Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I believe I may be passing a gall stone... Needless to say I have an upset stomach, and major pain under my right, lowest rib.... What gives me the clue? My EX had a similar experience shortly after I left the army.... Symptoms so similar they are eerie!

So I previously reported that the Keen utility footwear that I purchased sometime late last year, or early this year were causing me problems. Well the problems continue, it seems there is a bar or something in the foot-bed that leaves me feeling like I have wrinkles under my heels.... Needles to say that is unacceptable! I've tried loosening the laces and working any spare fabric that might be under my feet out, but as near as I can tell my socks are not getting wrinkles. Boot off, sock has no wrinkle. Boot on, there is a problem under my heel!

Asstr? Dead? Alive? Honey trap? Who knows? I'd guess that in some ways Asstr represents the old web before google realized that it could rule the world, and that it wanted to do so. There is doing evil by letting evil run rampant, and there is doing evil by trying to control everything that is done and said...

I've been enjoying Variations On a Theme (a story published here) and have to agree with the philosophy that the author puts forward. GOD is good, but in order to be good, GOD must allow men to be evil.... Why? Otherwise there would be no proof that there were good men...

Okay enough of that, just know that the continued disappearance of asstr is in the same vein as Amazon refusing to fill my order for To Think I saw it on Mulberry Street... It is censorship in practice.

Neither place may be healthy, but I think that health and safety have become the newest (though they really aren't that new) in the arsenal of means to control by those who think they know better than me how my life ought to be lived. I take no undue risks, yet at times, I'm sure that having lived my life that way I've missed things... Like airborne school.... Mountain training... Survival training at all, well you get the picture.

So... Censorship didn't start out on my mind, but as you can see it has entered front and center. What bothers me is when large corporations start to act like governments. For to be honest they have less restrictions on them than does the govt of the USA... Not that the govt has paid much attention to the restrictions placed on it lately. Indeed I'd say that the bureaucratic state has come to think of itself much like the Mandarin Caste of China... The Mandarins had more real power than the emperor and exercised it accordingly to the point that everyone ended up a member of a slightly criminal to majorly criminal organization if they weren't inside members of the Mandarin organization.

I.E. The bureaucrats of the USA consider themselves the rulers of the people, rather than the servants of the people. And that is producing bad results.

I've been under the weather some, a bit of the flu I think, but hey, I can't get in to see a doctor, 'cause COVID... So it might be COVID. Not too much worse than a cough, upset stomach and general muscle aches.

Anyway, that has been my week.

As most of you all know I've been working my hands off. Almost quite literally! I was scheduled to work 48 hours this week and actually worked 49. To be honest I could have worked more, but I'm somewhat at my limit as far as time spent at work! This is somewhat good for my wallet (though I never seem to get far a head when something important eats my emergency fund [which I can never seem to keep over $1000 USD]) after all I nominally make (before the govt in their kind benevolence takes their share) 560 per week, if I get no over time!

Therefore, needless to say, I haven't much time to write!

I honestly don't know how good or bad what I'm going to put here is, but it stands now, and may get slightly edited later (or added to) So without further ado:

To think 'twas ban'd 'pon Mulberry Street!
The guardians of 'nice' who are as nasty as their intellectual forbears,
Have decided that six books written by that great bomb thrower, Dr Seuss,
Are quite offensive, and far beyond the pale, so they mustn't be seen by our youth,
They are but the latest in the efforts of the new guardians of 'nice' to cleanse our history,
Of every thing that is objectionable… Rather than make their case, of why,
The guardians of nice say Burn! Oh they haven't yet,
But give them time, and fail to stand up to their censorship,
And burning of books is the least they'll do!
For according to the new nannies of 'nice' there are folks who are quite beyond the pale,
They say such tripe knowing the youth whom they've educated are devoid of any knowledge of history,
So the nannies of 'nice' like their nasty forbears are apt to begin the letting of blood,
Of those people whom they have designated 'evil' though history would show the nannies of nice to be, The calumnious purveyors of fiction that 'twas the hallmark of their forbears,
For I hate to tell the youth of today, but Hitler was a man of the left,
A socialist before he was a German, and those they claim to be emulating in fighting 'nationalism' were a very murderous lot,
And 'tis doubtful that those who don black masks and assault those with whom they disagree have enough knowledge to understand,
Fascism looks a lot like them!