So seems like the Mayans were right . It could well be the end of the world as we know it but for different reasons this year

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it’s red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, “Re-calc-u-lating.” You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship.
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden “Paper or Plastic?” every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them in with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, “Paper or Plastic?” I just say, “Doesn’t matter to me. I am bi-sacksual.” Then it’s their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot..”

P.S. I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.

We senior citizens don’t need anymore gadgets. The tv remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.

Meanwhile in Norway the madman who slaughtered so many innocent kids and others has been given a platform to rant and rave with his delusions about race . I think it would be great if there was a complete news blackout on any reporting of that process . Probably wishful thinking but would be worth a rant and rave from the Grumpy brigade.

In Bahrein the FI racers ignore public protest and chase the money. Wonderful how Bernie E manages to walk over peoples feelings

BRIAN WENZINGER, a principal at Aronson Johnson Ortiz, a money management company that voted against a $15 million pay package for Citigroup’s chief executive, Vikram Pandit.

why? that’s the question i ask about most of what i’m confronted with. i commute
between london and spain these days,spending time in both places. picking up on
virtually everything that p—-s me off. in london queues are more orderly, except
foreigness is filtering in at bus stops when it’s a free for all.
but why am i having to pay for brand name expensive toiletries in both countries,
that often don’t have info in english on them?
why am i played ‘bobby shaftoe’ every time i make a call ( or something worse) who
chooses the music? why do i never fit into the boxes allocated me on forms in
either spain or england.? why am i confounded by too much choice in england, and
frustrated by lack of it in spain?

why are english shop assistants so helpful and pleasant i want to run from them and
get back to normal spanish indifference.?
why am i paying three quid for a cup of lousy coffee in england, when i can drink
wonderful coffee anywhere in spain??

why are the shops filled with summer clothes in london when the likeihood of a
decent summer is never going to happen.it’s the middle of april, still winter, and
not a jumper to be seem.
why does polyester predominate in spain? why is chocolate so good ? why do they
like fatty meat?, why do the small pigs vacuum packed in plastic in most spanish
supermarkets have lovely smiles?

why don’t monarch, easyjet etc charge one flat rate instead of offering bargain
prices that bump up with ridiculous extras. will i be paying to use the loo on my
next flight? or for how many pockets i have on my jacket?

why does every third car have dents in spain ?
why hasn’t anyone noticed that constant upgrades,and new/ improved items might
have been better as they were?. am i confused or was it easier to function before
i had a headful of security codes to remember? and then there’s trying to open
packets in either country.
ughhhhh!

cv.

Nobody is motivated to comment on the Silly season which came upon us with the stupid ritual of
putting the clocks forward, Davy boy is on the Burmese road. Boris the buffoon is keeping us guessing (are there no good stories out there ) ?

Obama s front line security and have been sent home for playing with Colombian coffee girls …………..

(An an ) other Kofi is trying to catch up on his misguided past and trying to unravel another Arab mystery.

Incidentally where did the other Mideast envoy disappear to( Trimdon Tony ) ?

The whines and moans can go on ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, get your fingers out you miserable bunch of has beens, and try hitting a few keys instead of sleeping in the afternoons

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

Evening news is where they begin with “Good Evening” and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under formal investigation on Monday by authorities looking into a suspected prostitution ring in the French city of Lille, his lawyer said, following a day of questioning by judges in a closed courtroom.

The investigation on suspicion of complicity in a pimping operation is the latest judicial headache for the Socialist ex-finance minister. The move could lead to a trial but it falls short of charging him.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was a strong contender to be France’s next president until he was hit with sex-assault charges, now-dismissed, in New York last May, was allowed to leave the court after being questioned by three judges in the case.

The Lille prosecutor’s office said in a statement he was required to post 100,000 euros ($133,300) in bail. He is forbidden to contact witnesses, the press, and others involved in the prostitution case, it said.

Outside the courthouse, Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, Richard Malka, said his client was innocent.

“He states with the strongest firmness to be guilty of none of these acts and in particular to not have had the least awareness that certain women he met could have been prostitutes” .

“Having relations with an escort does not constitute a crime and is a matter of private behavior, perfectly legal among adults,” he added.

The Lille case centers on allegations that a prostitution ring organized by Strauss-Kahn’s business associates supplied clients at the city’s Carlton Hotel.

