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      • hello Manuel M. "Moe" Garcia
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    • Three starts to the year

      • I am punishing the part of me that gets too heavy and serious and longwinded.

        So I am just going to talk about my three starts to the year.

        New Years Day.

        Chinese New Year (because my Babylove is Vietnamese)

        My birthday, at the end of March (which works out pretty good, because March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb)

        I get three tries to get it right!

      • answered by manuelg on 04/06/2010
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    • I love any bookstore with multiple stories (pun!)

      • If the bookstore has stairs or an escalator, I love it. To a certain extent, I have turned my house into a bookstore with stairs, except the organization is very iffy, little or no alphabetizing or categorizing, and no cash register because the grump in charge wants BIG CASH MONEY for his crappy books all stained, sun bleached, and paperback covers and pages in crumpled condition. And the books are all highlighted with words underlined with a 5 ink color Hello Kitty pen, with 1 to 5 stars drawn in the upper outside corner of the page, with brackets and commentary in the margins, and words I have never read before that I don't know the definitions to copied on the top of the page. What a goof I am.

        Gotta haunt those stacks. Running back and forth, as I remember crap I want to read about. Since I am a weirdo space alien type guy, I never read fiction, I only love non-fiction. Buying books like an idiot, because, in theory, I should haunt the university library at UCI. To save that cash money. But it bugs me when I need access to a fact and I am unable to run upstairs and downstairs of my house to find the exact book on the exact page.

        If I like the books so much, you would think I would not let them litter the floor in heaps.

      • answered by manuelg on 03/19/2010
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    • No conspiracies - everything you should worry about is in plain view

      • Conspiracies are very uninteresting. I am supposed to worry about Bush and Cheney bringing down the Twin Towers, but everything that happened during the GWB White House years was exquisitely planned and published before the fact by the conservative thinkers and the Neo-Cons. Why do we have to act surprised that they did exactly what they told everyone they would do?

        That the Republicans and Democrats are two different faces of the Corporatist Party is something they don't even bother to hide. It is like accusing a five year old of a conspiracy to steal from the cookie jar when the little dude doesn't even bother to wipe the chocolate mess and crumbs from his little face. Using the word "conspiracy" is absurd.

        Conspiratorial thinking is just a roundabout way to absolve yourself from any responsibility for taking action. It is a way to claim that any constructive action is pointless because the Big Bad Scary Forces pull the strings from the shadows. Garbage. Little thoughts for pathetic little people.

        The conspiracy you should worry about is the conspiracy inside you, that makes you settle for 2nd best, 3rd best, 4th best, etc, when you possess the power to do more. The light of *personal* *responsibility* makes all the conspiratorial shadows disappear.

        Because you should be thinking less about the state of the White House, and more about how much time you spend helping your daughter with her homework, or how you can tell your wife that you love her in a way that is meaningful to her, or all the personal battles that actually mean something in a life. Frick conspiracies in the tushie. Yeah, I said it: Frick conspiracies in the tushie!

      • answered by manuelg on 03/17/2010
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