose. I like Hillary but I don’t think she will fly in 2016 because if a woman follows a person of color into the WHITE House – they will grab each other’s tails and turn into butter. Just a thought.
Out Like A What? March 30, 2014
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Waiting for March 2014 to leave tomorrow and realize I spend lots of bon mots on FB. Opinions that should rightly be here. And owing to laziness and lack of energy ( that is another term for laziness) I have left poor Voolavex to its own devices. Having none so it sits.
Is it the most fabulous blog written? For me yes because I am an unabashed fan of my own writing style. It flops at times but not in a way that cannot be fixed – editors have told me this and I believe them because they are editors after all. With that in mind I shall return to these eldritch pages and be more productive. Hits would be helpful. Writers are serious egotists and they do love positive (and even negative) input.
Things that Voolavex me:
Icon. Please let it be a nice illuminated portrait of Byzantine saint or the Lord or his mother. Nothing else. It usually takes eons to achieve the position of icon. Justin Bieber is not nor will he ever be one.
Signature style. Boring. It ended for me with Diana Vreeland’s wonderful t-straps and those hideous Chanel cuffs Carrie Donovan wore. Audrey Hepburn had it and some truly do wear their personalities – but damn. Everyone writes differently and therefore each style is a signature. Let it be so. (this includes other things like “brand”,”iconic style”, “trademark look”.)
Breaking News. Usually it isn’t actually “news”.
Imported. Now a euphemistic term for “Made in China”. Beware this word when spending more than $10 on anything.
Pet Rescue Groups. Used to be real and very good at helping animals. Now the purview of sad folks who also like money and judging other people’s lifestyles. I support Best Friends for the most part because they do exactly what they say – they work to Save Them All.
Lawd I haven’t done this in ages so I will post it and then take up the screed betimes. If you like it – please do. And then check in again.
Not The Age of Aquarius. September 19, 2013
Posted by voolavex in Social Issues.Tags: abortion, Black, choice, Congress, Jim Crow, misogynist, Obama, rape, United States, vagina
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In the course of an average day something usually occurs that gets my goat. Often more than one and it generally has been exaggerated by social media. I know – blame it on the Internet – but nothing is sacred and now the profane has entered the realm of the used to be sacred and we are in a mess. This doesn’t mean I am going to leave FB or go offline. I love it most of the time but there is soooo much stupid crap shared it can drive a reasonably intelligent human crazy.
Todays’ review:
The United States – “not the greatest country in the world” (I agree with Putin on that) has spun out of control in ways I don’t think anyone could have imagined. Post-racial? I don’t think so. Jim Crow is alive in every corner and on the Internet. He jumps out constantly allowing us to know just what a screwed mentality exists in this “land of the free”. It is embarrassing and downright shameful for a “natural born” American who wishes all that buying and selling of humans never happened. And has never ended – at least in the hearts and minds of too many 21st Century Americans. What so many of us imagined…no fantasized…would happen when Barack Obama was elected is that the lion would lie with the lamb and love would steer the stars. Folks. This is not the Age of Aquarius. Look at the Congress. They make me sick. They are disgusting and they know it. Lazy, bigoted, misogynist old men who are scared of the Black Guy in the White House. Hot mess scared. And stupid and don’t have a real grip on what they are doing and what it bodes for the future.
I am not worried about the death of the middle class as much as I am afraid of the quantum leap in crime we will face if essential services to low income (poor) Americans are cut or denied. Angry, jobless, homeless, hungry individuals and families will be willing to do almost anything to feed their kids. Crime will escalate. And since many who are having babies (and for some odd reason the true believers think this is really a smart move) are in the lower income bracket or worse, teenagers who will be denied any assistance, those babies if they survive without, will see themselves as worthless and act accordingly. There will be a ton of secret sex going on too and no birth control and no choice and no assistance and no food and medical care and then what. John Boehner is gonna order another pitcher of martinis and tee off? The people who support this philosophy have not realized that Harry Potter is a made up character and no magic wand is going to return us to the era of black and white TV. In fact, lots of these “true believers” weren’t even born then. Thus far I have not heard a single answer from any of these miscreants about the “babies”. And believe me, the more mouths there are to feed on this dying little planet, the worse it will be – not the better. Read Malthus.
Post racial? Do Not Be Black in America. Don’t do it. Forget the Happy Family in the White House – being black in this country is a capital crime. Ask Miss America? Ask anyone who has ever been pulled over driving while black. Ask my family? Jim Crow is alive and just because you wish it was different – it isn’t. Just because Mr. O wishes it were different – it isn’t and Mrs. O rolls her eyes with good reason. If Mr. O had to run again – he could simply choose as his campaign slogan “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”.
Women? Close your legs girlies. You are the Holy Grail for the crusaders. Your vagina and your reproductive decisions and your right to decide your own fate. Rape? Nahh. You asked for it? It wasn’t really rape. That outfit. Gang rape? College boy antics. Drugged date rape? Well – what did you think would happen? This is mainly white guy rape. Black guy rape is depraved. Period.
Abortion – or as I call it “choice” = murder. You are going to burn in hell. Don’t believe in hell? Well THEY do and that’s where you are going because they do. The babies. Ask them. I have no idea.
Gay? Shame, shame, shame. Well mostly males shame, shame, shame. Straight men like to watch “two gals go at it”, so Lesbians take less of a hit – but they are disgusting in general because they do not all look like Penthouse models. And a good shtup would cure all that anyway – preferably using their penis. Gay marriage? Legal, mostly but disgusting too. Pray it away but not in their churches because it is against God’s will. Which God? You can love your fellow person but make sure it is not your fellow man if you are a man and not your fellow woman, if you are a woman (unless you are Penthouse material).