Already in the case, eight people, including two Lille businessmen and a police commissioner, have been arrested,

Judges had the option of putting him under investigation for having potentially benefited from misappropriated company funds if he knowingly attended prostitute sessions paid for by his executive friends using expense accounts.

Instead, the investigation will focus on the pandering angle, and whether Strauss-Kahn was aware that the women at the parties were prostitutes supplied by pimps.

In itself, using prostitutes is not illegal in France.

Under French law, “juges d’instruction,” which are a cross between investigating prosecutors and criminal magistrates, notify the accused they are under investigation and can hold the person if they believe it warranted. It is they who later decide whether to send the case to court.

Strauss-Kahn - who is now jobless and lives a life behind closed doors in Paris - previously has denied the allegations, arguing he was unaware women he met at parties organized by business associates in Lille, Paris and Washington were prostitutes.

PROTESTS UNDERMINE COMEBACK

Strauss-Kahn has been seeking to restore his reputation as a top global economist by speaking at conferences, but cancelled an appearance at an event in Brussels on Tuesday following protests from European members of parliament (MEPs).

He was due to speak at a debate of young MEPs alongside Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, and former European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet.

The plan upset female MEPs, prompting European Parliament President Martin Schulz to pressure organizers to drop him.

French MEP Sandrine Belier said that given the circumstances it would have been “uncomfortable” to have Strauss-Kahn appear.

Earlier in March he had to be bundled into the back of a police car after addressing an event at Britain’s Cambridge University to escape a protest by women’s’ rights activists.

In February, Strauss-Kahn was held in custody in Lille for two days for initial questioning in the case. Another of his attorneys, Henri Leclerci, told French radio in December it was not always easy to spot prostitutes when they are undressed.

I am grumpy, because I am lonely. I have been blogging about my search to find a partner. The difficulty to find a suitable mindmate makes me grumpy.

The following text is a copy from my blog:
http://egalitarianrationalcommitmentparadigm.blogspot.com/2012/03/510-remedy-for-grumpiness.html

“In entry 507 I described the Cassandra effect. It is the experience of mostly women, who are aware of something going wrong in their relationship, and who suffer, because they are not taken for serious and they are powerless to prevent the catastrophe.

Grumpy old people are the counterpart of Cassandra in their concern about the development of society. The grumpy old men are more visible, because of their more aggressive and angry way of expressing their grumpiness. There are also grumpy old women, but they tend to be more silent about it.

The grumpiness of sane people is different from dementia. Being a nuisance or not is a question of mental health and of self-control, it is not a question of age.

This entry is about sane grumpy old people with comprehensible reasons to be grumpy.

Grumpy old people are much more alive and healthy than are docile old people. Feeling grumpy is an indication of the awareness, that something is not as it should be. Grumpiness is the logical, reasonable and comprehensible reaction to perceived real grievances.

Grumpy old people are those, who

- have lived a long time and have observed and experienced the changes of society with open eyes.
They have grown mature. They have gained the wisdom to evaluate, what has improved and what has deteriorated.
- have self-confidence and independence in their thinking.
They recognize grievances. They are critical and outspoken. They reject detrimental social norms. They are not easily gullible to manipulations.

Blaming people as if being grumpy were a defect is a misconception, which does not lead to a solution. Those who do the blaming are usually immature youngsters. Old people cannot change a society dominated by those, who are younger and less mature. They need a way to live in this situation without suffering.

Being lonely, especially being intellectually lonely is a sufficient and logical reason to become grumpy. I have mentioned intellectual loneliness before. An apistic and skeptic can feel intellectually very lonely between religious people.
But a person, who sees the world with over six decades of life experience can feel intellectually lonely too in a society, where the influential power of the media and the political power over life are all dominated by people, who are much younger.

Only the removal of the reasons for being grumpy is a rational remedy. It is a huge emotional relief to be able to share the own world view and the agreement about what is going wrong with likeminded people.

The best remedy is the emotional safe haven of a bonded relationship with someone in the same age group sharing the same attitudes and the same world view.

A happy person has no reasons to be grumpy, and a grumpy person lacks happiness.

Therefore I am willing to accept a grumpy old man as a potential partner. If he is my mindmate, he will not remain grumpy. Knowing me will end his grumpiness.”

I invite anybody in my age group (I am 62), who is also grumpy as a consequence of being lonely to visit my blog: The text above is a slightly modified copy from
http://egalitarianrationalcommitmentparadigm.blogspot.com