Universal health care? Commie, pinko, socialist, weirdo wrong. Uncivilized even. Oh Canada.
Jingo Journalism. Sounds like a jumprope rhyme. Reads like a jumprope rhyme. Proliferating in geometric progressions.
Peace? Highly overrated because it is a fantasy. We like to kill. Been doing it since written history. We love it. Any method, any reason, anywhere. This is a blood soaked planet.
So as I approach another alpha boomer birthday, this is what gets my goat. This not all that gets my goat but this is today’s list. Don’t abandon hope,but don’t confuse this with the Age of Aquarius because it isn’t.
Trayvon Martin and the World He Left Behind July 19, 2013
Posted by voolavex in despicable, Race and the Law, Race and the Law.Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, Black male, cold blood, George Zimmerman, Jim Crow, killing, Trayvon Marton
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You can find me on FB and I have found a very fine group of FBFs with similar thoughts and opinions as mine. That’s what it’s for isn’t it. So I can be found there – just FYI.
When George Zimmerman was acquitted of the charges against him in Florida for the cold-blooded shooting of an unarmed teen-age boy it made my heart twist and hurt and ache and then I got very angry. You see I was a teen-age girl in the Civil Rights Era and I was nurtured in my feelings by my own father who did not play racism. But he never told me it was going to go away just because MLK Jr. had a dream or because I stocked a “Negro” college in the South with donated books (they had none) or because I sang (off key) Kumbayah. The entrenched ugliness of this country’s relationship to race was far too old and too polarized to make that happen quickly. We felt in 1964 we were making a dent. When I was old enough to know much more about the matter I saw the dent was made in 1865 and destroyed by the name of Jim Crow. In the brief glorious time between 1865 and Jim Crow – the black colleges were founded, black writers wrote, black politicians gave voice to the needs of a whole new group of voters. Freed men and women flocked to find work and education and a better life until they were deemed separate, oh but by the way, equal – just not in white folks domains.
If I didn’t believe that for a second (and I have always known how white folks felt) I believed after Trayvon Martin was murdered by a self declared vigilante with a gun and no reason to shoot. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles, an Arizona ice tea and was walking home while black when George Zimmerman – the poster boy for Big Bullydom, decided to stop him with no cause and no right. And then he shot him – not to scare or wound or threaten but to kill. Bang, bang Trayvon is dead. GZ has the smoking gun in his hand. A few days later (after anyone else would have been charged, jailed and held), GZ was out on the streets, begging for money on the Internet and Trayvon was stone cold and in the morgue. And when at last the trial took placed, six Bingo ladies fell in love with their handsome defendant protector who made sure none of those nasty black thugs in hoodies came into their neighborhoods (armed with Skittles and ice tea) andsaid – no – not our George. He is NOT guilty. And Trayvon is still cold and six feet under and George is a free man.This morning our president, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white mother and black father spoke on a subject he has known all his life. Being black and male in America. This is part of what he said:
But in an unusually personal moment, he began talking about the broader context of the case and the need to better understand the experiences of black men in this country.
“I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away,” Obama said. “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.”
He went on to recount instances when he had heard “the locks click on the doors of cars” as he walked down the street. African-American men are used to getting into an elevator and seeing a fellow passenger “clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off,” he said.
HOW TO LIVE OTHERS’ LIVES ONLINE February 27, 2013
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An actor can live many lives when performing. I’m just an IT worker with no acting talent. How can I have such experience? Luckily, I recently discovered Audio4Fun’s Voice Changer Software is there to help anyone morph their voice into any other voice. Now with just a few simple adjustments I can at least sound like almost anyone I can think of; perfect things may not exist, but great things are all around us, and this software program lives up to that expectation.
I was really surprised to find this software product with such uniquely helpful features. AV Voice Changer is a smart voice adjusting tool that adapts to every online or offline voice changing task. It includes two substitutive working methods for processing audio streams: the hooking method and the virtual audio driver method, as each gives the program the ability to capture several audio streams from different applications at the same time and change voices in real-time. The program works well in almost every environment, including in-game voice chat, media players and many common instant messenger programs such as Yahoo, Skype, Paltalk, etc. It also helps with many VoIP programs, such as Net2Phone, SkypeOut, Vonage, etc.
Main screenshots of AV Voice Changer Software 7.0
Managing this program is not so difficult. The pitch and timbre morpher graphs allow me to adjust voices manually. But as a lazy guy, I just like to take advantage of my big nickvoice store. (Nickvoice, which means "sample voice", or preset voice settings, is a very Audio4fun concept. It helps you speak completely like other real people, movie characters, or even in animal voices.) Besides some built-in ones, I downloaded a bunch of Nickvoices from Audio4fun’s huge add-on store, which also contains many backgrounds and special effects. With them, I can now get enough pirate-courage to adventure through oceans of treasure sounding like Captain Sparrow, while the whole community celebrates Talking Like a Pirate; or I can chat like a zombie from Egypt, or scare my friends during Halloween, or sing the blues like a Snow White to seduce some unsuspecting guy on Valentine’s Day. You too can create some online magic with this talented software tool.
Experiencing life with this tool is great fun. I don’t know if you guys have the same hobby, but, believe me; this thing is definitely worth a try. To download it, please visit http://www.audio4fun.com/voice-changer.htm. Remember though, while you may experience others’ lives in a new way, always be true to yourself, have fun, and stay safe.
Digital Photo Editing Services – Photo Cutout – Ph oto Retouching February 25, 2013
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